text: There's something about CBSSport.com columnist Gregg Doyel that's very appealing, even though his combative nature and his odd mohawk stage would most often have him seated at the douchey table, he at least comes across as comfortable in his own Affliction T-shirt. Doyle has been on the wrong-end of many Deadspin posts and also managed to score a lower Media Approval Rating than Steve Phillips. Does he care? I get the sense he kind of does. (That's just an opinion.) And here's an interesting little tidbit of Gregg Doyel minutiae sure to impress at cocktail parties: He's 4-0 as an amateur welterweight boxer, with 3 KO. He tried to fight Jose Canseco this summer when Canseco advertised online for an opponent, but Canseco's manager told him he was too small. After the jump, Gregg Doyel being Gregg Doyel.DS: So you briefly mentioned it in one of your mailbag columns, but what was the deal with you flipping out on those poor Arkansas DJs? Was there some bad blood, or were you just in a foul mood? GD: No bad blood, no foul mood, no nothing. The question that set me off would probably set me off again if anyone ever asks me something like it down the road: "Before you wrote this column on Arkansas (or whatever), did you come to Arkansas (or wherever) to report the column?" Come on — that's ridiculous. You don't have to live in Arkansas to be appalled by how that fan base has behaved over the last couple of years. Actually, if I get that question again and I go off again, I WILL be disappointed in myself for my lack of originality. But I'm not disappointed I went off that time. I mean, I realize the mature thing would be to say I'm disappointed. But I'm not. I'm me. And going off on occasion ... that's me. DS: Is there a method to your columnist assholery? How much of your style is overblown into a calculated persona? GD: You assume I'm going to agree with the adjective "assholery." Maybe that's an adverb. Ah, hell, whatever it is ... I agree with it. But it's not calculated, if by calculated you mean insincere. I believe everything I write, and my aim is to tell readers something they're not expecting to hear, maybe even something they would inherently disagree with. My ultimate goal is that by the time they finish the story, I've changed their mind — but I'll settle for having challenged their preconceived notion on the topic. And if I fail at both ... well, then, assholery is mine! DS: Do you have any influences? I know Rick compared you to a budding Jay Mariotti in the piece he wrote, but is he someone you look up to? GD: I saw what Rick wrote, and sighed. That comparison was a matter of time. But I'm 38 — I'm not a budding anything. Whatever I am, I'm in full flower. But anyway ... um, my favorite writers when I was younger were Dan Le Batard for his eye for detail, Leigh Montville for his rhythm and Rick Reilly for his creative genius. Le Batard isn't writing now, Montville has completely disappeared, and Reilly is so likely to mail it in, he ought to just write from the post office. Which means I need to find some new role models. Well, here's one: I love me some Matt Taibbi. And Dr. Seuss. DS: Have you ever written something negative about someone that you would ever take back? Have you ever felt something you wrote wasn't fair? GD: Last year before the BCS title game I predicted Jim Tressel would outcoach Les Miles, and while I'm not sorry that the prediction was so dreadfully wrong, I do wish I hadn't been so rude in my commentary on Miles. I'm not proud of that one. I don't even want to read that thing. I'm guessing you'll find it and link to it, which makes me wonder (A) why I would offer it up to you in the first place and (B) if I'll click the link as I'm reading this interview online. Probably I will. Maybe after reading it again I won't feel as bad as I do currently. But I doubt it. DS: Do you think the role of the columnist has transformed at all since you've been doing it? Have you had to augment your style at all in the new sports media marketplace? GD: Columnists haven't changed — everyone else has changed, or should change. The straight game story is a dinosaur. It's a complete waste of time, the Catholic ritualization of empty gestures. Hell, all stories, other than breaking news — and even that, come to think of it — are being (or should be) written with more insight, analysis and opinion. More like a column, in other words. A straightly written story is an insult to readers, considering many of them already know the news before they click on us, whether we're online or in print. It takes some kind of gall to assume people are getting information from "us," whoever "us" is. We need to get away from the "who, what and when" and focus more on the "why" and "how." And I think we mostly do, across the board. Those who don't ... suck. DS: Who's the most overrated sports columnist working today? Underrated? GD: Overrated? I guess Reilly, although I'm not sure who other than his editors at ESPN rates him that highly any more. Bill Simmons is very good, but I don't get the mass hysteria every time he writes, or doesn't write, or whatever. So I guess that means I think he's overrated, too, but not for the same reason as Reilly. I respect Simmons' work and effort. I just don't get the frothing that follows it. I'm probably jealous. As for underrated ... three guys from CBSSports.com blow me away, and then I'll mention three others from outside: Dennis Dodd is as good as it gets with words. Gary Parrish is the best all-around talent I've ever worked with. And Mike Freeman makes me laugh more than anyone. Elsewhere ... does anyone really understand how good Paul Daugherty of the Cincinnati Enquirer is? There aren't five better columnists in the country. Not five. I defy anyone to read him for a month and tell me I'm wrong. But until I moved to Cincinnati in 2004, I had no idea. Also, Greg Couch of the Chicago Sun-Times and Mike Finger from San Antonio are fabulous. Whatever their rep is, their talent exceeds it. DS: Would you ever work for ESPN's print or online publications? GD: I already have. I was the ESPN.com ACC columnist for football and basketball before going to CBSSports.com in 2003. So the question is, would I work for them again? Sure I would. But I love where I am, and if I retire from this business after 30 more years at CBS and only CBS, I'll consider myself a lucky man. Any of my three supervisors (Mark Swanson, Craig Stanke and Lyle Crouse) would be the best boss I've ever had. I'm talking passionate, if platonic, love for all three of them. DS: Do you think the critiques of certain journalists by other journalists are racist/sexist or unfair? The possible racism I see is in the critiques of our business, not in the actual hiring (as if) or the execution of our business. Go to SportsJournalists.com, for example, and you'll see certain writers get ripped over and over and over. I'm thinking Scoop Jackson and Jason Whitlock and a handful of others. And while I can't say for sure who's ripping them — the brave posters are mostly anonymous — I have a general idea. It's a bunch of white guys, people who by definition don't have the perspective or voice that Jackson or Whitlock or, to name a woman, Karen Crouse has. So that ignorance of an unusual perspective/voice breeds dislike of that perspective/voice. I'm not sure racism or sexism is the exact word for the whole thing, but it's bad, whatever it is. DS: Do you think anonymous message board posters bring out both the good and bad in writers? Everybody reads them, yet they say they ignore them, yet there are always a few that seem to force the writer to confront some harsh truths about themselves. GD: Anonymous message boards serve a purpose, and for the most part, it's a great thing — really. It's a place to exchange ideas or blow off steam or swap stories. But when anonymous assholes start ripping media members it makes me queasy. Mariotti gets hammered for not going into clubhouses or locker rooms, and that does strike me as a bad way to do his job, but message board heroes feel all big and bad for ripping him, or someone else, behind some clever (not) nickname. It's pathetic. At least Mariotti, or whoever, puts a name on the rip job. The cowards who do it facelessly ... I cannot respect. And that includes anyone reading this who counts me as a friend. I do not respect you. I just wish I knew who you were so I could tell you to your face. Oh, and I read that thing [Sportsjournalists.com] four times a day. Not saying I don't. But there's not a single truth I'm ever going to believe about myself — even if it IS a truth — if it's offered by some anonymous asshole. DS: Well, what's your biggest criticism of yourself, then? GD: Damn that's a great question to ask anybody of themselves. I'm probably too belligerent or confrontational, and I don't just mean in my job, but that's probably what you're asking about. When I'm faced with the choice of going too far or not going far enough, I'm going to go too far. Every time. That means writing a single line or an entire column, or asking a question during an interview, or snapping at a radio guy. I've got no fear, which can be good, but I also have no diplomacy, which can be bad, and that's everywhere. I've gone onto my kid's school bus to chew out the driver (he had it coming, but still). Principals at my boys' schools know who I am, because when I have a problem, well, now YOU have a problem. Apparently assholery is a way of life for me. And now that I've used it in a sentence ... it's a noun. Definitely. DS: What would you have done if you were in the Adrian Wonjnarowski situation? Would you have reacted similarly? Or, at least, wanted to? GD: Well, here's a true story: I'd already read that post earlier today, and as soon as I finished, I sent Adrian a text message to congratulate him on the way he handled it. That doesn't mean I'd have handled it the same way, because I'm not sure I'm generous enough to offer the guy a plane ticket. (This is where I say something dumb like, "I prefer to give out my ass whippings for free.") But I'll tell you something I HAVE done: I've been irritated enough by certain anonymous SJ.com posters that I tracked every post they'd written, took notes and figured out who they were. Then I confronted them, both of them, next time I saw each of them in a press box. Didn't challenge them to a fight or anything, but let them know I knew who they were, and if they had anything else to say about the way I do my job, to feel free to say it right there. Of course they said nothing. Clowns. I got both of their ID's correct, by the way. (That story is sad enough as it is, but imagine if I'd confronted the wrong guy. Next time, maybe.) Oh, there was the time last year when a West Virginia football beat writer, don't know who he is, was cursing at the college students who were bringing him postgame stats on deadline. Apparently they weren't bringing them fast enough. Anyway, I told him to knock it off. He cursed me, so I told him I'd be waiting for him outside the press box when we were done writing. The guy finished before me and was gone. Crap. DS: Do you think more readers would like you or dislike you if they met you in person? GD: They'd have to like me more in person, if for no other reason than they couldn't possibly like me less than they do on-line. I'm joking, I guess, but whether that's actually true depends on when someone runs into me. I'm pretty moody (shocking), and if I'm in a good mood, which I think is most of the time, I'm gonna be pretty silly. But if I'm feeling quiet, that's it. No talking from me. I'll get to a press box two hours before a game, and if the mood strikes I'm going to sit there at my seat and read a book, and since I'm enjoying myself, I'm not going to be thrilled to be interrupted. If that makes me selfish, fine. But isn't it also selfish to interrupt me and assume that your company is more enjoyable than whatever it is I'm doing? I don't know. I'm weird. Whatever you do, do not break the ice with a vague "what's up?" Hell, I don't know what's up. You're the one talking to me. You tell me what's up, or I'm going back to my book. And with that, I've just given assholery a bad name.


