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In 1964, Ben Bagdikian, usually CJR's Washington correspondent, looked north to Delaware, and examined the very heavy influence of the Du Pont family on the state's largest newspapers. Control was both literal (their holding company owned the papers) and explicit (one family member asked, in writing, that news coverage become a "house organ" for a pet cause.) The article reported that, on issues from elections to the state's university, the Du Ponts had ordered editorials and news coverage that suited family members' political, financial, and personal interests. The Summer 1964 issue where the article appeared carried an unsigned editorial describing the Du Pont grandees as "men of pronounced politico-economic views who completely lack the professional's appreciation of a newspaper's obligations and responsibilities." The Du Ponts let their anger at the article be known, not by complaining to CJR, but by going directly to the president of Columbia University. The Du Ponts sold the papers to Gannett in 1978. Bagdikian's concern with the way that ownership shaped coverage in Delaware presages his later work on the dangers of the corporate press. CJR's Fall 1964 issue carried lively responses to the article, reproduced below.
The Wilmington, Delaware, newspapers, The Morning News and The Evening Journal, are, according to a standing editorial masthead, "independent" newspapers. A formal resolution issued by their owners on April 13, 1936, and presumably still in force, instructs the editors that the policy of the paper is, among other things, to "avoid blind partisanship never to misrepresent the facts either in their news or editorial columns; never to resort to suppression except for the public good always to give all sides a fair hearing on all public questions."
In this the two papers are no different from hundreds of others across the United States that also call themselves "independent" and solemnly declare that their owners insist on editorial freedom and want no fiddling with the news. As in Wilmington, their owners don't really mean it, or else the words mean one thing to editors and something else to owners.
Creed Black is an intense Kentuckian, 39 years old, with reportorial and editorial experience on Stars and Stripes, the Chicago Sun, the Chicago Herald-American, The Nashville Tennessean, and the Savannah News-Press. He seldom turns his back on a controversy ("I don't mind a fight") and until June 1 of this year was vice president and executive editor of the two Wilmington papers.
Black's departure from Wilmington is not unusual in the tribulations of the trade—it was an enactment of a ritual that goes on through American newspaperdom with all the unhappy regularity of Aztec sacrifices; and if some way is not found to end this combat the free-enterprise press could go the way of the Aztecs. For what Creed Black did overtly goes on silently and secretly in editorial offices and board rooms all over the country, in election years more than ever.
The owner of the two Wilmington papers is the Du Pont Company, which is to Delaware what God is to Heaven. More precisely, the owner is the Christiana Securities Company, a holding company that is to Du Pont what the Church is to God. Christiana was formed in pre-World War I days to buy out a faction of Du Ponts during one of the bitter family feuds. It now owns 27 percent of the Du Pont Company and all the stock of the News-Journal Company, which, with the exception of a paper of 13,600 circulation in Dover, publishes the only dailies in Delaware.
The Du Pont Company is run by an executive committee of nine men, called the ExComm. The Du Pont family interest in the company and other concerns is exercised through Christiana, whose ruling group has some seats in ExComm. There is a single room on the ninth floor of the Du Pont Building in Wilmington where the secretary of Christiana can cast one ballot to constitute a "stockholders' meeting" of the News-Journal Company.
The News-Journal Company has a board of directors of ten men. Four of them are working executives of the paper, including, until recently, Creed Black. They also include the papers' president and editor, Charles L. Reese Jr., son of the Du Pont chemist who led the company's research to international stature in World War I. There are two "outside men," that is, non-Du Pont. They are Ralph K. Gottshall, president of Atlas Chemicals, once a Du Pont firm, spun off after antitrust action but still in friendly symbiosis with its parent. The other is J. J. B. Fulenwider, vice president of Hercules Powder, another former Du Pont firm separated by antitrust order, with 300,000 of its shares now owned by Christiana. A seventh member of the board is Robert H. Richards Jr., counsel for the paper, a director of the Du Pont bank, the Wilmington Trust, until recently Republican National Committeeman from Delaware, and son of the legal genius who created Delaware's friendly corporation laws and guided the formation of Christiana.
The three ownership directors are Henry Silliman, son-in-law of Irénée du Pont; Robert R. M. Carpenter Jr., known as "Bobby," nephew of the president of Christiana, himself on the board of Christiana and owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team; and Henry B. du Pont, president and patriarch of Christiana and until recently vice president of ExComm. H. B. du Pont is the ruling man in the ownership, with Carpenter increasingly influential.
The Du Ponts and the press have had a long joint history. The family first appeared in the Delaware press on January 1, 1806, when one of the papers in town (Wilmington then had a population of 3,500 and two newspapers; it now has a population of 100,000 and two newspapers) carried a grocery store ad for smoked herring, Old Peach Brandy and "Dupont & Co's. gunpowder." Since that time their printed presence has been more dramatic. Like any normal family, they have no love for adverse publicity, but their wealth and power have given them more than their share of it. It is a huge family, with about 1,600 contemporary members, 250 of them important in the empire and a handful of them potent leaders. It is a large but close-knit group.
For the last seventy-five years the news has often been intolerable for the Du Ponts, since their prominence made their most embarrassing private moments terribly public. These moments were plentiful, with family scandals and fights, suicides, bordello shootings, spectacular intra-family marriages and divorces (HE MARRIED A BARMAID, a Chicago Daily News headline said of a Du Pont on November 12, 1889) and senatorial investigations of the "munitions lobby" in the 1930's. All of this gave the family good reason to fear the press.
Alfred I. du Pont saved the company for the family, and helped plunge it into the newspaper business. After most of the clan had voted to sell out to their closest competitor, Alfred formed a troika of leadership in 1902 with his cousins, T. Coleman du Pont and Pierre S. du Pont (with the help of Pierre's ingenious assistant, John Jacob Raskob). The three cousins took over the $24,000,000 enterprise with a total cash outlay of $2,100—the incorporation fees.
The newspaper appendix to the Du Pont anatomy was acquired after the family declared war on Alfred, not so much because of his spectacular divorce and remarriage to his divorced cousin but because when he did this he inserted a flamboyant announcement of it in the Wilmington Morning News. When he got back from his honeymoon, Coleman told him, "Al, now you've done it," and said he should get out of the company. Alfred refused and the fight was on, Alfred on one side with about one-fifth of the clan, and Coleman and Pierre on the other, with the bulk of the family. The feud involved politics; Coleman had ambitions to be a senator or even President. Alfred started a new bank and deliberately made his building two stories higher than the 12-story Du Pont Building one block away.
Henry A. du Pont, on Coleman's side, bought the Wilmington Evening Journal. In response, Alfred bought the Wilmington Morning News and six downstate papers and there followed a journalistic firefight that shredded state politics, the company, and the family. When Coleman's political drive collapsed, Alfred ran a headline in his paper:
The explosive figure of speech was considered unforgiveable bad taste in a family that lived (and sometimes died) by gunpowder.
When Alfred got his second divorce in 1906, nothing appeared in any Wilmington paper, but there was a full account in the Philadelphia papers, an enduring pattern that continues to this day on sensitive Du Pont family or Du Pont Company news.
World War I made the company what it is today, but the postwar depression caught Alfred personally $10,000,000 in debt. He sold out his share of the company and the News to his family enemy, Pierre. The same faction of the family then took control of the company and of every daily paper in the state.
Over the years the family shaped itself by shrewd decision and careful selection of in-laws to govern the company in a more orderly fashion, ruthlessly weeding out incompetent members from company leadership in the most discriminating nepotism in the country. The Wilmington newspapers were only afterthoughts in this process and they settled down to conventionality and drab dignity.
