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This is a discussion on 911 Operator Tells Homeowner to Put Her Gun Away ?? within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by mcp1810 Many places that is S.O.P. We also told our trainees to tell the caller that if they have a gun in ...
When a LEO responds to this type of call, they are not going to simply barge in the front door to make contact with the caller. It's starts by parking a few houses down the street and approaching on foot. Check the perimeter of the house for BG's, and also check doors/windows for forced entry etc... Only when the perimeter is clear will a LEO attempt to make contact with anyone inside if all else looks ok.
Yes. My dispatcher better tell the caller to put up his/her gun!! I dont know Joe Homeowner from Adam. I'm a guy that just got to your house, and im snooping around your house (with no police car in sight, mind you) in the dark. I do NOT want an overzelous homeowner to jump out his patio door and open fire on me because i'm not wearing a bright yellow POLICE vest.
Granted, i'll assume that most of us on this forum are responsible enough and careful enough to be able to handle a weapon in a situation like this. BUT.... Sadly enough, there are just as many people who have zero common sense, and will shoot first, ask questions later. I feel much safe checking out your house knowing that my dispatcher told you to put up your gun. As another poster said, a good percentage of people who think they have an intruder in the yard are in a panic. Tunnel vision, shaky hands, selective hearing etc.. all play a role. I'm not taking that chance if I dont have to.
I believe the duty of the dispatcher is to keep responding LE informed of the situation, and to keep the lady talking and as calm as can be expected in these situations. Basically, make sure she doesn't start shooting through the door. That is it. Once LE arrives on the scene, then things can change then. Until I see/hear LE right outside my door, I am not going to put my firearm away. If the dispatcher tells me that, I would either ignore that "advice" or tell the dispatcher what I said in the previous sentence.
I'd also give the dispatcher my description so that if the guy does break in by the time LE arrives, and they come into the house right after the shoot, at least they have some idea of who the guy is holding the smoking gun. I mean, I'll still be told to drop my weapon and be detained, etc, but at least they'll have *some* useful information about the situation that should hopefully prevent the wrong people from getting shot.
As far as the drug, they are 100% responsible for their behavior. They made the choice before they started drinking or whatnot. They should've thought ahead of time how they were going to get home, and such. I am also a believer that while one may do things drunk that they would never do while sober, it isn't a *completely* different person. What I mean is that a truly peaceful man would not rape or kill somebody, or beat his wife while drunk if he wasn't capable of doing the same while sober. In many respects, being drunk simply brings out many existing, but hidden, characteristics of a person.
This belief of mine is one of the reasons why a guy (or gal) or seems otherwise ok, but turns into an angry and violent individual everytime he/she starts drinking immediately gets crossed off my friends list.
I fully understand that. If someone is in your house, game on. Also remember that a large percentage of those types of calls that we respond to are called in people not like yourself. Would I feel safe arriving at your house when you are armed? Sure. But remember, not all home owners are educated, law abiding, common sense people. Give me a guarantee that the house im going to is occupied by people such as are on this forum....I wouldnt mind them being armed so much. Until you can guarantee me that this is the case, I want to be the only gun on the scene. You know that you are a responsible gun owner with common sense, knowledge of the law, and probably tactics. I do not know that. I've been on the wrong end of a .357 magnum. It was a homeowner who called me, and expected me to respond. I checked his perimeter, found nothing out of the ordinary. I go to the door and i'm greeted by the homeowner with a 357 at his side, but pointed at my chest. I jumped off his front stoop and drew down on him. He has no business with a gun. I do NOT KNOW if I am going to his house, or your house. Defend yourself by all means, but dont take it personally when asked to secure the gun.
I'll secure my gun when I know you're there, and I'm not in immediate danger. The OP made it sound like the dispatcher said something like, "Oh, you don't need a gun. I've got an officer that'll be there sometime tonight."--all while the guy was trying to get in the door. The answer is not only "no", but "____ no."
If the dispatcher says, "I have an officer on the scene", and the bad guy is still outside the house, then that's different.
Isn't the reason we tell the dispatcher, "I'm armed, and I'm wearing Bugs Bunny footed pajamas in a size adult XL and orthodontic headgear" so that the officer has an idea which one we are?
As to Lance's comment, it's NOT the homeowner's job to know if the guy is drunk/high/mental/whatever. You break into a house that's not yours in the middle of the night, it's safe to assume you're not the Avon lady.
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Why in the world would anyone listen the the 911 operator??? I would have informed the 911 operator that I was going to stay armed and ready until the police arrived.
It seems that every few weeks, we read about some person at home getting assaulted, raped, or murdered while waiting for police response to a 911 call.
The downside of 911 is that the public EXPECTS someone to swoop in and save them when evil comes to call.
I'm so tired of hearing how rough police have it. police work is not as dangerous as working an oil rig, lumberjacking, or delivering pizza.
Most of the cops I've seen are more at risk of a heart attack, than getting shot, or stabbed by ANYBODY, much less a homeowner who calls 911.
If cops are too lazy, or timid to investigate the drunken stranger trying to break into my house, because *I* have a gun, then I guess I should just smoke him, and send for waste disposal all by myself.
I won't take it personally if some dispatching drone tells me such foolishness, don't take it personally when I give 'em some colorful language in my retort.
Like others have said, if I call 911 it's for help not advise. That operator in this instance was wrong to say that to the caller. Just to many what ifs in this case. Never put your weapon down until LEO arrives or the threat goes away.
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Circumstances make the difference. I'm going to differ somewhat with KB2WJI. I believe that the approach he described would be appropriate for a prowler/susp person type call. If I have a "burg now attempting entry at the front door", I see my job as stopping that attempt/entry ASAP, to protect the homowner. Time is of the essence. I coming in like an F16 on a carrier deck. I'll go "97" as I come to a stop and expect the dispatcher to relay that info to the homeowner.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
But I totally understand your point and what you're saying!
Sorry, I just had to bust your chops a little bit Guantes. You feelin' the love?
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
Sure am. I, whenever possible keep my feet on the ground, so my aero knowledge is minimal.
