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Skeptics' Journal Publishes Plagiarist's Paper
Skeptics' Journal Publishes Plagiarist's Paper
Despite dismissing the work as "a bit patchy and nothing new," Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of the skeptic's journal Energy and Environment journal, has published the work of the plagiarist Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte.
Dr. Schulte's "research" was first published last year on an industry-funded website called the Science and Public Policy Institute. Actually, it was excerpted in a long essay by the disingenuous Viscount Christopher Monckton (inset), who pronounced Schulte's paper serious, peer-reviewed science even while failing to admit his own part in its creation.
Following up on criticisms of Schulte's methodology and accusations that he had plagiarized earlier work by the oft-humiliated anthropologist Benny Peiser, the DeSmogBlog contacted Ms. Boehmer-Christiansen in September and asked how she could justify publishing Schulte's article.
In her response, dated Sept. 6, 2006, Boehmer-Christiansen said:
For your information, I have informed Dr.Schulte that I am happy to publish his own research findings on the effect on patients of climate alamism/'Angst'.His survey of papers critical of the consensus was a bit patchy and nothing new, as you point out. it was not what was of interest to me; nothing has been published.SincerelySonja B-C
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According to Mashey (who bought the article), Schulte stated that
"patients with benign and malignant disorders are concerned that their disease may be caused by or related to `climate change' and that they might have remained healthy without it"
...and somehow, in a bizarre leap of logic, this turned into "AGW alarmism hurts patients' health" and "patients are worried about catastrophic global warming" (why else does the paper abstract talk about the "catastrophic" thing?).
Maybe Schulte should make up his mind on what exact phenomenon of "angst" he was talking about.
Frank Bi, http://tinyurl.com/yrpnmd
"Al `Fat Al' Gore [is fat]" -- Harold Pierce
I love it when Mashey uses phrases like "denialist PR machine" and "denialist entities". Also, according to Mashey, the blogosphere appears to be "exploding" on a regular basis. The whole 40 page load of drivel reads like a drive-by smear piece by www.exxonsecrets.org. Seriously, a 40 page dissertation for Mashey to say he doesn't like Schulte one bit?
Lastly, Schulte references Tim Lambert and George Monbiot to bolster his own claims but instead weakens his argument considerably. Both Lambert and Monbiot are widely recognized as rather flakey and not to be taken very seriously.
Ah yes, ignore all the evidence presented so you can accuse the "warmists" of having no evidence for their Uninformed Prejudice. That's the denialist way, no?
Actually, for a minute I thought you were going to bring up Gore and Suzuki again.
Frank Bi, http://tinyurl.com/yrpnmd
"Al `Fat Al' Gore [is fat]" -- Harold Pierce
So, Paul, after Lambert and Monbiot now instead of your usual Gore and Suzuki? Also, you call THEM flaky? What does that make Schulte, Monckton, Singer, etc.? Irascible and troglodytes?
Mashey's reply is overkill in my view. He treats his opponents with such seriousness that others may believe his opponents are serious scholars.
In my opinion, if Monckton and Schulte are as unworthy of consideration as numerous people say they are, it is best to ignore them completely. But look! His Viscountness has now arrived on this blog!
Yeah, if Mashey's reply isn't this detailed, then it's unfairly prejudiced. If Mashey's reply is detailed, then it's overkill. You can't win!
Frank Bi, http://tinyurl.com/yrpnmd
"Al `Fat Al' Gore [is fat]" -- Harold Pierce
"Dr." Mashey says Mr. Schulte plagiarized my research. He did no such thing. It was he, not I, who conducted the research. "Dr." Mashey was told this.
"Dr." Mashey submitted his over-long complaint formally to Mr. Schulte's academic institution, whose investigator rejected it on all counts.
"Dr." Mashey is now himself under investigation for circulating his complaint publicly, in a form in which which inter alia he breaches doctor-patient confidentiality. For this reason, please remove all links to "Dr." Mashey's document.
One realizes that the news that the scientific "consensus" no longer believes in climate alarm (if it ever did) is unwelcome in certain political circles. But the science is the science.
Perhaps it would be better if "Dr." Mashey were to write a peer-reviewed rebuttal of Mr. Schulte's paper, rather than interfering in an unlawful manner on the blogosphere, which is not the best place for serious scientific discourse.
Someone calling themselves Monckton of Brenchley has repeatedly popped up online on threads addressing said Viscount's silliness. This one looks very similar to the others, and they may all be genuine. So far the most common behavious is hit and run. Which might mean they are a common internet troll.
We'll see. If this is the real Monckton, I'm sure you'll be hearing from his lawyers, as he likes to bully people.
While the deniers can tell their lies and spread their fraudulent tactics openly in the mass media and blog-sphere, they know that if they say the same things under oath in a court of law they will be charged with a very serious crime, perjury, which has very serious consequences, namely, spending time at one of Her Majesty's motels for the criminally inclined.
I think that this is the key reason they are all bluster and quickly withdraw their accusations when it gets too close to actual court. See, for example, Tim Ball's case.
Ian Forrester
If Your Viscountness could deign yourself to actually follow up on your numerous threats of legal actions...
"Perhaps it would be better if `Dr.' Mashey were to write a peer-reviewed rebuttal of Mr. Schulte's paper"
A paper published in the scientific equivalent of a tabloid needs no "peer-reviewed" response, although I agree that having one would be nice.
