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Europe: Samsung to build 60 stores in 90 days
Like we told you a while ago, Samsung is actually prepping to build some stores across the world, and now the Koreans want to kick off by wiring 60 stores across Europe within the next 90 days.
In partnership with UK-owned Carphone Warehouse, who in turn runs over 2000 branches in UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and the Netherlands, Samsung will unveil some Apple Store-like Samsung Shops in these countries in the span of three months.
Here is a press release from Carphone Warehouse and Phone House:
New store concept – Samsung & Carphone WarehouseRNS Number : 7586YCarphone Warehouse Group PLC29 January 2014
Embargo Wednesday 29 January 2014, 07.00 GMT
London, 29 January, 2014 -Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced that it has signed a 'preferred partner' agreement with Carphone Warehouse Group plc to operate over 60 Samsung stand-alone stores across Europe.
The agreement follows the successful opening in 2013 of three stand-alone stores in Spain, operated by Carphone Warehouse. The new stores will be rolled out in the next three months across seven European markets: UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands. The stores will have a premium look and feel and will sell Samsung mobile communications products across Samsung's full range of mobiles, tablets, laptops and wearables.
Shoppers can expect an exciting new customer experience which merges retail and technology innovations such as Carphone Warehouse's assisted sales tool and connectivity platform using Samsung branded tablets.
There is potential to expand the relationship going forward, with Carphone Warehouse acting as Samsung's preferred partner across Europe and operating the majority of dedicated Samsung stores.
This is an important alliance playing to both companies' strengths. Together we will create a powerful new retail concept to showcase, for our customers, a wide range of products, content and services as well as injecting both investment and new jobs into the retail sector.
Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of Carphone Warehouse said:
"We are delighted to have been chosen as Samsung's preferred European partner for their store roll-out. Our Connected World Services business will combine Carphone Warehouse's retailing expertise and systems with one of the world's biggest brands and will help us make even more lives better through connected technology."
About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 270,000 people across 79 countries with annual sales of US$187.8 billion. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.
About Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is the largest independent telecommunications retailer in Europe. Its retail business operates c.2,000 stores in seven European countries, principally under the Carphone Warehouse and Phone House brands, together with a well-developed online proposition. It specialises in combining hardware, connections and services. Ongoing investment in high quality and well-trained consultants, make it ideally placed to benefit from the evolution of smartphones and other areas of complex technology. Its Connected World Services business aims to leverage the specialist skills, operating processes and technology of the business to provide services to third parties looking to develop their own connected world solutions. For more information, please visit www.cpwplc.com
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Joss Whedon has revealed that he took inspiration from the Godfather trilogy in writing The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The writer-director told AlloCiné that Francis Ford Coppola's crime saga had served as a model for him in navigating the transition between his first and second films.
"The model I'm always trying to build from, or my guiding star, is The Godfather: Part II, where a ton has happened in between and it's a very different movie, but you don't need any information," Whedon explained.
"It's there in the film about what's happened since, what's different, and why is this a different film; why is it a different kind of structure, and why is it darker?
"It's all there, you're in the vernacular of the first movie and you're just ready to pick up in this new place, and hopefully that's what will happen with my movie."
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Counting down till Christmas with Cake
by Kevin • December 21, 2013 • Cake • 1 Comment
It's been a busy few months! For the most part I even forgot to blog, so this is a whistle-stop tour of what I've been doing the last few months (cake!). In honour of this I have compressed all my cake adventures into one blog post. Cake truly is a wonderful thing!Read more →


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Planejammer: The Infinity Arc
Our Heroes
Journals and Chronicles
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The year is 5050 in The Olven Calendar. It has been ten years since the Faction War rocked Sigil to it's foundations and nine since the second tempest of doors when Vecna attempted entry to The Cage. The Rule of Three says another bad time is coming…
Four years after the close of the Greyhawk Wars of Oerth and the complete destruction of the planet Armistice in the Second Unhuman Wars we are on the verge of finally defeating the humanoid forces in Wildspace.
In the shadow of these grand, historic events Mordenkainen once more eyes the Celestial Chessboard….
Planejammer: The Infinity Arc
Rules: Books Allowed
Since the list is constantly evolving please reference the Rules page for a current list.
We also use the Paizo Critical Hit and Critical Fumble decks. Anything you want to use from other sources must be vetted and approved by the DM first.
Setting: Spelljammer / Planescape [This means that most standard / homebrew settings can exist somewhere in the multiversal framework.]
Rating: Adult themes, NSFW.
Emphasis: Role Playing, not roll playing. XP bonuses for good characterization and role-playing are standard. XP Bonuses are standard for creating setting material- character journals, sketches, etc.
Psionics: Yes, Ultimate Psioncs. (Psionics are different, limited.)
Firearms: Emerging Firearms
Starting Level: 1st
Game Night: First two Thursdays of the month at Mardi Gras Manor, followed by one week with a floating location and one week with a daytime game on the weekend.


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TNA News: Was Last Week's Record High Audience a Turning Point or just a fluke?November 6, 2011
Last week TNA Impact! racked in 2.02 million viewers, the highest Thursday night Impact! rating ever (the January 4th, 2010 edition of TNA impact had 2.2 million viewers). However, this good news was cut short when this week's TNA Impact! rating dropped by 25 percent in total. It should be noted that this week's impact! did go head-to-head with the World Series game on Fox, but even so it had to hurt TNA's feelings just a bit.
Last week's TNA Impact! featured the return of Jeff Hardy and Gail Kim's in-ring return against Tara, and the week before we saw the crowning of the new TNA world heavyweight champion. So it's safe to say that the 27th October edition of Impact! had a lot going for it. Let's not forget the main event, which featured Samoa Joe versus Bobby Rhode to determine the No. 1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
The 27th October edition of Impact! had built up a lot of anticipation and excitement for fans and the ratings proved this. Impact! promised to deliver big, but with the huge dip in ratings this week maybe fans weren't as convinced as TNA management had hoped. Granted the World Series game probably had a huge role in the ratings drop, but does this also prove that TNA still can't get it right?
Whenever TNA seems to hit a turning point and seems to be improving something always seems to come around and knock TNA back down.
It upsets me because I want TNA to do well, but they always seems to drop the ball once they have started building something good. Whether it is changing title names too many times, changing champions too many times, not using all of their talent to their full potential or building up an amazing storyline only to ruin it at the last second.
So was last week's record high audience a turning point? There is a chance it could have been a turning point but there is also a chance that it could have been just a fluke. To be honest it's hard to tell. Only time will tell if it was just a lucky night or is a sign of good things to come for TNA.


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I see the way you look at her. The way your brows furrow when she's angry, the way your face falls when she's sad, the way your eyes dance in a waltz of green and gold when you catch her laughing in the common room.
I see. No one else might. But I do.
Sometimes you call her name across the Great Hall just to watch her spin around and flip that wave of auburn over her shoulder.
"Evans!" you'll yell. She may ignore you – in which case you just keep calling – or, if you're lucky, she'll turn.
"What, Potter?" she'll ask, and you'll smile because she's payed attention and you'll ruffle your hair nervously because now you don't remember what 'what' is.
"Go out with me," you'll say, because the fact that she is even speaking to you gives you hope, so maybe this time she'll say yes, too.
But when she says no, you shrug, flash a grin, mask the disappointment taking root in your chest and growing, growing into a giant sequoia.
Still, you don't stop calling her.
