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Anyway, for my week, get ready to see stars. This is a fun row made with strip piecing -- and get this -- no foundation involved!
And my little Meow just loves it! You have instructions for 4 inch stars, 12 inch stars and even giant 16 inch stars. Now on the 16 inchers, you'll have to leave off a row on the horizontal and vertical so that it will fit in the block -- but let me tell you it's SUPER fast! You can finish your row in no time if you just use those. Or make lots of the cutie pie four inch stars to use up loads of scraps.


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u guys are too easy
hahaha, made ya look,
u guys are too easy
is ther a possibilty to delete a member's account ?
hehehe, just fooling with ya
BTW it's Osama not Usama.
damm, i was expecting a comical in game picture of osama in some form of trouble. but no, thats not what i got
That's been done before so it's old stuff already.
Where's my gay, and inane sex??
(This line always gets me in s**t at forums)
It's actually Usama. Look on the FBI most wanted list.
He is captured though!
Devil, that pictures getting lame now.
Thats like the 3rd time you've tried to soak up attention from it.


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Yep, bought the album, listened to it a few times then put it in the "can't stand it" pile. Yes, some of the songs are OK but if I have to skip around a CD to find the one or two songs that I like because the rest make me cringe then it goes in the "can't stand it" pile not in the " play it over and over again" pile. Simon's Hallucinogen albums have been in the "play it a few times a week, love it, never get tired of it" pile since they came out in the 90's, seriously. The last two IM albums haven't earned a spot there. Sorry, but I'm just too picky when it comes to what I consider quality music. Converting Vegetarians, BP Empire, Classical Mushroom and Supervisor get listened too on a regular basis but I just can't do it with the new stuff. I'm not a big fan of vocals in electronic music to start off with and when you throw in some digitally distorted heavy metal guitar with the screaming vocals my old school inner self says "WTF are you listening to Mopho? Make it stop!!!"
Moby is a great example of this in my opinion. His early stuff was awesome especially his "Ambient" album but then he added a cheap distorted guitar and his own vocals or Gwen Stefani's and it just changed the vibe and direction of his music which seems very record label pushed and over commercialized to me. : )


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Successful anti-burglary operation extended
3:12pm Wednesday 16th October 2013 in News By Ian Craig
BURGLARIES falling by more than a third has prompted police in Worcester to extend an operation targeting the crime.
West Mercia Police's Operation Fuchsia has been running since September, during which time burglary in the area has dropped by 37 per cent in comparison with the same period last year.
The operation has devoted extra resources to tackling burglary during a time of year when the crime traditionally increases as a result of the darker evenings, with plain-clothes officers on the city's streets every day tracking down offenders and identifying potential risks.
Other teams in marked cars move around the surrounding area in an effort to deter potential criminals.
Announcing the extension of the operation until the end of October, superintendant Mark Travis, head of policing in south Worcestershire, said he was delighted by the success of the operation and hoped the force would be able to build on it.
"We are going about it with the greatest amount of zeal and throwing all the assets we have at the problem at the same time," he said.
"It's a bit like a Swiss army knife – you've got all the blades available to you at the same time."
Describing the tactic of having officers in the city supported by others further afield as "a ring of steel", he said the force would not rest on its laurels following the encouraging statistics revealed this week. "We are not being complacent," he said.
"Is Worcester a safe place to be? Yes. Do we have to continue to tackle crime? Absolutely. It's about sending the message to criminals that we are out there. The harder we make it for them, the less likely it is they're going to commit crimes."
Detective chief inspector Stacey Williamson said she was concerned many officers while on patrol had found a large number of unoccupied homes and buildings left unlocked, or with windows left open.
"We are doing all we can to have the right people, in the right place, at the right time, but we also need the public to consider their security," she said.
"People often go out leaving their homes insecure. We need the public to help us with this."
Supt Travis said another element of the operation was identifying known or repeat offenders and working with them to stop them committing further crimes.
"We don't have a massive burglary problem in Worcester – this is about prevention," he said.
"It is a crime that has a horrible impact on people and we do focus on it all year round.
"This is about putting a significant amount of extra resources into tackling it during a peak time."
He also said the operation would be reviewed again at the end of the month and could be extended further.
Reporter Ian Craig spent a few hours patrolling Worcestershire with two West Mercia Police officers as part of Operation Fuschsia and found there's more to the initiative than meets the eye.
EVERY little boy secretly wants to have a ride in a police car and – more than two decades later – I finally got to fulfil that dream when I joined West Mercia Police's Detective Constable Leon Westwood and Police Constable Kelle Westwood on patrol with Operation Fuchsia.
Our first destination was the Droitwich area, where we visited a park homes development just outside the town.
Park homes – holiday homes not unlike static mobile homes – are seen as a prime target for burglars as they are frequently left unattended for long stretches of time and many owners are over 50.
Thankfully, all seemed to be well with only a few residents at home and all the other units locked up tight.
Making a stop at a roundabout on the edge of Droitwich as the rush hour traffic went by, DC Westwood explained to me a large part of the operation involved simply driving around the region in a high-visibility car to make residents feel safer and – hopefully – make criminals think twice before committing crimes.
Whenever the officers spotted a vehicle they felt may have been suspicious, PC Westwood called the force's headquarters with the number plate, where it was checked to see if its insurance and MOT were valid, whether it was registered to the West Mercia area and if it was connected to any crimes.
Rental cars and vans are often prime suspects as it is easier for criminals to cover their tracks if they use a vehicle they don't own but those with a large amount of people in are also likely to be checked, as criminals tend to move in groups, as well as Audis which currently seem to be the offender's vehicle of choice.
After a few hours moving around the area between Droitwich and Evesham I was beginning to realise The Wire was not an altogether realistic depiction of the day-to-day life of a police officer.
But then an alert came in over the radio about a black Audi which was thought to have been involved in a drug deal and all of a sudden we were careening along towards Worcester on the A44 at a fair rate of knots with the blue lights flashing.
After a cat-and-mouse game through the outskirts of the city in which I began to feel incredibly queasy we found a number of other police cars had already found and stopped the car in Mill Wood Drive in Warndon Villages outside the entrance to Tesco and were questioning its occupants.
I later discovered that a 24-year-old man from the Worcester area had been arrested on suspicion of intent to supply class B drugs and was bailed the following day.
With my lunch threatening to make a messy re-appearance I decided to call an end to my excursion and the two officers dropped me back at Worcester News towers before speeding off to Fernhill Heath to continue the hunt.
I, for one, am glad they're out there.
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I got no response when pressing OK and ON/Off buttons in order to boot up the "Japanese Service Menu", as it described at the following list in order to flashing ROM from an empty SL-C860.
Have read FAQ:s on CONICS.NET and read discussions on the OESF forum about installing ROM... No one of the greatest hints get me in success!
Believe me, I was very surpriced and confused because the Japanese Menu look to be a litle slightly hardware rudimentary in Cxx0, according to all those manuals I've read. I think there is no other way to flash/update ROM and flash partitions than using the Japanese Menu. The NAND Diagnostic Mode provide no options or functionality in order to flash/upgrade and repartition the internal flash. Without those functionality my Zaurus is useless.
It's very strange that the Japanese Menu doesn't work. I've already maked sure to first press and hold OK button, then press Power while keeping OK button pressed. I also make sure that my battery is not completely empty. It is almost full charged. Nothing happens - Just NAND-limited!
What shall I do to flash/update my Zaurus with a new ROM then?
Please, I am very greateful for all your help and if someone could tell whats going on here! Actually, I need all your expertise to make my Zaurus in a working mode and not in a NAND-limited.
By the way, what does it mean with "PRESET is in state NG" due to a flash checksum? Words fails me! Does this information cover my zaurus against NAND error or damage?
In case of emergency recovery usage I've done every steps that is written in the TRISOFT "STARTUPGUIDE" to push up the Japanese Menu. But it doesn't make me in success. Please, have a look at http://www.trisoft.de/pdf/c750qs.pdf if you have not seen it yet.
I've also make an attempt to boot into the classic Login-prompt just by doing five simple steps due to the Trisoft startupguide. Actually, I do as follow:
Flip the battery switch to "Offen" and pull the battery out wait appr. 1 minute Re-insert the battery Hold "D" + "B" keys pressed and flip the switch back to "Betrieb" Continue holding "D" + "B" pressed and power the Zaurus on
These steps doesn't let me into the embedded system (Linux Embedix) and do emergency recovery from there. Nothing happens and that is very strange too! Regardless of the state, I am sure it must be some way to make recovery or come to rescue, isn't it?
