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HINGHAM - An experienced boater listed as vice commodore of the Winthrop Yacht Club pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he was drunk Saturday when he crashed a powerboat into a sailboat moored off Hull, sending one of his passengers overboard to her death.

Lloyd W. Thompson, 39, of Winthrop, is accused of operating a boat while drunk and negligent homicide. Bail was set in Hingham District Court at $1,500 cash.

One of Thompson’s passengers, Regina Mosher, 55, of Winthrop, died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston from a brain injury sustained after she was jolted out of the motor boat at impact, about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the Allerton Harbor mooring basin, according to Hull police.

Thompson smelled of alcohol, his eyes were glassy, and his speech was slurred, police said. With Thompson’s permission, his blood was drawn that night at South Shore Hospital so that it could be analyzed for the presence of drugs and alcohol, police said. Results were still pending yesterday, said police Chief Richard Billings.

Thompson is “absolutely devastated by the tragic loss of a friend,’’ his lawyer, James J. Cipoletta, said in an interview yesterday. He said Thompson has a friendship going back years with Mosher’s family.

“We believe the evidence will show this was a fluke accident, not a crime,’’ he said.

Thompson is scheduled to be back in court for a pretrial hearing Oct. 12.

Thompson told police that he and nine passengers left the Winthrop Yacht Club that evening for a ride on a 25-foot Privateer powerboat.

With Thompson at the controls, they cruised around Spinnaker Island, an area where Thompson has been boating for many years, he told police.

Under a clear sky, Thompson suddenly spotted a white sailboat - named the Wild Thing Boston - moored in his path.

Thompson told police he tried to swerve by “turning hard to port and throttling back, but it was too late.’’

According to police, Thompson told them he was traveling at 17 knots - about 19 miles per hour - at the time of the collision.

He said he did not see the channel markers before the crash. “Honestly, no, I don’t remember laying eyes on them,’’ Thompson told police.

The right side of Thompson’s boat struck the sailboat. He was knocked off his feet and injured his leg. Two people were knocked overboard: Mosher and Danielle Buharali, 32, of Waltham, police said.

Thompson maneuvered the boat so the other passengers could pull the women from the water. Mosher was unconscious. Thompson told police that it took 10 minutes to get both women back in the boat.

Buharali was treated at South Shore Hospital and released.

Thompson allegedly admitted to police he had been drinking alcohol that evening, but insisted it was a small number of drinks - “two or three, tops,’’ including one drink at dinner and no more than two later.

Two other passengers interviewed by police said they saw Thompson drinking small amounts of alcohol; another passenger said she saw him drinking only Pepsi.

After the crash, investigators recovered several empty beer cans, an empty wine box, and wine glasses from the powerboat, according to police.

Massachusetts Environmental Police impounded the powerboat and it has been moved to a secure facility in Cohasset, police said.

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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely young daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.

Notes about Franklin's parade

Franklin has a terrific Independence Day parade.  Like many other communities, the turnout and display of civic pride and patriotism is wonderful to see. I’m not exactly This Just In with this one, but here are some observations from this year’s event.

: The World War II Veterans, especially the gentleman with the sign on his car that said he was “90 years young today.”

GREAT CHOICE: Former Mayor Tom Taylor as Grand Marshal.

BEST CANDY TOSSED:  By State Rep. Ken Skowronski, a small bag of Jelly Bellies with a Packer, Badger, NASCAR and Hunting Opening Dates schedule attached.

HE DIDN’T THROW ROSES: But FPS Super Steve Patz did throw candy to us.

WAS IT SOMETHING I SAID? Alderman and School Board President Janet Evans was so busy handing out her goodies that she almost breezed right by me. I’m glad we got a chance to briefly exchange pleasantries!

SOMETHING I DIDN’T SAY: When Paul Ryan walked by to many cheers I yelled, “Keep up the good work!” In retrospect, that was pretty lame and not very original. I should have thanked him for his destruction of the IRS Commissioner on Capitol Hill.

YES SHE’S REALLY GROWN: State Senator Mary Lazich held our little Kyla the day after she was born. As she hugged Kyla in the street on July 4 she couldn’t believe that was over five years ago.

SIGH OF RELIEF: All along the route, men were pleased to know they didn’t have the worst looking legs…not with Mayor Steve Olson walking the parade.

I MISSED SUPERVISOR MARK BORKOWSKI: I brought along some toast just for him.

VERY NICE: People standing for the American flag.

THANKS A LOT M’AAM: One of those dancing Grandmas somehow spotted my bare feet. I had removed my sandals and she thought she’d give some motherly advice about sunscreen. Had already done that. But my tootsies didn’t start to feel uncomfortably warm until she came along.

IT’S FREE, BUT EVEN SO: You wouldn’t take literature about churches or dance or Tae Kwon Do classes if someone tried to pawn it off at your front door, but you’ll grab it at a parade.

JOHN PHILLIP NO-SHOW: The bands are always great to see and hear. How about something patriotic?

MOM, DAD, THERE’S CANDY FOR EVERYBODY: No one gets left behind. So no need for kids to run after and pounce on candy thrown in the direction of other kids.

SUGGESTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR: Starting on time would be nice. Can we avoid those long breaks between units? There were far too many of them. And the ROAD CLOSED sign needs to be moved from the middle of the street before the opening motorcyclists are almost on top of it.

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Food Drive - for Human Concerns of South Milwaukee

June 26, 2012

Inaugural: Food Drive

The Businesses of Tower Square in Oak Creek WI.
2191 E. Rawson Ave
Will be hosting a FOOD DRIVE for
Human Concern of South Milwaukee.

We are holding this event to bring awareness and donations to meet the needs of Human Concern.
As you know hard times have fallen on a lot of people in the past few years and Human Concern was there to help.
There resources are limited and are always in need of donations.
Please come and enjoy the afternoon events

Please bring a nonperishable food items to donate and support Human Concern.
The event will be on Saturday July 14th 2012 Noon until 5pm

Division Stunt BMX Team 3 shows
Music & Announcer
USA Tae Kwon Do 2 Little Dragon Demo's between BMX shows
Bouncy: Donated from Fun Services in Oak Creek
Subman from Subway
Money man from Guaranty Bank

Drawing: / Specials
Potter's Piggly Wiggly: WIN FREE FOOD
Domino's: $3.99 Med Cheese Pizza's and 5 x $10 Gift Cards,
Subway: 5 x $5 gift cards, Free Regular Footlong Sub for a month (one a week),
6" sub $2.99 - BLT, HAM, Cold Cut, Veggie (Noon till 5pm)
USA Tae Kwon Do: 2 private lessons, 1 month free w/uniform
*see stores for details*

Potters Piggly Wiggly
Rawson Ave Subway
USA Tae Kwon Do
Guaranty Bank
Fun Services of Oak Creek

Contact Info:
Kris Schell / Human Concern 414-764-5340
Bill Duchaine / Subway 414-766-9969

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idea for the busy executive: the assistant-managed whitelist

by Derek Sivers

idea : human assistant creates whitelist

For the very-busy person that can afford an assistant:

Any email sent to that is *not* on CEO's whitelist, gets bounced to

Assistant goes through CEO's email, replies to some, deletes some, redirects some to other departments. Then only the ones that assisant knows for sure that CEO personally should be seeing, the assistant will personally add that email address to CEO's whitelist, and redirect the email back over to

CEO will know that every email has either been approved by his/her assistant, or is a continuation of a previous conversation with an approved person.

Once someone's on the whitelist, the assistant doesn't need to monitor emails from this person anymore.

It's very much an email version of the old classic "secretary that blocks access to the CEO's office". Once she recognizes old friends and trusted clients, they can go right in. But all new strangers are blocked until approved by her.

I'm probably not the first to think of this, am I?

2004-11-16 05:11:22

I use a similar system on my email.

I have an "Active" folder which only allows whitelisted people. Then I have my general inbox for catching things that aren't whitelisted. Then I have my normal spam box. I haven't had a misclassified legitimate message in months.