You holler her name in the halls, whisper it during class, draw it out like a scroll so you can feel it dawdle on your tongue.
Not many people understand why. But I do.
Sometimes you talk to her. You don't scream or fight or throw hexes like everyone expects you to. You just talk. And she talks back.
You explain to her how Quidditch works.
"No, Evans, the quaffle goes through the goals. The bludgers are meant to hurt people."
"Why would you want to hurt people?"
"To win."
"There are better ways to win, I think."
"There are better ways to turn a bloke down, too, but you always aim straight for the gut, don't you?"
She tells you about her sister.
"Petunia isn't really that bad, I swear. I make her seem much worse than she actually is."
"I don't know, Lily. Stuffing your owl in the closet, purposely shrinking your uniform in that dryer thing, and donating all of your books to the library in the course of an hour sounds pretty bad to me."
And the two of you talk about anything you can think of. Everything you can think of.
"Did you hear Poppy Potion's new song?"
"I'm not too keen on eating licorice wands for breakfast, to be honest."
"I think I know more about the back of my eyelids than I do about the history of magic."
"Have you ever seen a meteor shower? I heard there's going to be one tonight."
People notice you don't hate each other. How can you have a pleasant conversation with someone you hate, anyway? They notice how you smile when you see one another and always say hello and goodbye and make sure you haven't gone a single day without saying something to her. They notice – they just don't take note. But I do.
Sometimes, when you know she won't pull away, you hold her hand. And sometimes she lets you, and she squeezes to let you know it's okay. And sometimes your fingers thread together like the stitching in a shirt, and they stay that way until something tears the two of you apart.
Her thumb will run over yours, along your finger, across your knuckles.
When you're feeling playful, you'll engage her in a thumb war, and you won't let her win, you'll try to beat her, because if you don't, she'll drop your hand like it's on fire and tuck hers under her armpits and won't let you touch her for a minute or two. A minute or two that you can't go without her palm next to yours.
When she's feeling down, you'll hold onto her hand tight and squeeze and bring it to your chest and tell her everything will be alright.
When you're tired, you'll loosen your grip, and she'll loosen hers, but you never let go, because she's the only thing keeping you awake.
When you do something wrong or she says something stupid, you'll reach out, you'll tug, you'll remind her that her fingers and your fingers and those twenty fingers together mean more than a silly prank or a snotty remark ever will.
And when you make up, you will make sure her hand stays in yours for as long as possible.
Your friends know something has changed; her friends know it too. It seems as though the entire wizarding community has stopped to gawk at the odd couple with their fingers entwined. You don't notice them. Don't care to notice them, honestly. But I do.
Sometimes you will kiss her. Mostly on the cheek – as a 'good morning', as a 'good night' – sometimes on the nose – as a sign of affection, to tell her she's adorable – occasionally on the forehead – to assure her she's fine, everything is fine, and to show her that you're there – on the mouth – to let her know she's beautiful and magnificent and intelligent and perfect, perfect, perfect, and you fancy the skirt off of her. Love her clothes right off, really.
You find kissing her is more vital than oxygen. You think if you can't ever press your lips to hers, you'll suffocate and go brain dead and live the rest of your life as a vegetable. You might as well die.
Her cheeks feel like pillows against your mouth, her eyelids like the wings of a butterfly. Her lips taste like strawberries, the cavern of her mouth like mint toothpaste, her neck like perfume, her shoulders like soap. Lily Evans tastes better than Ogden's best firewhiskey and Christmas dinner combined. She's the most mouthwatering, delicious thing you've ever tried. You savor every bit of her like it's your last.
The world is used to your kisses by now. They're used to the obnoxious smacking of lips in the common room, the quick pecks between classes, the lingering brushes everywhere in between. They don't look on in surprise anymore. They don't stare at the two of you as though you've both gone completely mad. They don't even roll their eyes, because, believe it or not, you give them hope. Hope that anything can happen. Hope that love can happen, even in a world so consumed by hate.
No one watches James Potter vie for the affection of Lily Evans any longer. They don't wonder why she's talking to you; they don't question how you got anywhere near her, much less managed to hold her hand; they aren't excited and surprised when you kiss her – all the time. Not even I am.
Which is good, you suppose, because why on God's green earth should I be? Didn't I expect this to happen all along?
Sometimes she stares at you too. Sometimes she calls your name so you'll look at her and she can see your eyes tango with happiness behind your glasses. Sometimes she holds your hand because it fits, and that shocks her more than the time she broke every window in her small house when Petunia made her scream at the top of her lungs five years ago. Sometimes she kisses you, and she tastes the coffee – three sugars, no cream – you drank that morning.
You love her always. She loves you always too.
You don't seem to realize how beautiful that is. But I do.
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Xiti's Web survey has issued a new browser usage report. In Europe Mozilla Firefox usage rose by almost 1 point from 28 percent in December to 28.8 percent in March. Usage by countries hasn't changed much, Finland with 45.9 percent is in first place, followed by Poland's 44 percent, and Slovenia lost its second place and it has now 43.7 percent.
In lthe ast six months Internet Explorer lost 2.5 points while Mozilla Firefox gained 1.8 points, Opera usage increased by 0.2 points and Safari's usage increased by 0.5 points.
Global trend in the world is positive except in North America, where usage of Mozilla Firefox declined by 0.2 points or 1 percent.
We can see that usage in Europe of Firefox onweekdays (28.3%) is lower than over the weekend (30.1%). That is a clear indication that home users use more Firefox than business users, which depend on network administrators and their preference. We will see in next few months if Firefox 3 will change anything, which is slated to be released in June.
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Some people may be tempted to dismiss Audi's R8 mid-engined supercar as a reskinned Lamborghini Gallardo. The format is just so similar, and Audi already makes the Gallardo's body in one of its aluminum-space-frame facilities. Besides, with a history of intelligent platform sharing under its belt, why wouldn't Audi simply indulge in a little badge engineering?
The answer is simple: Audi is a company on a mission. Remember — this carmaker revolutionized rallying with its Quattro and then later turned the 24 Hours of Le Mans into a company picnic, with five victories scored by this new car's namesake. Audi also kick-started a design renaissance with the first TT and prompted an entire industry to look at vehicle interiors in a different light. What's left to do? Well, Audi would love to steal a larger share of the luxury-sedan market, and it would certainly like to stick it to Ferrari and Porsche in the segments those companies rule.
That's a tough objective, but if the R8 is anything to go by, don't dismiss the idea as pie in the sky. For one thing, the R8's versatile nature reminds us more of Ferrari's F430 than it does the more-or-less relentlessly severe Gallardo. This is not a car that gets in your face the whole time you're in it. When equipped with the stock suspension or the optional adjustable magnetic shocks, the R8 will cruise the freeway with as little ride disruption and mechanical commotion as an A4.
Yet at speed the R8 gathers itself into a tautly controlled crouch, heading where it's pointed with remarkable precision and exhibiting none of the propensity for snap rotation that some mid-engined cars have made famous. Some of its stability is from the unequal tire sizes, and some, no doubt, is from the Quattro all-wheel-drive system that has a default rear-wheel torque bias of 90 percent. The viscous-coupling center differential will never furnish more than 35 percent of available power to the front axle when it detects slip at the rear, preserving a strong rear-drive character in almost all circumstances.
