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Android phones far outsell iPhones in Japan. See these charts as just one example
IPhone sales only surpass Android sales for a few weeks after each new model comes out. Then it settles back down into the top 5 to 8 phones sold being Android phones.
I think that the charts are depicting different things... the first is based on online votes (and we all know the kinds of people who flock to those), and the second is actual retail sales.
Mobile network operators do not care which mobile phone brand you choose (save for the amount of subsidy each brand may require)... as long as you take it with a contract from them. In other words, they have little reason to lie about which smartphone brand their customers are choosing when they sign up for new contracts.
I am more inclined to believe the CEOs of 3 different publicly listed companies who are fiercely competitive and have to answer to the scrutiny of shareholders and analysts, than some random web site running an unscientific online popularity contest.
And anything else will also be the same way. I have been trying to use the Ubuntu phone releases for 2 years now and they have the exact same problems that geeks hate on android and iphone. It also is a walled garden (Yes kids android IS a walled garden, go ahead and install a new hardware driver in your phone)
Ubuntu phone suffers from a lot of the same problem because it is designed by a company looking for profits. not by a bunch of engineers and programmers that want to make something powerful and extendable.
we will NEVER get a cellphone that is perfect for "geeks" not in the sense of a tiny pocket device. now if you instead think outside that box and think in the lines of a "deck" like in the game shadowrun or the TV show "almost human" that is your computer in a larger formfactor that you always have with you, then use a small display+audio device to use the cellular modem/board in the "deck". this means having to carry around essentially a 13" laptop everywhere (OH THE HORROR!) but it will allow someone the best of all worlds. their choice of OS, their choice of Software with full open protocols. you pick the cellular board (arduino type cellular board, someone out there has an LTE type that has a full open control, data, and audio channels) and interface it to your hardware.
and honestly with some of the arduino high power quad core clones out there, it's possible to make it smallish. will it be a tiny paper thin thing? nope, but it will be better than anything your non techie friends will ever own.
Yes kids android IS a walled garden, go ahead and install a new hardware driver in your phone
The standard definition of "walled garden" is that the user can only install approved, signed, applications. That is not the case with Android.
So much irrelevant garbage in the android store.
I really have no idea if apple is any worse or better, but I would be more likely to spend if I could actually find useful stuff.
Is it still a walled garden if 90%+ of what you encounter in an app store search is the result of search-optimising?
So much irrelevant garbage in the android store.
I really have no idea if apple is any worse or better, but I would be more likely to spend if I could actually find useful stuff.
Until recently it seems, Google Play had a horrible search (from a search company, no less). Search for something like "angry birds" or other common app by its name and you'd find the actual app somewhere down the list
That would make it a messy, cluttered garden- not a walled one.
I don't want a mobile phone, but I do want a smartwatch that doesn't need a mobile phone like the old school Casio Data Bank 150/300.
we will NEVER get a cellphone that is perfect for "geeks" not in the sense of a tiny pocket device.
The problem isn't that nobody is willing to make a "perfect" cellphone for geeks. The problem is that when you design something for a limited market, its design cost has to be amortized over fewer sales. Consequently it costs a lot more.
Unfortunately the same geeks who clamor for these features also demand rock-bottom pricing. They look at your expensive "geek" phone, complain why it's priced so high c
Yes kids android IS a walled garden, go ahead and install a new hardware driver in your phone
I have in fact done this in the past. Years ago when I had a HTC Hero I installed a modified GPS driver and upgraded the radio modem to one ported from another HTC device.
On a stock phone without any hacking, rooting or other tricks needed? HTC hero must have been an awesome phone to come fully open like that.
I was going to say the same thing. If you go to any major electronics retailer they have vast arrays of smartphones from manufacturers like Sharp, Samsung, Sony, LG, Google and carrier own-brand devices. The iPhone is just a small part of the line-up.
In fact the iPhone has been getting kind of a beating lately due to lack of features and some failed publicity stunts. They gave a reported a new iPhone on launch day (4S?) when Apple Maps was brand new and she noted that even standing outside the Apple Store i
How exactly do you pay for things with NFC. Do you have to download and run a specific app tied to your bank account? Or does it get billed to your cell phone bill somehow?
You have an app. What you spend appears on your bill at the end of the month. Everything is recorded and itemized, great for claiming back business expenses.
So vending machine purchases appear on your cell phone bill?
Does the app have to be opened and accessed to make the purchase, or can you just take your phone out with the screen off and touch it to the vending machine?
Everything appears on your bill. How it is shown depends on the phone company and if you want fully itemized billing.
The app doesn't need to be open. It registers itself as a NFC handler so when the phone receives NFC comms it starts automatically. Having said that the app typically runs as a lightweight background service so that it can process the transaction instantly (so you can move quickly through the gates at the train station for example), but what I mean is you don't have to do anything to use it,
That sounds amazing. I wonder if said app will run on my AT&T S3 if I go on an extended stay over there and get an NTT Docomo SIM.
It should do. The S3 supports NFC, the app only needs to be tied to your Docomo account.
Android phones far outsell iPhones in Japan. See these charts as just one example http://kakaku.com/keitai/smart... [kakaku.com]
kakaku.com is a price comparison site and its popularity ranking is based on page views and not sales. It is a testimony to iPhone's popularity in Japan that a product without a need for price comparison still rank that high on price comparison site's list. As for sales number, let's go to the people who actually studies and publish [kantarworldpanel.com] those kind of number:
In Japan, consumers' desire for all things Apple continued into the final quarter of 2013, with iOS taking 68.7% share of smartphone sales.
Forbes disagrees that the number is "bullshit" [forbes.com], though I doubt they'd agree with the 75% number being representative of the iPhone's current market share either, since they do agree with what you've said about the sales trends of iPhones. According to numbers from BCN (a group that measures Japanese smartphone market share on a weekly basis), the three-month rolling average for the period ending at the start of December last year was around 60% for the iPhone's market share, with a spike up above 75% for the first week of December. Apple had the first 9 out of the top 10 smartphones during that time, and 11 of the top 14.
Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that iPhones historically do well at the holiday season compared to their competitors, and that, as you brought up, the release cycle for the iPhones also happens to correspond with the period being mentioned by Forbes. As such, I thought I'd dig a little, and if you look at the six months prior to that three-month window I just mentioned, iPhones had a 37% share [9to5mac.com] of the market. Of course, that was mostly before they launched on DoCoMo, the nation's largest carrier, so it's likely that their average this year may see a boost compared to last.
Long story short, yes, iPhones enjoyed a 75% market share in the Japanese smartphone market, but it was due to a combination of their release schedule and holiday sales, which makes the numbers legitimate, but misleading. It's likely that they are doing better than the 37% they had last year starting around this time, simply due to the greater availability of the device, but it's certainly not as high as it was during the holidays.
How come you hardly ever see anyone using one then? On the train you see lots of Android phones, mostly Sony and Sharp, and quite a few Samsungs and Nexus 5s. iPhones are somewhat unusual. I use the trains every day.
The only explanation I can think of it is that it is mostly older people buying them as they are less likely to use their phones in public. Only a little less these days though.
Are we speaking of Japan, or your local market?
If Japan, I have no idea. I don't know any more than I said in my last comment.
If a local market, I find the opposite to be the case where I live (College Station, Texas, USA; population ~200K). I probably see two or three iPhones for every Android device. I know my perception of the local trends is not representative of the nation as a whole. It might just be that I'm predisposed towards recollecting or recognizing iPhones over other devices and that my estima
The story was hilarious as it showed the sheer depth of incompetence at apple, and Jobs' utter inability to be flexible until reality hit him in the face several times over.
When you think about it, the Japanese market is perfect to iphone's "style over substance" approach. That's how it always functioned, and now just with phones but with many consumer goods ranging from electronics to plush toys (which have a huge adult market in Japan!) Problem is, Japanese have some very specific requirements when it comes to their goods that are typically completely unique to Japan and do not exist outside that country. They need to be made suitable for them functionally and culturally, as they have a very different approach to many things from one we have here in the West.
