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Designed for those who prefer being discreet, our Privacy Luggage ID makes it easy to find your bag without letting everyone know your personal info - and we can all agree that's a good thing! Made from leather with nickel hardware, this Privacy Luggage ID comes with an ID card for labeling and can also accommodate a business card. A window flap covers your card, keeping your info private but still making it easy to spot your bag on the carousel. An adjustable strap at the top rounds it all out, letting you easily fit it to your bag. Simple and discreet - that's what our Privacy Luggage ID is all about.
Casual yet distinctive, our Timeless collection is one of our favorites. This leather boasts a polished finish and a soft hand feel, making it a great choice for any leather connoisseur. And with the variety of colors it comes in, it's easy to find a shade that appeals to you or matches with your other accessories. As the name implies, our Timeless collection will hold up through years of use while aging gracefully every step of the way.
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Nice gift to give or to get, good quality leather. And the colors are nice, I ordered the cobalt, turquoise, cream and purple. All were lovely.
These arrived with my gold single letter monogram just in time for a trip. They are very functional and seem quite durable. Although very simple in design, on the luggage carousel their tailored appearance stands out from all the others.
Beautifully made and packaged. Ready to be given as a gift. Very nice leather and love the privacy from the cover held in place by the strap. Highly recommend.
Easy to use website, speedy service and the luggage tag was beautiful! This was a Christmas gift and it arrived in exceptionally nice packaging…a gift you would be proud to give!
Beautiful quality and the monogram turned out perfectly!
I ordered 5 luggage tags for stocking gifts and could not be happier. The tags are a great quality, and they are beautifully gift wrapped as well. My favorite part, however, is the gold monogram. It is sharp and a good size. I have ordered these other places where you can barely see the monogram but this one stands right out. Thank you so much!
I'll be very happy to give these luggage tags as a gift. They are very elegant and classy.
The teal tag I received wasn't as bright as in the product picture. It also had somewhat of a greenish color to it rather than the sharp, bright teal blue that is pictured. Still, it was nicely made and came in a very nice box with a soft cloth and elastic velvet ribbon.
I got this for my boyfriend for our upcoming trip and he loves it!
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I was pleasantly surprised. From what I'd discovered at local stores, I dreaded the arrival of a poor quality, flimsy, soon-to-be broken luggage tag. What I received was the exact opposite.
I order the grape tag - color was perfect, luggage tag can fit my business card when traveling for work, I like the adjustable strap to make tighter on my luggage.
Exactly what I was looking for, privacy and a distinct color I can recognize when locating luggage on airport turntables.
I ordered my tag with a silver monogram and I received the tag within a week. Fast and easy ordering process and the delivery was quicker than expected.
I ordered the red apple, monogram as well as a gift. The packaging was awesome and the tag color was nice.
Will be shopping with Leatherology again for future travel needs.
Really nice quality tag. Delivery was prompt and product was nicely presented. I will return to Leatherology.
Loved the price, loved the quality, loved the packaging. Super nice. Now need to order one more.
Perfect! Bought as a Christmas gift - the i.d. tag appears to be well made, and the wonderful packaging will make the presentation even more special.
A nice tag that will be noticeable on a black suitcase when it is on the luggage ramp.
Nice item. Arrived promptly.
I am happy with this luggage tag, the leather is of good quality and the color is exactly what I expected.
It was a 3rd anniversary gift (leather) for my daughter and she loved it!!!
It was a 3rd anniversary gift (leather) for my son-in-law and it was perfect. This is something that everyone would like, but not necessary go out and purchase for themselves.
This is a very elegant luggage tag! The only comment I have is that the monogram looks very sophisticated embossed, but in fact might have a little bit more style if actually monogrammed in red. This is not a deal breaker however...I ordered three for my husband for Christmas and am now ordering three for myself (just because).
I am impressed with the quality of the luggage tags with personalization I ordered from Leatherology and the speed with which the order arrived! I will definitely patronize this company in the future!
This luggage tag is just beautiful -- very nice leather. I had it monogrammed and that, too came out very nice. It arrived as scheduled and will shop from this site again.
I was very impressed with the quality & workmanship of these luggage tags. Each piece was carefully wrapped and packed in individual professional looking gift box and ribbon. This was my first purchase at Leatherology, I will be back!
Very nice quality, and attractively boxed.
A fun and practical travel mood-lifter. Pros: Fits the bill perfectly. I'm glad I got the initials for that special touch. Cons: Metal clasp feels cheap, but that's not a deal breaker. The red leather is a little more matte than the picture, but very nice and bright.
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Manchester Select Board votes to support passenger railBy Patrick McArdle
STAFF WRITER | March 14,2013MANCHESTER The Select Board voted unanimously Tuesday to support passenger rail service after hearing about the possibility of a new train depot in town and a rail line that could go from New York City to Manchester to Rutland.
Wendy Rae Woods, a member of the Southwestern Vermont Rail Corridor Committee, a coalition of concerned citizens and community leaders, appeared at the Select Board meeting Tuesday to ask the board for a show of support.
Since 2011, consultants Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., or VHB, have been hosting public meetings in Bennington County as part of a $1 million study, funded by the federal government and the state governments of Vermont and New York, which will result in a recommendation for restoring passenger rail service to serve the western corridor of Vermont.
On Tuesday, Woods told the Select Board that the study was almost complete. While she pointed out she had no control over the final recommendation, she told board members and an audience made up of many of Manchesters business and civic leaders, that she believed the report would support a rail line that goes from Albany, N.Y., to Vermont through the village of North Bennington and north to Manchester and Rutland.
If the recommendation comes in as expected, Woods said it would be important for towns like Manchester to show their strong support for the return of passenger rail in order to win the most important factor in making the project a reality: federal funding. The federal government would pay 80 percent of the cost of a rail line construction project with the rest paid by state and local funds.
If the project wins funding, Woods said its expected to take three construction seasons to build.
Select Board Chairman Ivan Beattie said he had been excited about the idea for a long time.
Weve come close a few times and I hope it builds momentum again. Id like to see this gain traction, he said.
The Manchester depot would potentially be located at a site used by r.k. Miles, a local lumber and building supply company, on Depot Street. Manchesters railroad depot was formerly located at the site and the state still owns the land on which a depot might be built. Woods said she didnt believe the former depot could be returned to use because of the costs of making it handicapped accessible.
While the rail line, if it came, couldnt be high-speed because of the number of grade crossings, Woods said it could be higher speed than some rail service and reach speeds of almost 60 mph. Woods also said the consultants from VHB would be taking those grade crossings into account and recommending crossing gates, lights and other safety features.
The rail line is expected to be an economic driver in Manchester. Beattie said he thought there was tremendous potential for businesses to see benefits from visitors brought to the area at local restaurants, shops and a potential shuttle service that would allow visitors to get around once they reach the town.
The Select Board voted unanimously to support a letter to be written and signed by Beattie and Manchester Town Manager John OKeefe indicating the towns support.
After the meeting, Woods said she had come to the Select Board on Tuesday because the consultants report is due soon.
The study itself is wrapping up and the final corrections are being made to it and then its going to be ready to be submitted to the Federal Rail Administration. We know for a fact that the FRA I wont say that theyre persuaded but they are influenced when they know that a particular area supports a rail project. It adds some weight to the particular project, she said.