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Any dispatcher worth their weight is going to be spending more time informing the homeowner exactly when the officer arrives on the scene and advising the homeowner the officer may be approaching the house from any direction and in stealth mode, as well as informing the responding officers that the homeowner is armed and has been advised of LEO's presence on scene.
Instead of repeatedly insisting on the homeowner put their weapon away, dispatchers can play a much more critical role keeping both on scene LEO's and the homeowner apprised of what is going on. If they do their job correctly, they are a critical link between the responding LEO's and the homeowner keeping everyone safe.
I can say that in my area, 911 operators simply aren't trained to that level of critical thinking and interaction. And their level of pay for the job reflects that. Sadly, the 911 operators in my area can barely handle rudimentary protocols for both call screening and radio dispatching, frequently omitting critical information when handling both EMS and Law Enforcement calls.
Semper Fi
"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
While there are many benefits to 911 systems, there are also downsides. Back befor 911 we had a central dispatch, but we also had direct dispatch capabilities at the complaint desk so the watch dep could directly dispatch immediate info obtained on the phone from the victim to field units bypassing the dispatch center. The flow of information was very rapid. These were all sworn personnel.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".


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Charmoula is a Moroccan fish marinade traditionally made with tomatoes, lemon, paprika, garlic, cumin, and cilantro.
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- 1pound medium red boiling potatoes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 green or yellow bell peppers, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips
- 2 medium tomatoes, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 3 lb haddock or cod fillets, skinned and cut into 6 pieces
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 5 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons sweet paprika
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/2 cup olive oil
Prepare fish and vegetables:
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Prick each potato once with a fork, then rub potatoes with 1/2 tablespoon oil. Roast on a baking sheet in middle of oven until just tender, about 25 minutes. Cool to room temperature and cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Leave oven on.
Heat remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté bell peppers, stirring, until just tender, 6 to 8 minutes.
Spread potato slices evenly in an oiled 13- by 9- by 2-inch glass baking dish and season with salt and pepper. Top with peppers, then tomatoes and fish, seasoning each layer with salt and pepper. Sprinkle fish with lemon juice.
Make charmoula sauce:
Purée all sauce ingredients except oil in a food processor or blender. With motor running, add oil in a slow stream.
Bake fish and vegetables:
Pour sauce evenly over fish and bake in middle of oven until fish is just cooked through, 25 to 30 minutes.

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|1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
|1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
|2 "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
|2 "Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
|3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
|3 Would he argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
|4 But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
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|10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
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|11 Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
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|12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
|12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
|13 that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
|13 so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
|14 What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
|14 "What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
|15 Behold, Godputs no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
|15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
|16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
|16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!
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|18 (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
|18 what wise men have declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers
|19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
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|23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
|23 He wanders about--food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
|24 distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
|24 Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
|25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
|25 because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
|26 running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
|26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
|27 because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
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|28 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
|28 he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
|29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
|29 He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
|30 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
|30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
|31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
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|32 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
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|33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
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|34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
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|35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."
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The trains haven't started running through Kennedy Town yet, but this historic neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong Island is already humming.
An aerial view of Hong Kong's Kennedy Town neighborhood. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
For much of the last century, Kennedy Town was a haven for immigrants from the mainland who worked in its stockyards and slaughterhouses, unloading animals from arriving boats. Since the meatpackers packed up in the 1990s, Kennedy Town has evolved into a modest residential area, with a mix of businesses catering to ethnic Chinese.
Now another transformation is turning Kennedy Town into a destination for Hong Kong's expatriates and affluent professionals. Buildings that once housed garages, warehouses, tiny markets and scrap-metal dealers are filling up with high-end French bistros, bars and cafes, as luxury apartment buildings rise beside them. Analysts expect over a thousand new units to come on the market in the next three years.
Behind the flurry of activity is a long-awaited subway station that, when finished in 2014, will make Kennedy Town the terminus of the island's main east-west line and put this sea-facing section within eight minutes of Central, Hong Kong's financial district.
The numbers attest to the changing makeup of this once Chinese-dominated area. In the last decade, the proportion of Kennedy Town's population that speaks Cantonese—Hong Kong's native Chinese dialect—has fallen to about 75% from 80%, government statistics show; over the same period, the number of native English speakers has doubled.
Kennedy Town, which evolved from a meatpacking district to a quiet residential area catering to ethnic Chinese, is undergoing another transformation. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
The changes make for some jarring contrasts: A chic French bistro, for instance, might fill a storefront on the ground floor of a rundown, low-rise 1960s apartment building, with laundry drying on clotheslines, next door to a tower of luxury homes.
"This is a very mixed community and a very lively place," says 63-year-old Allan Piper, a former British journalist who has lived in Kennedy Town for five years. Mr. Piper, who said he was drawn by the area's gritty charm, now operates a bar out of a converted garage on the waterfront. The area, he says, represents a "fusion of West and East."
New luxury residences and chic businesses are rising in Hong Kong's Kennedy Town neighborhood as developers anticipate the extension of a new subway route. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
Other attractions in the area include a network of prestigious schools and Hong Kong University.
With Hong Kong facing one of the highest income-inequality rates in the world, some locals worry about the impact of Kennedy Town's upheaval on lower-income residents and small-time shopkeepers.
"The new development projects will force significant changes on Kennedy Town," said Wong Leung-Sing, head of research at Centaline Property Agency Ltd. "More and more highly paid expatriates will flock there, inevitably forcing low-income locals and traditional shop proprietors to move from the west end."
Buildings that once housed garages, warehouses, tiny markets and scrap-metal dealers are filling up with high-end French bistros, bars and luxury storefronts. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
For Kennedy Town—named for Arthur Edward Kennedy, seventh British governor of Hong Kong—the prospect of improved transit links raises the temperature of an already-bubbling property market. Centaline says home prices in two of the area's major luxury developments, the Merton and Manhattan Heights, have doubled in the past four years, while private rents have jumped nearly 50%.
The remaking of Kennedy Town began nearly a decade ago as plans to extend the subway line firmed up after more than 20 years of talk and developers rushed to cash in.
