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Good morning, Chairman Leahy and Ranking Member Specter.
Senator Leahy, a very long time ago, you taught me first-hand how you valued the importance of local broadcasters in Vermont. As you have navigated through the various iterations of the satellite home viewer legislation, and now from my CBS perspective, I want you to know how much the industry appreciates your leadership and efforts at preserving the broadcast network-affiliate relationship while promoting competition to cable through satellite.
Senator Specter, a little more than a dozen years ago, CBS Corporation enhanced its proud history as a pioneer and leader in broadcasting when it became a part of Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse and Group W Broadcasting. We remain proud that Westinghouse pioneer KDKA radio is now part of the CBS family. No station in America has a more storied history...a Pittsburgh station founded by one of its own engineers and which made the nation's first-ever commercial broadcast -on November 2, 1920. That broadcast was devoted solely to serving the public interest: On that date, the station transmitted the results of the Harding-Cox presidential election to its listeners while other Americans had to wait until the following day to read about the outcome of the race in their newspapers. We are proud that Pennsylvania is home not only to KDKA radio and eight other CBS radio stations, but to four of our 30 local television stations: KYW-TV and WPSG-TV in Philadelphia and KDKA-TV and WPCW-TV in Pittsburgh.
On behalf of CBS, I thank you for the invitation to present our views to the Committee about over-the-air broadcast television and the video programming marketplace.
Before I begin my discussion of satellite home viewer legislation and its impact on broadcasting, I would like to speak for just a moment about CBS's content. A good example is the Men's NCAA basketball tournament. Three weeks from tomorrow, on March 19, the national phenomenon known as March Madness will tip off. Each year, CBS spends hundreds of millions of dollars just for the rights to the three weeks of NCAA March Madness alone. It is a hefty investment, but one that in partnership with the NCAA, gives us the right to determine how the content can be distributed in a way that produces a return on that investment and a benefit to American viewers ---whether they be at home in front of their television sets (watching games on a CBS-owned or -affiliated local broadcast television station); out of their homes with their laptops (watching games streamed on CBS Sports.com); or out and about with their mobile devices (watching clips). Last year was a banner year, when for the first time NCAA March Madness on Demand gave users -free of charge-- the ability to view all 63 games of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship, from the first round of the tournament through the Men's Final Four. From March 20, the opening day of the First Round through April 7 (the Championship game) in 2008, there were 4.76 million total unique visitors to the on-demand player, a 164% year-over-year growth.
CBS offers up the March Madness games on other platforms as a complement and addition to its core business ---broadcast television. But, as the paying rights holder to the tournament games, the decision how, when and where to provide the games is our decision to make, in consultation with the NCAA, the ultimate rights holder. CBS is firmly committed to the broadcast network-affiliate relationship and has determined that providing games online is accretive to our broadcast business. The ability to control content we pay dearly to produce, create or distribute is what makes content a true investment ---especially for the end user in the chain, the consumer.
This hearing, at bottom, is about who gets to decide how, when and where content is distributed. Almost five years ago to the day, I testified before Congress on the very matter that is the subject of today's hearing --the end-of-year expiration of satellite's compulsory license to deliver distant broadcast television signals. The legislative issue on the table now, as it was five years ago, is really a very narrow one, that is, whether to extend the distant-signal license. Yet, during the course of congressional deliberation over this issue, you are likely to witness some parties seeking to exploit any legislation relating to the license as a vehicle for a wish list of unrelated items, items such as changes to retransmission consent or DMA modification, that are likely to bog down and complicate what we believe should be a clean and streamlined reauthorization.
Besides complicating the legislative process, the issues of retransmission consent and DMA modification are not broken items that need fixing. Each year, CBS along with other television broadcasters collectively conclude hundreds of retransmission consent agreements with MVPDs -successfully, quietly, amicably, and in a mutually beneficial manner. Yes, there are times, as in any free market negotiation in any industry when negotiations do not succeed, at least initially, and a dispute erupts and both sides threaten a disruption of service. And, in a very few instances, there may be a short-term disruption. But legislating to deal with a handful of disputes, when there are literally hundreds of instances where willing sellers and willing buyers reach agreement, would be a solution in search of a problem. In the end, the retransmission consent regime works and in the manner Congress intended.
With respect to DMA modification, it is important to note that these geographic areas were not designed by Congress, the FCC or any governmental body. That is, a DMA -a Designated Market Area-- is not a political creation; rather, it is a trademarked term of Nielsen Media Research to describe a group of counties and used to measure television viewing by people who live in those counties. Based on which over-the-air stations receive the majority of viewing, Nielsen assigns counties into a DMA. According to Nielsen, it uses DMAs "solely in measuring who is watching what within a given area." DMAs are the center of broadcasters' economic universe and any tinkering with the system, especially during this tumultuous economic time, could be financially seismic, particularly to smaller local broadcasters and to local merchants who buy time on their local stations in the expectation they are paying to reach potential customers in the locale in which they conduct business.
