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Canyon Falls Bridge
1.4 MIof Alberta, Sturgeon River - Baraga County
Other Names
Sturgeon River Bridge at US-41
Property Type
Historic Use
TRANSPORTATION/road-related (vehicular)
Current Use
TRANSPORTATION/road-related (vehicular)
State Highway Department
Narrative Description
main span number: 1 main span length: 128.0 structure length: 232.0 roadway width: 38.0 structure width: 45.4 Located on US-41, 1.4 miles south of Alberta, this long-span steel bridge crosses the Sturgeon River in L'Anse Township. Known locally as the Canyon Falls Bridge for its proximity to this natural feature, the structure is comprised of a two-hinged, girder-ribbed arch over the river's channel. This is flanked on each side by a 52-foot, steel stringer approach span. The main span extends 128 feet from pin to pin of the end hinges. It is comprised of five, riveted girder ribs that support a 45-foot wide concrete deck. Each rib is made up of two back-to-back built -up chanels, riveted to batten plates and a continuous cover plate. These ribs bear into a massive concrete pedestal by means of cast-steel bearing shoes. The asphalt-surfaced, concrete roadway is borne by the ribs through a series of wide-flange columns, which are braced laterally by steel plate diaphragms. As on most MSHD-designed highway bridges, the configuration and details of the Canyon Falls Bridge have been simplified to the extent possible, with decorative treatment limited to the ancillary components. The guardrails are made up of ornamental steel rails and balusters, supported by paneled concrete posts and bulkheads. Mounted on top of each arch pedestal is a decorative concrete pylon with stepped vertical planes. Each pylon extends above, and is integrated with, the guardrail. The streamlined profile of the arch ribs, combined with the stepped bulkheads and pylons, give the bridge a distinctive Art Moderne character, typical of MSHD detailing for the period. Other than the recent installation of Armco beams inside the original guardrails, the Canyon Falls Bridge remains essentially unaltered and in excellent condition.
Statement of Significance
During the 1947-1948 biennium, the state highway department let contracts for eleven trunk line bridges on the Upper Peninsula. Five of these carried US-41, which the department was then reconstructing on a new alignment between L'Anse and Ishpeming. The largest and most striking of the M-41 structures was this span over the Sturgeon River. For the Canyon Falls Bridge, MSHD engineers delineated a steel arch in 1947. The highway department designated the structure as Bridge No. B2 of 7-4-5 C2 and awarded a contract for its construction for $116,389.42 (plus $58,200 for structural steel). Completed the following summer, the Canyon Falls Bridge has since carried vehicular traffic, in essentially unaltered condition. The Canyon Falls Bridge is technologically significant for its representation of steel arch design by the state highway department. MSHD had previously used girder-rib deck arches for other structures, notably the Ontonagon River Bridge (1930) in Ontonagon County. This esoteric structural type was rarely used in the state, however, due largely to the fact that few river crossings in Michigan provided adequate vertical clearance to allow the intrinsically high profile of a deck arch bridge. The 128-foot arch on the Canyon Falls Bridge is modest compared with such cantilever spans as the Mortimer Cooley Bridge (1935) in manistee County and the Cut River Bridge (1946) in Mackinac County. Within the context of Michigan bridge design, though, it is important for its relatively rare configuration. A much more streamlined structure than a comparably scaled through truss, it represents MSHD's emphasis on bridge aesthetics and efficiency. The Canyon Falls Bridge is a visually striking span, a well preserved example of an uncommon structural type, built as part of a regionally important highway.
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text: Lets not forget that the dolphins faced a playoff team on there home turf. Sure they played sloppy, but it's no need to panic. The reason some of us are making a huge deal out of this is because we have high expectations after last years run (and we were pumped for the beginning of the season). Both the running backs ran for over 4 yards a carry which is good. It was turnovers that lost it. Let's all just wait for monday and hope for the best. Remember there dismal start last year? Look what they did after that. They played a good team and lost. No need to worry.....yet

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Special Issue "Metagenomics: a Powerful Lens Viewing the Microbial World"
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2014)
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Dear Colleagues,
Metagenomics has been one of the most fast-developing fields of the last decade. Through culture-independent genomic sequencing, the metagenomics approach offers an unprecedented view of the diverse microbial world in different environments, such as ocean and other water bodies, human and animal body sites, soil, air and many others. At a genomic level, metagenomics reveals the identity, composition and dynamics of microbial communities and interactions with their environments. With the rapid advance of next generation high throughput sequencing technologies, metagenomics approach is now widely utilized by researchers in many disciplines such as ecology, energy, agriculture, biotechnology and medicine. As such a fast-growing field, metagenomics also presents many great challenges that need to be addressed. This Special Issue is intended to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art of today's metagenomics research. We plan to publish original research papers as well as review articles on studies of different microbial environments and systems using the metagenomics approach, novel computational and statistical methods for metagenomics data analysis, and innovative technologies and protocols that expand the existing metagenomics capabilities. We especially encourage topics that discuss and address the imposing challenges in metagenomics, introduce novel methodologies, and provide new insights into the microbial world, for example, accurate species and strain identification and profiling, utilization and integration of multiple omics approaches (e.g. metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, 16S, metaproteomics and metabolomics), in depth investigation of novel habitats, microbiome-based disease models, and so on.
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Noel Sheppard and Dana Loesch Discuss the N-word With CNN's Don Lemon
As NewsBusters previously reported, CNN's Don Lemon two Saturdays ago advocated journalists actually say the N-word in news reports rather than the more politically correct, sanitized version we've grown accustomed to in recent years.
On Sunday, I chatted with Lemon about this issue - along with Big Journalism's Dana Loesch - on CNN Newsroom (video follows with transcript and lengthy commentary):
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Well, each Saturday night on this network we have those adult conversations that you have at home with your family or with your friends, but you don't necessarily see them on television. Case in point, a discussion we had last Saturday night.
LEMON: When I said that word, and I'm going to say it again, the "n" word, I just -- I hate saying the "n" word. I think it takes the value out of what that word really means, especially when we're reporting it, and I don't care what color the reporter is. I think someone should say that person should call someone nigger instead of saying the n word because I think it sanitizes it.
LEMON: Why did I say that? Because after, just about everybody jump on the n word band wagon.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: An anchor at CNN.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's an African-American which is an important distinction?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, no. He's a reporter. No, he's a reporter, and what reporters do is they report the news, and every time you make it the "n" word, it's cute.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's like the "n" word, but, see, I feel very strongly about the word. Do not eliminate it. It's part of our history. And every time people try to sort of make it sound better or more acceptable, let's call it what it is.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO SHOW HOST: There's a CNN anchor, guy's name is Don Lemon. I don't know if I want to air the sound bite. I really -- you're making the case that it's inappropriate to say quote "n" word, unquote, just go ahead and use the "n" word.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don Lemon says he doesn't support it in music or use casually but in terms of reporting what someone said. So, those are two different things. And I think you've got a point there.
LEMON: That brings us to tonight's "no talking points."
All right. Here we go. The "n" word the so-called liberal media and the Trayvon Martin coverage. Conservative Dana Loesch is here. She is from "Big Journalism" and a CNN contributor and conservative Noel Sheppard, associate editor from "NewsBusters."
OK, Noel. Let's go for it here. Here's what you wrote after you heard me say that. You said a CNN host is advocating the previously offensive term be used in all reports rather than the politically correct one. With racial tensions being ginned up by irresponsible so-called journalists, the "n" word suddenly sanitizes what that word says, what that word really means. As "NewsBusters" asked hours ago, can the "n" word now be used on CNN if it dramatizes racism? Lemon certainly thinks so."
All right, Noel. You have written before that the media is trying to help the president by constantly bringing up race. Come on.
NOEL SHEPPARD, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, NEWSBUSTERS: Yes, sir.
LEMON: Isn't that a stretch?
SHEPPARD: No, I don't think so at all, and let's remember that even former president Bill Clinton in 2008 felt that the media conceivably was using the race card against his wife when she was running against Obama. So, no, I don't think that's a stretch at all.
