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"Pan metron ariston" as Ben pointed out...means "everything in moderation". I have always believed in this philosophy, but it is not always as easy to adhere to. I do love my comfort foods and and do not do well in the fitness craze over the winter months. Ivy and Ben are co-hosting this event that is focused on diet food or low calorie food. This gives us the opportunity to share our health and fitness goals with our fellow bloggers and gain a list of healthy foods we can prepare to achieve these goals.
My own routine begins once the snow melts. I am lucky enough to live along a greenway. I walk out my door with my Nordic walking poles sometime during my day, depending on my schedule, and walk for an hour along the path to the conservation area. If I am feeling extra energetic I continue down towards the golf course and back again.
You don't have to buy expensive exercise machines, join a health club or hire a personal trainer to achieve total fitness. Nordic walking poles turn walking into a fun and effective total body exercise with benefits similar to cross country or "Nordic" skiing. Now you can "work smarter, not harder" to build more fitness in less time!
Nordic walking uses two specially designed poles to work the upper body while walking. Like cross country skiing, the poles are used by the arms to match each step the person takes.
You get a better workout without feeling like you are working any harder. While you can get a similar heart rate effect by walking faster, there are many people who do not want to walk faster or are unable to walk fast. In my area I am seeing a lot of seniors using them. A lot of times they are not using them properly, but at least they are out walking!!!
Nordic walking works the arms, shoulders and upper chest and back muscles through a full range of motion, stretching and lengthening those muscles which are often tight. The motion works to overcome the hunching forward that many people adopt while working at desks, reading, watching TV or sitting at our computers blogging for hours on end...wink...wink.... Many people exhibit stress by tightening their neck and shoulder muscles. Nordic walking loosens up those knots. Of course it is nice to go and get a deep tissue massage too...but walking is free!!! I personally love to walk and go hiking so this is "easy peasy" for me!
On any surface, the poles provide more stability for walkers who have balance knee or leg problems through sport injuries or age issues. Proper use of the poles and arm motion encourages good posture. People who had given up walking for pleasure find that they can walk comfortably with the poles. For natural trails, the poles provide stability for walkers much like a hiking stick. I find that the walking poles will propel me along and enable me to walk further.
My poles were glued to my hands and came to Greece with me for 5 weeks. We walked along all ancient trails in Delphi; from monastery to monastery in Meteora; hiked along ancient donkey trails like the Skala in the Pindos Mountains and Zagorian villages; and walked the trails to ancient ruins and secluded beaches on the island of Kea.
According to researchers Nordic walking poles:
Strengthen abdominal, back, arm, shoulder, chest, leg and all "core" muscles (without separate weight or resistance training!)
Burn 25-50% (and up to 70%!) more calories with each step
Improve both "cardio" and vascular fitness
Increase overall stamina and muscle endurance
Improve lymph system function and boost your immune system
Reduce pain and injury-causing stress on hips, knees and feet.and help maintain overall bone density
Maintain joint health and range of motion and improve both your posture and balance
Enhance both your energy and mood.
And you can enjoy all of these additional benefits each and every time you walk!
Now if only I would continue this routine during the winter months it would be all good!!!!!!!
This is a salad that I eat often no matter what season of the year; you can find another delicious version here. It is especially good during the summer months though because it is light and refreshing. I chose to barbeque my chicken breasts but you can adopt any method you would like. I am offering this recipe for the event in honour of my blog sister Ivy and her Greek/Cypriot roots.
Kali Orexia, "May you have a good appetite!"
For the chicken:
1 lemon, juiced
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper
4 (6 to 7-ounce) boneless, skinless, chicken breasts
For the dressing:
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 lemon, juiced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon dried oregano
3 pinches salt
freshly ground black pepper
For the salad:
mesclun (mixed salad) greens
1 English cucumber, peeled, cut in 1/2 lengthwise, then cut into 1/2-inch chunks
3 tomatoes (about 3/4-pound), cored and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
1/2 red onion, very thinly sliced
1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, sliced
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese (half the fat if possible)
To marinate the chicken: In a bowl, combine the lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, salt, and pepper and mix together. Add the chicken breasts to the dish. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and let marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes or up to 4 hours.
To make the dressing: Combine all the ingredients. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Bring to room temperature before tossing salad.
Assemble the salad: Place salad greens in larg bowl. Add cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, olives, and feta.
To cook the chicken: Heat a nonstick skillet or grill pan over high heat. ( I chose to barbeque my chicken) Add the chicken breasts and cook, turning once, until well browned, about 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until cooked through. Let the chicken rest on a cutting board for a few minutes before slicing it into thin strips.
Toss salad just before serving with dressing and fan chicken out on top.


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1. They are not "vulnerabilities" as such. Vulnerabilities belong to the operating system and applications that you run.I would like to add, are there many ASM based vulnerabilities that are intended for Intel, and therefore Apple's switch means a less secure platform?
2. Yes there is a lot of ASM malware that would only run in an intel/windows environment. However it is all very old, and Apple are retaining their operating system. I would say there is nothing to worry about.
The two dangers are that Apples suddenly become very cheap (which I doubt) and the market gets flooded with them
There is a very slight possibility that it might making cross-platform viruses slightly easier to write, but I don't really believe this, as I am sure Apple will get Intel to build the chips to their specification. I am also sure that they will use their own microcode, which is what matters.

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Since you can now get your hands on surprisingly good HD Ready DLP projectors for under £2,000, we can't help but raise a question mark over the £3,500 price Norwegian outfit ProjectionDesign is asking for its Action! Model Two.
This projector's remarkable smallness will probably appeal to many home users, especially as it's accompanied by a glossy finish available in three different colours. But can something so small and stylish really deliver the sort of serious AV kick this huge price tag really demands?
Connectivity is decent, including a DVI port for digital HD video or PC use, component video jacks, a VGA PC input, and unusually, a LAN connector for fitting the projector into IP-based AV systems. A second DVI or component input wouldn't have gone amiss, but this is only a small complaint.
As you tour the Model Two's innards, its price starts to make sense. For instance, the chipset at the projector's heart is Texas Instruments' impressive 1280 x 720 Darkchip3 affair.
Also, the entire optics section is completely sealed to prevent dust entering and light seeping out, and a rubber cushion separates the internal projection mechanism from vibrations in the main bodywork. The whole functions as a heat sink to take the pressure off the cooling fans (reducing their noise in the process).
More clever tricks find a colour tone hand-tweaked on each model to make sure it's perfectly aligned with the industry's video-optimization standards, and a proprietary video processing system that's stored on just one chipset, avoiding the usual potential for interference where two or more are used.
After a surprisingly simple few minutes setting the Model Two up, we settled back to enjoy the show. And enjoy it we certainly did.
With our test disc of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, we were struck by how well the Model Two handles the disc's vivid, noirishly stylised colour transfer, thanks to some rich saturations and a huge contrast range.
Even more tellingly, the projector keeps a perfect handle on skin and lighting tones throughout the movie - no mean feat given how many dark, artificially lit scenes there are.
The Model Two's dark bits also benefit from far more greyscale subtlety than is common for a projector this side of £5,000, giving scenes a striking sense of scale. Detailed sequences look fabulously sharp, thanks to the ProjectionDesign's superb fine detailing and clarity.
The picture isn't perfect. Some of the action sequences in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang show traces of dot noise over motion, and flicking your eyes over the film's intertitles can show gentle traces of DLP's rainbow effect.
But these two niggles are really the only things the Model Two perhaps has in common with the new budget HD Ready models now appearing. In every other way it's in so different a league that the £3,500 asking price actually looks like a bargain.


