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The Rangers recalled Jeremy Williams from Hartford today.
I'm guessing he would fill in for Brandon Prust. Still awaiting word on Prust's status after he was hit in the eye inadvertently by Gregory Campbell's stick in Boston. He reportedly flew home with the team last night, and I was just told that the Rangers won't know about his availability until later.
Don't have time or space to do a complete review of the Boston game.
1) After seeing Marc Staal's goal in the preseason and the one last night, maybe they should try him in shootouts. Seriously. He's got a long stick and pretty quick hands in tight. There's obviously no rule that says goal scorers are good at shootouts (see: Jagr, Gaborik).
2) In total disagreement with the Hockey Night crew, and I get the feeling Ken Daneyko didn't want to disagree too heatedly, but what Sean Avery did after the hit on Fedotenko was the right thing. And I'll say this. It shouldn't have been an instigator. Avery went and got in the guy's face. But Avery's gloves came off second.
3) I think Lundqvist is finding his game. Wonder if he starts tonight.
Here are tonight's pre-game notes from the Rangers. Click "more" to read more.
NEW YORK RANGERS vs. NEW JERSEY DEVILS
Sunday, Oct. 24, 7:00 p.m.
Madison Square Garden | New York, NY
Rangers: 3-2-1 (7 pts)
Devils: 2-5-1 (5 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Oct. 23
The Rangers will face-off against their Atlantic Division rival, the New Jersey Devils, tonight at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), to close out their first of 18 back-to-back sets on the season. The Rangers enter tonight's contest having defeated the Boston Bruins, 3-2, last night at TD Garden, and have now won each of their last two games to improve to 3-2-1 (7 pts) on the season. The Devils enter the contest with a 2-5-1 (5 pts) record, having lost to the Sabres, 6-1, last night at the Prudential Center. Following tonight's contest, the Rangers return to action on Wednesday, Oct. 27, when they will face-off against the Atlanta Thrashers at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), in the second game of a three-game homestand.
* TV: MSG Network
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Al Trautwig
7:00 p.m. – Rangers vs. Devils
Broadcasters: John Giannone (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), Al Trautwig (In-Game Reporter)
* Radio: 1050 ESPN Radio
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game with Don LaGreca
7:00 p.m. – Rangers vs. Devils
Broadcasters: Don LaGreca (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. DEVILS:
* All-Time: The Rangers are 94-80-27-5 all-time against the Devils: 52-28-20-2 at home and 42-52-7-3 on the road.
* 2010-11: This is the first of six meetings between the Rangers and Devils this season, and the first of three meetings at Madison Square Garden.
* Last Season: New York was 3-2-1 against New Jersey in 2009-10, including a 1-1-1 mark at Madison Square Garden. Three of their six meetings were decided by one goal, including two that required the shootout.
* Henrik Lundqvist posted a record of 3-2-1 with a 2.45 goals against average and one shutout in six contests vs. New Jersey last season, and is now 18-7-5 with a 1.92 goals against average and four shutouts in 30 career regular season games against the Devils
* Michael Del Zotto led the Rangers with four assists and five points in six games vs. the Devils last season
* Ruslan Fedotenko has notched seven goals and 12 points in 43 career regular season contests vs. New Jersey; Dan Girardi has recorded nine assists in 23 career regular season games vs. the Devils
* New York lists no former Devils on their roster
* New Jersey lists no former Rangers on their roster
* Power Play: The Rangers tallied one goal in six power play opportunities (10:14) last night at Boston, and now rank 20th in the NHL with a 12.0% (3-25) success rate. The Rangers did not convert on one five-on-three chance (0:30) on Oct. 9 at HSBC Arena, and are now 0-1 on five-on-three attempts (0:30). New York is 0-1 (1:05) with a four-on-three advantage this season. Shorthanded goals allowed (0).
* Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts surrendered one goal to the Bruins in six shorthanded situations (9:19) last night at Boston, and are now tied for 25th in the NHL with a 76.7% (23-30) success rate. The Rangers yielded one goal to Boston in two three-on-five situations (2:02) last night at TD Garden, and are 2-4 on three-on-fives (3:47) this season. The Blueshirts yielded one goal in three, three-on-four situations on Oct. 15, and are now 2-3 (1:10) in those situations this season. Shorthanded goals for (1): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky).
* Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation last night at Boston, and are now even in seven, four-on-four situations (11:19) this season. Four-on-four goals for (1): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov). Four-on-four goals allowed (1): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel).
Tonight's contest will close out the Rangers' first of 18 back-to-back sets this season. Last season, New York posted a record of 9-2-2 in the second game of back-to-back sets, including a 4-1-1 mark when the second game of the set was at MSG.
The Rangers own a record of 13-5-2 vs. the Devils since the start of the 2007-08 season, including a 7-2-1 mark at MSG during the stretch, dating back to a 2-0 win on Oct. 25, 2007. Henrik Lundqvist, who has started in each of the Rangers' last 25 meetings with the Devils, has registered a 2.24 goals against average, .921 save percentage and four shutouts in the 20-game stretch.
Henrik Lundqvist has faced-off against Martin Brodeur in 26 career regular season contests, posting a record of 17-4-5 with a 1.75 goals against average, .937 save percentage and four shutouts over the span.
The Rangers have tallied back-to-back goals in 61 seconds or less of the first period in each of the last two games. On Thursday at Toronto, Ruslan Fedotenko opened the game's scoring at 16:11 of the first period, followed by Artem Anisimov's goal, the eventual game winner, 61 seconds later. Last night at Boston, Anisimov notched the game's first goal on the power play at 11:34 of the first, before Alex Frolov gave the Rangers a two-goal lead just 27 seconds later at 12:01 of the opening frame.
Rookie Derek Stepan (three goals) and Alex Frolov (one assist) both registered their first point as a Ranger in the 6-3 season-opening win on Oct. 9 at Buffalo. Three new Blueshirts tallied their first point as a Ranger in home opener on Oct. 15 vs. Toronto, with Ruslan Fedotenko, Derek Boogaard and Steve Eminger each recording one assist in the contest. In addition, Sean Avery registered two assists in the game to record his 100th point as a Ranger. On Monday vs. Colorado, Frolov notched his first goal as a Ranger with a four-on-four tally assisted by Stepan, who picked up his first career assist on the play. Fedotenko tallied his first goal as a Ranger to open the game's scoring on Thursday at Toronto, and Martin Biron backstopped the Blueshirts to a 2-1 win in the contest with a 24-save performance to record his first win as a Ranger in his first appearance with the team.
Based on opening day rosters, the Rangers have the ninth youngest team in the NHL with an average age of 27 years and 44 days, and the second youngest defensive corp in the league, trailing only Los Angeles with an average age of 25 years and 51 days.
The Rangers have had seven new players dress so far this season: Martin Biron, Derek Boogaard, Steve Eminger, Ruslan Fedotenko, Alex Frolov, and Derek Stepan each skated in the season opener on Oct. 9 at Buffalo. Todd White made his Rangers debut on Monday vs. Colorado at Madison Square Garden, and Biron saw his first game action with a 24-save effort in a 2-1 win on Thursday at Toronto.
* Entering the season, the Rangers have posted a record of 276-266-90 all-time in the month of October, including a 175-114-47 mark at home and a 101-152-43 record on the road. New York is scheduled to play 10 games during the season's opening month in 2010-11, with five games being contested at MSG and five scheduled on the road.
* Legendary Rangers' defenseman Brian Leetch holds the franchise record for most points in the month of October, having registered 43 goals and 130 assists for 173 career points in the season's opening month.
* The Blueshirts' all-time leader for most career wins in the month of October is Mike Richter, who registered 40 career wins during the season's opening month.
* Last season, New York tied the franchise record for longest winning streak in the month of October, winning seven consecutive games from Oct. 3, 2009 vs. Ottawa to Oct. 17, 2009 at Toronto. The Rangers also won seven straight October games in 1988-89, beginning on Oct. 16 vs. Vancouver and ending on Oct. 30 vs. Pittsburgh. Their seven-game winning streak last season was also the team's longest since they won seven straight from Feb. 1, 2006 vs. Pittsburgh to Mar. 2, 2006 at Philadelphia.
