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Duncan Riley Misses the Point of FriendFeed — Yesterday, it could be said that FriendFeed "tipped", as TechMeme's Gabe Rivera put it. Dozens of visible FriendFeed users reported getting an unprecedented swarm of subscriptions by new friends, and the site gained incredible exposure via comments …
Carlacthompson / The Guidewire: Constructive Criticism — The blog world is atwitter …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News: FriendFeed gets interesting
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FriendFeed Appeals to the A-List and the Entire Alphabet-List
FriendFeed Appeals to the A-List and the Entire Alphabet-List
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Adam / Reuters/Second Life:
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Evansmom Goodspeed / VTOR: Philip Linden/Rosedale Steps Aside as CEO
Joey Seiler / Virtual Worlds News: Rosedale to Resign as CEO of Linden Lab
Philip Linden / Official Second Life Blog:
Changing my Job — We've decided to search for a new CEO …
Changing my Job — We've decided to search for a new CEO …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Philip Rosedale to step down as Linden Lab CEO
Tateru Nino / Massively: Philip Rosedale stepping down as Linden Lab CEO
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq: Second Life CEO stepping down, remaining active in development
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Second Life's Second Phase
Second Life's Second Phase
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Wolfgang Gruener / TGDaily.com: Rosedale to step down as Linden Lab CEO
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
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Microsoft Pitches Merger Vision To Yahoo at Meeting — Senior executives from Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. met Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover offer for the Internet company, according to people familiar with the matter. — The meeting, the first since Microsoft …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Yahoo Finally Deigns to Meet With Microsoft
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog: Yahoo! Goes on a Date with Microsoft
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: WSJ: Microsoft and Yahoo execs talked Monday
Henry Blodget / Tech Ticker: Breakthrough: Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Meet
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
Could Yahoo's 'openness' be another anti-Microsoft poison pill?
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John Musser / ProgrammableWeb: Yahoo Search and the Semantic Web
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Google Exec: Android Will Outsell iPhone — Google has not released sales predictions for devices based on its mobile operating system Android. But that doesn't stop Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms at the search giant, from being confident.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner: Behind Google's FUD campaign against Apple
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone developer rejection letter mass mailing
iPhone developer rejection letter mass mailing
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For once, we should applaud Verizon
For once, we should applaud Verizon
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Verizon touts smart P2P software
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Blu-ray Blues — Now that HD DVD is dead and Sony's Blu-ray has apparently won the HD media war, why aren't we seeing Blu-ray drives available as a factory option, at least, for Macintosh computers? I think Steve Jobs is deliberately holding back in a high-stakes gamble for control of HD video distribution.
Analyst: Apple DVR by gen 3, Blu-ray soon
Analyst: Apple DVR by gen 3, Blu-ray soon
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Comscore: YouTube dominance grows — As big media companies and start-ups alike try to make headway in the crowded online video market, YouTube's dominance is still growing. — Google (which owns YouTube) accounted for 34.3 percent of the online videos watched in January, up 1.7 percent from December, according to ComScore.
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YouTube.com Accounted for 1 Out of Every 3 U.S. Online Videos Viewed in January
YouTube.com Accounted for 1 Out of Every 3 U.S. Online Videos Viewed in January
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Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media: Check Out The 2007 Share Shift
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Microsoft Picks Up Another Ad Startup: Rapt
Microsoft Picks Up Another Ad Startup: Rapt
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Letter Calls on Obama to Nominate First Female for Chairman's Seat
WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats are circulating a letter urging President Barack Obama to appoint Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors vice chairman, to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the central bank.
The letter has been signed by roughly a third of the 54 Democratic and allied senators, Senate aides said. While the full list of signatories couldn't be learned, it appeared largely to represent the liberal wing of the Democratic caucus....

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Morel Mushroom Pan Sauce
The base for the sauce can be prepared two days ahead; the pan juices from the Roasted Double Rack of Pork are added to it before serving.
- 2 ounces dried whole morel mushrooms (about 4 cups)
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 shallot, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons brandy
- 2 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 1 cup whipping cream
- Reserved pork roasting pan with juices
- 1 cup slightly sweet Sherry (such as Dry Sack)
- Combine morels and 2 cups boiling water in 8x8x2-inch glass dish. Let soak until mushrooms soften, stirring occasionally, at least 1 hour and up to 3 hours. Using slotted spoon, transfer mushrooms to small bowl; reserve soaking liquid. Melt butter in large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add shallot and sauté 3 minutes. Add brandy and shake pan until brandy has almost evaporated, about 1 minute. Add chicken broth and cream. Slowly pour in mushroom soaking liquid, leaving any sediment behind in bowl. Add mushrooms. Bring sauce to boil. Reduce heat to medium and boil gently until sauce thickens enough to coat spoon, about 30 minutes.
- (Mushroom base can be made 2 days ahead. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and keep refrigerated.)
- Pour all pan juices from roasting pan into small bowl. Spoon off fat from top; pour juices into mushroom base in saucepan. Place roasting pan over 2 burners set at medium heat. Pour in Sherry. Boil 1 minute, scraping up browned bits; pour into mushroom base. Boil sauce until reduced to 3 cups, about 8 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl. Serve with pork.
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Wine and Food in the Loire Valley: The Garden is Open
Like many of the top wine regions in Europe, the 2005 vintage has worked its magic on the wines of the Loire Valley, and there are more outstanding vinous choices currently available from this bucolic region than has been the case for a generation. The Loire Valley is known as the "Garden of France," as much of what abounds in the overflowing markets of Paris originates in this region. The Loire is home to some of the most beautiful and distinctive wines to be found, with many pairing superbly with a wide variety of cuisine. This is particularly true today, when the culinary world's focus has turned to cooking lighter and fresher fare. It is particularly in this vein that the lovely wines of the Loire Valley excel.