This leaves the flat-bottomed steering wheel calm and nearly free of front-drive contamination. Sure, there's enough load increase in turns to inform the driver of events at the front wheels, but the leather rim is almost devoid of vibration and kickback shock. It's so good that we'll undoubtedly hear criticism aimed at the mechanism for being isolated and uninvolved. It really is not. The steering on this car is for the finely tuned driver rather than those who require feedback at 7.6 on the Richter scale.
But don't mistake this for a luxury coupe. The mid-mounted, direct-injected V-8 is borrowed from the heavy-breathing RS 4, but with dry-sump lubrication for its new low-slung duty. Mounted so that its throttle-body intakes face rearward, meeting ducts that loop around from big intake slots ahead of the R8's signature "side blades," the V-8 is actually offset from the center line to package the all-wheel drivetrain.
The transmission mounts behind the rear axle, and a shaft runs forward through the engine's sump to power the front axle. Audi needed space for that arrangement. But Audi has camouflaged the offset effect carefully with engine-bay hardware that makes the view through the glass hatch appear symmetrical. You need to check the position of the four-ring insignia on the car's tail to confirm that the engine is shaded to the right.
No one should doubt that the direct-injection V-8 is intended to be on display to passersby, and there is even LED lighting in the engine bay to enhance the effect at night. Ferrari makes a big deal of its F430 engine, too, particularly with the Spider version. Coincidence? Not likely, given that Audi's V-8 is as much aluminum sculpture as it is machine, and it is dressed accordingly, with considerable attention paid to its dual role as window model.
The attention to detail is evident in the cabin, too, where there is a so-called monoposto dashboard catering mainly to the driver. Some of us felt the stylized angles and planes in the interior were a little studied, but it's a model of ergonomic rationality, and you couldn't wish for clearer gauges. There's plenty of space, too -- enough for exceptionally tall drivers to get comfortably situated -- and Audi claims there's adequate room behind the seats to accommodate two golf bags. It didn't look that big, but Audi supplied photographic evidence, so unless someone made scaled-down golf bags, it has to be possible.
European buyers can choose a pair of aggressive sport seats as an option, but they don't meet U.S. airbag regulations, so we get the standard ones, with less-prominent hip bolsters. This driver, for one, is grateful. The standard seats already suspend big-framed drivers from the hips, producing joint pain within 100 miles. But they're nicely supportive and should prove comfortable for average-size occupants.
Audi chose to forgo the keyless ignition nonsense for a conventional steering-column-mounted switch. The effect is nonetheless pretty amazing, as the engine spins to life with vehement energy, blurting a baritone roar before settling to a pulsing idle. Throttle response off idle is instant and muscular, making rev-matching exercises easy for those who choose the metal-gated six-speed Graziano box over Audi's paddle-shifted R tronic servo-manual. Which, of course, does all that stuff for you.
We tested an R tronic model at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, and managed to achieve the benchmark 0-to-60-mph sprint in 4.0 seconds. Audi claims a 0-to-62-mph (100 km/h) time of 4.6 seconds, which sounds decidedly conservative compared with our data. The drill for maximum performance is to engage the launch-control function by braking and selecting the R tronic sport setting. This allows the engine to rev up to about 5000 rpm before you release the brake and it dumps the clutch. This produces brief wheelspin at all four corners before the car regains traction and rockets off to a quarter-mile time of 12.6 seconds at 113 mph.
We expect the manual-gearbox car to equal this performance, but the driver's technique will need to be similar to the program used by R tronic. As usual with these things, R tronic provides the sort of convenience you expect from an automatic transmission. Unfortunately, R tronic uses a single clutch, not the double clutch of the stellar Audi S tronic automated manual (known as DSG at VW) and is therefore not as smooth. Shove the selector to the left, and the transmission goes into automatic mode, but a nudge at the paddles or the selector lever itself quickly reasserts manual control. Since the steering-wheel paddles rotate with the wheel, making them difficult to differentiate when all crossed up in a mountain switchback, we found the console selector to be a handy alternative.
However, it was less intuitive when making quick three-point turns. Because you need your foot on the brake to engage a forward gear after shifting out of reverse, the transition sometimes had us revving fruitlessly in neutral while trying to get out of the way of oncoming traffic.
It doesn't happen that often, and perhaps increasing familiarity with the car would inculcate the correct operating habits. But given the smooth and precise way the manual shifter navigates its artfully convex metal maze, that option might be a better solution. We certainly preferred the stick when circulating a handling track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where having to do one's own footwork provided a clear idea of this car's formidable integration.
The Quattro drivetrain and the limited-slip rear diff work transparently when the car is running hard, balancing the control sense between quick directional response and adequate yaw damping. A lack of mass on the nose lets this car dig in harder than you might expect when turning, and it was only on one fast, opening-radius turn that hard acceleration had the front wheels pushing into mild understeer.
But don't just take our word for it. Audi had race driver Jacky Ickx on hand to show us how it's done. He's in his early 60s now, and this six-time Le Mans winner and 25-time Formula 1 podium finisher hasn't forgotten a thing on the track. As he launched the car into Audi's cone-lined autocross course at the Vegas track, it was as if he were back in a race car, eager for one more podium waltz. He was at full throttle off the line, the 4.2-liter V-8 behind us issuing a staccato snarl. After that it was rapidly alternating surges of big power or crushing deceleration as he braked hard for the turns. This intense activity was accompanied by emphatic and decisive inputs at the steering wheel and with continual tiny sawing corrections as he felt for grip.
It remains to be seen whether cars shipped to the U.S. will have, as standard equipment, the 19-inch wheels and Pirelli P Zero tires that are options elsewhere or come standard with 18-inchers. It also remains to be seen whether the forecast base price of $110,000 will pertain. If it does, the R8 will compete directly against the Porsche 911 GT3 rather than the 911 Carrera S we have posed as its iconic target. That's tough company, but we bet Audi relishes the contest.
Okay, we had all been trying to do something pretty much like that, but Ickx was sliding more, and he was definitely faster. There's nothing like a paid professional to impress writers, but none of us really needed Ickx behind the wheel to see that this new-generation, mid-engined sports car has dynamic qualities that make the once-supreme Acura NSX feel downright unstable in comparison.
Okay, that's an old car. Even compared with a contemporary rival — a Porsche 911, say — the R8 has stability that makes driving at the limit feel easy, with little of the tight-laced discipline that causes the 911 to get bouncy and sudden in extreme situations, and certainly none of the reminders the Porsche provides about an inequitable weight distribution. At 44/56 front-to-rear, the Audi R8 feels just about perfectly balanced, given its all-wheel-drive system, larger rear tires, and 3500 pounds. Not to mention the centralization of the heaviest parts, the reduction of unsprung mass by using aluminum suspension components, and an obsessive attitude to weight wherever it is found. As a matter of fact, the word "weight" is mentioned 25 times in the company's press material, usually in reference to how little there is.
At about 3500 pounds, the R8 is 500 pounds heavier than an Acura NSX, so it doesn't take all the Weight Watcher prizes, but it does have four-wheel drive and meets current and foreseeable crash standards. Not to mention the battery of airbags and belt tensioners and the comprehensive equipment specifications, including high-end stereo systems and copious high-grade leather surfaces. Besides, with 420 horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque, the R8 is carrying considerably more muscle along for the ride.