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Anybody used to play VMK? The old online Disney game where you walked around the park and interacted with others, doing quests, earning items etc.?
Well, myself and a few others are trying to get everyone back together and join MyVMK, a recreated version of the game. It's completely free and it's a non-profit. If you want to recapture the magic, or experience it, please join up. The more people the better. www.myvmk.com


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My friend Andrew Breitbart sounded the trumpet for a thousand citizen journalists to rise up. Andrew was the subject of countless vile attacks daily, but even he could not have imagined the amount of energy that a handful of groups and individuals have put into attacking friends of Andrew and citizens journalistd who heeded his call.
These attacks are often done by anonymous accounts who seem to feel that they have no accountability for what they say online. They and a small group of people acting under their own name show a reckless disregard for the truth, making baseless and false accusations with a degree of vulgarity and mean-spiritedness which puts their conduct well outside the bounds of both civility and more importantly, the law.
[pullquote align="right"]This defamatory intimidation has succeeded in having a chilling effect on up-and-coming writers.[/pullquote]
I have seen these attacks leveled against people like Brandon Darby, Liberty Chick, Patrick Frey, Aaron Walker, and myself. As I have been covering the Republican National Convention for the past week, and am about to break a major story about Barack Obama, these attacks have intensified and worsened and have included despicable intimidation designed to put fear into my family. It's caused me at some points to hate two things I love; political discussion and the internet.
This is about something much bigger than me, however.
In the past week, I have talked to at least three people who have told me that after seeing the attacks I have faced, they have no desire to write about or discuss politics in any way. This understandable reaction is sad, but it cuts to the heart of the deeply un-American attacks that have been enabled by an anonymous internet culture where people see no consequences whatsoever of their actions.
These stillborn political voices – voices we will never hear – demonstrate that all the amazing digital publishing and broadcasting technology in the world can actually hurt the cause of free speech when maliciously misused by people with a nihilistic political agenda and lacking the ability to create, acting on nothing but the desire to dt tear down, mock and destroy.
Luckily, our country already has laws in place about defamation and harassment that are designed to deal with these things.
Enough is enough.
Some of you wonderful folks have asked me how you can help to support my family in its defense against the attacks being organized against me, my children, my wife, my friends and my company. Here's how:
I'm putting together a major defamation case against two groups of people:
- Brooks Bayne, his organization The Trenches, and everyone directly associated with it in these attacks, including screen names such as @cryingwolfeblog, @xcitizen10, @foolishreporter, @zapem, & @swiftreed and
- People or groups apparently connected to Brett Kimberlin and / or Neil Rauhauser, including screennames such as @liberalgrouch, @occupyrebellion, @anonyopx.
What you can do to help:
Just keeping up with and doucmentin these attacks has been a tiring job for me. But it has to happen in order to bring an effective case and show these people that they can't lie, defame, harass and intimidate without legal consequence.
So I'm crowdsource the 'neighborhood watch'.
What you can do to help is to screencap and save any attacks by these people. We'll ask for these screencaps later on in order to help build our case.
Look for anything that accuses me of criminal behavior, unprofessional conduct or which besmirches my journalistic reputation. Also please look for and save any messages in which any of these people have contacted my employer (Brietbart.com), my coworkers, and any potential clients or business associates.
Screencap and hold onto this material. If I need it, I will ask for it.
If you can do this, it would really help to keep me from being distracted by the reckless defamation and endless harassment by these people.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.


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Five IRS Controversy Falsehoods Manufactured By Right-Wing Media
Right-wing media have been pushing multiple dubious claims related to the recent revelation that the IRS used inappropriate criteria to scrutinize some conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Media Matters has compiled five of the worst offenders.
CLAIM: Washington Ordered Additional Scrutinizing Of Conservative Groups
Fox News Anchor Bret Baier: IRS Employees Say "It Does In Fact Go Right To Washington." On Fox & Friends, Special Report anchor Bret Baier pushed the claim that excerpts from congressional interviews of IRS employees that have been released so far show that the IRS tax-exempt organization division was ordered by Washington to target conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status:
BAIER: I think this is the focus, is whether it goes right to Washington. You have Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee saying he's got interviews with these Cincinnati IRS agents saying, it does in fact go right to Washington, and he's going to lay that out this week. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 6/3/13 [1], via Media Matters]
REALITY: No Evidence Of Alleged Link Has Been Provided
Rep. Cummings: Washington Link Claim "Reckless" And "Inconsistent With The Findings Of The Inspector General." In a statement released June 3, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of which Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) is chairman, said that Issa has provided no evidence to back up his claim that IRS officials in Washington were complicit in the targeting.
So far, no witnesses who have appeared before the Committee have identified any IRS official in Washington DC who directed employees in Cincinnati to use 'tea party' or similar terms to screen applicants for extra scrutiny. Chairman Issa's reckless statements today are inconsistent with the findings of the Inspector General, who spent more than a year conducting his investigation. Rather than lobbing unsubstantiated conclusions on national television for political reasons, we need to work in a bipartisan way to follow the facts where they lead and ensure that the IG's recommendations are fully implemented. We must have a sincere effort to uncover the truth so that we can restore the public's trust in the IRS. [Statement of Rep. Elijah Cummings, 6/2/13 [2]]
Sen. Graham: "No Evidence" That Orders To Scrutinize Conservative Groups Came From the White House. A June 3 Hill article quoted Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina as saying during an interview on Fox News Radio's Kilmeade and Friends that while he didn't believe the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS was "something thought up in the Cincinnati office" he had "no evidence" that the IRS was directed by the White House to do so. [The Hill, 6/3/13 [3]]
CLAIM: Obama Didn't Hold Anyone Accountable For IRS Actions
Bill O'Reilly: On IRS Targeting, President Obama "Is Not Holding Anyone Accountable. That's Absolutely True." Bill O'Reilly claimed during a segment of his show on the IRS' inappropriate targeting of conservative groups that "I think to be fair on this we have to say a few things definitely. That President Obama is not holding anyone accountable. That's absolutely true," and then suggested that the president should "be scolded for that." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 5/23/12 [4], via Media Matters]
REALITY: Administration Has Disciplined IRS Officials And Opened Criminal Investigation
Obama Administration Fired Steven Miller, Acting IRS Commissioner. A May 15 Yahoo! News article reported that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew fired Steven Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS, in response to the IRS actions, and said that anyone responsible will be held accountable:
Obama said he had reviewed the Treasury Department Inspector General's report that details how the IRS targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
"The misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it and I am angry about it," the president said in a brief prepared statement. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency--but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives."