The Loire valley is a long and varied area for wine, stretching some 200 miles as a crow flies west from Muscadet country around Nantes to Pouilly-sur-Loire in the east, 40 miles upstream from the city of Orléans. There is a wide variety of wine styles in the Loire, with the best-known white being the bone-dry and minerally whites of Muscadet, the equally dry and ageworthy chenin blancs of Savennières, the snappy sauvignon blancs of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, and the generally sweeter white wines (chenin blancs) of the central Loire. In addition, the lovely chalky vineyards of Vouvray and Montlouis that surround the beautiful city of Tours provide both dry and sweet wines from chenin blanc, as well as some truly outstanding sparkling wines. There are also a plethora of white wines gems to be found amongst the less well-known appellations such as Menetou-Salon, Cheverny, Reuilly, and Quincy, all of which are generally sauvignon blanc-based.
The Loire also boasts some of the most beautiful and complex red wines to be found in France. The majority of these are made primarily from cabernet franc, which generally plays second fiddle in Bordeaux to cabernet sauvignon and merlot, but here cabernet franc is king. Wines such as Chinon, Bourgueil (pronounced bore-goy), and Saumur-Champigny may not be household names to many wine lovers outside the region and Parisian bistros (where Loire wines are ragingly popular), but they are beautiful reds that deserve a place in any wine lovers' universe. Stylistically the reds of the region represent a synthesis of Bordeaux and Burgundy, as their aromatics and flavor spectrums recall fine Bordeaux, but which are less tannic and rely on their acidities to age in much the same way as red Burgundy. The red wines of the Loire Valley can age very well indeed, gaining depth and complexity with bottle age, and yet are often irresistible when drunk young.
The wines of the Loire marry beautifully with the cuisine of the region, and are harmonious complements to America's modern cuisine as well. Muscadet, whose vineyards lie a (long) stone's throw from the Atlantic, are a brilliant match with shellfish of any kind, and with bottle age can reach out and carry off poultry and rabbit dishes with ease. Look in particular for two of the best domaines: Marc Ollivier and Luneau-Papin. If sauvignon blanc is your thing, then one can do no better than Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé, as this grape excels in these flinty and chalky soils. These wines marry brilliantly with vegetable dishes and seafood of any kind, and often Loire chefs will serve fish with a wide array of fresh vegetable-based sauces or purées to push the marriage with sauvignon blanc to new heights. The other world class pairing for these glorious wines is goat cheese, and particularly the fabulous "Crottin de Chavignol" (from one of the top villages in the Sancerre appellation), which many will argue is the world's greatest chevre.
In Pouilly-Fumé, the undisputed king is Didier Dageneau. In the larger appellation of Sancerre, there are dozens of options for producers making world-class whites in the same league, and many can offer a bit better value than Monsieur Dageneau. Some of my favorites including Edmond Vatan, François Cotat, Hippolyte Reverdy, François Crochet, Thomas-Labaille, Pascal Cotat, and Lucien Crochet. While Sancerre is best known for its whites, there are also beautiful rosés and a small amount of red wine made from pinot noir here as well.
Chenin blanc can offer a stunning array of options at the table as well, as it can come bone-dry (Sec), off-dry (Demi-Sec), or made in a sweeter style (Moelleux), and it also makes lovely sparkling wine. Chenin is wonderful when finished dry with a wide array of dishes, from seafood to poultry, and with a bit of residual sweetness is magical with pâtés, foie gras, and one of the regional specialties, pork rillette. Interestingly, semi-dry chenin can almost play the role of a red wine at the table. While it may not be able to carry red meat dishes, it is terrific with rabbit, game birds, chicken, and turkey. Vouvrays are the best known Loire wines made from chenin (ranging from dry to sweet), but do not overlook neighboring Montlouis (for a similar panoply in a slightly more understated style). Amongst my favorites are Domaines Huet, Clos Naudin, Pinon, Champalou for Vouvray, and François Chidaine for both Montlouis and Vouvray.
With Loire Valley red wines, Chinon is undoubtedly the best known (thanks to the proselytizing of Rabelais several centuries ago), and is the most tannicly structured of these cabernet franc-based wines. Domaine Charles Joguet is the best known estate here (and now fully back on form after a short slump in the mid-to-late '90s), but Bernard Baudry and Philippe Alliet are also brilliant producers. Bourgueil tends to be more transparent and accessible when young, though top bottlings can certainly cellar for fifteen years. I particularly love the Bourgueil from Pierre and Catherine Breton. Saumur-Champigny is another superb red, with the wines perhaps more red fruity and Burgundian in style than either Bourgueil or Chinon. The Foucault brothers brilliant Clos Rougeard is the gold standard in Saumur-Champigny, and I am also a huge fan of the wines from Domaine Filliatreau.
Keep in mind that the brilliance of the 2005 vintage for red wines in the Loire has produced tannic and powerful examples of each appellation, and the glories of this vintage will only be realized after several years of cellaring. Look more for 1997s, 2002s, 2004s and the soon to be released 2006s for immediate pleasure.


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We were lucky and excited to collaborate on our crossword doodle with Merl Reagle, one of the best and most well-known crossword constructors working today. Merl worked with Google engineer/crossword enthusiast, Tom Tabanao, to craft our puzzle grid and write all the clues. Merl's knowledge of the puzzle world—and perspective on crosswords in particular—is considerable. We thoroughly enjoyed the wit and humor he brought to the whole endeavor. Here are Merl's thoughts on the history of the crossword puzzle. -Ed.
First, it was a huge honor to be asked to do this. Many, many thanks to Tom Tabanao for pulling me in and shepherding the project through.
Second, it was a great opportunity to bring Arthur Wynne's name into the public spotlight. He never made any money off the crossword, but he made tens of millions of puzzle fans around the world very happy. The fact that the first word across in the first-ever crossword was FUN is very appropriate, too. Crossword puzzles are indeed supposed to be fun—brainy fun, but fun nonetheless. The first puzzle also contained the word DOH, clued as "fiber of the gomuti […]


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The End of AUPPL (sort of, but not really)
This tiny little corner of the interwebs: AUPPL.com will be shutting its doors soon. I've been asked and accepted the opportunity to write full time for SBNation's newest Auburn website: CollegeAndMagnolia.com so from here on all of my webposting will be handled over there.
I've truly enjoyed having my own little personal corner of the internet that some people enjoyed since February of 2009. Having over 100,000 pageviews is something I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams. People (surprisingly to me) enjoyed what I was writing. I enjoyed writing it. That's why I'm still going to write but now it will be in a location where more people can see it and interact with it and ultimately (and hopefully) learn more about Auburn baseball.