In 1960, the executive editor, Fendall Yerxa, left to return to the New York Herald Tribune and a management consultant firm combed the country for an acceptable professional to take his place. They came across Black, who was ready to leave Savannah. The Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (as it was then called) were not very different from most papers: the owners insisted that within broad principles agreed upon beforehand, the editors were free to put out the best product they could.
Two other prominent American newspaper editors took a look and decided not to take a chance. One of them asked what would happen if he decided to endorse a Democrat. When he was told that this would be a decision for the board of directors he said good-by and went to the nearest hotel and "got stiff." On the other hand, previous editors had not found the job intolerable and Reese, the president and editor, is a respected man in the trade. Black took the job.
The technical history thereafter was comforting. Their names were simplified to News and Journal. The typography was reformed; one paper had looked like the pre-war Herald Tribune and the other like the postwar Baltimore Sun. Some of the old content (SANDWICHES/ON MENU and MASONIC CLUB/AIDE TO SPEAK) disappeared to make room for harder news from new bureaus. An inbred staff was leavened with younger talent selected from other papers and from universities. In four years the combined morning and evening circulation went from 106,000 to 125,000. The 1963 revenue and profit were up 25 percent to the highest level in the papers' history. What was more significant, the old picture of the Wilmington papers as Du Pont Company house organs began to fade. Younger editors even asked if the Du Ponts still owned the paper.
Despite professional appearances, inside troubles had begun in 1961. The starting point was Operation Abolition, the House Un-American Activities Committee film that was used as a set propaganda piece for right-wing causes. The Delaware State Police were showing the film under official auspices to school children, churches, and civic clubs. The paper editorialized against the official showings as dangerous precedent for political indoctrination by the police, using a factually dubious piece of work.
This stand brought severe pressures from the owners. An Un-American Activities Committee staff member and the narrator of the film, Fulton Lewis III, was a guest at the home of H. B. du Pont, where the papers were severely criticized by a group made up largely of right-wing Delawareans. The film later was shown at a program sponsored by Mrs. H. B. du Pont and Carpenter.
H. B. du Pont ordered the papers not to comment editorially on the film. Instead, for two months the news columns carried attacks against the paper by the state police chief. The letters columns carried attacks on the papers and on the patriotism of the staff. The editors themselves were ordered to remain silent. The owners' old resolutions—never to resort to suppression and always to give all sides a fair hearing—were invoked, in vain.
At about this time the papers provoked the disapproval of the president of the University of Delaware, an institution close to the Du Ponts, who served on its board of trustees. The dispute seemed to be over the reporting of campus controversies, which the university regarded as bias on the part of the dailies. H. B. du Pont ordered the papers to suppress a number of items involving the university.
It was at this point that Bobby Carpenter, nephew of H. B. Du Pont, was placed on the board of the papers. It was plain that the papers were being enlisted in a passionate political crusade. From this time on there was growing acrimony between the editors and the owners.
In 1962, the editors proposed that they interview major candidates for state office from both parties to help them editorialize during the campaign. This was approved. But when the editors decided to back the Democratic candidate for Congress as "the lesser of two evils," there was a special meeting of the board of Christiana Securities. Christiana is probably the richest investment trust in the world, with assets of more than $3,000,000,000, but that day its attention was directed to the cosmic subject of an editorial that compared the demerits of two candidates for Congress and came up with a begrudging net in favor of the Democrat. Christiana had the editorial rewritten outside the newspaper office. It finally appeared, watered down from the original. The papers did endorse one Democrat openly—the candidate for state auditor.
Other clashes came quickly. When Shell Oil wanted to build a refinery in Delaware, the owners ordered the papers to stop comment on the issue. When Congress was considering legislation for relief of the Du Ponts in selling their General Motors stock under court order, the papers were told not to criticize Senator Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. During the same period, the Du Pont Company public-relations department asked the paper not to run on page one a statement on the matter by Harris McDowell, Democratic member of Congress from Delaware, for fear it would anger a friendly senator.
H. B. du Pont also told the paper to put the damper on stories of public charges of mismanagement at the Wilmington airport, whose chief activity is handling the business of a private aviation corporation in which H. B. du Pont has an interest.
Some idea of the clash between owner ideologies and professional practices can be seen in the complaints of board members. The significance of these conflicts is not so much in the views of the owners (who, of course, have views, as do all interested citizens) as it is a revelation of what happens when an owner fails to understand the role of the monopoly newspaper and the discipline of news.
Henry Silliman and Robert Richards, both members of the paper's board, formally requested through Richards that the paper give a prominent play to a family wedding. "I do not know if this is in accordance with your policy or would require a deviation from your rules. If the latter is true, there should be exceptions to every rule "
At a time when Richards was on the paper's board and also Republican National Committeeman from Delaware, Richards complained bitterly to the editors that the paper's reporter had written a conventional news account of a Democratic rally when he should have turned it into a pro-Republican essay. Richards even wrote his own anti-Democratic story as an example of how the paper should have carried it, though presumably Richards was not at the rally himself. "This was a matter which, if properly handled, could, in my opinion, have been very useful to the Republican Party and their success at the polls in November," he wrote.
When Wilmington began having racial troubles, H. B. du Pont told his editors, "A continual overplaying of integration in our papers certainly plays right into the hands of the radical element of our population many of the writers on your staff seem to have a degree of dedication to certain causes which would make them appear to be quite far to the left."
Most revealing is the collection of complaints issued by Carpenter to the executive editor:
On an editorial praising President Kennedy's Supreme Court appointments: "Why should we devote space to one who is an enemy of private enterprise and the capitalistic system?"
When editors asked him if his complaints about their comments on a bill by Representative McDowell meant the paper should oppose everything McDowell was for, the answer was, "I would say, Yes."
When an editorial criticized some Republican choices of candidates: "Are we endorsing the Democratic Party by criticizing the Republican Conventions? Could we not become a house organ for the conservative cause?"
When he objected to running a letter to the editor signed by sixty-four University of Delaware students favoring integration, the editors asked if they should close the column to all letters from students. His answer was, "Yes."
On an editorial noting that French Socialists had outmaneuvered French Communists: "Should the News-Journal take the position of favoring actions of any Socialist Party? I believe it is a grave error for a subsidiary of Du Pont to follow the philosophy of the ultra-liberal whose objectives are destruction of capitalistic systems."
It is apparent in retrospect that two conflicting developments had occurred. The Wilmington papers, as with most metropolitan dailies in this country, were in fact broadening their professional and social scope. This was in line with the growing sophistication of the overwhelmingly Democratic or moderate Republican urban audience. At the same time, the owners seemed increasingly rigid in their demands for ultraconservative orthodoxy and family convenience, both in the news columns and editorials.
With the 1964 election campaign approaching, and with Senator Barry Goldwater involved, it was obvious to the editors that something had to be done to resolve these conflicts. The editors pressed the owners for a statement of what they expected of the papers, some mandate that could be followed. When the editors suggested that the papers be committed to the Republican cause with editorials to "focus on an objective appraisal of the chances of the various candidates," H. B. du Pont objected that this idea would "leave editorial writers free to snipe at candidates for the Republican nomination for President."
Black asked mostly for consistency. In a memo noting that he had received orders from four or five separate owners plus the public-relations department of the Du Pont Company, he asked, "How many bosses are we expected to please and take orders from?" (He had, for example, run the names of large holders of General Motors stock, as released to the national press by the Du Pont Company public-relations office and had received bitter castigation from two members of the Du Pont family.)