So initial foray was an unmitigated disaster. People returned early iphones back to stores in droves and the reason was utterly obvious - Jobs' idea for iphone was "same thing everywhere", and Japanese absolutely needed several significant adjustments to their phone, such as integration of certain Japan-centric services and input methods. The crash of iphone in market that everyone thought it would immediately take it by the storm actually got major players like Fujitsu say that Japanese market was so different, Western companies just don't stand the chance.
Then someone at Apple hit Jobs with clue bat hard, "one approach for all markets" paradigm was buried for Japan and iphones sold in Japan were significantly adjusted to match expectations of Japanese public.
Rest was history. While numbers are not quite as silly as this article suggests, Japan today has one of the highest iphone sales per capita in the world, because the general idea behind iphone, the "style over substance" approach is simply what Japanese market and mindset is all about. All it needed was understanding that no, your product is not perfect for all people everywhere and that some important adjustments for cultural differences and expectations are necessary.
In many ways, it makes for a good extreme case study on how products, no matter how good they are, always need to be adjusted for sales in target area.
I'm not sure how per-market adjustments = "style over substance." That soundbite reduction seems unnecessarily condescending and simplistic.
To clarify - Japanese take the East-Asian concept of "face (cultural concept, not part of the head) over reality" to the extreme in everything, from their ties with other people to the products they buy to their conflicts with their neighbours.
As a result, many things sold in Japan personify this particular aspect. Substance is certainly important to an extent, but style is absolutely necessary to get anything sold. Iphone nails the style and image concepts, and these alone will often sell your product in Japan as long as it's not completely awful otherwise. The extreme popularity of plush toys with adults in Japan and the fact that you must own the current, heavily advertised plush toy and not one that's a year old shows this well.
All of these are essentially the same part of the "image and style is important, substance is optional as long as it meets bare minimum requirements" as those clearly visible in Apple products. There's a reason why macbooks have a backlit apple on the opposite side of the screen, or why apple fights so hard over "curved rectangles" in courts - it wants to be distinct as to reinforce the concept of "apple is more stylish and very distinct from competition".
I'm not attempting to be condescending and simplistic. I'm merely pointing out that apple's design paradigm of "image and style first" align very well with Japanese culture.
I'm not attempting to be condescending and simplistic. I'm merely pointing out that apple's design paradigm of "image and style first" align very well with Japanese culture.
I think every single person of Apple's design team would vehemently disagree with the "'Image and style' first" idea. Steve Jobs said "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." Part of that is the physical layout as well as the software functionality. Certain things may be too subtle for most people to recognize (like the differences between Helvetica and Arial), but that doesn't mean they weren't thought about.
Now you may disagree on how well the iPhone works for you, b
How dare you try to bring facts to a wonderful fandroid rant?! I'm starting to think all these are paid shills. There can't be that many drooling idiots out there spouting all these nonsense...
Sounds nice and all, but I haven't owned a single android device to date.
Sounds nice and all, but I haven't owned a single android device to date.
That's what a paid shill would write
Would you like a picture of my nice nokia 5230 I still use to date?
Sorry, that's rubbish. The Japanese value features in the electronics above all else. Their entire economy is built in consumers replacing perfectly good appliances with new ones just to get some new feature the old one didn't have. Even mundane stuff like rice cookers keep adding new things and you can pay over 100,000 yen for a top of the line model.
When the iPhone first came out it did have a bit of an edge on features in some areas. The problem is that it was rapidly overtaken. There are a lot of Japan-only phones that it was competing with but which people in the west know nothing about. These days the lack of things like NFC is a big issue. Even stuff like the camera, traditionally an Apple strong point, is looking weak in the face of competition with optical stabilization.
It is absolutely about substance and tangible features in Japan. Style is important too, but the Japanese actually research stuff before buying and specs matter. Just visit any bookshop and see the shear number of books on which smartphone to buy, and how they evaluate them.
the camera, traditionally an Apple strong point
What?! I have an iPhone 3GS and the camera was WORSE than the camera on my Sony Ericsson K750i which was several years older. Less resolution. No LED flash. Less light sensitivity. You name it. They only got it to be decent when the 4 came out.
To clarify - Japanese take the East-Asian concept of "face (cultural concept, not part of the head) over reality" to the extreme in everything, from their ties with other people to the products they buy to their conflicts with their neighbours.
The "East-Asian concept of face" isn't really a Japanese concept. Even the word for it ("mentsu") is a distinctly recent Chinese import.
Even if it was though, I can't really see how it would serve as an explanation. Social prestige isn't gained through being the same as everyone else.
A much simpler explanation is that in Japan Android phones tend to be sold as high-end, expensive smart phones, with add on features such as tv-tuners and electronic wallets. Last time I got a phone, I chose an iphone because i
It sounds that way because it is. Haha...
As opposed to the android we know it's crap but it's cheap approach?
I've got both an iphone 7.1 and Android Kit Kat Phone. They are both good in their own way.
However I've also looked at a whole array of uttery dire Android phones.
Biggest problem with Android? Which Android. Since Froyo phones are still available, it will give android a bad name.
Which is a shame, as Android is "almost there" in comparision with iOS and mostly a hell of a lot cheaper.
Froyo phones are still available
Good luck finding one for sale. There are people still using them which is quite different.
All 1.2% of them [android.com] BTW.
As we all know, apple is mainly a marketing wonder
Speak a lie often enough and its accepted as the truth.
Apple is not, and never has been, mainly a marketing wonder. They have made good use of marketing but the success they've had is based on quality and usability rather than simply marketing. Check out the user satisfaction surveys of Apple users.
Yes phones in Japan were more feature rich than phones elsewhere when the iPhone was released but that was largely due to carrier limitations. I had a number of Nokia 'smartphones' whose facilities were crippled
Not all apple products are garbage. But Apple products that are garbage (e.g. MacOS prior to X) sell well and a derped all over by fanboys who tell themselves the same things about the garbage as the good stuff.
While MacOS9 was positively embarrassing technically, relative to its competition, it still ran Mac software and had the Mac interface. Macs at that time were still generally easier to use than Windows machines. An inferior product you can use to the fullest can be better than a harder-to-use superior product, depending on your needs.
I didn't expect one to volunteer. Thanks for proving my point!
The Japanese buy fully half of the worlds overpriced designer bullshit. They are very status and style conscious.
What does style over substance mean in this context? The only thing I can think is design over specs?
That's not a strictly Japanese, or apple thing though. It's what makes an M3 better than a neon srt (obviously other things, this is an extreme example, as they were priced no where similar ).
The iPhone provided a good browser experience, yes, it wasn't 3g, but the browser was great, and there was WiFi. Everything you wanted to read on a phone, you could see twice as much of on an iPhone, calendars were bett
What the article claims is that according to one research company this happened for one month last year, in October, the first month after launch of iPhone 5c and 5s.
the iphone is a non player here in japan. a good estimation based on what i see on the train is one in ten. the rest are a split between android and flip phones, which still offer more features than an iphone. things like saifu keitai, one seg, etc.. are considered necissary features here. the iphone just cannot compete.
Yep, "most popular smartphone in japan" is a rubbish statistic. Japanese feature phones were so far ahead of those in other parts of the world in features and usage that making a distinction between smartphones and featurephones in the same way one does outside Japan is just nonsense.
It's almost enough to make you wonder if the introduction of the "smartphone" is not what really changed the phone culture in the West. Really Japan had already transitioned to what we think of as the "new" phone-oriented
That's the iPhone market percentage in Japan, but 8 out of the 10 most popular smartphones sold for the last four months are iPhones. So yes, the iPhone market share is increasing.
Oh, and the "East-Asian concept of 'face'..." post above is utter nonsense. The real esoteric reason it's popular is because people just "like" it.
I live in Japan. I have a Sony Xperia. iPhones are locked-down, corporate, American shit.
I must say the story itself and comments are pretty hilarious.
First of all, Masayoshi Son is not even Japanese. He's Korean who was neutralized recently, with a very strong Korean background and ties to his home country.
And Apple was really stupid to give Softbank an exclusivity for so many years. Softbank remains the smallest of the 3 major carriers in Japan with 26% market share even after years of iPhone exclusivity. With their shoddy reputation, almost fraudulent sales tactics, crappy reception and cove
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Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes & Other
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Participate in this amazing celebration of the Amazon and
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Fergie confirms Hazard interest
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed his interest in Lille star Eden Hazard.