* None
* Derek Stepan: 1st career NHL game and 1st career NHL goal/point (10/9 at BUF)
* Derek Stepan: 1st career NHL assist (10/18 vs. COL)
* Michael Sauer: 1st career NHL assist/point (10/23 at BOS)
* Ryan Callahan: 100th career NHL point (10/23 at BOS)
* Vinny Prospal (IR on Sept. 24/knee surgery on Oct. 18, 6-8 weeks) – 6
* Marian Gaborik (IR – separated shoulder on Oct. 15, 2-4 weeks) – 3
* Chris Drury (IR – fractured finger on Oct. 15, 6 weeks) – 3
Total Man-Games Lost: 15
* Oct. 13: Assigned forward Tim Kennedy to Hartford
* Oct. 24: Recalled forward Jeremy Williams from Hartford

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THE first half was an endurance test even for the most fervent amongst us, writes Alan Houghton who sits in the Lower North Stand.
Neither team looked like scoring was high on their priority list.
There were a couple of weak, misdirected headers from new defender Dawson, whilst at the other end Mears did well to head wide when Adam Bogdan failed to come for a ball in his six-yard box.
Somebody needs to tell the young keeper that, despite his youth, he needs to be in control of his area.
The inevitable happened in the 55th minute – Burnley scored.
But this prompted Dougie Freedman into action with a double substitution, greeted by a loud chorus of boos, not at the outgoing or incoming players but rather at who was not taken off... Chris Eagles.
The guy is going through a bad spell and needs a break. The crowd are on his back and the harder he tries, the worse it gets.
The substitutions paid off within minutes as we suddenly had more presence up front.
Ngog glanced a header to Chung-Yong Lee who put in a great cross for Craig Davies to twist like a contortionist and head/shoulder the ball home.
We looked like a different team, the one the fans have been waiting for all season.
Super Kev joined the fray and we started winning the ball up front. He knocked the ball inside for Spearing to hit a left-foot drive, superbly turned past Grant by a lively Ngog.
We comfortably saw the game out with some good work around their corner flags.
It was a welcome win which, hopefully, will be the catalyst for a good run.
We've got extra players from the transfer window and players coming back from injury.
On to Nottingham next week to see if we can get back-to-back wins for the first time in ages.
What is frustrating is that if Burnley are regarded as serious play-off contenders, then this season has been a lost opportunity for us to bounce back.
And it is even harder to understand why we have ended up at the wrong end of the Championship.


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DetNet has designed, developed and commercialized a reliable and robust range of electronic detonators, control equipment and software to ensure that its technologies continually deliver tangible value to mining operations around the globe.
Currently DetNet offers seven product lines, namely: DigiShot; DigiShot Plus; HotShot; BlastWeb; SmartShot, ViewShot and GeoShot.
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Harvey Weinstein is accessorising his production slate.
The Project Runway kingpin realised before everyone that fashion was both visual enough and competitive enough to make great reality employment TV. Now, according to Nikki Finke's Deadline, he has created a spin-off series along the lines of Project Handbag (and shoes, and jewellery, and… hats?) that will feature accessory designers, and has sold it to Lifetime.
I can't quite decide if what is officially, and super-creatively, titled Project Runway: Accessories, will work.
Certainly, no one can argue with the success of the parent show.
On the upside, accessories are famously easier to sell than ready-to-wear: they're priced more accessibly; independent of sizing and thus simpler to manufacture and more broadly appealing; and widely touted, these days, as recession-friendly, the way to change an outfit without breaking your budget by buying, say, a whole new coat. Accessories are having a moment, and TV might as well exploit that. Read more


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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USS Oneida
The second USS Oneida was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. During the Civil War, she destroyed the CSS Governor Moore and served in blockade operations. She was attached to the Asiatic Squadron from 1867–1870. She sank in 1870 outside Yokohama, Japan after the British steamer City of Bombay struck her and sailed off without rendering assistance. Japanese fishing boats saved 61 sailors but 125 men lost their lives. The American government made no attempt to raise the wreck and sold it to a Japanese wrecking company. The company recovered many bones from the wreck and interred them at the their own expense. The Japanese erected a memorial tablet on the grounds of Ikegami Temple in Tokyo and held a Buddhist ceremony in the sailor's memory in May 1889.
Civil War, 1862–1865
Shortly after commissioning Oneida sailed from New York and joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron commanded by Flag officer David Farragut. On 24 April she participated in the attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip below New Orleans, Louisiana, and drove off the Confederate ram which sank steam gunboat Varuna. Oneida destroyed CSS Governor Moore in a following engagement, the same date.
On 27 April Oneida destroyed obstructions in the Mississippi River above Carrollton, Mississippi, helping prepare the way for the Vicksburg campaign. In both passages of the Confederate works at Vicksburg, 28 June 1862, and 15 July 1862, by the Union Fleet under Admiral Farragut, Oneida was second in line.
In August 1862, under command of Commander George H. Preble, Oneida sank the steamer Lewis Whitman loaded with wounded troops. Early in the following month she failed in an attempt to stop the passage of CSS Florida into Mobile, Alabama.
From 15 October 1863 to 23 August 1864, under the command of Captain C.V. Gridley, Oneida served in blockade operations off Mobile, where on 5 August she participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay and the subsequent capture of CSS Tennessee. At a later date she witnessed the surrender of Fort Morgan at Mobile. Oneida decommissioned 11 August 1865 at New York


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A JOINER who got behind the wheel while more than twice the limit had been attacked, Burnley magistrates heard.
Anthony Marsh, 39, had tried to get a taxi home from Burnley town centre, but had been bleeding and the cab driver had told him he should ring an ambulance.
Marsh had his car keys with him and set off to drive home, but was stopped on Todmorden Road in the town, the court was told.
The defendant, who needs his licence for work, has now been banned for a year, after admitting driving with excess alcohol on November 10. Marsh, of Hope Street, Worsthorne, was fined £400, with a £40 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
Nick Cassidy, for Marsh, said he had been subjected to an unproved attack by a doorman and his eye was bleeding.
He had not been causing any trouble.
Marsh accepted he had had some lager. The defendant couldn't get a taxi and because he had his keys with him, he made a foolish mistake. He felt fit to drive but was over the limit. The solicitor added : "He has learned a harsh lesson."


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First up, ill warn you, I am a complete novice. In fact this is pretty much a set up question. I have followed all the instructions as per this tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJipYE1JT38
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Cinnamon Wassail Recipe
This time of year is filled with the aroma of cinnamon and spices. This warm drink will make you fall in love with the season all over again. This simple recipe has been a family tradition of mine for many years now. I know that you will love it just as much as my family does. This recipe came from CDKitchen.com.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
As you know, Books Online is available in two convenient locations. It's online as part of the MSDN Library, and it's offline as a Document Explorer help collection. Topics are accessible by URIs in each, but the URIs don't match. For example:
A while ago, another MVP said it would be nice for "local" Books Online to have a "find this page on the web" link. Local Books Online is usually faster and more convenient, but for blog, newsgroup, or forum posts, it makes more sense to paste in MSDN Library links, so they're clickable from the reader's browser. Alan Brewer of the SQL Server Documentation Team provided a helpful tip: MSDN will understand the GUID from the local Books Online link and redirect your request.
In other words,
Books Online Topic: CREATE STATISTICS (Transact-SQL)Document Explorer URI: ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_6tsql/html/b23e2f6b-076c-4e6d-9281-764bdb616ad2.htmAlternate MSDN Library URI: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b23e2f6b-076c-4e6d-9281-764bdb616ad2.aspx
So I wrote this Javascript applet that works from inside local Books Online to put the Alternate MSDN Library URI on the Windows clipboard:
javascript:(function(){window.clipboardData.setData("Text","http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/" + location.pathname.slice(-40,-4) + ".aspx");})();
I also found a handy place to install it. I set it as Document Explorer's "Search Page" URL, which you can specify from local Books Online under Tools->Options. There was already a toolbar button in Books Online for Web Browser Search (a globe with binoculars). Now when I click on it, an MSDN Library URL of the Books Online article I'm reading is on my clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. (I don't use Books Online for web browser searches, and I'm guessing neither do you, so nothing is lost by redefining this button.)
