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Heads They Win, Tails We Lose | Catalyst Summer 2012
By Michael Halpern and Peter Hansel
In his inaugural address, President Obama pledged to "restore science to its rightful place," signaling his intent to protect science from the political interference that had become commonplace during the previous administration. The president has made notable progress in fulfilling his pledge (with guidance from UCS and our supporters), such as requiring federal agencies and departments to develop scientific integrity policies.
But the politicization of science continues. On several scientific issues, including ground-level ozone pollution and occupational exposure to toxic silica dust, the administration has caved to industry pressure. And Congress has repeatedly proposed bureaucratic hurdles that would make it far more difficult for federal scientists to protect public health and safety.
In two investigations this spring, UCS sought to determine the reasons for this ongoing pressure by asking two questions: What do corporations do to inappropriately influence the science behind federal policy? And how do they get away with it?
A Long History of Scientific Abuse
Corporate misuse of science is nothing new. Many remember when tobacco executives testified before Congress that nicotine was not addictive—despite knowing for decades the opposite was true. Peddling doubt was one effective tactic the industry used to deceive the public and delay the monitoring and regulation of its products for years.
As the case studies in our February report Heads They Win, Tails We Lose illustrate, other industries attempt to influence every step of the scientific and policy-making process in order to shape decisions in their favor and avoid regulatory oversight. Corporations have corrupted the science itself, undermined public understanding of the science, and exerted significant and undue influence over Congress, federal agencies, and the judicial system.
One issue in particular—climate change—has been a frequent target of industry efforts to create confusion and delay much-needed action. For our May report A Climate of Corporate Control, UCS looked closely at the climate-related statements and practices of 28 publicly traded companies. The findings cast light on how companies change their messages depending on the audience, and underscore the need to hold companies accountable to investors, policy makers, and the public.
We found that while some companies have taken laudable action in support of climate science and science-based policies that would combat global warming, others have aggressively worked in the opposite direction. But more disturbingly, many companies have played both sides, creating confusion by taking contradictory actions depending on the venue and audience. While cultivating a climate-concerned image in more public settings, these corporations have sown doubt about climate science both directly (e.g., challenging climate science in government filings) and indirectly (e.g., supporting politicians, trade groups, and think tanks that misrepresent climate science).
Putting Profits before Public Health
As these examples show, lives are at stake when corporations misuse science.
Vioxx. In 1999, Merck marketing teams manipulated clinical trial research on the company's arthritis drug to hide results suggesting it increased the risk of heart attack and stroke. In addition, Merck employees anonymously wrote scientific articles about Vioxx but published them under respected scientists' names. An FDA scientist who raised concerns faced intimidation and threats from supervisors. Vioxx earned Merck $2.5 billion in 2003, but the company voluntarily withdrew the drug in 2004, after just four years on the market. During that time, it may have caused as many as 55,000 premature deaths from heart attacks and strokes—and 100,000 unnecessary heart attacks overall—in the United States alone.
Hexavalent chromium. Ingesting or inhaling this chemical used in the production of stainless steel and textile dyes can result in severe health effects; multiple independent studies have tied the chemical to several types of cancer. Yet industries that produce hexavalent chromium have regularly downplayed that link in order to avoid regulation, and as recently as 2010, industry-commissioned studies have used deceptive statistical analysis to undermine the link.
For example, ConocoPhillips has acknowledged on its website that, "Human activity . . . is contributing to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that can lead to adverse changes in global climate." Yet in its comments on the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 finding that carbon dioxide poses a public health threat and is subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, the company claimed that, "The support for the effects of climate change on public health and welfare is limited and is typified by a high degree of uncertainty."
Secrecy Inhibits Accountability
Compounding the problem is the fact that companies exert their influence from behind closed doors. For example, they may withhold their own scientific research that raises doubts about the safety of their products, or secretly fund industry associations that will take more aggressive actions to undermine science than the companies feel comfortable doing themselves. Because companies do not have to disclose much of their activity, UCS was unable to undertake a comprehensive assessment of these types of activities.
This lack of transparency and accountability makes our democracy vulnerable to commercial and political exploitation. And because commercial interests are often not aligned with the public interest, the disproportionate influence corporations have in policy discussions, including climate-related policy, harms the public good.
Where Do We Go from Here?
Inappropriate corporate influence extends its tentacles into every venue that plays a part in shaping federal policy, from the public spheres of government relations and media coverage to the more shadowy realms of think tank funding and political contributions. Solutions for reducing this influence will therefore be large-scale and complex, requiring fundamental changes in how corporations and the federal government operate and interact.
Our reports outline specific recommendations for achieving this goal. For example, companies with government contracts often benefit from public spending and should thus be required to disclose their political contributions. The Securities and Exchange Commission should also require publicly traded companies to disclose their political spending to shareholders. Congress should investigate ways to hold companies accountable for their actions, and the White House should continue to strengthen policies that protect scientists and their work from political interference. Beyond government, company shareholders can require changes in business practices that improve accountability.
Institutional changes may be difficult hurdles, but they are not insurmountable. With strong leadership and sustained commitment, both the federal government and the private sector can rise to the challenge.
Michael Halpern is a program manager in the UCS Scientific Integrity Program. Peter Hansel is an outreach intern in the program. Read more from Michaelon our blog, The Equation.
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In the first generation, there weren't any types that were super effective to two starter types. I guess it'd be unfair for Poison to be the exception.I just understand why it is only SE against grass..when it could also be SE against water and Dragons.
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Fernando Otic of the Philippines has been knocked out in the fifth round of a Pan Asian Boxing Association super featherweight title fight by Indonesian champion Roy Mukhlis at the TVRI television studio in Jakarta.
The 21 year old Mukhlis fought back after taking some big shots to the head in the second round and nailed Otic with several punches to the face in round four according to Indonesian boxing writer Jeff Pamungkas.
Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today found out that although Otic was granted a title shot the latest ratings of PABA under secretary general Alan Kim was not even rated in the top 15 raising more questions both of PABA and the GAB as to how such seeming mismatches are sanctioned.