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One Facebook friend (a neocon) has asked me to justify the current emphasis on "race, class, and gender" throughout the curriculum. He believes that the Battle of Gettysburg (i.e. military history) has been squashed in the general stampede toward relevancy. It happens that when I was program director of Pacifica's Los Angeles radio station, KPFK-FM, I initiated a resolution that was adopted by all the other program directors and then ratified by the National Board of the Pacifica Foundation, that all programmers in our network should be responsible for educating themselves in the history of minorities, women, and labor, understanding that we were to attempt new syntheses that other, more constrained, journalists were not likely to emulate. I did the same when I was in graduate school at UCLA, and encountered stubborn resistance to the identical resolution I proposed while representing all the graduate students in the University of California system. This blog is about what I meant, why I advanced this proposal, and how other academics and journalists have dealt with the issues I raised.
1. Why I did it in the first place. All in my generation and in the one following were deeply affected by the civil rights movement and by the turmoil on the campuses of the major universities in opposition to the Viet Nam war. Had I not been a science major, laden with mostly science classes, perhaps I would have learned something about slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow in college, but I did not. Even in graduate school, academic study of race in America was mostly centered around two debates: First, did slavery pay? And two, did slavery destroy the black family and to what extent did slaves revolt, resist, or accommodate to their condition, with lingering effects into the present? Since then (the 1980s) a massive amount of work has been done in these fields, though I have complained about black nationalism as controlling these studies, and hold to that view today, as my prior blogs have demonstrated.
Moreover, the 60s movements and the feminist movement were intertwined. I had never thought that there was anything particularly odd about the socialization of women until I read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the early 1970s. I cannot count on any man to fully understand the subjugation of women unless he is particularly enlightened and has daughters (especially if he has no sons). The gay rights movement too has focused our attention on gender socialization and power between the sexes. My early socialization has not yet been repaired, to my sorrow.
2. Race, class, and gender at UCLA Department of History in the 1980s onward. As I have written previously on this website, the left-liberal professors with whom I studied often collapsed class into race, following the historian Edmund Morgan, who had been much affected by the 1960s movements for native American rights and civil rights in general. With the exception of a Trotskyist professor, class struggle was no longer the engine of history, it was racial struggle that was front and center. The feminist professors were generally progressives (i.e., statists), which could mean straight-up communism or social democracy. Even labor historians bought into the new social history, and attributed the failure of socialism in America to cultural reasons, mostly attributing its flaws to white working-class racism and/or embourgeoisment. Although my dissertation director, Alexander Saxton, thought that "race," unlike class, was "socially constructed," he still wrote books about working-class racism and "the white republic." Everyone was hostile to the "consumerism" that afflicted "mass culture." Luckily for me, my dissertation topic was the revival of Herman Melville's reputation between the world wars (thank you, Alex! a "proletarian novelist" in his pre-academic life), so that led me into European intellectual history and away from an obsession with heterosexual white male supremacy. I became extremely interested in the massive transformations in politics that followed the invention of the printing press and the gradual spread of mass literacy and numeracy. (See https://clarespark.com/2013/04/21/fascism-what-it-is-what-it-is-not/.) This focus emancipated me from reliance on class, race, and gender as the explanation for everything and, with a new alertness to the construction of the 20th century humanities curriculum, I soon found myself deep into the history of racial theory and the origins of multiculturalism. "Race" was indeed socially constructed, and a racialist discourse dominates cultural history today, blotting out conflicts of interest having to do with both class and gender, each of which is a material fact. (In this respect, Saxton and I were in complete agreement.)
3. Is class of any relevance? For communists and populists alike, class is everything, and whole upper-class lives may be darkened with fears of servile revolt or, in "the lower orders," deep, roiling unfocused anger at such targets as Wall Street and the rich in general. (Antisemitism can be found in rich and poor alike: for the wealthy, Jews are innovators and troublemakers, stirring up revolt and class hatred: Christian love is the antidote for "Jewish" hate. For the poor, Jews are often the agents of modernity that uprooted them from an idyllic, communal, agrarian past and abandoned them to the lonely crowd. )
However, no historian can ignore concrete class interests in describing continuity and change. My (male) reader who objected to "race, class, and gender" was worried about military history and diplomatic history, and I would add international relations in general. Very few individuals in any period of history are so brilliant and versatile as to be able to form a comprehensive history of even one significant event, taking all variables into account. It is true that international relations and diplomatic history require intensive study and special training (and even then, the fields are filled with factions that despise each other). But to deprive oneself of crucial analytic tools (i.e., class interest, views of race and national character, or gender roles and socialization in a given historical moment), is to etiolate one's own grey matter as one undertakes the daunting task of writing history and constructing new and better syntheses. [This blog should be read in tandem with https://clarespark.com/2010/01/02/jottings-on-the-culture-wars-both-sides-are-wrong/.]


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As the father of three grown daughters, it's important to get a message across to them early and often: Body type is unimportant. Despite what the kids say at school, what the media bombards them with, what they hear and see from friends on social media, it is an unacceptable way to judge people and to be judged. With that in place as Rule 1, it will be easier to put the inevitable comparisons — and resulting hard feelings and disappointments — in perspective. This should be on the same level as skin color or religion or nationality: It is who we are, and is not a basis for judging someone.
I would turn the typical insecurity on its head by sharing the experience of my sister, who was teased as "chicken legs" when she was young because she was so thin. But she went on to become one of the fastest runners on the track team. Whatever your body type, you can make the most of it. A sturdy girl may become a great gymnast or something that has nothing to do with physicality, except inasmuch as her body is healthy enough to provide fuel for her passion. That's a great gift, and one we all so often take for granted until we hear about a child who's fighting cancer or injured in an accident.
Expert advice
Topic A, of course, is each girl's health.
"I'm not going to suggest just telling a girl, 'You look great!' when we know how serious it can be to start out with a weight problem as a kid," says Debra Moffitt, editor at KidsHealth.org and founder of The Pink Locker Society, a series of tween-centric books.
"At the same time, if both girls are healthy, I think you come up with a healthy mantra: 'People have all different body types. You're healthy and you're healthy and you both look great,'" Moffitt suggests. "Whenever the topic comes up, it becomes very natural for the parent to respond with that and hopefully it imprints on the girls. It's not a hot spot or a source of tension."
Make sure you're applying the same nutrition and eating guidelines to both girls — guided, of course, by their health. You don't want to allow (or push) dessert, for example, for the smaller daughter and forbid it for the other.
"The habits of the family should be universal," Moffitt says. "Same meals, same plentiful amounts of activity. Food shouldn't be doled out as a treat to one and a punishment to the other. It's not going to hurt anyone to eat more healthfully, so maybe you decide to leave certain foods out of the house altogether."
And tap into the parts of our culture that encourage girls to embrace their shapes, regardless of how different that shape is from what appears on a magazine cover.
"It's a good time to be having these conversations because there is really a movement to celebrate more realistic bodies, from Dove's real beauty campaign to Amy Poehler's Smart Girls at the Party, whose motto is 'Change the world by being yourself,'" Moffitt says. "When you saturate yourself with that part of our culture, the less these other things pull you down."
Finally, take note of the messages you send about your own body.
"Moms shouldn't be criticizing their own bodies to their daughters," she says. "We want to be a little more strategic with our feelings about our bodies, and the messages we send our daughters because we know they're susceptible to go down that really painful road of depression and eating disorders. We want to nip that in the bud."
Have a solution? Your 2-year-old is not adjusting well to the new baby. Will he ever come around? Find "The Parent 'Hood" page on Facebook, where you can post your parenting questions and offer tips and solutions for others to try.


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Hasselblad Stellar compact camera: a beautiful, blinged-out Sony RX100
The Swedish company again turns to a Sony snapper as the basis for a consumer-aimed model
Legendary Swedish camera maker Hasselblad specialises in expensive equipment for professionals, but has recently been making forays into the consumer market, first with the Lunar mirrorless model and now the Stellar compact.