Bennington, North Bennington and Shaftsbury have already supported the proposal and Woods said she planned to appear before the Dorset Select Board, to ask for their support, next week.
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Campus dining is a big part of the college experience. Commons Dining Hall offers all-you-care-to-eat dining venue with a diverse menu featuring options for the most adventurous or selective eaters. Daily standards at the grill and soup and salad bar are accompanied by items at our concept stations that rotate with every meal.
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Commons Hours
Monday*, Tuesday, Wednesday**, Thursday, Friday
Hot breakfast: 7:30–9:30 a.m.
Continental breakfast: 7:30–9:30 p.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5:30–7 p.m.
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Continental breakfast: 8:30–9:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
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** On Wednesday, Commons Dining Hall will be open at the conclusion of chapel.
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The Defender Grille is a great place for grabbing something on-the-run, meeting friends, or studying in the Campus Center. Choose from made-to-order sandwiches and salads, or grab something hot from the grill. With plenty of grab-and-go options like parfaits, sweet and salty snacks, beverages, and entrées, you're bound to find something to enjoy.
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This week I have been letting go of a lot of my unhealthy comfort food . I had gained a pound and a half last week and thought to myself -right, time to get a bit more serious, going vegan is not enough.
Naturally feelings I normally supress through overeating, or eating unhealthy foods, are coming to the surface.
I am determined to sit with my feelings experience them, recognize them and carry on - so my eating has been quite good this week. My husband and I experienced a great loss last year and this is where a lot of the weight started to pack on for me.
Although this forum is about nutrition, I think this is a very relevant conversation. I think this is how many of us fail at sticking to a healthy way of eating despite the knoweldge we have. For many of us unhealthy foods have an attraction in that they can temporarily numb us or comfort us. The bad feeling remains, but at least we could escape from it for a moment.
I've read that overeating and compulsively eating foods that are bad for us( as opposed to other coping behaviours) is a common coping mechanism for those of us who are suffering emotionally but must carry on, go to work each day, care for others etc.
So for me, adopting this PCRM way of eating is more about my physical health. It's also about learning to not just cope but to take care of myself, really look after myself when life gets tough.
Anyone else finding this- that uncomfortable feelings are coming to the surface as you follow this way of eating?
I try not to have any guilty feelings if I slip and eat something not on the diet. I think that's the most important thing. Unfortunately, most of us have experienced less than positive people in our lives and we sometimes let them get to us. It's probably important for you to focus on yourself and not let those other people influence your thoughts or behaviors too much - I know that's hard as some behaviors may be ingrained after a while. I try to find substitutes. For example, I used to put butter in my oatmeal and even vegan margarine is too much fat for me. What works - almond milk in my oatmeal. Look for those kind of positive things. What you're doing is great and keep it up - just one step at a time.
Thanks for your reply Hunybunny.
Margarine in your oatmeal? OMG, that's just crazy I'm laughing cause I have a true fondess for margarine and will put it on anything, but never felt inspired to put it in oatmeal. However, margarine is not something I keep in the fridge any longer.
I'm lucky that I don't feel guilty when I eat "bad" food. Being healthy and leaner is something I want for myself, but I don't see being less than healthy or being overweight as morally wrong. My husband still finds me sexy at the weight I am now, so losing weight and being physically healthier is something I really am doing just for myself.
Everyday little slights and offenses are always things that roll off easily for me. These are just the "oh well" sort of things to me. What has within this past year sent me on a course of regular numbing with food - is big sadness. Grief, as I said my husband and I suffered a terrible loss last year, and we've been grieving.
Despite the sadness being closer to the surface and more difficult to ignore (after all huge loss is not forgotten or recovered from overnight) I still intend to let myself experience this sadness as I stick to a low fat more whole foods vegan diet. Because I'm very tired of carrying this extra weight, and I know from experience that stuffing down grief with food does not make it go away. Better to feel it, acknowledge it, cry if needed, talk with someone if needed and carry on until the sadness is inevitably triggered again- then lather rinse repeat. And one day the loss will not hurt so damn much - the pain will still be there, but a little easier to bear.
Anyone going through something similar? Maybe not a huge loss like we've suffered, but some not very nice emotions coming up as you avoid the comforting and numbing effects of crappy food.
ps. Hunybunny, I think you are doing awesome too. Giving up margarine and butter on your oatmeal, which to me sounds delicious certainly a step in the right direction - well done! Go Us! I for one am celebrating all these positive changes I'm making.
Okay, right I'm off work early, so time to go home, hit the laundry and enjoy the weekend - free of binge eating
Have a good weekend everyone, and I'll see you again on Monday.
Hi Cricket, You have my well wishes. I'm glad you're taking care of yourself.
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Read Across America Day - March 3, 2014
NEA's Read Across America Day on March 3 is more than just a one-day celebration of reading on Dr. Seuss' birthday. It's an opportunity to focus on an initiative that promotes reading every day. It is also another opportunity to recognize your efforts in making public schools great for every Michigan child.
I hope that all of you will also use this day to showcase your accomplishments in developing life-long learners and readers.
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UFC president calls for meeting with injured champ Dominick Cruz on future | News
"He's our champ, he's our guy, and he needs time," UFC President Dana White on Thursday told MMAjunkie.com (UFC blog for UFC news, UFC rumors, fighter interviews and event previews/recaps). "But we're getting to the point now where we really need to make a decision."
White, who spoke to reporters following a pre-event news conference in support of UFC 158, wants to schedule a meeting with Cruz in Las Vegas to talk about the champ's future. Cruz hasn't fought since October 2011, when he made his second title defense against now-flyweight champ Demetrious Johnson.
In the meantime, the UFC has crowned an interim bantamweight champion, Renan Barao, who defended his title this past month against Michael McDonald.
The promotion could strip Cruz of his undisputed title and give it to Barao. Whatever is decided, though, White said it needs to be done soon, as much for Barao's sake as for Cruz.
"We've seen in the past, you can't sit around and wait for guys to come back or you will make no money and you'll be out too long, yourself," he said of the interim champ. "So he's got to get out there and stay active. Every time this kid fights and wins, it benefits him financially and physically. You have to stay active as a fighter."
A torn ACL scratched Cruz's return at UFC 148, and complications from corrective surgery further delayed his recovery. This past month,
"Everybody wants a timeline as much as I do," he said. "I would like to say, 'In six months, starting today, I will be back.' I can't do that. It's up to my doctors. It's up to my physical therapists."
That uncertainty is the cause of White's concern. Although the UFC president expressed great respect for Cruz, he admitted that no champ had ever been sidelined so long.
"This poor kid ... I've never seen anybody with more bad luck than Cruz, man," White said. "And for him, coming back into this division, you know the way the sport is to have been off for over two years."
White, however, wouldn't commit to a cutoff date for possibly stripping Cruz of the title. That decision will be made behind closed doors, if at all.
"This is stuff that needs to be talked about with him, and even if I had a decision about him, I wouldn't say it here," White said. "He deserves the respect to come out to Vegas and sit down and talk about it."


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A new trailer was released for Dead Island, a survival-horror game that was announced nearly four years ago and then just as quickly disappeared into vaporware. It's being done by Polish developer, Techland, whom some might remember for the Western-styled FPS, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. It's still alive and it's actually expected out this year on the PC, PS3, and the Xbox 360. If Techland can make the game as fun as Bound in Blood, Capcom's Dead Rising might actually find itself with a little competition.
