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Alabama head coach Nick Saban isn't resting. Even after beating 11th ranked Mississippi State 38-7, the coach says that his team needs to continue to improve. The Bulldogs came into the game undefeated on Saturday, but fell short against the Crimson Tide."We certainly have a lot of respect for Mississippi State," said Saban as he begun his post game news conference. "You don't get to be 7-0 by accident."Saban says he is proud of the way the team competed in the game. According to the coach, it was important for Alabama to begin the game of a fast start."You have to prepare yourself for a 15 round fight," said Saban. "You can't win the fight in the first round, but you can lose it."Near the end of the game, Coach Saban was seen being upset with some backup players who had entered the game. Saban says his concern with the players had nothing to do with letting the Bulldogs score."I got upset with the backup players because they're better than that. It's not about a shutout; it's about them playing their best football," said Saban.Copyright 2012 WBRC. All rights reserved.
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Wrestler Zev Green Raises over $700 for FamilySenior wrestler Zev Green organized and conducted a cross fit work out of the day at Crossfit Remix in Mentor September 27-29 to benefit an eight year-old and 11 year-old who lost their mom to cancer.
"I went to join in on the fun and support the family and was amazed at the leadership Green displayed to put on such an event," said Head Coach Kevin Hoogenboom.
Green raised over $700 for the family and had several gift card donations. He is majoring in psychology and minoring in business.

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Legends II: A Halloween Tale Picks Up Where H20 Left Off
Did you ever wonder what happened after Halloween: H20 left off? No? Well, some people did. And the good folks at Godbout Entertainment have answered the question with Legends II: A Halloween Tale. The story picks up ten years after that particular Halloween film leaves off, and it takes an angle you certainly wouldn't expect.
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New Legislation to Protect Foreign Art Lenders From Lawsuits on U.S. Soil
Eight years ago, while a group of paintings by the Russian modernist Kazimir Malevich was on loan to the Menil Collection in Houston, the artist's heirs, who had been attempting to recover them, sued the city of Amsterdam, home to the Stedelijk Museum, which had loaned the works. In 2005 the U.S. federal court hearing the case ruled that even if loaned art could not be seized under federal law, the presence of the artwork in the U.S. could still provide a basis for suing the foreign-government lender for damages. The decision effectively opened up a new path to allow litigation for chasing wrongfully taken art, and some foreign governments refused to lend to U.S. museums out of fear that they would be hauled into court. Read More


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Last year's fundraiser generated $5,000 for the Arc's Children Services, which benefits approximately 150 local kids per year.
Programs included in Children Services are early Headstart, Early Intervention, pre-K and outpatient services.
Children's services director Angela Washington said Early Intervention, which assists children from birth to three with developmental delays, experienced a 30 percent loss in funding two years ago.
The Pre-K program has not had a budget increase in its five years of existence, according to Washington.
Further budget cuts are also looming.
"It's still very much a reality," Washington said.
Registration for "Run 4 Kids" will be held from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday. The fee is $30.
A 5K will begin at 9 a.m. and a Fun Run will follow at 9:30 a.m. Awards will be presented at 10:15 a.m.
For more information, contact Washington at 387-0564.


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Faculty Highlights - Warren Riess
As far as shipwrecks go, there was nothing fancy about the vessel found this summer at the construction site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
It wasn't an old military ship with heavy artillery. It wasn't a great cargo vessel laden with exotic riches from another continent. And it wasn't a ship that might have been used by pirates.
Yet what University of Maine marine archaeologist Warren Riess discovered several months ago when he examined the boat was, in a sense, more remarkable than anything he could have discovered about a warship, ocean liner or pirate vessel.
Riess, a national expert in marine archaeology of the New England and mid-Atlantic regions, believes the remains, found about 200 yards from where the World Trade Center's South Tower stood before the terrorist events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a light coaster from the late 18th or early 19th centuries that likely carried goods up and down the East Coast to a growing populace of the post-Revolutionary War era.
Analysis of the ship's remains is ongoing, but Riess thinks it could be just the third vessel of its kind and age to have been discovered. The other two were found elsewhere on the East Coast.
In its time, the ship wouldn't have been considered a significant vessel, which is the reason why no drawings or models have survived. Today, however, that insignificance is exactly why the find is so exciting for the nautical archaeological community.
For an archaeologist, it's the difference between finding a buried treasure of gold and a buried trove of broken pottery.
One find tells a fantastic tale. The other simply tells a tale of daily life.
"The most interesting thing is we don't know much about these ships," says Riess, a research associate professor in UMaine's School of Marine Sciences whose work in marine archaeology includes several shipwrecks and the Penobscot Expedition of 1779.
"The warships, the government ships, there are all kinds of drawings and models of those. But the everyday coasters of this time period, we've only found three of them, and we don't have drawings in any detail. So to be able to study this is very important, because it tells us about everyday life at that time. It tells us about the 99.5 percent of the people who weren't recorded, and it tells us about the level of technology at the time."
The World Trade Center vessel is now also one of three ships of this vintage found in Manhattan. Unlike this coaster ship, the other two were transatlantic vessels.
The first was discovered in the early 1980s in an area now beneath the South Street Seaport Museum near the East River, a location almost directly across the city from the World Trade Center site. The second was found about two blocks south from the first.
