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Its existing policy, which bans openly gay troop members and leaders, came under fire last year after Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio den leader, was dismissed by her local Boy Scout troop for being a lesbian.
In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts have a constitutional right to oppose homosexuality in its ranks.
"Forcing a group to accept certain members may impair the ability of the group to express those views, and only those views, that it intends to express," then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote after the court's 5-4 decision. He added that the decision was not meant to approve or condemn the Scouts' view on homosexuality.
Even if the national policy changes, individual troops -- more than 70% of which are affiliated with church or religious groups -- would still have the chance to decide where they stand.
"Currently, the BSA is discussing potentially removing the national membership restriction regarding sexual orientation," Boy Scouts spokesman Deron Smith said in a written statement announcing the proposed change last week. "This would mean there would no longer be any national policy regarding sexual orientation, and the chartered organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with each organization's mission, principles, or religious beliefs."
Smith stressed last week that the organization would not push any particular position to troops, members or parents
"The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic, or educational organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address the issue," he said.
The organization's National Executive Board is meeting for three days starting on Monday. On Friday, Smith declined to specify when a vote on the matter would take place.


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Pardon me if there's info readily available on this. I might just be crazy.
(Please note that I am aware of taurine and other nutrient-specific issues, and there is a new guideline so if you want to ridicule me by posting, "lol just feed them meat!" you will get 'taken care of.' as in deleted or spanked or yelled at.)
I know that cats can get diabetes so high-fat high-carb is obviously not an option.
In general, sources (of course I'm talking veg sources here btw) say that cats convert fat and protein to glucose and that is how they get their energy etc. Some other sources say cats only need a tiny amount of carbohydrate. Also, we know that cats, while they do not have salivary amylase, have digestive amylase that their pancreas produces. It would appear that starches, while they can certainly be digested, may not be as ideal as protein... or... simple carbs? Is there something I'm missing?
We know that just because an animal has adapted to eating something, it doesn't magically make it the best thing for them to digest. Protein is hard to break down and convert to energy whether you're a cat or a cow or a dude on the paleo diet or a cat being fed textured soy protein on a vegan diet.
The recipes on Vegepet for cats do not appear to be particularly low-fat, and they have a significant amount of carbs. The protein % ranges from 26-54, and the fat % ranges from 10-20. The carb % ranges from 26% to 63%. So there is not a particular pattern except that fat is between 10 and 20 always and it is either somewhat-high carbs or somewhat-high protein.
The FAQ on vegepet says raw is not a good idea for cats because they "won't get enough nutrients." They don't give any specifics but they do say the cats "won't get enough protein." Would cats need as much protein if they were eating simple carbs like those cats on the youtube videos eating watermelons, rind and all? Do they lack the biochemical pathway to use simple carbs for energy or something? I feel like there's something I'm missing.
Vegepets also says sprouting legumes reduces protein levels so that is why they recommend cooked legumes for protein. Wouldn't the cooking process denature the proteins, so might there be even less available, usable protein for that cat than in a raw sprouted legume? Based on their lack of actual data, I can't figure out whether they know what they're talking about, or they really want to sell their enzyme supplement which of course has to be added to cooked food. Hey, just because they're vegans doesn't mean they are immune to a mild case of David Wolfe Syndrome.
I guess, to boil it all down, my question is: MUST cats receive most of their energy from protein rather than simple carbohydrates? Do they lack the biochemical pathways to make simple sugars fuel their cells?
Dare I ask... can one feed one's cat 80/10/10 (or 70/20/10 even) HCRV with a supplement? I ask for kitty biochemistry to support or disprove this poorly formed "hypothesis." Some of the recipes go as far as 60/25/15 ish.
One more thing I would add, for anyone concerned about the supposed "artificiality" of vegan diets for cats. Originally I was concerned with synthetic supplements, since of course I don't want to poison my cats. Some people don't care about this, as long as they're not murdering other animals, it's worth it to poison the cat, right? Well, I didn't want to make that choice. My legitimate concerns were brushed off and not addressed by "vegan pet circles" in various spots on the internet. I did my homework and discovered that, unlike many nutrients, taurine, even though it is often labelled as such, does NOT have a D- or an L- form. What does this mean? It is a relatively simple amino-sulfonic acid and does not polarize to light - synthetic vitamins often polarize in the opposite direction as their natural equivalents. Any highschool chemistry student will tell you that the synthetic resultant chemical will not be acted upon the same way by the body and is often harmful. So the synthetic taurine really IS the same taurine as the kind found in unground raw meat. Please, if a concerned cat owner mentions the issue of synthetic vitamins, don't brush him/her off with a link to a vegan pet site that also completely ignores the issue. I felt insulted whenever my question was ignored and "answered" with a link to an extruded kibble manufacturer. Answer with legitimate science and your kindness will result in a happy, newly vegan cat.
Relevant: cp.vetlearn.com/Media/PublicationsArticle/PV0110_laflamme.pdf
It seems that gluconeogenesis, is, of course, NOT the only path to glucose, and cats do fine on higher-carbohydrate diets. However, as we see with human studies, the demonization of simple sugars continues. The complex-carb diets are compared to diets with refined sugar, rather than the fiber-sugar combo of fruit.
The author basically says that cats can do fine on either a high-protein or a high-carb diet but not a high-fat diet. The author says that simple sugars are to be avoided because they spike blood sugar, and gives reference to a study where the cats were fed refined sugar. The missing piece of info is how fruit affects the blood sugar of cats.
Am I missing something here? This just seems too easy. Maybe tomorrow I'll go on Cronometer and figure out what a day's food would be like for a raw cat and examine whether or not it's feasible i.e. volume and protein content. I was always amazed at the lack of raw veg cat info out there compared to raw veg dogs. Please, if you have the glaring piece of info I'm missing that proves this all wrong, I beg you to share. Surely fruit is better than cooked starchy carbs.
I dug up some more info, in case anyone is interested in the possibility of a raw vegan cat (plus the appropriate supplement.) In this post I am mainly examining the protein needs of cats and how it is apparently a barrier for raw feeding.
I should first mention that the CPF ratios I gave for the Vegepets recipes were by dry weight, not by calorie, so are a little off. I forgot about that whole conversion thing.
