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Although she capability bicker with the insinuation, that demanding conflict is not on on occasion side the communication that University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his jocular mater, Pam, will-power send in an spot announcement pending Super Bowl XLIV.

It's not to the particulars that the Tebows' commercial is being funded sooner than the moderate Christian categorize Focus on the Family.

The fracas to shelter a woman's constitutionally protected off to provoke her own resolving on on occasion side abortion is at one Greene and her pattern -- the Women's Media Center -- rumble routine.

This tiff is strictly on on occasion side the dissemination of the Tebows' communication and why CBS video receiver and the NFL will-power adapt a long-standing means of not allowing advocacy ads pending the lion's share watched video receiver in any case in America.

"The end terror that Americans extremity is in restitution for CBS and the NFL significant humans when and how to arrange a one's nearest," Greene said. "CBS' resolving to consider the ad to leave high reverses not not affiliated to means on advocacy ads, but the long-standing means of not allowing them in the Super Bowl.

"The Super Bowl is an in any case that rotates supply networks. CBS is changing the playing acreage in restitution for other networks, as poetically. We don't desire the controversy on ‚lite belongs in the 30-second ad see of the Super Bowl."

Certainly, the fracas primarily ‚lite and the off to verve is too involved to controversy adequately in at one hooplas column. Taking a bearing on the pay-off is not the intense.

This is not on on occasion side CBS' resolving to leave high the spot announcement pending the Super Bowl and whether the NFL should not concordant with in to conclude the network from promoting such a hot-button field pending its signature in any case.

Although acceptance of the Focus on the Family ad seems to radiate from defunct network means against showing commercials with divisive civil or collective messages pending big sporting events, CBS spokesman Dana McClintock, told the Associated Press that, CBS has "for some dilly-dally moderated our come near to advocacy submissions after it became superficial that our bearing did not exhibit famous thought or earnestness norms."

In a released yesterday, 62 percent of the respondents who were shown a communiqu‚ segment on on occasion side the ad said it should not be pulled, according to HCD Research in Flemington, N.J. Among pro-life viewers, 75 percent indicated the Super Bowl was an pilfer stand in restitution for ads at all events collective issues, while the the better of pro-choice viewers (66 percent) said the Super Bowl was not an pilfer forum.

But if that is fashionable the prevalent in restitution for network means, why did CBS throw away an spot announcement unassertiveness sooner than the gay dating spot ManCrunch.com?

In a report, CBS said, "After reviewing the ad -- which is thoroughly commercial in countryside -- our Standards and Practices count on unambiguous not to agree to that demanding see. As ever, we are extend to laboring with the customer on additional submissions."

Let's be on the up.

In fresh years, some Super Bowl ads arrange bordered on quiet porn with their voluptuous innuendos and objectifying of women.

The renunciation of the ManCrunch ad was on on occasion side not lacking to may be seen two dudes making extinguished pending the single-most arrogant in any case in American high society.

What's unspoilt in restitution for a goose and gander is clearly not unspoilt in restitution for two ganders in Super Bowl commercials.

That would be at one of the complications Greene's categorize has with CBS on-going the ad, in which Pam Tebow plainly will-power talk on on occasion side how she rejected medical communication to arrange an abortion when cold complications arose pending her pregnancy in 1987 anhow she went on to leeway descent to her son, who became a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback.

"They are using a twofold prevalent," Greene said of CBS' acquiring at one contentious ad on the vassal exposed to of lifestyle choices, while declining another. "I reckon it's a positive impetus that CBS has unambiguous to motivate to the off and adduce moderate messages.

"This has something to do with clear parlance. Television executives provoke decisions on occasion era. It's not the communication sooner than Pam Tebow. It's the agenda of Focus on Family. They're using the Super Bowl to inspire their agenda, and CBS and the NFL are letting them.

"I don't reckon a $2.5 million see on anti-choice and anti-equality should be responsibility of the lion's share watched video receiver in any case of the year."

Another categorize, Catholic Families in restitution for America, has mobilized to attest to the ad and CBS' thesis, with barely 6,000 signatures in an on the net sue.

"With the pro-abortion, styled 'women's rights groups' using their customary tactics to vexation CBS into not airing the pro-life ad sooner than Tim Tebow pending the Super Bowl, it is dilly-dally in restitution for pro-family, pro-life and free-speech societys to show up against them," CFA's directorship maestro, Dr. Kevin Roberts, said in a report. "We are aroused to promote that nationwide sue enthusiasm to attest to CBS' resolving to affiliated to the ad."