It's described as something of a 'Dead Rising' styled zombie masher with an RPG system in place to allow characters learn skills that can help them survive the outbreak. But it's unique in that the outbreak takes place at an island resort leaving the survivors with very little to fight back with except for their wits and whatever they can get their hands on. The smell of coconut oil might only make you seem more appetizing to the walking dead.
Still, there's really not much else to go on other than the bare basics. Oh, and there's the new, 18+ or older only trailer I mentioned. It's a remarkable piece of work even though it shows no gameplay. It's depressing and shocking at the same time and not because of the gore that spills from nearly every frame, so be warned when you click on this link to IGN to see it. Definitely not what your typical zombie trailer.


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Curmudgeon Notes
Media Musings from Cincinnati and Beyond
Ben L. Kaufman
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Give the New York Times a C+ for candor after it fired Executive Editor Jill Abramson.
Curmudgeon Notes
Media Musings from Cincinnati and Beyond
Ben L. Kaufman
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 12, 2014
An Enquirer cover story described a local school program that could have fallen under the old-fashioned rubrics of "shop" or "manual arts."
Minimum Gauge
Lou Lives, "Love" Bytes and Daft Pink/Puck/Punk
Mike Breen
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 5, 2013
What's weirder — that Joy Division has inspired a video game or that the free, browser-based computer game actually captures the essence of the legendary U.K. gloom rockers perfectly?
by Ben L. Kaufman
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Gun Violence
Barack Obama
at 10:51 AM |
Curmudgeon Notes 2.06.2013
Media musings from Cincinnati and beyond
Be suspicious of statistics that suggest a reporter doesn't understand, doesn't care or knowingly isn't telling us everything the numbers do. For instance, we have tens of thousands of firearm deaths every year in our country. Uncritical reporting suggests these are homicides that buybacks or proposed federal gun controls could prevent or reduce. Nope. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 31,672 firearm deaths recorded in 2010, the last year for which complete statistics are posted. Of those, 19,392 or 61 percent were suicides, not homicides. The remaining 39 percent included accidents, fatal encounters with police, etc. • Critical thinking was in short supply at the Senate Judiciary Hearing where gun control foes testified. It's sort of like using a faux quote by Hitler to prove gun registration leads to confiscation, which leads to socialism or worse. Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum told senators that "guns make women safer" and a ban on assault-style weapons with high-capacity magazines would endanger women. To illustrate her case, Trotter cited 18-year-old Sarah McKinley's successful defense against an armed intruder near Blanchard, Okla. Police there told CityBeat that she killed him with a 12-gauge pump shotgun, a classic hunting weapon owned by millions of Americans. That was a good choice for McKinley but an unfortunate example for Trotter; no one is suggesting that shotguns be included in proposed gun controls. Then, as if to prove that fewer Americans are hunting or serving in the military and know what they're talking about (also see below), MSNBC mistakenly said she used a rifle. ABC News was no smarter: It had her reenact the shooting with a double-barreled shotgun. McKinley's single-barrel pump shotgun was taken as evidence in the homicide, probably to be returned when her claim of self-defense is affirmed. Meanwhile, Guns Save Lives, a nonprofit, sent her a similar, replacement shotgun. Not only does Oklahoma allow lethal force for self-defense inside a person's home, but McKinley asked the 911 operator what she could do to protect herself and her child. The dead intruder's companion reportedly told police the intruders were after prescription painkillers that they assumed McKinley's husband left when he died a week earlier from cancer. • A secret shooter? After Obama's comments to the New Republic about having fired a gun, the White House released a photo of the president on the Camp David retreat skeet range. Wearing protective glasses and ear protection, he's firing a shotgun at the 4-5/16 inch flying clay discs (pigeons) last August. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama told the New Republic. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there." However, the AP story accompanying the skeet shooting photo in Sunday's Enquirer mistakenly says he's firing a rifle. I'm not sure whether Obama used an over-and-under shotgun, but it certainly didn't look like a rifle. That inexplicable clanger escaped AP and Enquirer editing despite our unprecedented national debate over certain types of firearms. NRA pooh-poohed Obama's comments and photo, saying it changes nothing in NRA opposition to greater gun control. • John Kerry drew scorn in 2004 after he was photographed with Ted Strickland and others with just-shot geese in an eastern Ohio cornfield. Possibly recalling that ill-conceived effort to bond with hunters, Obama didn't release his skeet shooting photo before the election last year. Kerry's goose hunting was ridiculed as a dumb photo op, especially because Kerry borrowed the farmer's hunting outfit and double-barreled shotgun for the day. Whether Kerry bagged any additional rural voters was unclear; Bush won Ohio. • I began contributing to the new National Catholic Reporter in the mid-'60s when I started covering religion at the Minneapolis Star. I freelanced for NCR when I had that same assignment at the Enquirer. A privately owned, independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo., NCR was a voice of Roman Catholics who embraced the spirit as well as the documents of the Second Vatican Council. Traditional churchmen had little reason to love NCR. It was a pain in the ass and collection basket. It reported the flight of clergy and nuns, often into marriage. Jason Berry pioneered reporting of priestly child abuse. Penny Lernoux covered Latin American death squads and links between murderous reactionaries and the church. Murders of nuns, priests and bishops who embraced liberation theology and the church's "preferential option for the poor" received extensive, probing coverage. The bishop of Kansas City and a former diocesan editor, Robert W. Finn, recently joined predecessors' fruitless condemnations of NCR's journalism. In a letter to the diocese praising official church media, Finn was "sorry to say, my attention has been drawn once again to the National Catholic Reporter. … In the last months I have been deluged with emails and other correspondence from Catholics concerned about the editorial stances of the Reporter: officially condemning Church teaching on the ordination of women, insistent undermining of Church teaching on artificial contraception and sexual morality in general, lionizing dissident theologies while rejecting established Magisterial (official) teaching, and a litany of other issues. "My predecessor bishops have taken different approaches to the challenge. Bishop Charles Helmsing in October of 1968 issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name 'Catholic' from their title — to no avail. From my perspective, NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades. "When early in my tenure I requested that the paper submit their bona fides as a Catholic media outlet in accord with the expectations of Church law, they declined to participate indicating that they considered themselves an 'independent newspaper which commented on "things Catholic." ' At other times, correspondence has seemed to reach a dead end. "In light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.' While I remain open to substantive and respectful discussion with the legitimate representatives of NCR, I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level. For this we pray: St. Francis DeSales (patron of journalists), intercede for us." • Rarely have I seen such a neat dismissal of creationism and defense of evolution as the following by 19th century skeptic Robert Ingersoll. It's quoted in a review of The Great Agnostic, a biography of Ingersoll, in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard: "I would rather belong to that race that commenced a skull-less vertebrate and produced Shakespeare, a race that has before it an infinite future, with an angel of progress leaning from the far horizon, beckoning men forward, upward, and onward forever — I had rather belong to such a race … than to have sprung from a perfect pair upon which the Lord has lost money every moment from that day