The guy from Vegepets says
On a dry weight basis adult cats require a minimum of 26% protein, but the amino acid requirement is the critical component of protein. Fat requirement is 9%, with a minimum requirement of .5% of linoleic acid and .02% arachidonate.
I think you can imagine how it would be nearly impossible to reach 26% protein by dry weight unless you fed them exclusively sprouted beans. Which is why the recipes on the site include soy protein. I thought about using a "raw" protein source such as hemp, but then I did some further reading.
I came across some studies of cats on low-protein diets. Cats with CRF (chronic renal failure) are often put on low-protein diets. This is controversial, but mainly because high-protein diets did not cause the chronic renal failure, not necessarily because a low-protein diet is bad for cats. The way that a LP diet addresses CRF in cats is that it reduces the metabolic waste (from protein catabolism) that the kidneys have to deal with. Less protein = less waste. Now, the issue with low-protein for cats is that hepatic enzymes in the liver responsible for protein catablization aren't regulated very well in felines - so they will continue catabolizing proteins at nearly the same rate even if the cat isn't eating protein. This would cause muscle loss, weakness, and eventually death since the enzymes would start consuming the cat's own muscles due to the lack of dietary protein.
26% by dry weight is an interesting number - here's why - I only read a handful of abstracts, but none of them mentioned muscle loss or other adverse health effects from a low-protein diet. Many commercially available low-protein diets (specifically for cats with CRF but can supposedly be fed to all cats according to one vet) have far less protein. Hi-tor Low-protein CRF Kidney formula cat food has about 8% protein by weight (16.4% calories from protein.) Royal Canin Low-protein has 7.2% protein by weight. Purina NF Kidney Function (these are all canned btw) has 7% protein by weight. One abstract mentioned not to go below 20-22g per 400 kcal of food. These are all pretty low numbers compared to the 26%. However... I'm not really sure if I'm doing these calculations right... if dry weight means all moisture removed and these canned foods give wet weight in their crude analysis, I might be messing the numbers up. Oh well, I'll check it out another day.
Basically, it appears to me that there is no danger in feeding a cat a low-protein diet, seeing as it is normally done with cats to manage the symptoms of CRF, and the studies (done on both CRF cats and control cats) revealed no deleterious effects from an LP diet.
It is unfortunate that I am using animal studies for this research, yes.
Hmm, I guess I did do the conversions wrong. The low-protein foods tend to have around 25-35% protein by dry weight. I calculated this to be 15-25% calories from protein. 15% might be possible to do raw. That seems to be the lower limit in terms of the LP diet cats are fed in clinical studies.
cats do seem to need a higher protein content than say a rabbit (eg 16-18%).
i don't think hc makes much sense for cats.
(thx for always reminding people of the new guideline)
in friendship,
I am debating whether to switch my kitty over, but like you, concerned about any deficiencies
there are no deficiencies, carly.
these vegan preparations have been around for more than 2 decades. we've had several veg cats for 12+ yrs now. you can read about some of them here: The Oh-Ohs.
however, you do need be aware of a certain issues as with any 'prepared' items veg or otherwise, for animals or humans.
if you do things right you'll have a very healthy cat - in many cases, as we've repeatedly found, considerably healthier than those fed commercial meat-based cat foods.
you can find several resources here eventually:
meantime, you may want to look here:
as well as the vegan cats thread:
in friendship,
:D you two must be very simpatico carly! :D
here's a post by terri you and your cat may enjoy then:
Cat Eating Cucumber (he plays with it first, then devours it)
in friendship,
My cats are very happy vegans and supplement their own diet (vegan pellets) by eating whatever fruits and vegetables they fancy. They like watermelon, dates, tomatoes, seaweed, persimmons, mangoes, mangosteens, spinach and potatoes. They love potatoes just steamed and served cold and plain. The place that delivers their cat litter etc, gave us a free can of food as it was a promotional giveaway. It was actually a meat product and I wasn't sure at first if I should throw it away, but then I thought let me just see what they do. If they go crazy for it then I guess I'll know that I have been depriving them. So I gave it to them. They smelled it, had a small taste and then walked away. It sat there in their bowl all night and they ignored it completely. They look beautiful and their weight is perfect and they are extremely happy.
I was informed by my vet that especially in male cats you should never feed them a vegan diet because males are prone to urinary problems quite often.
your vet is right about males being more prone to flutd/fus due to their physiology.
however, he/she is wrong about thinking vegan diets are the source of evil.
urinary problems are caused by various things like obesity, high urinary ph, low urinary ph, stress ...
in friendship,
one of my cats always eats wheatgrass, papaya, coconut, avocado, durian and tomatoes. both of them love durian and coconut, actually. i have videos :D anyways, maybe carnivores don't exist. maybe it's just that some animals have more/different parasites than others, which is why some are more drawn to dead animals than others. humans get torn away from fruit when heavily infested with parasites and start believing that a carnivorous diet will work for them for whatever reason. yeah, smell a cat's breath and tell me if it smells healthy. there's stuff rotting in there. is it because the food most often given to cats is cooked and has stuff other than meat, or is it the meat itself. do lions in the wild have stinky breath? do apes in the wild have stinky breath? my mind is asking so many questions today. i kind of love it :) <3
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Kahn, Roger
Roger Kahn 1927–
American nonfiction writer, journalist, novelist, and editor.
Best known as a sports journalist, Kahn has written for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Time, and for the New York Herald Tribune, where his coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers appeared regularly during the early 1950s. Kahn's prose style is described by many critics as straightforward yet sentimental, and he is commended for his success in recapturing the romantic essence of professional baseball in an era when the sport is considered by many to be a corporate enterprise.
Kahn's first book-length study of baseball, Inside Big League Baseball (1962), was written primarily for young adult readers. It is recommended by critics for its concise history of the sport and for Kahn's descriptions of many former major league ballplayers. Kahn's most critically acclaimed work, The Boys of Summer (1972), is a nostalgic book about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. He fuses reminiscences of the past with present-day profiles of the players, and also includes a complete history of the Dodger organization. As one critic said, Kahn puts the reader "back in touch with our heroes without either cosmetizing or demeaning them." Some critics found especially informative the section on former Dodger owner Branch Rickey and his role in recruiting and signing Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues. A Season in the Sun (1977) is another retrospective work on baseball, but Kahn also focuses on the contemporary profit-making aspects of the game. Although the book's format is similar to that of The Boys of Summer, critical reception was generally less favorable, with some reviewers describing its content as loose and rambling.