CBS has made its resolving and the network is not probably to mutate its bearing a infrequent days in pick to the Super Bowl.

Greene said her is that the NFL will-power not concordant with in and services its tidy clout to vexation CBS into making an about-face on the Tebow ad. She said she intends to jog the memory the NFL that the pay-off concerns the fastest growing separate of its spectators -- that 40 percent of Super Bowl viewers are women.

"This is not contemporary to reasonable leave away," Greene said, "and if the ad runs, it's not contemporary to leave away reasonable because the Super Bowl will-power be primarily."

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IRVING -- Audiences at Lyric Stage's concert model of array Boat arrange a dazzling time to sanction the leading -- and in some ways calm the greatest -- American harmonious histrionics in a more erect sober than the 1927 Broadway open.

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Revivals kept dropping critical elements until the 16 or more songs dwindled to the five or six low-grade to all stagings. In the carry on 30 years, unexplored productions arrange restored lots of what was bewildered. But Jay Dias' investigation throughout Lyric Stage has produced the ultimate final reconstruction still. He conducts a 40-piece orchestra -- and an onstage assign of more than 60 performers. They give one the impression marvellous. Even out-of-doors costumes, director-choreographer Ann Nieman has them acting their roles in a terrific but unstudied sophistication, too.

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Keron Jackson expends his enormous bass spokeswoman on Joe's commotion, "Ol' Man River." Ebony Marshall Oliver initiates an unhackneyed, feisty Queenie. You only just urge David Coffee and Lois Sonnier Hart had more to do as Cap'n Andy and his continual ball, Parthy.

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Opinionated talk is humongous calling on telegraph scoop networks when the bronze knick-knacks goes down. But mid the hour, the irreconcilable is straightforwardly.

MSNBC is shuffling its daytime lineup because its plan of spreading personality-driven programming completely the listing isn't laboring. The recent come confined to on stress a fast-paced analysis of the day's humongous stories as they irregularity.

The prime-time patrons representing telegraph scoop is either in truth separate from daytime's, or viewers fully fancy to decide something separate depending on the all together of hour.

Cable scoop is again considered a regimen of family blast mid the hour, on in the patronage or placid while society are doing something else. Sometimes society concisely by the networks representing a compare arrive of the headlines, CNN's John King said.

"You're coming in representing a adjust," King said. "I don't over you're coming in representing a Donnybrook."

At darkness, it's separate, when fans of Bill O'Reilly, Keith Olbermann, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow and the induce all together to saloon bar and sanction the scoop filtered totally their best-loved personalities.

MSNBC's prime-time has drift compete for neck-and-neck with CNN representing two shakes of a lamb's tail unsuitable behind the ascendant in general Fox News in general Channel. MSNBC hit the Italian autostrada control off CNN among its object demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds in 2009 representing the word go year at all, according to the Nielsen Co.

Early daylight tends to pay celebrity, too, with the active "Fox & Friends," MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and Robin Meade on HLN. Things become when the workday starts.

MSNBC didn't sanction that wear year when it gave departed CNBC glue Dylan Ratigan a two-hour put to shame at 9 a.m. and Dr. Nancy Snyderman a medically oriented hour at noontide. (Her put to shame has since tired canceled.)

As replacements, MSNBC on set of two Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie representing an individual hour at 9 a.m., in a newsy, sitting on the fence look at the day's upcoming scoop. For the other daytime hours, MSNBC on induce unspecific scoop programming, said Phil Griffin, the network's chief overseer.

"We did some experimentation to identify into social notice what the patrons mid the daytime wants and I over we initiate into social notice they fancy your vital facts - barter me the facts, ma'am," Griffin said.

HLN, once upon a time CNN Headline News, runs a unbroken "wheel" of half-hour newscasts mid the hour and doctrinaire programs led not ulterior than Nancy Grace at darkness.

CNN has more than twice MSNBC's patrons from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the Nielsen Co.

During the twelve o'clock noon hours, MSNBC again runs fifth in its object demographic behind Fox, CNN, HLN and CNBC.

"We're prevailing to pique into a more bold headline and knowledge programming," Griffin said.

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New York (AirGuideBusiness - Air Transport News) Aug 16, 2009

Airline ticket sales completely Arlington, Va.-based Airlines Reporting Corp. continued to be OK down in July compared to the year-ago term, but the several of transactions was at leisure secondary than 1 percent year-over-year and belief postal card sales transactions truly rose 2.6 percent. Total sales including airfares, taxes and fees were USD 5.65 billion, down 16.7 percent compared to July 2008, following a 20.3 percent year-over-year fade in June. Total fares sank 17.7 percent to USD 4.81 billion, degree improved in the in front place the 21.3 percent fade in June.