It is significant to note here that if the desired outcome is for viewers to access news from their in-state television stations, that arrangement is already legal and in existence. Right now, without the need to change any law or redefine any DMA, MVPDs are free to carry a local station's newscast anytime they want by simply securing the station's permission to do so. Stations control the copyright of their news shows and can, and do, make them available to cable operators in nearby markets looking to augment news programming. In fact, according to a February 24, 2008 Broadcasting & Cable Magazine story, Matt Polka, the president of the American Cable Association, which is pushing for DMA changes, concedes that cable operators already carry out-of-market newscasts. But he adds that "current network nonduplication rules and DMA boundaries prohibit greater competition for retransmission consent signals that would benefit consumers." What Mr. Polka really means is that MVPDs would benefit -at the expense of the American over-the-air television broadcasting system and their viewers. Congress should be wary of calls for DMA modification masquerading as nothing more than a means for MVPDs to obtain a bargaining advantage in a retransmission consent system that is now in perfect equipoise.
As was the case five years ago, I am perfectly content if you do nothing on satellite legislation this year. If absolutely no legislation at all emerged, meaning that the distant-signal license is not extended, CBS would find a way to live with that. But an immediate and drastic cut-off would not be our preference.
My message today is simply this: As you and your colleagues contemplate in the next several months extending the distant signal license for satellite carriers for the fourth time in 20 years, please continue to be guided, as you have in the past, by the twin pillars of (1) competition in the multichannel video programming marketplace and (2) preservation of local, free over-the-air broadcasting. At this juncture, we believe that the best means for achieving these goals is for Congress to encourage satellite carriers to provide local television stations to subscribers in more and more markets so that the need to import distant stations is eliminated. And the best means, in turn, for encouraging the carriage of local stations is to wean the satellite industry from the distant signal license, a special exemption Congress created to assure network signals to all and to foster exactly what exists today: Competition.
More on that later.
First, I wish to congratulate you for a remarkable success. Twenty-one years ago, when the sole multichannel video programming distributor was cable, Congress knew that it needed to find a way to help the nascent satellite industry become a competitor and it did so by ensuring the availability of broadcast programming comparable to that offered by cable operators. The legislation that became the Satellite Home Viewer Act (SHVA) gave satellite carriers an efficient means of providing broadcast network programming to those homes that could not receive adequate signals over the air from their local network affiliates.
Congress originally adopted SHVA to cover C-Band satellite, a big-dish service, before the existence of direct broadcast satellite, a high power, mini-dish service. In 1994, when DBS was just entering the market, Congress amended SHVA in order to, among other things, extend for five years the sunsetting statutory license for the carriage of distant broadcast signals.
By the end of 1994, what is today DirecTV had launched the nation's first DBS satellite, had rolled out its service mostly to rural markets, and boasted one million subscribers. A little more than a year later, a second DBS service, EchoStar, was born.
Yet, cable, which was initially developed as a means for delivering broadcast television station signals to homes unable to receive them over the air, continued to dominate the pay television landscape mainly because they could provide their customers with local broadcast signals and satellite could not. As Senator Orrin Hatch noted in early 1999:
In the last decade, satellite broadcasters have emerged as the newest competitors in the television delivery system and industry. With hundreds of channelsof programming, they are pushing the envelope of consumer options and stand poised to serve as full-fledged, full-service competitors to cable in the multi-channel video delivery marketplace.
The Satellite Home Viewer Act, however, is simply not designed for this sort of competition in its current form. It was enacted in 1988 only to provide lifeline access to television for those scattered households that were unable to get television in any other way, such as over-the-air or by cable.
The bill we will discuss today is designed to allow satellite broadcasters to compete fully in the market. Most importantly, it authorizes satellite broadcasters to provide local subscribers with their local television signals.
Once again, and just in time, Congress's vision resulted in a needed boost to the satellite competition. In the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 (SHVIA), Congress gave satellite carriers a royalty-free, statutory copyright license to transmit local programming to customers in their markets, as those markets --DMAs-- are defined by Nielsen. For the first time ever, consumers had a real choice among MVPDs: DBS operators, like cable operators, could now offer viewers a full complement of their local broadcast television stations.
As Senator Leahy described the new law:
Today the only way you can get local service is through cable, or from an antenna if you have one. Now home satellite packages will be able to offer the same thing. This will be the first time that cable television has had real competition in most communities. I suspect that both the satellite companies and the cable companies will try to offer a lot more to consumers and at a lower price, and that will benefit both cable subscribers and home satellite viewers.
How prescient were those words. With the first-time ability to access their local television stations from satellite carriers, consumers chose DBS in droves. In mid-2005, DBS was the choice of 26.1 million American households, constituting well over one-quarter of total MVPD subscribers. In fact, DBS subscribers have increased every year since their numbers were first reported by census data in 1993, with the growth from 2004 to 2005 alone reaching 12.8%.
Today, DirecTV and EchoStar's Dish Network serve 17.6 million and 13.78 million households, respectively. The 31.38 million homes they serve collectively constitute nearly one-third of all MVPD subscribers. In their most recent financial results, The DirecTV Group, Inc. reported fourth quarter 2008 revenues of $5.31 billion, while Dish Network Corporation reported third quarter 2008 revenues of $2.94 billion. The DBS industry has come a long way, particularly when viewed against the early financials of USSB, the original DBS operator (now DirecTV), which in July 1996 had yet to show a profit.
There are many winners emerging from Congress's 20/20 vision in the video programming marketplace, but no one more important, however, than the consumer.