Let's also remind your viewers that what occurred about 18 hours after you made that statement on Saturday evening, on Sunday in the middle of Easter Sunday at 2:30 eastern time right in the afternoon of Easter Sunday national correspondent for CNN Susan Candiotti not only said the "n" word specifically but she also said the "f" word specifically prior.
So, it seemed a little bit peculiar to me and I think, Don, it seemed peculiar to a number of folks that suddenly CNN seems to be saying it's acceptable to use this when in the media for, what, a decade, a couple of decades, we weren't allowed to say that word, so why suddenly is it acceptable?
For more on this, readers should see, "CNN Correspondent Says 'F--king N--ger' On The Air." Let's continue:
LEMON: Well. Here's the thing, Noel. I'm not here to criticize or defend my colleague, what she said was separate and apart and that's her own business.
SHEPPARD: I appreciate that.
LEMON: But my point was -- my point was more about political correctness run amuck which has been the cornerstone of conservatism. And you wrote this in 2010 when a Kentucky Fried Chicken ad was pulled in Australia after cries of racism in the US.
Now, remember my point is more about political correctness run amuck. And so you said "for our PC police to now be enforcing its ignorant standards from thousands of miles away should scare the heck out of folks on both sides of the aisle."
So Noel, speaking out against political correctness is OK when you do it, but not when I do it?
Well, let's get the context of my January 2010 piece "US Political Correctness Gets Australian KFC Ad Pulled For Racism" straight:
Yum Brands Inc, the owner of fastfood chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, recently launched a commercial series in Australia called "KFC's Cricket Survival Guide."
In it, spokesman "Mick" gives Aussies "tips on how to get through this summer of cricket."
This was actually part of an Australian campaign called The Cricket Survival Guide which provided tongue-in-cheek advice to Australian cricket fans during the 2009/2010 cricket season.
In this particular ad, Mick was seated in the West Indian side of a cricket match, and to befriend the rival crowd, he offered them some fried chicken. This might appear racist in America, but as an Aussie commented at YouTube:
Americans might think this is racist because black people eating fried chicken is a stereotype that exists in their country. This ad was shown during cricket matches between Australia and the West Indies. If England had been playing at the time, the ad would have shown the bloke feeding chicken to the Barmy Army to make them sit down and shut up. There's no racism intended or perceived in Australia. The complaints I've seen have come from Americans guilty about [sic] they treat people in their country.
As such, in this instance it was OUR PC police dictating what should be acceptable to folks of a different culture on the other side of the planet. How this at all relates to American journalists using the N-word is beyond me.
It was further curious that Lemon raised this because had my appearance on Saturday's CNN Newsroom not been cut short by tornado coverage, we were supposed to talk about Burger King's new commercial featuring pop singer Mary J. Blige promoting fried chicken and how that's been pulled supposedly for its racism.
As I told Lemon's producer, I was going to take the position that this was absurd, and that the commercial seemed totally charming to me. I imagined Lemon would have agreed.
But let's see how I responded Sunday evening:
SHEPPARD: No, because I think we're in a little bit of a different environment now. I mean this is 2012. We're in an election year, and the nation is on the precipice of conceivably a very, very serious racial tension or maybe even -- heck, maybe even a race war as a result of the Trayvon Martin shooting, as a result of the shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
And we're in an election year where the first black president is looking for re-election. So I like having this discussion, Don. I like it tremendously. I'm not sure right now seven months before an election and in the midst of all of this racial strife as a result of Trayvon Martin, the Tulsa shootings, I'm not sure this is the right time. I think maybe we wait until after the election. Maybe we wait until after the trial is done and we know what the net result is from Florida. I'm not sure it's the right time now.
LEMON: And what's interesting that it sounds like what you're saying we have to - we should pick and choose the topics rather than let the news dictate what the topics are, but here my thing. I think I have to say a race war. I think that's a bit overblown. I don't think we're on the verge of any race war here. I think we're beyond that in the United States. But I will get back to you, Noel, n just a second.
SHEPPARD: If I may, Don. I saw Michael Eric Tyson on --
LEMON: Dyson.
SHEPPARD: Dyson, excuse me, Dyson on "Face the Nation" today with Bob Schieffer. And he was saying that if Zimmerman is found innocent, there's going to be a lot - there is going to be a lot of problems. There's going to be a lot of uprisings so it's not just me saying that this is possible, Don.
For the record, here's what was said on Sunday's Face the Nation:
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: But look at the role of race even in this. The collection of evidence has been infected by the virus of racism because it was presumed that Trayvon was the guilty partner here. We didn`t look, perhaps, at the angle of the bullet from the gun, a paraffin test on Mr. Zimmerman.
The collection of evidence itself has been so contaminated by the preexisting conditions of racism that we can`t even collect enough proof to prove, perhaps, if this is the case, that Mr. Zimmerman acted with reckless disregard for this young man`s life.
TOURE: I mean, Trayvon has tested-- toxicology to see if he`s on drugs, and George Zimmerman is not right away. But I mean, if this is found not guilty, there will be tremendous, lasting pain, at least in black America, behind the situation. It will be a scar on the soul of America.
So hours before I talked to Lemon, Dyson said the "evidence has been infected by the virus of racism" and "so contaminated by the preexisting conditions of racism that we can't even collect enough proof to prove, perhaps, if this is the case, that Mr. Zimmerman acted with reckless disregard for this young man's life."
As such, in Dyson's view, if Zimmerman is found not guilty, it's because of racism in the Sanford Police Department NOT his innocence.
Toure followed this up by saying, "If this is found not guilty, there will be tremendous, lasting pain, at least in black America, behind the situation. It will be a scar on the soul of America."
Although the totality of their comments Sunday didn't rise to the level of predicting a race war, the inflammatory nature of the entire discussion certainly led this viewer to believe "there is going to be a lot of problems" and potential "uprisings" if Zimmerman isn't convicted.
Let's not forget that Al Sharpton called for civil disobedience if Zimmerman wasn't arrested, and was later chastised by the NAACP for doing so.
And we certainly shouldn't ignore calls by the New Black Panther Party for a race war as a result of this issue as well as the deplorable actions of various high-profile entertainers like filmmaker Spike Lee.
But Lemon on Sunday wasn't connecting these dots the same way I was:
LEMON: But I don't think anyone is saying there's going to be a race war.
SHEPPARD: I hope not.
LEMON: And we need it to others to figure out whether Zimmerman is guilty or innocent. That's up to the courts and to the justices and figure out but --
LEMON: Go ahead, Dana.
DANA LOESCH, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I want to chime in on that, Don, because I think oddly enough you and I may kind of agree on something here, if I can elaborate.
LEMON: Yes.
LOESCH: See. I'm one of the people -- I'm kind of a free speech purist myself and I really believe if people want to fly their freak flag go ahead and fly it and let's decide a judge whether or not you want to have to do anything to do with that person.
But, the same time when you talking about seeing the "n" word. I find the word absolutely just disgusting and gross that turns my stomach. I feel the same way when I see some of the rhetoric that you know I seen a lot that comes from the left on the war on women. When I see women like Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann or Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Clayfish of Wisconsin called a see you next Tuesday by a liberal radio talk host who are, you know, by people on HBO or so on and so forth.
So, it's kind of similar to that. And I look at it when I see that word used to describe conservative women. I look at it as I don't want it censored because I want society to feel the full sting of that have word that's being used to describe women simply because they have a different political ideology than the people using the words to describe them.
LEMON: Dana, listen, I think -- I'd love having this conversation with conservatives, and I think there is -- I am a free speech person as well. But, I think that everything is about context and what I said was in the reporting of a story, and if it was --
LOESCH: I'm not disputing that at all. I'm actually kind of agreeing that with you, the full sting of a word.
LEMON: Yeah, I think your talk show host and you're not a journalist in that way then you shouldn't be saying that word freely purely in the reporting of a story. But, I just want to say something here, just to get something clear as best you're saying all of a sudden CNN is advocating the use of the "n" word. It is not the first time the board is been use in this network. I said it back in 2011, who we're talking about Rick Perry's hunting camp.