The World Trade Center ship was removed from the site in five days so as to not hold up construction of the complex. The remains were taken to the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, which serves as a clearinghouse for archaeological collections recovered from land and underwater projects.
The vessel was found about 25 feet below street level in an area that would have been beachfront to the Hudson River. Based on evidence at the site, Riess believes the vessel had been brought in for repairs or replacement. Whatever the reason, its beaching was intentional.
Researchers excavated conifer logs found perpendicular to the ship's keel, which indicates it had been rolled onto the shore. Riess also found that an outer sheathing had been scraped off the planks of the ship, which could mean it was being readied for repairs.
Riess can only guess what happened next, but if his estimations are correct, the ship played yet another role in the expansion of a growing New York City.
"A shipwright probably took a look at it and said, you know, it's just not worth repairing," he says. "It looked like they took off the upper parts of the ship, probably to reuse the wood for buildings, houses, commercial buildings or barns, and they just left the bottom there and filled over it. I don't think it was purposely brought in for the fill, but just happened to be there."
The researchers found about 32 feet of the vessel from stern to midship, which Riess estimates is about half of its original length. The seaworthy vessel was lightly constructed, unlike a government ship built to exacting specifications, including a carefully crafted finish.
"With a government ship, they would have wasted wood to get it to look right," he says. "This ship was made in an everyday shipyard for merchants. It was carefully put together with material that was available or at hand, rather than material sought out as perfect to use."
Where those materials came from remains a mystery, as does the ship's identity. Clues to the vessel's travels may be found in the shells of tiny mollusks known as shipworms present in the ship's wood skeleton. Even hundreds of years later, identifying what kind of shipworm left its shell behind can help determine where the ship might have picked up the mollusks.
One of the world's specialists in the identification of shipworms, Kevin Eckelbarger, director of UMaine's Darling Marine Center, examined some of the shells in the wood and found evidence that the ship may have traded in the Caribbean at least once.
"Here's this vessel that helped create that important time period, right after America becomes a country," Riess says. "This was the time when George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton were trying to figure out how to get the economy going. This ship was one of those tools used to build New York and the country."
Originally published in UMaine Today Magazine, Winter 2010


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Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z kicked off their Legends of the Summer Tour Wednesday night in Toronto and now they are joining forces at Yankee Stadium Friday and Saturday. Fans were willing to deal with this scorching heat.
Fox 5 was allowed special access into Yankee Stadium to shoot the beginning of the show.
Jay-Z's album "Magna Carta Holy Grail" has reached platinum status. Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" is the bestselling album of the year. This collaboration of these two megastars is legendary indeed.
Tickets were still available for Sunday night's show, but if you can't make it the tour comes to Hershey and Philadelphia in August.


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The Volunteer Center of Bergen County is seeking men and women to participate in their volunteer Mentoring Youth and Mentoring Mom Programs. There is an especially great need for male mentors and bi-lingual Spanish speaking volunteers of both sexes.
The Mentoring Youth Program is seeking caring men and women to provide guidance, friendship and support to abused and neglected children ages 5 to 18. There are currently over 100 boys and girls who are waiting to be matched with someone with whom they can develop a positive relationship.
Mentoring Moms is seeking women who can make a difference in the lives of isolated and overwhelmed mothers of all ages. The volunteers spend time with mothers who have experienced difficulty in coping with parenting, managing households, providing for their children or other obstacles. The mentors listen, share ideas and offer encouragement, so that the mothers can improve their lives and that of their children.
Free six-week, 15 hour training sessions are provided to mentors in both the Mentoring Youth and Mentoring Mom programs. Over the course of six weeks, the volunteers take workshops on developing listening skills, communication and problem solving. Guest speakers such as current mentors and social services case workers share their experiences so that new mentors have the background and knowledge to help support their mentees.
All mentors undergo a comprehensive screening process which includes fingerprinting and other background checks.
Training for the Mentoring Youth program begins January 16; training for Mentoring Moms begins January 28. Both trainings are held at the Volunteer Center of Bergen County, 64 Passaic Street in Hackensack, from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm.
For more information about becoming a mentor, call the Volunteer Center of Bergen County at (201) 489-9454, or visit their website at www.bergenvolunteers.org and click on Mentoring Programs.
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Mesa Police say a 1-year-old boy was transported to Cardon Children's Hospital after he was found in a backyard pool near Alma School and Main Street Tuesday morning.
Authorities say the boy was in the care of an aunt at the home who was taking a nap on the couch.
The aunt claims she woke up around 8:30 a.m. and couldn't find the boy anywhere in the house. She went outside to discover the child submerged in the water, pulled him out and called 911.
"Apparently, it appears as though the child had escaped through a doggie door.. unfortunately and there was no pool fence," said Larissa Dvorak of the Mesa Fire Department.
"Any type of water, especially the pool in the backyard, the self-closing doors in the house, make sure there's a pool fence that's gated, it's locked and that your eyes are on the little ones at all times."
When emergency crews arrived at the scene, they said the child did not have a pulse and wasn't breathing. They immediately resuscitated the boy and rushed him to the hospital.
The boy remains in extremely critical condition. It's not known how long he was in the water. The aunt had been asleep for 20 to 30 minutes.
