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NW-A600 Series Firmware Update Program Version 2.0
Applicable Models
This information is for the following models:
About this download
Fixed issues:
- When charging with the USB Charging AC Power Adaptor or the PC which is in standby or hibernation mode, the battery life might be shorter.
- After NO DATABASE or NO DATA shows up, the unit might not be recognized by the PC though it is connected.
Additional feature:
- Enable WMA format support.
Affected units:
- Network WALKMAN NW-A605/607/608 with firmware version 1.0 and 1.1.
Download Filename: NW-A600_V2_0.exe
Download Size: 6.55 MB (6,876,408 Bytes)
Originally posted:17 January 2007
File Info
File Name
- NW-A600 Series Firmware Update Program Version 2.0
File Version
- 2
File Size
Release Date
- 2004-10-28
System Requirements
- Windows XP
Please follow the procedure below to check the firmware version installed on your NW-A608/607/605 WALKMAN:
- Press and hold the DISP/FUNC button until the Function menu appears.
- Rotate the Shuttle switch to select Music Library and press the (PLAY/STOP) button.
- Press and hold the SEARCH/MENU button in stop mode until the Setting menu appears.
- Rotate the Shuttle switch to select Advanced Menu and press the (PLAY/STOP) button.
- Rotate the Shuttle switch to select Information and press the (PLAY/STOP) button.
- Confirm the firmware version at option [4:] by rotating the Shuttle switch.
- Create the following folder on the C:\ drive of your computer: FWUP
- Save the program to C:\FWUP
- Check that the downloaded file NW-A600_V2_0.exe is 6.55 MB. If not, delete the file and repeat the download steps.
Upgrade Procedure
Once the download is finished, please follow the steps below to upgrade the program.
- Make sure that at least there is 3MB of free space left on the Walkman before launching the update.
- Connect the unit to the PC.
- Exit all the software running on your computer.
- Click Start button on the task bar and click Run - The Run dialog box will be open.
- Browse to C:\FWUP\NW-A600_V2_0.exe in the Open text box and click OK. The program will be started.
- Follow the following screenshots
*Please do not disconnect the USB cable during upgrading.
*During upgrading, USB connection is automatically controlled and USB Connect indication is off with the control. Also, the USB disconnect message may appear on some computer.
- Accept the License Agreement and click Next.
- Connect the Walkman to your computer and click OK.
- Close all the programs and click OK.
- Click OK to start the update process.
- The Update process is ongoing.
- Firmware has been successfully updated, click Finish.
After Upgrade
Please confirm the version when the upgrade program is installed successfully with the above steps. The upgrade program installation is succeeded when "2.0" is shown on the screen.


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We're really getting leaks from every source you can imagine about the iPhone 6 at this point. Italian blog Macitynet.it, which earlier this week posted leaked pictures of an iPhone 6 mockup purportedly used by accessory manufacturers, is back with a new pictures showing us the iPhone 6 mockup side-by-side with Samsung's Galaxy S5. These new pictures are particularly useful because they give us a real idea of just how big the new device will be in comparison with its biggest competitor.
As you can see from the picture below, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 will has a slightly smaller frame than the Galaxy S5, which isn't surprising since the Galaxy S5 has a 5.1-inch display.
If we take a look at a side view of the two devices we can also see that the iPhone 6 mockup has a thinner overall frame than the Galaxy S5, which gels with earlier leaks that claimed the new device would only be 6 millimeters thick.
It's interesting to note that almost all of the leaked mockups we've seen for the new iPhone so far have been of the 4.7-inch variety, which means that it's likely Apple is much farther along in producing the 4.7-inch version than the larger 5.5-inch version that will reportedly release later in the fall.
And if you can't get enough iPhone 6 leaks, be sure to check out this slideshow video produced by the folks at ConceptsiPhone that shows some more Macitynet.it pictures of the iPhone 6 mockup side-by-side with the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 4s.

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Participating Organization(s) |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
Funding Opportunity Title |
Mucosal Environment and HIV Prevention (MEHP) (R01) |
Activity Code |
R01 Research Project Grant |
Announcement Type |
New |
Related Notices |
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number |
Companion Funding Opportunity |
None |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) |
93.855, 93.856, 93.865 |
Funding Opportunity Purpose |
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, encourages grant applications from institutions/organizations that address the goals and objectives of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA). The Mucosal Environment and HIV Prevention (MEHP) FOA is intended to support innovative proof-of-concept/feasibility non-vaccine biomedical prevention (nBP) research needed to support and advance the development of safer and more effective microbicides, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), and Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPT). It will achieve this by supporting a better understanding of prevention candidates and strategy interaction with the micro- and macro-environments of the genital (male and female) and gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa. The MEHP FOA addresses the following 3 underserved emerging areas of Program interest: role of the microbiome in transmission/acquisition of HIV and candidate safety and efficacy, tissue responses to prevention agents, and the effect of genital secretions and hormones on susceptibility to HIV infection: The MEHP is intended to support innovative basic research efforts, which may or may not involve an active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), formulation/excipient and/or device currently under development. The MEHP FOA is not intended to support the preclinical or clinical development of new nBP candidates or their delivery systems. The MEHP concept has been previously released as PA-12-106, and applicants are urged to read this FOA carefully, since there are differences from the PA that could alter responsiveness. |
Posted Date |
March 7, 2013 |
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) |
June 25, 2013 |
Letter of Intent Due Date(s) |
June 25, 2013 |
Application Due Date(s) |
July 25, 2013, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization Applicants are encouraged to apply early to allow adequate time to make any corrections to errors found in the application during the submission process by the due date. |
AIDS Application Due Date(s) |
July 25, 2013, by 5:00 PM local time of the applicant organization |
Scientific Merit Review |
December, 2013 |
Advisory Council Review |
January, 2014 |
Earliest Start Date |
June, 2014 |
Expiration Date |
July 26, 2013 |
Due Dates for E.O. 12372 |
Not Applicable |
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
The purpose of this FOA is to stimulate research to better understand and optimize the interaction of genital (female and male) and gastrointestinal (GI) tract mucosa with non-vaccine biomedical prevention (nBP) candidates and strategies with the long-term goal of enhancing the safety and efficacy of HIV prevention interventions. For the purposes of this FOA, nBP will include topical microbicides, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and Multipurpose Prevention Technology (MPT) candidates and strategies. The MEHP FOA is designed to support the use of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), delivery vehicles and prevention strategies under development as tools to assess changes in mucosal target cells and tissues that might alter product/strategy safety and/or lead to increased or decreased susceptibility to HIV acquisition/transmission. The FOA is not designed to develop new prevention APIs or delivery devices. MPTs, for the purpose of this FOA, will be limited to those that incorporate established anti-HIV strategies with a contraceptive or inhibitor of a sexually transmitted infection (STI). The MEHP FOA will not support vaccine or behavioral and social science interventions to prevent HIV infection.