• Meulensteen talks up Hazard
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• Hazard keeps cool over City visit
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Hazard has announced that he will be leaving Ligue 1 champions Lille in the summer, and clubs including United, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have all been linked.
Ferguson scouted Hazard in March, while the club's first-team coach, Rene Meulensteen, talked up a potential bid earlier this month.
Ferguson has now told French station Radio RMC: "I was at the game and watched Hazard, as well as other players. That's part of my job, looking at good players.
"Hazard is a very good player and has a lot of qualities. He's particularly quick over the first ten yards."
Ferguson also praised France national team coach Laurent Blanc, who played for United late in his career and has been linked with the Chelsea job as well as a potential return to Old Trafford.
"The France team is more balanced and has become a winning team again,'' Ferguson said. "As in 1998, it has established a balance between young and experienced players.
"When Laurent played in Manchester he followed our training methods very carefully. That's very intelligent and obviously he has qualities as a coach because he made Les Bleus a winning team again.''
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What: 4/20 smoke-out
When: Wednesday, 4:20 p.m.
Where: Norlin Quad, CU-Boulder
While some students are planning to spend this afternoon among the crowds on Norlin Quad celebrating 4/20, others are hoping to stay as far from the chaos as possible.
But, avoiding the festivities is nearly impossible for students and professors who are attending classes on the Boulder campus this afternoon.
Last year's 4/20 smoke-out -- a gathering of students and locals, some protesting the legalization of marijuana -- drew in nearly 10,000 people on the field in front of Norlin Library.
For CU freshman Alexis Keeney, avoiding the crowds will be key to making it to class at all, since her broken leg and crutches have already made her late a few times.
"I've already been thinking about how I'm going to get to my classes tomorrow," Keeney said. "I'll have to avoid the Quad and Farrand Field if I stand any chance of making it on time, which will be hard because my dorm is right by Farrand."
Keeney will be taking the long way around campus from one class to another, but she said she's not too worried about being late since "teachers don't really care because they feel bad when they see the crutches."
E-mails sent to students, faculty and staff from university administrators Tuesday said that classes would continue as scheduled today.
"Classes will be held on Wednesday on the normal schedule, and faculty have been advised to strictly adhere to their pre-arranged academic schedules," the e-mail to students states. "The best advice we have for you is to not participate in this event that disrupts the important work on campus, devalues your degree and the reputation of your university, and exposes you to the prospect of university discipline and an expensive fine."
Matt Pike, a CU graduate student and philosophy instructor, said he's lucky not to have classes on Wednesdays.
"I'll be avoiding campus like a plague," Pike said.
Pike said he plans to use the festivities as a way to introduce his students to the concepts of government responsibility and drug legalization.
Pike will host an open discussion in his Introduction to Philosophy class on Thursday about 4/20 and its roots and implications.
Other faculty members said they chose not to make any changes to their plans for classes, in accordance with an e-mail from CU administration.
"We do not endorse the gathering at any level, or welcome it in any way," the e-mail states.
Kate Phelps, CU graduate student and linguistics instructor, said she's giving a class lecture at 2 p.m. on 4/20 and encouraged her students to attend.
"I told them I don't care what they do but that the lecture will be fun," Phelps said. "There's not much we can do so we'll continue with the lecture as planned and if students don't want to come then that's on them."
Joseph Rosse, CU business professor, said 4/20 does not impact his plans for classes.
"In general, my experience has been that attendance is down on 4/20, but most students show up, even when I've taught at 3," Rosse said. "Those who don't show are still held responsible for what they missed, just like any other day.
"Fundamentally, the majority attending 4/20 aren't CU students, so it's really not a big deal."
CU sophomore Allison Langley said she will not be participating in the smoke-out.
"I'm two years sober," Langley said. "Last year I had a pretty hard time with it, but I think it will be better this year.
"The worst part about it is feeling like an outcast for the day."
Other students said they were taking extra shifts at work, using the afternoon to study or going about their normal schedules.


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Added aromas, appetites and audios will abound at the 33rd annual Taste of Chicago.
Rev up those taste buds -- the food festival is taking over Grant Park from Wednesday through Sunday, July 10-14.
Taste of ChicagoLocation: Grant Park, around Columbus Drive and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago
Admission: Free
Taste tickets: Strips of 12 tickets cost $8
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, July 10-12; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, July 13-14
Information: (312) 744-3316 or tasteofchicago.us
Taste of Chicago program director Mary Slowik said this is the second year of the festival's five-day, mid-July time slot, which worked well last summer because it wasn't as draining on the city's resources.
"We're expecting a really spectacular event this year," Slowik said.
The Taste will feature 35 restaurants, including four new vendors this year, along with 12 Pop-Up booths that will spice up the food selections.
The festival is teaming up with PBS station WTTW's "Check, Please!" to present the Pop-Ups again this year to add more diversity to the Taste's food selections. Pop-Up restaurants only stick around for a day or two, but new booths open each day.
All together, the Taste has added six new Pop-Up vendors this year.
"That's what keeps the event fresh and has people coming back," Slowik said.
Part of the popularity of the annual food extravaganza is the musical entertainment.
The festival's concerts, particularly those at the Petrillo Music Shell, will be "tremendous," Slowik said.
This year's lineup includes fun. at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10; Robin Thicke at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 11; Robert Plant Presents The Sensational Space Shifters at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 12; Grammy Award-winner Jill Scott at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 13; and Neon Trees at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 14.
While most seating in the venue is sold out, lawn seating is free and on a first-come first-served basis.
Thirty bands also will perform on the Bud Light Stage during the five-day festival.
One new addition to the Taste will be 13 food trucks surrounding the Petrillo Music Shell on the outskirts of Butler Field.
The festival invited every licensed food truck in Chicago in April. The festival will rotate in seven food trucks each evening.
"We saw the popularity of food trucks in general throughout the city and wanted to incorporate them," Slowik said.
The food trucks will accept the same Taste tickets as the regular vendors.
The trucks will open an hour before the evening concerts -- 4:30 p.m. from Wednesday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
Slowik said she hopes the trucks appeal to concert attendees who don't want to miss performances by going out to the regular Taste restaurants.
"It's a win-win because food trucks have a dedicated audience, and that audience has the ability to very easily get something to eat," Slowik said.
As with any experiment, Slowik is optimistic.
"We're hoping they offer something that's new to the event," Slowik said. "We're hoping it's a crowd-pleaser, successful and that (the food trucks) come back next year."


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"We are honored and indeed privileged to have Ambassador Siegel join our board of directors," said Continental Rail Corp. CEO Neil Swartz . "We look forward to his leadership and guidance as we execute our plan to establish a leading shortline railroad company through strategic acquisitions."
Prior to serving the country as ambassador, Siegel was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a representative of the United States to the United Nations, where he served from September 2006 - January 2007 under Ambassador John Bolton as a senior advisor to the U.S. Mission to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
"I have worked with members of the management team of Continental Rail Corp. in the past and I am confident in their ability to lead and build a solid railroad organization," said Siegel. "I believe that the current resurgence of the U.S. railroad industry provides a great opportunity not only for the economic growth of local communities, but also for those served by the industry. I am committed to the success of Continental Rail Corp. and I look forward to working alongside management to construct a forward thinking company."


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Pelosi Floor Speech in Memory of Congressman Donald Payne
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor today to honor the life and service of Congressman Donald Payne. Below are the Leader's remarks.
"Thank you Mr. Poe for yielding, I thank you and I thank our colleague, Congresswoman Christensen, for taking this Special Order today, so that we can sing the praises of a great man, our colleague, dear friend, precious person, Donald Payne.
"I waited, I said I wanted to go after Mr. Cleaver because I didn't know how I was going to even have the strength to come to the floor, because this is a personal, as well as official loss, to many of us here and he is always a source of strength to us–putting in perspective the fragility of life and the value that we must place on the contribution of all of our colleagues especially when we are blessed with the life, service and leadership of someone like Donald Payne.