Play it for me.
LEMON: Listen. Tonight Governor Rick Perry of Texas is having to respond to his association with the most poisonous word in the English language nigger.
LEMON: It's not the first time I'll say it before. And the context of a story and I'll saying it again I believe that the context of a story you should be able to use it. And Dana --
LOESCH: Right.
LEMON: It's wasn't because Rick Perry is a Republican. It's because he had a camp with that name on it and I don't understand how saying that is bringing up racism to help President Obama.
Before we get to Loesch's response, let's be clear that the reason why the Washington Post published this 3,000-word hit piece in October was because Perry was rising in the polls and Democrats were concerned about his popularity. News outlets such as CNN piled on because they saw this as an opportunity to trash one of Obama's potential contenders.
What Lemon left out Sunday evening when he brought this matter up as a supposed example of his impartiality was that in that segment he hosted the day after the Post piece came out, he asked his guests, "Can a candidate recover once they've been associated with a controversy over the word n-gger?"
I wrote at the time:
As Lemon observed, "We are saying the word for a reason because I think if you don't say it, you actually sanitize it, right?"
So for this story, the folks at CNN felt it was important to enunciate the entire offensive epithet despite it being "difficult to imagine a more poisonous word in the English language."
It was also interesting for CNN's Cain to note the similarity to Allen's macaca controversy in 2006, and to therefore caution the host, "It's such an atomic bomb on a campaign that I just think we need to be very careful, and very responsible about how we treat this story...We just need to make sure we got everything right here."
But Lemon clearly wasn't interested in that.
Quite the contrary, he early on told his guests, "I don't want to get in to when the word was painted over, when the rock was moved, or what have you."
No, let's not discuss any of the facts concerning this issue like whether the Perrys owned or leased the property, or how long ago they painted over the word and eventually turned the rock over so it wouldn't be visible. Let's skip all those inconvenient details and instead discuss how devastating this is to Perry.
Lemon further tipped his hand when he pushed back on Cain's note of caution saying, "I just said being associated in a controversy, whether it's true or not -- I mean, that's tough to recover from."
"Whether it's true or not."
So Lemon wasn't concerned with the truth. He instead wanted to know how Perry recovers from a controversy irrespective of the facts.
Yet on Sunday, Lemon said, "It wasn't because Rick Perry is a Republican. It's because he had a camp with that name on it and I don't understand how saying that is bringing up racism to help President Obama."
No matter how you slice it, if you don't think the Post, CNN, Lemon, and all the other news outlets that feasted on this story for days last October weren't doing it to help President Obama, I've got some swampland for sale in Florida you should look at.
But taking this a step further, the one instance Lemon raised as an example of him having used the N-word in the past was specifically related to a Republican.
As I mentioned to Lemon on Twitter last week, he also discussed the use of the N-word in August 2010 when conservative radio host Dr. Laura got in trouble for saying it repeatedly on the air.
Could Lemon and his production crew come up with examples of him commenting about Democrats using this word and how they might survive as a result?
For instance, in 2009 it was revealed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had made some racially insensitive remarks about candidate Barack Obama during the previous year's campaign.
A LexisNexis search revealed no instances of Lemon reporting this. If I'm wrong, I'd like to be shown such transcripts.
In 2007 when then Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) made indelicate remarks about Obama being "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Lemon did address this, but in a rather tongue-in-cheek fashion:
LEMON: Run for office, say something offensive, apologize, and try to move on. It's a cycle as old as politics itself. But the newest contender in the 2008 presidential race may hold the record for speed. All three of those steps in just 24 hours. CNN's Mary Snow has details.
After a clip of Biden's comments was played, as well as Obama's response and opinions from others, Lemon returned to offer the following:
LEMON: Biden's mea culpas continued last night on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.
BIDEN: I spoke to Barack today --
JON STEWART, HOST, THE DAILY SHOW: I bet you did.
BIDEN: I also spoke to Jesse, and Al Sharpton. And I also --
STEWART: And Michael Jordan and anybody you could get your hands on.
BIDEN: No, no, no.
STEWART: The Jackson 5, who else?
BIDEN: Michael didn't call me.
STEWART: Uh-huh.
BIDEN: Look, what I was attempting to be was, not very artfully, is complimentary. This is an incredible guy, this is a phenomenon. This guy is -- and look, the other part of this thing is -- the word that got me in trouble is using the word "clean". I should have said "fresh". I meant he's got new ideas, he's a new guy on the block.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CO-ANCHOR: Straight ahead, lose weight, win votes, a weighty political topic. It's fresh right here from the CNN NEWSROOM.
LEMON: And clean.
According to LexisNexis, this was the only report Lemon did on Biden's racially insensitive comments about Obama.
I guess when a Democrat makes a racist comment about African-Americans, Lemon thinks it's funny. If only he felt that way when a Republican misspeaks.
If there are any incidents of Lemon excoriating a Democrat for racially insensitive behavior, I'd love for him or his staff to furnish me the transcript(s) and I will be happy to add them in an update.
Let's continue:
LOESCH: Right. And I'm going to agree on one point. I think that the person who own the land that Rick Perry leased, because it's kind of an old story, I think the person who owned the land that Rick Perry lease that had actually had that word described on the rock that the Perry family painted over, it is disgusting. It is horrible. They don't right to paint over. It sickens me just like it sickens me when I hear some of the rhetoric used to describe conservative women. I mean. You know, when someone calls you like I said of see you next Tuesday, I agree with you. You're reporting it in the context of a story, you want people to know what's being said, just like I want people to know.
LEMON: Yes.
SHEPPARD: By the way, Don. I have to say I just got the acronym "C U Next Tuesday." That was going beyond me.
LEMON: All right. Listen. I want to talk to you about something too as well, Dana. I'm not going to let you off unless you and I agreed on this. But you're a contributing editor for the late Andrew Breitbart's big journalism Web site. You guys wrote that CNN anchor Don Lemon couldn't bring himself to criticize filmmakers Spike Lee for tweeting out the wrong address of an oddly couple in the Trayvon Martin coverage. Here's the clip.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: The bigger question maybe here, even if that information was true, why you would you send it out, why would you re-tweet it?
LEMON: Yes, yes. All right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's someone's address.
LEMON: Yes, I know, I know, I know. Let's move on now.
LEMON: So, in order to get myself -- not to get in trouble on television, I was so disgusted by Spike Lee what he did. I couldn't find the words appropriate for TV. I think most people got that. In other reports I called his actions disgusting. Why didn't anyone from your side contact me, and I'm saying this on behalf of other journalists who find themselves the victims of things like this. Why didn't you contact me for response, is that fair? Is that really big journalism?
LOESCH: Well, that, you'd have to ask John Nolte with that. He is my colleague over at breitbart.com and he was the one who wrote that piece. I just read it actually the other day, no offense to John who may be watching. But I just -- because there's so many editors over there. I actually just read that the other day.
And, you know, maybe that didn't come across that you had condemned it earlier or something like that. But I think we can all agree that, you know, Spike Lee, having done something like that is pretty nasty. And I'm glad to hear that -- again, we're agreeing. You are totally agreeing with us that it was pretty classless for him to do that. So, that's cool.
LEMON: Wow. Why can't we all just get along?
LOESCH: I'm converting you, Don. It's happening.
LEMON: No, no. And Dana, seriously, when you guys -- my Twitter feed is going crazy. People are saying it's a great conversation to have. Thank you all. We don't have to agree and we don't have to castigate each other just because we don't agree. Thank you, guys, OK?
SHEPPARD: Thank you for having us.
LEMON: Thank you.
OK. So, here's tonight's no talking points point.
Dana and I are friendly. We are not friends. We are friendly. Same thing with Noel and I. We had, you know, go back and forth on Twitter. I don't hate them because they are conservatives. I don't hate anyone. I don't judge them for it either. I really don't judge anyone.
But what I do find disturbing quite honestly is they and others like them, and even some Democrats, even some Democrats assume, that because this network doesn't side with political parties that that automatically makes it a quote "liberal network."