Frank Bi, http://tinyurl.com/yrpnmd
"Al `Fat Al' Gore [is fat]" -- Harold Pierce
Viscount Monckton,
Please can you answer the following for me so that we can determine your credibility:
1. On George Monbiot's webpage there is an email correspondence with you regarding unflattering changes to your Wikipedia entry, which appear to have originated from a computer with the same IP address as yours. How did these changes occur from a computer with the same IP address as yours?
2. The Scotsman alleged in 2006 that your original claim that you made that you had been forced to see your house over the original Eternity puzzle was untrue.
Fot info the original claim is here:
"Thus, rather than being in a position to reap the fruits of his labours, Mr Monckton now finds everything has gone
pear-shaped - and in order to raise the promised prize
money, he is having to sell off his ancestral home in northeast Scotland. Does he mind? "What do you think?" he
fumes. "I'm furious."
The Scotsman article says:
"A SCOTTISH aristocrat who claimed he was forced to sell his ancestral pile after losing a fortune on a $1 million puzzle has admitted that he invented the story to boost sales. Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount of Brenchley, owned up to the duplicity yesterday as he launched a new version of the world's toughest jigsaw.
'[The house sale] was the story which the PR people dreamed up after we had three months of the best sales that any puzzle had ever had,' he said. 'They wanted to keep the momentum going to take us through to Christmas.' 'I was selling the house anyway and they asked me if I would be willing to tell people I was selling the house because I was afraid somebody might solve the puzzle too fast. I said 'yes'.'"
Was the Scotsman's claim correct?
3. In this article: http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf you state "Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature, wholly unconnected with and unpaid by the corporation that is the victim of your lamentable letter, should take the unusual step of calling upon you as members of the Upper House of the United States legislature either to withdraw what you
have written or resign your sinecures."
Are you or are you not a member of the Upper House of the British legislature? Strangely, you are not listed as such on the official registers.
As an aside, I wonder whether there is a law against claiming to be a member of the House of Lords when you are not in fact one?
4. You criticise Mashey for not publishing a peer reviwed article on this. Please can you provide a list of your own peer reviewed articles on the science of climate. Web of Knowledge appears to list just one:
Title: Free speech about climate change
Author(s): Monckton, CW
Source: SOCIETY Volume: 44 Issue: 4 Pages: 14-17 Published: MAY-JUN 2007
Article Number: ISSN 0147-2011 Article Number: ISSN 0147-2011
As raf as I can tell this contains no original data (but I am happy to be corrected). You must surely have more than this?
Please be assured that I wish to see the answers to these merely to confirm your credibility so that we can continue the discussison.
I await your response with interest.
Mr. Schulte's paper hasn't passed a peer-review test, anyway. Energy and Environment is not recognized as a peer-reviewed journal by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
1) "Dr"
No big deal, but there *are* people around who claim things they're not... so ...
I happen to have an earned PhD from a credible university, so I guess I can be called "Dr" ...
but most people I know don't. My wife has one, many of our friends do, 10% of adults in our town do, Stanford (a few miles a way) has masses, and then there are the MD-doctors as well. To call everyone "Dr" would get wearisome. Competent professionals with track records rarely care much. Also, I'd hate to be grabbed on a plane to help with a medical emergency. :-)
But, given the extreme rarity of "mashey", I'm really not that hard to find, and maybe that's the first step for "investigators":
Google: john mashey
First hit is a short Wikipedia entry, which points at the Computer History Museum Trustee entry from which I think it was mostly taken:
In more detail, since it's been raised:
1968: B.S. Mathematics [& one course short of a 2nd degree in Physics]
1969: MS Computer Science
1974: PhD Computer Science
All from The Pennsylvania State University. If anyone is still concerned about fakery, they can contact the PSU Deans of Engineering and Science, both of whom know me.
I'd been recruited to work at PhD-dense Bell Laboratories, which *explicitly* discouraged "Dr" in normal usage:
a) With so many PhDs, calling us all "Dr" would just waste a lot of time.
b) But mainly, because what you accomplished was more important than the title.
c) About the only mention of degrees was in external articles, but even there, a bio would say "...PhD. Mr. X..."
Anyway, if Viscount Monckton wants to keep typing "Dr", OK with me.
2) The plagiarism issue was found by Tim Lambert, and I just recorded it in detail, with as clear a chronology as I could, starting on page 19 of my document. The plagiarism wasn't in the article submitted to E&E, it was in the threatening letter sent to Oreskes, and posted abotu a day later on teh SPPI website, and sent out on Businesswire by Rob Ferguson.
Peiser (with errors) -->
Monckton @ SPPI (with errors, but at least credited to Peiser)
---minor edits by somebody, with any mention of Peiser deleted -->
Schulte letter to Oreskes (with same errors)
In any case, it wasn't Monckton's "research" it was Peiser's. Schulte credited neither Monckton nor Peiser in his letter to Oreskes. I have no idea who did the actual edits.
THE READER MAY ASSESS: was there plagiarism or not? If so, why, and was it really smart to broadcast it to the world? If it was plagiarism, I've known undergraduates who did better.
3) I indeed wrote letters to Mr. Schulte's institutions in October. I have NHS friends and have lectured at King's, and these are institutions I respect. This gave them a chance to handle it internally, if they chose to do anything. I then got busy with international trips and did not follow up.
Thanks to Viscount Monckton for reminding me! If I get time I'll contact them again to see if they wrote something back that never got here, like an investigator's report, as I would love to see that. If they actually found something factually wrong, I'll happily update my memo. If they just didn't want to do anything, that's fine - I understand perfectly well how large organizations work, and they're busy people, I'm sure.
