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Most Youngtown accident doctors work using a medical or attorney's lien. This means you do not have to pay money out of your pocket to visit a M.D. If you need specialized care, your physician would more than likely talk to your lawyer to provide you with the best treatment available. Insurance companies do not want you to see an M.D. after you are injured. They would like you to wait, so they will not have to pay you. A gap in treatment or delayed treatment may cost you thousands. Do not wait to obtain medical treatment. If no care is accessible, visit the ER. After the ER locate a physician here.
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Multiple locations in Phoenix to serve you
I thought all doctors where same, they can all treat car wrecks, can't they? No
Youngtown Personal Injuries need documentation by an accident doctor. M.D.'s, who do not handle car wrecks, usually will look you over and send you home with painkillers and muscle relaxers. Once you have been injured in a car wreck, it is critical to see an accident doctor. Without proof that you have been injured, your lawyer will have a hard time with your case. Don't wait to see an accident doctor. Gap in treatment could mean delay in payment for your injuries, if payment at all. Some people prefer to wait, be tough, etc. If you've been injured in a Youngtown car wreck, go to the accident doctor as soon as possible. Following a car wreck, it's possible that you will not feel pain until days later. Oftentimes this is normal. You don't need to wait days or even weeks to get treatment, you have to go today.
You may suffer these types of injuries after your Youngtown car accident
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See the Doctor ASAP after your car wreck
Make sure to see the doctors immediately following your car accident. Delay or gap in medical care could be one reason you do not receive the settlement you deserve. You personal injury lawyer will need documentation from your doctor to prove your injury. Without seeing a doctor you may not even have a personal injury case.
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After reading a story in American Venture Magazine, I decided to read "Stop working!" The story was that of a New Orleans survivor who escaped from the disaster in a rowboat with her laptop and "Stop Working!" and put the lessons taught in the book into action right away, even while she was newly displaced due to Katrina.
After the red stop-sign graphic with the words "Stop Working" on the cover of the book, the first sentence of the introduction, "Less than a year after I started my new company it became a global player" aroused my curiosity even more. In the words of the author Rohan Hall, "Stop Working!" is not a motivational book, but it gives information on "how to build a profitable business from a small investment" and "how to expand your business by aligning with global partners."
Taking the operation of global companies as a model, Hall shows how to turn a small business into a global one. From that point of view, even those who have very successful businesses can make use of "Stop Working," in which each significant concern and topic is covered well and at times from a technical angle.
In the first chapter, Job Security, why businesses fail and why the phrase "job security" is a lie is told in detail with a few basic to-do axioms added. The later chapters address the nitty gritty of starting a business with creativity, entrepreneurship, and courage to make it a global entity. The lessons in the chapters are well taught and with detail. For that reason, "Stop Working!" can be considered a textbook for someone serious enough to take its advice to heart. The down-to-earth chapter headings alone are enough to show how insightful and informative this book is.
The book includes thirteen chapters in three sections:
I. Globalization – Your Path to Wealth
II. Build Your Agile Business Structure
III. Technology & Resources
The book ends with an appendix that consists of two sections: Global Economies and Favorite Downloads.
When "Stop Working!" incorporates Hall's experiences in anecdotes, it is not to entertain but to enlighten the reader. The thesis of the book maintains that, although a business is somewhat successful, even a small life event may cause disorder, leading to financial devastation. It is, therefore, feasible to turn the business into a global enterprise.
The author, Rohan Hall, has worked with companies like Hewlett Packard, PeopleSoft, Corning, Honda, Avery Dennison, Lockheed, Boeing, The American Red Cross, Sierra Pacific Power Company, and Robert Half, to help them develop global businesses. Hall is the owner and CEO of a professional services company, vConcepts, Inc., and Eye Contact Media, Inc., a publishing company. He is, also, a Fortune 500 Global Business/Technology Consultant.
"Stop Working!: Start a Business, Globalize It, and Generate Enough Cash Flow to Get Out of the Rat Race!" is in 277 pages with ISBN-10: 0972918736.
The advice in the book is clear and simple, yet never simplistic. "Stop Working!" deserves to be read with care and kept as reference material for future. In my opinion, anyone with a business, small or large, or anyone thinking of starting a business should study this book and keep it on his bookshelf.

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well im kid of tomboyish, i will wear a dress but a elegnt one nothing extravagant
"Pass the marijuana"- mystic roots X3
i think a girl in a tux is appropriate or leggings under a dress but jeans are too casual
it just has to be something formal and that's pretty much it
For my prom, this girl wore a simple floor length dress and paired it with a fedora and a tie
i had a seventh grade dance all the girls were in dressess and the guys in tux and me. jeans converse and plaid shirt i honestly didnt mind nothing wrong with being tomboyish at dances
You say you love me.You say you need me.You say you miss me.
Nah, just something simple. Simple black dress, maybe? The color doesn't really matter. Most actual tomboys don't really care much about their appearance. I've noticed every tomboy I've known who does care overly about her appearance is just doing the tomboy thing for the image. Not to say that all tomboys just abandon their sense of fashion. They still wear matching clothes. It just doesn't bother them as much when things don't match. I think that many tomboys tend to be very lazy about their appearance and don't care much what other people think about their clothes. If I had to do the stereotype thing to myself, I would probably be close to the tomboy category. Can't say exactly where I'd fall, though ^^. I'm lacking in physical toughness and the threatening aspect that tomboys are supposed to have. Perhaps I'd fall in the hermit category.... If I had it my way, I'd live all alone in the middle of freaking nowhere. Maybe with a few other people, as well. Bah. I've managed to get off subject. Anyway, if I were a tomboy who was going to prom, I would either show up in something ridiculously feminine, just to remind people that I'm female; or I would just wear a simple dress.. I dunno, whatever I could find. I dunno if they'll even let you in with jeans... Seeing as how it IS a formal dance...
Is moving next week, apparently XD. Quite sudden.
I'm super-girly, but I think it's okay to wear jeans. It's your prom! It's a celebration! You should wear whatever you want and whatever you would feel comfortable in. However, it's also a special night, and so it may be nice to wear something other than what you wear everyday. A cute girl version of male formalwear could be fun, or a simple dress, or leggings under a dress, or some Avril Lavigne-type look: all punk-rock girly tomboy.
I'm gonna wear a tux, cuz I don't like dresses. I don't care if people make fun of me for it. Dresses are uncomfortable.
Wow, haven't been on in over a year xD
If you'd just force yourself to wear something against your will, you're better off not going right?
Well at least that's better than embarrassing yourself.