to this." • The Weekly Standard also published "A teacher's Plea: The GOP shouldn't write off educators." Eloquent Colleen Hyland speaks beyond partisanship for her vocation and colleagues in her Jan. 21 essay. Among other things, she hopes to shake Republican/conservative ideologues out of their animus toward public school teachers and their unions. Among her points: Hhateful generalizations about teachers and their desire for a living wage also degrades women. • I didn't know Kevin Ash and I'm not a rider but I read his motorcycle reviews in London's Daily Telegraph for years. Details of his death in South Africa are unclear, but he died during the media show testing the new BMW R1200GS motorcycle. His informed, passionate writing was a delight for itself, even if I never thought to get on a two-wheeler again. When I was what the Brits' call a "motoring correspondent," my interest was cars, whether with three or four wheels. There were a lot of us writing about cars and motor racing/rallying in Europe and Britain in the 1960s; postwar Europeans were getting into cars for the first time in most families' lives. We were read whether it was the test drive of an exquisite new Zagato OSCA coupe (built by the original Maserati brothers) or a boring Opel sedan. But getting killed during a test ride? Since most of us had some inkling of what we were doing astride a motorcycle or behind the wheel, that would have been very bad luck. • Time Magazine's world.time.com website posted this howler. The original Time story purported to look at Oxford and Cambridge roles in Britain's social mobility. Appended to the online story, Time's correction has a lawyerly tone. Here it is at length and verbatim: "This article has been changed. An earlier version stated that Oxford University accepted 'only one black Caribbean student' in 2009, when in fact the university accepted one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity when applying to Oxford. "The article has also been amended to reflect the context for comments made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the number of black students at Oxford. It has also been changed to reflect the fact that in 2009 Oxford 'held' rather than 'targeted' 21 percent of its outreach events at private schools, and that it draws the majority of its non-private students from public schools with above average levels of attainment, rather than 'elite public schools.' "An amendment was made to indicate that Office for Fair Access director Les Ebdon has not imposed but intends to negotiate targets with universities. It has been corrected to indicate that every university-educated Prime Minister save Gordon Brown has attended Oxford or Cambridge since 1937, rather than throughout history. The proportion of Oxbridge graduates in David Cameron's cabinet has been updated — following the Prime Minister's September reshuffle, the percentage rose from almost 40 percent to two-thirds. Percentages on leading Oxbridge graduates have been updated to reflect the latest figures. "The article erred in stating that private school students have 'dominated' Oxbridge for 'centuries.' In the 1970s, according to Cambridge, admissions of state school students ranged from 62 percent to 68 percent, sinking down to around 50 percent in the 1980s. The article has been amended to clarify that although only a small percentage of British students are privately educated, they make up one-third of the students with the requisite qualifications to apply to Oxbridge. "The article erred in stating that Oxford and Cambridge 'missed government admission targets' for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Rather, the universities scored below 'benchmarks' for admission of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds which are calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body. The article was amended to clarify the point that Cambridge continues to run Sutton Trust summer schools. "The article mistakenly suggested that the current U.K. government had launched an 'initiative to reform Oxbridge.' There was no official initiative, but rather a marked push by the government to encourage change. The article referred to Cambridge and Oxford's efforts 'in the past two years' to seek out underprivileged students. In fact, their commitment is far more long-standing — programs to reach out to underprivileged students have been operating at the two universities since at least the mid-1990s. "The article erred in suggesting that Cambridge had protested state school targets, and in stating that it had 'agreed to' ambitious targets, rather than setting the targets themselves that were then approved by the Office of Fair Access. The article has been amended to clarify that there is debate over whether the 'school effect', whereby state school students outperform private school students at university, applies to those at the highest levels of achievement, from which Oxford and Cambridge recruit. "The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge. The article has amended the phrase 'Oxford and Cambridge's myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,' to more fairly reflect the universities' approach." • Until I read the Time correction above, I'd forgotten one in which I was involved. A young reporter covered a Saturday national church meeting in suburban Cincinnati at which denominational leaders argued how to respond to homosexuals in the pews and pulpits. This was when such a discussion was courageous, regardless of the views expressed. I edited the story. It was a good, taut story and it ran in a Sunday Enquirer. All hell broke loose. The reporter attributed exactly the opposite views to each person quoted. Instead of a forthright correction, I recall running a new, corrected story plus the apology.
Worst Week Ever!
Worst Week Ever!: Dec. 19-25
isaac Thorn
0 Comments · Thursday, December 27, 2012
WEDNESDAY DEC. 19: Like tattoos and blood pacts with the devil, getting a pet is a decision that can have long-term effects. A guest column in today's Enquirer explains how pets aren't the same as other gifts people don't like, because they cost a lot of money after you buy them and will pee all over everything.
On Second Thought
Reporters Should Challenge Candidates on Creationism
Ben L. Kaufman
3 Comments · Wednesday, December 12, 2012
I'm grateful to the GQ magazine reporter who asked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio about the age of the earth. It raises a vital question for a country where significant numbers of Americans reject much of science from creation to evolution.
by Jac Kern
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At the risk of inducing widespread PTSD flashbacks, I invite everyone to recall 2011's Internet Public Enemy No. 1, Rebecca Black. The teen, who is probably a decent human undeserving of worldwide hatred, assaulted eardrums on a massive scale with her music video gone viral, "Friday." The worst realization to come out of Friday-gate wasn't the sorry state of the music industry or even the online bullying Black faced, but the fact that, apparently, rich people will throw a few thousand dollars at a greedy producer to create a shitty song and music video for their marginally talented child. Record producer and songwriter Patrice Wilson was one of the driving forces behind "Friday" and if you wanted to give his work another chance, you're in luck. He worked with Nicole Westbrook to record a song not about one day of the week (that's so 2011), but one day of the year. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Thanksgiving. Kraft Mac-n-Cheese – AY! Stove Top stuffing – AY! We one-percenters should have better food than this. While we're on the topic of social phenomena ripe for mockery, it's fitting to recognize Food Network's Guy Fieri (Real Name: Guy Ferry. Yeah, douchebag status: confirmed) who recently opened a new restaurant in New York City. It seems most people either love or hate Guy. He co-owns five California restaurants and hosts the popular Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, on which he travels the country highlighting off-the-beaten-path chow-down spots — so, clearly he's got some fans out there. Others are a bit turned off by his labored "Rock-N-Roll" façade, his annoying catchphrases and his penchant for bowling shirts. I can't trust a man who purposefully styles his hair like a goofy visor hat from Cappel's, and apparently New York Times' Pete Wells isn't a fan either. In his Nov. 13 take-down piece on the new Guy's American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square, Wells completely ripped the joint apart limb from tribal tattooed limb. While any attempt to seriously review what sounds like a black hole for overweight tourists would probably prove futile, I feel Wells could have been a bit more creative in his blasting of Fieri. Guy's