Mukhlis caught Otic with a solid right hook to the head in the middle of the fifth round and followed up with a series of punches that dropped the Filipino who sat on the canvas until he was counted out. With the win the Indonesian improved his record to 17-2-2 with 14 knockouts while Otic dropped to 9-3 with 7 knockouts.
Mukhlis won the vacant title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Thailand's Aree Phosuwangym on April 27 in a fight where international referee Ferdie Estrella of the Philippines as the third man in the ring.
On July 27 Mukhlis retained his title with a unanimous decision over Filipino Jaime Barcelona on July 27 and then scored a seventh round TKO over Decho Bankluaygym last November 2 to once again successfully defend his title.
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The United Nations refugee agency said today it is deeply concerned about the continued detention and possible extradition of the former prime minister of Tajikistan, Abdoumalik Abdoulladjanov, a recognized refugee who was arrested in Ukraine.
"Since Mr. Abdoulladjanov's return to his country of origin would violate both international and domestic law, his continued detention for extradition purposes lacks a legitimate purpose," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a press release.
A district court in Kiev ruled on 15 March that Mr. Abdoulladjanov can be detained for up to 12 months, pending a decision on his extradition to Tajikistan.
The former Tajik prime minister was arrested at Kiev's Boryspil International Airport on 5 February on an international warrant after travelling from the United States.
He is accused by Tajik authorities of involvement in a 1996 assassination attempt on his former political challenger and current President, Emomali Rahmon.
UNHCR urged Ukraine – a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention relating to the status of refugees and the 1967 protocol – to act in accordance with international law and release Mr. Abdoulladjanov out of respect for his refugee status.
It also reiterated the importance of the principle of non-refoulement, by which no State party to the Convention "shall expel or return ('refouler') a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion."
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"In practical terms, this means that this year 100,000 to 125,000 disabled Americans — those with the most severe disabilities — will be approved for benefits in about 10 days instead of waiting the three to four months it typically takes for an initial decision," Astrue said. "These initiatives are truly a lifeline for those who need it most."
Under QDD, a predictive computer model analyzes specific data within the electronic file to identify cases where there is a high potential that the claimant is disabled and where Social Security can quickly obtain evidence of the person's allegations.
Through Compassionate Allowances, Social Security expedites the processing of disability claims for applicants with medical conditions so severe that their conditions by definition meet Social Security's standards. These fast-track systems increase the efficiency of the disability process and also help free up resources so the agency can better cope with an increase of about 250,000 cases resulting from the current economic downturn.
"During these tough economic times, getting Social Security and supplemental security income disability benefits quickly to Americans who are unable to work helps them and strengthens our economy. For SSI recipients, expedited approvals also ensure they immediately get the vital medical coverage they need," Astrue said. "It is critical that we continue to embrace innovative technologies in order to improve the services we provide to the public."


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Well I don't know the exact manner in which CSS is implemented by the browsers. But I find it difficult to conceive how a browser CANNOT ignore every other css property that is applied to an element, when the 'css-ignore' property is specifically designed to make that happen. If it cannot, I find the design of the whole thing inappropriate and unscalable, which shouldn't be the case with something of this magnitude. Given that the 'css-ignore' property is not something 'usual', and is NOT meant to for the usual styling of elements, it obviously needs special efforts to implement. I find it difficult to believe that something 'is not possible to do', especially at the software level, that too on a W3C mailing list! If its not possible right now, we need to do something to make it possible. That is the central point of engineering and innovation. I'd love it if someone could help me learn how CSS is implemented by the browsers, and in what manner does the W3C collaborate in its actual implementation . Maybe I could come up with an algorithm to do it, if I properly understood the manner in which it is implemented. Lets forget the 'use-case' for a while. All I want to say that the 'css-ignore' rule should get 'rid of styling', if the developer deliberately wants to allow this. This can allow the browsers can do things in their own way. I see huge possibilities here. Maybe this will create an oppurtunity for browsers or 3rd party bodies to create custom-css solutions for elements that have the 'css-ignore' rule associated with it. And given that the world is moving towards responsive design and progressive enhancement, a strictly identical layout is not usually expected. Hence, I see this property to be something that will be used heavily in the future, and can provide something new for everyone; be it developers, users or browsers designers. Do give it a serious thought, we could be on the verge of something huge. On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, François REMY <email@example.com> wrote: > I can't help but repeat the arguments I already gave. > > The selectors matched by an element can't depend on the result of the style > applied on it, because that style depends on the selectors that matched it. > At least, it can't using pure CSS. The text color of a "text" > with "span { color: blue; css-ignore: external }" is an undecidable problem > and browsers, being software programs, can't resolve undecidable problems. > > The use cases that one would like to solve with "css-ignore" on css-ignore > should rely on some other mechanism instead, like IFRAMES and Web > Components. > > > From: Ketan Singh > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:18 PM > To: Garrett Smith > Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: Discussing possibilities of a 'CSS-ignore' rule. > Well, my apologies for mentioning the use-case on the first place. I should > have come to the point at once. > About the 'potential blocking of popup' issue, the client have ordered the > app for themselves, so most probably that's not going to happen, given that > they requested for the 'whole experience'. > > I'm kind of new to mailing lists, I'm not here to debate on programming > ideologies and best practices. I just want to share my thoughts on how we > can take CSS forward, and I hope someone could spare a minute for the idea. > I'd insist that you go through my last mail, and let me know your thoughts > on it. > > Thanks > Ketan > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Garrett Smith <firstname.lastname@example.com> > wrote: >> >> On 9/21/12, Ketan Singh <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> > Well, the project is basically an offline app, which is intended for a >> > desktop environment. The client wanted it to be done in that manner, so >> > that they could put in on the web if required. I advised them about the >> > design decisions they could consider, but they are clear about what they >> > want. >> > The popup was exclusively requested by the client. The app has a module >> >> The popup might be blocked by the user. >> [...] >> >> > I'm not religious about any single web technology and if I feel >> > comfortable >> Feelings are irrelevant here. >> >> > with a certain decision, I go ahead with it. Though I obviously try to >> > make >> > use of the newest technologies available, >> Reminds me of a guy who "upgraded" the doctype to a newer version. >> Newer doctype. Must be better. Lets do it. I call this fallacy "appeal >> to new technology". Applies to anyone who served XHTML as text/html. >> >> because most of the time, the >> > technology's there because its better than the ones before it. >> > I really appreciate your advice, but let's talk more about the proposal >> > I >> > made. >> >> Your proposal is only justified by the problems that you created using >> your comfortable methodologies. So "don't do that then". >> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html >> -- >> Garrett >> Twitter: @xkit >> personx.tumblr.com > >Received on Sunday, 23 September 2012 16:17:46 UTC
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Indian business mogul Ratan Tata on Thursday defended embattled Premier Manmohan Singh but called on him to act courageously to return the nation's economy to a high-growth path.
