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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers formally announced a deal with Time Warner Cable on Monday to create a new TV channel that people familiar with the situation say assures the team more than $7 billion over 25 years. That is double what Major League Baseball thought the local TV rights were worth when the team was sold out of bankruptcy just last year.
The gap will be the subject of discussions going forward as the league attempts to haggle over how much of that extra money will go into a revenue-sharing pool to help out baseball's lower-revenue franchises.
MLB calculates that 34 percent of a team's local revenue, after subtracting costs, is available for redistribution throughout the league. When the Dodgers were mired in bankruptcy last year, the league agreed to value the potential TV rights of any future deal at $84 million the first year, rising 4 percent every year thereafter. Over 25 years, that estimated TV rights revenue of $3.5 billion.
The actual TV rights contract represents a huge mark-up from that initial forecast. It could be a boon to the league, depending on how much of that revenue its internal rules committee says is subject to sharing. The contract is also a big win for the owners, including Guggenheim Partners and Magic Johnson, who bought the team out of bankruptcy last year for $2 billion from Frank McCourt.
The broad strokes of the deal terms were confirmed by three people who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about them publicly.
MLB spokesman Pat Courtney wouldn't comment on the deal, but said the league would need to approve it. "We are still awaiting further information," he said.
If approved, fans in the Los Angeles area and Hawaii would have to switch from watching Dodgers games on Fox Sports' regional sports channel Prime Ticket after the 2013 season.
The high price tag also means monthly TV bills are likely headed upward — in the Los Angeles market and elsewhere.
"There's no question that there's a huge problem with sports rights," said Derek Baine, a senior analyst with research firm SNL Kagan, adding that one big question is "when is this going to stop?" Baine also blamed higher TV bills on the proliferation of new channels and rising fees for once-free TV station broadcasts.
Time Warner Cable Inc., which agreed to pay the fees, is now aiming to cut deals with other local TV distributors to offset the cost, which could spread any fee hikes across the TV landscape, including in other markets.
The new channel, SportsNet LA, will be launched and operated by a subsidiary of the team formed in December called American Media Productions LLC.
Along with selling the channel to other TV distributors, Time Warner Cable will have the exclusive advertising rights and certain branding and programming rights. It will also offer production and technical services outside of regular game coverage, which will be handled by the team's subsidiary.
Ownership of the network was important, according to the people familiar with the situation, because the league allows teams to reduce their revenue-sharing contributions by the cost of running their own TV networks.
The contract marks the second major sports rights deal in three years for Time Warner Cable, which bought the rights to Los Angeles Lakers games in 2011 and launched regional sports networks covering them last year.
After paying an estimated $3 billion for the Lakers rights for 20 years, Time Warner Cable eked out higher fees from other TV distributors in Los Angeles, including DirecTV. The cable operator has said it is bidding for long-term sports carriage agreements to give itself certainty about rising sports costs.
"This deal, like our Lakers' deal, furthers our efforts to attain greater certainty and control over local and regional sports programming costs," David Rone, president of Time Warner Cable Sports, said in a statement.
However, Time Warner Cable is not the only network operator looking to recoup the cost of sports rights by hiking fees on other TV distributors.
The New York Yankees' YES Network, which is part owned by News Corp.'s Fox network, is also expected to seek a fee hike from Time Warner Cable when that agreement expires early next year.
Dodgers owner Mark Walter said in a statement, "we concluded last year that the best way to give our fans what they want — more content and more Dodger baseball — was to launch our own network."
Ron Blum contributed from New York.


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The Ken Burns Cat Out Of The PBS Bag
Ken Burns' "The Tenth Inning," the follow-up to his nine-part 1994 "Baseball" documentary, finally will air on PBS Sept. 28-29, the final weekend of the regular season for Major League Baseball.
Roger Angell, John Thorn, George Will, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Bob Costas return for "Tenth," and are joined by new interviewees Keith Olbermann, Joe Torre, Pedro Martinez and Ichiro Suzuki.
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The Civil War is Burns' masterpiece as far as I am concerned. I enjoyed Baseball, however, if my not so long memory serves me, you had some issues with its accuracy in parts. I am not an expert (just a fan) so I yield to your majesty as the truther in this. Just don't get too cocky about it (or "twocky" in the Twitterverse). I look forward to the sequel, bad hair notwithstanding.
Oh, and could you not wear that black tie with the black suit again? You looked like a mortician. :>)
You wrote of the update:
"It's exceptional, retains his distinctive style and pace despite the greater availability of video, it's historically perfect, and as always with his series (Shelby Foote in "The Civil War," the late Buck O'Neil in the original "Baseball," and all of the principals in his epic of WWII, "The War"), it will make stars out of some of the interviewees."
Pretend your producer made a suggestion: "Give some details to the tease; not enough carrot to makes someone sit through 3 minutes of commercials."
No risk if you agree. Some if you don't.
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Sweet…best news I've heard all night! I loved the original nine innings, and I'm confident that Burns will do equally as compelling a job with the more current material.
Looking forward to it! Please remind us when the time gets closer, would you? The one thing I'm known for among friends and family is… uhh… is… oh crap. I forgot. 😉
Too bad Ken Burns did not show the same level of respect for jazz with his series. His overlooking of the last 30 years of the genre was the equivalent of going into loving detail about baseball up until the '75 World Series and then doing a "This was followed by 2 strikes–the latter causing the cancellation of that year's World Series–and the so-called steroid era. The End." Unforgivable.
Looking forward to seeing "The Tenth Inning" when it airs later this year…..sounds interesting 🙂
Very off-topic:I disagree with mrylngreen on the subject of the black on black color scheme…..some of my best friends are funeral directors and are all very classy dressers. I thought you looked just fine……very sober and serious, though your have the very imp of mischief peeking out when you grin and make your crew/guests LOL 😉
My two favorite things– jazz and baseball– and somehow Ken Burns got the honor of making the "definitive" documentaries on them. I find his style annoying, especially his "Americana" approach to these two admittedly very American contributions to world culture. Burns is falsely cozy, touchy-feely, Capracorn-esque. MLB Network does a better job with its "Prime 9" shows and the Bob Costas interviews. Like most people in the media, entertainment and otherwise, who are considered important today (not you, Keith), Ken Burns just oozes mediocrity. When I see his name on a Billie Holiday CD ("Ken Burns Jazz") I think– why should his name be on there? When this program comes on, I'll be listening to Miles Davis's "On the Corner" sessions from the 1970s (take that Marsalis!) or watching an All-Time Game on MLB Network.
I need to identify myself a little here. I'm a history professor (thus my moniker) and my graduate adviser was a consultant on "The Civil War." I thought it was a masterpiece. Yes, he could have gone deeper into some issues, but it's television and there's a limit.
I'm also a baseball nut or I wouldn't be here, and that documentary didn't do it for me. One problem: Burns didn't change his approach. There was a LOT of video he could have used and instead he stuck with stills and, especially, talking heads far more than he needed to. Buck O'Neil? Perfect. But Stephen Jay Gould and Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gerald Early and Bob Costas and George Will? However much they love the game and however articulate they were or are, overused. There isn't any video of the Civil War, and his approach to that worked perfectly. But the way he did baseball would have been tantamount to doing his full documentary on jazz and using only three excerpts of the music.