an easy target, so why go with the cliched "Dear Guy," letter format, punctuated by a series of overly sarcastic questions? At this point I'm waiting for a cynical review of Wells' review (please tweet any findings to @jackern), but I have to hand it to the reviewer for this service assessment that made me choke on my morning coffee: "The well-meaning staff seems to realize that this is not a real restaurant." Find the full story here. Fans got a first look at Brad Pitt zombie action flick World War Z last week. The film, based on Max Brooks' 2006 novel of the same name, may stray farther from the text than fans have hoped, judging by the trailer. (Though it's important to note how deceiving these first looks can be). The book reflects on a worldwide war on zombies after the fact, using interviews with survivors to paint the terrifying picture, whereas the film appears to be a straight-up zombie movie. However it turns out, zombie purists beware: These may be the quickest and most agile undead yet. After last week's election, gay marriage is now legal nine states. It's a great feat for equality, but we've got a long way to go. In fact, gays across America have given straight, conservative men an ultimatum: Vote to legalize same-sex marriage, or they will marry the crap out of your girlfriends. Portlandia, the hilarious sketch comedy spoofing counter-culture trends, returns to IFC Jan. 4. The show stars SNL's Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney/Wild Flag guitarist-singer Carrie Brownstein — quite possibly my favorite non-romantic duo — in a series of timely skits about the hipster sect of popular culture. All the good little boys and girls of Oregon and beyond can get an early sampling of the two with the "Winter in Portlandia" holiday special on Dec. 14. Fans will see Peter and Nance go low-carb to stave off winter blubber and meet Candace's son as he swings by Women and Women First during his holiday visit. Here's the first skit from the upcoming third season:
by Ben L. Kaufman
Posted In:
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at 10:49 AM |
Curmudgeon Notes 11.14.2012
Media musings from Cincinnati and beyond
• Monday's Enquirer carries a sanitized obit for Larry Beaupre, the fine, aggressive Enquirer editor whose career was destroyed by a trusted reporter during the Chiquita scandal. Larry's genius was motivating his staff to take chances and go the extra step. No one wanted to admit not making the last phone call to check something in a story. We made those calls. As part of that, Larry brought the "woodshed" to the Enquirer newsroom on Elm Street. It was the perfect walk to his corner office overlooking the Ohio and Licking Rivers. There, Larry would privately discuss some failing or pratfall in that morning's paper. My favorite Larry story — there is no way I'll call him Beaupre — is Lucasville. I was involved in coverage of that prison riot and occupation from its start on Easter, 1993. Larry was part of Pulitzer-winning coverage of the bloody Attica prison revolt in New York. He gave us everything we asked for at Lucasville. In the middle of that deadly mess — 24/7 for 11 days in Scioto County red clay mud outside the prison on what became press row — he drove down to deliver Sunday papers and thank his bleary staff. That's leadership. "I will never forget the Sunday morning when Beaupre showed up," then-reporter Howard Wilkinson recalled for an earlier column. "He asked me what we needed. 'Cash, and lots of it,' I said, explaining that we had to buy food and clothing for the crew, most of whom came unprepared for 11 days in the mud. Larry pulled his wallet out of his back pocket and start counting out a wad of $50s . . . gave me $500 on the spot, which I ended up spending at Big Bear and the Subway in Lucasville. 'There's more where that came from,' Beaupre said." Larry didn't meddle when things went right. There always were questions about why we didn't have some Lucasville story that someone else did. Larry always accepted "we checked it out and it's not true." We got it right and he honored that. A year later, he made sure we knew that a routine Lucasville anniversary story wasn't acceptable. Kristen DelGuzzi and I spent weeks on race, religion and crowding in prisons around the country and Lucasville. The ordinary was not acceptable to Larry or his editors.Not long ago, I sent Howard Wilkinson's comment to Larry, along with that column anticipating the 20th anniversary of Lucasville in 2013. Larry responded warmly, saying it's nice to be remembered for something beyond Chiquita. However, it's the nature of our trade that we're remembered for our biggest screwups. Ask Dan Rather. So it is with Larry: the year-long investigative effort and special 18-page section describing what reporters Mike Gallagher and Cam McWhirter learned about Chiquita operations here and abroad. Typically, Larry gave two trusted reporters all of the resources they needed. He and Gallagher had worked together before Larry brought him to Cincinnati. Gallagher's decision to eavesdrop on Chiquita voice mails doomed the project and cost Larry his career. They gave us a dark view of Chiquita operations, especially in Central America. The project blew up in our faces and Larry was the scapegoat even though the stories had gone all of the way up the corporate chain and back again. Readers noted that despite the three page 1 apologies and curious renunciation of the stories that followed revelation of Gallagher's dishonest reporting methods, the Enquirer did not retract the facts.Larry and the Enquirer had challenged the most powerful man in Cincinnati, Carl Lindner. Gallagher's dishonesty gave Lindner his opening and Lindner crippled the paper for years. As part of the deal with Lindner and Chiquita, the paper paid $14 million. More devastating was the condition that Larry had to go. He did. McWhirter was moved to a top reporting job at the Gannett paper in Detroit. David Wells was removed as local editor — the one job he always wanted at the Enquirer - but stayed to become opinion page editor. Gallagher — who lied to everyone about how he got those voice mails and included his lies in the published stories — was fired. He stayed around to plead guilty to tapping Chiquita voice mail system and stayed out of prison by naming his Chiquita-related sources. The Enquirer lost the passion and editing talents of Larry and David Wells and Cam McWhirter's reporting skills. Other colleagues began leaving; the Enquirer was tainted goods. Job applications from similarly talented journalists dried up, I'm told, for years. I'm not sure the Enquirer ever recovered. • Larry (above) and his family moved to Mt. Lookout from West Chester when he came from New York. No matter what landscapers planted in his garden overlooking Ault Park, deer ate them. Then there were the raccoons. Larry came to my desk in distress, wondering what he could do. I suggested a nonlethal Havahart trap. Let the critter loose in another park. Larry tried it. Bait would be gone, the trapdoors closed and no 'coon. One night he stayed up to see what was going on. The critter went in, ate the bait, and when the doors dropped, other raccoons tipped over the trap. Doors opened and "prisoner" walked free. I think he gave up; Midwestern deer and raccoons were more than his New York smarts could conquer. • If you missed it, go back to last Tuesday's Enquirer opinion page and read mediator Bob Rack's essay on civility in public life. It's broader than elections and is more practical than the typical admonishment to behave. • Thursday's Enquirer started a page 1 watch on the Pride of the Tristate, naysaying obstructionists Mitch and John. I hope Enquirer reporters tell us what Mitch and John and their House and Senate colleagues do in the name of "bipartisanship." Skip their words. Watch what they do. • "Gravitas" apparently is so 2010. The new word favored by many politics writers is "meme." A wise editor once told me to avoid foreign words unless they're so common that even an editor would know them. Meme — from the Greek — fails. • Quotationspage.com attributes this famous aphorism to department store merchant John Wanamaker: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." I wonder if that's true about campaign ads. Billionaire right-winger Sheldon Abelson helped poison the well but the New York Times says only his candidates drank; they all lost. I haven't seen a similar analysis of libertarian Koch brothers spending but it reportedly was far greater than even Abelson's. Democrats countered by raising and spending zillions. The only difference was the far greater number of Democratic donors needed to reach the magic totals. Great for TV stations but brain damaging for the rest of us. • There is no "financial cliff." We're not going to go over it on Jan. 1. An end to Bush tax cuts won't pitch us in a recession on Jan. 2. Sequestration won't suck zillions out of the economy in one day. Yes, there is a downward economic slope if Congress and Obama don't sort out the tax/deficit mess. So, why do journalists continue to parrot bipartisan "over the cliff" rhetoric when the facts they report make it clear that no such precipice exists? • My nomination for a "Useless" award is the New York Times telephone people who are supposed to help with home delivery problems. Twice last week, the Times wasn't there in the morning and replacement papers weren't delivered that day or the next. That included Wednesday's paper with the election results. More aggravating was the blue-wrapped Times on my neighbor's drive, giving lie to the Times' "problem resolution" staff's explanation that there were problems at the printing plant. Times' operators and clueless supervisors were in Iowa: dim bulbs who sounded like they read from an all-purposes script.