Pretty cool, I thought. Until Alan quickly added that MSDN doesn't always understand and correctly redirect the URL-with-GUID. In particular, not for local Books Online pages that describe the managed API. So I did some quick and dirty guess-and-test bookmarklet development, and this is what I ended up with. Based on limited testing, it works on "regular" SQL Server topics as well as managed API ones.
javascript:(function(){var s = document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).innerHTML; var p = s.search("AssetID"); s = s.substr(p+16); p = s.search("\""); s = s.slice(0,p); p = s.search(":"); if (p>-1) s = s.substr(p+1); window.clipboardData.setData("Text","http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/" + s.toLowerCase() + ".aspx");})();
The bookmarklet is a Javascript program, so you could enhance it further to do all kinds of useful things. For example, clicking on the globe could raise a dialog where you pick a language (to replace en-us in my bookmarklet), and copy the language-specific URL to the clipboard.
With luck, this bookmarklet will be useful to a few readers, not to mention do some bookmarklet evangelism.
For years, SQL Server has supported a (second) FROM clause in UPDATE and DELETE statements. Its behavior isn't always deterministic, a fact Microsoft points out in the documentation.
Today, someone was surprised by the basic semantics of DELETE .. FROM. This probably happens a lot, but fortunately today's surprisee posted this Connect item because the following statement didn't do what the documentation seemed to say it would:
You're in good company if you said t2, which is the wrong answer. The statement truncates t1, however, not t2. In fact, this DELETE statement contains no reference to the table t2, assuming there even is one. Here, t2 is only an alias, and the statement is semantically identical toDELETE FROM ThisIsAnAliasNotATableFROM t1 AS ThisIsAnAliasNotATable
When there are two FROM clauses in a DELETE statement, the first FROM clause is interpreted in the context of the table source defined by the second one, which is analogous to how SELECT works. The following query selects rows from t1, not t2, and that's no surprise:
For the record, this CTE-based DELETE is just as non-standard as the DELETE .. FROM, but it's less confusing. If you can't easily (or effeciently) avoid the use of DELETE .. FROM, consider rewriting DELETE .. FROM as a CTE to reduce the chance of confusion.
During SQL Server 2008 beta testing, Aaron Bertrand noted that the value of @@rowcount inside a trigger could be unexpected, if the triggering statement was MERGE.
The consequences of this can be pretty bad, but fortunately there's a simple workaround. You need to do something if anyone might invoke MERGE against tables with triggers that contain @@rowcount checks
A MERGE statement can cause as many as three triggers to fire. Within each of them, the value of @@rowcount is the number of rows affected by the entire MERGE statement, i.e. the total number rows inserted, updated, or deleted by the various merge clauses.
Books Online mentions this in the article on MERGE: When used after MERGE, @@ROWCOUNT (Transact-SQL) returns the total number of rows inserted, updated, and deleted to the client.
Elsewhere, however, Books Online continues to give old advice that as of 2008 is not good advice. For example, in the article Multirow considerations for DML triggers, Books Online says, For example, the @@ROWCOUNT function can be used in the logic of the trigger to distinguish between a single and a multirow insert.
Not so, I'm afraid. The value of @@rowcount in an INSERT trigger, say, will always be at least equal to the number of rows inserted, but it can be greater. For example, a MERGE statement could have an INSERT action that doesn't occur, but an UPDATE one that updates 3 rows. The INSERT trigger will be called, because the MERGE statement's INSERT section "inserted zero rows."
Here's an example from AdventureWorks2008 to show what can go wrong.
I've added a GrandTotal table containing one row and column. GrandTotal.gt is supposed to keep track of the grand total of all purchase SubTotals.
This code creates the table and gives it a value that's initially correct for the data in AdventureWorks2008:
USE AdventureWorks2008;GO CREATE TABLE GrandTotal( gt DECIMAL(18,2));INSERT INTO GrandTotal;SELECT sum(SubTotal);FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader;GO
This code creates a trigger to update the grand total whenever new line items are inserted into the table:
CREATE TRIGGER NewPODetail3ON Purchasing.PurchaseOrderDetailFOR INSERT ASIF @@ROWCOUNT > 0UPDATE GrandTotal SETgt += (SELECT SUM(LineTotal) FROM inserted);GO
And this MERGE statement (enclosed in a rolled-back transaction here so that no data in the database is modified by this test script) has the unintended result of updating the grand total from $63,791,994.84 to NULL.
begin transelect * From GrandTotal;merge into Purchasing.PurchaseOrderDetail as Pusing ( select 2,'20010715',100,318,100,318,0,'20090101') as T(PurchaseOrderID,DueDate,OrderQty,ProductID,UnitPrice,ReceivedQty,RejectedQty,ModifiedDate)on T.PurchaseOrderID = P.PurchaseOrderIDwhen matched then update set ModifiedDate = T.ModifiedDatewhen not matched by target and PurchaseOrderID < 0 then insert (PurchaseOrderID,DueDate,OrderQty,ProductID,UnitPrice,ReceivedQty,RejectedQty,ModifiedDate) values (3,'20010715',100,318,100,318,0,'20090101');select * From GrandTotalrollback tran;
MERGE is only beginning to get used, and for a variety of triggers, a too-large @@rowcount won't cause a problem. But I think the number of people who might get caught by this problem will grow.
Don't use @@rowcount in triggers, unless you're certain it doesn't cause problems if it's higher than the real rowcount you want (which might be zero). As an alternative, Itzik suggested to me this (for INSERT; the others are similar):
declare @rc int;with Two as (select top (2) *from inserted)select @rc = count(*) from Two;
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A BURNLEY high school, previously rated as good, has been told it 'requires improvement' by Ofsted.
Standards in English at Sir John Thursby, was said to be 'well below the national average', according to inspectors.
However headteacher David Burton said they had highly positive feedback from inspectors, who acknowledged their good results last year.
The Ofsted report said the most able Year 11 students were not doing as well in English than similar students in other schools.
Lead inspector Derek Davies said: "Not enough teaching is consistently good and outstanding. The level of challenge in lessons is not always appropriate for some students and work is sometimes too easy.
"There are insufficient opportunities for students to think for themselves and extend their ideas in writing; consequently, the quality and quantity of work for too many students is not as good as it should be."
Last year the school achieved a 10 per cent increase in GCSE results, the school's best ever results and the biggest increase in the area.
Ofsted said last year's results were better than similar pupils nationally but that standards this year are set to decline.
The school was also praised for leadership at all levels and 'significant improvement' in mathematics.
It was also described as 'an inclusive school that serves its community well' with attendance and exclusion rates which are much better than those found nationally.
Headteacher David Burton said: "The school has improved hugely in the last few years. Leadership, management, behaviour and safety are all graded good and they agreed we are well on our way to being an outstanding school."


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General News of Monday, 10 December 2012
Source: XYZ
President John Dramani says his victory in the just ended Presidential elections is one for all Ghanaians.
Addressing the media at his residence after the results were announced by the EC, President Mahama said "I want to thank Ghanaians for the confidence reposed in me… All Ghanaians have won."
He said he is overwhelmed by the victory and hopes that every Ghanaian can participate in the process to transforming the country.
"I am humbled by this decision of the Ghanaian people. Let's respect the will of the people," he said.
He congratulated his team for working hard towards victory and said it was time for Ghanaians to unite to develop the nation. "We must celebrate together as Ghanaians," he said.
President Mahama also thanked the EC for working assiduously on the biometric voting system despite the technical hitches faced in the process.
He called on all the political parties to respect the voice of the people, saying "the voice of the people is the voice of God."


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|Cable news thrives on the big, breaking news story. It has gravitated over its quarter-century of audience growth to major crises — wars, disasters, political scandals, big tabloid crime cases. It is the more typical news day, one where events are mostly momentary, alarms prove false, and the news is incremental, that represents cable's special challenge.
May 11, 2005 , was one of those. Much of the news happened overnight and overseas as the nation slept. And the list of new and dramatic breaking news events occurring this day was limited.
There were still things happening — enough to fill the pages of the next day's newspapers. Yet cable, with its "see it now" approach, would focus this day primarily on just three events.
