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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A proposal to collect DNA from people arrested on felony charges is still alive in the Nevada Legislature.
The Assembly Judiciary committee voted 11-2 to pass SB243 Wednesday. It cleared the Senate unanimously already and now heads to the Assembly for a vote on the floor.
The bill mandates a cheek-swab whenever a person is booked for a felony arrest. If the arrest is deemed legitimate, the DNA would be cross-referenced with DNA from other crime scenes to see if the arrested was involved. The law is named after Brianna Denison who was raped and murdered in 2008 by James Biela.
Some opponents say the DNA testing is an unreasonable search for non-violent felony arrests.
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The Firm (NBC) "Chapter Nine" Episode 9
The Firm, "Chapter Nine" Episode 9 airs on Saturday March 3 on NBC (10p.m. ET).
Episode Synopsis: Mitch (Josh Lucas) and Ray (Callum Keith Rennie) are hired by a desperate father, Sergeant Leonard Debs (guest star Roger Cross, "24"), who enlists their help with the mysterious death of his son. However, their investigation puts them both in the center of the surreal world of Federal "terror law," where national security trumps civil liberties and secret proceedings replace public hearings. Meanwhile, Tammy (Juliette Lewis) finds herself a new job, in an effort to help further their ongoing investigation in the Sarah Holt case. Molly Parker and Natasha Calis also star. Shaun Majumder guest stars.


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University Police and Public Safety
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(509) 963-2959
After Hours Non-Emergency:
(509) 925-8534
There are no active crime alerts at this time
Date: 12/16/2013
This message has been sent to increase your awareness and is required by federal law.
On Sunday 12/15/13 at 4:35pm a suspect approached a citizen who was sitting in their vehicle in the H-18 parking lot, and demanded money. The suspect then threatened to brandish a firearm when the citizen stated that he didn't have any money. The suspect was quickly apprehended and arrested after a multiple agency response.
Upon apprehension the suspect was searched and he was found not in possession of a gun. The suspect was taken into custody.
Central Washington University Police Department was made aware of a check scam occurring at Universities across the nation. This particular scam involves the suspect listing a job opportunity locally. After applying for the job students are sent an email from the "employer" who claims to be out of the country but will be sending the student a check advance for work such as running errands for the employer until the employer returns home.
A few days later the student gets a package which contains a check. Instructions are given for the student to cash the check, keep a specific amount of money for the work they are to perform and return the remainder of the money to an address outside the United States. THIS IS A SCAM.
Legitimate employers typically do not pay in advance or require you to return money from a check written to you. If you apply for off-campus employment and are told to send any money before your employment can be finalized, it is a scam.
Please contact the Police at (509) 925-8534 if you feel you have been victimized or the target of a scam.
This message has been sent to increase your awareness and required by federal law.
Link to Word Document of Scam Alert: Crime Alert Bulletin
A old email scam/threat is going around again, and several individuals from CWU have received it. This one is particularly unnerving as it states that a friend has taken a contract out on your life, and that your life will soon end. In reality, it is an attempt to get you to make contact with the sender ... as it is inferred that if you contact them, you might be able to convince them to not execute the contract. Yes ... it's a new low in cyber-crime. Some of the body of the email states that "you have been betrayed by a friend" and "get back to me if you want to live on". In other words, it's an extortion attempt.
The ITS Department has been in contact with Police Services regarding this matter. This scam/threat has been around for a few years and recurs occasionally. The FBI has issued warnings about this in the past. Unfortunately, the emails originate from non-traceable Yahoo accounts that change the user name and use "open/unauthenticated wireless sites" to gain untraceable access to the Internet ... so blocking the originator address in your spam filter will likely do little good, and tracing the user is nearly impossible.
The best advice at this time is:
1) DO NOT respond to the originator of this (or any such emails)
2) OPTIONAL: You can report this to the FBI at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx
3) Forward the threatening email to the ITS HelpDesk so that we can assess the magnitude of the situation, and review addresses, etc.
4) Delete the email!
NEW SCAM: Residents of Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania and other states have reported receiving calls from someone requesting money for 9-1-1 services. The caller claims that residents must pay a fee to register their house in a 911 database so first responders can locate the home in an emergency. The caller also requests names and medical information from the residents.
This is a scam. 9-1-1 services are funded through dedicated 9-1-1 excise taxes on telephone bills and by other local government funds.
Any request for 9-1-1 funds over the phone is a fraud. Residents who receive these calls should hang up and report the suspicious call to their local police or sheriff's non-emergency phone number.
Spring is approaching, the weather is improving and the sun is staying out longer. You may find yourself spending more time outdoors and staying out later. The following tips can help you avoid becoming a victim of crime when you are out and about.
• Avoid isolated areas
• Walk with confidence and with another person, if possible
• Don't carry a lot of cash or valuables
• Let someone know where you are going/when you will be back
• Stay alert – Do NOT wear headphones
• If you suspect you are being followed, cross the street and run to the nearest populated area (business, home, etc.)
Biking or Jogging
• Go with a companion
• Vary your route
• Avoid isolated areas, especially after dark
• Stay alert – Do NOT wear headphones
If you are feeling uneasy about walking through campus alone after dark, call the CWU Courtesy Assistance Team (CAT) for a walking escort! CAT operates 7 days a week from 7:00 PM until midnight and can be reached by dialing (509) 963-2950.
The CWU Police Department is investigating suspicious fires occurring in the past week near several on-campus residence halls. The CWU Police Department would like to remind everyone to practice proper fire safety procedures and evacuate immediately in the event of a fire alarm. Anyone with information pertaining to these fires is asked to contact the CWU Police Department at 509-963-2959.
Early this morning, conference attendees staying in Al-Monty Residence Hall reported hearing noises at their window and seeing a person outside the hall who ran away when confronted. The individual has not been identified or apprehended.
No one was harmed. No windows or locks were broken. This incident is currently under investigation.
The suspect involved in this incident is described as a white male, approximately 5'8" – 5'9" in height, late teens to early 20s, with dark brown or black hair. The suspect was last seen wearing a black sweater and dark pants. If you believe you have information about this individual, please contact CWU police at 509-925-8534.
The CWU Police Department would like to remind the community of a few safety tips:
This message has been sent to increase your awareness and is required by federal law.
Suspect Description:
On June 21st 2011 Central Washington University Police Department was made aware of a check scam taking place. Fraudulent employers are sending checks to individuals to have them cash them. Upon cashing them they are to send an undisclosed amount of the money back to the employer. After cashing the check it is later discovered that the check is fraudulent leaving the individual to pay for the cashed check out of their own funds.
This message has been sent to increase your awareness and is required by federal law.
CWU AFFILIATES: The victim is a CWU Student.
INJURIES: None
STATUS: This incident is currently under investigation.
CWU PD would like to remind the CWU community of a few safety tips:
Suspect Description:
White male 24-25 years of age muscular build with dark "shaggy" hair with scruffy side burns, wearing hooded sweatshirt with unknown design on the front and blue jeans.
In the early morning hours on Friday January 28, 2011 a woman was walking on a pathway near Carmody-Munro and Al-Monty when she was approached and assaulted. She was pulled and punched by a man she did not know. The male told her to come with him and she refused and fended him off. The assault is believed to be sexually motivated. The suspect's identity is not known and he was last seen fleeing the area.