Kahn has also published two novels for adult readers. But Not to Keep (1979) is about a journalist's attempt to cope both with fame and personal problems. The Seventh Game (1982) is a baseball story about an aging pitcher during the World Series. Kahn is also the author of The Passionate People: What It Means to Be a Jew in America (1968) and The Battle of Morningside Heights: Why Students Rebel (1970).
(See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28, rev. ed.)
Virginia Kirkus' Service
More than any other sport, baseball has fascinated Americans since possibly the first formal game was played on the Elysian Fields of New York back in 1846. Though Roger Kahn speculates as to why this is so, he is largely concerned with the ballplayers themselves as they work their way from the minors to the majors, as they go through spring training and enter the race for the pennant, as they undergo the hectic, exhilarating ordeal of the World Series. By observing the techniques of pros like Early Wynn, Stan Musial and Mickey Mantle, the reader [of Inside Big League Baseball] can begin to comprehend the enormous energies, both mental and physical, expended in the game. He also learns the difference between inspired and routine management through anecdotes about managers like [Leo] Durocher…. Mr. Kahn has written a diamond-studded chronology of American baseball which probes its glitter and glory to reveal its demands and rigors.
A review of "Inside Big League Baseball," in Virginia Kirkus' Service, Vol. XXX. No. 1, January 1, 1962, p. 11.
(The entire section is 170 words.)
Irving T. Marsh
["Inside Big League Baseball"] is one of the simplest and clearest descriptions of the fascinations of big-time baseball that has come across this desk. It's addressed to pre-teenagers, but it has enough inside information to make it fascinating reading for any follower of the game no matter what his (or her) age, and it is authoritatively written by a man who covered major league baseball for many years and still is covering it.
Irving T. Marsh, in a review of "Inside Big League Baseball," in Books, May 13, 1962, p. 32.
(The entire section is 88 words.)
Heywood Hale Broun
The world of which Roger Kahn writes in The Boys of Summer ended less than a quarter-century ago, and its continuity, statistically and intellectually apparent, is an illusion of symbolic logic in which baseball seems to be the same old game because the measurements of the diamond have not changed.
In truth, the Brooklyn Dodger team which was Kahn's to cover for the Herald Tribune was the last leap of the flame of romance in baseball, as the Tribune was the last fiercely individualist newspaper. Measurements in sport and journalism are now so changed that comparisons are not only odious but meaningless.
The Dodger Corporation, by the legal thinking which decrees that a corporation is a person, is technically alive and operates on the west coast. No logic can give life to the Tribune, and yet Kahn, carrying the material object of a baseball glove which he got old Dodgers to sign as he traveled among them recently, has assembled and organized memories so keen that those … who are old enough can weep, and those who are young can marvel at a world where baseball teams were the center of a love beyond the reach of intellect, and where baseball players were worshiped or hated with a fervor that made bubbles in our blood….
Brooklyn seemed a fine place in which to grow up to the young Roger Kahn, whose own Proustian material object is perhaps a baseball, the one he threw with...
(The entire section is 646 words.)
Grace Lichtenstein
Any baseball book that begins with a quotation from Dylan Thomas can't be all good. But then, ["The Boys of Summer"] is about a team so extraordinary that Marianne Moore wrote poems to it, so perhaps Roger Kahn's pretentiousness is not entirely out of place. The "boys of summer" were named [Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Andy Pafko, Billy Cox and Carl "Skoonj" Furillo]. They were the starting lineup of the best team the majors ever saw—the Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950's.
As Kahn makes clear, they were remarkable both for the depths of their personalities and for the range of their skills. Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella and Duke Snider took turns hitting 40 home runs a season. Hodges, Billy Cox and Carl Furillo were acknowledged as the finest glove men of their day. Jackie Robinson taught a new generation how to steal bases. Two, Robinson and Campanella, made the Hall of Fame.
Given the assignment of breaking baseball's color line in 1947, the Dodgers, captained by Pee Wee Reese of Kentucky, made it look easy and won the pennant too. Yet in the clutch games (against the Phillies in 1950, the Giants in 1951, the Yankees in 1952 and 1953) they inevitably choked. "Wait 'til next year," was more than a slogan; it was a way of life….
As a young sportswriter for The Herald Tribune, Kahn covered the Dodgers for two of their most heroic, frustrating seasons in...
(The entire section is 730 words.)
Peter S. Prescott
There are many ways to waste one's youth; I wasted mine rooting for the Yankees and the Republicans. They were my teams, not because they won but because they were near: Yankee Stadium was an hour's drive from my home; the Democrats, a little farther. Brookyn was terra incognita—no one I knew had ventured there—though when my radio wandered off-course I could hear Red Barber speaking a nearly familiar language from a place called Ebbets Field. Not everyone, I knew, worshiped [Tommy] Henrich and [Charles "King Kong"] Keller, though it would take time for me to learn the inevitablity, the necessity, of defeat, the kind of defeat that makes men endure. My Yankees would presently exhibit it; Kahn's book about the Brooklyn Dodgers investigates and celebrates it….
"The Boys of Summer" invites us to remember what we once knew of these men—breaking curves, fast moves to the right, balls rising into the upper deck—and to recognize that our memories are not of men, but of figures in a landscape. The men come through in this book, not as fallen angels—the perspective on ballplayers that Jim Bouton adopted in "Ball Four"—but as whole men, seen in the totality of their lives so far. Kahn not only shows us what they are, he looks at how they began. A sense of awe, picked up as a child, persists as he reports on their present condition.
Kahn's book is knowledgeable, leisurely and anecdotal, as good informal...
(The entire section is 371 words.)