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Learning for Life, which in its heyday reportedly served up to 60,000 area youth annually in a nondiscriminatory manner, is down to about 500 participants.
"The in-school Learning for Life program was suspended at the conclusion of the 2009-2010 school year due to funding cuts," the BSA Cradle of Liberty Council said this week, in a prepared statement. "Only the after-school, workplace-based Exploring program, which is part of the LFL program, continued in the fall of 2010."
The 500 youth in the remaining workplace-based program are served by a full-time Cradle staffer and about 100 volunteers, according to the statement.
The city wants Cradle to vacate a city-owned building near the Ben Franklin Parkway, partly because it won't accept gays in its traditional Scouting programs.
But Cradle filed suit in 2008, claiming the city violated its constitutional right to exclude gays during the eviction attempt.
In multiple court filings, Cradle trumpeted Learning for Life for imparting "life skills" to anywhere from 30,000-60,000 area youths in any given year.
The vast majority of Cradle's activities in the Parkway building were focused on Learning for Life, the filings noted.
Now, with the program down to 500 youth participants, it remains unclear whether the building has been a help or a hindrance.
Some activists maintain that Learning for Life is discriminatory because it's overseen by Scouting officials who cannot be gay, atheist or agnostic.
But Cradle's statement stressed LFL's nondiscriminatory nature.
"Learning for Life focuses primarily on serving at-risk youths and does not discriminate on age, race, religion or sexual orientation," according to the statement.
Questions about Learning for Life were renewed last week after an April 2010 letter written by Cradle CEO Thomas R. Harrington came to light, in which he said LFL was suspended.
"[F]unding for our organization remains a significant challenge," Harrington wrote. "In fact, we have recently been forced to reduce some Cub Scout programming and suspend our Learning for Life programs, which adversely impacts on the youth of our community."
Harrington wrote the letter to U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond, who's presiding over a case that seeks to recover money for investors swindled by a Ponzi scheme. Cradle is a defendant in that case because it may have inadvertently benefited from the scheme through a charitable foundation connected to it.
There are no allegations that Cradle knowingly participated in the scheme.
This week, Cradle clarified that Harrington's letter was referring to the school-based component of Learning for Life — and its suspension didn't go into effect until September 2010.
In June 2010, Cradle attorney Jason P. Gosselin praised the school-based program in opening remarks to federal jurors in the eviction case.
"The programs that the Boy Scouts, or that the Cradle of Liberty Council, administers are actually quite a bit broader than just Scouting," Gosselin told jurors. "You're going to hear about a program called Learning for Life. Learning for Life is administered by Cradle of Liberty Council, but it's not Scouting. It's actually a program that's open to children in our area on a co-ed basis, both boys and girls, and it's open to kids from kindergarten all the way up to high school. And in the Learning for Life program, they try to focus on things like discipline and life skills, the sorts of things that we want our kids to have so that when they go out into the world, they can be good and productive citizens."
It remains unclear whether Gosselin knew about Harrington's letter when he made the remarks.
Gosselin couldn't be reached for comment.
In June 2010, jurors ruled that the city placed an "unconstitutional condition" on Cradle's right to exclude gays during the eviction attempt.
Questions to jurors focused on an offer made by the city, allowing Cradle to remain in the building rent-free if it repudiated the national BSA's antigay policy.
But jurors weren't asked about another offer made by the city, allowing Cradle to remain in the building rent-free if it complied with local antibias rules.
Cradle maintains that Gosselin's comments to jurors about Learning for Life were irrelevant to the verdict.
"Any reference to Learning for Life during the trial was in the context of the time period of the filing of the lawsuit, 2008," Cradle said. "The verdict with regard to the building was decided on a set of facts of which the status of Learning for Life was not relevant."
According to IRS records, Harrington's salary and benefits in 2010 totaled $263,951.
Harrington couldn't be reached for comment about the possibility of taking a pay cut so youth services can be restored at Cradle.
But Cradle's statement addressed Harrington's salary in general terms.
"Compensation for all staff members of the Cradle of Liberty Council is established annually by authorized volunteers who serve on the executive board of the council. These salaries and benefits fall within an approved salary-range chart which is established by the national council of the BSA and reviewed annually by outside audit firms to ensure that compensation is compliant with IRS Code, Section 4958."
The city's effort to evict Cradle remains pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where both sides are expected to file briefs shortly.
The Ponzi scheme was run by investment manager Jospeh S. Forte, who swindled about $50 million from about 80 investors. In 2009, Forte, 56, pleaded guilty to bank fraud, money laundering and related counts and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Forte is expected to be released from a federal prison in Michigan in 2023.
Litigation remains underway to determine if organizations that benefited from the scheme must return the money for redistribution to investors who were swindled.


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Building a custom live CD with Fedora's livecd-creator
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The traditional technique for building a Live CD is to enter a series of commands that create directories to represent the file systems on the finished CD. Then you can manually install the files you need in the appropriate directories, manipulate them as necessary, and assemble the directories into an .iso file, and the .iso is burned onto a CD or DVD. This procedure is often error prone, and if you find you need to make some minor revisions three months down theroad, you must repeat the process.
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CHAPEL HILL — A South American theater company plans to build a $7 million, 13-screen complex with its own restaurant in the current Dillards space in University Mall.