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>> this week on the journal, editorial report, president obama's fuzzy math. he says closing the loophole isn't enough and that the tax rates must go up for top earners. does he really want to avoid the coming tax cliff? plus, the petraeus scandal further muddies the benghazi probe. was the account of this in any way related to his affair. and the u.s. on track to be be the largest oil producer, but will the obama administration let it happen or turn an oil boom into a bust? welcome to the journal editorial report, i'm paul
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gigot. headed into friday, fiscal cliff talks with congressional leaders, president obama gave us a hit list of his negotiations strategies, repeating his intention to immediately raise tax rates on top earners. >> when it comes to the top 2%, what i'm not going to do is to extend further a tax cut for folks who don't need it which would cost close to a trillion dollars and it's very difficult to see how you make up that trillion dollars if we're serious about deficit reduction, just by closing loopholes and deductions. the math tends not to work. >> paul: but does the president's math add up? let's ask wall street journal columnist bill mcguerin, and analyst steve moore and washington columnist kim strassel. so, kim, the president won reelection, was this the hand
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of magnimty reaching out to the republicans? >> it's crazy, it's what the president says all the time. if you listen to the press conference, he seems to say the biggest wish list for his liberal partisans has become docile letting these tax rates expire. while the republicans have moved, they are offering revenue, this is a change from their position, while the frame work is potentially there for a deal, the president is saying no compromise, no compromise. >> paul: what's his strategy, bill, here? what is he thinking? obviously, if we don't get a deal we do go off the tax cliff and the with the consequential danger to the economy. >> kim is right, you're right, the math doesn't add up, the politics adds up. $. >> how so? >> i'm afraid what's going to happen we're not only going to get bad policy, a tax increase and so forth. but we're going to-- the republican party as opposed to bad policy are also going to get the blame for the consequences and this is why.
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because if the economy goes into the tank because we get the stuff, and the republicans will, because we don't get it, whatever way, the republicans are going to be blamed for being obstinate if they oppose some of the tax increases or if they go along, their own base is going to revolt over the tax increases. so, it's a no-win situation and the reason is, as kim sort of alluded to, this is a president who uses the word compromise as a substitute for actually compromising. and that's, that's solidified by a press corps that doesn't ask him a single question, what are you willing to give. you know, when john boehner appears, they say are you willing to accept higher rates. no one says what are you going to do about entitlements or anything, there's no question of the president whether he will compromise and what that would look like. >> paul: steve, what do you think the republicans ought to do here? is there a way out for them or are they going to be pushed back into a corner where they
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have no choice, but to concede that they have to raise tax rates or else go over the cliff and get blamed for that? >> well, it's a tough situation for them. there's no question about it because as you know, the default position, if we don't do anything is for the taxes to go up on everybody on january 1st, and that's something i think both sides want to avoid. it's very interesting, the thing that happened this week to start the week, was who was the first person that barack obama met with in the white house since his election, the labor unions, the labor block, that tells a lot who is driving policy at least at the start of the second term? and the labor unions basically said we want no compromise on this, we'll take it to the people. so, i believe, paul, that this president is sporting for a fight on this. he wants to take this case to the people and the republicans, kim is right, the republicans have moved a long way and say, look, we'll negotiate this, but when i talked to minority leader this
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past weekend in the senate, mitch mcconnell, he says we'll give anything, but one thing we're not going to do is raise these tax rates because they generally believe, and i think they're right about this, raising those tax rates could cause a double dip recession. >> paul: what's the alternative. if the president insists on raising tax rates and the republicans say no. all the president has to do is let the taxes go up on january 1st, he gets the tax increase anyway and beat the heck out of the republicans, for blaming whatever economic consequences happen and then in two months, they're coming back to him and saying, okay, we give in. but he's already got the tax rate. so my question to you, steve, is what's the way out here? is there a way out that if you see it for the republicans? >> well, the republicans and we showed in our editorial this week, the numbers do add up. the republicans should basically say, look, we will close the loopholes. if do you that the people that get hit the hardest are the rich. but i think the most important
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outcome is to make sure that barack obama does own this economy. i mean, you've seen what happened to the stock market in the last week, since obama was reelected and he's been talking about raising the rates and we've lost over 650 points on the dow jones, so, i'm not so sure that the investment community or even the public really wants those rates to rise as much as barack obama does. >> and just on the math. if you close, if you put a cap on deductions of 50,000 a year per individual. over ten years the estimate is you get almost 800 billion in tax revenue, which is-- >> right, which is center left operation, but, that's, and that's roughly the same as you get from raising the tax rates the president-- >> looks you've outlined on the editorial base several possible compromises, the truth is that there are compromises that could be made, but i don't think that the president is interested in those, the actual economic things. this is a political fight that he wants, that he's pushing and he has a lot of cards. >> kim, so you think we're going over the cliff or not right now? what are the odds. >> look, i think the president
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is playing a slightly dangerous game in that, if his argument or his bet here is that the republicans are going to be more responsible than him, he better hope they are, because otherwise, he could end up getting some blame for pushing us over the cliff. >> yeah, that's right. when the things tend to go bad, both sides get the blame and i think it's a high risk game particularly with economic growth. when we come back, a week after his resignation, former cia director david petraeus has to hiestify behind closed doors about benghazi.
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>> a week after resigning his post, former cia director david petraeus testified behind closed doors friday on the september 11th attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi libya that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. and his testimony for the house and senate intelligence
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committees bizarre revelations about the four-star general's affair with paula broadwell. we're back with phil and kim strassel and joining matt, what have we learned now? the election's over this week, about the benghazi attack. >> the drip, drip of information keeps coming out and coming out. and we've learned far more about the personal life than benghazi the last two months and the important thing this week, especially on friday was that general petraeus was reported to have told the senate intelligence committee in closed hearings that he thought it was terrorism within 24 hours. which questioned the narrative put out by the white house, subsequently and for the eight days afterwards, they said, no, no, al-qaeda had nothing to do with it. this was the fault of the, you know, anti-islam video on youtube. >> paul: video.
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>> yeah. >> paul: bill, does that mesh with what we've been told the cia had been telling susan rice? >> i think the real problem for general petraeus in this story is that it not only does not mesh with what the white house was saying, it doesn't mesh with what we're told general petraeus said in the immediate aftermath, where he is said to have talked about a spontaneous flash mob. >> to members of congress. >> to members of congress behind closed doors as well and this is the problem. it's not only that we know that that's not true now, it's that at the time there were a lot of other indications that indicate that was not true, denied by the libyan prime minister, the cia station chief called it an act of terror. we had the fbi and i believe the national center for counterterrorism also giving briefings. >> paul: that's right. >> saying this. why was general petraeus's testimony then so at odds with other parts of the community? >> but does this, would this give-- what does it mean for, say,
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susan rice and the administration then? is this, does this help them politically by shielding them or does petraeus here saying i thought it was a terrorist attack, does that mean this puts, for example, susan rice's statements more up to scrutiny? >> well, i think answers the fundamental question, did they deliberately mislead on this case for political reasons because they were driving the narrative that al-qaeda had been decimated and the war, war was receding or a question of incompetence. neither of those two things is good for the administration although it's after the election, so, they can get the consequences. >> let's take a look at the president talking about susan rice, the u.n. ambassador who many think he will nominate to succeed hillary clinton as secretary of state. >> for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on
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intelligence that she had received and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous. >> paul: kim, that sure sounds like a president who is ready to nominate susan rice for the state department and my sources suggest that that's exactly what he's going to do. of course, my source haves been wrong before, but if-- and i've been wrong before. but if he does that, is this going to be a really big fight? >> oh, it's going be to be a huge fight because you have had republicans come out already and say, you drop her in the senate nomination battle and then we are going to go to the wall on this one, but i do believe you're right, not only is the president taking an unusual step of devoting during the press conference, but all types of forums to defend susan rice and make the case for her, in this case, you're probably
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right, paul. >> paul: so, what do you think, matt, as we go forward. are we missing something here in terms of the larger focus on petraeus and his personal problems? what, is there a larger failing here about the administration in benghazi that may, for example, implicate secretary of state clinton, who has gotten off-- she says, from peru she wanted to take responsibility. but what does that mean? she's not testified at all, not really followed up at all. >> well, i think you have-- it really means there's been a -- they would love to blame it on petraeus,'s now been disgraced and out of the office and blame it on the cia. the problem was this goes back to the white house and certainly to hillary clinton, we have a failing. the failing was on the day of the attacks and a broader failure of our policy in libya. we were dragged into this, intervening last year, we very much disengaged early on. we didn't support the pro western secular government in
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libya trying to the militias and suffered a terrible defeat in benghazi and forced to pull out the cia mission there and pull out-- >> not helping the opposition we've creeded the ground to the qataris who armed them who they favor and an islamist ins libya. >> and one point that relates to susan rice and the larger point. the president said why are you blaming susan rice who knows nothing about benghazi. why was susan rice chosen it go out there if she knows about it. why was not mrs. clinton tn or the deputies, either mo people who knew things didn't want to be on the record or read what she was given. >> she knew she was a loyal political operative and do exactly what-- >> where all of this leads to, whether it's general petraeus or hillary, there are questions whether people were being truthful or compromised in some ways and that's not good for us.
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>> paul: let's hope people keep digging. when we come back, could it be good news, the report that u.s. is on track to surpass saudi arabia as the world's largest oil producer, but will the obama administration regulate this boom until it goes bust?
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♪ >> we thought we'd bring you some good news this week. the international energy agency reported monday that the the u.s. is likely to surpass saudi arabia as the world's largest oil producer as early as 20/20 and predicts that the u.s. will increase production to 11.1 million barrels a day by 2020, up to about 6.9 million barrels in 2008. that is if the obama
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administration allows it. so, steve, you've been out to the shale in north dakota where it's coming from, and fracking so-called, and drilling and private risk taking. what does it mean for the u.s. energy markets? >> well, this is such a great, great pro american stir and by the way, paul, it's not just oil, it's also natural gas. >> paul: right, sure. >> my goodness we have more natural gas than the rest of the world combined and it's driven by the technological improvements and a five or ten year technological lead than the countries we're competing with. it's interesting, paul, if you look the at the last three or four years, now what industry has created more than any other industry in the united states. >> paul: the electric car industry, steve? (laughter) >> no, not that one. oil and gas and the thing that's so amazing, the president is doing almost everything he can to try to
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hold this back with regulations and with not allowi allowing permitting most of the oil and gas development is going out on private land and where the president has to get with the program because we could literally create millions more jobs if we get this story right. >> paul: jim, the consequences here economically are big for downstream production, things like manufacturing. >> right. >> that had left the, i talked to one ceo, dow chemical, who had planned years ago never to build another plant in the united states and now making a 4 billion dollar bet on manufacturing and chemical production in the the united states. that's extraordinary. you're seeing that all over places like pennsylvania, and ohio. so, this could really be good. what's the risk politically in the coming years? >> to whom? >> to this, to this oil boom, natural gas boom? >> well, the risk of-- from the obama administration is enormous. i think one thing that's interesting about this eia
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report is based on current assumption, it doesn't take into account what we could be getting if we were actually actively going after natural resources which, by the way, prior generations of americans set aside, exactly for us to use in places like in alaska, on shore the gulf, off shore off the coast, but the president has resolutely refused to tap any of those, what you see, is an administration thinking hard to think after way to wiggle into the fracking regulatory arena which up till now has been monitored and overseen entirely by the states with great success and that's got a lot of president's environmental allies unhappy and they feel they don't have control and so they're pushing the administration to insert itself into the area. >> the irony, is that natural gas production, bill, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and replaces coal, which is carbon intensive. this could be a win-win for environmentalists and for
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people who want cheaper energy. >> although if you look at the environmental websites. >> they hate it, especially the-- >> the issue here, are we going to be texas or california? and satisfy for for four years, the president followed colorado's model. california has a lot of reserves and they've created what, 20,000 oil jobs in the the last ten years, where texas created 200,000 and these are fairly well paying jobs so that's the issue before the obama administration, the second point is the market works. the reason that we can now extract shale, not just technology, but with oil prices higher, it becomes economically possible to to these things that we wouldn't price-wise be possible beforehand. >> well, we've been handed this incredible gift by mother nature. let's hope we don't blow it on the politics. >> we will-- >> we have to take one more break. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. if we want to improve our schools...
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... what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this.
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>> time now for hits and misses of the week. kim, first to you. >> a miss to the federal emergency management agency which announced this week that surprise, it will probably have to ask congress for a bailout for its flood insurance program after hurricane sandy. the national flood insurance program has been broken since inception because it fails to require home owners in low lying areas premiums adequate to cover the cost and as a result encourages more home building in areas like this. federal taxpayers everywhere else have to foot the bill and they're 18 billion in the hole and 12 million thanks to health care sandy and this is one of those other disasters everyone saw coming and congress has nonetheless failed to credibly address. >> matt. >> a hit to the french this week, for recognizing that syrian opposition, fighting a long, drawnout war against president assad has been joined by the turks and the
