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I'm trying to use the RealignerTargetCreator as a test with 1 know file; 1000G_phase1.indels.b37.vcf. At first the contigs didn't match with my .BAM file (chr1/chr2 vs 1/2), so I adjusted that. Now when running it for the first time; java - jar [path to genomeAnalysisTK.jar] -T RealignerTargetCreator -R [.fasta] -I [.bam] -o [.intervals] -known [path to 1000g_phase1_adjusted.indels.b37.vcf] it gives the following error: "I/O error loading or writing tribble index file for [path to 1000g]". When running it the second time, I get the following error; "Problem detecting index type", because the .idx file is not correctly created.
What am I doing wrong?
It's possible to get the tool to generate an index file from scratch, but it takes extra time, that's why we provide the indices already generated.
My worry is that you may have a permissions issue on your filesystem. It sounds like the program is unable to write anything to disk. Can you post the full log output?
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Also when formatting the data file from chr1/chr2 to 1/2 and don't change the indel files, I get the same error. EDIT: When downloading the .idx files instead of creating them, it works. How can this happen?
Do you mean you used scripting tools to modify the contig names in your resource files? If so that's the wrong thing to do, because there may be more differences between the reference builds than just the contig names. You should always download the resource files that match the correct version of the reference, not convert them yourself, because that is unsafe. The index issue is just one symptom of that.
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I've done as you suggested. Downloaded both the genome (ftp://email@example.com/bundle/2.8/hg19) and 2 indel files, named above. Keep having the same problem (there are .idx files also to download, but I wonder why RealignerTargetCreator won't do that).
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TAMPA, Fla. - WINK News is learning more about a Fort Myers man who died in a fiery head-on collision that killed a total five people in Tampa. It happened on Interstate 275, around 2:00am, Sunday.
Authorities say a wrong-way driver hit another car and burst into flames. Four young men in the other car, USF students and fraternity brothers, died instantly.
One of them, Imtiyaz Ilias, was a 2012 graduate of Cypress Lake High School and a well-known wrestler.
The Grab and Go is Jim's family store. It's just down the road from Cypress Lake High School.
The sign on the door says "closed for a family emergency." People have brought flowers, and left candles.
Jim's brother and former coaches remember him as a determined leader who leaves behind a passion for wrestling.
One "heck of a wrestler". Brother, and friend.
"Jim was very determined. He didn't make excuses for anything. He always worked hard. He always pushed his teammates," said Assistant Wrestling Coach Angelo Vaughn.
Imtiyaz Ilias, known as "Jim," led his Cypress Lake High School wrestling teammates by example, rising through the ranks as a shy freshman into the team captain.
"He inspired a lot of people. A lot of guys on the team even that were never on the team with him, knew him from coming back in and helping over Christmas," said Head Wrestling Coach Paul Rothenberg, who coached Ilias for 4 years.
"It's like I feel like I have a dark hole inside of me," said his older brother Ghan. He takes comfort in knowing his little brother knew he was loved.
"Last time I talked to him was about 3:30 in the afternoon Saturday. I did get to say I love you bro. And he said "I love you" too. In front of my father, because we face-timed each other. We hadn't seen each other in a while. That was the last thing I said to him. Before this happened," said Ghan. "He was not only an athlete. He was a good son. A good brother. A good role model. He was a funny person, you know? He was hysterical."
That's not hard too see in YouTube videos, along with some advice from Jim himself.
"Never make excuses. Because excuses are tools of the incompetent. And those who master in them, major in a world of nothingness," he said in a video for Cypress Lake High School.
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Shania Twain. She has someone in our telly world who might sing in chorus with her. It's Raahil Azam, better known as Ashmit of Ye Meri Life Hai. Rahil may have had nubile nymphets go weak in their knees as the good-looking businessman in YMLH and now in CID too. But, it was a different sight one got to see for his show CID, in which he let his feminine side out, what with transforming into a woman's get up
Raahil drives in to SJ studio at 10 am, sporting an unshaven look in a blue knitted T-shirt and white trousers, looking dapper. A look at him and no one would guess that he's to change into a woman's avatar soon! Let's take a step-by-step look at how it was all done.
Raahil plays Nakul, an international crook and ACP Pradyuman's son in CID. His accomplice Daksh (Manav Gohil) is injured and hospitalised, and Nakul has to kill him, lest he reveal Nakul's truth to the CID. So he comes in the disguise of a nurse to administer a toxic injection. Raahil shaves off his stubble, as he needs a clean shaven look to pass off as a girl. Soon, makeup artiste Imtiaz applies base make-up.
To get the perfect eye make-up of a girl, Imtiaz begins with application of pink eye-shadow, followed by eyeliner to give a feminine look. False eyelashes are glued and kaajal is applied on the lower eyes. Eyebrows are softened with a pencil since they cannot be shaped. Then Raahil's lips are contoured and light pink lipstick is
applied. Liquid foundation is applied to give matt finish and have the make-up stay longer. Then, nose, cheeks, chin and forehead are given shading with rouge application to add a feminine touch.
The make-up done, Raahil changes into a nurse's uniform before fixing the wig Replete with white frock and shoes, he is now ready for the hairstyle. Imtiaz fixes a brown, short and straight-haired wig over the net on Raahil's hair. Nurse's cap is also pinned in place.