Murray Polner
Judged on its own nostalgic terms, The Boys of Summer is a glorious recollection, recalling for us the spurious perfection of Brooklyn in the 1940s and early 1950s, its Brooklyn Eagle, which screamed joyously in a six-column spread in 1941, "WE WIN!" after the team won its first pennant in twenty-one years. Brown v. Topeka was far away in some state that couldn't even field a major league team; Joe McCarthy's extravaganzas had little impact on our schoolboy parochialism. What had it all to do with the collective fellowship we belonged to, with identifying with the "national game?" I suppose our instinct for survival encouraged those voyeuristic fantasies; but, at the same time, love of baseball, really the Dodgers, mattered very much.
I remember my friend Chick who, while his mother wept in terror after he had received his induction notice in 1951, was too frantic about the Giants catching up to worry about himself. Chick died in Korea and the Dodgers lost the pennant that year and the year after. I know how upset he would have been.
Does anyone understand? Van Lingle Mungo, flawless and certain as a right-handed fastballer, was my personal hero. When the Mirror reported that he had been chased nude through a Havana hotel with his lady of the moment, her husband in pursuit, my friends and I bristled at such irresponsibility: how dare some Cuban upset our Opening Day pitcher? Durocher was suspended...
(The entire section is 449 words.)
Donald Hall
Baseball is too often confused with the Major Leagues, or even with Joe Garagiola and the Game of the Week. But baseball is also college and Little League, high school and vacant lot and American Legion and Class A. "A Season in the Sun" takes its form from Roger Kahn's notion of baseball's scope. To make this book, Kahn spent last summer touching down at the four corners of the baseball world….
From the affluence of Chavez Ravine, Kahn's "Season" slopes downward to Houston and the hapless Astros, who are more than $30 million in debt; then to Paul Patrick McKernan in Pittsfield, Mass.; then to Artie Wilson, car salesman who starred in his heyday for the Negro leagues, coming up to the Majors only at the end of his career; then to Early Wynn, that intelligent and aggressive gentlemen who pitched during four decades in the Major Leagues and won 300 games; to the island of Puerto Rico, where the population is baseball crazy; to Bill Veeck, baseball-crazy genius and owner of the Chicago White Sox; finally to the bright sun of autumn, the Apollo of the 1976 World Series, the great John Bench.
There are places Kahn doesn't travel. I would have wished an encounter with a rookie, where Methodist boys from Oklahoma meet stars of Brooklyn streets hipper than Mick Jagger; where ex-cane-cutters from the Dominican Republic meet Arizona State communications majors. I would have wished a visit to the ball players of Triple A, who...
(The entire section is 518 words.)
Howard Means
"Baseball's inherent rhythm, minutes and minutes of passivity erupting into seconds of frenzied action, matches an attribute of the American character," Kahn writes in A Season in the Sun.
A better book—such as his earlier The Boys of Summer, a nostalgic, moving account of the diaspora of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the mid-1950s—might lend greater weight to his thesis, if only because it showed how that rhythm worked its way into the lives of men who played the game. But A Season in the Sun, however engaging, is too loose and rambling, too much a rework of a series of articles Kahn executed for Sports Illustrated, too overladen with his own wives and family to be that book.
What sticks from Kahn's book is what sticks from nearly all baseball accounts—the anecdotes: Early Wynn throwing a bean-ball at his own son, Minnie Minoso lining a single at age 53 for Bill Veeck's White Sox, Veeck describing Dodger owner Walter O'Malley as having a face "that even Dale Carnegie would want to punch."
Not that this is an unimportant contribution, for that richly anecdotal baseball lore—the quirks of character and action of the men, many from small towns and largely uneducated, who have played the game—is what separates baseball from the other, more fast-paced and rigidly controlled, more automatous national sports.
"Baseball," Kahn quotes Bill Veeck, "is a wonderful...
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Kahn's sentimentality works well enough in his boys-of-summer-ish nonfiction—but here, in his whiny first novel [But Not to Keep], it glops over everything uncontrollably. David Priest (in Hebrew, Priest = Kahn) is a journalist and ghost writer with a bad case of the itchies; first annoyance to be got rid of is his wife Joyce, gone to fat and martinis. He remarries—to years-younger Caroline—only to find that 14-year-old son Joel is now agonized into choosing which parent he cares to live with. A messy, rending custody case is the upshot. As such, the book could have been palatable…. [But] Kahn, embarrassingly, interrupts his narrative early to announce: "Aside from genius and politics, talent and venality, you always rooted for the artist over the reviewer, provided only that the artist did his honest best. Bardic best. Symphonic best. Bad best. Best, any best, deserved decency. It was frightening to stand naked out there, naked and vulnerable and stained by hope." Kahn stuffs the novel with this kind of anxious, self-dramatizing filler; there's so much of it that the reader turns perverse, starts rooting for the slings and arrows that hail down upon the hero. The last 40 pages work—the custody fight—but the rest is self-indulgent and strictly "bad best."
A review of "But Not to Keep," in Kirkus Reviews, Vol. XLVII, No. 6, March 15, 1979, p. 346.
(The entire section is 226 words.)
Michael J. Bandler
The subject of veteran journalist-sports essayist Roger Kahn's first novel ["But Not to Keep"] is the interrelationship between two evolving institutions, one threatened, the other on the advance. The institution seemingly on the verge of collapse—or at least somewhat battered—is marriage. The one that appears to be holding its own is fatherhood, especially the single-parent variety.
Writing from an autobiographical perspective—if one takes as fact the personal details in the author's last book, "A Season in the Sun"—Kahn has fashioned a sober glimpse of contemporary society that is at once an indictment and a benediction. It sharply criticizes those forces—primarily the legal community and the courts—that compound the anguish inherent in a divorce and resultant custody proceedings. And yet, it blesses the supposed victims, the survivors—the sundered couple and the offspring—without casting stones at one parent or the other….
Kahn has never been known, in his previous writings, to hew to a narrow theme, and his first venture into fiction is faithful to that broad pattern. He confronts other beleaguered institutions, such as religion and race, and vents himself on the hypocrisy and bigotry that incessantly pollute the rarefied air of "Society." He offers caustic impressions of intellectual snobbery, and—in a brief but telling broadside—bites the hand that feeds him by spoofing publishers' quests...
(The entire section is 304 words.)