Obama said the "responsible parties" will be held accountable. Lew "took the first step by requesting--and accepting--the resignation of the acting commissioner of the IRS because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it's important to institute new leadership that can help restore confidence going forward," Obama added. [Yahoo! News, 5/15/13 [5]]
Obama Administration Put Lois Lerner On Administrative Leave. A May 23 Washington Post article reported that Lois Lerner, who was in charge of the tax-exempt organizations division of the IRS while the targeting of conservative groups occurred, was placed on administrative leave in response to the IRS controversy:
Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on administrative leave, sources in Congress and the administration confirm.
Lerner has been a federal employee for 34 years, holding positions at the Justice Department, the Federal Elections Commission and the IRS. She became director of the IRS's tax-exempt unit in 2006. [The Washington Post, Post Politics, 5/23/13 [6]]
Attorney General Eric Holder Ordered A Criminal Investigation. A May 14 Bloomberg article reported that Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a criminal investigation into misconduct at the IRS following news of the agency's targeting of conservative organizations:
Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a criminal investigation into the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's targeting of small-government advocacy groups for extra scrutiny.
"The FBI is coordinating with the Justice Department to see if any laws were broken in connection with those matters related to the IRS," Holder said at a news conference today. [Bloomberg, 5/14/13 [7]]
CLAIM: Former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman's Visits To White House Tie WH To IRS Targeting
Fox's Doocy Exclaimed That "Coordinating" Was The Reason Shulman Visited The White House. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy implied that former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman's visits to the White House were about "coordinating" targeting of conservative organizations:
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): In fact, there should have been a revolving door into the White House because he visited so much he actually outdistanced and out-lapped many people like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Timothy Geithner and even Eric Holder. This guy visited the White House 157 times, only for an Easter egg roll is the only one he could remember going there for -- what else was he doing there?
DOOCY: Coordinating. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/30/13 [8], via Media Matters]
Doocy: "To Some Critics It Does Look As If He Kept Going To The White House To Coordinate Some Sort Of Political Opposition Against The President's Opponents." Later in the Fox & Friends segment, Doocy said "some critics" are accusing the White House of coordinating the IRS' inappropriate targeting of conservative groupls applying for tax-exempt status:
DOOCY: To some critics it does look as if he kept going to the White House to coordinate some sort of political opposition against the president's opponents. Is that what happened? Well if Mr. Shulman ever does answer the questions fully, maybe we'll know. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/30/13 [8], via Media Matters]
REALITY: Shulman Did Not Visit White House As Much As Claimed And Mostly Attended Meetings On Implementing Health Care Reform
White House Visitor Logs "Only Reflect The Information The White House Chooses To Record." A May 23 Washington Post article reported that the White House logs "only show some visits" and are therefore unreliable:
The Post's database of White House visitor logs doesn't tell the whole story. The logs only reflect the information the White House chooses to record. It certainly doesn't show what regular guests some Cabinet secretaries are at the campus centered around 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.--which we explained by noting that "bigwigs...most often get waved in," rather than having to get logged in like the rest of the commoners.
Cabinet secretaries sometimes get the formal log-in treatment at official events at the White House--often when they are accompanied by spouses or other family members to events like state dinners or barbeques. [The Washington Post, In the Loop, 5/23/12 [9]]
White House Visitor Logs Not Intended As "Comprehensive Means Of Documenting Every Visitor To The White House." A May 31 Atlantic article explains that the White House visitor logs are not meant to be a complete record of appointments, nor is it an accurate account of White House-specific guests:
The real problem with combing through the White House visitor logs is that they were a system designed for Secret Service clearance and White House security, not as comprehensive means of documenting every visitor to the White House, high to low. They miss the top end and some of the social end of people visiting the White House -- people who are cleared through separate processes designed to protect presidential security other than getting swiped in at the front gate for an appointment.
The lay reader understands the White House to be the big white mansion with the columns and the Oval Office and the West Wing and the presidential family living in residence. The Daily Caller talked about visits to "the president's home." But the White House visitors' records cover the entire White House complex -- the big famous white building, along with the freestanding Eisenhower Executive Office Building inside the gated compound and the New Executive Office Building, which is up 17th Street and outside the White House gates.
The vast majority of Shulman's scheduled meetings were to take place in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building -- 115 of them. Another three were slated for the NEOB. That leaves just 25 percent of the meetings in the White House itself, or on its South Lawn. [The Atlantic, 5/31/13 [10]]
Shulman Mostly Visited With Staffers In Charge Of Implementing The Affordable Care Act. The Huffington Post reported on May 31 that the majority of Shulman's visits logged in the White House records were concerning implementation of the administration's health care law, the Affordable Care Act:
But overall, the vast majority of Shulman's visits recorded in the White House visitor logs were to the Old Executive Office Building and with officials involved in implementing the new health care law -- indicating that the main conspiracy unearthed here is one to implement a law passed by Congress. [The Huffington Post, 5/31/13 [11]]
CLAIM: IRS Continuing To Scrutinize And "Harass" Conservative Groups
ACLJ's Jay Sekulow Complained That, Despite Investigation, IRS Was Continuing To "Harass" Conservative Groups He Represents In Court. American Center for Law and Justice's chief counsel Jay Sekulow appeared on America's Newsroom to discuss the IRS controversy. Sekulow complained that, despite the ongoing investigation, the IRS was continuing to apply heavy scrutiny to the conservative groups that he represents in court. As evidence, he cited an eight-page compliance letter that an unnamed nonprofit received which contained, according to Sekulow, "intrusive questions," that amounted "harassment." Sekulow provided no evidence that the groups he represents were targets of the same tactics. [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 5/29/13 [12], via Media Matters]
REALITY: Legal Experts Say The IRS Must Continue Assessing Whether Groups Are Eligible For Nonprofit Status
Loyola Law School Professor: "The IRS Should Be More, Not Less, Inquisitive, But It Should Do So In An Even-Handed Fashion." In a May 16 Huffington Post article, editor of the Loyola University Law School's PoLawTics blog Jessica Levinson explained "the problem isn't that the IRS asked for too much information from organizations seeking favorable tax treatment, it is that they only asked for that information from conservative organizations":
[O]nce an organization obtains non-profit status under section 501c4 of the IRS code, any political fundraising by that organization is essentially clothed in secrecy. This is a perilous state of affairs. When organizations "speak" to us by spending money to try to influence whom we chose to represent us in our government, then we the people have an important interest in knowing the identities, the true identities, behind those attempting to persuade us.
While there has been a good deal of public outcry concerning the IRS' admitted targeting of certain organizations applying for nonprofit status, the problem isn't that the IRS asked for too much information from organizations seeking favorable tax treatment, it is that they only asked for that information from conservative organizations. The IRS should be more, not less, inquisitive, but it should do so in an even-handed fashion. [The Huffington Post, 5/16/13 [13]]
Loyola Law School Professor: "An Organization That Seeks An IRS Acknowledgment Of Its Exempt Status Subjects Itself To Scrutiny." In a Roll Call op-ed, Loyola Law School professor Ellen Aprill wrote:
IRS employees who review applications for exemption have a duty to ask follow-up questions of applicants, including groups affiliated with the tea party. In the current controversy, IRS reviewers wrongly singled out conservative groups for unusually exacting follow-up. In a number of these cases, they also asked inappropriate questions, such as the identity of donors.