The other problem was, oddly, the lack of certain talking heads. His main broadcaster was Bob Costas, but he barely used Vin Scully and didn't use Ernie Harwell, both of whom had even then been around the game for so long–and if Burns wants to claim they didn't want to talk with him or he didn't get good footage, that is bull, and he would know that.
I AM glad he's updating it, and I hope he is going to manage to talk about teams other than the ones in the northeast. I even say that as a Dodger fan, and he certainly paid attention to Dodger history (and his work on Jackie Robinson was magnificent).
I haven't seen the Civil War, but I loved Baseball and Jazz while at the same time agreeing with most criticisms of them, which I guess is a bit weird.
@mantlewasarockstar : I agree that Burns neglected so much Modern Jazz, but hey the thing was still 9 days long, he had to stop somewhere. I wonder how much to credit Wynton Marsalis for that shortcoming, as he has become a bit of a spokesman for getting jazz back to its roots and may have influenced Burns to focus so much on the pre-war jazz era. I personally was disappointed by the lack of coverage of the West Coast Scene myself.
I agree that Baseball did not take advantage of enough video. I have the book for Baseball and reading it is just like watching the show!
Keith Olbermann, Ken Burns & Pedro Martinez. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.
Pedro, the best pitcher I have ever seen in my lifetime. People can argue that there were better. If there are, I haven't seen him. It was pure magic watching him when he was at the top of his game. No other athlete on this planet gave me as much joy as he did when he pitched. When his turn came to start a game, we all headed over to Fenway. All of us. Sometimes @ 6:00 in the morning, to get in line for standing room tickets. But we didn't care. Sometimes we went to NY or Baltimore. Just to watch him pitch. I still miss him here in Boston.
Ken Burns, the best there is at making documentaries. The Civil War, Baseball, Our National Parks, The Brooklyn Bridge. I loved his documentary on Baseball. Loved it. And I am taking my two granddaughters to the National Parks next year after watching his series on the parks. This summer we are taking a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Keith Olbermann, who continues to inspire me to think, to read. To learn. And sometimes, to just laugh. Thank you Keith. I look forward to Countdown every single evening.
I am looking forward to this program in September. Thanks for letting us know.
Bob Costas. The best at talking baseball. The absolute best.
I remember his line from Baseball:
Were there better players than Jackie Robinson? Yes.
Was there a more important player than Jackie Robinson?
And Doris Kearns Goodwin. I've read all his books. But her book about growing up in Brooklyn was such a lovely portrait of a little girl growing up with her father and the Dodgers. She reminded me a little of me, although I was older than her before I started really following the Red Sox on an hourly basis.
"Pedro, the best pitcher I have ever seen in my lifetime. People can argue that there were better. If there are, I haven't seen him." —–Bob Gibson.
History Lover, thanks for responding. I hope I made it clear, I wasn't beefing about any inaccuracies. I was complaining more about how Burns made the documentary. All of that said, I liked his talking heads. I just had a problem with how–more accurately, how much–he used them.
Re Ichiro: Costas did a fabulous interview with him on his HBO show several years ago. As you say, intelligent and quite funny. My favorite current player with sneakily insane stats.
Forgive me for repeating myself but "he had to stop somewhere" would not have been acceptable if after the 1975 WS–arguably the greatest ever played–Burns had summed up the years since as "2 players strikes and the steroid era." Which is what he basically did in his Jazz doc.
I'll let my one-time music biz colleague, and respected jazz critic, David Adler explain it best:
"Having acknowledged Miles Davis?s birthing of what came to be known as fusion, the film stops with a stunningly vague comment about how more fusion bands soon emerged to follow Miles?s example. None are named. Thus is the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Headhunters, Weather Report, and Return to Forever written out of the history of jazz. In fact, the 1970s as a whole basically never happened in Burns?s view. It is left for Branford Marsalis, who knows better, to declare that 'jazz just went away for a while.'
During the course of the Miles discussion, Wynton Marsalis all but dismisses the electric guitar as a non-jazz instrument, closing off the possibility that Pat Metheny and John Scofield ? both of whom drew considerable crowds while jazz was supposedly dead ? made meaningful contributions to the music. The film, giving similar treatment to the electric bass (referred to ineptly in the script as "electronic" bass), also dispenses with the towering influence of Jaco Pastorius."
Wynton Marsalis–and other contributors to the doc, like Stanley Crouch–are avowed haters of electric instruments in jazz and their disdain for modern jazz has been amply documented. Many critics have suggested that Marsalis held the keys to much of the contacts, research and info Burns needed for the doc and that his participation may have hinged upon Burns excluding those movements within the genre the famed trumpeter has issues with.
(To those of you uninterested in this slightly off-topic post, I apologize.)
Sigh. Insomnia strikes again.
The job of a documentary filmmaker cannot be easy. Short of doing an exhaustive big-screen treatment of one of these historically/culturally significant subject matters, a la Oliver Stone, I feel that Ken Burns did a wonderful job on JAZZ, on the small screen. It's my favorite.
Considering the voluminous amount of information and film footage available, I can't for the life of me imagine how terribly difficult it must have been for Burns to have to decide which information was either included or discarded from the final cut of JAZZ, due to time/budgetary constraints. Perhaps he could do a follow-up on JAZZ, as he is doing with his Baseball epic and the upcoming ?The Tenth Inning?. @mantlewasarockstar: In the meantime, I'll happily listen to my Weather Report and Pat Metheny CDs. 🙂
Keith, here I go again being wildly off topic on your blog. I'm surprised the ever-patient MLB folks haven't banned me yet. But I have to agree with @mrylngreen: The black-on-black the other night made you look like one of the undertakers on ?Six Feet Under.? I loved that show, but wished you had paired the black suit (which looked gorgeous) with a light gray or purple tie, or patterned shirt 😦
I've Tweeted you, and you have made one California lady very happy by responding . . . once (though I'm NOT complaining!) . . . but I find Twitter's 140-character limit oh-so confining! I'm vowing to get better at being a briefer, wittier Tweeter-er in the future, but I'm not holding my breath!
BTW, your new Countdown promos are very stylish. While I'm not a ?fangirl? in the strictest sense, my only complaint is that I feel you should own up to having a puss which is exceedingly easy on the eyes, and does more to help than hinder your ratings. 🙂
Here's MY problem with Ken Burns: He wants to have it both ways, creating both historical documentary on film and an individual artist's interpretation.
He poses and presents himself as a maker of documentaries, laying claim to "telling the story" of Baseball, Jazz, the U.S. Civil War or World War II.
Yet, when challenged on his errors, omissions and bias, he presents himself as a creative artist with the freedom (or license) to interpret.
Without being stuck in the narrow duality of "You're either one thing or another," I think the two professions (scholar and artist) have different versions of "integrity" with little or no overlap. Call it "external truth" and "internal truth." (But don't switch 'em. What is on second, and Who is on first.)
But I find Twitter's 140-character limit oh-so confining! I'm vowing to get better at being a briefer, wittier Tweeter-er in the future, but I'm not holding my breath! art school
Many critics have suggested that Marsalis held the keys to much of the contacts, research and info Burns needed for the doc and that his participation may have hinged upon Burns excluding those movements within the genre the famed trumpeter has issues with. business management degree
nIEQjI In awe of that answer! Really cool!