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Nakul is now ready in the garb of a nurse with a file and injection syringe, geared up to enter the ICU room and inject a lethal dose into Daksh. He is ready for the kill, literally, in the show and for the audiences with his looks too!
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Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters honors local artists including Bill Beckwith with a Lifetime Achievement Award. (April 18, 2014, Page 1B)
2013 Oxford Film Fest offers lots for locals
The 2013 Oxford Film Festival set for this weekend will offers all types of films, but two areas – music and local films – will probably be of special interest to many of those attending the festival screenings. Editor Don Whitten takes a closer look at some of the offerings, including this year's community film project. (February 20, 2013, Page 4)
Bronzing an Icon
Local artist Bill Beckwith continues his work of iconic images with a new Elvis statue. A documentary on the process will follow with a big unveiling of the statue in August in Tupelo. (May 4, 2012, Page 1, 2B)
Taking green ideas on the road
Six MSMS students are working with local Daniel Doyle and artists Bill Beckwith, Andi Bedsworth and Wendy Hansen to turn an old bus into a bio-diesel farm on wheels. The project is currently in need of funds and more information can be found at their Kickstarter campaign. (June 27, 2011, Page 1)
Couple turn love of antiques into livlihood
Taylor couple turn overflow of antique furniture into a business. (May 23, 2011, Page 5)
'The Help' helps local artist
Director Tate Taylor gave a little help to the local arts community when he purchased one of Taylor artist Bill Beckwith's statues. Taylor was so impressed that he then also invited Beckwith down to the set of "The Help" being filmed in Greenwood. (October 18, 2010, Page 2a)
L.Q.C. Lamar statue unveiled
The unveiling of the L.Q.C. Lamar statue on Saturday brought a crowd of people to celebrate the legacy of the former Senator and also celebrate the arts. The bronze statue, created by local artist Bill Beckwith, now greets visitors to the entrance of the museum and former home of Lamar. (October 11, 2010, Page 1)
Taylor artists turn former shopping center into art workshop
Local sculptor Bill Beckwith is taking the green trend to another level: He's recycled part of an old shopping center to a new artists' workshop.
The workshop is located in Taylor off County Road 323, just a mile or so from Taylor Grocery. (August 13, 2010, Page 1B)
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Last week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released its proposed $260 billion, five-year transportation authorization bill, which was approved by a 29 to 24 vote.
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Same faces in new places in 2013
Andy Samberg, the "Saturday Night Live" alumnus and actor, will host the event, which celebrates the year's best in independent film
Awards hosts Eddie Izzard and Ricky Gervais are just the latest breath of fresh air to waft across the pond
Film Independent taps British comic-actor to emcee awards show in its move to Friday night
"The Last Station" got a boost and "Precious" held its own ... but not everybody came out on the plus side in the Spirit Awards...
Before deciding the nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards, Film Independent's elite committee had to deal with a flaming Jaguar.
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The Lake Norman Open turned about as well as anyone could have hoped. The winner, Andy Montgomery, created a Classic spot for Cliff Prince. Both are Elite Series anglers.
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The Rolling Stones performed in London's Hyde Park last week for the first time since their July 1969 'Stones in the Park' concert, but 44 years later and Mick Jagger doesn't look like he's about to slow down any time soon. Perhaps the 69-year-old star's abundant Jagger Swagger has a little bit to do with the bespoke tour costumes that were created by his girlfriend, L'Wren Scott. The American designer and stylist to the A-list is responsible for the stage outfits that The Stones front man wore on the band's '50 & Counting' tour, which kicked off in November last year. It draws to a close with a final Hyde Park gig this weekend and the couple has been reflecting on Mick's wardrobe.
As well as referencing ensembles from the singer's past, for the Glastonbury performance Mick and L'Wren looked to the British countryside for inspiration. Jagger told WWD, "We started to think about the Glastonbury show and I said to her that [I wanted] something very English — an oak leaf. That's where we started from in the Glastonbury show, nobody [in the audience] realized they were really oak leaves [on the jacket] — but I did. Most people just think it's a bright green jacket, but if you look you can see. Glastonbury is an essentially English event."
If they didn't notice the oak leaves, it would have been difficult to miss the butterflies on one of Scott's Hyde Park designs. She said, "I wanted to have something really magical and interesting. I was really obsessed by phantom butterflies — you see them at night and they are kind of iridescent blue and green and white." Thanks to the lighting and special effects it looked as if the insects were flying off the jacket.
Scott created so many pieces for her boyfriend that her colleagues made light of the fact in a reference to the rock band's tour name. She explained, "My studio has the joke 'And counting…' because they are still counting every time I say we have to make a few more things. Mick really knew what 'And Counting' actually meant."
Luckily non of the costumes went to waste as Jagger revealed, "I got to wear all the clothes we made, which was fun from our point of view — just switching around all the outfits every night in different places, wearing them here — but not there."
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By Chandrahas Choudhury