On May 19, 1964, the owners of the Wilmington News and Journal gave their answer. They said that Charles M. Hackett, executive assistant in the public-relations department of the Du Pont Company, would be the boss of news and editorial operations of the papers, with Black serving under him. Black quit. The day before, the announcement was made that the Wilmington papers had won five of fifteen possible first prizes in a publishers' association judging of papers in Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The ending followed tradition. Black wanted to publish his letter of resignation, which said, in part: "I, for one, need no further evidence that the ownership wants the Morning News and Evening Journal operated as house organs instead of as newspapers." H. B. du Pont vetoed the idea. After the first edition of May 19, carrying simply the news of his resignation. Black posted his letter on the news room bulletin board and the Philadelphia papers printed it before Wilmington did.
H. B. du Pont, at the time, denied Black's assertion and said the newspapers "have never been and never will be operated as a house organ for any organization. Christiana Securities Corporation reaffirms their determination that the News-Journal Newspapers be operated independently with the objective of being a constructive influence in the community, in the state, and in the nation."
Efforts to obtain further comment from the papers' management during the preparation of this article were unsuccessful. H. B. du Pont was unavailable for comment. Robert Carpenter, when asked about his role in requesting changes in the newspapers' content, said, "I wouldn't want to comment on the subject." Charles L. Reese Jr., president and editor of the newspapers, also declined to discuss it.
The depressing quality of the Wilmington episode is that it is not unusual. Few families are so powerful, organized, or dominant in their state as are the Du Ponts, but newspaperdom is filled with owners whose assumptions of their responsibilities are based on their non-newspaper businesses and whose journalistic enterprises are peripheral both to their personal experience and their daily attention. Unlike the McCormicks and the Ochses, such owners do not have to live with the day-to-day consequences of their decisions, nor face constituents whose information and opinions they oversee.
Decision-making in newspapers has a fundamental difference from that of most enterprises. Success in conventional business has a simple measure: survival and profit-making. Both are essential to newspapers but a paper that only survives and only shows a profit can be a failure as a newspaper. The newspaper is a community educational institution run for profit. The owner's relationship to the news he prints is something like a university trustee's relationship to reading material selected for archaeology courses.
There are hundreds of dailies in which editorials on certain subjects are as predictable as a catechism, whose news departments are designed to over-react or under-react to certain kinds of news, notably financial and political, not because of incompetence or sensationalism but because of the impulse to create a picture closer to the dreams of the ownership. Nor is it unusual for owners to believe that their paper's staff is filled with radicals dangerous to the point of doubtful patriotism. Owners, typically, are conservative Republicans, and staffs—in journalism, as in most fields—tend to be Democrats.
If there were a tradition within newspapering to contain this distrust and tension between owners and staff, as there is in universities, it could result in a pluralism with the advantage of a checks-and-balances system. But there is no such tradition. Too many owners have been alienated too long from the social realities their staffs must perceive and report (and amid which the staff lives and owners generally do not). The Boston Transcript was perhaps the last metropolitan daily that lived within a closed elite. The power of both the Transcript and its elite were changed with the Depression. Millions of words in thousands of editorials will not bring back the mid-twenties.
There are continual legislative and vigilante attacks on freedom of the press. It will be an uncomfortable time when the owners of newspapers have to depend for preservation of this freedom on the understanding of constituents with whom the owners have been out of sympathy and, worse, out of touch, for thirty years.
When Creed Black resigned he got the unexpected sympathy of some prominent citizens of Delaware, partly because not many hired hands publicly dispute the Du Ponts. Some publishers wrote him that owners will never learn. Editors sympathized with him. And one bright university student who had planned a newspaper career wrote:
I have always had a few doubts about the newspaper business if this is at all typical of the behind the scenes actions in the fourth estate, I'll have no part of it.
Wilmington papers: rebuttals and reply, Fall, 1964
"Case History: Wilmington's 'Independent' Newspapers," the article by Ben H. Bagdikian that appeared in the summer, 1964, issue, attracted more comment than any other feature in the Review's three years of publication. The article described relations between the editors of the Wilmington News and Journal and the papers' owners, a subsidiary of the Christiana Securities Company. It was read into the Congressional Record by Senator Clark of Pennsylvania. It won approving comment in several score letters from journalists across the country.
But the reactions in Wilmington were mixed. The Review prints here three letters, two from members of the staff of the newspapers, and one that was written to the staff of the News-Journal by Henry B. du Pont, president of Christiana. It is printed in the absence of any owners' reply addressed to the Review.
To the News and Editorial Staffs of the News-Journal Papers:
The "Columbia Journalism Review," in its current issue, is publishing an article on the recent change in top editorial personnel at the News-Journal. I would have hoped that any comment from this source would have been a carefully-weighed examination of the situation presented with impartial detachment. The fact is, I regret to say, that the article is nothing more than a fabric of half truths, misstatements and prejudicial innuendoes, as you will readily recognize from the attached photocopy.
Such articles have the effect, if not the purpose, of placing competent and high-principled employees of the News-Journal papers in what may appear to be an uncomfortable position before their professional colleagues. This is as unjustified as it is unfortunate. Reckless disregard for truth and personal attacks upon officers and directors of your Company and its owners can be ignored. The implications with respect to News-Journal personnel, however, cannot be permitted to stand unchallenged.
The inference the reader is asked to draw is that, by the mere act of formulating basic policies it wishes the paper to follow, the ownership of a newspaper imposes upon the paper's staff an intolerable indignity, incompatible with professional integrity. This, of course, is the sheerest nonsense. So is the further charge that this ownership insists on the suppression or distortion of disagreeable news. A newspaper's primary obligation is, of course, to print the news, agreeable or otherwise. The fact that ownership makes decisions in areas which are clearly ownership responsibility in no way reflects discredit upon newspaper personnel. The high status enjoyed by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Miami Herald, under divergent ownership philosophies, demonstrates clearly that no question of professional standard need be involved in ownership policies. The Columbia article reveals a childish petulance in reciting the out-of-context remarks of various directors and represents nothing more than an attempt to find trouble where no trouble exists.
The ownership of the News-Journal Co. is committed to no goal beyond the production of newspapers of integrity and distinction, fulfilling in every sense their responsibilities to the community. The day-to-day operation of our newspapers represent the real test. We have every confidence in the abilities of the management and the staff to maintain the highest journalistic standards.
We take the greatest pride in the professional standing of our newspapers and in the high degree of excellence represented by personnel at all levels. I should like to thank you personally for your loyalty and devotion to the News-Journal and to assure you that your high ideals and abilities will continue to find growing opportunities for professional fulfillment and personal satisfaction.
Yours sincerely,
Henry B. du Pont
To the Review:
Your sense of timing is exquisite. Hard on the heels of publishing an article—to say nothing of your own editorial comment—that is directed at discrediting me and everyone else at this company in the eyes of our professional colleagues, you send us invitations to subscribe to your magazine.
Until the article by Ben Bagdikian appeared, I had held the Columbia Journalism Review in considerable respect. That respect has now been lessened considerably if not dissipated entirely.
It is an editor's responsibility to check on both the accuracy and completeness of the story that is submitted to him. This, I submit, you failed to do in the case of Mr. Bagdikian. Worse, you have allowed his account to sway your own editorial judgment. The result is a disservice, not only to these newspapers and those who staff them, but to the entire profession of journalism.
Mr. Bagdikian's story purports to recount many instances of alleged interference by ownership. Unfortunately, two things are missing in most of these cases—the time element and the final outcome. A very natural question to ask is, "What happened?" Why did not you, as editors, ask it? My personal knowledge of most of these incidents is slight; on those of which I do have personal knowledge, I know that Mr. Bagdikian's story misrepresents or overstates the case.