Some media reports, however, imply that the IRS cannot and should not ask any questions of applicants for exemption, that any inquiry invades privacy and violates the First Amendment. That implication is wrong. An organization that seeks an IRS acknowledgment of its exempt status subjects itself to scrutiny -- scrutiny designed to ensure that the group in fact qualifies for the benefit of tax exemption. [Roll Call, 5/23/13 [14]]
UNC Law Professor: "It Seems Fairly Clear That Many Of The C4s Are In Fact Breaking The Law." Thomas Kelley, University of North Carolina School of Law professor, explained that "many organizations are using c4s to engage in campaign activity while hiding their donors' identities":
While on the subject of the IRS's current monitoring of c4 organizations, it should not be forgotten that it seems fairly clear that many of the c4s are in fact breaking the law, and that, after Citizens' United, many organizations are using c4s to engage in campaign activity while hiding their donors' identities. [CardHub.com, 5/22/13 [15]]
Ezra Klein: "The IRS Scandal Is About Targeting Conservatives, Not Scrutinizing 501(c)(4)s." On the Washington Post's Wonkblog, Ezra Klein explained that the "scandal is about targeting conservatives, not scrutinizing 501(c)(4)s," and how "[t]he scrutiny was the part they did right":
Here's what Sekulow is saying: Tea party groups received questions about their political activities that originated from a variety of different IRS offices, not just Cincinnati. That's not necessarily a problem and it's not even new information.
It was proper that the tea party groups received heavy scrutiny. As the New York Times has firmly established, many of them were primarily political groups that potentially didn't qualify for 501(c)(4) status.
Sekulow is trying to widen the scandal by changing the premise: He's arguing that the real problem here was the actual questioning of tea party groups applying for 501(c)(4) status, and so anyone who participated in the work of trying to follow up on the applications chosen for extra scrutiny did something wrong. That gets this backwards: The problem wasn't that the IRS closely scrutinized questionable applications from tea party groups. It's that they didn't closely scrutinized the applications from other questionable groups as well. The scrutiny was the part they did right. The targeting was the part they did wrong. [The Washington Post, Wonkblog, 5/29/13 [16]]
CLAIM: Excerpts Of IRS Employee Interviews Revealed Targeting Orders Came From Washington
Daily Mail's David Martosko: Excerpts "Have Established That The Washington, D.C. Headquarters" Of IRS Was Targeting Conservative Groups. Daily Mail Online political editor David Martosko wrote that during an appearance by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on CNN, Issa showed that excerpts of congressional interviews of IRS employees "established" that Washington IRS officials were responsible for targeting conservative organizations:
Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status.
Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement on CNN Sunday morning. [Daily Mail Online, 6/2/13 [17]]
Breitbart.com's Kerry Picket: Excerpts "Made It Clear" IRS Employees Were Told By Washington Supervisors To Target Conservative Groups. Breitbart.com's Kerry Picket posted the excerpts from interviews with IRS employees and wrote:
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) revealed new testimony from IRS employees on CNN's State of The Union on Sunday. According to transcribed excerpts released by the Committee, a Cincinnati IRS employee made it clear they were told by Washington, D.C. personnel to give extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups. [Breitbart.com, 6/2/13 [18]]
Wall Street Journal: Congressional Republicans "Suggest Washington Officials Underplayed Their Involvement." On June 2, The Wall Street Journal cited the comments of Congressional Republicans to implicate Washington officials:
Congressional Republicans separately on Sunday released excerpts from interviews by congressional investigators with two unnamed IRS employees that the lawmakers say suggest Washington officials underplayed their involvement in the Cincinnati office's extra scrutiny of conservative organizations. Both IRS employees, who work in Cincinnati, are quoted saying they were following orders that originated in Washington to target tea-party and other conservative groups. [The Wall Street Journal, 6/2/13 [19]]
REALITY: Issa Admitted There Was No Proof Yet That Targeting Orders Came From Washington
Issa Acknowledged One Of The Excerpts Was "Not Definitive" That Targeting Originated In Washington. During a June 2 interview on CNN's State of the Union, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa agreed with host Candy Crowley that one of the excerpts from the interviews with IRS employees that he selectively leaked, after she read it on the air, is "totally not definitive":
CROWLEY: And one of the excerpts we were given, and I want to talk about how problematic it is to get excerpts, because we know that you interviewed these people probably for hours and you get little excerpts which it's hard for us to kind of judge what's going on, but here's one of those -- just some IRS agent, again, from the Cincinnati office.
The investigator said, "so is it your perspective that ultimately the responsible parties for the decisions that were reported by the IG," that is the decision that target tea party and Patriot applications, "are not in the Cincinnati office?"
The employee says, "I don't know how to answer that question. I mean, from an agent standpoint, we didn't do anything wrong. We followed directions based on other people telling us what to do."
Investigator, "and you ultimately followed directions from Washington, is that correct?"
The employee, "if direction had come down from Washington, yes."
The investigator, "but with respect to the particular scrutiny that was given to Tea Party applications, those directions emanated from Washington, is that right?"
The employee answers, "I believe so."
It's totally not definitive.
ISSA: Well, that one isn't.
CROWLEY: Right. [CNN, State of the Union, 6/2/13 [20]]
Issa Said "We're Getting To Proving" Targeting Originated In Washington In Response To Whether He Will Release Full Transcripts Of Interviews. After Crowley questioned Issa on whether he will release complete transcripts, he responded by promising to do so but said that Republicans are still "getting to proving" their accusation that IRS supervisors in Washington, D.C., orchestrated the inappropriate targeting of conservative groups:
CROWLEY: Why don't you put the whole thing out? Because you know our problem really is -- and you know that your critics say that Republicans and you in particular sort of cherry pick information that go to your foregone conclusion, so it worries us to put this kind of stuff out. Can you not put the whole transcript out?
ISSA: The whole transcript will be put out. We understand -- these are in real time. And the administration is still -- they're paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind, he's still making up things about what happens in calling this local rogue. There's no indication -- the reason the Lois Lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there is a rogue in Cincinnati, it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it.
We have 18 more transcribed interviews to do.
CROWLEY: But as yet, you don't -- you don't have that direct link. You have the front line agents going, yeah, I mean, we figured it was from Washington or I believe it was, but as of yet you don't have that definitive, yeah, this guy called me and said, people, go look for Tea Party and Patriot applications. [CNN, State of the Union, 6/2/13 [20]]
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Not since the Civil War era, says O. A. Cleveland, have the stars been so favorably aligned for cotton.
And, the veteran cotton analyst contends, that long-dreamed-of $1 price is likely to be around for some time — perhaps as far out as 2014 — thanks to an almost empty pipeline and burgeoning demand, particularly in China.
"It's not going back to 65 cents to 85 cents," Cleveland, Mississippi State University economics professor emeritus, said at the winter commodity conference of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. "I'll carry it out to 2013-2014 pushing $1 per pound.
"My projection for cotton this year is for a range between $1.05 and $2," he said. "Not a single one of you believe me — but then you never have" [much audience laughter].
Two dollars for old crop cotton isn't likely, he acknowledged … but, a big question mark is China, which has exhausted its cotton reserves. "If that situation remains stable and we see a squeeze in certificated stocks, it's not outside the realm of possibility."
The cotton market has traded at the limit for 33 of the past 54 trading days [as of Jan. 20], he notes. "In my lifetime, I've never seen that. It's absolutely unbelievable."
Cotton is up 100 percent over the last six months, Cleveland says, and up 150 percent over the past 18 months. "Cotton is on the same price ride that we saw begin for grains back in 2006-2007 and which is continuing today."
In fact, he says, the foundation for the red hot action in the commodities market in recent years can trace back to a monumental political decision by Russia four decades ago. "The current high prices for cotton are directly related to the Russian wheat export situation that occurred in the 1970s." And, he says, it is reflected in similar political actions in recent years by China and India.
Russian political decision impact on markets
"All this began in 1970 when Russia leadership made a political decision to upgrade the diet of their people, to move them to a meat diet through livestock production. In 1972-73, Russia had the worst wheat crop failure ever. They needed wheat to feed livestock to keep the promise to their people.
"Four to five teams of Russians came to the U.S. and met over a weekend with the primary grain export merchants. Come Monday morning when the wheat market opened —wheat, which had been trading at about $2.50, was up the limit. Tuesday morning, it was up the limit again. News began to leak out that Russia had bought U.S. wheat. Wednesday morning, wheat was up the limit.
"In six months' time, a $2.50 market was trading at $6. I remember one of my professors telling me, 'Nobody's ever going to grow corn again, nobody's ever going to grow cotton again — everyone's going to grow wheat.'"
