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Visitor Center offers new venue for area wine sales
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- BY Special to the Gazette
Thanks to the Halifax County Tourism Department, Halifax County's four local wineries will have a new venue for showcasing and selling their product at the South Boston-Halifax County Visitor Center.
The South Boston-Halifax County Visitor Center, located at the intersection of Route 360 and Highway 58, opened its doors on March 15, 2012. Operated by the Halifax County Tourism Department, the Visitor Center is home to a host of travel information in and around Halifax County and surrounding areas.
The center has an array of iconic local symbols available for public viewing and a gift shop featuring Virginia souvenirs, locally produced goods, and now, an impressive selection of locally produced wines for wine lovers, gift givers and travelers alike.
"The mission of the Halifax County Tourism Department has always been to promote Halifax County, which is comprised of many parts, one vital part being agriculture," said Tourism Director Linda Shepperd. "Agriculture has been the history and culture of this community. Our citizens have a great appreciation for the land and making a living from what is grown."
Since the Visitor Center opened, the question has naturally been how its gift shop, in keeping with the tourism department's mission, could sell the locally grown product.
In March 2013, an application was completed and filed with Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and approved this August.
"I'm excited. I think it is fantastic," said Shirley Archer, owner of Bright Meadows Farm Vineyard and Winery, the first winery to locate in Halifax County. "We can showcase our wines, and tourists can learn about our wineries. We appreciate everything the tourism department does for Halifax County and the wineries."
Paul Greenwood, founder of Greenwood Vineyards, shared Archer's enthusiasm. "It's another outlet for us. I think it's fantastic."
The wine industry in Virginia has skyrocketed in the last 10 years, and Halifax County is no exception to this trend in growth, Shepherd said. Selling the product can create new customers for the wineries, contribute to increased product sales and provide a local product for travelers who can take a piece of a Halifax County back home with them.
"With the increasing number of people stopping at the Visitor Center, adding local wines to the gift shop only makes sense. Those who are not familiar with Halifax County wineries will have an opportunity to shop for wines they may have not otherwise known about," said Halifax County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Nancy Pool, who also called the idea "a win-win" for Halifax County wineries and tourism. "There is great diversity in the business community, and every business impacts the local economy. Wineries have added another dimension to the mix, which has enhanced community development efforts."
Hunting Creek Vineyards owners Sandy and Milt McPherson also have praised the tourism department's efforts to promote their growing local business, saying, "We appreciate the efforts the Halifax tourism leadership has taken to support local business and agriculture by allowing us to literally sell the fruits of our labor in the visitor center. The tourism leadership has been supportive of our local wine festivals and helped introduce our business to many visitors during their stay in Halifax County."
Shepperd announced that local wines are now available in the visitor center gift shop, saying, "It is our intention to have a nice selection of wines from each of the local wineries."
Visitor Center hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m.


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Adrian Wilson's career in Arizona may be coming to an end
Since coming to the Valley in 2001, the former third-round pick out of North Carolina State has been the heart and soul of the Cardinals' defense. And even before the team reached its only Super Bowl during the 2008 season, Wilson remained true to the organization through some really lean years (six consecutive losing seasons from 2001-2006).
Before there were expectations of the team winning division titles and making deep postseason runs, Wilson made a commit to remain a part of the team's long-term solution.
In an age where the sports industry is built on championship rings and free agency money, that level of loyalty is almost unheard of. Yet the five-time Pro Bowler never wavered in his passion for the Arizona Cardinals.
Even after a 2011 season in which he made yet another trip to Hawaii (despite playing the entire year with a torn biceps injury), Wilson agreed to restructure his contract (which reduced his base salary for this season) during training camp, because he wanted to do what was in the best interest of the team.
But as the first 15 games of the 2012 campaign have indicated, the 33-year-old's days in the Valley may be numbered. In the team's Week 11 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, defensive coordinator Ray Horton opted to use Rashad Johnson in nickel packages instead of Wilson. It's a trend that has continued more and more over the past five weeks.
When asked whether he got emotional or nostalgic during the team's home finale Sunday, Wilson suggested his mindset was on the Bears not on a potential Arizona departure.