So, if you have a similar problem or experience according to Embedix and Linux for embedded systems you're welcome.


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THE ART WORLD about a Surrealism exhibit at the Morgan Library. "Drawing Surrealism," at the Morgan Library, is rather like a movie. In rhythmic array, a hundred and sixty-five works on paper, by seventy-two artists, impart shocks, laughs, star power, special effects, and intertwined plots. They track the most feverish of modern movements from the roots it shared with Dada, starting in 1915, through its official founding, with a manifesto by André Breton, in 1924, to its fecund decay, which was well along by the show's cutoff year of 1950. The artists range from masters incidentally associated with the group—Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró—through standbys like Yves Tanguy and René Magritte, to inspired amateurs, such as the writer Georges Bataille. The cumulative energy is terrific. The show was organized by Leslie Jones, of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it opened, last fall, and the Morgan's Isabelle Dervaux. Guillaume Apollinaire coined the word "surrealism" in 1917. The doctrine found early visual expression in work by the artist André Masson, who met Breton in 1924. The best and worst of Surrealist art join hands, for the writer, in the case of Max Ernst, who, with fourteen works, is the most represented artist in the show. Surrealism was more a churning eddy than a forward stream in the course of modernism. Its most radical effects occurred at the margins, nourishing the sensibilities of independent creators.
Peter Schjeldahl, The Art World, "Dream Acts," The New Yorker, February 11, 2013, p. 112
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Hello, there, blog friends! It's time for another celebration of all things distressed, shamble-ized and awesomely Holtzian! This week, we're heading over the the Ranger Ink site, where Tim has a fantastic video tutorial just waiting for you...
This is a classic Tim technique, and rightly so. It's simple, quick, and produces such cool results. With the myriad of ink and Perfect Pearls combos to be played with, the results are always fun and fresh!
Being a Halloween nut, I took one last opportunity this year to celebrate, but you can go with any theme you wish.
To play along at home, create your own work of art using the Perfect Distress technique, upload it to your own blog or online, public photo album, then add it to this post using the InLinkz link below. Please remember to include a link to this week's inspiration video in your post or photo description.
Don't forget to share your creation at the All Things Tim group, too! Lovely List Mom, Gloria, has a special photo album just for your Grungy Monday masterpieces!
Oh, wait! I almost forgot the prize!
As you might know, Tim and Mario sometimes offer limited-edition buttons at special events. During the cruise this year, Mario had a few sets of these very cool, very rare buttons with some of Tim's "signature" sentiments. I got one for me (of course!) and bought a second one to give away, which Tim was gracious enough to autograph. One of this week's participants is going to be sent this set of buttons! I'll announce the winner, who will be chosen by random number generator, in next week's GM post.
Okay, now go have yourselves a great week! Can't wait to see what you create.


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They sit on corners of Hollywood's main thoroughfares, stocked with the necessities: milk, diapers and late-night snacks.
And while acknowledging convenience stores can be a "life-line,'' Hollywood's city leaders say too many bring neighborhoods down.
On Wednesday, they voted to approve a new law limiting how many can open within city limits, and what the stores would have to do before opening.
"I think this is a classic case of early intervention before this spins out of control," said Mayor Peter Bober. "A lot of these places do not take care of their properties at all."
The convenience store law was one of five zoning changes which received preliminary approval at Wednesday's commission meeting. The commission also:
• Paved the way for a new Goodwill Superstore at 2420 N. Dixie Hwy.
• Approved for a new McDonald's to be built at 2851 Sheridan St.
• Eased up on signage requirements for some businesses along Sheridan Street.
• Made it easier for planned development projects in the beach and downtown districts.
All of the zoning items will have to be given final approval at the commission's first meeting in January.
"It's a great buffet," Jaye Epstein, director of planning and development, said of the zoning approvals.
The new zoning rule means convenience stores need to be 2,500 feet from each other and will require new stores to have entrances facing the main street, clear windows and not allow products to be sold outside.
Andria Wingett, the assistant director of planning and development services, said Hollywood has 84 convenience stores — which include gas pumps and specialty stores — but if the national average based on population were applied, the city would have only 67.
While the new rule does not apply to the city's current convenience stores, commissioners said code enforcement needs to step up.
"The main issue is to clean up what we have," said Commissioner Patricia Asseff. "Don't we start there?"
The idea to regulate convenience stores came from the mayor.
"We should be using our authority up here to try to create neighborhoods that are not going to cater to these types of businesses," Bober said.


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A Campbellsville man is facing 25 criminal charges after Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources officers found several venomous snakes and alligators at his home.
According to a Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife press release, Freddie Stone, 36, of 552 Mt. Carmel Road was charged after the animals were found last Friday at 10 a.m. at his Campbellsville home.
Stone was charged with 15 counts of transporting protected wildlife into Kentucky without a transportation permit and 10 counts of possessing inherently dangerous animals.
A Campbellsville man remains in serious but stable condition at University of Louisville Hospital after being shot in an altercation with Campbellsville Police officers at his home.
According to a Kentucky State Police report, Campbellsville Police received a 911 call about a domestic situation involving weapons at 506 Woodlawn Ave. just after 11:30 Saturday night.
Spring is in the air and the time for planting is approaching.
Johnny Orberson Sr., who works for his son, Johnny Jr., the owner of B&B Landscaping, says the majority of planting should be done between May and June.
However, he said, now is the time to begin planting frost-proof vegetables such as peas, onions, cabbage and cauliflower.
Though the month of April is upon us, Orberson said, it's still a bit early to plant vegetables such as beans, tomatoes and potatoes.
Sztendera Properties is the new owner of the old health department building.
The company submitted the highest of five bids for the property on East First Street.
Members of the Taylor County Board of Health opened the bids at their annual meeting on Thursday at the health department's new location on the North Bypass.
Five bids had been submitted for the property on East First Street and were opened at the meeting. The highest bid was from Roger Sabo on behalf of Sztendera Properties at $289,000. The other four bids were: $190,000, $181,181, $146,000 and $50,000.
The last of six people accused of operating a crime ring to sell cocaine together has been sentenced to five years' probation for her crimes.
Anya Katrina Scott, 30, of 111 Baptist St. in Campbellsville appeared before Taylor Circuit Court Judge Allan Bertram on Tuesday, March 18.
In December, Scott pleaded guilty to facilitation to commit syndication and second-degree selling cocaine. She originally faced charges of criminal syndication and first-degree selling cocaine.
Their soft, furry bodies come in colorful colors and are small enough for tiny hands to tote around everywhere. They offer comfort and security to their little owners as well as teach them computer skills and how to care for others.
Collecting Webkinz is the latest craze for children, much like the baseball cards, Hotwheels and Beanie Babies of the past.
For Easter, Chloe Eastridge said she didn't want candy - just Webkinz.
The 7-year-old has collected 103 of the pets.
"For Christmas, birthdays ... That's all she asks for," says her mother, Jessica Eastridge.
Seniors at Campbellsville and Taylor County high schools won't be celebrating together after graduation this year.
Project Graduation, the annual celebration planned for high school seniors to attend after their graduation ceremony, will be split this year, with Taylor County and Campbellsville schools hosting their own celebrations.
Project Graduation began in 1986 as a way to provide new high school graduates with a drug- and alcohol-free atmosphere to enjoy what could be their last time together before each pursues their life goals.
Taylor County is lucky to have many remarkable women. And the Central Kentucky News-Journal honors just some of those women each May with its Focus on Women special section.
In particular, the News-Journal is searching for a woman worthy of the title "Taylor County Woman of the Year."
In cooperation with several local businesses, the News-Journal will publish the special section on Monday, May 5.
The "Taylor County Woman of the Year" will be chosen from community nominations.
Kathryn London, a high school junior from Boone, N.C., stood atop the roof of a house Monday afternoon on Chestnut Street in Campbellsville. She and others were replacing roof shingles.
Across town, a house on Robin Road is also getting a new roof, and a house on Sycamore Loop is getting a new deck.
Unlike many who choose to spend their spring break sunning at the beach, nearly 100 students and adults from Boone, N.C. are spending their spring break working in Campbellsville.