"Our PM must break convention, restore government credibility, place the country on a growth path once again by implementing promised reforms, removing roadblocks to growth," the normally publicity-shy tycoon said.
"He will need to act boldly -- to be courageous and to do the right thing," Tata, who heads vehicle-to-steel giant Tata Group, said in an open letter publicised on his Twitter account.
Tata's appeal comes after Singh last month took charge of the finance ministry when veteran politician Pranab Mukherjee stepped down to run for India's mainly ceremonial presidency.
The reputation of Singh, credited with opening India's economy in 1991 after decades of socialist-style planning, has taken a beating due to sliding growth, a string of graft scandals and accusations of policy reform paralysis.
"Attacks on the architect of '91 reforms which brought us prosperity is sad and unfortunate. It's wrong to single out the PM for inflation, low investment confidence and slow growth," Tata wrote.
India recently posted 5.3 percent growth for the January-March quarter, the slowest in nine years and down from nine percent-plus a few years ago.
Tata said Singh "deserves the support of the people at this critical time" and praised the 79-year-old as a "warm-hearted prime minister (who) has led our countrywith great personal dignity and integrity".
Tata, 74, one of India's most respected businessman, is due to retire in December following a two-decade career in which he built the Tata group into an industrial giant operating in more than 80 countries.


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India Shares End Higher
MUMBAI--Indian shares closed higher Friday, with energy-focussed shares rising after the government said it may increase diesel and kerosene prices in phases to help cut its fiscal deficit.
Bharti Infratel, however, fell sharply on debut.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-stock Sensitive Index finished the day up 121.04 points, or 0.6%, at 19,444.84 points, while the National Stock Exchange's 50-share Nifty closed 0.7% higher at 5,908.35 points.
"The government is taking steps to plug the weak points in the economy, and this is the reason for the positive investor sentiment toward local shares," said Vijay Kedia, director at investment company Kedia Securities.
Mr. Kedia said that Indian shares held on to their earlier gains in December because of overall positive sentiment created by a recent spurt of economic reforms.
In September, the government kickstarted a process to introduce many long-delayed reforms, such as easing foreign direct investment rules in the multi-brand retail and airline sectors.
The benchmark Sensitive Index is now up 24% from a year earlier, and 3.2% higher from a month ago.
Among Friday's top gainers, Reliance Industries closed 2.7% higher at 840.35 rupees ($15.32), while Oil & Natural Gas Corp. rose 2.5% to 265.85 rupees.
There was a rebound in software shares, which rose on bargain buying after a weak performance in recent times. Infosys was up 1.4% at 2,318.40 rupees, while Tata Consultancy Services gained 1.2% to 1,265.30 rupees.
Bharti Airtel was down 0.1% at 318.35 rupees. Its telecom tower unit Bharti Infratel closed 13.1% lower at 191.20 rupees, compared with its initial public offering price of 220 rupees.
One reason for the fall was a poor response from retail investors. Some investors and bankers said the IPO was expensive, compared with the company's potential earnings.
Banks ended mixed on some profit-taking. The State Bank of India was down 0.5% at 2,377.75 rupees, while HDFC Bank was 0.3% lower at 677.60 rupees.


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I was lucky enough to have been inside a network program, managed by the top news division in television, NBC news, and I could see the corruption, the timidity, the news suppression day by day from the inside. It was something breathtaking to behold.
Jeff Cohen, long-time media critic and founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), has seen the TV news business from both sides now. He was hired -- and fired -- as either an on-air pundit or a behind-the-scenes producer by CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, he describes the takeover of television news by entertainment conglomerates -- and the outcome that the news we get now is essentially a series of soap operas. As if that weren't bad enough, he fears our beloved Internet could go the same route, if Net Neutrality is not somehow upheld against the wishes of the corporate media giants. Jeff Cohen also watched decisions being made about news coverage in the lead-up to the 2002 election and during the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, giving him a unique perspective on tv as the propaganda tool it has become.
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BuzzFlash: I'm just going to toss something out like a Rorschach blot, because it's been in the news recently. Given your experience in cable news, just how do you explain "JonBenet Ramsey, The Sequel, Fourteen"?
Jeff Cohen: This tells you more about TV news than almost anything else. I mean -- JonBenet Ramsey! Those ten days in August were among the low points in the history of American television news. They hijacked the airwaves for one story -- and the story was very iffy to begin with. Even if true, it just was not of world historical importance. And they pushed aside all these stories -- the warrantless wiretapping was ruled unconstitutional during that period. There was a tentative peace in Lebanon, where the U.S. role is very questionable. Iraq continued to explode. We learned new evidence of American wages stagnating while corporate CEOs' incomes were going through the roof.
None of this stuff gets the focus when they're on JonBenet. And as I learned on the inside at cable news, it's not an accident. These are the stories they're hungry for. The stories they fear are the ones that will offend the Bush White House -- or stories that might offend a corporate sponsor or a media owner. But there's no downside to the JonBenet Ramsey stories, the runaway brides, the child abductions, the shark attacks, because no one in power, especially no conservatives in power, get offended. So you don't have to worry about bite-back. And they're cheap to cover.