This message has been sent to increase your awareness and is required by federal law.
CWU AFFILIATES: The victim is a CWU Student.
INJURIES: The victim has a bruised eye and bruised/marked arm.
STATUS: This incident is currently under investigation.
CWU PD would like to remind the CWU community of a few safety tips:
• If you are a victim of a crime, call 911 immediately after determining it is safe to do so.
• Utilize the Courtesy Assistance Team walking companion program by calling 963-2950
• Be alert to suspicious activities or people.
• Note the location of blue light emergency phones on campus and be cautious staying in well
traveled and lighted areas.
In compliance with notification provisions of the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1998, the Central Washington University Department of University Police and Parking Services is issuing the following crime alert:
If you have thought about buying or selling over the internet, here's a warning. Both buyers and sellers need to beware. Fake cashier checks are being used for scams involving Internet purchases.
Here's how the scam works:
This scam works because most people believe that a cashier's check is as good as cash. That's clearly not true if it is a counterfeit! And with today's computer and printer capabilities, almost anyone can make a very realistic looking fake check. People also don't realize that wired money is immediate and irretrievable. Once you wire the money gram, the money is GONE!
How can you protect yourself against check scams when selling something?
Tips for buyers - Avoiding Internet Auction Frauds
Listed below are tips to protect yourself and your family from various forms of Internet fraud: •
If you believe you may have fallen victim to this type of scam and wish to report it, please file an online report with the U.S. government by going to http://www.ic3.gov
Two CWU Police officers have received nationwide recognition for their involvement with the Rape AggPolice And University Sexual Assault Investigations Are Separate
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LU alumni cheerleaders get ready for homecoming reunion
Behind every good football team is a great cheerleading squad.
Social workers, gymnastics coaches, medical doctors, and a university president are among the men and women who have cheered for the Lamar Cardinals – some of whom have lived as far away as Edinburgh, Scotland, while others still reside here in Beaumont. But when the Lamar University alumni cheerleaders reunite at this year's homecoming game on Oct. 22, they will join together once again to do what they all love to do: cheer for Lamar.
For C.H. Colvin, who earned his bachelor of psychology in 1989, cheering at Lamar changed his career path completely.
"I was going to school to be a psychologist," said Colvin, who has been the gymnastics coach for the Beaumont school district for 13 years.
"Without cheering at Lamar, none of this would have ever happened – cheerleading helped me in pursuing my career.
Colvin, who played football in high school, said it all started with "street tumbling" his senior year.
"Back when MTV was coming out, my friends in high school were all into break dancing," he said. "We would see guys doing flips and back tucks on the videos, and we all went out into the yard and started doing it. Once I got into college, Lamar at one point offered a gymnastics class and a couple of the girls that I knew were taking it, so I thought okay, girls, gymnastics, plus a class where I get to learn how to do what I want to do, flip and tumble. It was a no-brainer."
It was in his second semester Colvin discovered that he wanted to try cheerleading.
"We were sitting up in the stands at a basketball game, and they had a time-out or a half time, and these guys start tumbling across the floor. I looked over at my buddy and said 'Man, one day I'd like to do that. That looks like fun.' And, within a year and a half, I was the one on the floor doin' the tumbling."
Cheerleading has come a long way since beginning in the early 1900s; what began as an all-male activity for early American college football fans is now a competitive, co-ed sport comprised of athletes who can execute advanced floor gymnastics and formations.
"It's just amazing what they're doing these days," said Colvin. "Cheerleading is really about leading the crowd, but it's also about performing for the crowd. People like to see people flip – and when there's lull time in the game, that's when the cheerleaders should be leading and entertaining the crowd."
For Shirley Woodell Coffman and Bobby Marks, entertaining the crowd was up to their team of six cheerleaders back in 1956, when home football games were in the South Park High School stadium and Lamar's school colors were red, white and blue.
"We were so cute in our red, white and blue, and our skirts were down below our knees," said Coffman, a Beaumont High School graduate who currently resides in Pearland. The girls wore dark royal blue felt skirts and the men matched with blue slacks, and all wore white letter sweaters with a red cardinal on the back.
"We were really proud of those sweaters. They were the heaviest, most gorgeous things you've ever looked at," she said, recalling her first time cheering in her beloved sweater at an away game in Nacogdoches.
"We wore those sweaters, and we went to that game, and we cheered, and we cheered, and we cheered; and I want you to know that little old blouse underneath that beautiful heavy sweater was to be rung out. I just remember thinking 'I may die before this game ends but I'm gonna keep on smiling and I'm gonna keep on cheering.'"
Marks, who served from 1995 until 2001 as president of Sam Houston State University, said his memories at Lamar have followed him into his career in education.
"We were a close-knit group. We worked hard, but had a lot of fun together," he said. "Having served as a cheerleader prepared me for being at ease before large audiences, which my career demanded. It also taught me the importance of a team approach to projects."
Alumna cheerleader Tondelyn Johnson, who graduated from Lamar in 1999, said her cheerleading memories have helped in her career in education as well. Before becoming the school principal at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic School in Houston, Johnson served as a cheerleading sponsor for five years.
"I can always think back to the days of cheering at Lamar and use the memories to impact the current cheerleaders and help bring the team together. I think back on how we handled problems and disagreements as a team," said Johnson, who looks forward to meeting new cheerleaders and seeing her fellow teammates at the reunion. "We were like family."
Her current family also treasures memories from Johnson's cheerleading days.
"One of my most fond memories would have to be cheering for my boyfriend at that time, who is now my husband, Curley Johnson. He played basketball at Lamar," said Johnson, adding that their daughter Carrigan wears her father's number in sports, 15.
Also attending the Lamar alumni cheerleader reunion are former Lamar cheerleaders Vincent Thompson and Kristyn Henderson, both of whom went on to pursue careers in cheerleading. Thompson, a Beaumont native who currently resides in Columbia, Mo., worked as the director of curriculum and staff for the International Cheerleading Foundation, and Henderson, native of Lumberton, is the current cheer and mascot coordinator at Lamar.
" I am so excited to get back home and see many of my friends from my LU days. The thought of being able to reconnect and relive the 'good ole days' in person is so exciting – it will be fun to relive the wonderful memories of cheering for LU football," said Thompson, who graduated from Lamar in 1985. "Cheerleading at Lamar gave me the opportunity to develop some quality leadership skills and become more confident in myself. The opportunities I had to be in leadership positions while cheering at Lamar have helped me to obtain leadership positions in my professional life. It all started at LU!"
Henderson said members of the Lamar Cheerleading Team are excited to meet and work with former cheerleaders, some of whom will return to the field for an alumni cheerleader performance at the game.
"Once a cheerleader, always a cheerleader," said Henderson, Lamar class of 2007 who also plans to perform as an alumna alongside her squad. "They are extremely excited. We have a girl on the team whose mom was a very well-known cheerleader at Lamar and almost all of our current cheerleaders know a few of the alumni already. There are a lot of strong bonds and relationships that will help make this reunion very special."
Beginning at 10 a.m., former cheerleaders who plan to perform on the field are required to attend mandatory practice in the Health & Human Performance Complex (formerly the Women's Gym), followed by a cookout lunch at 11:30 a.m. at the McDonald Gym. At 12:40 p.m., all cheerleaders, past and present, will join the football team in front of the Setzer Center and begin the march across campus in time for "Meet Me at the Bridge" at 1 p.m.