Why? London said it's simple.
"Because we get to help people."
A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with drug crimes after he ran from police officers at Lucky Vista Motel.
According to a report filed by Taylor County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Allen Newton, DeWayne "Blue" Smith, 47, of 608 Birdwood was arrested at about 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Taylor County Sheriff's deputies were responding to a tip that Smith was staying at Lucky Vista Motel.
The report states deputies were attempting to serve bench and parole violation warrants on Smith.
Just before their arrival, Smith fled on foot across a field behind the motel.


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Phil arranged the interview with the aging physician, for whom the Heimlich Maneuver is named. However, producer Pat Walters had to promise to exclude the voice of Phil's estranged younger brother, Peter, from any subsequent broadcast.
Peter is a scathing critic of their father's therapeutic claims for the Maneuver and more recent medical experiments.
Phil told Curmudgeon that he feared Walters would ask their father about the troubled family relationships. "Like any son, I'm somewhat protective of him," Phil said. "He's 93 . . . We don't let just anybody come up and interview him."
Peter told Curmudgeon that he was unaware of this bargain when he cooperated with Walters for the Radiolab story.
I have no trouble with Phil's setting conditions for arranging the interview. My beef is with Radiolab. It could have refused. Similarly, I'm not going into Heimlich's therapeutic theories and claims; I'm writing about Radiolab's handling of the story.
I'm troubled by Radiolab's willingness to silence an important critic and a source of its information in exchange for access to the elder Heimlich. Further, if Walters failed to tell Peter about his deal with Phil, that's unethical, especially since Walters told Peter, "I want you to speak for yourself."
Peter elaborated in a recent email to Curmudgeon: "I was first approached by Radiolab last August when they asked to interview me for broadcast. I wasn't informed that, five months earlier, they'd cut the censorship deal, so they obtained my interview under false pretenses. Further, in the following months, Radiolab producer Pat Walters took up hours of my time, encouraging me to provide him with information and documents. I only learned about the censorship deal a couple weeks ago, when the program disclosed it on their website. If I'd known that Radiolab was this underhanded, I wouldn't have given them a minute of my time -- and I'd encourage other sources to keep their distance."
Over the years, Peter has dealt with lots of reporters. I asked, "Have you encountered this kind of deal before?"
Peter responded, "I've never heard of a deal like this . . . and how many other Radiolab stories have included deals like this?"
Radiolab's website includes a link to the 25-minute program, including the interview with Heimlich. Radiolab's website text says:
"In the 1970s, choking became national news: thousands were choking to death, leading to more accidental deaths than guns. Nobody knew what to do. Until a man named Henry Heimlich came along with a big idea. Since then, thousands and thousands — maybe even millions — have been rescued by the Heimlich maneuver. Yet the story of the man who invented it may not have such a happy ending.
"Producer Pat Walters wouldn't be here without the Heimlich maneuver — it saved his life when he was just 11 years old. And one day he started wondering - who was Heimlich, anyway? And how did he come up with his choking remedy? Pat had always kinda assumed Heimlich died in the mid-1800s. Not so. The man is very much alive: he's 93 years old, and calls Cincinnati, Ohio, home."
Given the conflict of interest, letting choking survivor Walters do the interview was a mistake. Here are the guts of Radiolab's online Producer's Note:
"We made some minor changes to this story that do not alter the substance.
"(W)e removed the audio of Peter Heimlich, Henry Heimlich's son, from the version now on the site. When we approached Henry's other son Phil to arrange an interview with his father, one of Phil's conditions was that we not air audio of Peter. We thought he'd waived that provision in a subsequent conversation but he contends he did not. So we are honoring the original request."
The version available online begins with a light-hearted exchange among Radiolab personalities in their WNYC studio of New York Public Radio. The conversation between Walters and Henry Heimlich at Heimlich's home maintains that chummy tone.
Then Walters shifts to controversies over Heimlich's Maneuver to resuscitate drowning victims and other medical theories. Walters also interviews experts who disagree with Heimlich. When Walters lets Heimlich speak for himself, the physician accuses critics of jealousy and self-interest.
Walters lets the American Red Cross explain why it (quietly) abandoned decades of support for the Maneuver as the first response to choking and returned common backslaps.
"Nonsense," Heimlich responded.
The Red Cross also abandoned Heimlich's name for its maneuver. Now, it's "abdominal thrusts." Heimlich says abdominal thrusts are not the same as his Maneuver and he's offended by the whole affair.
Peter — who provided emails from which I worked — continues to press Radiolab on its decision to erase his voice from its broadcast. Its latest response refers him to the program's original online statements.
• Stunning, avoidable reporting mistakes followed the Boston Marathon bombing. They began when the New York Post said a Saudi man was hospitalized, under guard and might be a bomber. Days later, as the hunt ended, CNN said the captured younger suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was driven away by police. CNN said Tsarnaev was not wounded or his wounds were so slight that no ambulance was required. Wrong. He left in an ambulance; his wounds were so serious that it was unclear when he would speak to interrogators or appear in court.
• Was there a gun battle after a Watertown resident saw the wounded man in his boat and called police? Some media say no gun was found or the 19-year-old didn't shoot.
• Speaking of mistakes, Businessinsider.com described another blunder when reporters didn't name sources or verify leaks. "According to a source at CNN, the network was the first to report that a suspect had been identified. Anchor John King sent in a report around 1 p.m. that a source 'briefed' on the investigation had told King a positive identification had been made. CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist approved that report, according to the source.
"According to the source, who was reviewing internal email logs, Fran Townsend was the first at the network to say that an arrest had been made. 'As I think everyone knows, we really fucked up. No way around it,' the source said.
"The source said that the network's email network went quiet for a 15-minute period shortly after the retraction — 'so people [were] either being more cautious or getting yelled at.'
"Townsend's report came around the same time as other outlets, including the Associated Press and the Boston Globe, also reported an arrest, so it is not clear whether CNN was the first to make the mistake . . . Wednesday's false arrest reports also drew a scathing rebuke from the FBI, which urged the press 'to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting'."
This is shabby journalism. CNN went with a report attributed to someone who had been briefed by someone who knew something. No names. No identifiable links to investigation. Simply assertions. We could have waited until CNN verified or debunked the report but editors fear that hesitation can drive viewers to other, less scrupulous sources. At least Businessinsider.com appeared accurate in its use of its unnamed CNN sources.
• Social media — better called anti-social media in the aftermath of the marathon bombings - spread so much misinformation and falsely accused so many young men that the FBI had to release images of its suspects: the Tsarnaev brothers. It was the only way to protect wrongly accused men from vigilante justice, even though the suspects might be following the chase on their cellphones.
• London's Daily Mail reported some inadvertent humor among the errors:
Boston's Fox 4 scrolled across the bottom of the screen that the suspect sought in Watertown was "19-year-old Zooey Deschanel." Alerted to her new and unwanted celebrity, Uproxx.com said, the 33-year-old star of the Fox sitcom, New Girl, tweeted, "Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!"
Gawker.com said NBC anchor Brian Williams cut to New England Cable News for an update on the Watertown chase and listeners heard an unnamed reporter, "Oh, you're not listening? Well, I don't know shit."
• It's no surprise that Rupert Murdoch's New York Post was unmatched for sheer bloodymindedness. Here's the HuffingtonPost.com summary:
The Post said 12 people had died, when only three had; it said a Saudi man was a "suspect" in "custody" when he wasn't; and it splashed pictures of two young "BAG MEN" on its front page even though it did not know whether they were suspects. They were innocent. One was 17 years old; he told the Associated Press that he was "scared to go outside." And that doesn't include Post doctoring the photo of an injured spectator to hide her leg wound.
Rather than apologize, Murdoch blamed others outside the Post.
• Murdoch's Post wasn't alone in falsely accusing men of being bombers. The LA Times said "Reddit is apologizing for its role in fueling the social media witch hunts for the Boston bombings suspects. The social news website . . . became a place for amateur sleuths to gather and share their conspiracy theories and other ideas on who may have committed the crimes. The online witch hunts ended up dragging in several innocent people, including Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student who went missing last month (and has since been found dead).
"After viewing the FBI's photos of the suspects Thursday, Redditors became convinced that Tripathi was one of the bombers, with countless posts gleefully pointing out the physical similarities between Tripathi and Suspect No. 2, who ended up being 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The growing wave of suspicion surrounding Tripathi led his family to release a statement the next day saying they knew 'unequivocally' that their son was not involved.