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gulf states as well which may open up a way to try and arm them and give more support and hopefully the u.s. will soon follow. >> paul: steve? >> the people in miami are hopping mad this week. we just spent 500 million dollars on a new baseball stadium for the miami marlins. they feel double crossed. this week the owner of the team sold off three of their best players in a big cost cutting move. what's ironic about the story, is that the miami dolphins want the taxpayers to pay for renovations for their football stadium down the street in tampa, they want a new baseball stadium all paid for by taxpayers, if you were a floridian would i would say to taxpayers financed stadiums, no mas. >> paul: they briefly, is the u.s. going to intervene in syria? >> no sign of it yet, but before the election didn't want to touch it, but-- >> that'it for this edition of the journal editorial
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report. thanks to my panel and all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, see you right here next week. ♪ >> on fox news watch, i hear you have some questions for me. >> president obama on his first post election news conference taking on tough issues and tough questions from the white house press. >> congratulations, by the way, i've never seen you lose. >> well, maybe not such tough questions, but i did get testy when asked about the white house spin and the benghazi terror attack. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> the president of the united states did not tell the american people the truth about the attacks that took four grave americans' lives that went on for eight, seven hours for which we were totally unprepared. >> how did the media handle this showdown?
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a new scandal involving now former cia director general petraeus and an extramarital affair, a florida socialite, a bare chested fbi agent and is this a concern or a washington smoke screen? >> i don't think anyone on either side of the aisle underestimates the difficulties. >> both sides work to gain the high ground in dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, but the media seem to be one-sided in the details. which side do you think they're on? and it's in with the new, but are the old staying, too. >> oh, you've always asked that question except to mitch mcconnell. >> on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. jove oldman, talk radio and jim pinkerton contributing editor the american conservative magazine, and alan colmes, author of thank
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liberals for saving america and i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> this is about the role she played around four dead americans when it seems to be that the story coming out of the administration and she's the point person, is so disconnected to reality, i don't trust her. and the reason i don't trust her is because i think she knew better and if she did know better she shouldn't be the voice of america. somebody has got to start paying a price around this place, but i am dead set on making sure we don't promote anybody that was an essential player in the benghazi debacle. >> as i've said before, she made an appearance at the request of the white house, in which she gave her best
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understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her. if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. and i'm happy to have that discussion with them, but for them to go after the u.n. ambassador, who had nothing to do with benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received and besmirch her reputation is outrageous. >> that began with south carolina senator lindsey graham giving his view of ambassador susan rice and her role in the administration spin on the benghazi terror attacks and the president's reactions to those statements at his first news conference since being reelected. mr. obama, defending ms. rice, but his defense has actually added more to the controversy.
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senator graham reacted to the president by saying, mr. president, don't think for one minute i don't hold you responsible for benghazi, i think you failed as commander-in-chief before, during and after the attack. so much to get to first on this, jim, the showdown between the two senators, graham and mccain and the president. abc's terry moran called it an obama smackdown. "the washington post" john mccain's benghazi, and some say it's about mccain being bitter about losing to obama four years ago. >> i think five names and a conflagration, and number one petraeus and broadwell and number two, benghazi, benghazi, petraeus, broadwell, military ethics, mccain obama reduction, and fifth, the susan rice story, which life imitates art.
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if you go back and watch the movie advise and content shall the novel then turned movie, it was a south carolina senator opposing the president's nomination as secretary of state that is the whole dynamic of the movie and i'm it willing you, find it on youtube or net flicks because it really parallels, echo out. >> and if it's a media we'll turn it into a media review. the media had an opportunity to ask hard questions and didn't get any at the news conference, why not. >> the format is not controlled to follow-up. he picks the people he's going to call on. people can't respond and say, wait a minute, mr. president, we want a follow-up on this. this is his chosen forum. i'm surprised he hasn't used it more, because we do know that until the election, he was actually hiding from the media on this issue.
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>> alan, maybe you can explain the president's-- >> i'm here to speak for the president. >> and his defense ambassador rice added fuel to the fire. you heard him say that the white house sent her out on to the sunday morning talk shows and then he says don't go after her because she didn't have anything to do with benghazi, so why is she on the sunday morning talk shows. >> she represents the administration, and the administration decided to put her out on the sunday morning talk shows, what was her involvement with benghazi, was she part of a coverup. >> of course not. there were strains of intelligence coming in. and david ignatius washington post, reporting early on there was a report video. the president himself used aed word terror in the rose garden and the day after. it seems like the right wing media is trying to make something here, tried to do it during the the election as if it would somehow change the results of election and which
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it didn't. and continuing the rap on the president that i don't think was a coverup. >> and then the media seemed to love the defense of ambassador rice, the president. one said, there is no damsel in distress and obama's eternalistic bravado of a top administrative official is going to come back to haunt him. she's a big girl in a big position and she should defend herself and what she said. >> i don't think it's necessarily a right wing smackdown of susan rice, it's the liberal media make it go about john mccain's comments about susan rice and john mccain never used the word filibuster. he said he would have serious issues susan rice as secretary of state. i agree with judy, what is susan rice doing representing the administration on these talk shows? she had nothing to to do with this, why is she the point person. >> it's not her fault.
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maybe have an administration with putting her out there, but not to say she shouldn't be secretary of state because she's somehow wrong here, but we have a fair amount of excavating to do, and on friday, peter king, i think an exclusive for fox and megyn kelly saying listen we now know that the cia, peter king knows that the cia initial chronology, benghazi's acts was altered somewhere along the way, did susan rice alter it herself, does she know who altered it. and the hearings under oath are going to be epic, somehow the petraeus version, which petraeus is willing to explain now that he's liberated from the obama administration, rice her fate is going to answer for a whole bunch of coverups. if she's such a shrinking violet and needs the president
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to defend herself and doesn't know about benghazi or libya, why would she be nominated secretary of state. would you nominate such a light weight. >> and she's not out on this particular issue, it's not a sexist issue-- >> he didn't do that for eric holder on fast and furious, did he, alan? >> we're going to answer or try to, so many other questions about this story, including the angle jim just brought up, whatever happened to david petraeus
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. >> after a long eight months period of what you might call silence and after the reelection, the president holds his 16th full-blown news conference of his president sich sy. if you do the math the president plays golf six times more often than he gives news conferences and the news conferences don't last as long, don't take as long as a
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round of golf. why is he so reticent to get up to the press corps and does the press corps use the time-wisely. >> as we've seen in this week's debacle. the press corps does not use the time. and this is what he can control. this is the pattern for the president, goes for the soft media and soft questions and his popularity rises as the number of questions about his policy continue to increase. >> jake tapper at abc asked him some tough questions. our ed henry asked him some tough questions. and then there was this from christy parsons of the chicago tribune. >> thank you, mr. president. and congratulations, by the way. one quick follow-up. >> when i was running for state senate, there. >> that's right i was. >> christy and i go back a ways. >> i've never seen you lose, i wasn't working that one time. >> there you go. (laughter) >> all right, alan, appropriate?
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>> beautiful, beautiful moment. what do you have against love? come on. you of course chose a particular heart warming moment there. this is a president, that sat down with bill o'reilly a couple of times, i don't think he's afraid of the press and to conflate the number of times that he, or some kind of counter punctual things with the number of times he played golf versus the number of times he had a news conference, we can play that game with any president, he's not supposed to have recreation, a pardon me, way to look at that. if playing golf is a horrible thing. >> jon: we report, you decide. >> and the whole thing of this idea that it's a real news conference there, were eight questions, one question no follow-ups, and the reporter at the end i believe from bloomberg tried to ask the president a question and the question listened to the same thing and i'm sorry, i can't answer that, because it would set a precedents. >> it's a good question. >> it's a great question, i can't answer it it. that's unbelievable to me and
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he gets away with it. >> and 16 news conference ises more than bush had. he's had plenty of news conferences, certainly more media available than our last couple of presidents. >> and then we get to the mess involving former general, well, former general and former cia director david petraeus. it was announced, first of all, after the election that he is resigning as head of the cia, because of an extramarital affair. did the press push hard enough on that? and you know, any indications that it helped to snuff out the benghazi-- >> well, headline in washington post, holder defen defends... i think it's been pretty well documented that the fbi and the justice department and everybody else at that level knew all about this and now, we just have to believe attorney general holder and everybody else that nobody at the white house knew until, you know, two days after the election and that the record national television didn't know until election day. these are stories even a fawning press, by the way,
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alan, president obama was last on bill o'reilly in 2008, it's been a while. >> i think he did it once since then during a half time show. >> hard hitting half time. >> everybody watching by the way in the super bowl, but also eric cantor's office-- >> it's an unbelievable beltway juicy story ever, frankly i mentioned earlier and i think you're going to see a change, the first week or so, petraeus had a sympathetic press and all of these reporters been embedded with him, pun intended in iraq and afghanistan, were kind of fans including on the left. once it became clear though late last week that he was going to say that the cia actually did a good job and different talking points you're going to see the press on him turn big time as they say he's the enemy, he's no longer part of obama administration lying about how we didn't know and it's ambiguous. >> jon: bucking the administration line on this is trouble for him, do you think?
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>> well, i think that the mean, the line on general petraeus or director petraeus changed dramatically this week. we did see kind of shock and not awe. shock and horror at the initial reports of why he was stepping down. but now, you're getting an examination by many in the media of the relationship between the media and general petraeus and his great ability to manipulate and curry favor with the media. michael hastings had an extremely interesting piece in buzz feed that pointed out that some of the people who wrote books about him. linda robinson actually went off to work for him in cent-com after they wrote their work, he's very good at that and i think that have to be acknowledged and beginning to be acknowledged in the media. >> jon: we have to talk about this next on news watch. are the media pushing for a plunge off the fiscal cliff? >> the senate has already passed a law like this, the democrats in the house are
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ready to pass a law like this, and i hope republicans in the house come on board, too. >> president obama putting pressure on republicans to do it his way or face the plunge offer the fiscal cliff and the media take the cue in the blame game, too, pointing fingers at the g.o.p. for standing their ground. will the pressure of bad press force their hands? answers next on news watch. well, if it isn't mr. margin. mr. margin? don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball.
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that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you fod a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll do that. you're on a roll. that's funny. i wasn't being funny, bob. i know.
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>> i don't think anyone on either side of the aisle und underestimates the difficulty facing us, but i think the spirit of cooperation you've seen over the last week from myself and my team, from democrats across the aisle,
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from the president have created an atmosphere where i think that i remain optimistic. >> we face a very clear deadline that requires us to make some big decisions on jobs, taxes and deficits by the end of the year. both parties voted to set this deadline and i believe that both parties can work together to make these decisions in a balanced and responsible way. >> president obama and house leader john boehner before him sounding somewhat positive on working out a plan to divert the fiscal cliff. they met in person at the white house on friday, along with house minority leader nancy pelosi and senate majority leader harry reid and minority leader senator mitch mcconnell. jeff, it seems like the media are poised to blame republicans if the deal falls apart. >> if you look at the polling, over half the country believes it's the g.o.p.'s fault if this deal falls apart. why that? the democrats and the president himself have done an effective job of essentially trashing republicans saying
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that this whole, the reason that there's a, you know, there isn't a deal in the first place, because it's their fault and that's not true. it's both parties that did this and the president particularly not showing leadership and kicking the can down the road and creating a super committee. the media is not covering this correctly at all. reporting that the president want a deficit package. 1 trillion from tending the war and that's going to happen and another trillion from spending cuts in the past so they are he completely ignoring that and again, it's not spending cuts that the president is going to agree to in the end. it's reducing the growth rate in spending and complete the owners suggest he's going all in on the spending cuts. >> and reports that the networks blame the fiscal cliffs on the congress and the g.o.p. 16 times more than president obama. >> and always talking about, having the conservatives are being blamed. the fact is here is a president reelected you can use the word mandate or not, but see that the republican congress which is viewed as a do-nothing congress and the media is accurate when it says it's up to the republicans now
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to come forward because they've rejected what he offered the last time. >> jon: all right. jim. >> i must say to me the most interesting story of this is the submarine story of the left, paul krugman, carol, others, saying it's a horrible mistake to do this, it's 1937 all over again in terms of tax increases, spending cuts in the middle of a tentative recovery. i'm not as convinced that the left of the democratic party or left of the country is going to hold still for the deal. it's sort of a centrist beltway thing that the left opposes and right opposes and it's president obama, "the washington post" editorial board, new york times, a few others kind of in the middle there. we'll see. >> jon: the media loved it this week when the president met with some the heads of major corporations, but there weren't really any small business people represented and the question, is it just a photo op? >> well, i think the president is reaching out, he's making an effort to meet with a lot of different people. it is interesting that the
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first people who saw him after his election were union people and that shouldn't be surprising, but the media did take note of that. but i think that, mr. boehner's conciliatory attitude reflects exactly as said, the politics of the situation, and david brooks had an interesting column saying not only irresponsible to take the country over the fiscal cliff, but it's bad politics for the republicans. i think that accounts for the mood of con vifalty and consensus. >> and the media says is bad politics-- >> speaking of that the new yorker had a blaring headline this week, is obama willing to leap off the fiscal cliff? let's hope so. take that for what it's worth. next on news watch,
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>> i said yesterday we did not have the majority but we have the gavel. excuse me. we don't have the gavel. [ laughter ] >> we don't have the gavel. we have our own gavel. we have something more important. >> nancy pelosi seen earlier this week: surrounded by other women in congress making it known she will run to stay on as democratic leader in the house. so was it a senior moment or wishful thinking? >> i'll go with wishful anying. it's good news for those in the media who like to have