• I finally used the New York Times website to email their vp/circulation. A reply came quickly, promising to contact the Enquirer whose carriers deliver the Times. A prompt call from Enquirer circulation on Elm Street promised replacement papers and a personal delivery. Didn't happen. Still hasn't, a week later. A perfect union of ignorance and interstate bullshit. • Last week's CityBeat cover story was the annual Project Censored; the most underreported major stories in the major news media. The list misses my No. 1 most underreported story of the year: third-party candidates for the presidency and their platforms. About the only time the major news media noted Third Party existence was to wonder if a third party might get enough votes to deny victory to a Democrat or Republican in any state(s). Affecting a state's vote totals would be bad for democracy, those news media anxieties imply. So I'd offer two suggestions to my 24/7 news media colleagues. First, voting one's principles is not bad for democracy and it has the potential for great news stories. Second, third party platforms suggest ingredients in whatever becomes conventional wisdom in 2016 or 2020. That's what third parties do; hopeful but realistic, they do the thinking that seems to escape mainstream Democrats and Republicans. If you doubt me, look at what came out of the Progressive era 100 years ago and what might come out of Tea Party initiative and energy. • Are news media short of photos of Petraeus in civvies? He's no longer a general. Most images I saw after his surprise resignation had him in uniform. Also, the developing story of how his affair was discovered is fascinating. The FBI stumbled on Petraeus when it was investigating a complaint of online harassment against Paula Broadwell, the adoring graduate student who became author of the new Petraeus biography and his lover. The complaint came from another woman, a frightened friend of the Petraeus family. Agents looking at Broadwell's emails found classified information and romantic emails between Petraeus and Broadwell. Tacky as this is, it fell to Jay Leno to sum it up: Guys, Leno said, if the head of the CIA can't keep an affair secret, don't you try it because if you do, "You're screwed." • BBC's sex scandal — knighted entertainer Jimmy Savile and others at BBC abused hundreds of girls for years — continues to spread. So far, it hasn't touched the BBC World Service which Americans get on WVXU/WMUB and other FM stations. Last week, however, it cost BBC's new top exec his job. He quit after one of his reporters suggested during a TV interview that he should "go" and a former Cabinet minister responsible for BBC said Winnie the Pooh would have been a more effective curb on careless, defamatory reporting. The latest mess involves BBC's top domestic current affairs/investigative TV program, Newsnight and the broader issue of child abuse by prominent and powerful figures in British public life. BBC's Newsnight broadcast Steve Messham's claim that a top Conservative politician was among men who molested him in a state children's home during the 1980s. Newsnight didn't name the Tory but others did on social media: Lord Alistair McAlpine. He came forward last week and denied wrongdoing. When Messham saw a photo of McAlpine after the broadcast, Messham recanted and apologized. His abuser wasn't McAlpine. No one showed Messham a photo of McAlpine before broadcasting his accusation. BBC last week apologized "unreservedly." That phrase usually means a libel suit is anticipated. Meanwhile, BBC officials canceled Newsnight investigations. Newsnight already is under investigation for killing an program that would have outed Savile as a serial abuser. Savile is dead but three colleagues have been arrested so far. • Thedailybeast.com excerpts from Into the Fire, a book by Dakota Meyer, the Kentuckian who won the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan. It's a toy chest of news tips for reporters. Here's part of the excerpt: When I got home in December, I felt like I had landed on the moon. Kentucky is pretty much what you think: cheerful bluegrass music like Bill Monroe, rolling countryside, good moonshine, great bourbon and pretty girls. Greenery, lakes, the creeks and rolling hills, forests, birds, other critters and all the farms. There's that genuine friendliness that comes with small towns and close-knit families. You don't want to act like an asshole because it will get back to your grandmother by supper."Something like: 'Well, Dakota, I hear you had some words today with that neighbor of Ellen's sister's boy.'"Dad, of course, was happy to see me, as were my grandparents, so that was a good feeling. Dad didn't give me a hard time about Ganjigal, and neither did my leatherneck Grandpa. We just didn't talk much about it. It was great seeing my family and friends, but they had their own lives. Everyone around me was excited about football, Christmas, and other normal things; I was looking at the clapboard houses and the cars and thinking, man — so flimsy. They wouldn't give cover worth shit in a firefight."It was an exposed feeling. And where were my machine guns? I found my old pistol and kept it around like a rabbit's foot, but I missed my 240s and my .50-cals something awful. It seems weird, I'm sure, but I really just wasn't buying it that there wasn't some enemy about to come over the green hills, and I felt so unprepared—I wouldn't be any good to protect anybody."I was set to soon go off to Fort Thomas, Kentucky, for PTSD therapy . . . "• Next year, we'll commemorate the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. It wasn't the last time we underestimated the resilience of a far weaker "enemy." JFK reportedly told the Times that he would have aborted the invasion if the Times had had the cajones to publish what it knew about preparations in Florida and Central America. However, during the two weeks before the invasion, the Times published stories about the preparations. • Next year, we'll also commemorate JFK's murder. I watched demonstrators at our London Grosvenor Square Embassy vilify the U.S. for its role in the Cuban missile crisis. The night of JFK's death, crowds were back . . . to sign a book of condolences. • A federal judge ordered the FBI to pay journalist Seth Rosenfeld $479,459 for court costs and lawyers' fees. He sued the FBI after it ignored his appropriate requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Poynter.com says Rosenfeld will donate the money to the First Amendment Project Project in Oakland, Calif. It handled his case pro bono for 20 years. That's chump change to the bureau and it costs individual agents nothing for blowing him off. Meanwhile, news organizations say broad resistance to FOIA requests has worsened throughout the federal government under Obama. • Newsweek is going digital-only next year, in keeping with boss Tina Brown's changing reading habits. She says she doesn't even look at newsstands any longer; everything she wants is on her Kindle. Of course, she'll fire people. Newsweek always was No. 2 to Time Magazine which continues its print edition. I've ignored giveaway offers from both magazines for years. It isn't print, it's their content. My choice? The Economist's weekly U.S. print edition. • ABC said his family was unaware of film director Tony Scott's brain cancer when he jumped off a bridge in August and died. Now, ABC admits its original unverified and uncorroborated story was wrong. There was no brain cancer. It only took two months to admit and correct the error.
On Second Thought
Fair & Balanced vs. Accurate and Contextualized
Ben L. Kaufman
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If this presidential campaign hasn't been sufficiently enervating, here's more dispiriting news. Gallup reports that "Americans' distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60 percent saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly."
