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Commonwealth Bank revealed a slew of tech announcements today, including Facebook payments, a redesigned Kaching app for Android devices and new business banking products.
CommBank also said it will move its banking website commbank.com.au to the cloud with Amazon Web services over the next couple of weeks.
Kaching for Facebook and Android
Kaching for Facebook launches in early January, said CommBank chief marketing officer Andy Lark.
The app lets user send payments to Facebook friends as well as group and event administrators on the social media site. Users can also request payments from friends and keep track of all their Kaching transaction across Facebook and the mobile app.
Users need a four-digit PIN code to log into the Kaching Facebook app, which runs on the bank's IT infrastructure. To confirm payments, users must enter another six-digit PIN sent to them via SMS. The code is also used by the payee to receive the payment. Customers with other banks are able to receive payments, Lark said.
A new Kaching app for Android is coming in mid-December. Kaching had already been available on Android devices but the app was largely a clone of the iPhone version. CommBank heard from Android customers that they wanted an app specifically built for the Android interface, Lark said.
For example, Android users prefer to swipe up and down rather than the left-right swipe, which is common for iPhone users, Lark said. The redesigned Android app also includes tighter integration with Google+, he said.
NetBank upgrades
Updates to NetBank, the CommBank Internet banking site, include sharing payments with Facebook friends and tagging expenses. Among other features, users can upload receipts, add a tax file number, manage investments and send money overseas. A feature letting users set savings goals integrates with CommBank's backend, allowing the bank to see the goal and make recommendations.
New business products
CommBank next year will release a product called SmartSign that lets business customers execute loan documents without paper, anywhere in the world. Documents can be reviewed, authorised and approved on any computer or mobile device.
A mobile CommBiz app launching early next year lets business customers manage banking with an Apple iPad or iPhone. The app includes NetLock for security. Later in the year, customers will be able to use the app for transfers and direct credits, as well as view customer analytics.
CommBank also revealed progress on Pi, the tablet-like payment terminal announced earlier this year. The "Leo" device that lets stores use iPhones to accept payments is available now, while the "Albert" tablet is still on track for release in mid-2013, said CBA executive general manager of corporate banking solutions, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.
CommBank has signed up 500 businesses to use Pi, and more than 700 developers have agreed to build applications for the terminal, Rosmarin said.
Mobile payments
CommBank plans to release a new iCarte case next year that adds near-field communications (NFC) capability to the iPhone 5. The iCarte is already available for iPhone 4.
The bank is currently "waiting on parts" to build the iPhone 5 sleeves, Lark said. Supporting the new Lightning plug on the iPhone 5 has caused delays in particular, he said.
CommBank doesn't want to require users to have a special SIM card from a telco in order to do NFC payments, Lark said. ANZ, Vodafone and Visa announced such a service earlier this month. CommBank wants customers to have more flexibility to switch carriers, he said. The bank is looking at other mobile payment technologies besides NFC, he added.
Rosmarin said a difficulty with NFC is herding together phone carriers, manufacturers and Google. "We're ready to go," she said. "It's really a matter of getting the rest of the ecosystem ready and embracing NFC technology."
Windows and BlackBerry
CommBank is focused on iPhone and Android, but is "watching Windows with a lot of interest," Lark said. CommBank will be watching the upcoming BlackBerry developer conference, but that platform is "a big question mark," he said.
"If you look at the market share numbers today in Australia, they point in two directions, and that is Android and iOS for mobile smartphone devices," Lark said. However, Microsoft is a partner and has the advantage of a strong ecosystem, he said.
The bank is working with Microsoft to determine how to offer and optimise its products for the Windows platform, he said, estimating it could happen in "the next 12 or so months." However, "it's not a cheap thing to do," he said.
There may also be opportunities with Microsoft to bring a CommBank product to the Xbox gaming system, he added.
AWS and the cloud
CommBank has wanted to move its website to AWS for years, said the bank's CIO Michael Harte. It's doing so now because Amazon is finally offering the required scale and resiliency, he said.
"We will continue to look for those cloud service providers to host anything we can because we have better things to do with our money," Harte said.
That doesn't include customer and other more sensitive data, which CommBank "will not let out of our control," Harte said. "Data sovereignty is important. Data privacy and security is important. And from our business model of trust, we will never compromise on that."
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text: In 1980, Alfrea Harris not only became UMass Boston's first Women's Basketball coach but she was also the first female head coach at UMass Boston for any sport. In her first three campaigns, Harris made an immediate impact on the scene by guiding the Beacons to three consecutive winning seasons while compiling a 40-18 mark. She would finish her coaching tenure at UMass Boston with 44 wins which ranks second most in program-history while her 15 win season in 1981-82 boasts the highest single-season winning percentage at .714 (15-6) and remains tied for the most single-season wins by any UMass Boston women's hoops team. To this day, Harris is still the only woman to ever to coach in the prestigious Boston Shootout. After coaching at UMass Boston, Harris went on to become administratively involved in several local organizations including the Boston Parks & Recreation Department as former Deputy Commissioner, the Project Director for Harvard School of Public Health's program "Play Across Boston", as well as the Project Director for Northeastern Universities "Sport in Society". She was the recipient of Boston Municipal Research Bureau Henry L. Shattuck Award for Public Service as well as an inductee in WCVB Good Sports Hall of Fame

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How to Spice Up Your Sex Life and Rekindle Romance
After the initial passion and excitement of lust has faded, sex can start to feel routine and predictable for some couples, particularly if you're both leading busy or stressful lives. There are lots of ways to liven up your sex life and putting passion back into a relationship.
If you're working all day or busy raising a family, you may find that you stop seeing your partner as a lover. Maintaining a sexual connection will help you keep a sense of sexuality outside of the bedroom. Try:
Sending saucy text messages during the day.
Saying "I fancy you", or paying an unexpected, sexually loaded compliment
Being physically bolder with affection
Create sexual space to arouse your senses
Think about creating an environment that appeals to each of your five senses in order to maximise the sensual experience.
Sight: Soft lightning and candlelight in particular can be very romantic and can cast exciting shadows in a room. Think about colours that excite you. Try swapping the bed linen for something sexy
Sound: Playing music can help to get you in the mood. Think about what kind of music makes you feel sexy, or calm and chilled.
Smell: Your partner's favourite scent, or favourite aromatherapy oil can get your pulse racing. Lavender aids relaxation, ylang ylang can boost sensuality, or choose sandalwood to boost your sexual energy.
Taste: The link between food and sexual desire is well known. Foods which are said to contain aphrodisiac properties include strawberries, asparagus, chocolate, oysters, saffron and lettuce.
Touch: Your skin is the biggest sensory organ you have, yet it's often forgotten about. Interesting textures such as silk, fur, feather and satin can help you rekindle a passion for touch and feel.
Alter the rules of romantic initiation
If sex has become a bit routine, try spicing things up by initiating sex in new ways:
Romantic and tender: This could start with a romantic supper, or massage, or any gesture which says 'I love you'.
Brazen and bold: Try a sexy, direct statement or physical come-on which is straight to the point and says 'I want you'.
Urgent and frenzied: The tempo is quickly upped after the usual hug and kiss
Daring and erotic: Turn up the volume by dressing sexily or performing a strip-tease for your partner.
Try altering time, place and technique to further beat the bedroom boredom.
Be daring and create a sense of sexual excitement
Acting out fantasies can be a rich and exciting experience for couples. Once you've shared an experience, you're likely to feel more comfortable with your fantasy lives and extend your repertoire further. If you do want to act out a fantasy, make sure that your partner is comfortable with the idea.
Playing grown-up games can also bring passion back to your sex life, and can increase feelings of trust and intimacy. Try:
Buying a blindfold
Adding sexy twists to classic games like hide and seek
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As Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address, hundreds of thousands of Americans watched from the Capitol grounds and the National Mall. They cheered, they chanted, they looked to the nation like a sea of red, white and blue.
And when the 44th president finished his speech and walked up the marble steps of the Capitol, he paused and said, "I want to take a look one more time. I'm not going to see this again."
As other dignitaries continued to file up the steps, Obama gazed for about 15 seconds at the assembled throng. Behind him, his daughters Sasha and Malia and his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, did the same.
Then it was over. Obama ascended the stairs and headed into the remainder of the presidency.


text: Turkce biliyorum. Recklessly a sexual girl with a delightful body and perceptible lips dreams to become acquainted with you closer... ;) Let us enjoy by this night in full! Believe, with me you will not feel miserable, I am very passionate, experience and able, and I will be able to take you to the peak of pleasure!