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J. Ryan Selberg, Principal Cello of the Utah Symphony, died at his home on Sunday, July 14, shortly after being diagnosed with brain cancer.He was 66.Keith Lockhart, the organization's music director from 1998 to 2009, is in Park City this week to conduct several concerts in the Utah Symphony's Deer Valley Music Festival. He said he will dedicate Wednesday's performance at St. Mary's Church in Selberg's honor. "The speed of [Selberg's] demise shocked everyone," Lockhart said of Selberg, adding that the cellist's versatility and curiosity always impressed him. Several times a year during the maestro's tenure, Lockhart said, Selberg would send him scratchy, out-of-print recordings of repertoire that he recommended the orchestra perform. Lockhart said as many as four to five times, he followed Selberg's suggestions and added them to the orchestra's schedule.In a statement, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera President and CEO Melia Tourangeau said, "Losing Ryan is tragic for all of us." She continued: "This loss is one for the entire community, not just our organization."Selberg joined Utah Symphony as Principal Cello in 1975, according to a statement from Pat Richards, chair of the US|UO board. "We are incredibly saddened," Richards added. "Ryan was a great musician, accomplished soloist and talented leader. He was an integral part of our orchestra ... and leaves a legacy which will continue to inspire us."In a 2008 interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Selberg spoke of his audition for the late, legendary Utah Symphony music director Maurice Abravanel. "Abravanel was looking not only for good musicians but good people," Selberg said, "Hopefully, I was 'good people.' "He also spent 14 years as a faculty member at the University of Utah.The Los Angeles-raised Selberg's first cello teacher claimed Selberg had absolutely no talent whatever, Selberg recounted to The Tribune, but his mother didn't believe this assessment and found another teacher, who had played with the Utah Symphony before moving to the Los Angeles area. Selberg was scheduled to perform Hungarian composer Erno Dohnányi's "Konzerstuck in D major for cello and orchestra" on Aug. 7 as part of the Music Festival. An updated program for the concert will be announced at a later date.It has been a summer of tragedies for Utah Symphony personnel. The 22-year-old son of bassist Jamie Allyn died in a boating accident at Bear Lake in late June, and the two-year-old son of horn player Ron Beitel also died in late June in a plane crash. "It hurts even from afar," said Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops, of the calamities.Selberg is survived by Joy, his wife of 43 years.A service commemorating his life will be held at First Presbyterian Church, 12 C Street, Salt Lake City, on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at 4 p.m.In lieu of flowers, the family asked that donations be directed to the Utah Symphony (www.utahsymphony.org/support).