Edit: Yes, I think It'd be weird to wear jeans for prom.
Whips and handcuffs. Let's do it that way baby. <3
I'm neutral.
But I wore something called a lengha to my graduation.
I felt hot & uncomfortable, also itchy all through the way.
But it was to please my mum & friends,
my mum especially wishes I was more girly.
Better To Live Than Be Alive-x
HikariYamino wrote:
Okay, i want to know what the tomboys wear for proms? Do you force yourself to wear dresses? Or do you like wear a guy tuxedo etc?
if they did I would find this hot.
going black friday shopping tonight at 12am wish me luck everyone.
i am a tomboy but would wear a dress to show off the sexy girlly said
huh?! jeans for prom!? NO WAY
Guess who's back?
That's up to preference whether ladies brave dresses or not.
I hear a school cancelled prom because a girl wanted to wear a tux to prom. She was a lesbian but definitely not a Tomboy.
★ 『 追逐 』 : rebirth
Jeans? NOPE. As mentioned before..probably too casualxP Whoa I've never thought of wearing a tux/suit to prom.. Lemme consider..
Its been a while peeps
Ya like others are saying, jeans are waaaay too casual for prom. While it is a celebration, it's supposed to be a bit more...elegant, I guess you could say. If a dress doesn't suit your taste, what about something like what a businesswoman wears (in terms of pants and jacket). Or even a dress with tights underneath and the right shoes to go with it.
Wear a dress, or a tux. Doesn't really matter. But always, at least attempt to make it formal, while at the same time putting elements of you into the outfit. My friend, who was manlier than me or anyone I ever knew in any way, threw caution to the wind, and ended up going to prom wearing the most beautiful golden orange gown, all the while showing off her bare, biker gang-looking tattooed arms to the public.


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10 File and path utilities
(require (planet untyped/unlib/file))
Utilities for manipulating files and paths.
(make-directory-tree tree) → void?
tree : folders-spec
Creates a directory tree in the current directory that matches tree, which is a tree of strings of type folders-spec:
folders-spec ::= (listof folder-spec)
folder-spec ::= string folders-spec
tree-spec For example, the code:
(make-directory-tree '("a" ("b" "c" ("d"))))
would create the directory tree:
Any existing directories in the tree are left intact.
path : (U path? string?)
filename : string?
Returns a filename that is guaranteed to not conflict with the names of any files in path. For example:
(make-non-conflicting-filename (string->path "mydir") "myfile.txt")
would return:
"myfile.txt" if "myfile.txt" doesn't exist in "mydir";
"myfile1.txt" if "myfile.txt" does exist in "mydir";
"myfile2.txt" if "myfile.txt" and "myfile1.txt" both exist in "mydir";
and so on...
(make-non-conflicting-path path filename) → path?
path : (U path? string?)
filename : string?
Like make-non-conflicting-filename but returns:
(build-path path (make-non-conflicting-filename path filename))
(read-file->string file) → string?
file : (U path? string?)
Reads the contents of file into a string. See the port.plt collection on PLaneT for more advanced functions along these lines.
(concatenate-files dest sources) → void?
dest : (U path? string?)
sources : (listof (U path? string?))
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Donald Trump and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are butting heads over a big sign on the city's second tallest building, the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
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Emanuel says he's looking into what they city can do to get it taken down.
Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin tells WGN the Trump sign could set a dangerous precedent for other building owners to put massive signs up along Chicago's river walk — a favorite public works project of Mayor Emanuel that he is now extending all the way from State Street to Lake Street.
Zoning administrators and 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly signed off on the sign. It is within the realm of possibility that Trump could take the city to court — and city lawyers could find themselves in front of a judge, explaining how they approved the sign but now want it removed.
Trump fueled the feud further Thursday when he tweeted "I bought the site, the Sun Times had the biggest, ugliest sign Chicago has ever seen. Mine is magnificent and popular."
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Many states segregated HIV-positive prison inmates in the years before effective treatment. Only Alabama and South Carolina still continue the practice, which excludes segregated prisoners from education and work programs that could win them earlier release. Associated Press reports U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson will today begin hearing the ACLU's argument that there is no longer a rational basis for treating HIV-positive inmates unequally.
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|2012-09-21, 06:44
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PS: the debate became a montage... (
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|2012-09-21, 06:48
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As for this show... I guess I may need to watch the show again from start to finish to focus on how the romance is developed and analyse it further. For now, I think a lot of the issue is that they tried to hold back for so long. For many reasons, I would have preferred the romance to start earlier, even though I see why they put it off.
|2012-09-21, 06:56
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drama & conspiracy mix together is really uh oh we're in trouble.
so give tomoya 2.0 being explain & reasons that close eyes pres need him run for pres cause to keep kana in hospital all safe & hidden give conspiracy going on.
while chisato & mifuyu alone see that chisato still having probs give cause using tomoya 2.0 as replace for daiki yet enough is enough so plan show body scar yet they both patch-up all fine.
hearing conspiracy tomoya 2.0 seem like either play their game or pay the price so cue call michiru where kana & give reason you stink on close eyes pres.
nurse michuru inject shot a guard, rescue kana, play harmonica cue kana awake & everyone make-up all fine with chisato eat chocolate.
look all good with pretend wedding with chisato & tomoya 2.0 til "wedding catchers" kidnap chisato cue big to be continued...
|2012-09-21, 07:00
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|2012-09-21, 07:05
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meh, i guess we all had our reasons for either loving it or hating it. Plus, that thread is very biased...
i dont want to buried with raging comments... ^^;;;
looks like theyre gonna end this in episode 12.and 13 is gonna be a filler(im guessing a beach episode)
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|2012-09-21, 09:33
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In a way I get the same feeling here, I mean they were quite successful in making me want to play the game to majorly see Satsuki's route and that seems to me to be their goal since the beginning, if it wasn't their goal I don't think they would be marketing Satsuki in the way they are doing now.
Please someone correct me if I am wrog but did in the past this kind of "trend" that Mashiro showed and now a bit similar with this series existed before? I mean feels like their goal is to just at least hit the break even point and profit with the game sales and the anime overal is just to make the majority of the viewers to desire to play the game, in this case by having the anime focus on the least desirable girl (or making her looks like it)
I don't think the more old school series like Clannad or Shuffle had a game with a release date near their anime series and their profit would be from the actual sales of the anime.
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edit: OreTsuba did it as well with an all ages version last year when the anime was still airing.