The all-alumni tailgate party will be underway in the parking lot directly in front of the athletic complex at Provost Umphrey Stadium until the game begins at 3 p.m.
Registration deadline for the Lamar alumni cheerleader reunion is Friday, Oct. 7. To register or for more information, contact the alumni office at email@example.com or call (409) 880-8922.


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I always liked Elizabeth Seton because I could relate to her as a married woman and as a mother trying to educate her children. Catholics schools have adopted her as a patroness, but I think we homeschooling moms can be inspired by her loving care and concern for her family as well.
From the Sisters of Charity Site.
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton began the Sisters of Charity, the first religious community of women founded in the United States. She was born into a prominent Episcopalian family in New York City, August 28, 1774. Her father, Dr. Richard Bayley, was a physician, professor of medicine, and one of the first health officers of New York City. Her mother, Catherine Charlton Bayley, daughter of a Protestant Episcopal minister, died when Elizabeth was only three years old.
Elizabeth married William Magee Seton, scion of a wealthy New York mercantile family with international connections, January 25, 1794, at the home of her sister, Mary Bayley Post. Five children were born between 1795 and 1802, Anna Maria, William, Richard, Catherine, and Rebecca. As a young society matron, Elizabeth enjoyed a full life of loving service to her family, care for the indigent poor, and religious development in her Episcopal faith, nurtured by the preaching and guidance of Rev. John Henry Hobart, an assistant at Trinity Church.
As the eighteenth century drew to a close, a double tragedy visited Elizabeth. Political and economic turmoil took a severe toll on William Seton's business and on his health. He became increasingly debilitated by the family affliction, tuberculosis. Hoping to arrest the disease, Elizabeth, William, and Anna Maria embarked on a voyage to Italy. On their arrival in Leghorn, they were placed in quarantine; soon after, December 27, 1803, William died. Waiting to return to their family, Elizabeth and Anna Maria spent several months with the Filicchi brothers of Leghorn (Livorno), business associates of her husband.
For the first time Elizabeth experienced Roman Catholic piety in her social equals. She was deeply impressed, especially by the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. She returned to New York in June 1804, full of religious turmoil. After almost a year of searching, she made her profession of faith as a Roman Catholic in March 1805, a choice which triggered three years of financial struggle and social discrimination. At the invitation of several priests, she moved with her family to Baltimore in June 1808 to open a school for girls.
Catholic women from around the country came to join her work. Gradually, the dream of a religious congregation became a reality. The women soon moved to Emmitsburg, Maryland, where they formally began their religious life as Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's July 31, 1809. Elizabeth Seton was named first superior and served in that capacity for the next twelve years.
As the community took shape, Elizabeth directed its vision. A Rule was adapted from that of the French Daughters of Charity, a novitiate was conducted, and the first group, including Elizabeth, made religious vows July 19, 1813. In 1814 the community accepted its first mission outside Emmitsburg, an orphanage in Philadelphia. By 1817 sisters had been sent to staff a similar work in New York.
During her years in Emmitsburg, Elizabeth suffered the loss of two of her daughters to tuberculosis, Anna Maria in 1812 and Rebecca in 1816. By that time she herself was weak from the effects of the disease. She spent the last years of her life directing St. Joseph's Academy and her growing community. She died January 4, 1821, not yet forty-seven years old.
Elizabeth Seton was canonized September 14, 1975, by Pope Paul VI as the first native-born saint of the United States.
From Elizabeth Bayley Seton Collected Writings, Edited by Regina Bechtle, SC, and Judith Metz, SC; mss. editor, Ellin Kelly; 4 vols. (New City Press, 2000-2006)
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Welcome to Middle Earth Designs on Zibbet! I hope you enjoy your shopping experience with my shop. I have lots of styles of jewelry here and I am happy to take custom orders! For information on placing a custom order please refer to the extra information section of my shop. Thanks for visiting and I hope you come back often!
I have another site I call the home site. The link for this shop is www.middleearthdesigns.com. On this shop youhave the option to customize many of the same designs I offer here and there are many other items that are not listed here in zibbet.
I also have a Facebook Fan Page. Please stop by when you are hanging out sometime and like the page for regular updates and some possible auctions! www.facebook.com/MiddleEarthDesigns
**Just a note for curious minds. Some of the items listed here in Zibbet are made with a metal called Niobium. This metal is considered to be among the list of precious metals like Argentium, Sterling, Gold fill, Gold, Titanium, and Platinum. One of the wonderful things about niobium is that the price is similar to Sterling and Argentium so it is reasonably affordable to use in chainmaille. The other reason I love it so much is the rich variety of colors and the lustrous shine of the material. Not to mention those lovely rainbow rings that are such a favorite of mine and will be seen all through my shop. Because Niobium is a precious metal the prices for those pieces that include that as one of the weave metals will be higher than the prices for base metals. It is also hyperallegenic which makes it perfect for those with sensitivity to most other base metal alloys! If you have any further questions about the materials I use please feel free to contact me!
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto named a Cabinet on Friday that is a mix of old guard figures from his long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and new, foreign-educated technocrats.
Transition team leader Miguel Angel Osorio Chong announced that he will take the top position of secretary of the interior, a job that will include overseeing all domestic security and intelligence duties as well as the federal police if a proposed restructuring is approved by Congress.
Chong, a 48-year-old former governor of the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, is known as a political operator and deal maker and he has held some of the most influential positions inside the party, the PRI.
Luis Videgaray, Pena Nieto's campaign chairman and closest adviser, will run the treasury department.
Pena Nieto, who is to be inaugurated Saturday, has pledged to make economic growth and job creation the centerpiece of his administration, and Videgaray, a 44-year-old economist with a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, appears to be the point-man in that effort. He is often described as the brains behind the Pena Nieto operation and has worked closely at his side for more than eight years.
Jose Antonio Meade, who currently serves as treasury secretary under outgoing President Felipe Calderon, will head the foreign relations department, In another sign of the importance Pena Nieto puts on the economy. The new president's transition team said Mexico's relations with the United States will mainly focus on economic cooperation and development.
Choices such as Videgaray and Meade are viewed as the new generation of the party.
But the old guard of the PRI, which held Mexico's presidency without interruption from 1929 to 2000, is well represented in figures such as new education secretary Emilio Chuayffet and Jesus Murillo Karam, who was nominated for attorney general. The top prosecutor is the only Cabinet post that must be approved by the Senate.
Chuayffet, 61, is a former governor and interior secretary who has famously tangled with the head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union, former PRI member Elba Esther Gordillo.
Murillo Karam, a 64-year-old lawyer and president of Congress' Chamber of Deputies, has been a member of the PRI since the 1970s, serving as a governor, congressman and senator and as assistant secretary of the interior in charge of public security under President Ernesto Zedillo in the late 1990s
"There is direct line to the old PRI," said Rodrigo Aguilera, the Mexico analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
"I don't think there is any such thing as a 'new PRI,'" Aguilera added. "There is a new generation of PRI members, but they don't represent any fundamentally different outlook. That doesn't mean that this Cabinet can't do its job well."
After six years of drug cartel battles that have cost some 60,000 lives, according to some estimates, many voters were simply looking for a reduction in the violence, something Pena Nieto pledged as a the second leg of his campaign.
