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Arsenal end trophy drought with FA Cup win
Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
Four-time champion Roger Federer and
two-time runner-up Andy Murray will clash in a marquee semifinal Friday at the
Australian Open.
Wednesday's quarterfinals in Melbourne saw the second-seeded Federer outlast
seventh seed and 2008 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 7-6 (7-4),
3-6, 6-3 in the nightcap, while a third-seeded Murray charged past unseeded
Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 at Rod Laver Arena.
The former world No. 1 Federer is the reigning Wimbledon champion who last
titled in Melbourne three years ago, while Murray is the reigning U.S. Open
champ who lost in back-to-back Aussie finals in 2010 and 2011.
Federer and Murray will square off in two days, while the other men's semi
will pit current world No. 1 Novak Djokovic against fourth seed David Ferrer
on Thursday. Djokovic has won the last two titles here and was also the Aussie
Open champion in 2008.
The 17-time men's Grand Slam king Federer reached his 10th straight Aussie
semi by holding off a game Tsonga. The super Swiss is now 9-3 lifetime versus
Tsonga, including 3-1 in Grand Slam action. Federer also beat Tsonga in
an Aussie Open semifinal in 2010.
Federer snuck past Tsonga despite striking only six aces, compared to 20 for
the match loser. Tsonga also recorded more service breaks than Federer (5-4)
and more winners 66-49, but when the Day-10 smoke cleared, the Swiss master
landed on top, as he so often does.
The two stars were embroiled in a tight battle through four sets, but Federer
took charge in the fifth by running out to a 4-1 lead. He would hold on from
there to set-up the much-anticipated battle with Murray.
Murray thoroughly dominated Chardy on Wednesday and has yet to drop a set at
this Down Under fortnight.
The British star raced out to a 4-0 lead in the opening set. Chardy earned a
break while winning the next three games before Murray regained control and
never looked back.
"I started the match pretty well I thought," Murray said. "Then when he got a
break back in the first set, I became a bit tight."
The 25-year-old Murray committed just three unforced errors while taking the
second set in 32 minutes. He needed only 35 more minutes to reach his 12th
Grand Slam semifinal.
"I've done a good job so far in this tournament. I can't be disappointed with
where my game's at," Murray said.
Murray shrugged off comments by the British media that he was upset with an
almost full schedule of day matches, while Federer was given cooler night
slots at Laver.
"The scheduling for me is part and parcel of playing in really any tennis
tournament," Murray said. "It's tough to make the schedule perfect for every
single player."
Murray will face Federer for a 20th time, with the British star leading their
lifetime series, 10-9. Murray, however, has never beaten Federer at a Grand
Slam event (0-3).
On Thursday, the five-time major titlist Djokovic will meet Ferrer for a 15th
time, with the Serbian star holding a 9-5 lifetime series lead. Djokovic beat
Ferrer in the quarterfinals here a year ago and in 2008. The Serb is 4-0 in
their career Grand Slam encounters.

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David Stern doesn't mince words, and, in this case, his outspoken nature revealed the unnamed source that provided details of a private meeting on Wednesday between Dwight Howard and Orlando Magic executives.
Howard's agent, Dan Fegan, responded to the commissioner's accusations Friday, confirming he released information but only after other sources made media members aware of the meeting.
Although player agents are commonly believed to be unnamed sources, Stern said Howard's free agency saga has a flavor of its own.
"It's very unique, especially if it's driven by a quote source that happens to be Dwight's agent," Stern told USA TODAY. "'A source in the meeting.' Oh, OK, who might that be?"
Stern said he didn't believe Orlando Magic general manager Rob Hennigan or CEO Alex Martins were behind the leaks.
Fegan felt differently. In an email to ABCNews.com, Fegan wrote that he and Howard's business manager were reluctant to speak with Orlando Magic officials and believed they released information on the then-upcoming meeting.
Both during and after a meeting in which Howard reiterated he wanted to be traded, media members sought confirmation on details they gathered from other sources, Fegan told ABCNews.com. Fegan said he wanted to ensure reporters were given accurate information.
"After receiving these media inquiries," Fegan said, "I called Rob and left several messages expressing concern that what had occurred in the meeting was not going to be accurately reported—as had happened on previous occasions—and that we were going to respond to the media inquiries to make sure that reports were accurate."
Fegan's approach wasn't anything uncommon. Media members often receive tips from player agents and team officials in exchange for anonymity. Reasons for leaks vary. Teams and agents trying to improve their position or control the public perception of talks are often suspected of fueling the information.


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With classes set to begin Monday morning, here's the on-the-ground view of what life in a traditional Philadelphia public school looks like:
Fewer staff. More students. Basic supplies at a premium. Money for discretionary spending non-existent.
For a school district that's closed 24 schools and shed 3,000 staffers over the past few months, it's the most contentious school opening in recent memory.
One day this week, Kristin Luebbert leaned over the copy machine at the Bache-Martin School in the city's Fairmount section, making duplicates of her first-day-of-school icebreaker.
"It just asks them, like, 'What was the best day of my life? Who's my favorite relative?' Just little things that make them feel at ease," she said.
The pieces of paper that whir through the hulking machine are her own. Luebbert, a reading and social studies teacher, had to go out and buy it herself.
"This is my free ream of paper that I got from Staples last week and got a rebate for, so that's where I got my paper," she said. "Everybody was down there getting their paper because otherwise we're really not going to have any."
When she's done making copies, she leans down and reopens the tray to the machine.
"Yeah, you've got to make sure you take all your paper," she said. "Although we're really nice to each other and loan each other when we run out, still, you never leave paper in the machine because it's 'your' paper."
Paper. It's become a symbol of the greater woes facing a school district in deep financial turmoil. It's a basic need that, even as schools open, the district says it can't promise.
Also add these to this list of what's missing: a full-time guidance counselor in every school, an assistant principal in every school. Extracurricular activities outside of fall sports.
So what is the district promising? Classrooms across the city packed to the contracted maximum.
Leubbert says, academically, Bache-Martin's second graders would ideally be in classes of 22, but at this point the roll sheet is currently over the 30 maximum stipulated by the union contract.
"What [the administration] downtown hopes is that everybody who says they're going to show up isn't going to show up," she speculated. "This school has a history of everybody showing up and more."
In this situation, teachers like Luebbert know they'll end up working longer hours and digging deeper into their own pockets in hopes of covering for these shortfalls. But in doing this, many fear that they are letting the state government off the hook for what they see as inadequate funding.
Luebbert worried it might be a mistake "if we make it seem OK by doing everything by driving ourselves crazy and running ourselves ragged, and taking on extra work."
But the other option, shortchanging the kids, seems unappetizing to her, too: "You want it to run smoothly for the children. You don't really want it to run smoothly for the district."
All these cuts represent the district's attempt to right its financial ship by only paying for expenses for which it knows it'll have the cash.
In the spring, district officials said it would take an additional $304 million to provide services similar to last year. So far the district says it can only count on $83 million in new money cobbled together over the summer, with about three quarters of that coming from the city. The district found $16 million in its own savings and $2 million came from the state. Another $45 million could come from the state, but only if the state education secretary is satisfied the district is pursuing a robust enough "reform agenda," including changes in teachers' compensation and work rules.