The uneasy peace in Jammu and Kashmir, India's northernmost state and its only Muslim-majority one, was broken this month by two separate killings of civilians by security forces. The state, which borders both Pakistan and China, has been a tinderbox since India and Pakistan became independent in 1947. It contains the strife-torn Kashmir Valley, which is administered by India and claimed by Pakistan, and has been the target of repeated incursions by Pakistani militants for over two decades. It also hosts a powerful indigenous movement for independence. The deaths of the civilians were the latest in a long series of human-rights violations in the state and revived memories of the violence last June that erupted after a 17-year-old student was killed by a police tear-gas canister. The event sparked a cycle of protests and reprisals that lasted three months and claimed more than 100 lives.

One of the civilian deaths occurred in police custody, the other was the result of an "encounter" between the police and an alleged militant. They happened even as Indian forces engaged in skirmishes with militants in the district of Kupwara in northern Kashmir. The incidents were indicative of the nightmarish atmosphere that pervades the lives of civilians in the state, where more than 300,000 Indian troops are charged with keeping the peace and flushing out militants. Nazim Rashid, a shopkeeper in his twenties who also went by the name Anjum, was the first casualty. The incident took place on July 30 in Sopore, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the state capital Srinagar.

NDTV reported:

Nazim Rashid, 28, died in a police camp in Sopore on Saturday, hours after the police picked him up, to question him about his alleged role in the killing of a civilian.

The police have registered a case of murder and a magisterial inquiry has been ordered. Thousands of troops were deployed with a curfew-like situation in the town.