Depending on the tissue type and anatomical location, the male and female genital and GI tracts are covered by an epithelium consisting of single to multiple layers of cells that are histologically unique and, depending on site, are bathed in mucous. The composition of the mucosal tissues is controlled by a wide variety of endogenous and exogenous factors. These tracts have different commensal flora, unique innate and adaptive immune response mechanisms, immune cell compositions, and, in the case of the female genital tract, tissue and cellular structure and functions that are hormonally regulated. Numerous studies have shown that APIs, delivery vehicles and formulations/excipients can induce changes in the mucosa, such as loosening of epithelial tight and adherent junctions, alterations of innate and/or adaptive immune mediators (i.e. inflammation), and immune cell content (i.e. homing and trafficking). Sexually transmitted infections (STI) associated with HIV acquisition in the absence of gross evidence of toxicity or damage to the tissues also can modulate genital and GI tract mucosal susceptibility to HIV transmission/ acquisition. Although not all mucosal changes induced by prevention candidates or strategies have been linked directly to alterations in HIV acquisition/transmission, these changes represent modifications of the physical and active barriers to HIV infection that, under the right circumstances, could positively or negatively modulate susceptibility to HIV infection.
As opposed to the creation of more potent strategies to inhibit HIV transmission/acquisition by combining multiple APIs and/or creating prevention packages composed of multiple prevention strategies (i.e. PrEP + microbicide, etc.), the long-term objective of the MEHP FOA is to develop more effective prevention interventions by understanding and optimizing the interaction of the prevention strategy and its components with the HIV target mucosa. The knowledge gained can then serve as a first step toward the creation of "mucosal friendly" prevention strategies, incorporating modulation of delivery strategies and/or formulation/excipient interactions as an active component of the HIV prevention strategy.
Applicants are encouraged to develop applications that are focused on understanding the impact of nBP APIs, delivery vehicles, formulations/excipients and/or contraceptives on the genital and GI mucosa and HIV target cells. APIs selected as tools to evaluate mucosa responses should be chemically defined entities with known anti-HIV activity such as small chemical compounds, including licensed and unlicensed antiretrovirals and/or protein/peptide-based compounds that are being developed as nBP agents. If an MPT strategy is investigated, those incorporating contraceptives should use contraceptives that are in clinical development or currently licensed for contraceptive use. Hormonal or non-hormonal contraceptives investigated as part of an MPT strategy may be used in either HIV-negative or -positive women, and should be used at concentrations relevant to their contraceptive regimes. Topical (vaginal, rectal and/or penile) or systemic (implantable devices, injection, oral or transdermal) delivery of APIs, hormones, and/or excipients may be used. The influence of race, ethnicity, genital tissue maturation and mucosal injury/ sexual trauma as modifiers of the mucosal environment in the genital and GI tracts, and their relationship to HIV susceptibility and nBP candidate/strategy efficacy are of interest.
It is not the purpose of this FOA to develop new prevention candidates or strategies, but to use existing candidates and strategies as tools to probe the HIV target mucosae to develop a knowledge base that will lead to the creation of novel "mucosal friendly" prevention strategies. Thus, applications that are focused solely on prevention candidate development and individual specific aims in meritorious applications focusing solely on candidate development will not be funded.
This FOA is designed to stimulate and support the innovative research needed to understand the interaction of nBP strategies with the mucosal micro- and macro-environments of the male and female genital and GI tracts. It is expected that this research will be the basis for creation of future prevention candidates and strategies that will incorporate optimized mucosal interactions as a critical part of the HIV prevention strategy. This FOA addresses 3 areas of interest required to develop the knowledge base to support the rational design of these more "mucosal friendly" prevention strategies:
All examples of responsive areas assume that the identified activities are being conducted in the context of understanding the interaction of an API, delivery system and/or formulation/excipient within the male and/or female genital or GI mucosa. These studies may be carried out with human secretions, cells and /or tissues and animal models of HIV transmission and acquisition. Responsive studies include, but are not limited to:
Applications focusing on the following areas will not be considered responsive and will not be reviewed:
Funding Instrument |
Grant: A support mechanism providing money, property, or both to an eligible entity to carry out an approved project or activity. |
Application Types Allowed |
New The OER Glossary and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide provide details on these application types. |
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards |
The following NIH components intend to commit the following amounts in FY 2014: NIAID/DAIDS intends to commit $3,500,000 to fund 4 to 8 awards. NICHD/CPR/DBS intends to commit $2,400,000 to fund 4 to 6 awards. |
Award Budget |
Application budgets are limited to a direct cost of $400,000 per year. |
Award Project Period |
The scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum period is 4 years. |
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
Higher Education Institutions
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
For-Profit Organizations
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to
Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
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Applicant organizations must complete and maintain the following registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award. All registrations must be completed prior to the application being submitted. Registration can take 6 weeks or more, so applicants should begin the registration process as soon as possible. The NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications states that failure to complete registrations in advance of a due date is not a valid reason for a late submission.
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This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed within the past thirty-seven months (as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement), except for submission:
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the Apply for Grant Electronically button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
For information on Application Submission and Receipt, visit Frequently Asked Questions Application Guide, Electronic Submission of Grant Applications.
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By the date listed in Part 1. Overview Information, prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
The letter of intent should be sent to:
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All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed, with the following additional instructions:
All applications must contain a detailed, non-modular budget.
Applicants should ignore the following warning that will be generated for applications requesting budgets of $250,000 or less per year: The direct cost requests of $250K or less each year (on the 424 R&R Budget page section F-K) must be in modules of $25K, using the PHS 398 Modular Budget Form and not the R&R Budget Form. Incorrect applications may be delayed in the peer review process or rejected.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed, with the following additional instructions:
Resource Sharing Plan: Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans (Data Sharing Plan, Sharing Model Organisms, and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)) as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, with the following modifications:
Appendix: Do not use the Appendix to circumvent page limits. Follow all instructions for the Appendix as described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign institutions described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications before the due date to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission.
Organizations must submit applications to Grants.gov, the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies. Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH's electronic system for grants administration. NIH and Grants.gov systems check the application against many of the application instructions upon submission. Errors must be corrected and a changed/corrected application must be submitted to Grants.gov on or before the application due date. If a Changed/Corrected application is submitted after the deadline, the application will be considered late.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application before the due date in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
Applicants must complete all required registrations before the application due date. Section III. Eligibility Information contains information about registration.
For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit Applying Electronically.
All PD(s)/PI(s) must include their eRA Commons ID in the Credential
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Package. Failure to register in the Commons and to include a valid PD/PI
Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an
electronic application to NIH. See Section
III of this FOA for information on registration requirements.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the
application is the same number used in the organization's profile in the eRA
Commons and for the System for Award Management. Additional information may be
found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
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Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review and responsiveness by components of participating organizations, NIH. Applications that are incomplete and/or nonresponsive will not be reviewed.
Applicants are required to follow the instructions for post-submission materials, as described in NOT-OD-10-115.
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. As part of the NIH mission, all applications submitted to the NIH in support of biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
For this particular announcement, note the following:
The R01-based MEHP program is intended to support innovative research that can contribute significantly to our understanding of the genital and GI mucosal environments and their role in safety and efficacy of nBP strategies. Accordingly, the potential of a MEHP application to significantly advance our knowledge of mucosal nBP interactions is the focus of this program. Although, preliminary data can play a significant role in providing a justification or rationale for the proposed experimental approaches and projected impact, the types of research needed to achieve the objectives of the MEHP program may preclude the preexistence of extensive preliminary data. Thus, judgments regarding potential success for the proposed research may require reliance upon relational and/or inferential data to establish research impact/success rather than preliminary experimental data directly supporting application objectives.