The district has asked its labor unions for $133 million in concessions, but to this point, even though the teachers' contract expired at the end of August, both sides still seem far from agreement.
Karen Thomas, principal at Cook Wissahickon in Roxborough, says her school's operating expense budget (in other words, exclusive of salaries) is a quarter of what it was last year: "You're just sort of buying the very, very bottom-level basic things to keep the building open, but that doesn't provide for anything else."
On top of that, she's lost a counselor, four academic support assistants, a full-time "dean of students," and a financial officer. Thomas says these cuts are not only forcing her to reduce school programs, but are making some of her existing staff reconsider their career paths.
"Everybody's looking to get out," she said. "The scariest thing is the young teachers who've been teaching two, three, four years, who say, 'I'm just going to go get an MBA and get out of this business.' And some of them are phenomenal teachers. I mean 'naturals,' like amazing, and they're going to leave the profession because they're sick of it. They're tired of the politics."
Despite all the cuts and the yearly budget crises, many teachers - like South Philadelphia High's Barbara Keating - remain committed and determined to shelter their students from the full wrath of the cuts.
At her school, the challenge is especially big: Between incoming freshman and students coming over from the now shuttered Bok High School, Southern will have about 1,000 more students this year compared to last.
"This is the task that we've been handed," Keating said. "As professionals and people who care about teaching and care about the students, you know, just 'get it done.' It has to be done so you have to find a way to get it done."
Keating's principal, Otis Hackney, takes the same view. For much of the summer, before secretaries were rehired, he was pretty much it in terms of school staff. When the doorbell rang, he hustled out to collect packages. Now, he says, it's show time.
"It's like running a play. There may be chaos backstage, but the audience isn't supposed to know it," he said. "The curtain should open at the right time and the performers should go on stage. We have to do things so that when the students show up, especially many of them in a brand-new school, things feel right."
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Cave contents: 16 R12RS, 13 Toyota Tacoma, 03 Simplicity Legacy, 97 Stihl FS75, Dewalt DW625 & SawStop PCS175
1) My expectations are never low enough & 2) Incompetence is infinite ........David Brooks
As I and others noted. It seems to be the short / local rides that are less exciting first. I still enjoy travel / longer trips. Have become somewhat of a museum rat lately.
Considering the National Air & Space museum this spring. And [if] N/York is back to normal? perhaps the Billy Joel museum on Long Island as well. Always wanted to ride to the end of L/Island, just haven't..yet.
For the more local stuff. Been thinking about either another old Air-Head, or maybe an older Harley...always liked Pans.
I have two Metric cruisers to sell first, just to free up some cash, and gain some garage space .
The Billy Joel place is cool, but Motorcyclepedia up in Newburgh, NY is really the place if your into a motorcycle museum! The Cannonball Rally left from there this year, what a spectacle!
I bought an HD Superglide after some neck and shoulder injuries forced me to sell my '04 K1200GT a couple of years ago. I just couldn't handle the sport touring position any longer. It was nice, but really wasn't my kind of bike so I sold that and bought the RT this year.
The 25 year old might be a little too young, Interesting idea, but still too crazy! Maybe a 35 year old....
Not yet, but my other passions are gaining ground.
There was a time, from my late teens until my early forties when riding was the most important thing in my life. A wife, kids and a renewed passion for music has begun to push motorcycles to the sideline.
I used to ride 25-30K km per year, now I'm down to 3-5k km. That would have bothered me in the past, but now it seems normal. I work, spend alot of time with my wife and kids (frequently in the sidecar), sing in a blues band, play guitar, ski, etc...
Something has to give.
I believe I will always ride both two and three wheel bikes but probably less than I had planned.
I always planned on buying a brand new bike (never had one) when I retired, but now I'm thinking a custom guitar would get more use...
I love bikes...but I also love my life!
speed safely
Go play golf...go fishing...good to have other outs....
For me winter is all about skiing...gives me time to reflect on the past season ridding look at the pics...
Don't get offended, but . . . what if it's you, not motorcycling? A lot of men slip unawares into depression when they retire. It manifests itself as lethargy and loss of interest in the things that used to bring pleasure. It's usually temporary provided the individual makes a good adjustment to retirement. Some of us can't. After three years I'm struggling against a sense of feeling that I've outlived my value to the world. It's subtle; above the neck I realize it's ridiculous; below the neck is sometimes a different story.
Just a thought.
Apart from concerns over whether they have anything left to contribute, some folks just need the stimulation of ongoing work.
"When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."
When she does retire we're going to experience a very significant change in lifestyle. Like 40427, I'm very apprehensive about that; like his wife, my wife encourages me not to worry about it.
She and I are wired the same way: we have an inherent need to "contribute." I have most of my life, one way or another, but now --- I guess I haven't found the volunteer service that "fits." I guess I should keep looking.
Or sell cars at a "We tote the note" lot.
However, with the two new-to-me bikes, my interest in motorcycling is refreshing itself.


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Will the EarPods work with other smartphones and audio devices?
The new EarPods look like incredible headphones and I'm wondering if I can use them with my Android device since I'm not an iPhone user. I understand the remote and volume control are software based and thus not supported, but what about the audio enhancements.
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Yes the EarPods work with other smartphones and audio devices. I have been using EarPods with my HTC Wildfire S.As for the audio control it works for it too.
- Answered by Yousuf S
The EarPods use a standard 3.5mm jack which means it'll work with all kinds of music players & Android phones. Was that your question?
- Answered by Amr K
Work on my Galaxy Nexus.
The play/pause button works too, and tapping twice will skip track, but 3 taps for previous and volume up/down do not work. Sound good though.
- Answered by Rob A
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and based on the "most useful" responses I read on this thread, I purchased a pair of EarPods with remote and mic to use as my hands-free device. The audio works (I can hear the other person) but the mic does not (they cannot hear me). Additionally, when I tried to use the mic, apparently the person I was calling heard a noise similar to a dial-up modem. Very disappointed, as these are the only headphones I have ever tried that fit comfortably in my ears and I have no plans to buy an iPhone.
- Answered by Corey E from Hackettstown
I just tested my pair on my Lumia 635 (running Windows Phone 8.1) and I found out that the following functions work:
• Play/Pause works just fine.
• Holding down the center button for a short time activates Cortana, and the mic on the accessory can also be used.
• Double-pressing the center button skips forward a track, and three times goes back one or restarts the current one, if a song is already playing.
The following functions DO NOT work:
• Volume up/down using the remote buttons
• rewind/fast forward using the center button
I know this doesn't answer the original question, but I wrote this response for people using a Windows Phone with the EarPods.
- Answered by David F from Berkeley Heights
The earpods work on HTC phones (Android & Windows Phones). They do not work on Samsung & Nokia phones. I'm a big fan of these ear pods but I do not use an iphone. It looks like pretty much everyone on this thread is wrong. The headset works on any device with a 3.5mm jack, but the mic only works on HTC phones. There may be an exception here and there but this is what I found in my testing.
- Answered by Sai C from Fremont
Audio probably works, but unless your Android device understands the input coming from the volume up and down, and the pause/play button, it may not work well to control your music.