Why the change? Well, honestly, blogging for SBNation will allow me better interaction and a broader audience. That broader audience will make more dedicated to blogging on a consistent basis.
So what happens to this domain? Where will AUPPL.com go? I'm not sure. My brother purchased this domain as a Christmas present to me a couple of years ago and ultimately it will be his choice. I suppose I can keep this up and running (as low maintenance as it is) and have it serve as a bit of an archive for my old stuff.
I have a few thank yous to get out of the way. First, thanks to Jerry Hinnen, formerly of the Joe Cribbs Carwash, who actually kickstarted the idea of this blog. He was looking for someone to cover Auburn baseball and I jumped at the chance. I haven't looked back since. Thanks to my friends, the ones who know me as KK or Cheese or just Kevin and who read the blog and have shared their personal enjoyment of it with me. Hearing your personal friends say, "Hey, I really like what you're doing over here." means more than you can imagine. Finally, thank you for reading. It's hearing feedback from fans, from player's families, and from anyone that made me realize that this was something that was actually worthwhile and needed.
Now what happens? Well it's pretty simple. Just bookmark CollegeAndMagnolia.com and you'll still get everything you would have gotten over here. Change your RSS Feeds as well. I'll have a little tab where you can easily find my stuff. Follow me on Twitter and you can still email me: email@example.com
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Trust Issues -- caused by Bullying as a child
I have an article below about the effects of bullying to you -- I suffer from trust issues. Anyone else have any issues caused by bullying.
By: Alice Langholt
Verbal bullying is as damaging to the psychological health of a child as physical bullying is to physical health. Long term effects can range from self-esteem issues to depression and even homicidal or suicidal thoughts. It's important for parents to help their children overcome the damage from psychological bullying to enable them to avoid these long term effects. Adults who have endured bullying as a child have reported having trouble holding a job, maintaining or starting relationships and taking adequate care of themselves. A damaged self esteem is the root cause of all of these problems.
Verbal Bullying Defined
Verbal bullying is characterized by repeated harassment, degrading put-downs, exclusion and humiliation, in any combination. The repetition causes the damage to be deeply internalized until the victim believes that he/she is not good enough, unworthy of friendship and love and incapable of success. The inner monologue of the victim repeats the harmful words, reinforcing the damage.
Repairing the Damage
Know that recovery is a process. Even after the bullying has stopped, the damage remains. The healing powers of time and talking to your child may not be enough, but it is an important start.
Children need to know their parents are supportive and empathetic, not blaming them or thinking that they are weak or deserving of the punishment they suffered from the bully. Parents should do what they can to show love, to provide positive and appropriate praise and to give opportunities for success to their child. The child needs to feel safe, capable and loved, both at home and at school. Schools must take an active role to prevent bullying. Sometimes parents need to get involved, informing teachers and school administrators to remove the bully from the school or to separate a child from a bully.
Encourage your child to have social opportunities in a safe setting with good friends. Don't force it. If your child is reluctant, try some role playing to make her feel empowered to return to social situations without anxiety. If your child remains withdrawn, seek the help of a psychologist to help put the harassment in a proper perspective and allow your child to rebuild his self esteem.
Get help. A child therapist is an expert at helping children recover their self worth. If your child was ill you would take her to the doctor. For emotional trouble, a child therapist is needed. As the parent, your support is absolutely essential to your child's recovery. Your child will thank you by becoming a successful and well-adjusted adult.
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maintaining or starting relationships -- it's very hard to have any kind of relationship when you have a problem with trust issues
So -- how do you go about repairing the damage done?
This article mostly addresses children -- perhaps one for adults would be better.
Well, for starters, I'm terribly hypervigilant (meaning I can't take a joke). I also tend to react badly to being yelled at or otherwise scolded -- once I start crying, it's hard for me to stop. I can't really make friends, and I balk at the thought of having a relationship of any kind. I go on mental self-hating rampages when I make a mistake. Plus, I'm afraid of rejection.
Ahh, I'm such a mess...
Ah .. me too. I actually have no real life friends myself .. just the online variety. I just don't trust people and after I catch them lying to me the relationship is ended. I just can't deal with liars.
I can't stand that, either! It makes me feel really stupid for trusting them in the first place...
Also, I think I'm actually attracting bullies! Lately, it seems like I'm such an easy target. I feel like this'll make me crazy someday!!
Oh yeah .. same here. I feel stupid for even trusting them --- I should of seen the it coming. Sometimes I ignore signals they give me ... and I should always go with my gut feeling .. because I am usually always right. I guess it was wishful thinking ...
I know, right? You finally feel like you have a real friend, and before you know it, they show their true colors. =3=
Yes, that's exactly it. It just happened to me recently in fact. So now I am even less trusting of others. I just don't want to take the risk again. Do you know what I mean?
Of course!
Cool .. it's nice to have someone to talk with about this. Thanks for being here.
That's such an terrible story Jonathan. I wish I could of been there to stop them. I am glad to have you on the site. It seems we have some things in common. Go ahead and rant .. I enjoy hearing from you.
Whoa...that's messed up! D: I'm really sorry that happened to you!
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United States, Appellee V. Miles
December 4, 2014 - Motion on behalf of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae in support of appellant's petitioin for grant of review.
Clict to open the filed motion
March 26, 2014 – Washington DC. – NCSF has filed an amicus brief in a military case involving a marine who engaged in a consensual threesome and because of that was convicted of adultery, attempted consensual sodomy and indecent conduct, a "crime" based solely on undefined sexual conduct inconsistent with "common propriety."
Click to open Subject Index, Table of Authorities & Amicus Brief
COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN CAREY
Indictments found and returned in the Superior Court Department on July 23, 2007.
The cases were tried before Richard E. Welch, III, J.
After review by the Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court granted leave to obtain further appellate review.
James L. Sultan for the defendant.
Kenneth E. Steinfield, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.
CORDY, J. Based on an assault that occurred during the evening of June 6, 2007, at a home in Hamilton, a jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of attempted murder in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 16; armed home invasion in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 18C; assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 15A (b); and assault and battery in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 13A.(1) A divided panel of the Appeals Court affirmed the convictions, Commonwealth v. Carey, 79 Mass. App. Ct. 587 (2011), and we granted the defendant's application for further appellate review.
