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http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/rhino-flies "These photos and video are from the latest rhino move, where 19 of the creatures were taken by WWF, Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency, SANParks, and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife on a 1,000 mile journey across South Africa to reside in a new location in the Limpopo province. They're the latest of 120 rhinos to be relocated by the WWF Black Rhino Range Expansion Project in South Africa."<br style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; ">—They drug the rhinos, tape their mouths closed, tie their ankles together and then hang these 3,000-pound creatures upside down from a flying helicopter. It's like a Roald Dahl book meets a Beastie Boys video or something. And terribly important—as the West African version of the black rhino has just been declared extinct.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/journalism-ethics-taken-too-seriously-romenesko-scolded-on-his-own-blog/?src=tp Journalism Ethics Taken Too Seriously? Romenesko Scolded on His Own Blog By JEREMY W. PETERSSometimes you can follow rules right out the window. That is the situation the Poynter Institute — an organization that teaches journalistic ethics and practices — finds itself in after scolding its most famous writer, Jim Romenesko, for a technical infraction of its guidelines. Known in journalistic circles for his summaries of media-related stories around the country, Mr. Romenesko was faulted in a blog post at the site that carries his name for exhibiting “a pattern of incomplete attribution.” Now Poynter stands to lose Mr. Romenesko altogether. He has twice offered his resignation, he said, though Poynter has refused to accept it. His work draws considerable traffic to Poynter.org and he is just a few weeks from retirement. Journalists from across the country unleashed a torrent of criticism on Poynter’s Web site on Thursday, accusing it of being school-marmish and petty, and for tarnishing the name of a man who is deeply admired by his colleagues. “Seriously, Poynter?” asked one. “THIS is the issue that you get outraged about? THIS is the issue that leads you to plant your flag on morals, ethics and proper journalistic behavior?” In an e-mail, Mr. Romenesko said he would rather have seen his 12-year run at Poynter end on better terms. ”This really did throw me for a loop,” he said, declining to comment further. “I think I’d probably prefer to go quietly.” Many journalists saw the aggregating Mr. Romenesko did in his early-morning posts as the best real estate in American journalism to promote their work. They would send him links to their stories and encourage him to summarize them. So the idea that anyone could think he was somehow trying to take credit for work that wasn’t his rang false. “Unless there are far more egregious examples out there — which I strain to imagine, since the practice and intent of Romenesko’s blog is self-evident — this is a nothingburger,” said James Poniewozik, the television critic for Time magazine, in a comment on Poynter’s site. In an interview this summer, Mr. Romenesko, 58, described how he was looking forward to leaving aggregation behind to get back to reporting, the reason he became a journalist in the first place. His new site, JimRomenesko.com, will still cover media but will also touch on other topics he is interested in, like food, finance and real estate. “I’m not going to be doing three-sentence summaries of other people’s work. That’s behind me,” he said in the summer. Mr. Romenesko was taken to the woodshed by Julie Moos, director of Poynter Online, for failing to put quotation marks around phrases he borrowed from articles he was aggregating for his blog. “One danger of this practice is that the words may appear to belong to Jim when they in fact belong to another,” Ms. Moos wrote in the blog post. Yet evidently Mr. Romenesko hadn’t offended any of the writers whose work he was summarizing. Ms. Moos said that to her knowledge none of them had ever complained. The Poynter response drew mockery from some corners of the Web. The Awl, a blog that follows media, culture and politics, said the site had become “intolerable” as Mr. Romenesko has taken on a reduced role there.

jerry sandusky was seen yesterday at dicks sporting goods in full penn state attire.