But over the course of two years, Cleveland says, "Commodity prices settled and price ratios fell back into line. High prices had resulted in more wheat acres, and other commodities had lost acreage because of their low price relative to wheat."
In 2000, he says, another political decision changed the world commodity picture.
"China's leadership made a decision to upgrade the diet of their people, and they chose to do it through their pork industry. The next year, lo and behold, India's leaders made a political decision to upgrade the diet of their people with poultry.
"So, we had all those feed animals needing grains, and by 2006-2007 we began to see high prices for all the grains. Wheat, corn, and soybeans were up 100 percent, then 150 percent, and they still are. Now, cotton has joined that Hit Parade price party."
In 2002, Cleveland says, another political decision roiled the commodity markets — this time when the U.S. committed to major expansion of ethanol production with corn as the feedstock.
"There was an immediate major increase in corn price and corn production. Now, we had wheat, corn, soybeans all essentially competing for the same acre of ground.
Price ratios affected crop acreages
"Price ratios have to remain constant, or stable, if we're going to have stable production or stable plantings. For the last four years, we've not seen a price ratio that favored cotton. So, U.S. producers got out of cotton; acreage dropped from 1.1 million. to 300,000. This year, we could be back to 525,000 to 550,000."
Since 2006-07, Cleveland says, "We've finally got the supply of these major commodities somewhat in line with demand. — but while we've been doing this, for the most part we've used all our carryover stocks. At the end of the year, there's nothing left, which puts tremendous pressure on markets to stay high in order to bring in acreage to make sure we'll have enough of these crops.
"Today, because we've not planted cotton worldwide at the same levels we planted it prior to 2006, we've begun to draw down the world's cotton supply. We're going to have about 1.9 million bales carryover this year, which will be the lowest I've ever seen in my career. Some are saying it will be as low as 1.3 million bales. This points to much higher prices."
In the last two years, he says, "We've consumed 21 million bales more than we've produced. We've taken cotton from a record carryover down to a very low carryover. Now, we're in the same boat with the grains. There's no corn carryover, there's no soybean carryover, there's a little bit of wheat carryover, but not much. Cotton doesn't have carryover. Grains have been up 150 percent; now cotton is up 150 percent.
"Analysts are projecting a $4 to $8 price range for corn and $12 to $16 for soybeans. With all this grain demand, cotton has to fight to be grown.
"Will $1.05 grow more cotton? Yes. We'll get more acreage this year. Will we get 2 million additional acres? I'd love to see it, but I don't think it will happen. Even if we should, it still won't lower my price forecast. If we don't get it, my price forecast for 2012 is going to be even higher.
Commodity pipelines near empty
"Even though price ratios are basically back more in line, there are no supplies of these commodities around the world. There's a lot of pressure on Mother Nature to allow us to produce bumper crops. But, the El Nino/La Nino situation is telling us to look for another dry season in Texas. They had a very wet season last year, had a wonderful crop. But, they don't have subsoil moisture now, and they've never had a good crop without it."
What China and India do in terms of its internal production and consumption of cotton and other crops will also be an influence on markets, Cleveland says.
"China is the world's largest cotton producer, the world's largest cotton consumer, the world's largest textile industry. Next door, India is the world's second largest cotton producer, consumer, and textile industry. Those two countries have the largest populations in the world.
"We've always said if we could just get each Chinese consumer to buy one more tee shirt, it would work wonders for cotton demand. Well, now they're buying those tee shirts and a lot more cotton goods, and they're now consuming 50 million bales or more per year."
In the last 15 to 16 months, Cleveland says, China has used its cotton reserves. "They've taken their reserves down to zero. They may increase cotton acreage this year, but their consumption is growing as much or more.
"They not only are the world's largest importer of cotton, they're also the world's largest importers of corn and soybeans, in keeping with their commitment to upgrade their people's diets. When Russia made its commitment in the 1970s to upgrade diets, they were feeding 130 million people. China and India, in upgrading their diets, are feeding 2 billion people and they're using a lot of corn, wheat, and soybeans to do it."
In 2006, Cleveland says, Oil World, the magazine for edible oils, commented, "What we're seeing now is that we're on the brink of a world food crisis."
"Everybody scoffed at that," he says. 'But, we had the lowest per capita carryover of oilseeds that we'd ever had in the world. At the same time, there was wheat crop failure in Australia, rapeseed crop failure in Europe, and with weather problems in the U.S. we saw our cotton carryover become extremely low and higher prices for commodities.
Concern for crop failures
"Crop failures happen all the time. One of the best examples for cotton was in Dawson County, Texas in 1973 or '74. They had the largest cotton production of any county in the U.S., one year, and the following year not a single gin operated in that county because of weather problems with the crop.
"When people talk about potential for a food crisis, that's very difficult for Americans to understand. But the market does grasp it."
The U.S. "has been the big horse pulling the economic engine of the world for years," Cleveland says, "and we still are. But, for the past four years we've seen the developing countries become the big horse pulling the world economic engine.
"China went for nearly 10 consecutive years with a growth rate above 10 percent annually. For the last two years, the U.S growth rate has been only about 1 percent. Now, China is dealing with a tremendous inflation problem; the central bank has raised interest rates five times in the last seven months.
"In the short run, the next year or two, inflation in China can be very good for U.S. exports of food grains, feed grains, and cotton."


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St. Joseph, Missouri
William E. Brownfield
1941 - 2013
William "Bill" Eugene Brownfield, 72, St. Joseph, Missouri passed from this life on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at LaVerna
Village Nursing Home, Savannah, MO. He was born March 27, 1941 in Nodaway County to the late William L. and Alma (Lockhart) Brownfield.
Bill married Anne Goodson on September 8, 1961 in Ravenwood, Missouri. He lived in Stockton, CA for 17 years and worked in the Electrical Business. Bill retired from American Electric Company, St. Joseph, MO after 28 years of service. He loved playing golf, fishing, hunting and his work.
Survivors: wife Anne of the home, two sons and daughter-in-law,
Michael and Kelli Brownfield, Maryville, MO, Steven Brownfield, Oakland, CA; three brothers, Bob Brownfield, Rick Brownfield both of Stockton, CA, Terry Brownfield, Tracy, CA: three sisters, Joyce Icke, Barnard, MO, Becky Brownfield, and Shirley Cloud both of Stockton, CA; two grandchildren, Clarissa and Brandon Brownfield; two step grandchildren, Jordyn Swalley, and Brent Knisley; one step great grandchild, Jack Knisley, and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Brownfield has been cremated with a Graveside Inurnment and Memorial Celebration of Life to be held at 10:00 am Friday, September 27, 2013 in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Ravenwood, Missouri.


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Mike Piazza, arguably the best hitting catcher of all time, has finally concluded that his services as a very expensive designated hitter have passed him by. He's officially retired from baseball and released this statement via his agent:
"After discussing my options with my wife, family and agent, I felt it is time to start a new chapter in my life.It has been an amazing journey."
Indeed. You almost forget just how good Piazza's career stats are: .308 career average, 427 home runs and 1,335 RBIs .
However, Piazza will most likely be remembered for plenty of other things besides those gaudy numbers.
Farewell, you Fu-Machu'd squatting beacon of heterosexuality.
Mike Piazza Retires [Hot Foot Blog]


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Chapel Hill News
1971 'Valentine's Day Murders' remain a mystery
On a cold, rainy night in February 1971, 19-year-old Jesse McBane of Pittsboro picked up his girlfriend, Patricia Mann, and the couple excitedly headed to a Valentine's Dance at Watts Hospital in Durham.
After the dance, McBane, a tall, good-looking student at N.C. State University, and Mann, a 20-year-old petite nursing student at Watts Hospital, walked back to her dormitory, and she signed out noting she would be back by the 1 a.m. curfew.
"She never came back," said Orange County Sheriff's Investigator Tim Horne.
That wasn't like her, and the next morning, Mann's roommates began looking for her. One of them found McBane's locked car parked at a lovers' lane near Hillandale Golf Course.
The girls called the Durham Police Department, but the police weren't enthusiastic about looking for the young couple, according to Horne. After all, they had only been missing a few hours.
The couple's families were notified that morning they were missing, according toMann's cousin, Carolyn Spivey, who grew up next door to her in Sanford.