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COLLEGE BASKETBALL • Indiana State University officials unveiled a bronze statue Saturday of the legend they call the most famous alum of the school in Terre Haute, Ind.

The statue of Larry Bird — standing just over 17 feet tall — depicts the former Sycamores basketball star wearing an Indiana State jersey and taking a jump shot.

Members of Indiana State's 1979 NCAA national runner-up team, along with several of Bird's Boston Celtics teammates, attended a dedication ceremony outside the Hulman Center, where Indiana State plays its home basketball games and where the statue will greet fans before each game.

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Nine days into his first term, County Executive Robert R. Neall stood before 300 business people, delivering a few unpleasant facts.

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"The recession is having an effect on Anne Arundel County," Neall said yesterday during the Anne Arundel Trade Council's annual county executive breakfast. "We are left to our own devices, to paddle our canoe with no one to bail us out."

Arundel's books remain in the black, unlike those in deficit-ridden Montgomery, Prince George's and Howard counties, and yesterday Neall proposed spending cuts and a hiring freeze to protect that fiscal health.

He has promised to build a recession-proof economy and develop the state's most aggressive economic development program. But yesterday, during his first address to a business group, Neall fell short on specifics for his development plans.

Instead, Neall said, he will wait for his transition team's recommendations before making a joint proposal with the business community -- sometime between now and July.

A Neall transition team committee that is reviewing the executive branch, including the economic development office, will deliver recommendations by March, said Jeannette Wessel, committee chairwoman and Trade Council executive vice president.

If Neall makes policy or personnel changes, he most likely will make them gradually, Wessel said.

Structural changes most likely will include privatizing some functions of government, Neall has said, to save taxpayers' money and expand the tax base.

"People are anxious to see the direction he'll take, but he has to get the advice of people he asked to do those tasks," Wessel said.

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"He's got to give his transition team the opportunity to deliver information on what is, before he can get a handle on what has to be," said Art Ebersberger, trade council board member.

The new executive already has sent the business community a strong message of support by announcing plans yesterday to freeze county hiring and cut spending, said S. Robert Kaufman, chairman of the Trade Council's economic development committee.

"It shows that he's a decisive leader who's competent and sees to it that the climate is right for business," Kaufman said. "Too many governments think you have to do something to make business work. You have to make government work. It's more important for the business community to have a stable, balanced economic environment."

Samuel F. Minnitte, county Economic Development director, said he expects his office to play a more aggressive role under Neall's leadership.

"Bob has given Sam a blank check in terms of access to him and use of him to promote the county," said David Almy, Neall's deputy chief of staff.