Hasselblad has used Sony hardware as the basis for both these cameras, with the Lunar being built on the shell of the NEX-7 and the stellar on the RX100. While the cynical will doubtless narrow their eyes at this approach ("It's not a real Hasselblad if it's 90 percent Sony hardware"), we're not complaining too much – after all, the Sony RX100 is Stuff's current numero uno among compact cameras, so there isn't any better base to start with.
The difference is in the design
The Stellar features the same (fantastic) 20.2MP CMOS sensor and Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens as the RX100, as well as the same screen and control setup.
The differences, it seems, come chiefly from the design. The Sony model's black finish has been replaced with "champagne"-tinged aluminium, while the new grip is made from carbon fibre or one of six woods including wenge and padouk.
Price and availability
Oh, and the price. The Stellar will be priced at €1,480 (around £1,280) when it goes on sale later this month, while the RX100 is available now for about £430. You can also now buy an updated RX100 II model, which adds Wi-Fi, NFC and other extra features to the mix and costs £650. But we suspect the Hasselblad Stellar is a camera you buy with the heart, not the head.
[Via Gizmag]


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It's been almost two years since the IDF incursion sought to put an end to the Gaza terror regime's daily rocket attacks on the civilian population in Sderot and the Western Negev. While attacks have been dramatically reduced, the construction of about 5,000 new bomb shelters in the Sderot region demonstrates that the "peaceful" situation isn't expected to last.
Israel was successful in reducing the threat, but not in changing world opinion. The international diplomatic damage has multiplied since the operation, and Israel is still having to justify its military actions.
One common theme in global reporting on the IDF incursion focuses on the "disproportionate" death toll: 1,114 deaths in Gaza, and 13 on the Israeli side of the border.
The Gaza deaths are usually reported as mostly civilian, but, according to a recent report in Haaretz, Hamas admitted that 600 to 700 of those killed were armed terrorists. Given its history of misrepresentation, there's every reason to suspect Hamas still underreports its casualties and inflates the number of civilian deaths.
According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the vast majority of rockets from Gaza are launched from among the civilian population. If there is any disproportion in the situation, it's in the fact that Israel must fight an enemy that intentionally uses civilians, hospitals, places of worship and schools as a shield.
I believe that most of us, as Israelis and Jews, care about every civilian casualty on both sides of the fence. No one in Israel pursues relentless war against those who, for 62 years, have sought to destroy us. Israel simply defends itself.
As a photojournalist and a humanitarian, often speaking to government officials and foreign journalists, I've noticed that the casualties in Sderot are rarely, if ever, mentioned.
After four years of personal experience on the front lines of the media war, I know that once casualties are mentioned, the other side always compares the numbers to the Gaza narrative and changes the focus to what it calls "disproportionate deaths." This manipulation lets the Palestinian advocates avoid dealing with the underlying cause: the "total war" ideology that calls for the destruction of Israel and the Jews and vows to continue until its goal is achieved.
The intention of the rocket attacks launched from Gaza is to kill and traumatize as many civilians as possible. When Israel responds, it does so by pinpointing the target and never the civilian population.
While Israelis train children to run to bomb shelters in 15 seconds, the Palestinian leaders train their children to run to roof tops and become a martyr because it plays well in the media.
What about the victims of Hamas rocket terrorism? ON NOVEMBER 11, I visited the Yaakobov family, immigrants from the Caucasus mountains in the former USSR. Four years have passed since the father, Yaakov, was killed by a Hamas missile that struck in the Sderot industrial zone factory where he was working on November 21, 2006. He died from that direct hit.
Three months before Yaakov's death, I moved to Sderot and started my journalism studies at Sapir College. The November 21 attack was the first massive barrage I experienced. Witnessing this attack, and learning of Yaakov's death, changed my life. Rather than pursuing a degree in journalism, I decided to put my focus on informing the world about what was going on in Sderot.
Four years later, I went to visit the Yaakobov family to pay respects. Arriving at their home, I didn't even recognize the neighborhood.
The whole area has turned into a construction zone, with three-story cement bomb shelters attached to the old apartment buildings that make up this section of Sderot.
Over the past several years I've stayed in touch with the Yaakobov family, and with Yaakov's son Chanan, who was 12 when his father died. I got to know Chanan in a summer camp and theater program in the United States that the Sderot Media Center organized in 2007.
I'm bothered by the fact that Chanan's father will never be part of his life, and that his death is considered insignificant by those who focus on Israel's "disproportionate" response to terrorism. In 2008, two years after his father was killed, Chanan spoke at the yearly ceremony for terror victims and fallen soldiers. He was 14, and said he was starting to forget the way his father's face looked. Now, four years after Yaakov's death, his wife, Purim, had trouble getting a minyan to the grave to say Kaddish. A small ceremony was held at their home, with a few family members.
Purim was glad to see me, and said I was the only one who called her to see how she was doing. With Purim's permission, I'm asking others to let her know that there are people who still remember and care about her and her family. I also ask those who have the means to assist in furnishing the family's new bomb shelter bedroom with book shelves, closets, a bed and an air-conditioner. Maybe even invite the family for a vacation.
Perhaps someone would like to surprise Chanan with a nice birthday present, reminding him that he, his father and the Yaakobov family have not been forgotten.
The writer is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of the Sderot Media Center. Purim Yaakobov can be contacted at [email protected]


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This video is called Bahrain security forces torture doctors, medics and patients.
The absolute monarchy in Bahrain has, it seems, successfully bribed US American TV star Kim Kardashian, US media corporation CNN, and the British armed forces.
They also tried to bribe the British parliament. But then, they failed with at least one MP.
Today, there is news from Sports Mole in Beitain:
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 13:10 UK
Good morning and welcome to Sports Mole's live coverage of the news that GFH Capital have completed their takeover of Leeds United.
The Bahrain investment bank will take 100% control over the club in a £52m deal today.
Current chairman Ken Bates will stay on until the end of the season before being appointed club president.
To some people who are sick and tired of Ken Bates, this may seem like good news.
But not so fast. Leeds United be out of the frying pan, and into the fire of being a public relations prop for a torturing dictatorship.
From Football Speak in Britain:
Questions raised about GHF's ability to fund Leeds United
03 October 2012
By James M Dorsey
Concern is rising that troubled English soccer club Leeds United's negotiations for a takeover by Bahrain-based Gulf Finance House (GFH) may not give it access to the kind of Middle Eastern funding that has significantly boosted the fortunes of the likes of Manchester City and Paris St. Germain.
Determined to rid themselves of current majority shareholder Ken Bates whom they blame for the club's difficulties, fans organized in the Leeds United Supporters Trust have welcomed GFH's bid for the team despite Europe's mixed experience with Middle Eastern investors.
It was not immediately clear what the purpose is of GFH's planned acquisition of Leeds, but its close association with the embattled rulers of Bahrain suggests that it may be in part intended to shore up the island nation's image tarnished by last year's brutal suppression of a popular uprising in which 35 people were killed and some 2,000 injured.
35 dead is a much too conservative estimate.
Some 150 athletes and sports officials, including three national soccer team players, were arrested, dismissed from their jobs and in some cases tortured and charged in court for their support of the protests. Many of those affected have since been reinstated, but unrest is simmering with protests having moved from the capital into the villages in what many believe is a second uprising in waiting.
A Bahrain court this week upheld the sentencing to prison of nine medics accused of illegal assembly and concealing weapons. The court rejected the medics' assertion that they were simply fulfilling their duty to treat the injured irrespective of their political views. Five of the medics were arrested at dawn on Tuesday morning with the wife of one of them calling the verdict "purely political."