Before winning the July 1 election, Pena Nieto campaigned on the promise that his party had reformed and changed. The PRI ruled Mexico for seven decades with a mixture of populist handouts, graft and rigged votes.
The PRI's grip on power ended when it lost the presidency in 2000, but the party held on to most of the country's 32 governorships. Those statehouses served as a launching pad to recoup the presidency, and Pena Nieto's Cabinet represented the influence of what many in Mexico call "the governors' club."
Pena Nieto himself served as governor of Mexico State, which adjoins Mexico City, and almost a third of his new Cabinet members have been governors.
Seeking to overcome his party's history of economic mismanagement, Pena Nieto has promised an agenda of free enterprise, efficiency and accountability. He's pushing for reforms that could bring major new private investment into Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, the crucial but struggling state-owned oil industry. Such changes that have been blocked for decades by nationalist suspicion of foreign meddling in the oil business.
He appointed Emilio Lozoya, 37, another young technocrat with a master's degree from Harvard, to head the state-owned oil company.
Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos was appointed as defense secretary, an important post given the military's leading role in the fight against drug cartels.
Pena Nieto couldn't make all the Cabinet appointments he had planned to because Congress is still mulling over administrative reforms that the president-elect is seeking.
A bill proposed by Pena Nieto would gather the police and security apparatus under the control of the Interior Department and create a new national anti-corruption commission. Those changes are expected to pass Congress next week.


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Celebrate the Olympics with 5 Silver Medal-Inspired Hues
Celebrate the Olympics with 5 Silver Medal-Inspired Hues
Luckily, none of these picks are runner-ups–they're just absolutely gorgeous takes on silver! (Because gold isn't for everyone!)
- Make Up For Ever #M2 — metallic platinum silver gloss
- Illamasqua DWS — silver-gray cream
- Bare Escentuals Deja Vu — bright cool-toned silver with a metallic flash
- Nubar Twilight — matte glittering silver
- Inglot #448 — medium silver with a metallic sheen


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MADRID (AP) — King Juan Carlos of Spain has used his annual Christmas Eve message to appeal for national unity to overcome the economic crisis engulfing his country.
The message was broadcast on television and for the first time through YouTube.
The head of state called on politicians to work together to avoid "unnecessary confrontations," a reference which most will interpret as being aimed at political parties seeking a referendum on whether Catalonia should split from Spain.
The 74-year-old king said it was time to "do everything possible to close the open wounds" which had led to separatist desires.
Juan Carlos didn't mention the troubles that plagued him this year, including an elephant hunt in Africa during which he fractured his hip, and a fraud investigation into son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin's business affairs.


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Shock was the first thing that went through my mind when I heard about Jeff McLane's scoop that Joe Banner was out as Eagles president – followed by a whole lot of hindsight, questions about Andy Reid's future, how the team changes now and Banner himself. Here, in no particular order, are some gut reactions from one beat reporter.
Shock … then hindsight: As is often the case, the foreshadowing seems even more obvious now that we know the ending. Banner had been unusually quiet this offseason while Howie Roseman took on a more and more visible role, and there was a Los Angeles Times report that indicated Reid had won an internal power struggle – a report downplayed by the Eagles and local media.
But beyond those cosmetic differences, there was a change in approach that now, more then even before, seems to have Reid's fingerprints on it and Banner left at arm's length. The new contracts for Trent Cole and Todd Herremans, even though they each had time left on their existing deals, seem like the moves of someone closer to the locker room than the board room. The deals rewarded two of Reid's most long-serving and dedicated players rather than sticking to the management metric that it is unwise to commit significant new money to players nearing 30. Paying DeSean Jackson meant the Eagles resolved a locker room and on-field dilemma and took care of a player Reid is very fond of, even though the team could have forced Jackson to live with the franchise tag.
Agents have said Reid was increasingly involved in negotiations. Now we have a better sense of why, and how the Reid-Roseman tandem may operate a bit differently.
Is Andy next? Banner in 2010 said that championships had to be part of the equation when the team decided whether to give Reid another contract extension. That couldn't have sat well with Reid and one way to interpret Banner's departure is that Reid has gained a stronger foothold and more power in the organization. Maybe, some speculate, he can one day move up to Banner's old job. (Regardless of how many times people within the organization say it was a mutual decision).
But my initial reaction was the opposite. If owner Jeffrey Lurie can move on without his long-time friend, an adviser who has been with him every step of the way with the Eagles, is there anyone he won't part ways with? Maybe Reid suddenly gets an extension, but to me this says no one has a job with the Eagles for life and that Reid has to show vast improvement this year, as Lurie said he expected in his January press conference. Especially now that it seems he has even more power to shape the team as he sees fit.
Did Banner take the fall for the Dream Team? When Lurie said the 2011 season was "unacceptable" and then made no changes, I was one of many reporters left scratching my head. Now it looks like maybe Lurie did shake things up after all. (The team and Banner say otherwise, describing the president's departure as mutual and saying it has long been in the works; maybe, but it sure seems odd for Banner to voluntarily step down now on the brink of another season that seems to hold much promise).
What we don't know is how much of the free agent spending spree was Banner's brainchild. The Eagles, once a decision is made internally, present a united front in public. But Banner was probably the most visible executive celebrating the team's big moves last year, which, of course, were made possible by prudent cap management and advance planning, two of his hallmarks.
Reid has long had final say on personnel moves, so he bears much responsibility for last year's decisions, but so far Banner is the only one who will go on with a reduced role.
It's worth noting, though, that even though 2011 was a huge disappointment, it's still possible that last summer's spending spree will pay dividends. Nnamdi Asomugha, Jason Babin, Cullen Jenkins, Evan Mathis and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie remain big parts of the team. Whatever their performances in year two, all the people behind their acquisitions will deserve credit or blame.
A lighter touch? On the morning of DeSean Jackson's press conference announcing his new contract, the buzz among reporters was that he had signed a lowball deal, that after all the histrionics between the two sides, the Eagles had gotten him on the cheap. Howie Roseman was well aware of this, and he pulled DeSean aside before the press conference, rubbing his shoulders and talking to him about what questions he might face. Roseman didn't want a victory lap for the team – he wanted Jackson to enjoy a day in the spotlight.
Banner was not the Scrooge he is often painted as, but it's hard to picture him having the same interaction with Jackson. In fact, in 2010 Banner told the Inquirer that he purposely kept a distance from players, knowing that he had would have hard business decisions to make regarding their futures.
Roseman does not seem to keep such distance, handling agents and players with a lighter touch. He has often said football is a relationship business, that he wants to get a good deal for the team, but also wants to make sure the other side also walks away feeling happy. That seems to be the direction the team is headed.
More to Banner than many think: It didn't take long on the beat to realize that Banner was the bad guy as far as many fans are concerned. They picture him as a cold-hearted accountant managing the Eagles like it's a spreadsheet, not a team of individuals playing an emotional, physical game.
Banner made missteps that contributed to this image, including public comments that were often out of touch with the mood of the city.
