Published: July 22, 2014 6:35 pm Updated: July 23, 2014 10:31 a.m.
SALT LAKE CITY — Legislative action on Gov. Gary Herbert's proposed alternative to Medicaid expansion could be pushed back until next year as a result of conflicting appeals court rulings on the Affordable Care Act issued Tuesday.
"It puts more uncertainty into a law that already has much uncertainty and ambiguity. I think you've got to allow some time for it to sort out," said Rep. Jim Dunnigan, House chairman of the Legislature's Health Reform Task Force.
The conflicting rulings from appeals courts in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, deal with the subsidies available to low- and middle-income Americans to help them cover the cost of their health insurance premiums, not Medicaid expansion.
But the House Republican said that doesn't mean they still won't stall the governor's hopes of getting his Healthy Utah plan to provide health care coverage for low-income Utahns approved in a special session of the Legislature this fall.
Dunnigan said the new rulings reinforce the reluctance of GOP lawmakers who have already balked at taking action on Medicaid expansion during this year's legislative session, instead referring the issue to the task force for further study.
"I think it is going to be more likely that's it's going to be a regular session item," Dunnigan said, handled during the 2015 Legislature that doesn't begin meeting until late January.
House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, an opponent of the governor's plan to spend the nearly $300 million in Medicaid expansion money available under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, said lawmakers may not consider it then, either.
Lockhart, who is not seeking re-election but is viewed as a challenger to Herbert in 2016, said the task force may come up with a new plan to cover low-income Utahns that doesn't rely on Medicaid money.
A similar proposal advanced by Lockhart, Dunnigan and other House Republicans also failed to win support last session. But Lockhart said at this point, "it would be incredibly unwise" for lawmakers to agree to take the Medicaid funds.
"The Legislature likes to have good information for us to make decisions," the speaker said, but now, faced with "more and more of that uncertainty, that's making us very uncomfortable."
Herbert's spokesman, Marty Carpenter, said the governor still intends to seek legislative approval of his plan as soon as he can secure the needed waivers from the Obama administration.
"We're going to continue to move forward on the timeline we have," Carpenter said.
The waivers could come after the governor's next visit to Washington in early September, he said, which would allow for a special legislative session this fall.
Carpenter said the Healthy Utah plan is an attempt "to fix something broken from the get-go," by providing health care to Utahns earning less than 100 percent of poverty who are in the so-called coverage gap and don't qualify for subsidies.
Supporting the governor's plan is a good decision "for all of us who believe there are signficant problems with the Affordable Care Act," Carpenter said, calling it a plan "to take care of people who were already left out in the cold."
Jason Stevenson, education and communications director for the Utah Health Policy Project, said the court rulings have no immediate impact on Utahns and they shouldn't be discouraged from utilizing the health care law.
More than 84,000 Utahns have signed up for coverage through the federal exchange, and 87 percent qualify for subsidies, Stevenson said, but none are expected to be affected as the ruling that went against the health care law is appealed.
Tuesday, the Washington court ruled that residents in 36 states, including Utah, that use the federal government's health care exchange to provide insurance under President Barack Obama's signature program don't qualify for premium subsidies.
But just hours later, the Virginia court ruled just the opposite, that Congress intended residents of all 50 states to be able to purchase subsidized coverage no matter who runs their state's health care exchange.
Stevenson said lawmakers should realize the court rulings have nothing to do with Medicaid expansion.
"They're looking for a reason to take the slow approach," he said. "They've had two years to study this issue.
Meanwhile, there's a huge number of Utahns who don't have insurance."


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Last of refugee children to leave Nauru
By Jonathan Kearsley • Political Reporter
11:09am Feb 3, 2019
No more asylum seeker children will be held on Nauru with the final four preparing to fly to the US with their families for resettlement.
They are the last of the more than 200 children who were in the island's processing centre when the coalition won government in 2013.
But critics say the government shouldn't rush to congratulate itself, with more than 1000 people still in offshore detention and many forced into legal battles to come to Australia for medical care.
Nauru asylum seeker detention centre. (AAP) (AAP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday it was vindication of the coalition's Operation Sovereign Borders policy.
"The boats were coming thick and fast, children, people were dying at sea, there were children in detention all round the country," he said in a video posted to social media.
"We stopped the boats but there was so much more work to be done then to deal with the terrible human legacy of Labor's years of failures."
When he took over as leader at the end of August, there were 109 children in immigration detention on Nauru.
Asylum seekers at the Nauru detention centre. (AAP)
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten welcomed the news while querying whether the government should really take the credit.
"I do believe if the crossbench and the opposition and some of the progressive Liberals hadn't pursued this, I do wonder if the children would have been off," he told ABC TV's Insiders on Sunday.
Similarly, independent MP Kerryn Phelps gave credit to the community, saying the government had been dragged kicking and screaming to take action.
"It's not like they thought, 'Oh this is a great idea' and came up with the idea by themselves," she told reporters in Sydney.
The detention of the children on Nauru triggered condemnation in Australia. (AAP)
Asylum seeker advocates also applauded the move but warned there was a continuing medical crisis for those adults remaining in immigration detention on Nauru and Manus Island.
When parliament resumes in a fortnight Labor and crossbenchers are expected to push a bill that gives doctors more say in whether refugees in offshore detention should be moved to the mainland for medical treatment.
"The people who have been transferred from Nauru for medical reasons so far have had to go through protected legal battles ... and in each and every case they've been found to be bona fide cases," Dr Phelps said.
"Now we need to see medical decisions made by doctors and not by bureaucrats."
Immigration Minister David Coleman said there were fundamental problems in the bill that could lead to the collapse of offshore processing.
"You could have the absurd situation where two doctors in Dapto say that this person should come to Australia for assessment, the local doctors in Nauru don't agree but because of the way this bill is constructed, those people would come to Australia," he told reporters in Sydney.
He suggested asylum seekers could engage in doctor shopping or that a couple of doctors sympathetic to them could approve the transfer of a hundred people in one go.


(Culver City, Calif. – October 29, 2010) – Matt Tolmach has launched a new production company and will become a producer on the next installment of Spider-Man, the blockbuster film franchise he helped shepherd since its inception in 2002, it was announced today by Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman. Doug Belgrad has been promoted to sole president of Columbia Pictures and will take on additional divisional responsibilities. As part of the transition, Belgrad has named Hannah Minghella president of production for Columbia Pictures.
From now through November, Tolmach will begin the transition to become a significant producer on the lot as he ramps up his company, which has a three-year commitment with the studio. In December, he will join producers Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad on the set of the new Spider-Man adventure.
"I am truly excited and happy for Hannah," said Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Production. "In the time she has been with Sony Pictures Animation, she has brought her outstanding eye for talent and intense discipline to every aspect of our business. I know that she will continue to be a champion of animation and remain connected to the projects and filmmakers that we have been working with the past several years." Osher expects to name a successor to Minghella in the coming weeks.
Minghella joined the company in 2005 as a director of creative affairs working in the office of the chairman of the Motion Picture Group under Pascal, where she collaborated closely with Belgrad on several projects, including the production of the highly successful James Bond film Casino Royale. Since being named president of production of Sony Pictures Animation, she has overseen the production of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the upcoming releases Arthur Christmas, The Pirates!, and Hotel Transylvania. She also has been active bringing new projects and talent to the studio, such as Doug Sweetland, who will be directing The Familiars for producer Sam Raimi.
Tolmach and Belgrad, who have enjoyed one of the longest and most successful executive partnerships in recent motion picture history, have shared the role of president of Columbia Pictures since 2008. They began guiding the label as a team in 2003.
During their long-running tenure at Columbia Pictures, Tolmach was closely associated with Sam Raimi, Judd Apatow, Roland Emmerich, Adam McKay, Jimmy Miller, Neal Moritz, David Fincher and David Koepp, among other filmmakers. He oversaw such blockbusters as 2012, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Pursuit of Happyness, as well as such groundbreaking comedies such as Superbad, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers, Pineapple Express, and Zombieland. Belgrad has been with Columbia Pictures since 1989 and during his rise through the production ranks has been associated with such studio franchises as Men in Black and Bad Boys. He has worked closely with Adam Sandler and Will Smith for the last decade and has been instrumental in overseeing such films as The Social Network, The Karate Kid, Grown Ups, The Ugly Truth, Hancock, Fifty First Dates, Hitch, 21, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, among others.
Under Lynton and Pascal's leadership, Belgrad and Tolmach's production team have brought unprecedented stability and success to the studio. So far this year, Columbia Pictures has released a string of box office hits, including The Karate Kid, which has taken in more than $351 million worldwide to date; Grown Ups, the most successful film starring Adam Sandler ever released, with more than $269 million generated globally; Salt, the action-thriller starring Angelina Jolie that has been a domestic and international hit, with more than $290 million in box office receipts to date; Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts, has so far generated more than $180 million worldwide; Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's The Other Guys, which has grossed over $226 million worldwide to date; and The Social Network, the studio's most recent critical and commercial hit, which has generated more than $105 million around the world to date.