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You can see the trainwreck coming from a mile off. There's simply too much material and plot developments, and only One Cour worth of time to try to make some sense of them all. Honestly speaking, I'm amazed that Chocolate held out to the 11th Episode. Up till Episode 10, the plot was still in a state of coherence, quite a feat if you consider just how much they are trying to squash into One Cour.
|2012-09-21, 11:05
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Eventhough the mock wedding was essentially the same as in the game, the anime version lacked the same impact because it was shortened and it gave not enough time to set it up seeing how hectic this episode was.
Spoiler for got bored and recorded that wedding scene while rereading it. Also it's pointless to watch this video if you can't understand japanese:
|2012-09-21, 11:41
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|2012-09-21, 14:05
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So finally the background of the whole election thing is revealed.
Who knew there would so many intrigue behind the scenes.
Yuuki seems to be having all kinds of problems...
Chisato was guilt tripping herself an awful lot this time.
Well, Yuuki - Chisato relationship is pretty unique and interesting.
At least something good came from the whole ordeal ^^
Wonder how things will be moving forward now...
|2012-09-21, 15:59
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I see a lot of comparisons to Mashiro-iro, I'm not really understanding why this show even needs to be brought up to compare with Koichoco. The pacing and development in Mashiro-iro was done much better although I admit the bath scene was going too far to confuse people which girl the protag is going for (I preferred Angelina btw). Other than that, everything was portrayed in a believable fashion unlike Koichoco which felt forced many times with a lack of proper explanation (having a poor flow of story telling).
Using anidb I looked up some eroge anime adaptions that are 12-13 eps long. Now I've seen more than these shows but the setting is a bit different for other eroge adaptions and some I just don't remember as clearly on how the plot progresses. I obviously can't go into the specifics because that would be spoiling people that haven't seen a particular show, so I will speak in general and in code.
First to get it out of the way since it was mentioned in an earlier post by someone.
- Yosuga no Sora
This adaption had each heroine have their own story just like Amagami, problem with using this method for koichoco is seeing a repetition of the election (even though there are differences).
- Hoshizora e kakaru hashi
- Lamune
- Otome wa boku ni koishiteru
- Yoake mae yori ruriiro na: Crescent Love
When I think about it... Hoshizora, had a very similar way of handling who the protag would end up with like Koichoco. It was not clear but there were many hints. I'm not sure what I could make of this but I thought I should throw it out there for people to discuss. But imo, this should be the show that Koichoco is compared to instead of Mashiro-iro. However to be clear, I do feel the bath scene in Mashiro-iro to be a similar way of handling how far in the relationship the protag has gotten with that paticular girl to be comparable with Satsuki in Koichoco.
Now Otome wa boku kinda surprised me. The only reason I can accept the ending is because my favorite girl got picked. _However I never saw it coming!_ There were hints here and there but, _that's the same for every other girl!_ I will admit, for this show, I'm pretty darn biased.
WARNING: Even speaking in general, I still consider reading about Lamune and Yoake a spoiler, read at your own risk.
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|2012-09-21, 16:14
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Chisato maybe dumb, helpless, psychotic or whatever you want to throw to her... but you can't deny the facts that already been laid in the beginning.. this no no game... it has to have one route to follow... and its Chisato's, it's the horrible truth.
|2012-09-21, 16:27
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A game of political chicken is playing out among the nation's top Republicans and Missouri's embattled GOP nominee for the Senate.
Will Rep. Todd Akin eventually cave to party leaders' demands and drop his challenge to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill? Or will the Republican establishment conclude that their effort to take control of the Senate is too important and reluctantly support him, despite his inflammatory remarks about rape and pregnancy?
Two weeks after the remarks, each side remains stubbornly insistent that the other should blink.
If Akin refuses to quit, and deep-pocketed Republicans refuse to finance him, "it's pretty much a done deal that we have given this race to Claire McCaskill," said Carol Thomas, one of many Missouri Republicans who backed Akin in an August primary but now bemoan the party's predicament.
The GOP quandary is this: Party leaders no longer believe Akin can win, so they have abandoned him and vowed to pull millions of dollars of planned advertising. But Akin, who still thinks he can unseat McCaskill, will have a much harder time doing so without their help.
In an interview with conservative activists this past week at the Republican National Convention, party Chairman Reince Priebus remained firmly against Akin — even if Akin is locked in a close race as the Nov. 6 election draws near.
"He could be tied. We're not going to send him a penny," Priebus said in the videotaped interview that was publicized by Akin's campaign.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee and the conservative Crossroads group have insisted they're not bluffing about revoking the money for anti-McCaskill ads.
Akin has been equally firm in his commitment to stay in the race. He believes Republican leaders need to change their minds and says many voters are welcoming him back as he resumes campaigning.
"I'm sensing, as I'm on the road, a deep resentment of the people at the grassroots level of Missouri of being pushed aside and the party bosses wanting to appoint their own person," Akin told The Associated Press. "There is an increasingly coalescing base of support for my race in Missouri."
Public opinion polls have varied, with some showing Akin still roughly even with McCaskill and others indicating he now trails.
Missouri's Senate race had been considered vital to the Republicans' goal of picking up the four seats necessary to regain control of the Senate. But those chances diminished after Akin remarked in an interview that aired Aug. 19 on St. Louis television station KTVI that women's bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." He repeatedly apologized, but many Republicans urged him to quit so the party could pick a replacement candidate.
"I think he's selfish. If he cared about his party, I think he would have dropped out," Thomas said.
Akin denies any selfish ambitions.
"This decision is not about me at all," he told KTVI this past week. "America faces a choice of two entirely different futures. This is about our country, and doing the right thing for our county. And that has been the only thing that I've considered."
Stephen Nowels, a member of the Republican committee in St. Louis, said he will probably leave the Senate box blank or vote for a third-party candidate because of Akin's comments.
"Voters tend to forget stuff," said Nowels, who runs a violin store. But "I don't think they're going to forget this one."
As Election Day approaches, it's more likely that Republican powerbrokers will give in than it is that Akin will budge, said longtime political scientist Richard Fulton, a professor at Northwest Missouri State University.
If Akin is within 5 percentage points in the polls in October, "I think the big-money conservative PACS will find a way to get him some money," Fulton said.
But if top Republicans want to double-down on their opposition to Akin, there is another alternative. Missouri law allows write-in candidates to file for office until Oct. 26. That possibility gained steam last weekend when Republican strategist Mary Matalin suggested the GOP could field former state party Chairwoman Ann Wagner as a Senate write-in candidate.
Waging a write-in campaign would require Wagner to drop her bid to succeed Akin in his suburban St. Louis district, something that Wagner's campaign manager flatly rejected.