Newer, ritzier developments under way include Cadogan, shown here, a high-rise with a rippling facade and European-inspired interiors, being built by Kowloon Development Co. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
One of the earliest projects was the 1,182-unit Merton, completed in 2005. The three-building complex offered sweeping water views and helped catalyze activity along the relatively undeveloped waterfront area.
Newer, ritzier developments under way include Cadogan, a high-rise with a rippling facade and European-inspired interiors, being built by Kowloon Development Co. The 49-story, 197-unit complex is expected to be completed in mid-2014.
Real-estate agents say Cadogan flats have sold for more than $2,500 a square foot, far above prevailing rates in the area.
Even so, Kennedy Town's average rents of about $4 a month per square foot compare well with the $6.50-a-square-foot rate in Mid-Levels, the ribbon of foothills neighborhoods behind Central that are popular with foreigners.
The Manhattan Heights residential building in Kennedy Town is shown. Philipp Engelhorn for The Wall Street Journal
Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. , one of the city's largest developers, is launching at least two projects in the area. One will consist mainly of two- and three-bedroom apartments targeting the middle class.
Still, it's properties like the Merton, Harbour One and Cadogan that are increasingly defining Kennedy Town as an upscale community.
One local business owner, who identified herself only as Madam Li, says the transformation has been a win-win for the neighborhood and its former residents. The influx of Westerners "has made the area more high-class," said the 70-year-old, who has run a tiny grocery store in the area for four decades. "Many households received several million [Hong Kong] dollars in compensation and left here happily," she said.
Snapshot: Kennedy Town
Located at the west end of Hong Kong island, it was part of historic Victoria City, one of the earliest British urban settlements in Hong Kong.
- Population: 17,000
- Average rent: $3.67 per square foot
- Top Sales: One of the priciest sales in 2011 in Kennedy Town was a 2,197-square-foot apartment sold for $4.5 million.
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- Local pop icons Gillian Chung and Joey Yung have reportedly bought upper-floor homes in the luxury development Harbour One, where apartments cost about $3.5 million.


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Hello again, we are in the mighty land of Poland at the moment because we thought hey, Poland is close to Turkey! Well not really but it has been a little while since I last wrote to all of my adoring fans. So since I last wrote from the rooftop in Istanbul we have been traveling quite a lot and seeing a few keen things on the way. Hey does anyone know about that show on the discovery channel called $100 Taxi Ride or something like that? We met the taxi driver in Istanbul who was featured on that show. Quite a cool guy who we were going to go have a few beers with but ended up wandering around and getting lost so we didn't get back to him. (Our big brush with celebrities) We left Istanbul back towards Budapest because we had some unfinished business in Hungary (I really wanted that machine gun, JK) So we got out of Turkey and everything was smooth until we tried to leave Bulgaria. It was pretty late at night and the border guards decided that they didn't really feel like letting our bus leave the country until that got some cash from us
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. So everybody ended up paying 20,000 Romanian Lei ( 60 cents or so) and the guards were happy and lets us go. We drove about 500 feet and down onto the barge that would take us to Romania when the guys on the barge informed us that they weren't going to take us across unless that got some money also. They ended up getting about $35 from our bus (None from us however heheh) So anyway everyone on the bus is finally happy that we are on our way. Once we get across to Romania the border guards there inform the driver that we aren't going to allowed into the country until our bus comes up with $300. People really started to complain then because this is getting ridiculous. We end up sitting there for almost two hours until people get fed up and start putting money in the pot (None from us however because we don't mind waiting) and then finally we are off. We arrive in Bucharest to the usual annoyances of paying to walk into the train station and then wait about an hour for our train to Budapest. This was wonderful timing because there is only two trains a week or so and we arrive an hour before one leaves, yeah! So the train is relatively smooth, just interruptions by the ticket checker and an occasional beggar. We got into Budapest and got a little bit lost heading from the East train station to the West station but exercise is good for you right? From here we took a train to Eger which has the wonderfully named Valley of Beautiful Women. This is a pretty little valley where there are a huge amount of small wine cellars built into the hills and you can wander around from cellar to cellar sampling wine until you are no longer able to wander. The quality of wine varies but it is all inexpensive and some is quite tasty. We also took a look at the Eger Castle and were dissapointed by a few of the exhibits that we were looking forward to. However the history museum there and the dungeon exhibits were way beyond what we expected so overall it was quite worthwhile
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. From Eger we headed back to Budapest so that we could catch our train to Krakow. We arrived in Krakow about 9 in the morning and met up with Cezary from Poland, and Nanako from Japan. All four of us went on a private tour together that was really quite amazing. The first thing we saw was a wonderful old wooden church (500 years or so) The church is basically the centerpiece for a historic village which shows how life was like about 500 years ago in Poland. We didn't get to go in though because the church is only open on Christmas day. After this we headed to the concentration camps of Auscwhitz and Birkenau. I think that most people recognize the names and know what happened there but when you walk through the camps and see everything it hits you with such force that it leaves you dazed and feeling numb. I am not really even sure how to say what I felt about the camps, everything I write seems to be terribly inadequate in describing what is there. Standing where thousands were executed by gunfire at the wall, to walk through the gas chambers, to touch the cremation furnaces, it is impossible to understand how such a terrible place could exist. As we walked along the railway out of the Birkenau we started to talk about what we had seen. I guess we were trying to make sense of what we had witnessed, but I don't think it is possible to make sense of what happened. Even as I write this I begin to feel dazed about the things I saw there and I hardly feel like writing anything else. Afterwards we had some lunch and talked with out guide about the things we had saw. He suggested that we go see a few other things that are more fun so that our day wouldn't be so depressing. Our guide then took us to the Wieliczka Salt Mine. This mine has been in operation since the late 1300's and is over 320 meters deep and has over 200 km of passages. The most amazing part of the mine is that many parts of it have sculptures, rooms, churches, and other art carved out of the very salt itself
. I would just have to say that this mine is absolutely amazing and it was refreshing and fun to visit after the mornings visits. I am putting up one picture I found and will later replace it with the pictures we took. Anyway we wandered around to about 130 meters down which is the lowest the tour takes you and when no one was looking we took a lick of the walls (hmm, guess what? Salt) Anyway afterwards we wandered around seeing some more sights and then going out to dinner with Cezary and Nanako. We then got back to the train station just in time to miss our train. Actually this isn't our fault we got there with a half hour to spare and the information lady kept giving us crappy directions as to where to find the international tickets booth. We finally found it ourselves about a half hour after our train left. Anyway so now we are here in Krakow for another day and it seemed like a good time to write to all of my wonderful fans. We are off to Prague tonight!