I was only able to attend one panel at this year's PEN World Voices Literary Festival and so, based on how much I enjoyed last year's panel on Reviewing Translations, I chose The Critic's Global Voice. The description and the list of panelists (Jean-Euphèle Milcé from Haiti, Ursula Krechel from Germany, Mikhail Shishkin from Russia) both seemed promising. The panel was moderated by an editor at BookForum.
The style, attitude, and role of book criticism differs from country to country. This panel will explore how reviewers and book reviews shape-shift across borders, even as each country's literary culture forms its own responses to political, technological, and aesthetic changes.
My expectation was that the discussion would touch on topics such as: book reviews and criticism in a global society; the influence of the internet and digital publishing on how books are reviewed and where; and the cultural differences in literary criticism traditions between countries. Perhaps this was a little ambitious, but based on that description above I didn't think so.
What happened instead was a series of pointed questions that appeared designed to prompt the panelists to expound on the importance of book critics to literature as a whole and to legitimize the book review as a literary form in its own right. No one seemed to have explained this agenda to the panelists and for the most part they refused to play. Not entirely surprising – the relationship between critics and authors is always a bit dodgy. It's the rare artist, or person for that matter, who embraces criticism; particularly negative. If that was the conversation the moderator wanted to have it might have made sense to include an actual critic or two on the panel.
The impression I was left with was that literary criticism is of nominal importance in Europe. But I know that's not the case… so I'm not sure what the audience was supposed to take-away. There were a few moments when the conversation could have taken a more informative turn. Particularly a comment made by the Haitian author Jean-Euphèle Milcé (whose book I bought immediately after the panel) regarding how Haitian authors are not critiqued as simply Haitian authors, but have their works held up against the entire French literary tradition. And when asked about the state of book criticism in Russia, Mikhail Shishkin engaged in an elegant metaphor (which my paraphrasing will not do justice to) – that a literary Cold War was still happening in Russia. That his book sits between two sets of barricades. Behind the barricade to the right are the Nationalists, who will not like his book. To the left are the more liberal reviewers, those who see Russia as a part of a larger, European community and who will write positively about his book. Shishkin told us that he does not need to read his reviews in Russia because he knows without exception behind which barricade each critic stands. Whereas with non-Russian critics he never knows what they will say in advance.
Both these points could have been expanded into a larger discussion on the difference between how a book is perceived in and outside of an author's home country. Different cultural contexts must be applied – and are these contexts necessarily fair, or even useful? And (to throw in a curveball) is this why so many authors seem to be living as expatriates these days? in part to escape cultural categorization? But that didn't happen.
I also found it frustrating that very little attention (with the exception of an audience question at the end) was given to the changing landscape of book criticism. Specifically digital publishing and the internet. Ebooks make it easier for small publishers to launch. Readers from around the world can communicated in the comments sections of reviews, articles and blogs regardless of where they are physically located. On Twitter and the various blogs I follow, I learn about books and authors that may not have even found a U.S. publisher yet. Book bloggers – like other kinds of bloggers – cross international borders and form global communities all the time.
This frustration is not a new one. I felt it with last year's panel on Reviewing Translations. In my experience the professional book critic establishment tends to lump bloggers with Amazon reviewers, and so whenever there is a conversation on "serious" reviewing they (often quite literally) ignore us. In turn, bloggers dismiss the establishment as "gate-keepers", literary elitists or as Luddites unable (or just unwilling) to come to terms with the new age in which we all live.
Neither point of view is particularly productive.
I see comments from younger bloggers on Twitter sometimes about how only their older relatives recommend things they've read in the NY Times… which always makes me laugh. Inevitably we all become that older relative. I had no interest in current events, politics or world events when I was young. (I did always read the lit reviews – The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the infrequent Village Voice Literary Supplement). But there does come a time when you realize you not only don't know everything, you never will. And you feel the need for a dialogue that encompasses more than an exchange between friends, because you've been having those exchanges for so long with those same friends that it's necessary to either insert some fresh content or stop having them. There is still a place for the "old guard" in today's world – if only to acknowledge the fact that we all eventually join that old guard whether we want to or not.
There is still a place for traditional book criticism and reviews. The literary community would be the lesser if outlets like The NYRB, BookForum and the Times Literary Supplement vanished completely.
I also see comments by bloggers that the conversation about Book Blogger vs. Book Critics is 10-years old and no longer relevant. True. The conversation that has happened within the separate camps has become irrelevant in light of the current state of affairs. Bloggers have carved out a niche for themselves, separate but very similar to the niche inhabited by book critics. The print outlets that were once the critic's domain have declined in numbers and popularity. But the rise in digital and self publishing, and the histrionic (and sometimes ridiculous) hand-wringing over the decline of book sales and literature in general effects us all. What has been lost in all this noise (and, frankly, insecurity) is that we are – book critics and bloggers – on the same team.
I believe it was the same audience member who asked the question I referred to earlier, on digital publishing and the changing literary climate, who also made an important observation regarding the massive volume of literature that is now available and the need to help readers sort through it all. It would be too easy to look at that question and dismiss it as elitist or, even worse, a call for a gate-keeper. I see it differently. I never try to tell my readers what they shouldn't read. I'm not even, necessarily, telling them what they should read. I seldom care all that much about what other people read, period. What I am trying to do is introduce readers to books – books they may not hear about otherwise – and then explain why I find these books interesting (or not). And, by inference, what I think they will find interesting in them (or not). These are books – often by small publishers and in my case almost always in translation – that are often lost in the literary deluge that is currently upon us.
Don't book critics have the same goal – to help readers discover specific books and (hopefully) appreciate them? Perhaps the conversation between bloggers and critics should start there.
Towards the end of the panel Ursula Krechel used the terms "democratization" of reviewing and the "professional reader" – which seemed to have a negative implication. Because book blogs – or even online book review outlets like The Millions, The Huffington Post, BookSlut – were never specifically mentioned I had to wonder who she was referring to. Every blogger I know cares about the quality and content of their reviews. Many spend hours, if not days, obsessing and tweaking their posts. We love reading about books, but we also love writing about them. Perhaps we judge them by a slightly different criteria than the traditional literary critic, but we do employ standards. Bloggers build individual followings, something most book critics don't have. I follow several bloggers, but very seldom do I (an acknowledged book review addict) look for specific reviewers when I open a paper or click on a review online. I bet those traditional critics (and the outlets that employ them) would love to change that.
As for what book critics have to teach bloggers – they do have a couple hundred years tradition on their side. If the literary criticism world must continue to change – and, I'm sorry, it must – what form do they want to see that change take in the future? If there is a literary standard they feel bloggers are not meeting – open a dialogue that is not dismissive or condescending. Why not partner up with or mentor specific bloggers with the same vision (I have heard of this happening, but infrequently). Or even invite bloggers and book critics to sit on the same panel. At this point, it's a zero-sum game we're all playing here. We can just as quickly turn that into a positive as a negative.