Missouri law prohibits the losers of party primaries from later filing as write-in candidates for the same office. That means the Republican candidates who lost to Akin last month can't resume their campaigns.
Saint Louis University political scientist Ken Warren said it is "virtually impossible" for write-in candidates to win. Strom Thurmond did it in South Carolina in 1954. But since then, only one Senate candidate has done so: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski won re-election as a write-in two years ago after losing in the Republican primary.
A write-in campaign would also carry a distinct risk: In a three-way Senate race, another Republican could split the vote with Akin, allowing for an easy McCaskill win, Warren said.
Associated Press Writer Jim Salter contributed to this report from St. Louis.


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LeBron James' mother screamed the words, "Don't you know who I am?!" -- before slapping a parking valet this morning in Miami ... so says the "humiliated" valet himself.
Rockfeller Sorel surfaced in Miami earlier today -- where he told reporters he feels completely humiliated -- and vows to take legal action against the NBA star's mother, Gloria James ... saying, "I need justice."
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Colorado flood: Death toll rises as Clear Creek bank gives way sweeping man, 83, to his death
September 18, 2013
The toll going into Monday was six presumed dead. But on Monday the Colorado Office of Emergency Management said a body recovered from El Paso County raised the total to seven.
The body was found by Colorado Springs authorities about noon Monday in the West Fork of Sand Creek on the east side of 4600 Town Center Drive, said Barbara Miller, spokeswoman for Colorado Springs police. She did not release any more details except to say foul play was not suspected.
Hours later, Idaho Springs police said an eighth victim had been claimed by the floods. An 83-year-old man was killed Monday afternoon when the ground collapsed beneath him and he was swept away by Clear Creek, Idaho Springs police spokesman Jim Vogt said.
We were really hampered yesterday (Sunday) due to weather. It appears to be lifting, so we are hoping to get a lot of boots on the ground and people in the air, said Carrie Haverfield, spokeswoman for the Boulder Office of Emergency Management.
The man's body was recovered 3 miles downstream. The man is considered a victim of the flood because the water level of Clear Creek is well above normal, Vogt said.The grim statistics: three dead in Boulder County, two in El Paso County, one in Clear Creek County and two missing and presumed dead in Larimer County.
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Hi all,
Through Amazon.fr I ordered Chronographie ou Histoire d'un siècle de Byzance (976–1077) tomes 1 et 2. They were much less expensive than the official website's retail cost (€21.96 each instead of €51 each). These are Les Belles Lettres editions, associated with Budé.
These books are beautiful! The Greek is in a very readable font and the French translation and introductory material is most helpful.
I've posted a few pictures below. If anyone has any experience with any of the books in the line, I'd like to hear all about it. I tried to get them as clear as possible with my Blackberry camera phone.


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UH Manoa's Lowell Frazier Receives President's CommendationUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Frazier was presented with the award for his work as the director of the Parvin/Freedom Forum Journalism Studies Fellowship Program. More than 200 Chinese journalists have come to the University of Hawaiʻi as part of the program, and since 1992, Frazier has been instrumental in renewing grant support for each year's cohort of participants. He has also served as a caring mentor to the men and women who have taken part by hosting them with his family for Thanksgiving and other holidays and also leading them on study tours to the mainland where they have seen how newsrooms and publishing plants work in Washington, New York, and elsewhere. Today, alumni of the program fill important posts in many of China's most important news agencies and newspapers.
In 1999, he was named a Fulbright scholar and spent a sabbatical semester teaching at Beijing's China School of Journalism. He lectured throughout the country and solidified the partnerships between the program and China's journalism leaders.
Frazier joined the UH Mānoa faculty in 1984 after 20 years in the U.S. Navy as a public relations officer. He ended his career in the Navy directing the Defense Information School's Department of Journalism and went on to head the Advertising and PR sequence at Middle Tennessee State University's Department of Mass Communication. During all of this, he was also able to earn two master's degrees from American University as well as a doctorate from Tennessee State at Nashville.
Frazier retired at the end of this spring semester at UH Mānoa and will begin his post-retirement career on the faculty of Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When announcing his retirement, he said the Parvin program "has been perhaps the most worthwhile contribution I have made. It has been the highlight of my university experience."


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text: Mobile makes retargeting more challenging for marketers By Jon VanZile. Published on June 24, 2013. Just as marketing personalization seems poised for serious expansion, the explosive growth of mobile browsing platforms is making things trickier. Mobile has proven difficult for all Web advertisers—display ads are only marginally effective on a mobile screen, if they can be served up at all—and the technology itself poses a problem for remarketing. "Mobile offers two big challenges for remarketing," said Kerry Morris, senior VP-online solutions at Epsilon. "The first is consumer identification, followed by media fragmentation." With a standard Internet page, consumer identification is accomplished with the use of cookies. In a mobile environment, however, that isn't always possible. Safari, the default browser on the market-leading iOS, doesn't accept third-party cookies unless a user overrides the factory settings. Third-party cookies are enabled, however on the Android OS. "Marketers can overcome the lack of cookies on Safari by retargeting across large publishers and portals like Facebook and Yahoo, but this raises the second challenge of fragmentation," Morris said. Consumers engage with many types of content on mobile devices, including apps, portals and email, he said. "Think of how many apps you have on your phone," he said. "In the traditional Web world, media exchanges enable quick, scalable, highly efficient access to targeted consumers. This kind of infrastructure just isn't available yet for mobile." Rob Brosnan, principal analyst at Forrester Research, said that a few providers, like Drawbridge and Tapad, are using new "device-matching" algorithms to get around the cookie problem. "But mobile still poses a challenge in that the mobile Web isn't the only channel," Brosnan said. "Mobile app usage remains high, especially on iOS, so brands that want to retarget ads on the Web-based app must build a new customer data management infrastructure." Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence of what has been a particularly bloody month in the country.
Iraq has been hit by a wave of bloodshed that has killed some 300 people in the past two weeks alone, raising tensions between the country's Sunni minority and Shiite-led government. The surge in violence has been reminiscent of the sectarian carnage that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
Sunday's deadliest attack took place in the northern city of Mosul, where a car bomb went off at a house early in the morning while a joint army-police unit was conducting door-to-door searches. The blast killed three policemen and one soldier, a provincial police officer said. Twenty people, including four civilians, were wounded.
Also in Mosul, police said militants gunned down a policeman in his car in the city center. Authorities also found a body floating in the Tigris river, shot at close range with hands bound behind the back. Mosul, some 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is a former stronghold of Sunni militants.