Wes Lukowsky
[In Kahn's second novel, The Seventh Game,] he once again turns to baseball. John Longboat, a 41-year-old pitcher, prepares himself for the seventh game of the World Series—and the last of an illustrious career—by reminiscing about his on-and-off-the-field exploits. The reader is reluctantly herded through a tour of Longboat's poor Oklahoma childhood, his minor-league scramblings, and his major-league success…. It doesn't take nearly that long, however, to realize that Kahn is way off his form here. Like a made-for-TV movie, the novel offers just enough to grab your interest but barely enough to hold it. The author's reputation will ensure initial demand, but expect some disappointed readers. Even a veteran like Kahn can be caught looking at strike three every once in a while.
Wes Lukowsky, in a review of "The Seventh Game," in Booklist, Vol. 78, No. 16, April 15, 1982, p. 1041.
(The entire section is 141 words.)
Daniel Okrent
"The Seventh Game" is a novel about an aging pitcher on the mound for the last game of a world series (probably the last game of his career), and of the life he has lived up until this particular October afternoon. Mr. Kahn commits enough writerly sins to send himself back to the minors. The book is littered with borrowings, from his own work (he tosses compliments at friends he encountered and evokes the places he visited on his summer's research for "A Season in the Sun"), from other baseball books (most notably, and regrettably, those by hacks of the 40's and 50's) and even from Tom Wolfe…. (pp. 11, 21)
But worse than the attributable borrowings are the clichés so firmly grounded in bad baseball literature that they are beyond tracing. He gives us predictably venal owners, dishonest agents, subliterate players (save, of course, for the [Nathaniel] Hawthorne-reading, [Claude] Monet-appreciating protagonist), a World War II bombercrew lineup (players and coaches named Dubcek, O'Hara, Levin, Domingo—I think it's Domingo; sometimes it appears as "Santo Domingo"—and Roosevelt Delano Dale). The hero is a fine man, happily married to a loyal peach of a girl, yet he's having an affair with the well-bred sister-in-law of the baseball commissioner. All major-league teams mentioned in the book go by their own names, except for the two meeting in the series—the New York Mohawks and the Los Angeles Mastodons (Mastodons? For a...
(The entire section is 439 words.)
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1984 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Girls gone wild in Vegas: Louise Goldsbury, Kristie Kellahan and Julie Miller discover the true meaning of "the hangover".
Day 1 - Wild Vegas
Three women with three days and three nights in Vegas can only lead to triple trouble, so in a bid for survival, my friends and I agree to commit no sins in Sin City. No gambling, no men and no Celine Dion. Instead, we launch into a long weekend of the wild and the weird, interspersed with dollops of indulgence.
To start off in style, we book a stretch limo to pick us up from the airport and drive the whole 10 minutes to the Tropicana hotel. After a quick check-in and costume change, we cross the street to the most decadent daytime venue on "The Strip": Wet Republic.
A playground for plastic wearing elastic, this is a pool party taken to the extreme. Our bags are searched upon entry and an innocent packet of Nurofen is confiscated, which does not bode well for our anticipated hangovers tomorrow. But we laugh it off as part of the experience and walk into a scene of half-naked, broad-daylight revelry.
The centrepiece is a catwalk of wannabe models competing in the Hot 100 bikini contest, their tiny tops seemingly held in place by sticky layers of spray tan. The rest of the clientele look as if they should be up on stage with them, leaving me and my gal pals feeling old and overdressed.
Finding our reserved daybed, we shed our clothing along with our inhibitions and order cocktails - by the jug. For the next couple of hours we relish the spectacle of twentysomethings dancing in pools, spas and cabanas. But there is one wild thing we do that the beautiful girls don't dare - we get our hair wet.
Not yet satisfied by the display of flesh, we move on to STK steakhouse. This darkened restaurant has more of a nightclub vibe, with a DJ, two bars and sexy waiters. But the food is sublime, from the complimentary blue-cheese bread to the meat and seafood mains. Even the list of side dishes is delectable: sweet corn pudding, mushroom pot pie, parmesan truffle fries and lobster mac'n'cheese.
Fuelled up, we are now ready for the next course at the Thunder From Down Under male revue. Our cultural cringe turns to national pride when AC/DC's Thunderstuck rocks the room, triggering screams from tables of hen parties. These bronzed Aussies do look much better than most male strippers, they can dance, and they do it with humour. We're laughing more than lusting, but that's the kind of night we wanted.
Next stop is the Hyde Bellagio, where we are keen to try "frozen nitrogen" cocktails.
With the famous fountains as a backdrop, this terrace bar is one of the hottest spots in town.
A mixologist in a skin-tight, buttock-skimming gold dress wheels over a cart and prepares our drinks at the table. She whisks together fresh fruit, juice and liquors and then adds the magic ingredient of liquid nitrogen, which creates a thick fog that appears to turn her mixing bowl into a cauldron. It freezes the concoction into a sorbet-like drink, served with a spoon, making it easy to forget it's alcoholic.
Our final destination is Pure, described on its website as the world's most beautiful nightclub. Perhaps to prove our worthiness, we encounter tighter security here than at the White House (it takes close to an hour). However, all is forgotten when we're rewarded with a table overlooking Las Vegas Boulevard and the city's famous "bottle service" - a few hundred dollars for 750 millilitres of vodka, a couple of mixers and a waitress to pour it for you.
At some blurry point we hit the dance floor, a heaving mass of messiness. Unsurprisingly after 10 hours of partying, we fit right in. We may have danced till dawn or for one song, but I do remember feeling grateful that we'd designated the next day to recover.
- Louise Goldsbury
Day 2 - Mild Vegas
Last night's 11 o'clock start, bottle service and Kanye West lookalikes (don't ask) have left us feeling less than pure this morning. I'd say the look is more Lindsay Lohan than Audrey Hepburn as we shuffle in from The Strip for our special tour of Tiffany & Co.'s flagship Vegas store.
Miraculously, even overtired, overhung party princesses look refreshed when decked out in $400,000 diamond engagement sparklers. We're taken on a store tour by the charming GM and make a wish-list of the things we'd buy if we won big at the poker tables. Top of the list is a 2.5-carat diamond pendant, a Vegas bargain at a cool $50K.