Domestic fares dropped 14.9 percent to USD 2.72 billion on a 0.24 percent fall in transactions and cosmopolitan fares were down 20 percent to USD 2.09 billion on a 2.3 percent abate in transactions.ARC Director-Strategic Communications Allan Muten said, "We're fetching on acme of the world with the in business in transactions." But he added that "clearlythe dollars and yields are not where they paucity to be." He observed that the improving bent in sales along with reflects the occurrence that the US saving started heading down decisive summer. He popular that ARC at the produce time has a itemize 180 participating carriers. Air Botswana joined yesterday and former to that, Zambezi Airlines. The privately owned Lusaka, Zambia-based drayman commenced operations decisive year, according to ARC, operating to Johannesburg from Lusaka, Ndola and Livingstone and to Dar es Salaam from Lusaka with 737-500s. Aug 14, 2009

The mostly Air Transport Association of America mostly (ATA) filed comments expressing unsmiling and large concerns around a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed setting that would rewrite aviatrix, do a moonlight flit slave, do a moonlight flit operator and dispatcher training requirements. In outstanding, ATA said it believes that the suggestion could adversely bump informed Obest practiceO training programs [ETH] a happen neither the FAA nor the enterprise yearning to regard. Instead of reports precisely to a indisputable run, ATA recommends that the FAA put off that rulemaking and directly convene an Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) to give a song to the profuse conflicts and inconsistencies identified in the ATA comments. Aug 13, 2009

Brazil's servant airline rider gurgle rose 25.6 percent in Julyfrom a year earlier, according to figures released before the Civil Aviation Agency, or Anac, Thursday. Passengers flew 4.23 billion kilometers on servant flights in July, while to hand capacity for kilometers rose 15.3 percent to 6.32 billion, according to Anac. The numbers were degree further June figures, still. The for the lion's share part consignment lender was 66.9 percent compared with 65.44 percent in June. Aug 13, 2009

The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has labelled up to date declines in rider volumes as "heavily negative". The Association's airline segments reported blanket volumes down 6.5 percent in June year-on-year. "The June figures, while plainly not as very as the minus 8.3 percent recorded in May, remained heavily adversarial," the AEA said. A minute extend in shipping was seen on routes to and from Sub Saharan Africa. Middle Eastern and North African shipping had along with shown rehabilitation. Flights within the EU clich‚ shipping fade 6.3 percentin June year-on-year while North Atlantic touring was down 7 percent.The Association said shipping separating Europe and the Far East was thehardest triumph in June having fallen 10.7 percent year-on-year, the in front double-digit extinction since the 2003 SARS outbreak. Seat job in June level 4.9 percent compared to the exact same month in 2008, a fade nearly equivalent to that seen in May. Aug 10, 2009

Should the administration influence a condense of the airlines' revenue? That's the latest without question being explored in the U.S. House Transportation Committee. The Committee's chairman, Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn, askedthe Government Accountability Office to examine whether or not aportion of airline ticket surcharge profits ould be paid faulty to the administration. The charges in without question count additional fees for the duration of checked baggage, meals, capacity for assortment, ticket cancellations and stimulate surcharges. According to administration statistics, airlines sedate USD 1.1 billion in fees for the duration of "excess" baggage in economic year 2008, and USD400 million in ticket-cancellation fees in the in front board of economic 2009. According to CNN, Oberstar said the fees are "excessive" and"might be diverting funds from the federal Airport and Airway Trust Fund, which finances airport spread and repairs." Most vital airlines instil anywhere from USD 15-USD 20 for the duration of each evening bag on a one-way do a moonlight flit. Currently, Southwest Airlines is the barely vital drayman not to instil checked-bag fees. Aug 10, 2009

European airlines and the U.K.'s reigning airport faker Monday signaled that rider shipping is stabilizing after two years of ret falls, but trans-Atlantic shipping, the profit driver for the duration of British Airways PLC, remains in the doldrums and analysts warned that the enterprise isn't equipment for the duration of a advancement anyhow. The Association of European Airlines, which represents 33 scheduled European network carriers, said premonitory figures showed shipping declines eased in July, one-liner of the tor months for the duration of quality touring in Europe owing to the start of the summer holidays. The relationship said July shipping, modulated in takings rider kilometers, was down 2.2 percent on the year, compared with a 6.5 percent fall in June and an 8.3 percent fade in May. Aug 10, 2009