- Answered by Howard D I from Dallas
EarPods, at least as headphones, work anywhere you can plug them in. As for the microphone and controls, pretty much all current Android smartphones can take advantage of them. Other audio devices, such as old or uncommon MP3 players (aka non-iPod) probably can't make use of the mic and controls, but the sound will still work just fine.
- Answered by Paul H from Dallas
we have 3 pairs and they do NOT work with my Samsung S3 or my work Nokia Lumia 710, they do work on my daughters iPhone 5c and my wife's iPhone 5S. All i get when i make calls on my Samsung or windows phone is a high pitch noise on the other end and the person cant hear me at all.
I dont understand this since it should be a standard 3.5 jack and my samsung ear buds work in the iPhone, tested this with all 3 sets of the ear Apple Earpods and get the same results.
- Answered by William R from Fuquay Varina
They will function as headphones in anything with a 3.5mm jack, but the remote and mic will only work on an iDevice.
- Answered by Alexander O
By audio enhancements, I assume you are referring to the enhanced sound output that is supposed to result from the improved earbud design. If that's the case, then yes you will have the same sound audio enhancements as someone using an Apple device.
- Answered by Joshua C from Provo
They will work but the volume and/or mic features might not...same problem in the previous version of them
- Answered by Bradley W from Kennesaw
Yes. The microphone and headphones will work with other devices that have a 3.5mm headset jack. Volume controls are not supported.
- Answered by Jonathan C from Markham
it really depends, if the audio enhancement is software based then it wont on other devices. If the enhancement is the hardware then it will work with the other devices. like you said yes the controls wont work on other devices. For me my android the play/pause button works and the mic but thats it.
- Answered by Reece H
the basic features should work with all phones with the 3.5 mm jack, but volume buttons may have some issues with other devices
- Answered by Shashank S from College Station
The only thing is on the Moto G the volume buttons don't work. I wish they did but that is only a small downside to people that use an iPhone.
So if you are using the new Moto G then i wouldn't recommend this product.
- Answered by Matthew T from Keswick
Not completely. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note, and the volume controls don't work. But the sound and center button seem to work fine. The sound is great too.
- Answered by Jeremy T from Houston
Almost everyone is wrong. These earpods are not just headset. Apple uses technology which doesn't work on all devices, but probably on most it does. E. x. It works on Galaxy Ace with Ginger Bread, but don't work on Sony Ericsson WT19i with ICS and my old TV. I don't know if it is because of operating system version or hardware (WT19i is better in performance than Galaxy Ace)
- Answered by Paulius V
They are like any standard earbuds. The remote and mic are not available with android devices. All of the other audio features built in should work just fine.
- Answered by Nicky C from Dix Hills
The audio enhancements aren't software related, so yes, the EarPods will work with Android devices that use the standard 3.5 mm jack (which is pretty much all of them). Some Android phones do support the remote functions as well.
- Answered by Samuel B from Fort Mill


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October 13, 2008
The next time you are watching your kids play soccer, I would like you to think about some other kids, halfway around the world, and their soccer balls. Because unlike your children, for whom the ball is a symbol of childhood, for children in India the ball is often a symbol of stolen childhood.
Gurmeet Kumar is a 10-year-old boy living in one of India's poorest areas. Earlier this year his baby brother got sick and needed medicine—medicine his poor mother couldn't afford. So she borrowed the equivalent of less than $100 from a local soccer ball maker, using Gurmeet's freedom as a kind of collateral.
Gurmeet, whose story was told on HBO's Real Sports, works 10 to 15 hours a day stitching together soccer balls to pay off the debt, which he probably never will. The soccer ball makers charge "exorbitant" interest rates that double the size of the debt every few months. Barring the unforeseen, Gurmeet's children and perhaps even their children will have to work off that debt.
By the way, Gurmeet's baby brother died.
What some people call "debt bondage"—and what decent people call "slavery"—is an important part of how many of the world's soccer balls are made. Many of the rest are made using child labor. Indian children, instead of going to school and playing, are paid five cents an hour to sow together the balls' panels, including the one that tells buyers that the ball is "child labor free."
The panel is there because this isn't the first time that soccer balls were found to be made using child labor. In the 1990s, the child laborers were Pakistanis. The controversy caused sporting goods companies to adopt a code that banned the use of child labor and certified the moral bona fides of their products.
Oops! Industry representatives told HBO's Bernard Goldberg that they didn't know what was happening in India. Goldberg took their word for it, but pointed out that he and his crew, working without any help from Indian authorities, had no trouble finding many instances of child labor and "debt bondage." It makes you wonder just how hard the companies really were looking.
Soccer balls are only one of many consumer goods being made by child labor. As the business magazine Forbes put it, "That garden stone, handmade carpet or embroidered T-shirt you just bought was probably made by child labor."
Nonetheless, the only way sporting goods companies will live up to their promise is if we hit the where it hurts: their bottom line. Every soccer mom and dad should refuse to buy balls made by companies with a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude toward child labor and "debt bondage."
So please visit our website, BreakPoint.org, for more information on soccer balls and child labor.
In the meantime, we Christians should be setting the example—indeed, lead the way. The abolition of slavery and laws against child labor were largely the product of Christian efforts, and we should sustain those efforts.
William Wilberforce asked his fellow Britons to think of the slave as a "man and brother"—so I'm asking you to imagine your children robbed of their childhood, making balls they can only dream of playing with.
Chuck Colson's daily BreakPoint commentary airs each weekday on more than one thousand outlets with an estimated listening audience of one million people. BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today's news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print.
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A baby girl delivered by firefighters at a gas station to the surprise of her mother and father breathed easy on Wednesday, swaddled in a new blanket and hat at Simi Valley Hospital.
Parents, Jason and Ruth Hensley, celebrated with a little champagne and a thankful prayer for a healthy baby girl named Sarah Analise.
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"You pull into a gas station and you think there's no way this can turn out well and it did," Jason Hensley said.
Added Ruth: "She's going to hear a lot about this story, I'm sure."
The unexpected delivery happened at a Mobil gas station in Simi Valley just after midnight Wednesday.
A few hours of labor at Kaiser Hospital in Woodland Hills and they were told they could go back home to Simi Valley.
"As we got on the freeway she started saying, 'I can't resist anymore,'" Jason Hensley said. "Then she started to scream and as she started screaming I thought, 'I want to scream, too.'"
They pulled up next to a pump, and Jason Hensley called 911.
"I was really scared," Ruth Hensley said. "I could feel her head pushing against me. I could feel she was about to come out."
Ventura County firefighters arrived to bring the 7-pound, 11 ounce baby girl into the world, blissfully unaware she had everybody so pumped up.
"I think we can definitely say that last night was probably the most terrifying night of our lives," Ruth Hensley said.


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The 22-year-old was a starter in all three of his seasons at Southern California, catching 248 passes for 3,655 yards and 29 touchdowns.
During his sophomore season, Lee won the Biletnikoff Award for the nation's top receiver and the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year after catching 118 passes for 1,721 yards and 14 touchdowns.
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Hot business deals were happening today in cold Helsinki, Finland. Nokia and GPS maker Navteq announced today a
definitive agreement for the purchase of Navteq, valued at $8.1 billion.
Nokia will pay $78 in cash for each share of Navteq including outstanding
The acquisition is nearly finalized, having been approved by the board of
directors of each company and now only awaits NAVTEQ shareholder approval.