But my personal experience with Banner is that he is a smart and competitive man who desperately wants to win big. It bothers him that the Eagles haven't won a Super Bowl on his watch. Yes, he often focused on the cap and money, but it wasn't a focus on money for money's sake. It was a belief that by managing the salary cap he gave the Eagles the best chance for sustained success, for having the resources to keep swinging for a championship year after year, hoping that finally the pieces would fit together right and they would get over the top. As I wrote above, those players the Eagles added and who will be starters this year were all within reach because the Eagles had cap space; extending Cole and Herremans and acquiring DeMeco Ryans required having the money to pay them and the team was able to pick up Demetress Bell after Jason Peters' injury again because they had maintained the flexibility needed in case of emergency.
You can argue with Banner's decisions and approach – maybe it would have been better to roll the dice big on one season, even if it meant crippling cap problems down the road – and you can certainly criticize some decisions that emanated from his office, but his choices were not created out of some acceptance of moderate success without a title.
The other knock on Banner was that he is too arrogant, an outsider. And it's true, as Les Bowen once wrote, that you can't just agree with Banner 90 percent of the way. If there is an issue he really believes in, he wants you convinced that he's right on every single point.
But in private conversations he was often willing to admit that while the team might have done its homework and truly believed in the decisions it made, no one could be sure of how the choices would turn out. He readily acknowledged that it's possible the team could make mistakes and that only results on the field would say whether their ideas were smart or not. Whether it was a draft pick or a big new contract, he would tell you why the team went in the direction it did, and say he hoped they were right, but that if they were wrong, he accepted that criticism would be deserved.
Lastly, Banner does reach out to people around the team and show his personal side when personal and professional issues arise. He sends flowers to funerals, he sends e-mails checking in when the newspaper goes through one of its many convulsions. He is a tough businessman, but has more heart than people give him credit for.
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Crews have been working on the upgrade of the section between Washington Boulevard and Gramercy Avenue in South Ogden since May 2017, and the work should be done by the end of June, according to South Ogden City Manager Matt Dixon. The road, which had consisted of a travel lane each way and a center turn lane in the segment, is being widened to two lanes each direction with a center turn lane.
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The 40th Street upgrade from Washington Boulevard to Jefferson Avenue was finished last year and the current focus has been on the section east of Jefferson to Gramercy Avenue. Crews this week will be pouring sidewalks and redoing driveway approaches in the section, Dixon said. Traffic each way, in the meantime, is still restricted to one lane pending completion.
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Coker (25-11, 11-7 Conf. Carolinas) comes into the weekend riding a seven game wining streak that includes an 8-4 win over No. 11 UNC Pembroke on Apr. 3. Most recently, the Cobras defeated Newberry (10-5) and St. Augustine's (7-6).
First baseman Fico Kondla continues to swing the hot stick at the plate for the Cobras. The junior is batting .417 with 12 doubles, two home runs, 30 RBIs and 18 stolen bases. On the mound, seniors Tyler Witzel and Dan Meyer lead the way, and will likely get the call for two of the games this weekend. Freshman Alex Hernandez is the third probable starter of the weekend. Witzel (7-3) and Meyer (4-3) both hold 3.86 ERAs, and Witzel has 31 strikeouts in 51.1 innings, while Meyer has 50 Ks in 58.1 innings. Hernandez (3-2) has a 3.32 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 38.1 innings.
Belmont Abbey (25-10-1, 9-7 Conf. Carolinas) is ranked No. 21 in the latest Collegiate Baseball Poll. Anthony Dimino leads the Crusaders at the plate, and Nate Cudney leads the pitching staff on the mound. Dimino is batting .377 with eight doubles, two triples, four home runs and 30 RBIs. Cudney has posted a 2.18 ERA with 59 strikeouts in 66 innings of work.
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OTTAWA – The government quietly went about its business Monday and issued no new ultimatums to sway Russia's president to pull his troops out of Crimea.
After more than a week of announcing limited moves in concert with allies, official Ottawa was silent on Canada's next steps.
Vladimir Putin has rebuffed all threats and tightened his hold on the Black Sea peninsula, and says he will recognize the outcome of a March 16 referendum that could see the mostly Russian-speaking enclave vote to split from Ukraine.
Western leaders have said any vote on Crimea would be illegal and ignored, and that it's up to Ukrainians to decide their future after President Viktor Yanukovych fled office in what Putin called a coup.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback compared past "Summer of Mercy" anti-abortion protests in Wichita to the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery in a major speech Wednesday night.
The Republican governor, who opposes abortion, included the reference to the 1991 and 2001 protests outside the clinic of Dr. George Tiller — the late-term abortion provider who was gunned down in 2009 — in his State of the State address.
Brownback said that in the past, Kansas has been called "to blaze the trail for America out of the wilderness" on moral issues. He also said Kansas "marked the bloody trail out of slavery" when the nation was undecided on the issue.
"The chains of bondage of our brothers rubbed our skin and our hearts raw until we could stand it no more and erupted into 'Bleeding Kansas,'" Brownback said. "The Summer of Mercy sprung forth in Kansas as we could no longer tolerate the death of innocent children."
The address is often a governor's biggest speech of the year in which he or she lays out a legislative agenda. Wednesday's address was broadcast live statewide on public television and radio.
The first "Summer of Mercy" demonstrations in 1991 brought thousands of anti-abortion protesters to Wichita, putting national attention on Tiller, who was among a handful of U.S. physicians performing abortions in the final weeks of pregnancies. The 2001 anniversary demonstrations were smaller.
Tiller was shot to death in the foyer of his church in 2009 by Scott Roeder, who professed strong anti-abortion views. Roeder was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to serve a minimum of 50 years in prison. His appeal will be heard by the Kansas Supreme Court later this month.
Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, said called Brownback's remarks "insensitive" and said the 1991 protests started a cycle of violent anti-abortion rhetoric that led to Tiller's death.
"That event brought thousands of extremists into Kansas from around the country," Brownlie said.
But Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy director for Operation Rescue, which organized the protests, was pleased by the reference. She said they inspired people to enter politics or take other steps, such as opening crisis pregnancy centers.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The men's basketball team lost 105-80 to Mid-Continent Friday night in the Panther Paws for Poverty Classic. Daniel Anderson was the top point producer for the Panthers with 20 points and was a defensive leader with three steals.
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NBIO 722/723 Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience & Systems and Translational Neuroscience
Course Director: Jay Brenman, PhD
The purpose of this year-long course is to present the experimental and theoretical basis for our current understanding of nervous system function and disease. The course fosters an understanding of how we accumulate knowledge and test hypotheses in neuroscience. The course runs as a series of three blocks in the fall and three blocks in the spring. It is team-taught by NBIO faculty who teach sections in their particular areas of expertise, in order to assure students gain optimal understanding of the information. Fall and Spring: Brenman and staff.
Research Rotations
During their first year, all BBSP are required to perform 3 research rotations, in different labs of the Curriculum.
NBIO 850 Communication of Scientific Results
(Cross-listed: CBPH 705)
Course Directors: Jason Stein, PhD and Doug Phanstiel, PhD
Also known as PClass, this course is focused on the principles for effective scientific communication. The major component is focused on developing and giving scientific talks. The course also covers how to introduce speakers, prepare slides, and speak with the public about science. Finally, a written component is focused on preparation of specific aims for fellowship and grant application. Jason Stein currently directs the course, with additional faculty participating. The class is limited to Neurobiology Curriculum students. Students prepare talks, refine them in small groups (3-4 students), and then present them in class. The in-class talk is videotaped, and these tapes are reviewed by the students in a session with their peers. After another round of refining with their small group, the students give their polished talks to the department in a formal setting. Writing is critiqued in class, with peers and guest faculty all offering input. Together, these components help the students develop their own effective speaking and writing methods, and prepare students for the next stage in their scientific careers. Fall semester.