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Clinic-Based Testing for Rectal and Pharyngeal Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis Infections by Community-Based Organizations --- Five Cities, United States, 2007
CDC recommends screening of at-risk men who have sex with men (MSM) at least annually for urethral and rectal gonorrhea and chlamydia, and for pharyngeal gonorrhea (1). Although the standard method for diagnosis is culture, nucleic acid amplification (NAA) testing is generally more sensitive and favored by most experts (2). NAA tests have not been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the diagnosis of extragenital chlamydia or gonorrhea and may not be marketed for that purpose. However, under U.S. law, laboratories may offer NAA testing for diagnosis of extragenital chlamydia or gonorrhea after internal validation of the method by a verification study.* To determine sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing practices among community-based organizations serving MSM, CDC and the San Francisco Department of Public Health gathered data on rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia testing at screening sites managed by six gay-focused community-based organizations in five U.S. cities during 2007. This report summarizes the results of the study, which found that three organizations collected samples for NAA testing and three for culture. In total, approximately 30,000 tests were performed; 5.4% of rectal gonorrhea, 8.9% of rectal chlamydia, 5.3% of pharyngeal gonorrhea, and 1.6% of pharyngeal chlamydia tests were positive. These results demonstrate that gay-focused community-based organizations can detect large numbers of gonorrhea and chlamydia cases and might reach MSM not being tested elsewhere. Public health officials could consider providing support to certain community-based organizations to facilitate testing and treatment of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
Gay-focused community-based organizations provide medical and social services and are guided and staffed by paid or unpaid community residents with various skill levels, including some who might have medical, nursing, or counseling backgrounds (4). Funding and other resources are provided by private and public sources. Many gay-focused community-based organizations in cities with large MSM, lesbian, and bisexual populations offer alternative venues to traditional public STD clinics and private physicians by providing onsite STD screening and treatment services. Gay-focused community-based organizations typically do not require health insurance for access, are located in neighborhoods with many MSM, and provide culturally competent services for a historically stigmatized population.
For this survey, gay-focused community-based organizations were defined as nongovernmental organizations that stated in published materials that they principally serve MSM. During April 2008, the 10 U.S. cities with the highest estimated number of gay, lesbian, or bisexual residents were identified (5). Gay-focused community-based organizations in each city that provide rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia testing to MSM were identified through community leaders and Internet searches. Organizations were excluded if they did not provide rectal or pharyngeal gonorrhea or chlamydia testing services, or were unable to provide data on types of test used, number of tests performed, or percentage of positive tests during 2007.
Among 11 gay-focused community-based organizations identified in the 10 cities, 10 provided rectal or pharyngeal gonorrhea or chlamydia testing services. Among those 10 organizations, data were available from six in five cities, including Howard Brown Health Center (Chicago, Illinois), Callen-Lorde Community Health Center (New York, New York), AIDS Health Foundation (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center (Los Angeles, California), Magnet (San Francisco, California), and Gay City Health Project (Seattle, Washington). Data for 2007 were collected during April--July 2008. Overall, staff from six organizations collected samples for 6,499 rectal gonorrhea tests and 5,258 rectal chlamydia tests; staff from five organizations collected 14,189 samples for pharyngeal gonorrhea tests; and staff from four organizations collected samples for 3,410 pharyngeal chlamydia tests (Table). Medical oversight at each organization assured proper specimen collection, transport, results disclosure, treatment, and partner notification. Organizations that used NAA testing generally had higher rates of positivity than those that used culture. Pharyngeal and rectal test positivity generally was high compared with urethral testing.
Four of the six organizations sent the specimens to public health laboratories for testing; costs for that testing were funded by local public health jurisdictions. The other two organizations used commercial laboratories for testing; costs for that testing were funded by patient insurance or self-pay. All laboratories had completed verification studies demonstrating adequate NAA testing performance in extragenital specimens.
Reported by: JD Klausner, MD, KT Bernstein, PhD, M Pandori, PhD, San Francisco Dept of Public Health; C Hall, MD, S Gibson, T Ryan, MSN, San Francisco AIDS Foundation and Magnet; R Bolan, MD, S Tilekar, MSc, MPH, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center; H Khanlou, MD, AIDS Healthcare Foundation; P Kerndt, MD, S Guerry, MD, C Wigen, MD, E Rudy, PhD, Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health, California. G Mayer, MD, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, New York. B Gratzer, MPP, Howard Brown Health Center and Univ of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago. F Swanson, MA, Gay City Health Project, Seattle; M Golden, MD, Public Health Seattle King County and Univ of Washington. C Kent, PhD, Div of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; KA Katz, MD, EIS Officer, CDC.
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In 2007, chlamydia and gonorrhea were the first and second most commonly reported notifiable diseases in the United States, respectively, with 1,108,374 chlamydia cases (370.2 per 100,000 population) and 355,991 gonorrhea cases (118.9 per 100,000 population) (6). Most chlamydia and gonorrhea testing is performed in traditional medical settings and is indicated for screening, diagnosis, or test-of-cure. During 2007, the six gay-focused community-based organizations in this report collected samples for approximately 30,000 rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia tests from community members attending each facility and detected approximately 1,600 infections. Tests on samples collected by four of the six organizations surveyed were performed by public health laboratories and funded by local health jurisdictions, illustrating the role that partnerships between government and community-based organizations can play in prevention and control of rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia.
The percentages of positive NAA tests for rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia were similar to those reported for NAA testing in a previous study from a publicly funded municipal STD clinic (7). As expected, NAA test positivity for rectal gonorrhea and chlamydia infections and pharyngeal gonorrhea was generally higher than culture test positivity (7).
Compared with cultures, NAA tests have numerous advantages in detecting gonorrhea and chlamydia. NAA tests might perform better than cultures in nontraditional medical settings, where specimens for culture could be vulnerable to suboptimal handling, compared with more traditional medical clinics. NAA tests are more sensitive than culture for diagnosis of rectal or pharyngeal chlamydia or gonorrhea among MSM, while preserving specificity >99% (7).† Furthermore, NAA tests can detect gonorrhea and chlamydia simultaneously with a single test and can detect infection in self-collected specimens, including rectal and pharyngeal specimens (3). NAA test results can be available within 48 hours, whereas most culture results are not available for at least 48 hours. Unlike cultures, NAA tests do not require specialized equipment for specimen collection (e.g., a carbon dioxide-enriched atmosphere for storage and transport for Neisseria gonorrhoea cultures).
CDC recommends at least yearly screening for rectal gonorrhea and chlamydia for MSM who have had receptive anal intercourse during the preceding year and for pharyngeal gonorrhea for MSM who have participated in receptive oral intercourse during the preceding year. CDC recommends screening at 3--6 month intervals for MSM who have multiple or anonymous partners, have sex in conjunction with illicit drug use, use methamphetamine, or have sex partners who participate in those activities (1). CDC does not recommend routine screening for pharyngeal chlamydia (1). Nonurethral gonorrhea and chlamydia frequently are asymptomatic and often can be present in the absence of urethral gonorrhea or chlamydia, reinforcing the need to screen persons at the relevant exposed anatomic sites (4).
Currently, a low percentage of sexually active MSM at risk for STDs are screened at the minimum frequency recommended by CDC, at least for gonorrhea. In a 2003--2005 national study, 36% of MSM reported being tested for gonorrhea at any anatomic site in the previous year (8). Screening for pharyngeal and rectal gonorrhea among MSM is less common than for urethral gonorrhea, impeding efforts to control gonorrhea transmission among MSM (9).
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, data on indication for testing (e.g., diagnostic screening or test of cure) were available only from the Gay City Health Project, which tested only asymptomatic persons using culture; all other community-based organizations tested symptomatic and asymptomatic persons, resulting in a higher prevalence than what is found in reports limited to screening in asymptomatic persons. Second, the unknown, underlying prevalence of infections, which might have varied in the populations tested using NAA tests compared with cultures, was not considered. Third, information regarding the sex of persons tested at the community-based organizations and of the sex partners was not available, so that results could not be limited exclusively to MSM. Finally, this study described the use of only one type of NAA test; other NAA tests might perform differently.