"There are very few people that you can say, someone like Donald Payne, because he was exceptional, and unique and when the distinguished Mr. Cleaver, and Reverend Cleaver says that we have to fill-in where, and take his mantle, that would be almost impossible to do. Because, over a lifetime in public service and a long time in the Congress of the United States, Donald Payne gained standing on issues that take years to do. But he did teach us along the way. He gave us guidance on what path to follow, what clues to recognize in doing the right thing. Whether it was in the continent of Asia, Africa, Latin America, wherever it was, and in our own country.
"I had the privilege of traveling with Donald Payne, when we were going to Darfur, and he didn't want to go to the Sudan–he'd been there many times, to Darfur. But he was, at that moment, boycotting the regime in Khartoum because of how they treated the people there. While we were in Khartoum and in Darfur, he was in Ethiopia and Somalia and the rest, always working. Always working to have policy advise to all of us and caring about what the impact of that policy was on people.
"What was interesting to us though, is on that same trip to Africa, which many Members of the Congressional Black Caucus were on, including our distinguished Assistant Leader, Mr. Clyburn. When we went to Liberia, it was a boiling hot day, and we all went to the AME College there. And at that time, the AME University, and they were honoring Donald Payne for his everything–for what he knew about Africa, for the values and how he was concerned about, again, policy as it related to people, the encyclopedic knowledge that he had, the great wisdom that sprang from that knowledge, the plans that he always had to make things better, and the way people just flocked to him because they would learn, they would be inspired and they would love Donald Payne.
"It was boiling hot. We go there and they decide that we're all going to dress alike that day, so it even got hotter as we donned our robes. And here we were, seeing, not only telling them the esteem with which he was held in Congress, that was the least of it. Because what we were hearing was what people from around Africa, the esteem with which they held him–named a library for him at that University in Liberia.
"But, you know, he was a school teacher. And he never forgot how important it was for us to put our students first. He called them 'the bright lights of our nation's future, for investing in their potential, for inspiring them to succeed, igniting the sparks that they had within them to do their very best.'
"He was very proud of Newark and serving there. I remember when he first came here, his work on behalf of his constituents, his neighbors, the middle class, working people, people who were striving to reach up into the middle class, he was always working for them. He was New Jersey's, as has been mentioned, first African-American Member of Congress. He remained a champion, a committed champion of equality and opportunity for all.
"Again, in his accomplishments, both on his committee, where he served with Congressman George Miller, who holds him in the highest esteem, and now his Foreign Affairs Committee, where he served with Congressman Howard Berman–well, to hear the two of them talk today, it's as if they had lost a brother. And we all have. They had a full appreciation of his hard work ethic. Again, the knowledge that he brought to his subjects. The concern he had for the American people. And the love he had for our country.
"Just think, last week we had a visit to our office from Bill Gates, coming into our office to talk about the issue of global health. And he asked if Donald Payne could be in the meeting. We had hoped that would be possible, but then had to say that he was not feeling well that day. This was a week ago, a week ago. But, up until the end, he was in demand, recognized for his, again, standing on issues that related to the alleviation of poverty, the eradication of disease, again, the alleviation of hunger throughout the world. And what more could be about the Gospel of Matthew then ministering to the needs of God's creation which, the Bible tells us, is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us. Donald Payne was all about worshipping God, by ministering to the needs.
"He was an expert on economic, political, and security situations throughout Africa. And I had the honor of nominating him, recognizing his extraordinary work around the world, I was proud to recommend that President George W. Bush name Congressman Payne our Congressional, our Representative, the House Democrats, at the United Nations. Usually it was just for one term, in the case of Donald Payne, we went well beyond that in recognition of the extraordinary contributions that he made.
"So, again, whether it was his own district. Whether it was Newark, New Jersey, or across the world, he was a powerful and passionate voice.
"I hope it's a comfort to his children, to Donald Jr., to Wanda and Nicole-and all who loved Donald Payne, his dear brother Bill, who traveled with him frequently, and loved him so much. I hope it's a comfort to them, that so many people, who knew him well, loved him so much, mourn their loss and are praying for them at this sad time.
"With that Mr. Speaker, I again thank Mr. Poe and Congresswoman Christensen for the opportunity to say just a few things about our dear friend, who will be sadly missed, and long remembered. His legacy lives on in the Congress of the United States.
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker."


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Founders Brewing Company worked beer geeks into a good froth last fall when it announced Canadian Breakfast Stout as the second installment in its 750-mL Backstage series. The maple syrup Bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout, which had previously only seen limited draft availability, is currently ranked as the third most popular beer on BeerAdvocate.com. Its October release was greeted with reports of multiple block-long lines outside bottle shops, people paying north of $100 a bottle on eBay, and other general foolishness.
That caliber of irrational reaction isn't uncommon anymore for some of craft beer's most sought-after releases, but was it justified? How does what's in that coveted CBS bottle compare with the near-hysteria surrounding it?
I sat down with David Flaherty, operations manager at Hearth restaurant and Terroir wine bars, and our better halves to see. To round things out, we added a Breakfast Stout and the past two years of Kentucky Breakfast Stout (No. 8 on BeerAdvocate's list) into the mix.
Each of Founders' chocolate, coffee and oat-laden imperial stouts are brewed with a different recipe, leading to three unique beers. Dave Engbers, Founders' vice president and director of marketing, describes the origin of Breakfast Stout as a near-religious experience he had while bartending.
A regular offered him a handful of chocolate-covered espresso beans, which he in turn washed down with a Founders porter. The flavor combination stuck and was made into a stout. KBS came a year or two later as a beefed-up imperial stout when Founders began experimenting with bourbon barrel-aging. CBS followed in a similar vein, but instead was aged in bourbon barrels that had most recently been used to age Michigan maple syrup. The brewers had to modify the recipe for CBS to account for the beer's own residual sugars along with the maple left behind in the barrels.
We began our session with Breakfast Stout (8.3% ABV, 60 IBUs), the brewery's double chocolate coffee oatmeal stout, which is brewed with a blend of Sumatra and Kona coffee beans. The first bottle we opened seemed a bit off. (It was not more than a few weeks old when we had it.) There was a green pepper and plastic aroma that we'd never noticed in past bottles.
The second bottle, about two months old, was back in line with the Breakfast Stouts we remembered. It hit with an intense initial scent of fresh ground coffee, followed by dark chocolate as soon as we popped the cap. The deep brown, almost black stout was thick and silky on the tongue. Coffee, roasted grain, and bitter dark chocolate seemed to amplify one another in the flavor, creating a sharp, pronounced bitterness. While certainly not the biggest of the bunch, it seemed to have a more aggressive bitterness and the least residual sweetness to round the edges. The coffee and chocolate went on and on in the finish.
From there we moved to KBS (11.2% ABV, 70 IBUs), which is cave-aged in oak Bourbon barrels for a year before its release. The 2010 version was a decadent affair with inviting aromas of vanilla cream, oak, bourbon and dark fruit. The bourbon character in this thick pour was even more pronounced in the flavor. It's huge at first, seconded by an alcohol bite. The coffee was present, but more nuanced here. It developed a subtle port-like quality that would be perfect for an evening of sipping slowly. The finish was a three-part wave of booze, chocolate, and caramel. (Engbers points out that Founders doesn't really recommend cellaring the Breakfast beers, because their chocolates and milkfats will degrade over time and the coffee notes can dissipate.)
The 2011 KBS wasn't quite as genteel as 2010's, but there's still a lot to love about the rowdier younger sibling. Roast and hops are in first position in the aroma, framed by oak. The flavor was big and bitter in the 2011. The booziness was more pronounced with huge coffee and vanilla currents running throughout. This is an unabashedly Big American Beer.
But all of that was a delicious, high-octane lead-up to the answer to our question at hand: How does the Canadian Breakfast Stout stack up to its expectations? Massive flavors are Founders' stock-in-trade as a brewery, and CBS (10.6% ABV) stretches that boundary. Clean coffee, sweet malt and piney hops intertwined with the aroma's chocolate and maple. The beer poured black and completely opaque. Its mouthfeel was creamy and full, but never heavy. Alcohol? There's plenty of that, but it wasn't out of place or offputting. Sweet but not cloying maple and milk chocolate were matched in the flavor by dark chocolate and hoppy and roasty bitterness. There was nothing small about the sweet or bitter elements in CBS, but it pulls off the precarious balance like a hippo on a tightrope. There was a lot of flavor wound really tightly in that bottle, and it stretched out considerably as it warmed in the glass. I'd love to try it again a year from now—if only I had another bottle.