BuzzFlash: Let's remove the fact that corporate media doesn't want to offend the White House because it could hurt their bottom lines, and they need them for regulatory issues, tax breaks and so forth. It's the big reality, but let's take it off the table. Isn't this the merger of the entertainment world and news for profit? This is like a tabloid that sells in the supermarket.
Jeff Cohen: It's not the merger of entertainment and news -- it's the takeover of news by entertainment conglomerates. Fox News is owned by Rupert Murdoch's news corporation, happily an entertainment conglomerate. CNN is owned by Time-Warner, happily an entertainment conglomerate. I think that their goal is to hook the populace on a soap opera, so that we learn all of the names of the characters. It happened with O.J. Simpson. We knew the witness, the roommate, Kato. We knew the prosecutors. It was like an ongoing soap opera day after day. And once they hook you, then you're part of their family. And, remember, these tabloid stories are spectacles. The impact is that they keep us as passive news consumers sitting on the sidelines -- watching.
Those other stories that you and I have alluded to -- tax policy and wars -- they're killing our kids and our loved ones, spending our tax dollars -- those are stories that could draw us out onto the field, where we might take action as citizens, not just being spectators on the sidelines. I think the owners of media -- again, these entertainment conglomerates -- prefer dumb, passive spectators sitting on the sidelines to informed, active citizens. But the interesting thing about JonBenet is they always hoped it would have critical mass. She was killed shortly after O.J. Simpson's trial was over, and O.J. Simpson's trial changed television news -- forever, in a downward direction. When that trial ended, they went looking around for an alternative -- for something to replace it -- and this girl gets killed in Boulder. Unfortunately, it never achieved lift-off, for years, because of insufficient evidence.
Remember, Clinton-Lewinsky dominated '98 and early '99, and then Clinton is acquitted in the Senate on the impeachment charges. Then it looks like, oh, JonBenet's going to achieve lift-off, because the prosecutor had a grand jury, and they were about to announce things. I remember that dark day in television, in October '99, when the D.A. came forward and said, "No indictments," because it was a dark day. It was like a pall descended over TV's so-called news, because they wouldn't get their JonBenet trial, and they wouldn't get their ratings bonanza of a JonBenet trial.
I went on the air at Fox News -- I describe it in the book -- I say that I'm worried about mass suicides by cable news executives. The story goes away for years, and then this guy confesses in Thailand. Again, the cable news executives and management are thinking: here's our payoff. We've waited ten years and, goddammit, we're going to finally achieve lift-off on this story. We're going to have our soap opera. They went to town on it, and it turned out to be a completely phony story. Nevertheless, it hijacked U.S. television news.
U.S. TV news is the laughing stock of the world. I was interviewed by reporters from around the world. They were stunned how moronic and irrelevant our TV news is. The good news for BuzzFlash and serious news outlets is people flock to you as they get driven away by the inanity of corporate media.
BuzzFlash: Before we get to your book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, and your personal experience with the three major cable news networks, let's just explore this topic a little bit more. We'll play devil's advocate. We're the news producer working for the head of a network that's part of a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate. Don't blame us, though. We're just feeding the appetite of the American public. If we could broadcast public policy issues and the Iraq war in depth and get the same viewership, we would do that. Look at the American public. This is what they want to see. This is what gets the ratings up, and the ratings is what pays our salaries.
Jeff Cohen: As I learned when I was on the inside, there are a whole bunch of stories -- whole categories of stories -- that would be exciting, that would get ratings, that everyone in TV news knows you cannot do. I tell the story in the book. One story I repeatedly tell is about the mighty Hudson River in New York State which was contaminated by General Electric. For decades now, through their political power, they've blocked the cleanup. Now, this story is made for television news. When you talk to the hypothetical producer, they will tell you that what has been drilled into their heads by management is that you need "villains, victims and visuals."
BuzzFlash: That kind of sounds like Karl Rove's master plan. The villains are the Islamic fascists; the victims are the people who were oppressed by Saddam Hussein; and there are visuals at every photo op.
Jeff Cohen: Right. Media management works the same way, whether you're a political operative like Rove or you're a high-ranking TV news manager.
BuzzFlash: But he's got the formula that fits into television.
Jeff Cohen: Of course. But what I'm arguing is, there is story after story that you are not allowed to tell on TV news, not because they won't get ratings, not because they won't be blockbuster, but because they will get too much ratings and they'll have the wrong villain. When I worked at MSNBC, I knew, as everyone did there, or at every TV network where GE is a major sponsor, that if you went to town on how this corrupt company has blocked the cleanup of this precious river for so many decades, and continues to do it today, and has victimized thousands and thousands of people -- they've wiped out the Mom and Pop fishing operation. They've destroyed or they've hurt tourism. You can't eat the fish. You know, you have to essentially throw the story back. There are so many visuals, you wouldn't know where to stop. There are so many victims, you wouldn't know where to stop. But because the villain is General Electric, the story doesn't get told.
If TV journalists went to town on U.S. corporations that victimize, for instance the exploitation of young children around the world as sweatshop laborers, that would be a graphic story. In fact, ABC has always been the pioneer in hidden camera journalism, and sometimes they've done it quite well and on quite important things. But if they took their hidden cameras into these sweatshops that produce items that are sold in all the Disney stores across the country -- if you're an ABC news journalist, you'd lose your job.
What I'm getting at is there are dozens and dozens of stories -- of basic economics, about the exploitation of middle-class people, rip-offs of middle-class people, environmental degradation -- that would be gripping television dramas, almost melodramas, but because the villains are the entities that own and sponsor the news, you know not even to go in that direction. In the book, I talk about Tom Brokaw. He is protested when he goes to Minneapolis by peace activists who are saying, your coverage of Iraq is biased and G.E. profits from the weapons and aircraft that are used in the Iraq war. The local daily asked Brokaw about it. He says: gee, I don't know if General Electric has any role in those aircraft. Here's a guy who's basically admitting he doesn't even look in that direction.