BBSP 610 Statistics for Lab Scientists
Course Director: Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD
BBSP 610 introduces the basic concepts and methods of statistics with emphasis on applications in the experimental biological sciences. Students should have a basic understanding of algebra and arithmetic. No previous background in probability or statistics is required, nor is experience with statistical computing. The objectives of this course are to provide graduate students in biomedical research programs familiarity with basic experimental design and elementary statistical methods. By the end of the course, students should understand the principles of experimental design, be familiar with basic statistical methods (and how they are implemented in R), and know which methods are appropriate in a given circumstance. Fall semester.
NBIO 893 Neuroscience Seminar Series
Course Director: Mark Zylka, PhD
Diverse but current topics in all aspects of neuroscience. Relates new techniques and current research of notables in the field of neuroscience. Content focuses on presentations by invited, non-UNC faculty, UNC faculty and mini-series presentations from current Neuroscience students. Topics vary from week to week. Students in the Curriculum are expected to attend and participate in the Neuroscience Seminar series. Students will be enrolled in NBIO 893 each semester, for which their attendance and participation in seminars and dissertation defenses is tracked and graded. Fall and Spring.


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University of Oklahoma junior forward Amath M'Baye has announced that he will forego his senior season and will enter the NBA Draft.
A native of Bordeaux, France, the 6-foot-9, 208-pound M'Baye averaged 10.1 points and 5.2 rebounds this season en route to earning third-team All-Big 12 honors.
"My time at OU has been great," M'Baye said "I'm 23 years old. My goal when I came to the United States was to take care of business in the classroom and by the time I was 23 to have a degree in my pocket. Now that I'm graduating in May, it's time for me to start taking care of my family the way they've taken care of me for so long.
The Preseason Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, M'Baye helped the Sooners to a 20-12 record and a return to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year hiatus. He ranked second on the team in rebounding and third in scoring, and shot .461 from the field, .279 (12-for-43) from 3-point range and .750 (60-for-80) from the free-throw line. He started all 32 contests and was named to the Big 12 All-Rookie Team.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The call from her ex-husband came in the middle of the night. All Joy Glattfelder knew was there were hostages involved and John McCluskey needed her to pick him up in Flagstaff, Ariz.
It was just hours after a prison break. McCluskey, a fellow inmate and their accomplice had kidnapped a pair of truckers, commandeered their semi and had been driving for more than four hours. They needed another ride.
"It was a matter of a life and death situation. If I didn't go, some people were going to die," she testified Tuesday. "I really didn't know what to do. I was in a really bad situation."
Glattfelder took the stand Tuesday in the capital murder trial of McCluskey, the last of three defendants to be tried on federal carjacking and murder charges in the 2010 slayings of Gary and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Okla.
Glattfelder told jurors that she didn't immediately know what had happened but that something wasn't right. She knew McCluskey was supposed to be "locked up." After panicking and pacing her Prescott Valley home, she decided to go.
She loaded up some clothes and her 12-year-old daughter, then took the trio to a country store owned by McCluskey's mother. There they picked up cash, supplies and keys to another get-away car that was parked at a family home in Mesa.
Under questioning, Glattfelder said she couldn't recall many details of that night.
McCluskey's defense team, meanwhile, questioned her credibility, accusing her of cooperating with prosecutors to get her own charges in the escape reduced to one charge of hindering the prosecution. She faces up to 30 years in prison.
Glattfelder described McCluskey and the others as nervous. She said she was nervous too but acknowledged not taking advantage of any opportunities to leave the group or call authorities. She said McCluskey told her not to contact anyone.
Prosecutors said it was two more days before McCluskey and the others would decide to target the Haases for their pickup truck and trailer at a rest stop near the Texas-New Mexico state line. The Haases were taken by gunpoint and forced to drive west on Interstate 40. They were told to pull off at a remote spot, where they were shot and killed.
Prosecutors allege McCluskey was the triggerman. The trio then drove the truck and trailer to a desolate ranch in eastern New Mexico and burned it with the Haases' bodies inside.
Jurors on Tuesday also heard from law enforcement agents who investigated the escape at the medium-security prison near Kingman and the kidnapping of the truck drivers that night.
One of the drivers, Prabhjeet Bains, said he was sure he and his partner were going to die.
"They said, 'We just escaped from prison and we need a ride. Be smart. If you do something, we'll shoot you,'" Bains said.
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Outbreak of Civility
On being 100, "regretflix," and blurbing poetry.
Yet again, I bring special qualifications to the week's Fraywatch subjects: I too was charmed by 100-year-old " Diary" geezer Leon Despres, and I too have a copy of Hotel Rwanda sitting unwatched near my TV. We were all in it together this week, with some very agreeable results.
Loving Leon: "Keep writing Leon you are interesting" Boils said. S/he was speaking for all readers—there were no dissenting voices, a rare phenomenon in the Fray. Eikciv put it this way: "I must admit that I did come to tears, not because I felt sorry for you, not at all, but because your voice carries such impact. Suddenly, I wanted to go to your apartment and converse with you for an entire day."
Thiscame from Old Jarhead: Sorry to use the trite phrase 'an inspiration' but your diary entry fills me with optimism. So I'll say it anyway; your attitude is an inspiration, and bears testimony to the beauty, and absurdity, of life. I'm only a little over halfway to your years, and will quite probably never see 100, but if I can sustain only a fraction of your interest in life for whatever years I've been allotted, I'll continue to be satisfied. Bravo! More of the same (in the nicest possible way) from Akaneshua:
Sorry to use the trite phrase 'an inspiration' but your diary entry fills me with optimism. So I'll say it anyway; your attitude is an inspiration, and bears testimony to the beauty, and absurdity, of life. I'm only a little over halfway to your years, and will quite probably never see 100, but if I can sustain only a fraction of your interest in life for whatever years I've been allotted, I'll continue to be satisfied. Bravo!
More of the same (in the nicest possible way) from Akaneshua:
In a country that values youth over wisdom, it is easy to lose touch with people who retire or are shuffled off to nursing homes but I think this separation is at a great disservice to us. These articles are like a conversation with that interesting older man whom you see around but never get to speak with.
Regretflix—that was KathM's splendid coinage, and she was one of many who read and enjoyed the article about unwatched movies from Netflix, with Hotel Rwanda the most mentioned. Fray posters contributed advice: Ed Dunkle suggests we multitask while watching and remember, "The key to happiness is low expectations."
Regretflix—that was KathM's splendid coinage, and she was one of many who read and enjoyed the article about unwatched movies from Netflix, with Hotel Rwanda the most mentioned. Fray posters contributed advice: Ed Dunkle suggests we multitask while watching and remember, "The key to happiness is low expectations."
Why not just send the movies back? Because of the pesky requirement to rate them—as Persia says, "Where's my 'I'm a lazy slacker and didn't watch it' button?"