Two large commercial laboratory service vendors, Laboratory Corporation of America and Quest Diagnostics, recently have verified and begun offering NAA tests for diagnosis of rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia. As more laboratories verify NAA tests to detect gonorrhea and chlamydia, community-based organizations increasingly can be effective partners in the STD prevention efforts to control rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia, and possibly reduce HIV transmission in MSM. More widespread use of NAA tests likely would allow the detection of infections that might be missed by culture, either because of the relatively lower sensitivity of culture or because persons collecting samples might lack the experience necessary to ensure proper collection and handling. Manufacturers of NAA tests can pursue FDA clearance of those tests for the diagnosis of rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia by gathering and submitting to FDA sufficient data on test performance for those indications. In the interim, CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories can help support increases in NAA testing by providing technical assistance and specimens to laboratories for use in verification studies (2).
Rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia among MSM remain a public health concern. The feasibility and utility of integrating testing for extragenital gonorrhea and chlamydia into existing services at gay-focused community based organizations likely will depend on many factors (e.g., funding availability, staff training, and regional disease burden). Local health jurisdictions might increase chlamydia and gonorrhea testing among MSM by providing financial and technical support to gay-focused community-based organizations and collaborating with them on activities related to the prevention and control of rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea and chlamydia.
- CDC. Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2006. MMWR 2006;55(No. RR-11).
- Association of Public Health Laboratories. Laboratory diagnostic testing for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Expert Consultation Meeting Summary Report; January 13-15, 2009; Atlanta, GA. Silver Spring, MD: Association of Public Health Laboratories; 2009. Available at http://www.aphl.org/aphlprograms/infectious/std/documents/ctgclabguidelinesmeetingreport.pdf.
- Renault CA, Hall C, Kent CK and Klausner JD. Use of NAATs for STD diagnosis of GC and chlamydia in non-FDA-cleared anatomic specimens. MLO Med Lab Obs 2006;38:10, 12--6, 21--2.
- Kent CK, Chaw JK, Wong W, et al. Prevalence of rectal, urethral, and pharyngeal chlamydia and gonorrhea detected in 2 clinical settings among men who have sex with men: San Francisco, California, 2003. Clin Infect Dis 2005;41:67--74.
- Gates, GJ. Same-sex couples and the gay, lesbian, bisexual population: new estimates from the American Community Survey. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, The Williams Institute; 2006. Available at http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/samesexcouplesandglbpopacs.pdf.
- CDC. Sexually transmitted disease surveillance, 2007. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2008. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats07/toc.htm.
- Schachter J, Moncada J, Liska S, et al. Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of chlamydial and gonococcal infections of the oropharynx and rectum in men who have sex with men. Sex Transm Dis 2008;35:637--42.
- Tai E, Sanchez T, Lansky A, Mahle K, Heffelfinger J, Workowski K. Self-reported syphilis and gonorrhoea testing among men who have sex with men: national HIV behavioural surveillance system, 2003--5. Sex Transm Infect 2008;84:478--82.
- Mahle KC, Helms DJ, Golden MR, et al. Missed gonorrhea infections by anatomic site among asymptomatic men who have sex with men (MSM) attending U.S. STD clinics, 2002--2006. In: 2008 National STD Prevention Conference, Chicago, March 10--13, 2008; Atlanta, GA: CDC, the American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association, and the American Social Health Association and the National Coalition of STD Directors; 2008.
* Verification studies permit the use of tests for an indication that does not have formal clearance by FDA. Verification studies can be performed at a single laboratory or in collaboration with a second laboratory. The second laboratory might be able to provide a panel of previously tested positive and negative specimens for comparative purposes. A typical verification protocol involves testing of at least 20 positive and 20 negative specimens compared to the reference standard or to results obtained from a second laboratory. The test performance (i.e., sensitivity and specificity) should be equivalent or better than the reference standard or to those obtained by the second laboratory (3).
† Studies have shown sensitivity of 63%--100% for NAA tests, depending on the type of test used, anatomic site sampled, and the organism assayed, versus 27%--41% for culture (5).
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The humans were back. Again!
The drug trials were claiming more lives than ever.
Each time, they were assured that the formula was finally perfected.
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Introducing Saturday Nite Reader's weekly meme: Saturday Spotlight! Each Saturday I will spotlight a book I have read or am currently reading; and, of course what I think is special about it. I invite you to participate as well! Just link back to my weekly post and don't forget to add your spotlight link in the comment section for all to see.Happy Sharing! XO, Nikki
This Week:
The Red Bandanna by Tom Rinaldi
Published: September 6, 2016 by Penguin Press
Category: Nonfiction, Biography, Inspirational
I purchased The Red Bandanna after I saw an ESPN piece on Welles Crowther (below). Welles saved at least ten people in the South Tower on September 11th, but would not make it out alive. After reading the book in one sitting I was more than just moved: I had to tell others Welles' story.
This past 2017, on the anniversary of September 11th, I book fairy dropped two copies of the book with a red bandanna tied to each one. One was left on the Path train and the second in locker 19 (Welles' number) at my local Soulcycle. This would be the first time I was a book fairy, and an important one at that. I didn't have the book fairy stickers just yet so I printed out my own message and taped it to the book in hopes that someone will read this book and gift it or book fairy drop for another to read: spreading Welles' story further.
It wasn't just a book to me, it was Welles' story: one that he could not tell himself. I think of Welles from time to time; men like him restore my faith in humanity when I need it most.
In 2017, a full documentary called Man in Red Bandana was released. It is narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow and runs 1 hour and 19 minutes.
Goodreads Stats:
4.19 average rating * 1,284 Ratings * 217 Reviews
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Goodreads Synopsis:
The inspirational story of Welles Crowther, whose decision, determination and sacrifice in the terror of 9/11 have inspired millions, and whose short life offers a lasting lesson on character, calling, and courage–in how we live, and in the legacy we choose to leave behind
When Welles Crowther was a young boy in Nyack, NY, his father gave him a red handkerchief to keep in his back pocket, in case he ever needed it. He kept it with him on the way to church that day and nearly every day after. It was a fixture as he grew up, tucked in jeans or wrapped around his head as he played lacrosse for Boston College. The bandanna was a signature, long before it became a symbol.
Welles was like a lot of us, if just a bit better – an honors student, but not the valedictorian; a Division I athlete, but not a star; kindhearted but not saintly. He wanted the stuff of a good life and was willing to work for it. Fresh from college, he came to New York City for a job on Wall Street. His office was on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center.
But Welles wasn't entirely fulfilled by his desk job. He'd grown up volunteering at the local fire department in Nyack and loved the necessity and camaraderie, the meaning of the role. And so, shortly before 9/11, he called his father to say he was thinking of quitting finance and applying to be a firefighter with the FDNY. His father, a fellow banker and volunteer firefighter, was stunned.
When the World Trade Center fell, Welles' parents, like the families of so many who were lost in the attacks, had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days and weeks that followed, they came to accept that he would never come home. But the mystery of his final hours lingered painfully.
Eight months after the attacks, however, Welles' mother would read another news account that would yet again change the family's lives. A survivor from the attacks, who'd been badly hurt on the 78th floor of the South Tower, said she and others had been led to safety by a stranger, carrying a woman on his back, down nearly twenty flights of stairs. When they emerged from the stairwell, firefighters took them the rest of the way out. But the young man turned around and went back up the stairs. He would make the trip up and down again and again, taking a group with him each time. The survivor never asked his name and couldn't see his face. But she remembered one detail clearly: he was wearing a red bandanna.