I wonder why we aren't required, when brewing beer or making wine at home, to do so in an enclosed, locked space?
I look forward to RI being the first state on the East Coast to legalize. Been there already, very nice state, been back, and have reason to visit even more.
I've got a close friend with 3 kids growing up in the house and he and his wife like beer. They like to brew beer. They like to brew beer in 10 or 20 gallon batches and store it kegs.
They like cold beer. They cold beer on tap. They keep at least on keg on tap in the basement at all times, with a nice CO2 system.
Nothing of what you just said makes any sense whatsoever. The fact that you're saying you being treated like a black in the South after the Civil War shows how intelligent you are. I'm sure your friend with the three kids and wife would agree that what you said is completely stupid. Cold beer? Who doesn't like cold Beer? WTF?
This proposal is what RI needs to generate millions in tax and get this state I call hime back where it needs to be. Could generate over 26M annually. Much more the beer. Next time consider the facts before you say something as stupid as you did Assface.
Sorry Esteve, didn't realize you couldn't handle simple intellectual leaps.
My friend is able to make and posess 200 gallons of beer or spirits in the house. These drugs cause thousands of lethal overdoses per year, and 100,000+ deaths per year from long-term use. Society appears to be especially concerned about young people abusing these drugs. Yet my friends are free to have the 200 gallons of beer or vodka in the basement, right where their kids can access it anytime, without any state law regulating locks, or potency, etc.
And yet, this proposal would allow only 2 plants of herbal cannabis to be cultivated in the house. If that isn't the cannabis community being singled out for persecution, I don't know what is.
Everyone that grows will have more than 2 plants. So you tell me – what's going to happen when police are called into the home of poor and minority folks who have more than 2 plants? They'll be arrested, kids taken away, lives ruined by criminal records and sanctions.
Sounds an awful lot like the Jim Crow south.
But I'm sure from your ad hominem insults that you're probably a white spoiled kid from the suburbs, so you don't have to worry.
Why on earth are they holding back on legalization when all the money would go back into Rhode Islands economy. Take the black market money and put it into the economy it's a no brainier !!!
Spread the word rhode islanders!
Live in Connecticut and plan to visit often when this goes! Cannabis has helped since my brain surgery.
Don't be a quitter RI keep pressing ahead. I do not follow the law if it's not reasonable and interferes with my Freedom….this is a free country?
It's laughable how marijuana is treated like some sort of radioactive toxic substance that has to be transported and stored with such great care, let alone this whole debate about whether adults should be allowed to purchase and consume it. As one of the most benign substances known, I think the truth is going to bear itself out and we'll look back on this all and laugh.
@volunteer…I'm with you, friend, obviously no one can consume 100 bottles of wine in a day, but are allowed to have as many on hand as they wish. Also, it's obvious that no one can consume 5 pounds of cannabis in a day, but having an ounce each of 100 of my favorite varieties should be allowed. The humidor would have a new use. I also don't think everyone who drinks is a drunk, just as I don't believe everyone who uses drugs is an addict, yet this is what the prohibitionists keep throwing in all our faces. Keep up the fight, America. Go and legalize Rhode Island! You won't be disappointed.


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New Zealand, 1981: muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird all inform the small town life of brothers Willie and Solomon. After a chance encounter with charismatic thief Bennie and his close-knit gang of 'shoppers', Willie is seduced into a criminal world that allows him to escape mounting tensions with his volatile father. But as Bennie's hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willie's two worlds collide with shattering consequences.
Shopping is the feature film debut of Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, the writing/directing team behind acclaimed New Zealand shorts The Six Dollar Fifty Man and Run. Both films were honoured by the Cannes Short Film jury with a Special Distinction in the Short Film Competition at the 2009 and 2007 (respectively) Cannes International Film Festival. In 2010 The Six Dollar Fifty Man was honoured with a Special Mention at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival – Generation Kplus, received the Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival and was long-listed for the 2011 Academy Awards. Albiston and Sutherland were recipients of the New Zealand Arts Foundation's 2010 New Generation Awards.
Shopping was shot on the Kapiti Coast and in Wellington, New Zealand. The film's cast includes Jacek Koman (Moulin Rouge, Australia, Defiance, The Hunter) as Bennie, Alistair Browning (Rain) as Terry and introduces Kevin Paulo as Willie and Julian Dennison as Solomon.
The film had world premiere at the 2013 Sundance International Film Festival, and premiered in Europe in the competitive Generation 14plus programme of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
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Annie Collins
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2013: Sundance Film Festival (World Dramatic Competition), Berlin International Film Festival (Generation 14plus Grand Prix Best Feature Film), Guanajuato International Film Festival, Saint Tropez Film Festival, Seoul International Youth Film Festival, Vladivostok International Film Festival, Crime and Punishment Film Festival, Saint Petersburg Film Festival, Encounters Film Festival, Kino w Trampkach - Cinema with Sneakers, ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights – Just Film Festival
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Q: how to use pyspark to read orc file there are two types compress file format for spark. one is parquet, it's very easy to read:
from pyspark.sql import HiveContext
hiveCtx = HiveContext(sc)
hiveCtx.parquetFile(parquetFile)

but for ocr file. I cannot find a good example to show me how to use pyspark to read.

A: Well, there is two ways:
Spark 2.x:
orc_df = spark.read.orc('python/test_support/sql/orc_partitioned')

Spark 1.6:
df = hiveContext.read.orc('python/test_support/sql/orc_partitioned')

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Cambridge es una ciudad situada en el Condado de Story, en el estado de Iowa, Estados Unidos. Según el censo de 2010 tenía una población de 827 habitantes.

Geografía
Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, la localidad tiene un área total de 2,85 km², la totalidad de los cuales 2,85 km² corresponden a tierra firme.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 827 personas residiendo en la localidad. La densidad de población era de 290,18 hab./km². Había 342 viviendas con una densidad media de 120 viviendas/km². El 97,1% de los habitantes eran blancos, el 0,36% afroamericanos, el 0,48% amerindios, el 0,6% asiáticos, el 0,36% de otras razas, y el 1,09% pertenecía a dos o más razas. El 2,9% de la población eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Ciudades de Iowa
Localidades del condado de Story