Town officials hope Tuesdays announcement by Silverspot Cinema will mark a turning point for the struggling mall, which has sought to reinvent itself as residents headed out of town for shopping and entertainment.
With hand-stitched leather seats, the latest projection technology and live broadcasts of opera, ballet and theatrical performances, Silverspot is part of a luxury theater trend that aims to redefine the movies for those willing to pay the companys current $16 adult ticket price ($11.50 matinee).
Silverspot is about creating a no-hassle movie-going experience, a place that allows you to disconnect and recharge, a place for creative inspiration, said Gonzalo Ulivi, manager of Silverspot Cinema. The goal is not just to open a movie theater, but to create an environment that is unique, lush and plush, and feels more intimate and exclusive.
Silverspot has an 11-screen theater in mall owner Madison Marquettes Naples, Fla., Mercato property. The chance to open a theater in Chapel Hill came when Dillards decided not to renew its lease, according to Peter de Leon, the malls general manager.
They are very much looking at the high-end customer, the highly sophisticated shopper, de Leon said.
He told the story he heard on a business trip of a man who stopped by the Silverspot Cinema one morning and was told he could buy tickets for any movie except for those in two theaters that were holding a champagne brunch for a showing of the Russian opera.
That embodied the type of demographics theyre aiming for, de Leon said. The reaction you get when you walk in (is) its not your AMC. ... As soon as you walk in the door, you know youre going to have a great experience.
Movie ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada have stalled, and admissions have declined in recent years, according to the National Association of Theater Owners.
But Silverspot sees an opportunity in Chapel Hill, said Dwight Bassett, the towns economic development officer.
He has not researched the company but thinks it will offer a different experience from Chapel Hills other theaters and attract more first-run films to better compete with The Streets at Southpoint in Durham.
The redevelopment of the Dillards location for the theater will also open more outward-facing retail spaces at the mall, Bassett said.
Aaron Nelson, president and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, said the theater will generate spin-off business that will further help an aging mall that has struggled.
What it does is it brings humans to that mall, Nelson said. Malls of this type and size in America have not made it. This is the shot in the arm the mall needs to survive and thrive.
Silverspot at University Mall will be the fifth domestic location for the company, a division of Cines Unidos one of the largest theater companies in South America.
The theater will be joined at the mall by four new boutiques, a sporting goods store and a new fine dining option all part of University Malls redevelopment plan.
New leases signed at the mall this year total 67,500 square feet, according to a news release.
William Travis Jewelers, Fine Feathers, Peacock Alley, TrySports and Kidzu Childrens Museum are open or slated to open soon. Plaza Azteca, a contemporary Mexican restaurant, will join the restaurant lineup in 2014, and Silverspot will follow in early 2015.
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You don't hear about IP cameras much, but there is probably one monitoring your parking lot right now. Interestingly, cameras that use the Internet to stream video are not as dominate as they should be. Axis Communications, the company that invented IP cameras back in 1997, says only 40 percent of the security cameras in use today are connected to the Web, but that is changing.
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A Greensburg woman is currently held at the Decatur County Jail without bond, charged with Dealing in a Schedule II Controlled Substance.
The charge is a class "A" felony.
Charging information filed Aug. 7 in the Decatur Circuit Court states Tonya M. Innis, 36, of Greensburg has been formally charged with the felony crime stemming from an undercover operation in which she is alleged to have sold four 30 mg Morphine Sulfate pills to a cooperating police source (CS) for $60.
According to the police report describing the investigation, the CS told a GPD officer that he'd previously purchased illegal substances from a suspect with whom Innis has been linked.
The CS told police Innis had called and offered to sell morphine pills.
The alleged transaction occurred April 11, near the vending machines at the entrance of Vista Village Trailer Park on 2034 North Moscow Road.
No trial date has been set, and the date of Innis' next court appearance is unknown at press time.
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NOGALES, AZ (Tucson News Now) United States Customs and Border Protection Officers seized more than $300,000 worth of marijuana Tuesday at the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry.
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New rural crime network launched in North Yorkshire
9:46am Wednesday 12th February 2014 in News By Dan Bean, Crime reporter
A NEW rural crime network has been launched in North Yorkshire with the aim of tackling issues in rural areas.
The National Rural Crime network aims to unite rural areas by looking at operations in various communities, sharing best practice, and working more closely with local residents.
Julia Mulligan, Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire, is among 18 commissioners in England and Wales who has signed up to the new scheme, and another eight PCCs are currently considering joining.
Mrs Mulligan said: "As the Commissioner for the largest rural police force in England, I am particularly keen to support this initiative. Clearly, crime in rural areas accounts for a large proportion of North Yorkshire Police's demand.
"There are significant pressures on rural police forces and by coming together, we will be able to speak in a strong and united voice. I am particularly pleased that the network also includes other organisations dedicated to rural communities.
"In this way, we should all be able to learn from one another and work collaboratively on new ideas and solutions that will benefit our local people."
Police will work with representatives from the Rural Services Network, Farmers Weekly magazine, the National Community Safety Network, the online crime reporting system Facewatch, and the Country Land and Business Association under the scheme.
Nick Payne, from the Rural Services Network, said: "There is a common perception that rural crime is less significant than that occurring in cities and towns.