The claimed 187-mph top speed would likely be higher, but the aerodynamic profile of this car is intended to generate downforce as well as knife through the atmosphere. Its drag coefficient of 0.34 is respectable, given the inevitable drag produced by underbody diffusers and the auto-deploying tail spoiler that pops up at 75 mph and then sinks at speeds below 50 mph. Like all high-power sports cars, the R8's appetite for air is enormous, and the management of air passing through the various coolers, past the brakes, and into the engine is a complicated challenge. The Audi gulps cooling air through huge front intakes and then channels it to the flat underbody via numerous vents and slots. You just know the Le Mans experience was brought to bear here. If these conduits posed potential noise problems, the R8's tranquil passage through the air suggests they were efficiently dealt with.
Certainly, in the area of brake cooling, race expertise pays off. At Las Vegas speedway, there was little recovery time for the brakes after some hard use, and even the cars fitted with steel discs showed no signs of distress. Ceramic brakes are to be offered in Europe, but they won't be available initially when the R8 arrives in the States this summer. No autobahns, see, and our slow traffic conditions tend to promote squeal with ceramic rotors.
Another option not available immediately is the LED headlight system on the Le Mans show concept, but the bixenon units supplied normally are framed by LEDs, and the taillights use similar technology. Options that will come our way include a choice of body color; carbon-fiber or metal side blades; and carbon-fiber, piano-finish, or various leather surfaces for the car's interior.
It remains to be seen whether cars shipped to the U.S. will have, as standard equipment, the 19-inch wheels and Pirelli P Zero tires that are options elsewhere or come standard with 18-inchers. It also remains to be seen whether the forecast base price of $110,000 will pertain. If it does, the R8 will compete directly against the Porsche 911 GT3 rather than the 911 Carrera S we have posed as its iconic target. That's tough company, but we bet Audi relishes the contest.
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No day is better suited for reflection, anticipation and resolution than a New Year's Day, as close as the calendar comes to firing a starter's pistol. And what better day for rumination on the past and future than this first day of 2000.
The Tribune today begins a series of editorials that do just that. Titled "Past and Prospect at 2000," they represent the editorial board's effort to reflect on the people and events that have changed the world over decades, centuries, even millennia, and to discern ideas and trends that may shape the future.


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Stinky Sunfish
As I mentioned to you yesterday, I am starting a Great Year LIST for
WISCONSIN FISH. I know I said I am including any Wisconsin fish I
eat in the list. Yuck! I did not think about seeing one of the fish
on my list carried away by Myles. He found a dead,
ORANGE SPOTTED SUNFISH by the side of the Kickapoo River and was
carrying it around in his mouth!
I chased after Myles and told him to drop the fish, but that made him only run faster. Finally, I yelled "Yummies! Yummies!," and he stopped
in his tracks and turned around. YUMMIES are the word we taught him for
snacks, or treats.
Myles walked up to me with the fish in his mouth and then sat politely
in front of me waiting for me to give him a snack! Then I said "Drop It!"
and he carefully let the fish fall out of his mouth onto the rocks.
I picked up the rotten fish by the tail and threw it into the river.
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A. Ngegba
Senior Livestock Extension Officer
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The Republic of Sierra Leone has a population of 3.7 million and an area of 73 326 km2. Broadly speaking the country falls into four physical regions: interior plateau hill region, interior plains, coastal swamps and the Western Peninsula.
For administrative purposes, the country is divided into four areas, namely Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western.
Although small ruminants (sheep and goats) represent a very important source of protein, and produce other products such as skins, their present contribution to the total production of the agricultural and natural resources sector in Sierra Leone is only 3 percent. Sheep and goats are found at village level throughout the country, but little attention has so far been paid to their improvement or the use of improved animal husbandry practices including health care. Because of low maintenance costs and relatively high productivity rates and potential offtake, sheep and goats constitute a very advantageous part of small-scale farm operations. Valuable benefits can be obtained from even modest improvement programmes within a short space of time. Furthermore, the prices of mutton and goat meat are generally higher than that of beef.
The estimated population of sheep and goats in Sierra Leone is 420 000 of which half are to be found in the Northern province.
|Southern province
|61 454
|36 833
|19 861 km2
|Eastern province
|37 059
|22 771
|18 710 km2
|Northern province
|142 545
|76 626
|34 053 km2
|241 058
|136 230
|72 624 km2
Animal health problems limit productivity especially in the humid and sub-humid zones. The principal problems encountered are:
These diseases are diagnosed and treated by a veterinary extension service present at the village level in almost all districts.
Poor husbandry and management.
Marketing - Small ruminants may be sold directly to a consumer, to a trader or sold at an auction. In Sierra Leone farmers sell to a trader or middle man and animals may pass through the hands of many traders before reaching the consumer. The middleman is much maligned; he is accused of giving a low price to the farmer and making large profits. However, the trader provides a selling service to the farmer who may be unable to go to the market. Marketing cooperatives such as those operating in Botswana and Ethiopia could help to bypass the middleman.
No improved production system.
No development of village level sheep and goat production.
Small ruminant production can be an important step in increasing the productivity of the smallholder agro-pastoralist system. Increased livestock production provides the small farmer with a surplus for sale, which can be used to generate cash income to buy the inputs needed to increase grain production.
The strategies and recommendations to use to achieve this and to overcome the aforementioned constraints would be:
Strengthen the veterinary care to combat the major diseases that limit productivity.
Improve the husbandry and management of sheep and goats at the village level.
Improve the marketing system by organizing cooperatives in order to improve the overall farmer profit.
Knowledge gained from the L.I.B.C. needs to be taken to the village and imparted.
Village level sheep and goats production should be encouraged as this is the principal production system.


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Cambridge undone by turnovers
Indians give ball away six times in loss to Chester
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KINGSTON -- In many regards, the Cambridge football team did the things necessary from an offensive, defensive and special teams standpoint to win its state Class D semifinal game Friday night at Dietz Stadium.
But for all the positives the Indians produced, they hurt their chances with six turnovers.
Cambridge senior Will Bromirski provided Cambridge the lead early in the third quarter with an electrifying 65-yard punt return for a touchdown, but Chester responded by scoring the game's final 24 points to secure a 38-22 victory to advance to the Class D state championship at the Carrier Dome.
Chester senior Saxon Smith, the single-season Section IV record holder for rushing yards, finished with 148 yards and four touchdowns.
Ultimately, it was four fumbles and two interceptions given up by Cambridge that were turned into 30 points by Chester (12-0).
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"It was won a couple of times, and lost several," Cambridge coach Doug Luke said. "It was mistakes."
Chester's overall speed edge forced a couple of those miscues, and a few were botched center-quarterback exchanges that resulted in three lost fumbles by Cambridge freshman quarterback Ethan English.
"They were so quick. They're a great team," English said of Chester. "We prepared for them as best we could. We kind of got punched in the face."
Bromirski's touchdown, and the subsequent two-point conversion by English, put the Indians up 22-14 with 9:35 left in the third quarter.
The Hambletonians forced English to throw a ball short of its target, a pass intercepted by Justin Delgado. On the next play, Smith broke to the outside and scored on a 46-yard touchdown run. A two-point conversion run by Lawrence Young tied it at 22, and Chester scored again 55 seconds later when senior defensive tackle Shawn Stover intercepted a middle screen and returned it 19 yards to help the Hambletonians establish a 30-22 advantage.
"They scared us. No question, (Cambridge) is a great team," Smith said. "I learned by what their defense did. I had to go harder. We all did."


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Alabama looks to rework rights deal
The University of Alabama's timing couldn't be better. On the heels of winning three of the last four national football titles, the Crimson Tide has decided to renegotiate its multimedia rights contract.