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Take a look at the most Instagrammed festivals in the world
Entertainment, Fashion, Festivals, Global, Lifestyle, Most Read, News, Social Media, Style, Travel
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Are festivals becoming more of a fashion show than a celebration of music? A narcotics gathering where the beats simply serve as a 'background' feature for debauchery and consumerism. Just a setting for a simple Instagram post? The answer is a definite yes.
Before the advent of social media, festival-goers were less concerned with outfit choices. Music fans were happy to roll around in the mud at Glastonbury wearing the same outfit for five days.
In 2019, however, festivals offer the Instagram generation a perfect backdrop for a selfie – festival-goers are posting an incredible 5 TIMES MORE at these summer events than they were in 2017, and plans for outfit choices and designer labels stretch months in advance. And if you happened to be a so-called "influencer," you can bet all that obsession and effort is tenfold.
Instagram Culture on The Rise | Burning Man by Karim Tabar
Love The Sales recently reported that over 15 million Instagram posts were shared at last year's Top 200 Festivals. The platform assessed the 200 top festivals in the world to find out which event had the most 'Instagram Posers,' and unsurprisingly, the number one spot goes to Burning Man USA.
We recently wrote about how the CEO of Black Rock City, Marian Goodell, expressed dismay over the ever-growing 'Instagram and convenience culture,' and called for a 'cultural course correcting' of the festival in a statement on their website. Goodell even went as far as banning a famous concierge-style camp who disregarded the ethos of the Playa.
But her effort to distance the festival from any capitalistic trend seems in vain, with growing numbers of 'Instagram Posers' flocking to Black Rock City each year, not to experience the burn, but to change outfits six times a day and get those 25 shot for the 'gram.'
You can read our article 'Burning Man CEO speaks out against Instagram culture and bans concierge-style camp,' right here. For now, take a look at the other 9 most Instagrammed festivals in the world below, courtesy of LoveTheSales.com
1. Burning Man, USA
24 posts per Instagram user
Burning Man is officially the most Instagrammed festival, with Instagram users posting on average 24 times over the 9-day event.
The desert-dwelling music fest offers attendees the chance to lose any inhibitions and go all-out on style. You'll see the craziest of outfits and the most outlandish garments fashion has to offer. It offers festival goers a completely unique experience that mainstream festivals cannot match.
With the ever-rising popularity and a short supply of tickets, it's a must-attend event. Resale tickets have been posted for as much as $1,000,000 dollars online.
2. Coachella, USA
Coachella comes in at the number two spot.
Officially deemed the 'Superbowl of Fashion', Coachella is only growing in its influence on fashion trends. Celebrities and fashion influencers flock to the event each year. Many fashion brands now have a presence at the festival just to capitalise on the Instagram buzz. A massive hit with attendees was Sephora's DIY make-up bar, as was H&M's festival pop-up, featuring exclusive items and celebrity hosts.
3. Tomorrowland, Belgium
The elaborate stages and colourful scenery make Europe's largest Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival the perfect place for fans to post on Insta.
The event has gained viral status online, with its official 'aftermovies' notching up 100+ million views on Youtube. Given its online reach, it makes sense that it ranks so highly in the top 10.
4. Ultra Music Festival, USA
Given that Ultra has the second highest Instagram following of the top ten, we thought it would appear higher in the list (Tomorrowland has the highest).
The EDM festival, set with a backdrop of Miami, has a following of 3.5 million people on Instagram, but with 15 posts per Instagrammer it only makes up the Top 5.
5. Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, USA
Harking back to the roots of early festivals, such as Woodstock, the onus is very much on experience, inclusivity and being social with your fellow festival-goers.
The festival has been around since 2002 and encompasses a wide variety of musical talent across genres. Voted 'best festival' by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008, Bonnaroo is well known for attracting rock fans from around the world.
6. Glastonbury, UK
As one of the most well-known festivals in the world, everybody wants to go to Glastonbury.
The event takes happens has two years on one year off cycle, so it's no surprise that their 2019 tickets sold out in under 20 minutes.
7. Creamfields, UK
9 posts per Instagram user
One of the largest EDM festivals in the world in terms of attendance, Creamfields has been an integral part of the UK music scene since 1998.
Its birth towards the end of the UK's rave culture established its popularity with Gen X and perhaps hampered its position in the top 10.
8. Electric Daisy Carnival, USA
As much a carnival as a festival, EDC won 'Festival of the Year' at the Electronic Music Awards in 2017.
Known for its weird and wonderful music stages and its colourful atmosphere, EDC has an ethos of inclusivity and non-discrimination. Its inception fell around the same time as Creamfields.
9. Lollapalooza, USA
The 4-day music event got its start 27 years ago in Chicago and has become a festival powerhouse across the world, holding successful events in Chile, Brazil and Germany.
The musical juggernaut appeals very much the masses, attracting hugely popular acts which bring along a swarm of adoring fans. Headliners last year consisted of Bruno Mars, Arctic Monkeys & Travis Scott.
10. Mysteryland, Netherlands
Known as 'the oldest festival in the Netherlands', Mysteryland has been growing in popularity across the globe in recent years.
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Braye-en-Laonnois est une commune française située dans le département de l'Aisne, en région Hauts-de-France.

Géographie

Localisation

Communes limitrophes

Braye-en-Laonnois est située au fond d'un vallon adjacent à la vallée de l'Aisne, au pied du plateau du Chemin des Dames. Le canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne y perce le plateau (entrée sud).

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat océanique altéré » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique, le climat de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Martigny-Courpierre », sur la commune de Martigny-Courpierre, mise en service en 1987 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Saint-Quentin », sur la commune de Fontaine-lès-Clercs,  mise en service en 1933 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000 à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Braye-en-Laonnois est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (69,4 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (69,3 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (52,8 %), forêts (27,2 %), prairies (13,1 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (3,5 %), zones urbanisées (3,3 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

 La commune se situe au milieu du Chemin des Dames. Elle est au centre de la bataille du Chemin des Dames en 1917 et de la seconde bataille de la Marne en 1918.
 En 1940, la commune est un haut lieu de la bataille de l'Ailette.

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial

La commune de Braye-en-Laonnois est membre de la communauté de communes du Chemin des Dames, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé le  dont le siège est à Craonne. Ce dernier est par ailleurs membre d'autres groupements intercommunaux.

Sur le plan administratif, elle est rattachée à l'arrondissement de Laon, au département de l'Aisne et à la région Hauts-de-France. Sur le plan électoral, elle dépend du canton de Villeneuve-sur-Aisne pour l'élection des conseillers départementaux, depuis le redécoupage cantonal de 2014 entré en vigueur en 2015, et de la première circonscription de l'Aisne  pour les élections législatives, depuis le dernier découpage électoral de 2010.

Administration municipale

Démographie

Lieux et monuments
 Église Notre-Dame ;
 Carrière de Froidmont : carrière de pierre de construction exploitée depuis le Moyen Âge qui fut occupée par les soldats allemands, français et américains (suivant la date) comme abri souterrain pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Les sculptures réalisées par ces derniers sont classées aux monuments historiques depuis 1998. Près de la carrière se trouve le Mémorial de la  DI US ;
 Le canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne, creusé de 1879 à 1889 et son tunnel ;
 Monument aux morts, incluant la statue Le Poilu victorieux réalisée par Jules Déchin.
 Calvaire commémoratif du  BCP près de la ferme de Malval ;
 Mémorial des  et  BCA.

Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne
La construction du canal et le percement du tunnel de Braye-en-Laonnois, furent d'une grande difficulté du fait de la nature du terrain. Le tunnel-canal fut creusé entre 1875 et 1885 sous la carrière de Froidmont.

Partant d´Abbécourt sur l´Oise, le canal, long de 48 km et comportant 13 écluses, remonte le cours de l´Ailette jusqu'à Chevregny. Le bief de partage de 7,5 kilomètres passe en souterrain, à un seul sens de circulation, sur une longueur de 2 365 mètres, permettant au canal de franchir le plateau picard, sous le Chemin des Dames, entre les vallées de l'Oise et de l'Aisne.

Le tunnel de Braye-en-Laonnois, baptisé "tunnel Napoléon", entre en souterrain au lieudit les Vaumaire  à Chevregny, et en sort au moulin de Delay à Braye-en-Laonnois.

Une porte abattante à axe horizontal permet de fermer le souterrain côté Aisne et de souffler de l'air autorisant ainsi la navigation au moteur. Auparavant un petit locotracteur électrique suspendu à un rail faisait passer cet obstacle à des trains de bateaux.

Le canal se dirige vers l´Aisne, qu´il traverse sur un pont-canal avant de s´embrancher au canal latéral de l´Aisne près de l´écluse de Bourg-et-Comin.

Ouvert à la navigation le 28 avril 1890, le canal fut inauguré le 1er juin. À la suite des dégradations subies lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, le ministre des Travaux Publics donna, en 1925, un avis favorable à la remise en état du canal  et du tunnel.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Paul Vermoyal, acteur né à Braye-en-Laonnois (1888-1925).