"On Monday, Reddit General Manager Erik Martin posted a lengthy apology on the site, saying the crisis 'showed the best and worst of Reddit's potential.' He said the company, as well as several Reddit users and moderators, had apologized privately to Tripathi's family and wanted 'to take this opportunity to apologize publicly for the pain they have had to endure. We all need to look at what happened and make sure that in the future we do everything we can to help and not hinder crisis situations,' the post said. 'Some of the activity on Reddit fueled online witch hunts and dangerous speculation which spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties. The Reddit staff and the millions of people on Reddit around the world deeply regret that this happened'."
Reddit said it does not allow personal information on the site in order to protect innocent people from being incorrectly identified and "disrupting or ruining their lives," according to the LA Times. "We hoped that the crowdsourced search for new information would not spark exactly this type of witch hunt. We were wrong," Reddit's Martin continued. "The search for the bombers bore less resemblance to the types of vindictive Internet witch hunts our no-personal-information rule was originally written for, but the outcome was no different."
The LA Times added valuable context to what followed the bombings: they "were the first major terrorist attack on American soil in the age of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. But the watershed moment for social media quickly spiraled out of control as legions of Web sleuths cast suspicion on the innocent, shared bad tips and heightened the sense of panic and paranoia." The LA Times added that Boston police asked "overeager" Twitter users to limit what they posted because that overly detailed tweets could compromise officers' position and safety.
• Detroit Free Press editors published a detailed online illustration of how to make a pressure cooker bomb, like that reportedly used by the Boston bombers. When their brain fart passed, they took down the instructions and images. Of course, now, anyone can turn to Jimromenesko.com screen shot of the Detroit Free Press illustration . . .
• Newcomers to the Tri-State puzzle over the lifelong identification with high/prep school. When a Cincinnatian was involved in the emergency surgical response to the Boston Marathon bombings, the Enquirer noted he went to St. X. Only later did Our Sole Surviving Daily tell us he was graduated from UC's medical school before going off to Boston for his surgical residency.
The National Organization for Women's Cincinnati chapter is backing the local Democratic Party chairman's request for an investigation into remarks allegedly made against State Rep. Denise Driehaus (D-Price Hill) by her Republican opponent.
Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairman Tim Burke has said GOP candidate Mike Robison has campaigned on Cincinnati's West Side by stating that Driehaus asked the Board of Elections to change her name on the ballot to that of her husband's, but was denied. In reality, Driehaus -- sister of Congressman Steve Driehaus -- never made such a request. Knowingly disseminating false information against a candidate violates Ohio election laws, Burke said.
• Critical thinking was in short supply at the Senate Judiciary Hearing where gun control foes testified. It's sort of like using a faux quote by Hitler to prove gun registration leads to confiscation, which leads to socialism or worse. Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum told senators that "guns make women safer" and a ban on assault-style weapons with high-capacity magazines would endanger women.
To illustrate her case, Trotter cited 18-year-old Sarah McKinley's successful defense against an armed intruder near Blanchard, Okla. Police there told CityBeat that she killed him with a 12-gauge pump shotgun, a classic hunting weapon owned by millions of Americans. That was a good choice for McKinley but an unfortunate example for Trotter; no one is suggesting that shotguns be included in proposed gun controls.
Then, as if to prove that fewer Americans are hunting or serving in the military and know what they're talking about (also see below), MSNBC mistakenly said she used a rifle. ABC News was no smarter: It had her reenact the shooting with a double-barreled shotgun.
McKinley's single-barrel pump shotgun was taken as evidence in the homicide, probably to be returned when her claim of self-defense is affirmed. Meanwhile, Guns Save Lives, a nonprofit, sent her a similar, replacement shotgun.
Not only does Oklahoma allow lethal force for self-defense inside a person's home, but McKinley asked the 911 operator what she could do to protect herself and her child. The dead intruder's companion reportedly told police the intruders were after prescription painkillers that they assumed McKinley's husband left when he died a week earlier from cancer.
• A secret shooter? After Obama's comments to the New Republic about having fired a gun, the White House released a photo of the president on the Camp David retreat skeet range. Wearing protective glasses and ear protection, he's firing a shotgun at the 4-5/16 inch flying clay discs (pigeons) last August. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama told the New Republic. "Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there." However, the AP story accompanying the skeet shooting photo in Sunday's Enquirer mistakenly says he's firing a rifle. I'm not sure whether Obama used an over-and-under shotgun, but it certainly didn't look like a rifle. That inexplicable clanger escaped AP and Enquirer editing despite our unprecedented national debate over certain types of firearms. NRA pooh-poohed Obama's comments and photo, saying it changes nothing in NRA opposition to greater gun control.
• John Kerry drew scorn in 2004 after he was photographed with Ted Strickland and others with just-shot geese in an eastern Ohio cornfield. Possibly recalling that ill-conceived effort to bond with hunters, Obama didn't release his skeet shooting photo before the election last year. Kerry's goose hunting was ridiculed as a dumb photo op, especially because Kerry borrowed the farmer's hunting outfit and double-barreled shotgun for the day. Whether Kerry bagged any additional rural voters was unclear; Bush won Ohio.
• I began contributing to the new National Catholic Reporter in the mid-'60s when I started covering religion at the Minneapolis Star. I freelanced for NCR when I had that same assignment at the Enquirer. A privately owned, independent weekly based in Kansas City, Mo., NCR was a voice of Roman Catholics who embraced the spirit as well as the documents of the Second Vatican Council.
Traditional churchmen had little reason to love NCR. It was a pain in the ass and collection basket. It reported the flight of clergy and nuns, often into marriage. Jason Berry pioneered reporting of priestly child abuse. Penny Lernoux covered Latin American death squads and links between murderous reactionaries and the church. Murders of nuns, priests and bishops who embraced liberation theology and the church's "preferential option for the poor" received extensive, probing coverage.
The bishop of Kansas City and a former diocesan editor, Robert W. Finn, recently joined predecessors' fruitless condemnations of NCR's journalism. In a letter to the diocese praising official church media, Finn was "sorry to say, my attention has been drawn once again to the National Catholic Reporter. … In the last months I have been deluged with emails and other correspondence from Catholics concerned about the editorial stances of the Reporter: officially condemning Church teaching on the ordination of women, insistent undermining of Church teaching on artificial contraception and sexual morality in general, lionizing dissident theologies while rejecting established Magisterial (official) teaching, and a litany of other issues.
"My predecessor bishops have taken different approaches to the challenge. Bishop Charles Helmsing in October of 1968 issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name 'Catholic' from their title — to no avail. From my perspective, NCR's positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.
"When early in my tenure I requested that the paper submit their bona fides as a Catholic media outlet in accord with the expectations of Church law, they declined to participate indicating that they considered themselves an 'independent newspaper which commented on "things Catholic." ' At other times, correspondence has seemed to reach a dead end.
"In light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.' While I remain open to substantive and respectful discussion with the legitimate representatives of NCR, I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level. For this we pray: St. Francis DeSales (patron of journalists), intercede for us."
• Rarely have I seen such a neat dismissal of creationism and defense of evolution as the following by 19th century skeptic Robert Ingersoll. It's quoted in a review of The Great Agnostic, a biography of Ingersoll, in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard:
"I would rather belong to that race that commenced a skull-less vertebrate and produced Shakespeare, a race that has before it an infinite future, with an angel of progress leaning from the far horizon, beckoning men forward, upward, and onward forever — I had rather belong to such a race … than to have sprung from a perfect pair upon which the Lord has lost money every moment from that day to this."
• The Weekly Standard also published "A teacher's Plea: The GOP shouldn't write off educators." Eloquent Colleen Hyland speaks beyond partisanship for her vocation and colleagues in her Jan. 21 essay. Among other things, she hopes to shake Republican/conservative ideologues out of their animus toward public school teachers and their unions. Among her points: Hhateful generalizations about teachers and their desire for a living wage also degrades women.