But none of it could stop the clashes in Krankshan Colony - where Nazim Rashid's parents live - after police initially refused to hand over Rashid's body saying, they were waiting to carry out the post-mortem. The body has subsequently been handed over to the family.

And a few days later The Telegraph reported another death:

A special police officer and a Territorial Army jawan landed in custody today for a fake encounter death after residents of a Jammu village refused to bury an "uncircumcised militant" security forces had claimed was a top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander.

A red-faced police conceded the slain man was a mentally deranged person, the embarrassing admission coming a day after a joint claim by the army and the police that they had eliminated the dreaded Abu Usman in a Saturday-night encounter.

Usman is said to be the Lashkar divisional commander for Jammu's Poonch and Rajouri districts. The forces also claimed to have seized a pistol and some ammunition.

Poonch police chief Ashkoor Wani said he had ordered his men to send the body for an autopsy after the villagers in Surankote refused to bury the man. "During investigations we found the pistol was rusted and could not fire, which increased our suspicion," the SSP added.

The state's chief minister, Omar Abdullah of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, was quick to respond to the Sopore killing, saying on his Twitter page: "The death of Anjum Rashid in police custody is a gross human right (sic) violation & inexcusable. Things like this CANNOT be allowed to happen.

He promised "Swift & exemplary action. No delays, no cover ups, no excuses. "

A few days later, NDTV.com reported that two policemen had been arrested for their roles in Rashid's death. But Abdullah also inflamed the situation by using the incident as an excuse to take a swipe at Mehbooba Mufti, head of the opposition People's Democratic Party, whose legislators were pelted with stones when they visited Rashid's family.

But the reality of Kashmir belies Abdullah's avowed intention to change the relationship between the state and its citizenry. In a long and unsettling piece called "Murder By Torture" that described the circumstances of Rashid's death, the journalist Majid Maqbool wrote:

Custodial killings and extra judicial executions have been a recurring feature of all governments in Kashmir, more so after 1989. Despite claims of normalcy by the ruling NC led coalition government, there have been eight custodial killings so far since it took over the reins on Jan 5, 2009.

[...] Last year confidential cables released by Wikileaks had revealed widespread torture by the government forces in Kashmir. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had sent evidence to US diplomats about widespread torture by government forces in Kashmir. Visits to detention centres by ICRC in the region (from 2002-04) revealed cases of beatings, electric shocks, sexual abuse and other types of ill-treatment.

According to the cables, ICRC interviewed 1,296 detainees in Kashmir, of whom more than half said they had been tortured. Out of 681 detainees, 498 claimed to have been electrocuted, 381 said they were suspended from the ceiling, and 304 cases were described as "sexual." A total of 294 described a procedure in which guards crushed their legs by putting a bar across their thighs and sitting on it, while 181 said their legs had been pulled apart into the splits.

The protests against Rashid's death continued for several days across the valley, especially in Srinagar. On Aug. 8, the Kashmir Observer reported: "Nearly a dozen youth have been arrested by the police over the past four days to quell a fresh wave of stone-pelting in Srinagar. The police has conducted a number of raids to collar youth it says are involved in renewed brick-batting and clashes that have left many injured who, according to authorities, include 23 police and paramilitary personnel wounded last Friday alone."

Andin a New Indian Express piece called "Ongoing Saga of Betrayals," Firdous Syed, who was intriguingly described as "formerly a separatist," wrote:

A single incident of custodial killing in Sopore in north Kashmir has shattered the myth of superficial peace.

[...] Since last year's unrest, in which more than 110 innocents lost their lives, the government has adopted extremely harsh measures. To create a semblance of peace, the people of the Valley are denied all means of peaceful, democratic protests. Teenagers are booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), for even hurling a stone; the draconian law allows the administration to keep anybody behind bars continuously for two years. People are not allowed to protest against grave human rights violations. Clampdown has become the standard response of the Omar Abdullah regime; it has become a routine to place under house arrest the separatist leaders at the drop of a hat.