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Digest: No. 3 North Carolina tops No. 5 Duke in OT in women's lacrosse

March 29, 2013|Sports Digest

No. 3 North Carolina tops No. 5 Duke in OT in women's lacrosse

Kara Canizzaro scored four goals, including the game-winner in overtime, to lead No. 3 North Carolina to a 12-11 win over host No. 5 Duke at Koskinen Stadium on Thursday night. The third-ranked Tar Heels won their 10th game in a row and improved to 10-1 overall and 3-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke fell to 9-2 and 2-2. Carolina has won eight of the past 10 meetings in the series, including two of the past three meetings in Durham. Canizzaro scored the winning goal with 3:30 to go in the extra period. Carolina goalkeeper Lauren Maksym made a save with 11 seconds to play in overtime, and Brittney Coppa (North Carroll) drew a charging foul with two seconds left to preserve the victory.

More women's lacrosse: Erin Farrell and Rebecca Roman scored five goals each to power visting Albright (7-1, 1-0 Commonwealth) to a 24-7 win over Hood (3-4, 0-1). ... Tori Wagner (Fallston) scored the game-winner with 1:30 left to lift visiting Stevenson (7-1, 1-0 Middle Atlantic Conference) to a 9-8 win over Lebenon Valley (5-2, 0-1).

Men's lacrosse: Ryan Turner scored five goals and host Albright (7-1, 1-0 Commonwealth Conference) left with an 18-0 shutout against Hood (3-8, 0-2).

Women's volleyball: Donald Metil, who coached at UMES for the past six seasons and led the school to its best season in 2012, has been named coach at Towson. Metil was 145-44 with the Hawks, including four undefeated conference seasons. He previously coached at Lees-McRae and the Notre Dame of Maryland, and taught at Dumbarton Middle.

Men's swimming: UMBC junior Mohamed Hussein finished 17th in the preliminaries for the 200 individual medley with a school-record time of 1 minute, 44.44 seconds at the NCAA championships in Indianapolis. He missed out on Thursday night's consolation finals by .20 of a second. Hussein held the previous school mark of 1:44.60. He continues his meet in Indianapolis with the 200 freestyle today, followed by the 200 backstroke on Saturday.

Women's bowling: UMES senior Anggie Ramirez was named a finalist for College Bowler of the Year.

Softball: Towson (15-18-1) fell, 3-2, to visiting Georgetown (13-20) despite a complete game from senior Katie Lingmai.

Marine Corps Marathon

Race sells out fast; glitches called 'an embarrassment'

The 2013 Marine Corps Marathon sold out in a record 2 hours, 27 minutes Wednesday, but not before problems with its computerized registration process led to widespread complaints from people trying to sign up for the 26.2-mile race. Runners trying to secure one of the 30,000 spots in the 38th running of the marathon next fall reported that they were kicked off during the registration process or received repeated "error" messages. The marathon's Facebook page was awash in complaints. Race director Rick Nealis said the company that operates the system, Active.com, told him the demand for the $99 spots exceeded its capacity to process the requests. Nealis called the delays "an embarrassment for the Marine Corps Marathon as an organization."

Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post

Et cetera

Redskins sign Tapp, will likely use him at linebacker

The Washington Redskins have signed former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Darryl Tapp to a one-year deal, two people with knowledge of the deal confirmed. Tapp spent the first four seasons of his career with the Seattle Seahawks and played the past three years in Philadelphia. Last season he appeared in 13 games, recording 17 tackles and half a sack. At 6 feet 1, 270 pounds, Tapp doesn't fit the mold of the bigger-bodied 3-4 defensive end, so he likely will have to switch to outside linebacker in Washington's system.

Mike Jones, The Washington Post

NHL: The Washington Capitals re-signed forward Casey Wellman to a two-year, two-way contract extension. He will earn $550,000 a season at the NHL level in both 2013-14 and 2014-15. ... Alex Ovechkin was struck in the chin by a puck during practice Thursday morning and needed 22 stitches to close the wound.

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Outschooled Or Outvalued?

March 09, 1986|By Ralph B. Asher.

DEERFIELD — Joan Beck`s Feb. 27 column, ``Outschooled by the Japanese,`` claims that the Japanese school system seems to be superior to the American system. Again we hear that Japanese children far outperform our American children.

In the North Shore, we have a very small percentage of Asian children, yet at a recent Illinois math contest at Deerfield High School, I noted that almost 30 percent of the top honors were won by Asian students. Later I noted that although there were very few Asian children in our high school, an inordinate percentage of them were in our calculus classes. All of these students were educated in the American public school.

I agree that Asian students are not inherently superior, but their values are often different. These students really felt that the math club was an extra curricular activity. Many of my American students laugh when I suggest such an idea. It is, after all, not a sport.

Asian values about education are imparted in the family in a million ways. Has anyone studied just how many hours of television Asian parents allow them to watch each day? Is their school day regulated by the need to give sufficient daylight hours to football practice? Are part-time jobs for upper- middle-class children more important than being available for extra help after school? Would an Asian parent sue because a school demanded that a child pass courses before being allowed to play football?

Send to American public schools students with values similar to those of the Asian child and we will easily compete with Japan`s system.


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Security Evaluated After Ryan Hit By Pie

May 03, 2000|By Rick Pearson, Tribune Political Writer. Tribune staff writer Ryan Keith in Springfield contributed to this report.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — Gov. George Ryan was accompanied by increased security Tuesday, and state police officials said they were re-examining how they protect the state's chief executive, one day after a protester's pie-throwing left Ryan covered with whipped cream and law enforcement red-faced.

But as Ryan worked audiences in Collinsville and Charleston for a second day of town-hall-style meetings, he defended the work of his state police security detail in balancing the need to protect a state official against a politician's need to press the flesh.

"Nobody should be disciplined. Nobody wanted that to happen," Ryan said. "It's a tough job. It really is. I'm probably tougher to guard. I go into crowds, I shake hands, I wander off and do some things that make their job tougher."

He added, "I noticed today there were a lot more (law-enforcement) people hanging around."

Ryan's efforts to put a good face on an administration clouded by scandal, embarking on a series of Downstate traveling road shows, were blemished by the pie-throwing episode at Southern Illinois University. Near the end of his Collinsville event, he was faced with another reminder of the federal Operation Safe Road investigation when a couple held a large banner pushing a symbolic recall of the governor. Ryan said he didn't see it.

Despite the pie facial he received shortly after completing his first "regional roundtable" in Carbondale on Monday night, the Republican governor remained upbeat and touted administration accomplishments and state-funded handouts.

The incident occurred shortly after Ryan had left the stage at the Carbondale City Hall to meet with reporters. A protester waded into the group and plowed the pie into the governor's face. Ryan immediately turned away and grabbed his glasses. While aides whisked Ryan off, members of his security detail grabbed the woman.

Dawn Roberts, 29, was charged with aggravated assault. Roberts, an SIU student senator, is part of a loosely knit group called Students for Excellence in Education. The group contends that Ryan has ignored what they call the "illegal" political makeup of the school's governing board. Roberts was released from jail Tuesday on $200 bond.

The woman's ability to get so close to the governor immediately raised questions about the level of security.

Illinois State Police spokesman Capt. Dave Sanders said his department is reviewing the incident and re-evaluating its security precautions.

The governor said members of his staff "feel pretty strongly about" what happened and suggested, "What if that been a gun or a knife?" But Ryan, who joined Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown among the ranks of politicians who have been "pied," said he wasn't as concerned.

"If you're going to ask me to bash the security, I'm not going to do it. I think that they've provided good protection and they're going to continue to do that," Ryan said. "It was one of those things that happened. It was unfortunate."

Ryan said the blame should be shared by his staff, for stopping to talk to reporters, and security, for not moving him along.

Ryan said he has received unspecified threats and said the pie-throwing had troubled him because it happened so quickly.

"I'm concerned about (security) all the time. I mean, there isn't any question. It's a different kind of world we live in. The criticism that I've had and the things that have been said about me rile some people," the governor said.