"You know I hadn't thought about [the game being my last in Arizona] at all, until you guys brought it up," Wilson told media members following Sunday's defeat. "If they make a decision, I'm pretty sure it's going to be quick."
If the team decides to part ways with Wilson, they will being so with one of the most beloved members of the organization over the past decade. And also one of the most accomplished.
In the team's 38-10 victory over the Detroit Lions in Week 15, Wilson became just the sixth player in NFL history to record 25 interceptions and 25 sacks for a career, joining Ray Lewis, Rodney Harrison, Ronde Barber, William Thomas and Brian Dawkins.
However, as Sunday's game illustrated (one solo tackle), Wilson's best days may be behind him. Yet for the Arizona's strong safety, the thought of leaving the only franchise and city he's ever known isn't a comforting one, even if it means going to a team with a brighter future.
As he made sure to remind everyone Sunday, the move would be harder on his family than it would be for him.
"What goes through my mind is having to move my family, having to find my kids another school, will they like the school," said Wilson, who has three children ages 3, 8 and 10. "That's what goes through my mind [when talking about a potential move], it's my family. I can adjust."
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One after-noon in 2011, my friend Eric spent a couple of hours over lunch explaining Twitter to me and I thought I understood it all, but as you'll see from my first few tweets, I wasn't very confident:
Is anyone getting this?
Todd, are you the only one who got this or did everyone get it?
If someone is actually reading this, could you call me on my phone and tell me?
I'm still trying to understand how this whole process works. If John McCain and Mitch McConnell can tweet, how tough can it be? My wife says there are courses on social networking, but I don't have a great record learning stuff in a classroom. I still can't speak Spanish or do long division.
This past Sunday, I decided to take advantage of the great breadth of knowledge and experience that exists among our church's congregation. At the end of the service each week, we all stand in a circle holding hands (unless there's a flu epidemic) and ask our fellow Unitarians to express any recent joys or concerns. A lot of people waste this valuable time to lament about their ailing aunt or to brag about their niece who got a Rhodes Scholarship. I took the opportunity to see if anyone could explain to me how to tweet. In order to minimize the total humiliation I might experience, I did request that my tutor not be under 8 or over 80.
In true community spirit, many congregants approached me after the service with an offer to assist. Based on some of these comments, I was still a bit uneasy:
"I never fully understood that hashtag thing either, Dick."
"I don't think you can end a sentence with @"
"I don't trust Direct Messaging. My boss now knows I hate him."
The real problem now was coming up with twitter-worthy material. Last Wednesday after walking my dog at a nearby park, I sped out of the parking area without securing the hatchback on my SUV. Apparently, as I made my way home, an entire case of expensive prescription dog food and 30 copies of my latest book slid out the back and onto the street. After discovering this, I quickly retraced my route to find the missing cargo, but to no avail. Thankfully, upon returning to my house, I saw all my belongings stacked on my front porch, with a note:
Hello, Mr. Wolfsie:
I saw this stuff strewn all over Fall Creek Parkway and decided to return it. I knew the dog food would be missed. Also found your books.
Now I had something to tweet about. "Thanks to an honest guy named #Josh who returned everything that fell out of the back of my car."
(Why the hashtag? I don't know, but it made me feel very hip to type it.)
That night I went to my twitter account and I saw that Josh had retweeted my comments. I have no idea what that means. But I can't wait to find out at church on Sunday.
Dick Wolfsie is a television news reporter, syndicated humor columnist and author. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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By JOE LoTEMPLIO
---- — PLATTSBURGH — Allegiant Travel Co. is set to meet the growing demand for flights to Las Vegas from Plattsburgh, with service beginning Dec. 19.
"Las Vegas was the No. 1 requested destination from those here and in Canada," Plattsburgh and North Country Chamber of Commerce President Garry Douglas said at a news conference announcing the plan early Wednesday.
"We know this operation will be another success for both Allegiant and Plattsburgh."
Allegiant's non-stop service from Plattsburgh International Airport to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas will use Boeing 757 jets that seat 233 passengers.
Fares will be as low as $150 one way until Oct. 2.
Prices will go up after that, depending on demand and the time of year, Allegiant spokesperson Jessica Wheeler said.