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- "Who can help me fix this toy?" The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for informationTamar Kushnir
Department of Human Development, G62B Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 4401, USA
Dev Psychol 49:446-53. 2013..Thus, preschoolers take demonstrated causal ability as a sign of specialized causal knowledge, which suggests a basis for developing ideas about causal expertise...
- Developing a concept of choiceTamar Kushnir
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Adv Child Dev Behav 43:193-218. 2012..The chapter concludes by suggesting avenues for future research--to better characterize conceptual changes in beliefs about choice, and to understand how such beliefs arise from children's everyday experiences...
- A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferencesTamar Kushnir
Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Dev Psychol 45:597-603. 2009..These results demonstrate that children's own experience of action influences their causal learning, and the findings suggest possible benefits in uncertain and ambiguous everyday learning contexts...
- Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other peopleTamar Kushnir
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, G62B MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1134-40. 2010..These findings provide an important demonstration of how statistical learning could underpin the rapid acquisition of early psychological knowledge...
- Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptionsTamar Kushnir
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1043, USA
Dev Psychol 43:186-96. 2007..However, children were more likely to make correct inferences when causes were spatially contiguous, particularly when faced with ambiguous evidence...
- Giving preschoolers choice increases sharing behaviorNadia Chernyak
Department of Human Development, Cornell University
Psychol Sci 24:1971-9. 2013..Results are discussed in terms of a prosocial-construal hypothesis, which suggests that children rationally infer their prosociality through the process of making difficult, autonomous choices. ..
- A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraintNadia Chernyak
Department of Human Development, Cornell University
Cogn Sci 37:1343-55. 2013..These findings suggest that while basic notions of free choice are universal, recognitions of social obligations as constraints on action may be culturally learned...
- A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes netsAlison Gopnik
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Psychol Rev 111:3-32. 2004..Experimental results suggest that 2- to 4-year-old children construct new causal maps and that their learning is consistent with the Bayes net formalism...


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Seven students from Middle Tennessee State University's College of Mass Communication make up the inaugural staff of the Seigenthaler News Service.
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Food and nutrition research examines such topics as the associations and effects of foods and nutrients on health, dietary patterns in society, molecular nutrition, health claims on foods or nutritional effects of food composition and processing, or nutrition and economic.
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Dietary pattern and asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Lv N, Xiao L, Ma J.
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Alternatives to monetary incentives for employee weight loss.Lesser LI, Puhl RM.
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So far, Somare: Papua New Guinea adjourns democracy
However, the ABC is reporting National Alliance party spokesperson Stephen Pokawin has denied the newspaper's report. All Pokawin would confirm was that the party's leadership would be the main topic of discussion at the convention with Polye ready to make a bid for the top job. Pokawin, who is the National Alliance Party's general secretary, says the party constitution Somare from contesting the leadership for a third time, having won elections for the National Alliance in 2002 and again in 2007. Somare was also the country's first PM in 1975 and won again in 1982. The next election is due in 2012.
Somare's recent actions show little sign of a man wanting to step aside any time soon. Last week he chose eight new Government ministers after three key figures including deputy Puka Temu left to form a new party on Monday. Their aim was to move a vote of no confidence and form a new government. Polye was promoted to take Temu's job and with his help Somare hung on to defeat the no confidence motion 64-45 to remain Prime Minister.
Badly shaken by the vote, Somare adjourned the parliament for four months on Wednesday. The Speaker Jeffrey Nape adjourned the house until mid November despite the opposition's claim it had enough votes to stop the adjournment. Nape, an ally of Somare refused to count the "no" votes and called for the adjournment. The decision caused an uproar in the parliament with cries of "dictatorship". This angered Somare so much he rose across the floor and pointed at Opposition member Sam Basil shouting "Bai mi kilim yu autsait" which translated meant "I will kill you outside". Somare was restrained by his son Arthur.
With Michael Somare now 74 years old, many see Arthur as his logical groomed successor. The National editorialised that Arthur is the most senior MP from the Mamose (a region which covers Sepik, Madang and Morobe). The National said the son lives in the shadow of his famous father and won't emerge till "the shadow moves on". But the National also acknowledges this outcome would case "much disgruntlement, particularly from the Mamose faction that feels it is past time power were not centralised in the Sepik or with the Somare family."
New Deputy Don Polye, meanwhile, draws his support from the Central Highlands in the province of Enga. It appears Polye reneged on a deal with long standing deputy Puka Temu for them to both walk out on Somare's Government. Polye was rewarded with the deputy role, a role The Australian's Asia-Pacific editor Rowan Callick believes will cement Somare in power till the 2012 election.
New Opposition leader Puka Temu is not so sure. This is the second time in two years Somare has adjourned parliament for several months to stop a no confidence vote and Temu has had enough. He is calling for Somare to quit now for the good of Papua New Guinea. "They call him the 'father of the nation' but he and his family are destroying the nation," he said. "They break laws, they treat parliament like a joke. Is this what PNG wants? No, they want an end to this." Temu said they would continue lobbying ministers and MPs who remain on the fence. "We have 45, all we need is 55," he said.
Towards a Citizens' Assembly: In defence of Gillard's climate change plan
In rushing to condemn Gillard, no seems to have listened to what she said. Here is an excerpt of the speech:
"Global temperatures are rising. 2009 has been ranked the fifth warmest year on record globally and finished off the hottest decade in recorded history. The temperatures are largely driven by pollution created by carbon emissions. Climate change has a particular environmental and economic impact on Australia. 2009 was the second hottest year in Australia and ended our hottest decade. Each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the last. With climate change, the number of droughts could increase by up to 40 per cent in eastern Australia, and up to 80 per cent in south-western Australia within the next six decades. Without action to reduce our pollution, irrigated agricultural production in the Murray-Darling Basin is projected to fall by over 90 per cent by 2100. About 85 per cent of Australians live in coastal regions. Just under 250,000 residential buildings, worth up to $63 billion, will be at risk from sea inundation if the sea-level were to rise by 1.1 metres. Coastal industries, such as the tourism industry, will also face increasing challenges with climate change."