Thus is the music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Headhunters, Weather Report, and Return to Forever written out of the history of jazz. education degree
Wow. This blog is truly a gold mine. I have been wallowing on this for quite sometime and here I am reading about it! I will actually read all news.
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As part of the post-season post-mortem, I'm treating myself to a review of the happy moments from this past season. I offer you my five favorite games, which I will argue were the "best" Eagles games of the season. "Best" is pretty loosely defined here, but the criteria in play are (a) quality of opponent/ victory, (b) potential for persisting in our memory beyond the next couple months, including signature plays or moments, and (c) how I enjoyed that particular game. Essentially, I'm trying to figure out which five games I'll remember a few years from now. Note that I've left myself some wiggle room with criterion (c) — where and how I watched the game will actually matter here.
For those of you still convinced this wasn't a cool season, rest assured that this was actually a challenging list to assemble. I seriously sweated some of these calls. Yeah. No kidding. Note also that the playoff games don't automatically earn a spot on the list (though it's hard to exclude them).
And now, in descending order…
(5) Eagles 26, Vikings 14 @Minnesota, January 4, 2009. This edges out the honorable mentions by virtue of being a playoff game and having two signature plays: (a) the Brian Westbrook screen-pass TD and (b) the Asante Samuel pick-six, which included Chris Clemons flattening Tavaris Jackson. The Westbrook TD will livve in my memory as a companion piece to the long screen-pass TD against the Redskins last season. It's also worth noting that, um, well, maybe there won't be a ton of awesome Brian Westbrook plays in the future. What I'll remember about watching this game is that it felt like the Eagles were losing throughout most of the first half (even though they were winning). What I'll probably forget is how a bad snap made the ending of this game a lot less stressful than it could have been.
(4) Eagles 20, Giants 14 @ The Meadowlands, December 7, 2008. I would argue that this was the game that turned the season for the Eagles — more so than the win against the Cardinals. Sure, the Giants were reeling a bit from the Plax news, and the Birds had a couple extra days of rest, but this was the game that showed us how they'd make their run: tough defense and an efficient offense led by a pissed-off Donovan McNabb. It didn't hurt that Antonio Pierce was personally responsible for the Eagles' two touchdowns, the second of which will be remembered as signature play (the dump-off pass where Westbrook just ran away from Pierce). It also didn't hurt that I had great seats and ended up on TV. At the time, I expected that this would be the highlight of the season.
(3) Eagles 23, Giants 11 @ The Meadowlands, January 11, 2009. An abusive effort from the Eagles' defense that included two (2) fourth-down stops in the fourth quarter. We knew the Giants weren't the same team they were in early November, but they still had a week off and home-field advantage: and the Birds still roughed them up. In addition to the fourth-down plays, we'll also remember the Asante Samuel pick and Donovan McNabb's phone call (though we didn't actually see that). We had great seats (at the goal line, nine rows up) and the Birds scored both their TDs right in front of us. And we'll fondly remember joining the crowd of Birds' fans above the tunnel after the game. And then we went to Disney World (!).
(2) Eagles 44, Cowboys 6 @ Lincoln Financial Field, December 28, 2008. Eagles porn! Not since the playoff win against the Lions in the mid-nineties had a game just completely gone this improbably well for the Birds. That it happened against the Cowboys with a playoff spot on the line in the final game of the season, in a game that wouldn't have mattered had a 13.5-point favorite lost at home in the one-o'clock slot…well, I mean, I guess that's why we call it Eagles porn. Things you probably don't remember about this game include the fact that McNabb only threw for 175 yards (though he accounted for 3 TDs). Things you'll remember for a long time include Chris Clemons dropping the stiff arm on Tashard choice, Brian Dawkins ripping the ball out of Marion Barber's hands, and the part where Tony Romo apparently collapsed in the locker room. Note that as of today (February 7, 2009), it appears that the Cowboys have yet to recover from this loss.
(1) Eagles 15, Steelers 6 @Lincoln Financial Field, September 21, 2008. Would this — a September game against an AFC opponent — have been number 1 if the Steelers hadn't won the Super Bowl? No. But it would have been no lower than number 3. This game was the sneak preview of the Eagles defense that would emerge in December. Watching the game again is as Eagles porn-y as the Cowboys game, and maybe even more so: the Eagles' pass rush looked like something out of the early 90s. From the NFL.com game report:
The Eagles recorded nine sacks and a safety and had at least twice that many knock-downs. And those numbers don't count the four times Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger barely escaped sacks and was credited with 6 total rushing yards. If Roethlisberger was less elusive, the Eagles very easily could have tallied 15 sacks or more.
Remember also that the Eagles didn't have much on offense that day: Westbrook got hurt early, Kevin Curtis wasn't back yet, and the Steelers can also play some defense. But the Birds got it done, most because Pittsburgh could not keep their quarterback upright. The signature play of the game — and maybe the season — is undoubtedly the Brian Dawkins superhero strip-and-recovery with 3:39 left in the game in which Dawkins appears to violate the laws of Newtonian physics (feel free to treat yourself to another viewing). If this game gets mysteriously erased from my DVR, couples therapy will be in my future.
Honorable mentions: Eagles 48, Cardinals 20, Dallas 41, Eagles 37 (the only loss that had a chance).
Related posts:
- Birds outshove Steelers, make Ed Rendell smile
- There is nothing non-awesome about wins over the Cowboys in Dallas (especially when a certain flamboyant wideout plays poorly)
- My Grand Prediction(s) for the 2008 Eagles season
- Birds finish season #1 in Nerd Rankings
- Friday Eagles Hangover: this week, it's mostly just the turkey (and all the alcohol)


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This Fourth of July, I have decided to honor the Founding Fathers by explaining to American citizens the true nature of the "rights" they celebrate on Independence Day.
When our country was founded and the Constitution written, our forefathers understood that Rights are inherent in all mankind – they come from God, and not government. They understood that they represented all American citizens in crafting offices to be filled by other citizens, and establishing guidelines by which these citizens must abide. Having just turned their backs on a king, and with a full understanding of the power-greedy nature of mankind, they understood that the citizens of this country were setting themselves apart from all others by limiting their representatives with those guidelines – specifically outlining what they could and could not do!
The Constitution is that summary document, laying out those guidelines and limiting those representatives. In discussing the duties and powers of Congress, Article 1, Section 1, says "All legislative powers herein granted…" Notice that word, granted. As in "We, the people, do hereby grant you the following duties and powers." The power originates in the people, and is granted to the representatives in government. It is important to note that the power never leaves the people, authority is just given to a few citizens to do specific things on behalf of all the other citizens.
The states were formed by mutual agreements among citizens, and the Constitution was a contract between the states establishing a body of citizens who would be responsible for things that the states could not do individually, namely to regulate interstate commerce and provide for the defense of the boundaries that the states shared. Today, Americans have been led to believe that the federal government has more authority than state governments, but this is untrue. The ultimate authority lies with the people, themselves.