Voir aussi

 Liste des communes de l'Aisne

Liens externes
 Braye-en-Laonnois sur le site de l'Insee
Le patrimoine de la commune sur le site de l'Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel de la Région Hauts-de-France

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Braye-en-Laonnois
Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918
Toponyme évoquant le Laonnois


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CBS & NBC Focus on KSM's Torture Claims, Only ABC Tags Him 'Evil' --6/6/2008
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1. CBS & NBC Focus on KSM's Torture Claims, Only ABC Tags Him 'Evil'
CBS and NBC on Thursday night were as interested in highlighting the claims of torture, from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four 9/11 terrorist attack co-conspirators who were arraigned by a military commission court in Guantanamo Bay, as to informing viewers about the charges against them. ABC didn't consider the torture allegations relevant and so didn't mention the topic as Jan Crawford Greenburg uniquely described KSM as "evil." In contrast to NBC which called him a "man" and "defendant," CBS anchor Katie Couric at least described him as a "terrorist." CBS reporter Bob Orr relayed how "the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 said openly in court that he had been tortured by the U.S., and he called the case against him a sham." With the quote on screen, Orr reported: "KSM, who the CIA admits was subjected to water-boarding, questioned the legitimacy of the military hearing. 'For five years, they torture,' he said. 'After the torturing they transfer us to inquisition-land in Guantanamo.'" Orr proceeded to showcase how Aziz Ali charged: "This government failed to treat me as a human for five years." On NBC, Jim Miklaszewski featured criticism from the ACLU and asserted: "Mohammed was water-boarded by the CIA. Defense attorneys had intended to challenge any of Mohammed's statements on the grounds he was tortured."
2. ABC's Claire Shipman Lovingly Compares Obama to Robert Kennedy
To mark the 40th anniversary of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's death, Good Morning America's Claire Shipman filed a fawning report on Thursday in which she compared Barack Obama to RFK. Splicing together footage of Kennedy and Obama, Shipman noted the "similarities" and nostalgically declared: "The search to shift that mantle, futile of course. But also a quintessentially American desire for, if not a happy ending, some sense of completion." GMA news anchor Chris Cuomo, son of former Governor Mario Cuomo and himself a member of a famous Democratic family, lauded RFK's daughter Kerry Kennedy (who was featured in the piece) as a "beautiful representative" of a "special and beautiful family." Of course, Cuomo failed to mention that he formally was the brother-in-law of Kerry Kennedy. At the top of the segment, Shipman cooed: "Even 40 years later, most Democrats can't utter the name 'Bobby' without a wistful, 'what if' sort of reverence."
3. On CBS, Washington Post's Quinn Says Hillary 'a Tortured Person'
On Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked to Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn about what Hillary Clinton's legacy will be after leaving the presidential race on Saturday and Quinn declared: "I think that this is a tortured person who has run and run and run and gone for it and gone for it, and it's power, and it's this and it's that, and 'I've got to be there.' There's never a moment where you see her relaxing, where you see her really stopping to smell the roses." Smith began the segment by asking: "What are we to take away? What did we see? What did we really witness?" Quinn responded: "Hillary doesn't know what she wants. And she doesn't know who she really is...Remember when she first came into the White House and she had a different hairdo and a different outfit? She looked completely different. And people kept saying, 'Who is she?'...And even during the campaign this time...she was the strong one and the weak one. And, during this campaign, she -- she allowed him [Bill Clinton] to, on some levels, sabotage her. She was feisty at some point and even shrill, and then she would cry."
4. New York Times' Favorite, Obama, Clinches Democratic Nomination
Senator Barack Obama is now the Democratic presidential nominee, to the approval of no doubt much of the Times' news team, which has lifted the Illinois Senator throughout the campaign, while nudging Sen. Hillary Clinton towards stage right, even as she continued to win primaries. TimesWatch's rough count of Times news stories since Thanksgiving 2007 shows a nearly 3-1 ratio of positive-to-negative stories for Obama, compared to a 2-3 positive-to-negative ratio for Clinton. Positive stories for Obama (not including accounts of his primary victories, which would have an understandably pro-Obama tone) included this February 14 Valentine to his wife, "Michelle Obama Thrives in Campaign Trenches," and this April 1 headline, "Moving to Down-to-Earth Oratory for Working People." Lucky them. The over-sensitivity to opposition to Obama continued in Wednesday's front page "news analysis" by Adam Nagourney: "Next on Agenda Is Clinton's Role." It managed to sneak in the idea, cleverly couched in objective terminology, that while Obama should win fair and square on "substantive" issues like the war and the economy, other values like "race, patriotism and class" might plant doubts in voters' minds. (As if patriotism isn't a substantive issue.)
5. Pew: Many Recognize Media's Pro-Obama Bias, Democrats Prefer CNN
"Far more Americans believe that the press coverage has favored Barack Obama than think it has favored Hillary Clinton," a just-released survey, from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, discovered in determining 37 percent recognize a bias in favor of Obama. Even 35 percent of Democrats "see a pro-Obama bias" compared to 45 percent of Republicans and 40 percnt of independents. The poll, of about 1,000 Americans taken in late May, found about the same percentage of Republicans and Democrats rely on MSNBC for campaign news, but: "Far more Republicans (24%) than Democrats (10%) get most of their campaign news from Fox [News Channel], while the opposite is true for CNN: 24% of Democrats look to CNN compared with just 13% of Republicans." Also, reliance on the Internet for campaign news has jumped 12 points since 2004 while those primarily reading newspapers or watching TV news has fallen.
6. Networks That Hyped Haditha 'Massacre' Now Ignore Acquittal
The same network newscasts that hyped the 2005 "alleged massacre" by U.S. soldiers in Haditha are so far ignoring the acquittal on all charges of Lieutenant Andrew Grayson on Thursday. Grayson was accused of attempting to cover up details of the events surrounding a raid that led to the death of 15 Iraqis. However, Grayson's acquittal was skipped by ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show and NBC's Today show. (CNN's American Morning covered the story only as a news brief.) In contrast, the morning shows seemed much more interested in the subject back when dark allegations were made about the actions of U.S. solders in Haditha. On Memorial Day 2006, then-GMA host Charles Gibson intoned: "America honors its fallen war heroes, but troubling new information about Marine misconduct in Iraq. A new eyewitness on what could be a mass murder of civilians. Was there a cover-up?"
7. 'Top Ten Questions on the Barack Obama Running Mate Application'
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CBS & NBC Focus on KSM's Torture Claims,
Only ABC Tags Him 'Evil'
CBS and NBC on Thursday night were as interested in highlighting the claims of torture, from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four 9/11 terrorist attack co-conspirators who were arraigned by a military commission court in Guantanamo Bay, as to informing viewers about the charges against them. ABC didn't consider the torture allegations relevant and so didn't mention the topic as Jan Crawford Greenburg uniquely described KSM as "evil." In contrast to NBC which called him a "man" and "defendant," CBS anchor Katie Couric at least described him as a "terrorist."
CBS reporter Bob Orr, who emphasized that "some legal critics called the hearing...a complete and utter farce," relayed how "the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 said openly in court that he had been tortured by the U.S., and he called the case against him a sham." With the quote on screen, Orr reported: "KSM, who the CIA admits was subjected to water-boarding, questioned the legitimacy of the military hearing. 'For five years, they torture,' he said. 'After the torturing they transfer us to inquisition-land in Guantanamo.'" Orr proceeded to showcase how Aziz Ali charged: "This government failed to treat me as a human for five years."
On NBC, Jim Miklaszewski highlighted how KSM "called the legal proceedings 'evil'" and featured criticism from the ACLU. Miklaszewski also highlighted the "after five years of torture, they transfer us to inquisition land, Guantanamo" quote, before asserting: "Mohammed was water-boarded by the CIA. Defense attorneys had intended to challenge any of Mohammed's statements on the grounds he was tortured."
Following a soundbite of the ACLU 's Executive Director disparaging the hearing as "a complete and utter farce," Miklaszewski concluded: "Many legal experts predict these defendants may never face a trial before military commissions, delaying justice once again for those families of 9/11."
Of course, maybe they could face justice if liberals/journalists were a little less concerned about procedure and treatment and a bit more interested in meting out punishment.
[This item, by the MRC's Brent Baker, was posted Thursday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