Dsf3g spoke for many: When The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is just a hand's width away from Conan, I mean, seriously, what do you usually feel most in the mood for, German Expressionism or Austrian Blade Wielding Killing Machine? But others wanted to talk up the neglected films: Which you might think had the most supporters? Fitzcarraldo perhaps? Vegemighty kept putting if off because of"applying for grad school, rugby season, job interviews, a wedding, a honeymoon, starting grad school …" but eventually watched it and "quite liked it." No,the surprising wave of enthusiasm (surprising? astonishing) was for the little-known Roll Bounce, along with a warning against letting it persuade you back on to the ice-rink (keywords: negative, falling, gruesome, not a good idea.)
Dsf3g spoke for many:
When The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is just a hand's width away from Conan, I mean, seriously, what do you usually feel most in the mood for, German Expressionism or Austrian Blade Wielding Killing Machine?
But others wanted to talk up the neglected films: Which you might think had the most supporters? Fitzcarraldo perhaps? Vegemighty kept putting if off because of"applying for grad school, rugby season, job interviews, a wedding, a honeymoon, starting grad school …" but eventually watched it and "quite liked it." No,the surprising wave of enthusiasm (surprising? astonishing) was for the little-known Roll Bounce, along with a warning against letting it persuade you back on to the ice-rink (keywords: negative, falling, gruesome, not a good idea.)
This is a cry from the heart of Bureau Cat:
So you have heard from the person who has had Z sitting on top of his or her TV set for months now. Please ask him/her to send it in, on my behalf—I have been waiting for it.
And more good advice from Chicagogirl (whom we know to have an extensive knowledge of movies, and very good taste): "Go with Galaxy Quest." Another Fray with no fights came on Ron Rosenbaum's " Spectator" on blurbing poetry: The best efforts by posters will feature in the column, and as of now there's still time to contribute. Literate, interesting, and collegial—the discussion is a model Fray. —MR ... 3:30 p.m. GMT
And more good advice from Chicagogirl (whom we know to have an extensive knowledge of movies, and very good taste): "Go with Galaxy Quest."
Another Fray with no fights came on Ron Rosenbaum's " Spectator" on blurbing poetry: The best efforts by posters will feature in the column, and as of now there's still time to contribute. Literate, interesting, and collegial—the discussion is a model Fray. —MR ... 3:30 p.m. GMT
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Many readers were shocked, shocked, by William Saletan's theoretical article about past candidates' daughters—"Pointless speculation" with a "sensational title" in a "so-called respectable publication," "breath-takingly goofy," "womb-obsessed." They say that as if those were bad things—have they not read Slate before? The answer is probably "No": At this stage in an election year, we get a lot of new Fray posters. A regular reader is more likely to argue with the statistics than the premise or to offer a suggestion, as Lizdexia did: "Why not list all the male writers at Slate, and compare them to the statistics for wife beaters?" (Lizdexia is a new poster but promising.)
The Fray was loving the Palin family in all its glorious newsworthiness—"Should we judge? Hell yes," as sfifeadams had it here, and the following comments come from all over the boarrds. This helpful remark came from Xaedalus: "I think [Palin] will put to rest once and for all the idea that we are a misogynistic nation. Rather, she will show that the people who hate Hillary, just plain hate Hillary and not the XX." Moderately Amused put it this way: "Somewhere, Dan Quayle has got to be smiling. His place in history as the most capricious pick for VP has just been erased."
Jack cerf had his own take:
What Palin exemplifies is the Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart sentimental populist wish-dream, seen in movies like Dave, and on every daytime TV judge show, thatall would be well if a regular person, just like ourselves, only a little bit better, ran things instead of professional politicians, lawyers and intellectuals. I don't underestimate its appeal.
And Silas Porter had similar views:
I guess I am one of the dwindling number of Americans who wants my leaders to be more extraordinary than me, more intelligent and more talented. I think the people who look for regularity in their leaders are really just looking for someone to affirm them as people--to tell them that people like you--average--can succeed. Doesn't that sound lame?...America, please stop being such morons about this. This isn't a high school election. It's not a popularity contest.
No? Are you sure?
If you're going to make the most of this election and the press coverage, you can't be too squeamish, and sometimes it's time to wallow in bad taste. We thought we'd done well by finding this imagined convention introduction from guylinder, who had heard that Bristol Palin's baby-father will be there:
Ladies and gentlemen, let's give a warm Republican welcome to the man who is having sex with the vice presidential nominee's daughter!
—but actually maybe more people will be outraged by donfromcalifornia's simple question:
Ummm, I don't know how to say this without being a jerk, but do college age republicans come off like nerds? I'm going to college right now, and I'm an independent, so I'm not biased, honestly. It's just hard to take them seriously. I look at the young dems as stupid, and the young republicans as dorks.
We try to offer something to offend everyone. MR … 4.30 p.m. GMT
Friday, August 15, 2008
Last week, Ron Rosenbaum published a call for greater journalistic coverage of scientific dissent on global warming. Journalists covering climate change find an overwhelming consensus among the scientific community that mankind's release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last century will cause dramatic changes in the Earth's climate. If true, this consensus seems to call for a substantial policy response. To Rosenbaum, the scale of the costs attendant upon dealing with global warming justifies granting a heightened profile to those who dispute the factual basis for the scientific consensus.
Most of our readers found Rosenbaum's argument unpersuasive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a majority of Fraysters support marginalizing the fringe voices in the climate-change debate. Many posters wonder along with brucewhite where to draw the line between legitimate dissent and crackpot theory:
I admire Ron Rosenbaum as a writer but wonder if this matter is as simple as he paints it. There are sceptics everywhere but do we want to relitigate everything all the time unless serious new evidence comes to light? Evolution? Alien visitors? The intervention of demonic forces? Holocaust denial?
I'm not arguing that there is no possibility of a good case to be made against anthropogenic global warming but most of the scepticism one reads is pretty low level and not much of it emanates from climate scientists. If we are to inhabit a world shaped to such a degree by the fruits of science we need to give scientists some credit when they present us with inconvenient truths. In fact we rely on a huge amount of consensus for our global society to function—this doesn't mean that other voices shouldn't be heard, but journalists do have the right not to accord them all equal respect.
New York Times science writerAndrew Revkin writes in to challenge Ron Rosenbaum's use of his blogroll to bolster a climate-change skeptic's credibility:
I wish Ron Rosenbaum had explored my Dot Earth posts and Times articles on how best to cover climate science as well as my blogroll. Then he might have realized that Nick Lemann's admonition to "find the argument" is only one of the vital steps required to effectively communicate a complex subject.
An equally important step is to place the areas of ongoing scientific dispute within the broader context of what is not in dispute. If that step is not taken in a story, the lure of conflict can mask the broader reality, and perpetuate policy stasis.
So, yes, "find the argument." But then also "find the agreement" as well. It's not as sexy, but it may be the only way journalism can help society absorb that climate science has a herky-jerky trajectory, that some uncertainty is normal, but that a growing human influence on the planet's thermostat is not in dispute.
Another step is to discriminate between scientific and policy arguments. High-profile skeptics on climate have a hodegepodge of views on the science, but are bound by a common stance that restricting greenhouse gases is a waste of resources. On a science development, I don't seek input from policy advocates, whether from Greenpeace or the Cato Institute. On a policy story, everyone's invited.
To auros, debating the factual basis for believing in global warming is a sideshow to the policy argument we should be having.