The feds, on the other hand – those citizens (ostensibly) who have been chosen to fulfill certain duties within specific guidelines – now act as though they have the power and authority to do anything they want, whenever and however they want. This is the exact behavior that lead the Founding Fathers, and every other freedom-loving American, to split with the king of England. His soldiers were allowed to enter homes unannounced, demand compliance from subjects, incarcerate them indefinitely and without due legal process, steal or destroy property, and kill or abuse the people. Welcome to today.
In the remainder of this document, it will be shown that the most important Rights, belonging to all American citizens, have been taken away from us by the government. But: who can remove Rights that have been bestowed by our Creator? How can a government remove Rights from the citizens, when the citizens created the government in the first place – the very citizens from whom the government (office-holding citizens) derive their authority?
In very fact, they cannot take our Rights from us. Just as today's dollar only holds value because people believe it does, even so our government representatives only hold power as long as WE THE PEOPLE allow them to continue. Your Rights can never be rightfully removed; they come from God. The government can only use coercion to remove your ability to exercise those Rights. It is time to take a stand.
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endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights… to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men."
"Our Declaration of Independence acknowledges a Creator as the source of the unalienable rights that governments are formed to secure. This acknowledgement was the very foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America." In other words, rights come from GOD and the United States government was created to protect those rights. How well is the government doing in securing the God-given rights of American citizens? Let's find out.
Some of our God-given rights are listed in the Bill of Rights. It is interesting to note that a few of the Founding Fathers objected to a Bill of Rights because government representatives ONLY have the rights specifically given to them by the people, in the Constitution, and therefore a list was not necessary. This sentiment is reflected in the 10th Amendment, which says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Below are Rights listed in the Bill of Rights, as well as laws established in the Constitution itself, followed by a brief investigation into the current status of these Rights and laws.
- Creator-Endowed Rights (National Center for Constitutional Studies, http://www.nccs.net/articles/ril16.html)
- Bill of Rights (National Archives, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html)
1st Amendment
Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press; the Right to Assemble and Petition
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Religion.
Original Intent: The government was not to interfere with people's religious practices, nor were they to institute an official religion.
Currently: Bible studies are being shut down both in homes and in college dorms; religious groups are being forced to either shut down or allow practices that violate their beliefs; and the false doctrine of "separation of church and state" is being used to remove anything religious from the public square. In recent years, the Federal government has prohibited the free exercise of religion by forcing Christian organizations to participate in violations of their belief, including accepting gays as club members, and to provide gay adoptions and abortion/contraception funding. The Feds have also defunded youth programs that mention God, among many other things.
- Couple ordered to shut down home Bible study (Christian Examiner, March 2007)
- Florida college shuts down dorm-room Bible study (Washington Times, March 3, 2013)
- Homosexual Agenda Used to Close Catholic Adoption Services (Moonbattery, July 12, 2011)
- Federal judge orders Ten Commandments removed from Dixie courthouse (Gainesville.com, July 18, 2011
- Supreme Court lets stand order to remove Ten Commandments monument (Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 2010)
- Obama's DOJ Defunding Youth Programs That Mention God (Mr. Conservative, June 27, 2013)
- IRS Terrorized Christian Prayer Group, Demanded To See Their Prayers (Mr. Conservative, May 18, 2013)
Freedom of Speech.
Original Intent: America was founded on the belief that all mankind are entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, and that they have the right to share them, especially when their positions are unpopular.
Currently: Freedom of speech and of the press has been abridged in several ways, including the prosecution of government whistleblowers, and the illegal surveillance of all phone calls, text messages, and emails in America. Citizens can no longer peacably assemble and petition the government because they "approved a bill… that outlaws protests or civilian intrusions in any area where government officials are nearby," whether they realize it or not, and created oxymoronic "free speech zones" that limit where and when protests may occur, as well as whether or not they will be heard. Interestingly, Communist China did the same thing during the 2008 Olympics. In recent years, police violence against peaceful protesters has become commonplace. It should also be noted the current monitoring of every American's emails, phone calls, text messages, etc., are a sure way to curtail free speech, since the stated purpose is to store the data of innocent people until such future time as it might be deemed necessary to go back and find incriminating communications. See also supposedly defunct federal Information Awareness Office, and its goal of "Total Information Awareness."
- Homeland Security "Police" Monitored Tea Party IRS Protests (The New American, Mar 24, 2013)
- In day of protests, "Occupy Wall Street" faces police violence (CBS News, Nov. 17, 2011)
- Undercover Police Used Smartphones to Keep Tabs on Protests in Tampa (Sep. 17, 2012)
- Pentagon is keeping secret tabs on peaceful protest activities (Global Issues, Oct. 12, 2006)
- "Free-Speech Zone" The administration quarantines dissent (The American Conservative, Dec. 15, 2003)
- ADAMS COUNTY TO IMPOSE "FREE SPEECH ZONE" AFTER CITIZENS PROTEST (WatchdogWire, May 26, 2013)
- 'Trespass Bill' Would Violate Peaceful Assembly Rights (Anti-war.com, Feb. 28, 2012)
- China to allow limited protests (LA Times, July 24, 2008)
- American police brutality against unarmed peaceful Protesters (YouTube, Uploaded on Oct 22, 2011)
- Congress Moves to Create New Surveillance Agency Under NDAA 2014 (Infowars, June 21, 2013)
- Information Awareness Office (Wikipedia, Accessed July 3, 2013)
Freedom of Press
Original Intent: Freedom of the Press goes hand-in-hand with Freedom of Speech. Americans have a right to hear and be heard. Originally, the press was run by the people, and they used it to keep a close eye on their representatives.
Currently: Today, the media is owned by the globalist elite and their message is tightly controlled by the government. When the government controls the media, they control the message; when the government controls the message, it is called Propaganda. In 1991, David Rockefeller thanked the largest media outlets in the world for keeping their promise and remaining silent for decades about the globalist Bilderberg group. The press has become nothing but a dispensary for "preferred government messaging."
- Media Now Openly Admitting The Government Controls The News (BlacklistedNews, May 18, 2013)
- These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America (Business Insider, June 14, 2012)
- David Rockefeller's 1991 Bilderberg Quote…Ten Years Later (Rense, Nov. 21, 2001)
- This Chart Shows The Bilderberg Group's Connection To Everything In The World (Business Insider, Jun. 12, 2012)
The Right to Assemble
Original Intent: This was always to give people the ability to express their views and exercise their Freedom of Speech, as discussed above. Whenever governments want to control the ability of the populace to spread popular opinions – such as freedom – they limit the Right of the people to assemble. This is the practice currently in all Communist regimes, and some Socialist regimes.
Currently: In order to exercise this Right one must first obtain a permit. One legal website says, "…an unlawful assembly is a gathering of at least three persons whose conduct causes observers to reasonably fear that a breach of the peace will result. Although freedom of assembly is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, law enforcement has the right to require disbursement of such an assembly as part of the "police powers" of the state. Determination of the potential dangers of riot or breach of peace are subjective and decided on the spot by police officers or other public officials." In other words, no one may assemble without the permission of the government. A "subjective" law is no law at all. In other news, most Americans are unaware that the FBI had plans to murder the people they saw as leaders of the peaceful Occupy Wall Street protests, apparently because they "planned similar protests" in other cities. Recently, several conservative groups testified in court over discriminatory treatment by the IRS, including one Susan Martinek, who testified that, "an IRS agent told her in June 2009 that she needed to send a letter with her entire board's signatures "stating under penalty of perjury we would not picket, protest or organize groups to picket, protest outside of Planned Parenthood."" Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that no one can exercise their 1st Amendment Rights within the Supreme Court building and grounds.