Reviewers will provide an overall impact score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following review criteria and additional review criteria (as applicable for the project proposed).
Reviewers will consider each of the review criteria below in the determination of scientific merit, and give a separate score for each. An application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have major scientific impact. For example, a project that by its nature is not innovative may be essential to advance a field.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field? Is the proposed research relevant to understanding the impact of nBP on prevention strategy efficacy and safety, and does the research have the potential to provide new knowledge that may be used to generate new targets/strategies for improving nBP safety and efficacy in future studies?
Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, or in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project?
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses
well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project?
Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success presented?
If the project is in the early stages of development, will the strategy
establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Are
the APIs and formulations/excipients used to study genital and GI mucosal
responses used as tools to aid in the understanding of how the mucosa can
ultimately be manipulated to enhance safety and efficacy of an nBP strategy?
If the project involves clinical research, are the plans for 1) protection of
human subjects from research risks, and 2) inclusion of minorities and members
of both sexes/genders, as well as the inclusion of children, justified in terms
of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed?
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will evaluate the following additional items while determining scientific and technical merit, and in providing an overall impact score, but will not give separate scores for these items.
Protections for Human Subjects
For research that involves human subjects but does
not involve one of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR
Part 46, the committee will evaluate the justification for involvement of human
subjects and the proposed protections from research risk relating to their
participation according to the following five review criteria: 1) risk to
subjects, 2) adequacy of protection against risks, 3) potential benefits to the
subjects and others, 4) importance of the knowledge to be gained, and 5) data
and safety monitoring for clinical trials.
For research that involves human subjects and meets the criteria for one or
more of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46,
the committee will evaluate: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human
subjects involvement and characteristics, and 3) sources of materials. For
additional information on review of the Human Subjects section, please refer to
the Human
Subjects Protection and Inclusion Guidelines.
Inclusion of Women, Minorities, and Children
When the proposed project involves clinical research, the committee will evaluate the proposed plans for inclusion of minorities and members of both genders, as well as the inclusion of children. For additional information on review of the Inclusion section, please refer to the Human Subjects Protection and Inclusion Guidelines.
Vertebrate Animals
The committee will evaluate the involvement of live vertebrate animals as part of the scientific assessment according to the following five points: 1) proposed use of the animals, and species, strains, ages, sex, and numbers to be used; 2) justifications for the use of animals and for the appropriateness of the species and numbers proposed; 3) adequacy of veterinary care; 4) procedures for limiting discomfort, distress, pain and injury to that which is unavoidable in the conduct of scientifically sound research including the use of analgesic, anesthetic, and tranquilizing drugs and/or comfortable restraining devices; and 5) methods of euthanasia and reason for selection if not consistent with the AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia. For additional information on review of the Vertebrate Animals section, please refer to the Worksheet for Review of the Vertebrate Animal Section.
Reviewers will assess whether materials or procedures proposed are potentially hazardous to research personnel and/or the environment, and if needed, determine whether adequate protection is proposed.
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will consider each of the following items, but will not give scores for these items, and should not consider them in providing an overall impact score.
Applications from Foreign Organizations
Reviewers will assess whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions that exist in other countries and either are not readily available in the United States or augment existing U.S. resources.
Select Agent Research
Reviewers will assess the information provided in this section of the application, including 1) the Select Agent(s) to be used in the proposed research, 2) the registration status of all entities where Select Agent(s) will be used, 3) the procedures that will be used to monitor possession use and transfer of Select Agent(s), and 4) plans for appropriate biosafety, biocontainment, and security of the Select Agent(s).
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Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria. Assignment to a Scientific Review Group will be shown in the eRA Commons.
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Hi peeps! We have Grace Kilian Delaney stopping by today with her new release Waking Oisin, we have a great excerpt and a brilliant $10 NineStar GC giveaway, so check out the post and enter the giveaway! ❤ ~Pixie~
Waking Oisin
Grace Kilian Delaney
Oisin Harrison blames his fiancée's distrust for ruining their relationship. He blames his father for pushing him into law school. But more than all that, he blames himself for letting other people's expectations stop him from going after his dream. But dressing in drag with his best friend is the one thing Oisin refuses to compromise.
As Sin, he meets handsome Trenton Fisher, a man who appreciates Oisin's cross-dressing. Trent upends his world by doing things to his body no one ever has, making him want more than just one night together. That is, until Oisin discovers his hot hookup works at his father's law firm and is angling for a promotion.
To complicate things, Trent doesn't seem to recognize Oisin out of drag. Or does he?
Will Oisin and Trent's magnetic attraction grow to something deeper, or will it threaten to jeopardize their careers and futures?
Waking Oisin contains characters from Seven Minutes but can be read as a standalone.
Waking Oisin, Grace Kilian Delaney © 2018, All Rights Reserved
Chapter One
Oisin Harrison
As I walked out of my last class of the day, the wretched feeling grew larger in my stomach, and if it weren't for the cool January air, I might have puked. I'd failed my first project. My second semester at UNLV's law school was not going well, and I'd be lucky if I made it through the next four months without getting kicked out.
My father had been disappointed with my decision to attend our home state's college. Being the senior partner and founder of the most prestigious entertainment law firm, with locations in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, he'd had ridiculously high expectations for his youngest son. When he came home from LA on Friday, like he did every weekend, the news of my being on academic probation would be reported to him by one of his many acquaintances (aka babysitters) before I had an opportunity to plead my side, and a butt chewing would ensue.
I trudged back to my apartment where I found my best friend, Devon Thomson, in the parking lot getting out of his car. His makeup and short brown hair were flawless, and the stylish wrap coat he wore stopped just above his knees, leaving his calves exposed. The ease with which he expressed his femininity had always impressed me.
Devon picked up on my body language immediately. "You don't look too happy."
"I failed." My chest tightened. I'd never failed at anything before. I'd survived an undergrad degree in Biological Sciences and graduated summa cum laude, but I had no heart for law. Lately, I had no heart for anything; I was a zombie masquerading among the living.
Devon hugged me. "It's okay, Os. You'll do better next time—you always do."
That's why I loved my friend. He was always a hundred and ten percent supportive and affectionate. I missed our nights making love to each other as FWB and hanging out with him like we used to before he met his boyfriend. Whenever he talked about his lover, he glowed with happiness. I'd never seen him so happy, so in love, and it made any nostalgic desires I had seem trivial.
He released me and a wicked grin spread across his lips. "I got something that might cheer you up."
"I know that look, and it means trouble." I laughed, and it seemed like it'd been an eternity since that sound had come from me. "I'm in."
He clapped, his suede gloves dampening the sound. "We got invited to a record release party in Los Angeles next weekend, and I was thinking we could dress up like we used to? It's been too long since we had some fun together."
My heart swelled. Seemed I wasn't the only one missing our together time. I should stay and study. Be a good little student. But what Devon offered was too tempting. Screw it. I was going to LA. "Sounds perfect."
"Yay! I've got the best outfit for you. You're gonna look so hot, you'll be swatting off guys and girls."