CNN doesn't side with political parties?
For decades the Media Research Center has documented CNN's liberal bias. This was so apparent during the '90s that many Americans called it the Clinton News Network.
More recently, during the 2008 campaign, CNN like virtually every news outlet in the nation gave candidate Obama a pass for his connections to the America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright, convicted real estate developer Tony Rezko, as well as domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
As NewsBusters reported last November, CNN ran more stories about former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's sexual harassment allegations in the six days following Politico breaking the story than they did Obama's ties to Ayers, Dohrn, Rezko, and Wright combined throughout the entire 2007-2008 campaign.
They also seemed woefully disinterested in his tremendously undistinguished career as a state and U.S. senator.
If CNN had properly vetted the junior senator from Illinois, Hillary Clinton would have likely sealed the Democratic nomination for president by Super Tuesday in February 2008.
Lemon's own colleague at CNN, Howard Kurtz, has on numerous occasions pointed out how disgracefully the media were in the tank for Obama during the campaign.
Beyond this, in 2009, Chris Plante, a former CNN correspondent, said the reason Lou Dobbs left the network was because of its liberal bias.
Lemon clearly disagrees:
LEMON: I work here. Nothing could be further from the truth. And what I also find personally disturbing is that the same people assume I'm liberal or a shield for President Obama or for Democrats just because I'm on CNN or because I'm African-American or because I don't publicly wear my political affiliation on my sleeve.
We all know what they say about assuming. Makes you know what out of you and me. In this case it's also short sighted and in itself profiling, and that's tonight's "no talking points."
Well, yes, people assume folks that work for CNN are liberal - because this network has shown itself for decades to support Democrat politicians and candidates as well as left-wing policies, programs, and causes. Lemon might deny this, but it's irrefutable.
The problem is these folks want to hide behind a veil of impartiality by concealing who they actually vote for.
On Sunday before airtime, Lemon came on the line with Dana and me for some friendly chit-chat. I asked him who he voted for in 2008. He refused to answer, and said that he keeps his votes to himself.
That's fair, but I quite imagine given his age that he voted for Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton twice, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama.
Based upon positions he's taken on the air, I doubt very highly that he's ever voted for a Republican on a national ticket. I frankly doubt a meaningful percentage of CNN's on-air talent has ever voted for a Republican on a national ticket.
If that's profiling, so be it. I can easily be proved wrong by CNN releasing such statistics on its employees but doubt very highly that would ever happen.
As for racial profiling to assume voting habits, for a CNN anchor to be offended by this is absurd. CNN every election publishes exit polls that address votes by demographic groups including race.
In 2010, 89 percent of African-Americans voted for House Democrats. In 2008, 95 percent voted for Obama. In 2004, 88 percent voted for Kerry.
Is it therefore racist or profiling to "assume" a black person is liberal when the historical voting patterns of this demographic since the '60s have been for Democratic candidates?
Hardly, and Lemon should know better.
But another indication of just how liberal CNN is comes from the reaction the network's viewers had to Dana and me being on Lemon's show.
The hate-tweets Dana and I received the two evenings we were on was deplorable with some telling Lemon that having us as guests reduced his credibility.
If CNN is so neutral, why do its viewers go nuts when conservatives are in attendance?
Also of note, Lemon made a big issue about Dana and me being conservatives. When he introduces his liberal guests, does he tell his audience they're liberal? That certainly wasn't the case Sunday evening.
In the end, I very much appreciate Lemon inviting Dana and me on, and look forward to more such discussions in the future.
Frankly, I had a blast and think Don did as well.
Regardless of the detractors, I think the kind of conversation the three of us had Saturday and Sunday evening is needed in this country, but think they can be more fruitful if everyone involved is more honest about their true political leanings. That his guests are conservatives should be far less important than them being Americans.
There also has to be a greater willingness to accept that racism isn't only a white problem or a conservative problem.
Racism isn't exclusive to one Party or one demographic group. We can't conquer it by pointing fingers at others without recognizing that it's everyone's fault just as much as it's everyone's problem.
I truly believe this is where media have failed and failed miserably because most news outlets seem fixated on reporting on race issues from only one side and do so to further their own political agenda.
Only when this stops will America become a truly tolerant society free of all bigotry including towards political orientation.
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Terribly poorly produced segment
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 12:59am.
Noel, a bunch of us were on chat, Saturday, watching your segment. It was like ping pong when it started.
And then....
Lemon left you hanging for 40 minutes while he covered the tornadoes.
He is truly dumber than he looks.
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Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 1:27am.
Glad to hear Brandon is Okay....and you are right, I can't imagine your anguish at having to sit through it.
Having said that, Lemon could at least have said "we'll reschedule our guests at another time"....a bunch of us watched for 40 minutes, the same thing, over and over and over. CNN's storm coverage was pathetic.
BTW.....Aca's family ranch was hit in KS, they lost some out buildings and whatnot. It's a mess, but nothing that can't be fixed, fortunately.
We all live in "disaster zones".....you're in Cali, w/the quakes, I'm in Florida, with the hurricanes....the Midwest has tornadoes, and apparently the East Coast gets the remnants of silly little tropical storms which ruin almost everything with torrential rain. Be prepared.
Finally, when is your "reschedule" segment?
P.S. You looked good...but same old, same old TV outfit (insert "poke" emote here). :)
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Blonde, I live in Chicago,
Submitted by Liberallies on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 1:49am.
I live in Chicago, IL where the only disasters are political ones!!! LOL
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Well, except for the Cubs.
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 3:42am.
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That could be.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 9:53am.
...that may be.....HEY!HEY! Jer hits one out on to Waveland Avenue.
I couldn't stand the Cubs or Brickhouse! Still can't stand the "Cubbies". Blech!
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That could be.....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 9:53am.
...that may be.....HEY!HEY! Jer hits one out on to Waveland Avenue.
I couldn't stand the Cubs or (long-time Cub's announcer) Jack Brickhouse! Still can't stand the "Cubbies". Blech!
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I can't believe he said that
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 1:26am.
I can't believe he said that political correctness run amok is a cornerstone of conservatism. I have never heard a liberal even try to deny that they are the ones attempting to rewrite the language; usually they are proud of it. Wow. The casualness with which he threw out that whopper is almost impressive. If bald faced lying can be considered impressive.
Besides that, I totally noticed how he HAD to throw out the conservative tag as much as possible. There is no doubt CNN is a very liberal network. The only people I know who consider it balanced are very liberal people themselves.
Finally, I wonder if the reason he wants people to start saying the n-word is to get people offended and gin up more racial support to help Obama. Whatever, I don't think people will start saying it anyway. Who needs that type of grief for no good reason?
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tcm14, Exactly. Newspeak is
Submitted by Liberallies on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 2:00am.
Exactly. Newspeak is the cornerstone of Liberalism. Political correctness is one of the Democratic Party's, Liberals favorite amo!
As far as the word "n" being used, I wasn't born here. While I do have a lot of the American culture in me, I also have a lot of the Latino culture in me where the "n" word is used as a term of endearment!!!
For example, my father-in-law calls my wife, "my little and sweet negrita!" My mother calls my younger sister her little negrita. And in fact neither one is black, but rather they both tan very well.
So, to be honest, I simply do not get the whole fight over the "n" word.
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Background of N - Word - from the field
Submitted by FaulknerFan on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 8:48am.
As one who grew up in the American South with black people working in the fields beside me and one family as a surrogate family for my own, let me give you my take. The N - word was always in my time used more by blacks than whites and is probably a mispronunciation from slave times of the word negro, probably first by the slaves and then taken up by the whites in conversations with the black slaves. For years in the south it was used by both races in conversation with each other but, even in my time in the fifties, it was often, but not always, considered derogatory for a white to use it to a black man. Blacks continued to use it to each other in both ways well past the fifties and I suppose still do if rap music is any indication. Blacks, of course, had their own derogatory terms for whites, "Honkey" being one. All of this was really no big deal until the unopposed liberal media took over the national conversation in the civil rights sixties and were looking for a club to use against conservatives. So the n word became that club and was developed into the most vile form of insult, exceeding anything else in the language. Again this was purely for political purposes and gradually became what it now is. But as late as the seventies it was still ok for black comedians to us it on TV as Red Fox did in in the in a couple of the funniest episodes of TV show Samford and Son.