"The impact of rural crime is just as serious as it is elsewhere, which is becoming an increasing problem as austerity bites and as police resources are stretched thinner."
"There are also strong links to serious organised gangs in relation to some classifications of rural crime, for example, theft of agricultural plant and machinery as well as the availability of drugs alongside more conventional issues such as wildlife and heritage crime."
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NYT's Stelter Paints Far-Left Fox-Bashers as Harmless 'Public Interest' 'Media Reform Group'
Not content with its front-page drumbeat of stories related to the "News of the World" hacking scandal, the New York Times keeps uncovering multiple angles of attack against Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp.
Media reporter Brian Stelter made the front of Wednesday's Business Day by relaying threats from the hard left – or rather "progressive activists and public interest groups" – that want to break up Murdoch's right-leaning stable of newspapers and networks: "Scandal Stirs U.S. Debate On Big Media."
When the Times, a division of the New York Times Co., uses the term "Big Media," it's presumably not including NYT Co.'s two major newspapers (including the Times' international edition), its 16 regional newspapers, or the many web sites it owns. NYT Co. sold its nine local television stations in 2007.
Free Press is a hard-left "media reform" group run by Craig Aaron, the former editor of far-left magazine In These Times. Free Press has received funding from left-wing media maven George Soros's Open Society Institute. It has taken liberal stands mergers of media companies like Comcast and NBC Universal and net neutrality.
Yet Stelter and other Times reporters rarely if ever inform their readers about the group's ideology, merely calling FP a"public interest group," or one that "calls itself nonpartisan" as Stelter did on May 24, 2010: "A Site Collects Complaints About Media." Without commenting on the obvious tilt of the "complaints" (Fox News and Sarah Palin), Stelter blandly stated: "It is regularly described as a liberal group." Not in the Times it isn't.
Stelter couldn't even bring himself to use the L-word on Wednesday, using the "progressive" euphemism instead.
Progressive activists and public interest groups have long blasted Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation for political biases. But in recent weeks they have seized on a new and more tangible reason to call for the revocation of his TV licenses and the breakup of his company: the British hacking scandal.
The scandal, they say, is an opportunity to raise awareness of -- and, they hope, objection to -- media consolidation at a time when the American government is reviewing the rules that govern how much companies like News Corporation, Comcast and the Walt Disney Company can own.
But media reform groups like Free Press, which advocates for more diversity in media ownership, say their interest extends far beyond any single investigation.
Stelter devoted several paragraphs to the Free Press side, offering free publicity for "the most popular feature on the Free Press Web site" from group president Craig Aaron, while leaving off his left-wing background.
Proponents of media mergers say such combinations improve consumer access to news, information and entertainment. They say the Internet has fostered competition, creating new choices for consumers.
Groups like Free Press say the opposite -- that such combinations reduce the country's journalistic corps and decrease the diversity of voices in print and on the air. Aaron said he sensed that most Americans were aware of big media brands like Fox and NBC but unaware that their owners also controlled dozens of other brands. Media companies present an obstacle to awareness: "Most media outlets don't like to cover themselves."
But "when people find out just how much those companies own, they are worried about it and want to know more," he said, adding that the who-owns-what chart was the most popular feature on the Free Press Web site.
And reporter Edward Wyatt fawned that Free Press was "a nonprofit group that often advocates for consumers on media and telecommunications issues" in a March 27 story.
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Submitted by TE on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 2:02pm.
While Brian Stelter was at tvnewser.com, he was nothing but Keith Olbermann's chief pimp/butt licker, so he's a perfect fit for the New York Times-Democrat.
Like the leftist poltical lobbyists at the New York Times-Democrat, the leftist political activists at the Dallas Morning News also love describing whack job, kook fringe, leftist political advocacy/lobbying groups as merely "nonprofit groups".
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"Most media outlets don't like to cover themselves."
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 2:29pm.
That must be why I didn't know that Newscorp owned WSJ and Fox News--except I did. And that there has been a non-Newscorp reporter on every slightly suspicious action of Newscorp. Because if they aren't going to report on themselves, who is?
"Progressive activists and public interest groups have long blasted Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation for political biases."
Lemme try... "Conservatives have long blasted the New York Times for its political biases."
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Can I join the Bash-FOX group? I think FOX is way too tolerant of liberals.
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FGCU Turns in Record-Tying Round At Savannah Intercollegiate
FORT MYERS, Fla. – For the third straight tournament to open the season, the FGCU men's golf team will enter the final round with the lead. This time, though, the Eagles own a healthy 15-stroke advantage heading into Tuesday's homestretch of the 54-hole Mizuno Savannah Intercollegiate after carding a record-tying 13-under par 275 to close out the two-round first day at Savannah Quarters Country Club.
FGCU's team score of 275 is the third-lowest round in team history in terms of strokes, but equals the best round in program history against par at 13-under. The Blue and Green's big round came on the heels of a morning round that saw the Eagles' produce a then-season low seven-under 281.
With the back-to-back under-par rounds, FGCU sits at an astonishing 20-under 556, 15 strokes ahead of Wofford in second place. Troy (573) sits 17 strokes back in third place, while Atlantic Sun foe Jacksonville (575) and Winthrop (577) round out the top five on the first day. The Eagles have now produced five consecutive under-par rounds as a team.