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So, you might have seen this douchehound responding to my gayest look the other day:
Goddamn Kate. You are an unbelievably unattractive woman!!
every straight man with a set of eyes. (except for your closeted boyfriend, of course)
The funny thing is, Sweet Machine approved it because she only skimmed, and thought he was calling me an unbelievably attractive woman. Funnier still, Fillyjonk and I both thought the same thing when we first read it, even though I puzzled over the closeted boyfriend bit (and the fact that he would pick that picture to swoon over, frankly). But still, even while misreading it as a compliment, I agreed heartily with Shapeling Jen's immediate response: "Go fuck yourself."
There were two reasons for this:
1) The closeted boyfriend bit–seriously, go fuck yourself.
2) The fact that he presumed to speak for "every straight man with a set of eyes." Dude, whether you're telling me you think I should be living under a bridge or gracing magazine covers, you cannot speak for everyone. Attraction is subjective. And it irritates the living fuck out of me that this culture tries so hard to divide people into categories of "attractive" and "unattractive," as if individual preferences don't even exist–when in fact, individual preferences (conscious and unconscious) are at the core of attraction as it plays out in the real world.
Want evidence that attraction is subjective? Well consider the fact that all three of us SP bloggers, each of whom fares quite well on reading comprehension tests, completely missed the "un" on the front of that "attractive." I cannot imagine such a collective failure happening if all three of us believed that I am an unbelievably unattractive woman, and furthermore, everyone knows it. If we were primed to agree with this douchehound, we undoubtedly would have read it exactly as written–but we weren't, because we all know plenty of people find me plenty cute, and I have gotten numerous comments extolling my hotness before. (They were all from Jon B., but that's beside the point.) Despite the number of trolls we get, a comment calling me pretty is really no more unusual than one calling me a bloated, fugly cunt.
Know why? Attraction is subjective.
I was thinking about this recently while writing a piece on fat women and sexual power for Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti's upcoming anthology, and then it came up again yesterday while reading a comments thread on my superhero girlcrush Breakup Girl's blog. (MAJOR Sanity Watchers warning there, I am not kidding–and if you're faint of heart, you might even want to skip the rest of this post, 'cause I'll be quoting from it.)
A woman wrote to BG's alter ego, Lynn Harris, asking what to do about a guy she'd had this great connection with in e-mails and phone calls, who then saw a picture of her and said, "Call me when you lose some weight." Lynn's advice (he's got a right to his preferences; you've got a right to blow him off and should totally exercise that right; also, how the hell did you go 6 weeks without exchanging photos?) is right on the money in my opinion, but when she opened it up to comments on the BG blog, a whole lot of people disagreed.
'Cause, see, the problem here is not just that she fell for a guy who doesn't dig fat chicks, which could have been avoided by coughing up the photo a lot earlier. The problem is that no normal guy in the whole entire world digs fat chicks, which means she is Categorically Unattractive and must lose weight if she doesn't want to die alone.
Several commenters went down the fucking evo psych path with that:
We are programmed to look for healthy in every sense….healthy is attractive. Forcing the argument that people should accept others who are overweight goes against this natural selection switch, and makes it impossible for some people to accept.
Society has not conditioned us, evolution has. Men are attracted to women that represent the best chance of bearing their young and caring for them. This means young and physically fit…. This is not opinion, it is fact.
Evolution has produced men who are attracted to women who appear to be good prospects for bearing HIS children.
(HIS children! Got that, ladies?)
But most didn't even try to pretty it up with "science." They just flat-out don't bother themselves with trifles like the distinction between opinion and fact.
very few guys want to date over-weight women
She should trim up or accept that people will not be attracted to her for her size.
Ok,before everyone jumps down my throat. I used to be height/weight proportionate but over the years I've gained weight. I'm a chunky woman ok. I'm not denying it. And I know that's why I don't have a BF…. OK, men are really not that complicated and we women are just wasting our $ buying all these books. You don't even have to be that pretty. You just have to be THIN. That's right, crucify me now. YOU HAVE TO BE THIN.
Most guys don't want heavy babes. Unless of course they are larger themselves. Just reality. While the recent move to accept larger people proliferates, and, while it is good to feel good about yourself-self love and all it's just too much.
You can't expect someone to agree to marry someone else who is obese.
the fact of the matter is that men prefer shapely over fat or large or whatever you want to call it. Until woman "get" this they will always wonder why they don't have as much success dating as they could or should. It is not rocket science.
Are you really that naive? seriously. You KNOW what guys want, look around! They want that hot, sexy, body, a gal to make them look good too. MOST men do not prefer an overweight woman.
This lady just doesn't GET it. Some men just AREN"T sexually motivated, or attracted by a chunk. Girls, get the picture…If you want to be happy in your own skin, as all these self help horsecrap books talk about, remember, the author is hoping you buy her book, because she wants your money, so she is going to say it's OK for you to be fat. NEWSFLASH ! You just might be happy in your own skin ALONE. Yes, you DO actually have a responsibility to look good, if you want to be accepted.
Noone likes fat people except fat people and that's just how it is. It's sloppy with rolls of fat hanging, creases, pendulous breasts and persperation.These are all the thoughts of the normal mind and rightfully so as it is not a myth.Take a thin person in a restaurant eating, no one takes a second look. Take a fat person eating and one will think, "slovenly overeater" That's just the way it is. By the way, I'm fat and I think it's ugly!
(Bold emphasis mine in all cases; caps are their own.)
You might be surprised–though I wasn't, sadly–just how many of those commenters identified themselves as fat in the midst of their tirades against fat people. Of course, they could have been thin and full of shit, but they probably weren't. My primary raison de blog, after all, is trying to help fat people hate themselves less–if other people learn to hate us less, too, that's just gravy. (Mmm, gravy.) Internalized self-loathing exists among every marginalized group, but among fat people, it's rare to find someone who doesn't believe every last thing we're told to feel about ourselves. You're ugly. You're disgusting. You're sloppy. You're lazy. You're embarrassing to be seen with. You're out of control. You have no self-discipline. You will never be loved unless you lose weight.
(P.S. I'm only telling you this because I'm concerned about your health.)
Consider this commenter, who breaks my fucking heart:
I actually married a guy that can't stand my fat! Yes I did. Some would say I am stupid, but he treats me well, and we have a great life together. It is though, very difficult at times for me. I used to be very obese (almost 300lbs), and I am down to a size 14 and I am happy. Any one who knows anything about losing weight – when you have lost that much, you are really flabby. I can out-do my husband in the exercise department and he will admit it. I have put about 30lbs back on since we engaged, then married. I admit, I got a bit lazy and now I just can't seem to get it back off. We talk about it frequently, and he apologises for the way he feels, but he claims he can't change that and I have to lose more weight. He wants me into a size 8!! Hahaha – that will never happen and I tell him that. Anyway – I often wonder where I would be if I had been more true to myself.
The cognitive dissonance, it burns.
Fat people end up in relationships like that–or alone, too crippled by low self-esteem to even put themselves on the dating market–all too often, in large part because of this myth that there are Attractive People and Unattractive People, and every fat person falls into the latter category. Common sense should tell us this can't be true–if fat people aren't having sex, how the hell did so many fat people get here? Spaceships? Pods? But somehow, it has become a universal "truth" that no one wants to fuck, much less love, a fatty. Ever. Period.
Lose the weight and gain the power to choose.
How chilling is that? If you're fat, you don't have the power to choose a romantic partner. I can't be the only one hearing shades of this shit:
- if any man would want to rape your gigantic ass, i'd be shocked
- whoever raped you could have just waited at the exit of a bar at 3am and gotten it consenually without the beached whale-like "struggle" you probably gave
- These fat whores would be lucky to even get raped by someone.I hope you whiny cunts find your way on top of a pinball machine in the near future.
If you're thin, you get to choose who you want to have sex with. If you're fat, you'd be lucky to be raped. Face it, ladies! I'm just being honest!
No. This is the farthest thing from honesty. This is bullshit. Hateful bullshit. Bullshit that causes fat people to stay in abusive relationships or cut themselves off from relationships altogether. Bullshit that causes thin, growing grade-school girls to put themselves on diets; bullshit that triggers eating disorders in those predisposed to them; bullshit that causes feminists and non-feminists alike to identify a "somewhat underweight" woman as "maximally attractive."
The world is not full of Attractive People and Unattractive People. It's full of people who are attractive to some and not to others. I hear from trolls all the time who complain that they don't want to be "forced" to find nasty, ugly fat women attractive–which utterly baffles me, since the last thing I want to do is encourage fat-hating dicks to date fat women. You don't find fat people attractive? Fabulous. Don't date them. I will find a way to pick myself up and move on without your love. But to assume your lack of sexual interest in fat chicks must be universal–or that the mere existence of self-confident fat people having healthy relationships somehow "forces" you to find fat attractive–is the height of fucking narcissism.
I use this as an example all the time, but I find Brad Pitt to be kinda meh, physically. (I also find him pretty charming in interviews, which does ratchet up my attraction to him somewhat, but I just do not get the concept of looking at a picture of him and swooning.) Obviously, he ain't suffering for my personal lack of Brad Pitt lust. But it goes to the point: even someone widely considered to be our culture's physical ideal isn't universally, objectively attractive. I was at a bar last week with Colleen, Tari, and Ottermatic, when a Prince video came on, and we started arguing about whether Prince is, in fact, hot. Colleen and Tari pointed out the obvious: tiny, tiny man, very weird. Meanwhile, Ottermatic and I pointed out what was equally obvious to us: BUT HOT. And of course, the upshot is that there is no fact there, just four opinions, split down the middle.
Another story I've told before, but bear with me–when I started dating Al, he asked what celebrities I'd dump him for (only because I'd asked him first, I should note; he found the whole convo ridiculous). I started with George Clooney, but he deemed that too cliche (fair enough), so I added the likes of Peter Saarsgard, Paul Giamatti, Jon Favreau, Philip Seymour Hoffman–and probably Prince, too, come to think of it.
Al: Oh, I get it. What you're saying is, you like unattractive men.
I handed him his ass for that one (especially after he told me that made him understand why I was into him)* because he was missing the whole fucking point: I, Kate Harding, am very attracted to all those men–and to Al. It doesn't make a goddamned bit of difference if they ring anybody else's bell (though they're all doing just fine for themselves, thanks), 'cause mine was the bell in question. Al's list (which I had to drag out of him) included Catherine Keener, Maura Tierney, Queen Latifah, and maybe sorta Frances McDormand–none of whom look remotely like me, but I wasn't losing any sleep over that, because the list itself proves that attraction is not about a single set of physical characteristics.
I was recently interviewed by a Trib reporter for a "personal profile" (that may never come out, alas), which involved me running down my whole damn life story. In talking about dating during my twenties, I referred to this boyfriend and that boyfriend and that other boyfriend and that guy I was hooking up with for a while and then that other guy I was hooking up with for a different while, until the reporter finally stopped me and said, "So, even though you struggled with weight and body image, it sure sounds like you never lacked for male attention." Me: BWAH!!!! That was an entire decade, lady, and years of it were spent alone and believing that unless I got and kept myself thin, I would never find love (again). Because fat people are Unattractive People. Full stop.
But at the same time, she was right–and that comment was really enlightening to me. Because until that moment, I looked back on my romantic life as a series of long, lonely periods punctuated by a few fluke relationships, when I could just as easily look back on it as a series of relationships punctuated by a few fluke lonely periods. I spent almost exactly half of that decade in long-term relationships and half not–but given all the flings and fruitless dates in the off years, the balance actually tips toward periods where I did have "male attention." (And that's without even getting into all the times I found out after the fact that some guy had been interested in me, and I was too damned clueless to see it.) So far, I've spent 2/3 of my thirties in relationships (most of that with Al), and only 1/3 alone. If this one doesn't work out, I should be a fucking dating machine when I'm in my forties.
And have I mentioned I'm fat?
But Kate, I already hear some of you saying. You're not that fat. You don't even know.
You're right, I don't know. And there is no doubt whatsoever that the fatter you are, the more discrimination you face in every phase of your life, including dating. But there is also no doubt whatsoever that people much fatter than me are hooking up and falling in love all over the place, every friggin' day. Because there are people who prefer fat partners, and people who are attracted to all shapes and sizes, and people who think they're not attracted to fat folks until they meet the right one and go gaga. Because–wait for it–attraction is subjective.
But Kate, that doesn't change the fact that in this culture, more people are attracted to thin people than to fat people.
No, it doesn't. But that fact doesn't mean that fat people need to choose between losing weight and getting used to the company of cats. It just means we're looking for our respective needles in a slightly bigger haystack. And on the upside, we've automatically weeded out the people who think adhering as closely as possible to the cultural beauty standard is a prerequisite for deserving love–who wants to date those assholes? I have dear friends who are damn near the Barbie standard, and half of their romantic lives have been spent fending off guys like that in the first place or figuring out how to dump them; our net relationship success is about even. So who's better off?
The fact is, I am "an unbelievably unattractive woman"–and also an unbelievably attractive woman, a kinda meh woman, a kinda cute woman, and everything else on the spectrum between "eww" and "ooh." It all depends on who's looking–and further depends on whether they've actually talked to me, whether they dig mouthy broads or dog people or spacey writers, whether I remind them of their mothers, whatever. One of the few culturally desirable attributes I possess is a huge rack, but I've met more men than you could imagine who say they actively prefer small boobs–and more than one who has deemed my tits "scary." (SCARY. Not kidding. More than one.) Meanwhile, I have stubby, drumstick-shaped legs, and yet the majority of my boyfriends, when asked, self-identified as Leg Men rather than Breast Men. How the hell did they end up with me? Attraction is not about a single set of physical characteristics.
Attraction is weird and unpredictable and dependent on about 8 zillion variables. If it were actually based on a list of identifiable characteristics, we could all just walk around comparing lists with each other until each of us found a perfect match. And I don't know, maybe that's how some people actually do it–the people who have strict rules about only dating thin, white blondes or tall, rich guys with full heads of hair. The people who think about potential romantic partners in terms of how others will see them, not in terms of what they see. But the rest of us just have to stumble around and wait for the zing!
The waiting can suck, if you prefer being in a relationship. It can suck a lot. But the zing! does not depend on thinness or whiteness or blondeness or tallness or richness or haired-ness. It depends on the time, place, and person, on a host of things you can't control, and on another host of things you can't even consciously recognize.
That is the reality, people. That is a fact. That is just me being honest.
*This did, however, produce one of the best Al quotes of all time: "I mean, I could look like Philip Seymour Hoffmann… if I worked out."