I agree with every word of that, and as Julia Gillard realises, many other people do too. Probably even a majority. Certainly all of the above commentators would (except Bolt). But the point is undermined by public hypocrisy. The majority does not yet appreciate "there is not a switch to flick or one single behaviour to change." What Gillard won't do yet is spell out what we can flick and all the behaviours that must change.
Her predecessor Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election, partly on his promises to act on climate change. He came close. We would now have a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme on the books if not for the poor decision making of the five Greens in the Upper House who could not join Judith Troeth and Sue Boyce in their courageous departure from party line. It would have been a flawed ETS, possibly even counter-productive. Nevertheless, getting it on the books would have been a great start to getting it right. It also meant the 2010 election would have been a contest of ideas between Rudd and Turnbull rather than the race to the bottom it has become under Gillard and Abbott.
I do not blame Julia Gillard for circling the horses as she attempts to win the election. I suspect that like Garrett's fateful 2007 joke "she'll change everything when she gets in" but for now she is moral powerless at the moment as a leader. She also knows meaningful action on climate change is impossible without a consensus. She might get that if she wins the election by a handsome majority (and if that Kingston poll is replicated widely she will get it too).
But even if she wins, consensus on climate change is out of the question with Tony Abbott as Opposition leader. It also needs an advocating (or at least understanding) media that accepts the inevitability of action to stop climate change. The mainstream Australian media has made no such concession. With their quotidian needs for conflict, they handle platforms to contrarians who prefer to focus on the immediate cost and its impacts, rather than the virtues of the long-term solution and its impacts.
Gillard explained what she meant by consensus. "I do not mean that government can take no action until every member of the community is fully convinced," she said. Her solution is a Climate Change Commission. Those that think climate change is a communist plot will detest the new CCC with a passion. The same people will equally loathe the Citizens' Assembly, with its name a whiff of the French Revolution. The media will attack both as toothless tigers redolent of the apparent pointlessness of the 2008 Summit.
But the Summit wasn't pointless and neither will be these two new bodies. Deliberate democracy may not change votes but it should help push the effect of making the denialists look like flat-earthers. The remaining devil will be in the policy detail which can be ironed out over time. Gillard remains committed to a CPRS and if she wins she will be dealing with the Greens who win have the balance of power after July 2012 (the Senate election is as important as the Lower House one if not more so but is ignored by the media because it lacks the one-on-one drama). Let us hope by then the Greens wake up to the need to grab whatever power you can get and not repeat their mistake of 2009.
Until a proposal becomes the law of the land, we remain headed towards the final act climax of the Tragedy of the Commons. Australia's electricity generation is projected to grow by nearly 50 per cent between now and 2030 to meet growing demand. Each of us takes a little much out of the garden, knowing all the while its stock is not being replenished. People can be educated out of their selfishness, by being bought or commanded to change. Maybe the CCC or the Citizens Assembly will help. But as long as there is an adversarial nature to our politics and our media, nothing will be done until we move into disaster recovery.
ABC News Twentyfour Seven Eleven
I certainly have no idea what television will look like in 20 years but I suspect whatever medium it transforms into it, its content would still include 7 x 24 news with some kind of local slant. The ABC "News 24" stationed launched today despite the grumblings of Sky News Australia's owners (and there is no reason in time it cannot become the Al Jazeera of the Asia Pacific, especially if it can nail overseas broadcasting.
There are plenty of misgivings of course, and Sky's is not the limit. As far back as the 1840s Henry David Thoreau noted our inventions are pretty toys which distract attention from serious things. At time, the US was rapidly linking itself up by magnetic telegraph to Britain and also internally from Maine to Texas.
But as Thoreau reminded us the first news on these newfangled tubes may well have been that Princess Adelaide had the whooping while Maine and Texas, may have nothing important to communicate to each other.
Thoreau was right to sound his warning about the blandness of news into the "broad flapping American ear" but completely wrong in his guess – Maine and Texas had plenty of important things to communicate as they shared in the national imagining of a greater America. The ABC News 24 channel can fulfil a similar role here.
Visionary Managing-Director Mark Scott has no doubts about its raison d'etre. He told his own reporters there should be a 24/7 news channel on Australian free-to-air television and the public broadcaster ABC was ideal to run it "given our history, given our experience, given our resources given our integrity, given our independence." He says News 24 will ensure the ABC's future in broadcasting.
Others are not so sure. Jason Wilson said the public is entitled to be sceptical about its long-term expansion. He said the broadcaster is already overstretched and no new resources have been allocated for the channel. It means the station must reuse content for other media, poach staff from other departments and expect the journalists to work longer hours.
Wilson wonders whether ABC are straying too far from "core business" and should be looking at more innovative ways of delivering content in the post-broadcast age. "There's no convincing case for creating yet another one-size-fits-all continuous news broadcaster when cheap, plentiful bandwidth will allow for the distribution of a plethora of niche, on-demand or streaming audiovisual content," Wilson said.
As usual Wilson makes astute points. However this long tail approach leaves the audience feeling fragmented which leads to yearning for a more centralised delivery. ABC has a role in providing informed news across Australia. When the national broadcaster was set up in 1932, the newspapers at the time (led by Keith Murdoch) fiercely resisted moves for its radio station to include news. But by the end of World War II, it was increasingly clear the ABC had a mandate to produce despite Murdoch's best efforts in his wartime role of Director-General of Information.
Keith's son Rupert is still making his displeasure known about public broadcasting unfairly impinging on his turf, but that to me seems more of a reason to treasure the ABC. But taxpayers should not be expected to pay additional dollars for this new service. Working harder, repurposing content and shifting staff are all reasonable demands when the money is not there up front. For now, ABC News 24 may have to "fake it till it makes it" but with broad public trust and time on its side, the oily rag can one day turn into a silk coat. I welcome its addition to the public sphere.