On appeal, the defendant contends that the assault constituted a consensual sexual encounter. He thus argues that, in light of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 577-578 (2003) (Lawrence), the trial judge committed constitutional error by not instructing the jury that consent is a defense to the crimes of armed home invasion and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. The defendant also claims that the judge erred by admitting certain evidence regarding materials retrieved from his home computer. This evidence included eight photographs and one ninety-second "video clip" (video), each depicting a nude or partially nude woman being strangled seemingly to death; an Internet article reporting the successful appeal of a man convicted of four strangulation murders; and testimony regarding the number of images stored on the computer "that were strangulation-oriented or had strangulation themes," as well as testimony about Internet searches and the number of files saved on the computer that concerned asphyxiation.
When the Levee Breaks
"When the Levee Breaks: A guide to dealing with and avoiding arrest and prosecution in BDSM scenes."
"When the Levee Breaks" is a companion to the NCSF publication, "The Aftermath," and is a guide to provide a perspective for those who have, through mistake, misunderstanding, or a fleeting lapse of reason, committed an act of criminally actionable sexual assault. It is not intended to provide a defense for indefensible acts. "When the Levee Breaks" also provides information on how to better protect oneself against arrest and prosecution.
Click to get a PDF of "When the Levee Breaks"
In the Aftermath
"The Aftermath: A guide for victims of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence in the BDSM community," by Natalie Quintero
"The Aftermath" is a compilation of advice that is regularly provided to victims who ask for help through NCSF's Incident Reporting & Response project. This guide will educate anyone in the BDSM community who has been victimized on what one might expect to experience after an assault, what one's options are, things to consider when weighing options and making decisions on what to do next, what one might expect if one decides to report the experience, as well as the resources available to assist in coping with and healing from abuse.
Massachusetts v Appleby
In most BDSM assault cases, the testimony of a complaining witness (the injured person) is central to the case, and often there is conflict on the issue of consent between the defendant and the complaining witness. However, even where both participants agree that the acts in question were consensual, the courts have held that consent cannot be a defense. Thus, in Commonwealth v. Appleby, a 1980 Massachusetts case, the court said:
"Grimm's consent to assault and battery upon him by Appleby by means of a dangerous weapon cannot absolve Appleby of the crime…"Commonwealth v. Appleby, 380 Mass.296, 311, 402N.E.2d 1051,1061 (Mass. 1980).
Click to open Massachusetts v Appleby PDF
California v Samuels
An early, and typically bad, example of a pure "consent is no defense" ruling is People v Samuels, a 1967 California decision. In that case, Martin Samuels was convicted of assault based on his conduct in a film of an apparently consensual BDSM scene. The court not only rejected the consent defense, but also appeared to hold the view that any such consent would be "some form of mental aberration":
Even if it be assumed that the victim in the 'vertical' film did in fact suffer from some form of mental aberration which compelled him to submit to a beating which was so severe as to constitute an aggravated assault, defendant's conduct in inflicting that beating was no less violative of a penal statute obviously designed to prohibit one human being from severely or mortally injuring another.
People v. Samuels 250 Cal.App.2d 501, 514, 58 Cal.Rptr. 439, 447 (Cal.App. 1967)
The Samuels decision was cited as recently as 2006, in People v Febrissy.
Click to open California v Samuels PDF
Consent Legal Cases
Legal cases dealing with the consent counts project.
To date, there is not a single appellate court decision anywhere in this country that has accepted consent as a defense in an assault or abuse prosecution arising from BDSM conduct. The following overview, from Consent to Harm by Vera Bergelson, is a good summary of the case law:
Since any harmful act that does not fit into the "athletic" or "medical" exception is, by definition, criminal, unless the inflicted injury is not serious, assessment of the seriousness of the victim's injury determines the outcome of many cases involving consensual harm. A typical penal statute classifies bodily injury as serious if it "creates a substantial risk of death or causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ." Pursuant to this definition, any short-term, non-life-threatening injury should not be deemed "serious." Yet, as the MPC acknowledges, the assessment of the seriousness of harm is often affected by judges' "moral judgments about the iniquity of the conduct." Courts tend to inflate the risk and harmfulness of an activity they want to denounce. For example, any injury caused during a sadomasochistic encounter has been consistently classified as serious.
28 Pace Law Review 683, 691
Case index, click to view the individual case summary and a PDF of the case.
California v Samuels , 4/28/1967
Massachusetts v Appleby , 4/1/1980
Iowa v Collier, 5/25/1985
Helton v Indiana , 12/1/1993
New York v Jovanovic , 12/21/1999
Lawrence v Texas, 6/26/2003
Nebraska v Van , 11/12/2004
California v Febrissy, 7/1/2006
Govan v Indiana, 9/9/2009
Rhode Island v Gasper, 10/30/2009
United States, Appellee v Miles 3/24/2014
COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN CAREY 7/23/2007
Law Review Articles, click to open the individual PDF of this article.
Sex Is Not A Sport: Consent And Violence In Criminal Law , 2001-2002
Beyond The Pleasure Principle: The Criminalization Of Consensual Sadomasochistic Sex , 2001-2002
Morality-Based Legislation Is Alive And Well: Why The Law Permits Consent To Body Modification But Not Sadomasochistic Sex , 2006-2007
The Right to Be Hurt: Testing the Boundaries of Consent , Febuary 2007
Pain, Pleasure, And Consenting Women: Exploring Feminist Responses To S/M and Its Legal Regulation in Canada Through Jelinek's The Piano Teacher , 2007
Consent to Harm , 2007-2008
Autonomy, Dignity, and Consent to Harm , 1/29/2008
The Moral Limits Of Consent As A Defense In The Criminal Law , 2009
State by State Assault Laws
Law citations dealing with consent, compiled by the NCSF Consent Counts Project
Click to download a PDF of this document
2008 Survey of Violence & Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities Fast Facts
By Susan Wright
The 2008 survey saw a total of 3,058 responses collected. Of those, 2,412 respondents resided in the United States (83.4%). Of the remaining 480 respondents, a total of over 42 other countries were represented. Where appropriate, the data is compared to the 1998 Violence & Discrimination Survey Against Sexual Minorities which collected over 1,000 responses to similar questions over the course of a year. The 1998 survey did not cover business or event-related experiences of harassment, nor did it ask about Internet experiences. The 2008 survey also included more questions about sexual activity and identity.
|Table 1. Gender
|Table 2. Sexual Orientation
A total of 1,146 (37.5%) respondents indicated that they had either been discriminated against, had experienced some form of harassment or violence, or had some form of harassment or discrimination aimed at their BDSM-leather-fetish-related business. Of the respondents who reported some form of persecution,
- 476 (41.5%) identified as male
- 615 (53.7%) identified as female
- 9 (.8%) identified as intersexed
- 78 (6.8%) identified as transgendered
(Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.)