I understand the CJR author's point, while disagreeing with some of her methods. I think Ron gets it too, as he recognizes that if the consensus is right, and global warming poses a serious peril to civilization, then anything that tells the voters that such peril doesn't exist will tend to slow down action to address it. Personally, I think of the situation more as deciding how much insurance to buy. You don't buy homeowner's insurance because you believe your house is definitely going to burn down. You buy insurance because it might burn down. If the best available science says there's a 1% chance of catastrophic climate change, the kind that sinks New York, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Boston under several meters of seawater—well, how much are you willing to pay for insurance against that risk? Is 0.1% of GDP unreasonable? 1%? 10%?
Given that there are also a bunch of non-global-warming-related disadvantages to our current energy system, I'd vote for devoting a significant chunk of GDP to dealing with this situation. Maybe not 10%, at least not immediately—trying to transition the economy that fast would cause a lot of dislocation and unnecessary pain. But a percentage point or two? Sure.
One of the most interesting replies came from Arlington, who sees parallels between our reaction to the bad news of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and today's response to global warming:
There are parallels to instruct us. When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, she was attacked by debunkers who sounded like those now objecting to the global warming consensus. Some of it was very personal and mean, impugning her sanity and her sexuality, if you can believe it. Fortunately, most honest scientists recognized Carson was calling attention to a real crisis, something that was actually happening and could be documented, even though they realized Carson's appeal was largely emotional and scientifically flawed. The result was the DDT ban, which saved the bald eagle, among many other species, from extinction.
But Carson's detractors are sore losers. Now that the bald eagle is no longer threatened with extinction, the debunkers say the whole thing was a manufactured crisis in the first place and would have taken care of itself. There was no reason to ban DDT, they claim, and doing so promoted worldwide famine and caused malaria deaths by the millions. Carson was the devil.
And journalists hopped on the bandwagon. They reproduced accusations that Carson was responsible for more deaths than Hitler. They researched their articles by lifting quotes from authors who contribute to organizations like junkscience.com and others who insist that science should direct itself at the goal of making life easier, safer and more comfortable for a consumerist society. This was all very convenient, since Carson was long dead and the problem she identified had been effectively addressed by regulation and enforcement. And it sold newspapers.
This is the point of the CJR article. Go ahead and promote your byline. Sell your papers. Advance your career. Just don't forget you owe your readers something of the truth. Journalistic ethics require discriminating between various sources of information. Some sources should be used with skepticism and some should not be used at all. It's difficult to determine the difference, particularly when the writer doesn't have the scientific background to draw a clear line. Conveying the truth involves more than presented the reader with John said this and Mary said that. Who is John? Who is Mary? Where do they get their funding and support? What do their peers say about them? Not everyone who challenges scientific consensus is a martyr.
There are many more great posts in the Spectator Fray. Check them out and share your thoughts. GA … 2:18 p.m. PDT
Friday, August 8, 2008
A very welcome development this week,
Is the landline telephone going the way of the dinosaur? Readers are surprisingly hung up on the possibility of its extinction, as forecast by Daniel Gross in this July 25 article that made a mysterious reappearance yesterday on Slate's "most e-mailed" list.
Perhaps accounting for its renewed popularity is an improbable but vocal minority of land-line defenders who helped reactivate the debate in "Moneybox" Fray. Their many reasons for staying hard-wired include:
- Social-life management: i.e., giving out the home number knowing you will hardly ever be there to actually answer it (camiwa).
- Retro-chic appeal, particularly if it involves a rotary-dial telephone (NickD).
- Paranoia: access to emergency services in the event of blackouts, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, or other acts of God (VEH, NewYorkDave). Plus, the advantage of Enhanced 911, which automatically relays your street location to the operator (Tonyw1538).
- Coverage gaps in rural areas like western Wisconsin, where "you can be driving down major interstates and not have any bars for a good hour or two" (Chasmosaur).
- Potential health benefits: avoiding both the radiation emitted from cell phones and the " permanent crick … from trying to hold a tiny sliver of metal on my ear" (sugar_k).
- Fax machines and international calling, especially for mothers with children "scattered around the continent" (Herbie2).
- Peace, quiet, and simplification: "Now, when my under 30 husband and myself … are out, we can enjoy our time without the cellular leash" (trudycatsmom).
This type of age-conscious declaration was recurrent in the Fray and may have to do with a nerve that Gross unintentionally plucked, by equating land-line usage with the over-thirtysomething crowd.
It's never fun to be painted with such a broad brush, or worse yet, to feel obsolete. Hence the strident response of Atmos2, a 40-year-old proud to proclaim his exclusive reliance on cell phones.
Of course, one can always find some reason to cling to technology of the past. "Why Don't I Own a Horse and Buggy?" chidesFaxMeBeer, "I mean, I suppose we could all have continued to use our horses to take us on short trips to the store."
Before we grow too dismissive of land-line users, let us acknowledge that the beauty of the Fray lies in its ability to inspire volumes to be collectively written on some of the least likely topics such as this.
In general, reader proclivities have been tending toward the quirky this week, such as Jody Rosen's exposure of a serial plagiarist and a "Culturebox" piece about the 10 oddest travel guides ever written. Be sure to check them all out. AC … 1:08 p.m. PDT
Saturday, July 30, 2008
A very welcome development this week, after the article in "Medical Examiner" on hospitals' E.R. problems produced a monster response from readers—more than 400 top-posts. The Fray team's job is to read as many of these as possible and then try to summarize the reactions as helpfully as possible for other readers. But in this case, one of the authors of the piece—Jesse M. Pines, who co-wrote with Zachary F. Meisel—bravely read a very high number of the posts and wrote in the Fray about them for us. He identified five different sets of responses, including:
1) Complaints from angry health care providers who felt they'd been insulted. Answer—no such criticism intended.
2) Patients giving experiences of the system, good and bad.
3) Congratulatory messages from those who agreed with the article.
4) Posts from nurses who commented on the "bed-hiding" issue. Answer: "The point was not to say that anyone is lazy—you are just as overloaded as we are in the ER."
The fifth group was from providers who talked about other problems in the health care system that contribute to crowding, and our author had this to say:
While I'm glad that you used this forum to discuss these issues because all are important, the article was about the hospital practice of boarding admitted patients in the ER. And how in some communities with high Medicaid and uninsured populations where hospitals are capacity-constrained (where demand for services exceeds supply on both the ER side and inpatient side), boarding is the profit-maximizing strategy. While Zack and I thought we explained it in the article, I am sorry if this was unclear to some.
He argued his case with more details and references before concluding:
I thank you again for your interest in this important topic that affects all Americans. Because sooner or later, you and your loved ones will all need to go to the ER. This needs to be discussed in public forums by people who understand the issues and can provide suggestions to hospital administrators and policymakers who have the power to eliminate boarding through objective measurement and accountability for this crisis.
Anyone interested in the issue should read the post in full here. And Mr. Pines is most welcome to come and help us in the Fray any time. MR ... 5:30 p.m. GMT


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Lily Reece and Ms. Carter came out to see Ms. M. Morgan. Ms. Malena just came back from a escape to Miami-Dade and the girl was looking suntan and beautiful. Ms. M. Morgan was already disrobed and having a nice shower the minute Lily Reece and Ms. Carter turned up.
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