Alabama, under the direction of new Athletic Director Bill Battle, is taking advantage of a look-in provision that began July 1 and runs through Aug. 31. The provision gives Alabama the opportunity to renegotiate with the current rights holders, Learfield Sports and IMG College, for more money, or to receive bids from competitors.
Learfield and IMG, which jointly run the Crimson Tide property and sell sponsorships, advertising, signage and other inventory, have the opportunity to match any offer. Unique to this contract, Learfield and IMG also manage Alabama's concessions, pouring and isotonic beverage rights, which are not usually included in multimedia rights deals.
Learfield CEO Greg Brown said these types of look-ins are not typical in the multimedia rights space, but Alabama insisted on it because the contract included those additional rights and the school wanted the ability to re-evaluate the market at the contract's midpoint.
|The school's deal with Learfield and IMG College came before its recent national football titles.
But given the Tide's reign as the most dominant football program in the nation, Alabama goes back to the negotiating table as one of the nation's most commercially valuable properties. Gross revenue from the property in 2012-13 was close to $17 million, and Alabama made a little more than $10 million from that.
Tom Stultz, a managing director at JMI Sports, is consulting with Alabama on the negotiations. Stultz formerly negotiated these deals for rights holders when he worked for IMG College and Host Communications.
A new round of talks could land the Crimson Tide one of the country's most lucrative multimedia rights contracts, industry experts say.
Texas and Notre Dame head the list because of their TV contracts — Texas with ESPN for the Longhorn Network; Notre Dame with NBC. The Longhorns make in excess of $23 million a year in multimedia rights from their IMG College deal.
Ohio State's 10-year, $110 million deal with IMG College has one of the largest guarantees.
Battle, the founder of Collegiate Licensing Co., who took over as Alabama's AD on March 22, was not available for comment, but he's said in the past that he will move aggressively to increase the Tide's revenue, which hovered around $125 million in fiscal 2011 and 2012. That put Alabama among the top four athletic departments in total revenue and was tops in the SEC.
"As far as my job, people say just maintain what's going on," Battle told SportsBusiness Journal earlier this summer. "But you don't maintain. You're either getting better or getting worse. We're going to put the pedal to the metal."
Alabama is scheduled to make a minimum of $7.9 million in the upcoming 2013-14 academic year. The school is eligible to make more than that if Learfield/IMG hit certain sales thresholds, which they normally do. Learfield/IMG and Alabama share 50/50 any gross revenue that exceeds $13 million.
In 2012-13, for example, Alabama's guarantee was $7.26 million, but the school made a little more than $10 million total because sales were good, school officials said.
These renegotiations also come at a time when Learfield and IMG both are for sale, and schools typically want the security of long-term deals, especially if there is the potential for a change in the landscape, industry sources said.
The renegotiation cannot result in a lower rights fee, according to the contract.
The only downside for the Crimson Tide is the lack of any competitive bidders. Learfield and IMG are the two biggest players in the multimedia rights space, with IMG owning the rights to roughly 80 college properties and Learfield owning close to 50. But as partners on the Alabama property, they would not be negotiating against each other.
Alabama is one of a handful of college properties jointly managed by Learfield and IMG. Learfield takes the lead position with 75 percent ownership of the Tide's property.


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The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson is a historical village located in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County New York. Prior to becoming a popular tourist spot, the Village was the largest shipbuilding center in Suffolk County in the 1800's, The Village was incorporated in 1963 and since then it has grown into a place where good food, friendly people, and water front views can be found.
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Ferry You can enter the village by driving off The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company Ferry from Bridgeport Connecticut.
The address for the ferry in Bridgeport is: 330 Water St # 2 Bridgeport, CT 06604-4923 (203) 384-9777
The address for the ferry in Port Jeff is: 102 West Broadway Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Car From the Long Island Expressway take Exit 64. Head North on Rte. 112 until the end (approx. 9 miles). Also be take note that Rte. 112 will become Rte. 25A at Nesconset Hwy. When you hit the intersection take a right at the blinking yellow light. Continue and until you hit Main St.
Get around
Foot The Village is home to mostly foot traffic. To really see the unique shops and restaurants its best to ditch the car for the day and get out and walk around. But be aware in the spring and summer the village is full of visitors due to the warm weather, so it makes parking very limited. It's best to arrive earlier in the day to beat the traffic.
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Some San Antonio Police Department officers are at the heart of a controversy after they were pictured with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wearing "Make America Great Again" hats.
The video was shared on Donald Trump's official Twitter account:
Thank you Texas! If you haven't registered to VOTE- today is your last day. Go to: https://t.co/HfihPEA3Sp & get out on 11/8/16 to #MAGA! pic.twitter.com/KlRx4GoO64— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
SAPD Chief William McManus expressed his disappointment with the move, saying that the officers violated department policy. He released a statement on Twitter saying, in part:
"The officers displayed poor judgement. I expect them to know better than to give the appearance of endorsing a candidate while on duty and in uniform, regardless of the political campaign or the candidate."
Statement from Police Chief William McManus: pic.twitter.com/iBBKvMOpuE— City of San Antonio (@COSAGOV) October 12, 2016
Mayor Ivy Taylor joined Chief McManus on social media, condemning the actions of the officers:
"Police must be above politics & serve everyone equally. Everything they do should send that message and today's actions did not."
Deeply disappointed by @SATXPolice officers' lack of judgement today. Police must be above politics & serve everyone equally... @COSAGOV— Mayor Ivy R Taylor (@IvyRTaylor) October 12, 2016
...Everything they do should send that message and today's actions did not. @SATXPolice @COSAGOV— Mayor Ivy R Taylor (@IvyRTaylor) October 12, 2016
After sharing the photo to our KENS 5 Facebook page, hundreds of comments were posted within minutes by people either admonishing the officers or defending them.


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RANCHO PALOS VERDES — Microsoft demonstrated its new operating system at the "D: All Things Digital" conference on Wednesday, a full version of Windows that will operate on tablets and personal computers.
For now, it's called "Windows 8." Executives said that as mobile devices have gotten more powerful, they are able to run the full version of Windows.
The operating system is "touch first," which means it responds to finger swipes like other tablets, but will also respond to keyboards and mouses if they are attached. The home screen consists of various blocks of applications and looks like the Windows Phone interface.
Executives said more details would be unveiled at its developers conference in September. They did not give a release date, but said the operating system would not be released this fall.


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After two weeks of acrimony and the failed and misguided effort to raid Pinnacol Assurance, state lawmakers appear to have settled differences and come up with a budget plan to keep Colorado's government running next year.
We're glad to see the change in tone, and a proposed budget that creatively fills the remaining $300 million deficit without hurting higher education or resorting to what essentially would be several new taxes in the throes of recession.
The proposals include some pain. State workers would have to take up to eight days of unpaid furlough, netting $16 million in savings. Anti- smoking and health programs would lose $35 million from taxes collected on tobacco. Doctors and hospitals will lose $58 million in Medicaid fees.
Separate bills also could eliminate a property tax exemption for seniors, netting $90 million, and eliminate an exemption on a cigarette tax, $30 million, and a tax on vending machine revenue, for almost $8 million.
But lawmakers so far have avoided a long list of exemptions that have existed in some cases for decades. A Supreme Court ruling appears to allow them to lift the exemptions without a vote of the people. That's a dicey political move.