State police traditionally refuse comment about the level of security for statewide elected officials. But some Ryan aides said privately that security around the governor had been supplemented as a result of the Carbondale incident.

"It was the prudent thing to do," one said.

Ryan did not directly address the incident for a lunchtime audience of more than 300 people in Collinsville and instead stuck to a stock campaign-like speech touting area benefits from the new state budget and projects from his Illinois FIRST public works program.

The issue of the federal investigation of the secretary of state's office during Ryan's tenure never came up as a question in Collinsville or Charleston. Instead, Ryan raised the issue and again decried the "myth" that he knew about or condoned political corruption.

But as he brought up the topic in Collinsville, a man and woman silently raised a banner supporting a symbolic recall of Ryan being pushed by former one-term state treasurer and populist political gadfly Patrick Quinn.


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From the 'Kid' to the 'Savior'

After a remarkable rise to the top in Boston, Epstein brings his passion and formula to Chicago

October 22, 2011|By Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune reporter

Lucchino said Epstein understood "Red Sox gestalt,'' and he was right about that too. At age 12, Epstein and his twin, Paul, were initiated into the ranks of the long-suffering Red Sox Nation by watching Mookie Wilson's ground ball go between Buckner's legs in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

"We wanted to be off the ground, if possible in midair, when the ball went into the glove for the last out, so we got on top of the couch to jump,'' Epstein said in a New York Times interview. "We were standing on top of the couch for about half an hour. It was painful.''

When Epstein went to Florida for his first spring as Red Sox general manager, 23 players on the 40-man roster were older than him. As focused as he was to get that team over the hump in 2003, he was equally consumed with players who were getting ready for their college and high school seasons. His goal upon taking the job, he said, was to "build a scouting and player-development machine.''

Fair to say he wanted to win the World Series a few times too.

The new wave

When Epstein's hiring was followed by two championships in his first five years, it inspired an ongoing movement within the major leagues to hire general managers with management degrees and Wall Street cred, not guys who had hung around dugouts and bleachers their whole lives.

Jon Daniels, whose Texas Rangers team is in the World Series for the second consecutive year, might not have gotten an opportunity without Epstein's success. Ditto the St. Louis Cardinals' John Mozeliak, the Rays' Andrew Friedman and Byrnes, among others.

These are guys who chew on numbers, not leaf tobacco. They are information gatherers and analysts more than baseball purists. But they have no secret handshakes or decoder rings.

"I think a lot of people misunderstand what it is Theo does,'' said Hoyer, who with Byrnes and Cherington (Epstein's likely replacement in Boston) was a top assistant for Epstein from the beginning. "People see the computer, talk about moneyball. He uses those things, but it's just a part of what he does. He's always had tremendous respect for scouts. He's a good listener and he involves everyone in the process. That's what makes him successful, not Carmine.''

Epstein weighs scouting reports from boots-on-the-ground guys in the field alongside complicated statistical metrics that could have come off a blackboard at MIT or Cal Tech. He calls his approach "looking through two lenses to improve the focus.''

While the Red Sox often have spent more money on payroll than every team except the Yankees, Epstein's process has helped him make his share of smart decisions, especially with unproven players such as David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury.

"What he did in Boston was build a player-development machine,'' said Schilling, who joined the Red Sox after Epstein recruited him over Thanksgiving dinner. "He did it with more budget, but I'm not sure he had to have the budget. … You can argue that the budget has actually hurt him because it brought more players into the equation.''

Hoyer remembers how difficult it was to find information on players before the 2002 draft, the first he and Epstein prepared for together.

"I got a hold of people at the NCAA headquarters and got permission from them for us to collect information,'' Hoyer said. "We sent a couple of guys from our office to photocopy stats and bring them back. We got a leg up on the competition by doing that.''

After the Cleveland Indians beat them to the punch, Epstein and his lieutenants designed computer programs that made the Red Sox the second organization in the majors to have its own computer spitting out fresh statistics and projections every morning on thousands of major-, minor-league and college players.

While the software that went into Carmine is considered Red Sox property, Epstein is certain to create an updated version of it in Chicago, just as Hoyer did in San Diego.

"It's all in your head anyway,'' Hoyer said. "It's not like there's some secret sauce recipe that can't be replicated. It takes a hell of a lot of time and effort to get it in place, but that's what you've got to do.''

'Ruthless' passion

Epstein is confident. He knows how to have a good time. He's comfortable in his own skin in situations that have nothing to do with baseball.

He counts Pearl Jam leader Eddie Vedder among his friends and rarely seems happier than when he's on stage playing his Rickenbacker guitar with Trauser, a cover band that has made Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World'' its signature song, or with members of New England bands like Dropkick Murphys and the Lemonheads.


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Bears linebackers by the numbers

March 25, 2013|By Brad Biggs, Tribune reporter

If it wasn’t evident when the Chicago Bears announced last week the team was moving on without Brian Urlacher, it is now after two veteran linebackers have been signed.

Urlacher’s departure ends an era in which he and teammate Lance Briggs formed the nucleus for one of the NFL’s best corps of linebackers. Over the last 10 seasons – since Briggs was drafted in the third round in 2003 – the Bears have used 15 starting linebackers, with Urlacher, Briggs, Hunter Hillenmeyer and Nick Roach accounting for 415 of the 461 total starts for the three linebacker positions (the defense started with an alternate personnel package without three linebackers in 19 games).

Former Denver Broncos’ first-round draft pick D.J. Williams was signed to play middle linebacker Friday and the Bears added James Anderson to take over on the strong side Sunday. Before moving forward, a look back at the Bears' linebackers over the past 10 seasons:

Middle linebacker

Brian Urlacher: 134 starts
Hunter Hillenmeyer: 19 starts
Nick Roach: 7 starts

Weak side linebacker

Lance Briggs: 140 starts
Warrick Holdman: 13 starts
Joe Odom: 3 starts
Brian Iwuh: 1 start
Jamar Williams: 1 start
2 games no Will linebacker to start

Strong side linebacker

Nick Roach: 52 starts
Hunter Hillenmeyer: 50 starts
Lance Briggs: 13 starts
Pisa Tinoisamoa: 12 starts
Joe Odom: 5 starts
Geno Hayes: 3 starts
Bryan Knight: 2 starts
Marcus Reese: 2 starts
Brendon Ayanbadejo: 1 start
Blake Costanzo: 1 start
Leon Joe: 1 start
Jamar Williams: 1 start
17 games no Sam linebacker to start

Briggs and Urlacher combined to start 128 games together and the Bears were 78-50 (.609) in those games. Without the combination on the field together, the team was 10-22 (.313).

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U.S. arms makers see chance of interim U.S. budget deal

December 03, 2013|Reuters

By Andrea Shalal-Esa

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Executives at U.S. weapons
makers on Tuesday said they were cautiously optimistic that U.S.
lawmakers would reach agreement on an interim federal budget to
smooth out across-the-board cuts in military funding in fiscal
2014 and 2015.

Chief Executive William Swanson of Raytheon Corp and
Chief Financial Officer Bruce Tanner of Lockheed Martin Corp
said on Tuesday they did not expect Congress to reach a
comprehensive agreement on reducing the federal deficit, which
would help the Pentagon avert the threat of $500 billion in
military spending cuts over the next decade.

But they said a "small bargain" for a shorter period
appeared increasingly likely, potentially good news for arms
makers. Thousands of workers have been laid off as companies
consolidated facilities in anticipation of spending cuts.

Tanner told a conference hosted by Credit Suisse that he saw
a chance of lawmakers agreeing to a "short-term fix" that would
at least retain spending levels since in fiscal 2013.

"There is an impetus clearly to get something done," he
said. "It's not probably a complete aversion of sequestration
for the next decade ... but I think there is a short-term one-
or two-year fix that we are hopeful has some elimination or
reduction of the planned sequestration cuts in FY14 and FY15 as
part of that two-year short-term settlement."