"This is the type of day that I've been waiting for because I know what the guys are capable of," said first-year head coach Brent Jensen. "I'm proud of the way the guys came out and shot a low first round number and even more excited about our ability to improve in the second round. We did a great job of staying focused the entire day."
FGCU's seven-under par 281 in the first round seemed tough to beat until each member of the five-man squad produced under-par rounds over the final 18 holes. Senior Dan Mazziotta's (Fort Myers, Fla./Cypress Lake HS) five-under par 67 ranks in a tie for ninth in program single-round history, while classmate Gyles Robin's (Jersey, England/De La Salle College) one-under par 71 didn't even count towards the team's 275. The Eagles' were so sharp that Robin's 71 would have been at least the second-best score for half of the teams in the tournament.
After an opening round two-under par 70 on the 7,016-yard course designed by Greg Norman, Mazziotta finished one stroke off his career-best with a bogey-free, five-under par 67 (34-33) in the afternoon. The two-round 137 (-7) puts Mazziotta in a tie for second place in the field of 81 heading into Tuesday. Mazziotta finished the day with 10 birdies and led the field in par 5 scoring at five-under par as he seeks his second career individual title.
Junior Brandon Pena (Clewiston, Fla./Clewiston HS) sits in a tie for seventh place with freshman Matt Cote (Palm Harbor, Fla./Palm Harbor HS) after the duo each produced a pair of under-par rounds. Pena's day began with a two-under par 70 and concluded with his second three-under par 69 in as many tournaments for a 139 (-5). Cote, on the other hand, led the way in round one with a three-under par 69 and followed with a two-under par 70 for his 139 (-5). Making his first career start, Cote has produced four straight under-par rounds, while Pena is tied for the tournament lead with 11 birdies. Both played the par 5s at four-under for the day.
Junior Patrick Williams (Toronto, Canada/Crescent School), who also made his first start of the season, sits in a tie for 10th place with a 72(E)-69(-3)/141(-3). Williams' three-under par 69 is the second-best round of his career, as the Toronto native had nine birdies and was the team leader on the par 4s at an impressive four-under. Robin bounced back from an 80 in the first round to improve by nine strokes in the afternoon with a season-low 71 to sit in a tie for 55th overall.
Each member of FGCU's starting five produced at least one under-par round on the day, while nine of the 10 rounds were at even-par or better. Four Eagles sit in the top-10, while Troy is the only other team with multiple-players in the top 10 with two.
"Tomorrow is a big day because we've held a lead after two rounds twice this season and I believe we've learned from our experiences, but now we have to prove it." Jensen said.
With two second place finishes already in hand this season, FGCU will look to close out its first tournament title on Tuesday when it tees off from 9:30 a.m. – 10:06 a.m. The Eagles will play alongside Wofford and Troy in the final round.
T-2. Dan Mazziotta – 70(-2)-67(-5)/137(-7)
T-7. Brandon Pena – 70(-2)-69(-3)/139(-5)
T-7. Matt Cote – 69(-3)-70(-2)/139(-5)
T-10. Patrick Williams – 72(E)-69(-3)/141(-3)
T-55. Gyles Robin – 80-71(-1)/151
TOURNAMENT STANDINGS (14 Teams)
2. Wofford – 287(-1)-284(-4)/571(-5)
3. Troy – 283(-5)-290/573(-3)
4. Jacksonville – 285(-3)-290/575
5. Winthrop – 291-286/577
6. Arkansas State – 295-284(-4)/579
7. Davidson – 292-290/582
8. Elon – 295-289/584
9. Georgia College – 302-283(-5)/585
10. USC Upstate – 298-288(E)/586
11. Charleston Southern – 300-288(E)/588
12. Armstrong Atlantic – 300-289/589
13. Georgia Southern – 297-294/591
14. Gardner-Webb – 302-304/606
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A 170-page overhaul of California's multi- billion-dollar workers' compensation system hammered out during months of secret negotiations between business and labor union lobbyists was dumped on the desks of 80 Assembly members late Friday after being whisked through two perfunctory committee hearings.
It would, if enacted, affect the lives of countless thousands of workers who sustain job-related injuries and illnesses, but just how was a matter of great dispute.
The proponents said it would raise cash benefits by as much as 30 percent to those with permanent disabilities and speed medical treatment, but to pay for the expanded benefits, eligibility would be tightened. Lawyers who specialize in such cases and some medical care providers were opposing it.
Legislative leaders of both parties were exhorting their members to back the overhaul. But it was too much for one San Diego County Democrat.
"I can't vote for something I can't explain," Ben Hueso told his colleagues, who were looking forward to a midnight adjournment after a hectic last week of the 2012 session. "Let's conduct ourselves with more honor and more dignity. Let's involve our community in our decisions."
The plea fell pretty much on deaf ears. Hueso and two other Democrats voted against Senate Bill 863, along with two Republicans, and three other Democrats refused to vote. But the bill garnered 72 of the Assembly's 80 votes and zipped through the Senate by a similarly lopsided 34-4 vote to land on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk for a certain signature.
So is SB 863 good public policy or not?
One can't really answer that question, and the same ambiguity envelops almost everything else that was done, and left undone, in the final days of the session.
SB 863 was one of countless measures that popped up during those days, entirely new bills that were hustled through the process with little or no detailed knowledge of what they really do, or whose interests they serve.