We found CBS to be staggeringly impressive and one of the best beers we tried last year. It's on par with the best of the cult imperial stouts. Have you tried it? Do you think the beer warrants the general craziness and price-gouging that came with its release?
Disclosure: CBS was provided as a sample for review.
About the Author: Jonathan Moxey is a Harlem-based homebrewer, BJCP beer judge, and Cicerone Certified Beer Server. He hosts private beer tastings for Tapped Craft Beer Events.


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ARCADIA, Ind. -- A central Indiana man has died after his car was swept away by floodwaters.
Hamilton County Sheriff Mark Bowen said in a news release that 64-year-old Robert Morgan of Arcadia died Friday night.
Police arrived at the scene at about 7:45 p.m. Friday and were told by a witness that Morgan tried to cross a flooded roadway about 35 miles north of Indianapolis. The vehicle was swept off the road and came to rest about 100 yards downstream, where it was submerged.
The release said water rescue teams pulled Morgan from the car and he was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Bowen stressed that motorists should not drive through high water.


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Jaguar New Zealand's brand manager Helen Sunley is used to people taking her photo. She's also used to people doing double takes when she's driving.
She doesn't mind finding people crowding around her work car whenever she parks it. She's even used to people demanding she wind down her window when she's in her car so they can speak to her.
Having so much attention is what she expected when, just weeks into her new role, Sunley suggested to her boss, Motorcorp general manager James Yates, that she "chrome" a Jaguar XF.
The four-door sports sedan had received a "significant" price decrease this year, with the 2.2-litre diesel starting at $90,000 and making the brand available to a wider range of buyers.
But Sunley wanted to push the brand further with public perception. Having "chromed" a car in her previous motoring role in Britain, she knew the reaction it could cause.
As a school-leaver, Sunley worked in sales at her local Ford dealership in Yorkshire, England, before completing a degree in business and marketing and eventually a masters in automotive marketing.
Having experienced working for a large multi-franchise dealer group, then manufacturers Saab and Chevrolet (GM) in England, Sunley moved to New Zealand last year to join her partner, before being appointed to Jaguar NZ in August.
With the approval of her boss Yates, Sunley took her work vehicle XF to Auckland company Boston Digital in September, where they spent 50 hours wrapping the vehicle in vinyl to create the "chrome" effect. It debuted at the Arts Foundation awards function, of which Jaguar NZ was a sponsor, before taking to the road.
And since then? More reaction than Sunley expected and the resulting PR and brand attention definitely paying for the (confidential) expense of wrapping the car.
She's lost count of the number of people who have taken photos of the vehicle. During Driven's hour-long photo shoot at Auckland's Cornwall Park, at least seven people stopped to take photos on their phones - from mums pushing prams to tourists walking past, and passengers in cars.
Yip, the car is an attention-seeker. The mirror effect makes it stand out - be it on the road or parked outside the company's head office in Mt Wellington.
"People take photos of the car all the time," said Sunley. "If it's parked people come over for a chat. The majority of the comments have been really positive - and it covers all demographics, from kids to an 85-year-old woman."
One of the more amusing incidents was when Sunley was stopped at on-ramp traffic lights and a man next to her in a BMW 6 Series tooted his horn and motioned for her to wind down the window.
"I was worried what he was going to say, but he yelled at me, 'what the hell is your car?"'
But having the Jaguar XF chromed wasn't just about turning heads for Sunley. "It's really about changing the perception of the brand ... it's about showcasing the 2013 model range, how much it's changed over the the past year."
Next year will be important for Jaguar in New Zealand with the arrival of the F-Type.
While the chromed XF is now a "family member" at Jaguar NZ, Sunley's new work vehicle next year will be a white F-Type supercharged V8 that is currently being built at the company's England plant.


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ITASCA – Recent Kaneland graduate Matt Yonkovich faces a decision between golfing at Waubonsee College or College of DuPage, a choice he knows he must make soon.
One matter delaying Yonkovich kept him occupied for a few more hours at Itasca Country Club Monday morning.
"My life's golf right now," Yonkovich said. "That's what my summer's been. It's been great."
Apart from caddying at Rich Harvest Fams in his hometown of Sugar Grove, Yonkovich plays wherever and whenever he can find a tee time. He planned another 18 holes Monday afternoon at Hughes Creek in Elburn, aiming to eclipse the 1-over-par 73 he carded in the opening round of the IJGA Chick Evans Junior Amateur here.
Yonkovich's short game helped him to three birdies in the first nine holes and a steady round overall. His score, three strokes behind leader Kevin McEneany of Lemont, puts him in sound position to make the top-32 match play tournament cut after 18 more holes of stroke play today.
"My putter, it's always been my favorite club in the bag," Yonkovich said, "and continues to pull through. … I don't know. It's my favorite part of the game, and I like to practice it a lot. I think that's why I've been doing so good."
Putting certainly pushed Burlington Central sophomore Joe Sherman to a 76. Although his round included zero birdies, Sherman rolled in numerous pars by following advice he gathered from a country club member during a practice round Saturday.
That tutelage: Stay below the hole if you want to be in position to score.
"I tried to put that into effect today, and it worked out really well," Sherman said. "So I got up and down a lot from the front, which was nice. A lot of downhill [greens]. If you were past the hole, it hurt you, that's for sure."
St. Charles East junior Daniel Haugen (75) joined Yonkovich and Sherman in the top 30 after Day 1 – whether outright or via ties. Haugen finished as runner-up at last week's St. Charles Junior Tournament at Pottawatomie Golf Course.
East senior Gary King and Marmion junior Luke Hoss of Sugar Grove both shot 78. Graham Lillibridge of Geneva registered an 82, while fellow sophomore Michael Bertke of East carded a 92.
In girls play, recent BC graduate Jenna Kurosky shot a 77, tied for sixth among a 36-player field and four shots behind co-leaders Lauren Beaudreau (Lemont) and Nina Rutkowski (Park Ridge).
After another 18 holes today, the top 16 girls athletes will qualify for the match play tournament.
Kurosky's younger sister, Josie, a Central junior, is tied for 15th after a 79. St. Charles North sophomore Kate Lillie stands 20th after an opening 81.
For Hoss, a funny thing happened on the way to each green.
Hoss has navigated through a swing hitch for the past few days. While it hasn't been entirely debilitating – see his fourth-place tie in the Aurora City Tournament, which concluded over the weekend – it's weighing on Hoss more than he knows he should allow.
His ball usually draws instead of fades. Now that it's doing the opposite, adjustments are crucial.
"It's tough to play a whole, 18[-hole] round of golf when you're thinking about your swing, you know," Hoss said. "Sometimes you should probably go play that swing. I was thinking about it here and there."
While their Day 1 scores won't reset today, players still embrace the chance at a new round with plenty of possibilities.
In addition to topping his first score, Hoss will keep an eye on how Yonkovich fares. Hoss also caddies at Rich Harvest Farms, and although he hasn't spoken with Yonkovich through the years, he recognizes their mutual hometown and respects him.
"He's always kind of a nice guy to compete with, because he's always putting scores low," Hoss said. "So you always want to beat the guys around your area. I don't really know him, but it's kind of a good rivalry. I don't know if he sees my score, but I see his."


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The 2012-13 season is off to a good start for the Yale women's swimming and diving team, who won against Columbia in dual competition on Friday. With solid swims from upperclassmen and freshmen alike, the Bulldogs won 11 of 16 events against their Ivy League rivals though the decision still came down to the final event. In the end the Bulldogs won with a score of 158 to Columbia's 142.
The first event of the evening was the three-meter diving contest, where Paige Meneses helped the Bulldogs get an early lead. Meneses put up 270.22 points, a good 15 points more than Columbia's Alyssa Menz for second place. Olivia Grinker also picked up some points for Yale, finishing fourth with a score of 234.82.