"I don't know about that." Sometimes I thought being bisexual was a blessing, other times a curse. The curse had happened last semester when my fiancée determined my bisexuality was a cover for being gay and that one day I'd leave her for a man. I protested. She left anyway.
"I do," Devon affirmed, hooking his arm with mine and resting his head on my shoulder as we walked the few steps to my front door
"Who are you? Susie Sunshine?" I envied the confidence he had; it drew people to him. I couldn't remember the last time I felt safe or confident in my own skin.
He brought his hands to his face, framing it like a sun's rays. "Oh, you know me. Just a ray of light wherever I go."
"Will Stone be there?" Mentioning his boyfriend's name brightened his smile to megawatt proportions. I'd need sunglasses if he kept it up.
"Yep. And before you even ask—no, Matty will not be there."
Matty. Stone's bandmate, who'd brought me to his hotel room, kissed me, and then shoved me away. Last time I saw him, he apologized for leading me on. Alcohol made any hole look good until a hiccup of sobriety hit. Whatever. Matty had been my last attempt at getting laid, and that was so many months ago, I'd reinstated my virginity.
I let out a breath. "It won't matter if he's there, Dev. We're good. He's over it. I'm over it. It's not like he's the first person to reject me." That sounded more pathetic than I'd intended. Time to change the topic. "Do you mind if we stop by Paws for Love before getting dinner? There's someone I want to check in on."
"Wouldn't be one of those gorgeous redheaded veterinarians, would it?" Dev raised his perfectly arched eyebrows.
"Despite my crush on the twins, no. It's a female of the four-legged variety—much too hairy. I found a dog, a black lab, with a damaged leg."
Devon brushed my cheek with his gloved fingers. "You're so sweet, you know that?"
The familiar touch set up an ache in my heart, but not because I wanted to be in a relationship with him. Devon and I had been there, done that, and decided we were better off friends.
"Being sweet has done nothing for me."
"Ooh, you could get yourself a leather daddy, go all whips and chains. You know, be bad." Devon tapped a finger against his lips, his gaze shifted upward in thought.
"Seriously?" I struggled with the lock to the lemon-yellow front door, fighting back the disturbing image.
Devon lightly pushed me out of the way and turned the key twice before it gave. He plopped the key into my hand without acknowledging his triumph over the stubborn lock. "Might loosen you up some."
"Getting laid would loosen me up, never mind getting a leather daddy." I shouldered the door and went inside.
"I think we've found a goal for our LA trip." He rubbed his hands together.
I barked a laugh. "My dad always says it's good to have goals."
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Properties containing 5 or more rental housing units at the time of sale must provide notice to all tenants and the City that a transfer of ownership has occurred. Once notice is provided, a three-month "tenant notification period" begins. During the 90-day period, the new owner may be required to pay relocation benefits to a tenant if the owner issues a non-renewal without cause or non-renewal due to rescreening. The new owner could also be subject to paying relocation assistance if they increase the rent, re-screen existing residents, or implement a material change to the lease resulting in a tenant giving notice to terminate their lease.
Upon sale of a property, tenants in Roseville are no longer be subject to immediate changes to their rental terms that could impact their housing. Renters are given a minimum of 90 days grace time before changes can be made by a new owner. If the required grace time is not provided by the new owner, a tenant may be entitled to relocation assistance in the amount of three months' rent.
The City is concerned about the displacement of tenants residing in properties that have been sold to a new owner. The ordinance created a 90-day period of time in which residents can work with housing support resources and seek alternative housing if they are facing lease non-renewals without cause, unaffordable rent increases, new screening criteria requirements, or other material changes to their rental agreement that force a move.
The ordinance applies when a rental housing property with 5 or more rental units transfers ownership.
The new property owner must notify all tenants and the City of Roseville. The 90-day grace period begins upon receipt of the notice.
No, the ordinance would apply to all rental buildings with 5 or more rental units regardless of the amount of rent charged or the tenant's income.
No. Provided the qualifying event triggering relocation assistance occurs within the 90-day notice period, relocation fees must be paid in accordance with the ordinance.
No, the ordinance only applies if the ownership of the property transfers.
A new owner would be required to pay relocation assistance if during the three-month tenant notification period the new owner:
Relocation assistance may also be required if material changes to lease terms are implemented by new ownership in the first 30 days immediately following the end of three-month tenant notification period IF such changes were not disclosed in the notice.
If it is an actual transfer of ownership title that was not previously in place, it would be considered a sale and the ordinance would apply.
Yes, all rental properties with 5 or more rental units transferring ownership through the sale of the property would be required to comply with the ordinance. In the case of a foreclosed property, the three month notification period will begin when the redemption period has expired and the new owner has taken possession of the property.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will pay $1.2 billion to resolve a criminal probe into its handling of consumer complaints over safety issues, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Toyota admitted it misled American consumers by concealing and making deceptive statements about two safety issues, each of which caused a type of unintended acceleration, the Justice Department said.
The settlement resolves a four-year investigation by U.S. authorities.
Toyota faces hundreds of lawsuits over acceleration problems that gained public attention after the deaths of a California highway patrolman and his family, which were reportedly caused by the unintended acceleration of his Toyota-made Lexus.
The faulty acceleration prompted Toyota to recall millions of vehicles, beginning in 2009.
Last year, Toyota received approval on a settlement valued at $1.6 billion to resolve claims from Toyota owners that the value of their cars dropped after the problems came to light. It is also negotiating with hundreds of customers who said they had been injured.
"Toyota has cooperated with the U.S. attorney's office in this matter for more than four years," Toyota spokeswoman Carly Schaffner said on Wednesday. "During that time, we have made fundamental changes to become a more responsive and customer-focused organization, and we are committed to continued improvements."
(Reporting by David Ingram and Aruna Viswanatha in Washington; Nate Raymond and Ben Klayman in New York; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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Today is the 5 year anniversary of The Experiment. I posted some thoughts (a LOT of thoughts) about it here.
If you are a fan of The Experiment and would like to see it continue, please consider making a donation, buying something from the HE Store orSharksplode or checking out my Amazon Wishlist. I am quite literally 100% dependent on the kindness of strangers. It's a weird job, I know.
If you want a ZERO DOLLAR way to support HijiNKS ENSUE, pleasepost a few of your favorite HE comics to your site, blog or social media outlet of choice with a few words as to why you think your friends might enjoy reading HE as well.
I've really enjoyed writing and drawing this HBO story line. The whole series is archived here. I haven't actually cancelled the free HBO, and thus it remains my fickle mistress. Last night I watched Se7en (despite already owning it on Blu-Ray and having never actually watched my copy), and a few reruns of Veep (which is seriously the smartest/funniest TV writing since Arrested Development), but I also watched about half of some god damn documentary about Beyonce.
- Season Three of Game of Thrones Starts Tonight (Yay!), Will Have Less Tyrion Lannister (Boo!)
- This Game of Thrones Hip-Hop Song Will Be Stuck In Your Head For Days
- Game of Thrones Recap: Season Three Premiere Valar Dohaeris
- HBO's biggest problem with Thrones piracy is video quality? Really?