U.S. lawmakers on a 20-member Senate-House negotiating
committee are aiming for a two-year deal that would ease severe
across-the-board cuts required under a process called

The Pentagon is facing about $37 billion in reductions from
its projected base budget in fiscal 2014 when the second round
of sequestration budget cuts take effect in January, with
additional cuts expected every year through 2022.

"The grand bargain doesn't seem in the cards to me,"
Swanson told the Credit Suisse investor conference.

"There is some talk about a small bargain, and the small
bargain is how do you minimize the dip in 2014 and 2015 ...
People are working hard to see if they can come up with
something in that regard," he said.

Defense officials have said the cuts will be harder to
absorb in fiscal 2014 than last year, when the military was able
to use funds left over from earlier years to protect procurement
programs and mitigate the damage from the cuts.

"That's a one-trick pony. It's gone," Alan Estevez, the
Pentagon's No. 2 weapons buyer, told the conference. He said he
hoped Congress would reach some agreement to avert the worst of
the sequestration cuts next year and help provide more stability
for budget planners and industry.

Swanson said he recently met with lawmakers in Washington,
and detected more support for at least an interim solution.

"I believe there is a mood now that this has got to get
sorted out," he said. "If you look at approval ratings, they
aren't that good, and so if people care about them, then they
have got to do something about it."

Tanner said Lockheed is projecting its first year-to-year
drop in revenues in 11 years in 2013, but could see some modest
"upside" if Congress passes a two-year interim budget measure.

He said Lockheed, the Pentagon's biggest supplier, also
expected growing foreign sales of its F-35 fighter jet to help
offset any reduction in U.S. orders triggered by budget cuts.

Tanner said a possible order of 40 jets from South Korea,
plus new orders from Singapore and other unnamed countries,
would add to the current projection of 539 jets to be ordered by
the U.S. military and its allies over the next five years.

Tanner said Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer,
had pledged to try to maintain F-35 orders to ensure the ramp up
in production needed to lower the warplane's cost.

But given the large number of combined orders expected, even
a small deferral of additional U.S. orders would not be as
significant, he said.


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Bill Funding Highway 52 Extension Sent to Reagan

March 10, 1985|KEAY DAVIDSON | Times Staff Writer

Construction on an extension of California Highway 52 east of Interstate 805 could begin later this year if President Reagan signs a measure submitted this week by Congress, Rep. Bill Lowery (R-San Diego) said Friday.

The legislation--the Interstate Cost Estimate--would, among other things, provide $24.4 million for completion of a short part of the unfinished portion of decade-old Highway 52. The measure was approved by the House Feb. 28 and by the Senate Tuesday.

The new stretch of highway would lead from I-805 to Convoy Street in Kearny Mesa.

"If the President doesn't sign, it (his veto) will be overridden," Lowery predicted at an unusual press conference held in the grassy median strip of Highway 52, a few hundred yards east of I-805.

Contracts for the construction should be let early this summer, said William Dodson, district director for the California Department of Transportation, who also was at the press conference.

The remaining uncompleted section of Highway 52--which would stretch from Convoy Street east to Santee--remains unfunded, Lowery said.

The completion of Highway 52 was delayed for years by pressure exerted by former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who expressed concern over its environmental impact, Lowery said.

When the highway is completed all the way to Santee it should relieve traffic pressure on Interstate 8 and, in turn, that highway's detrimental "impacts upon air quality," Lowery said. The new road will also "reduce (drivers') frustration level and . . . bumper-to-bumper traffic," he said.

Residents of Tierrasanta, Santee, Clairemont and adjacent areas have exerted "a lot of pressure for years" to finish Highway 52, Lowery said.

In a related matter, Assemblyman Bill Bradley (R-Escondido) said he has introduced a bill to authorize a ballot proposition under which San Diego County voters could vote on whether to increase sales taxes, generating $67.5 million annually, to fund road repairs and construction.

"I think it would pass because people today are generally concerned about the lack of road maintenance, road safety," Bradley said.

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A Rapper Under Siege Fires Back : Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew defends his freedom of expression as the sexually explicit album undergoes attacks in Florida

March 25, 1990|CHUCK PHILIPS

Luther Campbell is a wanted man.

Ever since Florida Gov. Bob Martinez tried to get Campbell's rap group 2 Live Crew and its sexually explicit "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" album prosecuted last month for violation of the state's pornography and racketeering penal codes, Campbell has been under siege.

Recent rulings by district court judges in Florida's Lee and Broward counties have declared the album obscene and banned it for sale to both adults and minors. Cooperating with police, all local record retailers in the two counties voluntarily removed the album from their shelves, according to police spokesmen in both counties.

Adding to the controversy, the Hialeah Gardens, Fla.-based Peaches record chain pulled the album from all of its 22 Florida stores. Similarly, the 52-store Spec's chain and its 450-outlet parent company, the Albany, N.Y.-based Trans World Corp., discontinued selling any record with warning labels--including the 2 Live Crew package--to anyone under 18. And on Thursday, the Musicland Group, the nation's largest record store operator with 752 stores, including Musicland and Sam Goody outlets in Southern California, ordered all stores to stop selling the "uncensored" versions of the recordings.

The most dramatic incident, however, occurred March 15 when a 19-year-old Sarasota, Fla., record store clerk was arrested on a felony charge after selling a copy of the "Nasty" album to an 11-year-old girl.

Hoping to prevent additional obscenity arrests and reverse the pornographic stigma attached to the album, Campbell's attorney filed suit on March 16 in Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale, seeking to declare the record not obscene and to enjoin the Broward County Sheriff from arresting those who sell it to adults. It's a move without "historic precedent in popular music," the rapper's lawyer says.

While the national media have been reporting all this with the blow-by-blow intensity of a prize fight, there has been little attention focused on Campbell himself.

How does he defend music whose explicit sexuality makes even many rap sympathizers wince? Music so filled with graphic, locker-room language that the group has been called the "Kama Sutra of rap" by Newsweek magazine. The lyrics are far beyond the bounds of what can be printed in a mass circulation newspaper such as The Times.

"These people act like I invented the idea of sexually explicit material," Campbell said. "Haven't they ever heard of Richard Pryor or Andrew Dice Clay? X-rated adult comedy albums have been available for years. Why, all of a sudden, is everybody picking on me?"

In a telephone interview from his Coconut Grove, Fla. home, the 29-year-old rap entrepreneur--better known by his professional name Luke Skyywalker--insists that his music is adult comedy, not pornography, and that those who seek to prohibit the sale of 2 Live Crew's music simply do not understand it.

"When people see a sculpture in a museum of a naked man with his penis hanging down, do they say that the guy who created the statue is a sex fiend? No, they call it art and they praise the person who created it.

"Well, the way I feel about it, 2 Live Crew is no different from sculptors who carve naked statues. We're not sex fiends. In our minds, we're artists," Campbell said, speaking in soft measured phrases.

Florida's governor isn't the only one who doesn't share Campbell's sense of humor or artistic outlook. Campbell's records have been denounced by media watchdog organizations such as the Rev. Donald Wildmon's Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association and Dr. James Dobson's Pomona-based Focus on the Family for being "pornographic."

2 Live Crew lyrics have also been cited as a source of concern by legislators who are sponsoring or intend to sponsor warning label proposals in 15 states, including Florida.

Often criticized as being misogynistic, the group's material frequently describes violent sexual acts involving oral copulation, sadism and masochism.

Still, sales of "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" have never been better. The expletive-laced recording, which was released last June, has sold more than 1.2 million copies and is still in the Top 40 in Billboard magazine's pop and black music album sales charts.

Although a sanitized version of the record titled "As Clean as They Wanna Be" is also available, the sexually explicit album outsells it nine to one, according to Skyywalker Records, which Campbell owns. The label is part of a vast musical enterprise that includes 16 rap and R&B acts, a 24-track digital recording studio, a 6,000-square-foot record warehouse and a cluster of Miami nightclubs.

In response to the complaints, Campbell declares, "It's like anything else. If you go into (the album) thinking that you're not going to like it . . . that it's going to be degrading or disgusting, then that's what you're going to get out of it.

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