Since I never mentioned these letters to anyone else, it is interesting that Viscount Monckton knows about them. Perhaps he and Mr. Schulte have remained in close contact?
4) "now himself under investigation..."
sure. Google: john mashey is a start.
"in a form in which which (sic) inter alia he breaches doctor-patient confidentiality."
This seems very confused, although the Latin is OK. I'm a PhD-doctor, not an MD-doctor. Certainly, neither Mr. Schulte nor Viscount Monckton are patients of mine. I have never revealed any confidential medical records of either, nor have I ever had any access to such things, or sought any such access. I have doctors in the family, and I've signed hundreds of Non-Disclosure Agreements, so I'm quite careful of confidentiality issues.
On page 13, I observed that it was odd to find an endocrine surgeon involved in this mess, and quoted a published Guardian story:
'On the other hand, Manthorpe writes about Monckton:
"suffers from a rare endocrine complaint, which has necessitated a series of operations..."
This may be just an interesting coincidence, and of course, doctor-patient confidentiality applies, so we will likely never know.... How they came to cooperate is irrelevant, but it is clear that they have cooperated closely.'
If someone caused a breach, it was not I.
If Viscount Monckton is indeed afflicted by endocrine problems, then he has my sympathy for that, as health problems are always difficult, from firsthand experience.
On the other hand, both he and Mr. Schulte might possibly be afflicted by the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but that is known to be curable if someone so desires.
5) My interest in all this was *not* to rebut the silly Schulte paper itself. Others had already done a fine job.
If I saw something wrong in a serious paper in a serious journal that was worth rebutting, I might try. But not E&E, be serious.
My interest *was* the study & documentation of using PR techniques and the blogosphere to spread disinformation, bypass any normal scientific publication process, and (in this case) manufacture personal attacks on real scientists.
6) "The science is the science."
Yes, it is. I get my science, not just from extensive study on top of a math/physics/statistics/computing background, but from decades of personal contact with world-class people, not fifth-raters and fantasists. For examples, see #84 in:
6) "rather than interfering in an unlawful manner on the blogosphere, which is not the best place for scientific discourse."
a) The first part is truly fascinating. I'm not sure how I've interfered in the blogosphere, or what that even means. It's like interfering with random chaos. I'll ask some friends who are legal scholars.
In any case, as Richard points out, Viscount Monckton spread this into the blogosphere. Had Schulte's article been published in in E&E, in a normal way, nobody would have cared much. I've published peer-reviewed articles, been a reviewer, have guest-edited journals, and this whole process was a parody of normal work that only a serious Dunning-Kruger afflictee could think was normal.
b) The second part *is* true. That's why I'm a AAAS member, read Science, read IPCC reports, read other primary research, attend high-calibre lectures, and often talk to world-class scientists, as I have for decades. A supercomputer architecture I helped design a decade ago is still being used worldwide to help scientists do real science. Unsurprisingly, when I was Chief Scientist at Silicon Graphics, I spent a lot of time with such people.
7) I thought this issue was over, but maybe not. I am glad to have documented it when it was fresh, but there are a now a few fascinating new questions to investigate, and maybe, one of these days, Mr. Schulte will join the discussions himself.
I had more or less dismissed that post as someone pretending to be Monckton -- that bit about doctor/patient confidentially is so outlandish I didn't think someone of his position would ever make such a silly claim. But after reading your post & the one by Benny Lin above, it seems pretty clear that the fellow is a few sandwiches short of a picnic! I wonder whether he is entered in the Upperclass Twit of the Year competition? I'd bet on him to win. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss
Fern Mackenzie
Sorry, I forgot one interesting thing.
If he imagines I've somehow breached doctor-patient confidentiality, he must mean Schulte-Monckton doctor-patient confidentiality, since there no other doctor(MD) and patients I can find in this mess.
If there were no doctor-patient relationship, there could be no breach.
Is it possible that the Viscount has just publicly confirmed his doctor-patient relationship with Mr. Schulte?
Reading between the lines of his various magnum opi, as well as over and beneath them. I think that I have stumbled onto what is causing his condition.
I have found that there are two conditions which are causing him problems.
The first is he is suffering from an enlarged ganglial ochrea (which can be abbreviated as EGO) and secondly he suffers from low ileal artery receptor disease (which can be abbreviated LIAR).
I hope I have not breached doctor patient confidentiality by releasing this previously suspected, but not confirmed diagnosis.
Ian Forrester
I'm curious: where else (besides Deltoid) did you see this?
Note of course, that since the Viscount is one of the very few people in the world that might find out about the letters I sent, one can guess that the post here was actually his with very high confidence.
Sorry for not replying sooner, I forgot about this thread.
Anyway, I havn't seen Monckton make precisely these claims, I was walking more in general about his behaviour. The Scotsman website is not currently functioning correctly, so I cannot point you in the direction of the stories, but he turned up there at least once, spouting rubbish.