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Curmudgeon Notes 10.17.2012
Media musings on Cincinnati and beyond
• Look at the rare collection of Enquirer photos at the National Underground Freedom Center. They've been reprinted and for many, reprinted copies of original pages are nearby. The show is part of the much larger Fotofocus at many venues. Unfortunately, the Enquirer chose the Freedom Center which charges $12 admission; many Fotofocus displays are in admission-free venues such as the YWCA or UC's Gallery on Sycamore. I think the oldest photo is from 1948, a one-legged veteran leading a parade to commemorate the end of WWI 30 years earlier. Many are by photographers with whom I worked and whose images I displayed large on local pages during weekends when I edited. Some are recent, by photographers I admire but know only from their images in the paper. To its credit, the Enquirer exhibit includes unpublished photos of which the photographers are justly proud. First among them is Gary Landers' image of a homicide victim illuminated by an officer's flashlight behind Landers' home. Missing are two images that remind me of what photojournalism is about. One is Gerry Wolters' stunning — and in its time, controversial Pulitzer contender — of a dead African-American lying in a pool of his blood on the Avondale street where he'd been shot by a bailbondsman. Standing over him is the dead man's young son. Some readers said our photo would ruin the child's life. No, I told callers, if anything would it was his father's killing. The other missing photo was one that wasn't published by the paper: Glenn Hartong's firefighter carrying a toddler from a burning house. I'm told that editors flinched because they didn't know if the child survived. So what? That faux humanity illustrates Enquirer execs' fear of readers tossing their cookies into the Cheerios. Such touchy-feely screening sanitizes what can be a nasty, brutish and short life and lifestyle in our region. Life Magazine published Hartong's photo across two pages and someone posted it in the Enquirer newsroom coffee alley. It doesn't get better than that. In the Good Old Days, before self-inflicted sensitivity, the Enquirer had a unapologetic double standard for violent images. If the victim were local, the photo might be spiked to avoid upsetting readers. An example was the half-excavated body of a recognizable young construction worker suffocated in a trench cave-in. Distant victims — executions, genocide or bodies in floods/earthquakes — were likelier to be displayed. And even before the Good Old Days, Ed Reinke's iconic photo of a line of shrouded bodies from the 1977 Beverly Hills supper club fire gave a sense of magnitude to the disaster that our best reporting couldn't. It's the first photo in the exhibit, preceded by a warning that some images could be troubling. They should be. I don't know if Reinke's photo would be used today. • Ohio's Sherrod Brown is among the Democratic senators targeted by out-of-state billionaire GOP donors. He's an unapologetic liberal and the Progressive monthly made Brown's re-election battle its latest cover story. A point I'd missed elsewhere is the unusual state FOP endorsement for a Democrat but Brown stood with officers against Republican legislation stripping them of most of their bargaining rights. The Progressive story includes a Mason-area jeweler whose health insurer refused to pay for an advanced cancer treatment. Husband and wife say Reps. Jean Schmidt and John Boehner brushed off their pleas to intervene with the insurer. A Brown staffer — who said she didn't care what party the Republican couple belongs to — spent the weekend successfully persuading the insurer to cover the potentially life-saving $100,000 procedure. More recently, reporters on Diane Rehm's public radio show estimated SuperPACs are spending $20 million to defeat Brown and suggested it might not suffice. As a DailyBeast.com columnist notes, polls show Republican Josh Mandel probably won't even carry his home Jewish community in Cleveland.• That same Progressive names 26 billionaires and their known donations to Republican and other rightwing causes in this election year. No Cincinnati-area men or women made the list but it's reasonable to infer that some of the men listed donated secretly to Super PACs opposing Ohio's Sherrod Brown's re-election (see above). • As one of that dying breed — an Enquirer subscriber who prefers print — my morning paper is missing a lot. Customer service provided a free online copy and promised to deliver the missing paper paper the next day. Next day? Another customer service rep said only replacement Sunday Enquirers are delivered the same day. Message? Don't stiff advertisers. • The ad on the top half of the back page of the Oct. 11 Enquirer Local section invited everyone to a Romney-Ryan "victory event" on Oct. 13 at Lebanon's Golden Lamb. The bold, black ad headline on the bottom half of the page was "The #1 dishwasher is also a best value." • Want to know more about Sarah Jones, the former Ben-Gal and school teacher who admitted to sex with a 17-year-old student? Among others, London's Daily Mail has enough to satisfy anyone who doesn't need to see a sex tape. • Don't piss off Turks. That's a lesson lots of people have learned to their pain over the generations. No one will be surprised if Turkish forces invade Syria to end Syrian shelling of Turkish civilians. Turkish troops have gone into Iraq to deal with threatening rebellious Turkish Kurds seeking sanctuary there. Turkey is a NATO member and NATO says it will defend Turkey if required. A couple English-language websites can complement the snippets about this aspect of Syria's civil war: aljazeera.com from the Gulf and hurriyetdailynews.com from Turkey. • The New York Times stepped back from the slippery slope of allowing subjects of news stories to say what news is fit to print. It allowed some sources to review and possibly change their quotes before reporters used them. In July, Times reporter Jeremy Peters blew the whistle on the Times and other major news media. The alternative to quote approval often was the threat of no interview. Initially, the Times defended the practice. No longer. Jimromenesko.com reported the change. Times executive editor Jill Abramson told Romenesko that quote approval "puts so much control over the content of journalism in the wrong place . . . We need a tighter policy."Romenesko quoted a recent Times memorandum that said "demands for after-the-fact quote approval by sources and their press aides have gone too far . . . The practice risks giving readers a mistaken impression that we are ceding too much control over a story to our sources. In its most extreme form, it invites meddling by press aides and others that goes far beyond the traditional negotiations between reporter and source over the terms of an interview . . . So starting now, we want to draw a clear line on this. Citing Times policy, reporters should say no if a source demands, as a condition of an interview, that quotes be submitted afterward to the source or a press aide to review, approve or edit."Good. Here's my question: What happens when a beat reporter can't get an important interview after citing Times policy? Access is everything. Few people who want media attention will turn away the Times, but editors can get weird when reporters can't get a desired interview. • Daily papers own and are members of the Associated Press. In their rush to be first, AP reporters used social media to get out the news and scooped member papers whose editors hadn't seen the stories yet. That went over badly in today's breathlessly competitive world. AP promises it won't use social media until after breaking news is sent to members and non-member subscribers. • It's time for the news media to abandon "reverse discrimination" when the purported victim is white and English-speaking. It's an issue again because the U.S. Supreme Court is reconsidering university racial admission criteria. A young woman claims the University of Texas rejected her because she is white. Discrimination is discrimination; someone is favored and someone is rejected. I won't anticipate the court's decision but the ethical issue is whether the community's or the individual's compelling interests are paramount when discrimination becomes policy and practice. Moreover, demographic trends could make "reverse discrimination" obvious nonsense if Anglos become a minority among newly-hyphenated and darker-skinned Americans and immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia. • We've seen three debates, two presidential, one veepish. The third was Tuesday or last night if you're reading this on Wednesday. I missed it; I was fishing in Canada. Other journalists will tell you what you heard really means. I'll catch up when I get home. At least the Biden-Ryan contest was lively and the moderator asked smart, sharp questions and kept the politicians under control. • The vice president and challenger had disturbingly weird expressions when they listened. Biden's smile recalled a colleague's remark after waterskiing with me: "I saw Ben smile and he wasn't baring his teeth." Worse, Biden's expression could appear to be a smirk. Ryan's intensity reminded me of a predator wondering about its next meal. Neither appearance had anything to do with the substance of the debate but it's how we tend to judge people we don't know. My question: Is this really how we choose the man one heartbeat away from leadership of The Free World (whatever the hell that means)?• Viewers — and these performances are TV events — worry me. Too many tell reporters and pollsters that their votes can be influenced by how the candidates came across in the debates. The president and vice president do not belong to debating societies. This isn't Britain's House of Commons. The ability to "win" a televised encounter has little or nothing to do with the job for which the men are contesting. Winners won't debate until and unless they seek office again. • News media would be in doldrums if there weren't stories to write before and after each debate. They burn space and time when little else is happening - if you discount the economy, pestilence, war, famine, etc. • Stories I didn't read beyond the headlines. One's from HuffingtonPost.com: "Lindsay Lohan Reveals Her Pick For President"The other is from the Thedailybeast.com:"LINDSAY LOHAN PICKS MITT! & OTHER TOXIC ENDORSEMENTS"
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|Lime, chipotle, and cilantro adds great flavor to grilled pork chops. Along with the pork chops is the rice mixture from Slow Cooker Vegan Brown Rice Mexican Bowl.