Instead they're transferring money from cash funds and changing accounting methods, Joint Budget Committee member Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, tells us.
Under the new scheme, $20 million in federal stimulus dollars would be diverted to the budget and about $60 million from tobacco-settlement money would be accessed a year early. Collections of fees from mineral leases would be diverted from a grant program for cities to free up $20 million, and $35 million planned for the Arkansas Valley Conduit project would also go the budget.
In short, lots of nipping and tucking and moving money around — a much better solution than axing $300 million from higher education on top of more than $100 million already cut from universities and community colleges.
This version of the budget saw marked bipartisan support in the House last week. That's also a positive change. We hope that spirit continues as the debate moves forward.
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Most service providers working with torture survivors acknowledge the importance of employing an empathic approach in their daily work. However, the high caseloads, rigorous deadlines, and overwhelming circumstances under which humanitarian workers typically operate often make it challenging to employ empathy.
Miriam Potocky and Kristen Guskovict from Florida International University have studied how to gauge empathy when working with torture survivors and refugees. The article in the latest issue of Torture Journal 'Enhancing empathy among humanitarian workers through Project MIRACLE: Development and initial validation of the Helpful Responses to Refugees Questionnaire', is based on empathy being an important predictor of outcome; it enhances the effectiveness of interventions.
They report on the use of a questionnaire designed to gauge respondents' level of empathy, which can be used in various settings, including as a supervisory tool to assess and provide feedback for improvement, as a screening tool for hiring staff, or as a pretest/posttest evaluation of staff training in motivational interviewing.
Other contributions in this issue of Torture Journal focus on the Istanbul Protocol (IP), including the comprehensive four-paper study 'Incommunicado detention and torture in Spain'. The study's authors set out an enhanced way of establishing credibility as well as the useful concept of the 'torturing environment' to more accurately portray the torture experience. They also demonstrated that only a few days of incommunicado detention and torture can lead to significant psychological issues.
The final study 'A comparative study of the use of the Istanbul Protocol amongst civil society organisations in low-income countries' addresses the IP from the point of view of the human rights worker based on interviews in Nepal, Bangladesh and Kenya. The study suggests that in certain low-resource settings the IP may not be as useful as is sometimes claimed given the need for establishing court practice and trained professionals to administer it. These findings are also the subject to debate by experts in a lively Debate section.
Contributions to this issue come from the Istanbul Protocol Project in the Basque Country, Dignity (Danish Institute against Torture) and the University of Edinburgh, Florida International University as well as members of the Independent Forensic Expert Group.
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Larry Sherman (educational psychology) is one of 10 winners of the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize, presented Oct. 4 at Harvard University.
This is the 11th year of the Ig Nobel prize, a spoof on the Nobel Prize. Its creators say the prizes are awarded for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." Furthermore, "of the 10 Ig Nobel Prizes awarded annually, about half are awarded for things that most people would say are commendable – if perhaps goofy. The other half go for things that are, in some people's eyes, less commendable. All such judgments are entirely up to each observer," says Marc Abrahams, chairman of the Ig Nobel board of governors.
The theme for this year's contest was complexity.
Sherman was "honored" for his work on contagious behaviors associated with "group glee" from an article he published in 1975, "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children." This summer a husband and wife team from Norway presented research on contagious glee that confirmed his original hypotheses regarding the socially facilitating effects of humor and laughter. Sherman says the work was an outgrowth of his Ph.D. dissertation completed in 1971 at Wayne State University, and he gives credit to Jacob Kounin (dissertation adviser) and Paul Gump (professor at the University of Kansas) who were major influences on this topic.
Real Nobel Prize winners presented the awards.
Among previous winners: Don Featherstone (Ig Nobel Art Prize, 1996), the creator of the plastic pink flamingo, and Robert Matthews (Ig Nobel Physics Prize, 1996), who researched why buttered toast always falls on the buttered side. The Igs are sponsored by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) and co-sponsored by the Harvard Computer Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students.
Sherman, who is first vice president of the Ohio Gourd Society, returned to Ohio Friday, Oct. 5, to officiate and perform other duties at the Ohio Gourd Fair in Mt. Gilead.
In addition to belonging to many educational associations, Sherman is past president of the International Society for Humor Studies and a member of the American Gourd Society.
More information on the Ig Nobel prize is online at www.improbable.com/ig/.
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There are 145 appointments pending before the Senate, which may be cast to the wind if not acted on this year. (TU)
In Puerto Rico, Andrew Cuomo sent mixed signals about Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. (NYT)
Gov. David Paterson chatted with Cuomo at the event, and referred to himself as "governor eject." (NYP)
Cuomo reiterated his pledge not to raise taxes. (AP)
Cuomo accepted millions from special interest donors, including PepsiCo and the Dolans, who own Cablevision. (DN)
Cuomo said that Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy could cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, were there a leadership struggle. (BN)
Democrats are raising money to fight for control of that chamber. (DN)
630 gallons of radioactive water spilled into the Mohawk River in Niskayuna. (TU)
Ex-Gov. George Pataki is "looking at" a run from the presidency, noting Peekskill is bigger than Wasilla. (NYP/DN)
Sen. Chuck Schumer thinks there needs to be a change in Senate leadership. (SOP)
Howie Hawkins, savior of the Greens. (CapNY)
John Jay LaValle defended Ed Cox. (SOP)
The head of Columbia's Earth Institute says green infrastructure can be Cuomo's key. (HuffPo)
As Cuomo channels Hugh Carey, will he continue his tradition of bringing in good people? (Empire Page)
Sen. Chuck Schumer is traveling around New York urging a focus, like a laser, on the middle class. (BN)
At a speech, pollster John Zogby "compared the tea party to a gorilla that was taught to play golf by scientists. When the gorilla was brought out on the course, he could drive the ball 420 yards down the fairway but couldn't get the ball in the cup when it was two feet away." (Legislative Gazette)
Bars need to apply for all-night New Year bashes soon. (DN)
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said a manager exchange program yielded "friendships." (City Hall)
Bloomberg essentially stood by comments that new members of Congress "can't read." (DN)
Counting continues today in the Maffei-Buerkle race. (Post-Standard)
And here are some national headlines…
In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, George W. Bush looks back on his presidency and life. (DN)
Barack Obama endorsed India for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. (WP)
GOP statehouse control will prevent complete implementation of the health care law. (WP)
Democrats are planning how they can counter corporate money in the 2012 elections. (Politico)
Why did Democrats lose so many House seats in New York? (WP)
A Brit thinks Politico is the key to the future. (Guardian)
Grief counselors visited the offices of House Democrats. (Politico)
Rep. Michelle Bachmann will likely fail in her bid for a leadership position. (WP)
There's a re-count coming in the Bishop-Altschuler race. (NBC)
Republicans want to flip West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. (NYP)
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002: Mathematics, Science and Epistemology: Volume 2, Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers (Cambridge))
Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues.
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Is there a command I can use to move the cursor from one text entry box to another? I'm making an app with hidden text entry boxes which only appear when the correct text is entered into the previous one:
If "[TextEntry1]" "=" "xxx"
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my sisters story about friction featuring nicki minaj and sb
The day friction disappeared
Nicky Minaj woke up slipping out of her king sized bed, she slipped all the way down the stairs, but it wasn't that bad.Nicki tried to get dressed but it didn't seem to work. Then there was a knock at the door, Nicky Slipped all the way to the door and eventually opened it. It was Safaree (SB) he was wearing a 'Hey Nicky Hey Nicky asthma' t-shirt and his world famous diamond chain that consists of 72 links with over 85 carats of rubies and 170 carats of frozen water diamonds, he was carrying a brown Louis duffle bag , which had 1 million dollars in it.