Of the 1,146 respondents who indicated that they had either been discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence,
- 380 (33.2%) identified as heterosexual,
- 440 (38.4%) identified as bisexual
- 292 (25.5%) identified as gay or lesbian.
- 97 (8.5%) indicated that they identified in some other way from heterosexual, bisexual or gay/lesbian.
(Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.)
The sexual orientation of respondents who were discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence is compared in Table 6.1 to the total percentage of respondents who identified their orientation. It is interesting to note that Gay/lesbian, Bisexual and Other respondents have slightly higher rates of persecution than their average percentage of total respondents, while Heterosexuals are less likely to be discriminated against.
|Table 3. Sexual Orientation
and Discrimination
|Total Percent
2008 Respondents
In 1998, the survey asked: "Are you completely 'out' about your involvement in sexual minority practices? "62% stated they were not "completely out." That is statistically almost the same as the 59.5 and 59.7% of respondents in the current survey who said they weren't out to work and/or family.
11.3% (346) of the total number of respondents (3,058) reported being discriminated against by professional or personal service providers. That is 30% (346) of the respondents who were discriminated against (1,146). Those respondents could check one or more of the specific ways they were discriminated against (Table 8.), with 48.8% discriminated against by a medical doctor, and 39.3% discriminated against by a mental health practitioner.
|Table 4. Discrimination by Professionals
|Medical doctor
|Mental health practitioner
|Police or govt. employee
|Other Professional service provider
|Other Personal service provider
|Building contractor
In total, 203 (6.6%) respondents stated their business had been harassed or discriminated against.
Respondents could check one or more of the specific ways they were discriminated against
(Table 5.).
|Table 5. Business Discrimination
|Negative media coverage
|Harassment by police/author
|Harassment by neighbors
|Harassment by organizations
|Loss of lease
|Refused credit card services
|Loss of business
|Refused insurance coverage
|Loss of occupancy certificate
When asked, "Have you curtailed your use of the Internet for fear of prosecution?" More than one-third of the respondents, 1,065 (34.8%) of the 3058 respondents, said "yes". Respondents could check one or more of the specific ways they curtailed their Internet use (Table 10.).
|Table 6. Curtailed Internet Use
|Didn't post image
|Didn't visit website
|Didn't post text
|Didn't link to website
|Didn't join email group
|Posted 18-over warn
|Barred users
|Didn't add meta-text
9.3% of respondents, 285 out of the total returned surveys, reported that US 2257 had an impact on their use of the Internet. Of the 1,065 respondents who indicated that they had curtailed their use of the Internet regarding BDSM activities, 214 (20.1%) reported that US 2257 was a significant reason for that curtailment.
When respondents who experienced violence and/or harassment were asked, "Did you press charges?" 90% said no as compared to 96% of the respondents in the 1998 survey who did not press charges.
|Table 7. Reasons Declined To Press Charges
|Fear of further harassment
|Fear of family disapproval
|Fear of job safety
|Fear of legal repercussions
|Fear of losing child custody
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Last year, after numerous comments & complaints, I decided to start the 'Official Leaf Lovers Thread' - soon after the 'Official Leaf Haters Thread' was born (which completely went against the reason I started the thread in the first place - not for praising the leafs as much trying to keep non-Leafers happy by not filling the board with Leaf talk)
Anyway, the 'Leafs get raked' thread started the hating up again (feel free to read my sole post in that thread) and it is muy frustrating as a Leaf fan to have to deal with it. Y'all hate that there are so many Leaf fans (some are dumb fucks, we know) and we (Leafers) hate how much hatred there is and how quickly we get piled on. These two sides will never see the others point of contention, so why bother continuing with this vicious circle?
So, there will be both positive comments about the Leaf in this thread and there will be critical (NOT negative) comments in this thread, but please, no hating. (and please don't start another Haters thread - is it really necessary?)
I am going to give a brief example of a critical (NOT negative) comments regarding the Leafs;
- McCabe needs to be traded - I cannot believe how horrid he has looked this season.
- MLSE (ownership) is majority owned by the Ontario Teachers Pension. Their mandate is to make a handsome profit, not win Stanley Cups. It is far easier to sell out every game when they give us the impression they are trying to ice a team that can win the Cup than it is to actually win the Cup and raise expectations (which lead to those expectations getting dashed and fans possibly hitting MLSE where it hurts, in their pocket). This is why they have not decided to rebuild like the Flyers recently have done. A lot of Leaf fans these days are all for rebuilding process where we sell off our valuable veterans and get picks/prospects in return. In this new NHL, rebuilding can take 1-3 yrs which is not a long time.
To further muddy the waters, I read a Damien Cox (President of the Leaf Haters club!) blog piece saying that MLSE has it's (greasy) fingers in too many other ventures - the Raptors, Toronto FC, building condos, booking concerts, etc. The result is that there is not enough focus on the hockey team...at least as much as there should be given the market and the fanbase, etc.
So, see, Leaf fans can be critical of their team too!
I will say again, please refrain from hating on the Leafs here (or in another thread) as it simply is not necessary. I, a Leaf fan, am taking the first step towards trying to reduce all the Leaf-related bickering on here. Help me out!