All three correspondents reported from Guantanamo Bay, but only Williams felt the need to say the Pentagon provided the transportation: "He [Miklaszewski] got there by cargo plane on a trip arranged by the Pentagon for reporters."
On ABC's World News, Jan Crawford Greenburg began her story: "His name has become notorious, synonymous in the minds of many, with evil." And she concluded it with a second "evil" description: "Journalists from around the world have come here to Guantanamo to cover today's hearing. We sat in the back of the court room watching the proceedings, and Charlie, I've got to tell you, I spent hours just staring at Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sitting there like everyone else. A man that for years we've come to think of as evil."
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide these transcripts of the stories on the Thursday, June 5 CBS and NBC broadcast network evening newscasts:
# CBS Evening News:
KATIE COURIC: Good evening, everyone. Nearly seven years after 9/11, the terrorist who says he planned the attacks was brought before a military tribunal today on the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was the first court appearance for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed since the CIA captured him while he was sleeping in Pakistan five years ago. He and four alleged co-conspirators heard the charges against them, charges that could get them the death penalty. Mohammed told the court he wants to die a martyr and plans to represent himself. Our justice correspondent Bob Orr is at Guantanamo. And, Bob, it was quite a scene there today.
BOB ORR: Katie, there's no doubt about it. This first military court appearance by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was both dramatic and also bizarre. Sitting next to four alleged al-Qaeda co-conspirators, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11 said openly in court that he had been tortured by the U.S., and he called the case against him a sham.
It was a surreal reunion of five men who the government charges were on the board of directors of al-Qaeda. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, looking dramatically different from the disheveled man in this now-infamous mug shot, was clearly in charge. Mohammed, dressed in a white tunic and turban win a flowing 10-inch beard, openly made hand signals and seemed to be directing his co-defendants, who sat single file behind him. Walid bin Attash, known as Khalad, accused of running terror training camps. Ramsi Binalshibh, who the government says helped train the 9/11 hijackers, and two money men -- Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Hawsawi '€" accused of financing the attacks.
But Mohammed, educated in the U.S., dominated the courtroom. Chanting verses from the Koran and providing his own English translation, KSM said he only answered to the laws of Allah, and he rejected his American lawyers, saying, "their President George Bush waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they are still killing people there." KSM, who the CIA admits was subjected to waterboarding, questioned the legitimacy of the military hearing. "For five years, they torture," he said. "After the torturing they transfer us to inquisition-land in Guantanamo."
The judge warned KSM against representing himself, reminding the accused terror chief that he and his colleagues are charged with killing nearly 3,000 Americans, and they could be sentenced to death. "That is what I wish," Mohammed calmly responded. "I wish to be martyred for a long time." Co-defendant Binalshibh, who tried four times to join the 9/11 hijackers in their attacks, echoed that defiance, telling the court with a smile, "I've been seeking martyrdom for five years. I tried for 9/11 and could not get a visa. If this martrydom happens today, so be it.
The others also followed KSM's lead. Each fired his lawyers, and each condemned the legal process. In nearly perfect English, detainee Aziz Ali put it this way: "This government failed to treat me as a human for five years. My conscience does not allow me to participate." Some legal critics called the hearing, which is now ended, a complete and utter farce. At a minimum, it was certainly weird. At one point, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, for example, objected to one of the court sketches of him. He said it was an unfair image. The sketch eventually was changed.
# NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: A dramatic scene today in an American courtroom in Cuba. The man accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks made his first public appearance in a court, a military courtroom in this case, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba -- the first time anyone charged directly with the hijackings was in court to hear the charges. Our own Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski was there. He got there by cargo plane on a trip arranged by the Pentagon for reporters. And he's with us tonight. Jim, good evening.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: Good evening, Brian. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants faced arraignment here today on charges of conspiracy, terrorism and murder for the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, appeared robust and confident with a long full salt and pepper beard -- a far cry from the confused, disheveled look when he was captured more than five years ago. But today, Mohammad was defiant, telling the military commission he's willing to die. Mohammad called the legal proceedings "evil," rejected his defense attorneys, and said he wanted to represent himself. When the judge asked if he understood he could get the death penalty, Mohammed shot back, "That is what I wish, I wish to be martyred."
One by one, the remaining defendants followed his lead and rejected their attorneys. In what sounded like a confession, Ramsi Binalshibh, the so-called twentieth hijacker, said he, too, wanted to be a martyr on 9/11, but was denied entry into the U.S. He told the commission, "I tried to get a visa but could not." But Mohammad commanded the center stage. He called the proceedings an "inquisition," and claimed, "after five years of torture, they transfer us to inquisition land, Guantanamo." Mohammed was waterboarded by the CIA. Defense attorneys had intended to challenge any of Mohammed's statements on the grounds he was tortured.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BRIAN MIZER, MILITARY COMMISSIONS DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Because in the back of the detainee's mind is always the possibility that they've done it to me once before, they can do it again.
MIKLASZEWSKI: Observers of today's hearing included the head of the American Civil Liberties Union, a critic of the commission process.
ANTHONY ROMERO, ACLU EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: I think today has been a complete and utter farce, that it's clear that the rules of the commissions are imploding on themselves.
MIKLASZEWSKI: As of late tonight, no trial date has been set for any of the five 9/11 defendants. In fact, many legal experts predict these defendants may never face a trial before military commissions, delaying justice once again for those families of 9/11.
ABC's Claire Shipman Lovingly Compares
Obama to Robert Kennedy
To mark the 40th anniversary of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's death, Good Morning America's Claire Shipman filed a fawning report on Thursday in which she compared Barack Obama to RFK. Splicing together footage of Kennedy and Obama, Shipman noted the "similarities" and nostalgically declared: "The search to shift that mantle, futile of course. But also a quintessentially American desire for, if not a happy ending, some sense of completion."
GMA news anchor Chris Cuomo, son of former Governor Mario Cuomo and himself a member of a famous Democratic family, lauded RFK's daughter Kerry Kennedy (who was featured in the piece) as a "beautiful representative" of a "special and beautiful family." Of course, Cuomo failed to mention that he formally was the brother-in-law of Kerry Kennedy. (The ABC anchor's brother and current Democratic Attorney General of New York, Andrew Cuomo, married and then divorced her in 2003.)
[This item, by the MRC's Scott Whitlock, was posted Thursday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
At the top of the segment, Shipman cooed: "Even 40 years later, most Democrats can't utter the name 'Bobby' without a wistful, 'what if' sort of reverence." A true enough statement, but considering that the rest of the piece was all about Kennedy's greatness, what does that say about the people who produced the segment? An ABC graphic cheered, "The Vision of RFK: Honoring an American Legend." Shipman then proceeded to make her comparison clear:
SHIPMAN: Landmark crowds, striking charisma, a focus on healing the divide. [Video of Obama and RFK cut together.]
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: We are the hope of the future, the answer to the cynics who tell us, our house must stand divided.
BOBBY KENNEDY: This election will mean nothing if it leaves us, after it is all over, as divided as we were before it we began.
A transcript of the segment, which aired at 8:33am on June 5:
CHRIS CUOMO: This week marks a somber anniversary. Robert F. Kennedy was murdered 40 years ago by an assassin's bullet. Now, decades later, RFK is remembered, above all, for his message of hope, a message that still resonates for many people today and GMA senior national correspondent Claire Shipman has more on the story for us. Good morning, Claire.
ABC GRAPHIC: The Vision of RFK: Honoring an American Legend