Nicky Minaj and SB slipped to her hot pink Lamborghini .they drove to the record studio where her alter ego Roman Zolanski and slim shady recorded Romans revenge. After that they went to the young money cash money billionaire pre-show Grammy party where they met up with lil Wayne ,birdman ,slim ,drake ,lil chuckee ,lil twist ,lil za ,Cory gunz, mack maine ,jae millz, tyga ,t-streetz, gudda gudda, shanell and jay sean. During the time nicki received a platinum disc after she sold over 1 million copies , of her debut album of pink Friday which is currently number 1 on billboard hip hop top 100 after 11 weeks her other best buddy drizzy drake also received a platinum disc for thank me later. When Nicky received the award her presentation disc fell out of her hands and her legs turned into jelly and she slipped to the ground everybody gasped and then they all fell to the ground because there was no friction so they slipped everywhere when they were trying to dance.
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If history has a hobby, it's making those who assume to know its course look foolish.
At the close of the last decade, somewhat weary of an administration that had done some good while managing to bring out the worst in its opponents (and many of its supporters), I wrote with my tongue not fully in cheek: "I have to admit, though, I'm finding George W. Bush a little attractive these days (in the political, not aesthetic, sense), or at least his policy of 'compassionate conservatism."'
I distinctly remember thinking at the time, Hey, how bad could he be?
While I ultimately voted against Bush — in the end, not that hard of a choice — it's worth remembering that before his election and even in the early days of his administration, there was some amount of hope that this particular spate of Republicanism would be different for gays and lesbians. His meeting with Log Cabin Republicans was a step up from 1996, when Bob Dole declined to accept the group's campaign donation, and his friendship with an openly gay man, Charles Francis, seemed to bode well for the new president's feelings about gay and lesbian citizens.
It would be almost charmingly naive in hindsight had we not actually lived through two terms of such things as the Federal Marriage Amendment and endlessly rehashed culture war propaganda.
The point being that it's difficult to know where a new decade will take us, no matter how confidently — or cockily — we approach it. Just as our current decade didn't really begin until a September morning in 2001, we can't know when or how the next one will truly arrive.
It's easy to think that the new decade launched early when Barack Obama took office in January. Certainly, from an LGBT perspective, it seemed to be a transitional moment. As long as you were able to ignore the invocation delivered by Rick Warren.
The year since has been a mixed one as LGBT progress has inched forward on some fronts while frustrating and perplexing delays have blocked us on others. Although it's easy to understand why so many in our community began the year with such high hopes for success, the idea that our goals of equality would be achieved within a matter of months or weeks was misguided, at best. Change doesn't come easy.
That doesn't mean we should tamp down all our disappointment or pretend we're making progress when we're not. While one year in office can't define the Obama administration as a failure for LGBT people, it could easily become foreshadowing for future letdowns. That's why the pushing and prodding and outright anger from some parts of our community are every bit as relevant and necessary as those voices pointing out the progress we've seen in 2009.
With such stinging losses in Maine and New York recently, it should be a point of pride for us all that Washington, D.C., delivered one of the strongest and sweetest victories of the year with the passage of marriage equality. Perhaps this will be the moment that, 10 years from now, we'll look back on as the start of a new decade when LGBT people broke through in the national fight for equality.
Or, perhaps, that moment will come in 2010 when ENDA passes in Congress.
Or when Congress and the president finally work together to repeal the odious "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Or when California's Proposition 8 is judged to be an unconstitutional denial of equal protection under the law.
There are many opportunities for us to move forward and just as many ways for us to fail. Having political leaders who at least profess to support us is an important element of our future success, but not a replacement for what we can do individually each day: Live our lives openly and honestly, demanding the same respect as LGBT citizens as we give to others.
While we may not know exactly when we'll get there, with that course set we'll end up where we've always known we belong — on the right side of history.
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" Communication works for those who work at it." - John Powell
"What does he want from me?" Asked my colleague as she showed me an email from a team member. My colleague had asked me to work with her on her responses to others. She knew that she was coming across as harsh and she wanted to work on her tone, specifically in her written communications.
After giving the email a quick read I had to concede, "It is not a very clear communication. I think he is telling you this for one of three reasons. Let's discuss those reasons and your possible responses." I knew that the two of them had been working together on a project and that they had divided up responsibilities for key deliverables. I knew that the team member who sent the email was discussing one of those deliverables. I did not know if the deliverable he was discussing was his responsibility or my colleagues' responsibility.
My colleague wanted to reply back with an email that said something along the lines of, "I don't know why you are sending me this or what you think I am supposed to do about it." I cautioned her that perhaps that might come across as harsh, something she was trying to avoid.
"I do not see why I should waste my time trying to communicate with someone who cannot even tell me what they want from me", stated my colleague. I took a deep breath and asked her why she wanted me to help her with her communications and why it mattered that her communications were perceived as harsh? With that we started over again and reviewed the email and devised some potential responses. Each response included the words please and thank you. As we worked together I was struck by how powerful these two words were and yet so often they were underutilized. All my colleague really needed to do was to politely ask her team member for some clarification. She did not have to do this in an email, she could have called him or dropped by his office.
The only thing that was standing in her way was a consistent unwillingness to work at her communications. She was off to a good start by asking for help. It was clear that at least for now, she would need to be reminded of the fact that communication works when you are willing to work at it.


text: Human Rights Observatory Prostate Cancer Survival the Same with Treatment or 'Watchful Waiting' Men with early prostate cancer whose doctors monitor their situation, as opposed to treating the cancer, have the same long-term survival rates. The finding was the outcome of a large British study comparing so-called "watchful waiting" with cancer treatment. The ProtecT or Prostate Cancer Trial enrolled more than 82,400 men between the ages of 50 and 69. Of these, more than 1,600 men tested positive for early prostate cancer. They were followed for 10 years between 1999 and...Read complete article© Voice of America - Thursday, September 15, 2016


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In August, 2011, Father James (aka Jaime Duenas) of Nativity of Our Blessed Lady Catholic Church in the New York City borough of The Bronx, was arrested on allegations that he had repeatedly molested a 16-old girl working in the rectory.
Prosecutors say Duenas told them the girl was "wearing short skirts" and that she didn't mind "the massage."
Wouldn't you think that given the Catholic Church's notorious history with child sex abuse, orders would have come down from on high that in no circumstance whatsoever was any employee of the Church to blame a victim, or even an alleged victim?
Yet prosecutors say Duenas told them that the alleged victim "liked it" and that she was wearing "short skirts."
A victim advocacy group attempted to educate the community about the realities of how sexual abusers operate. But many in the community circled wagons in defense of their priest, with an implied negative judgement about the complaining witness in the case, the 16-year-old girl.
Archbishop Dolan went on the attack. On his blog, he published "Gratitude to the Catholic League" — a Catholic League press release impugning the integrity of the 16-year-old girl.
The complaining witness alleges that the sexual abuse occurred over a three day span. Dolan's blog mocks her as a liar, says that she "voluntarily" returned to work on days after she claims Duenas molested her, and states furthermore that Duenas has never previously had an allegation made against him.