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I may not get around to writing a detailed analysis of the third part, which focuses on possible regulatory measures to lessen the chance of catastrophic Flash Crash type events in the future. But the ideas raised in this part are fairly standard -- a speed limit on trading, rules which would force market makers to participate even in volatile times (as was formerly the case for market makers) and so on. I think the most interesting part by far is the analysis of the recent increase in the frequency of abrupt market jumps (fat-tail events) over very short times, and of the risks facing market makers and how they respond as volatility increases. I think this should all help to frame the debate over HFT -- which seems extremely volatile itself -- in somewhat more scientific terms.
I also suggest that anyone who finds any of this interesting should go to the Bank of England website and read some of Andrew Haldane's other speeches. Every one is brilliant and highly illuminating.


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Mail Merge is a feature in Word 2007 that allows you to take a single document, like a letter, stir in a list of names and data, and combine (merge) everything into a final set of documents, each of which is customized and nearly personal. You can also mail-merge e-mail messages, envelopes, labels, and lists of information.
Obviously, Mail Merge is a useful thing, but before immersing yourself in the process, you may find it helpful to become familiar with the following terms:
Main document: This is the form letter, the document that contains the various fill-in-the-blanks places. But it starts just like any other document in Word, complete with formatting, page numbers, or anything else you want to add.
Address list: The information you use to create customized letters is held in a type of database file — basically, a list of names and other data. It's those names and such that are merged with the main document to form individual customized letters. If you plan on doing a mail merge as part of your regular routine, you want to build an address list that you can use over and over.
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Getting these three things to work together is the essence of Mail Merge. In Word 2007, the tools to make that happen are found on the Mailings tab.


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Don't want vermin stealing from your bird feeder? Then do what this family did, which is to motorize the bottom of it, should something heavier than a bird (e.g. a squirrel) infiltrate. Watch what happens to the unsuspecting critter inside.
Update: Via an email from a reader, more information... the bird feeder is called the Yankee Flipper. You can read more about it—and order one for your own yard!—by visiting the manufacturers' web site.
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Rain did not dampen the groundbreaking for the Gingles family and the 101st Habitat Gaston house. Tridia Gingles, along with her two daughters Zahrea, 15, and Kiombre, 12, helped turn the sod for their new home which will be built at 501 N. Pryor St., Gastonia.
�We want to thank Habitat and everyone that has supported us in getting to this wonderful place in our lives,� Tridia Gingles said.
She is employed by A.B. Cater and the family attends Full Gospel Church of the Firstborn. The first build day on the three-bedroom house was March 22.
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This Pryor Street project is a revitalization effort with the city of Gastonia and the community. Homes are being built and renovated in the Highland area.
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Since Blizzard is looking at haste a little more closely in patch 3.3 with the possibility of having DoTs affected by haste, Murmurs has taken this opportunity to summarize the Moonkin issues with haste rating.
I'm sure the issue is well known to most of you. Moonkin's have two primary nukes. After Starlight Wrath, Starfire has a base cast time of 3.0 seconds, Wrath has a base cast time of 1.5 seconds, and as always the minimum GCD is 1.0 second. After you account for Celestial Focus, Improved Moonkin Form, Wrath of Air, and Nature's Grace, a moonkin only needs 400 haste rating to cap the affective Wrath cast time at 1 second.
This ends up causing a problem with how we scale. Moonkin are is the only spec that has a nuke with a 1.5 second base cast time and is a core part of the rotation. This causes an inequity when Blizzard tries to balance us against other classes. In WotLK we balance very well in the Tier 7 content, but seemed to have slipped some as we progress to higher tiers. I can't blame this all on haste, Wrath, and the GCD, but it is definately a contributing factor. Since we don't scale as well with Haste rating as Mages, Shaman, and Destro Locks do, it creates and opportunity for us to fall behind in DPS.
That's the issue as I see it and I think this is what Murmur's was trying to point out.
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Ghostcrawler stopped by the thread and posted these comments.
So in theoretical-space, how much do think these problems go away if haste doesn't bump into the global cooldown for some of these spells?I'll be honest, I'm not completely sure what Ghostcrawler is trying to get at here, and I'm a little confused by his response. I think he is trying to address the solutions that are being suggested. So, I'm going to take that approach from here on out. The two basic suggestions I've see are to lower the GCD or increase the cast time of Wrath.
I know it's cumbersome to explore why that would be the case, because I don't want to stipulate that haste rating just gets cut in half or whatever. I also think it complicates things when you start talking about all the added benefits of spells becoming instant (such as being able to move and not being interruptable).
I'm trying to get at whether it is the way different spells behave under haste or whether it's the GCD that's the problem.
Lower the GCD:
Currently the minimum GCD you can have is 1 second. Some people are suggesting that this should be lowered even further or possibly eliminated.
Personally, I don't like this possibility for a couple of reasons. Vontre explained it best on post #146 on the thread.
It's the gcd, except the gcd cap is fine where it's at because 1 second is about as low as you want to go for the human brain to process action -> button press -> server command -> return to client -> evaluate result. Problem is Wrath is too fast for a primary nuke.Lowering the GCD is not a clean solution. When you consider the latency and the human factor, you realize that you can cast only so fast. While we would technically scale better, the practical aspects of the game would limit the impact of the change.
Increase Wrath's Cast Time:
There are multiple ways to do this. Some have suggested increasing Wrath's Cast time using a Glyph. Others have suggested that some of the buffs that reduce Wrath's cast time be changed or eliminated. Let me look at these possibilities separately.
- Glyph: The suggestion is that blizzard add a glyph that increases Wrath's cast time by 0.5 seconds and the damage by 33%. This would not change the DPS of the spell at zero haste, but would allow it to scale with haste more appropriately. I like this suggestion but I see two issues with it.
- The first issue is how this impacts Eclipse. A lot of people complain about how Wrath procs Lunar Eclipse on only 60% of crits but it's done for a practical reason. It makes Solar and Lunar Eclipse proc at a similar rate. If you increase Wrath's cast time without increasing the proc rate of Eclipse you throw off that balance.
- The second issue is what type of Glyph would it be? If it's a major glyph then your losing DPS by not having one of your other glyphs. Making it a minor glyph wouldn't have this problem since most of the minor glyphs we currently use have little impact, but it would increase our DPS indirectly and my not qualify as a minor glyph.
- Lowering Talent Haste: This suggestion is that Blizzard either nerf or eliminate some of our haste providing abilities. If we have lower haste then we will brush up against the GCD less and eliminate the scaling issue.