For those who might like to see the Schulte paper, but do not wish to pay $18 for the privilege to E&E, the Schulte paper is almost online at SPPI:
I say "almost" because:
The *actual* paper at E&E has the following additional words:
after Klaus-Martin Schulte add:
Consultant in Endocrine and General Surgery, Department of Endocrine Surgery
Kings' College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS United Kingdom
Honorary Senior Lecturer of Surgery, Kings' College London
E-Mail: Klaus-Martin.Schulte AT kch.nhs.uk
after the ABSTRACT, add:
after "It is high time to reconsider the trend of global climate changes." add:
The analysis of 539 abstracts revealed that only a small part of papers identified through this search mechanism contributed direct relevant data to the question of consensus as set out above.
and change "Conclusion" to:
By principle, Science does not rise or fall with consensus or its absence, but rather with the reliability of data and vigorous consideration. The prediction of consequences of changes that are only predicted to happen is burdened with serious methodological problems. This inherent degree of uncertainty and the herein shown lack of consensus do not support a further induction of fears of climate related illness and death in the medical world and its patients.
The formatting is also different, 2 columns instead of one.
Anyway, the paper posted at SPPI is *not* just a copy of the PDF from E&E, it presumably started as a word document of Schulte's and then he (or Bob Ferguson) edited it.
This is just insane... In this day and age, why would one still be plagiarizing? Stupid tactic!


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This is a delicious chicken recipe that my family loves
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Carbs: 4.3g | Fat: 8g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 19.4g | Calories: 166.4
The same great taste of the Italian favorite, but this one only has five grams of fat!
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Carbs: 13.6g | Fat: 5.4g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 17g | Calories: 173.3
This is a family favorite!
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Carbs: 19.3g | Fat: 5.1g | Fiber: 3.8g | Protein: 34.4g | Calories: 269.9
Try this inexpensive and fresh version of a chicken casserole--no need for processed soups or sauces!
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Carbs: 36.1g | Fat: 8.9g | Fiber: 8.8g | Protein: 27.9g | Calories: 320.6
Chef Meg lowered the fat and calories in this member-submitted recipe, which contains two servings of cooked vegetables per portion!
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This is one of my family's very favorite dinners. One of the best things about this recipe is how easy it is to adjust to your own tastes. I entered it in with my true ingredients, which are SPICY! If you don't like it super spicy, adjust your ratio of Sweet Thai chili sauce (found in the grocery store asian food section) and the spicy Sambal Oelek (found in the same section). Try 1/4 cup of sambal oelek and 3/4 cup sweet chili sauce. Also very good with skinless chicken thighs, trimmed. I just ordered PB2 and am looking forward to trying it with this recipe, to cut the fat back even further!
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complex numbers
This is something that's been bothering me for some time, and I thought starting a post on in might help me out. I'm not posting it in the "Help Me" forum, because instead of a question, I was hoping for an open dialog. If some one feels this is the wrong place, then pleas move it to "Help Me."
From that:
That said:
Which shows:
With a similar method (that is kind of tedious to do out) I found:
I get how to find the kth root of any imaginary number, but I can't make a general rule, I have to do each out by hand.
Using Taylor series I can show :
And from there I think I get k^i, but only if k is a real number.
which leaves me with the following questions:
That last one is a calculator answer, but why?
Any other I properties would be fun to see, so if anyone else has something to offer, please, I'd like to learn as much as I can about complex numbers.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who can use induction.
#2 2007-08-11 06:01:42
Re: complex numbers
complex logarithm: clog(r*exp(i.t)) = ln(r)+i.t
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Re: complex numbers
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Severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID) are inherited immune system disorders characterized by defects in both T cells and B cells. SCID causes a high susceptibility to life-threatening infections and failure to thrive. Without treatment, people with SCID do not tend to live past early childhood. Two common types of SCID include:
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- Learning about severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). National Human Genome Research Institute. July 2010; http://www.genome.gov/13014325. Accessed 8/9/2011.
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- The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is an catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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- Kaufman, et al. Cerebral Lymphoma in an Adenosine Deaminase-Deficient Patient With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Receiving Polyethylene Glycol-Conjugated Adenosine Deaminase. Pediatrics 2005;116:e876-e879.
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I was watching the television today an I saw an interview of young high school student who had aspirations of becoming a doctor. When asked what preparations he was making to get ready for his pre-med studies, he cited that he had taken advanced Latin courses offered by his high school. I remember from my secondary education that many people elected to study Latin to accomplish their foreign language requirement. At the time I had given it no real thought and that it made sense for someone to take Latin if they had plans become a physician.
But recently I began to think about the matter a little further. How many high school students actually go on to become doctors. Does this number actually warrant teaching a thoroughly dead and obscure language at the the tax payers expense. And the then it occurred to me the other connotations of the Latin language. Besides being the language of the ancient defunct Roman people, it is and always has been the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. Today the most predominant utilization of the the Latin language would be in the post graduate studies of theology, Christian theology more specifically.
Don't get me wrong. I feel in no way that the inclusion of Latin in secondary school curriculum violates the separation of church and state, unless of course translation assignments include Bible translations. I personally know several doctors, and they fully admit their proficiency with the language is limited to basic scientific terminology and justifiably so. The only people I have ever know who had any proficiency in speaking Latin were Catholic clergymen and those in theological study. My real question here is does it make sense to include Latin as part of secondary school education any more than it does to include ancient Greek, an equally dead language? Also, does anybody feel that there might be a connection with teaching Latin in schools and the propagation of theology into the public domain?
My intent here is not to actually connect the dots and conclude that this is vast Catholic conspiracy, i just think it is an interesting point that warrants discussion. What do you guys think about it? I have also attached a poll above. Feel free to voice your opinion.


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She said the work should fix flooding problems at houses located in the town's flood plain areas.
