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Excellent Pictures Skyman. Do they still operate the Air combat instrumenation range near Korat? I spent a month with Wing 1 in 92. Great people.
Army making robots, will buy 96 APCs from Ukraine
The army is making bomb-disposal robots and buying armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from Ukraine to protect its troops in the far South.
Montree Sangkhasap, the chief of staff, said 10 pilot robots would be built in collaboration with King Mongkuts Institute of Technology North Bangkok, where students have just won the 2007 World Robocup Rescue Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
The 10 robots, costing more than one million baht each, will be sent to the troubled southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.
If they prove effective more will be built, said Gen Montree, who is also secretarygeneral of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).
He said the army would also build more unmanned aerial vehicles for use in the far South.
Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, army commander-in-chief and chairman of the Council for National Security, said the army would order 96 armoured personnel carriers at a cost of four billion baht from Ukraine.
Some vehicles would be stationed at the Second Infantry Division in Saraburi province and the rest would be deployed in the deep South.
Gen Sonthi said the choice was carefully considered. The Ukrainian model is within the army budget and spare parts are still being made in Ukraine.
The Defence Ministry would seal the procurement as a government-togovernment deal, he said.
Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas said last week that the army favoured the BTR-3E1 armoured vehicle, because it was the cheapest of the nine bidders. Gen Boonrawd said Canada, Russia and China had lobbied hard for the sale, but price was the deciding factor.
The Canadian vehicles are excellent, but we would get only half of the 96 vehicles we will get from Ukraine. Its like buying Japanese cars over European cars, he said.
In June the navy signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with the US government to purchase two Sikorsky MH60S Nighthawk helicopters for an estimated price of $58 million (1.7 billion baht) inclusive of spares, support and training. The agreement specifies delivery in 2009, the online Defence Industry Daily reported.
Excellent Pictures Skyman. Do they still operate the Air combat instrumenation range near Korat? I spent a month with Wing 1 in 92. Great people.
If you mean whether the RTAF still uses Wing 1 in Korat, the answer is yes. We got 2 Sqn. of F-16 there.
If you mean whether the RTAF uses the area around Wing 1 for air combat training, the answer is I don't know exactly. As far as I know we got the gunnery range in Lop buri and Kornkean for A2G training and in the gulf of Thailand near Sattahip for air combat training.
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The Hello Kitty cartoon character is known across Asia
Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.
The armband is large, bright pink and has a Hello Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered on it.
From today, officers who are late, park in the wrong place or commit other minor transgressions will have to wear it for several days.
The armband is designed to shame the wearer, police officials said.
"This is to help build discipline. We should not let small offences go unnoticed," Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan told ******* news agency.
"Guilty officers will be made to wear the armbands in the office for a few days, with instructions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done," he said.
Further offences would be dealt with using a more traditional disciplinary panel, he said.
The cartoon character Hello Kitty was first introduced by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974.
The cute round-faced cat has become an Asia-wide marketing phenomenon, with Hello Kitty products such as stationery, hair accessories and kitchen appliances available across the region.
Turning pink with shame
A pink ''Hello Kitty'' armband wrapped around a khaki-clad arm is shouting for attention at the police Crime Suppression Division.
It is a new disciplinary measure introduced especially for police investigators who refuse to play by the rules.
Starting this week, the warning will come in the form of the popular Japanese cat cartoon sitting on a heart on a pink background.
''The same old warnings no longer work for some officers,'' CSD acting chief Pongpat Chayaphan said.
''This new approach is intended to engender a feeling of guilt and discourage them from repeating the offence.''
Pol Gen Pongpat said 10 armbands were available. In addition to wearing it, a first-time offender must accompany the officer rostered as deputy chief of the day. That means walking to all parts of the CSD office, and being seen wearing the armband.
The wearers are prohibited from disclosing their offence with other officers or discussing the armband.
In the case of a second offence, a panel comprising 18 warrant officers will decide on an appropriate punishment, which could be standing guard, or detention, or even a harsher penalty. This would have to be approved by the CSD chief.
Pol Gen Pongpat said police must practise self discipline. Otherwise, their behaviour could get out of hand to the point of abusing the law or mistreating the public.
''Like a thief, once the first crime is committed the next one is always a worse offence,'' he said.
Offences liable to earn an officer the pink Kitty include failing to report for duty, parking in a prohibited area, fighting, or being the subject of a complaint about poor service.
Policemen see it as a bitter pill to swallow. Most agree it would be quite embarrassing to have to wear the pink armband, which stands out in vivid contrast against their uniform.
When a verbal warning is not taken seriously, the Crime Suppression Division will get tough _ by handing out pink "Hello Kitty" armbands to undisciplined police investigators.
Soldier guarding injury man in the hospital. In the last 6 months, RTA launch the "Operation Southern Protection" which is consists of 14 operations to search for the militant in the deep south. More than 500 suspected and 50 guns were arrested and captured.
Photo credit: Thai Jurnalist Association
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Ukraine Snags Large Armored Personnel Carrier Deal in Thailand
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KYIV, Aug. 6 – Sources in Bangkok said Monday that Thailand will strengthen its military with the purchase in a government-to-government deal of 96 BTR-3E1 armored personnel carriers designed and produced by the state-owned Kharkiv Morozov plant at Kharkiv, Ukraine. The deal is valued at four billion Thai baht, the equivalent of approximately 670 million Ukrainian hryvnia.
Military sources in Thailand said the choice of Ukraine's APCs was based primarily on price and the fact that Ukraine will continue making spare parts for its vehicles.
Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas was quoted in press reports as having said last week that the army favored the Ukraine-made BTR-3E1 armored vehicle because it was the cheapest of the nine bidders. There were nine competitors for the contract with Ukraine beating out spirited efforts by Canada, Russia and China.
In addition to the APCs, Thailand will internally build 10 bomb-disposal robots, which along with the APCs will be used primarily to protect its troops in the troubled far south of the country.
In addition to the purchases for the Thai army, the Thai navy recently signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with the US government to purchase two Sikorsky MH-60S Nighthawk helicopters for an estimated price of $58 million (1.7 billion baht) inclusive of spares, support and training for delivery in 2009.
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103 Sqn. First F-16 sqn. from Peace Naresuan I & II and Singapore donation in exchange with training in Thailand
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What would be awesome is if the fighter jets got Garuda paintjobs.
Singapore's minister visits Thailand
Singapore (dpa) - Singapore's Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean kicked off a visit to Thailand on Tuesday which includes calls on Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont and other senior officials.
He will also meet with Defence Minister Boonrawd Somtas, said a Singapore defence ministry statement.
The three-day visit "underscores the close and excellent bilateral defence relationship between Singapore and Thailand," the ministry said.
The armed forces of both countries cooperate closely on a broad range of multilateral activities such as training exercises and professional exchanges.
"Such interactions are mutually beneficial, enhancing the professionalism ... and camaraderie between the officers and men," the statement said.
Thank to Mr. Napoleon.
The sign to you not to park here.
Sonthi gets military award from Singapore
Singapore (dpa) - The commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin, received on Friday a prestigious military award from Singapore Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean.
The Meritorious Service Medal was awarded to Gen Sonthi in recognition of his contributions toward enhancing the strong ties between the Singapore and Thai armies, the defence ministry said in a statement.
"The two armies engage in a wide spectrum of activities," ranging from bilateral exercises to regular professional exchanges and attendance at each other's courses, boosting the comradeship between the officers and men, it added.