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- You've gotta check out Sarah's anthro look for less, she just saved ya 300 benjamins...
- Want some killer legs? Try the 200 Squats Challenge...(yeah, let me know how that goes!)
- Splurge vs. Steal - vacation style!
- JT & Jimmy Fallon team up to rap the history of...rap...it's AWESOME!
- Something about this shirt that I like..
- A Scone's recipe that is so good - I made it last night :)
- I can't decide between these and these
- Hope you didn't miss the boot party ;)


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I have been searching for the right analogy to describe the contradiction displayed when a person runs for and becomes elected to public office with the stated intention of dismantling the regulations and institutions that make up the government itself (think Ronald Reagan, at times Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, the entire Tea Party, Libertarians…) I will of course report it here first because I think we are in dire need of a way to explain why that is so incredibly destructive to the people who are simply not getting that they are actually tearing themselves and their communities down in the process.
As I am going through this creative process, I am paying even closer attention than I normally do to the way writers use analogy and metaphor to express concepts and ideas, a skill I have retapped from when I was teaching. And I guess because I am so tuned in, I was profoundly affected by the way writer and blogger John Scalzi used an Ursula Le Guin story to frame his very concise description of the way adults failed to protect children in the Penn State child molestation scandal. The story describes a utopia where everyone is perfectly happy and well cared for, with the exception of one child that is kept in a miserable and disgusting solitary confinement. Each citizen is ultimately told of the child and then must make the decision whether or not to accept that their seemingly perfect existence requires the constant suffering of an innocent child. Obviously, this means that everyone who has been living there knows and has done nothing to protect the child.
This powerful and simple metaphor should give every single person who reads about the adults' lack of action in protecting the children that were sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky the clarity to understand that all of these adults willfully chose to let a child suffer to protect their utopia that was Penn State. And yes, that includes the man at the top himself, Joe Paterno. Few things in life are black and white, almost none. The one exception: there is nothing defensible about doing the least to protect a child from being raped by an adult. Not. One. Thing.
Please read John Scalzi's excellent piece here.
And stay tuned for my breakthrough analogy on government and it's elected officials.