So, my long-winded answer is, these big stories would get big audience, especially if done with excitement and the tabloid values that are used to cover JonBenet and O.J. You could really show the pictures of the villains. You could follow the villains into their office and try to get an answer from them on why they've destroyed this river and they won't clean it up. They've got so much political power, over senators and governors and Congress members, that they don't have to clean it up. If you bring that kind of excitement to these stories that affect millions of us in our pocketbook and in the air we breathe and the water we drink, I believe you'd get smash ratings. But that whole area is blocked. Because of that, you basically have only one other way to go, which is the soft crime and celebrity and tabloid story that management prefers.
BuzzFlash: Let's not forget Natalee Holloway, who was abducted. There are countless abductions every day in the United States, but because she was a young blonde woman on vacation, this became the center of cable news for weeks.
Jeff Cohen: It's what will sell. But it's only -- and this is the key point -- what will sell after we've taken half of the stories off the table because of who the villains will be.
BuzzFlash: Your book has a very amusing cover that kind of describes the situation you just mentioned about Tom Brokaw, which is the three monkeys -- see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. But I guess someone might ask you -- -- why did you even bother working in cable TV? You were at three networks, and you went down on the ship with Phil Donahue. You were even working for Fox as an analyst. How can you work for Fox?
Jeff Cohen: Our mandate when we started FAIR back in 1986 was to take media criticism out of the ghetto of left-wing publications, that didn't have big circulations, and bring progressive media criticism, serious media criticism, to middle America. Our sense was that if we could get on TV news to attack TV news and attack corporate media, we should do it almost every time we're asked. And I was pretty good at it. Some of these channels started paying me to do it, and within the limits of what they would ask me to talk about, I could say what I wanted. Our mandate as a public interest group was to bring progressive and serious media criticism to the masses. I was appearing on "Crossfire" as a guest as early as the late eighties and early nineties, and I'd reach a million people just by being the guest. That is certainly more people than you could reach by writing progressive media criticism in "The Nation" magazine.
That's how it started. I started as the toughest critic. I believe I remain that, and continue to be it, but I ended up wearing both hats. If Fox News wanted to have five of us sit around and discuss JonBenet Ramsey, it was hard for me to work in the military-industrial complex and all the waste it's causing middle-class taxpayers. But I always felt that I had enough opportunities to say what I wanted to say, and attack the enemies I wanted attacked. That's why I just sunk deeper and deeper into it, until, as you point out, we all got booted out on the eve of the Iraq war -- Phil Donahue and myself and others.
BuzzFlash: Why was that, from your perspective?
Jeff Cohen: We got kicked out for political reasons. I was in contact with top management at MSNBC from months before that show went on the air, and during that show being on the air, and there's no doubt in my mind, or anyone's mind, that Phil Donahue's politics and the politics of a number of the guests that we booked on the show were driving management crazy. They didn't like that we were having corporations attacked. They didn't like that sometimes Israeli reactions were criticized. They certainly didn't want the Bush administration criticized as consistently as it was on our show. They hired Phil Donahue in the early spring of '02, and it wasn't readily apparent yet that Bush was going to hijack the country and the media toward the war in Iraq. I believe that if it was readily apparent, Phil Donahue never would have been hired in the first place.
But in the last few months of the show, as the Iraq war was coming, we were ordered to book two guests that were pro-war for every one guest who was anti-war. If we booked two guests that were on the left, we had to book three on the right. At one meeting, a producer said she was thinking about booking Michael Moore, and she was told she'd have to have three right wingers for balance. I walked out of the room. I contemplated privately proposing that we book Norm Chomsky as a guest, but of course, our stage couldn't accommodate the 28 right wingers I would have needed for balance.
I was lucky enough to have been inside a network program, managed by the top news division in television, NBC news, and I could see the corruption, the timidity, the news suppression day by day from the inside. It was something breathtaking to behold.
"Donahue" was pulled off the air. And more important than when he was pulled off the air, three weeks before the war, is how they had suppressed the show and given us these orders. If any producer during that period had tried to sneak in a balanced show of one against one, I witnessed management reprimanding them the next day for being balanced, when they were trying to tilt toward the war. The key thing was that an NBC internal report was leaked out that was never supposed to get public -- a report about MSNBC. It said that Donahue represents "a difficult public face for NBC at a time of war. He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush, and skeptical of the Administration's motives." Then the memo went on to describe its nightmare scenario for NBC, where "Donahue" would become "a home for the liberal, anti-war agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity."
That memo did not surface until the day after we were terminated. I'd never seen it, but when a reporter who it was leaked to read it to me, I said, well, that explains everything -- that's no mystery to me. It's exactly why we were muzzled tighter and tighter, week by week, as the war came. They were not going to allow the Scott Ritters anymore, who we booked a few times near the beginning of the show. They weren't going to allow a discussion where those people could be heard. If they did get on in the last weeks of the show, they'd be out shouted by a couple of right wingers. So they sabotaged the show, and then they cancelled it. In spite of their sabotage, it was still the most watched program on MSNBC when it was cancelled three weeks before the war, in February '03.
BuzzFlash: What do you say -- again, playing devil's advocate -- to people who say, well, they allow Keith Olbermann on now.
Jeff Cohen: I guess people have different views on the Olbermann show. I'm sure glad he exists. The guest list has not been close to the guest list we were told we could put on when we were hired, and then they went back on their word. I, never would have left Fox News for MSNBC if I hadn't been told at the beginning that the idea was to counter program against Fox in that one hour. And it would be passionate, and partisan. Before we went on the air, two months later, all those rules had been changed on us, and they said we couldn't counter program. We couldn't be a liberal, progressive show. We had to be scrupulously balanced. They basically were sabotaging the show from day one of us going on the air.
Olbermann doesn't have the kind of guest list that an independent show would have. But I do like the way he takes on O'Reilly. Frankly, the rules are still pretty ironclad, but there are exceptions to every rule. I was an exception. I was on Fox News every week for five years. Did that mean Fox News is fair and balanced? Of course not. Olbermann has an hour. I'm very disappointed by the guest list. He seems to interview the same people that you see everywhere else on cable news, but it's certainly better than anything else they have on MSNBC. The ironclad rule is that MSNBC is innocuous, corporate, soft on Bush coverage most of the time, and that's clear.