Yale's early lead would continue to grow as the Bulldogs won the next four events in a row. In the 200-yard medley relay the Yale squad of Cynthia Tsay, Ali Stephens-Pickeral, Alexandra Forrester and Joan Weaver won with a time of 1:43.83. Tsay got a marginal lead after her backstroke leg, then Columbia's 'A' squad came back against Stephens-Pickeral on the breaststroke leg. Forrester's butterfly leg was more than a second faster than anyone else's, and Weaver brought it home with a strong freestyle leg. Columbia's 'A' relay finished second with a time of 1:44.76.
The 1000-yard freestyle was an all-freshman affair. Eva Fabian, Casey Lincoln and Emma Smith finished first, second and fourth, respectively. Fabian was out front after 100 yards, while Lincoln pulled into second after 300 yards. From there the two continued to pull away from the field, with Fabian clocking at 9:59.47. Lincoln's time of 10:06.11 put her in second, while Smith's time of 10:20.97 was good enough for fourth place.
In the 200-yard freestyle Callie Fosburgh kept the momentum going, finishing first with a time of 1:51.97. Fosburgh led at every turn, posting consistent splits for the last 150 yards. Albrecht finished in second place with a time of 1:53.07, edging out Columbia's Salena Huang (1:53.20) at the wall.
Following on the stellar freshman performance in the 1000 free, two of Yale's seniors showed their dominance in the 100-yard backstroke. Forrester and Tsay went 1-2, with Forrester clocking in at 56.25 and Tsay right behind her in 56.89.
The 100-yard breaststroke was Yale's first loss of the meet. Columbia's Katie Meili took first with a time of 1:02.36 to set a new pool record, while Stephens-Pickeral (1:04.72), Cassidy Lapp (1:06.76) and Jacqui Levere (1:08.52) all picked up points in second, third and fifth place.
Fabian's second event was the 200-yard butterfly, where she came in second place. Her time of 2:05.53 put her just ahead of Columbia's Aileen Smith, who led Fabian for the first 150 yards. Fabian came home with a 31.51 final 50 to better Smith's 32.44 and pick up an extra point for the Bulldogs. Allison West also added to Yale's point total with a close fifth-place finish, clocking in at 2:07.76.
Forrester won her third event of the day with a strong performance in the 50-yard freestyle. Forrester's time of 23.50 put her in first by a decent margin, with the next swimmer clocking in at 24.25. Emily Gudbranson finished fifth with a time of 25.17.
Meneses followed up her win in the three-meter diving event with a strong second-place showing on one-meter. Meneses' score was 263.25. Danielle DeNunzio came in at fifth place with a score of 222.90.
Two seniors won the next two events. Tsay took first place in the 100-yard freestyle, battling with Columbia's Mikaila Gaffey up until the homestretch. Tsay finished with a time of 52.29, winning by a margin of 0.31 seconds. Albrecht then took first place in the 200-yard backstroke by an even smaller margin. Albrecht in lane four took the lead after 50 yards and did her best to hold on. She touched first at every turn and in the end clocked in at 2:03.73, a margin of victory of 0.01 seconds.
The freshman class impressed again in the 500-yard freestyle event. Fabian matched her win in the 1000 free with a first-place finish in the 500 where the story was mostly the same. She did not get the lead until 200 yards into the race but consistent splits delivered her to a win. Fabian touched the wall in 4:56.65, with Fosburgh right behind in second with a time of 4:59.27. Fosburgh's performance was a one of Yale's many close finishes that ultimately helped deliver the Bulldogs to a win, as the third place time was 4:59.52.
In the 100-yard butterfly Forrester racked up a fourth win. She finished first in a time of 54.02, well ahead of the second place time of 55.95. Kasey Mann finished fourth with a time of 57.67.
The penultimate event of the night was the 200-yard individual medley, where the top three spots all went to Columbia. Smith and Courtney Randolph finished in fourth and fifth place, but it was not enough to put the Bulldogs into winning territory just yet. The score after the 200 IM was Yale 145, Columbia 138, meaning the meet would come down to the last event.
The final race was the 400-yard freestyle relay. Yale's 'A' squad of Tsay, Weaver, Fosburgh and Albrecht were in a close second after Tsay's swim. Weaver gave her captain's share in the second leg, posting a split of 51.35 to Columbia's 52.64. Fosburgh built on that lead with 52.15 split, the second fastest in the field after Weaver's. Finally Albrecht brought it home to put Yale's final time at 3:29.26 and ensure a Bulldog victory, with Columbia 'A' finishing second with a time of 3:31.54. Yale's 'B' relay of Lapp, Gudbranson, Fabian and Smith tacked on a few extra points in third place to put Yale's final total at 158 to Columbia's 142.
The Bulldogs will not see anther Ivy opponent in dual competition until January when they take on Cornell in Ithaca, but next weekend the team will travel to Boston to compete in Boston University's Terrier Invitational from Nov. 16-18.
Report filed by Tom Lynam '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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Well, I was asked for supporting evidence, so I got stuff from different sources. DISCRETE sources if you will :p And I am greeted by crickets in the topic today. Warms the heart with the glow of righteousness :p
Well, I was asked for supporting evidence, so I got stuff from different sources. DISCRETE sources if you will :p And I am greeted by crickets in the topic today. Warms the heart with the glow of righteousness :p
So, basically, your counter-argument is not to provide ANY defense for it (and btw to add "pro" is a cop-out, the term should fetch the needed results on its own if they existed), but to point out that some of my sources are impartial and others attack the "acting" part? I am sorry, friend, but the glow is intensifying, and has begun throbbing...
Because this proves two things:
1. That even impartial sources point out clearly that there is an overall negative connotation of the term (which they do usually in the very first paragraph).
2. That when most people hear "straight-acting", they think of pretense and that's why the term is negative, whether the minority uses it in some other way or not.
Now, you can tell me "not everyone thinks it means that" and give me the "some people" wiki quote, but in the end, it's like trying to argue with me that "gay" means "happy". Sure it does. But that's not what 99% of people with access to mainstream culture will hear when they hear the word. And unless you have ANY credible sources to defend the term "straight-acting", so far it seems it is in the same camp - a largely offensive term that SOME people (mostly - though not exclusively! - closet cases and those who aren't yet fully ok with their sexuality) choose to use as a positive thing.
In the end, if I keep calling you a "filthy faggot" and when you get offended, I keep pointing out that to ME that's a really sweet complement, which of us is having a communication problem? And to "queer" things up, if I think that being called "cute" is the biggest insult in the world, whose problem is that?
I sure could see someone slitting his wrists over this thread and how it's been so off topic. Any chance you guys can get the title changed to reflect the actual discussion?
Then maybe we can have a thread about Romney supporters and their post-election activities...
Of course "straight acting" is SELF-descriptive it's also SELF-deluded. I've never met a "straight acting" guy who didn't run around telling himself that being thus SELF-descriptive was some kind of fucking honor. I know I sure did, I thought I was god's gift to gay men everywhere because I wasn't a limp wristed little faggot who liked glittery shoes. That is homophobia, this kind of sentiment is incredibly common in gay life because of the number one thing 'phobes say we must hate ourselves over - effeminacy.
Everything you are trying to push is pretty much just flaming hoops you are leaping through in order to justify that stupid 'phobic label.
What it comes down to is that you are choosing to disassociate yourself from the "sterotypically" gay (read abnormally effeminate) because somewhere in your head you have a problem with it - save your dudgeon, you are so defensive about it, there is nothing you can possibly say that will convince otherwise, and I RECOGNIZE the syndrome.
Mitch, will you address the overabundance of data that suggests that the cult of the straight man in gay culture leads to more divisiveness and ostracizing members of the community for their femininity? Fine, YOU don't mean it offensively. Great for YOU. This only brings me to my example of calling you a filthy faggot and claiming I don't mean it offensively. I provided you with links. You gave me nothing but "yeah, those aren't good enough because I don't agree with them"...
My problem right now is that I am getting a mental image of you using a term you never really thought much about. You didn't consciously put negative connotation in it, and suddenly people all around are telling you it's actually offensive. So you're naturally surprised, and maybe feel somewhat attacked. My question is this - why is your reaction to lead an absurd argument where you can present no proof of anything you say, other than to disagree with the other side's proof, instead of just saying "jeez, well maybe I just hadn't thought of it that way". Agreeing the term is harmful to the gay community doesn't make you complicit in its use, it only makes you more aware.