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Spare Change News, a Cambridge-based newspaper sold by the homeless, is in a bad financial situation, according to the paper's director of operations.
Spare Change News, a Cambridge-based newspaper sold by the homeless, is in a bad financial situation, according to the paper's director of operations.
But despite rumors that the paper is set to shut down, Randy Eck, director of operations for the nonprofit, insisted that it will still be around.
"News of our death is greatly exaggerated," Eck said. "It's been really tight before and we've managed to get through." Eck said that the paper, which has been published for 17 years, has been presumed dead "about 34 times."
Spare Change, which was created in 1992, is part of the Homeless Empowerment Project. The homeless and low-income and unemployed people buy the newspapers for 25 cents each and then sell the newspapers on the street for $1.
"Sometimes it's not so bad, sometimes it's really bad," he said, "but we make it through."
Vendors said that they have seen a decrease in sales of the paper. Gregory Daugherty, who has been selling Spare Change for 15 years, said people are not buying the paper like they used to.
"I have people walk by and say 'I'm just this close from being homeless myself,'" he said while selling the paper in Harvard Square. "A dollar is so hard to come by that people don't want to give it up."
Despite Daugherty's observation, Eck said Spare Change's circulation will increase from 7,500 to 8,500 within the next two weeks. He said that the increase is a natural part of the paper's circulation cycle, with highest sales during the holiday season, and lowest in January, and when college students leave the city in May."That's the ebb and flow of things," he said.
Eck said Spare Change's financial situation was brought on by a combination of the economy and administrative issues. Although the paper normally operates with four administrative officials, administration changes throughout the spring and summer have left Eck as the only full-time staffer.
"Due to personnel changes things have fallen through the cracks," Eck said. "When people at the top aren't looking for icebergs, you can run into them. Financially, it will be very tight for a bit."


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Unless you're in the garden pest control industry, it might seem bizarre to build your career around slugs. Yet biology professor Andy Smith has done just that. While some see the slug as a gross invertebrate with a trail of goo behind it, he sees a creature with fascinating and unique adaptations that could lead to major improvements in the medical field, specifically surgical glues.
Despite the revolutionary potential of Smith's work, it's difficult not to refer to him as "the slug guy." His work certainly makes for interesting conversation at cocktail parties, he jokes. "It took a while to be completely comfortable with the fact that everyone's first response is, 'Well, that's weird!'" he says. "But usually it doesn't take long to convince people that, yeah, it's weird, but it's interesting, and it's unusual. What made me [interested in being] a biologist from the beginning was that I like really interesting adaptations."
The particular adaptation he's researching is how a common slug—specifically the dusky slug or Arion subfuscus— is able to turn the slippery slime by which it traverses the ground into a glue so powerful it can stick a grown man's fingers together, and he'll have difficulty prying them apart. And it won't wash off easily either, despite the fact that the goo is composed mostly of water.
That glue could lead to a replacement for stitches and would be a major improvement over current medical glues, which can fail quickly in warm, moist applications inside the body.
"Gel like this would make an ideal medical adhesive," Smith says. "It would stick to wet surfaces, and no matter how much the tissue flexed and bent, the gel would flex and bend with it. There would be no leakage or scarring."
Over the last decade, Smith and his students have been slowly unlocking the biochemistry behind this amazing secretion. Just as important, he has been serving as a mentor to those undergraduates who assist in his lab.
Prior to arriving at Ithaca College in 2000, Smith discovered that a key difference between slime and glue in other mollusks—limpets and marsh periwinkles, specifically—hinged on the addition of a single protein in the mixture. But his first week in Ithaca sent him on a new trajectory when his attention was drawn to some slugs in his backyard.
"So I just picked one up because I'm a biologist, and I looked at it. And all of a sudden it started secreting this ooze all over my fingers, and they started sticking together," he says. The gel could not be easily removed with paper towels or washing with soap. "And that was an 'ah-ha' moment," he says. "I thought, 'This material's incredible!'"
Next, he did research to see whether anyone had studied the substance, and he found no one had. The material is "a dilute, tangled network of polymers" that is neither fluid nor solid. Since his first backyard encounter with the dusky slug, Smith and the students assisting in his lab also determined that ions of metal such as zinc, calcium, iron, and copper help the gel stiffen by forming powerful links between the polymers.
This year Smith plans to sequence the amino acids of the proteins in the slug glue to determine their exact structure with a method called high-throughput sequencing.
"It's a modern technique that's unbelievably powerful," Smith says. "We could sequence my genome, your genome, anyone's genome in an afternoon." Beyond that, though, he believes he has a good understanding of the biochemistry behind the glue—all the ingredients, as it were— but he still needs to understand how the ingredients are assembled.
That doesn't mean he hasn't tried. There's been some success manually manipulating the slippery slime and causing it to stiffen a bit. But, as Smith notes, "[making it] a little stiffer is not what the slug's doing. The slug is doing something completely dramatic and amazing."
Sarah Rabice '14 has spent several semesters in Smith's lab. "He's sort of become my unofficial academic advisor," she says. She notes that he encourages students to become more independent as thinkers and objective scientists.
The research methods Rabice has learned under Smith's tutelage have solidified her interest in pursuing a medical degree, she says, and helped her realize the similarities between how a scientist and doctor problem solve.
"I feel like researching has helped me push the limits of my own creativity and innovation," she says. "Understanding how much more there is to know about that topic has definitely been inspiring to me in pursuing education in general."
Smith prizes the opportunity to help facilitate this personal growth. "You can tell when the student first comes into the lab, and we have a lab meeting—they don't know what to do. And the seniors who are in the lab are bouncing ideas off each other, and critiquing my ideas, and telling me why my ideas don't work, or coming up with better ideas," he says.
"To see the difference is really amazing," he says. "You see how independent they become, how creative, how good at coming up with really logical, interesting ideas. It's very rewarding to see that." And while the students eventually move on, Smith keeps chipping away at the secrets of the Arion subfuscus glue that bound his fingers together all those years ago. He foresees a day when sealing a wound with stitches or staples is relegated to the past.
"Stitches are a very crude way to put someone back together again," he observes.
It's a surgical method that stretches back millennia, after all. But biological gels are an understudied natural substance in general, Smith says. Not all slugs produce glues with the same properties as the dusky slug, and plenty of other animals ooze secretions that have potential applications for humans.
"All of these animals can produce designer gels for all kinds of different purposes," he says. "They can control mechanics of these gels in all kinds of interesting ways. Long term, I envision scientists figuring out different ways of making gels that could be useful, [just as these] animals do."


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"Environmental hater" lauded as lawmaker of the year by Colorado conservation group
That loud "HA! you're hearing out of southwest Colorado is state Rep. J. Paul Brown, touting his selection as Legislator of the Year by the Colorado Association of Conservation Districts.
The group, which is also honoring state Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass Village, is comprised of 76 conservation districts statewide.
Brown earlier this year was selected as one of the 12 most anti-environmentally friendly politicians in the country. Colorado Conservation Voters accused Brown of attempting to "reverse our state's progress on renewable energy, stymie the creation of clean tech Colorado jobs, cut energy assistance to low-income Coloradans and weaken our clean air and water laws."
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Two Gastonia dentists are among 14 across North Carolina who have filed a lawsuit against a national dental care chain they are affiliated with.
Dr. Richard Dunning and Dr. Jotinder Johal are both partners at DentalWorks, located in the Franklin Square shopping center. A spokeswoman for them said Wednesday she is unsure of how many patients they serve, but they will continue to do business as usual at the Gastonia dental office while the legal issues are resolved.
�The good news about all this is that patients should not see any impact at all,� said Debbie Elliott of Talk Inc., who has been hired by the 14 dentists to handle public relations while the lawsuit is resolved. �They are continuing to provide care.�
DentalWorks bills itself as a company that provides only management services � along with the name recognition of a chain � to the dental practices it partners with. But Dunning, Johal and their fellow plaintiffs have accused the company of encouraging staff to improperly diagnose patients, so they could bill them for more expensive procedures.
A second lawsuit against DentalWorks, filed by the N.C. State Board of Dental Examiners, makes some of the same claims. It also alleges that DentalWorks lied about its operations �to give the false and deceptive appearance that the dental practices are operating lawfully,� according to court documents.
North Carolina law allows only dentists to own, manage or control a dental practice. The state dental board�s lawsuit asserts that DentalWorks maintained two sets of financial records to conceal the reality that it owns and operates its North Carolina locations as a chain, therefore collecting the profits.
DentalWorks is the brand name of DentalOne Partners Inc., a national dental company operating in strip malls and retail centers across 14 states. It allows its dentists to buy into limited-liability corporations that manage dental practices. When those ownership arrangements first materialized in 2003, the point was to allow dentists to focus on patients, while DentalWorks managed other aspects of the business.
The state dental board�s lawsuit said DentalWorks pushed its dentists since at least 2008 to aggressively diagnose gum disease, treat it with a procedure called scaling and root planning, and prescribe a drug the company was pushing in coordination with the drug-maker. The company even encouraged hygienists to diagnose and treat the ailment, creating �an incentive to misdiagnose patients with periodontal disease, including documenting inaccurate clinical information,� the lawsuit said.
The result was unnecessary treatments and bills, the dental board said.
Elliott said anyone with questions about procedures they had done at DentalWorks in Gastonia should go to Dunning or Johal and ask them directly. But she pointed out they are among the 14 dentists who not only filed a lawsuit, but reported what they knew to the state dental board, indicating they did not cooperate with DentalWorks� attempts to influence.
�Trying to influence care and influencing care are two very different things,� Elliott said. �The dentists here are the patient advocates.
�Their primary concern now is they want to continue operating their practice and not let this be disruptive to their patients.�
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike. The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Suppose I have a density matrix $\rho$ and I act on it with a unitary matrix that is chosen randomly, and with even probability, from $S = \{ H_1, H_2 \ldots H_N \}$. I want to write the operation on the density matrix in Kraus form:
$$ \rho^{\prime} = \sum_i O_i \rho O^{\dagger}_i. $$
Since the operator is chosen evenly, the probability of choosing any $H_i$ is $\frac{1}{N}$. What would be my choices for $O_i$?