One was a trial of a celebrity, closed to cameras. Another was a bond hearing in an Illinois double murder, also off camera, where the killer, as planned, would formally confess to killing his child and her friend. The third was a scare, which would last for only 15 minutes, over a small plane's entering restricted airspace.
A close look at the coverage this day puts some of cable's tendencies in clear relief.
During much of the cable day, immediacy seems to be the criterion of significance above all others. That sometimes leads to an odd hyperbole in which anchors endeavor to create a sense of urgency about small things. In the hour before noon , the three channels on this day would air more than a dozen shots of an empty press room in Illinois and a doorway in front of the courthouse of the Michael Jackson child-molestation trial, where the former child actor Macaulay Culkin was expected to enter.
Another result of cable's weakness for the breaking story is the way cable journalists strain to make things seem compelling. Nine hours after the plane incident was over, CNN's Aaron Brown tried mightily to recreate a sense of panic that people felt when the White House and Capitol were evacuated for a few minutes around lunchtime. " When it was happening, nothing wasn't nothing," Brown intoned somberly. "It was very much something…. We didn't know what it was." View CNN Video Clip (Get Quicktime® Plug-in)
Some other findings include:
In past years, our content analysis revealed some stark findings about cable news. The medium is largely unscripted — it eschews taped, edited packages in favor of live interviews, and reporters talking off the cuff or from hasty notes. Pictures and words often don't match. The reporting contains fewer sources and viewpoints than elsewhere on TV. And rather than being up to date, much of the reporting is repetitive. Over two years of study we found that roughly 7 in 10 of the stories on cable repeat, but less than 1 in 10 contains any substantive new information.1
The more detailed Day in the Life study deepened this impression and found other traits. Reporting on cable is highly focused around either the personality of the program hosts or sending a camera and correspondent to an event and having them pass along what they are seeing at that moment. The effect, more so than in other media, is that the audience's role is passive. There is less effort here to tell how these stories involve the viewers, what to do about them, how they relate to their lives, or how viewers can do or learn more.
Cable's Lack of Summarization
The viewers' role is passive except for one area — the extent to which it is up to the viewers to add up for themselves what the pieces on cable offer throughout the day. The diversity of sources and viewpoints on cable news is usually across two or three different stories rather than within one piece. Facts can vary from account to account. Sources in live interviews offer one view, and it may be a while before contrary or supplemental information is forthcoming. A viewer needs to see all the accounts to get any kind of depth of knowledge.
Take, for example, coverage of the D.C. plane scare. One cable story quoted the Capitol police chief. Another offered reactions of those involved in the evacuation. Still a third interviewed an Air Force colonel responsible for air defense in Washington . A fourth interviewed folks who knew the pilots. But those moments were spread across a multitude of stories over several hours and across the channels. To learn about all those different angles, viewers would need to catch most if not all of that coverage.
Yet they could have gotten virtually all of it by going online, where stories contained most of these elements in one piece, and users could access it whenever they wanted.
Why we found this trait in cable is hard to pin down but worth pondering. With so much time to fill, it is possible cable news managers are simply preoccupied with getting things on the air. Or that for the number of hours to fill, the reporters they have to draw on is too limited. The focus on the immediate may exacerbate the problem, making it virtually impossible to prepare. Whatever the causes, for much of the day, cable anchors function more like traffic cops than investigators.
Reporter Opinion
The study also confirmed another earlier finding, that reporters on cable news are more likely to offer their own opinions about events than other media. Over all, 47% of cable stories on May 11 include reportorial opinion, compared with 14% in the media as a whole. (It was 20% on network evening TV and 48% on network morning). And for the biggest story of the day — the plane scare in Washington — that number jumped to 83%.2
Journalist Opinion in D.C. Plane Scare Coverage
The opinion on May 11 came in various forms. On the morning programs it came from journalists trying to be informal. After a piece about global warming on CNN's "American Morning," for instance, the anchor Soledad O'Brien offered, "So that videotape there, and really what's happening on the glacier, is definitive proof that there's global warming." The correspondent Miles O'Brien takes her one further. "Yes, but it's just one more little piece. There's a big stack of evidence now . . . The real question is, what are we going to do about it? Are we going to stop using SUVs?"
On Fox News, during the same hour, the co-anchor E.D. Hill was defending the Bush administration from criticisms by the former Homeland Security chief, Tom Ridge , that the administration often raised the terror alert over his objections. "If you don't raise it and something happens, everyone's gonna get blamed for not raising it, if you do raise it then people say, nothing happened, why'd you do it?" she said in response to Ridge's comments, reported in USA Today that morning. "I don't think there is any way to win on that one." View Fox News Video Clip (Get Quicktime® Plug-in)
Her co-anchor, Steve Doocy, made the case partisan. "And the other thing is how many times during the campaign did we hear Democrats say they are doing this for political reasons?" he asked. But Ridge, he said, "did not ever suggest they did anything like that."
On other cable programs, opinion is a signal part of the program's appeal. It is part of the core of "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC. The views of Bill O'Reilly are similarly central to "The O'Reilly Factor" in prime time on Fox, as are the more liberal notions of Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
The Range of News
Despite all the time it has to fill, the range of topics on cable was also more limited than some might expect. The four hours of this day studied on each channel offered little more than what one would have gotten from a 30-minute network evening newscast, and markedly less than one could learn from any print or online venue.
Among the other events that would be covered online and in the next morning's newspapers: The Army would decide not to file charges against officers implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; The Catholic Church would announce that it might cut priests' pensions in different U.S. cities; There was a scandal brewing about evangelical proselytizing at the Air Force Academy. A new report found that bias crimes against Muslims in the U.S. were up 50% since 9/11.
Most of those stories were about trends, though, not breaking news which is what cable tends to focus most of its energy and time on. On May 11, that would include four main events: the plane scare, the murders in Zion , Ill. , the surge in violence in Iraq and the Michael Jackson trial. Those made up a third of the time studied, and even that understates how much the plane scare dominated. The story did not break until mid-day, after two of the programs sampled had aired. Looking just at the afternoon coverage, it commanded even more of the air time.3
Percent of Newshole Devoted to Top Four Stories
Depth of Reporting
In a media environment saturated with news outlets that all offer the basic facts, a growing question among journalists is the degree to which stories explore angles that connect or make events more relevant to the audience.
Cable news, with its hours to fill and variety of programming, does little to fill any such need. For this study, we created an index of 10 different elements a story could contain that might add to a citizen's understanding. Did a story put the event in historical context? Did it suggest where the audience could learn more? Did it suggest what might happen next?4
More than half (58%) of all major stories on cable news contained none or only one of those elements. The largest number, 36%, did not offer any, and another 21% offered just one. That was a worse rating than any other national news platform except for the 30-minute nightly newscasts, which have much less time and whose stories tend to be much shorter (though even these networks newscasts had a greater percent of stories with three of more index elements. In online stories, for instance, just 4% offered no elements. Three quarters of the stories online (72%) contained two or more.
Story Index Scores5, by Medium
The News of the Day in Cable (and Differences Among the Channels)
The more we study, the more the cable channels begin to look distinct from one another. On May 11, indeed, they differed more in what they covered than the broadcast networks did. On CNN, the plane scare was dominant. Fox focused more on the grisly murder case in Illinois . MSNBC was the most interested of the channels in Macaulay Culkin's testimony at Michael Jackson's molestation trial, a story, interestingly, that its sister broadcast, the NBC Nightly News, didn't even mention.
Morning News on Cable
The feel of morning news on cable is different from the networks. While the tone is similarly informal and chatty, absent are the softer lifestyle subjects such as cooking tips or tools for the garden. Instead, cable focuses on topics geared more toward people interested in politics and getting a jump on current events of the day. And that chatty weatherman mixing with folks in the street is nowhere to be found. Rather than offer emotional reactions to stories, the reporters and anchors are more prone to offer political views.
Viewers starting their day with CNN's "American Morning" got a quick dose of hard news. The program, from 7 to 8 a.m., led with a taped package on the situation in Iraq, a story that the network morning shows would skip, followed by a story that resembled the network offerings — a taped package on the Zion murders. The story would even feature the same source as the network stories, the local prosecutor Michael Waller.