In northern Baghdad's Kazimiyah district, militants in a speeding car went on a shooting spree that killed three civilians and wounded another, two police officers said.
And in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the birthplace of the Sunni insurgency led by al-Qaida in Iraq, three soldiers were killed and five wounded in two separate attacks by roadside bombs on their patrols, police and army officers said.
Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to release information.
Insurgent attacks have decreased sharply in Iraq since the height of insurgency, but recent spikes in attacks amid months-old Sunni protests against the Shiite-led government have raised fears that sectarian killings could gain fresh momentum across the country.
Alarmed by a nationwide deterioration in the security situation, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered a reshuffle in senior military ranks.


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The "Genius Babies," and How They Grew
Help Slate tell the story of the Nobel Prize sperm bank.
Click here for the editor's explanatory introduction to this new Slate feature.
Twenty years ago, on an outbuilding of his Southern California estate, tycoon Robert K. Graham began a most remarkable project: the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. Part altruism, part social engineering, part science experiment, the repository was supposed to help reverse the genetic decay Graham saw all around him by preserving and multiplying the best genes of his generation. By the time Graham's repository closed in 1999, his genius sperm had been responsible for more than 200 children.
What happened to them? This is the beginning of a journalistic experiment to find out, an experiment that—as I explain below—needs your assistance. (Also click here to read Slate editor Michael Kinsley's introduction to the project.)
Robert K. Graham was a eugenicist. He was a pessimist about humanity's future. And he was a can-do, self-made multimillionaire. Those qualities fused to inspire the Repository for Germinal Choice. Graham, who made his fortune by inventing shatterproof eyeglasses, feared mankind was in danger because natural selection had stopped working on human beings. He explained his views in a muscular 1971 book, The Future of Man. Over millenniums, nature's brutality had strengthened the human gene pool, allowing the strong and smart to reproduce, while killing the weak before they could. But once man mastered his natural environment, Graham argued, he jumped the evolutionary track. Better living conditions allowed "retrograde humans" to reproduce. In modern America, thanks to cradle-to-grave social welfare programs, these incompetents and imbeciles were swamping the intelligent. This dysgenic crisis would surely bring communism and the regression of mankind. All that could save us, Graham warned, was "intelligent selection": Our best specimens must have more children. Hence the Repository for Germinal Choice.
Graham intended the repository to be a prototype for genius sperm banks all over the country, producing "creative, intelligent people who otherwise might not be born." The children would be future intellectuals, scientists, and leaders and, Graham predicted in a giddy moment, "may stimulate [humanity's] ascent to a new level of being."
So, in the late 1970s, Graham persuaded several Nobel Prize winners in science—either three or five, depending on who's talking—to give him their sperm. Later he recruited dozens of younger scientists for his bank. Graham advertised for mothers in a Mensa magazine. Women had to be married to infertile men, well-educated, and financially comfortable. Soon he had a waiting list. He mailed out a catalog that advertised men such as "Mr. Fuschia," an Olympic gold medallist—"Tall, dark, handsome, bright, a successful businessman and author"; and "Mr. Grey-White … ruggedly handsome, outgoing, and positive, a university professor, expert marksman who enjoys the classics." (The repository revolutionized the sperm bank industry by—oddly for such an avowedly elitist institution—democratizing it: It took donor choice away from doctors and gave it to mothers. Instead of settling for a doctor's paltry offerings, mothers could be demanding customers, requiring as much [or more] accomplishment from a vial of sperm as from her flesh-and-blood husband.)
When the Los Angeles Times publicized the repository in 1980, a furor erupted. Eugenic ideas like Graham's had been mainstream in the United States for the first half of the 20th century. (Graham had even borrowed the idea of a Nobel sperm bank from a scheme proposed by respected Nobelist Hermann Muller in the '30s.) But by the time Graham opened the repository, eugenics had been utterly tarnished by Nazism. It was considered at best elitist, at worst racist and genocidal.
Graham was pilloried and mocked, accused of trying to create a "master race." Critics dubbed it the "Superbaby" program and compared it to Nazi eugenics practices. Ethicists denounced it as a cold, utilitarian approach toward children and an alarming step toward "designer babies." Only one of Graham's Nobel donors, transistor inventor William Shockley, would admit to having contributed sperm. That did not help matters. Shockley's views on race, genes, and intelligence had made him a national pariah, and his association with the repository confirmed suspicion that it was a dastardly racist plot. Demonstrators picketed Graham's Escondido estate. He hired security guards to protect the sperm.
The media's attention soon wandered, Graham stopped talking to the press, and the repository sank from sight. But the babies started arriving. The first birth was heralded in the National Enquirer in early 1982. Soon "genius babies" were being born at a rapid clip. By the time Graham died at age 90 in 1997, the repository claimed 229 offspring, all over the United States and in half a dozen countries. None of the children, despite the bank's reputation, were fathered by Nobel Prize winners: Early on Graham decided Nobelists were too old to be effective donors and relied on his younger scientists.
In the beginning Graham intended the repository to be an experiment and showpiece. He tacked pictures of the children to his office walls. He had parents agree to answer periodic surveys about their children. But he came to learn that his clients did not necessarily share his fascination with eugenic theories. When he mailed a survey in the early '90s, most of the parents ignored it.
So when the repository finally shut in 1999, it left behind a mystery. Except for two families that have discussed their (wonderful) kids publicly, the repository is a blank. No one seems to know what has happened to its children, its parents, its donors.
Why shouldn't we leave it alone? Why should we want to know any more about it? Partly because it's a fascinating riddle—did it live up to its grand promise?—but also because the repository is not simply a peculiar historical footnote. We are entering a new age of eugenics. Cloning is months away, not decades. It is a guide to the future. Scientists will soon be manipulating embryonic genes, knocking out diseases, adding immunity, good looks, who knows what. Building better babies will soon become a science. Eugenics will be chic again (though surely not by that name). As reproductive law scholar Lori Andrews puts it, "private eugenics" has replaced public eugenics. Almost no one subscribes to Graham's civic interest in improving the American "germplasm." But it has been replaced by a very widespread consumer interest: How can I improve my own child?
As this new-genics arrives, it poses ethical questions that give hives to parents, doctors, and lawyers. And the new-genics raises questions about our expectations for our children that will keep child psychologists busy for decades.
The repository and its children matter because they preview this world to come. Graham promised parents smarter, better children than they could have naturally. He used the best science of his time (sperm storage and artificial insemination) to preserve and replicate what he saw as the most valuable genes in the world. New-genics will try to do much the same thing—though more precisely, more microscopically, more scientifically.