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As a founder member of Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research and Tender Trap, not to mention occasional vocalist and contributor with the likes of The Wedding Present, Hefner and The Pooh Sticks, Amelia Fletcher succinctly qualifies as the female figurehead of all things twee. Whatever one's own take on such gems as 'Lemonhead Boy', 'Testcard Girl', 'Hopefulness To Hopelessness' and so on and so forth, there's no disputing her considerable influence over a scene that many thought would dissipate by the close of summer 1986. Instead, thanks to clubnights like How Does It Feel To Be Loved?, festivals such as Indietracks and a multitude of post-millennial artists ranging from Vivian Girls to Ballboy to Los Campesinos!, the spirit of Ms Fletcher's youth is very much alive and kicking, something which her third full-length outing with Tender Trap, Dansette, Dansette celebrates with nostalgic vigour.
With a four-year gap since previous long player 6 Billion People, the current expanded five-piece line-up - founder members Fletcher and long-term partner Rob Pursey plus former Dweeb bassist John Stanley having been joined by Allo Darlin's Elizabeth Darling and drummer Katrina Dixon - recreates the shambolic punk stylings of Talulah Gosh in many ways, except with the added bonus of experience to fall back on. What this means is that while the luscious punk-pop of 'Do You Want A Boyfriend?' and 'Girls With Guns' could quite easily have found themselves on Rock Legends: Volume 69 some 21 years ago, Fletcher's almost tongue-in-cheek refrains on the former ("Does he have to like the Jesus and Mary Chain?") blend quite well with the latter's clarion call of "Are you willing to come clean, now we're ready to get mean?", like a mother being introduced to her daughter's first boyfriend.
Sandie Shaw and Lesley Gore find themselves namechecked among others on the album's title track, while 'Counting The Hours' occupies a similar plaintive middle ground to that of The Primitives 'Thru The Flowers', or even Best Coast's 21st century update on such matters. Its the Spector-esque lilt of 'Danger Overboard' and closing gambit 'Capital L' that resonate the most, not least by way of evidently displaying that maturely focused pop needn't necessarily be as mundane as magnolia wallpaper or Ford Mondeos.
Now with two young children of her own, making music is understandably way down the list of Amelia Fletcher's priorities. However, Dansette Dansette, along with last year's long awaited and hugely successful return to live performing at the aforementioned Indietracks suggests that even though almost 25 years have passed since her first recordings were committed to vinyl, her relevance in the present day should not be be underestimated.
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The hometown University of Nevada Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels, CBI champion Santa Clara Broncos and the high-flying Eagles from Florida Gulf Coast University headline the field for the 13th Annual Continental Tire Las Vegas Classic, scheduled for Dec. 22-23, 2013 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. Each team will play four games in the Classic – the first two at on-campus sites and the final two rounds at the Orleans Arena Dec. 22-23.
Always one of the best holiday tournaments in the country, the 2013 Classic is no exception. Also in the challenging field are Mississippi State of the Southeastern Conference, South Florida of the American Athletic Conference (formerly the Big East), Florida A&M University (Tallahassee, FL), Radford University (VA) and Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT).
Santa Clara, coming off its 2013 championship in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), returns two starters – senior guard Evan Roquemore (12.0 ppg, 5.2 assists) and junior forward Yannick Atanga (2.6 ppg, 6.2 rpg). Santa Clara had the biggest turnaround among NCAA Division I schools in 2012-13 and finished with a national RPI rating of 68. The Broncos won 26 games and finished fourth in the highly-competitive West Coast Conference, won by #1-ranked Gonzaga.
Under then first-year coach Dave Rice, UNLV won the championship game of the 2011 Las Vegas Invitational at the Orleans Arena defeating #1 North Carolina 90-80. That victory propelled the Rebels to a 26-9 record in 2011-12 and a 25-10 mark last year. UNLV has now made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances and 20 appearances overall, a mark only 11 teams in the nation can match.
While 6-8 Anthony Bennett (16.1 ppg, 8.1 rpg) has declared for the NBA draft, the Rebels have a strong returning cast to continue their up-tempo, aggressive style of basketball in 2013-14. Bryce Dejean-Jones (10.3 ppg, 4.4 rpg), a 6-5 junior, and Katin Reinhardt (10.1 ppg, 4.4 rpg), a 6-5 sophomore, return in the backcourt. 6-8 senior Mike Moser (7.1 ppg, 6.1 rpg) 6-9 junior Khem Birch (7.2 ppg, 5.7 rpg) will anchor the frontcourt.
Florida Gulf Coast (Ft. Myers, FL) won 14 of their last 17 games and captured the attention of the nation when they became the first #15 seed to advance to the Sweet 16 in the 2013 NCAA Tournament. America's Cinderella team of the year, FGCU first held classes in 1997 and started an intercollegiate basketball program in 2002. Their first full season in NCAA Division I was 2011.
Aptly nicknamed "Dunk City" for their ability to finish above the rim (the team recorded 148 dunks during the season), the Eagles defeated second-seed Georgetown 78-68 and seventh-seed San Diego State 81-71 before losing to Florida 62-50 in the Sweet 16. The Eagles finished the year with a 26-11 record and were ranked 25th nationally in the final poll.
While senior guard Sherwood Brown has graduated, the visible leaders of "Dunk City" return under new head coach Joe Dooley, a long time Kansas assistant. Dunk City 'Mayor' Chase Fielder, a 6-8 senior forward (12.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 48 blocks), led the team with 60 dunks last season. Dunk City 'Conductor' Brett Comer, a 6-3 junior guard (8.1 ppg, 6.6 assists), returns as the team's floor general. Junior guard Bernard Thompson (14.3 ppg, 2.7 steals), the Atlantic Sun Conference's defensive player of the year, and 6-9 junior forward Eric McKnight (6.6 ppg, 4.5 rpg) also return.
Hosting more than 200 events each year, the Orleans Arena is located just west of the Las Vegas strip and was recently named the #1 mid-size arena in the USA by Venues Today magazine.
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Check out the latest from House of Laurel! The spring/summer collection is called Athletenique.
Athletenique is a word play on "athleticism" and "ethnic", the collection is inspired by Rajo Laurel's mantra of "fitness is fashion". The pieces feature sportswear elements (such as mesh, knits, ribbing, garters) juxtaposed with an abstract take on ethnic/tribal prints.
The collection features a lot of bold prints and beautiful shapes for the women's line. The men's pieces are heavily influenced by sportswear silhouettes and fabrics.
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Medical Models Cut Time, Risk for Walter Reed Patients
By Fred W. Baker III
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WASHINGTON, June 13, 2007 - Medical Engineer Technician Carlos Villamizar uses a dental pick to scratch between the crevices of a hard plastic model.
He picks and picks and picks, scraping away unwanted milky-yellow plastic material, bringing the model to a near-perfect replica of the male patient's lumbar spine it represents.
Villamizar then blasts it with pressurized air -- and continues picking some more. It's tedious and time consuming, but every minute he spends on the model translates to less time the patient has to spend in the operating room.
>From the time the surgeon makes the first cut in the operating room, every minute counts for the patient.
The longer the wound is open, the greater the chance of infection and the more blood is lost. The longer the patient is under anesthesia, the greater the risk of respiratory issues.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center's 3-D Medical Applications Center uses technology originally designed for the manufacturing industry to cut down on the amount of time a patient is in surgery by as much as six hours.
The one-of-a-kind lab in military medicine creates hard-plastic, 3-D "medical models," or replicas, of injured body parts based on CT scans. So instead of a surgeon looking at a series of transparent scans in preparation for surgery, they have a replica of the injured bone or skull that they can literally hold in their hands and examine.
This helps them not only determine the best approach to surgery, but also allows them to fabricate and fit implants prior to the surgery.
"You have visualization outside the body. You don't have to peel back all of the tissue and all of the muscles to get the same level of visualization," said Dr. Stephen Rouse, a retired military dentist who runs the lab with a staff of two.
"You are giving the surgeon and his team, and the patient, an opportunity to see exactly the same thing, to be able to determine where and how they are going to operate. The patent can make a much more informed decision," Rouse said.
In many cases, having a model prior to the surgery reduces the size of the incision the surgeon must make, and ensures greater accuracy in the operating room, Rouse said. CT scans provide a general picture of the surgical area, but the 3-D medical model allows surgeons to see and touch beforehand what they will eventually see and touch in the operating room.
This gives surgeons a critical advantage when dealing with the current medical phenomenon of heterotopic ossification, or HO, occurring frequently in Iraq war amputees. HO is new bone growth in abnormal areas. Doctors are puzzled as to why it is occurring in so many amputees from the war.
The growth is random and can form a lacy network of new bone under the skin, similar in appearance to coral formations.
The growth can cause serious problems for the amputees, especially when fitting and wearing prosthetics. The bone can grow and rub and make wearing a prosthetic unbearable. Often additional surgeries are needed to remove the HO, but it sometimes encapsulates major arteries or nerves, making the surgery risky.
The medical models show three-dimensionally the HO formation and where it is attached. It can also highlight any major arteries in the area. Surgeons look at the models to decide at which point they want to enter and which cuts will yield the best results, Rouse said.
"(With CT scans,) what you cannot see is a full definition of 'Where is this? Where is it fastened to the pelvis? What anatomic objects do I have to watch out for if I'm going to remove it?" Rouse said.
"The surgeon is going to look at (the medical model) and find the areas where they are going to gain the most by removing it," he said.
The technology behind the model making first was developed for the manufacturing industry for quickly building prototypes. It is used on several military installations for prototyping parts prior to manufacturing, Rouse said. It also is used in aviation and car manufacturing.
The largest single owner of the SLA 7000, or stereo lithography apparatus, used at Walter Reed, is Align Technology, Inc., the makers of the Invisalign invisible braces, Rouse said. They own 40 of the machines, he said.
It was first introduced to military medicine in the early 90s by Dr. David Chance and Dr. Stephen Schmitt, both Air Force dentists looking for a way to speed up the process of making bridges and partial dentures, Rouse said. It was first used in an Air Force dental clinic at Wilford Hall Medical Center, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Since its inception in medicine during the early 90s, stereolithography has had limited use, primarily in orthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery, Rouse said.
The technology also is used when planning to separate conjoined twins, looking at tumors in bones, deciding treatment for aneurisms, and examining malformations in the brain, Rouse said.
Walter Reed is the only military hospital to operate a full medical service bureau and makes its services available worldwide to anyone in military medicine, Rouse said.
The 3-D medical model-making process starts with the CT scans of the injured area. A computer program interprets the electronic CT scan data and renders a 3-D computer image. The image is cleared of extraneous data and then sent to the SLA 7000.
The SLA 7000 is filled with a vat of liquid resin. A perforated platform in the vat slowly drops one-tenth of a millimeter at a time, as a laser dances across the surface and "prints" each layer. The layers bond the laser activates the resin.
The vat holds about 320 kilograms of resin, costing about $200 per kilogram, or a total of $64,000. A model of a pelvis uses about $500 worth of resin. The model saves thousands of dollars in operating room expenses, Rouse said, because of the timesavings. Rouse said he has documented a savings of two to six hours per surgery in which the models were used.
"The cost of the model is a miniscule part of the equation," Rouse said.
The process of printing the model is called a "build." Multiple models are built simultaneously. A model of a full skull including the jaw can take about 18 hours. Larger, more complex builds can take more than 50 hours to finish, Rouse said.
Once built, the model is rinsed, cleaned and cured. That takes a couple of hours, Rouse said. The lab can process, build and ship a model typically within 72 hours.
Since opening in 2004, the lab has created more than 1,600 models for about 580 patients, Rouse said. Some patients require multiple models so the surgeons can track the healing progress, he said.
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For what seems like years, Yahoo has been trying to figure out a way to sell its huge stake in China Internet giant Alibaba "tax free"--thus avoiding the billions of dollars of capital-gains taxes it will have to pay on the stake.
Now, Yahoo appears to have finally given up on that plan.
Instead, it's just wants to sell the stake and pay the taxes, report Anupreeta Das and Gina Chon of the Wall Street Journal.
As Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's fate hangs in the balance after it was found that the Computer Science degree on his resume didn't exist, the world will get to see, yet again, whether Yahoo will finally do a deal with Alibaba.
Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba. The company is talking to Alibaba about selling 15%-25% of Alibaba back to Alibaba, Das and Chon report. At the $32 billion valuation for Alibaba discussed in Yahoo's most recent attempt to strike a deal, that sale would generate $5-$8 billion in cash, which Yahoo would then have to pay taxes on.
Alibaba, meanwhile, would have to raise a couple of billion of cash to pay for the stake.
The idea that Yahoo would sell its stake in Alibaba to appease short-term shareholders seems crazy to many observers, who think that Alibaba will go on to create one of the largest Internet companies on the planet. Instead of cashing out now, these observers say, Yahoo should just focus on its core business and let the Alibaba stake amass value. Then, if it wants to cash out later, it can.
And that's a perfectly reasonable view. Holding the Alibaba stake costs Yahoo exactly nothing. The reason Alibaba wants the stake back is that it thinks it will be worth more later.
So one hopes that, at the very least, Yahoo demands an excellent price for the stake, especially if it's going to have to pay taxes on the gain.
But, meanwhile, the Alibaba talks are a sideshow. The bigger question is whether, come Monday, Yahoo will be looking for its fourth CEO in a year.
SEE ALSO: In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Talks About His (Fictional) Computer Science Degree