[...] It's a vicious circle. A police atrocity triggers protest and protests may cause more deaths leading to an unending cycle of protests, resulting in more deaths. The civilian unrest is not the only apprehension that can disturb the eerie calm; increased militant activity is also a worrisome factor. For the last fortnight an increase in militant activity has been witnessed in the border belt of Kupwara, adjoining Sopore. Fresh bids of successful infiltration have taken place in Kupwara and the army claims to have killed 11 militants in the past fortnight.

[...] Custodial killings are barbarian and condemnable acts. In the absence of meaningful political processes, the security forces are left alone to deal with the situation with bullets and batons. In volatile conditions third degree methods are applied to contain the violence, little knowing that fake encounters and custodial killings will only add to the fire. This action-reaction cycle eventually pushes people to the brink. The hard measures may momentarily calm down the situation but heavy jackboots can never usher in an era of sustainable peace.

Not all is grim in Kashmir, though. In a piece published on the Reuters Website called "In dark Kashmir valley, a ray of light from India's economic surge," Sanjeev Miglani described the region's potential, which he saw firsthand after touring new businesses and meeting with young entrepreneurs in Kashmir:

In a cheerful hall humming with voices, rows of young men and women handle calls from irate cellphone subscribers in eastern India in perfect Hindi.

It could be an outsourcing centre in Bangalore or Hyderabad. But this is insurgency-scarred Kashmir, where association with India has always been regarded with suspicion.

As call centres go, the 230-seat office in a run-down industrial quarter of Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, is small compared with offices that pack in up to 3,000 workers in India's big cities.

But if the steady stream of 25 to 30 youth who show up at the office each day looking for jobs is any gauge, the rapid growth of India's giant economy is finally exerting a pull on the troubled Kashmir Valley, the heartland of a 22-year revolt.

[...] Indeed, planeloads of India's upwardly mobile middle classes have visited the picture postcard-perfect Kashmir Valley this summer, making it the busiest tourist season since the armed revolt began in 1989.

Hotels and the famed houseboats on the mirror-calm Dal lake framed by snowcapped mountains are booked for weeks even though new ones such as the Taj chain's luxurious Vivanta have opened.

The streets are blocked with traffic, the shops are filled with customers bargaining for everything from carpets to walnuts, and you could for a moment think you are in a city with its babel of languages from Bengali to Gujarati rather than a disputed region at the heart of 60 years of unremitting hostility between India and Pakistan.

Kashmir, still sullen and deeply alienated from India, cannot, it seems, escape the power of India's $1.6 trillion economy growing at 8 percent despite severe problems of governance that have taken the shine off the country as an investment destination.

What happens in Kashmir in the days and weeks to come depends on how successfully the government manages to restore public order and regain a semblance of trust. But in the longer run, the state's future depends not just on political solutions but on whether the energies and ambitions of its youth can be channeled productively both by the state and by a more engaged Indian society.

(Chandrahas Choudhury, a novelist, is the New Delhi correspondent for the World View blog. The opinions expressed are his own.)