http://articles.phil...usky-grand-jury November 09, 2011|By Jon Schmitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Former coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with sexually assaulting eight boys from the… (DAVID SWANSON / Staff Photographer) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - The investigation into sex-abuse allegations against former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is examining the role of parties not charged in the case whose actions, or lack thereof, may have delayed intervention by law enforcement. That includes top officials at the Second Mile, the nonprofit organization that Sandusky founded and, authorities allege, used to make contact with the children he victimized. Sandusky has been charged with sexually assaulting eight boys who participated in the Second Mile, a program for troubled youth. Also facing charges are two Penn State officials, athletic director Tim Curley and vice president of business and finance Gary Schultz. Prosecutors say they failed to report a 2002 incident involving one of the children and later provided false information to a grand jury. Attorneys for all three have denied wrongdoing by their clients. State Attorney General Linda Kelly on Monday said the investigation was continuing and that more charges were possible. An investigator in the case said Tuesday that "a lot of entities besides Penn State University had a hand in this." In a statement Monday, the Second Mile said it immediately ended Sandusky's contact with children in the program after he told them in 2008 that he was under investigation for alleged sexual contact with a child, an allegation he told the organization was false. That, however, was at least the third time in 10 years that the organization had been made aware of allegations involving Sandusky's contacts with children. The organization knew in 1998 that Sandusky was investigated for alleged sexual misconduct in a Penn State shower involving a different boy from the program, according to a presentment by a statewide investigating grand jury. State College lawyer Wendell V. Courtney was apprised of the investigation in 1998 because he was counsel for Penn State and the Second Mile. He has not responded to interview requests. That investigation, by university police, was closed when the Centre County District Attorney's Office decided not to file charges.

my tv i was set to espn (thru time-warner) to dvr the sequence. when i turned the tv on 5 hours later, the dvr had locked up, and the cable box had locked up solid. rebooting didn't work. finally, i had to unplug the devices, reboot them, and wait 25 minutes for them to reset. half the broadcast stations didn't close down. if i want breaking news lightening fast, i turn to twitter.

this is going to get worse before it gets better. word on the street in pennsylvania now is that the second mile foundation pimped boys out to wealthy donors. sandusky is free on $100,000 bail. http://www.nytimes.c...strictattorneys Questions on Sandusky Are Wrapped in a 2005 Mystery By KEN BELSON Published: November 8, 2011 RECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINSIGN IN TO E-MAILPRINTREPRINTSSHAREOne of the questions surrounding the sex-abuse case against Jerry Sandusky is why a former district attorney chose not to prosecute the then-Penn State assistant coach in 1998 after reports surfaced that he had inappropriate interactions with a boy. Enlarge This Image Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times, via Associated Press Ray Gricar Related Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno Exit Amid Scandal(November 9, 2011) Paterno, the King of Pennsylvania, Until Now(November 9, 2011) Sports of The Times: Grand Experiment Meets an Inglorious End (November 9, 2011) Related in Opinion Editorial: Penn State's Culpability (November 9, 2011) Maureen Dowd: Personal Foul at Penn State (November 9, 2011) Interviews, insight and analysis from The Times on the competition and culture of college football. Go to The Quad Blog Division I-A This Week's GamesA.P. and Coaches' PollsScores: Top 25 | All Div. I-AConference StandingsAll Div. I-A Teams Division I-AA Scores | Teams | Polls Enlarge This Image Michelle Klein/Centre Daily Times, via Associated Press In 2005, divers searched the Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, Pa., for Ray Gricar, who was a Centre County prosecutor. The answer is unknowable because of an unsolved mystery: What happened to Ray Gricar, the Centre County, Pa., district attorney? Gricar went missing in April 2005. The murky circumstances surrounding his disappearance — an abandoned car, a laptop recovered months later in a river without a hard drive, his body was never found — have spawned Web sites, television programs and conspiracy theories. More than six years later, the police still receive tips and reports of sightings. The police in central Pennsylvania continue to investigate even though Gricar's daughter, Lara, successfully petitioned in July to have her father declared legally dead so the family could find some closure and begin dividing his estate. Yet as the Sandusky investigation moves forward, questions will be asked anew about why Gricar did not pursue charges against him 13 years ago. A small but strident minority believes Gricar did not want to tackle a case that involved a hometown icon. Others who knew and worked with Gricar say he was a meticulous, independent and tough-minded prosecutor who was unbowed by Penn State, its football program and political pressure in general. "No one got a bye with Ray," said Anthony De Boef, who worked as an assistant district attorney under Gricar for five years. "He didn't care who you were; he had a job to do." De Boef said Gricar did not share any information with him about the case in 1998, which involved Sandusky allegedly showering with an 11-year-old boy. Gricar, he said, reviewed the police reports in private including, presumably, notes or recordings of two conversations that the police heard between Sandusky and the boy's mother. But Gricar had a reputation for thoroughness, and if he thought he had enough to charge Sandusky, he would have, De Boef and other lawyers said. Still, the circumstances surrounding Gricar's disappearance prompt many questions. On April 15, 2005, Gricar, then 59, took the day off. At about 11:30 a.m., he called his girlfriend, Patricia Fornicola, to say he was taking a drive on Route 192. About 12 hours later, she reported him missing. The next day, Gricar's Mini Cooper was found in a parking lot in Lewisburg, about 50 miles from his home in Bellefonte. Gricar's cellphone was in the car, but not his laptop, wallet or keys, which were never recovered. Months later, the laptop was found in the Susquehanna River without its hard drive, which was discovered later. It was too damaged to yield any information. On the fourth anniversary of his disappearance, investigators revealed that a search of his home computer yielded a history of Internet searches for phrases like "how to wreck a hard drive," according to a report at the time in The Centre Daily Times. When Gricar disappeared helicopters, dive teams and patrol cars were deployed, and the F.B.I. was brought in. Reports of Gricar turning up in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland and other states proved to be dead ends. So what happened? Friends and colleagues say Gricar was not the type to walk away. His bank accounts were not touched after he disappeared, he had no other sources of income and he had no major debts, said Robert Buehner Jr., a friend and the district attorney in Montour County. Though divorced twice, he seemed happy with his girlfriend and close with his daughter. Gricar had already announced that he was retiring at the end of his term. "He was absolutely looking forward to his future," Buehner said. If Gricar committed suicide, Buehner added, he would have wanted the body to be found. Foul play is the next possible conclusion. By the nature of their jobs prosecuting criminals, district attorneys end up having many enemies. But no credible suspects have emerged. "I don't think you'll find too many district attorneys who disappear," said Ken Mains, a detective who works on cold cases in Lycoming County. "D. B. Cooper, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, until a body is found, there are going to be conspiracy theories."