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In celebration of National Zookeeper Appreciation Week, meet Crista Melchiorre, an Aviculturist in our Australia exhibit!
How long have you been at the Aquarium?
2 years
What interested you to pursue your current career path?
I have always loved animals. Growing up we always had a variety of pets and I enjoyed finding animals in the woods and my yard. I was that kid who would be brought the sick or orphaned animals in the neighborhood, but usually would have to have my mom take me to a wildlife rehabber to save it.
Briefly describe for us your day-to-day
My day starts with a lot of cleaning and diets and ends with a lot of cleaning and diets. But there is a lot of animal interaction in between, whether its medicating one of the bats, training one of our parrots or getting a brief hello from a green winged dove.
Favorite Aquarium memory?
When we moved our two grey headed flying foxes, Darwin and Victor together. Darwin had very little social interaction with other bats due to a medical condition and he was moved with Victor to give him the opportunity to socialize. We were all nervous about what was going to happen but Darwin is happier than he ever has been!
Next big project you're working on?
I'll be focusing on getting our Crested Pigeons to breed.
Favorite animal?
That's a hard question! I love all the animals I work with obviously but I think there is a tie between Darwin, one of our grey headed flying foxes, he just pulls at everyone's heart strings. And Hobart, one of our Sulfur Crested Cockatoos, he has a very big personality and loves our attention.
Thanks for celebration Zookeeper Appreciation Week with us! Got a question for our staff? Ask them in the comments section!