Of course, competition to cable today has flourished beyond satellite and DBS and the wildest of expectations. Verizon and AT&T are no longer just telephone companies delivering voice. They now provide hundreds of channels of video programming through their FiOS and U-Verse services to three million homes. And the ubiquitous Internet is a platform that offers up more than informative websites and answers to arcane trivia questions: Today it is a destination for consumers seeking not only professionally created news, entertainment and sports programming, but millions of hours of user-generated video content.
It is important to remember that as Congress transformed its vision into reality through satellite legislation, it strove not only to promote competition to cable via satellite but to preserve the role of local broadcasters in providing free, over-the-air television. Localism has been the bedrock principle of broadcast policy since the Radio Act of 1927. Broadcasters must serve their communities by providing programming to meet the needs and interests of those communities. And they clearly do so, as acknowledged by Congress. Senator
Leahy has described broadcast television this way:
I want to make clear, as I did in my recent comment to the FCC, that I strongly believe in the local affiliate television system. Local broadcast stations provide the public with local news, local weather, local informational programming, local emergency advisories, candidate forums, local public affairs programming, and high quality programs. Local broadcast stations contribute to our sense of community.
Senator Jay Rockefeller has described broadcasters as a necessity:
And as we've been reminded in the aftermath of the winter storms that have wreaked havoc on parts of our nation over the last week, television plays a very important role in keeping the public informed and safe.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has, too:
Many Texas residents are unprepared for the fast-approaching DTV transition, especially those who live along the border. Households that continue watching stations from Mexico, rather than taking steps to prepare for the transition, may not receive AMBER Alert and Emergency Alert System messages.
In light of the recognition of broadcasters' unique contribution to localism, Congress throughout the history of the satellite legislation has sought to balance the goal of preserving the broadcast television industry as it has promoted the competitive status of the satellite television industry. Summing up this balancing act,
Senator Herb Kohl said in 1999 when local-into-local was being debated:
Satellite companies will finally be allowed to legally broadcast local stations to local viewers--so-called ``local into local.'' The strange anomaly that restricted satellite from providing local signals will be a thing of the past. And to be balanced, satellite companies will also be subject to ``must-carry'' obligations, just like cable. This bill will also reduce the royalty fees for those local signals to a level closer to that paid by cable companies. All of this moves us towards parity between satellite and cable, and it is a huge step forward for consumers. Let me tell you why.
Increased competition will discipline the cable marketplace which, in turn, will create lower prices, increased choice, and wider availability of television programming for all Americans, no matter how remote. And we do this in the best way possible, by promoting competition, not increasing regulation. Moreover, it won't be at the expense of our local television stations, which provide a valuable community benefit in the form of local news, weather, sports and various forms of public service.
Senator Leahy echoed the need for equilibrium when the 2004 legislation cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee:
I want to make one final point regarding those households who were permitted to continue to receive distant network broadcast signals via satellite while they also received competing local signals from the same network. I know one Senator wants to have termination of this "dual" service at some fixed date. I will certainly work with that Senator and others on this issue of promoting localism in network broadcasting.
CBS appreciates the fine line that Congress has walked over the last 20 years in crafting satellite legislation. As the owners of a major broadcast television network and a group of 30 local broadcast television stations, we believe that the indefinite or permanent congressional grant of a distant-signal license to satellite carriers will jeopardize the economic viability of stations affiliated with national networks. It would do so by placing at risk a significant and critical source of local news and information.
The broadcast television industry has the right, through the Copyright and Communications Acts, and private contracts, to control the distribution of the national and local programming that it transmits. The CBS Television Network alone invests billions of dollars each year in developing, producing and securing the highest quality entertainment, sports and news programming. A single, 30-minute episode of a sitcom series costs anywhere from $1 to $4 million to produce. And a single, 60-minute episode of a drama series anywhere from $4 to $5.5 million. With regard to sports programming, and in addition to the NCAA March Madness discussed earlier, CBS pays hundreds of millions of dollars each year to the NFL for our package of games. That is before you consider millions of dollars in rights fees CBS pays each year for SEC Football, regular season NCAA basketball, to the PGA for golf, and to the USTA for rights to the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.
We strongly believe that heavy investment in programming pays off: In the current television season that began last September, CBS is the most-watched television network and the only major broadcaster to increase its prime-time audience. Superior programming helps not only the CBS network and our owned-and-operated television stations, but also our affiliated stations nationwide. When network programming is of high quality and compelling, local stations benefit. From large DMAs like Philadelphia and Dallas to smaller DMAs like Burlington, Vermont and Johnstown-Altoona-State College, Pennsylvania, local stations are able to present this network programming to obtain advertising dollars so that they, in turn, can make significant financial investments in the production, gathering and reporting of local news, sports, weather and other information. Local stations also are able to invest in rights to syndicated programs, such as "Wheel of Fortune," "Jeopardy," "Oprah," "Live with Regis and Kelly," "Seinfeld" and "Friends," which are obtained from other content producers.
This network-affiliate arrangement, of course, is not unique to CBS -it is also enjoyed by others, including the ABC, FOX, NBC, the CW (of which CBS owns 50%), Univision and Telemundo networks and their affiliated stations across the country. In the end, however, it is the local viewers who profit most from this system.