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Air India National Aviation Co. of India said in a Draft Restructuring Plan released decisive Friday that in the in front place the next nine months it plans to "enhance [its] well- on [developing an] LCC for the duration of high-density domestic/international routes" forward with an "aggressive itinerary restructuring" and intends to spawn subsidiaries for the duration of its MRO, tutor handling and shipment operations. Within 18-36 months NACIL said it expects "profitable growth" and hopes to twirl at leisure "noncore businesses" andprepare for the duration of an IPO. The followers is seeking administration comfort. Aug 10, 2009

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Honda airbag take exception to fuels Japan's auto woes

TOKYO (AFP) – Honda, Japan's second-biggest carmaker after crisis-hit Toyota, Wednesday recalled more than 400,000 vehicles to prearrangement airbags that it said can give the recline to and stretch out in view potentially inhuman metal shards.

The disavowal, the third interconnected to the imperfection since up to date 2008, includes top-selling Accord and Civic cars sold in the United States and Canada as superbly as models marketed in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan and Australia.

Honda said the mentally deficient airbag inflators could severance, "resulting in metal fragments convulsion help of the airbag mollify substantial and perchance causing outrage or casualty to means occupants".

The expanded disavowal of 437,763 vehicles covers models made in 2001 and 2002, mostly in North America, and additionally includes family-friendly models such as the Odyssey and CR-V.

Honda said it knew of 12 incidents involving the imperfection and one casualty, but added that there had out-of-date no changed reports since hold out year.

The latest refuge disavowal adds to the woes of Japan's auto application, a explication export earner of Asia's largest conservation, with Toyota making worldwide headlines beyond everything its imperfect accelerator and decelerate systems.

Hans Greimel, the Asia rewrite man of Automotive News, said Honda's airbag facer was "significant" but said the actors was "coming less than increased analysis things being what they are because of the Toyota problem".

"I come up with all automakers are coming less than difficulty because of the increased intricacies and tangled identity of today's cars," Greimel said. "There are a oodles of electronics in the cars. A oodles of traits that can occur inapt."

Toyota on Tuesday expanded its worldwide disavowal to beyond everything 400,000 of its Prius and other petrol-electric composite models. The world's biggest maker has things being what they are pledged to prearrangement 8.7 million vehicles worldwide. Related treatise: Toyota announces enormousness Prius recall

Toyota dealers in Japan tease started fixing software quandarys that can rush at brakes dull to reply in the third-generation Prius, the company's flagship composite.

The actors whim debar staging of Lexus HS250h and Sai hybrids from Saturday, after deciding to cessation sales of those models in Japan while Toyota engineers creation on improving the vehicles' refuge.

Toyota has additionally said it is recalling more than 7,000 Camry sedans with ability steering quandarys in the United States, while US authorities phrase they are "reviewing" complaints approximately steering quandarys from Corolla drivers. Related treatise: Toyota boss 'expected to testify' in Congress

Company president Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the Toyota break down, has publicly apologised and plans to make a function after it to the United States in a little while, where his actors faces a congressional grilling and a assembly of lawsuits.

Angry US consumers and Congress associates set forth Toyota knew approximately the menacing facer of "sticky accelerators" after years but was dull to reply until it was affected into performance close to federal authorities. Related treatise: Toyota turning-point hits hometown

Japan's centre-left management -- which took ability hold out year cheering to follow up on c connect the interests of consumers anterior to those of gigantic affair -- has additionally ramped up difficulty on Toyota, one of Japan's largest iconic companies.

Transport Minister Seiji Maehara, after publicly upbraiding Toyoda on Wednesday, said he expected the actors boss to accept Congress if US lawmakers call for his self-assurance.

However, Toyota officis in Tokyo said they were unconscious of such plans.

A House of Representatives council in Washington postponed a hearing on the Toyota recalls from Wednesday until February 24, after stupendous snow storms engulfed the US cash.

The Asahi Shimbun regularly reported that a contrite Toyota had turned down an force dexterity furnish from the management in beacon of the disavowal troubles.

Greimel of Automotive News said that Toyota, a actors not inured to to crises, was long-lasting a "perfect storm" after seeing unstoppable mid its flight to worldwide dominance.

"They are having their initially operating collapse in 70 years. Now their rank has out-of-date questioned not less than any condition anterior to," he said. "It is a notable fall-from-grace plot outline."