Welles' parents knew they'd found their son. They sent the woman a picture of Welles, and she confirmed: it was him. The story spread. Welles was honored as an FDNY fireman, the first time in its history the New York City Fire Department had named a civilian to its ranks as an officially recognized member. Year after year, first at Boston College and now around the country, there are Red Bandanna days and races to honor Welles' sacrifice. When President Barack Obama spoke at the opening of the 9/11 Museum at Ground Zero, he chose to tell the story of one life lost: Welles Crowther.
Tom Rinaldi's The Red Bandanna is about a fearless choice, about the crucible of terror and the indomitable spirit to answer it. It travels Crowther's path to purpose and the journey his family has been on in the days and years since. Examining one decision in the gravest situation, it celebrates the difference one life can make. It is the story of a new symbol for strength, and how a bandanna has become the red badge of courage for a new time.
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Please Note: The following clip is unabashedly and unreservedly filled with F-bombs, thus making it a redband clip and NSFW.
The Wolf of Wall Street highlights an upper echelon lifestyle that most citizens will never participate in, set during a time period when excess wealth included women, money, raunchy office parties and plenty of Quaaludes. While Martin Scorsese's new film is a riot onscreen, for the actors, participating in the movie's madcap scenes was a lot more difficult and involved than audiences might expect. But don't take my word for it. Check out the exclusive Blu-ray bonus clip from Best Buy's VAM release of the film, above.
In the clip, lead actors Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio discuss connecting with the characters in the film, which was apparently no easy task. If you've already caught The Wolf, you know it follows a crew of stockbrokers working to live the high life in the 1980s. It's difficult to truly inhabit any character. However, when you end up with characters as wild and complicated as Jordan Belfort and Donnie Azoff, pulling off the roles becomes even trickier. Hill puts it best in the video when he says, "For Leo and I and the other guys to play these people we had to…understand that this behavior is O.K. within these characters even though we disagree with it."
In order to play the people that appear in the movie, many of the actors were given the opportunity to spend time with their real-life counterparts. In the clip, DiCaprio notes he spent time talking about his experiences with Belfort, who was eventually convicted of fraud-related crimes and spent a brief amount of time in prison. Experiences like these helped the actors to more fully inhabit Scorsese's world onscreen, likely leading The Wolf of Wall Street to be an Oscar contender during this year's awards season.
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Navy man faces charges in San Diego crash that killed 4
SAN DIEGO - A member of the U.S. Navy is facing DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges after the pickup truck he was driving plunged off a San Diego bridge, killing four people and injuring nine at a festival below.
Richard Anthony Sepolio, 25, who was stationed at the naval base on Coronado Island across the bay from San Diego, was alone in the truck Saturday afternoon when he lost control and fell 60 feet onto a vendor's booth at Chicano Park, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez said.
Sepolio remained hospitalized Sunday with serious injuries. His rank or job description was not immediately available.
"It's horrible. It's horrific. We had innocent people down here having a good time, and now they're gone," Sanchez said after the crash.
The people who were killed were Cruz Elias Contreras, 52, and Annamarie Contreras, 50, of Chandler, Arizona; and Andre Christopher Banks, 49, and Francine Denise Jimenez, 46, both from Hacienda Heights, a suburb east of Los Angeles, the San Diego County Medical Examiner said.
Witnesses had said four people in the booth were crushed by the truck.
Eight people on the ground were injured. One suffered major trauma, and seven others had minor to moderate injuries, said Lee Swanson, a spokesman for the city's Fire-Rescue Department.
Witnesses said the GMC pickup truck with Texas license plates landed on a vendor's booth set up for La Raza Run, a motorcycle ride that begins in downtown Los Angeles and ends with a celebration at the park. The crash took place steps away from a stage where a rockabilly band was playing.
On Sunday, mourners gathered at the park to lay flowers and candles and say prayers for the victims.
Tina Camarillo told the San Diego Union-Tribune she and her daughter were in a booth next to the one that was hit.
"To see such tragedy in an instant . . . ," she said. "(The truck) fell and all I saw was darkness, the glass blew, the canopy fell on my head. My daughter was running to get my mom. It was horrible."
Iris Jimenez, 29, told the newspaper she got out of the way just in time.
"I saw the truck coming at me, and if I hadn't run, I'd be dead," Jimenez told the newspaper. Her companion, Pedro Sanchez, was one of several men who rushed to lift the pickup off the victims.
Photos from the scene show the truck's front end crumpled and its hood popped open.
The park is beneath the bridge in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in central San Diego.


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Andy M. Zaky / Bullish Cross:
iPhone Sales Drastically Surpass Q4 Consensus, Apple Reaches 10 million iPhone Goal — By ANDY M. ZAKY & TURLEY MULLER (Dual Authorship) — Based on the tremendous joint efforts by members at Mac Observer's AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity Board member howlongtoretire (aka HLTR) …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog: Even iPhone news can't revive AAPL today?
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines: iPhone sales: 10 million yet?
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: iPhone: 10 Million Sold
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: Apple manufactures 10M iPhones
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Apple Manufactures 10 Millionth iPhone
Jess Zielinski / Technology Live: Coffee Break: — Ask.com revamps, iPhones fly off shelves, and terrific computing tips:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhone 3Gs: 9,190,680 and counting — Here's bit of upbeat economic news to brighten a gloomy Monday. — On Aug. 1, a London-based investor who calls himself "Tommo_UK" posted a message on The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board asking anyone who had bought an iPhone 3G to provide three pieces …
Discussion: AppleInsider, Venture Chronicles, mocoNews.net, Pocket-lint.co.uk and TUAW
Matt Kapko / mocoNews.net: Almost One In Three iPhone 3G Customers Switched From Another Carrier: Report
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk: iPhone sales hit 10 million
Steven Sande / TUAW: Rumor: Apple has sold over 10 million iPhones
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
30 percent of iPhone 3G buyers dump existing carriers — Apple's iPhone 3G apparently created a summertime switch itch: 30 percent of all the smartphone's buyers bailed on their existing carriers in order to purchase the device, according to an NPD Group report released Monday.
Discussion: Business Wire, 9 to 5 Mac and Engadget Mobile
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 2.2 Hidden Features: Google Street View, Emoji, Auto-Correction Off — It seems that Apple is taking further care in hiding new iPhone features in their beta releases. The most recent firmware beta seeded to developers listed "compatibility testing" in its release notes as the only change.
David Chartier / Infinite Loop: More hidden features found in latest iPhone 2.2 beta
Charles Starrett / iLounge: News: iPhone Software 2.2 features emoji, Google Street View, more
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Apple's iPhone Top-Selling U.S. Consumer Smartphone This Summer …
James Holland / Electricpig.co.uk: Hidden iPhone features found in new firmware
Robert Palmer / TUAW: Google Street View, emoji coming to iPhone 2.2?
Brenda Stokes / iPhone Buzz: iPhone Firmware 2.2 sports extra features
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: iPhone OS 2.2 Beta Points Towards Google Street View, Auto-Correction Support
John Mahoney / Gizmodo: iPhone 2.2 Update Finally Brings Google Street View to Maps?
Jason Ankeny / FierceMobileContent: iPhone 2.2 update to feature Google Street View
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core: iPhone 2.2 features trickle out
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Buys Leading Payments and Classifieds Businesses, Streamlines Existing Organization To Improve Growth — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY - News) today announced two acquisitions that significantly extend the company's leadership position in online payments and classifieds.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK: eBay UK puts staff on notice as the US mothership cuts jobs and spends big
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: EBay trimming jobs, buying companies to shore up business in turbulent times
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: EBay Buys Bill Me Later and DBA - Lays Off 1,000
Brad Linder / Download Squad: eBay lays off 1000 workers, buys Bill Me Later
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: eBay Workforce High Bidder in Pink Slip Auction
Erin Barker / Contentinople: News Bits: Layoffs, Acquisitions at eBay
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek: eBay To Cut Workforce By 10%
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Ebay Spends More Than $1.2 Billion To Buy BillMeLater And DBA.dk …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: eBay Firing 1000 (Finally), Needs To Fire More
Olaf de Senerpont Domis / Tech Confidential: eBay announces two two deals, job cuts
Dominic Rivera / The Inquisitr: eBay Acquires Bill Me Later; To Cut 1,000 Jobs
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000 — EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company.