Gen Sonthi led a coup on September 19, 2006, overthrowing the elected government of then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Gen Sonthi, who was scheduled to call on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong later Friday, has met with Teo and other military officials during his visit which started on Thursday.
F8F Bearcat. Previously commissioned in RTAF, was restored to make her fly again by Thai Aircraft Preserving and Developmeting Foundation and Tango Historical Squadorn.
This Bearcat is one of the 13 bearcats in the world that still can fly. Painted by using the pattern during the time in commission. The photo show the engine test in May 2007.
Thai voters 'approve new charter'
Gen Surayud Chulanont, Thailand's post-coup prime minister, casts his vote on 19 August
Gen Surayud said the charter would go to the king shortly
Thailand's military coup leaders have won a referendum on a new constitution by a large margin, taking around 70% of Sunday's vote, exit polls suggest.
It was the first vote to be held since Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted by the army last year and replaced with Gen Surayud Chulanont.
About 60% of voters turned out, according to the election commission.
Thaksin supporters had urged a No vote, saying the new constitution had been drafted by an illegitimate government.
But Prime Minister Surayud said the result marked a victory.
"We consider that this constitution has been approved by the people, and by the end of August the constitution will be submitted to the king for endorsement," he told national television.
This referendum was about a lot more than the 194-page constitution which few Thais are likely to have read, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok - it was also a vote on the coup itself.
The charter is meant to replace the popular 1997 constitution, which the generals tore up after seizing power.
Bangkok rally 13 August
Coup central to Thai charter vote
Critics say the new constitution is less democratic, as it proposes that the Senate should be only partly elected.
But the government says there were too many loopholes in the old charter that allowed Mr Thaksin to abuse power.
Its also says the new charter has many other clauses, like those recognising minority rights, which are more liberal than before.
The draft document limits future prime ministers to two terms in office and makes it easier to impeach them.
The military has promised elections to restore democratic government by the end of the year, on the basis of the new constitution.
Considerable opposition to the new rulers remains in the countryside of the north and north-east, where poor farmers stay loyal to Mr Thaksin.

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Agreed. Everybody can claim the guy isn't a net loss, he's an a**hole and all the other disparaging things sure to come from fans that feel betrayed, but his absence represents a downgrade for our pass rush. Ayers isn't going to scare anybody.
I have faith in our scouts, coaches and the Elway-led draft room to find a guy that can replace Dumervil, but our priorities could've been a RB or MLB instead of a high pick for a pass rush specialist. Damit.
From my perspective as a Broncos fan... Dumervil could have gotten away with a lot of things. But putting himself and his ego above the team... being willing to try to pull a fast one in an effort to avoid a pay cut; scapegoating his agent in a strange attempt to shift the blame for something he clearly was orchestrating himself; wasting time dragging out the announcement of his decision; going to a rival AFC team for less $; and jumping on the media circuit to trash his former team.... all of those things are pretty much "not-the-actions-of-a-true-team-player"; they're what you'd expect from an egocentric flavor clown.
I'm just glad that Elway had the foresight to do what had to be done (set a deadline and cut his ass when he missed it). Dumervil isn't worth $12 mil this year and he's delusional if he genuinely believes he is.
Out of wounded pride, Dumervil set out to do damage to the team we all love... and he did it. He deserves every iota of criticism that comes his way. And if he thinks his new team isn't taking note of his actions on his way out of Denver, he'd best think again. The Ravens (front office/management) have to know they're gonna need to be able to negotiate salaries/cap numbers in the near future due to Flacco's contract. They aren't gonna trust Dumervil any more than Elway did.
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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Richard and Felicity Dossor operate a small farm next to the Margaret River at Osmington, about 20km east of Margaret River town. The farm produces citrus (mandarins, lemons, limes), avocados, asparagus, table grapes (Dawn Seedless and Marroo) and wine under the Rocky Ponds label (Shiraz and Viognier). New varieties of fruit including persimmons and figs are under trial. All of our produce is available at the Margaret River Farmers Market when in season.
Business: Blackwood Meadery
Owner: Horst Bernhagen
Address: Brockman Hwy, Karridale, WA 6288
Ph: 08 9758 2332
Fax: 08 9758 2332
Blackwood Meadery is a new boutique winery specialising in Mead. Mead is wine made from honey rather than grapes and is the oldest fermented beverage known to man. It can be traced back at least 5,000 years dating back through antiquity to Nordic legends and non-mythological history. During these times the bee was held in high regard as honey was considered 'the giver of life', courage, strength and wisdom.
Business: Burnside Organic Farm
Owner: Lara & Jamie McCall
Address: Burnside Rd, Margaret River, WA 6285
Ph: (08) 9757 2139
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Certified Biodynamic with Organic Growers Association, Burnside is a mixed intensive farm growing; Avocados, olives, Zinfandel grapes, macadamias, capers, fruit trees and vegetables. Dexter cattle, sheep, chickens and geese are an important part of the system, rotated throughout the crops and providing meat. Firstly the McCall family aim to be self-sufficient, secondly excess produce is sold locally in Margaret River. So you too can enjoy eating locally grown, nutritionally dense organic food. We are proud of the quality produce we grow and farm visits are available by appointment.
Burnside also has four lovely holiday bungalows so you too can experience a working organic farm and pick dinner from the garden. Book online now.
The only certified biodynamic capers in Margaret River. The capers are the unopened flower bud. Hand picked weekly throughout summer, sorted and packed in WA sea salt. The taste is unique, delicious and almost buttery. Very different to imported capers in vinegar.
Available from June each year and they sell out quickly.
Certified Biodynamic Hass avocados. Our avocados are large and creamy tasting. They thrive with heavy mulching, compost and lots of water. Chickens and geese keep down the grass around the trees. Hand picked from October to December, they are then sorted into sizes. Did you know an Avocado only ripens once picked? Hass avocados turn black as they ripen. Supermarket avocados are sprayed to fasten ripening and hence they are black and bruised from other shoppers squeezing them. We suggest you buy avocados weekly and ripen them yourself. We mainly sell unripe/green avocados for this reason. For ripe avocados please order in advance.
Available at the Margaret River Farmers Markets or purchase at Station Rd Greengrocers – October – December only.
The only certified biodynamic macadamias in Margaret River. No other macadamias compare to the taste of freshly picked and cracked macadamias. We dehusk, dry, crack and roast our macadamias on site, the nuts are sold farm fresh to the customer. Being a winter crop the nuts must dry out before cracking and are usually only available in summer.
Sold in shell, cracked raw and roasted, exclusively at the Margaret River Farmers Market.
Grazing Geese Cold Pressed Unfiltered Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Our Pendolino, Frantoio and Leccino olives were pressed at a local press in autumn. The fruit was hand picked from our certified biodynamic grove. The oil has a complex, pungent, grassy flavour with a peppery aftertaste. The flavour and health characteristics are best appreciated as a fresh young oil. Our olives receive lots of compost and mulch and thrive on the biodiversity of life in our naturally enriched soil. Our flock of geese graze all day, eating the grass under the trees and providing natural fertilizer. The trees enjoy the Mediterranean climate of Margaret River. Mild summers and wet winters.
Also available at The Larder, Blue Ginger & IGA in Margaret River or phone for a delivery.