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The rollout of Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices," as a prelude to a possible 2016 run for the White House, has had all the subtlety of a military operation ramping up to full speed: the leak of the Benghazi chapter to Politico late last month (presumably to get talk about that hot-button topic out of the way early), the cover story in the latest issue of People magazine, the wall-to-wall lineup of television interviews this week, a grueling cross-country book tour.
The book itself, however, turns out to be a subtle, finely calibrated work that provides a portrait of the former secretary of state and former first lady as a heavy-duty policy wonk. Compared with her 2003 memoir, "Living History" — which tended to lapse into glib, stump-speechlike pronouncements and reactive efforts to blame assorted enemies for her and her husband's travails — "Hard Choices" is a statesmanlike document intended to attest to Mrs. Clinton's wide-ranging experience on national security and on foreign policy. There is little news in the book. And unlike former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's rawly candid memoir "Duty," this volume is very much the work of someone who is keeping all her political options open — and who would like to be known not only for mastering the art of diplomacy, but also for having the policy chops to become chooser-in-chief.
"Hard Choices," like Mrs. Clinton's tenure at the State Department, does not evince a grand, overarching foreign policy vision, as Henry A. Kissinger's 1994 book "Diplomacy" did. Rather, Mrs. Clinton displays a pragmatic, case-by-case modus operandi. Some critics have argued that she played it safe as secretary of state, that she had no marquee achievements like a Middle East peace accord. And her new book (written with an assist from what she calls her "book team") suggests that Mrs. Clinton's main legacy lies in reorienting American foreign policy in a globalized, tech-savvy 21st century, and in helping restore the country's image abroad in the wake of the Iraq war and the unilateralism of President George W. Bush's administration.
One of the few things this book shares with "Living History" is its emphasis on Mrs. Clinton as someone capable of growth and change: an individual who says she learns from past mistakes like her 2002 vote to authorize military action in Iraq. (She "got it wrong," she writes of that vote. "Plain and simple.") "Hard Choices" seems meant to serve several purposes at once: to document Mrs. Clinton's tenure as secretary of state; to put her dysfunctional 2008 presidential campaign in the rearview mirror; to supplant memories of her tumultuous days as first lady (Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky) with images of her negotiating with leaders on the world stage; and to lift her above the partisan mudslinging of Washington.
The only chapter in which Mrs. Clinton sounds defensive or defiant is the one on the 2012 attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya — the subject of continuing investigations by House Republicans, bent on asserting that President Obama and Mrs. Clinton covered up what they knew about the causes of the attack. "I will not be a part of a political slugfest on the backs of dead Americans," she writes.
Mrs. Clinton has always been a conscientious A-student, and "Hard Choices" is methodically organized by country (China, Russia, Iran, etc.), region (the Middle East, Asia, Latin America) and topic (the Arab Spring, climate change, human rights). Though she does not possess the genial explanatory gifts of her husband (showcased in his 2011 book about the economy, "Back to Work"), she provides the lay reader — and potential voter — with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic and historical forces in play around the world, and the difficulties American leaders face in balancing strategic concerns with "core values." The tone is calm and measured, with occasional humorous asides, like describing an offer by Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian leader, to take Bill Clinton along on a polar-bear tagging expedition.
More positive developments like the diplomatic and economic isolation of Iran are described in considerable detail, while more controversial subjects like drone warfare and the data collection programs of the National Security Agency get only cursory, talking-points treatment. Beltway readers will not learn much new here about matters like the Obama administration's handling of the war in Afghanistan or its counterterrorism policies.
For readers who are less policy-oriented, there are personal tidbits strewn lightly throughout, like small chocolate Easter eggs. Mrs. Clinton tells us that she would fight jet lag by sometimes digging "the fingernails of one hand into the palm of the other"; that she kept the raid on Osama bin Laden's hide-out secret from her husband ("They told me not to tell anyone, so I didn't tell anyone"); that President Obama once called her aside before an international meeting for what she thought was a sensitive consultation, only to hear him whisper in her ear, "You've got something in your teeth."
Mrs. Clinton's views are perceived as often more hawkish than Mr. Obama's, and in these pages, she walks a delicate line between being his loyal lieutenant and articulating her own beliefs. She takes a hard line on Mr. Putin, writing that "hard men present hard choices" and "strength and resolve were the only language" that the Russian leader understood. Of her unsuccessful argument within the administration for arming and training moderate Syrian rebels, she writes: "No one likes to lose a debate, including me. But this was the President's call and I respected his deliberations and decision."
Addressing much-chronicled tensions between the State Department and White House advisers, Mrs. Clinton enumerates some of her differences with them in the book — including her counsel of caution to Mr. Obama in pressing President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to step aside in the face of mounting street protests in Cairo. She also writes that it was painful to see her old friend Richard Holbrooke, the veteran diplomat she had chosen to handle the Afghanistan-Pakistan portfolio, "marginalized and undercut" by younger White House aides who disliked his flamboyant, old-school style.
Of her own plans — to run or not to run for president — Mrs. Clinton writes that she has not decided yet. It's "another hard choice" coming up.


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Professional Snowboarder Marc Frank Montoya will launch his new snowboarding brand Sound for the 2008-2009 season. Comprised of technical waterproof/breathable outerwear and a full range of accessories, Sound will officially launch at the 2008 SIA and ISPO tradeshows. The line is built on the proven Patented Sound System features that have been in development for more than five years, with styling and fabrics that are completely new. Sound will launch worldwide and will be based out of the Brandbase headquarters with other snowboard brands Technine, Nomis, and Alycium, of which Marco is now a partner.
"Whassupp Ya'll! You're gonna be soo stoked!!! We've never been happier and more confident than we are now with Sound!!! EVERYTHING has come out PERFECT – exactly how we've always pictured it! We're finally all set up with the best team of friends, infrastructure, and partners, and things are going ridiculously well. All of our hearts are 110% into this, and the stars have aligned to make this the all time dopest gear company EVER. Sound is gonna be the best shit ever made, with all the right heads behind it. We want to thank everybody for the support over the years and we hope you're as proud as we are to be a part of a 100% REAL & TRUE snowboarding company. We've always done it from the heart. It's never been about the money, only stayin' true to ridin' & havin' fun with the homies, you feel me?! So check Sound at SIA and ISPO & we'll see you there, you WILL be stoked!!! That's my word!!!
Your boy,
"I first met Marco when he was just a no name kid with unbelievable raw talent, and since then I have been lucky enough to work with him in on every project I've ever been involved with. Like his riding, he comes through every time with the ideas that make me change my entire view on what snowboarding (and outerwear) can be. We have always worked together to try to bring these ideas to riders and take snowboarding to a new level, but this time it's different: This time it's HIS. The Sound line proves Marco's tastes are as diverse as the kids that look up to him. I couldn't be more excited to be involved with Marco and Sound!"
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I'm so happy to learn, watching this funny video from How It Should Have Ended, that I'm not the only one who wonders: "Why doesn't Gandalf get everywhere flying on an eagle?"
And then to ask, "Why didn't they just fly into Mordor straight-off, on eagles?"
How's everyone's week wrapping up? Good? Cool. Talk about Hobbits, eagles, or anything you like, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have good conversation, see you on Friday.