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tcm, you are misconstruing Lemon's words and his point.
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 3:08am.
LEMON: But my point was -- my point was more about political correctness run amuck which has been the cornerstone of conservatism. And you wrote this in 2010 when a Kentucky Fried Chicken ad was pulled in Australia after cries of racism in the US.
Now, remember my point is more about political correctness run amuck. And so you said "for our PC police to now be enforcing its ignorant standards from thousands of miles away should scare the heck out of folks on both sides of the aisle."
He is asserting that "political correctness run amuck" [or 'amok'] has been the cornerstone of conservatism.
In other words, conservatives for many years now have believed that the notion and application of political correctness has gotten out of control, and as a prescribed [generally by the Left] standard dictating individual and societal behavior and appropriate speech, it is being defined and employed by liberals far too wantonly, recklessly, and unreasonably.
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Wow Jer, did we just agree on something?
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 8:17am.
With all due respect I took that Lemon was saying the same about conservatives as Jer asserted.
The problem is that Lemon said in such a smarmy manner that it came across like he was saying it was conservatives who were somehow the purveyors of PC.
Whether we like it or not, we are seriously living in a PC society to the point of disgust and this was one of the better discussions about being overly PC.
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I do believe we did gmaniac...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 10:54am.
Must be some rare celestial convergence or abnormal sunspot activity.
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Oh I get you. He was saying
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 12:16pm.
Oh I get you. He was saying that CLAIMING political correctness HAS run amok is a cornerstone of conservatism. Got it, and agree.
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Yeah, his phrasing was kind of clumsy.
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 2:15pm.
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Noel, Great, great
Submitted by Liberallies on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 1:43am.
Great, great article!
I wonder though, is it how the shows are produced on television? Why couldn't you point what you wrote here to Lemon? Hopefully, he will read it and have some type of response
I 100% agree with you on the profiling. When people find out that I am a Latino, while talking politics, they are shocked, that I lean Republican. Liberals, Democrats always assume that I am a Democrat. So, Lemon is not being honest.
and yes, Lemon is either naive or dishonest to claim that CNN does not side with one political party. In fact, it not only sides with a political party, the Democratic party, it also sides with an ideology, Liberal.
Wasn't a CNN host who went after an NFL football player last year during the off season who was publicly condemning gay marriage and the gay life style? If I remember correctly, the CNN host did everything within her power to ridicule the football player. It was FAR from a balanced, no taking sides interview.
I think the problem that individuals like Lemon have is that they live in a bubble and they hardly, if ever, venture outside of this bubble. The fact is that over 85% of American journalist vote Democratic and constantly give money to Liberal causes. But facts like this never get on the way of Liberal talking points.
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It's a Trap
Submitted by CoolShades on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 2:25am.
All I have to say is "it's a trap." What do you think would happen if a conservative reporter or pundit used the whole N-word on tape and on the record. We'd never hear the end of it from the MSM.
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wow this is a long one
Submitted by OffTheLows on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 3:23am.
There's many reasons that Don should be perceived as liberal even if you discount the fact that he's black, he's openly gay and he's in the media - three categories where support of Democrats range between 70-95%.. so yeah, statistically, there might be a 2-3% chance he's conservative or libertarian. But he has so many opportunities to get his position on issues out there, and as far as I know, using his "No talking points" segment, he's never taken a position that would be against a liberal issue and he'll frequently use Republican or conservative video/audio clips as examples of some bad behavior. There's obviously a lot of incendiary comments from the left on radio or MSNBC, Daily Kos, etc, but I've never seen Don scold any of them at any time. So if he has some independent streak in him, it would be great for him to put it on display during the segment of his program where he allows himself to do so. If we're profiling Don to assume he's a mild mannered liberal, then give us some evidence Don that you're not. That said, I do give him credit for engaging, though I understand why Fox News doesn't with what is viewed as MRC's left wing equivalent - media matters, since the latter engages in boycott and intimidation campaigns rather than simply offering opinion and shining a light towards the subject of bias.
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From what I can tell about
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 3:29am.
From what I can tell about the Lemon Squeezer, he basically is only interested in gay issues, and 'black' issues, and himself - as it pertains to those issues. So why bother with him??? Noel Sheppard is a very smart guy, and Dana (my own name!!) Loesch is very sharp, and another example of why conservative women have the superior edge on the uptight and angry and physically-challenged lib harpies..................what is there to discuss??? If Lemon didn't have his gayness and his 'color' - what would he do???
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So Don Lemon sucks
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 5:00am.
But we all knew that.
Difficult to get all worked up over a communist, Obama rod-waxing, Affirmative Action product that no one (that actually matters) watches, anyway.
Don Lemon isn't worth the chewing gum I scrape off my shoes next to the car after a Braves game.
Frankly, he isn't even worth a bucket of room-temperature piss after an all-night poker game.
Vote for the American in November
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Of course, CNN and Don Lemon are Leftist, but Lemon deserves
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:32am.
credit for bringing on two articulate Conservatives to discuss the N-word issue. Unlike his counterparts, such as snarky John King or Carol Costello, Lemon appeared, at least this time, to want an honest open discussion.
The actual N-word may be somewhat acceptable when coming from Don Lemon or another Black reporter when reporting the news, but Black listeners will not accept that word coming from the mouth of a non-Black. The word has too much history as a racist pejorative.
Having two conservatives discuss an issue on CNN is much more appealing than having Fox News bring on someone from the Right and someone from the Left so a "fair and balanced" discussion can take place. Especially if the Left is represented by someone like Alan Colmes, Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita Jackson, or Bob Beckel.
Hopefully we will see more of the team Noel and Dana on CNN. Perhaps the Conservative message they convey will stick to some of the viewers of CNN, such as my liberal aunt, who refuses to watch anything but CNN.
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Submitted by fadeinlight on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:21am.
Personally, I'm glad that they're going to start reporting quotes as stated. I remember one article they had posted awhile back where it was impossible to decipher which "x-word" they were talking about, because they were so worried about how they were being perceived as reporters that they (ironically) forgot to report the news.
This debate on profiling is going to be the dominating theme of the Martin/Zimmerman trial: how is a person -not- supposed to profile, when they are basing their expectations on past experiences? In Zimmerman's case, he was said to have foiled a robbery in progress, by a young black male. Out of the eight robberies that had taken place, four of them had eyewitnesses...and in each of those cases, the eyewitnesses described the suspects as young black males.
It borders on Orwellian to suggest that one should distrust our experiences in making judgement calls in the spur of the moment, regardless of whether it is good advice or not. In fact, I would say that it is likely impossible: we see examples in nature that depend exactly on the perception that one creature is some other deadlier creature (fake coral snakes, for instance).
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May the Lord have mercy on his soul
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:34am.
There is no other alternative now...
George Zimmerman must die for OUR sins
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think about it
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:39am.
George Zimmerman is going to be the victim of a public execution to help reelect obama
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Missed opportunity.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 7:12am.
LEMON: And what's interesting that it sounds like what you're saying we have to - we should pick and choose the topics rather than let the news dictate what the topics are,
Noel, I think you missed a great opportunity to point out that that's what the media do ALL THE TIME, as Newsbusters has pointed out on countless occasions!
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Yes, I certainly understand;
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 10:13am.
Yes, I certainly understand; I'm sure there are lots of "coulda shoulda woulda."
Just wishing.....would've been a great "Bazinga!" LOL
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So Lemon is a pro-Romney Conservative? Who knew?
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 1:58pm.
I'll give the guy kudos for having two conservative critics on though.
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LEE COUNTY, GA (WALB) - A stand off in Lee County ended peacefully Sunday afternoon, but it was a tense situation that lasted nearly two hours. Deputies were called to a home where a 44-year-old man with a gun had already written his last Will and Testament. He told his wife and pastor he was going to kill himself.