Burnside Organic Farm Biodynamic Eggs
The only Certified Biodynamic eggs in Margaret River. The chickens are rotated through different areas on our farm, eating green pasture and certified biodynamic grain. This allows them to produce eggs naturally full of omega 3's as well as providing beautiful yellow yolk eggs. The chickens are an integrated part of the farm, weeding and fertilizing the orchard, avocados and vineyard.
Available at Station Road Greengrocers, Margaret River and sometimes at the markets in summer.
Three Boys Zinfandel Wine
Our biodynamically certified vineyard was planted in 2001. The unirrigated vines are close planted on lyre trellis in red gravelly loam soils. The grapes are picked at perfect ripeness, open fermented in small vats and aged in a mix of old and new American oak barrels. Malolatic fermentation takes place in the barrels. Minimal sulphur is added at bottling.
Our zinfandel is a full bodied wine with rich berry flavours with a hint of spice and vanilla. Drink now or cellar for up to seven years. Enjoy with aged cheeses, prosciutto, tomato based or meat dishes.
Zinfandel originated in Puglia, Southern Italy, where it is known as Primitivo. The Puglian climate is similar to that of Margaret River. Dry warm summers and wet cool winters with a moderating maritime influence.
2008 Vintage – Medium bodied with lovely red berry flavours, touch a spice and chocolate.
Buy wine online now http://wine.burnsideorganicfarm.com.au/
Also available at The Settlers Tavern & Must, Margaret River.
Cellar sales and tours available by appointment. Ph 08 9757 2139.
Business: Marjorie's Place
Owners: Mike & Kaye O'Connor
Address: 275 Barrett Rd, Rosa Brook, WA 6285
Ph: 0448 446 882
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Marjorie's Place, in the heart of the great Rosa Brook wine area, east of Margaret River town, is a small boutique vineyard where every vine is lovingly cared for with a view to producing high quality grapes and wine.
The wine has been made for us by a prominent Local Winemaker and the process has included over 12 months in French oak barrels (20% new French oak).
The wine exhibits the black currant and cherry flavours, characteristic of this fine wine growing area of the Margaret River region, and is expected to have considerable longevity.
Marjorie's FoxX Hatt CaBernet 2008
It is a well known fact that many of the top wine awards in our wine shows go to smaller Boutique Vineyards. This is possibly because smaller producers can control all aspects of the development of the vines with attention to detail that is more difficult with broad acre viticulture.
Each vine can be given attention and when handpicked as is the case at Marjorie's Place, only the best bunches of grapes are taken and the process is much gentler than when the fruit is machine harvested.
These reds were picked in early April 2009 and spent over 12 months in oak (20% new French Oak) before bottling.
They are very drinkable now but also display sufficient evidence of tannins to give expectation of considerable longevity.
"Marjorie", the inspiration for the development and naming of the property, is Kaye's mother.
Our label depicts Marge on her wedding day, 1937.
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Business: Bettenay's Margaret River Nougat Company
Owner: Terry Bettenay
Address: Corner Miamup Rd & Tom Cullity Drive, Wilyabrup, WA 6284
Ph: 08 9755 5539
Mobile: 0419 838 435
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Web: www.margaretrivernougat.com.au
Being a family owned and run business, we are open 7 days a week at our tasting room in Margaret River.
We also attend the Margaret River farmer's Market all year round providing samples of our extensive range of nougat products. Our nougat is hand crafted in small batches using a secret family recipe. This French style nougat is a very moreish treat with a creamy, rich texture unlike any other.
In 1988 we set up a vineyard and winery on their Margaret River property. After 18 years of making premium wines we decided there was another product we also had a passion for and this is where the nougat began.
Sourcing the finest fruit and nuts as well as local honey, Bettenay's Margaret River Nougat is the ultimate moreish treat. All our nougat is made in small batches and each bar is hand wrapped and crafted. Our bars contain all natural ingredients and have no added preservatives.
Although based on a French style, our nougat is made using a secret family recipe and is a style of its own, a uniqueness unlike any other.
The Range
Our current nougat range is continually being updated with new combinations. We have three nougat bases being traditional, white chocolate and milk chocolate. Fruit and nut combinations are added to the base nougat and we are always in search for the 'perfect' flavour combination. Many say that the Cranberry & Pistachio is the ultimate flavour. We could agree however there is no harm in continuing the search. You are more than welcome to join us in this venture.
Current Nougat Range
See website for complete tasting notes, alternatively come to the markets and taste for yourselves.
Bettenay Wines
In 1988 we searched the Margaret River region for an ideal property on which to grow grapes. Eric Bettenay, Greg's father, had spent many years working for the CSIRO mapping the soils of Western Australia. With Greg's academic background, an Honours Degree in Horticulture, it is not surprising we ended up with one of the best vineyard sites in the region.
Last year alone, saw our new releases receiving a total of 37 medal including being a finalist in the Sheraton Awards for our Cabernet 2007. Our Chardonnay received a Gold at the Margaret River Wine Show.
Here's hoping for an equally successful 2011!!!
The Lost Plot range started back in 2000, originally to market the infamous Chilli Rose. Soon after, the range increased, becoming well known around the area for the Lost Plot Dog. This range continues to be a big seller, bringing a fun, new age, new world approach to wine making.
We look forward to welcoming you, to share in this treat of treats.
See you soon,
The Bettenay Family
Every Saturday 8am - 12pm
At the Margaret River Education Campus, Lot 272 Bussell Hwy, Margaret River.
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Samsung launches a mobile TV phone to the Italian market this month through Telecom Italia. This mobile TV phone combines not only the latest mobile TV technology, but it also combines HSDPA technology, which enables high-speed data transmission.
Samsung has provided a mobile TV phone to Telecom Italia since May 2006. Samsung's successful drive in the Italian market has been a big step in leading Europe 's mobile TV phone market.
Samsung's newest model, the P930, adopts horizontal LCD screen for optimal mobile TV watching and supports stereo speaker.
The P930 has wide 2.3 inch LCD and supports Picture in Picture (PIP) function to watch two TV channels simultaneously. It adopts a 2-megapixel camera for high-quality photo shooting and a VGA camera for convenient video telephony. It also supports a microSD external memory slot for better storage.
The mobile TV market is lead by three different standards; DVB-H in Europe, MediaFLO in the U.S and DMB in Korea. Samsung is leading all three standards by supplying world's first S-DMB and T-DMB phone in Korea, Europe's first T-DBM phone in Germany, Europe's first DVB-H phone in Italy and by successfully demonstrating the MediaFLO mobile TV technology at 'CTIA Wireless 2006' in the U.S. market.
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Fly High & Fall
not only is the expression absent, but its very meaning is unthinkable in the seventeenth century…. For to speak of the divine right of kings is to return to affirming that God's express will is for all men to be ruled by a royal government…. And yet, even for those who profoundly favored the monarchy, nothing could be less true in the eyes of the period's political thinkers, … and especially in the eyes of Bossuet.
Even if Bossuet was convinced that the French model of hereditary monarchy was the best form of government—a government of which he was a subject and for whose future responsibilities he was actively preparing the dauphin; even if he recognized his King as the absolute authority (quite literally "untied by chains"); this does not mean, as Buckley believes, that he was a "fanatical" proponent of the alliance between throne and altar.