i awoke this morning about an hour ago with my cat, ms. goodspeak, occupying the bigger portion of the pillow, staring into my eyes asserting her paw power. insofar as i can tell, there are no lumps on my head.

the courage of a young lady to forego one of what is commonly perceived as a pillar of femininity, and let her beauty shine is a lovely thing indeed.

the shaved heads seemed, to me, to improve their warbling. randy crawford and esther saterfield come to mind.

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where are the feds???? how much shredding is going on. the shredders are working 24 hours. as i recall, sandusky delivered a commencement address in 2007.

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you meet the nicest people.... i'm very partial to dachshunds and dachshund owners, inluding myself. fats

thanks GS, for the excellent realistic perspective.

joe never recovered from those ali prefight insults. the sore closed, but there was that big scab, very near the surface. RIP, CHAMP --liver cancer is a horrible sentence-- i've seen it up close, twice.

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cbs news shows once were meaty. now they are..........the best word i can think of is contrived.

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don't miss the collection of sound archives archives Institute Of Jazz Studies John Cotton Dana Library Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Newark, New Jersey Preserving the Benny Carter and Benny Goodman Collections A Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation In 2009, The Institute of Jazz Studies received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize two of its most significant bodies of sound recordings: the Benny Carter and Benny Goodman Collections. The Carter Collection comprises Carter's personal archive and contains many unique performances, interviews, and documentation of events in Carter's professional life. Many of these tapes and discs were donated by Carter to the Institute during his lifetime, and the remainder were donated by his wife, Hilma, shortly after Carter's death in 2003. The Collection consists of 225 cassettes; 159 reel-to-reel tapes (7- and 10-inch); and 184 lacquer discs totaling approximately 742 hours of playing time. The recordings range from the 1930s to the 1990s and include many unissued live performances and studio recordings, soundtracks of his film and television work, and interviews. The Goodman Collection consists entirely of reel-to-reel tapes compiled by Goodman biographer/discographer D. Russell Connor over four decades and donated by him to IJS in 2006. It represents the most complete collection of Goodman recordings anywhere. As a friend and confidant to Goodman, Connor had access to the clarinetist's personal archive, as well as those of many Goodman researchers and collectors worldwide. The unissued or rare recordings selected for digitization as part of this project total approximately 404 hours. In June 2011, the digitization process was completed, and the collections were made available to researchers at the Institute. These recordings will provide new insights into the careers of two of jazz's greatest instrumentalists and bandleaders. Beyond the obvious benefits to jazz scholars, Carter's and Goodman's careers intersected many other important figures and traversed many varied areas of American culture, including race relations, the film industry, the recording studios, radio and television, the academy, and even international diplomacy. Accordingly, this material will serve as a prime resource for a wide range of specialists in many fields. Collection Finding Aids Benny Carter Benny Goodman Reel-to-Reel Tapes Reel-to-Reel Tapes Cassette Tapes Discs - 10 inch Discs - 12 inch Audio Samples Audio Samples Publicity About the Project