CLAIRE SHIPMAN: Good morning, Chris. You know, it is striking how much Bobby Kennedy and his life, his accomplishments, how much meaning they still have for so many people. And I think especially in this dramatic, political year, Bobby Kennedy's short presidential bid is remembered with all of the excitement that it generated. Was it the man? The moment? The message?
BOBBY KENNEDY: I want the Democratic Party and the United States of America to stand for hope, instead of despair, for reconciliation of men, instead of the growing risk of world war.
SHIPMAN: Even 40 years later, most Democrats can't utter the name "Bobby" without a wistful, "what if" sort of reverence. The tone of his anti-war passion and head first dive into racism and poverty, unleashed adoration, even as it unearthed grim reality. His impromptu words in Indianapolis-
BOBBY KENNEDY: Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight.
SHIPMAN: -as he told his black audience what he had just learned, that Martin Luther King had been shot, weaving in Greek philosophy, was one of the most memorable speeches of the 20th century.
BOBBY KENNEDY: Against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
SHIPMAN: The public couldn't get enough. His campaign stops took on a Beatle-esque quality. These scenes, riding cavalierly in open convertibles, almost heartbreaking to watch. His daughter, Kerry was only eight when he died. She still remembers that he always brought his passion home to them.
KERRY KENNEDY (Daughter of RFK): We were all at home and eating dinner and daddy walked in and said, "I've just been to a part of our country where three families live in a room the size of this dining room" and I wanted to do something to help those children.
OLETA GARRETT FITZGERALD: We all grew up with a picture of John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King and then on the other wall was Jesus.
SHIPMAN: Southerners Oleta Garrett Fitzgerald and Winifred Green still remember every detail of Bobby Kennedy's visits and commitment.
WINIFRED GREEN: You could really see that Senator Kennedy was doing everything he could not to cry at the plight of a hungry eight-year-old in our country. Many politicians have tried over the years [B-roll of Barack Obama] to wear the JFK mantle. Ted Sorensen has a new book out on his days advising John and Bobby Kennedy and thinks this year there's a good fit.
TED SORENSEN (Fmr. Kennedy advisor and author, "Counselor"): Barack Obama like Robert Kennedy is an inspiring speaker, an eloquent speaker. People who say, oh, that's just words. Just rhetoric. Just words. Just rhetoric is what made this country great.
SHIPMAN: Landmark crowds, striking charisma, a focus on healing a divide. [Video of Obama and RFK cut together.]
SHIPMAN: Similarities, yes.
BOBBY KENNEDY: Now it's on to Chicago and let's win there.
SHIPMAN: In the end, though, nobody can finish that particular story. The one that ended too soon 40 years ago. Outlined painfully here in Harry Benson's book "RFK." Ethel's stricken face, pleading to give her dying husband air. The search to shift that mantle, futile of course. But also a quintessentially American desire for, if not a happy ending, some sense of completion.
SHIPMAN: And, of course, we all know that today the Kennedy family is facing another blow, Ted's brain cancer. But their facing the latest ordeal with the same courage they've shown over the last 40 years. Chris?
CUOMO: What are we hearing from them about what's going on with the senator?
SHIPMAN: Well, we did ask Kerry. And she said he is characteristically upbeat. Here's what she told us.
KERRY KENNEDY: He has a lot to teach us about how to confront this latest mountain in his way, which is cancer, and how to confront cancer with dignity and grace and love.
SHIPMAN: Always thinking about the family.
CUOMO: Always and, you know, Kerry is a beautiful representative of them. They are a special and beautiful family. Claire, thank you very much.
On CBS, Washington Post's Quinn Says
Hillary 'a Tortured Person'
On Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked to Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn about what Hillary Clinton's legacy will be after leaving the presidential race on Saturday and Quinn declared: "I think that this is a tortured person who has run and run and run and gone for it and gone for it, and it's power, and it's this and it's that, and 'I've got to be there.' There's never a moment where you see her relaxing, where you see her really stopping to smell the roses."
Smith began the segment by asking: "What are we to take away? What did we see? What did we really witness?" Quinn responded: "Hillary doesn't know what she wants. And she doesn't know who she really is...Remember when she first came into the White House and she had a different hairdo and a different outfit? She looked completely different. And people kept saying, 'Who is she?'...And even during the campaign this time...she was the strong one and the weak one. And, during this campaign, she -- she allowed him [Bill Clinton] to, on some levels, sabotage her. She was feisty at some point and even shrill, and then she would cry."
[This item, by the MRC's Kyle Drennen, was posted Thursday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
Quinn then suggested that Hillary needed some time off: "And I think that that -- what she needs to do now -- and I know this sounds really strange, but -- if I were Hillary Clinton, I would go off to a retreat somewhere...I would take a sabbatical and stay there for three months, and not talk, and meditate, and think, and try to figure out who I really was and what I really wanted."
At the end of the segment Quinn even gave Hillary some relationship advice: "Maybe what she really needs is a wonderful, loving relationship with somebody instead of just going after power and being this ambitious person that I think she thinks she oughta be."
When Quinn appeared on the show on March 26, she told Smith she was upset to see "the press lie down" when it came to asking Chelsea Clinton challenging questions on the campaign trail. See the March 27 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org
Here is the full transcript of the June 5 segment:
HARRY SMITH: And joining us from Washington is Sally Quinn, columnist for the Washington Post. Sally good morning, good to see you.
SALLY QUINN: Hi.
SMITH: We'll be very interested to see what Hillary Clinton has to say on Saturday. But as we've all had this sort of front row seat to watch this evolution from that first 60 Minutes story where 'I'm not going to stand around and stand by my man' to what we've witnessed even in the last couple of months. What are we to take away? What did we see? What did we really witness?
QUINN: I've been intrigued by the questions in the last couple of weeks, 'What does Hillary really want?' And I think that the answer is that Hillary, up until now, has wanted what she thinks she should want. And what I think is that Hillary doesn't know what she wants. And she doesn't know who she really is. From the very beginning, when she married Bill Clinton, when she moved to Arkansas, she gave up her lucrative career, she changed her name during the campaign, 'I'll stand by my man.' She -- her personality changed. Remember when she first came into the White House and she had a different hairdo and a different outfit? She looked completely different. And people kept saying, 'Who is she?'
SMITH: A little Al Gore syndrome.
QUINN: And, even during -- right, exactly. And even during the campaign this time -- well, during the Monica thing, when she stood by Bill Clinton, she was the health care maven. I mean, she was the strong one and the weak one. And, during this campaign, she -- she allowed him to, on some levels, sabotage her. She was feisty at some point and even shrill, and then she would cry. And then, you just played this soundbite where she said 'I've found my voice.' But I don't think that she ever did find her voice.
SMITH: Right.
QUINN: And I think that that -- what she needs to do now -- and I know this sounds really strange, but -- if I were Hillary Clinton, I would go off to a retreat somewhere.
SMITH: [Laughter]
QUINN: There's a wonderful one in West Virginia called Bhavana.
QUINN: A silent retreat.
SMITH: She needs a spa?
QUINN: And I would stay there.
QUINN: I would take a sabbatical and stay there for three months, and not talk, and meditate, and think, and try to figure out who I really was and what I really wanted. I'm serious. I think that this is a tortured person who has run and run and run and gone for it and gone for it, and it's power, and it's this and it's that, and 'I've got to be there.' There's never a moment where you see her relaxing, where you see her really stopping to smell the roses-
SMITH: And maybe if she does that-
QUINN: And stopping to say, 'Who am I and what is it that I want?' Maybe -- maybe what she really needs is a wonderful, loving relationship with somebody instead of just going after power and being this ambitious person that I think she thinks she oughta be.
SMITH: Alright, alright. Sally Quinn great to see you. Thanks very much for your thoughts this morning.
QUINN: Thanks.
New York Times' Favorite, Obama, Clinches
Democratic Nomination
Senator Barack Obama is now the Democratic presidential nominee, to the approval of no doubt much of the Times' news team, which has lifted the Illinois Senator throughout the campaign, while nudging Sen. Hillary Clinton towards stage right, even as she continued to win primaries.
TimesWatch's rough count of Times news stories since Thanksgiving 2007 shows a nearly 3-1 ratio of positive-to-negative stories for Obama, compared to a 2-3 positive-to-negative ratio for Clinton. Positive stories for Obama (not including accounts of his primary victories, which would have an understandably pro-Obama tone) included this February 14 Valentine to his wife, "Michelle Obama Thrives in Campaign Trenches," and this April 1 headline, "Moving to Down-to-Earth Oratory for Working People." Lucky them.