This could well be forgiven as a simple oversight about one of the many characters populating this highly enjoyable biography of more than four hundred pages, except that Buckley continues undaunted. She affirms that Bossuet,
with his famed, mighty theological intellect, was a complete ignoramus as far the Church's mystic tradition was concerned: it appeared that he had never read a word of Saint François de Sales or even of the great mystic theologian, Saint John of the Cross.
Quite apart from the fact that Bossuet would have been the only cultivated Frenchman of the seventeenth century not to have read de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote, whose importance Buckley is absolutely correct to stress—and quite apart from the fact that Bossuet was most certainly familiar with the bishop of Geneva's mystical summa Traité de l'Amour de Dieu, as is clearly shown by his "Préface sur l'Instruction pastorale donnée à Cambray le quinzième de septembre 1697"—Bossuet's Panégyrique du bienheureux François de Sales alone puts the lie to the accusation that he was such an "ignoramus." As for Saint John of the Cross, a rapid check reveals that Bossuet cites him frequently—and always approvingly—in his Instruction sur les états d'oraison (Book VII) and in his Latin treatise Mystici in tuto.
What is true, however, is that Bossuet reserved his full faith for the Church fathers. As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism—a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated.
To take another example, Françoise wrote to her confessor Père Godet des Marais (Père Gobelin's successor): "I take communion only out of obedience…. I experience no union with God…. Prayers bore me…. I meditate poorly." Buckley interprets this passage as demonstrating that "she felt within her no real spirituality." But in fact it suggests the exact opposite. The entire spiritual correspondence of the great theologian François Fénelon is a variation on the theme of sécheresse de l'esprit (dryness of spirit), a subject dear to the religious thinkers of the time. Fénelon exerted a strong fascination over Mme de Maintenon. He wrote to her:
It is He [God] who causes dryness, impatience, and discouragement to arise within us in order to humiliate us through temptation and reveal us to ourselves just as we are.1
And when Buckley sarcastically cites Père Godet's invitation to his penitents to thank God for a toothache—"He afflicts those whom He loves. Pain is His gift to His cherished children"—as an example of "the petty, restraining, pious exercises" that Françoise found useless, she misunderstands the fact that in the seventeenth century, physical and moral suffering were interpreted as God's own language.
Buckely ignores an important aspect of Françoise's character by failing to take into account the central spiritual problems of the age or to grasp the importance of the influence on Mme de Maintenon of such charismatic religious thinkers as Fénelon and Bossuet. She shows that Françoise's pragmatic approach to morality sustained her up until her arrival at Versailles. From that point on, however, pragmatism was no longer sufficient to guide her through the labyrinth of her own conscience, which was divided between sacred and profane love; between her mission of saving the King and the sin of concupiscence; between her need to safeguard the dignity of her public persona and her feelings of loneliness. Nor did it help her confront the vanity of her ambitions.
The success of Françoise's campaign to reform the life of the King—he reconciled with his wife in 1680 and abstained from further sexual conquests—did not put her problems of conscience to rest. And if religion did not prevent her from continuing in a compromised situation, it nonetheless taught her many lessons: to distrust herself and others; to live with an awareness of her own sinfulness; and to strip herself progressively of worldly illusions. In the late 1680s Mme de Maintenon was drawn toward quietism, the spiritual movement being spread, with Fénelon's blessing, by the visionary mystic Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon. Quietism held that prayer should be as silent and passive as possible while one awaited illumination by the Holy Spirit. It encouraged abandoning the self completely to God's will. Quietism became the subject of a theological debate in which Bossuet and Fénelon were locked in bitter confrontation and resulted in the Church's condemnation of the movement and Mme Guyon's arrest. Reprimanded by Louis XIV for involvement in what he took to be unorthodox and possibly seditious ideas, Françoise quickly returned to strict Catholic observance.
If Mme de Maintenon's religious fer-vor enabled her to gain the King's intimate confidence, it was, as Buckley writes, the Affaire des poisons that cemented his attachment to her.2 Beginning in 1677, a judicial inquiry revealed the existence of a vast criminal network of "witches," fortune-tellers, abortionists, and peddlers of drugs and poisons who made their services available to the capital's upper classes, and from whom Mme de Montespan obtained aphrodisiacs to give to the King. There were also darker rumors that she had participated in satanic rites and black masses to liquidate her rivals. The King, much distraught, realized that the "Affair of the Poisons" would not have come about without the complicity of a profoundly amoral society, and that he himself—at least insofar as his own sexual appetites were concerned—had set the example. He ended his relationship with Mme de Montespan and, with Mme de Maintenon's encouragement, changed his life. When he was abruptly widowed in July 1683, the King, who had grown accustomed to Françoise's support, decided to assuage his conscience and secretly married her that October.
In this extraordinary way, Françoise d'Aubigné, on the threshold of turning forty-eight, began what might have seemed at first the most successful period of her life. But the marriage brought her little happiness. Not only was it never officially acknowledged, she had no official title or status at the court, where protocol and position were rigidly defined. The secret arrangement exempted the King from all gestures of formal recognition while depriving his wife of all guarantees of security, making her entirely dependent on his benevolence. The prisoner of a "humiliating duplicity," neither official wife and queen nor maîtresse en titre, Mme de Maintenon now saw her "fine reputation"—the very attribute that had brought her to such heights—vanish. In the eyes of the court and the entire country, she was an adventuress who hid her guilty relationship behind a façade of prudishness.
Their insurmountable differences in rank, not to mention the King's egotism, would have made an official marriage impossible. But Buckley detests the Sun King too much to content herself with these explanations. She maintains that Louis wanted deliberately to mortify the pride of the woman he loved because he harbored an inferiority complex toward her. He feared being dominated: "in human terms, in intellect and character, it was she who was the stronger."
Even if we accepted all of Buckley's views of Louis XIV—she accuses him of "meanness of spirit" and claims that he was "not especially clever" and "egocentric and vain"—it is anachronistic psychologizing to say that he feared "a new 'Queen Françoise'" who was "more astute, perhaps," than he and who might be capable of "interfering in public affairs." With the exception of widows who governed as regents in the names of their underaged sons, queens had no power in the French monarchy of the ancien régime. This was especially true in the reign of the Sun King, who jealously guarded his authority and always enforced the strictest separation between affairs of state and affairs of the heart.
Certainly, however, Louis XIV's marriage to Françoise coincided with his premature physical decline as well as with the beginning of the downward turn of his reign.3 From 1685 on, he was plagued by gout, "vapors," gastric disturbances, migraines, eczema, anal fistulas, and frightful surgical interventions. He withstood this suffering with the same stoicism with which he faced the long series of family losses and the military reversals that marked his last years on the throne. Beginning with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), which forced many thousands of Protestants either to convert or face exile, the Sun King made a series of decisions that had terrible consequences. His attempts to dominate Europe brought the other European states into coalition against him, and the ensuing series of interminable wars left France exhausted and nearly bankrupt.
Mme de Maintenon hated war as much as she detested violence and, contrary to what has long been believed, she was not responsible for the renewed religious persecutions. At the same time, she was not averse to using her influence with the King, especially in promoting the careers of those close to her. She also wished to restore her family's honor and used her new position to do so. She commissioned the fashionable author La Chapelle to write a biography of her illustrious grandfather, Agrippa d'Aubigné.4 Unfortunately her remaining brother, Charles d'Aubigné, proved a continual source of worry and embarrassment. That left her Protestant cousins, who stubbornly refused to embrace Catholicism even though this was the indispensable precondition for any kind of professional success. And so, even before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the marquise contrived to wrest the children of her beloved cousin Philippe de Villette from their parents, forced them to convert, and took charge of their educations. The boy was started on a brilliant military career, and the girl—the future Mme de Caylus—grew up under the vigilant eye of her cousin and emerged as an unusually well- educated young woman.