• I didn't know Kevin Ash and I'm not a rider but I read his motorcycle reviews in London's Daily Telegraph for years. Details of his death in South Africa are unclear, but he died during the media show testing the new BMW R1200GS motorcycle. His informed, passionate writing was a delight for itself, even if I never thought to get on a two-wheeler again. When I was what the Brits' call a "motoring correspondent," my interest was cars, whether with three or four wheels. There were a lot of us writing about cars and motor racing/rallying in Europe and Britain in the 1960s; postwar Europeans were getting into cars for the first time in most families' lives. We were read whether it was the test drive of an exquisite new Zagato OSCA coupe (built by the original Maserati brothers) or a boring Opel sedan. But getting killed during a test ride? Since most of us had some inkling of what we were doing astride a motorcycle or behind the wheel, that would have been very bad luck.
• Time Magazine's world.time.com website posted this howler. The original Time story purported to look at Oxford and Cambridge roles in Britain's social mobility. Appended to the online story, Time's correction has a lawyerly tone. Here it is at length and verbatim:
"This article has been changed. An earlier version stated that Oxford University accepted 'only one black Caribbean student' in 2009, when in fact the university accepted one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity when applying to Oxford.
"The article has also been amended to reflect the context for comments made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the number of black students at Oxford. It has also been changed to reflect the fact that in 2009 Oxford 'held' rather than 'targeted' 21 percent of its outreach events at private schools, and that it draws the majority of its non-private students from public schools with above average levels of attainment, rather than 'elite public schools.'
"An amendment was made to indicate that Office for Fair Access director Les Ebdon has not imposed but intends to negotiate targets with universities. It has been corrected to indicate that every university-educated Prime Minister save Gordon Brown has attended Oxford or Cambridge since 1937, rather than throughout history. The proportion of Oxbridge graduates in David Cameron's cabinet has been updated — following the Prime Minister's September reshuffle, the percentage rose from almost 40 percent to two-thirds. Percentages on leading Oxbridge graduates have been updated to reflect the latest figures.
"The article erred in stating that private school students have 'dominated' Oxbridge for 'centuries.' In the 1970s, according to Cambridge, admissions of state school students ranged from 62 percent to 68 percent, sinking down to around 50 percent in the 1980s. The article has been amended to clarify that although only a small percentage of British students are privately educated, they make up one-third of the students with the requisite qualifications to apply to Oxbridge.
"The article erred in stating that Oxford and Cambridge 'missed government admission targets' for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Rather, the universities scored below 'benchmarks' for admission of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds which are calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body. The article was amended to clarify the point that Cambridge continues to run Sutton Trust summer schools.
"The article mistakenly suggested that the current U.K. government had launched an 'initiative to reform Oxbridge.' There was no official initiative, but rather a marked push by the government to encourage change. The article referred to Cambridge and Oxford's efforts 'in the past two years' to seek out underprivileged students. In fact, their commitment is far more long-standing — programs to reach out to underprivileged students have been operating at the two universities since at least the mid-1990s.
"The article erred in suggesting that Cambridge had protested state school targets, and in stating that it had 'agreed to' ambitious targets, rather than setting the targets themselves that were then approved by the Office of Fair Access. The article has been amended to clarify that there is debate over whether the 'school effect', whereby state school students outperform private school students at university, applies to those at the highest levels of achievement, from which Oxford and Cambridge recruit.
"The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge. The article has amended the phrase 'Oxford and Cambridge's myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,' to more fairly reflect the universities' approach."
• Until I read the Time correction above, I'd forgotten one in which I was involved. A young reporter covered a Saturday national church meeting in suburban Cincinnati at which denominational leaders argued how to respond to homosexuals in the pews and pulpits. This was when such a discussion was courageous, regardless of the views expressed. I edited the story. It was a good, taut story and it ran in a Sunday Enquirer. All hell broke loose. The reporter attributed exactly the opposite views to each person quoted. Instead of a forthright correction, I recall running a new, corrected story plus the apology.
The newly hired top editor at The Enquirer will be making several public appearances in coming weeks in an effort to become acquainted with the community.
Carolyn K. Washburn, the newspaper's editor and vice president, will be speaking at events organized by Northern Kentucky University and the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area, among others.
"In order to continue the highest level of care for our growing patient volume, we have adjusted our office hours. Effective January 2nd, 2013, (sic) hours of operation for Phase II cardiac rehabilitation will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 6:00 AM through 4:00 PM. Hours on Tuesday and Thursday will be 6 AM to 2:30 PM. Thank you for choosing The Christ Hospital Health Network."
That significantly shortens the afternoon/evening hours daily for a "growing patient volume." Didn't anyone read this Orwellian language before it went out over an exec's signature on hospital letterhead? To continue the highest level of care Christ will provide less, especially if patients need outpatient cardio rehab after work?
If outpatient rehab has too few clients, are cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at this aggressively marketed heart hospital urging patients to work out at the Mount Auburn facility? Aren't these docs telling us to quit smoking, lose weight and exercise more?
It's not a question of the quality of the care by therapists and RNs at the outpatient rehab center; if it were, it would be closed.
• The Sunday Enquirer carried a valuable column on Dec. 30 on what Ohio laws passed in 2012 mean. Picked up from the Columbus Dispatch, it's a marvel of brevity and clarity and it proves there still can be substance inside the Sunday Enquirer Local section.
• In the Good Old Days, the Enquirer would fill local pages with "evergreen" stories written before holiday slow news days. If these timeless trivia weren't used, they could be spiked or recycled for future fallow news days. Today, evergreens apparently have been tossed on the editorial pyre while this metropolitan daily's diminished staff is filling its shrunken news hole with staff and reader pet photos.
• God help the Enquirer photographer who brings in a horizontal ("landscape format") photo for page A1. It won't fit. Formulaic layout has ads and promos bannered across the top and bottom, a deep multi-column vertical photo or graphic on the left and a little bit of news beside and beneath that photo or illustration. It seems to be the same every day, regardless of events. It hardly qualifies as design. Cover pages on the Local section fare no better. My guess? The format saves thinking every day about how best to present the news ("content" or "product") for remaining page editors at some central Midwest location.
• The Nation offers evidence-based insights into school shootings from Katherine S. Newman, coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings and dean of arts and sciences at Johns Hopkins.
For starters, teach kids it's right, good and potentially life-saving to tell adults when other children or teenagers talk about killing, shooting, etc. Peers of potential killers are our best early warning system.
Newman's research also rebuts NRA's grandiose goal of an armed "guard" in every school; most schools are unlikely to become killing grounds. She wrote:
"These shootings tend to happen in small towns with no history of background violence rather than in big cities which suffer almost every other kind of brutal attack except this one. There has been only one example of a rampage school shooting in an urban setting since 1970. All the others have taken place in rural towns miles from places like New York or Chicago, or in suburbs in the Western states."
Paducah, Ky., was one of the towns that her team studied after Goth-wannabe Michael Carneal shot five Heath High School classmates: three died, one is paralyzed and another was badly wounded.
Newman's research reflects that of many others in describing Carneal as typical of school shooters. He was a nerdy young white male who couldn't make lasting friendships and never fit in at school or in his football-worshiping community. He was looking for acceptance and "shooting people is drawn straight from the Hollywood playbook that equates masculinity with violence."
Carneal talked a lot about shooting and killing but no one risked being called a snitch by alerting his parents or adults at school.
• What Were They Thinking? Gannett's Journal News in suburban New York went online with the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in two counties in its circulation area. The paper says it will sue to force a third county to provide that information. The paper claims the list and accompanying interactive map showing permit holder's locations are a public service. Malarkey. Horse puckey. Madness. So what if the data come from public records? So do names of men and women who claim to be victims of sex crimes. We don't publish that. So what is a reader supposed to do with the handgun information? Cui bono?
Wingnuts spin wild fantasies about burglaries to obtain handguns from permit holders or burglars hitting homes where no one has a conceal/carry permit. My problem is different: it's hard enough to wrest public documents from dim and self-serving officials. Decisions by the Journal News can't help but undermine remaining public support for investigative/database reporting.
The Enquirer, Louisville Courier Journal and Indianapolis Star also are Gannett papers. I hope the Journal News' perversion of First Amendment assertiveness doesn't become a route to Gannett corporate rings for editors and publishers. (My name will appear if the Enquirer identifies permit holders in its circulation area. I took the class, passed the exam and obtained my permit for a cover story a year after Ohio allowed counties to issue conceal/carry permits.)