Up until minutes before adjournment, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Brown were trying to rewrite a Pérez bill changing taxation of multistate corporations.
They created a Christmas tree loaded with ornaments to attract the votes of particular senators. But it finally collapsed of its own ponderous weight.
Mention "process" to Capitol politicians and staffers and you often get a roll of the eyes. But process counts because it affects the legitimacy of the policy product and the credibility of those involved in it.
Dumping 170-page bills on legislators' desks and demanding immediate votes stigmatizes what they do and feeds Californians' growing sense of alienation from politics and their cynicism about politicians.
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Two veteran grapplers will test their skills in the Octagon this Saturday night (March, 2, 2013) as Rani Yahya takes on UFC newcomer Mizuto Hirota on the UFC on FUEL TV 8 main card in Saitama, Japan.
Yahya is an experienced ground technician, having showcased his talents under the Zuffa banner for nearly six years now. Since returning to the featherweight division for his UFC debut, he's experienced some solid success inside the Octagon, most recently choking out Josh Grispi. He'll be trying to repeat that success against Hirota this weekend.
Hirota has a long resume as one of Japan's finest talents in the lightweight division, having performed admirably in DEEP and Sengoku for years, winning both promotion's titles. He made his Strikeforce debut last year and gave top contender Pat Healy his toughest fight in years before dropping a controversial decision. Now, he's hoping to capitalize on fighting in his home country against a foreign invader.
Will Yahya be too much for Hirota on the canvas? Will dropping down to featherweight give Hirota the advantage he needs? What's the key to victory for both men?
Rani Yahya
Record: 17-7 overall, 2-1 in the UFC
Key Wins: Mike Brown (UFC Fight for the Troops 2), Eddie Wineland (WEC 40), Josh Grispi (UFC on Fox 4)
Key Losses: Chad Mendez (UFC 133), Takeyea Mizugaki (WEC 48), Joseph Benavidez (WEC 45)
How he got here: Rani Yahya is one of the most accomplished grapplers to ever enter the UFC. He competed in the ADCC competition three times from 2003-2007, eventually taking home the gold medal in his last year.
All-the-while, Yahya was also fighting in mixed martial arts, fighting in his native Brazil and in Japan and building up an 11-2 record and only losing to top talents like JZ Cavalcante and Freidson Paixao. He would make his WEC debut in '07 and he made a huge splash, submitting eventual title challenger Mark Hominick in just 79 seconds.
Yahya could never really get anything going in WEC, trading wins and losses and only ever going on one three fight winning streak. After losing his last two fights in the WEC at bantamweight, he decided to make the move back up to 145 pounds for his UFC debut and he's experienced his best run of success, defeating former champion Mike Brown and most recently knocking off former top contender Josh Grispi with a first round submission.
He'll be hoping to showcase those skills in full form this weekend.
How he gets it done: Yahya possesses some of the best Brazilian jiu-jitsu in all of the UFC, really being able to dominate all of his opponents on the canvas. He'll want to get this fight to the canvas in a hurry and really try to put Hirota in a precarious position immediately.
Look for Yahya to close the distance immediately and try to avoid letting Hirota get any offense off on the feet. If he can take Hirota down, he'll be in really good shape. Yahya can be very smothering on top with his hip pressure and he is very aggressive in not only guard passing but also with attacking openings for submissions.
Hirota is not the type of fighter that will tap out as evidenced by his loss to Shinya Aoki back at the end of 2009 so if Yahya catches him in something, he'd better be prepared to either choke him unconscious or break some joints.
Mizuto Hirota
Record: 14-5-1 overall, 0-0 in the UFC
Key Wins: Katsunori Kikuno (DEEP 55), Satoru Kitaoka (Sengoku 9)
Key Losses: Shinya Aoki (Dynamite! 2009)
How he got here: Mizuto Hirota got off to a quick start in his MMA career, winning his first six fights under the Shooto banner. He rose up the ranks, progressively fighting stiffer and stiffer competition and compiling an impressive resume that included wins over the likes of Ryan Schultz and Satoru Kitaoka, the latter of which was for the Sengoku lightweight title which he won via TKO in the fourth round.
His victory in Sengoku earned him the biggest fight of his life against Shinya Aoki, but he was no match for the grappling wizard, not only losing in the first round, but having his arm brutally broken via hammer lock in one of the most violent submissions in MMA history.
After nearly 20 months off, Hirota returned to the ring, this time under the DEEP banner where he won and defended the promotion's lightweight title. This drew the eyes of Strikeforce, which signed him to fight Pat Healy last August. In that bout, despite being severely undersized, he more than held his own and actually took the powerful wrestler down several times and outstruck him on the feet.
Despite that, he would go on to lose a close decision to "Bam Bam" but he impressed the UFC brass enough to give him a shot in the promotion where he'll be making his featherweight debut this weekend.
How he gets it done: Hirota's advantage in this fight will be his size and his fists. He's a competent grappler, but he wants to avoid being put on his back by Yahya, which is something he can actually pull off considering he was actually able to fend off the significantly larger Pat Healy's takedowns.