Firstly, if Dolan wants to convince the public that he is serious about protecting the well-being of young people in the Church, he will not disingenuously publish that an accused priest has had no prior allegations made against him. It is well-known that abusers inculcate fear in their victims and that victims generally are 1) extremely fearful of coming forward and 2) full of ugly uncomfortable emotions such as shame shortly after the abuse.
Secondly, for Dolan to publish to his blog insinuations that the 16-year-old complaining witness is lying — (this blog written by a Catholic Church kingpin and read by many in the Catholic community, including some that were circling the wagons to protect Duenas and to scorn the girl) — is a form of attempted witness intimidation. Dolan should have allowed the criminal justice process to function — without insinuating that the 16-year-old witness is lying.
Dolan's attempted witness intimidation went further. The statements from the Catholic League's Bill Donahue impugned the integrity of SNAP (Survivors Network of People Abused by Priests) calling it a "phony victims' group." If SNAP is a "phony victims' group" as Dolan published, then why was SNAP involved when the Catholic Church paid a $7 million settlement to Church sex abuse victims in Delaware? And why was SNAP involved when the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached a $600 million settlement with Church sex abuse victims?
If these were "phony" victims, why did the Catholic Church pay them a $600 million settlement?
Dolan actively communicated anti-SNAP propaganda at a time that SNAP was involved in trying to secure — for young people's safety — the places where Duenas had been working. One of SNAP's criticisms of Dolan is that he did not inform the communities of Duenas's arrest; that he left them to learn of it through the media. A SNAP press-release said, "We call on Dolan to stop acting passively and secretly, and start acting compassionately and aggressively. We urge him to personally visit every parish where Duenas worked, begging anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered child sex crimes to contact police and prosecutors."
Instead of doing that, Dolan published an anti-SNAP smear calling it a "phony victims' group." There is an appearance that the material Dolan published calling SNAP "a phony victims' group" while also insinuating that the girl is lying was thusly contrived to create a reader take-away that the girl is — however loosely– to be associated with a "phony victims group" and therefore is herself a "phony victim."
Shame on Archbishop Dolan for publishing such vile and despicable dreck. Double shame on him for publishing it under the title "Gratitude to the Catholic League" beside a photo of his bloated smiling face as though there were nothing conniving and hideous about the press release.
To sum up what is wrong with Dolan's blog post; 1) The whole thing is calculated to put the screws to the 16-year-old alleged victim and to show other eventual victims that the screws will be put to them in this way too, should they ever dare to come forward; 2) Dolan published that Duenas never before had child sex abuse allegations made against him, as if that proved that Duenas could not possibly be guilty of child sex abuse; 3) Dolan published a defamatory smear against SNAP, which at that time was providing advocacy services in the community. Dolan's published anti-SNAP smear indirectly encouraged members of Duenas's parish to circle their denial wagons more tightly. To see how low the Catholic Church stoops in smearing SNAP, look at this Catholic League anti-SNAP screed with a cartoon image of a diapered baby crying. The Catholic League intended to mock the advocates by depicting them as a crying baby, but I dare say that is not the imagery to use if you do not want people associating your Church with child sex abuse.
Any decent human being would acknowledge that it was monstrously indecent for Dolan to publish the insinuations that the 16-year-old girl was lying.
Because Dolan engaged in this attempted witness intimidation, it would be urgently important for New York City government officials to speak up and to denounce Dolan's blog post and to tell him that witness smearing of a 16-year-old who is alleging sex abuse is completely unacceptable, that society just will not stand for it. The criminal justice process should be allowed to run its course without the Archbishop aggressing the witness on his blog.
Yet, apparently, no New York City government official has the guts to denounce Dolan for the smears he published against the alleged victim and SNAP. I contacted New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in an e-mail copied to most Council members; Quinn did not reply. I called and e-mailed her press contact Jamie McShane and explained that I wanted comment from Quinn about Dolan's blog post. I said that I did not expect the comment immediately but that I wanted to know by the end of the day whether I could expect comment from Quinn at all. He said OK, but did not follow up. I also called and wrote my NYC Council Member Gail Brewer; no response. I called and e-mailed the press contact for New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio; (the post of NYC Public Advocate is comparable to a Deputy Mayor). The press contact took my questions but provided no follow-up.
Really, New York City Council — really? If this 16-year-old girl were your daughter, you would be totally cool with the smears Dolan published against her?
Remember — the point in this is not whether Duenas is guilty, but that Dolan's blog post is unconscionable no matter the final disposition of the case. Besides its direct smears against the girl and the victims' advocates with a demonstrated track record of working for community safety, it conveys improper messages to eventual additional abusers, victims and to the Catholic community in Duenas's parish as a whole.
Meanwhile, what is in the criminal Complaint against Duenas? Two counts of forcible touching (a DNA Qualified Offense), Endangering the Welfare of a Child (a DNA Qualified Offense), Two counts of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree (a DNA Qualified Offense) and Three counts of Harassment in the Second Degree.
Duenas is alleged to have repeatedly groped the girl's buttocks without her permission while she was on the job in the rectory, to have made lewd suggestions to her, to have put her hands under her shirt, unclipped her bra and told her "Don't tell your parents." He also is alleged to have pulled her by her arm into his lap and molested her.
With Dolan's behavior in this matter so unambiguously wrong, wrong, wrong, why will nobody in NYC government say a peep about it? Why is the New York City Council so afraid of Dolan that it will not tell him he is wrong when on his blog he trashes a 16-year-old female Church employee and a Church child rape victims' advocacy group? In a more recent smear against SNAP, the Catholic League's Bill Donahue said "Catholics are talking about the announcement that Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Archbishop Edwin O'Brien will become Cardinal Dolan and Cardinal O'Brien next month—they're not interested in wallowing in negativity."
Evidently, New York City government officials have no scruples or pangs of conscience about making it so easy for Archbishop Dolan not to "wallow in negativity." Dolan has his techniques down for trashing alleged Church child sex abuse victims in his blog, and he can rest assured that no NYC government official will criticize him for that appalling misdeed that endangers young people in the city. If any NYC officials want to give me an interview, proving me wrong in that, they know where to find me.
New York City– based novelist and freelance writer Scott Rose's LGBT– interest by– line has appeared on Advocate .com, PoliticusUSA .com, The New York Blade, Queerty .com, Girlfriends and in numerous additional venues. Among his other interests are the arts, boating and yachting, wine and food, travel, poker and dogs. His "Mr. David Cooper's Happy Suicide" is about a New York City advertising executive assigned to a condom account.
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text: I've been extracting proteins from various matrices (e.g., algae and sediments) using 0.5 N NaOH and then estimating total protein by a colorimetric assay. This method seems to work well, as long as the standards are treated the same way. NaOH has been used by other researchers for extraction of sedimentary protein. I was hoping to analyze the MW distribution of proteins extracted as described above. After buffering to a pH of 6.8, I used one of Millipore's ultrafiltration devices to concentrate the proteins; diluted the salts using buffer; ran SDS-PAGE. None of the protein standards (e.g., BSA) were observed in the correct MW range. However, I did notice a smear in the low MW range suggesting protein hydrolysis. I'm aware that 2 to 4 N NaOH (at 100 deg C for 4 to 8 h) will normally hydrolyze proteins completely. Would a NaOH concentration as low as 0.5 N hydrolyze proteins to some extent, even if the samples are extracted at room temperature instead of 100 deg C?


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