The pastor says he tried to convince Karl Barry there were other ways of dealing with financial troubles. Lee County Sheriff's Deputies and a special units team blocked off Graves Springs Road in front of Barry's home.
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Barry is currently in the Lee County jail. He's charged with two counts of aggravated assault for pointing his gun at his wife and his pastor.
The coroner says last year four suicides occurred in Lee County. So far this year the county has seen one. That was in July.
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Appreciation: Helga Dudman was among 'gifted, brainy' Post staff
By PATRICIA GOLAN
12/16/2009 21:33
Appreciation Helga Dudm
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staffer for 35 years. She was the author of a dozen English-language nonfiction books. She had an encyclopedic knowledge about diverse and often esoteric subjects, long before the Internet Age, and combined scholarly research, humor and anecdotes about famous people in all her books. And, my God, she could write. Perhaps her most famous book was the poignant memoir she helped Ruth Dayan write in 1971,
Or Did I Dream a Dream?
. It was written in English, while Dayan was coping with her divorce from the charismatic Moshe Dayan, then Defense Minister. The Hebrew version, which followed, became a bestseller. Ruth, still today very active at 93, was close friends with Helga up until her death. Helga made friends with many of her interviewees - the celebrated and the less so. She was genuinely fascinated by people and befriended anyone who had a good story - especially if they could argue. And, especially if they were animal lovers. She was great pals with the late zoologist Dr. D'vora Ben-Shaul, another star
columnist. Boy, did those two contentious characters argue. One of Helga's most entertaining books was the quirky autobiographical
A Personal Encyclopedia, and How to Write Your Own
. Her long-time publisher Emmanuel Hausman commented, "It was clear this was really not a 'how to' book if you didn't have an interesting life, and didn't know how to write." Growing up in San Francisco, Helga came from a famous musical family. During the American occupation of Germany after World War II she worked for the U.S. army as a translator in the famous Nuremberg Trials.
Letters Home to San Francisco from Occupied Germany 1945-1946
, which described this period, was her last published book. Former
editor and close friend Ari Rath believes the book "will prove one day to be a very important historical document." Rath calls Helga "a unique and highly talented person." She was among the gifted and brainy cadre of writers and editors who worked for
The Jerusalem Post
in the early 1960's and 1970's, who have since passed away. Another former
editor who was close to Helga was Lea Ben-Dor, who died in 1986. Helga said of Lea's bouts of "teenage delirium" over men: "Never make the mistake of thinking that women known for their 'masculine mind' and cool analytical abilities are immune from the pangs of romance." Helga's own decades-long romance with a fellow journalist was an open secret. And even though anyone who could have been hurt by public disclosure of his identity died long ago, her friends still insist on honoring her discretion. A wealthy woman, mainly from inheritances, Helga lived an almost ascetic life, refusing to spend money on herself. Once a fashion writer, she wore only old clothes. An early environmentalist, she hated cars because of their pollution, insisting on walking everywhere in Tel Aviv. Noticing the names on street signs, she decided to find out who these people were. The series of articles that followed were eventually collected in her book
Street People
, a popular volume in both English and Hebrew, still in demand today. A life-long animal lover, Helga rescued the Jerusalem Society for the Protection of Animals when it was on the brink of closure with an astronomic donation that has kept the veteran organization afloat till today. Although she vigorously cultivated her image as a misanthrope, insisting that all her money go to animal welfare, she could be a quietly generous benefactor to human beings as well. In one recent case she quite literally saved the life of a woman she didn't know personally by paying for her costly life-saving drugs and paying off her debts. This, from someone who had nothing but contempt for the medical profession, and discounted anything besides Vitamin C. Having neither children nor siblings, she cynically referred to all family ties as "neurotic." Yet she had a huge family of friends - who remained loyal to her despite her increasingly difficult and belligerent behavior as she aged (I confess to hanging up on her several times mid-rant.) In the early 1980's Helga moved from Tel Aviv to Tiberias where she met museum curator Elisheva Balhorn, today age 90, who became one of her dearest friends, and with whom she wrote the book
. Elisheva's daughter Esti Haviv managed Helga's affairs to the end with saintly patience. Another dear friend was Hebrew University historical geographer Prof. Ruth Kark, with whom she wrote
The American Colony - Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga
about the 19th century Christian utopian society of Americans and Swedes. The account of the group's
is based on exhaustive research, and makes for a gripping tale. "She was a wonderful, talented writer," Kark says. In the introduction to her "Encyclopedia," Helga writes about discovering fragments of one's life in random clippings stored away for years: "I have used old clippings to housetrain puppies, and both they and I have learned much from what surfaces when you decide to face these documents... you suddenly see yourself in a series of mirrors placed at unexpected angles leading down some corridor leading to today... and long-forgotten glimpses." She continues, "The beauty of this is that you can select either hindsight or foresight." Finally, in a sad and enraging end to those 'fragments of her life' and other documents relating to the history of the country, which she often claimed to hate, yet found endlessly fascinating, they were chucked out en bloc by the management of her retirement home on Kibbutz Kinneret before her friends could come to collect them. At her request Helga was cremated. Her friends scattered her ashes at the Arthur Rubinstein memorial sculpture in the shape of a keyboard in the Jerusalem Forest.
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The prosecution rested today in the Lubbock trial of a researcher charged in a bioterrorism scare.
Doctor Thomas Butler is accused of lying to the FBI about missing vials of plague bacteria. The January incident ended when the feds say Butler admitted he accidentally destroyed the vials. Butler also faces theft, embezzlement and fraud charges.
Consultant Barbara Johnson talked about Butler shipping plague samples back to Tanzania after confirming the bacteria tested positive. Johnson says that's a national security problem, since terrorist groups are operating in Tanzania. Johnson also demonstrated how fragile petri dishes can be by crushing an empty one with her hands.
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C Little and Sons Ltd is an Auckland Funeral Director and have donated their order books to the Auckland City Library. They still do funerals. Their earliest funeral was in May 1875 but they lost the early records in a fire in 1888. The North Shore branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists indexed from Volume 1, May 1901 to Volume 59 December 1936. Missing - May to November 1921. Some grave receipts and certificates of purchase are available from earlier times.
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Specter Remembered for His Influence in Supreme Court Nomination Battles
Posted Oct 15, 2012 6:36 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Former Sen. Arlen Specter, whose influence played out in in battles over controversial Supreme Court nominees, died Sunday at the age of 82.
The cause was complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. NBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times have obituaries.
Specter, a former member and chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, voted against Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, a stance that raised the ire of conservatives. But he also helped pave the way for Clarence Thomas to win confirmation, angering liberals.
"The Thomas confirmation nearly cost Mr. Specter his Senate seat," the Times says. "Even now, millions of American women remain furious with him for his aggressive questioning of Anita F. Hill, a law professor who had accused Justice Thomas of sexual harassment when they worked together at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
Specter was a former prosecutor who gained national prominence as a member of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy. He was a centrist who switched to the Republican party after entering politics, then back to the Democratic party in 2009. He lost in the primary.
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One of my favorite things about this blog is that in many ways it serves as a "virtual baby book" for our sweet Evan. It documents our family and is something that we can look back on throughout his life. The other purposes of the blog may shift a bit as time passes, but through it all I want this to tell our story – his story.
So, let me tell you about the sweetest words I have ever heard. Let's get one thing straight up front – Evan loves his daddy. They have such a special relationship – the joy that I have when I watch them together is unrivaled. For many months Evan has rattled off the word "daddy." Even before he fully understood what it meant, it was one of his very favorite sounds to make/things to say. It quickly became clear that he was not so fond of saying mommy. Our conversations would go something like this…
Us: "Evan, say 'daddy'"
Evan: "Daddy!"
Us: "Yay! Okay, Evan, say 'mommy'"
Evan: "Daddy!!"
It was pretty hilarious – even I can admit that. I finally stopped asking him to say it. I knew that he would when he felt like it.