Congress has recognized the invaluable nature of this relationship. That is why, in attempting to accommodate those households unable to receive network-affiliated stations directly over the air, Congress designed SHVA back in 1988 so as to carve but a narrow exception to the exclusive programming copyrights held by television networks and their affiliates. This limited compulsory copyright license under Section 119 of the Copyright Act permits satellite delivery of distant, or out-of-market, network broadcast stations to only "unserved" households.
In its wisdom, Congress made the license for local-into-local a permanent one, while the compulsory license for the satellite delivery of distant-network signals was never intended to be so. In 1988, SHVA provided that the distant-signal license sunset in 1994; in 1994, the license was extended for 5 years; and in 1999, the license was extended for another 5 years. At the end of this year, on December 31, 2009, the license comes to an end unless renewed. What was supposed to be a temporary license is now 21 years old.
We are now at an important crossroads in the decades-long history of satellite legislation. Rather than automatically renewing the distant signal license for satellite carriers for the stock five-year term, this Committee should carefully consider ways of encouraging MVPDs to provide local instead of distant television stations to American homes. We believe the best route to that end is by phasing out the distant-signal license over the next few years with a clear and precise sunset deadline. We understand that a sudden and immediate sunset would be disruptive to the small remaining number of consumers who still receive distant signals and that it may take satellite carriers time to ramp up their operations to provide local signals in every market. But the deletion of the distant-signal license no doubt would motivate satellite carriers to provide local signals in all markets sooner rather than later.
Offering local broadcast stations to customers is apparently good business. A mere week after SHVIA was enacted into law in November 1999, DirecTV made local channels available to its subscribers in New York and Los Angeles. In making the announcement, then-DirecTV President Eddy W. Hartenstein said it best:
The availability of local channels ushers in a new era for DIRECTV, and we are excited to commence our local channel offerings in the nation's two largest markets. By offering local channels on DIRECTV, our customers can access entertainment and information that's most relevant to their lives -- and they can watch their local channels with digital picture and CD-quality sound.
In the first full reporting quarter following enactment of the 1999 satellite legislation, the DBS companies realized positive results from their local-into-local offerings. DirecTV reported that it had added 405,000 subscribers during the three months ended March 31, 2000, a number that represented 33% more units than the 304,000 subscribers the company added during the same period the previous year. And EchoStar reported that the company's DBS subscribers had increased approximately 71% in the first quarter of 2000 compared to the same period in 1999. This strong subscriber growth, according to the EchoStar 10-Q filing, was due, among other things, to "increased interest in satellite television resulting from the availability of local network channels by satellite."
In my testimony regarding the local-into-local satellite legislation five years ago, I commended DirecTV and EchoStar for their rollout of local channels. I do so again today. Of the 210 television markets in this country, EchoStar reportedly is serving 179 with local stations and DirecTV is serving 150.
However, in suggesting a phase-out of the distant-signal license, I neither offer up a novel solution nor intend to do harm to my DBS friends, who are our partners in the television world. In fact, just last week, Dish Network and CBS successfully reached a new, long-term agreement for carriage by Dish of the stations we own. And I look forward to a continued positive and mutually beneficial relationship with our friends at DirecTV.
But rather than counting on my recommendation, look to the 225-plus-page "Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act Section 109 Report" to Congress last summer from the Register of Copyrights who recommends a phase-out of the distant-signal license. The license, the report states, was a "stop-gap solution for a nascent satellite industry" and "in its present form, undergirded by outdated rationales set forth in 1988, is no longer necessary nor appropriate." Like cable operators, the report states, DirecTV and EchoStar "have the market power and bargaining strength to negotiate favorable program carriage agreements." The report suggests that Congress extend the distant-signal license for one final additional five-year term. By the year 2015, the report concludes, the DTV transition should be settled, broadband penetration will be greater, and Americans will be able to receive video programming from many providers. "It will be a whole new era by then. . ."
We at CBS agree with these recommendations and we look forward to that new era in which CBS is prepared to compete and take our chances. In the meantime, we thank the Committee for helping to steer our industry through the complex technical and market conditions to get us where we are today, a robust video delivery marketplace, where, thanks to vigorous competition, broadcast television is still an integral player deeply valued by American viewers.
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The Vote is cast: The effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value
This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression discontinuity design to shareholder votes on governance proposals in annual meetings. A close-call vote around the majority threshold is akin to a random outcome, allowing us to deal with prior expectations and the endogeneity of internal governance rules. Passing a corporate governance provision generates a 1.3% abnormal return on the day of the vote with an implied market value per provision of 2.8%. We also find evidence of changes in investment behaviour and long-term performance improvements.Download Info
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Dr. Grant E. Johnson received his BS degree in chemistry from the University of Delaware Honors Program where he studied solvation in supercritical fluids under Professor Robert H. Wood. He was employed as an analytical chemist with the United States Army at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Edgewood, Maryland, from 2002 to 2004. He received his PhD in chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University under Professor A.W. Castleman Jr. in 2009. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Central Europe Summer Research Institute fellowship in 2006 to study theoretical calculations with Professor Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He also received a Department of Energy fellowship to attend the 2006 meeting of Nobel Laureates in chemistry in Lindau, Germany. He was awarded the inaugural Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2010 to 2012. He is currently a scientist in the Chemical Physics and Analysis program working with Laboratory Fellow Dr. Julia Laskin.