Not content with supervising the education of her own relations and that of her royal consort's legitimate and illegitimate descendants, Mme de Maintenon founded, with Louis XIV's official support, the Royal Institute of Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr in 1686. The institute was to educate some 250 young women from the impoverished nobility and furnish them with dowries. As the daughter of fallen nobles herself, she could attest to the importance of education and knowledge of social propriety. Saint-Cyr, moreover, represented the sole official homage paid to her by Louis XIV and, as its founder and benefactor, it was only there that she could enjoy complete legitimacy. After the King's death in 1715, she retired to Saint-Cyr until her death on April 15, 1719.
Saint-Cyr was the first state-run institution dedicated to the systematic education, from childhood through adulthood, of girls of good family. Inspired by ideas that Fénelon would soon espouse in his treatise De l'éducation des filles (1687), Mme de Maintenon showed ingenious insight in developing a forward-looking and lasting pedagogical model. She handpicked the instructors and, at least at the beginning, wanted them to be laypeople (both she and the King distrusted the educational methods practiced in the convents), while also insisting that the institute's first objective was to provide the girls with a Christian education. She divided the students by age into four forms, selected their readings and their leisure activities, and decided how their days would be organized. Jean Racine wrote his last two religious tragedies—Esther (1689) and Athalie (1691), both based on biblical stories—on her commission for recitation by the pupils. She placed great importance on dialogue between teachers and students and on the priority of reason and reflection over memorization, while also insisting on the necessity of taking into account each student's character and personal outlook.
Still more important than the institution of Saint-Cyr and the vast ensemble of pedagogical writings she devoted to it,5 Françoise d'Aubigné's most enduring monument is her correspondence. At more than five thousand letters, it is not only one of the seventeenth century's most ample collections; it is also among the most remarkable for the diversity of those whom she addressed (friends, relatives, and the women of Saint-Cyr, as well as royalty, popes, papal nuncios, bishops, cardinals, and civil servants) and for the variety of subjects it touches on. Her letters can be admired for their elegant language and their masterful use of an entire spectrum of diverse stylistic and linguistic modes applied, time and again, to each correspondent in accordance with the rules of the epistolary art of the classical age.
It is therefore important that after three centuries of unreliable and incomplete editions, the letters of Mme de Maintenon will finally appear in a complete and rigorous scholarly edition, with Hans Bots and Eugénie Bots-Estourgie heading a team of excellent researchers.The first of the seven volumes, published in Paris last fall, includes 667 letters—accompanied by precise dates and extremely valuable historical notes—which span the years 1650 to 1689 and allow us to follow the crucial years of Françoise's adventure, through what Bots and Christine Mongenot have defined as an epistolary style "in the service of action."6 The new edition of the Lettres, by greatly enhancing our awareness of the complexity of the strategies she used to make herself impenetrable, offers new sources for fresh inquiry into the enigma of Mme de Maintenon.
"C'est lui [Dieu] qui fait naître au-dedans la sécheresse, l'impatience, le découragement, pour nous humilier par la tentation, et pour nous montrer à nous-mêmes tels qui nous sommes." See François Fénelon, "Des croix qu'il y a dans l'état de prospérité, de faveur, de grandeur," in uvres, edited by Jacques Le Brun (Paris: Gallimard/Pléiade, 1983) Vol. 1, p. 569.↩
See Anne Somerset, The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (St. Martin's, 2003).↩
An interesting essay by Stanis Perez, La Santé de Louis XIV: Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil (Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2007), draws on the Journal de Santé kept by his doctors to show that the King was highly respectful of the authority of those responsible for watching over his physical health in the interest of the country, whatever his personal reservations may have been.↩
Composed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, during a period of renewed persecutions against the Huguenots, the Mémoires pour servir à la vie d'Agrippa d'Aubigné glorify the courtier, warrior, man of action, and servant to the king and furnish an image consistent with his descendant's wishes. The Mémoires remained in manuscript and were only published recently, edited by Gilles Banderier (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2008).↩
In the US, see Mme de Maintenon, Dialogues and Addresses, superbly edited by John J. Conley, S.J. (University of Chicago Press, 2005) as part of "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe," a series dedicated to texts and writings by women.↩
Lettres de Madame de Maintenon, Volume 1: 1650–1689, critical edition edited by Hans Bots and Eugénie Bots-Estourgie, with a preface by Marc Fumaroli and an introduction by Hans Bots and Christine Mongenot (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2009).↩
"C'est lui [Dieu] qui fait naître au-dedans la sécheresse, l'impatience, le découragement, pour nous humilier par la tentation, et pour nous montrer à nous-mêmes tels qui nous sommes." See François Fénelon, "Des croix qu'il y a dans l'état de prospérité, de faveur, de grandeur," in uvres, edited by Jacques Le Brun (Paris: Gallimard/Pléiade, 1983) Vol. 1, p. 569.↩
See Anne Somerset, The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV (St. Martin's, 2003).↩
An interesting essay by Stanis Perez, La Santé de Louis XIV: Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil (Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2007), draws on the Journal de Santé kept by his doctors to show that the King was highly respectful of the authority of those responsible for watching over his physical health in the interest of the country, whatever his personal reservations may have been.↩
Composed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, during a period of renewed persecutions against the Huguenots, the Mémoires pour servir à la vie d'Agrippa d'Aubigné glorify the courtier, warrior, man of action, and servant to the king and furnish an image consistent with his descendant's wishes. The Mémoires remained in manuscript and were only published recently, edited by Gilles Banderier (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2008).↩
In the US, see Mme de Maintenon, Dialogues and Addresses, superbly edited by John J. Conley, S.J. (University of Chicago Press, 2005) as part of "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe," a series dedicated to texts and writings by women.↩
Lettres de Madame de Maintenon, Volume 1: 1650–1689, critical edition edited by Hans Bots and Eugénie Bots-Estourgie, with a preface by Marc Fumaroli and an introduction by Hans Bots and Christine Mongenot (Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2009).↩


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From our studios in Wheatley Street, North Bellingen, the 107.3 signal is transmitted via a Studio to Transmitter radio link (850 MHz) to a receiver at the Scothchmans Loop in Bellingen (just past the Primary School). The signal is then fed into the Bellingen transmitter with an output strength of 200 watts and services the immediate township of Bellingen and close outlying regions.
When broadcast the 107.3 signal is received by our Translator Station which is situated on the Francis Lookout on the Dorrigo Plateau. The Dorrigo translator has an output strength of 1,500 watts (1.5kw) and broadcasts on 93.3 MHz. This signal services further outlying areas of the Shire and as far as Nambucca Heads, Kempsey and Port Macquarie.
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Miranda Kerr Is Way Too F@#king Hot
The MET Costume Institute Gala was held last night and supermodel Miranda Kerr decided to show up dressed as one of the hottest f@#king women on the planet. Jesus, my pants just got real tight. Her outfit seems to be falling apart, almost as if she wants us to see her sweet luscious curves that could fit perfectly in the palm of my hand. My pants are loose again… Odd.