Next, viewers got a discussion of an unexploded grenade found where President Bush had given a speech in the former Soviet republic of Georgia . The story would be a minor item in newspapers, yet was a staple of morning shows on cable and network. As it turned out, what CNN offered here was identical to what the networks did. Bill Hemmer, a CNN anchor (who later moved to Fox) interviewed a former Secret Service agent, Joseph Petro — the same person interviewed on two of the three broadcast networks that morning.
For its fourth piece, however, CNN offered something more distinctive, a segment on a Swiss study of global warming reported by the correspondent Miles O'Brien in the studio. It was one of the few items on any morning cable program that was not about breaking news.
Finally, CNN's grumpy Everyman, Jack Cafferty, appeared to pose his question of the day: whether United Airlines should be allowed to default on its pensions. That was the one segment that allowed viewers to get involved in the news. And Cafferty was quick to offer his own view. He had no doubt that executives of large corporations normally get a "huge golden parachute" and "you can bet they're not going to suffer, not like the employees will."
Cable Morning Shows: Lead Stories and Type of Coverage
Over on Fox News's "Fox and Friends," viewers on May 11 got a program constructed quite differently. In the 7 a.m. hour there was just one on-scene report from a correspondent — a live report from the courthouse in Illinois , which broke to a packaged report, and one report (about the unexploded grenade) with the correspondent live from the Washington studio.
The bulk of the program involved the three anchors chatting or reading a teleprompter. With fewer reporters in the field than CNN, Fox relies more on the chemistry and banter of its hosts. At the same time, that may be one reason why its morning program seems more a distinct program than simply another part of the cable channel's day.
The story lineup was even more government focused-than CNN's. There were multiple reports on the grenade near Bush in Georgia . There was a segment on a bill to require identification tags for illegal immigrants. The violence in Iraq was a brief "tell" story.
Another difference on Fox in the morning is that it has abandoned the more disinterested neutral voice of traditional broadcasting. It is a clearly American channel, with the U.S. government frequently referred to in the first person plural — "we" and "us." In Fox's lead story of the morning, the case of the grenade in Georgia , E.D. Hill, speaking not of herself or Fox News but of American officials, said, "Our people haven't been able to look at it. So they (Georgian officials) keep counseling us. We haven't been able to say it's a hand grenade. We don't know what it is exactly."
Viewers also got a sense of point of view in the choice of stories and in the way they were handled. That came through in a subject not found on CNN or MSNBC during the hour — an interview with Gary Aldrich, president of the Patrick Henry Center , a foundation to promote "individual liberty" and known for its conservatives views. They discussed Steve Gardner, one of the Swift Boat Veterans who was critical of John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election campaign. Steve Gardner, Aldrich said, was "the only Swift Boat veteran who served on the boat that John Kerry commanded. So he was in a unique position to observe John Kerry up close and personal." The Fox anchor Steve Doocy then added that Gardner was fired from his job after appearing in commercials. "We had him on our program. Right after he got on TV, and said all that stuff, he got fired." No other source offering a differing view was mentioned.
Fox fleshed out its morning coverage with a sports round-up from one of the hosts and a brief host discussion of the episode of "American Idol" coming up that night. The final segment was an interview between E.D. Hill and the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that studies the effects on immigration on the U.S. , over a new administration program to cover some health costs of illegal immigrants. The director, Mark Krikorian, was clearly critical of the administration.
MSNBC's offering at this hour is not television per se at all, it's the radio program "Imus in the Morning," filmed. And it's all about opinions and views — those of the veteran DJ Don Imus.
The top of the hour offered a few news headlines read by Imus's sidekick Charles McCord — brief updates on Iraq , the congressional spending bill, the Zion murders, and another multiple murder, in New Mexico .
Mostly, the program was about the mind of Imus, especially his likes and dislikes. He was disgusted, for instance, over the Rolling Stones announcing another tour — "they've got to stop flopping around on the stage like a chicken on crack….it looks like your crazy grandparents for talent night at the old folks home, doesn't it?" And he loved NBC collegue Tim Russert, host of his sister channel's Sunday talk program "Meet the Press." The largest chunk of the hour was spent in a phone interview with Russert. He and Imus discussed Russert's new book, "Big Russ and Me," and then moved to Laura Bush's popularity and how the NBC family supports each other. Imus was unabashed about selling — books, TV shows, movies, and his own mail-order products. On this day it was Russert's book: "It's a great book. Not really difficult . . . great idea for Father's Day or Mother's Day. I heartily recommend it." He was also selling Russert, and closed with: "I want you to know: I love you and so does Charles."
The 11-to-noon hour on cable — designated as the "Live" program on each channel — recapped the overnight news and was poised to bring breaking developments on two of the big stories of the day.
The murder suspect Jerry Hobbs was expected to appear for bond in Zion , Ill. , after which the prosecutor, Mike Waller, would hold a press conference. At the same time, Macaulay Culkin was expected to arrive at the courthouse in the Michael Jackson trial in California . Culkin's testimony was not to take place for several more hours, but his arrival at the courthouse was treated as news itself.
On Fox in particular, the key line that hour was "expecting." Unfortunately for its viewers the expected was long in coming. They were assured repeatedly that Fox "would be there live" and that "any moment now we're expecting news" on the Hobbs bond hearing and on the arrival of Culkin at the Jackson courthouse.
Throughout the hour, the cameras returned seven times to show the empty courthouse pressroom where Waller would be appearing. The only action during the shots was sound guys adjusting a mike or two. Over and over, "Any moment now . . . could be getting some new details . . . Again, much more to come . . ." Fox filled the waiting time with such things as an interview with a forensic scientist. Unfortunately for those on the edge of their seats, the bond hearing was delayed and the press conference didn't take place until the next hour.
The Jackson courthouse coverage was much the same. "As soon as it happens, we're on it." The "it," however, was merely the arrival of one of the two celebrities at the courthouse. The image shown three times was the security checkpoint at the courthouse entrance, empty but for the guards milling around. At one point, someone walked through. It "might have been him [Culkin] just passing through," the anchor speculated. We learned a little later it wasn't. And still later we learned that Culkin would be led into the courthouse through a back entrance. A pool camera did catch a picture of Culkin's back shortly after 11:30 a.m. Fox showed the image four times in the final 15 minutes of the hour.
Mid-Day Coverage of the Zion Murders
MSNBC's live hour with Randy Meier and Amy Robach also promised to bring viewers the "now" of the two stories, but the channel filled in the waiting time with a wider range of other news. As a consequence, MSNBC during the hour cut to the empty podium shot at the Illinois courthouse just four times and cut to the Jackson courthouse just twice. It "just missed" the pool shot of Culkin's arrival but did show it — just once — after the commercial break. MSNBC also added some humor to the mix — plugging its evening commentator Keith Olbermann's "Jackson Puppets," currently being auctioned on eBay. View MSNBC Jackson Puppets Video Clip (Get Quicktime® Plug-in)
The show opened with a fairly comprehensive taped package on the Zion murder case. There was no package on the Jackson trial, but there was live talk with the reporter on the scene and an interview with Susan Filan, MSNBC's legal analyst. As they tried to fill the time waiting for something to happen, the anchors and guests on MSNBC vamped with what might be described as fairly obvious speculation: "Is (Culkin) going to fall victim to the prosecution's sword or will he carry the day? If he carries the day, it's going to be devastating for the prosecution."
The main distinction of MSNBC during this hour was that it aired packages on a wider variety of topics than its rivals, some of them using NBC News personnel, though the topics were mostly the same ones we heard about on the morning network and cable channels. There was a taped piece on the grenade in Georgia and another on the United Airlines pension situation. The most distinctive piece was an exclusive report with the NBC correspondent Lisa Meyers on a Middle Eastern bank whose New York City branch was under criminal investigation.
Mid-Day Coverage of Culkin Testimony
The anchor Daryn Kagan brought viewers the 11-to-noon news on CNN. Its range of coverage that hour was more in line with MSNBC's. In addition to the three big stories, CNN offered viewers Congressional news about spending and gang-warfare bills, as well as a report on the nomination of Under Secretary of State John Bolton to be ambassador to the U.N. It also covered some entertainment news — the coming premier of the last "Star Wars" movie, the inspiration behind the reality show "CSI" and an interview with the author of a new book on presidential getaways.