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McCrory is in the process of applying for a federal grant administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay for the renovations.
Improvements are expected to include replacing undersized water mains and about 135 residential water meters as well as extensive work to renovate rainwater drainage ditches and piping.
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The hearing will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Hobson City Town Hall.
The council on Monday approved the repair of damaged and rotten eves on the roof of Town Hall.
The improvement is estimated to cost as much as $1,000, McCrory said, and the council voted to pay up to that amount. Local Hobson City carpenters will be hired to make the repairs, McCrory said.
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[bullet] Approved a resolution to adopt the Calhoun County Emergency Operation Plan.
The Town Council will meet for a workshop to discuss changes to the town's abatement and noise ordinances on April 18 at 5 p.m. at Town Hall. The next regular Town Council meeting is scheduled for April 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall.
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Bloomington Police Department received a call at 11:51 p.m. Sunday from a Domino's Pizza delivery driver, saying he had been robbed of the pizza and his wallet in the 1200 block of North Lindbergh Drive, Drake said, reading from a police report.
The driver told police he had an order to deliver on Lindbergh, but when he arrived, the address he had been given was nonexistent. He then called the phone number given, to which he got a number not in service, Drake said. The driver said he continued to drive around the area, and two black males flagged him down and told him they were the ones who had ordered the pizza. The driver told police he gave the men the pizza and said it would be $14.27, when one of the men pulled a gun out and demanded his wallet.
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Women aren't too happy with Rick Perry's stance on family planning funding. Today, they let him know the best way they could, with some well-directed Internet snark.
Posts asking Perry's advice about everything from menstruation to menopause flooded the governor's Facebook wall this morning. They've since been taken down, and new posting has been disabled, but screenshots document the whole episode.
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Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would cut off Medicaid funding for family planning in Texas, after Perry implemented a law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state's Medicaid Women's Health Program.
The program, which costs $40 million, provides cancer screenings, contraceptives and other health care services to 130,000 low-income women in the state every year.
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Is Lampard a luxury Chelsea can do without?
The issue of Frank Lampard's contract has dragged on at Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich seemingly willing to let the 34-year-old leave when his current deal expires in the summer. After a quite beautiful match-winner in England's 2-1 friendly victory over Brazil Wednesday night, it seems Abramovich may have changed his mind.
-- Report: Lampard could stay with Blues
-- Lampard mulls his next move
A curling first-time strike at Wembley was a reminder of what Lampard can do - as if it were needed - and came off the back of a run of seven goals in his last nine league appearances. It is the veteran's unwavering ability to find the net that will no doubt be key to earning a new contract at the club, as a look at the midfielders' stats elsewhere show his all-round game is unsurprisingly in decline.
In turn, it may well have been the club - or at least their billionaire owner's view - that the Blues could do without a 'luxury player' in his mid-30s, with Chelsea unquestionably needing to make a transition in their squad if they are to begin challenging for the title again.
Lampard's strength is, and always has been, a tendency to pop up in goalscoring positions, often arriving late in the box to finish off a free-flowing move that he so often started from deep. This season, however, he's been slightly less involved in the build-up play, averaging 43.8 passes a game in the Premier League compared to 51.2 last season. His accuracy is also significantly worse, finding a teammate just 81.5 percent of the time.
As many as 14 Chelsea players have a better pass completion rate. Of the 75 Premier League central midfielders to play at least 10 games this season, his accuracy ranks way down in 57th. Many would point to the adventurous passes he attempts as the reason for such a meagre standing. But considering he has averaged fewer long balls this season than last (3.6 to 4.1), it is clear there has been a drop, having found a teammate with 86.9 percent of his passes in 2011-12.
In terms of creativity, his figures are also way down. He has no assists in the league this season and averages just 0.9 key passes a game. Last season he picked up a modest five assists from 1.9 key passes a game - it is clear his role in linking up play further upfield has diminished.
Lampard has admittedly played in a deeper role than last season, but such a move would usually lead to higher averages for passes and accuracy, and certainly see an increase in his defensive output. However, Lampard's averages for both tackles and interceptions per game are down on those of last season, so it is clear his overall involvement has lessened, hence the 'luxury player' label.
The fact of the matter is Lampard's impact on results remains through his improved conversion rate and that is what, if anything, will keep him at Chelsea beyond this season. His 10-goal tally has come in just 17 appearances and is only one fewer than his total in 30 league games last season. In turn, Lampard has found the net with a superb 25 percent of his shots this time around compared to 16.9 last season and 13.2 the season before that.
Chelsea have won 58.3 percent of the games Lampard has started, compared to 46.2 when he has not, averaging almost twice as many goals when he's on the pitch from kick-off (2.67-1.46). It's clear that with age Lampard will rely on those around him more than he used to, but he still has the ability to add goals, and goals will always be worth their weight in gold - or whatever medium he chooses to be paid in.
There will come a time, however, that Chelsea will need to cut their ties with the old guard and although they continue to play key roles at the club, it should be soon. The Blues haven't really been close to the Manchester clubs in the last 18 months and a new crop is needed. With that in mind, the Chelsea faithful should be mindful of the name Kevin De Bruyne.
Signed from Genk last January, staying at the club for the final months of the 2011-12 season, the 21-year-old Belgian is currently halfway through a very profitable loan spell at Werder Bremen. While he played in an advanced role at Genk, and often out wide, De Bruyne has been deployed in a central midfield position in the Bundesliga and continues to impress.