Discussion: E-Commerce Times, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, TG Daily, GMSV, Rev2.org, CenterNetworks, Profy, WebProNews, MarketingVOX, Epicenter, The Inquisitr and Mashable!
Jeff Meisner / E-Commerce Times: eBay Bites Bullet, Jettisons 1,000 Jobs
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman: EBay Fails to Think Outside The Box
Christian Zibreg / TG Daily: Ebay to lay off more than 1000, spends $1.3 billion on acquisitions
Craig Agranoff / Rev2.org: Good News Ebay Makes Acquisitions and Lays Off Employees
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy: eBay Acquires Bill Me Later to Merge with PayPal
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: eBay Cuts Staff, Buys Bill Me Later
Chris Snyder / Epicenter: EBay To Lay Off 1,000 Employees, Makes Two Acquisitions
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: eBay on a Shopping Spree, Buys Bill Me Later and DBA
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
eBay buys three companies for $1.35 billion, lays off 1,000
eBay buys three companies for $1.35 billion, lays off 1,000
Discussion: Webware.com, TechCrunch, Inquirer and BloggingStocks
Margaret Kane / Webware.com: eBay buys Bill Me Later, lays off 1,000
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: eBay Buys Denmark's DBA for $380 million
Sylvie Barak / Inquirer: Ebay sacks 1,000 then buys three companies
Tom Taulli / BloggingStocks: eBay tries again . . . with a big acquisition
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month — Yahoo is continuing its marathon merger discussions with AOL, sources close to the negotiations have whispered to us, and a deal could happen as early as this month. Is this just a rehash of the reported discussions in February and then again in April?
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Yahoo About To Overpay For AOL (TWX)?
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Yahoo price target cut to $21 a share — Yahoo's price target was snipped to $21 a share from $24 on Monday by a Wall Street analyst, following the Internet search pioneer's confirmation that it is delaying its controversial search-advertising deal with Google.
Discussion: VentureBeat, Electronista and WebProNews
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews: Google, Yahoo Put Ad Deal On Hold
Om Malik / GigaOM:
We Have Completed $4.5 Million in New Funding — From time to time, I have shared with you the steps we're taking to build Giga Omni Media, the 27-month-old company behind this and the other publications that make up the GigaOM network. Today, I am thrilled to announce the start of our company's next phase.
Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, The Social, Silicon Alley Insider, Valleywag and WebProNews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: GigaOm Ignores My Advice, Raises Another $4.5 Million
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: GigaOm's tech blogs pull in $4.5 million
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Application Center! — This weekend was HUGE for leaked info on the BlackBerry Storm (thanks BG!). But while all the latest Storm OS eye candy has been sweet to look at and filled in some gaps on how the device's OS will function (like copy and paste functionality) …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: The BlackBerry Application Center is RIM's answer to the iPhone App Store
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: BlackBerry Application Center: For Show or for Dough?
Al Sacco / Al Sacco's blog: RIM BlackBerry Application Center: Apple iPhone App Store Gets New Rival
Darren Murph / Engadget: Sneak peek at RIM's BlackBerry Application Center
John Herrman / Gizmodo: Leaked Screens Show BlackBerry's Own App Store
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek: BlackBerry Apps Store Details Leaked
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: BlackBerry App Store
James Falconer / IntoMobile: BlackBerry App Center Coming With Storm OS 4.7
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach: BlackBerry App Center photos leaked
Andy J. S. / PalmAddicts: BlackBerry's App Center first look
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report: BlackBerry Storm User Guide
C.K. Sample III / Obsessable: RIM's BlackBerry Application Center
Rajat Agrawal / Cellpassion: BlackBerry set to launch its own App Store
Nicholas Ciarelli / The Daily Beast:
Not So Secret Apple — Welcome to The Daily Beast: A Q&A with Tina Brown — The company's former (13-year-old) nemesis explains how Steve Jobs has suddenly gone soft. — I've had the dubious privilege of being on the frontlines of Apple's war against web leaks.
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, 9 to 5 Mac, Gawker, The Mac Observer and Cult of Mac
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli talks about Apple legal's take on rumors sites
Ryan Tate / Gawker: Tina Brown Launches Daily Beast
Giles Turnbull / Cult of Mac: Ciarelli: Apple's Lawyers Have Gone Soft
Fred / A VC:
Free Vs Paid — My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him that freemium is a paid model, but he wasn't buying it.
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: THE END OF FREECONOMICS 2.0? — Fred Wilson today:
Alexander van Elsas / Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …: The best business models focus on user value
Donna Bogatin / Startup Chatter: Google Apps Enterprise Loses 'Freemium' Web 2.0 Battle
Roger Ehrenberg / Information Arbitrage: Where and How am I Investing in Early-Stage Today?
Alexander Muse / Texas Startup Blog: Is the Freemium Model Dead?
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed — On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come …
Discussion: The Register, One Microsoft Way, Redmond Pie and digg.com
Gavin Clarke / The Register: Windows Update to trumpet Vista Capable debacle?
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way: Microsoft gives Windows XP six more months
Imran Hussain / Redmond Pie: Windows XP is still hot. 7 will be Hotter.
Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
Announcing SEOmoz's Index of the Web and the Launch of our Linkscape Tool — After 12 long months of brainstorming, testing, developing, and analyzing, the wait is finally over. Today, I'm ecstatic to announce some very big developments here at SEOmoz. They include:
Discussion: Brier Dudley's blog and Search Engine Land
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: SEOmoz Crawls Web To Expand SEO Toolset
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server — Microsoft wants SQL Server to scale new heights, and it is hoping an add-on code-named Kilimanjaro will help. — Due out in the first half of 2010, Kilimanjaro improves SQL Server 2008 with a series of business intelligence enhancements to the database.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Controversial ad company Jellycloud shuts down, citing industry consolidation — The deteriorating economy, and cloudy horizon for the advertising industry, has claimed one more victim: Jellycloud, the ad company I wrote last month that was the latest incarnation of team that ran the controversial Gator and Claria.
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
I.B.M. Releases Bluehouse for Collaboration — There's an arms race of sorts taking place among some of the world's largest technology companies as they scamper to control the next wave of office software. — Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, I.B.M. and others are selling applications under …
Discussion: eWeek and The Social Times
Clint Boulton / eWeek: IBM Closer to Building Bluehouse to Compete with Cisco, Google …
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times: Social Enterprise Software Race Picks Up Pace
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Analyst: Half of 'social media campaigns' will flop — Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Spreadsheets Redesign — One more step towards a consistent Google Docs interface: Google Spreadsheets has been redesigned and it now includes the same old-fashioned menu like the word processor and the presentation app. — "We were hoping to accomplish three things with it …
Discussion: Webware.com, Googling Google, Lifehacker, Google Blogoscoped and Mashable!
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Google Spreadsheets gets software-inspired face lift
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: New Google Spreadsheets Design Live
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Google Spreadsheets Get a Real Menu
Associated Press:
Top court stays out of DVR patent fight — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders. — Without comment, the justices declined to consider Englewood, Colo.-based Dish's appeal.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Tech Beat, paidContent.org, CNET News, Gearlog and Electronista
Cliff Edwards / Tech Beat: TiVo's Fortunes Rise on Echostar Win
Stephanie Condon / CNET News: Supreme Court ignores EchoStar appeal against TiVo suit
Chloe Albanesius / Gearlog: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Dish Networks, TiVo Case
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
How To: Copy & Paste on the BlackBerry Storm — Thanks to the windfall of Storm documents obtained yesterday, the often asked question about how copy and paste works on the Storm can finally be answered. All you'll need to do is put one finger at the beginning, and another finger at the end of the area you want to copy.