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- Soft- and Reactive Landing of Mass-selected Ions
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- Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Clusters
- Preparation of Mesoscale Structures with Emergent Properties
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- PhD. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Chemistry, December 2009
- BS. University of Delaware Honors Program, Newark, Chemistry, May 2002
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- American Chemical Society 2002 - present
- American Physical Society 2005 - present
- American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 - present
- American Society for Mass Spectrometry 2010 - present
- American Vacuum Society 2010 - present
- Materials Research Society 2010 - present
Awards and Recognitions
- Outstanding Performance Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2010
- PNNL Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2010
- Lubrizol Graduate Student Research Award, Penn State University, 2008-2009
- Certificate for Outstanding Work in Precious Metal Research, International Precious Metals Institute, 2008
- Graduate Student Travel Award to American Physical Society Meeting in New Orleans, LA, Penn State University, 2008
- Fellowship to Attend the Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry in Lindau Germany, Department of Energy, 2006
- Central Europe Summer Research Institute Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2006
- Graduate Student Travel Award to Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Germany, Penn State University, 2005
- Dan H. Waugh Memorial Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2004-2005 Graduate Student Fellowship, Penn State University, 2004
- Performance Cash Award for Excellence, United States Army, Research Development and Engineering Command, 2003
- Advanced Honors Certificate, University of Delaware Honors Program, 2002
- First Year Honors Certificate, University of Delaware Honors Program, 1998
PNNL Publications
- Al Hasan NM, GE Johnson, and J Laskin. 2013. "Gas-Phase Synthesis of Singly and Multiply Charged Polyoxovanadate Anions Employing Electrospray Ionization and Collision Induced Dissociation." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 24(9):1385-95. doi:10.1007/s13361-013-0683-0
- Baer DR, MH Engelhard, GE Johnson, J Laskin, J Lai, KT Mueller, P Munusamy, S Thevuthasan, H Wang, NM Washton, AC Elder, BL Baisch, AS Karakoti, SVNT Kuchibhatla, and DW Moon. 2013. "Surface Characterization of Nanomaterials and Nanoparticles: important needs and challenging opportunities." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A--Vacuum, Surfaces and Films 31(5):Article No. 050820. doi:10.1116/1.4818423
- Johnson GE, NM Al Hasan, and J Laskin. 2013. "Influence of Heteroanion and Ammonium Cation Size on the Composition and Gas-Phase Fragmentation of Polyoxovanadates." International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 354-355:333-341. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2013.06.009
- Johnson GE, TA Priest, and J Laskin. 2013. "Synthesis and Characterization of Gold Clusters Ligated with 1,3-Bis(dicyclohexylphosphino)propane." ChemPlusChem 78(9):1033-1039. doi:10.1002/cplu.201300134
- Johnson GE, TA Priest, and J Laskin. 2012. "Charge Retention by Gold Clusters on Surfaces Prepared Using Soft Landing of Mass Selected Ions ." ACS Nano 6(1):573-582. doi:10.1021/nn2039565
- Johnson GE, TA Priest, and J Laskin. 2012. "Coverage Dependent Charge Reduction of Cationic Gold Clusters on Surfaces Prepared Using Soft Landing of Mass-selected Ions." Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116(47):24977-24986. doi:10.1021/jp308795r
- Hadjar O, GE Johnson, J Laskin, G Kibelka, SM Shill, K Kuhn, C Cameron, and S Kassan. 2011. "IonCCD� for direct position-sensitive charged-particle detection: from electrons and keV ions to hyperthermal biomolecular ions." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 22(4):612-623. doi:10.1007/s13361-010-0067-7
- Johnson GE, CM Wang, TA Priest, and J Laskin. 2011. "Monodisperse Au11 Clusters Prepared by Soft Landing of Mass Selected Ions." Analytical Chemistry 83(21):8069-8072. doi:10.1021/ac202520p
- Johnson GE, O Hadjar, and J Laskin. 2011. "Characterization of the Ion Beam Focusing in a Mass Spectrometer using an IonCCD� Detector." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 22(8):1388-1394. doi:10.1007/s13361-011-0154-4
- Johnson GE, Q Hu, and J Laskin. 2011. "Soft Landing of Complex Molecules on Surfaces." Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry 4(1):83-104. doi:10.1146/annurev-anchem-061010-114028
- Peng WP, GE Johnson, IC Fortmeyer, P Wang, O Hadjar, RG Cooks, and J Laskin. 2011. "Redox Chemistry in Thin Layers of Organometallic Complexes Prepared Using Ion Soft Landing." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP 13(1):267-275. doi:10.1039/C0CP01457E
- Johnson GE, and J Laskin. 2010. "Preparation of Surface Organometallic Catalysts by Gas-Phase Ligand Stripping and Reactive Landing of Mass-Selected Ions." Chemistry - A European Journal 16(48):14433-14438. doi:10.1002/chem.201002292
- Johnson GE, M Lysonski, and J Laskin. 2010. "In Situ Reactivity and TOF SIMS Analysis of Surfaces Prepared by Soft and Reactive Landing of Mass Selected Ions." Analytical Chemistry 82(13):5718-5727. doi:10.1021/ac100734g
Selected Publications
- Johnson GE, R Mitrić, M Nossler, EC Tyo, V Bonačić-Koutecký and AW Castleman, Jr. 2009 "Influence of Charge State on Catalytic Oxidation Reactions at Metal Oxide Clusters Containing Radical Oxygen Centers." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(15) 5460-5470. doi: 10.1021/ja807499z