The cell-phone GPS market has been rapidly growing, with many users looking to
find directions on-the-go with their cell phones. Nokia says that Navteq
will provide the "best-in-world maps and navigation industry expertise, a
strong customer base and an industry-leading map data and technology platform
with the broadest geographical coverage."
Navteq was found in 1985 and is based out of Chicago, Illinois. It has
grown very large, with over 3,000 employees in 168 offices in 30 countries
worldwide. It posted 2006 revenues totaling $582 million USD.
Navteq owns Traffic.com, an interactive web service that provides traffic
information and content to consumers. The company also is a leader in
providing mapping and GPS solutions to businesses and the government.
Nokia announced that Navteq will continue to support its existing
customers. Navteq will also add new capabilities to the Nokia Internet
Nokia hails itself as "the world's largest
mobile device manufacturer" and claims to have over 900 million customers
using its mobile offerings worldwide.
Nokia is looking to solidify its position as the mobile leader by expanding its
mobile GPS offerings, including adding Nokia Maps, a GPS service to its new
phone lines. The Nokia N95 multimedia computer, which went
on sale earlier this year, comes preloaded with the software and also
features 2.6" QVGA screen, 160MB of internal memory, microSD slot for
memory expansion, 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth. An 8 GB version has also
been released.
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, President and CEO of Nokia, hailed the acquisition as a
major victory. "Location based services are one of the cornerstones of
Nokia's Internet services strategy," said Kallasvuo." The acquisition of NAVTEQ
is another step toward Nokia becoming a leading player in this space. By
joining forces with NAVTEQ, we will be able to bring context and geographical
information to a number of our Internet services with accelerated time to
market. We also look forward to maintaining and enhancing the services and
support provided to NAVTEQ's existing and future customers."
The move will likely strengthen Nokia in the long term, but
may dilute earnings for Nokia in 2008 and 2009 -- a possible concern to
Still, Jari Honko, an analyst at eQ Bank in Helsinki, sees the move as wise.
He called Navteq "the most significant player in its field" and
added, "It makes a lot of sense. This is one of the areas that
should become extremely important in the future. ... Nokia could very well
build one of its core services around it."
The acquisition comes at the same time as Nokia's recent launch of a new Apple
iPhone-bashing campaign, as
covered by DailyTech, which
derides the Cupertino-firm's attempts to lock
its phones to the AT&T network and "brick" phones that do not
comply or have third party apps installed.
The acquisition marks one of the largest technology business acquisitions of
the year.


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By Naomi Dillon
As families are pressed for time and overwhelmed with responsibilities, breakfast, sadly, is a disappearing morning ritual. Bundled off to school with their books and supplies, children leave home without arguably the most important tool for success: nutrition.
According to recent U.S. Census data, only 35 percent of parents with elementary-age children reported eating breakfast with their kids every day. The figure dropped to just 22 percent for parents of middle and high school students.
Once again, schools are expected to fill in the gaps -- and they're trying. Twenty-seven states require some or all of their schools to participate in the federal school breakfast program. SBP, as it is known, is part of the larger federal child nutrition effort that provides cash assistance to states to feed low-income students in schools and residential child care institutions.
Today, as Congress looks to reauthorize the child nutrition program, President Obama is proposing to add $1 billion more to increase access and improve the quality of meals. That means universal breakfast -- providing free meals to students regardless of income level -- is back on the table for some school systems.
Dora Rivas, president of the School Nutrition Association, says most districts would like to offer breakfast to all students. The problem, she says, is the money, especially in an economy where costs continue to rise even though funding is flat.
"I don't think there's anyone who would argue against the benefits of breakfast," Rivas says. "It really comes down to the cost of providing it."
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Walter Richard Roberts of Texarkana, Ark., entered the plea Thursday as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors. He faces up to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said. Online court records did not list a sentencing date as of Friday.
Prosecutors said Roberts, 62, was a youth baseball coach in Texarkana from 1986 to 1994 and that he engaged in a pattern of sexual assault that spanned several years.
In 1986, prosecutors said he took a 9-year-old boy and a 10-year-old boy to a supply store on the Texas side of Texarkana and sexually assaulted them in the back of a van. Roberts also admitted to sexually assaulting a third boy who was 9 or 10 years old in 1988 or 1989, prosecutors said.
"The pattern of sexual abuse that this defendant committed is reprehensible," Conner Eldridge, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, said in a statement.
Roberts' lawyer, Craig L. Henry, didn't return a phone message left Friday.


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Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics
This paper argues that the growing presence of a new type of man—one brought up in a family in which the mother worked—has been a significant factor in the increase in female labor force participation over time. We present cross-sectional evidence showing that the wives of men whose mothers worked are themselves significantly more likely to work. We use variation in the importance of World War II as a shock to women's labor force participation—as proxied by variation in the male draft rate across U. S. states—to provide evidence in support of the intergenerational consequences of our propagation mechanism.
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Antibody Variation Is Not Evolution
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Researchers at Wayne State University in Michigan have uncovered a key step in the formation of antibodies. It was already known that the immune system generates a variety of antibodies in response to an invading pathogen. The recent study discovered that many of the necessary antibody variations are produced when a cellular copying procedure is slowed down.1
Antibodies are manufactured with variations on one end, the "light chain" end. When a specific light chain variation is found that locks onto the outermost molecules of the invading bacterium or virus, the antibody marks the microbe for destruction. The correctly-fitting antibody is then identified and mass-produced by the immune system.
Antibody light chain variation occurs through the acceleration of mutations. The antibody genes are copied to RNA and a special enzyme called "activation-induced deaminase" encourages the shuffling of just the base sequences that will become the light chain. The new research demonstrated that when transcription is slowed down—a process called RNA transcription stalling—this base-exchanging process moves from just one base at a time to multiple bases. This "hypermutation" causes faster production of antibody variations, thus enhancing their disease-combating potential.
Though this discovery was hailed as "evolution in action," the antibody formation procedures show distinct marks of intentional design.2 Creation scientists have described the capacity of antibodies to hypermutate as a well-designed and purposeful biological process.3 This interpretation is borne out by the specifications of the process, each of which represents information that nature alone has no mechanism to generate. The three-dimensional structure of activation-induced deaminase, the placement of mutations (RNA base changes) specifically on the tips of the antibodies, and the placement of immunoglobulin genes into appropriate segments of the genome so they can be transcribed together are some of the specifications required for antibody variations to effectively achieve their purposes.
The term "evolution" can be used to describe any change in biological systems, or it can refer specifically to Darwinian evolution. However, a step-by-step progression from simple to complex living organisms, as Darwinian evolution predicts, is not observed in either living or fossil forms. Nor does antibody variation have anything whatever to do with Darwinian evolution. In actuality, biological adaptations such as antibody diversity are created mechanisms that exist for specific purposes and only work because all of their parts are precisely ordered.
The variety of antibodies that can be formed is an important part of the immune system's ability to detect and fight disease. The variety of definitions under the banner "evolution," however, is often only effective in providing false confidence that "Darwinian evolution" is true.
- Canugovi, C., M. Samaranayake, and A. S. Bhagwat. 2009. Transcriptional pausing and stalling causes multiple clustered mutations by human activation-induced deaminase. The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 23 (1): 33-44.