- Radical politicians convicted for unlawful assembly (ChinaDailyAsia, Apr. 30, 2013)
- Unlawful Assembly Law & Legal Definition (USLegal.com, accessed July 3, 2013)
- 2010 Human Rights Report: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (U.S. Dept. of State, Apr 8, 2011)
- Russia: Reject Restrictions on Peaceful Assembly (Human Rights Watch, June 8 2012)
- Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba (PDF. Cato Institute, June 16, 2010)
- FBI Planned to Kill Occupy Leaders (Infowars, July 2, 2013)
- Conservative groups targeted by IRS testify that agency demanded they curtail activities (Washington Post, June 4, 2013)
- Supreme Court issues new protest ban (Politico, June 13, 2013)
The Right to Petition
Original Intent: This Right ensures that any citizen with a grievance has the ability to be heard by his representatives.
Currently: The Supreme Court ruled that the petitioners in the Prop 8 case had "no standing" to present their argument in front of the Supreme Court, despite the fact that their representatives who were legally required to do so had refused.
- Supreme Court: Prop 8 Supporters Have No Standing to Sue (FindLaw, June 26, 2013)
2nd Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Original Intent: Having just shrugged off one tyrant – the king of England – and knowing the power-hungry hearts of men, the citizens of America knew that the only way they could continue to remain free from tyrants was to remain armed.
Currently: According to Webster's 1828 Dictionary, infringed means broken or violated. Every chance they get, our representatives in Washington (particularly the Pres. and VP) speak out against the right to bear arms, and Washington has pushed gun control measures. Alternative means have been sought to curtail gun use, including mass ammunition purchases, reclassification of weapons, mandatory recycling of empty shell casings, and selling guns to gangs so they will kill Americans so it can be blamed on guns. Obama even signed a U.N. treaty that will give the decidedly anti-gun organization control over all civilian arms. Today, the Dept. of Homeland Security treats gun owners as terrorists, and has even worked with local officials to monitor people with Second Amendment bumper stickers on their vehicles. In fact, the current Attorney General, Eric Holder, is on video stating that the American people must be "brainwashed" into thinking about guns as nothing but a violent threat to society. Federal and state troops removed legal weapons – at gunpoint – from law-abiding citizens during Hurricane Katrina and the recent Boston bombing. So, has our God-given right to bear arms, given to us for the purpose of protecting our life, liberty, and property, been violated? When we are entirely unarmed, will we have the means to fend off any government that decides to compel us into tyranny? Many believe we are already there. Ironically, resistance to gun confiscation was a tipping point in the beginning of the American Revolution. The federal government is complicit in the systematic destruction of our 2nd Amendment Rights!
- Doctrine and Covenants 121:39 (Scriptures.lds.org)
- Infringe (Webster's 1828 Dictionary, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- Obama's "Fast and Furious" Gun-running Scandal Grows (The New American, May 28, 2013)
- Obama Signing United Nations Anti-Gun Treaty June 3rd (Mr. Conservative, May 30, 2013)
- DHS Says Gun Owners Are Terrorists (Infowars, Jan. 17, 2013)
- DHS training video depicts gun owners as 'militia members' planning terrorism (Examiner, Apr. 26, 2013)
- Eric Holder "Brainwash People" about Guns (YouTube, Uploaded Mar. 18, 2012)
- Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Hurricane Katrina (YouTube, Uploaded Feb. 27, 2013)
- Gun Confiscation During Hurricane Katrina Gives Us Picture of Road Ahead (Godfather Politics, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- Boston Martial Law: 'They were confiscating guns from residents' (21st Century Wire, Apr. 24, 2013)
- Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston (YouTube, Uploaded June 21, 2013)
- "Reasonable Gun Restrictions" is Still a Violation of the 2nd Amendment (Utah Gun Owners, Jan. 18, 2013)
- Total Gun Control in the United States (NCCS, Sep. 1999)
- Anti-Gun Legislation with Severe Ramifications Continues to Move in Sacramento (NRA-ILA, May 31, 2013)
3rd Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Original Intent: King George's men could barge right into your home and stay there for as long as they wished, demanding that you feed them, etc. The Founding Fathers knew that this violated the God-given Right to freedom of property.
Currently: Still in effect., as far as I know. +1 for the government!
- Using The Third Amendment In Defense Of The Second Amendment (Freedom Outpost, Feb. 11, 2013)
4th Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Original Intent: Here, the Constitution very clearly spells out the method by which the government may search, or seize, a person or their property. This was an important protection because the king's men could arrest a person, or seize their property, for any reason.
Currently: Today, the goverment has created the NSA and given them the freedom to record and search every method of communication available, as well as the TSA, which invasively searches everyone bold enough to suggest they should be allowed to travel on an airplane. Or bus. Or subway. Or attend a sports game or other public event. Or use a highway. The PATRIOT Act and NDAA bills both allow for the arrest ("siezure") and indefinite confinement of American citizens, without warrant OR proof of probable cause. It has also been discovered that the government has a secret interpretation of the PATRIOT Act for their own use. PATRIOT Act II allows for secret, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, repealed "limits on local police spying on religious and political activity" (IRS scandal, anyone?), expanded wiretapping, and allowed for "individuals engaged in civil disobedience" to "risk losing their citizenship." These bills also allow for detention of American citizens without a trial. Feel secure yet?
- Search Term "NSA" (Wired.com)
- Search Term "TSA" (Wired.com)
- Surprise! TSA Is Searching Your Car, Subway, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane (Mother Jones, June 20, 2011)
- Text of USA PATRIOT Act (The Library of Congress, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty (Infowars, Feb, 10, 2003)
- POLICE STATE LEGISLATION — THE USA PATRIOT ACT, PATRIOT II AND THE VICTORY ACT (Infowars, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- ACLU Fact Sheet on PATRIOT Act II (ACLU, Mar. 28, 2003)
- 2013 NDAA Expands Power of Military to Detain Citizens (Infowars, Nov. 30, 2012)
- "Secret" interpretation of PATRIOT Act will remain secret – court (Infowars, May 18, 2012)
- Amendment Requires Government to End Practice of Secretly Interpreting Law (Sen. Ron Wyden, May. 25, 2011)
- Stop and Frisk Policy – New York City Police Department (NY Times, Accessed, July 4, 2013)
- Stop-and-Frisk Campaign: About the Issue (NYCLU, Accessed, July 4, 2013)
5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Original Intent: "Scholars consider the Fifth Amendment as capable of breaking down into the following five distinct constitutional rights: grand juries for capital crimes, a prohibition on double jeopardy, a prohibition against required self-incrimination, a guarantee that all criminal defendants will have a fair trial, and a promise that the government will not seize private property without paying market value." (Cornell Legal Information Institute, Fifth Amendment, Accessed July 3, 2013)
Currently: The Obama administration claims the right to kill anyone they deem a threat, including American citizens, without due process of law, including the Right to have a grand jury determine if a crime has been committed that is worthy of capital punishment, and the Right to a fair trial. "The guarantee of due process for all citizens requires the government to respect all rights, guarantees, and protections afforded by the U.S. Constitution and all applicable statutes before the government can deprive a person of life, liberty, or property. Due process essentially guarantees that a party will receive a fundamentally fair, orderly, and just judicial proceeding." (Cornell Legal Information Institute) One of the most well-known provisions of the Fifth Amendment is the "right to remain silent," so as not to incriminate oneself. However, recently the Supreme Court ruled that, in fact, you do NOT have the right not to incriminate yourself unless you specifically claim that right, and that "If an individual is voluntarily talking to the police, he or she must claim the Fifth Amendment right of silence, or lose it; simply saying nothing won't do, according to the ruling." How's that for twisting the words and intent of the Constitution? We have a God-given Right, enshrined in the Constitution specifically to let the government know that they cannot revoke that Right, but now we have to play word games to use it. It is also apparently now against the law for teachers to inform their students of their Fifth Amendment Right not to incriminate themselves, as one teacher recently learned. As for seizing private property, it appears that some government agents are not paying just compensation for property seized. But who's going to do anything about it? "Who's watching the watchers?"