fine fine game. it would have been a travesty to have these fine defensive efforts marred by cheap overtime touchdowns.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-wetzel_penn_state_child_sex_case_110511 By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports5 hours, 20 minutes ago Printable View Return to Original tweet 194 EmailPrintAt approximately 9:30 p.m. on March 1, 2002, a Penn State graduate assistant entered what should have been an empty football locker room. He was surprised to hear the showers running and noises he thought sounded like sexual activity, according to a Pennsylvania grand jury “finding of fact” released Saturday. When he looked in the shower he saw what he estimated to be a 10-year-old boy, hands pressed up against the wall, “being subjected to anal intercourse,” by Jerry Sandusky, then 58 and Penn State’s former defensive coordinator. The grad assistant said both the boy and the coach saw him before he fled to his office where, distraught and stunned, the grad assistant telephoned his father, who instructed his son to flee the building. The next day, a Saturday, the grad assistant went to the home of head coach Joe Paterno and told him what he had seen. The day after that, Paterno called Penn State athletic director Tim Curley to his home to report that the grad assistant had told him he had witnessed “Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy.” A week-and-a-half later, according to the grand jury report, the grad assistant was called to a meeting with Curley and Gary Schultz, the school’s senior vice president for finance and business, where he retold his story. Sandusky had retired from the Penn State program in 1999, a surprise to many who saw him as a possible successor to Paterno. He instead dedicated himself to “Second Mile,” a group home he founded in 1977 dedicated to helping troubled boys. He often brought troubled kids through the Penn State facilities, including the famed Beaver Stadium, bought them gifts and took them to sporting events. Curley did not notify university police or have the graduate assistant further questioned involving the incident. No other legal or university entity investigated the case. Merely alerting police would’ve been significant since they investigated Sandusky in 1998 for “incidents with children in football building showers.” Curley never asked for a background check on Sandusky. Curley instead took it upon himself to inform the director of “Second Mile” about the charge, although it didn’t concern potential sodomy of a minor. Curley told the grand jury he was merely told that Sandusky was “horsing around” with the boy. The grand jury did not find that credible in part because Schultz said he had gotten the impression “Sandusky might have inappropriately grabbed the young boys’ genitals while wrestling around.” Both Curley and Schultz are charged with perjury for claiming the grad assistant didn’t inform them of “sexual activity.” Curley later met with Sandusky and told him he was no longer allowed to bring children onto the Penn State campus. He forwarded the report on to university president Graham Spanier, who approved of Sandusky’s ban from bringing children onto campus and himself never reported the incident to police. On the base of the grand jury findings Sandusky was arrested Saturday morning and charged with seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; eight counts of corruption of minors, eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child, seven counts of indecent assault and other offenses. He was released Saturday on $100,000 bail. Pennsylvania’s attorney general cited incidents involving Sandusky that ran from 1994 until 2009, including the above act. [Grand jury findings: Read the press release] Curley and Schultz are expected to turn themselves in to authorities on Monday. The attorneys for both men released statements proclaiming their innocence. “This is a case about a sexual predator who used his position within the university and community to repeatedly prey on young boys,” attorney general Linda Kelly said. “It is also a case about high-ranking university officials who allegedly failed to report the sexual assault of a young boy after the information was brought to their attention, and later made false statements to a grand jury that was investigating a series of assaults on young boys.” It is actually even more than that, a stomach-turning 23-page grand jury report that could be the ugliest scandal in the history of college athletics. The failure of Penn State officials to call in the proper authorities potentially allowed the alleged sexual predator to live free for an additional nine-and-a-half years. This case demands answers to deep and troubling questions right up the chain of command at Penn State, including Spanier and the legendary Paterno. Instead, thus far, all we’ve gotten is a pathetic statement from Spanier who quite incredibly deemed Sandusky’s charges as merely “troubling” (and said little more) and then expressed continued support for Curley and Schultz. “The allegations about a former coach are