Meanwhile, Clinton dealt with this front-page headline on May 5: "Seeing Grit and Ruthlessness in Clinton's Love of the Fight." As Clinton irritated many in the media by continuing to win late primaries, the Times began dropping not-so-subtle hints that her supporters were merely anti-Obama voters in disguise, motivated more by racism than any embrace of Hillary Clinton herself.
[This item, by the Clay Waters, was posted Wednesday on the MRC's TimesWatch site: www.timeswatch.org ]
The over-sensitivity to opposition to Obama continued in Wednesday's front page "news analysis" by Adam Nagourney: "Next on Agenda Is Clinton's Role." It managed to sneak in the idea, cleverly couched in objective terminology, that while Obama should win fair and square on "substantive" issues like the war and the economy, other values like "race, patriotism and class" might plant doubts in voters' minds. (As if patriotism isn't a substantive issue.) The Times has long hinted that when Republicans criticize Obama for preening over his lack of a flag pin and his ties to radical leftists, they are actually attacking Obama's patriotism. See: timeswatch.org
An excerpt from the June 4 Nagourney piece:
Much of the cautious optimism in the Obama campaign is based on the expectation that this is a turn-the-page election, that deep anger with President Bush, along with discontent over the war in Iraq and the economy will be channeled into a Democratic victory in November. But it is not yet clear that those substantive issues will fully trump cultural issues and values -- like race, patriotism and class -- or the question of whether voters will judge Mr. Obama, just a few years out of the Illinois legislature, to have the experience necessary to sit in the Oval Office.
For the entire article: www.nytimes.com
Check TimesWatch for the latest liberal bias in the New York Times: timeswatch.org
Pew: Many Recognize Media's Pro-Obama
Bias, Democrats Prefer CNN
"Far more Americans believe that the press coverage has favored Barack Obama than think it has favored Hillary Clinton," a just-released survey, from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, discovered in determining 37 percent recognize a bias in favor of Obama. Even 35 percent of Democrats "see a pro-Obama bias" compared to 45 percent of Republicans and 40 percnt of independents.
The poll, of about 1,000 Americans taken in late May, found about the same percentage of Republicans and Democrats rely on MSNBC for campaign news, but: "Far more Republicans (24%) than Democrats (10%) get most of their campaign news from Fox [News Channel], while the opposite is true for CNN: 24% of Democrats look to CNN compared with just 13% of Republicans."
Reliance on the Internet for campaign news has jumped 12 points since 2004 while those primarily reading newspapers or watching TV news has fallen. Specifically, those who "say they get most of their news about the election from television" fell 10 points since 2004 as those relying on newspapers dropped 12 points, but "as many people now cite the Internet as cite newspapers as their main source of campaign news (29%); just 17% cited the Internet in September 2004."
[This item, by the MRC's Brent Baker, was posted late Thursday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
(On the bias question, Pew didn't ask about coverage of John McCain, but given the media's adulation for Obama, it's hard to imagine a future poll comparing coverage of the two party nominees won't confirm an even greater percent of the public see media advocacy for Obama, especially if McCain strongly pushes any conservative policies.)
Some brief excerpts from "Many Say Coverage is Biased in Favor of Obama; Primary Wrapup: Even As Obama Controversies Widely Registered," posted June 5:
Nearly four-in-ten (37%) say that in covering the Democratic race, news organizations have been biased toward Obama while just 8% say they have been biased toward Clinton; 40% say news organizations have shown no bias in their coverage. Substantial minorities of Republicans (45%) and independents (40%) say the press has been biased toward Obama; somewhat fewer Democrats (35%) see a pro-Obama bias.
Among TV news outlets, the major cable networks are the dominant source for campaign news. Nearly half of the public rely on CNN (22%), the Fox News Channel (16%), or MSNBC (9%) for most of their campaign news. Fewer than three-in-ten (28%) rely on one of the three major broadcast networks and ever fewer (16%) rely on local TV news.
Roughly equal proportions of Republicans and Democrats say they rely on Network TV, local TV or MSNBC Cable News for campaign coverage. For Fox and CNN, however, there are significant partisan differences. Far more Republicans (24%) than Democrats (10%) get most of their campaign news from Fox, while the opposite is true for CNN: 24% of Democrats look to CNN compared with just 13% of Republicans.
Seven-in-ten Americans say they get most of their news about the election from television, which is about the same as in December (71%) but down 10 points since September 2004. About three-in-ten cite newspapers (29%), which is largely unchanged from December and a decline of 12 points since September 2004. As many people now cite the internet as cite newspapers as their main source of campaign news (29%); just 17% cited the internet in September 2004.
Pew's rundown: people-press.org
PDF with all the questions and survey details: people-press.org
For dozens polls of journalists, check the MRC's "Media Bias Basics" section: www.mediaresearch.org
For a bunch of previous surveys on how the public recognizes the liberal tilt of reporters, see the "How the Public Views the Media" subsection: www.mediaresearch.org
Networks That Hyped Haditha 'Massacre'
Now Ignore Acquittal
The same network newscasts that hyped the 2005 "alleged massacre" by U.S. soldiers in Haditha are so far ignoring the acquittal on all charges of Lieutenant Andrew Grayson on Thursday. Grayson was accused of attempting to cover up details of the events surrounding a raid that led to the death of 15 Iraqis. However, Grayson's acquittal was skipped by ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show and NBC's Today show. (CNN's American Morning covered the story only as a news brief.)
In contrast, the morning shows seemed much more interested in the subject back when dark allegations were made about the actions of U.S. solders in Haditha. On Memorial Day 2006, then-GMA host Charles Gibson intoned: "America honors its fallen war heroes, but troubling new information about Marine misconduct in Iraq. A new eyewitness on what could be a mass murder of civilians. Was there a cover-up?" See the June 13, 2006 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org
On the March 20, 2006, Nightly News, host Brian Williams touted the "disturbing new allegations" made by Congressman John Murtha about Haditha. See the May 18, 2006 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org
(It should be noted that, so far, five of the eight originally charged with murder or cover-up have been acquitted.) On May 25, 2006, referencing the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in 1968, Nightline host Terry Moran speculated: "Will Haditha be the My Lai of the Middle East?" On June 7 of that year, reporter Andrea Mitchell opined on Today that Haditha was a "black eye for American policy." See the MRC's June 12, 2006 Media Reality Check: www.mrc.org
(For a look at contrasting New York Times coverage, see "Times Virtually Ignores Haditha Acquittal: The Times was all over the Haditha 'massacre.' Yet now that the prosecution has suffered yet another failure, you can hardly locate the story with a microscope," on the MRC's TimesWatch site: www.timeswatch.org )
A 2006 MRC study of how CNN, MSNBC and Fox News covered Iraq found that CNN and MSNBC were much more likely to focus on the negative, such as incidents like Haditha:
CNN and MSNBC's coverage took on the characteristics of a feeding frenzy, with the U.S. troops presumed guilty. CNN anchor Tony Harris echoed Murtha's inflammatory charges during a May 30 report: "Men, women and children, gunned down in cold blood. That's the allegation....U.S. Marines are suspected of killing two dozen unarmed civilians, accusations of a cover-up also a part of the mix. Democratic Congressman John Murtha has been briefed on what happened....Murtha calls the alleged atrocity as bad as the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, if not worse."
Three days later, CNN's John Vause extended the indictment to all U.S. troops, not just the few being investigated regarding Haditha: "There is a perception that U.S. forces are brutal and are, at times, trigger happy."
See "The Iraq War on Cable TV" study: www.mrc.org
'Top Ten Questions on the Barack Obama
Running Mate Application'
From the June 5 Late Show with David Letterman, the "Top Ten Questions on the Barack Obama Running Mate Application." Late Show home page: www.cbs.com
10. "How much experience do you have doing nothing?"
9. "Do you have any crazy clergymen we should know about?"
8. "Will you help your oil company buddies achieve record profits by screwing consumers?"
7. "How many friends do you have on Facebook?"
6. "Can your charisma and vitality match the high standard set by Dick Cheney?"
5. "Why the hell was Billy Crystal on Letterman talking about 'Soap the Complete Series' now available on DVD?"
4. "Do you think the Yankees should move Joba back to bullpen?"
3. "Any idea what happened on the season finale of 'Lost'?"
2. "Ever slept with Barbara Walters?"
1. "By any chance do you know where Osama bin Laden is?"
-- Brent Baker
Bozell Slams Hillary's Shills in Media: 'They Are Covering for' Her
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