Miranda Kerr in her Lingerie
Brooke Adams in a Tiny Bikini
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Fox host Chris Wallace reacted to a U.S. Senate investigation into the Bush administration's torture policies by claiming he "would have waterboarded" Al Qaeda terrorist "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed myself." Wallace's remark came after it was reported that the investigation concluded waterboarding Mohammed didn't provide critical information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden, as defenders of the technique had claimed.
Last week the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify the executive summary and conclusions of a lengthy report about the Bush-era CIA's detention and interrogation program. The White House will now have to approve the release. The Associated Press reported that aides and people briefed on the report said the investigation found waterboarding was ineffective.
With regard to Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times, the AP reported the "Senate report concludes such information wasn't critical" and "confirmed only what investigators already knew":
The most high-profile detainee linked to the bin Laden investigation was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused 9/11 mastermind who was waterboarded 183 times. Mohammed, intelligence officials have noted, confirmed after his 2003 capture that he knew an important al-Qaida courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.
The Senate report concludes such information wasn't critical, according to the aides. Mohammed only discussed al-Kuwaiti months after being waterboarded, while he was under standard interrogation, they said. And Mohammed neither acknowledged al-Kuwaiti's significance nor provided interrogators with the courier's real name.
The debate over how investigators put the pieces together is significant because years later, the courier led U.S. intelligence to the sleepy Pakistani military town of Abbottabad. There, in May 2011, Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in a secret mission.
Essentially, they argue, Mohammed, [senior al-Qaida operative Abu Faraj] al-Libi and others subjected to harsh treatment confirmed only what investigators already knew about the courier. And when they denied the courier's significance or provided misleading information, investigators would only have considered that significant if they already presumed the courier's importance.
The classified Senate report adds more support to other national security experts who have concluded that waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" did not provide effective information leading to bin Laden's capture.
During an April 4 appearance on The Mike Gallagher Show, Wallace previewed Fox News Sunday by saying he'd talk about "enhanced interrogation and whether or not the CIA covered up what was actually going on. I personally, I would have waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed myself." On Fox News Sunday, Wallace noted the investigation's reported conclusion "that the enhanced interrogation produced little intelligence of significance." In 2009, Wallace similarly remarked that when it comes to waterboarding, "I'm with" fictional 24 character "Jack Bauer on this."
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Fox News has hired back Liz Cheney as a contributor after her unsuccessful Senate run. Cheney's rehiring is the latest example of the cushy platform Fox News provides for Republicans before and after they run for political office.
Cheney announced last July that she was challenging Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, and left her post as a Fox News contributor. Fox had frequently turned to Cheney on national security issues, and her appearances featured little more than the usual Republican platitudes against the Obama administration. Like others, Cheney found ways to use her Fox platform to set up her future run.
Cheney's campaign failed to gain traction, and was notable for a series of missteps, including the filing of a false application for a fishing license, and a family feud over Cheney's opposition to marriage equality. Cheney received support from Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Andrea Tantaros. She dropped out of the race in January, citing family health issues.
The former Bush administration official returned to Fox News as a contributor on the April 6 edition of Fox News Sunday. Little changed, as Cheney defended Bush against a Senate report criticizing Bush's torture program, and claimed that that legislators should spend more time investigating the already thoroughly investigated Benghazi. PolitiFact criticized Cheney for falsely claiming the "numbers of people that support Obamacare and like it have been steadily dropping."
Cheney joins a long list of Republicans who have found a home at Fox News after unsuccessful campaigns. That list includes Herman Cain, Al D'Amato, Mike Huckabee, John LeBoutillier, KT McFarland, Angela McGlowan, Oliver North, Sarah Palin, Jeanine Pirro, Pete Snyder, and Allen West. Keith Ablow and Geraldo Rivera both considered, but decided against recent campaigns, while Scott Brown left Fox in March to run for Senate in his newly adopted state of New Hampshire.
Both McGlowan and Snyder were Fox News contributors who left the network to run for office, and were subsequently rehired. On the flipside, former contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were not hired back after their presidential runs (Gingrich criticized Fox News during the campaign, prompting Fox News head Roger Ailes to claim he's angling for a job with CNN -- where Gingrich is now a host).
Fox News Sunday and Fox's Sunday Morning Futures misleadingly suggested there weren't enough young and healthy Americans enrolled in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. But experts have explained that there were already enough young enrollees to help keep health care costs down in the days before the final deadline for enrollment, and that young adults were more likely to sign up for insurance at the last minute.
Fox News invited Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush administration official and current development scholar for conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, to push the repeatedly debunked claim that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may actually increase the number of uninsured.
On March 23, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Wolfowitz, an Iraq War architect who noted his past employment with the World Bank had little to do with health care, to weigh in on the ACA enrollment numbers.
Wolfowitz baselessly claimed that the health reform law may increase the number of uninsured Americans:
WALLACE: We haven't heard from you on Obamacare as former head of the World Bank. What do you think of how it has gone so far?
WOLFOWITZ: I wouldn't say the World Bank has much to do with it. But you know, it seems to me, I hear numbers, I think it's correct, that five million people had their plans canceled, the ones they were promised they could keep. Presumably, some of that five million of new enrollees are just people who got kicked out and are back in. This was supposed to reduce the number of uninsured. It may actually have increased the number. I think Nancy Pelosi famously said we have to pass the bill so you'll know what is in it. Well, they've passed the bill, there's are so many changes by administrative fiat, I don't think the authors any longer know what's is in it. It's -- you cannot reform 17 percent of the economy with 900 pages of legislation that nobody's bothered to read.
But the suggestion that the ACA may have increased the number of uninsured Americans has been debunked by multiple fact checks. On March 17, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler weighed in on a similar claim from Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) that there has been "a net loss of people with health insurance," writing that Boehner's claim "flies in the face of the facts" and issuing it "four pinocchios" -- the rating it issues for "whoppers." Kessler also cited two data points that demonstrate how the ACA has increased the number of people with insurance:
So what does this add up to? Taking the lowest-range estimates, we still end up with nearly 9 million people added to the insurance rolls, more than enough to swamp Boehner's 6 million figure, which as we noted is a pretty useless number to begin with.
- 3.4 million -- HealthCare.gov sign-ups, assuming 80 percent paid, though February
- 2.4 million -- lowest estimate for new Medicaid enrollment through January
- 2.2 million -- young adults added to parents' plans (2010 average to first two quarters of 2013)
- 500,000 -- off-exchange enrollments
Charles Gaba, a blogger who has tracked the state-by-state numbers at ACAsignups.net, including known off-exchange enrollments, meanwhile calculates the actual current figure though mid-March at nearly 14 million. Even if you take a conservative estimate for paid plans and reduce the number of young Americans added to plans, you end up with about 13 million. That makes Boehner's "net loss" claim seem especially absurd.
Politifact similarly rated the "net loss" claim "false." As its March 18 article noted, Boehner's suggestion omitted several "important factors," including Medicaid enrollments, young adults who have been able to remain on their parents' plans, and notably, what happened to people who received cancellation notices because their insurance plans were not ACA compliant:
Some of those policies, about half, were restored when Obama administratively allowed canceled plans to continue for another year and later through 2016.
Many others were moved to new plans, either through their insurance company or by purchasing a new policy on the marketplaces set up for Obamacare. The administration estimated that of the people with canceled plans, just 500,000 were left without coverage, and catastrophic coverage was extended to those individuals.