The whole effect of the story (and I suspect its purpose) is to make Creed Black [vice president and executive editor who resigned in April] look the knight in shining armor put to rout by the evil forces of management. This is scarcely the case. Mr. Black was not the only professional newspaperman on the premises here, although it must be admitted that he was far and away the most active newspaper politician. He also had weaknesses, which should have been clearly apparent from the way he handled his resignation, that were painfully obvious to those who worked under him as well as to those who own the papers. Not the least of these was the inability to admit that anyone but Creed Black could be right.*
You have been exceedingly quick to find something "deficient or irresponsible," but you have failed to note the underlying irresponsibility of the story you ran. Is this the hallmark of "a meeting ground for thoughtful discussion of journalism?"
You have been guilty of the very irresponsibility you seek to "deal forthrightly with"—whatever that may mean.
Thomas R. Dew
Associate Editor
Evening Journal
* Mr. Black was named managing editor of the Chicago Daily News on Aug. 11, 1964.—The editors.
To the Review:
If Ben H. Bagdikian had gone whaling in a rain barrel he would have come off better than he does in this article. His attempt to blow up a cause célèbre out of the recent sacking of Creed Black was as futile as trying to popularize baldness. He ran around the facts like a poodle circling a grizzly bear and his net product, a smokescreen, is as transparent as one of the peek-aboo fashions from Paris.
In a propaganda school, his flap might rate a D-plus; but graded straight, as a "case history," it not only doesn't make a case, it doesn't even make a point.
The whole piece, including his petulant sniping at the Du Ponts, could quickly be dismissed as a gnat-bite if it were not for the reflection it brushes on present News-Journal employees, myself included. This comes in his theme, parroting Black's own outcry, that the executive editor got the old heave-ho because he was struggling to prevent the papers from becoming "house organs" for the Du Pont Company. The inescapable inference here is that the employees are, or would be, content to labor for "house organ" newspapers; and that, of course, cannot be allowed to sail by.
With the claptrap stripped away, the simple truth of Black's severance was that he had a blind spot—he couldn't recognize the owners. He thought they were part of the furniture until they started speaking. Then, apparently, he got the big idea that step No. 1 in making the papers "independent" (the quotes are Bagdikian's) should be making them independent of owner control. What a whizzer that was!
Bagdikian could have learned this easily with a little legwork, but, in his eagerness to take a potshot at a successful private enterprise, he obviously confined his research to a dossier of pique supplied, directly or indirectly, by Black.
Actually, as every newspaperman knows, there's not a paper in the United States or abroad, big or small, daily or weekly, that would have brooked such nonsense from Black. Owners, in varying degree, are tolerant of many employee deviations and peccadillos, but they lower the boom fast on any poaching on their front porch. In some rare instances, they might delegate control, with definite restrictions—but surrender it? Never!
If Black had put over his grand coup, immobilizing the owners, it would have gone on Page 1 of the Book of Magic as a trick for the ages, something like plowing under a pyramid with a sandbox spoon, or scaling Mt. Everest feet first. But he didn't have a chance and I, for one, could have told him so. On a smaller scale, I tried the same thing years ago on an elderly, whipsaw publisher in Indiana and was squelched pronto with this memorable ultimatum: "Son, if you don't like the way we run things, go out and start your own newspaper."
Black is a highly capable editor in many respects and it would be a pity if he were to allow his progress to be withered by an allergy to owners. Old hands in the newspaper game will extend him little sympathy in regards to his exit from Wilmington. Before taking his job here, he knew, or should have known, what the owner setup was. If he had any reservations about taking orders or suggestions from the owners, he should have said "I pass" and gone elsewhere. Nobody shanghaied him. The decision was his, he made and bound himself by it.
The News-Journal papers have their flaws and are subject to criticism, like all other newspapers. Although improvements are constantly being made, there are always others that can be achieved. The papers welcome constructive criticism as a needed burr under the saddle, as a guide to progress. But Bagdikian's article falls in a different category.
I have been on the Morning News staff for more than 25 years and during this time have noticed no pressure to turn the papers into "house organs." If the owners had wanted such a thing, they could have effected it long before Black arrived. Instead, being fully aware of the papers' responsibility to the public, in the absence of competition here, they have leaned over backwards in their efforts to keep them on an independent keel. They have succeeded to a remarkable degree.
If Bagdikian makes a fair comparison of fairness, both in the handling of general and political news and in the treatment of people of all nationalities, colors and religions, and also in editorial comment, he will find that the papers here have a batting average equal to, or better than, those of 90 percent of the American press. The coverage of Du Pont Company activities has been extensive, but no more than any other paper would give an industrial enterprise of such local and worldwide importance. Both the good news and the bad have been published without concealment or distortion.
The same thing has been true in regards to the Du Pont family. A check of the files will show Bagdikian or anyone else that divorces, lawsuits, squabbles and personal adventures—anything newsworthy developing in the family—have been reported openly and fully.
One swift indicator of the papers' independence, which might intrigue Bagdikian, is their hiring policy. The owners, if they wished, could pack the staffs with Republicans of their own conservative bent. Quite to the contrary, however, the staffs are lopsided with Democrats and liberals, many of whom are in key positions. For example, on the Morning News, the city editor, news editor, state editor, women's editor, society editor, and the copydesk slotman, along with the assistant city editors, assistant state editor and assistant slotman, are all Democrats.
Before joining the Morning News, I worked on the Bloomington, Indiana, Weekly Star and Daily Telephone, the old St. Paul Daily News, the Detroit Times and the Minneapolis Tribune. I mention this only as evidence that the opinions and observations I have offered have not been colored by provincialism. Neither have they been influenced by any unusual affection for the owners. The only things I owe them are a good day's work and the normal loyalty of an employee—and these I give.
Herbert H. Skirvin
Financial Editor
Morning News
Mr. Bagdikian replies:
My article did not make innuendos. It reported specific instances in explicit language, usually quoting verbatim the suppression orders by the owners. It included these items: H. B. du Pont, president of Christiana and chairman of the board of owners, ordering suppression of editorial comment on an important (Delaware) controversy which involved the paper professionally but which happened to be in conflict with a personal political project of his own family; similar orders concerning the University of Delaware; rejection of an editorial endorsing a Democrat and adaptation of a rewrite done outside the newspaper's office; a suppression order on the Shell Oil refinery and on an airport where Mr. Du Pont had a personal financial interest; and a written complaint by a director of the paper to an editor saying that a news report of a political rally should have been redone in order to make it "useful to the Republican Party at the polls in November."
I have read the complaints from Wilmington, most of them making passionate appeals for recourse to the facts. Not one communication I have seen mentions the facts in the article.
No one whose communications I have seen denies that the above incidents occurred. They say that I did insufficient research. When I see a stop sign at an intersection I do not feel it necessary to inquire at the police station whether the sign means what it says.
But it happens that I did inquire of the owners of the Wilmington papers at to the facts and their interpretation of them. Mr. H. B. du Pont was away at the Bermuda races for weeks. Mr. Robert Carpenter Jr., next owner most directly involved, was in Wilmington. I did speak to him, telling what I intended to write and offering to come to Wilmington to discuss it with him. He declined to comment. Later I asked the same of the president and editor, Charles Reese, though he was not directly involved in what I wrote, and he, too, declined to comment.
The only words I have seen from Wilmington have been denunciations of me, which are irrelevant, and the suggestion that my inferences from the facts are unsound. As to the latter, the facts remain in the article, documented and unrefuted. As for the inferences to be drawn from them, the readers can judge for themselves.