Awaiting election time CPI data with interest
The signs are there, that a rate rise is on the way. In the March quarter the headline rate was 2.9 percent with the all groups CPI rising 0.9 percent following a 0.5 percent rise the previous quarter. Hikes in the price of pharmaceuticals, vegetables, electricity and fuel were the main reasons for the March quarter increase. The Board said CPI inflation was expected to rise to a little above 3 per cent in the June quarter figures partly due to the effects of higher taxes on tobacco. "The important question for the Board at its next meeting would be whether the new information materially changed the medium-term outlook for inflation," they said.
Higher taxing cigarettes or not, several senior Government will be anxious smoking a few coffin nails which waiting for the CPI headline figure on Wednesday. The RBA have held interest rates at 4.5 percent for the last two months – still very low by Australian standards, but even a 0.25 percent rise is a bad look in the middle of a tight election campaign. In doorstops Opposition leader Tony Abbott has been hammering home the point of "upward pressure on interest rates" and while he blames government borrowing rather than new excises, an August rate rise would play into his campaign themes.
The cash rate has gone up seven times in the past year but this was after a historical low of 3.0 percent during the height of the Global Financial Crisis in 2009. However rates are still 2 percent lower than when Labor took office in November 2007 and also slightly lower than most of the period between 2001-2005 when the Howard Government dined out on the "low interest rates" they said their policies were responsible for.
Their promises were finally exposed as fiction as rates rose prior to the last election and they continued to do so when Labor took power. Playing politics with interest rates ignores the fact that the Reserve Bank Board is an entity independent of Government control. At a luncheon in Sydney today Glenn Stevens reminded the audience about that fact when the Board decision would not be swayed by the election campaign. He also said the CPI figure would not be the only decision factor. As today's RBB minutes noted, the health of the European banking sector has a significant impact on financial markets and global confidence which could lead to an "updated reading on domestic prices".
Neither major party likes to draw attention to this fact because it shows how little control Governments have over the wider economy. Ken Henry (himself an RBA board member) and the Treasury did a terrific job to keep Australia out of recession during the GFC but the economy and the interest rate was not immune from its devastating impacts. Rising interest rates means the economy is in good shape. Politicians and their media cohorts should be reminded of that fact whenever they play games with rate rises. Lower interest rates means either the China boom has ended or the European sovereign debt crisis has spiralled out of control. Either way, a $40 a month saving on the monthly mortgage won't mean much if there is no job to pay for it. The media needs to tell this story fully instead of falling for phony political lines about "upward pressure".
Fiji turns the screws on the media
The announcement comes just days after the Fijian dictator, who has ruled since 2006, claimed the country would probably not be "ready" for elections in 2014. It also comes less than a month after strict new laws further inhibited Fiji's media from honestly reporting on what is happening there. On 29 June the military backed regime introduced its new "Media Industry Development Decree 2010" which brought in a new set of strict rules governing Fiji's media. The laws strengthen already tough laws governing the media, military intimidation of reporters, censors in newsrooms and the deportation of foreign-born newspaper executives.
One of those executives was Russell Hunter who was the former managing-director of the Fiji Sun before he was deported in 2007. Hunter called the laws draconian and an erosion of freedom and basic human rights. The laws give the media authority the right to demand the name of confidential sources if the story relates to government corruption. Journalists could be fined $50,000 and jailed for two years for work deemed against the "public interest or order". The most well-known provision is the 10 percent limit on foreign ownership as it directly affects the News Ltd owned Fiji Times, which is the country's oldest and largest newspaper.
The Fijian Government has now given News Ltd three months to sell the paper or be forcibly shut down. It also casts huge doubts over the viability of foreign investment in the country at the very time it is most needed. News Limited boss John Hartigan said the laws eroded the "basic tenets of democracy" in Fiji. "This illegal government has retrospectively withdrawn permission for foreign media investment in Fiji, which is not only grossly unfair but will inevitably be enormously damaging to Fiji's reputation as an attractive investment opportunity," he said.
In response, the Fijian media regulator said the country's media needs to be a part of the regime not an opponent. Former Canberra-based academic Satendra Nandan, chair of the Media Industry Development Authority, said action needed to be taken against newspapers such as The Fiji Times, which had acted against the Bainimarama government. Nandan told The Australian the Times' coverage of the scrapping of the judiciary and constitution last year was "abusive and scurrilous". "The Fiji Times took a strong stand against the current government and the abrogation of the constitution and they didn't consider the national interest," Nandan said.
The New Zealand Herald says the media laws are part of an ongoing removal of Fijians' rights including quashing the constitution, removing dissent and empty promises on a new election. With 60 percent of Fiji's tourist income coming from New Zealand and Australia, the Herald rightly suggest the time is now right to reconsider holiday plans in Fiji. "Tourists might like to say that Fijian businesses and jobs should not be penalised for the sins of the regime," the paper said. "But they are undermining their own country's diplomatic efforts."
What if they gave an election and nobody came?
Those in marginal seats will be the subject of extraordinary promises. There will be endless and persuasive marketing. Most of it will be on television where the masses still congregate but increasingly more is migrating to the social web where there is less control (though with imagination and humour as Old Spice proved it can be a very successful strategy). Both the Government and the Opposition will spend vast amounts of money in the hope of convincing the small number of swinging or disaffected voters their candidate ought to be elected.
The parties shill to a small number because they know the rest don't matter. Seats with large majorities won't change hands regardless of who wins. There are other external factors parties cannot control. The donkey vote is real and top placement on the ballot can be the margin of victory in a tight race. So too is happiness unrelated to politics which can make a person punish or reward the incumbent. And ultimately it is a secret ballot. As the Sex Party notes, it doesn't matter who you say you vote for when it gets to the unpredictability of what actually happens when it's just you and a pen in the voting booth.
Predicting elections is not entirely impossible, of course. If it was, pollsters would go out of business. Good polls are usually right to within 3 percent and the current polls, and the bookmakers predict a narrow win for Julia Gillard and the Labor party. That margin of error means an Abbott win is not out of the question with a targeted marginal seat strategy.