That's not to say this wasn't a difficult ordeal for people who lost their plans, especially if they thought the law would allow them to keep their coverage. But most of them were able to find new plans, meaning Boehner's 6 million uninsured people basically vanishes.
Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace praised Donald Graham as the show's "power player of the week" for his efforts to give financial aid to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children -- known as DREAMers. But Wallace's positive coverage of Graham's TheDream.US program stands in stark contrast to how Fox News has covered access to an affordable college education for undocumented students in the past several years.
Fox has exhaustively attacked laws that allow undocumented immigrants who meet certain conditions to pay in-state tuition at state colleges. In November 2010, the network attacked a court ruling upholding a California law permitting this, asking whether "illegal immigrants" should get what it called an "[i]llegal discount." In June 2011, Fox further attacked the law as "flawed" and complained that the Supreme Court declined to hear a case about the law. An O'Reilly Factor segment that same month falsely claimed that these students were getting "free tuition" and stated that 35 percent of students paying in-state tuition in California were undocumented, when in fact undocumented students made up only 0.34 percent of the population. In March 2011, Fox's Steve Doocy made up a story to argue against a New Jersey college allowing undocumented immigrants to attend classes and pay in-county tuition rates. And in October 2011, Fox & Friends promoted the efforts of two conservative Texas A&M students who wanted to repeal a law granting in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.
In early December 2012, Fox News attacked a similar Massachusetts policy that would allow DREAMers to attend state colleges with the in-state tuition rate. Fox & Friends baselessly portrayed the policy as a burden on native and other immigrant students, and America's Newsroom hosted a member of a nativist extremist group to express opposition to similar policies in Oregon and Colorado.
More recently, Fox News used the falsehood that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes to claim it isn't fair for undocumented students to pay in-state tuition. When O'Reilly interviewed Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) in October 2011, the Fox News host suggested that it's "heartless" to allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition. On O'Reilly's show in June 2012, Fox contributor Laura Ingraham said that undocumented students in Colorado "should be paying an out-of-country tuition."
Watch Fox News Sunday's profile of Donald Graham and his efforts to provide college scholarships to DREAMers, which The Wall Street Journal called "a private sector analogue to states that have moved to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants," below:
Fox's Chris Wallace falsely claimed that the United States has taken "no action" following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ignoring numerous U.S. steps in response to the crisis.
Fox host Chris Wallace asked former Secretary of State Robert Gates to comment on the appropriateness of President Obama's decision to "take the weekend off in the middle of" the developing crisis in Ukraine. But in 2008, Wallace struck a much different tone during Russia's invasion of Georgia, mentioning then-President Bush's trip to his Texas ranch without a hint of criticism.
On the March 9 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, Wallace joined the media in implicitly criticizing Obama for spending the weekend in Florida with his family. Wallace asked former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates if "it's helpful for president Obama to take the weekend off in the middle of what you call a crisis to be playing golf in Florida":
Wallace's concern about the president's weekend vacation flies in the face of his attitude during a similar interview following Russia's invasion of Georgia in 2008. While discussing the situation with then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the August 17, 2008, edition of Fox News Sunday, Wallace mentioned that Rice had joined President Bush at his Texas ranch but never once broached the appropriateness of the trip in the 13-minute interview:
WALLACE: With questions about the ceasefire and U.S.-Georgia relations, we're joined by the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who's been meeting with the president in Crawford, Texas, following her trip to Georgia.
Despite President George W. Bush taking a vacation during the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia, the media ignored Bush's trip while questioning the appropriateness of President Obama's weekend trip to Florida during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
From the March 9 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday:
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) exploded at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) during a hearing about the IRS' inappropriate targeting of organizations seeking tax exempt status, specifically criticizing Issa for releasing relevant evidence to Fox News without also providing it to the committee.
During Issa's recent appearance on Fox News Sunday, the network aired selectively quoted emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner, claiming they revealed evidence of "political targeting" by the IRS which may have extended as far as the White House. Media Matters has obtained the emails, which instead show Lerner specifically instructing colleagues to not focus on political activity while scrutinizing tax-exempt organizations.
Issa adjourned the March 5 House Oversight Committee hearing after Lerner testified that she would plead the Fifth and not answer the committee's questions. Cummings responded that he still had a statement and a question, which he proceeded to offer even while his microphone was cut off and Issa left the room. In his remarks Cummings accused Issa of providing Fox News with details of the investigation which were not provided to the committee (emphasis added):
CUMMINGS: For the past year, the central Republican accusation in this investigation [microphone cut]
ISSA: We're adjourned, close it down.
CUMMINGS: -- that this was political collusion directed by, or on behalf of, the White House. Before our committee received a single document or interviewed one witness, Chairman Issa went on national television and said, and I quote, "This was the targeting of the President's political enemies effectively and lies about it during the election year." End of quote.
ISSA: Ask your question.
CUMMINGS: If you will sit down, and allow me to ask the question, I am a member of the Congress of the United States of America. I am tired of this. We have members over here each who represent between them 700,000 people. You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that. That is absolutely un-American.
ISSA: We had a hearing. Hearing's adjourned. I gave you an opportunity to ask a question, you had no question.
CUMMINGS: I do have a question.
ISSA: I gave you time for [inaudible], you gave a speech.
CUMMINGS: Chairman, what are you hiding?
OFF-CAMERA: He's taking the Fifth, Elijah.
CUMMINGS: He continued this theme on Sunday, when he appeared on Fox News to discuss a Republican staff report, claiming that Miss Lerner was quote, at the center of this effort to, quote, target conservative groups. Although he provided a copy of his report to Fox. He refused my request to provide it to the members of the committee. The facts are, he cannot support these claims. We have now interviewed 38 employees, who have all told us the same thing. That the White House did not direct this [inaudible] or even know about it at the time it was occurring. And none of the witnesses have provided any political motivation. The Inspector General, Russell George, told us the same thing. He found no evidence of any White House involvement, or political motivation.
The Fox News segment Rep. Cummings was referring to took place on March 2, where Rep. Issa presented a draft copy of a report written by House Republicans, as well as previously undisclosed emails from Lerner, which Issa claimed revealed "evidence" of political targeting.
Fox News host Chris Wallace admitted that Fox's "stand down order" narrative about the 2012 Benghazi attacks was false, but still allowed disreputable source Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to desperately try and redefine the debunked claim into a new attack on the Obama administration
Fox News has persistently pushed the myth that the administration had issued a "stand down" order to stop reinforcements from coming to the aid of American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya during the September 11, 2012 attack. Though the claim was rapidly discredited, by June 2013, the network had repeated the charge at least 85 times in prime time segments, and the allegations didn't stop there. In early February, a House Armed Services Committee report and a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report put the myth to rest.
On the March 2 edition of Fox Broadcasting Network's Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace admitted that the Senate report had thoroughly debunked claims of a "stand down" order and reported that The Washington Post Fact Checker had given Issa "four pinocchios" -- the rating it issues for "whoppers" -- for his suggestion that "Secretary Clinton told [then-Defense Secretary] Leon [Panetta] to stand down, and we all heard about the stand-down order for two military personnel. That order is undeniable."
But Fox's focus on the facts was short lived. Though Wallace's acknowledgement of the facts led Issa admit that the term "stand down" was not "used in some sort of an explicit way," Wallace made no move to question Issa's attempt to spin the administration's supposed "failure to react" to the attack as the kind of thing that could "represent a stand down":
WALLACE: But to be honest, you do not have any evidence that Secretary Clinton told Leon Panetta to stand down.