- Fifth Amendment (Cornell Legal Information Institute, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- Fifth Amendment Dead in America (Infowars, Mar. 9, 2012)
- Opinion recap: If you want to claim the Fifth . . . (SCOTUSblog, June 17, 2013)
- Teacher Disciplined For Advising Students of Constitutional Rights (Infowars, May 29, 2013)
- Health clubs victim of eminent domain, only without compensation (Business Times, Apr. 6, 2011)
- NDAA: Pre-emptive prosecution coming to a town near you (Al Jazeera, Feb, 18, 2013)
- Mom says Patriot Act stripped son of due process (WRAL.com, Apr. 29, 2009)
6th Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Original Intent: To protect citizens from trumped up charges, especially brought about by the government's agents. Prior to the American Revolution, the king's agents could do (and did) exactly that.
Currently: These Rights have been negated by the aforementioned USA PATRIOT Act and the NDAA. You may now be detained, indefinitely, without being told what you are being held for, and without anyone else being notified of your whereabouts.
- R.I.P. Bill of Rights 1789 – 2011 (Natural News, Jan. 1, 2012)
7th Amendment
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Original Intent: This, again, is a protection against tyranny at the hands of the government (i.e., the courts). The true decisions in court cases rest in the hands of the jury, not the judge!
Currently: The Obama administration has concocted themselves a secret court whose job it is to determine who may be killed by drone strikes, completely circumventing – or negating – the Sixth Amendment.
- New Hampshire Officially Recognizes Jury Nullification (Infowars, Aug. 10, 2012)
- Congress Prepares to Kill 6th Amendment with Secret "Drone Court" (Infowars, Feb. 11, 2013)
- The murder of Americans: Existence of secret kill lists now admitted by lawless White House (Natural News, Oct. 11, 2011)
8th Amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Original Intent: A common practice of tyrants is to impose excessive fines and punishment. The Founding Fathers wanted to avoid this by declaring that all men have a God-given Right to be treated with respect, even when found guilty of crimes. Notice that the severity of the crime is not mentioned as a factor in the protections afforded all citizens by the 8th Amendment.
Currently: Today, the United States inflicts torture on "detainees" around the world., and citizens are commonly held under enormous bail so that they cannot escape imprisonment. Ironically, yet again, this is the exact same behavior seen in Communist regimes the world over. "…an exposé by the Christian Science Monitor found that about 750,000 people are in local jails on any given day in the U.S…. about 80% have no choice but to remain in their cells due to their inability to pay the cost of making bail." Today, excessive fines are regularly imposed, including one half-million-dollar bail for a teenager accused of offensive comments on Facebook!
- Bush-era torture use 'indisputable,' Guantanamo must close, task force finds (NBC News, Apr. 16, 2013)
- Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi Torture Centres (UK Guardian, Mar. 6, 2013)
- Torture Archive (Infowars, Accessed, July 3, 2013)
- Systematic Torture in the People's Republic of China (ISHR, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- Justice for the Poor…No Bail, Stay in Jail (AllGov, Dec. 25, 2012)
- Suspects in Hollywood Walk of Fame Stabbing Each Held on $1 Million Bail (ABC News, June 20, 2013)
- Raleigh man held on $1 million bail in beating of woman in her home (News Observer, July 1, 2013)
- Numerous Google results for "teen $500,000 bail," including one for Facebook comments! (Google, Accessed July 3, 2013)
9th Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Original Intent: These last two amendments in the Bill of Rights, as discussed earlier, further instill the intent of the Founding Fathers that it be understood that the Bill of Rights was never meant to be a list of the only Rights that the people have! It is just a discussion of specific ones they felt it was important to address. Anything not specifically addressed in the Constitution was either delegated to the states by the people, in their state constitutions, or it belongs to the people!
Currently: Today, all forms of government, be they federal, state, or city, overreach their Constitutional limits on a regular basis. Many of the ways that they do this have been addressed in the sections on the other amendments above, but there are many others. Our cities are being molded according to designs fabricated by the United Nations Agenda 21 Initiative, without the knowledge or permission of the citizenry! The police are giving citizens roadside cavity searches during traffic stops! Our land is being sold to the Chinese! And on and on! WAKE UP!
- Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of Local Communities All Over America (Infowars, Dec. 24, 2012)
- Rosa Korie Explains Why Public Must Awaken to Agenda 21 (Infowars, Mar. 27, 2013)
- Man Jailed For Collecting Rainwater Begins Sentence (Infowars, Aug. 9, 2012)
- California schools are turning into government indoctrination centers (American Thinker, June 28, 2013)
- Russian Forces to Provide "Security" At US Events (Infowars, July 1, 2013)
- Idaho Governor Selling His State to the Chinese? (New American, June 9, 2011)
- China Threat – Idaho Gov. Invites Communist Chinese (YouTube, Uploaded Jan. 30, 2011)
- China to Build Cities and Economic Zones in Michigan and Idaho (Policymic, 2012)
- The Next NSA Spying Shoe to Drop: "Pre-Crime" Artificial Intelligence (Washington's Blog June 16, 2013)
- The Son Of COINTELPRO by Kurt Nimmo (Rense.com, Aug. 15, 2002)
- Obama Expands Wiretap Authority to Cover Finance, Healthcare and Other Industries (AllGov, Apr. 29, 2013)
- Is This the REAL Reason for the Government Spying On Americans? (Zerohedge, June 10, 2013)
- You May Not Work Without the Government's Permission (I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, USCIS, Accessed July 3, 2013)
- "Police" Arrest Man For Filming Them Then Shoot His Dog Multiple Times (Mr. Conservative July 2, 2013)
- Houston Women File Suit Against DPS For Roadside Cavity Searches (Infowars, July 3, 2013)
- Milwaukee police accused of performing illegal body cavity searches (NBC News, May 29, 2012)
Final Thoughts
While I had intended to continue my observations by investigating the state of other Constitutional laws not contained in the Bill of Rights, I think I have made my point: according to the government, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS! (Well, 1 out of 10. Is that good?) But the question is this: Do you believe it? Do your Rights come from God or from the government? If they come from God, what are you going to do about it? Here are some quotes to think about as you light sparklers tonight with your kids:
Now we can really understand Constitutional precedents. When the Federal government takes on functions not spelled out in the Constitution, in violation of the Tenth Amendment, it is only a matter of time before it will damage the unenumerated rights of the people, in violation of the Ninth Amendment. When the government can violate the unenumerated Ninth Amendment rights of the people, it is only a matter of time before it will trample the enumerated rights of the people, as explicitly spelled out in the rest of the Bill of Rights. After the government has gotten away with restricting speech and firearms when it has a "compelling interest," it will begin finding ways to search and seize property in violation of the Fourth Amendment. After each protection of the Bill of Rights has been eroded around the edges long enough, the government will pursue degradation of the most basic of statutory rights, such as the right to a jury trial – until the Bill of Rights is completely meaningless.