It doesn't matter who wins, it is what they do in parliament that counts with the ugly sausage-making of changing and making of laws. In the US, Obama is proving a master at this by making left-liberals and conservatives alike hate him for being "always willing to cut a deal and grab for half the loaf."
Both the parties here will also be willing to go for half the loaf. Gillard will obviously want more of the left of the loaf than Abbott – but only by a matter of a few crumbs. When the new Prime Minister took Labor to the right with her revised immigration policy, almost 70 percent of voters approved. Gillard may personally want looser immigration rules, gay marriage and bigger taxes on mining companies. But while the majority of the people she needs the vote of do not, she is not going to step far ahead. Otherwise, she knows she's toast.
It is not just a conservative electorate Gillard must deal with, there is also a hyper-sensitive media. If her Government was to step too far to the left, it would be demonised by soapboxes in the press and talkback radio. Television is too simple to need shock jocks or op-eds; it rules by allowing only eight minute blocks squeezed between advertisements where everything is reduced to pious homilies like "moving forward" and "working families" and "great big new tax".
That leaves the untamed frontier of the Internet. Research shows that the brands that dominate the web are the same ones that dominate other media channels. So in Australia most people get their online news from News Ltd, Channel Nine, the ABC and Fairfax. The big portals such as Google are complicating the picture but like the big newspapers in the 1890s, they are finding they can make more money by being impartial.
The radicals are still out there on newsletters, blogs and social media. But with no trust or brand awareness, they will be far away from the networks of power. Journalists (or perhaps more truthfully, their editors) who decide who is in the news and the politicians they talk to in front of the camera, mic or pen, collude to set a narrow agenda that keeps most topics firmly off the agenda, Facebook and Twitter notwithstanding.
As I've written before, I believe this collusion of cosy mutual interest is the biggest threat to the health of democracy. However I've been glibly attacking this threat without ever explaining what democracy means. The Gettysburg Address is a half decent stab at it with its notion of "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
While "the people" might have been an identifiable concept in Lincoln's time (and I have my doubts), it does not make much sense 150 years later. There is no such thing as the people, there are just people. And a government of people by people and for people is too amorphous and tricky to manage. Every person is placid and contrary, irascible and content, malleable and intractable, driven and bored. It's hard enough to please one person, a democracy that tries to please everyone is doomed to fail.
Yet it must so try. Democracy is indeed the worst form of government apart from all the others. As rotten and stinking as it is, there is nothing better waiting in the wings to take its place. So if it can't be replaced, it's got to be fixed.
There is a role for journalism here, or rather many roles. There needs to be more muck-rakers hunting down corruption, more fourth estate reporting on and commenting on the goings on of government, parliament and the courts, and more lobbying on behalf of those with legitimate grievances by asking questions to those who have the power to affect these grievances.
The problem for journalism is that most journalists are employed by corporate media. The single biggest threat to democracy is the corporation itself with its profit motive subsuming all other motives to the fatal detriment of the body politic. That means large numbers of lobbyists, PR flacks and lawyers working only to make more money for their company. People who don't see society, only consumers.
Neither Julia Gillard nor Tony Abbott will be willing to address this problem, nor indeed even admit this is the problem. And if they were somehow foolish enough to stray off-message and be honest about it or even allude to it, the media would be there to gleefully humiliate them as someone who made a terrible "gaffe".
Nevertheless until corporate greed is made to serve the public good, then democracy will continue to become as bad as all the other systems Churchill didn't like. And "the people" will continue to treat both politicians and the media that serve them, with contempt.
Bernard Keane on the probability of a content-free election campaign.
Stilgherrian on how the media will report it.
Guy Beres on the dumbing down of Federal politics.
Mark Bahnisch on the parties' opening salvoes.
Gary Sauer-Thompson on the importance of Queensland and NSW.
Journalists and politicians: A double danger to democracy
In the first incident, Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans' apparently off the record incendiary remarks at a Sydney speech were noted by a journalist and spilled into the public record today. In a second incident, NSW politician Barry O'Farrell accidentally sent a journalist a Twitter open reply that was meant to be an off the record Twitter Direct Message. Both incidents cast an unsavoury light on the closely bound relationships that govern both journalists and their political sources. Occasionally their relationships get both into trouble and lead to a public loss of trust of politicians and journalists alike.
Evans' troubles began when he was invited to be the keynote speaker at a University of NSW-Harvard University conference on immigration. The event was publicly advertised and listed on wire agency AAP's diary with television cameras invited to capture his latest comments on the debate over asylum seekers. However on arrival Evans wanted to change the rules. He said he would do a quick media "doorstop" on arrival and then asked for a closed session where he could speak frankly to academics about the issues. The term "doorstop" is illuminating because it prevents a door from opening too widely. Evans knew he could give a brief and uninformative response before dealing with the meat of the issue without prying journalists around.
The problem was that 2UE journalist Matt de Groot was late arriving to the venue and knew nothing about the change of plan. He was ushered into the room where he heard an expansive Evans talk honestly about the asylum debate which he said was killing the Government. Evans also admitted that radio talkback shock jocks were deliberately promoting misinformation about the debate to stoke up a xenophobic reaction in their listeners.
At the end of the debate, de Groot approached Evans' media adviser with the intention of getting the Minister to speak on these matters. The adviser was horrified and told de Groot the speech would not look good for the minister if reported and was off the record anyway. De Groot insisted he would report what he heard. Evans' minders told the journalist if he did so, he would be acting unethically.
De Groot took the "publish and be damned" path but as expected, it was Evans who was mostly damned today. It was almost enough to feel sorry for Evans that he be punished for plain speaking but given that politicians are content to play the game with journalists, he has only himself to blame when the rules break down. Crikey's editorial today put it best: "The moment your government promises a 'frank, open, honest national conversation on the issues of border protection and asylum seekers' then they must tell it like it is to everyone, not just a select group of officials."