With four goals and five assists, his finishing is not up to Lampard's standard now but he carries the ball well, completing the seventh-most dribbles in Germany this season (58), while his final ball and weight of pass is often superb. Again, only six Bundesliga players can better De Bruyne's 45 key passes. Chelsea may well see the youngster as the man to step into Lampard's boots next season, as he is also accomplished in set-pieces.
Although it seems that Lampard may well stay at the Bridge beyond this year, the torch may well need to be passed sooner rather than later if the Blues are going to rebuild as they need to before challenging for the title again. The belief that Chelsea couldn't replace Lampard's goals from midfield is almost certainly true, but an ability to adapt will be key to the Londoners' success.
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When you think of summer grilling, do you envision yourself manning a hot grill with a cold glass of iced tea? Refreshing, not doubt, but why limit your tea experience to just a beverage? There are flavorful ways to incorporate some of your favorite teas with your favorite grilling methods and recipes.
Shop First
Before you even contemplate how to use tea with your grill, take a few moments to conduct some gas grill reviews, especially if you're ready to upgrade your current model for one with more features.
Pre-Grill Use
As a tea devotee, you know the beverage has been around for thousands and thousands of years. But tea also has a long history of being used in cooking. Throughout many Asian countries, it's frequently added to food to imbibe certain flavors or spice.
In recent years, tea combined with food, be it ice cream, duck or tofu, has become very popular with chefs in the West. But you don't have to work in the food industry to know how to develop delicious results, especially on the grill.
Probably the most popular use of tea on the grill is as part of a dry rub on meats, such as duck, chicken, beef, even seafood like shrimp. If you decide to go this route, taste your tea/spice mixture before applying it to the meat. That way, if the flavor isn't where you want it, you can adjust. Once it's on the meat, or worse yet, on the grill, you can't make changes.
You can also use tea in wet marinades. Steep the tea as usual, let it cool, then add it to the other ingredients. Again, taste test your marinade and make adjustments before adding the meat. Whenever you marinade meat or vegetables, pat them dry before setting on a hot grill. This way they will sear and brown, which is the whole point of grilling, instead of just steaming.
A Smoky Vibe
Teas are great for smoking food on the grill. While most smoking methods involve soaking wood chips in water before adding them to a grill, tea leaves are an awesome substitution. Follow the same steps as you would with wood chips: Soak the leaves in water in an aluminum foil pan, drain the water, then put the pan under the grill grates—be sure to check the manufacturer's smoking instructions.
Or create a flavor packet to set on top of a gas burner shield. Robert Danhi, author of Southeast Asian Flavors, suggests combining tea with rice, brown sugar, various spices and a little citrus zest into a foil packet. Then close the lid and let the heat toast the packet to release its flavors.
Smoking adds a lot of character to a blank protein canvas, but it can quickly overpower the meat's natural flavor if you're not careful. For a hint of the tea smoke, use an indirect heat grilling method. Basically, this keeps the food away from the heat source, and uses the grill's ambient heat to cook. Remember, the smoking packet or soaked tea leaves are right by the heat source, so that's where the flavor is most potent. The indirect method will taper the smoke off a bit. This might take a little longer cooking time, but the result will be a nice balance between smoke and natural flavor.
Another thing is to make sure to dry the food completely before adding it to the grill. Not only will it help with browning, but dry meat absorbs smoke better.
And, hey, no one says you can't enjoy a great-tasting glass of iced tea while you're manning the tea-induced grilling action.


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33 States Reach $43 Million Settlement with Drug Maker PfizerAUSTIN Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today announced that Texas and 32 other states have reached a $42.9 million settlement agreement with drug manufacturer Pfizer Inc. The agreement resolves a multistate fraud investigation into Pfizer's unlawful promotion of two antibiotic drugs, Zyvox and Lyrica. Under the agreement, which will be formally approved as a consent judgment by a state district court, the State of Texas will receive $3.9 million.
In 2007, the states began investigating Pfizer for unlawfully marketing and promoting Zyvox. According to state investigators, Pfizer's sales and marketing teams improperly claimed that Zyvox was superior to generic equivalent antibiotic drug vancomycin.
The multi-state investigation also discovered that Pfizer unlawfully promoted Lyrica for off-label uses, which are uses not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The investigation found evidence that Pfizer marketed Lyrica as a treatment for types of neuropathic pain other than those indicated and approved by the FDA.
Under today's agreement and the resulting consent judgment, Pfizer must reform how it markets and promotes Zyvox and Lyrica. Specifically, Pfizer Inc. must:
Avoid making any false, misleading or deceptive claims when comparing the efficacy or safety of Zyvox to the generic drug Vancomycin;
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Next-generation TV will be sold in South Korea
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In a race between television titans, LG has beat
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OLED television to market: the largest OLED TV panel to date.
Both companies announced their intentions last
year at CES 2012, but LG is first to actually make it available to
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Mets prospect Travis d'Arnaud out eight weeks
New York Mets catching prospect Travis d'Arnaud could be out approximately eight weeks, Mets manager Terry Collins said on Friday. d'Arnaud fractured the first metatarsal of his left foot playing for the Mets' Triple-A affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s, after a foul ball nicked his foot.
The 24-year-old backstop was hitting .250 with a home run and eight RBI in 36 plate appearances for the 51s this season. d'Arnaud was the centerpiece of the trade that sent 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey from the Mets to the Blue Jays in the offseason.