Words matter. And I believe when we are aware of the baggage that certain terms are loaded with, we have a responsibility to not use them, or to avoid offensive context. I used to call things "retarded". I don't anymore. Not because I EVER meant offense to mentally challenged people, but simply because I became aware that it is ALWAYS offensive to them, whether I mean it or not, and because perpetuating the term - even out of earshot of those it could offend - only perpetuates and validates the misconception that it is ok to use it in this way.
I have no problem being associated with effeminate guys Some of them are gay I'm gay who gives flying fuck.
I feel absolutely no need to "inform" ANYONE that I'm really just like a straight guy, if they know me they know me and there is NO need to introduce distinctions built around effeminacy - and if they assume that, great, I don't care.
It's fucking bullshit. The only person a "straight acting" gay guy is fooling is himself.
Back to topic. I remember how I felt in 2000 when the election was so disputed. I was disappointed once the final outcome was determined, but my goodness, harming myself or someone who didn't share my beliefs? Never crossed my mind.
I remember hearing about people who were going to move out of the USA; I wonder if any actually did? That aways made me laugh out loud when someone would say that. Never took them serious.
I did read about a week ago a long story in the Washington Post about a Romney/Ryan campaign supporter in Tennessee. I almost felt sorry for her, until I read some of her actual quotes. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my...
Well perhaps they are correct to be upset... they thought they could steal the election fair and square....
Did Anonymous stop Rove from stealing the election?
This shit is straight out of a b-rated movie... Still the republicans do appear honest acting.Quote:
Then, following Obama's win and Rove's very public outburst, a group calling themselves "The Protectors," believed to be comprised of Anonymous hackers, sent a letter to election transparency non-profit, Velvet Revolution, claiming to have thwarted attempts by GOP strategists to flip votes and rig the election in three swing states.
I've figured out why this thread took this turn: people think that Romney was straight-acting, when in fact he's a soulless boob. He lost the election because he was straight-ACTING, but the boob showed through. If he'd just been his real self--
Okay, that's where it breaks down; if Romney had been his real self, it would have been nauseating. I guess we can be glas he was straight-acting.
By the way...where did Jayqueer disappear to?
Didnt you hear RB the ORCA republican program has a bunch of bugs and failures... i am sure that is what has taken many of the obtuse opinions from our boards courtesy of the maids from anonymous, IF that is you believe anonymous....
u mean like this Orca?
PS...Hope y'all enjoyed gorging on turkey meat yesterday and leftovers today.
I'm grumpy...no 2nd Turkey this year....we always have two thxgvgs...but no time this year....have to wait for Christmas now.
And Centex...srsly...I'm just hoping that Jayqueer didn't sink into such a vast chasm of existential despair that he ended up having to re-invent himself. If you know what I mean.
All the others are accounted for so far...even Mr. Reard(e)n.
There are all kinds of fakes who present themselves here, and the efforts that they'll make to convince you that they're "real."
Everything from "righteous indignation" to actually speaking to or "texting you" on your cellphone.
Oh they're real alright, making up shit about their lives and expecting us to buy it.
Everyone knows you can't post anything here unless it's the truth, because it's the Internet.


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Update, 5:40 p.m. ET: The firm at the center of today's census records meltdown says, "We were expecting a flood, but we got a tsunami."
"We had estimates of how much traffic was going to hit the site, and we did performance testing at several levels above that, but we were surprised by the traffic," Joe Godfrey, senior director of product and general manager for Inflection, a Silicon Valley database company."
Inflection was hired by the National Archives and Records Administration, which provided the 1940 census records. Inflection buiilt the search engine to serve up the records, and relied on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the cloud service provider. Inflection has been adding more of a pipeline to Amazon all day, adding the ability for more simultaneous connections, but so far searches for census records are running slowly or not running at all for many users.
The company is trying to serve up 3.8 million images of census documents, each with multiple views at different zoom levels, with each file being 10 megabytes or larger.
Godfrey said the situation has improved, and engineers are hoping by the end of today to have the situation squared away.
Embarrassed by a computer system that crumbled under public demand, the National Archives and Records Administration said Monday that it's working to add more servers for the release of 1940 Census records. For more users the wait to see records on family members from the Great Depression era will go on for a while longer.
The Archives had hired Inflection, a Silicon Valley database company, to run the computers, but frustrated users lit up Facebook and Twitter with complaints about images that were said to be "loading" but never arrived.
"Our testing indicated NARA and Inflection could handle the load, but 1.9 mil visitors caused issues we're working to resolve," the Archives said via Twitter. Later it added, "We'll let you know as soon as we have another update - thank you for your patience, we know it's incredibly frustrating."
Even agency officials, during the webcast to kick off the day, couldn't get images to load when they tried to look up their own relatives.
In Springfield, Ohio, Facebook user Val Lough commented on our page: "It's very sweet of them to put all of these records on line. It would be even nicer of them to make the records VISIBLE. None of them will download, I have a browser window opening that's 'loading' the documents and has been for about 20 minutes. You might want to find out what their issues are. It would be faster to mail a public records request to the National Archives." Many others are tweeting about delays.
The National Archives says it is putting more servers online to handle the crush. At one point, the Archives said, its computers were receiving 100,000 hits per second.
Hey, you've waited 72 years to see these records, so what's another day or two.
A time capsule from 1940 was opened on Monday at 9 a.m. ET, and we invite readers to share what they find. If you use the new records to find information about the loved or lost in your family, please post a note in the comments below or on our Open Channel page on Facebook.
U.S. Census records for individuals from April 1, 1940, protected until now by a 72-year privacy law, are now public for the first time, revealing details about millions of Americans from that day, as the country lingered in a Great Depression, still a year away from entry into war in Europe and the Pacific.
"I'm so excited!" Gary Robert Del Carlo of Martinsburg, W.Va., posted on Facebook. "Maybe for the first time ever, I'll be able to find out something about my father. All I have is my birth certificate with his name, date of birth, state born in, and that he was in the Army stationed in Washington State. His military records burned up in St. Louis in a fire in 1973. They would have told me a lot. Wrote for his birth certificate, and there was no records of his birth. I have done nothing but hit brick walls every which way I turn. I'm praying I find something useful tomorrow, anything."
NPR describes the release as the "Super Bowl for Genealogists." Librarians around the country are ready to provide assistance. At the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the staff will be serving cake and providing help.
When the 120,000 census takers counted 132,164,569 people living in the country on that day, the information collected included the address, whether the house was owned or rented, value of the home or monthly rent, is it considered a farm, names of adults and children, familiy relationships, sex, race, age, place of birth, citizenship, residence five years earlier, education. And for a small subset of people, about 5 percent, they were asked about place of birth of mother and father, language spoken in the home as a child, veteran status, wars served in, Social Security status, occupation, employment status, occupation, number of weeks worked in 1939, income and, for women, whether they had been married more than once, age at first marriage, and number of children ever born.
There is a catch. As the records go online, they can't be searched by name. For a city it's helpful to know an exact address, but often you can work with a neighborhood (near the corner of Canal and Varrick streets in New York City). Your public library may have old city directories or telephone directories from that period, allowing you to look up people by name to find an address. For a rural area, you need to know at least the county and the name of the town or township.
Genealogists, librarians and volunteers will begin the work of indexing the records, which eventually will allow searches by name. Two sites, the commercial Ancestry.com and the Mormon Church's FamilySearch.org, have announced plans to provide indexes to their customers as quickly as possible, with some images going online on Monday. FamilySearch and Ancestry.com started putting images from the Census files online early on Monday, but for now without a name index.
For now, you must know at least an approximate address to get started. You use that address to find an "enumeration district," which in a big city might be only a few blocks, and would be a larger area in a small town.
Another approach, for those interested in a specific place, is to look at all the records for your block or street. If your area was settled in 1940, who lived there then, and what were their lives like?
Your goal: With that district number, you can look on the Census website at the online copy of the form filled out by the census taker in 1940. In 70 years, it has gone from paper to microfilm to computer.
Here are resources to help you with the search (links open in a new window), though as with most things in life, the key is: Ask a librarian.