The problem with this suggestion is that it is a straight nerf to our DPS. The affect would be moderated by the increased usefulness of haste rating, but in total the affect would be a nerf. Therefore this doesn't fix the problem unless they buff Moonkin in other ways as well.
The third option is that they fix moonkin scaling in some other way without touching Haste or Wrath's cast time at all. This has been alluded to by several people, but not out right said. Blizzard could fix our scaling issues by making us scale with another stat at a higher rate then most class do.
For instance, what if Crit Rating not only increased your Crit Chance, but also increased the amount of damage your critical strikes did. Any change like this would take a lot of balancing, but my point is that Haste is not the only stat that could be used to make us scale better. The best option maybe to leave Wrath, the GCD and all of our haste the way it is and tweak moonkin DPS in some other way.
In some ways, I think this is the best option, but it's probably the most difficult to implement.


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By: Tim Glon
BEXLEY — Sophomore Tyler Rue threw for career-highs of 245 yards and four touchdowns to lead Ohio Northern to a 38-20 victory at Capital in an Ohio Athletic Conference football game Saturday afternoon at Bernlohr Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 3-2 overall and 2-2 in OAC play, while the Crusaders fall to 2-3, 2-2.
Rue completed 20 of 31 passes to 11 different receivers and senior Chad Coward had two interceptions, blocked an extra point and had three tackles for ONU.
Coward's two interceptions give him 11 for his career, tying him for seventh all-time on ONU's career list.
Sophomore Justin Buenger carried the ball 11 times for 79 yards for Northern.
ONU has now won 20 consecutive games when scoring 20 or more points.
"This was a good win for us," ONU head coach Dean Paul said. "We came out ready to play. Offensively, we played pretty well, even though we didn't finish some drives and did not take advantage of all of our scoring opportunities. We gave up a lot of yards on defense and had trouble getting off of the field at times, but still made enough plays to win the game.
"We had several starters go down with injuries that would not let them finish the game and our younger players stepped in and played well," Paul said. "I don't think they are season-ending injuries, but we had several players not be able to finish the game. So it was good to see the other guys play well when they had a chance."
The Polar Bears got on the board on their first possession when they marched 78 yards in nine plays and scored on a 15-yard touchdown pass from Rue to senior Jared Oehler.
Sophomore Luke Rice added the extra point and ONU led 7-0 just 4:49 into the contest.
Capital quickly responded, scoring on its next possession when Ryan Anderson dove over from one yard out on fourth and goal to tie the game at 7-7 with 6:40 left in the opening quarter.
Rue hit junior Frank Thien on an 18-yard touchdown pass with 13:17 left in the first half to put the Polar Bears back up 14-7.
Junior Eric Mitchell forced a fumble on the ensuing kickoff and junior Eric Mitchell recovered the ball at the Crusader 20-yard line.
It only took one play for ONU to find the end zone as Rue hit Buenger on a 20-yard scoring strike to make it 21-7 with 13:02 left in the second quarter.
Northern them marched 55 yards in six plays and went up 24-7 on a 22-yard field goal by Rice with 7:29 left before intermission.
Anderson raced in from 47 yards out to pull CU within 24-14 with 5:38 left in the second period.
After senior Chad Coward returned an interception 34 yards to the CU 23-yard line, Rue hit junior Justin Wilson on a 21-yard touchdown pass to give the Polar Bears a 31-14 lead with 8:10 left in the third.
Capital trimmed the lead to 31-20 as the Crusaders marched 96 yards in 16 plays and scored on a pass from Chase Carris to Ryan Williams on a fourth and goal play from the ONU 12-yard line.
Coward blocked the extra point and ONU's lead remained 31-20.
Junior DeMarqus Payne capped the scoring by running in from 13 yards out with 3:04 left in the game.
Ryan Kremcheck completed 19 of 39 passes for 258 yards and Matt White had a school record 16 receptions for 189 yards to lead Capital.
The Polar Bears will return to action next Saturday with a 2 pm contest at Baldwin-Wallace.


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Five Questions: Snow on career, Islanders' moveby Dan Rosen
NHL.com will periodically be doing a series called "Five Questions With ...," a Q&A with some of the key movers and shakers in the game today aimed to gain some insight into their lives and careers.
This edition features New York Islanders general manager Garth Snow:
With a move to a new arena in Brooklyn three years away, Islanders GM Garth Snow will soon be unshackled from the antiquated facility that has ruined countless sales pitches he's attempted to give every July 1 since 2007.
Snow figures the Islanders' move 25 miles away to Barclays Center, set for the opening of the 2015-16 NHL season, immediately gives him the opportunity to sell the team's future, Long Island and New York City to free agents who typically wouldn't have given him much more than the courtesy of answering the phone.
"That certainty of where we're going to be is crucial," Snow told NHL.com Tuesday.
Snow's job now is to continue building the Islanders' bridge to Brooklyn. It's a job he started in earnest more than six years ago, when as a rehabbing aging goaltender he received an opportunity too good to pass up, an opportunity he knew he wanted since he was a college student trying to make it in hockey.
That opportunity came from Islanders owner Charles Wang, who took a monumental risk by hiring the untested, unproven, inexperienced Snow to lead the once-proud franchise.
"It was a situation where I got a call out of the blue and this journey began," Snow said.
The journey has had more downs than ups with several ego-busting bruises along the way. But Snow, like the Islanders, is still standing and optimistically hoping for a much brighter future ahead.
Snow talked about his meteoric rise to the GM's chair and the challenges he has met along the way with NHL.com.
Here are Five Questions With … Garth Snow:
Take us back to July 18, 2006 -- you retire after 12 seasons in the NHL to be named the general manager of the New York Islanders. Looking back now, what do you recall thinking, feeling? What were your emotions like that day?
"You're catching me off guard here. For me it was obviously something that I pursued as the [2005-06] hockey season closed. I went through the interview process and didn't really give it much thought after I was passed over. I really focused on my rehab from hip surgery that I had and getting at a point where I could do my conditioning off the ice to get ready for the next season.