- Evolution in action: Our antibodies take "evolutionary leaps" to fight microbes. The FASEB Journal press release, accessed January 12, 2009.
- Bergman, J, and N. O'Sullivan. 2008. Did immune system antibody diversity evolve? Journal of Creation. 22 (2): 92-96.
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Article posted on January 21, 2009.
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DDMSence (pronounced "dee-dee-em-Essence") is the only Java library that fully supports the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS). It provides a complete implementation of the DDMS specification using any DDMS version between 2.0 and 5.0. Validation is performed according to both the schema and the specification, and custom validation rules can be defined with ISO Schematron.
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BATON ROUGE, La. Single-game tickets for the 2018 LSU softball season are currently on sale through the LSU Ticket Office and online at LSUtix.net.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The 2018 SEC Softball Preseason Coaches' Poll was released Wednesday afternoon, and the league's coaches have predicted the LSU softball team to finish fourth in the conference.
BATON ROUGE, La. The LSU softball team, who is coming off of its third-straight Women's College World Series appearance, is back on the field as the Tigers returned to work Saturday afternoon for its first official spring practice.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. USA Softball released its rosters for the 2018 Women's National Teams and two All-American LSU Tigers were named to the rosters. Former Tiger Sahvanna Jaquish and current Tiger Carley Hoover earned a spot on the 2018 Team USA rosters.
BATON ROUGE The LSU Softball program will play host to its annual winter camps in December and January at Tiger Park and the LSU Indoor Football Facility. The camps are open to any and all participants between the ages of 8-18.
BATON ROUGE Coming off of its third-consecutive Women's College World Series appearance in June, LSU head softball coach Beth Torina and the Tigers announced the signings of eight to Nation Letters of Intent. The class will be freshman in the fall of 2018.
BATON ROUGE The success of LSU student-athletes in the classroom reached a new milestone Wednesday as the University scored an all-time high of 90 percent in the most recent Graduation Success Rate released by the NCAA.
BATON ROUGE Coming off the program's sixth trip and it's third-straight to the Women's College World Series in 2017, the LSU softball team released the 2018 regular season schedule Wednesday afternoon.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. USA Softball released its list of 56 national team selection camp invitees Wednesday and three LSU Tigers are on the prestigious list. Former Tigers Bianka Bell, Sahvanna Jaquish and Bailey Landry will have an opportunity to earn a spot on the 2018 Team USA Roster.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced the 2016-17 All-America Scholar-Athlete honors Tuesday afternoon and three LSU softball players made the list.
BATON ROUGE Coming off of its third-straight Women's College World Series appearance in June, the 2018 LSU softball team is back in action as the Tigers returned to work Wednesday afternoon to begin fall workouts.
BATON ROUGE, La. The LSU softball team and head coach Beth Torina announced the 2017 Fall Schedule Monday afternoon. The 2017 Women's College World Series participant will be taking on various teams in October and November.
Kristin Schmidt, the MVP of the 2004 Women's College World Series, will be inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday night.
BATON ROUGE Three-time NFCA All-American Bailey Landry of the Texas Charge was selected to the All-NPF team in the outfield, named the NPF Rookie of the Year and honored as this year's Jennie Finch Award winner, the National Pro Fast-Pitch league announced Wednesday evening.
BATON ROUGE Four former star LSU softball players will be in action Thursday at Tiger Park with the start of the annual National Pro Fastpitch Championship Series.


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Charlie is out with Marv, so Lola plays with Morton, Marv's brother.
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You Can Be My Friend
Charlie is out with Marv, so Lola plays with Morton, Marv's brother.
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Please May I Have Some of Yours?
Lola spends all her pocket money, so she can't afford to buy a toy at the zoo.
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Porter holds Ankiel in high regard
By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com
HOUSTON -- The decision to part ways with Rick Ankiel on Monday was a difficult one for manager Bo Porter, who was with Ankiel last year in Washington and has tons of respect for the way the veteran carried himself.
Ankiel and fellow outfielder Fernando Martinez were designated for assignment Monday, likely bringing an end to their tenure in Houston. Ankiel hit just .194 in 25 games with five homers, 11 RBIs and a whopping 35 strikeouts in 62 at-bats. The Astros couldn't live with the strikeouts anymore.
"It was real difficult because of the professional Rick Ankiel is and all the things he was able to do for us from the moment we signed him, and he did a tremendous job of mentoring a lot of the young guys and adding a veteran presence that was very much needed in our ballclub," Porter said. "At the same time, it was something [general manager] Jeff [Luhnow] and I talked about and something that needed to be done."
The Astros brought Ankiel to Minute Maid Park on Monday to inform him of the decision in person, which was a definite show of respect.
"Rick is a professional and he understands the game," Porter said. "He's been around the game a long time. His reaction was, 'Thanks for the opportunity.' He wished us well, we wished him well and that was pretty much it."
Fellow veteran Carlos Pena considers Ankiel a friend and was sorry to see him go.
"Everybody loved him," he said. "He is a very dear friend of mine and not to have him around is definitely something that hurt, but it was good to see him in good spirits and positive like he's always been. He's a warrior."
Astros' moves make them more athletic
HOUSTON -- The decision to get rid of outfielders Rick Ankiel and Fernando Martinez on Monday had more to do with their lack of offensive production -- and high strikeout rates -- than anything else, but the Astros' outfield has gotten more athletic in the process.
Even with Justin Maxwell on the disabled list with a broken bone in his hand, the Astros had some athleticism with Robbie Grossman and Brandon Barnes, but the addition of Jimmy Paredes and Trevor Crowe give manager Bo Porter plenty of options in the outfield. Grossman, Paredes and Crowe are all switch-hitters.
Grossman started in left, Barnes in center and Paredes in right on Tuesday against the Angels.
"I think that was something we set out to do," Porter said. "We went out to get more athletic, get more guys who have the ability to mishit the ball and still have a possibility of getting on base because of their athletic ability. We set out to cut down on strikeouts and find guys that were going to put the ball in play more."
Paredes played right field and third base at Triple-A Oklahoma City and was hitting .366 with nine doubles, three triples, three homers and 15 RBIs. He's played all over the infield and outfield in his time with Houston, but Porter said he'll play primarily right field. The Astros are just hoping he can hit.
"When you talk to [RedHawks manager] Tony [DeFrancesco] and some of the scouts I know and that have been scouting our team and scouting the league, they say he's the most exciting player they've seen," Porter said. "You look at the skills and say, 'If this guy's turned the corner, let's find out right now in the big leagues.'"
Carter looking at more time at first base, DH
HOUSTON -- The Astros plan to give Chris Carter most of his playing time at designated hitter and first base now that they have so many versatile outfield options with the addition of Trevor Crowe and Jimmy Paredes.
Carter is hitting just .207 and ranks first in the Major Leagues in strikeouts, but he leads the team with six homers and has 14 RBIs. He's made 15 starts in left field, one at first base and was in the lineup at DH for the 14th time on Tuesday against the Angels.
"Having Robbie Grossman, Brandon Barnes and now J.D. Martinez back off the disabled list and Paredes here, it gives us some options to have better defensive options out there on a regular basis," manager Bo Porter said. "But at the same time, you want to have Carter's bat in the lineup. He's a guy who can change the game with one swing."