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Police said the accident happened at 12:07 a.m. Saturday at North Causeway and North Riverside Drive.
Police said 46-year-old Mark Twining was killed and 29-year-old Robert Wilson was injured, both from Springfield, Mass.
Police said Twining lost control of his motorcycle was driving west on North Causeway.
Witnesses told police that Twining and Wilson were in the center lane to pass traffic at a high rate of speed.
Police said both drivers lost control of their motorcycles at the intersection and Twining hit a utility pole while Wilson crashed inside Old Fort Park.
Police said Wilson was treated and released for minor injuries.
Police said Twining was wearing helmet that was not Department of Transportation approved.
Alcohol is suspected to be factor in the crash. The investigation is ongoing and being conducted by traffic homicide detectives.
It is believed this is the first fatal accident of Bike Week 2014.
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WPIAL-City League basketball roundup
Highlights from today's WPIAL boys basketball quarterfinals and City League championship.
City League championship
Westinghouse won its first City League title since 1998 when it defeated Perry, 61-52. (Westinghouse pictured celebrating).
Shaquan Johnson scored 20 points for Westinghouse and Aaron Lyons added 15. The game was tied, 27-27, at halftime.
Shakeem Cox scored 19 points for Perry, but he was 7 of 32 from the field. Perry shot 28 percent (19 of 68) from the field.
WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinals
New Castle is still perfect and there will be a new champion in WPIAL Class AAAA this year.
New Castle crushed Gateway, 87-55, in a quarterfinal game today at Ambridge. New Castle is now 24-0. Gateway, meanwhile, was the two-time defending champion and had been in the title game three consecutive years.
Afterward, Gateway coach Mitch Adams used the word "great" to describe New Castle.
Gateway stayed with New Castle for a while, trailing by only 27-26 early in the second qiuarter. But over the next 12 minutes of the second and third quarters, New Castle outscored Gateway, 37-12.
Shawn Anderson led New Castle with 26 points, Malik Hooker had 14, Anthony Richards 12 and Brandon Domenick 12. Richards and Domenick both had four 3-pointers. New Castle shot 53 percent (32 of 60) from the field and had 11 3-pointers. Jordan Landfair scored 16 for Gateway.
***** Seneca Valley held No. 4 Upper St. Clair scoreless until the 4:44 mark of the second quarter and went on to defeat the Panthers, 44-34, in a WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinal at North Allegheny.
Seneca Valley led Upper St. Clair, 6-0, after the first quarter. Upper St. Clair missed its first 14 shots and committed seven turnovers prior to scoring its first basket.
Upper St. Clair fought back and got within 32-30 with 2:35 left in the fourth quarter, but Seneca Valley outscored the Panthers, 12-4, the rest of the game. R.J. McCauley led Seneca Valley with 13 points, while Grabowski paced Upper St. Clair with 16.
***** Ryan Luther scored 24 of his 31 points in the first half to help Hampton beat McKeesport, 71-63.
***** North Allegheny led by only one point after three quarters, but outscored Fox Chapel by 17 in the fourth to pull out a 79-61 win. North Allegheny's R.J. Colabrese scored 12 of his 18 points in the final quarter. Matt D'Amico led Fox Chapel with 23 points.
Class AA quarterfinals
***** Junior guard Elijah Cottrill scored 22 points to help Beaver Falls to a 66-36 win against Brentwood. Beaver Falls forced 28 turnovers. Jason Pilarski scored 21 for Brentwood.
***** In one of three upsets in Class AA, Burrell knocked off No. 2 seed Greensburg Central Catholic, 67-63, in overtime, to put the Bucs in the semifinals for the first time since 1979, when Joey "Sonar" Myers was starring for the Bucs. Burrell's Pete Spagnolo scored six of his team-high 16 points in overtime. The Nos. 2, 3 and 4 seeds in Class AA all lost.
***** No. 4 seed Jeannette was upended by Apollo-Ridge, 53-49. Apollo-Ridge came back from an 18-point first-quarter deficit to gain a semifinal berth for the first time since 1988. Tre Tipton and Connor Billingsley led Apollo-Ridge with 13 points apiece.
No. 3 seed Seton-LaSalle was upended by Quaker Valley, 62-61. Nelson Westwood scored 20 points for Quaker Valley.