A private, luxe lounge room is hidden away beyond the main sales floor. Password: bling? We learn that with an advance phone call, this space can be set up for engagement ring shopping, surprise proposals and celebrities who wish to escape TMZ snappers. One lucky gal celebrating her 21st was brought here to choose 21 trinkets.
Shopping may be one of the tamer Vegas vices, but it is nonetheless still on the orgiastic scale. At Las Vegas Premium Outlets - North, discounts of up to 80 per cent off retail prices lead to a frenzy of buying by tourists and locals. They clutch shopping bags from Coach, Armani Exchange, Burberry and DKNY as if they were high-stakes loot.
With sore heads and even sorer feet, we happily surrender to the soothing atmosphere of QUA Baths & Spa at Caesars Palace.
Designed to resemble the grand bathing spaces associated with ancient Rome, QUA Baths is a great spot for "social spa-ing", gathering with girlfriends to steam, dip and chill out in the pools. An ultra-heated steam room and an ice room with "snow" falling from above do wonders for our sluggish circulation.
A "tea sommelier" prepares a relaxing brew as we sit, wrapped in fluffy white robes, waiting to be called in for the grand prize of pampering, the Signature Hourglass Treatment. In a nod to the American penchant for "wanting it how you want it", we each have a spa therapist for two hours to mix and match treatments as we please. We opt for combinations of facials, hot-stone massage, scalp massage, reflexology, aromatherapy and energy work. Bliss. Three different, radiant, fresh-faced women greet each other, beaming, in the changing room afterwards.
Relaxed and ready for something new, we decide to get our make-up done for tonight's dinner and show at Caesars. The former lead singer of Bros, Matt Goss, has remade himself as a jazz crooner with a big-band show. He's hailed as the new Sinatra, and we're told his show is classy, sophisticated, polished.
At COLOR - a Salon by Michael Boychuck, the "make-up and mimosas" treatment is a fresh take on happy hour. With chilled mimosas in hand, we meet our maker-uppers.
One look at the Lady Gaga-esque make-up artist should have been the first clue that this exercise could go horribly wrong. We must have said something really ambiguous and open to interpretation, such as: "Please DO NOT do heavy or dramatic make-up", because the artists misunderstand and liberally slap on the warpaint, Vegas showgirl-style. Well, my two friends walk out looking like Vegas showgirls. I resemble Ozzy Osbourne's sister. His older sister. What better moment for a celebrity encounter? The man himself, Matt Goss, object of our 1980s schoolgirl crushes, glides out of the manicure room with his mum as we're settling the bill. He's tall, handsome and a complete gentleman, introducing us to Mrs Goss and telling us our make-up looks beautiful. OK, so his eyesight isn't what it was in 1988, but he's looking dishier than ever.
A few hours later, we're settled in The Gossy Room at Caesars - full house, no less - to sing along to Fly Me to the Moon and a sexy, slow rendition of When Will I Be Famous? The lights are low (phew!) and the mood is mellow. Sin City has turned on another decadent day of delights.
- Kristie Kellahan
Day 3 - Weird Vegas
Let me preface this by saying I abhor violence. But when offered the opportunity to fire machineguns in a shooting gallery, it was difficult to resist - especially when informed it's an increasingly popular activity for hen parties. When in Vegas ...
We enter the Guns & Ammo Garage via its shop, agog at flak jackets, camouflage suits and a staggering armoury. Then it's ladies, select your weapons. Clueless, I choose familiar names from history to test my mettle: AK-47 and Uzi, Dirty Harry's revolver and the smallest gun.
The small pistol is surprisingly weighty and with a tendency to drop my wrists, I keep locking the barrel. My partner in crime, Louise, makes light work of the paper target, scoring multiple bull's-eyes.
But now it's time for the big guns - the semi-automatics.
The AK-47 is cumbersome but its power, speed and accuracy are terrifying, even with a novice such as me in control. And despite warnings, I am shocked by the force of the recoil, the gun's weight bouncing back into my shoulder. I stiffen, fire again; this time it bounds back into my face, bruising my cheek.
Despite the adrenalin coursing through my veins, I wimpishly hand the weapon back to my instructor, complaining that it hurts.
My redemption comes several hours later at another popular girls' weekend activity. Forget pole-dancing lessons - the cool chicks have all donned hard hats and headed for the construction site! At Dig This, you get to play with big boys' toys, tearing up two hectares of prime Las Vegas real estate with heavy machinery.
Dig This panders to two primal instincts - the thrill of controlling something enormous, and making a mess in a giant sandbox. And with more than 40 per cent female clientele, this has clearly struck a chord with tomboys and Village People wannabes alike.
Guests have the choice of operating an excavator or a bulldozer. With the latter, you build your own dirt roller coaster, pushing the dusty desert soil into a mound before teetering on the precipice and toppling over in perfect safety.
I'm behind the controls of an excavator. Push a lever and the giant clawed shovel greedily gouges the earth. Press another button and Tyrannosaurus jaws open wide, creating a dirty big sandcastle.
My final task is to pick up 680-kilogram tyres, carry them to the other side of the site and stack them again - a job requiring enormous concentration and surprising dexterity.
While Dig This and Guns & Ammo have become an essential part of hen party tomfoolery, it's the actual business of weddings that Las Vegas is famed for. Last year, Nevada was home to 90,000 weddings, not including vow renewals or same-sex marriages; and in Vegas, the wackier the better.
Wedding planner Joni Moss picks us up in her purple convertible for a guided tour of Vegas wedding hot spots. She points out the courthouse, where paperwork must be registered; the Little White Wedding Chapel, where Britney celebrated her first, 55-hour marriage; a drive-through chapel for nuptials "in the fast lane"; before heading to another classic, Viva Las Vegas.
Here, we sit giggling in pews as British couple Amanda and Michael, dressed in bordello fancy dress, burst through the chapel's double doors in a pink Cadillac, driven by no other than Elvis himself. Elvis then takes the stage for a rendition of That's All Right, before asking the happy couple to say "uh-huh" instead of "I do".
"Do you promise to always give a hunka-hunka-Burning Love?" Big E finally says as the happy couple walk down the aisle, their fate sealed in about 15 minutes of madness.