Following a six-game stretch in which he hit .462 with four homers and seven RBIs, Carter entered Tuesday hitting .152 with two homers and seven RBIs in his last 20 games. He had struck out 33 times in his past 66 at-bats.
Maxwell has cast removed
HOUSTON -- Astros outfielder Justin Maxwell, who's been on the disabled list since April 24 with a fractured left hand, underwent X-rays and was cleared to have his removable cast replaced with a splint after an examination by a team doctor on Tuesday.
Maxwell hopes to start doing some hand-strengthening exercises with putty and maybe hold a bat next week. He's still supposed to be out another month or so.
"He said the X-rays look really good and that I seem to be progressing well," Maxwell said of his visit with the physician. "He said to keep taking my vitamin C and calcium and keep using my bone stimulator. It's all pretty positive."
Maxwell admits it's been frustrating watching the team struggle and not being able to help. The team has only won twice since he was injured.
"All the guys in here, we realize that it's a long season and we're all staying positive," he said. "We're all here in the big leagues for a reason, and we all know we can play well and right the ship."
Worth noting
• Luhnow said he expects Porter to announce Wednesday who will start Friday's game against the Rangers. That's the rotation spot that became vacant when Erik Bedard was moved to the bullpen.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Introducing Kindle DX--Amazon's Large Screen Addition to the Kindle Family
of Wireless Reading Devices
Large Kindle DX Display and New Features Provide Enhanced Experience for Reading a Wide Range of Professional and Personal Documents
The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post to Launch Trials Offering Kindle DX to Subscribers Who Live in Areas Where Home Delivery is Not Available
Leading Textbook Publishers to Offer Textbooks in Kindle Store
Five Universities to Launch Trials with Students Using Kindle DX in Fall 2009
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 6, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today introduced Amazon Kindle DX, the new purpose-built reading device that offers Kindle's revolutionary wireless delivery and massive selection of content with a large 9.7-inch electronic paper display, built-in PDF reader, auto-rotate capability, and storage for up to 3,500 books. More than 275,000 books are now available in the Kindle Store, including 107 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers. New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases are $9.99 unless marked otherwise. Top U.S. and international magazines and newspapers plus more than 1,500 blogs are also available. Kindle DX is available for pre-order starting today for $489 at http://amazon.com/kindleDX and will ship this summer.
"Personal and professional documents look so good on the big Kindle DX display that you'll find yourself changing ink-toner cartridges less often," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. "Cookbooks, computer books, and textbooks – anything highly formatted – also shine on the Kindle DX. Carry all your documents and your whole library in one slender package."
New Large Display
Kindle DX's display has 2.5 times the surface area of Kindle's 6-inch display. The larger electronic paper display with 16 shades of gray has more area for graphic-rich content such as professional and personal documents, newspapers and magazines, and textbooks. Kindle reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesn't use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays.
The New York Times Company and Washington Post Company are launching pilots with Kindle DX this summer. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post will offer the Kindle DX at a reduced price to readers who live in areas where home-delivery is not available and who sign up for a long-term subscription to the Kindle edition of the newspapers.
"At The New York Times Company we are always seeking new ways for our millions of readers to have full and continuing access to our high-quality news and information," said Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman, The New York Times Company and publisher, The New York Times. "The wireless delivery and new value-added features of the Kindle DX will provide our large, loyal audience, no matter where they live, with an exciting new way to interact with The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Additionally, by offering a subscription through the Kindle DX to readers who live outside of our delivery areas, we will extend our reach to our loyal readers who will be able to more readily enjoy their favorite newspapers. Meanwhile, we are continuing to work with Amazon to make The New York Times and The Boston Globe experiences on Kindle better than ever."
Kindle DX's large display offers an enhanced reading experience with another category of graphic-rich content—textbooks. With complex images, tables, charts, graphs, and equations, textbooks look best on a large display. Leading textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, together representing more than 60 percent of the U.S. higher education textbook market, will begin offering textbooks through the Kindle Store beginning this summer. Textbooks under the following brands will be available: Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson); Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South-Western (Cengage); and Wiley Higher Education.
Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia will launch trial programs to make Kindle DX devices available to students this fall. The schools will distribute hundreds of Kindle DX devices to students spread across a broad range of academic disciplines. In addition to reading on a considerably larger screen, students will be able to take advantage of popular Kindle features such as the ability to take notes and highlight, search across their library, look up words in a built-in dictionary, and carry all of their books in a lightweight device.
"The Kindle DX holds enormous potential to influence the way students learn," said Barbara R. Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University. "We look forward to seeing how the device affects the participation of both students and faculty in the educational experience."
New Built-In PDF Reader
Kindle DX features a built-in PDF reader using Adobe Reader Mobile technology for reading professional and personal documents. Like other types of documents on Kindle, customers simply email their PDF format documents to their Kindle email address or move them over using a USB connection. With a larger display and built-in PDF reader, Kindle DX customers can read professional and personal documents with more complex layouts without scrolling, panning, or zooming, and without re-flowing, which destroys the original structure of the document. Everything from annual reports with graphs to flight manuals with maps to musical scores can be viewed on a single, crisp screen with Kindle DX.
New Auto-Rotation
Kindle DX's display content auto-rotates so users can read in portrait or landscape mode, or flip the device to read with either hand. Simply turn Kindle DX and immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables, images, and Web pages.
New 3.3 GB Memory Holds Up To 3,500 Books
With 3.3 GB of available memory, Kindle DX can hold up to 3,500 books, compared with 1,500 with Kindle. And because Amazon automatically backs up a copy of every Kindle book purchased, customers can wirelessly re-download titles from their library at any time.
Incredibly Thin
Kindle DX is just over a third of an inch thin, which is thinner than most magazines.
3G Wireless, No PC, No Hunting for Wi-Fi Hot Spots
Just like Kindle, Kindle DX customers automatically take advantage of Amazon Whispernet to wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download or receive new content in less than 60 seconds, and read from their library—all without a PC, Wi-Fi hot spot, or syncing. Amazon still pays for the wireless connectivity on Kindle DX so books can be downloaded in less than 60 seconds—with no monthly fees, data plans, or service contracts.
Syncs With Kindle for iPhone and other Kindle Compatible Devices
Just like Kindle, Kindle DX uses Amazon Whispersync technology to automatically sync content across Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle for iPhone, and other devices in the future. With Whispersync, customers can easily move from device to device and never lose their place in their reading.
Massive Selection of Books—Plus Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs
The Kindle Store currently offers more than 275,000 books, including popular books like New York Times Bestsellers, New Releases, and fiction and nonfiction released in the past several years. Dozens of newspapers and magazines are also available for subscription or single-edition purchase. BusinessWeek and The New England Journal of Medicine are available in the Kindle Store starting today, and The Economist will be available soon. Subscriptions are auto-delivered wirelessly to Kindle overnight so that the latest edition is waiting for customers when they wake up. Over 1,500 blogs are available on Kindle and updated and downloaded wirelessly throughout the day.
Kindle DX includes all the other features Kindle customers enjoy every day, including:
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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
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Who Hates Mimi Gurbst?