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Admit it- attending city council, county commission, airport board or other public meetings has the same allure for you as preparing a federal tax return by hand. Lengthy agendas, droll topics about non-pertinent issues and a litany of more enjoyable things to do with your time all conspire to make attending public meetings low on most everyone's priority list.
But what about when something significant at your publicly-owned airport suddenly impacts you and your fellow users… in a big way? Have you been engaged? Are you up to speed? Do you know the key decision makers and the information and drivers behind their proposals or actions? If something is planned that you don't support, can you influence a different course? Too often, the answer for most aircraft owners, pilots and airport users is "no".
Prior to joining AOPA, I was fortunate to have enjoyed an airport management career that spanned more than two decades at large and small airports owned by cities, counties and independent airport authorities ("airport sponsors", in the industry parlance). As a public official charged with effectively and efficiently managing a publicly owned asset, I always strived to operate the public's airport in a transparent, informative, engaging and collaborative manner. I can tell you firsthand that the vast majority of airport professionals endeavor to do the same, and take great pride in providing a safe, efficient and well-planned community airport asset.
Unfortunately that is not universally true, and some airport sponsors and the staff they employ don't always take the effort to engage their constituents on issues, proposals and plans that affect them and the airport they use. So what is an aircraft owner, pilot or airport tenant to do?
The answer is simple. If you don't have an airport users/tenants/pilots association, start one. And do so even if you have the best airport manager you could wish for, and certainly before a significant issue affects you and your fellow aviators. A well-organized, consistently engaged users association is well worth your investment in time and resources, and will provide many benefits:
- A voice. The ability to weigh in proactively on key airport decisions with the organized voice of many is critically important. Remember- if you're based at a public airport, you have a say in how it's managed, operated and improved.
- Education. Airports, like aircraft, are complex machines driven by a multitude of unique requirements, standards and FAA regulations often not familiar to pilots and airport tenants. Knowledge is power, and being engaged is a great way to learn about the unique vagaries, constraints and opportunities at your airport, and how they affect you as an airport user.
- Collaboration. Collaboration and cooperation between the airport sponsor and airport users is a powerful tool. Trust me on this- it's much easier for an airport to accomplish great things when users and the airport are working together.
- Weight. A unified voice can provide airport users with significant influence when weighing in with airport sponsors and elected officials on airport issues. While some airport managers are pilots, many are not, and a pilot perspective on airport issues is always valuable.
- Communication. Creation of a proactive, defined and inclusive communication channel between the airport sponsor and airport users allows for effective dialogue on issues before they become critical.
- Community Engagement. The ability to proactively engage the surrounding community on pressures against the airport that arise from noise, overflights, emissions and other airport impacts. Having a group of well-organized pilots weigh in at a public hearing on a new housing development right off a runway end can be far more impactful than one airport manager reciting FAA land use recommendations.
- Fun! Lastly, a users association can be fun! Many airport user/pilot/tenant associations have refined into social, pilot-centric communities as well. Is there a more enjoyable way to discuss your airport's future than in a hangar over a beer and burger?
So if your airport does not have a users/tenants/pilots association- I would strongly encourage you to connect with your fellow pilots and organize one. There are many great examples out there, including the Reno-Stead (Nevada) Airport Association, and the Grand Junction (Colorado) Airport Users and Tenants Association. And whether you have one or not, stay engaged at your airport. Take the time to get to know your airport manager and elected officials. Attend key public meetings, workshops and design charrettes that affect your airport's future. Help host an airport open house. Get out and talk to the non-aviation groups in your community about the value of the airport and the importance of general aviation.
And above all, insist that elected officials, airport board members and airport staff at your airport are consistently transparent, engaged and communicative with you and your fellow users, pilots and tenants. Remember- it's a public airport and it belongs to you.

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|For Warrick
|Allen MacDonald,
Richard J. Lewis,
Carol Mendelsohn
|Richard J. Lewis
|Original Airdate
|October 9, 2008
"For Warrick" is first episode of the ninth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It is a continuation of the previous episode For Gedda.
After Warrick is killed, the entire team grieves for their fallen friend. While unknown to them, the killer, the Undersheriff, investigates the murder. Also, an old friend returns when she hears the news.
Plot Edit
Gil Grissom overhears the news of a shooting in the area he is in over the radio. He rushes to the alleyway, where he notices Warrick's Mustang, and finds a heavily bleeding Warrick Brown after he was shot by Undersheriff McKeen. Grissom urges Warrick to stay alive until help arrives. McKeen arrives and claims that he was chasing the "shooter" before he "lost" him. Warrick attempts to tell Grissom that McKeen has shot him, but dies in Grissom's arms. The rest of the team arrive, devistated by the death of Warrick. McKeen is questioned, where he claims that he heard a shot from nearby, saw a car fleeing the scene, and lost him. Meanwhile, Sara Sidle returns to Las Vegas after hearing the news of Warrick's death, where the team now believe that Warrick told the truth about someone framing him.
Looking for clues, Sara and Greg look through his apartment, and Greg finds a paternity test, where they learn he is a father, and find a DVD where he is questionned about whether he is willing to become a good father. Meanwhile, Nick Stokes sees a knuckly print on Warrick's car window, and since Warrick would never open the window to Daniel Pritchard, the man who framed Warrick, the team believes someone he knows, like McKeen must be the shooter. Grissom tests the theory out, by placing himself at the same position where McKeen said he heard the shot. He hears Nick and Catherine firing blanks just fine, but then notices that last night, the nightclub played loud music. Grissom has the club play the music, where this time, he couldn't hear the shot. The team later find that the bullets were a match to a .25 that Pritchard confiscated and prints on the ammo are McKeen's, meaning it was him that was the shooter, and that he may be working with Pritchard. Since he is the undersheriff, and is over the LVPD, the team decides to hunt him down without him finding out.
Meanwhile, in a motel room, McKeen visits Pritchard, where they plan to leave to Mexico, and believes that by the time the CSI team find out the truth, it would be too late, not knowing that they already know. Pritchard has his doubts about McKeen, and takes a gun that McKeen emptied without him knowing. The team trace McKeen's phone records to the motel room, since he called the number several times, and finds the room empty, though they are able to trace his location from his cell phone. However, during the search, they see McKeen's car crashed over the road, and finds Pritchard, dead. Nick follows a blood trail alone, where he soon finds McKeen with a gunshot wound in his stomach. McKeen attempts to convince Nick that he was going to take Pritchard to prison, where Nick angrilly tells him to stop lying. McKeen then confesses that he did kill Warrick, because he wouldn't listen to his warnings. While searching for Nick, Jim Brass hears a gunshot, and rushes to the scene, where he finds Nick and McKeen. McKeen is still alive, and Nick tells Brass that he missed, where McKeen is then arrested for the murder of Warrick.In the end, the entire team attends Warrick's funeral. Grissom gives a eulogy, before tearfully admitting that he will miss Warrick, as well as the team.
Main CastEdit
- William Petersen as Gil Grissom
- Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows
- Gary Dourdan as Warrick Brown
- George Eads as Nick Stokes
- Eric Szmanda as Greg Sanders
- Robert David Hall as Dr. Al Robbins
- Wallace Langham as David Hodges
- Paul Guilfoyle as Jim Brass
Guest CastEdit
- Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle
- Conor O'Farrell as Undersheriff Jeffrey McKeen
- Archie Kao as Archie Johnson
- Marc Vann as Conrad Ecklie
- Liz Vassey as Wendy Simms
- Joseph Patrick Kelly as Officer Metcalf
- Larry Mitchell as Officer Mitchell
- Jon Wellner as Henry Andrews
- Sheeri Rappaport as Mandy Webster
- Gerald McCullouch as Bobby Dawson
- David Berman as David Phillips
- Thom Gossom Jr. as Minister
- David Gianopolous as Daniel Pritchard
- DeLon Howell as Officer Delvin
- Meta Golding as Tina Brewster
Quotes Edit
- [When Nick finds McKeen]
- Undersherrif McKeen: Thank god you're here. I was tryin' to bring Pritchard in.