• Anger over the Gannett paper's online posting of names and addresses of handgun permit holders (above) quickly morphed into online retaliation. Some critics posted what they said was the home address and photo of Gannett corporate CEO Garcia Martore. Other Gannett execs' home addresses have been posted and bloggers have listed home addresses and contact information for staffers at the Journal News. The paper has hired guards for its Westchester headquarters. If guards aren't active law enforcement officers, they must have handgun permits and could be included in lists published by the paper.
• The daily Brattleboro Reformer bannered this headline across page 1 recently: "Let is snow, let is snow, let is snow." Executive editor Tom D'Errico told romenesko.com that it was a "terrible, terrible typo. The night crew was short-staffed and we had an unusual last-minute early deadline with the storm marching in." Later, he wrote in his blog: "I kept running over the reasons in my mind . . . of how or why a mistake like this can and does happen. But everything just sounded like an excuse. And the truth is: there is no excuse."
• Ailing former President George H.W. Bush had one of those "greatly exaggerated" brushes with eternity recently. (That now-a-cliche expression originated in Mark Twain's response to a reporter who confused him with ailing cousin James Ross Clemens. Snopes.com says Twain actually told the reporter, "The report of my death was an exaggeration" but added "greatly" in a manuscript.)
Back to Bush the Elder. Houston's WBAP-AM blasted an email saying, "The Death of a President: George H. W. Bush." Romenesko and Texas Observer reported that news director Rick Hadley blamed the error on a common practice among news media: "We get our obituaries ready to go for people who aren't doing well." When Bush entered a local hospital's ICU, WBAP prepared an email blast for his death. Hadley said a problem with the email system sent the death message to about a third of the station's subscribers. Thirty minutes later — after callers alerted the station to its misstep — WBAP quickly sent out a corrected email. Hadley said the bulletin was not read on the radio.
WBAP was typical of smart news media: It updates obits of prominent men and women to avoid being unprepared when the inevitable occurs. Unfailingly, that's on deadlines when staff is short and sources are unavailable because of holidays or late/early hours. These advance obits have blanks for timely details: age, cause of death, where the person died and a credible confirmation of death. Then they are filed in ways meant to prevent all-too-common premature release.
That caution didn't prevent Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel from mistakenly publishing Bush's obituary in late December. AP said, "The unfinished obituary appeared on Der Spiegel's website for a few minutes before it was spotted by Internet users and removed. In it, the magazine's New York correspondent described Bush as 'a colorless politician' whose image only improved when it was compared to the later presidency of his son, George W. Bush." A Der Spiegel Twitter feed said, "All newsrooms prepare obituaries for selected figures. The fact that the one for Bush senior went live was a technical mistake. Sorry!"
Years ago at UPI, we put out HOLD FOR RELEASE obituaries of leading figures worldwide. Some of our client media saved the incomplete obits to await news of the death. Others removed mention of death and often published them as space-filling weekend feature stories.
The Associated Press doesn't send out advance obits as a practice but Dan Sewell, AP's correspondent in Cincinnati, noted a different problem: the subject outlives the byline reporter. Last year, New York Times ombuds Margaret Sullivan wrote generally about obits after talking to obit editor Bill McDonald and touched on that problem: "Occasionally, the author of the obituary was already dead by the time the piece ran – Vincent Canby on Bob Hope and Mel Gussow on Elizabeth Taylor, for example. Mr. McDonald said that in most cases when an obit subject outlives the writer, The Times does a new piece. 'But in select cases,' he added, 'we feel the obit is too fine to discard, particularly if it is by a writer who brings a certain authority to it.' The Times assigns a live body to update the obit and, in the case of Mel Gussow, offered a note to the reader acknowledging the status of the author."
• We've all won another battle to hold cops accountable. The American Civil Liberties Union sued to preempt Chicago police who object to an ACLU project on police accountability. ACLU wanted to make sure its employees wouldn't be busted for recording officers' words. The federal appellate court in Chicago said we all share a First Amendment right to record what police say to us. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Chicago police appeal, affirming the lower court ruling. Earlier last year, federal courts said we have a right to photograph police in public. My guess is dimmer, bolder police everywhere will continue to arrest reporters who record their words and others who photograph their actions. That's not futile. The possibility of an arrest record — even knowing the charge will be tossed by a judge or prosecutor — can be intimidating and leave cops free of scrutiny.
• Let Congress obscure methods and goals in naming legislation but reporters should challenge any legislator who talks about "preventing" gun violence.
We can't prevent it. With some nuts among
the 300-plus million living in this country and almost nonexistent mental
health programs, some killers will find and use firearms on other
people. We can't prevent it. That we have hundreds of millions of
firearms makes massacres even likelier. Reporters should press
vote-seeking legislators on how their proposed restrictions will limit
casualties from inevitable firearm violence. That brings us back to the
1994 restriction on high-capacity magazines for semi-automatic weapons.
Hunting weapons and pistols for self-defense don't need or use them.
State lawmakers are slowing down on the puppy-mill bill. They apparently need more time to find common ground between those who wish to protect dogs from abuse and those who think new regulations on cage sizes are just too [expletive] limiting. From The Columbus Dispatch:
"Supporters want to protect dogs from abuse and extinguish Ohio's reputation as having some of the most-lax puppy-mill laws in the nation, while opponents want to stop what they see as overreaching regulations.
'I'm not fed up, but I'm close,' Hite, a Findlay Republican and chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told the panel before the discussion. 'I believe we need to do something. But I want to warn everyone here ... if we can't come to some common ground to a degree, I'm not willing to advance this bill anymore in hearings.'
More than an hour later, the panel discussion ended with a passionate plea from Kellie DeFrischia, president of the Columbus Dog Connection.
'For goodness' sake, we license dump-truck drivers in this state. Shouldn't we be protecting our dogs?' she told the committee."
• I'm grateful to the Enquirer for running a story on Sen. Rand Paul's response to the State of the Union Message. It wasn't on NPR or any other network that I could find. His Washington office did not respond to my question of whether the Kentucky Republican offered his remarks to any broadcasters/cable networks.
• Tens of millions of Americans will become eligible for subsidized medical care under Obama's Affordable Care Act. Who's going to treat them? I haven't seen that in the news. And while reporters are working out that story, ask how the required additional primary care physicians will pay off college and medical school debts on the salaries that will be paid to their specialties.
• And once journalists dig into the supply of physicians to handle Medicaid expansion, I hope they'll ask who's going to staff quality preschool education for every American child. Obama can be aspirational, but we're not talking about minimum wage diaper changers. Early learning centers require trained pre-school educators. And while they're at it, reporters should ask where these new early childhood educators will train and who's going pick up the tab. After all, they'll never repay college loans on day care wages.
• Maybe I missed it in the admiring coverage of our government killing American Islamists abroad with drone rocket attacks: What prevents Obama from killing Americans in this country with drone strikes? None of the news stories or commentaries I've read or heard addressed that point.
There would be no shortage of targets. Wouldn't the sheriff have loved a drone-launched missile to kill Christopher Dorner, the rogue ex-LAPD cop? That might have spared the deputy whom Dorner killed during the flaming finale in the San Bernardino mountains. And what prevents our increasingly militarized police from using their own armed drones?
Imagine what authorities could have done with armed drones during earlier, infamous encounters:
A missile fired at armed members of the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, S.D., could have avenged inept, vain and foolish George Armstrong Custer and FBI agents killed in the 1973 siege.
No feds would have died if a drone-launched missile incinerated Randy Weaver's family with during its deadly 1992 confrontation with feds at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect were incinerated by the feds' 1993 armored assault in Texas. That would have been a perfect photo op for a domestic drone attack.
• Sometimes, "national security" is the rationale for requested or commanded self-censorship, even when secrets aren't secret.
For instance, British editors held stories about Prince Harry until he returned the first time from Afghanistan. However, an Australian women's magazine reported he was in combat. The non-secret was a secret because no one paid attention.
More recently, the new U.S. drone base in Saudi Arabia was supposed to be a secret. Obama officials asked major news media to hold the story and they agreed. National security, you know.
But it wasn't a secret. Washington Post blogger Erik Wemple said Fox News already had reported U.S. plans to build the facility in Sept. 2011. Three months before that, the Times of London reported construction of the Saudi drone base.
When the New York Times broke the agreement and reported the Saudi drone base, everyone jumped on the story. Now, the Times, the Post and AP are trying to explain why they kept the non-secret from us.