- Most important page No. 1: Step-by-step help from private researchers with free aids to help you find the enumeration district map for a particular address
- Most important page No. 2: A Census explainer on starting your search.
- The home of the 1940 Census
- A Census page with general information on the 1940 release
- A copy of the 1940 Census form (PDF file) that you can fill in when you find information
- Census aids to finding information
- Ancestry.com, a commercial service for genealogists
- FamilySearch.org from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Tell us what you find: Post your story on Open Channel's Facebook page


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Saturday, Nov. 2 — 1 p.m.
Dartmouth Big Green (7-5-3, 3-2 Ivy) vs.
Harvard Crimson (9-3-2, 5-0 Ivy)
Location: Cambridge, Mass. — Soldier Field
All-Time Series: Harvard, 17-15-3
Last Time: Oct. 28, 2012 — W, 2-0
Two games remain for the Dartmouth women's soccer team and Saturday's meeting features the top-ranked Harvard Crimson against the Big Green. Harvard, yet to drop an Ivy League match, will face a Dartmouth squad that is looking to extend its two-game winning streak.
All-Time Series (Harvard)
Harvard holds a narrow lead on the Big Green entering the 36th annual meeting between Ancient Eight foes. A 17-15-3 all-time lead by the Crimson has seen the Big Green close the gap over the last three seasons, claiming two of the last three affairs.
Harvard Preview
After losing the first three games of the season, Harvard has not looked back. The Crimson is riding an 11-game unbeaten streak with five victories coming in league play. Harvard's largest offensive output came against Cornell on October 12, when they scored seven goals on the Big Red. Margaret Purce leads the team with 23 points and 10 goals.
Columbia Recap
Senior Marina Moschitto scored a pair of goals to propel the Dartmouth women's soccer team over Columbia, 4-2, on Saturday. The Big Green also got offensive contributions from freshman Holly Patterson and sophomore Corey Delaney. Trailing 1-0 early in the first, the Green scored four unanswered goals en route to the win. Freshman Casey Cousineau won her second consecutive game, playing just 45 minutes before junior Tatiana Saunders and senior Sam Fearer finished the second half.
Ivy League Digital Network
Dartmouth Athletics, in partnership with NeuLion, announced the launch of the brand new Ivy League Digital Network, featuring enhanced live video streaming of all home games and extensive coverage of Big Green road contests against Ivy League foes.
Starting with the 2013-14 season, the completely redesigned Dartmouth channel — known as Big Green Insider — will include an easy-to-navigate interface with a league-wide network schedule and new interactive features that showcase the expanded content offerings available on computer, mobile and tablet devices, all without the use of an app.
What's Ahead?
The Big Green will conclude the 2013 season next Saturday, when they host Cornell at noon. Prior to the game, Dartmouth will honor the seven graduating members of the Class of 2014.


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PROVO, Utah — It took a jury 11 hours to return a guilty verdict on Friday for Utah doctor Martin MacNeill, accused of killing his wife six years ago.
The decision from the five-man, three-woman jury came after 13 days of testimony over four weeks, where prosecutors tried to build their case alleging MacNeill gave his wife, 50-year-old Michele MacNeill, a fatal cocktail of prescription drugs, then drowned her in a bathtub in their Pleasant Grove, Utah, home. The motive, they argued, was to continue an affair with 37-year-old Gypsy Jyll Willis.
As the guilty verdict was read at 1:10 a.m. Saturday, Michele MacNeill's supporters — including her sisters, her friends and two of her daughters — gasped loudly as the verdict was announced, and immediately began sobbing and hugging. Martin MacNeill showed little to no emotion.
"We're just so happy he can't hurt anyone else," daughter Alexis Somers tearfully told a crowd of media after the verdict was read. "… There is justice for my mom today."
Martin MacNeill, 57, was found guilty of murder, a first-degree felony, and obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony. He faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Jan. 7.
Deputy Utah County Attorney Chad Grunander told members of the media at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday that Martin MacNeill's case was the most difficult he had ever prosecuted.
"We are absolutely thrilled," Grunander said of the verdict. "It was an amazing moment to meet with the family… I love it when the system works and it worked these last four weeks."
Martin MacNeill's defense attorney, Randy Spencer, declined to speak with the media after the verdict, but said, "Of course, I'm disappointed."
Grunander said during closing arguments Friday morning that the drugs given to Michele MacNeill after she underwent plastic surgery was her husband's cover to hide an "almost" perfect murder.
"Along the way, he left a number of clues that all point to him as a murderer," he told the jury.
For prosecutors, Grunander said the most damning piece of evidence was a government identification application that Martin MacNeill, 57, submitted for Willis, who represented herself in the application as his wife, Jillian MacNeill. On the line asking for their wedding date, Martin MacNeill inked April 14, 2007 — the day of Michele MacNeill's funeral.
"That is not short of an admission of guilt," Grunander told the jury during closing arguments. "He might as well have said in that application, 'I murdered Michele.'"
Reasonable doubt
But Spencer countered that there was no evidence presented by the state "that rises to the level of beyond a reasonable doubt." He accused prosecutors of "cherry-picking" facts that support their theory that Martin MacNeill killed his wife in order to welcome Willis into his life.
Spencer pointed to wording in the Utah medical examiner's report indicating that drug toxicity "could potentially" or "may have had an effect" on the woman's death.
That equals reasonable doubt, Spencer argued.
"I feel like I could sit down right now, because the medical testimony is so clear," Spencer said about 20 minutes into his 90-minute closing argument.
Spencer says there was no evidence that anyone but Michele MacNeill, herself, gave her any medications on the morning she died, April 11, 2007.
"Even if [Martin MacNeill] did, the medications were low," Spencer said, adding the drug levels found in the woman's system were at therapeutic levels. "They were very, very low."
Michele MacNeill was found unconscious in her bathtub by her 6-year-old daughter, Ada MacNeill. The child was sent by her father to a neighbor's house to get help, and eventually Michele MacNeill was pulled from the bathtub by a neighbor and Martin MacNeill. The two attempted CPR before medical crews arrived.
During the trial, the jury heard from a number of witnesses, including Willis, several of Martin MacNeill's daughters — who believe he killed their mother — and two inmates who claimed the defendant confessed the alleged murder to them.
Prosecutors weaved a narrative that focused on Martin MacNeill's bad or odd behavior — including the growing seriousness of his affair with Willis, his insistence that Michele MacNeill have a face-lift, asking that extra medications be prescribed for the woman and his reaction to his wife's death — all added up to murder.
"There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence here, ladies and gentleman," Grunander told the jury Friday.
However, the state Medical Examiner's Office has never ruled the woman's death a homicide, a fact that Spencer said showed reasonable doubt that Michele MacNeill was murdered.
After an autopsy in 2007, Michele MacNeill's manner of death was ruled "natural," the result of "chronic hypertension and myocarditis, which are capable of causing acute unexpected arrhythmia and sudden death."
But investigators say Martin MacNeill called the medical examiner multiple times and gave misleading information. In 2010, in a new investigative report, Chief Medical Examiner Todd Grey changed the cause of death to the combined effects of heart disease and drug toxicity. The manner of death was changed to "undetermined."
Martin MacNeill's attorneys argued at trial that the man had an alibi at the time Michele MacNeill died because he was at work at the Utah State Developmental Center. However, prosecutors pointed out in their closing arguments that there is a window of time — between 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on the day of Michele MacNeill's death — where Martin MacNeill's whereabouts are unknown.
Despite the defense's attempt to establish an alibi, Grunander said that Martin MacNeill had plenty of time to leave work and "take care of business" at home.
"Give Michele the drugs, fix her up a bath, get her in the tub, hold her head down a little while. Help her out," Grunander said, paraphrasing the testimony of an inmate who claims Martin MacNeill confessed the killing to him.
The defense called only four witnesses, including a former co-worker of Martin MacNeill and his child's kindergarten teacher, to back his alibi theory that he was at work at the time of Michele MacNeill's death and could not have killed her.
Defense attorneys also brought in an ergonomics expert, who told the jury it would have been difficult for Martin MacNeill to have lifted his wife from the bathtub by himself.
Martin MacNeill did not take the witness stand in his own defense.


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