- Johnson GE, R Mitrić, V Bonačić-Koutecký and AW Castleman, Jr. 2009 "Clusters as model systems for investigating nanoscale oxidation catalysis." Chemical Physics Letters 475(1-3) 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cplett.2009.04.003
- Johnson GE, EC Tyo, and AW Castleman, Jr. 2008 "Cluster reactivity experiments: Employing mass spectrometry to investigate the molecular level details of catalytic oxidation reactions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(47): 18108-18113. doi:10.1073/pnas.0801539105
- Johnson GE, R Mitrić, EC Tyo, V Bonačić-Koutecký, and AW Castleman, Jr. 2008 "Stoichiometric Zirconium Oxide Cations as Potential Building Blocks for Cluster Assembled Catalysts." Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(42): 13912-13920. doi: 10.1021/ja803246n


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Bunk bed, Curtains, Ladder, Rail, Slat pack, Trundle (optional), Storage drawers (optional)
Bedding, Mattress
With bright, primary-color curtains and traditional bunk bed styling, the Hot Shot Boy Twin over Twin Tent Bunk Bed is an all-American addition to any active little boy's room. Crafted with durable solid birch wood and rock-solid steel bolts, the bunk boasts slatted headboards and footboards, sturdy square posts, and a compact footprint that work in virtually any shared kids' room. A low height makes it a safe choice for small children, the attached straight ladder has deep grooved steps, and the top bunk's 11-inch guard rail prevents nighttime falls. Keep it stacked or easily break it down into two twin-size beds for multiple kids.
Score additional sleep space by adding an optional under-bed trundle, or boost bedroom storage with optional storage drawers built with a self-closing design, strong dovetail joinery, and smooth ball-bearing glides. Choose the bunk only, the bunk and trundle, or the bunk and storage drawers in light, natural wood finish. Choose a blue, red, and yellow or blue and white curtains.
We take your family's safety seriously. That's why all of our bunk beds come with a bunkie board, slat pack, or metal grid support system. These provide complete mattress support and secure the mattress within the bunk bed frame. Please note: Bunk beds and loft beds are only to be used by children 6 years of age or older.
80L x 46.5W x 61.5H in.
Storage Drawers , Tent , Trundle Bed
Boys , Girls
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Twin Over Twin
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Other Finishes
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Color: Blue & White Tent, Blue & Red & Yellow Tent
Configuration: Bunk Bed Only, Bunk Bed + Trundle Bed, Bunk Bed + Storage Drawers
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The set that we got (twin over twin) had a defect in the ladder - the screws provided would not fit in the wholes and we had to use much smaller screws. The sticky tape that holds the velcro for the curtain keeps unpeeling from the bed. Other than that it is a nicely done bed. Not too big (though a grownup can't sit on the bed without bending the head), sturdy and well made.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- There are some numbers in reference to Middle Tennessee State University's defense that aren't very flattering.
But other numbers catch the eyes of the Marshall University offense as the Thundering Herd prepares for its visit to the Blue Raiders at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Fox Sports 1). Those statistics show MTSU is capable of some momentum-shifting, game-changing plays.
First, the bad for the Blue Raiders defense: MTSU is 12th in the 14-team Conference USA in total defense (450.4 yards allowed per game), 12th in rushing defense (195.4 yapg), 10th in pass defense (255.0 yapg) and eighth in scoring defense (29.9 points allowed per game).
Now for the good: MTSU is one of the best teams in C-USA in sacks and one of the best in the Football Bowl Subdivision in forcing turnovers. The Blue Raiders are tied for second in the conference with Tulane with 18 sacks in seven games, a mark that ties the team for 30th in the FBS. They're tied with four teams for second in the FBS with 20 turnovers gained, 10 interceptions and 10 fumbles recovered.
Marshall offensive coordinator Bill Legg said the secret in MTSU's efficacy in those departments is diversity in defensive schemes that give offenses so much to prepare for.
"They might be the most diverse defense we've seen on film this year," Marshall offensive coordinator Bill Legg said. "We pretty much knew what we were getting in Game 3, Game 4 and Game 5. It was going to come down to can we execute enough in order to be successful. This (MTSU) group more so than any group ... they play five different defensive personnel packages and out of each of those five defensive personnel packages, they have anywhere from three to five blitz concepts that they do.
"But, you can't just prepare for the three they run out of their base defense," he continued. "You have to prepare for the 15 to 25 blitz combinations you're going to get and you have to do it out of the five packages they're using. That diversity creates confusion. That confusion creates poor decision making, and poor decisions create turnovers and/or sacks."
MTSU Coach Rick Stockstill said the turnovers come from a mindset preached since he first led the Blue Raiders, and it worked last year. As members of the Sun Belt in 2012, Middle Tennessee tied for 22nd in the FBS with 28 total turnovers gained, 16 fumbles and 12 interceptions. The sack production, however, is a different story.