I wish I could remember the day, the moment, that I heard my new favorite word. The sweetest word.
Forget about that first letter – he doesn't need it. I wouldn't have it any other way. He walks around calling for "daddy" and "ommy" now. If you are questioning the cuteness – just stop – I mean, have you seen this precious being?
I get sad when I realize that one day he will stop saying it. It's one of those 'lasts' – the things that slip away and happen for the last time unannounced. There is no fanfare, not even a realization – they just stop happening. So, I will take my sweet boy and his sweet words and make the most of each and every moment.
Because you know what? I love being his ommy.


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San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday Morning News Roundup
Alameda Co.: Mother Killed When Car Driven By Son Flies Off I-580
A mother was killed while riding in a car driven by her 22-year-old son when the car flew off a railroad overcrossing east of Pleasanton and crashed into a hillside Monday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash happened on westbound Interstate Highway 580 at 3:03 p.m. when the 2012 Ford was crossing the Stonecut Union Pacific Railroad overcrossing and veered off the right of the road.
The speed of the car launched it 157 feet from the hillside where it left the road and over the railroad tracks, landing on the opposite hillside. It rolled back onto its roof.
The driver was airlifted to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek with major injuries, the CHP said.
His mother, identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as 57-year-old Wanda Pelillo of Pleasanton, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The CHP has not yet determined what caused the car to leave the road.
Oakland: Jury Rules In Favor of Officers Who Fatally Shot Man
A federal court civil jury ruled Monday that two Oakland police officers didn't engage in any wrongdoing when they fatally shot barbershop owner Derrick Jones during a confrontation in East Oakland in November 2010.
In their verdict after five hours of deliberations that began late Friday afternoon, jurors decided that officers Eriberto Perez-Angeles and Omar Daza-Quiroz didn't use excessive force then they fatally shot him on Trask Street after initially confronting him at his barbershop in the 5800 block of Bancroft Avenue at about 9:15 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2012.
Jurors also ruled that the two officers didn't violate the constitutional rights of Jones, 37, or his widow, Lanell Jones, who filed a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit against them in U.S. District Court seeking unspecified damages.
Aimee Hamoy-Perera, who represents Perez-Angeles and Daza-Quiroz, said in her closing argument on Friday that the officers approached Jones after his girlfriend, Latoia Whitaker, flagged them down them at Bancroft and Seminary avenues to tell them that Jones had tried to strangle and kill her in an argument at his barbershop, which was nearby.
But Hamoy-Perera said when the officers tried to question Jones at his barbershop he denied his identity and fled on foot.
She said the officers had an obligation to try to catch him because he was dangerous and could come back and hurt Whitaker or someone else.
But Ayanna Jenkins-Toney, who represents Lanell Jones, said Perez-Angeles and Daza-Quiros had no reason to shoot Jones because he didn't have a gun or any other type of weapon.
The two officers fired a total of nine shots at Jones, hitting him six times. An autopsy disclosed that Jones suffered gunshot wounds to his chest, abdomen, right thigh, right knee, lower right leg and lower left leg. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
No weapon was found at the scene, but officers found a small metal scale and a small amount of marijuana, police said.
Jenkins-Toney alleged that the reason Jones fled is that the officers fired at him during the initial interaction at the barbershop and he feared for his life.
But Hamoy-Perera said Perez-Angeles and Daza-Quiroz shot Jones only because they feared for their lives when he appeared to reach for his waistband after fleeing from the officers for more than two blocks and disobeying at least five commands to surrender and show his hands.
Hamoy-Perera said the officers thought Jones might have a gun because at one point they heard a heavy metal sound that they sounded like a firearm that had been dropped to the ground and they thought they noticed a bulge in Jones' pants that indicated he could be armed.
She told jurors, "You have to feel what they (the officers) were feeling and see what they were seeing" when they opened fire.
SF: Hundreds Come Out to Celebrate St. Stupid's Day
Hundreds of costumed revelers marched through San Francisco's Financial District Monday afternoon in the 35th St. Stupid's Day Parade.
"Everyone's got a trickster kind of day, a crazy day in the spring," event organizer Ed Holmes said.
"Spring is the time of year when things start moving, fluids start flowing so people want to get out there."
People came out in all sorts of costumes, including clowns, detectives, and various wigs. Some were blowing bubbles, wearing hard hats, and even using umbrellas with nothing but the wiring.
There was even one person responsible for throwing confetti. "It's costumes. It's silliness. It's absurdity," Holmes said.
Holmes runs the First Church of the Last Laugh, which puts on the annual event, and on this day he goes by a different name: Bishop Joey. But in an impromptu ceremony done in Pig Latin, the people promoted Joey to Pope.
The newly appointed Pope Joey, who wore a pope hat, white robe, boxer shorts, and a Three Stooges tie, led the march from Justin Herman Plaza on a tour of the Financial District, which included stops at the Federal Reserve Bank headquarters, Citigroup, and the old Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
Through the frivolity of the event, there was a small message. "We make fun of the banks, flip off the financial institutions for getting away with destroying democracy," Holmes said.
"There is a little bit of an edge to (the event)." The marchers threw losing lottery tickets into the air at the Federal Reserve.
They threw pennies at a sculpture at 555 California St. They even threw socks at the steps of the old Pacific Coast Stock Exchange at 301 Pine St. Stock. Sock. Get it? Damasocks Amas, who was attending the event for the first time, took in all of the fun.
"It's very fun and silly if you let it," she said. "If you don't it's no fun. What is it hurting? It's bringing lots of smiles to people."
Benicia: Vallejo Man Identified As Victim of Hit-and-Run on I-780 This Morning
The Solano County coroner's office has identified the victim of a hit-and-run collision on eastbound Interstate Highway 780 east of Columbus Parkway in Benicia Monday morning as 64-year-old Edilberto Alvarez of Vallejo.
Alvarez was killed after his 2008 Toyota Tacoma struck the left front of a 1997 Dodge Caravan that had collided with the center divider of the freeway around 5:35 a.m., California Highway Patrol Sgt. Jason Hekker said.
After the collision, the Toyota stopped facing westbound in one of the two eastbound lanes of the highway, Hekker said.
Alvarez got out of his Toyota truck and was standing in front of it when he was struck by a 2004 Cadillac Escalade, the CHP said.
He was thrown 50 feet and landed on eastbound I-780, Hekker said. He was pronounced dead at 5:57 a.m., the coroner's office said.
The Cadillac then struck the Toyota and the Dodge head on, Hekker said.
Witnesses who stopped at the scene said the driver of the Cadillac, whose identity is unknown, got out of his vehicle, looked at the collision scene and at Alvarez's body and fled, the CHP said.
Benicia police were informed of the collision and set up a perimeter near Benicia State Park to try to locate the hit-and-run driver, the CHP said.
The driver is described as a Hispanic male who was wearing jeans and a black hoodie, the CHP said.
The Solano County CHP is working on leads to identify the Cadillac driver, and is asking the public for help identifying him, Hekker said. An autopsy on Alvarez was scheduled for today, the coroner's office said.
Regional: Two Bay Area Men Named As Suspects in Siskiyou County Courthouse Gold Nuggets Theft
Two East Bay residents are wanted in connection with the theft of more than $1.25 million worth of gold items stolen from the Siskiyou County Courthouse more than a year ago, the sheriff said Monday.
Gold nuggets, jewelry and other artifacts were taken from a display case at the courthouse at 311 Fourth St. in Yreka on Jan. 31, 2012, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey said.
The artifacts date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lopey said.
Many items, such as the "shoe" nugget of gold that resembles a foot, were donated to the county and were kept in an alarmed case, Lopey said.
Arrest warrants have been issued for David Dean Johnson, 49, of El Cerrito, and Scott Wayne Bailey, 51, of El Sobrante, who are the primary suspects in the heist, Lopey said.
Lopey said one of the suspects was expected to turn himself into the sheriff's office by the end of the day.
Last Thursday, Siskiyou County sheriff's detectives were in the Bay Area trying to locate the two men.