Beyonce isn't a great singer and she isn't an "artist." She's a good singer and anyone (ANYONE) who sang about as well as she does and looked about as attractive as he is perceived to be COULD (not WOULD) have everything she has. None of those traits are a crime. Pop music and celebrity culture in general often reward the middle. Mediocrity keeps you in the public eye much longer than one hit wonders and lights that burn too bright. But, if you're going to follow someone around with a camera crew for a year, it would be best if that someone were A) an interesting person, B) Not the C-estof C-Words to everyone that works for her and C) grounded in at least some fashion to a world where they haven't been rich and famous their entire lives. Watching her live her "fabulous" life was just boring as all miserable fuck. Beyonce isn't evil, but she oozes a sense of entitlement that (per my working theory) stems from being brought up in a wealthy family, then getting too famous and too rich at too young of an age to ever really relate to anyone who isn't a superstar millionaire. In my opinion, Gwyenth Paltrow also fits into this category. They are both good at their jobs, but I doubt either would make for a fun addition to movie or game night. LET ME OFF OF YOUR PROGRAMMING QUALITY ROLLER COASTER, HBO YOU CONTEMPTIBLE SHREW! VEX ME NO LONGER!
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Last week, the dwindling number of Americans who believe this administration owes them an honest explanation regarding the murders of ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi were likely expecting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might be forced to shed some light on the issue. What they got instead was a well-rehearsed theatrical presentation, complete with tears, anger and self-righteous indignation. When Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) contended that the administration had deliberately misled the American public, Clinton answered angrily. "With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," she said. "Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference–at this point–does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened, and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator." That is an abject lie. As CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson has so masterfully revealed, the real "job" of this administration is to stonewall this scandal into irrelevancy.
Towards that end, Attkisson has compiled a list of penetrating questions Obama administration officials have steadfastly refused to answer, since she began asking them as early as last October. To wit:
–What time was Ambassador's Stevens' body recovered, what are the known details surrounding his disappearance and death, including where he/his body was taken/found/transported and by whom?
–Who made the decision not to convene the Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) the night of the Benghazi attacks?
–We understand that convening the CSG[is] a protocol under Presidential directive ("NSPD-46"). Is that true? If not, please explain… if so, why was the protocol not followed? Is the Administration revising the applicable Presidential directive? If so, please explain.
–Who is the highest-ranking official who was aware of pre-911 security requests from US personnel in Libya?
–Who is/are the official(s) responsible for removing reference to al-Qaeda from the original CIA notes?
–Was the President aware of Gen. Petraeus' potential problems prior to Thurs., Nov. 8, 2012? What was the earliest that any White House official was aware?
–What is your response to the President stating that on Sept. 12, he called 911 a terrorist attack, in light of his CBS interview…on that date in which he answered that it was too early to know whether it was a terrorist attack?
–Is anyone being held accountable for having no resources close enough to reach this high-threat area within 8+ hours on Sept. 11, and has the Administration taken steps to have resources available sooner in case of emergency in the future?
–A Benghazi victim's family member stated that Mrs. Clinton told him she would find and arrest whoever made the anti-Islam video. Is this accurate? If so, what was Mrs. Clinton's understanding at the time of what would be the grounds for arrest?
–The Administration is reported to have asked that the anti-Islamist YouTube video initially blamed in Benghazi be removed from YouTube. If true, what is the Administration's view regarding other videos or future material that it may wish were not published, but are legal? What is the Administration's criteria in general for requesting removal of a YouTube or other Internet video?
Attkisson further highlights administration stonewalling, noting that a White House official indicated that none of the above questions will be answered, and that Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs) filed by CBS asking for answers from the State Department, CIA, FBI and Defense Department have been ignored. The same stonewalling applies to "repeated requests" for the "promised surveillance video from Benghazi," White House photos taken on the night of the attack and "an accounting" of President Obama's decisions and actions.
How does the administration get way with sweeping a monumental scandal like this one under the rug? Sunday night's "60 Minutes" on CBS offered a perfect example of the overt media corruption that makes it possible. Despite the fact that Steve Croft scored an interview with both President Obama and Hillary Clinton, presenting him with a perfect opportunity to press the issue, here is the totality of questioning regarding Benghazi:
Kroft: "You said during the hearings, I mean, you've accepted responsibility. You've accepted the very critical findings of Admiral Mullen and Ambassador Pickering. As the New York Times put it, you accepted responsibility, but not blame. Do you feel guilty in any way, in–at a personal level? Do you blame yourself that you didn't know or that you should have known?
Here's how both Clinton and Obama "answered" the question.
Clinton: "Well, Steve, obviously, I deeply regret what happened, as I've said many times. I knew Chris Stevens. I sent him there originally. It was a great personal loss to lose him and three other brave Americans. But I also have looked back and tried to figure out what we could do so that nobody, insofar is possible, would be in this position again. And as the Accountability Review Board pointed out, we did fix responsibility appropriately. And we're taking steps to implement that. But we also live in a dangerous world. And, you know, the people I'm proud to serve and work with in our diplomatic and development personnel ranks, they know it's a dangerous and risky world. We just have to do everything we can to try to make it as secure as possible for them."
Obama: "I think, you know, one of the things that humbles you as president, I'm sure Hillary feels the same way as secretary of state, is that you realize that all you can do every single day is to figure out a direction, make sure that you are working as hard as you can to put people in place where they can succeed, ask the right questions, shape the right strategy. But it's going to be a team that both succeeds and fails. And it's a process of constant improvement, because the world is big and it is chaotic. You know, I remember Bob Gates, you know, first thing he said to me, I think maybe first week or two that I was there and we were meeting in the Oval Office and he, obviously, been through seven presidents or something. And he says, 'Mr. President, one thing I can guarantee you is that at this moment, somewhere, somehow, somebody in the federal government is screwing up.' And, you know you're– and so part of what you're trying to do is to constantly improve systems and accountability and transparency to minimize those mistakes and ensure success. It is a dangerous world. And that's part of the reason why we have to continue to get better."
The so-called investigation by the Accountability Review Board took 13 weeks. It concluded that no one was responsible for the security breakdown that left four Americans dead, even as it completely ignored finding out why administration officials peddled the "Muslim video" excuse for the attacks. As for Obama callously characterizing this scandal as little more than one of an expected series of government "screw-ups," perhaps the only thing worse was the president's previous description of the murders as "bumps in the road."
An American Thinker column by Daren Jonescu explains how this stonewalling not only serves the administration's purposes regarding Benghazi, but the entire progressive agenda as well. After noting that Clinton could never have gotten away with saying, "what difference–at this point–does it make" in the days or even the first few weeks immediately following the attacks, Jonescu lays the progressive strategy bare:
"The key to the progressive 'ratchet,' as it is often, correctly, called, is that no step forward may ever be retraced. Each stage of degradation is to be rationalized after the fact, precisely by the means exemplified in Hillary Clinton's stark question…Was modern public education conceived as a tool for preventing the development of individualism and exceptional men, in favor of a morally and intellectually stunted 'workforce' of the compliant to support an entrenched oligarchy?…Would ObamaCare's individual mandate stand up to the judgment of the framers of the U.S. Constitution?…The key to the success of Western socialism's 'progress' is not the periodic lurches toward the abyss. It is the art of effective stalling. All of today's political and moral outrages will be rationalized with a shrug tomorrow: 'What difference–at this point–does it make?'"