"I knew immediately," Spivey said. "I just got the sickest feeling in my stomach that something terrible had happened. She was a good girl. She went by the rules."
Then on Feb. 25, a surveyor working in the woods off Howe Street in northwest Durham saw what looked like a mannequin's leg.
When he looked closer, he realized it was the leg of a woman, and she was lying dead next to a young man. The bodies were covered with leaves. Later that day, they were officially identified as Mann and McBane.
Their hands had been tied with thick ropes behind their backs to a tree, and ropes were stretched tight and knotted around their necks. Although still tied to the tree, their upper bodies had slumped over so that they laid side by side next to each other in the woods.
At the medical examiner's office, they discovered McBane and Mann had several strangle marks on their necks, as though the rope had been tightened, then loosened and then tightened again.
"Investigators then and now believe they were tortured," Horne said.
Locally it became known as the Valentine's Day Murder, and it was big news on TV, in newspapers, on the radio and in detective magazines.
Because the bodies were found in Orange County, but their likely kidnapping occurred in Durham, the Orange and Durham county sheriff's offices, the Durham Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation all worked on the case, trying to identify and check out possible suspects.
"There were a few that did not cooperate, that would not take a polygraph, but the vast majority did," Horne said about the suspects. "Some were just formalities because they weren't that great of a suspect in the first place."
The case went cold.
"No one ever really zeroed in on any one of the suspects," Horne said.
Never forgot
Of course, Mann's and McBane's family and friends never forgot. Mann's extended family all lived on the same street in Sanford, plus Carolyn was dating and later married McBane's best friend, David Spivey, so they were tight-knit group.
People constantly called them with rumors and tips or to ask about the case, Carolyn Spivey said. Each time, it would open up the old wounds, and the nightmares would return, she said.
Four years ago, she heard a rumor about a possible suspect.
She contacted Horne, and he and Investigator Dawn Hunter began digging through the old boxes of records and evidence. Their four-year investigation led them through many twists and turns as they rechecked out the original suspects and looked for new ones. After Horne and Hunter amassed as much information as they could, Horne called up the original investigators who were still alive and asked them to come to the sheriff's office.
"I put on a presentation and put on all the evidence I had," Horne said. "There was silence in the room."
Some of information was new to the individual investigators because the different agencies investigating back in the 1970s hadn't always shared their information with each other. If they had, it might have made a difference, he said.
One or two people who were suspects back in the early 1970s still were good suspects, and one of them is still alive. He was affiliated with Watts Hospital at the time of the murders, Horne said.
"He was a suspect and a person of interest back then, and he still is," Horne said.
Horne declined to say how or why the man became a suspect, but when investigators back then asked him to take a lie detector test, he called his lawyer and declined.
During his investigation, Horne again asked the man to take a lie detector test and also to give a DNA sample, and again the man called his lawyer and declined.
Not giving up
Horne hasn't given up. DNA testing wasn't available in the 1970s, but it could be the key to solving the case now.
"Clearly we don't have enough evidence for prosecution and court, but DNA is an ace in this card game, and if it comes back in our favor, it would be very hard for this person of interest ... for his DNA not to be on it," Horne said.
Although Spivey and her family have not received all the answers they wanted, she feels some satisfaction.
She and her family members heard details about the deaths that were hard to hear, plus she always felt guilty that she hadn't asked for the case to be reopened, she said.
"When I finally did, it made me a stronger person," she said. "I did it, and I lived through it. I can handle all the information that I've been given. I feel like Pat is proud of me, and she's proud that I did do this."


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So all we know for sure is that something happened in Gloucester, Mass.
What that something was depends on whom you believe. Last week on its website, Time magazine quoted Gloucester High Principal Dr. Joseph Sullivan as saying that, of 17 girls who became pregnant during the school year, nearly half did so as part of a ''pact'' to have and raise their babies together. Sue Todd, president of a group that runs a day-care at the school, told Time she had heard a similar story from a social worker.
Officials reportedly became suspicious when an unusually high number of girls began showing up at the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Many who tested negative seemed crushed at the news. Those whose pregnancies were confirmed celebrated with high fives.
But on Monday, Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk and school Superintendent Christopher Farmer held a news conference to deny the supposed pact, saying there is no evidence any such agreement was ever made. Sullivan, according to Kirk, was ``foggy in his memory.''
The principal was not at the meeting to answer for his allegedly faulty memory -- Kirk said she was not ''comfortable'' having him there -- and has declined comment about the matter since the Time report, as has Sue Todd.
Frankly, it sounds as if the mayor and the schools chief, faced with embarrassing international attention, are trying to cover their municipal backside by silencing and undermining the principal and the child-care provider; it's hard to believe Kirk and Farmer would know more about what was going on in Joseph Sullivan's school than Joseph Sullivan did.
But the alleged pact is not what is most important here. These facts, after all, are not in dispute: 17 girls got pregnant; at least some of them did so on purpose; this represents a more than fourfold increase over the year before.
The media landscape is changing fast
Our news team is changing too as we work hard to bring you the news that matters most.
Change is coming. And we've got it covered.
The Gloucester story unfolds in the context of troubling recent news about teen sexuality. In March, a federal study reported that one in four American girls between the ages of 14 and 19 -- and nearly half of all African-American girls in that same age range -- are infected with at least one of four sexually transmitted diseases: human papillomavirus, chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis. In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a steep decline in teen sexual activity through the 1990s leveled off between 2001 and 2007. And after years of decline, the teen birth rate rose by 3 percent between 2005 and 2006.
Some will seek to blame this disturbing news on Juno or Jamie Lynn Spears, but the trends predate both. They do not, however, predate the Bush administration's abstinence-only policy, which requires that any groups or states receiving federal funds for pregnancy prevention not discuss contraception and must teach that sex outside marriage will lead to harmful psychological and physical effects. In other words, they cannot talk about sex or help children who do have sex to protect themselves. They can only tell them to say no.
Who can argue against saying no? What parent isn't pro abstinence? But abstinence only? Anyone who thinks a teenager will never do a thing because she has been forbidden has never met a teenager. Common sense -- and a 2007 study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy -- tell us abstinence-only does not work. But since when does President Bush let common sense and fact trump ideology?
Gloucester is an aberration, but it might be an omen, too. And if it is, if these troubling numbers prove the leading edge of a new teen baby boom, we will have to answer many tough questions, but one won't be tough at all.
We already know where it started. We already know who the father is.
--Leonard Pitts Jr.
Copyright 2008 Miami Herald Media Co.


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New jacketing compounds and configurations, coupled with advances in manufacturing methods, open up an even greater array of applications for wire, cords, and multiconductor cables.
New technology beat back the limits of flexible cable over the past year, with the introduction of advanced jacketing compounds. Continuous flex cables now last longer, have greater oil resistance, come in more sizes, and operate in significantly colder temperatures than previous designs. Tinned copper braids in some cables reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI). These and other innovations are expanding the extent of applications of the end equipment itself. We now have more possibilities and fewer limitations in using gantry robots, pick-and-place units, automatic handling equipment, machine tools, conveyor systems, and other equipment that could use continuous-flex cables.
Portable cords and control cables are also pushing into new frontiers of applicability, again thanks to new jacketing compounds. These are seeing the same advancements as flexible cable. Some new products have increased flexibility at all temperatures, better tear and cut resistance, and better tensile strength.
Manufacturers of pre-wired electrical systems have responded to the increasingly automated office with greater capacities in their modular office wiring systems. The new products include design considerations for harmonics and electrical noise. Also, advances in both manufacturing techniques and materials are allowing manufacturers of fire-rated cables to stay ahead of increasingly stringent building codes.
Safe starting following a power loss has long been a partially resolved concern in industry due to technological limitations. Now, a new technology allows truly safe starting after loss of power. Before this year, safe-start cords would not allow a machine to restart automatically upon loss of power. The new technology does this - it also does not reset until the operator deliberately shuts off the equipment power switch. This provides an added measure of safety to parts, equipment, and people. The impetus for this new feature came after an industrial accident following a loss of power. The operator pressed the start button without first clearing the machine of material. Now, the operator follows the normal (safe) shutdown procedure, then restarts the machine.