The O'Farrell slip-up was a different category error though it also involved a 2UE reporter and a senior politician. It throws light on the symbiotic relationship between journalists and their sources. NSW Opposition leader Barry O'Farrell was attempting to send a Direct Message to the Canberra Press Gallery journalist Latika Bourke. "Deeply off the record – I think the timetable & struggle to get candidates reflects internal poll – pre & post the ranga." Translated, it meant the Liberals were struggling to attract quality candidates to stand for the forthcoming Federal Election and the ascension of Julia Gillard (the "ranga") to the role of Prime Minister has made no difference.
But to O'Farrell's horror the message was not as deeply off the record as he would have liked – he accidentally chose the Twitter reply option rather than DM making the message immediately visible to any of his 3,548 followers online at the time. O'Farrell quickly realised his error and deleted the offending tweet. But by then it was too late having been re-tweeted at least nine times and captured as a screenprint by Tally Room blogger Ben Raue.
The media immediately seized on the mistake which in time honoured fashion was renamed a "gaffe". The Australian chose to highlight the unflattering nickname of Gillard as the ranga, (from "orangutan" referring to Gillard's red hair) though any number of commentators have gotten away with this moniker using humour as a cloak – with Gillard herself often seeing the funny side.
But again no one picked up on why O'Farrell should decide to illuminate the journalist Bourke in this manner. The familiar tone suggested they had done this before. Forget the "ranga", why is it that the Liberals preselection woes are "deeply off the record"? Politicians use the "off the record" tag to get damaging material off their chest without suffering the consequences. Journalists, ever protective of their access to senior politicians, collude in this game and it is the general public who suffer. As Wendy Bacon and Chris Nash wrote in 1999 "journalists should commit themselves to confidentiality only in the pursuit of the public right to information and generally should seek to place as much information on the record in ways that are verifiable."


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All throughout a candlelight vigil on Wednesday for slain Arizona State University honors student Zachary Marco, his friends and family members spoke about the things he had said and done and what they'll always remember him for: helping them to become better people themselves.
Dr. Jayne Reinhard, Marco's history instructor at ASU, remembered him for liking vanilla ice cream, red peanut M&Ms and listening to Rush Limbaugh. She said Marco would have been the best public servant the world has ever seen.
Sam Becker, one of the slain student's best friends, said Marco kept a picture of boxer Arturo Gatti and planned to put it on his desk when he became an attorney, "He wasn't the strongest or the fastest, but Gatti never gave up," Becker said. "Zach was the same way. Like Gatti, no matter what stood in front of him, he never gave up."
Marco's younger sister, Michelle Marco, 15, who once was given a guitar by "Zach" when she was younger, composed a song with her best friend Khali Titsh and performed it at the vigil. The song doesn't have a title yet, but Michelle and Kahli agreed that the opening line was most important to them: "I still wait for you to come through the door."
Slightly more than 200 people turned out for the vigil in the courtyard of ASU's Barrett Honors College featuring a slideshow to memorialize Marco, 21, an avid Cleveland Browns fan who had planned to enter his family's profession of practicing law or possibly politics.
Marco died after he was shot during a robbery for his cell phone and an old laptop computer about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 17 in the 1100 block of East University Drive while he was walking home from the school library. On Tuesday, Tempe police announced the arrest of the two men they say are responsible for his death — Louis Eugene Harper, 20, who police say pulled the trigger and his nephew, Marion Anthony Patterson III, 17.
Both Harper and Patterson were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and armed robbery and each is being held on $1 million bond. A third person was arrested in connection with Marco's death, but police did not release a name.
"My son died for nothing," Marco's father, Daniel Marco said during the vigil. "Nothing. I was proud of him and I loved him. I always assumed he knew that, but rarely, if ever, did I ever say those words."
Daniel Marco urged others to more resemble his son and not his killers and not to take shortcuts in life like they did.
Marco's grandparents, Richard and Shirley Marco, who were in the crowd holding candles, were not among the ones to speak from the podium during the vigil, but shared words of their grandson afterward.
"Everyone is talking about Zach as if he were a giant," Richard Marco said. "He'll always be a kid to me. He was just a great kid. I remember him stripping wallpaper off our wall when he was little, bouncing in a swing. He studied hard and worked hard, but he knew how to have fun."
Shirley Marco said Zach loved cookies and would always walk in the door and say, 'Hey grannie, you got any oatmeal and raisin cookies?'
"I loved his giggle," she said. "He kept all the cards I sent him."
Marco's other younger sister, Katie Marco, who also is a student at ASU, was among the last to speak at the vigil.
She talked about her brother pushing her in school, how she always paid for him at Starbucks because he never had any money and how she was proud to be his sister.
"He should be here," Katie Marco said as she looked around the courtyard. "This is everything he worked for every day."
The Marco family also announced during the vigil that they are launching the Zachary Marco Foundation and are accepting contributions in Zach's memory. The foundation will help to provide college scholarships to students entering the law profession or political science. It also will benefit families of murder victims who need financial assistance to pay for funeral costs.
Anyone interested in contributing to the foundation can mail donations to: The Zachary Marco Foundation, 7756 E. Sugar Loaf Circle, Mesa, AZ, 85207.


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China Southern Airlines has agreed to buy 10 Boeing 777-300ERs,
as the airline plans to expand its capacity to meet growing demand
in Asia-Pacific and China.
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"We're very pleased that China Southern, which has
been a staunch 777 supporter from the very beginning of the
program, has once again selected the 777-300ER to serve its
passengers and to deliver value to its bottom line," said
Ihssane Mounir, vice president, Sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
making the announcement Tuesday.
The Boeing 777 is the world's most successful twin-engine,
long-haul airplane. The 777-300ER extends the 777 family's span of
capabilities, bringing twin-engine efficiency and reliability to
the long-range market. The airplane carries 365 passengers up to
7,930 nautical miles. Boeing incorporated several performance
enhancements for the 777-300ER, extending its range and payload
capabilities. Excellent performance during flight testing, combined
with engine efficiency improvements and design changes that reduce
drag and airplane weight, contributed to the increased
The agreement requires Chinese Government approval, and Boeing
looks forward to working with China Southern Airlines, a long-time
valued customer, to obtain approval. Once approval is attained, the
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