Before the November election, the Obama administration was embroiled in four major scandals: Fast and Furious gunrunning to Mexico, the leaking of top-secret intelligence information most likely from the White House, a string of "green" company bankruptcies tied to political donors, and Benghazi. In each case, this administration, abetted by fellow Democrats and see-no-evil media apparatchiks, has moved further and further away from the point where each one occurred, to the place where, at "this point" in time, this cavalcade of overt corruption can be characterized as an unnecessary or unseemly effort to "rehash" old news. Furthermore, if anyone dares to bring up Benghazi when Mrs. Clinton makes her inevitable run for presidency in 2016, this unholy alliance of protectors will undoubtedly accuse her detractors of misogyny for daring to bring up something that–at this point–no longer makes any difference.
Four dead Americans and no remotely credible explanation as to who was responsible or why, ought to say otherwise. That it doesn't–and won't–is a testament to the level of corruption that the majority of the public and the media are willing to tolerate, as long as the progressive cause is served. For the American left, there will always be screw-ups and bumps along the road to utopia. When the ends justify the means…what difference do they make?
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The Bishop family has fallen on hard times. Forced to leave their large and comfortable house in Connecticut, they move to the small, provincial town of Ephesus, a fictional Piedmont town based on Chapel Hill. In the midst of the chaos of relocating and adjusting to life in the south, the lively Bishop daughters — Irene, Urie, and Loco Poco — are just entering adolescence. Their thoughts and observations enliven the novel, which is set amidst depression and war in the 1930s and 1940s. There is a small community named Ephesus in Davie County, but this novel is clearly set in a Piedmont college town. Entering Ephesus won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for the best work of fiction by a North Carolinian in 1972.
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Editor's note: This story was originally published on July 22, 2014. LeBron James' photographic memory originated ... many years before.
Playing video games with LeBron James is so annoying.
"When we were growing up we used to play this fighting game on the Sega Genesis called Shaq Fu," says Brandon Weems, James' lifelong friend. "LeBron was the only one who had memorized all the moves and so he'd win every time. We all thought he definitely was cheating."
Memorizing all the manipulations with the joystick and the A, B and C buttons back in the days before it could be Googled -- the Inferno Kick was down, toward the player, with the C button pressed, but only with the "Shaq" character, mind you -- is one thing. When James started adding the pathological layers as he got older, that's when he really started messing with his friends.
"When you play Madden with him now you have to be careful which teams you take, because he will know what your game plans were in the past when you've played with him and he'll pick the opposing team knowing what plays you want to run," says Weems, now an assistant basketball coach at Oakland University.
"You better save your favorite play, too, because he'll remember what you ran before in situations and be ready for it. Your only hope is to save it until the end and try to surprise him with it."
It's a midgame timeout during a 2013-14 regular-season game at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, long before James decided to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the national television broadcast means it's longer than usual.
Erik Spoelstra is sitting in front of his Heat players on the bench as he traces a play on his dry-erase board with a fading blue marker. The players -- Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Ray Allen and Udonis Haslem -- are draped in towels, holding cups of water, waiting for Spoelstra to present his play. James is quiet, holding clippers, working on cleaning up the nails on his left hand.
Only he's not.
"No," James says to Spoelstra, reaching his hand out and touching the board on Spoelstra's lap, pointing to something. "He has to be here, like this." James traces his finger along the surface. He has been in this situation before against the Pacers. The Heat have tried this play. He has an instant alteration in mind. James is animated now, having forgotten his nails, as he presents his case for why this way will work.
I started to realize how important [my memory] could be years later, probably when I was in high school. And then, eventually, I realized that it can get me into trouble.
"- LeBron James
Spoelstra grabs his eraser.
Another huddle now, earlier in the season, and the Heat are having troubling dealing with pick-and-roll coverage. A candid discussion has broken out among players and coaches about what changes to make in the middle of the game.
"Let's do it this way," James tells his teammates, "like we did in Game 3 against Dallas."
The change is made. Later, Spoelstra will find himself reviewing the moment, searching his memories, and he'll realize the Heat did indeed play that way against Dallas. "I was like, c'mon, that was from a game three years ago," Spoelstra says, before raising his fingers and making a crisp snap. "And he recalled it just like that."
It's the middle of February now, in a game against the Golden State Warriors, and James is walking the ball down the floor with the seconds running out. The Heat are down two points and he's dribbling the final nine seconds off the clock with ace defender Andre Iguodala guarding him. James fakes a drive, then steps back and to his left in time to fire in a game-winning 3-pointer over Iguodala's fingers with 0.1 seconds left.
In the jovial postgame locker room, it's pointed out to James by a reporter that almost exactly five years earlier, he'd won a game with a jumper at Oracle Arena at the buzzer from virtually the same exact spot at the same basket.
"Not really," James says in response. "That one was probably about six feet closer to the baseline and inside the 3-point arc. It was over Ronny Turiaf, I stepped back on him but I crossed him over first and got him on his heels. I'm sure of it. It was down the sideline a few feet. It was a side out-of-bounds play; this one we brought up."
Within moments, James is watching that very 2009 highlight on a cell phone while icing his aching feet. And indeed, there it is -- the crossover step-back on Turiaf from, oh, about six feet to the left of the shot he'd just hit over Iguodala. Right along the sideline inside the 3-point line. A side out-of-bounds play. Just like he said.
He is 6-foot-8 or so, and 260 pounds or so. He has striking athleticism even while in a crowd of some of the greatest athletes on the planet. He has a strong work ethic that manifests itself in expansive summer programs that are at the heart of the steady development of his game over the years. He is ambidextrous, playing right-handed but doing most other things in his life left-handed, a trait that has helped him become one of the great scorers in league history. He has an expansive interest in the history of the game, which he uses both as a teaching resource and to generate motivation in a time where he has very few true contemporaries.
There is all of that. But there is also one other quality, one that James himself has somehow managed to keep hidden for the past decade, despite our seemingly insatiable desire to uncover -- and wring dry -- most everything about the man: the memory. It is perhaps one of James' greatest gifts. And while those who watch James are typically impressed with how he uses his speed and skill to generate highlight plays, those who know James or spend a lot of time with him are more frequently blown away by the almost curious power of his mind.
The memory. It can inform him. It can engage him. It can turn on him. It can attack him. It can, he says, hinder him in ways that are far harder to treat than a sprained ankle. And learning to control it has been a fight as great as any other in his career.
"When I was a kid my coaches started to say to me that I remembered things that happened in games from a few tournaments back -- and that surprised them," James says. "I started to realize how important that could be years later, probably when I was in high school. And then, eventually, I realized that it can get me into trouble."
It's 2012, and James is asked after a game to name the most memorable dunks in his career. Listing them quickly off the top of his head -- his slam on poor Damon Jones, or when he leaped over the top of John Lucas III -- is not all that impressive. The Rolling Stones will never forget the words and chords to "Gimme Shelter." Most players remember their greatest hits. What's remarkable is everything else: His ability, that day, to recall who was guarding the player who threw him an alley-oop pass from across the floor (James' favorite alley-oop came on a pass from Daniel Gibson over the arms of Antonio Daniels, he says). Or how an opponent might have gotten away with a hand-check foul on the play before a dunk four years earlier (these often involve Kevin Garnett).