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There's something about TV that brings people together. So, for the semiannual conference at MAC Meetings and Events, St. Louis, the company wove in a television theme, beginning with the agenda in the format of a TV Guide.
The four-day meeting aimed to educate employees on "The Facts of Life" — that customer relationships are built by everyone at the company. MAC decorated the ballroom with a 1950s-style television, complete with rabbit-ear antennae. Seated on a sofa at the front of the room was a 7-foot couch potato with his hand in a chip bag. Attendees grabbed TV trays, and the staff at the meeting venue, Sheraton City Center in St. Louis, provided TV dinners.
Workshops had TV-show names like "Who's the Boss?" (relating to customers) and "Extreme Make Over" (corporate etiquette). The MAC staff gave occasional "commercials," and the opening night cocktail reception included a MAC Emmy Show.
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Go watch the video of Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb being hit on the head by a shot off the bat of the Kansas City Royals' Eric Hosmer, ball meeting skull sounding like a cantaloupe dropped on a sidewalk.
Go watch the clip of Toronto Blue Jays hurler J.A. Happ being drilled in the head by Desmond Jennings' line drive, the Rays outfielder gnawing on his jersey with growing alarm as trainers work feverishly over a downed, twitching Happ.
Or watch Brandon McCarthy after he took a rocket to the head off Erick Aybar's bat, the dazed pitcher, then with the Oakland Athletics, sitting on the mound and rubbing his head over and over like he just took a haymaker from Wladimir Klitschko.
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Then tell me baseball doesn't need to do something to protect pitchers.
And do something fast. Before someone gets killed.
"It's part of the game," Orioles' reliever Tommy Hunter says about these frightening shots pitchers have taken. "It [stinks]. But it's the game."
Maybe. But it's part of the game that has to be changed, pronto.
Look, we all know what's happening here.
Pitchers are throwing harder than ever. Batters are bigger and stronger than ever. And the mound is still 60-feet, 6-inches from the plate.
The laws of physics when ball meets bat haven't changed, either. It's a recipe for disaster. And this fatalistic attitude pitchers have — knowing they could have their heads taken off by a line drive, but shrugging it off as part of the game — seems as outdated as telephone booths.
Times change. Hockey goalies used to play without facemasks. That was insane, too.
The good news is that Major League Baseball is looking into protective headgear for pitchers. The proposal gaining the most attention would call for pitchers to wear a thin, padded lining under their caps made of Kevlar, the synthetic fiber found in bulletproof vests.
Hunter says he'd wear the lining, although he questions how much good it would do if a pitcher took a line drive that struck below his cap. But he has a simpler solution for pitchers who don't want to get whacked in the head: pitch to the corners of the plate.
Line drives back to the pitcher's head, he says, are "usually [the result of ] off-speed pitches that are up and over the plate where a [batter] can get extended. Throw every ball inside, stay on the corners, and you're not going to have a ball come back at your face."
OK, fine. But pitchers miss with pitches. They don't always hit the corners. They're not robots.
Orioles reliever T.J. McFarland missed with a pitch, and it could have cost him his life. This was in a summer game between his junior and senior years of high school. He threw a pitch that came back at him like a missile homing in on his face.
"It actually hit me in the perfect spot," McFarland says.
Except McFarland's definition of the "perfect spot" is a little different from yours and mine.
"It hit me underneath the eye socket," he says, "so it didn't shatter the eye socket. Left of my nose, so it didn't break my nose. I took 20 stitches."
"Off-speed pitch in the middle of the plate?" asks Hunter, who's been listening in.
McFarland nods.
"BAD off-speed pitch," he says grimly.
Fine, a cap lining wouldn't help with a line drive to the face. But if it helps deflect a shot off the skull and possible brain damage, isn't that better than nothing?
It is, say the Orioles pitchers I talked to. But guys would be reluctant to wear anything bulky, they say — anything different, anything they think throws off their balance and timing on the mound.
Major league pitchers can be total whack jobs about any little change in their routine.
"Some guys complain about the spring training hats we wear," starter Jason Hammel says. "The stretchy fit of it — even that annoys us."
How about being laid up in a hospital with a bad concussion because you now have the word "Rawlings" imprinted on your forehead from a scorching line drive — wouldn't that be even more annoying?
In the same breath, Hammel admits that his wife, Elissa, is worried sick about him getting clocked in the head by a line drive.
"Honestly," he says, "my wife was like: 'I'm gonna invent a [protective] cap and you're gonna have to wear it.'"
Me, I think it's baseball's job, not Elissa Hammel's, to find a way to protect pitchers from these terrifying shots like the one Alex Cobb took June 15 that left him with a concussion, vertigo, nausea and violent headaches.
And if it's a protective cap lining that baseball comes up with, make the pitchers wear it, period. If they resist, make them watch the video of Cobb nearly getting his head torn off. Make them watch it over and over again.
"Did you see the video?" I ask Hammel as our conversation ends.
He nods and makes a face.
"I watched it once," he says," and I couldn't watch it again."
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|316,280 Daily
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The Star-Ledger is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to The Jersey Journal of Jersey City, The Times of Trenton and the Staten Island Advance, all of which are owned by Advance Publications.