The Japanese powerhouse possesses some pretty solid striking skills but where he's best is his ground and pound. His best plan of attack is going to be to try to hurt Yahya on the feet, land that heavy combination of punches and then try to follow him to the ground if he's hurt and finish him off with some heavy punches and elbows on the canvas.
As long as Hirota can avoid being dumped on the canvas and potentially outgrappled, he has a very good chance of utilizing his size to outwork Yahya.
Fight X-Factor: The biggest X-Factor for this fight other than the Hirota fighting in his home country will be Mizuto Hirota making the cut to featherweight for the first time in his career. He's the type of fighter who has never had to cut much weight and still been able to hold his own at 155 pounds, winning multiple titles along the way, but now that he's stepping up his game at the top levels, being a scrappy undersized lightweight just isn't enough.
If his body reacts properly to the cut, he's going to be significantly bigger and stronger than Yahya, who has competed at bantamweight several times in his career. If he's not used to cutting weight and his body doesn't react properly to the cut, he could be drained both physically and mentally on Saturday night. How the weight cut goes is a huge factor in who wins this fight.
Bottom Line: This fight is fascinating simply because you've got a fighter who likes to ground and pound opponents from top control fighting an ADCC world champion submission specialist. Hirota came up short the last time he was paired off against a grappler with Yahya's overall skills, but he's also pounded out knockouts against top submission specialists in the past. We've all heard the story about how if a black belt eats a big punch, they become a brown belt, then a blue belt, then a white belt. All it takes is a few really good strikes and the odds on the ground can be completely evened out. This one should be very fun.
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Gov. Nikki Haley was making two stops in Pickens County on Tuesday morning where local police said a woman was in custody after making a threat against the governor.
Liberty police said they have a woman in custody who is accused of making a threat against Haley on Tuesday morning. Haley had a stop at Liberty Elementary School at 10 a.m. and was scheduled to speak at the Easley Rotary Club meeting at the William A. Carr Conference Center at 12:30 p.m.
John Eby, spokesman for the School District of Pickens County, said about 8:30 a.m. a parent volunteer at Liberty Elementary was talking to a school staff member when she made a remark about harming the governor. The staff member contacted the principal who in turn called police, who responded to the school and took the woman into custody, Eby said.
The woman was not at the school for the governor's visit, but was there helping another program and was already gone before Haley's arrival, Eby said.
"A staff member made a difficult decision but the right one, and did exactly what needed to be done," Eby said. "We hope what was said wasn't meant seriously, but it had to be taken seriously nonetheless."
Haley's stop at Liberty Elementary was to talk with third- through fifth-graders about leadership and bullying prevention.
Police said they charged Jennifer Johnson Phillips, 46, of Liberty, with threatening the life of a public official. According to the police report, Phillips told a school counselor that "I am going to smuggle a gun in and kill this governor." When asked about the comment by police, Phillips said she didn't mean anything by the comment and did not own a gun, the report said.
Officers said Phillips had a bond hearing Tuesday afternoon at the Pickens County Detention Center. She faces up to a $500 fine and/or 30 days in jail if convicted, police said.
As for Phillips' status as a volunteer, Eby said, "She will not be allowed to continue on as a volunteer. We have not made a decision at this point as to whether she will be put on a permanent no trespass from the school."
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Landon Collins, one of the nation's top safeties, is set to decide between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers on Thursday night during the Under Armour All-America Game on ESPN at 7:30 p.m ET. The Dutchtown High School (Geismar, La.) star measures in at 6'0" and 205 pounds. Collins holds offers from every major SEC and ACC team, as well as Texas and USC.
With the advent of spread offenses, having a versatile safety who can patrol the deep middle on one play and then drop down in the box and play the slot receiver with press technique on the next is invaluable. Collins is just that type of player.
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A Monmouth County grand jury indicted Kareem Gary, 32, of Elizabeth and Herman Rozier, 46, of Linden on Dec. 13 on seven charges stemming from the alleged burglary of businesses in Matawan, Aberdeen and Red Bank.
The investigation began in Matawan after the July burglary of Wine Nation, where the front glass window was shattered and cash and cigarettes were stolen.
As a result of the Wine Nation burglary investigation, Matawan Det. Joseph Lovallo and Det. Steve Sakowski were able to identify one of the suspects and tracked his whereabouts for ten days, Lt. Jason Gallo told Patch in August. The detectives were aware that the burglary of Wine Nation was similar to several 'smash and grab' style burglaries committed across the state, Gallo said, after attending a statewide intelligence meeting.
During the detective's surveillance, the identified suspect returned to Matawan where he and a second suspect allegedly attempted to burglarize Milk Box, a Matawan business located on Route 34.
At the time of their arrest, a crow bar, bolt cutters, hammer, screw driver, ski masks, gloves, and pillow cases and other bags used to carry stolen items, were recovered from the suspects' car, according to Matawan Det. Joseph Lovallo.
Gary and Rozier were indicted on burglary and theft of movable property charges in relation to the July 10 burglary of Singin Gas station in Aberdeen, burglary and theft of movable property in relation to the July 23 burglary of Welsh Farms in Red Bank, burglary and theft of movable property in relation to the July 25 burglary of Wine Nation, and attempted burglary in relation to the Aug. 20 attempted burglary of The Milk Box in Matawan.
An indictment does not indicate a conviction, only that a grand jury voted that there is enough evidence to proceed with a trial.