It's when he remembers other stuff, like stuff he shouldn't even know, where you're like, "What?!?"
"-- Chris Bosh
"Sometimes when we come into our morning meetings on game days NBA TV will be on and there will be some classic game on," Heat guard Mario Chalmers says. "LeBron will take one look at it and know what game it is. He'll be like, 'Oh, that's Game 2 of the '97 Finals,' before they even put it on the screen."
Consider: After the University of Connecticut won the national championship in April, James made a point to compliment Huskies coach and former teammate Kevin Ollie on the accomplishment. "He still looks the same in a suit on the sideline coaching for the Huskies as he did for us wearing No. 12," James said.
Ollie played with James for one season: his rookie year in 2003-04 in Cleveland. He played for 13 teams in his career and wore seven different numbers. And yes, a review of the historical record shows, Ollie did indeed wear No. 12 for the Cavs.
"Look, we're all professional basketball players, so when LeBron remembers something from a basketball game, even if it's from a few years ago, it doesn't exactly blow me away," Bosh says. "But it's when he remembers other stuff, like stuff he shouldn't even know, where you're like, 'What?!' We'll be watching a football game and he'll be like, 'Yeah, that cornerback was taken in the fourth round of the 2008 draft from Central Florida,' or something. And I'll be like, 'How do you know that?' And he'll be like, 'I can't help it.'"
So what does it mean? What it seems to suggest -- at least the part of it that James will discuss -- is that if you give up the baseline to James on a drive in November 2011 and he's playing against you in March 2013, the Heat small forward will remember it. It means that if you tried to change your pick-and-roll coverage in the middle of the fourth quarter of the 2008 playoffs, he'll be ready for you to try it again in 2014, even if you're coaching a different team. It also means that if you had a good game the last time you played against Milwaukee because James got you a few good looks in the first quarter, the next time you play the Bucks you can count on James looking for you early in the game. Because, you know, the memory never forgets.
"I can usually remember plays in situations a couple of years back -- quite a few years back sometimes," James says. "I'm able to calibrate them throughout a game to the situation I'm in, to know who has it going on our team, what position to put him in.
"I'm lucky to have a photographic memory," he will add, "and to have learned how to work with it."
If there's one thing that can be said about the study of the human brain -- and especially the field of memory -- it's that even today, it's notable less for what is known than for how much is not known. The workings of our head-sponges remain, for the most part, a mystery. But if there are areas of consensus in the field of neurology, one of them is that the notion of "photographic memory," in which a person can take mental snapshots and recall every detail at a later time, has never been proved to exist.
This is not to say that James is lying when he describes his total recall. The evidence appears strong that his memory banks are loaded up like Fort Knox. Rather, what James might be describing appears more likely to be a version of "eidetic memory," which is, essentially, the medical term for crazy, crazy freakish recall. And although eidetic memory appears to take many forms -- some claim to be able to "read" pages in their mind, others to "replay" their memories as if pressing play on streaming video -- those who claim the ability often share one trait: They are as cursed by it as they are blessed by it.
When an entire life is perpetually available, that life exists, in a sense, forever in present tense. And sifting through a perpetual and onrushing flood of memories? That's apparently less fun than it sounds.
It's hard, after all, to erase bad memories when you can't erase any of them at all.
It's June 2013, and James is riding back to the team hotel after Game 3 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio, with the Spurs having crushed the Heat by 36 points to take a 2-1 series lead. James was 7-of-21 shooting this night and in the midst of a poor Finals performance. Over the first three games, he was shooting just 38 percent and averaging 16.6 points, stunningly low numbers after what has been inarguably the finest season of his career. On the bus, he turns and confides to a friend.
At times his memory can be a bad thing, because he remembers his failures, too.
"- Erik Spoelstra
"I'm thinking too much," James says, "about 2007."
It's 2007, and James has been humbled by the Spurs in a four-game sweep in the Finals. Coach Gregg Popovich has not respected the ability of the Cavs' 23-year-old phenom to shoot, no matter what James had done to the Pistons in the Eastern Conference finals the week before. So Popovich backs his defense off, ordering his players to encircle the paint and make James prove he can execute from the outside.
He cannot. James shoots a miserable 36 percent in the series. His shaky jumper is unable to deliver under pressure. It's a crushing series for James, who looks like an undergrad who's arrived at a final exam for which he's forgotten to study. At the conclusion of Game 4, with the wound still fresh, James swears he will radically adjust his level of focus and his attention to detail.
And so he does. Over the course of the next six years, James becomes a vastly better shooter, statistically one of the finest in the game, before adding layers to his post game in the following years, racking up three more visits to the Finals, four Most Valuable Player trophies and a title ...
And still it is, in 2013, with Popovich returning to the exact same game plan from six years prior, that James is finding he isn't just battling the strategy, but rather the baggage of those long-ago missed jumpers. The memory does not forget. James is by now a completely different player, more mature, more polished and confident. But as he looks down at that Spurs defensive set, his head can't help it, the hard drive producing the files it has already downloaded without asking for permission first. The memory replays a string of prior decisions, all leading to a series of negative outcomes, one atop the other, locking him in stasis when he needs action, most of all.
"At times his memory can be a bad thing," Spoelstra said. "Because he remembers his failures, too."
Consider what you know of the 2011 NBA Finals. And now consider it, instead, like this: In what will likely be remembered as the low point of his career, James is miserable for several games against the Dallas Mavericks -- including a vitally important Game 4 collapse when he somehow scores just eight points in 46 minutes. At times during that game it appears as if James is in a trance.
"What is he thinking?" the basketball world wonders.
James -- with two titles and counting, and four straight trips to the Finals -- can admit today what he's thinking in 2011: He's thinking of everything. Everything good, and everything bad. In 2011, he isn't just playing against the Mavs; he's also battling the demons of a year earlier, when he failed in a series against the Boston Celtics as the pressure of the moment beat him down. It's Game 5 of the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinals, and it is, to this point, perhaps the most incomprehensible game of James' career. His performance is so lockjawed, so devoid of rhythm, the world crafts its own narrative, buying into unfounded and ridiculous rumors because they seem more plausible than his performance.
James, though, never fully deals with any of that. Instead, he changes teams. Changes cities. Changes coaches. Changes owners. Changes teammates. Changes uniforms. Changes climate. Wipe the slate clean, and maybe, for once, he can leave the past behind.
Instead, when it all happens again a year later, James' recall turns against him, yet again, like an awful sequel to an awful original movie -- everything happening out of James' control, the awful computer in his head winning the inner monologue.
"There are a lot of things that go through my mind during a game," James says. "Sometimes I cloud my mind too much. I get to thinking about the game too much instead of just playing."
It's 2014, and James is atop the game -- a triumph a decade in the making, each letdown having given way to incremental growth. But perhaps the most overlooked battle in his personal war has been the campaign to control his thoughts and corresponding fears.
In 2011, after weeks of residing in a self-constructed bunker after the loss to Dallas, James realizes that he must close off parts of his brain to make it happen, play some tricks on his mind. Addition by distraction. And in 2012, when the playoffs come again, he shuts off his phone, stops watching TV, stops reading the Internet. He starts reading novels like "The Hunger Games," his free time focused on Katniss Everdeen instead of the fallout and consequences of his many past mistakes.