The Newark Star-Ledger's daily circulation is larger than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined and its Sunday circulation is larger than the next three papers combined.[2]
In July 2013, The Ledger announced they are selling its building headquarters in Newark.[3] In 2013, Advance Publications announced it was exploring changes that affect cost and efficiency among it New Jersey properties, including possible consolidations but no changes in the frequency of publication of any of the newspapers, nor the elimination of home delivery or mergers of newspapers themselves were being considered.[4]
The Newark Daily Advertiser, founded in 1832, was Newark's first daily newspaper. It subsequently evolved into the Newark Star-Eagle, owned by what eventually became Block Communications. S. I. Newhouse bought the Star-Eagle from Block in 1939 and merged it with the Newark Ledger to become the Newark Star-Ledger. The paper dropped Newark from its masthead sometime in the 1970s, but it is still popularly called the Newark Star-Ledger by many New Jersey residents because of its heritage and its editorial location.
During the 1960s The Star-Ledger's chief competitor was the Newark Evening News, once the most popular newspaper in New Jersey. In March 1971, the Star-Ledger surpassed the Evening News in daily circulation, because the Newark News was on strike. The Evening News shut down in 1972.
Perhaps learning a lesson after the Newark Evening News' disastrous move to a high traffic area (trapping its delivery trucks in inner-city traffic) the Star-Ledger opened a satellite plant in Piscataway. The Piscataway location offered quick access to Union, Monmouth, Somerset, and Middlesex counties.
The Star-Ledger was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2005 for its comprehensive and clear-headed coverage of the resignation of the Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey, after he confessed to adultery with a male lover.
The paper awards the Star-Ledger Trophy each year to high school teams that end up as the number one team in their respective sport in the state of New Jersey.
2000s financial troubles[edit]
In 2005, George Arwady became the publisher of The Star-Ledger. A graduate of Columbia University, Arwady had previously been the publisher of the Kalamazoo Gazette in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Having worked closely with the Newhouse family for years, Arwady was asked to move to Newark to financially revamp the paper.[citation needed]
Because the paper was losing money, parent company Advance Publications said on July 31, 2008, that it would sell the Star-Ledger unless it could get 200 of its non-union staff to voluntarily leave under a buyout offer, and its unionized truck drivers and mailers to agree to concessions.[5] On September 16 publisher George Arwady sent employees a status update by e-mail, saying that management felt progress had been made on the buyout and concessions from the mailers, but that management is "far from an agreement with the Drivers' union.".[6] The email continued:[6]
- Since it is doubtful that the Drivers will ratify an agreement by October 8, 2008, we will be sending formal notices to all employees this week, as required by both federal and New Jersey law, advising you that the Company will be sold, or, failing that, that it will close operations on January 5, 2009.
On October 24, 2008, the newspaper announced that 168 newsroom employees had offered to take the company's buyout offer, and that the company had accepted 151 of them, which resulted in a newsroom staff that was 40% smaller.[7]
On January 16, 2013, the newspaper announced layoffs of 34 employees including 18 newsroom staff.[8]
- Amzi Armstrong (1832–?)
- William Burnet Kinney (?–1851)
- Thomas T. Kinney (1851–1895)
- James Smith, Jr. (1895–1915)
- Paul Block (1915–1939)
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. (1939–1979)
- Donald Newhouse (1979–?)
- Mark Newhouse (?–Incumbent)
Executive editors[edit]
In 1995, following the retirement of 32-year veteran editor Mort Pye, Jim Willse was appointed the editor of the Ledger. Willse was the former editor and publisher of the New York Daily News. Prior to accepting the Ledger's editor Willse headed up the review of electronic information options for all Newhouse newspapers. He also expanded the Ledger' use of color and encouraged a more aggressive editorial team. The National Press Foundation named Willse its 1999 recipient of the George Beveridge Editor of the Year Award in recognition of Ledger's coverage of racial profiling by the New Jersey State Police.
Upon Willse's retirement in October 2009, managing editor Kevin Whitmer took over as editor.
The Star-Ledger in popular culture[edit]
- The Star-Ledger was featured prominently various times in the television series The Sopranos, an HBO drama series set in New Jersey. Tony Soprano received home delivery of the paper, and several episodes opened with him picking it up at the end of his driveway.
- The Star-Ledger serves as the inspiration for a fictional newspaper in an award-winning series of mystery novels by Brad Parks.
- The newspaper was also referenced by comedian George Carlin in the 2004 comedy/drama, Jersey Girl, which was written and directed by New Jersey native Kevin Smith.
- The Star-Ledger was also featured in Robert Kurson's 2004 novel, Shadow Divers.
The Star-Ledger prices are $1.00 daily and $2.00 Sunday.
See also[edit]
- ^ "2009 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
- ^ New Jersey Press Association - Member Newspapers - Dailies, New Jersey Press Association; Star-Ledger data from Editor & Publisher April 2007 article.
- ^ "Star-Ledger HQ on block". The New York Post. July 5, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
- ^ Sherman, Ted (December 5, 2013). "Owners of Star-Ledger, NJ.com and sister newspapers studying possible consolidations". NJ.com. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
- ^ Star-Ledger gives staff a deadline for buyouts[dead link] from nj.com
- ^ a b 'Star-Ledger' Publisher Threatens January 2009 Shutdown[dead link], September 2008, Editor & Publisher
- ^ Official: 40% of 'Star-Ledger' Newsroom Exiting[dead link], October 24, 2008, Editor & Publisher
- ^ "Star-Ledger axing 34 employees". CBS local. January 16, 2013.
- ^ Roger Yu (June 27, 2013). "Future of some major newspapers about to change". USA Today. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
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