The repository families—mothers, fathers, children, and even donors—offer the only human testimony about whether the promise that technology makes better children can be fulfilled. The repository families can tell us how the scientific theory translates into lived human experience. The children can teach about the burdens and joys of genetic expectations. What kinds of demands do their parents place on them? Do they feel extra pressure to achieve because of their genes? Do they want to know about their genetic fathers?
Mothers and fathers can explain how such children alter parental expectations. Do they hold their kids to higher standards than they would have otherwise? Do they tell their children about their parentage? Why or why not? How does the genetic link to an anonymous donor change the relationship between parents and children?
The repository's parents, children, and donors have lessons for the parents and scientists who are grappling with the same questions now that they have grappled with over the last 20 years. It would be wonderful to hear from them—without interfering with their understandable desire for privacy.
Over the next months, Slate asks you to help us try to tell the story of the Repository for Germinal Choice and to find out what happened to its parents, children, and donors. This will be a journalistic experiment in two ways. First, it will unfold before you. As Slate editor Michael Kinsley explains in this "Slate Fare" column, I will write the story as I report it. It will be transparent journalism. As I learn more—or fail to—you will find out here. (In addition to learning about the participants, I will write about how the repository worked, why the sperm donors' offspring rights' movement is growing, what has happened to American eugenics, and how the repository changed the sperm-bank industry.)
The second part of the experiment is even more important. We hope to harness the collaborative power of the Web to make it succeed. I want you to be my sources and guides on this story. So we invite anyone connected with the repository—parents, children, donors, and employees, their friends and families, anyone else—to contact Slate by e-mailing me at email@example.com, calling me at (202) 862-4889, or mailing me at Slate, 1150 17th St. NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20036.
A Critical Note About PRIVACY
The Repository for Germinal Choice, like almost all sperm banks, relied on a veil of privacy. Donors remained anonymous. So did clients. Only Graham and his employees knew who they were. Slate does NOT want to pierce that veil. We respect that privacy. We do NOT want to publish names or identifying characteristics or family secrets. We are only interested in hearing the stories of the repository, in learning about your experience and how it changed you. You have an important story—one that could educate and help others in a similar situation. No one needs to know your name for you to tell that story here.
We hope to publish your own accounts of your experiences, interviews with you, any other method that can convey your story. We will also maintain what we hope will be a vigorous discussion forum about the repository and the ethics of fertility science in " The Fray."
Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or comments. And please feel free to e-mail this article to a friend, listserv, bbs, or Web site that might be interested.
The Seed Series
Part 3: The first responses
Part 5: An update and a preview
Part 7: An update on the donor list
Part 9: The Nobel sperm bank celebrity
Part 10: The donors
Part 11: A look at the parents
Part 12: The rise of the smart sperm shopper
Part 13: The genius babies grow up
Click here for Michael Kinsley's explanatory introduction to Seed.
Join the Discussion
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If you are interested in sharing any information about the Repository for Germinal Choice, send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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California agriculture's economy cannot fall much lower, so maybe the bottom is at hand, according to Daniel Sumner, director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center.
And, the bottom is identified when the rebound begins.
UC economist Sumner told the 2003 Spring Outlook Forum in Sacramento, Calif., sponsored by AIC and the California Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers that there is "light at the end of the tunnel" for "several commodities." He did not name them.
Even though the bottom of the trough may be near, he predicted the economic challenges facing the state's No. 1 industry will not go away anytime soon and "more adjustments" will occur. Nevertheless, he said the "long term prospects for California agriculture are sound."
Gross California farm income has been flat for a decade, which is not bad compared to other less-diversified states. California ag income does not jump around like other less diversified states and typically there are several bright spots to keep it at least stable. Unfortunately, over the last few years "almost everything has been in the tank," Sumner said. That was punctuated by a drop in net f arm income to about $3.5 billion in 2001 from highs of around $6 billion in the mid-1990s.
And, he does not expect 2002 net farm income figures to be released soon to show any increase over 2001 and likely a decrease.
Costs to rise
Sumner predicted farm costs will continue to rise. Labor, not energy, is the biggest contributor to that rise. That will continue via political pressure. While actual wages to farm workers are expected to increase, Sumner said other factors will drive labor costs even higher for farmers. Public policy decisions will increase labor costs to farmers that will not end up in workers' pockets.
Federal crop subsidies will continue to underpin major California crops like cotton and rice. The 2002 Farm Bill also helped non-program crops when it allowed farmers to update crop bases, added Sumner. This will take pressure off non-program crops because it gives growers incentives to maintain program crops and yields rather than switching into non-program crops, many of which are already suffering from too much acreage and production for the market.
The 2002 Farm Bill is a "clear commitment" that the federal government "does not have a problem" continuing farm program subsidy payments into the foreseeable future. While a budget deficit could alter that commitment, Sumner said the "coalition supporting farm programs is pretty darn solid" as evidenced by the passage of a $3 billion disaster assistance program this year.
With roughly 50 percent of the income from cotton and rice production coming from the federal farm program, continuation of those federal support programs is important to California's overall agricultural economy.
Raisin problems
Another major segment of California agriculture, grapes, is highly regionalized and segmented. One of those sectors, raisins, has experienced three years of "terrible prices" and nothing will change this season, predicted Sumner.
The wine grape industry oversupply bubble has burst in the southern and central portion of the San Joaquin Valley where the ratio of bearing to non-bearing vineyards dropped dramatically from 1997 to 2001.
It is also down in the Central Coast wine grape growing region, but not as dramatic as in the Central Valley.
However, just the opposite has happened in the North Coast where the ratio of non-bearing to bearing is actually higher.
"Does that mean the ball if ready to burst in the North Coast? It has not yet, but prices are moderating," said Sumner.
California's dairy industry has been the most robust segment over the past decade. It now represents 20 percent of the state's total ag economy. However, prices have plummeted of late "no one is making money at the dairy prices we see today. Projections are that prices will rise in the second half of the year — some say 10 percent — others say that is too optimistic," said Sumner.
Unlike many segments of California agriculture, the dairy industry is a part of a much larger national industry. Cooperatives dominate the dairy industry nationwide, and Sumner said dairymen are proposing a voluntary assessment to collect fund to pay dairymen to reduce milk production.
Questions approach
"Voluntary supply control efforts have a long history of not working," but because the dairy industry is so dominated by cooperatives, Sumner said advocates of the voluntary program believe they can get 70 to 80 percent of producers nationwide to support such an assessment and successfully reduce milk production and force prices higher.
A federal dairy deficiency program is in place, but it is written to exclude California. It is limited to the production of only the first 100 cows in a dairy. For any dairy with more than 450 cows, it is a net loser program and that covers most California dairies.