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From Kristine M. Sturkie, Navy Exchange Service Command Public Affairs
Virginia Beach, Va. (NNS) -- As part of the Navy Exchange Service Command's (NEXCOM) We Believe! holiday events, more than 30,000 deployed and forward-deployed Sailors and Marines will receive either a free $10 prepaid card or virtual calling minutes using a virtual personal identification number (VPIN).
Both the card and VPIN can be used aboard U.S. Navy ships or via shore-based telephone systems in the US and overseas.
By Katie Lange, Defense.gov
ARLINGTON, Va. -- National Wreaths Across America Day has become such a big tradition that it's hard to believe it began from just one personal tribute.
The Worcester family of Harrington, Maine, owns their own tree farm. In 1992, they had a surplus of wreaths during the holiday season, so the family patriarch, Morrill -- who had long felt indebted to our fallen veterans -- got help from a Maine politician to have those spare wreaths placed beside graves in Arlington National Cemetery in areas that received fewer visitors each year.
Federal Commission on School Safety Releases Comprehensive Resource Guide for Keeping Students, Teachers Safe at School
WASHINGTON—After months of research, visiting successful programs around the nation, and receiving testimony from experts and concerned citizens, today the Federal Commission on School Safety (Commission) released a 177-page report detailing 93 best practices and policy recommendations for improving safety at schools across the country.
Utilizing the information gathered, the Commission report offers a holistic approach to improving school safety, ranging from supporting the social and emotional well-being of students to enhancing physical building security. Acknowledging there can be no one-size-fits-all solution to this complex problem, the final report serves as a resource guide for families, educators, law enforcement officers, health professionals, and elected leaders to use as they consider the best ways to prevent, mitigate, and recover from acts of violence in schools. The recommendations are based on efforts that are already working in states and local communities.
The Department of Defense released the 2019 Basic Allowance for Housing rates today. BAH rates will increase an average of 2.55 percent when the new rates take effect on January 1, 2019. An estimated $21 billion will be paid to approximately one million service members.
The 2019 BAH program expands the member cost-sharing element (out-of-pocket expense) while continuing to balance the growth in compensation costs. Based on the authority provided in the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, the cost-sharing element was increased to five percent. For 2019, a typical member will need to absorb five percent of the national average housing cost by pay grade. The out-of-pocket amounts incorporated in the 2019 BAH rates vary by grade and dependency status and range from $66 to $149 monthly. This rate computation change balances the growth of certain military pay and benefits in a fair, responsible, and sustainable way. Even with these nominal changes, the overall military pay and benefits package remains robust and healthy.
By Gary Sheftick, Army News Service
WASHINGTON -- Less than a month remains for Soldiers to opt into the Blended Retirement System and so far only 19 percent of those eligible have switched to the new plan.
Pentagon officials are concerned many Soldiers will be missing out on benefits under BRS that they can take with them if they leave the Army before serving 20 years.
By Ed Barker, Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center Public Affairs
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Sailors planning to take college courses in the new year using Tuition Assistance (TA) should submit requests before the holiday stand-down period to get a head-start on the review and approval process.
According to counselors at the Navy College Virtual Education Center (NCVEC), the primary reason for problems with TA requests is late applications, and Sailors who get an early start on their applications have the best chance of having their requests approved. Service members are required to obtain approval for TA funding before the official start of a course.
By Jenny Hale
The Soldier for Life - Transition Assistance Program (SFL-TAP) launched its first edition of a new Army magazine called Hire a Soldier on Nov. 29. The online publication features advice, tips, and stories for transitioning Soldiers who are planning for life after Army service.
The first edition features Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel Dailey and his advice for transitioning Soldiers. "At the end of the day, transition is a process and it's something every Soldier will go through. We all must transition at some point and from every rank in the Army. There are a lot of resources out there and starting early is key to properly preparing." Dailey said.
From Navy Personnel Command Public Affairs
MILLINGTON, Tenn. (NNS) -- Applications are now being accepted for enlisted information warfare community personnel to attend the National Intelligence University (NIU), the Navy announced in a message, Dec. 10.
According to NAVADMIN 299/18, active-duty Sailors in the cryptologic technician (CT), intelligence specialist (IS) and information systems technician (IT) ratings can now apply for enrollment in NIU for Bachelor of Science in intelligence, Master of Science of strategic intelligence and Master of Science and technology intelligence degree programs.
MYTH 1:My parents make too much money, so I won't qualify for any aid.
FACT: The reality is there's no income cut-off to qualify for federal student aid. It doesn't matter if you have a low or high income; most people qualify for some type of financial aid, including low-interest federal student loans. Many factors besides income—such as your family size and your year in school—are taken into account.
From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy authorized special leave accrual (SLA) for Sailors who had leave either canceled or disapproved in support of humanitarian and emergency assistance for Hurricane Florence, in NAVADMIN 294/18, Dec. 7.
Commanding officers and officers in charge may approve SLA for Sailors whose leave was canceled or disapproved between Sept. 14-30, 2018. SLA approval is limited to the amount of leave that was canceled or disapproved, up to a maximum of 14 days.
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Are you "pinked" enough to do something about breast cancer? If pink were a verb, it would mean inspired, vigilant, and committed to finding a cure.
We are way beyond awareness. A friend of mine recently told me about a radio program where the host was saying how sick of pink he was and we should all be aware enough about breast cancer, so can we just move on. Now there is someone who doesn't get it. Pink is about moving on — it is about finding a cure so we can move on to the next disease.
Here in Detroit, pink has gone to new heights. We have pink lighted bands on the top of the GM Renaissance Center buildings, which tower over the city on one side and shine like a beacon for Canada on the other. Next to the center is the Blue Cross Blue Shield building, which lit up their windows in a pink-ribbon formation. Near my neighborhood, a Carpet One store painted their entry columns pink and put pink lights on the trees on their property. Pink is important and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. When anyone makes a comment to me about too much pink, I use the verb and ask "are you pinked enough yet to fight for the cure?"
Joanie Lucas is a Denver woman who has fought for a cure for 19 years. She joined with Yoplait, one of my favorite pink companies, to paint her house pink for the cure. Her message is that the fight for the cure starts in our own neighborhood. Joanie started her volunteer work in memory of four close friends that she lost to the disease. That is a huge loss for this woman, and she is pinked enough to want her whole house and Denver neighborhood involved. By joining with Yoplait's program "Save Lids to Save Lives," she found the momentum to make her house a monument to finding a cure. She is my inspiration this month. I am awed by this commitment and extremely proud of Joanie's efforts for breast cancer survivors everywhere. Yoplait is again asking you to save your lids this month — each lid means 10 cents donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure towards the fight against breast cancer.
Awareness is meant to be motivational. Each pink building, pink product, or pink ribbon should remind us that people are dying from this disease. You can ask Joanie how pinked she is and I am sure she will tell you that losing four friends is more than enough reason to paint the world pink each October.
No one should lose a loved one to this disease. We need to unite, fight, and get pinked enough to make that cure happen.


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WORCESTER, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team fell to host Worcester Polytechnic Institute at the WPI Sports and Recreation Center Thursday evening.
The men lost, 195-82, while the women fell, 175-116.
For the women, freshman Caroline Corcoran (West Boylston, MA/ West Boylston) won the 200 yard breaststroke in 2:38.28, junior Katelyn Kidney (Lynn, MA / Lynn Classical) took the 500 freestyle in 5:35.59, and senior Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/ Wachusett Regional HS) won the 200 individual medley in 2:22.32. For the men, freshmen Maxwell Kearns (Marion, MA/Bishop Stang HS/Northeastern) and Charles London (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS/Bristol CC) qualified for the New England Championships.
"The score is not indicative of how we swam in tonight's meet," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "We had some great races and times tonight, but were simply beaten by depth. We are swimming tired coming off double sessions, and will begin tapering next week."
UMass Dartmouth's women are now 6-3, while the men are 3-4. WPI's men are 6-3, and the women are 6-3. The Corsairs will return to action when they visit Plymouth State Saturday.


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These last posts about the 1970's are stimulating a walk down memory lane–which, when we're talking about the 70's, is not for the faint of heart. One thing that stands out, with hindsight, about the Nixon and Ford administrations is the sheer incoherence of liberal Republicanism. Does anybody remember Gerald Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign? I'd love to have one of those "WIN" buttons; there must still be some around. It was never clear, of course, how we citizens were supposed to go about Whipping Inflation, but if you weren't a monetarist, that was about all you could come up with by way of an inflation policy. In those days, Milton Friedman was considered an eccentric, out of date ideologue. It was Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker who Whipped Inflation, not with buttons but with sound monetary policy. Reagan ignored, as he so often did, the Democratic pundits who told us we should just get used to a permanent 10 to 15% annual inflation rate. If Reagan had done nothing else, his Administration would have been a success. But you already know that story. I mean, the newspapers are just full of articles about the 20th anniversary of the restoration of sound monetary policy, and how it kicked off two decades of unprecedented prosperity.
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Tres888 escribiu:This is the once a year post.
Since I missed wishing all the International Celta followers (you know who you are ) a Merry Christmas, let me me wish you all a great, pleasant, prosperous and healthy 2010, full of looove and goood things... and may our Celta hang in there for another year.
Thanks for the kind words and likewise to you and yours for 2010, and Celta is never dead, we're just giving other teams a chance to have some glory before we go back to our rightful place.


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The fight came off the second face-off of the game and it was pretty vicious. Dziurzynski and his Toronto counterpart, Frazer McLaren, exchanged a few shots before McLaren landed the decisive blow.
Dziurzysnki went down immediately and was out cold for a short period. He eventually got to his, very wobbly, skates and was helped off the ice. Not surprisingly, the team later announced he suffered a concussion.
Dziurzynski made his NHL debut on February 16, 2013, against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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