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3.2 on November 24, 2014
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4.4 on November 04, 2014
The room was absolutely gorgeous and the staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The only thing I didn't like was that you are required to eat a dinner at their restaurant at your own expense and they don't tell you up front that it's very expensive. Other than that could not have asked for a better experience.
3.8 on October 28, 2014
The inn is lovely, the rooms gorgeous. The dinner was spectacular. Service is topnotch. The breakfast, however, was not nearly as wonderful as it was during our past stays. Nice, but nothing unique, as it once was.
3.8 on October 26, 2014
The perfect B&B for a visit to VA Wine Country. Perhaps the finest French cuisine we have had in the US. We felt no need to dine anywhere else. The owners are old hands and run a tight ship. Service is attentive and pleasant. The only downsides. Weak WiFi and the picnic lunch was a bit disappointing. Enthusiastically recommended.
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The room was charming with a fireplace and comfortable bed. Deluxe toiletries were available in the bath. However, the food was exceptional. The dinner was one of the 10 best meals we have ever had anywhere. The breakfast the next morning was also delicious. We would definitely return.
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My article, which appeared in the New York Daily News on Monday, February 7th, 2011
This month, there are four bills pending in Congress that would eliminate federal funding for the most trusted institution in America. For the last seven years, according to the annual Roper opinion poll, more Americans put their trust in this institution than any other. In 2010, it ranked two times higher than the criminal justice system, 2-1/2 times higher than network television and a whopping 7-1/2 times higher than Congress. One hundred and eleven million Americans use it every month, yet the U.S. spends less per capita on this institution than any other First World country spends on the equivalent. I am talking, of course, about public television.
Why cut off funds for PBS? In a recession and with unprecedented national debt, so the argument goes, America simply cannot afford to spend money on anything but the basics. Surely we can't afford Big Bird when we have things like the military and the highway system to pay for first. Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), who introduced one of the bills targeting public broadcasting, has said "It is time for Congress to prioritize its spending to our nation's most pressing needs. With the national debt over $13 trillion, the government cannot continue to fund nonessential services."
But Lamborn presents a false choice. Combined funding for PBS and NPR is about $425 million per year, which might seem like a lot until you compare it to the rest of the federal budget. In Washington, $425 million will get you about 10 feet of an aircraft carrier, or less than a single day in Iraq. It costs $850 million just to staff and run the Senate for one year. For the cost of the AIG bailout, we could have funded public broadcasting at current levels for 155 years. Defunding America's most trusted institution for such a tiny savings is a very bad deal for the American people.
So what's really behind the current threat to PBS and NPR? The same thing that's been behind all past threats: partisan political pressure.
Threats to defund PBS are nothing new. Richard Nixon, convinced that PBS news programming was biased against his administration, not only vetoed the 1972 budget for PBS, but used his influence to effectively pull all PBS news and public affairs programming from the entire 1972-73 TV season. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich famously tried to defund public media in the 1990s, claiming that federal money should not fund a "liberal" media outlet. Bill Clinton reportedly used his influence at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, to tone down criticism of the U.S. and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Each time the threat is the same: Make shows in line with the party in power, or we'll cut your funding. Like censorship, budget bullying is a cowardly thing to do. Congress should have the courage to fund public broadcasting with no strings attached, no matter who is in power. That would be the best way to assure that public TV and radio continue free of political influence from either the left or the right. Fortunately for those of us in this decade, threats in past decades have always been called off amid huge popular outcry. Let's hope this time is no different.
But let's imagine politicians really are going after PBS to trim the budget. What does this say about how much Washington respects the values that PBS stands for, and which so many Americans share: trust, excellence and universal access to culture and education?
During my 20 years as president of Channel 13, the nation's flagship PBS station, I received tens of thousands of letters from parents thanking me for the safe haven my station provided for their kids, for being the one media destination where children can always find shows to help them learn and grow, free of any commercial agenda. I got letters from immigrants, grateful for programs that helped them learn about, respect and become Americans. I remember a woman in the last months of her life who painted all the numbers on her remote control black except for the "one" and the "three." My daughter, who is a hospice nurse, has said to me, "You will never know how many dying people cling to your station in their last days."
Tough times are when the people's government should defend common values, not abandon them. When Lyndon Johnson signed the bill that created public broadcasting, he said, "It announces to the world that our nation wants more than just material wealth … we want most of all to enrich man's spirit." By eliminating funding for PBS and NPR, Congress would be telling the American people and the world just the opposite.
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