CNN led with the Zion story, a package with clips from prosecutor Waller and members of the community. Then, rather than turning to a live report from the courthouse immediately, Kagan announced, "Once that bond hearing for Jerry Hobbs ends, Chris [ Lawrence ] will have an update for us with a live report." What viewers got in the meantime was an interview with Dominic Cappello, author of "Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children about Violence." For the rest of the hour, CNN did not return to the courthouse — so it had just one empty podium shot.
The Jackson trial got even less coverage: one brief live report from the courthouse and one return at the end of the hour for the clip of Culkin's entrance.
Just after noon , though, CNN's measured focus on live and breaking news gave way, with the brief evacuation of the White House and the Capitol as a result of the Cessna's entering restricted Washington airspace. Once the plane incident occurred, CNN viewers got the sense that no other events that day came even close in significance.
From noon through 6 p.m. — from "CNN Live" through "Inside Politics" at 3:30 through "Crossfire" at 4:30 through "Wolf Blitzer Reports" at 5:00 , CNN veered from the plane scare for only a few minutes, once to brief on Culkin's testimony, and in the second half of "Inside Politics" to report on Congressional proceedings of the day. Then, after a brief departure from the story in the second half of the Lou Dobbs's business report, Anderson Cooper aired a special edition called "Security Watch: Defending the Skies." "NewsNight" was also focused almost solely on the story.
The only program on CNN from noon onward not to lead with and devote most or all its time to the plane scare was "Larry King Live." He had an exclusive interview with Condoleezza Rice, her first extended interview since taking office as secretary of state. But as the night went on, CNN was back to the plane scare.
Evening News
On CNN, the prime time evening newscast with Aaron Brown featured 10 different pieces on the Washington false alarm involving the Cessna. They included an opening piece by Brown that narrated events as they unfolded, pieces by CNN correspondents reliving those 15 minutes from their eyewitness vantage points on Capitol Hill and the White House, interviews with people from the airport where the flight originated, a close look at that type of plane and even a trip on a simulated patrol of a plane being hijacked — what could have happened if the event had not been the false alarm that it was.
For all the time devoted to the incident, however, and all the hours since it had happened, the reporting suffered from many of the tendencies we have identified elsewhere with cable news. There was a heavy reliance on government sources such as the White House spokesman Scott McClellan as well as on CNN's own correspondents as eyewitness sources. And the primary expert relied on throughout the coverage, the CNN "security analyst" Richard Falkenrath, a former deputy homeland security adviser, clearly identifies himself as a member of the extended homeland security family, whom he refers to as "we." "Now, that's not to say that we didn't make the right decision today to evacuate," he told Aaron Brown.
Though on the surface it might seem as if Brown's program amounted to an hour on the subject, the newscast did not have the feel of long-form or in-depth journalism. It was rather a series of short pieces, each with fairly limited reportage, as if the reporters who were on air all day were simply asked to file one more piece for the late show.
The few segments that tried to go beyond the basic play-by-play failed to go very far. A piece by Jeanne Meserve, for example, was introduced as a look at whether the new warning system for pilots could have prevented the incident. The segment never answered the question. Instead it mostly addressed the mechanics of the alarm. What's more, viewers were told nothing about the sources used, two pilots and someone from the Air Force — their backgrounds, any connections they had or the level of their expertise.
Cable Evening News: Lead Stories and Type of Coverage
As with Fox's morning show, "Special Report with Brit Hume" spoke largely to viewers interested in political events, but Hume's range of issues was actually wider. In addition to the plane scare and the Iraq bombings, viewers could also hear about North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons; voter fraud; the resignation of a church pastor over a politically motivated sermon, and a forthcoming vote in Canada. News of the Illinois double murders and the Jackson trial, which had dominated the mid-day, were absent.
The reports themselves were produced in a manner much closer to that of traditional broadcast news. As we found in last year's analysis of a month's worth of Hume programming, viewers heard from a variety of sources and correspondents.
The lead plane-scare story — a taped report from Brian Wilson — contained five different sources (though one was the correspondent Major Garrett, who was evacuated from the White House press room). The tone of the piece was more measured than the bulk of the CNN coverage, assuring viewers that all was well with the government. The first line from Hume let viewers know the scare was over: "The White House and the U.S. Capitol are back to normal tonight after a midday security scare. . ." The other piece on the plane story that hour, an interview with the NORAD spokesman Col. Keith Snyder, paints a calmer picture as well. Hume opens, "Well, as everyone knows, the threat turned out to be a little mosquito of an airplane that had no hostile intent and probably couldn't have done much damage even if it slammed into the Capitol. . ." View Hume Video Clip (Get Quicktime® Plug-in)
The correspondent reports on Hume's program had a somewhat more balanced feel than other Fox programming — the plane-scare story suggested that the evacuation might have been disorganized, for instance — yet even on this program the reporter roundtable that made up the second half of the program as well as some other feature stories tipped toward a decidedly conservative viewpoint.
An item in Hume's "Political Grapevine," for instance, cited a new report from Milwaukee , WI that found hundreds of ineligible felons had voted in the last election, and then paired that finding with an unrelated study from Washington State showing that felons in that state had voted Democratic by 3-1.
Viewers of MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," the closest the network comes to a main evening newscast, heard about a greater number of news items that day than from any other program studied, much as was the case on MSNBC earlier in the day. Yet aside from the main stories of the day –— the plane scare,
Iraq , Zion and Jackson — the items were mostly anchor reads of two or three sentences each by Olbermann, usually filtered through his own "take." In some ways "Countdown" is a hybrid of a news program and a talk show — it is Olbermann on the news.
" Spain has the annual running of the bulls at Pamplona . We now apparently have the annual running of the evacuees around the Capitol," he quipped to MSNBC's chief Washington correspondent, Norah O'Donnell. View Olbermann Video Clip (Get Quicktime® Plug-in)
Olbermann was a little more sober-minded in the second segment, an interview about the plane scare with Roger Cressey, a former member of the National Security Council but now a "terrorism analyst" for MSNBC and NBC. Cressey, perhaps more than any other source quoted at length on cable this day, admired the administration's response. And that is the only viewpoint offered to the audience. Indeed, no one we encountered identified as a cable news analyst offered anything but praise for his former agency.
Olbermann: Break the day down into its critical components from your perspective, and give each of these components a letter grade, if you'd be so kind.
Cressey: Well, I think Secret Service and the Capitol Police, they'd get high marks because they did the notification quickly, people moved quickly. I think NORAD and the air defense infrastructure worked well. I also give high marks to the Customs police and others around. I give low marks to the pilot, of course."
Olbermann offers three separate pieces on the Culkin testimony that day — a straight news account in a package by the NBC correspondent Karen Brown, a discussion with Jim Moret of "Inside Edition" about the defense's portrayal of Jackson as "a 10-year-old child star trapped in a 46-year-old man's body," and a sarcastic segment in which Olbermann is auctioning off a "Michael Jackson Puppet" on eBay. Some of the material on Olbermann's show has aired before. The segment on the Iraq bombings, for instance, is a replay of the report by Richard Engel from NBC Nightly News.
Cable Talk Shows
The nightly personality talk programs on each of the cable channels are distinctly different from each other. On CNN, Larry King's long-interview format puts most of the focus on his guests rather than his own personality or viewpoints; Fox's O'Reilly show is mostly about O'Reilly; and MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" is somewhere in between — the guests are more than furniture, but Matthews often is talking more than listening.
On the night of May 11, the topics varied as much as the styles. Larry King devoted the entire hour to his exclusive interview with Secretary of State Rice. While conversational, the discussion was the most serious of those on the talk programs.
O'Reilly offered his views on a gamut of items and with the hardest of edge of any of the talk-show hosts. On the immigration bill: "Well, that's true and dumb. Nobody thinks all illegals are here to commit crimes, but all illegals have something in common: they are illegal. Unfortunately, many in the press, and politics, and on the bench refuse to confront that." On the Jackson trial: "OK, why should I care?" On the murder case in Zion , he offered his own theory of the crime in an interview with Tom Rybarczyk of the Chicago Tribune, who "has been studying the life of Jerry Hobbs."