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"When that day happened it was obviously excitement, a little bit of, I don't want to say sadness, but you look back on your career and it's over. You've been playing competitively since you were a mite. This was a new journey for me and exciting in that regard. It was something that I envisioned in the back of my mind that if things didn't work out for me as a hockey player I would get into coaching or management.
"For that to come to fruition and to get an opportunity, quite frankly, that people don't usually get, I just appreciated the opportunity and I appreciated the confidence that was put in me. I was excited to pursue a new avenue in my life.
"I leaned on the people that had been in place here for decades. Whether it was Joanne Holewa, who has been here since Bill Torrey was the general manager, or Art McCarthy, who has been in the organization for 30 years, there was an infrastructure here for me to lean on -- Kenny Morrow in the scouting department too. I wasn't thrown into the fire without a support group. And, to be able to work on the business side with some very talented people and a great owner in Charles Wang, it's been a great experience."
You mentioned that if being a hockey player didn't work out that you would have sought a career in coaching or management. Well, being a hockey player did work out and yet you still sought a career in management. At what point during your playing career did you start thinking about working in management?
"You know what, when I was at the University of Maine, I walked on there, was the third goalie for the first two years, redshirted my second year, and at that point I was working toward A) getting my Bachelor's degree and B) trying to get playing time. The degree was very important for me to have something to fall back on if hockey didn't work out. At that point in time, when I was going through that adversity, I had the mindset that if hockey didn't materialize as a career I would pursue coaching or management, being an athletic director, something to stay in the game of hockey. At that point in my life, college in the late '80s, that is when I started giving serious thought to making sure I had a career if hockey didn't materialize.
"When I signed my first contract with the Nordiques, I played in Cornwall, the AHL affiliate, and for me I knew I didn't want to spend a career in the AHL so I had always taken summer classes at school to stay ahead academically. I ended up getting enough credits to graduate a little earlier than my senior year of college and started taking Master's courses and went back after I signed a contract to finish my Master's degree. I knew I needed a Master's degree to get into coaching or take on a role at a university in that regard. Now I'm extremely lucky to have been given this opportunity in the NHL."
What has kept you going and kept you motivated through these last several seasons of working through a massive rebuild coupled with antiquated facilities that have rendered it nearly impossible to lure a big name free agent to Long Island and the uncertainty about where this franchise would be after 2015?
"I work for a terrific owner and it's a situation where this organization is like a family and you see it trickle down right to the players. John Tavares signs a six-year extension. Michael Grabner we claim off waivers, he scores 34 goals and signs a five-year extension to stay here. People that are part of this organization realize it is a special work and play environment for a team that obviously has some challenges regarding the building.
"The one word you said that was key was the uncertainty of where we would be when the lease [at Nassau Coliseum] expired, and thankfully something worked out to where we are going to stay in the area, 25 miles down the road. I didn't have any ill will for any free agent when I spoke with their agent on July 1. How do you sell a free agent to sign for five to seven years on Long Island when we don't even know where we're going to be? That dynamic has changed for the better."
That leads me right into my next question, which is about the pending move to Brooklyn and the new relationship with the Nets at Barclays Center starting with the 2015-16 season. Do you have to change your philosophy as the GM to prepare the team for this move so it can be a successful transition both off the ice and on it, or does everything for you stay exactly the same as it has been?
"I think for us the best decision we made as an organization is to go through the rebuild that we've been through. It's obviously painful at times to go through the adversity that we've been through on the ice and that's a byproduct of going with younger players and developing from within. For us our philosophy will remain the same, build from within, through the draft, develop those players, and add free agents or any trade that can make our team better we will pursue it.
"The certainty of where we're going to be for the next 27 years will help us in attracting free agents who otherwise wouldn't have considered the Islanders. If I am going to sign a long contact I want to know where I'm going to be for the next several years."
Let's move in a different direction for the fifth question: You went straight from the crease to the GM's chair, but you still have your goalie roots and I'm curious if you have ever taken the opportunity to get on the ice to work with the current Islanders' goalies?
"It's funny you say that. During the lockout here I've gone on the ice with some youth hockey goalies and done some clinics. For me it's always fun working with kids and sharing knowledge that I've been fortunate enough to be exposed to over my own career. For me it's been fun to work with the kids.
"But we have Mike Dunham and Steve Valiquette as part of our organization so I think the goalie instruction is covered and it's in good hands with those two guys. For me, the extent of working with a goalie is grabbing a coffee before or after practice, going down to the lounge and just talking about certain rushes, certain scenarios, certain saves, a technique -- goalie talk is what I like to call it. I know as a player when either a coach or former goalie would talk to me about the position it was always something that I found as a positive, so if there are experiences that I can share from my career I certainly relay it to our goalies. However, with how much the position has advanced over the years I end up learning more from them.
"Those conversations are not limited to the goalies. A forward may ask me, 'When you played what was the toughest save you had to make and where should I shoot from this part of the ice?' It could be a defenseman talking about a 2-on-1 rush, whether he should lie flat and if that makes life easier for the goalie.
"Those conversations are therapeutic for me too. I learn things that I wish I learned 20 years ago -- and 40 pounds ago."
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Ace Frehley Considers Asking Gene Simmons to Guest on Next Album
While Ace Frehley's 'Space Invader' is due next Tuesday (Aug. 19), the guitarist recently made headlines by suggesting he already has plans for a guest-packed covers collection. At the time, he suggested that he'd put out calls to Lita Ford, Slash and Pearl Jam's Mike McCreadyfor assistance, but there's one more guest that Frehley has in mind that might come as a surprise.
Speaking with VH1 Radio Networks (excerpted by Blabbermouth), Frehley stated, "I was thinking of asking Gene [Simmons] to play bass on one track, and I'm not going to say which one. That'll be a surprise."
The suggestion of reaching out to Simmons comes as its own surprise given all the public back-and-forth between the original remaining KISS members Simmons and Paul Stanley and the former members Frehley and Peter Criss. Leading up to and even following their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, all four have publicly traded barbs.
But Frehley isn't deterred from the idea, adding, "I think he'd consider it. I don't know if he'd do it. Maybe Paul [Stanley] won't let him. Who knows?"
As stated, Frehley's 'Space Invader' album arrives next week. Meanwhile, KISS have spent the summer on tour with Def Leppard.
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