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog: D'oh! Blackberry Storm Gets Cut and Paste!
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk: BlackBerry Storm guide docs leaked
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: CDMA BlackBerry Pearl Flip on the way?
Kim Poh Liaw / SlashPhone: BlackBerry Storm Supports Copy and Paste with MultiTouch
Ronen Halevy / BerryReview.com: The Weekend Roundup Part 2 - CDMA Devices
Christen da Costa / Gadget Review: Leaked: Blackberry 9500 and 9530 Super Duper Details
John Herrman / Gizmodo: BlackBerry Storm Can Cut and Paste, Multitouchily
Rajat Agrawal / Cellpassion: BlackBerry Storm does multi-touch, copy/paste!
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: How To Copy & Paste on the BlackBerry Storm
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are — On the Internet, nobody knows your site is a dog (to paraphrase the famous New Yorker cartoon). At least not yet. Semantic search engine Hakia wants to change that. Ask.com is not the only search engine rolling out a redesign today.
Discussion: eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, hakia Blog, Search Engine Land and Mashable!
Clint Boulton / eWeek: Hakia Retools Semantic Search Engine to Better Battle Google, Yahoo
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Hakia Relaunches With 'Credible Sites'
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land: Hakia Relaunches Site With "Trusted Results"
Leslie Poston / Mashable!: Hakia Semantic Search Taps Librarians for More Credible Results
Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Microsoft's Ballmer talks about Vista, Xbox and more — Microsoft's Xbox 360 has lost its lead to Nintendo's Wii and is losing ground to Sony's PlayStation 3, despite debuting a year earlier than either. Smart-phones such as Research in Motion's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone are stealing share from Windows Mobile devices.
Discussion: GamesIndustry.biz
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers — CARLSBAD, Calif.— When PJ Haarsma wrote his first book, a science fiction novel for preteenagers, he didn't think just about how to describe Orbis, the planetary system where the story takes place. He also thought about how it should look and feel in a video game.
Claudia Cukrov / PSFK: Video Games for Literature
Beth Blecherman / Techmamas: NYT Article: Should Video Games Be Used as Bait to Hook Readers?
Asustek shipped 700,000 Eee PCs in September this year, says paper — Asustek Computer shipped around 700,000 Eee PCs in September this year, a new monthly high for the company. Total shipments for the third quarter reached around 1.7 million units, and since October and November …
Discussion: Liliputing, jkOnTheRun, I4U News, The Tech Report and GottaBeMobile
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun: Asus shipped 700,000 EEE PCs in September
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Asus shipped 700,000 Asus Eee Netbooks last Month
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: 700,000 Eee PCs shipped last month
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile: Are You Buying a Netbook This Year?


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Tea Party Darling Michele Bachmann Seeks to Broaden Appeal in Presidential Race
Pigeonholed as a right-wing disciple, Michele Bachmann is offering herself as a presidential candidate who can unite the GOP's disparate base and appeal to Republicans of all ideological stripes.
"Fiscal conservatives -- I'm one of those. National security conservatives -- I'm one of those. Social conservatives -- I'm one of those. And the tea party -- I'm one of those," the Minnesota congresswoman said repeatedly in South Carolina this past week.
The line, now standard fare as she visits early primary states, provides a window into her strategy of selling herself as more than just a social conservative crusader.
Bachmann's ability to overtake rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Perry in the GOP nomination contest may depend on whether she can attract support beyond her core evangelical and tea party constituencies, which gravitate toward her strong stances on cultural issues.
But this year, economic concerns clearly rate above most others with most voters. If she wins the party nod, she will have to court moderates and independents as well as conservatives.
Throughout her political career, Bachmann has fiercely guarded and worked to bolster her social conservative reputation.
She has had a 100 percent rating from the influential American Conservative Union during her nearly five years in Congress, based on her voting record. Over the past few years, she rode the wave of the rising tea party and used her frequent TV appearances to stoke a national image of as a favorite of the right.
As a candidate, Bachmann isn't eager to revisit her past controversial statements even though Democratic and Republican rivals alike use them to paint her as a fringe Republican in the race to challenge President Barack Obama.
During a recent debate, she deftly handled a question about a past remark cited the Bible as instructing wives to be "submissive to your husbands." In a measured tone, she explained it was about showing mutual respect.
A few days later, Bachmann faced tough questions on the Sunday national news shows about previous statements, including a comment about the gay lifestyle being one of "personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement." Not addressing such issues directly, she relied on answers such as "I'm running for the presidency of the United States. I'm not running to be anyone's judge."
Bachmann's typical campaign speech illustrates her efforts to broaden her appeal. Or as she put it in Florence this past week: "We are going to make the case that we're the unifying candidate who can beat Obama."
She opened her remarks to conservative South Carolina audiences with a quick rundown of her stances on cultural issues. But she quickly pivoted to jobs, filling a white board with numbers about tax collections and the nation's swelling deficit.
"You cannot spend more money than what you take in. It's a simple fact of life, right?" Bachmann told a receptive crowd at the Greenville convention center. She promised to submit only balanced budgets as president even though critics say that's impossible.
To national security conservatives, she said: "I won't step one toe out of this country and apologize for the United States of America," the rap that Obama's foreign policy approach gets from conservatives.
She also plays up her role on the House Intelligence Committee, stressing how she's trusted with the nation's secrets and apprised of the most pressing threats.
The broader pitch is a necessity given the times.
Gail Randall, 54, is among those who showed up this past week to hear Bachmann and who think social issues are fading.
Said Randall: "It's all about the economy this year, I think, and job creation."
Lois Ross, 42, said she appreciated hearing from Bachmann about foreign affairs, including illegal immigration and the economy because "they are the only issues I'm voting on."
Bachmann's outreach also comes across more subtly.
No matter where she travels, she emphasizes her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa.
She says it drives home her heartland sensibilities and bedrock values. She shares stories of growing up in a broken home after her parents divorced, sending a message that she can relate to people's personal and economic struggles.
Wherever Bachmann goes, she blares Elvis Presley tunes from her campaign bus.
It's not the first time Bachmann has tried to make such a pivot.
She built a following in Minnesota as a state senator championing social causes such as a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage. But after dispatching GOP challengers in her first bid for Congress, she focused her fall campaign on financial issues.
She hired a presidential campaign team that knows well the danger of being narrowly defined in a primary.
Several top advisers, including campaign manager Ed Rollins, oversaw Mike Huckabee's 2008 campaign. The ex-Arkansas governor is a former minister and a social conservative who harnessed the organizing ability of pastors, evangelicals and home-school advocates to win the Iowa caucuses. But he never grew his base of support before dropping out.
His campaign had wanted to stress his economic record and sportsman background, too, but never was able to get beyond the caricature that was stamped into voters' minds.
"There's this temptation always -- and we're certainly seeing that with Congresswoman Bachmann -- to try to make her into a one-dimensional candidate or a one-dimensional person," said Eric Woolson, who was Huckabee's Iowa campaign chief. "That clearly doesn't tell the whole story."
Even if she wins Iowa, Bachmann could flame out in New Hampshire, where there already are doubts about whether her track record and excitable rhetoric are a good fit in the opening primary state.
"I see very little oxygen left for Michele Bachmann in New Hampshire. Though she has some appeal, it is not very broad," said GOP strategist Jamie Burnett, a former Romney backer unaligned with a candidate this time. "To win here, she is going to need to attract support from beyond the tea party in order to compete."