- Nick: Shut up.
- Undersherrif McKeen: He got the drop on me, he grabbed my gun, I lost control...
- Nick: I said SHUT UP!
- Undersherrif McKeen: Okay, you wanna know why I did it? Warrick had a big mouth. You know, I just shot him. I'd try to warn him, but he was just too stupid to listen. You know, when I shot him, he had a big smile on his face. I told him that he could keep his job, I didn't have the heart to fire him.
- Nick: Shut up!
- Nick: McKeen's had this hotel room for four days, Pritchard's probably been holed up in here ever since he killed Gedda.
- Brass: Pritchard's his problem solver. McKeen's protecting him.
- Nick: Not anymore, he killed Warrick and now he needs a fall guy.
- Greg: Which makes Pritchard a dead man.
- Catherine: According to the log the gun was destroyed last July.
- Grissom: Or not. Pritchard stole it from central property.
- Catherine: He had to have somebody on the inside to fudge the records.
- Grissom: Well, maybe Gedda had another cop on the take, but why would Pritchard kill Warrick with a gun that could be traced back to him.
- Catherine: Because he didn't care, he's in the wind.
- Grissom (about Warrick): He didn't wanna go, Sara.
- Sara (pause): Tell me.
- Grissom: I was holding him. God, I could feel his life. I guess I felt that if I could hold him tight enough, he'd be okay.
- Sara: You know that there is no place in the world that he would have rather been at the end. He loved you.
- Grissom (holding back tears): Yeah, I loved him.
- (Catherine comes in and sees Sara. Sara walks up to her and hugs her)
- Sara (while hugging Catherine): I'm so sorry.
- Catherine: It's so good that we can all be together.
- (Greg and Nick walk in and Sara hugs them both)
- Grissom: As crime scene investigators, we meet people on the worst day of their lives. They've just lost a family member, somebody they loved, often in a horrible way. A piece of their heart is gone, and will never be replaced. The phrase we're trained to offer them, "I'm sorry for your loss", as we know now, doesn't offer much. Warrick Brown was a young boy when his parents passed away. Much too young to learn that life can be so tragically short. But I think that it taught him how precious life is, and so he lived his life to the fullest, each day as if it was his last day. I was with Warrick on his last day. All the qualities that defined him, his tenaciousness, his deep sense of loyalty, his courage to risk his life for what he knew was right, all those traits were with him on that last day. Just before he died, we were all having breakfast together. Our team. His friends. His family. And Warrick was... he was ... (sobs) I'm going to miss him so much.
Background notes Edit
- This is Warrick Brown's final appearance.
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The week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1 has been designated "School Choice Week" and Lafayette Charter School, Lafayette, is an excellent choice in public education. Lafayette Charter School (LCS) is among hundreds of other rural public charter schools in the United States offering parents and students a different educational choice since the first charter school was established in 1991 in Minnesota. (see Youtube.com – The Story of Rural Charter Schools.)
LCS, originally chartered in 1999, currently serves 104 students in Kindergarten through Grade 8. Students receive free transportation from New Ulm, Klossner, Lafayette, Winthrop, Gibbon, Fairfax and surrounding areas. Academic achievement, agriculture, and technology are the focuses at LCS where students enjoy working in the greenhouse each spring, weekly lessons in agriculture, music, computer technology, art, and health and daily physical education. Lafayette Charter School is proud to be another choice for public education. (www.lafayettecharter.k12.mn.us)
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Save the zoo
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When I was a little girl my family took me and my brothers and sisters to Oleson Park to ride the train, have a picnic and feed the animals. I must have been 5 or 6 at the time and now I'm 66, so I know the zoo has been there for over 60 years.
Six or seven years ago when the city decided to close down the zoo and level the park. My husband, Scott, my children and grandchildren decided to join the rally at city hall with Friends of Oleson Park Zoo. Scott then decided to join the Friends of Oleson Park Zoo and a few years later became the volunteer zoo manager.
I've helped him there for three or four years now and there have been many improvements during that time. Orville and Joyce O'Connell contacted many businesses and organizations that were willing to donate their time and labor. The barn, the winter building, the pens, some of the feeders, etc. were some of the improvements made that way. Sidewalks to aid mobility for wheelchairs and strollers, cement floors in the barn, wooden fences to separate the petting zoo from the rest of the area were added also. We have cleaned, painted, scrubbed and spread rock in the area.
We have volunteers who come every day to clean cages, feed the animals and care for them. A lot of time, love and money is given to the care of the animals every day. A lot of love is given to all the animals and they give love back to us.
But now the zoo has a detractor, someone saying that we abuse our animals, we don't feed them well and that we don't know how to care for them. These accusations have hurt all the volunteers and threatens to harm the existence of the zoo.
The residents of Fort Dodge need to come to the rescue of the zoo. We need your help or the zoo that has been here or so long is going to disappear. What was once an asset to Fort Dodge will no longer exist.
If you wish to help, call your city councilman and tell them you want the zoo to continue to house our beautiful and unusual animals. It would be unfair if a handful of activists decided for the rest of us whether we continue to have a zoo in Fort Dodge.
Vickey Groat
Fort Dodge


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The RN is required to assist clients in achieving their health goals through effective communication, decision making, problem-solving, management and technological skills. Registered nurses work in hospitals, clinics, offices, nursing homes, and home health care settings, in addition to schools, research facilities, and community agencies. The education and scope of practice of the RN is determined by state law. The student must successfully complete this program and the National Council Licensing Examination-Registered Nurse. This is a selective admission program. In order to be considered as a candidate for this program, students must meet basic admission requirements beyond those required for admission to the college. Many of the courses for this program are open only to students officially admitted to the Nursing Program. PREREQUISITES Students should see the "Course Descriptions" section of this catalog or the Course Schedule for course prerequisite information. Basic skills assessment and advising information may be found on page 8 of this catalog. GENERAL EDUCATION General education is an important part of this program and includes a mathematics competency requirement. To fulfill the mathematics competency requirement, students may need to complete specific coursework in mathematics. For information on how to fulfill all general education requirements, see page 22. INFORMATION The admission and/or graduation requirements for this program may change each academic year. The program requirements below apply only to those students who have been admitted to the program for the 1999/2000 academic year. For the most recent and complete information, interested students should contact the Admissions Office, Gannon Vocational-Technical Center, Room 232, telephone number (517) 483-1254. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE NURSING PROGRAM, LPN AND RN OPTIONS For current information about admission requirements, students must contact the Admissions Office, Gannon Vocational-Technical Center, Room 232, telephone number (517) 483-1254. REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 68 CREDITS CODE TITLE CREDIT HOURS ANAT 201 Human Anatomy 4 MICR 203 Microbiology 3 NURS 150 Fundamentals in Nursing Care (See Note 1) 9 NURS 160 Acute Nursing Care 6 NURS 165 Maternity Nursing Care 5 NURS 200 Pharmacology (See Note 1) 3 NURS 260 Mental Health Nursing Care 5 NURS 265 Pediatric Nursing Care 5 NURS 280 Advanced Chronic Nursing Care 4 NURS 285 Advanced Acute Nursing Care 4 NURS 290 Leadership in Nursing Care 3 PFHW 163 Healthy Lifestyles 2 PHGY 202 Human Physiology 4 PSYC 200 Introduction to Psychology 4 PSYC 205 Human Growth and Development 3 WRIT 121 Composition I 4 LIMITED CHOICE REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 6 CREDITS Complete the indicated number of credits from each CHOICE listed below. CHOICE 1: General Education Core Areas 6 Credits (See the "GENERAL EDUCATION" section above) Writing Core Area (See Note 2) 0 Speech Communication Core Area 3 Science/Technology Core Area (See Note 2) 0 Global Perspectives and Diversity Core Area 3 Mathematics Competency (See page 22 for information on how to fulfill this requirement) MINIMUM TOTAL 74 NOTES: 1. NURS 200 may be taken up to two years prior to admission into the program or concurrently with NURS 150. 2. Students completing "REQUIREMENTS" have fulfilled the requirements for this Core area. 3. Although not required for the Associate degree, MICR 204 is strongly recommended to be taken concurrent with MICR 203. It will be required for nurses who continue on to a four-year university. 4. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification (BCLS) is required throughout the program.(EMSB 102 or American Red Cross "Provider C") 5. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN's) wishing to complete the second year of this curriculum should make an appointment with the nursing faculty to receive individual advising, telephone (517) 483-1410. SUGGESTED COURSE SEQUENCE Courses listed in Semester I below must be completed prior to admission to the Nursing program as part of the Phase I requirements for admission. MATH 112 - Intermediate Algebra is also required for admission and may be waived by successfully passing a proficiency exam. Although students are admitted to the program in June, they will be assigned to begin Semester II in either fall or spring semester. A student may not begin a new semester until she or he has successfully completed all of the courses listed in a previous sequenced semester. NURS 200 is the only NURS-prefix course that is offered summer semester. 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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. ~ Isaac Newton
- selected by Kalki
- 2005, 2006
- You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man's age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. ~ Ronald Reagan (born 6 February 1911)
- selected by Kalki (who erroneously selected it for both 2005 and 2006 because of a failure to check the existing records)
- 2007
- I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. ~ Babe Ruth (born 6 February 1895)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal. Let us renew our determination, our courage, and our strength. And let us renew our faith and our hope. We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ~ Ronald Reagan
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- One love,
One heart,
Let's get together
And feel alright.