This "Pink Caddy Package"- including car, Elvis, the ceremony, three songs, photographs and video streaming - costs just $777 all up, on the upper end of Vegas weddings, which start at $199. And considering the fun Michael and Amanda had, it's a lifetime souvenir.
After a mind-blowingly bizarre day, we head back down The Strip to New York-New York, the location of our Vegas swansong - a Cirque du Soleil show. But Zumanity is not your standard Cirque extravaganza - it's raunchy, erotic and bold, an adults-only performance with plenty of nudity and some eye-popping simulated foreplay.
Subtitled "the Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil", Zumanity is part cabaret, part burlesque: cheeky, naughty and deliciously sexy, with references to orgies, S&M and kinky sex. But the acts are mind-boggling in their athleticism and freakishness, from intimate balancing acts to the ultimate pole dance, contortion water play in a transparent tub to high-flying silk-rope performances.
It's a blistering - dare I say orgasmic - experience, and a fitting end to a girls' weekend of extraordinary excess. Bring on the Berocca, our heads hurt.
- Julie Miller
The writers were guests of United Airlines and Tropicana.
- The lads' version: Ben Groundwater's hangover in Vegas
- Bigger than Vegas: James Packer's Asian paradise
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Getting there
United Airlines flies daily from Sydney to Los Angeles, with domestic transfers to Las Vegas. united.com.
Staying there
The New Tropicana Las Vegas, fresh from a $US180 million transformation, has 1375 spacious rooms redesigned with king beds, plantation shutters, wireless internet and city views. The massive site comprises a casino, several new restaurants and bars, and the Glow Mandara Spa and gym. For a night out in your own hotel, the Trop's first-class entertainment includes Dancing with the Stars: Live in Las Vegas (tickets from $US40 ($32)), the Laugh Factory ($US29) and Bagatelle Beach & Nightclub (afternoon pool parties). Rooms start at $US99 a night. Book 90 days in advance to save 20 per cent. +1 702 739 2222, troplv.com, .
Partying there
Chris Limousines, chrislimousa.com
Wet Republic, wetrepublic.com
STK, togrp.com/stklv
Hyde Bellagio, hydebellagio.com
Thunder From Down Under, thunderfromdownunder.com
Pure Nightclub, caesarspalace.com
Tiffany & Co, tiffany.com
Las Vegas Premium Outlets - North, premiumoutlets.com
QUA Baths & Spa, harrahs.com/qua/
COLOR - A Salon by Michael Boychuck, caesars.com/color/
Matt Goss performs at The Gossy Room at Caesars Palace, caesarspalace.com
Guns & Ammo Garage, gunsandammogarage.com
Dig This, digthisvegas.com
Nevada weddings, nevadaweddings.org or lvweddingconnection.com
Zumanity, cirquedusoleil.com


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In 2015 international oil company Shell will begin to capture more than one million metric tons of the odorless, colorless gas known as carbon dioxide. The CO2 will come from three enormous machines near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, that produce hydrogen to turn bitumen into salable oil. Once captured, the CO2 will be pumped through a pipeline to a site where it will be buried more than two kilometers underground in a porous sandstone formation. This carbon-capture-and-storage project, dubbed Quest, will be the first in the world run by the oil production industry—and join a short list of working demonstrations of a technology that may be vital if humanity is to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) "is the quickest way to get substantial greenhouse gas reductions," argues Len Heckel, Shell Canada's commercial lead for the Quest project. Heckel suggests that Shell and its partners undertook the project to reduce the company's carbon footprint, advance the technology and take advantage of government funding.
But the Quest project is a rare example of a technology that seems stuck, much like the CO2 after it is pumped underground. The 2012 survey by industry group the Global CCS Institute found that although nine new projects were announced this year, eight previously announced ones failed, bringing the total number of CCS projects worldwide to 75. Of those 75, eight are in actual operation, storing some 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year—or slightly more than the annual emissions of Bahrain—most of it from the processing of natural gas to remove CO2 so the fuel is ready to burn.
Despite the slow start, "CCS is an existing, real technology today," argues institute CEO Brad Page, adding that it is needed to meet any global goal to restrain global warming cheaply. The International Energy Agency estimates that the world needs more than 100 operational CCS projects—storing some 270 million metric tons of CO2 annually—by the end of this decade to keep global warming from surpassing a 2-degree rise in global average temperatures, given that more than 80 percent of the world's energy continues to come from fossil fuels. Or, as Page adds, it's about economics: "At stake is a very substantial power bill for the world's energy consumers if we don't get CCS up and running by 2050."
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The U.S. was once the world leader in CCS experimentation, ranging from injecting CO2 underground to scour oil out of old wells to running the world's first combined carbon-capture-and-storage unit at the Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia. But Mountaineer's experiment came to an end in 2011, thanks to an inability to get customer-sourced funding approved by local regulators, given an absence of national legislation to restrain greenhouse gas emissions. "The hardware is still untapped," says chemical engineer Gary Spitznogle, director of new technology development and policy support at American Electric Power, the utility that owns and operates the Mountaineer coal-fired power plant. "We shut it down and laid it up in case someone wanted to reuse it."
That's not likely to happen anytime soon—or as Spitznogle puts it: "There'd have to be a reason more than just a deep scientific fascination with doing it." New projects are underway in the U.S.—the Plant Barry project in Alabama is capturing CO2 and burying it in an old oil field, and a new coal-fired power plant with CCS is being built in Kemper County, Miss. But progress on CCS for coal-fired power plants in the U.S. has slowed for one major reason: natural gas.


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Maggio Family Vineyards Petite Sirah 2008—discovered at Tucson Festival of Books
Monday, March 14th, 2011Discovering a palate-pleasing wine was not on my agenda at the two-day Tucson Festival of Books last weekend. And bear in mind, I don't solicit wines to review, but my love of the grapes is legendary, especially among the authors I work with in my chosen career as a literary consultant (note: one cannot survive by writing about grapes alone).
One author I'm working with, Carl Paul Maggio from Sedona, AZ, brought more than his manuscript to our first meeting at the Festival; he presented me with a bottle of 2008 Maggio Petite Sirah from his family's vineyards in the Lodi valley of California. I continue to be impressed with wines coming out of that region.