• Gone are the days when senior Israeli government officials could call in top editors and broadcasters and tell them what they could not report. Last week, a tsunami of technology overwhelmed official Israeli efforts to censor the story of Prisoner X. Israeli journalists were not to report his existence or mention the censorship order. National security, you know. However, an Australian network named an Aussie as Prisoner X and said he reportedly committed suicide three years ago in an Israeli prison. Social media and the online world took it from there: "Aussie recruited by Israeli spy agency dies in Israeli prison." Israel dropped efforts to censor the Prisoner X story and is issuing official statements about the case.
• San Bernardino's sheriff asked journalists to quit tweeting from the final gunfight with former LAPD cop Christopher Dorner. Bizarre. If authorities feared Dorner would gain tactical information, they misread his situation: Dorner was surrounded in a mountain cabin, tear gas was being lobbed in and men outside were trying to shoot him. He probably was too busy to read tweets. Moreover, only one reporter was close enough to tweet anything remotely useful to anyone. Most reporters initially or finally ignored the sheriff.
The tweet issue first arose during the 2008 Muslim terrorist attack on Mumbai when invaded the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Some authorities reportedly feared accomplices outside were reading news media tweets and forwarding tactical information about police and army movements to gunmen inside. I don't remember if anyone asked reporters to quit tweeting.
• A new poll says Fox hit an alltime low for the four years Public Policy Polling has tracked trust/distrust among TV networks: 41 percent trust Fox, 46 percent do not. The poll didn't find anything for other networks to brag about. Only PBS had more "trust" than "distrust" among viewers: 52 percent trust, 29 percent don't trust. The poll questioned 800 voters by telephone from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.
• Garry Wills' new book, Why Priests, sets out to debunk Catholicism's dearest dogmas and doctrines concerning priests, bishops and the papacy. NPR's Diane Rehm gave him an hour last week to say why Catholic ordained clergy are an unnecessary accretion. Then she asked an outgunned parish priest from the Washington, D.C. area for a rebuttal. If she really wanted a lively, informed argument, there is no shortage of priest-scholars who could have matched Wills' credentials and talents as an historian. It was unfair and cringe-worthy.
• It's touchy when an unpleasantry is brought up in an obit: a long forgiven conviction, a "love child," whatever. More often, predictably awkward moments are omitted in the spirit of de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Here's HuffingtonPost on a full-blown omission in the recent obit on former New York mayor and mensch Ed Koch:
"The New York Times revised its Friday obituary . . . after several observers noticed that it lacked any mention of his controversial record on AIDS. The paper's obituary, written by longtime staffer Robert D. MacFadden, weighed in at 5,500 words. Yet, in the first version of the piece, AIDS was mentioned exactly once, in a passing reference to 'the scandals and the scourges of crack cocaine, homelessness and AIDS.' The Times also prepared a 22-minute video on Koch's life that did not mention AIDS. This struck many as odd; after all, Koch presided over the earliest years of AIDS, and spent many years being targeted by gay activists who thought he was not doing nearly enough to stop the spread of the disease. Legendary writer and activist Larry Kramer called Koch 'a murderer of his own people' because the mayor was widely known as a closeted gay man."
• New York's Ed Koch admired Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's recorded last words before Muslim terrorists beheaded him. Koch had Pearl's affirmation of faith engraved on his own tombstone in Manhattan's Trinity Church graveyard: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish."
• A former student reporter rarely rates an obit in the national media, but Annette Buchanan wasn't ordinary. In the mid-1960s, she refused a court order to name sources for her story about student marijuana use on the University of Oregon campus. Her story ran in the Oregon Daily Emerald, the campus paper. No shield law protected her promise of confidentiality. The Emerald said she was fined the maximum $300 and the state supreme court affirmed her contempt of court conviction. That led to the creation of Oregon's shield law for journalists. She died recently.
• An unresolved First Amendment issue is whether bloggers can be protected by state shield laws that allow journalists to keep sources secret. The latest case is from New Jersey. Poynter.com said blogger Tina Renna refused to identify government officials whom she said misused county generators after Hurricane Sandy. Union County prosecutors demanded the 16 names, saying Renna wasn't a journalist protected by New Jersey's shield law because she's been involved in politics, her blog is biased and she's often critical of county government.
The Newark Star-Ledger took her side. It said shield law protection "shouldn't hinge on whether someone is a professional, nonpartisan or even reliable journalist. It's a functional test: Does Renna gather information that's in the public interest and publish it? Yes." Renna "can be a little wild, she's not the same as a professional reporter and she drives local officials crazy. But part of democracy is putting up with Tina Renna." A court will probe whether Renna is a journalist as defined by the state shield law; that is, whether bloggers can be included by analogy under protected electronic news media.
• Few ledes — introductory sentences in news stories — are as lame as those saying the subject "doesn't look" like some stereotype. For years, it usually referred to a woman in an unconventional (read men's) occupation or pastime. "She didn't look like a steelworker . . . " or, "You wouldn't think a tiny blonde bagged a deadly wild boar with a huge .44 magnum revolver." Male subjects aren't immune, as in this lede from a recent Washington Post story: "Farmer Hugh Bowman hardly looks the part of a revolutionary who stands in the way of promising new biotech discoveries and threatens Monsanto's pursuit of new products . . . "
What do revolutionaries look like? Lenin was pictured in suit and tie. Gandhi wore a white, draped sari or dhoti, Mandela and fellow ANC rebels often wore suits and ties. Young 1960s American and French student rebels never wore suits and ties and needed haircuts. Today's young North African activists dress the same for class or a demonstration.
"Doesn't look like" wouldn't even fit an androgynous male model in the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show. He'd be there because he looks like a classic, young, leggy "angel."
• Have you noticed how hurricanes, floods, blizzards and tornadoes are morphing from evidence of climate change into photo ops? News media see them as so common that little reporting is required beyond images and stories of hardship: shoppers hoarding sliced white bread, downed trees and shattered homes, marooned airline passengers and days without power. Maybe there's the throwaway quote from some climatologist about change affecting weather, but for the most part, that's it. I'm betting this deliberate ignorance is a Republican Party plot to show that increasingly frequent, dangerous weather reflects the Intelligent Design that gave us dino-riding cavemen a few thousand years ago.
• The Enquirer devoted Page 1 to a dramatic OMG! graphic and story suggesting Cincinnati was terrible because it had no black candidate for mayor. An accompanying list of movers and shakers had few blacks. The presentation suggested the all-white mayoral contest meant amiss in a city where whites are the largest minority. However, whites and blacks told reporters that leadership rather than color was foremost among attributes they sought in a mayor. Moreover, with so many African Americans in visible leadership roles in the city, having a black mayor succeed a black mayor was less of an issue than the paper suggested.


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Customer service online is all important, and businesses should be making it easy for customers to contact them to resolve any issues.
However, some sites seem determined to prevent, or least make it difficult for you to contact them. Whether through missing or hard to find contact details, charging for customer service calls, or taking weeks to reply to emails.
Perhaps these firms think they are saving money or easing pressure on customer service staff by doing this, but I fear they are just annoying the hell out of their customers, which is rarely a good idea.
Read more...
by Graham Charlton 25 March 2013 12:53pm 31 comments
Last night the BBC aired Watchdog, which this week focused on the ailing state of customer service among big businesses (and no doubt some smaller ones).
Almost three quarters of people said customer service is getting worse, according to a survey of more than 7,000 consumers. The worst offenders tend to be broadband / mobile operators, and utilities companies, though web companies aren't immune either.
It doesn't come as any shock to me, but surely good levels of service and a focus on the customer experience are key to surviving a difficult market?
by Chris Lake 05 May 2009 12:45pm 16 comments


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InAndOut-Designer - Wiki
Create a new project#
1.Launch Cisco Unified Application designer
2.Select File -> New Project and give the Project name and Project location in "New Project Application Designer".
3.Now define Application script and Select Triggering event for InAndOut Application
- For InAndOut application the script is triggered by the Incoming Call Event i.e. Metreos.CallControl.IncomingCall
4.Your CUAD canvas now contains created default script (script1) and OnIncomingCall tabs
5.For this application it needs user inputs to process, like the destination DN to call, How many digits to rip off (Like we specify for a route pattern discarding digits).To get user input we need to add rows in Installer.