Last week, Felix Gillette wrote an innocent story about Mimi Gurbst, a senior producer at ABC World News, retiring to become a high school guidance counselor. Soon, the story's comment section became a message board for vicious anti-Gurbst vitriol. Why?
Gillette's story is still the most-read media story on the NYO's website, thanks to the fact that bitter ABC-ers flocked to its comment section to denounce Mimi Gurbst as not the professional mentor depicted in the story, but rather as the embodiment of Satan. A few choice excerpts from the comments—and please take into account, these are anonymous comments, on the internet:
- "Over the years Ms. Gurbst refused to work with certain programs or anchors. She was an extremely destructive force at ABC News. For years she did nothing but protect her turf, play people off one another (including anchors) and trade on her alleged personal friendship with Bob Iger."
- "Mimi and her clique of chosen ones at ABC News were dubbed the "Mean Girls." To be a part of the group you had to be at least 3 of the following: white/good-looking/rich/pedigree/Ivy(or fancy boarding school) or date/marry/be associated with people who fit that bill."
- "The amount of competent journalists this woman ran away over the years in favor of whomever she deemed cool enough to become a member of her clique is staggering...As for her own competence, a Desk Assistant who has been at ABC News for 5 hours is more integral to the day-to-day workings of ABC News than Mimi Gurbst, and has probably accomplished more than she has in 20 years. I weep for these students who are going to be advised by Ms. Gurbst."
And there are six more pages of comments just like that. Actually, much meaner than that. We also received a flood of emails ourselves, pointing us to the comment section on the piece. When we didn't immediately write a post, people even suggested we'd been bribed or intimidated somehow. Which is just to say, people are
crazy "very passionate" on this issue.
So was Mimi Gurbst really that bad? She certainly is, according to anonymous commenters on the internet. An ABC insider we spoke to for some perspective cast Mimi as, at least somewhat, a victim of circumstance: that nature of her job was that some people would like the assignments they received from her and others wouldn't; and with ABC News suffering hundreds of layoffs recently, there were bound to be hordes of disgruntled workers ready to cast blame.
But there are also some circumstantial signs that Mimi Gurbst was not popular inside ABC. For example: Although the news-to-guidance counselor angle would make for a nice human interest story for Mimi's retirement, we understand that ABC didn't pitch the story at all; rather, Gillette heard about it himself during his own reporting. Which one might read as an indication that ABC was not anxious to provide any public platform that could potentially turn into exactly what the NYO comments section turned into! Additionally, while there's no way to tell exactly how many angry people have contributed to the anti-Mimi comment brigade, the level of detail in many of the comments is a strong indicator that a fair number of them did in fact come from people who were intimately familiar with ABC News' inner workings.
ABC declined to make Mimi Gurbst available for comment to us; she also declined to speak to Gillette for his original, non-threatening article. Maybe she had a sense of...foreboding?
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It's Opening Day on Sunday and I'm making my normal pre-game rounds at the Section 8 Chicago tailgate. As I parade through the gaggle of the club's most vocal supporters, I stop and welcome back familiar faces from Ultras Red Side, one of the bigger groups inside of Section 8.
As we chat about our hopes for the game and what kind of spirits are keeping us warm, one Antwon Galante reveals a fresh tattoo he had done the night before.
"I had it planned for a while now but I wanted to get it for the new season -- fresh ink and a fresh start for 2014," Galante told me by phone on Wednesday.
The new tattoo features a large Fire logo on his right wrist and above it, an illustration of "The Harlem End" where Section 8 Chicago is based in Toyota Park.
"Obviously I wanted to pay homage to the Fire but also pay tribute to Section 8 and The Harlem End," he said. "It's a special part of our stadium and it's been like a second home to me."
While the tattoo was still obviously raw (and a little painful for Antwon), I quickly took out my iPhone and threw it up on the @ChicagoFire Instagram account. Shortly after @MLS did a #regram of it and Antwon was famous in the #MLSInk world.
You come into work on Wednesday and see the whole #cf97Ink hashtag has started to be populated on Twitter by others that have made that life-long decision to have some type of Chicago Fire-related art adorn their body.
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NASHVILLE, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. country music star Taylor Swift is to serve as co-host of the "Grammy Nominations Concert Live!" alongside rapper-actor LL Cool J, CBS said.
Luke Bryan has been added to the lineup of performers for the 1-hour special, joining previously announced act Maroon 5.
The show, which will feature the announcement of nominations in several categories as well as performances by past Grammy Award winners and/or nominees, will take place live for the first time at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 5.
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After nearly a year of patiently waiting, MMA fans will see the world's top welterweight fighters back in action next week at UFC 154.
In addition to a title-unification bout between champion Georges St-Pierre and interim titleholder Carlos Condit, a No. 1 contender's bout co-headlines the show.
Watch as longtime contenders Martin Kampmann (20-5 MMA, 11-4 UFC) and Johny Hendricks (13-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) discuss the fight.
UFC 154 takes place Nov. 17 at Bell Centre in Montreal. Kampmann and Hendricks are part of the pay-per-view main card, which follows prelims on FX and Facebook.
Both fighters are on solid runs. Since suffering the lone career loss to Rick Story in 2010, Hendricks has posted four consecutive wins. The two-time NCAA Division I national wrestling champion has defeated the likes of Mike Pierce and former title challengers Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck during his recent run.
Kampmann, meanwhile, is 5-2 in his past seven fights, though both losses came via questionable decisions to Jake Shields and Diego Sanchez. Since then, he earned a decision victory over Story and stoppage wins over Thiago Alves and Jake Ellenberger.
Check out the videos above and below for their thoughts on their UFC 154 bout.
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Toni Braxton Retires From Music: "My Heart Isn't in It Anymore"
Toni Braxton's twenty-year music career has come to an end. The "He Wasn't Man Enough" singer made the announcement during a Friday, Feb. 8, appearance on Good Morning America.
"It's not affecting me, making me feel that thing I've always felt when I perform. It's leaving me," Braxton said. "I'm not sure what's going on in my life. Maybe a female mid-life crisis? My heart isn't in it anymore. I hate to say that."
Known for monster hits like "Un-Break My Heart" and "Breathe Again," the eight-time Grammy winner released her seventh studio album, Pulse, in 2010. Braxton, 45, further explained her decision to abandon music in an interview with The Grio.
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"For what I do I have to love it. I have to feel that excitement and it's gone," Braxton explained. "I'm just not going to do any albums anymore; maybe touring occasionally here and there because I love performing, but not as much as I did in the past. But no new projects."
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Braxton won't be stepping out of the spotlight entirely. The reality star and Twist of Faith actress said she plans to further her film career by taking on more challenging roles. "I would like to play a lesbian. I don't know why. And do a whole make-out scene and the whole thing; just something completely different than people would expect from me," Braxton revealed. "Not a lipstick lesbian, either."
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Toni Braxton Retires From Music: "My Heart Isn't in It Anymore"
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Phillies dad a hit with parents all over
Family receives gifts from team during appearance on 'Today'
By Mark Newman / MLB.com
Then his 3-year-old daughter Emily threw it back.
It was more than just one of those many little moments in the course of a long baseball game when Jayson Werth fouled back a pitch during the bottom of the fifth inning in the Phillies' 5-0 win against Washington at Citizens Bank Park. This moment was truly Beyond Baseball.