Maggio and I have spent hours on the phone discussing baseball and his project. His legacy includes playing on the 1951 American Legion National Championship baseball team, a team that fielded many renowned baseball greats, including the late George "Sparky" Anderson (who had penned the Foreward for this book before his death last year). I believe Maggio's resulting book, Baseball's Glorious Age of Innocence, will offer readers a nostalgic escape into a bygone era that will both entertain and enlighten. The manuscript lends itself to a potential on-screen movie; I'm thinking Disney-like innocence and magic. Carl is in the process of completing the screenplay.
So enough about the book and baseball reminiscence; just wish us luck in finding a bonafide publisher for this gem.
Now about that Maggio family wine. I opened the bottle later that evening, enjoying it with my homemade pasta sauce, chicken breast, and tortellini (a bit on the spicy side). The pairing was ideal. The 2008 Maggio Petite Sirah opened with a fruit-forward nose—blueberries and dark cherries—with just enough peppery notes that lingered on into a soft, mellow finish. This would be a perfect sipping wine to share while sitting around talking baseball. Priced at around $10 per bottle, this is truly a value wine.
The nearly famous Maggio name was the first thing that drew me to this project (and now the wine). I'm a lifelong baseball fan; one of my first sports biographies, read in third grade, was the story of the great Joe DiMaggio. Carl shares a similar name with Joe, one of the most famous New York Yankees to ever hit a baseball (and date Marilyn Monroe). Carl explained that he's recently discovered that his father's name was changed from DiMaggio to Maggio when he migrated to the United States from Italy many years ago. Carl, who also played professional baseball, came that close to sharing Joe's fame. He's even been told that his baseball fielding style mimicked Joe's quick pace.
I believe Carl Maggio's celebrity is yet to flourish, as this tender and nostalgic account of a group of young boys who remained bonded as they grew into skilled and responsible men and then confront their own mortality, will transport everyone back to the age before baseball was tainted. Once that happens, perhaps Carl should share in his relatives' Maggio Family Vineyard fame as a winemaker as well. He is already a brilliant promoter of their efforts.
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Ronald Pagel and his attorney entered a plea of not guilty to misdemeanor assault on Monday, December 2, for pepper-spraying a woman and her dog while walking in the Pattee Canyon area on October 26.
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Garth Brooks can easily fill up a stadium of eager concert attendees, and apparently, he can also beckon millions of viewers for an impressive national TV showing. On Friday (Nov. 29), the singer proved he can still top television ratings with an airing of his 'Live From Las Vegas' farewell show.
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Mitt Romney blamed President Barack Obama for mischaracterizing his positions and forcing him to spend more time fund-raising, as the GOP presidential candidate looked to turn around his campaign trajectory and end a difficult week.
The Republican standard-bearer did not push back when asked Sunday whether he had fallen behind the president in key swing states, but said he expected the upcoming trio of debates would help him set the record straight.
"He's trying to fool people into thinking that I think things that I don't," Romney told reporters on his campaign charter plane. "And that ends at the debates."
The first debate is scheduled for October 3 in Denver.
On his plane, Romney said Obama had incorrectly portrayed his policy positions on issues as diverse as the automobile industry bailout to abortion to tax proposals.
"He says I was in favor of liquidating the automobile industry -- nothing could be further from the truth... He says I'm in favor of lowering taxes on wealthy people. No I'm not," Romney said, and he criticized Democratic campaign commercials. "He keeps running these things even though he knows they're wrong and saying them in rallies even though he knows they're wrong."
Romney, who in the past week was hit by the release of a covertly-filmed video in which he said 47% of Americans were dependent on government and by criticism from within his own party over the direction of his campaign, said as the election neared his role was to tell voters about his plans for the country.
As for public opinion polls, Romney said he did not pay much attention.
"I know in the coming six weeks they're very unlikely to remain where they are today, he said. "I'll either go up or I'll go down. It's unlikely that we'll just stay the same."
The Republican White House hopeful, who spent much of last week raising money in California, Florida and Texas, blasted Obama for opting out of public financing and forcing both candidates to spend more time wooing donors.
Last month Obama's campaign surprised political analysts by hauling in more money than Romney.
Romney said as his campaign moves forward he expected to be doing less fund-raising. The campaign has announced public events planned in Colorado and Ohio early this week.
"I don't expect this to be a contest of who can say the cutest phrase, I think it's a contest of very different directions for the country," Romney said. "And the president's direction will be spoken in the context of his record because he has a record. And my pathway forward will be spoken in the context of my record."
The Obama campaign quickly fired back a statement.
"It's odd that Mitt Romney, a former CEO, won't take personal responsibility for his campaign's troubles," said campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "And it certainly takes a lot of chutzpah for him--after his campaign bragged that it wouldn't be dictated by fact checkers--to shed crocodile tears over a legitimate discussion of his record and policies."


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I found these photos posted on Facebook. Looks like Formula branding for ROG board is gone instead its replaced with Hero. and thermal armour is still there on sabertooth line of boards.
Ow. A swing and a miss for Asus. Manufacturers settled in on blue and black for a reason, that shit sells. Don't know why they'd want to risk it like this.
Wow @ the ITX board. I would like to see different angles of that board plus some specs. It's clearly got a z87 under the hood.
Hm i was looking for Sabertooth but i dont like those mini fans -_- Maximus IV Hero looks like the next best bet, but idk those models look a bit pricey Edit: what's that 1st mobo in gold? i cant see the name so good Z87 deluxe?
Here are few more pics of Z87 boards from Asus. There were 20-25pics posted on the page including that of entry level offerings in Z87 line-up. I managed to download 10 photos from the album. I really hope these are just some early prototypes and final versions of non-ROG board have blue/white colour scheme.


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I have 3 email accounts set up in the email client and I would like to change the colors assigned to each of the accounts.
Is it possible? I haven't been able to find any setting to do it. In this question they say it's not possible in Android 2.2, but how about 4.1?
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I've tried on my Galaxy S3 and I couldn't find a way to do this. Searching on the web returns nothing more (aside of trying to delete/recreate an account until it's given the color you want, wich I didn't tried). You can use another mail client than the one pre-installed on the GS3. I've tried the following ones :
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