BuzzFlash: Let's go back to the title of your book: "Cable News" are the first two words in the title. When cable news first started, it was sort of promoted as being supposed to provide diversity of perspective. It didn't even have advertising. I tell that to some younger people now, and they go: you're kidding me. And I say, well, no, I'm not kidding you. Actually it was one of the selling points that you would pay for cable, and you wouldn't get advertising.
Jeff Cohen: And you got lots of it.
BuzzFlash: But in the beginning, they would say the public's going to get better education about public policy. There's going to be a full spectrum of different perspectives, a lot of open access. What we've ended up with, and the three networks you worked with are the primary news networks, is not a diversity of viewpoint, but actually a similarity of viewpoint, and it's mostly sensational. It's not really educational whatsoever. It tends to be either sensational soundbites or programming or news headlines, for the most part. So we ended up with a bait and switch here.
Jeff Cohen: I'm glad you bring up that history, because I've been involved in independent media and media criticism for decades. I remember the era when cable news started, and I can remember people saying to me: Jeff, why are you worried about lack of diversity in the mainstream media, and corporate ownership of the mainstream media? Cable news is going to change all the rules. I was told there would be a gay channel. There would be a consumer rights channel run by Ralph Nader. There would be a labor union channel. I was told that each constituency in society would have its own channel. Then you look at what's happened today. Sure, you have dozens and dozens of channels. But a few corporations own them all, and that's the problem. This was a medium that had great potential. But no medium alone will ever solve the problem of maintaining our free press or maintaining our precious democracy unless there's a regulatory scheme that allows diversity to flourish, unless there's a regulatory scheme that prevents the takeover of an institution by a few powerful entities.
Cable news is controlled by Time-Warner, General Electric and Rupert Murdoch's news corporation. From what was promised, we've really gone downhill. Interestingly, the deregulation -- I shouldn't say deregulation -- the regulation in the interests of corporations, with regulations often drafted by and for these corporate lobbies -- that period of regulation for the few is almost in synchronicity with the launching of cable TV.
It started with Reagan. It continued through Clinton. We slowed it down a little with the uprising of 2003 against the FCC's regulations that would have made the media even more Titanic.
BuzzFlash: In cable television and at the big news networks, what they call "news" is limited -- they define news as falling between points A and post B, when actually news goes from A to Z. But they're the ones that do that defining. And they call it objective. Fox calls it "fair and balanced." But it's only fair and balanced between A and B, because they exclude the rest.
Jeff Cohen: Right.
BuzzFlash: Given all that, isn't there a lesson here on why we need Internet neutrality -- because if the telecom companies get a hold of the Internet, we're going to have it end up like cable is now.
Jeff Cohen: No doubt -- you said it exactly. If the telecom companies get a hold of it, then the spectrum that you have easy access to will be the television news spectrum, -- which is the spectrum from GE to GM. When they have "debates" on cable news, it's usually debates between this corporate viewpoint and that corporate viewpoint -- or a conservative Democrat and a conservative Republican. That's their spectrum. If the gatekeepers are telecom companies, or media conglomerates, what the broad American public has easy access to will be the stuff that falls within their limited GE to GM spectrum. You've put it in a nutshell.
FAIR has done studies, beginning in 1986, '87, of who gets to speak on television and who doesn't. When you add up the thousands of appearances by talking heads on TV, then you see how clearly it's a center right, corporate spectrum, a Beltway spectrum. All sorts of points of view are excluded, and they're excluded systematically except, as I say, in the margins and as the exceptions. If we get to an Internet where the different points of view -- the oppositional points of view -- are off on the fringe, then the Internet will be imitating what we have on TV news. Independent voices are heard on TV news. They're just on the fringe and they're sporadic. And I would hate for that to happen to the Internet, because the Internet has frankly been our shining light for so many years now.
BuzzFlash: Let's talk about the power of television images. We've had politics and government by television. Bush is a television candidate -- they had him down in New Orleans, out in front of three trailers. But even The New York Times, which rarely goes outside of the visual frame that's given to them by the White House in their stories -- The New York Times had three sentences saying, "But just outside the view of the trailers were houses falling apart, and a toilet seat hanging from a tree ..."
Jeff Cohen: Right.
BuzzFlash: For the first time that I recall, they actually opened up the Karl Rove Hollywood set to let you see what was on both sides of it. But television doesn't often do that. Television just shows you the stage set that the White House sets up. I think, because they tend to look down on television, a lot of progressives don't realize the power that these images have in middle America. People believe this because they see it. They say, well, he is carrying on our work. The people have new houses now.
Jeff Cohen: You've hit the nail on the head. Visual images are powerful, and we are still a TV culture. I'm hoping that's evolving. Millions and millions of people are getting their news from television. As I say at the beginning of my book: Oh, you don't have a TV? You killed your TV? Trust me -- your neighbors haven't killed theirs.
It's a powerful propaganda tool, and Karl Rove knows the images. I describe in the book what it was like to be at MSNBC before the mid-term elections of 2002. Karl Rove pretty much controlled the agenda of cable news because they'd have this Cabinet member going on at ten. They'd have this briefing at eleven. They'd have a big thing with Bush in front of a hand-picked audience with all the American flags at noon, so they could pretty much control the agenda. I'd sit there watching these images of our strong leader protecting us from terrorism -- I'm talking about July, August, September, October, November '02, right up to the election. They couldn't give a damn about fairness. They basically allowed these cable news channels to be hijacked by Karl Rove and the Bush administration and the GOP campaign.
I'd be sitting there at my desk, and I'd say, all right, they've let Bush go on basically with a campaign speech. He's on the campaign trail, and he's carried on here now for 45 minutes. Will there be any opposition? I knew there wouldn't be a Democratic response or an independent journalist picking apart the distortions, the exaggerations, the leaps of logic. Maybe an hour or two later, they would have some other Bush person on live doing what's called a presser, where the programming is interrupted and they go live. And they let Rove control these. It was stunning to see that, especially in the run up to this election -- and I think it's important that we be on guard during the run-up to the '06 midterm election that's around the corner here.