It's an understood routine by now, so understood that there's even an app for that -- one that lets fans get their James social media fix while he's in his postseason unplugged mode. His reading material is passed on in reporters' notes columns without fanfare. (His most recent read, for those hosting LeBron James Book Clubs, is "The Meaning of Life," by Bradley Trevor Greive.)
That's the challenge, because you play so many different situations in your head throughout the game that sometimes it could [be hard] getting into what's really important.
"- LeBron James
All of which has made it easy to take for granted -- and to minimize the condition that lingers behind the prescription. In fact, one of the greatest moves in James' career might well have been his realization last year that he was letting the flood of images and bad feelings from 2007 grip him in 2013. The memory was invading. But James was not about to give up ground he had already seized, and he grasped that in time to save it.
"That's the challenge," James says, "because you play so many different situations in your head throughout the game that sometimes it could [be hard] getting into what's really important."
And so, in 2013, James fights back -- calling on other files, more positive ones. He recovers for a dominating back half of the Finals to beat the Spurs, scoring 32 points in Game 6 and a brilliant 37 in Game 7, when he buries fearless jump shots despite immense pressure to deliver. Had Ray Allen not hit the unlikeliest of 3-pointers in Game 6, of course, the narrative might have turned on James yet again. Still, the way James sees it, the memory is now a weapon that, like his others, has only grown more potent -- and less problematic.
"It's allowed me to see things before they happen, put guys in position, kind of read my teammates, knowing who is out of rhythm, who is in rhythm, knowing the score, the time, who has it going on the other end, knowing their likes and dislikes and being able to calibrate all that into a game situation," James says. "That's very challenging, but it comes natural. It can help your team out."
It is quite an experience to watch a game along with James. He will occasionally call out plays another team is about to run, yelling, "Watch the back door," just before Chris Paul fires a strike to Blake Griffin for a dunk. Aided by a matrix of television screens at his home, James will often watch multiple games at once, and his study of the league can make him seem like a soothsayer. What is the New Orleans Pelicans' pet play out of timeouts? Where does DeMar DeRozan like to get the ball late in the shot clock? James has seen it. He knows it. And he will be ready when his mind needs it.


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Called to my daughter's parent teacher conference in her elementary school , the teacher took out my son's folder and began to compare her work to his. "Put that away" I told her, "We're here to talk about my daughter".
My sister was a bit of a rebel in college. My first year at OCU, I was called to the Dean's office for a conference. As soon as I sat down the Dean pulled out my folder and inside the front cover in big black letters it read "Elenore's sister!"
Forget it when my sister and I were compared to our brother. Let me just say that we have always called him Saint Jim and neither of us can hold a candle to his reputation.
My siblings and I seem connected at times by ESP. Other times I have to wonder if we were all three raised by the same parents. Setting all differences aside, we share compassion and love and that is what matters.
We also each share having married the perfect mate because none of the three of us would be worth a hoot without our practical, loving spouses who anchor us and keep us humble. Ron defines me best by saying I was running amok until he found me.


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He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, lives in Brooklyn, NY, and has programmed at a variety of venues throughout the NYC area.
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Transit police chief: Calif. officer slaying was first on-duty officer death in BART history
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — A Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer accidentally shot and killed a fellow officer Tuesday in the first on-duty fatality in the department's 40-year history, authorities said.
The officers were conducting a search at a home in the East Bay city of Dublin when the shooting occurred just after 1 p.m. BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said the officers were following up on a crime that was committed on BART property.
The officer who was shot was transported to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries.
"The entire BART organization is deeply saddened by this tragic event, and we ask the public to keep the officer's family in its thoughts and prayers," Rainey and BART General Manager Grace Crunican said in a joint statement.
They added the officers' identity and other details are being withheld at this time.
Rainey noted the killing was the first death of an officer in the line of duty in the BART Police Department's history. Both Rainey and Crunican have visited with the deceased officer's family to provide condolences and offer support.
The Dublin Police Department, which contracts with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, has taken over the investigation.


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Sixteen people have died of Ebola in Sierra Leone, a figure that has doubled in the last week, Ministry of Health figures showed.
Authorities will also mount health checkpoints in the eastern Kailahun district and mandated that all deaths there be reported before burial. Anyone who dies of the virus must be buried under the supervision of health personnel, the Information Ministry said.
The decision to close district schools came after a nine-year-old whose parents died of Ebola tested positive for the virus, Deputy Minister of Information Theo Nicol told Reuters.
"There is more contacts between school-going kids than adults hence the closure of schools in the most affected district," he said. The ban exempted churches and mosques but religious leaders should urge anyone with a fever to go to a clinic, he said.
Local groups welcomed the measures given public concern over the virus, which can be transmitted by touching victims or their body fluids.
The virus initially causes a raging fever, headaches, muscle pain and conjunctivitis, before moving to severe phases that bring on vomiting, diarrhoea and internal and external bleeding.
Some 328 cases and 208 deaths are linked to Ebola in Guinea, according to the World Health Organization, making the outbreak one of the deadliest for years.
More than half of new deaths in Guinea were in the southern region of Gueckedou, epicenter of the outbreak which began in February, near the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders. The town is known for its weekly market which attracts traders from neighboring countries.


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This article is the second in a series on Internet Marketing for Beginners. In the first article, I discussed setting a proper online goal. A website should either generate sales, leads, or support for an existing customer base. This article will focus on the first goal: Generating Sales.
Some of you may think ALL websites should generate sales. However, in my opinion, only a few should consider that their goal. When I say, "generate sales," I define that phrase as allowing someone to put a product in a "shopping cart" and paying for it online. The merchant has only to ship it at that point.
The majority of you don't need a shopping cart. Basically, those who sell high-priced items or services rarely need a shopping cart. Examples would include realtors, repairmen, consultants, etc.
If, however, you do have a product people would buy online, keep reading. A site that generates sales must have some key ingredients to succeed.
First, decide WHAT you want to sell. Not all of your products may be appropriate to sell online. I tell customers to start with their top ten items that meet these two requirements:
1. Have the highest margin (you make the most money on them)
2. Easy to ship
Second, determine if you can compete price-wise online. If you make a custom product, that may not be a consideration. But, if you have many competitors, keep in mind that the average consumer views price as the only online discriminator in most cases. You might have better customer service, higher quality, and faster delivery. However, unless you are able to communicate those differences to potential buyers, they are more than likely going to view you as one of many "apples" in the competitive basket.
Finally, make sure you TRULY want to sell online. The process sounds like an easy road to riches. After all, you are extending your potential sales territory from a few miles to worldwide. However, running an online business takes a lot of work. If done right, you will be working with it daily. While an online store facilitates customers purchasing products from you 24/7, it will not handle complaints, billing questions, or even pack the products into boxes for shipping. That is YOUR job.
In future articles, I will cover how to choose a shopping cart vendor, increasing sales through social media, and how to effectively bundle products. But, next week, I jump into the SECOND goal of Internet Marketing:
Generating Leads.
I welcome your comments below!
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