Americans are coming dangerously close to having no rights left at all, except for the few the government spares us. We must turn this around soon, and with the right destination in mind, or we will wake up one day in a dictatorship.
–Are Current Bill of Rights Erosions Unprecedented? by Anthony Gregory
(Lew Rockwell, Mar. 2, 2004)
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
–Adolf Hitler
"Our form of government is superior to all others, inasmuch as it provides, in a fair and honorable manner for its own amendment. But it requires no gift or prophecy to foresee that this privilege may be seized on by demagogues, to introduce wild and destructive innovations. Under the gentle name of amendments, changes may be proposed which, if unresisted, will undermine the national compact, mar its fairest features, and reduce it finally to a dead letter. It abates nothing of the danger to say that alterations may be trifling and inconsiderable. If the Constitution be picked away by piecemeal, it is gone — and gone as effectually as if some military despot had grasped it at once, trampled it beneath his feet, and scattered its loose leaves in the wild winds."
If we are to keep faith with our Constitution, we must know it. Since it is the basis of our American way of life and our liberties every American should be familiar with it. We should read it periodically.
How can people who are ignorant of the principles and guarantees of American government stand up in defense of it and our rights under the Constitution? The fundamentals and processes of free government should be known to every school boy — and his parents. No free people can ever survive if they are ignorant of and fail to understand the principles of free government!
-Ezra Taft Benson, The Red Carpet 201-02
Don't believe it can happen in America? Consider what happened to the Japanese during WWII: Summary of Constitutional Rights Violated (From: A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience, Curriculum and Resource Guide) (PDF. JACL, Accessed, July 3, 2013)


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"Pretty Wicked" marks the first competition reality series from the new Oxygen development team led by Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President, Original Programming and Development, Oxygen Media.
CariDee English, winner of the seventh season of �America�s Next Top Model,� serves as host alongside three celebrity judges � plus-sized model and published author Mia Tyler, Beverly Hills psychotherapist and radio talk show host Dr. Jenn Berman and comedian/author Kyle Cease (�Not Another Teen Movie�). Together, the judges are tasked with eliminating one of the ladies, based on the weekly challenges and the transformation witnessed that week.
"'Pretty Wicked' truly is the ultimate inner-makeover competition show," said Amy Introcaso-Davis. " Viewers will see these spirited, independent women transform into more self-aware and ultimately, nicer girls."
�Pretty Wicked� is executive produced by R.J. Cutler of Actual Reality Pictures ("30 Days" and "American High") and Jonas Larsen (�Tabitha�s Salon Takeover� and �Celebrity Fit Club�).
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Mia Tyler, host and plus-sized model, is no stranger to show business - she is the daughter of Aerosmith�s lead singer, Steven Tyler, and actress Cyrinda Foxe, and is also the half sister of actress Liv Tyler. She has become one of the most famous plus-models in the world, leading her to create her own clothing line and also penned �Creating Myself� in 2008, based on her life and family, published by Simon & Schuster.
Dr. Jenn Berman is a licensed psychotherapist and has extensive experience offering advice to people through her private practice, on-air and through writing. She has made appearances as a psychological expert on hundreds of television shows, including The �Oprah Winfrey Show,� The �Today� Show, �The Early Show,� The �Tyra Banks Show,� �Showbiz Tonight� and Fox News. Dr. Jenn has been heard on various radio stations and currently hosts a call-in advice show on Sirius-XM�s Cosmo channel.
Kyle Cease, a self-help comedian, is currently one of the most in-demand young comics, selling out more than 200 shows from coast to coast. Kyle has landed roles in several feature films including �Not Another Teen Movie� and �10 Things I Hate About You.� Last year, his one-hour comedy special, �Kyle Cease: Weirder. Blacker. Dimpler,� premiered on Comedy Central and his CD/DVD �One Dimple,� a feature compilation of his 68-college tour documentary, was one of Comedy Central Record�s highest debuting releases.
About Actual Reality Pictures:
Actual Reality Pictures specializes in the creation and production of non-fiction projects for film and television. The company's founder and president is R.J. Cutler, the documentary filmmaker and television producer. Actual Reality productions include �30 Days,� �Black.White, Thin,� �Flip That House,� �The Residents,� �American High,� �A Perfect Candidate,� �Return of the War Room,� and �The September Issue,� which premiered in competition at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Cinematography. Actual Reality productions have won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a GLAAD Award, and have been nominated for two other Emmys, an Independent Spirit Award, and three GLAAD Awards.
About Oxygen:
Oxygen is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and is currently available in over 74 million homes. The network was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape -- creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's television, with a vast array of unconventional and original programming including �Bad Girls Club,� �The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency,� and �Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.�


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Designer and co-founder of design studio Yellow Diva, David Whalley collaborated with Australian street artist Phibs to create this funky vinyl chair which was exhibited at the 2008 Fringe Furniture Festival in Melbourne, Australia.
Whalley based the design on the human body and Phibs graffiti represents Polynesian tattoo's that was achieved with automotive spray die that soaked into the vinyl upholstery.My eye is instantly attracted to the colourful swirls which bring the chair and the smooth curves which look incredibly comfortable.
I also love the fact that is you look at the piece from the side it resembles a fish shape – not sure if that's on purpose though!
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Dubai surf and surfing, Oman surf and surfing
Welcome to the Surfers of Dubai surfing in Dubai and surfing in Oman surf website and surf discussion forum - add your comments, ask questions, check surf reports for Dubai past and present. Swell readings and surf forecasts for Oman and Dubai: (open in new window when clicked)...
Information about Dubai surfing, surf in the Arabian Gulf (or Persian Gulf), surf in Oman, and surf in other UAE emirates including Ajman, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Umm Al Quwain, and RAK (Ras al Khaimah). For buying and selling surfboards and other surf gear, visit the surfboards for sale section of the Dubai surf forum.
Surfers arriving in Dubai don't usually expect to discover that the Gulf region has surf and surfers. Surfing conditions in Dubai are not exactly like the North Shore of Hawaii but you can still have a good blast surfing with endless sunshine, warm water, and even a few (small) waves rolling in once or twice a week in the winter. Surfing is becoming more popular as the population of Dubai continues to grow at a fast pace. The decreasing number of beaches with surf (due to The World and the Palm Islands being built in Dubai) means that the lineup is not as empty of surfers as in the past, but most surfers in Dubai are friendly. Coldest water temperature is in January when it's down to about 20-24 C - about half the people surfing will wear a spring wetsuit.