It was the real glory of the game right there, a father hugging his little girl to assure her that she did nothing wrong, a public rite of passage to which so many parents can relate. And that is why the highlight is one of the hottest videos on MLB.com right now, and why the whole family was on NBC's "Today" show on Thursday morning -- and were surprised with four Phillies jerseys and an encased ball signed by Werth.
"Looking back, I should have said, 'She gets a ball from her Dad, she's gonna throw it,'" Monforto said, reliving the moment. "My first thought was, 'I've been waiting so long to catch a foul ball, and over the edge it goes.' I didn't think I was going to ever get it back."
Watch the video, and you can see Monforto reach over the rail in the first row of the 300-level seats to make an impressive two-handed grab. Other fans in his section were cheering. After trading fist bumps with nearby fans, Monforto high-fived Emily, who was clad in a pink T-shirt and Phillies cap, and handed the ball to her. It was the natural thing for any father to do, right?
The Monfortos were there from Laurel Springs, N.J., and sitting a seat to Steve's right in the video is his wife, Kathleen, who has their other daughter, 15-month-old Cecilia, on her lap. Kathleen's surprise reaction is visible as Emily takes the ball and fires it over the rail, to somewhere down below. Where it landed, no one knows. Steve's immediate reaction was to hug the little girl amid all the noise -- and that is the biggest part of this story, one parental display that an amazing number of people obviously have related to already.
"I think she was a little startled by the reaction," he explained. "I just wanted her to know it was OK."
"Today" host Meredith Vieira told the family that the moment was "endearing, wonderful, funny and sweet." Emily just smiled bashfully when Matt Lauer asked her about the now-famous throwback. Then he asked her what she likes best about going to Phillies games, and she said: "Raul Ibanez ... hot dogs and cotton candy."
That's baseball.
"We have been inundated with calls from national and local media -- everyone wants the story because it's so heartwarming," said Bonnie Clark, the Phillies' vice president of communications. "The family is a great family. [Steve] has been coming to Phillies games since he was three, and now as a season-ticket holder, and he said he's never caught a foul ball. He just happened to get these seats at the last minute, took up a friend on his offer, so he sat in a different location.
"The rest is history. I told him to embrace his 15 minutes."
The family was sitting near the suites of Phillies executives. Monforto said he was pleased when the club promptly delivered him a replacement ball.
"After Emily threw the ball down, (Philles senior VP of operations/administration) Mike Stiles, who sits in the executive box where our TV is, could see it happen. Mike went out to deliver a ball to her -- not the ball, but a ball -- and on his way back from their seats he was first met by Scott Palmer, who's our director of public affairs. Scott was en route to deliver one as well, and Mike indicated to him that he had already taken care of it. Then Mike was met by (general manager) Ruben Amaro, who was on his way to do the same thing.
"Everyone had the same mindset," said Clark. "We all wanted to do the same thing. Great minds think alike."
The Monfortos' story has hit home with baseball fans everywhere, and one example of that is Kimberly Taft. A Braves fan in Talladega, Ala., she saw the story Wednesday and said on Twitter: "Reminds me of my father and me." @MLB asked her there to elaborate, and she emailed back:
"I'm an only child, and a daddy's girl. My dad taught me everything I know about softball, and seeing that little girl reminded me of my dad and me. I recently moved to another state for school, but baseball is one thing my dad and I still talk about daily. My favorite team is the Braves, and I still think this is a great story, despite Steve being a Phillies fan! Steve Monforto did a great job of reminding us what's really important about the game, no matter where our allegiance lies. What he did is something any father-daughter team can relate to. Not to mention he made a great catch -- I'm sure little Emily will pay him back one day."
Clark said "everybody who's a parent can relate. You've been in that situation where a kid did something so innocent, you don't want to reprimand them. She thought she might have done something wrong, and he quickly reassured her that she didn't do anything wrong. Any parent can relate to the whole scenario."
Clark said Kathleen's reaction was "that she was just concerned that whoever's below them might have gotten hit. She was like, 'Did someone get hit by the ball?'"
For the record: Don't throw foul balls back. But this was an innocent situation that people can't get enough of.
Producers at "Today" contacted the Phillies, and they booked the Monforto family on Wednesday. It was about at that point when the show's Al Roker watched the video clip and told Lauer jokingly that he wasn't sure "whether it was a loving embrace or whether he was squeezing the life out of her."
That night, Werth hit a grand slam.
The Phillies are on course for a shot at baseball's first repeat title since 2000.
They are one big, happy family right now.
As the Monfortos were presented with their surprise gifts, Vieira looked at the ball in the display case and said, "Here you go -- keep it for Emily or give it to her and she can throw it."
Mark Newman is enterprise editor of MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - They are all a little too smooth to blatantly trash talk and too respectful to downplay the accomplishments of others, but there is certainly a rivalry going on at the Elite 11.
It's the California vs. Texas quarterback showdown.
"Texas football, it's the best in the nation, no doubt," Texas Tech commit Davis Webb said. "California guys, that's fine and all but Texas is the best."
Both powerhouse states are well-represented this week at the Elite 11 with six quarterbacks from Texas and four from California in attendance. So far, neither state's quarterbacks have pulled far away from the other group.
Cal commit Jared Goff, cool and collected and not one for trading barbs, said it's important for the California guys to represent well - and he's sure they will.
"That's a big deal because a bunch of great quarterbacks came out of the state of California, (Matt) Barkley, (Tom) Brady and all those guys," Goff said. "You have to keep continuing the lineage and keep it going."
Texas has Webb, Syracuse commit Zach Allen, Oklahoma pledge Cody Thomas, Ohio State commit J.T. Barrett, Ole Miss commit Devante Kincade and Texas pledge Tyrone Swoopes working out at the Elite 11.
California is represented by Goff, Nebraska commit Johnny Stanton, Washington pledge Troy Williams and Stockton (Calif.) Lincoln three-star quarterback Zack Greenlee, the only prospect at the event that is still not committed.
Both states have a lot of outstanding representation and that's why things have gotten a little more competitive and should continue that way until the end.
The Texas quarterbacks are proud of their accomplishments and want to prove they're the best in the country. California kids are the same way.
It's not cutthroat and it's not open trash talking, but it seems both groups of players want to prove they're the best in the country.
Quarterbacks have a lot of pride and it's on display this week.
"The six of us are always close together so we have a tight-knit group," Webb said. "I talk to Cody mostly because I used to go to Coffeyville for elementary school. I talk to him a lot. I know Devante a lot because he also went to (Texas) Tech so I know him well. I talk to Tyrone and Zach Allen is a really good player.
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I'm about to depart for this event:
Mary and I have 7 hours of driving ahead of us. It's going to be no fun at all, although it looks like the meeting will definitely be worth it. One peeve, though: the two speakers I most want to hear are Kevin Padian and Elliott Sober, and they're both scheduled to speak tonight. I doubt that I'll be able to get there in time. Could someone tell them both to wait until 9:00 or so to start their talks? Just for me?
All right, if they rudely refuse to hold up the entire conference for me, I expect someone who's there to review it all for me on Saturday. Pantomime over beer at lunch would be acceptable, and entertaining.
(Also: hashtag for the conference is #ftf1. Follow the festivities on Twitter.)