In the Project Explorer Right Click on Project Name and Select Add Installer -> New Installer
6.Save the created script "script1" if it prompts you to save.
7.Add the input fields required for InAndOut Application
Define Global variables#
1.We need to define global variables for destination DN, either application has to generate the destination DN automatically, how many digits to discard. As we are getting these variables from application and need to pass on to next actions to make call and hanging the call etc actions. Since local variable are only available for particular action level, we are creating these global variables.
Note: cuae engineers use naming convention 'g_' for global variables.
2.To define a global variable select the script1 tab in the canvas.
3.Right-click on the variables folder and select Add New Item
4.Select name of the variable, follow the above steps to create required global variables.
5. The variables g_to, g_ripOffDigits, g_useConfigDN, and g_useFromDN can all be initialized now. Select the variable g_to in the script1 canvas. Navigate to the lower right hand side of the screen to the Properties box. Click on the InitializeWith field and select Config.to from the drop-down list also configure variable type while intializing. Following this procedure, also initialize g_ripOffDigits, g_useConfigDN, and g_useFromDN with the corresponding Config variables. We will initialize OutgoingCallId, IncomingCallId, and g_whichMediaServer later.
Handle IncomingCall Event:#
1. We need to implement the handlers for different events generated. Here in our application we need to implement event "OnIncomingCall". To do this click on OnIncomingCall tab
2.After receiving a call we need to accept that call to get callid, from where the call is coming in. To implement this drag "AcceptCall" action from toolbox of CallControl. The designer will automatically connects the start node with accept call action
Capturing Variables#
1. As there could be many calls coming in and we need to tell which call to accept. OnIncomingCall event carries "CallId" with it.
For capturing the call id we need to create a local variable. This could be done by following process
- Right click on canvas and select "Variables Tray".
- Right click in variables tray and select "Add New Item". Set the name of the variable as "CallId".
- To initialize the value of the new local variable CallId to the event variable CallId, move the mouse to the properties frame. For the new CallId variable click on the drop-down select button next to InitializeWith and select the event variable CallId.
2.Selecting AcceptCall will bring you the properties of AcceptCall in properties frame displayed at lower right hand corner of the designer. The very first parameter under the Action Parameters set in AcceptCall is the parameter CallId. To bind the CallId parameter to the CallId local variable expand the CallId parameter by clicking on the + to the left of CallId. This will open the properties for the parameter. For the User Type set the property to variable. For the VAR name select CallId.
3. Using AcceptCall's Result Data, store MmsId in g_whichMediaServer and CallId in IncomingCallId.
Now we have to write logic in C# programming to process the handlers by the inputs given by user through input fields provided by Installers.
1.place "CustomCode" action from Application Components.
- here Custom code is required to accommodate SIP Protocol, if user wants to discard any leading digits and to auto increment DN to call the destination. Connect AcceptCall and CustomCode action by drawing a line called condition branch(Place mouse cursor on center of AcceptCall action then 'dot' will appear in the center of the icon and your cursor will turn into a 'hand'. Once your cursor has become a 'hand', click and drag the cursor from the AcceptCall action to the CustomCode action). It is labeled as "default" means if AcceptCall action is complete then default conditional-step is CustomCode.
2.Selecting customcode action will display Basic properties of CustomCode at lower right-hand side of the designer. The very first property is the "Code", Click on the button available in Code. It will open a 'Code Editor' to write the our own code to execute.Click on 'Ok' after writing the code that will automatically save the code.
- Write this code in the editor and then click 'Ok'
public static string Execute(ref string From, ref string g_to, bool g_useConfigDN, bool g_useFromDN, string OriginalTo, int g_ripOffDigits, LogWriter log){ Add to provide flexability when testing SMA-1150 if (!g_useConfigDN){if (g_useFromDN){ Add to support SIP Phone In / SIP Trunk out testing int num; num=System.Convert.ToInt32(From.Substring(g_ripOffDigits)) + 1; g_to = num.ToString(); } else { g_to=OriginalTo.Substring(g_ripOffDigits); } } return IApp.VALUE_SUCCESS; } }}}
3.Place 'MakeCall' action from CallControl group.This action will create two new events (we will handle these very soon) in the project - "OnMakeCall_Complete" and "OnMakeCall_Failed". Now Pass the control from CustomCode to MakeCall action by default condition connector.
Configure MakeCall Action#
MakeCall action requires :
- Conference(true/false) - To Enable conference
- ConferenceId
- From - Calling phone DN
- Hairpin - true/false
- To - DN to call
- Result Data CallId - Outgoing call id
Create new local variable 'From' to hold DN from where the call is coming in and initialise with 'From. Link 'From' to the MakeCall property 'From', Enable conference by typing 'true', ConferenceId as '0' (infact any integer), Hairpin to true.
Create a global variable 'OutgoingCallId'. We need this to end the call when MakeCall action is completed/failed. Set MakeCall 'Result Data' parameter with this variable 'OutgoingCallId'
- If MakeCall is successful then we need to close the current running function , if MakeCall is not successful then the script has to closed by hanging the dialed phone
If MakeCall action is successful then it will raise OnMakeCall_Complete event If MakeCall action is failed then it will raise OnMakeCall_Failed event.
- To close the function drag "EndFunction" action from Application Components tools and place in the canvas. Connect "MakeCall" and "EndFunction" with a condition branch connector.
- Click on the "default" label of the connector. From the drop down list select "Success"
- Drag and place the "Hangup" action tool from CallControl tools, draw a branch condition connector from output end of "MakeCall" action to input end of "Hangup"
- Initialize "Hangup" action parameters
- Place the "EndScript" action from 'Application components' tools. Connect "Hangup" action to "EndScript"
Process OnMakeCall_Complete:#
- Drag and place a AnswerCall action from CallControl tools, draw a branch connector from output end of "Start" node to input end of "AnswerCall" action
- Create a local variable "ConferenceId" by right clicking in the variable's tray and initialize with "ConferenceId".
- Set AnswerCall's parameter CallId to variable IncomingCallId.
- Initialize "AnswerCall" action parameters with appropriate variables or values as shown in picture.
- If the "AnswerCall" action is successfully handled (i.e Call has been received at the other end), then we need to close the function end, if not the application has to end the call by invoking "Hangup" event and then closing the script.Initialize Hangup action's CallId parameter with "OutgoingCallId".
Process OnMakeCall_Failed:#
- If the "MakeCall" event is failed (i.e Call has not been generated), then the application has to end the call by invoking "Hangup" event and then closing the script.Initialize Hangup action's CallId parameter with "IncomingCallId".
Handling Remote Hangup#
If an active call is hanged up remotely then we need to properly end the call from the receiving end as well as at the calling end.
To do this
1.Click on the Script tab
2.Place a RemoteHangup event from CallControl tools this will automatically creates a new tab in the canvas
3.Click on the OnRemotehangUp event tab. Place 'Compare' action from 'Application Components'. This will automatically connect with Start node.
4.R-Click on the variable tray and create a new local variable CallId. Initialize with CallId.
5.Configure Compare action value1 with global variable 'IncomingCallId' and Value2 with CallId.
6.Place two 'HangUp' actions from CallControl tools one underneath and one beside the compare action.
7.Connect two HangUp actions with Compare action's condition. Give equal condition to one and unequal to other.
8.Configure the equal HangUp action with OutgoingCallId. Configure the unequal HangUp action with IncomingCallId.
9.Place a EndScript action and connect both HangUp actions to it.
Handling StartTx, StartRx, StopTx Events#
1.Click in script1 tab and add StartTx, StartRx, StopTx events from call control tools. Each will automatically create OnStartTx, OnStartRx, and OnStopTx tabs respectively.
2.Place an EndFunction action in each of these events that will automatically be connected with Start.
Building & Deploying#
1. Select Build -> Build Project. The output of the build will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
2. When the build is successful, the application needs to be deployed in order to run. To configure the deployment options, select Tools -> Options -> Connectivity. Make sure to enter the correct server address, username, and password.
3. Now to deploy, go to Build -> Deploy. The output of the deployment will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Configure the Application#
Logon to the application manager. Go to Applications -> Find/List Applications. Select InAndOut_cuad. Configure the various parameters as necessary and select "Apply".
Add a Trigger#
1. Go to Applications -> Find/List Triggers. Select InAndOut_cuad. Specify the trigger "to" and "######". Select "Add Parameter".