Sumner called the program one that would allow small dairies outside of California to "get out of business more slowly." If the voluntary program works and prices increase, payments in the federal deficiency program would go down and speed up the demise of small dairies.
Eighty percent of what California produces remains in the domestic market. The rest is exported, and exports have fallen from 1997 highs contributing to the overall economic malaise.
Cotton, almonds, prunes, rice, walnuts and pistachios rely more heavily on exports than some of the state's other commodities. The value of the dollar compared to world currencies influence export sales, but trade policy also influences it.
Sumner said most segments of California benefited from past free trade agreements, and he predicted there would be gradual opening of more markets for California products through emerging free pacts with other nations and hemispheres.
"The Bush administration is pushing to open markets," said Sumner.
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Should eBay Merge With Amazon?
from the growth-strategy-or-trouble-ahead? dept
The real question might be what would Amazon do with eBay if it controlled it. There's something to be said for just having access to all those eBay users -- but could Amazon then turn them (and eBay itself) into something even more compelling? Or would tinkering with eBay be more trouble than it's worth? It might also raise questions about what Amazon would do with Skype. If anything, it seems like any such move would be quite risky. Merging two large companies with unique cultures is astoundingly difficult and often causes a lot more problems than bargained for. Amazon has been trying out a lot of innovative things lately, and trying to digest a company like eBay would risk a tremendous distraction that could hurt those projects.


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CAMBRIDGE, UK - Oct. 20, 2004 - ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], announced today, at the first ARM® Developers' Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., that it has released the latest PrimeXsys® Platform based on the ARM1176JZF-S™ 32-bit processor core to their lead Partner, STMicroelectronics. This latest ARM PrimeXsys Platform technology is being designed into STMicroelectronics Nomadik™ family of multimedia application processors.
"As an integral part of ST's Nomadik™ family of application processors' evolution, the ARM1176JZF-S PrimeXsys Platform with TrustZone technology will help ST to continue to offer the highest level of performance and security," said Richard Chesson, director of Marketing, Multimedia Platform Unit in ST. "By combining Nomadik's world-leading multimedia performance with the ARM1176JZF-S processor's computing power and security features, we can better deliver the rich multimedia content and experience, as well as application performance that customers of new mobile services and operators will demand."
The new PrimeXsys Platform has been developed using the AXI™ Backplane, which provides a data-efficient, highly-optimized link from the processor, through the Level-2 cache and memory controller, to external memory. The platform also implements ARM TrustZone technology for enhanced security, ARM Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) technology for power efficiency, and CoreSight™ technology for easier system debug and faster time-to-market.
The platform is the first reference design for ARM TrustZone technology; a solution designed to support and meet the needs for enhanced security in next-generation consumer and wireless devices. TrustZone technology includes the ARM TrustZone architecture extensions as well as the recently announced TrustZone software. In the ARM1176JZF-S PrimeXsys Platform, security is treated as a system-level concern where tight integration of hardware with trusted software delivers significant benefits in terms of time-to-market and reduced risk. ARM TrustZone technology helps to protect the operating system, the protocol stack and the network against attack as well as securing users' mobile data and downloadable applications, games and media content.
Ongoing consumer demand for increased performance in applications such as mobile multimedia and digital TV has led to more complex systems and the need for significant in-system performance gains. Due to these demands, developers have become far more aware of the power consumption of the processor. The ARM1176JZF-S processor within the PrimeXsys Platform is the first ARM processor to integrate support for ARM Intelligent Energy Manager technology, which increases the battery life of handheld portable devices by optimally balancing processor workload and power consumption. This enables end users to take advantage of the latest mobile applications for significantly longer intervals before their device requires re-charging.
In addition to improved performance, the inclusion of CoreSight technology for system level debug and trace, equips Partners with system-wide monitoring and profiling capabilities in one package, reducing system integration time by up to 40 percent. The technology is ideal for engineers looking to develop high-performance SoC designs for multimedia, wireless and set-top box applications.
Verification is one of the biggest investments when developing a SoC and the PrimeXsys Platform delivers a fully configurable verification environment. This verification environment provides a mechanism to run concurrent tests to establish data flow interactions in the PrimeXsys Platform-based SoC system enabling system designers to complete their high-performance ARM1176JZF-S processor-based SoC rapidly and with low risk.
"A tightly integrated subsystem around the CPU core fundamentally determines overall system performance, security and power efficiency," said Bryan Lawrence, product marketing manager, PrimeXsys Platforms, ARM. "The ARM1176JZF-S PrimeXsys Platform significantly enhances design productivity while enabling design teams to customize and differentiate the design for their specific application and market requirements."
About AMBA 3 AXI Backplane
The AXI backplane provides a data-efficient, highly-optimized link from the processor, through the Level-2 cache and memory controller, to external memory. The L220 AXI Level-2 Cache Controller unleashes the full performance of the ARM 32-bit processor family and typically increases the system performance by between 50 percent to more than 100 percent. This maximizes the performance of ARM11™ family-class processors even when used with slower, low-power SDRAM memory.
AMBA™ 3 technology is the latest revision of a de-facto industry standard which since 1995 has been adopted by a large part of the industry, including more than 90 percent of ARM Partners. The technology was created by ARM in close cooperation with over 30 ARM Partners and provides features which enable the design of tomorrow's high performance systems through efficient implementation, and with the cost savings of IP reuse. AMBA 3 technology is the only IP interface which is designed to support all the advanced features provided by the ARM architecture. The specifications are provided openly by ARM and are free of charge.
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GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (Reuters) - Almost four centuries after Africans started being shipped to North America as slaves, the first U.S. president of African ancestry on Thursday visited an infamous embarkation point for those destined for lives in chains.
In his first - and, many Africans say, long-overdue - extended tour of the continent since entering the White House, President Barack Obama focused on political and economic issues while also recalling a painful chapter in Africa's and America's past.
On the first leg of an eight-day visit he brought his family to the House of Slaves, a fort built in the late 18th century on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal as a transit point for human beings before they were shipped across the Atlantic. It is now a museum.
"It's a very powerful moment...to be able to come here and to fully appreciate the magnitude of the slave trade, to get a sense in a very intimate way of the incredible inhumanity and hardship that people faced," Obama said in brief remarks.
"More than anything what it reminds us of is that we have to remain vigilant when it comes to the defense of people's human rights."
Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. First lady Michelle Obama is a descendant of slaves.
Junius Rodriguez, a historian at Eureka College near Peoria, Illinois, said Obama's visit was a reminder of the "remarkable transformation" the United States had undergone.