The Blue Raiders recorded just 14 sacks in 12 games last season. Here, Stockstill said, is where the team's defensive diversity has helped most. Eleven players on MTSU's defense have at least assisted on a sack and three players - sophomore linebacker T.T. Barber, redshirt junior Leighton Gasque and redshirt senior Dearco Nolan - have recorded three each.


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Obama and the courage of restraint
Obama, the constitutional scholar, seeks change through consensus rather than overstepping.
AMBITION is a strong component of the American character. From rags to riches, log house to White House, community organizer to commander in chief, nowhere is this idea more pronounced than in the American presidency.
But the presidency has a complicated relationship with ambition. It takes enormous ambition to win the job, but the position is structured to restrain its expression.
President Obama is well acquainted with these constraints. You can hear it when he says he won't have another debate with Congress about raising the debt limit. Or when he pushes for "common-sense" gun control measures that an "overwhelming majority of Americans agree with" — but that are possible only if Congress passes them.
Our Founders, in their wisdom, saw to it that presidents' ambition would be constrained. Our system of checks and balances was driven in part by a desire to mitigate ambition's destructive potential by frustrating the president's ability to get things done. This idea is reflected in "The Federalist 51," in which James Madison wrote, "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
Often, the greatest American presidents find opportunity in adversity, welding their ambition to a higher cause and thereby becoming elevated. Comparisons have been drawn between Obama and both Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But these earlier presidencies were coupled with greatly increased executive powers that often overstepped the bounds of the office. Lincoln assumed them as a necessary expediency of civil war, though many blasted him for trampling on the Constitution. FDR explicitly asked for increased powers in his first inaugural address, but it took four terms and a surprise attack on America for him to fully assume them.
And therein lies the difference with Obama's presidential ambition. Obama the constitutional scholar seeks change through consensus rather than overstepping. On the heels of George W. Bush, who greatly expanded executive power, Obama was elected as much for what he was not as for what he was. After Bush, we became deeply suspicious of growing executive power. The nation craved a quieter type of ambition, focused on forging consensus in enacting big changes.
In 2008, Obama seemed to embody this new ambition. His confidence in himself — and in our chance for redemption in a time of war and economic adversity — was infectious. His victory was as much a repudiation of what had brought us to those depths as it was an affirmation of American ambition. His election made us feel that, even in an era of constrained economic drive, if we could make Obama president, our ambition was not only alive and well, it was healthier than ever.
Since then, Obama has attempted to realize ambition in ways not often applied to great presidencies. He has made generous efforts of conciliation in the Middle East, in early visits with Republican leaders in Congress, in his rhetorical commitment to "not red states and blue states, but United States" and in his inclusion of Republicans in top Cabinet spots.
So, if Obama's presidency is deemed great, it must be in terms not often applied to presidents: compromise and consensus. He took power while the nation was in a war in Iraq launched on false evidence. The economy seemed in free fall. The automobile industry was floundering. Millions of jobs were lost in the year before he took office. And in every state, people were losing their homes and their self-worth. With a calm hand, he has steadied the ship of state.


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Fumet (Fish Stock) |
This fish stock is a recipe necessary to make Lobster l'Americaine (recipe in Fannie's Last Supper) FUMET (FISH STOCK) Yes, this recipe is necessary to generate the depth of flavor that one needs for the sauce but fish stock can be prepared quickly. This recipe is all about the sauce and a homemade fish stock is a crucial key to success. 5 pounds white fish bones (such as halibut), run under cold water 30 minutes, flush gills until water runs clear 4 tablespoons oil 2 leek tops, diced medium (4 cups) 4 celery stalks, diced medium (3 cups) 1 pound onion diced medium (4 cups) 1 large fennel bulb, diced medium (7 cups) 3 to 4 quarts water 2 cups white wine 2 bay leaves 8 parsley stems 4 thyme sprigs 1. Adjust oven rack to middle rack and heat oven to 500 degrees. Roast fish bones on rimmed baking sheet for 30 minutes until just opaque and releases foam/scum. Do not brown. 2. Meanwhile, in 14-quart stock pot, heat oil over medium heat; add vegetables, cover and cook, stirring occasionally for 30 minutes until vegetables are translucent (not browned) and have released juices. Add fish bones (do not add the liquid and foam given off during roasting), cover with water, add wine, bay leaves, and herbs, and bring to simmer; cook at a bare simmer about 30 minutes. Turn off, let steep about 30 minutes. Strain through colander and then again through fine mesh strainer. Chill. Yields 3 to 3 ½ quarts |


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Vans Vault Slip-On 'OG' Pack
May 17th, 2012 by Aaron Hope | 2 comments
When the Van Doren brothers opened their namesake rubber concern in Anaheim some forty-six years ago, they would take orders in the morning, spend the day making those shoes and have them ready for customers by the afternoon. The success of the original #44 lowtop (later renamed Authentic) was strong enough to warrant a laceless variant, and the iconic Slip-On was born. Now, coming up for June 2012 is a four-pack of 'OG' Vans Vault Slip-Ons, canvas lowtops ranging from solid canvas uppers to Off the Wall's signature checkerboard print. Click through and you'll be able to see each pair, and be sure to check back with Sneaker News for release info. via FNG


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Baby saved on US Airways flight from Tampa to Phoenix
Andy Russick was on a flight to Phoenix late Tuesday when a man rushed up from the back of the plane and put a baby boy down next him.