Grilled Lime and Chipotle Pork Chops
(Makes 8 servings, but can easily be cut in half. Recipe originally adapted from a recipe by Best Foods; I can no longer find that recipe online.)
8 pork chops 1/2 inch thick
(I used the giant boneless pork chops from Costco and pounded them to be 1/2 inch thick. You can also use bone-in pork chops.)
Marinade Ingredients:
1/2 cup mayo (do not use light or fat free; you're only eating the small amount of mayo that clings to the meat after it's marinated.)
1/4 cup lime juice (I use my fresh-frozen lime juice)
1 T dried cilantro (or use 2 T finely minced fresh cilantro)
1 T finely minced garlic (can use garlic puree from a jar)
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. ground Chipotle pepper (or more if you like a lot of heat)
1 tsp. ground cumin
Mix mayo, lime juice, dried cilantro, minced garlic, onion powder, ground Chipotle pepper, and ground cumin to make the marinade and pour over the pork chops. Marinate all day (or at least 6 hours) in the refrigerator. If you're home you can turn them a few times, but it's not essential.
To cook, take pork chops out of the fridge and let them come to room temperature while you spray the clean grill with oil or non-stick spray, then preheat gas or charcoal grill to medium high. (You can only hold your hand there a few seconds at that heat.)
Lay pork chops at an angle to the grill grates and cook until you see nice grill marks on the first side, about 3-4 minutes. (I usually lift up one and see how the marks look before I rotate them. When you see good marks, rotate the pork so it's going the opposite angle on the grill grates and cook 3-4 minutes more. When you have good marks going both ways, turn chops over and cook 2-3 minutes more, or slightly longer if your chops are especially thick. (I always use a digital instant-read meat thermometerto be sure the pork isn't overcooked, since pork chops like this can quickly become dry on the grill. New USDA guidelines for pork say cook to 145F with a 3 minute rest time.)
When the meat has reached 145F (or is nicely browned and firm to the touch when you press down on it) remove from grill and let rest 3 minutes; then serve hot.
South Beach Suggestions:
Well-trimmed pork chops like this are a perfect main dish for the South Beach Diet, or any low-glycemic eating plan. For Phase One you could eat this with Spicy Mexican Slaw with Lime and Cilantro and Pinto Bean Salad with Avocado, Tomatoes, Red Onion, and Cilantro.
Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Tasty Ideas for Pork on the Grill:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Grilled Pork Chops with Garlic-Lime Sauce ~ Dine and Dish
Grilled Pork Chops with Soy Sauce, Cumin, Lime, and Oregano ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Teriyaki Grilled Pork Chops ~ Budget Gourmet Mom
Kalyn's Souvlaki ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Vietnamese Restaurant Style Lemongrass Grilled Pork ~ Viet World Kitchen
(Want even more recipes? I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.
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Käthe Kollwitz: Prints from the 'War' and 'Death' Portfolios
- Dates: March 15, 2013 through November 10, 2013
- Collections: European Art
Käthe Kollwitz: Prints from the 'War' and 'Death' Portfolios
The devastating personal toll of war on poor and working-class families and the human response to daily struggle were the main subjects treated by Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) during her long career. While Kollwitz worked in a variety of media, from drawing to bronze sculpture, she is best known as an accomplished and prolific printmaker. An artist-activist, she embraced printmaking as the ideal medium to wed her artistic interests and socialist political commitments. Prints could be moderately priced and easily reproduced, and they could reach large, diverse audiences through mass distribution. Throughout her life Kollwitz also produced introspective self-portraits, which offer a more private account of her worldview. This exhibition brings together examples from the Brooklyn Museum's holdings of two of her most renowned and somber print portfolios, War (Krieg) (1922–23) and Death (Tod) (1934–35).
Born to liberal bourgeois parents, Kollwitz began taking art lessons in her early teens. A talented draftsperson, she was inspired by the work of Max Klinger (1857–1920). Considered the father of modern German printmaking, he argued for the superiority of the graphic arts as a critical tool that combined reportage with subjective elements from the artist's imagination. In her early major cycles A Weavers' Revolt (Ein Weberaufstand) (1893–98) and Peasants' War (Bauernkrieg) (1902–08), Kollwitz portrayed literary and historical narratives of economic oppression and spontaneous revolution drawn from uprisings closely associated with the early writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. After the death of her son in World War I, Kollwitz's politics shifted toward pacifism and an evolutionary approach to achieving socialist goals. In response, her images of loss and grief became both more personal and increasingly universal.
During Germany's ill-fated Weimar Republic (1919–33), Kollwitz supported various progressive causes, including the release of war prisoners, temperance, birth control, hunger relief, and pacifism, for which she produced agitprop posters, contributed drawings to publications, and lent her name to petitions. The first woman appointed to the Prussian Academy of Art, Kollwitz taught until the rise of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in the early 1930s, when her work came under attack and she was forced to withdraw from public life.
War (Krieg) (1922-1923)
In her War (Krieg) portfolio, Kollwitz turned from the fine-line etching technique used in her earlier print cycles, such as Peasants' War (Bauernkrieg), to rough-hewn, stylized woodcuts, amplifying the raw impact of her imagery. During this period the artist's work aligned more closely with the avant-garde tendencies of German Expressionism, especially those associated with the artists of Die Brücke (The Bridge), who celebrated woodblock printing for its reductive primitivism and nationalistic links to Gothic Germany. Both Kollwitz's subject matter and her form placed her in distinguished company, as many of her contemporaries also used print portfolios to explore the ways in which World War I damaged society.
Created several years after the death of Kollwitz's son Peter on the battlefield in Flanders, War chronicles the personal costs of combat, removing contextual and narrative details in favor of a more universal cycle of loss and mourning. This poignant combination of raw expression and barbed ideology carries with it an enduring urgency.
Death (Tod) (1934-35)
In the mid-1930s, following years of personal hardship, Kollwitz focused her final portfolio on the figure of Death. Having first appeared in her early A Weavers' Revolt (Ein Weberaufstand) (1893–98), Death now became the primary subject for an eight-piece print cycle, five sheets of which are included in the Museum's collection. Each image approaches the subject from a different perspective, with Death treated by turns as a friend and as a vengeful angel, rendered in lithography's broad range of styles, from naturalistic lines to dramatic dark passages to muted shadings.
While some consider this portfolio her response to the rise of Nazism, Kollwitz's writings suggest that she chose the theme of mortality because of its primal and inescapable nature, an interpretation supported by the simple rendering of each vignette. Completing her progression toward universal subjects and increasingly metaphysical depictions, Kollwitz's final portfolio is a haunting meditation on life's inevitable end.