O'REILLY: Now my theory — and this is just a theory, but I'm going to throw it out there — it's based on, you know, information that we've been able to come up with — is that it wasn't going well with Hollabaugh. [ Laura Hobbs, one of the murdered children, was the daughter of Hobbs and Sheila Hollabaugh.] Hobbs and Hollabaugh, you know, he wanted more than she was able to deliver. And he got angry. And when he gets angry — and this is shown by your reporting — when he gets angry, he turns violent.
Now, what would you do to a mother you wanted to punish? What's the worst thing you could do to her?
RYBARCZYK: It sounds like a sound theory, but I don't know.
O'REILLY: I am not asking to you comment on. I'm just saying this is what — I'm an analyst. I'm able to put this stuff together. This is what we're learning. . . .
And O'Reilly's "most ridiculous item of the day"? The plane scare: "So anyway, there was a little plane, a little plane went into the air space. All the people were evacuated. It was just a little plane. And that was it."
MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" gave audiences even more of the self-promotion within NBC established earlier in the day. Just as viewers of Imus began the day with a promotional interview on Tim Russert's book about his father, they could get more of it in the evening on Hardball. Matthews was even more gushing than Imus had been. "Most of the time when I have to read a book for the show, you know, I do a couple of chapters . . . [but here] I'm crying." And later, "Perfect book. You can get it now."
The rest of "Hardball" was devoted to coverage of a dinner that night honoring Nancy Reagan. The discussion, this one with another NBC correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, had the self-conscious feel of talk one might imagine hearing at a celebrity Washington cocktail party. Matthews asserted that Nancy Reagan "is going to be back in circulation after tonight. . .She is going to be around town . . coming to events. The grieving, I guess, is getting close to over. She'll be up in New York , I'm sure."
1. In our 2004 study of five days of cable over 12 hours of programming, only 5% of stories were updates that contained new information. In our 2005 study, the number was 10%.
2. In a month of cable news studied in 2004, about 28% included reporter opinion (see 2005 Report), again more than in any other medium studied.
3. The only media that offered a greater percent of its newshole to those four stories was the national online Web sites, but all we studied here were the lead stories on the site (usually the top 4). Among those sites, CNN.com, in particular, tended to reflect the narrow focus of its cable channel. About six stories get substantial treatment. The rest of the news agenda is handled with AP wire copy. For newspapers, the content studied was the entire A section and the section-front stories of the metro and business.
4. The ten elements were presence of: background information, future implications, the impact of the story on citizens, a human face to the story, some separation of fact and conjecture, potential action someone could take as a citizen, potential action to take as a consumer, contact information for the journalist or news outlet, the underlying principles at play, where to go for additional information.
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text: On April 14, hundreds of school girls, most between the ages of 16 and 18, were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria by the Islamist armed group Boko Haram. Now there are reports that the girls are being sold into sexual slavery or forced "marriage"! Take action now: Nigerian authorities need to know that the world stands with the girls' families in demanding their immediate release. Their rights – and the rights of all of Nigeria's children -- to education and to be protected from violence must be safeguarded! The mothers of the abducted girls and their supporters have been marching on the nation's capital Abuja demanding action. Your voice is needed! Read More


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ANTI-fracking campaigners have reacted furiously to a proposed new law that would make it easier for firms to drill under people's homes.
The Government's Infrastructure Bill could include measures to change the law so companies would not need permission from homeowners to drill under houses and land for shale oil and gas.
It is intended to remove a stumbling block for shale developers, who are already facing a 'legal block' of thousands of people across the country denying them permission under trespass laws to drill under their properties.
If fracking is given the go-ahead, massive reserves of underground shale gas are lying along the M65 corridor.
The British Geological Survey's study of shale gas resources in Lancashire doubled estimates of reserves and extended the potential drilling area from Blackpool and the Fylde across the county.
But opponents have highlighted the potential for mini earthquakes, water contamination and gas coming through the taps.
The move, announced in the Queen's Speech yesterday, sparked protests, with campaigners expected outside Burnley Town Hall last night ahead of a council meeting.
And in the Cotswolds, campaigners from Greenpeace held a protest outside the home of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Danielle Kay, from East Lancashire Against Fracking, said: "It worries me. I am gravely concerned.
"I seriously think if fracking is allowed to go ahead we are jeopardising our water, our air and our ability to grow agriculture.
"I do not think we have a future if fracking goes ahead.
"I think the Government is being very short-sighted and it outrages me they are ploughing it through when the public is so opposed to is. It is very scary."
Blackburn MP Jack Straw has been a keen advocate of fracking in East Lancashire – and supports the Infrastructure Bill. He added: "I think it will produce benefits for the Lancashire community. What is crucial is that communities get a reasonable share of the revenue stream."


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THE lead singer of Dodgy is looking forward to feeling at home when he performs at this year's Malvern Rocks.
Nigel Clark is stepping out in a solo show as part of the third instalment of the festival which returns to 17 venues throughout the town from Friday to Sunday, July 25-27.
He's looking forward to his set at the Great Malvern Hotel on the final night at 10pm before Freaky Trigger and the Malvern Rocks All Stars deliver the wrap party at 11pm.
"I've never played there before and to be closing the weekend is a real privilege," he said.
Nigel, who originally hails from Redditch, feels drawn to the Malvern Hills and all that goes with them, with their influence seeping into Dodgy's music.
"I travel a lot these days and there's no prettier sight than seeing the Malverns as I drive up and down the M5 towards home.
"We have a new song on our next album about hills and it mentions the Malverns and how they watch over us and ultimately give us strength by understanding mankind's weakness. Pretty abstract but beautiful all the same."
Dodgy recorded their latest album, Stand Up In A Cool Place, in nearby Severn Stoke and a couple of the tracks making reference to the hill range, something Nigel says is down to his purchase of a book entitled The Folklore of Worcestershire.
"As you get older, ironically one gets more into history and I found lots of stories/folklore that could be made into song. As I'm from Worcestershire it's important that I embrace its culture both past, present and possibly future - who knows?"
His setlist will draw from his solo albums, Make Believe Love and 21st Century Man, a few covers and some Dodgy numbers.
"I always admire solo artists as it takes such a lot to stand up on stage and bare your soul or innermost feelings to an audience. Its not easy and that is why we do it."
Bands from the Three Counties will be joined by those from as far away as Doncaster, Brighton and London, while revellers can enjoy official Malvern Rocks ales from Malvern Hills Brewery and the Friday Beer Co.
Festival badges, wristbands and t-shirts are also available.
For more information, go to malvernrocks.com.


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The Beat comes out as a really nifty little handset. There's plenty of talk-time available and if you can get and keep signal, the sound quality, from both calls and the media player, surely will not disappoint you. If you can get past the low quality screen, uncomfortable keypad, and the weak reception then surely enough, this will be a great little handset.


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Biologist Florian Weise leads the research and conservation teams for the N/a'an ku sê Foundation, which works to protect and improve the lives of the people and wildlife of Namibia.
With six free-ranging large carnivore species as well as about 3,500 commercial livestock farms, human-carnivore conflicts are inevitable in Namibia. The resulting persecution of perceived conflict predators (mainly cheetah and leopard) is often unselective and can have grave consequences for populations.
However, many landowners are looking for solutions to protect their livestock from depredation and are willing to co-exist with cheetahs, leopards, and lions if losses stay within acceptable levels.
Weise's work focuses on effective conflict mitigation tools that are founded on applied research and monitoring of large predators. Both traditional and novel techniques are employed and empirically tested on livestock ranches. The project provides direct assistance and technical expertise through consultations with affected landowners in order to increase tolerance of cheetahs and leopards and thus ensure the long-term survival of viable populations of these species in Namibia's stock farming areas.
Conflict is often accelerated by the fact that livestock protection measures are inadequate. Where this is the case, the following cost-effective and practical improvements are encouraged: suitable guardian animals and herders, thorn-bush kraals for vulnerable livestock, use of traditional aggressive livestock breeds, and application of lion scat as a bio-repellent in calving areas. Combinations of these measures have resulted in reduction of livestock losses of up to 88 percent%.
Emphasis is always placed on proactive conflict prevention rather than symptomatic, reactive large carnivore management. The researchers GPS-tag free-ranging carnivores and share movement data with landowners on a daily basis.