They basically surrendered journalistic notions. The story was a visual story that was set by Karl Rove, with the pictures of Bush, and it was about protecting us not only from the terrorists, but now he had to protect us because the Democrats are obstructing him. He has to protect us from Saddam Hussein, who's in league with the terrorists. It was stunning.
I was inside there, and I would pull the hair out of my head. I would argue. I would protest. But believe me, the last thing TV news management wanted to do in that period of the run up to the Iraq war, and earlier, in the run up to the November 2002 election -- the last thing they wanted to do was offend the Bush administration or Karl Rove. This is that same period where they were before the FCC, trying to get the rules relaxed.
It was truly something to be on the inside at that time. I was a pretty tough media critic. I was not naïve about bias, about catering to the right, and catering to the corporate. But to experience it in 2002-2003, when there was really intense politics, intense mobilization toward war, intense corporate media mobilization toward friendly regulation -- journalism just went out the window, and I was able to witness it from a front-row seat.
BuzzFlash: Jeff, thank you very much. A great book, which we highly recommend to our readers, because if we don't take back the media, we're not going to be able to take back the country. Thanks a lot.
Jeff Cohen: Thanks so much.
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EMILY BOURKE: An expert panel of scientists and clinicians is warning people against going overseas for costly and unproven stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy.
A forum held in Sydney last night heard from leading researchers in the field and a parent who sought treatment in the United States for his young son.
The Cerebral Palsy Alliance estimates as many as 500 Australians have sought stem cell therapies overseas.
But the Alliance last night urged families to hold out for the possibility that Australia will undertake its own clinical trials of the treatment as early as this year.
Tanya Nolan reports.
TANYA NOLAN: Stephen Archer is candid when describing why he and his family spent around $40,000 on cord blood treatment for his then 5-year-old son Zac.
STEPHEN ARCHER: Certainly I guess the theory of the magic bullet in regards to the cord blood was certainly an impetus.
TANYA NOLAN: In 2010 the family travelled to Duke University in North Carolina for the treatment that involved infusing Zac with blood taken from his own umbilical cord.
But Stephen Archer says there was no improvement in Zac's condition.
STEPHEN ARCHER: None at all, unfortunately.
TANYA NOLAN: Not one bit of difference?
STEPHEN ARCHER: Walking has improved since the infusion, but it would be difficult to determine whether that was because of the cord blood or whether it was due to other therapies and his own progress.
TANYA NOLAN: Associate Professor Iona Novak from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance says Stephen and Zac are just one of possibly hundreds of cases where parents are driven to pursue the costly and risky treatments overseas.
IONA NOVAK: We're very worried about families travelling overseas for treatment. A lot of these stem cell tourism companies don't even describe what type of cells they're giving, so first we don't even know if they're human cells, if they're human cells at all, what kind of stem cells and so of course it is a very risky procedure.
There has been a couple of cases internationally of children actually dying from these treatments.
TANYA NOLAN: The Cerebral Palsy Alliance estimates a child in Australia is born with cerebral palsy every 15 hours, making it the most common disability in childhood.
It's caused by damage to the child's brain during pregnancy, birth or soon after. It often leads to seizures, blindness, hearing loss, and slower developmental growth.
And the condition is lifelong - but it may not have to be.
Professor Novak says a recent breakthrough in stem cell research in South Korea has opened up the strongest chance yet of a finding a cure for cerebral palsy.
IONA NOVAK: Why we're so excited about this Korean study is obviously human umbilical cord blood cells are designed and are proven to work for blood indications, but we were ever sure they could work for helping to repair brain, but interestingly we've been able to show at both animal models and now in human studies, that they do give a treatment effect.
TANYA NOLAN: Professor Novak and her team already have approval to begin clinical trials using cord blood cells on patients with cerebral palsy. Now what they need are several million dollars to get them underway.
IONA NOVAK: Of course, the big question here is what if we gave them to infants right at the time of the brain injury? Would it actually be a cure?
And we need to strongly work hard to answer both of those questions until we prevent/cure cerebral palsy in infants with a very, very recent brain injury and could we offer a new and important treatment option to those already living with the condition.
TANYA NOLAN: Despite the Archer family's setbacks, Stephen Archer is still hopeful Australian trials will come up with positive results.
STEPHEN ARCHER: It may not have worked for Zachary on that occasion. The future holds so much promise. I don't think it's time at all to give up.
EMILY BOURKE: That's Stephen Archer, who's one of hundreds of parents to seek stem cell treatment overseas for his child's cerebral palsy.
Tanya Nolan with that story.
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EMILY BOURKE: An expert panel of scientists and clinicians is warning people against going overseas for costly and unproven stem cell treatment for cerebral palsy.
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San Francisco-based artificial intelligence provider Sentient Technologies recently announced that it has raised US$103.5 million in Series C funding, bringing the total investment in Sentient to more than US$143 million.
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I'll bet the Prime Minister would give his butler's left leg right about now for a moratorium on the expression "U-turn". Well actually given the choice, he'd probably rather expunge the term "omnishambles" from our shared lexicon but one fire-fight at a time.
Before we try to defend the government, lets briefly plumb the depths of its incompetence. As Ed Balls, puce with poorly concealed glee, reminded us last week, the list of high profile government U-turns currently counts among its illustrious members: churches, pasties, caravans, charities, skips, petrol and as recently as yesterday Dave backtracked on the expansion of Heathrow.
Now a U-turn, in and of itself, is not an inherently negative thing if you accept (and I admit this proposition may entail a radical departure from popular opinion) that politicians are fallible creatures. I think that we can all just about entertain that notion, if only for the sake of argument. So, it follows that if they are fallible, they will make mistakes. Another novel concept, to be sure, but bear with me as we negotiate this labyrinth of abstraction.