~ Bob Marley ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same... ~ Ronald Reagan
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security. ~ Ronald Reagan
- proposed by Kalki
- 2013
|Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
|~ Aaron Burr ~
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2014
|Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
|~ Babe Ruth ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2015
|We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable — the best site is "somewhere else entirely."
|~ Gerard K. O'Neill ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2016
|Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
|~ Bob Marley ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2017
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan
- Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. ~ Ronald Reagan
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (This is the utmost ranking and should be used only for one quote at a time, per person, for each date.)
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
- DOB: Aaron Burr · Bob Marley · Gerard K. O'Neill · Ronald Reagan · Babe Ruth
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. ~ Aaron Burr (born February 6)
- 3 because enrichment of one's daily routine requires one to work when unnecessary and relax when work is being done. Sometimes, the shift in vice versa balances a stabilized regime. Zarbon 04:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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This is a very important topic for families, healthcare
This is a very important topic for families, healthcare workers, ministers, and hospice staff. I call it a topic rather than an argument, but I'm afraid that most folks will likely view the dialog in terms of a debate or argument.

I agree there has to be more than a Do Not Resuscitate
I agree there has to be more than a Do Not Resuscitate order... we should be able to make a decision about our own quality of lives and so that it doesn't cross over into some moral spin, perhaps having a fatal condition could be one of the requirements so we finally can decide what we want and NOT what technology can wreak upon us when it is unwanted. I feel that death 50 years ago was gentler. Currently death almost always happens in a sterile hospital amongst strangers and bright lights, beeping instruments counting out your minutes and difficulty for loved ones to share that time because of proximity. No sleeping in your own bed, no sleeping anyhow because of the near constant checks all hours of the day, I hope I NEVER have to deal with that and that choosing the right to die on my schedule will be approved by the time I want or need that choice.......

Quite interesting website page. I just got almost nothing
Quite interesting website page. I just got almost nothing to do and so I am simply killing time searching the world wide web and I feel as if I've discovered some incredibly valuable web-site. Thanks a lot


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Topic: Simple operator question
Is there a difference between the append operator '<<' and the '+=' operator?
I have an array and I'm adding to it, I've used both before, but I'm trying to understand if there is a difference between the two or if it's just repetitive.
I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything here.
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This is the Rebuttal Testimony of Doug A. Krall regarding AMI cost recovery. The purpose of the rebuttal testimony is to address issues raised by other parties regarding the following:
• The inclusion of plant held for future use in base rates.
• PPL Electric's proposal to establish a Distribution System Improvement Charge ("DSIC").
• Issues related to PPL Electric's proposed Transmission Service Charge ("TSC").
• PPL Electric's proposed allocation of distribution revenue requirements.
• PPL Electric's request to amortize and recover from customers costs associated with Hurricane Isabel.
• Costs and benefits associated with the Automated Meter Reading ("AMR") system.
• Proposals offered by Strategic Energy to promote retail competition.


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Baby Shower Games and Favors
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Entertain your guests and the mommy-to-be with a few fun baby shower games, and award small prizes to the winners. Most baby shower games are geared towards laughs and amusement than actual skills or competition, and of course, they're all baby-themed. Check out the following ideas for fun baby shower games:
Clothespin Game - As guests arrive give them a clothespin to pin on their clothes. Throughout the party everyone needs to keep an eye out for anyone who crosses their legs, arms or feet. If someone is caught they have to hand their clothespin over to the person who caught them. At the end of the party whoever has the most clothespins wins.
Baby Word Jumble - On a piece of paper scramble up a bunch of words that have to do with a baby (i.e. bottle, crib, diaper etc.) and make copies. Pass one out to guests and have them try to unscramble the words. Make sure you time everyone about one to two minutes depending on how many words you have. Whoever finishes or unscrambles the most words first wins.
Baby Word Search - Create a word search with hidden words that have to do with a baby (i.e. bottle, crib, diaper etc.) and make copies. Pass them out to each guest and have them try to find the words. You should time everyone about one to two minutes depending how many words there are. Whoever finishes or finds the most words wins.
Name Baby Items - This is an easy game. Pass out a blank sheet of paper to each guest and give them about a minute to write down all the things they can that have to do with a certain subject, such as what should be in a diaper bag, the nursery, etc., or just write down items that have to do with a baby. Whoever has the most items written down wins.
Guess the Size of Mom - Have the mom-to-be stand where everyone can take a good look at her belly. Using either toilet paper, ribbon, or string let everyone try and guess how big she is. When everyone is finished measure each piece around her belly. Whoever gets the closest to going all the way around perfectly wins.
Guess Who's Baby Pictures - Ask each guest to bring a baby picture of themselves to the party. Mix them up and put them on a piece of cardboard and then have everyone take a look and try and figure out who's who. Without telling each other have them write down their answers. Whoever gets the most correct wins.
Drawing a Baby - Give each guest a piece of paper and a felt pen. Have them put the sheet of paper on their head and give them one minute to try and draw a picture of a baby. Whoever drew the picture that looks like the closest thing to a baby wins.
Bottle Race - Buy some 4 ounce baby bottles and fill them with beer (or juice/soda of if they don't drink alcohol, are minors or pregnant, etc.) and have your guests try and drink them as fast as they can. Whoever finishes first wins. This is a good game for the guys to play also.
Dress the Baby - Get a few baby dolls and some baby clothes. Undress the dolls and have your guests try and dress them as fast as they can in a minute or two. Whoever finishes first or has the most clothes on the doll in the appropriate places when the time is up wins.