See the general surf information page for a general guide to surf and surfing in Dubai, the UAE, and Oman, also weather information, buying and selling surfboards and surf equipment, what surfboard you should use, what kind of waves to expect in the UAE, hazards, surfboard repairs, and surf board rental in Dubai.
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Vienna's Leopold Museum will welcome naked viewers from the public in an after-hours showing of its controversial and popular exhibit "Naked Men", a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Leopold, known for its unrivalled collection of works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, was inspired to invite the public to get naked after an inquiry from a group of German nudists.
"There was a request by an association from Germany for a nude guided tour," the spokesman said. "We thought about it, and decided it would be a good idea to have a special nude viewing open to the public."
But he dissuaded any members of the public from dropping by just to gawk at the visiting nudists.
"If you are not a nudist you are welcome to come clothed. But we don't want voyeurs so it's better not to be clothed."
The exhibition, which has been extended to run until March 4, is designed to show the diverse and changing depictions of male nudity in art history.
Among its exhibits is a grotesque self-portrait by Schiele, and a photograph called "Vive La France" of three men of different races wearing nothing but blue, white and red socks and soccer boots.
Together with a special exhibition to commemorate the 150th birthday of Viennese painter Gustav Klimt, "Naked Men" helped boost visitor numbers at the Leopold by 17% to more than 364,000 last year.
"We noticed a large increase in young people attending the museum, about 10% more," said the spokesman. "Having both "Naked Men" and "Klimt: Up Close and Personal" brought a lot of people in this past year."
A German museum-goer was even inspired to imitate the art and strip naked while walking around the exhibition in December. Visitors appeared undisturbed, assuming he belonged to the show.
However, "Naked Men" has caused controversy among more conservative elements of Austrian society.
In October, the Leopold bowed to pressure and covered up the genitalia of the three nude male soccer players used on large publicity posters around the city after they caused outrage among parents and religious groups.
"Their reaction is not a part of liberal thinking in the 21st century," the spokesman said.
"This is an unprecedented exhibition of male nudity here in Austria, something no other country has done," he added. "Hopefully it will be replicated around the world."
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Penn State Board of Trustees' Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning today (Sept. 19) recommended for approval a budget plan for 2014-15 that includes a request to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to increase appropriations to the University by $14.7 million. This is the first step in the appropriations process and there are many factors that will contribute toward a final University budget to be adopted in July 2014 by the Board of Trustees.
The plan still requires approval from the full Board at Friday's meeting, and they will see the full presentation at that meeting. If the board approves the request and the Commonwealth provides the requested funds, the University's appropriation would increase from $285 million this year to $299.7 million in 2014-15.
"The request to the Commonwealth and our budget planning are driven primarily by our top priority -- keeping tuition increases low," said President Rodney Erickson. "Our plan also is driven by the overarching priority to maintain the quality of our academic programs and provide the high-value education that our students deserve."
If the request is fully funded, the proposed aggregate tuition increase would be 2.85 percent. Undergraduate resident and non-resident student tuition increases at the Commonwealth Campuses would be projected to range from 0 to 2.4 percent. Pennsylvania resident students at University Park would see a 3.49 percent increase and non-resident University Park students would see a 2.99 percent increase.
"These levels of increase reflect our continuing efforts to keep tuition as low as possible despite rising costs," Erickson said.
The requested appropriations increase includes $10.7 million, or a 5 percent increase, to support expense increases in the educational and general budget. This increase would directly offset operating costs that would otherwise impact tuition, Erickson said.
The request also includes $2.8 million to maintain agricultural research and Cooperative Extension services, as well as an increase of 5 percent for both the Pennsylvania College of Technology and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Erickson said the University's preliminary budget plan includes a 2.5 percent increase for salary adjustments and related employee benefits to allow Penn State to remain competitive in attracting top faculty and staff. It also includes a 1 percent increase for the President's Excellence Fund for merit, market and equity salary adjustments.
Changes to the University's health care programs will cause costs to rise at a slower rate, and the budget plan provides for inflationary increases in health care costs and additional costs resulting from the Affordable Health Care Act. It also addresses the projected substantial rise in mandated employer contribution rates for the State Employees' Retirement System.
Erickson said the budget plan includes $6 million for strategic initiatives and program commitments such as academic priorities identified in the University's strategic plan. This also includes funding for a limited number of faculty positions and instructional workload adjustments that reflect enrollment changes in the colleges.
An additional $1 million is included in the budget for need-based student aid.
For the 23rd consecutive year, Penn State will implement an internal budget reduction and reallocation program. The 2014-15 budget plan targets $38.2 million in expense reductions through across-the-board givebacks from all administrative and academic units, targeted savings in administrative units and restructuring of the University's post-retirement health care liability. An estimated additional $4.8 million in revenue from indirect cost recovery and investment income also is budgeted.
"Each year our elected officials in Harrisburg have to weigh our request and competing funding priorities in the context of the state's finances," Erickson said. "The appropriation provided to Penn State makes it possible to support the in-state tuition discount and helps make attending a major research university an affordable option for Pennsylvania residents. We are hopeful our partnership with the Commonwealth, which we value tremendously, can be strengthened as Penn State strives to fulfill its commitments as Pennsylvania's land-grant university."


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Kelli Walters – Congratulations are in order for the team as this month saw us complete yet another highly successful Wilhelmina Philadelphia charity fashion event. The red carpet was deployed and the sold-out crowd treated to gowns and aesthetics every bit as beautiful as our up-and-coming runway models.
These charitable events are an integral part of developing the prodigious talent here Wilhelmina Philadelphia. We always provide our models to charity events free of charge, not only to contribute to great causes but to provide our team with plenty of runway experience every year. Last week we were delighted to be working with the 2014 Canines On The Catwalk show, it was a beautifully orchestrated event and we raised plenty of funds for Animal Lifeline, an animal charity that does great work.
The old adage of never working with children or animals was firmly thrust aside and thankfully the furry four-legged friends accompanying our models down the catwalk were impeccably behaved. We knew they wouldn't let us down! Whilst the runway event was a feast of the senses it must be said it was merely the cherry atop an already fantastic evening. The red carpet treatment made everyone feel very special, the perfect start to any night. Swiftly following this up with an hour of sumptuous cocktails wasn't a bad move either, faces were glowing as our models hit the limelight.
To see the level of professionalism on show, not to mention the delight of the crowd, is still something that leaves us all with a great sense of pride. The fact that our models were going to be walking alongside the dogs did add a little more nerves than usual but everything went off without a hitch. Jubilant, we were able to enjoy an especially fine meal once our work was done. The presentation given by the Animal Lifeline at the end of the event really reminded us all why we co-operate so closely with good causes, we salute the fine work they undertake in easing the suffering of animals. The fashion industry hasn't had the best animal rights image and it's great to see everyone working to change this.
Whilst contributing to the continued works of Animal Lifeline was paramount it was great to see our runway models being able to network and be seen. With agents, producers and actors milling around the delighted crowd it was a marvelous opportunity for them to be stars of the show. Their conduct was refined and professional, exactly what we like to see. No doubt we'll have many more charity events coming up this year and I for one, cannot wait to see us shine again.