They were not found, but evidence was seized, Lopey said.
The stolen items have not been recovered, Lopey said. The sheriff said the Bay Area men have a connection to the Siskiyou and Shasta County areas.
On Jan. 15 of this year, deputies served search warrants at homes in Shasta County and in El Cerrito and El Sobrante, sheriff's officials said.
A $50,000 reward has been offered for information about the suspects connected with the stolen artifacts -- which Lopey said are an invaluable part of the county's history.
"They steal a piece of our history," he said. "It's not only embarrassing, but a sad event." Lopey said the sheriff's office is continuing to investigate if other suspects are involved in the heist.
Anyone with information on the theft or the suspects' whereabouts is asked to contact Siskiyou County sheriff's Detective Yves Pike at (530) 842-8354.
SF: U.S. Citizen From Guadalajara Sentenced to 12 Years For Smuggling Drugs Through SFO
A 22-year-old U.S. citizen who lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years and six months in prison for attempting to smuggle cocaine and methamphetamine through San Francisco International Airport.
Pedro Daniel Rodriguez was given the sentence by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco on Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said Rodriguez tried to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine and more than four pounds of cocaine in false bottoms of three suitcases he brought through the airport on Dec. 29, 2011.
Rodriguez had arrived on a flight from Guadalajara and was bound for Sydney, Australia, Haag said.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty before White in September to six felony counts: conspiring to import, importing and possessing methamphetamine and conspiring to import, importing and possessing cocaine. Some of the charges carried a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.
Haag said Rodriguez admitted during his guilty plea that he knew the suitcases contained a significant amount of drugs and that he planned to deliver them to a person in Sydney.
Rodriguez and a companion, Yuniba Elizabeth Cordero, 23, who is also a U.S. citizen, were arrested at the airport after U.S. customs agents discovered the drugs during a search of their luggage.
According to an affidavit filed in the case by Homeland Security Investigations agent John Bartusevics on Dec. 30, 2011, inspectors became suspicious when they noticed that three of the four suitcases the pair had checked on the flight from Guadalajara were unusually heavy.
The inspectors then conducted a secondary search and discovered methamphetamine hidden under false bottoms in two of the suitcases and both methamphetamine and cocaine in the third, Bartusevics said.
In an announcement of the arrests in January 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said the seized drugs were worth more than $500,000.
Four criminal charges against Cordero are pending in federal court in San Francisco, according to court records. She is accused of conspiring to import, importing, and possessing methamphetamine and conspiring to import cocaine.
SF: Woman Escapes Injury in Bayview Shooting Friday Night
A woman escaped injury when a man pulled up alongside her car and opened fire in San Francisco's Bayview District late Friday night, police said Monday.
The shooting was reported at about 10:35 p.m. near Third Street and Paul Avenue.
The 24-year-old victim was driving south on Third Street when the suspect vehicle followed her, then pulled up next to her and a man inside fired several shots at her, according to police.
The victim made a U-turn on Third Street to escape, and the other car sped away heading south.
The victim went home and called police, who located the suspect vehicle nearby in the first block of Carr Street with a 25-year-old man inside, police said.
The man, whose name was not immediately released, was arrested and a gun was found in the vehicle, according to police.
San Jose: Firefighter Returns to Work After Suffering Cardiac Arrest in August
A San Jose firefighter who suffered cardiac arrest while on the job last year returned to work Monday.
Firefighter Frank Ryan collapsed while fighting a three-alarm fire at St. Patrick Proto-Cathedral Parish in the city's downtown area on Aug. 30.
He was hospitalized at Regional Medical Center where he was in a coma until Sept. 4 and released later that month.
An informal breakfast was organized by his fellow firefighters Monday morning at Fire Station 1. "Some of us have not seen him since that when he was injured," said Battalion Chief Mary Gutierrez.
At the breakfast event Ryan talked about how firefighters perform life-saving techniques on people everyday but never think about such incidents happening to themselves, Capt. Cleo Doss said.
Ryan also recounted the events from the fire, feeling nauseous as he came out of the building and wanting to rest but passed out, Doss said.
Ryan will not return to full duty until he receives a doctor's clearance, Gutierrez said.
He is also following all his doctor's orders and has made a few lifestyle modifications, Gutierrez said.
His next shifts are scheduled for Wednesday and Friday, Doss said.
Livermore: 18-Year-Old Man Arrested for Gang-Related Shooting
An 18-year-old Livermore man has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly shooting at four members of a rival gang in Livermore on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Roger Aleman, a maintenance worker, is being held at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $60,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court in Pleasanton on Wednesday, according to court records.
Livermore police said that at about 3:05 p.m. on Sunday they received reports of a shooting in the 1600 block of Chestnut Street and responding officers got to the area quickly and detained several males.
Police said that after they interviewed the males and other witnesses they determined that four Norteno gang members had confronted two or three members of the rival Sureno gang in front of a residence in the 1600 block of Chestnut Street.
Police said one of the Sureno gang members had a handgun and fired two or three shots at the four Norteno members but no one was struck by the gunfire and all of the males who were involved in the incident began to flee.
Officers were able to locate the four victims as well as Aleman, police said. The 1600 block of Chestnut Street was temporarily closed to traffic while officers searched the surrounding area for evidence and outstanding suspects, police said.
Santa Clara Co.: County Seeking Mixed-Use Development Ideas For 55-Acre Civic Center Campus
Santa Clara County is looking for a few good ideas to shape the future of its expansive but staid 55-acre civic center in uptown San Jose.
After assembling parcels including its core buildings, the former San Jose City Hall and a closed army reserve base, the county is poised to accept development proposals for what officials call a "civic center campus."
"It's kind of like opening up the county to ideas," said David Barry, a county capital projects manager working on the plan.
"The county has these lands but it doesn't have the resources to develop them, so that's why it's seeking development partners," Barry said.
To get public input on how to transform its civic center, the county plans a community meeting today at the Board of Supervisors chambers at 70 W. Hedding St. in San Jose.
On April 8, the county will send out a Request of Qualifications to review suggestions from potential private partners and later ask qualified applicants to submit proposed master plans.
The county wants a long-term plan with the best possible uses for what it has, generating revenue through land leases or sales and consolidating county services with private uses such as housing and retail, Barry said.
"The county is open to any proposals," Barry said. "The private sector has a lot of creative ideas and can help the county to decide what the possibilities are for the land."
Officials would look favorably on a private partner with a vision of a "campus concept" for developing new or established Silicon Valley industries in an urban setting, Barry said.
What's in play for possible development in the 55-acre civic center are about 35 acres, including the 10.3-acre county employee parking lot on Hedding between North First and San Pedro streets.
Also available are some of the 16.3 acres housing the East and West Wings of the County Government Center, the county's 11-floor main office building on Hedding.
Then there's the vacant old San Jose City Hall, built in 1958, sitting on 10 acres that includes two aging, drab county buildings.
Also on the mix is the Pvt. George L. Richey U.S. Army Reserve Center, an 8.6-acre former military base at San Pedro and Hedding that the U.S. government closed and quitclaimed this month to the county.
At least one developer, Brett Shaves, founding partner of Urban Village Development Co., a Los Angeles-based investor and builder of mixed-use housing and retail, said he finds the county's development plans "exciting."
Shaves' company targets Generation Y, customers aged about 25 to 34, for "live work play" urban projects where people own or rent near work, shops, entertainment spots and public transit to minimize commuting.
To be attractive and profitable for his company to develop the civic center, "rents and rental growth would have to be there," Shaves said.
"As we look at a market, we want to see the gentrification," he said. "We want to understand the younger generation."
Bay Area Tuesday Morning Weather Forecast
Mostly cloudy skies with patchy fog are likely in the Bay Area this morning, becoming partly cloudy later today.
Highs are expected to be in the lower to mid 60s. Partly cloudy skies are likely this evening, with patchy fog expected after midnight. Lows are expected to be in the upper 40s.
Partly cloudy skies, with patchy fog, are likely Wednesday morning. Highs are expected to be in the 60s to lower 70s.
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