When installing Category 5 and other high-performance cables, you usually install cable tray, trapeze systems, or conduit. New technology has given us a product developed with significant electrical contractor input - the voice/data cable fastener. The device features an extra wide, flat-base loop with rounded, smooth edges to eliminate "snag" and provides a flat surface that prevents cable stress and data distortion. The product reduces construction time, materials costs, and labor costs over other options. It's definitely worth considering when planning a cable installation.
The bottom line on wiring is what couldn't be done last year, technology has made possible this year. If the product didn't exit last year, manufacturers are either working on it or have developed something to meet your needs. There are many ways to keep up with these changes. One is to carefully comb each issue of EC&M for the latest developments. Another is to ask your supplier for recommendations, rather than using "cookie-cutting" specifications from a previous design. Each year, the world of conductors becomes just a little larger and just a little more capable - use these traits to your benefit.
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These items have appeared over the past year in EC&M's Product News section and received the highest reader response in their category.
Voice, data, communication conductors
A complete line of electronic wire and cable products, featuring voice, data, and communications components, is available. Includes single conductor as well as multiconductor shielded and unshielded hookup wire, communication and instrumentation cable, coaxial cable, and special application cable for audio, communication, and instrumentation applications. The line also includes video accessories, outlet strips, and related devices.
American Insulated Wire
Swimming pool bonding package
This complete swimming pool and spa bonding package meets all requirements of the NEC Sec. 680-22. The bonding package is comprised of compression and mechanical connectors that meet the NEC for installing No. 14 solid/stranded or larger copper conductors. It is designed to meet the needs for terminals tested under grounding and bonding standard UL 467.
Burndy Electrical
Low-voltage busway
The POW-R-WAY III low-voltage busway has a rugged two-piece aluminum housing design that is lightweight and water-resistant. It features standard minimum-sized elbows and is insulated with a Class B epoxy (130 [degrees] C). The option of a torque indicator is also a feature of this design. Has option for 200% neutral, isolated ground bar, housing, and 100% ground.
Power cable
Medium-voltage power cable - both XLP and EPR - in voltages from 5kV to 35kV from this firm's ISO9001 registered plant is available. A completely sealed system is used in making the cable to maximize electrical integrity. Products are UL-listed and meet the latest AEIC and ICEA standards.
American Insulated Wire
Armored cable
Custom armoring is now being offered for optical fiber cables, communications cables, power, fire alarm, or tray cables alone or in any combination, efficiently, and to exacting standards. The steel or aluminum interlocked metallic sheath combines mechanical protection with design flexibility to provide a cost-efficient alternative to cables in conduit.
AFC Cable Systems
Control and tray cables
Manufactured for use in Class 1, Div. 2 hazardous locations, these new control and tray cables are shielded and approved for direct burial. Temperature rated at -25 [degrees] C to +90 [degrees] C dry/+75 [degrees] C wet at 600V. Available in sizes 18 and 16 AWG, rated TFFN and in sizes 14, 12, and 10 AWG, rated VW-1THHN/THWN.
Olympic Wire & Cable
Category Four
Highly flame-resistant cable
The FREP-XL, a new generation of fire retardant 600V multiconductor tray cable, is offered in sizes from 18 AWG through 750kcmil. The heavy-duty thermoset jacket provides FREP-XL with an extra measure of flame resistance. Contains no lead-based materials that would eventually become hazardous waste. Product is UL-approved and listed for direct burial, and is sunlight-resistant and highly moisture-resistant.
BICC Industrial Cable
Plenum speaker cable
The Brilliance plenum speaker cables are highly flexible, 2-conductor open twisted-pair canes featuring high-conductivity ETP copper for high audio performance. They combine high music fidelity and purity. Available in gauges ranging from 18 AWG to 12 AWG.
Belden Wire & Cable
Mining cable
A comprehensive line of mining cables for various applications includes Types W and G flat portable power cable, Type G-GC round portable power cable, Type SHD-GC shovel and dragline cable, UL Types W and G round portable power cable, and UL and ICEA Type MP-GC mine power feeder cable. Cables are OSHA-acceptable and offer resistance to oil, solvents, ozone, and abrasion.
American Insulated Wire
Audio cables
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Mineral-insulated cable
The fire-resistive characteristics of these two-hr fire-resistive mineral-insulated cables make them the ideal choice for critical electrical circuit applications such as fire pump feeders, emergency generator feeders, fireman's elevators, emergency lighting, where fire-resistive wiring needs to comply with NEC Articles 695 and 700-9(c).
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Flat cable
This 16A flat cable installation system consists of a flat cable with five insulated copper wires covered by a protective sheath and an insulation displacement junction box. The system's precise dimensions guarantee the exact position of the protective earth conductor. The boxes can be used for both branching and feeding.
I-beam selection gauge
The YGIB Groundlink I-beam gauge is available as a complete kit or simply as an overlay for existing WireMike gauge owners. The new product selection gauge automatically "calls out" in two places the exact UL-listed Hyground compression grounding connector needed for any steel beam - whether standard or angle-flange. The WireMike gauge is only 4.5-in. long when closed. By centering a magnetic overlay using existing marks and fitting the mic jaws onto the I-beam flange, the steel gauge arrows automatically "read" the required product from the printed overlay.
Burndy Electrical
Rugged power cable
Now being offered is Type MV-90 power cable up to 35kV. Both XLP and EPR cable insulation are available. Both product types are UL-listed, AEIC/ICEA-qualified, meet NEC standards, and are rated for 90 [degrees] C in wet or dry locations.
American Insulated Wire
Exothermic connections
It is now possible to make a cable-to-cable connection using the One-Shot welding process. The system is a disposable ceramic unit packaged with all required materials to make the weld. It is easily ignited with a standard flint ignitor. Will accommodate conductor sizes No. 3, No. 4, or No. 6 solid and No. 4 or No. 6 stranded for making a horizontal, parallel connection.
Erico/Electrical Products Group
Computer room ground clamp
This series of ground clamps is designed for use in signal reference grid applications. The CRGC clamps allow you to interconnect copper wire conductors to form a "low noise" ground grid system. These clamps allow you to form connections at most any angle. Specific uses include fabrication under an existing computer room floor.
Harger Lightning Protection
Plenum cable
This PVC plenum-rated cable line now has 15 new cables for Class 2 power-limited circuit applications. PVC offers flexibility to allow easier installation. The new cables are UL-listed Type CL2P and CSA-certified PCC FT6. They are available in numerous gauge sizes in both multiconductor and multipair constructions. Most cables are available in 500 ft and 1000 ft reels.
Alpha Wire
Fire alarm cable
An expanded line of communication and control cable is available for use in fire detection and security systems. The riser cables are intended for use in a vertical run in a shaft or from floor-to-floor. Plenum cables are intended for use in ducts, plenums, and other space used for environmental air. The cables are UL-listed Types FPLR and FPLP and are offered in a variety of gauge sizes in both shielded and unshielded constructions.
Alpha Wire
Copper-sheathed M. I. cable
Copper-sheathed mineral-insulated cable assemblies are available that provide superior performance in Class I hazardous area applications. These assemblies are completely impervious to the passage of liquids and gases, and their high durability and resistance make them ideal for use in a broad range of applications. Available with two to seven conductors in a variety of current ratings. The 600V cables, with copper sheathing and conductors, are UL-listed and fire-rated for two hours at 1850 [degrees] F.
MI Cable
Data and audio cable
Data and audio cable is suitable for work where crosstalk must be reduced to a minimum, and is constructed of stranded tinned copper conductors and insulated with color-coded polyethylene insulation. The conductors are cabled, along with a tinned copper stranded drain wire, which is laid parallel. The cable features an Alumylar shield and an overall chrome polyvinylchloride jacket. It has a temperature range of -20 [degrees] C to +75 [degrees] C and a voltage rating of 400V.
Dearborn Wire and Cable
Insulated flexible busbar
Flexibar, an insulated, flexible busbar developed as a replacement of conventional cable or rigid busbar, can be used for a variety of low-voltage applications. Product is flexible and maintains its shape after bending. No lugs are required, which greatly reduces installation time; and it can actually reduce the amount of materials and space required when compared with traditional cable or busbar. The UL-recognized and CSA-approved product ranges in width from 9 mm to 100 mm, with standard lengths of 6 ft and 8 ft, and can distribute from 50A to 2500A of power.