ISSA: Well, the use in answering questions in a political fundraiser -- that was in response to a question -- the term "stand down" is not used in some sort of an explicit way. But rather the failure to react, the fact that only State Department assets and only assets inside the country were ever used, that members arms forces, gun carrying, trained people were not allowed to get on the aircraft to go and attempt to rescue. Those kinds of things through State Department resources represent a stand down. Not maybe on the technical terms of "stand down, soldier," but on the American people believe is a failure to respond what they could have.
WALLACE: All right.
Even Issa's effort to repackage his attack falls flat. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has already debunked claims that further assistance could have been sent from U.S. military bases, criticizing the conservative media's "cartoonish impression of the military" which has ignored the need for "planning and preparation before we send people in harm's way." As Gates said:
Given the number of surface to air missiles that have disappeared from Qaddafi's arsenals I would not have approved sending an aircraft, a single aircraft, over Benghazi under those circumstances.
From the March 2 edition of Fox Broadcasting Network's Fox News Sunday.
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This week, all four major broadcast networks covered extreme weather and climate change on their Sunday morning political talk shows. Those programs have largely ignored global warming in recent years, making their effort to address the issue unusual and laudable. But several of the segments also demonstrated the vulnerability inherent in treating science as a political debate where both sides receive a platform to air their positions.
Major winter storms across the U.S. in the month of February, drought in California, and President Obama's call for a $1 billion climate change "resilience fund" sparked debates this week over the need for action against climate change. The science of global warming is settled: according to one survey, 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and that "humans are causing global warming." But the Sunday shows, because they are built on a model of showing political conflicts, have difficulty putting that fact in context.
ABC's This Week and NBC's Meet the Press both featured debates between individuals who support and oppose the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, creating a false balance that could serve to confuse their viewers. Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, meanwhile, hosted a discussion in which no panelist stated that human-caused climate change is occurring while several claimed that it is not. CBS' Face the Nation, by contrast, featured an interview with a scientist who explained that "we know that climate change is happening and humans are contributing."
The broadcast Sunday shows devoted a paltry 27 minutes of coverage to climate change in 2013, according to a Media Matters study. Nearly 60 percent of that coverage came on Face the Nation; Meet the Press did not mention the issue all year. Face the Nation also featured the first interview of a scientist to discuss global warming by any of the programs in five years.
It's a good sign that the Sunday shows are addressing global warming, but treating it as just another political issue causes new complications.


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The parting gift at Paramount's lavish beachside fete on May 19 at the Cannes film festival was a dog tag. Etched on one side was a quote from Winston Churchill: ''The era of half-measures is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.''
The line was a plug for Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, but partygoers could be forgiven for assuming it was a blunt confession from the studio itself. It's been over a year since Brad Grey became chairman and CEO of Paramount, and the intervening time has not been kind to him. There have been layoffs. Oceans of bad press. The investigation of Grey's connection to ethically dubious PI Anthony Pellicano, and ongoing, noisy rumors that Grey is about to be ousted. And as for the so-so Mission: Impossible III box office? Well, that's been adequately covered in these pages. ''There's been a lot of focus on us,'' Grey told EW three days after his big party. ''The volume of criticism has been louder than we expected.''
If there were a studio that desperately needed a good week, it was Paramount. And it got one at Cannes. Grey and his team were everywhere. Holding court at the glitzy Hotel du Cap. Debuting footage from Oscar hopefuls like the Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center and Beyoncé Knowles' Dreamgirls (the latter snapped up when the studio bought DreamWorks). Relaunching their indie label with a new name (Paramount Vantage, which subsumes Paramount Classics) and a pair of buzzed-about movies (Babel, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, and An Inconvenient Truth) . The studio even threw a couple of good parties no small feat considering one of them was headlined by Al Gore.
''The company is [nearly] 100 years old and they've had extraordinary years and rough years,'' Grey said, reflecting on his first 14 months on the job. ''I can be patient. It comes down to the work. And if the work isn't good, then so be it. But if the work is everything we believe it to be, people will come around.'' Translation: Check your watch. It's time for consequences.


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Finding aid for the Murai Family Papers
Meghan Potter
Japanese American National Museum© 2010
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Finding aid for the Murai Family Papers
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© 2010 Japanese American National Museum. All rights reserved.
Title: Murai Family papers
Dates: 1940-1945
Bulk Dates: bulk 1942-1945
Collection number: 2002.134.1
Creator: Murai family
Collection Size: 0.75 linear feet
Repository: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles, California 90012
Physical location: Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact the Japanese American National Museum's Hirasaki National Resource Center by e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.com) or by telephone at (213) 830-5680.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted to the Hirasaki National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum (firstname.lastname@example.com).
[Identification of item], Murai Family papers. 2002.134.1, Japanese American National Museum. Los Angeles, CA.
This finding aid was created as part of a project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The project started in 2007. Project Archivist was Yoko Shimojo. Processed by Meghan Potter, with assistance from the Project Archivist in 2009.
Koh Murai was a chemist, writer and editor of the "Beikoku Sangyo Nippo" (American Industrial Daily) newspaper in Los Angeles from 1936 to 1941. He also edited a commemorative book about Japanese American industry published on the 2600th anniversary of the Japanese imperial line, in 1940. His wife, Mitzu (Fukai), was a teacher from Fukushima who immigrated to the United States in 1913.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Koh Murai was arrested immediately and taken to Fort Missoula, Montana. During the war, he was incarcerated in Fort Livingston, Louisiana, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Rohwer, Arkansas. Kotaro left the Tanforan Assembly Center for Lincoln, Nebraska to attend the University of Nebraska, then the University of Minnesota to study Organic Chemistry. Throughout this period, Koh and Kotaro on maintained frequent letter correspondence in English. Koh Murai inquired after his son's well being, sent money for school, and encouraged him to study hard.
At some point it appears that Koh Murai was hired by the government to promote resettlement to camp residents. After the war, the parents relocated to Denver, Colorado, where Mitzu worked as a nurse at a Catholic hospital. Koh later wrote a pamphlet in Japanese entitled the "U.S. Citizenship Reader," a guide for Issei taking the naturalization exam (also in the permanent collection under ID number 97.154.35).
After Kotaro Murai passed away, his wife Mary Murai donated the letters, ephemera, photographs and book edited by Koh Murai to the Japanese American National Museum.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains letters, ephemera, a book and several photographs. It is divided into four series: Correspondence, Photographs, Ephemera and Publications.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Murai, Koh
Murai, Kotaro
Fathers and sons
Japanese Americans
Concentration camps
Justice Department Camps
New Mexico
Collection Contents
Series 1 Correspondence 1942-1945
Creator: Murai family
Physical Description: 14 folders
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series comprises the bulk of the collection. It contains correspondence from Koh Murai to his son Kotaro Murai, spanning the war years. The earliest letter is dated April 13, 1942 and the last letter is dated December 12, 1945. There is also a letter written to Koh Murai from a representative at the War Relocation Authority in 1944.
The letters are arranged chronologically.
Series 2 Photographs 1943-1944
Series 3 Ephemera 1944


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Juliette has a Gun are showing their new Vengeance Extreme, which according to founder Romano Ricci adds a patchouli overdose to the original, Lady Vengeance.
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