"We have moved from a society in which African Americans were not viewed as citizens, in which social, economic equality was not provided, to one in which we could elect an African American president," he said before the visit.
Many Africans feel a bond with Obama but have voiced disappointment that he has not engaged with the continent as much as previous presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
During his first term, Obama's only African trip was a one-day stopover in Ghana, and many Africans have been impatient for him to make an extended tour.
"It's a real pleasure for us that the world has advanced enough for a black man to be president of the United States," said Abdoul Aziz Signane, a tailor, purchasing an Obama T-shirt at a shop in the Senegalese capital Dakar.
"It makes us very proud. That's why I came to buy a T-shirt so I can welcome him and tell him 'We love you Obama, a lot.'"
Obama toured tiny cells that once housed men, women, and children before they were taken in chains through the House of Slaves' infamous "door of no return" to waiting ships.
Eloi Coly, curator of the House of Slaves, welcomed Obama's visit. "It's ... an occasion to put the slave house on the map of the world," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, Obama held talks with Senegalese President Macky Sall and met with lawyers and judges at the Supreme Court, kicking off his tour with praise for Africa's democratic progress and a pledge to promote trade.
Upon their arrival on the island, the Obamas were greeted by a group of chanting men as well as women and children dressed in colorful, full-length dresses.
While George W. Bush gave a speech at Goree Island in 2003 in which he called slavery a sin, Obama did not use the occasion to make a big speech. A major address is scheduled for Sunday at the University of Cape Town.
Obama - who visited Cape Coast Castle, another slave port, during his Ghana trip in 2009 - met with civic leaders in Goree before returning to the mainland.
His visit raised the question of whether the time has come for a U.S. president to apologize for slavery.
"The magnitude of slavery is unimaginable," Harvard historian Walter Johnson said. "Can Obama heal that wound with a single speech and with the extraordinary symbolism of his visit as U.S. president, is that going to close the circle? Absolutely not."
An apology is seen as unlikely. A sovereign admission of culpability would open the door to a reparations process, something the Obama administration is unlikely to initiate.
(additional reporting by Jeff Mason and Cheikh Mane; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Andrew Roche)


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Carlos Zambrano might have had enough of his bad starts. He also might be done with baseball.
Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade said pitcher Carlos Zambrano cleaned out his locker and "walked out" on the team after giving up five homers in Friday night's 10-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves.
Quade said Zambrano was talking about ending his playing career.
"I'm really disappointed," Quade said. "His locker is empty. He walked out on 24 guys ... I don't know where he's gone or what he's doing.
"He's talking about retiring ... but I can't have a guy walking out on 24 guys."
Zambrano was ejected by plate umpire Tim Timmons in the fifth inning after throwing two inside pitches to Chipper Jones, the second going all the way to the backstop. The brushback pitches followed homers by Freddie Freeman and Dan Uggla.
Jones and Jose Constanza also connected against Zambrano (9-7), who gave up eight runs and eight hits. The five homers allowed set a career high.
Quade said he didn't talk with Zambrano.
"I'm running a ballgame and I've got 24 guys I care about, so I didn't have time to speak to him," Quade said. "I come in here and I see an empty locker. I figure he's decided he's had enough."
When asked if Zambrano would be welcome back, Quade said, "I don't know."
"All I know is, it was a bad night," Quade said. "And that's allowed.
"He had a bad night. But he had a real bad night after it was over. You don't leave your teammates."
Outfielder Marlon Byrd said he would reach out to Zambrano.
"Hopefully the rumors aren't true and he'll be back tomorrow and we can talk about it," Byrd said.
Byrd said he didn't think Zambrano walked out on him.
"If he goes home for good, then it's a different story," Byrd said.
Freeman and Uggla hit back-to-back homers in the fifth to give Atlanta an 8-1 lead. Following a visit from pitching coach Mark Riggins, Zambrano threw one pitch inside to Jones and was immediately tossed after the Atlanta star had to jump back to avoid another inside pitch.
As Jones stood at the plate, staring at Zambrano, the Braves came out of their dugout. Timmons rushed toward the dugout, cautioning the players not to come out any farther.
Zambrano looked back at Jones as he walked off the field, then was shown on TV smiling before leaving the dugout for the clubhouse.
Zambrano dropped to 2-5 with a 6.08 ERA in 13 career starts against Atlanta. The right-hander has dropped his last five decisions against the Braves.
Starlin Castro homered and Alfonso Soriano had two RBIs for the Cubs, who had won nine of 11.
Uggla went 3 for 3 and scored three times. His streak, which began on July 5, is the longest in the majors this season. He has raised his batting average from .173 to .229.
Tommy Holmes holds the franchise record with a 37-game hitting streak as a member of the Boston Braves in 1945.
Atlanta grabbed control with three runs in the third. Zambrano retired the first two batters before Freeman singled and Uggla was hit by a pitch. Jones then hit a drive to center for his 10th homer, making it 5-1.
Atlanta rookie Mike Minor (2-2) gave up three runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings. The left-hander allowed three hits in the sixth, including a two-run double by Soriano. Braves left fielder Martin Prado almost caught Soriano's drive, but the ball bounced out of his glove when he crashed into the wall.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets rose Monday after surveys showed a recovery in China's manufacturing gained momentum in November.
HSBC's Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 50.5 in November on a 100-point scale on which numbers above 50 indicate activity is expanding. It was the first expansion in 13 months. The reading in October was 49.5.
That comes on top of the release Saturday of a state-sanctioned survey, the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing's monthly Purchasing Managers' Index, which showed an improvement to 50.6 from 50.2 in October.
The PMI index measures overall manufacturing activity by surveying numerous indicators including orders, employment and actual production.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.7 percent to 9,508.26. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index added 0.2 percent to 22,067.07. South Korea's Kospi gained 0.3 percent to 1,938.93. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia rose. Mainland Chinese shares fell marginally.
The Chinese numbers are rare good news for the world economy, which has slowed as Europe's chronic debt crisis worsened and the American economy stagnated.
"This confirms that Chinese economy continues to recover gradually," said Hongbin Qu, chief economist for China research at HSBC.
On Friday, U.S. stocks ended nearly flat amid ongoing budget negotiations in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average rose less than 0.1 percent to close at 13,025.58. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose marginally to close at 1,416.18. The Nasdaq composite fell nearly 0.1 percent to 3,010.24.
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Benchmark oil for January delivery was up 26 cents to $89.17 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 84 cents to close at $88.91 in New York on Friday.
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