Erico/Electrical Products Group
Six-wire industrial lighting system
The new EZ-Flex-VI industrial lighting system is a 6-wire system designed to facilitate the installation of high-intensity discharge lighting fixtures. Utilizes a minimum number of components to satisfy a wide variety of applications. Flexibility allows fixtures to be easily and economically bypassed, moved, or added as needed in the future. Fixtures may be removed without interruption to the lighting circuit. The system is prewired and rated for 20A in 120/208VAC or 277/480 configurations. There are up to six No. 12 copper conductors, rated 600V and 90 [degrees] C or 105 [degrees] C insulation, depending on component.
Dual-Lite/Wiring Products Div.
Modular busbar system
The Bulletin 140 Panel System is a set of modular busbar components that make up the framework of a control panel. The components build on each other in a variety of configurations to provide customers the flexibility to design systems that meet their space and control requirements. Uses 3-phase busbar and modules that accommodate 35 mm DIN rail for mounting motor starters, contactors, overload relays, and other electrical components.
Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation
Health care facility cable
The Green HCF-90 cable is designed with emphasis on visibility. A bright green stripe on the armor ensures proper identification. Provides superior grounding continuity for health care facilities or any application where an isolated or dedicated ground is required. The armor/bond wire combination and separate, green grounding conductor meet the requirements of NEC Sec. 517-13-Patient Care Areas.
AFC Cable Systems
Continuous access conductor
This product, featuring a continuous access slot, provides total flexibility in supplying electrical power to lighting, machinery, computers, etc. The B60 Busway is rated 60A at 120/277V single- or 3-phase; maximum wattage is 7200W per circuit.
Universal Standard Safety Trolley
Low-smoke wires
Solonon wire products use non-halogen jackets and insulation. Lab tests show these wires produce less smoke, peak heat, and carbon monoxide than PVC or Hypalon. An advanced flame-retardant system is designed for enclosed spaces with high concentrations of electrical conductors. Products are available in a variety of wire and cable types.
High power cable
The Armor-X cable keeps out flammable gases, vapors, and moisture with a welded and flexible aluminum sheath that is impervious to oil, chemicals, caustics, and acids. Can be used for Type MC applications and NEC hazardous locations soon to be included in Class I, Div. I. From 600V to 35kV.


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Daly led the Coyotes to a 4-1 record on the week, including a three-game sweep of South Dakota State on Friday and Saturday. In the SDSU series Daly went 6 for 11 with five runs scored and 11 RBIs, including two home runs and seven RBIs in the second game of the series and a 3 for 3 performance with one double and three RBIs in the series finale. She also posted a .538 on-base percentage and a 1.182 slugging percentage against the Jackrabbits. For the week Daly went 7 for 18 (.388) at the plate.
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MANCHESTER United winger Nani ensured the race for the Barclays Premier League title will go down to the wire as Sir Alex Ferguson's side edged past Sunderland.
Hours after Chelsea had established a four-point lead over United with victory at Liverpool, United once again reduced it to just one, courtesy of Nani's 28th-minute strike.
They will now head into next Sunday's final day showdown with Stoke at Old Trafford knowing that effectively only a win can give them a 19th league title, and even that will not be enough if the Blues beat Wigan at home.
Ferguson and his players left the north-east at least having given themselves a chance on an afternoon when they could have made things much more comfortable for themselves with striker Dimitar Berbatov passing up a hat-trick of glorious opportunities.
However, the manager's record of never having lost to a team managed by former United defender Steve Bruce remained intact, and while there is hope, he will not give up on the big prize.
Sunderland signed off their home campaign with a committed display in front of a crowd of 47,641, but on an afternoon when Fabio Capello's representatives were at the Stadium of Light, England hopeful Darren Bent had little opportunity to stake his claim for a seat on the plane to South Africa.
United ran out knowing their title bid had reached the point of no return as a result of Chelsea's 2-0 victory at Anfield, which left them needing to win at the Stadium of Light and at home against Stoke next Sunday to have any chance to overhauling the Blues.
They set about their task with some relish, but against opponents who were never likely to let them have things all their own way.
On a bitterly cold afternoon on Wearside, United created chances from the off, and it took a good fourth-minute save by Craig Gordon from Wayne Rooney, and then Phil Bardsley's block from Ryan Giggs' follow-up, to keep them at bay.
However, only Chelsea and Aston Villa had won at Sunderland this season, and the Black Cats, who were only denied a famous victory at Old Trafford in October by Anton Ferdinand's late own goal, caused problems of their own.
Central defender John Mensah lasted only 18 minutes before his injury problems struck again, but he headed wide from Jordan Henderson's 13th-minute corner, and skipper Lorik Cana was only just off target with his effort from a Steed Malbranque free-kick three minutes later.
Edwin van der Sar had to pull off a fine one-handed save to keep out Malbranque's rasping 24th-minute shot, and the home fans started to believe that a surprise could be on the cards.
However, United got their noses in front four minutes later when, after Giggs and Berbatov had caused problems on the edge of the Sunderland penalty area, the ball was fed out to Nani and he blasted a low shot past the helpless Gordon and into the bottom corner.
Bruce's men were dealt a major blow eight minutes before the break when young midfielder David Meyler was stretchered off with what looked like a nasty knee injury, and their fortunes could have taken a further turn for the worse before the half-time whistle sounded.
Berbatov failed to make the most of good work by Giggs and Rooney deep inside their own half when he allowed himself to be dispossessed by Michael Turner on the edge of the box before he could shot.
The Bulgarian was wasteful once again in injury time when Rooney once again set him up, but with just Gordon to beat, he could not hit the target.
United could, and perhaps should, have had the win wrapped up within seven minutes of the restart.
First Nani was denied his second goal of the game four minutes after the restart when Gordon made a fine save as he burst into the penalty area, and then Berbatov spooned a shot over from point-blank range with the goal at his mercy.
It was simply not the striker's day, and he could not believe his luck when he met Giggs' 56th-minute cross with a firm header just yards out and saw Gordon deflect it over the crossbar.
The home side started to make an impression as the half wore on, but with strikers Bent and Fraizer Campbell seeing little of the ball, central defenders Nemanja Vidic and Johnny Evans were rarely stretched.
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On the Street....Perfect Androgyny , Los Angeles
11 comments:
- Dvette said...
Those eyes!
- August 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM
- Deaf Brown Trash Punk said...
oohhh, a stunning blonde with blue eyes. yeeppp, that's typical L.A
- August 28, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Lee said...
Stunning, Catorialist, you have delivered such deep meaning with this chic beauty found UNDER a car in L.A. What a brilliant setting and how did you illuminate this perfect portrait?
- August 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM
This is the most ridiculously amazing blog ever created. Thank you Catorialist. Thank you.
- August 28, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- makemoremistakes said...
This blog kicks lots of ass. I am laughing outloud, and love you for it. And, Catorialist, you may have changed the way I view fashion forever.
- August 28, 2008 at 10:13 PM
- kt glimmer said...
oh wow! such attention to detail. look at the hint of yellow stripes on the tip of her tail and around her ears!
- August 29, 2008 at 9:03 AM
- alas, a lass! said...
not bad, but s/he would look so much better if s/he SMILED. just because you're a kittenista, you can't be bothered to be friendly anymore?
- August 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Babbling Brooke said...
Blonde from tip to tail at first glance seems a bit trashy, almost hookerish. But this cat wears it with attitude and the collar is expensive and fashionable enough that I sense a bit of irony and humour in the look.
- August 29, 2008 at 7:31 PM
- kacy said...
very stylish cat! haha..
- August 30, 2008 at 12:33 AM
- Evan J said...
I like this cat, it reminds me of a neighbor's cat who watches the house like a dog would.
- October 3, 2008 at 10:16 PM
- liyo said...
those blue eyes are breathtaking! keep up the good work!
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Men's Stainless Steel Necklace featuring: - Large, thick cross pendant - Polished Stainless steel pendant with stainless steel chain.
- Chain is 50 cm long
- Cross 50 mm x 34 mm wide
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