In general, the idea is to work together with landowners and create more information about carnivores on livestock lands. New insights can subsequently be applied to devise a tailor-made coexistence strategy for each farm. This approach has already proven effective in reducing motivations to persecute large predators.
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Children can endure great sorrow and even trauma in their lives. For some children, the distress of certain events may be too much to bear. As a result, they may develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Fortunately, there is hope for children who suffer trauma. Ask a trusted counselor or healthcare provider for help.
Posttraumatic stress disorder may follow a severe trauma. This may be something the child experiences directly. It may also be an event your child sees or hears about. Even violent movies or TV programs can have a traumatic effect. Symptoms of PTSD often appear a few weeks after the trauma. But sometimes they may occur months, or even years, later.
If your child has PTSD, he or she may have:
Terrifying nightmares or "flashbacks" about the event. Flashbacks are vivid memories that seem as real as the trauma itself.
A fear of people or places connected with the event. Your child may also seem withdrawn and unfeeling.
Angry outbursts. Your child also might have trouble sleeping or concentrating, or seem on edge. He or she might complain of headaches or other health problems.
Children with PTSD can be greatly helped by special types of individual and group therapy as well as by certain medications. A form of therapy called trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in both individual and group settings for treating PTSD in children. Children with PTSD can benefit from certain other forms of therapy also. Being with other children may make your child feel less alone and will help your child work through his or her pain. Medications may help control symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, and depression associated with PTSD and help the child live a more normal life.
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Only in Texas can a cold front come through and drop the temperatures to the upper 80's, but that's what we had yesterday so we took advantage of it and grilled up a quick steak.
I hear that hibiscus aren't supposed to last through the winter (except for down in South Texas and warmer climes). Tell that to the one we've had for 3 years. It didn't make it through this past winter, so Mrs. G picked one up Sunday. Got our first bloom on it yesterday.
Ok, now onto that steak. Ribeye with Red Eye Express (that's what the Mrs asked for) cooked at 600F for 2 minutes, rotated and another 2 minutes, then flipped and cooked for another minute. Pulled it off, put in the AR and cooked it on the top level for about another 2 minutes.
Let the steak rest and cooked up some zukes
After about 10 minutes, I checked the steak. Overshot my mark. It was at 136.8, was aiming for 135. Close enough.
Served it up with some mashed taters. Really hate those brown plates. Doesn't make the food look quite so appetizing and you really can't tell how pink the steak was, but it was done perfectly to Mrs. Gs standards and as a reward for all my work I got the bone side.
Just realized this morning that I missed the June block party for steak. Whoops. Somehow we went a whole month without cooking steaks, how did that happen? Oh well. We'll get in the July party.


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3Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus* by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God. 3Jesus answered him, Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.* 4Nicodemus said to him, How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mothers womb and be born? 5Jesus answered, Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.* 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, You* must be born from above.* 8The wind* blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
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A Samburu moran stands next to a fattened black bull in the remote northern Kenyan village of Wamba in Samburu. British High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner, will accept the bull from the Namunyak women's group during a ceremony to bless and celebrate the birth of Britain's Prince George.
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A dominant Lewis Hamilton is refusing to get carried away and believe a second Formula One title is his for the taking this season.
Following a hat-trick of successive wins for the first time in his F1 career, Hamilton is red-hot favourite to make it four in a row after emerging quickest in practice for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.
Hamilton was almost half a second quicker than Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, with the rest virtually nowhere.
Even though rival teams are boasting major upgrade packages to their cars, Mercedes still appear in a class of their own.
At this early stage it appears inconceivable Hamilton or Rosberg will not win the title, but the Briton is not resting on his laurels.
He said: "We're only 20 per cent of the way into the season.
"We've a long, long way to go before we see the light at the end of the tunnel.
"We can't get ahead of ourselves too early on, so we'll take it one race at a time, which is what we're doing.
"Renault may all of a sudden pick up some pace with their engine, others might improve their cars. You just don't know what to expect.
"But what we can guarantee is we'll be giving it everything we've got. If we have a gap we're going to try to maximize it."
If Hamilton can make it four consecutive victories with a maiden win in Barcelona, he will then have F1 history on his side.
A driver who has won four races in a row in one season - and it has happened on 19 previous occasions - has gone on to win the title that year.
Despite that, Hamilton said: "I've not really thought about it, just as I didn't think about the opportunity to win three (in a row).
"It will be amazing if we manage to do it, especially as I've never won here in Barcelona, a track which I really enjoy driving.
"I'm just hoping this weekend we have another shot at winning, and we get a good race out of it as well.
"To come here and say, 'Four in a row, if I get that, I'll win the championship', is a load of bull. I don't focus on that.
"I focus on the job in hand. I'm trying to do the same as I have done every race weekend - improve on the areas I can and hope we have another strong weekend.
"At some stage you're going to have a bad weekend, but that can't affect the rest of your year.
"You just have to come up with the correct approach, take one step at a time, get the car where you need it to be and remain focused on trying to get that win, that pole position.
"And if it doesn't come together then you analyse."
Whereas Hamilton is riding the crest of a wave at the moment, four-times champion Sebastian Vettel suffered another low on Friday.
Vettel had most of the day off as his Red Bull incurred a wiring loom fault after four laps of the first session which then sidelined him for all of the second.
Vettel said: "We had to change the chassis loom, which is a big job so I wasn't able to go out in the afternoon - a small failure, but a big consequence.
"There was nothing new on that part of the car, just something new that happened in that area.
"Luckily it happened today (rather than tomorrow), but unfortunately we lost the chance to prepare for Sunday with two cars.
"So I have to rely on what Daniel (Ricciardo) did today and get into the rhythm straight away."
Ricciardo was third quickest overall, but almost a second behind Hamilton's pace, with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso 1.5secs adrift in fourth.
McLaren's Jenson Button, second quickest on the hard compound tyre in the morning session, dropped to seventh fastest on the quicker medium rubber, a staggering 2.3secs behind Hamilton.
As for Marussia's Max Chilton, on a run of 23 consecutive finishes, his second session was a troubled one in which he was plagued by engine trouble before beaching his car in the gravel late on to finish 19th and 5.6secs down.


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Ryman League division one north
Their draw at Barrows Farm means Witham Town have now only had one defeat in their last nine Ryman League division one north games, but they will be kicking themselves after surrendering a two-goal lead in the second half.
Witham scored twice in three minutes early in the first half to give the hosts a mountain to climb.
On 14 minutes a free-kick on the right by James Stevens was met by Tom Devaux, who ghosted in completely unmarked at the far post to head past Hawks keeper Bert Bossu.
And it was 2-0 on 16 minutes with the goal of the night.
A mistake by Hawks centre-half Michael Akande was latched on to by Paul White and he slipped the ball through to Emeka Onwubiko.
The Witham striker then flicked the ball on his left to where Lewis Godbold was waiting to hit a sensational strike from 25 yards out which flew past Bossu and into the top left corner.
However, Piers Wixon, playing his first game for over a month after a hamstring injury, gave Harlow hope with a goal on the hour.
Bossu's long clearance was neatly flicked on to Wixon, who charged through a hole in the Witham defence before finished well into the bottom left corner from just outside the box with a powerful strike.
It was all-square on 69 minutes after Mitchell Das' long cross from the left went right across the box and eventually found Ben Hart.
The young Harlow winger showed composure before smashing a shot from 12 yards out across goal and into the same corner that Wixon found to make sure it was a case of two points dropped for Witham.
Witham stayed ninth in the division one north table and are now due to host second-placed Grays Athletic at Spa Road on Saturday (kick-off 3pm).


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I am rich today with autumn's gold,
All that my covetous hands can hold;
Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod,
A goldfinch on a milkweed pod,
Huge golden pumpkins in the field
With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield,
Golden apples heavy on the trees
Rivaling those of Hesperides,
Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread
Over all like butter on warm bread;
And the harvest moon will this night unfold
The streams running full of molten gold.
Oh, who could find a dearth of bliss
With autumn glory such as this!
- Gladys Harp
About the image: White-throated sparrow in a bush in my backyard
About the words: I enjoy reading seasonal poems and this is one that I thought described autumn beautifully.