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Target: Innovation through Events
October 1, 2010
Katie Erickson, director, events at Target Corporation, and Karima Ridgley, director, apparel & accessories at Target Corporation, discussed how the brand uses events to showcase its innovation around style and fashion.
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Kick Off Your Fall College Soccer Season Wearing Barons Colors!
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (153 votes).
In short: Let your inner child escape, get covered in mud, splash in some swamp water and have a jolly good laugh!In full: This was the second muddy cross country race that I have done, personally I favor road races and am training for a half marathon but a friend of mine persuaded me to do it. We have very different paces but I ran with her and we took it steady (which turned out to be a very good idea). As previous reviewers have said, the first couple of miles really lull you into a false sense of security. Nice scenic trails around farmers fields and woodland paths. There were a few places where the paths were narrow which caused some congestion, this would be my only real criticism (perhaps they could consider a staggered start).We didn't have to wait too long before the first hilly climb and then the first watery pit! Again there was some congestion which made it hard to get through. The very sticky sand meant that if you stopped you sunk so everyone had to hang back to allow themselves a run up.The atmosphere was great with people helping one another out of the sticky bits and marshals cheering us along the way. The TurboX zone was something else. Loved it. Some of the hills were so steep that you had to put your hands down to scramble up, or slide down on your bum. Some of the bogs were so deep that I was virtually up to my armpits in squishy stinky mud (I am only 5 foot tall mind you).We were really lucky with the weather it was cold but good for running and not frozen or raining. I would love to do this event again and would like to see if I could beat my time by running on my own. I would certainly suggest that this is one for fitter runners as it really is a total body workout coupling 10 miles of running with hauling yourself out of mud.The event info said no water stations but there were 2 and one at the end. The finishers t-shirt was a nice touch too, but a bit sad there wasn't a medal (can't have everything). Would like to know why the freebies in the goody bag were all labelled in French though.All in all a great event which has inspired me to do more crazy, muddy, off road events!Date of review: December 11, 2012
In short: Maddiest, muddiest, boggiest , sandiest, wettest Race of the Year !In full: and we loved it...A true challenge and a real sense of achievement to complete this beast.An energy bar/sweet would have been nice in the goodie bag, but apart from that top event...Date of review: December 9, 2012
In short: Great fun as usualIn full: Please move this event back to November! Clashes with other important events and I know of a number of people who couldn't do it this year because of the date and that showed up in the number of entrants, I was actually running on my own with no one in sight for a the middle part of the race, so lost some of the usual atmosphere. Otherwise, loved it.Date of review: December 9, 2012
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In short: My 4th time, so something must be right!In full: Let's get the moans out of the way first, 1/Too expensive,2/ need more marshalls, particularly for safety in the Turbo zone. 3/ Race was a little shorter than previous years, so even though I knocked 10 mins of my pb it was a bit meaningless. Otherwise, loved every minute of it, great atmosphere amongst the runners and most came over the line with a big smile on there face. Date of review: November 22, 2011
In short: As always, a great morning out and about in the mudIn full: Third time I have entered this race and still love it. Great course, with plenty of testing surprises. Pleased to see a better t-shirt than Surrey Hills and bottled water rather than plastic cups, as has been the case at other recent 2:09 events. Good work Mike and his team.Date of review: November 22, 2011
In short: For swamp lovers!In full: An excellent race that combines 4 or 5 different types of mud, a loose sand covered hill. The parking is ideal right next to start/finish and registration.Perhaps there wasn't enough toilets as the queue did get quite long.I do dislike having to register on the day (pick up timing chip) - quite sure that this could be made easier (like sending the chip out with the number) again there were some long queues for this.The front runnners were directed the wrong way quite early in the race - this really shouldn't happen and does need to addressed in the future.Date of review: November 21, 2011
In short: DissapointmentIn full: I actually feel guilty about this review and I'm going to try and avoid a rant.Long and short of it is that a few of us in one of the leading groups got directed the wrong way and at around mile 2 ended up doing the turbo zone. I don't really know why I got annoyed - I only entered the race to have a laugh but after re-joining the race proper at the back on a single file "track" it completely took all of the enjoyment away. I'm just glad that the leading lady in our group did eventually get past enough people to win her race though it was a bit of a close call.I'm sure the majority had a great day and I certainly wouldn't want to put anyone off doing this event but for me, I was looking forward to the event and came away caked in mud but rather annoyed and dissapointed. Sorry!Date of review: November 20, 2011
In short: Establishing itself as a classicIn full: Great race, slick organisation, legendary Turbo X Zone, good banter. The May course is mildly more interesting than this one which lacks far reaching views, but thats not what its all about. Overall a real good laugh. Definitely one to try. Am still scrubbing mud from bits I havent felt for years..Date of review: November 20, 2011
In short: Now I know what our ancestors must have felt like as they crawled out of the prehistoric swamps and tried to evolve into something akin to human! Loved it.Date of review: November 20, 2011
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The Power of Music in Ads — Is There an ROI?
March 13, 2013
Elliot Lum, vice president, strategic marketing at Columbia Records, discussed the company's research efforts to determine the ROI of music in television commercials.
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Cleveland takes a locally famous but struggling rapper under his wing
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Harder, Better, Faster, Browner
Cleveland takes a locally famous but struggling rapper under his wing
Cleveland Live!
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How Cleveland Got His Groove Back
Cleveland loses his confidence, so he and his family go on a journey to Africa
It's the Great Pancake, Junior Brown
Cleveland informs Cleveland Jr. that he's too old to trick-or-treat
Little Man On Campus
Coach Brown's star pitcher is forced out for the season
Fat & Wet
Cleveland Jr. and Kendra acknowledge a mutual shame regarding their size
Another Bad Thanksgiving
Donna's selfish sister Janet comes to the Browns' for Thanksgiving
Murray Christmas
Rallo is forced to spend a weekend at a retirement home
Beer Walk!
Donna accuses Cleveland of doing nothing
Ain't Nothin' but Mutton Bustin'
Donna pushes Cleveland to spend some father/son time with Rallo
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?
Cleveland criticizes Donna's parenting skills
Like a Boss
Tim becomes the new boss at Waterman Cable
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Cleveland receives two courtside tickets to the NBA All Star game
Terry Unmarried
Cleveland discovers that he and Donna are not legally married
The Blue and the Gray and the Brown
Cleveland saves Stoolbend's drive-in movie theater
The Way the Cookie Crumbles
Cleveland discovers that his parents are selling off his childhood memories
To Live and Die in Va
Lester invests his life savings in Cleveland's beer truck business
The Essence of Cleveland
Cleveland feels slighted by Donna's lack of interest in him
Cleveland's boyhood idol moves to town
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Cleveland Jr. bonds with Robert
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Rallo and his buddies perform a rap song about fiscal responsibility
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Cleveland takes the family to Comicon to peddle his comic book "Waderman"
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Business Niche High Ticket Coaching And Your Moral Obligation To Start NowJanuary 27th, 2009
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Do you really believe that you have a moral obligation to sell high ticket coaching? Have you ever sat and thought that it is your duty to create and sell a high priced coaching program in your business niche? Today's high ticket coaching video is a summary of the short FREE BUSINESS COACHING TRAINING series on creating and selling high priced programs.
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Starting wakfu again on a new account! Hello! I want to start wakfu again but I'm not sure about what to go on my new Sadida. I mean everyone says the dolls cost way too high but at higher levels the seed is only 2 AP. And what is the max level? How many skills I can max? Can I max more than 5 anyway? I tried to use the google or the forums but most of them seems to be outdated.
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