If a politician has dropped a proverbial bollock in the noodles (to borrow Armando Iannucci's joyous turn of phrase), the course of action implied by a U-turn would require the ability to recognise his error, hoik the offending organ from the bowl and give the contents a courtesy rinse. Now surely, this is a more commendable course of action for a statesman than someone who, to pursue what I now realise was an ill-chosen analogy, simply grits his teeth, liberally applies the Dolmio and pretends he is serving you up an extra meatball with your repast. Not exactly cutting off his nose to spite his face but...well, you get the idea.
If we accept that a U-turn is not an intrinsically bad thing, then it just comes down to an all-out dog fight between principle and pragmatism for the right to govern the conduct of our fearless leaders. Do we want someone who will stick steadfastly to their chosen path even when it leads them through the bramble patch of backbench revolt, the minefield of contrary public opinion and into the quicksand of political oblivion? Or would we rather elect someone who will kowtow to the baying media mob and toss principle to the pollsters at the merest whiff of antipathy? As ever, of course, the happy medium lies somewhere in the middle.
The Tories' problem (Ed Miliband's adenoidal hysteria notwithstanding) isn't the relative merits of each individual volte-face but the sheer volume of them in aggregate. The solution, though, is a simple one (and by "solution" I mean something which definitely wouldn't work but would be bloody hilarious). In fact, if you're quiet enough, you can probably hear Steve Hilton bellowing it at his TV in California: change the terms of the debate. You idiot.
The expression "U-turn" drips with the disdain of leaders past and whimpers cowardice, venality and indecision. What Dave needs is a term which conjures to mind the image of an intrepid rally car driver slaloming along a succession of increasingly perilous hair-pin bends at break-neck speed as he navigates the treacherous topography of an economic landscape hand-sculpted by his incompetent predecessors.
So the when the government executes its next courageous climb-down, don't be surprised to read about a "stalwart swerve", a "plucky pirouette" or a ...... "gallant gyration". Yeah I didn't think this through.
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An Indiana State University professor has been chosen to serve on the National Strength and Conditioning Association education committee.
Thomas Nesser, assistant professor of physical education, was presented with the honor of serving a three-year term at the NSCA?s National Meeting in July in Las Vegas, NV.
As a member of the education committee, Dr. Nesser will provide support to the education department and recommendations to the Board of Directors to enhance the educational services of the NSCA. This includes providing educational materials to assist individuals in their preparations for certification as a strength and conditioning specialist and/or personal trainer.
Nesser is currently the Indiana representative to the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He has been a professor in ISU's College of Health and Human Performance since 2002, and teaches classes such as Physiology of Exercise, Foundations of Conditioning, and Resistance Training Methods. He received his doctorate in kinesiology from the University of Minnesota in 2000 before coming to ISU.
The National Strength and Conditioning Association, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., is an international nonprofit educational association serving nearly 30,000 members in 52 countries. Drawing upon its vast network of members, the NSCA develops and presents the most advanced information regarding strength training and conditioning practices, injury prevention and research findings.
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Thomas Nesser, assistant professor of physical education, will serve a three-year term on the National Strength and Conditioning Association education committee.


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Discussion in 'Photography Beginners' Forum' started by Eyetattoo, Sep 7, 2009.
Besides the editing, what are the advantages of shooting in RAW vs JPEG?
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What he said. This has been rehashed hundreds of times.
i thought so but couldnt find it, thanks!
Depending on what YOU will do with the files, shooting RAW can actually have a major disadvantage. It does take a bit of effort to work with and, should you choose not to do so, the image will not be as vibrant as the jpg created by your camera.
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One last question.......when you convert the RAW files to JPEG (I am using the Nikon software) do you loose any quality? If so is there anyway to avoid the quality loss?
Don't use jpg - use tif.
With ViewNX you can choose lossless conversion. You're .jpg file will still be 10-11mb though.
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NEW YORK — Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has faced accusations of plagiarism over a 1987 book, has resigned from the Pulitzer Prize board, Columbia University announced Friday.
In a letter to board Chairman John Carroll, Goodwin said: "After the controversy earlier this year surrounding my book, 'The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys,' and the need now to concentrate on my Lincoln manuscript, I will not be able to give the board the kind of attention it deserves."
Goodwin, who joined the board in 1999, won a Pulitzer for her 1995 book "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II."
In January, as journalists probed the biographies and works of several high-profile historians, she acknowledged that "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" contained sections of text taken without attribution to another author.


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Transfer news: Sheffield United want to sign Leeds defender Aidy White on loan
Sheffield United boss Nigel Clough has confirmed he has enquired about signing Leeds defender Aidy White on loan.
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Last Updated: 28/10/13 3:39pm
Clough is a big admirer of White and is thought to have tried to sign him during his time in charge of Derby County.
White has found himself down the pecking order at Leeds this season, making just three appearances for Brian McDermott's side.
Clough is now waiting to see if Leeds are willing to loan out White as he looks to bolster his squad at Bramall Lane.
"Yes, we've asked about Aidan," Clough told the Sheffield Star.
"Nothing more has been done yet but hopefully we should know more around Tuesday or Wednesday. It's a possibility.
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The Metropolitan Police Department welcomed a new member Wednesday.
Bald eagle parents Liberty and Justice have hatched one of their eggs at the D.C. Police Academy. The fuzzy eaglet was spotted Wednesday afternoon in frigid temperatures.
Please welcome #MPD's newest recruit. Welcome to the family, baby eaglet! #eggwatch2017 pic.twitter.com/BGoMvpBOwz— DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) March 15, 2017
Liberty and Justice have another egg they're incubating. You can follow them live here.
The pair has successfully raised several eaglets over the 12 years they've been nesting at the police academy, including two last year.
The eaglet is the first of possibly four eaglets that could hatch in D.C. this year.
Mr. President and the First Lady, who live high up in a Tulip Poplar Tree at the National Arboretum, laid two eggs this year. They're expected to hatch the last week of March. Follow the Arboretum eagles here.
If you love animal cams, check out April the giraffe, too.
Bald eagle rescued from alligator's jaws
DC eagle protects eggs in nest after snowfall
Let 'Eagle Watch' begin! Beloved DC eagles lay second egg
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