troubling, and it is appropriate that they be investigated thoroughly,” the statement read. “Protecting children requires the utmost vigilance … I wish to say that Tim Curley and Gary Schultz have my unconditional support.” Really, that’s it? That’s what the guy who is running Penn State has to say? That’s all he thought was appropriate? Curley and Schultz need to be suspended immediately. Some actual adult in Pennsylvania needs to step in and sit Spanier down also and not merely for issuing a statement that expressed no concern for the victims, no shock at the charges, some of which occurred on his campus, and little concern about crimes this despicable. More importantly, Spanier needs to be immediately removed from an authority position since his culpability is tied to Curley. After all, Spanier both knew of the allegations against Sandusky and approved of Curley’s handling of the case. That includes an act almost unfathomable in its insensitivity. According to the attorney general, no one at Penn State ever tried to find the boy. At worst, he was raped in a shower. At best, according to testimony that law enforcement finds non-credible, he was either “horsing around” with or being “inappropriately grabbed” by an old man in an empty locker room. Yet no one thought they should go find the kid so he and his family could get proper help or further protection. Not even the university president? “Despite a powerful eyewitness statement about the sexual assault of a child, this incident was not reported to any law enforcement or child protective agency, as required by Pennsylvania law,” said Kelly, the attorney general. “Additionally, there is no indication that anyone from the university ever attempted to learn the identity of the child.” How? How could all these people of power, people of education, people of authority simply look the other way? And how could Graham Spanier maintain a level of arrogance to release that statement on this day? There can simply be no tolerance, no leniency, no looking the other way with any charge involving an adult and a child. None. There isn’t a gray area here, not only in the letter of the law, but in the spirit of any semblance of ethical conduct. The legal process will and should be allowed to play out and determine the guilt and innocence of all involved. The accused have the right to a proper defense in a court of law. In a broader sense, however, an immediate, thorough and limitless investigation must be launched by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to find out why this wasn’t turned over to the proper authorities. This isn’t just about what it is and isn’t a crime, it’s about what is and isn’t right. [Related: Sandusky, others charged in child sex case] The chief question is this: If Curley, Schultz and Spanier believed it was no longer appropriate to allow Sandusky to bring children onto the Penn State campus – an act that suggests some concern over his behavior – how could they possibly believe his actions didn’t warrant a full police investigation? And then there is the conduct of Paterno, the 84-year-old legend. He is beloved for being the winningest coach in college football history and for running a program for more than five decades that never ran afoul of NCAA statutes. While he may have committed no crime, he must fully explain the actions he took after hearing such an unspeakable allegation. Did he really listen to this story and think merely telling the AD was enough? Why did he wait a day to summon Curley to his home? Wouldn’t a charge like this take precedent over pretty much everything? Why didn’t he personally look into it further? This is something that allegedly happened in his locker room, by a man he both coached and employed as a trusted assistant for a combined 33 years? Technically Paterno may have done the right thing, reporting the allegation to his superior, but he isn’t just some middle manager. Tim Curley worked for Joe Paterno more than Joe Paterno worked for Tim Curley. He could’ve called in the police himself. Paterno was 75 at the time and his advancing age and the limits of his participation in the program are well known. That simply can’t be used as an excuse. Positions of authority come with great responsibility and advancing age does not excuse someone of merely accepting the plaudits of success while avoiding the more difficult duties of the position. Paterno may very well have appropriate answers to all of the above questions and more. He needs to give them. Four-hundred-plus victories shouldn’t absolve anyone from being accountable in a case such as this. This is a scandal that goes beyond nearly anything college athletics has ever witnessed. These are the most horrific charges that can be made, the worst of the worst kind of crime that haunts victims forever. The time for hiding behind statements and closed doors and parsed explanations from so-called leaders are over. This demands real investigation conducted by real adults, something that’s at least eight years and who knows how many unnecessary victims overdue. Sooners win but lose WR Broyles for year