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Frontier adds Cleveland-Tampa route
Frontier Airlines announced it will add a new nonstop flight from Cleveland to Tampa.
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Skydiver And Plane Collide In Mid-Air Accident
A plane became entangled in the strings of a skydiver's parachute, sending both crashing into the ground near Tampa, Fla., with both the pilot and jumper hospitalized with minor injuries.
Homeless man charged in North Tampa killing
A homeless man is facing a murder charge for stabbing another homeless man to death early Tuesday in North Tampa, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office said.
Bollywood in Tampa Bay: 15th annual IIFA itinerary
Indian Bolywood actor Deepika Padukone performs at the 14th International Indian Film Academy Award ceremony at The Venetian hotel in Macau on July 6, 2013.
Tampa Dems blast Gov. Scott on botched unemployment website, but botch some of their own facts
The problems with the state of Florida's troubled CONNECT website been well chronicled in recent months.
Skydiver plane collision: 87-year-old skydiver survives plane collision
A skydiver and plane collision near Tampa, Florida was extremely frightening but both the skydiver and the pilot of the plane are okay.
Florida election a bellwether for fall U.S. mid-te...
Voters on Florida's Gulf Coast head to the polls Tuesday to fill a vacant U.S. Congressional seat in a special election watched by both major parties for what it portends for November when all 435 congressional seats will be up for grabs.
Tampa film exec learning about drones at SXSW
At her first trip to Austin, Texas' South by Southwest festival this year, Dale Gordon has noticed drones are a hot topic of discussion for all of their uses and all of their controversies.
Arrest in November Tampa home-invasion robbery
A 26-year-old Tampa man was arrested Sunday night and is being held without bail on a felony attempted-murder charge tied to a Nov. 9 home-invasion robbery.
Hunahpu's Day: Tampa Beer Release Draws Record-Crushing Crowds
Tampa, Florida's Cigar City Brewing is one of the most acclaimed breweries in the country, crafting intense and delicious beers from creative combinations of surprising ingredients.But, out of their vast catalog of brews, none is more revered than Hunahpu's Imperial Stout.
Driver in crash that killed Cypress Lake grad was drunk
An autopsy has revealed that a Tampa man who killed four people and himself while driving the wrong way on a Florida highway had more than twice the state's legal limit of alcohol in his system.
Former USF student body president now employed at Tampa City Hall
Cesar Hernandez back at USF in 2011, when he went on a 24-hour filibuster to bring attention to issues concerning USF students.
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As the world acknowledged International Women's Day on Saturday, activists spent the day outside of a Tampa Whole Foods spreading awareness to the plight of Rhiannon Broschat.
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Mid-air collision between Florida plane and skydiver leads to crash
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Eagle Rock Resort offers snow sports for all ages and abilities. Set amongst the beautiful Blue Mountain range, Eagle Rock offers the finest skiing, snow boarding, and snow tubing facilities available.
Enjoy short lift lines and uncrowded skiing in a beautiful mountain setting at Eagle Rock Resort. All the latest snowmaking equipment and high powered snow guns ensure a powdered mountain for quality skiing. Eagle Rock mountain has 14 lighted slopes ranging from beginner to most difficult, which offer picturesque views of the Blue Mountain terrain. Our professional certified ski instructors can assist you in private or group lessons, as well as expert instruction on snow boarding.
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Look out the window of the Panorama Grill, and you will see our very own Snowtubing Hill! Snowtubing is a thrilling recreational activity that doesn't require lessons or expensive equipment. It is extremely popular and offers skiers and snowboarders a new and different option. Come out this season and give it a run. We will even provide the tube.
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text: Anyone ever hooked a duck, goose, or any other waterfowl? I have -- five so far! The first time I hooked a duck was when I was fly fishing for panfish at a local pond about a year or two ago. I noticed that about five or so ducks were coming towards the spot where I was fishing. I didn't think much about it, as I had never heard of anyone catching a duck before. I made a cast, and turned my back for one second to talk to my friend. Then when I looked back at the water, I was surprised to see that a duck had tried to eat my fly. It got the hook lodged in the corner of it's beak (lucky), so I just decided to land it to shore like I'd land a fish. When I got it in, it fought with me and and pecked at my hand when I tried to remove the hook (trying to infect me with the bird flu or something ). When the duck finally got tired, I reached for my hemostats, carefully removed the hook, and set it free. I came back a week later and found out that it actually survived the incident (I knew because it was the only duck at the pond that looked like it had been half plucked ). Needless to say, I'm pretty sure I'll never catch that same duck again. Hopefully it learned it's lesson! After that incident, a few months later I hooked another duck and about a month after that, another! Then when spring arrived the next, I hooked my first Canadian Goose! Man, if he was a fish, he would have been a trophy. My most recent catch was a sparrow I caught off yet another dry fly. For some reason it got tangled in my cast.After all of this, I hope you all don't think lesser of me (or that I'm crazy ). All the birds that were hooked hooked survived (I could tell by the loss of feathers which bird is which). I guess the more you go fishing the more these kind of things happen to you. I'm just lucky I haven't caught a swan yet!