Flights will head out of Plattsburgh on Mondays and Thursdays, at a time to be determined.
"The Plattsburgh market has been great for us, and we have a ton of Canadian travelers that wanted to go to Vegas," Wheeler said.
"We see this as a lucrative market, and we are going to give it a shot."
Allegiant, which is based in Las Vegas, has been operating direct flights between Plattsburgh and Florida since shortly after the airport opened in 2007. The direct flights have been immensely popular with travelers from Quebec.
Business at the airport, which is located on the former flightline of Plattsburgh Air Force Base, has grown so rapidly since opening that a major expansion will begin next spring.
Clinton County Legislator Robert Heins (R-Area 10, City of Plattsburgh), who chairs the county's airport committee, said Allegiant's decision to offer service to Las Vegas is another indication that the airport will continue to grow.
"When we opened in 2007, we knew we had a good market that would work, and it has worked, and we have to thank companies like Allegiant for that," Heins said.
"We are unique in that no other airport north of Albany will offer non-stop flights to Vegas."
Allegiant will house its aircraft at the airport.
Wheeler said the ground staff will undergo training to service the larger jets, but no new jobs are expected to be created at the airport by the new destination.
City of Plattsburgh Mayor Donald Kasprzak said the flights to Las Vegas, a world-class resort known for its casinos and lavish entertainment, will fill a growing demand.
"This is another step in the right direction for Plattsburgh and the region," he said.
"We continue to grow, and we look forward to even more announcements like this in the future."
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A support bus for a team of bicyclists participating in the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa crashed and caught fire Saturday morning on the last leg of the ride.
Police says the bus went out of control at about 9 a.m. on a steep hill entering Guttenberg in northwest Iowa.
Police Sergeant Jerry Moser says the brakes failed on the bus and it jumped a curb, went over a set of train tracks and rolled down an embankment before catching fire.
One of the passengers was flown to University Hospitals in Iowa City for treatment. The other person on the bus was treated for minor injuries.
No bicyclists were injured.
The names of the injured people and their conditions were not immediately released.
The 485-mile ride ended at the Mississippi River at Guttenberg for the nearly 10,000 riders participating in the event.


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Stenson opens door for FedEx hopefulsBy DOUG FERGUSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | September 22,2013ATLANTA Henrik Stenson was so flawless that he built a nine-shot lead at the turn Saturday in the Tour Championship.
Four bogeys in the rain on the back nine at East Lake put him right back where he started the day and injected some hope for Dustin Johnson and a few other players.
Stenson made two bogeys on the last three holes he made a 12-foot par putt on the other and had to settle for a 1-under 69. That gave him a four-shot lead over Johnson going in to the final day of the PGA Tour season.
This is far from over not only the Tour Championship, but the FedEx Cup.
Stenson appeared to have both wrapped up when he got up-and-down from a bunker on the par-5 ninth for a tap-in birdie to reach 14 under, nine shots clear of Johnson. Everything changed as the rain began to fall.
Stenson pulled his approach into a corporate hospitality area to the left of the 10th green. He hooked a tee shot on the 14th that ran across a cart path and under a bush, and he had to make a 12-foot putt for bogey. He made bogey from the bunker on the 16th. What really stung was a three-putt bogey on the par-3 18th.
I think Ill choose to look at it from the bright side, even though the weather is not that bright at the moment, Stenson said after setting down a rain-soaked umbrella. Started the day with a four-shot lead and I still got it. So thats all that matters really.
Stenson was at 11-under 199, and everyone except for Johnson (7-under 203) and Steve Stricker (5-under 205) were within six shots of him.
Johnson made two late birdies and two solid pars, getting up-and-down after a close call with the water on the 17th, and then making a 30-foot par save on the last hole for a 67 that put him in the last group and gave him a chance to see who he was chasing.
Johnson was the last man into the 30-man field at East Lake, and he left Chicago on Monday not sure whether he would get in. Now he at least has a shot to start and end the season with a victory.
If I keep driving it straight, then Im going to give him a run tomorrow.
Stenson is still in great shape to go home with a lot of money $10 million for winning the FedEx Cup, $1.44 million for winning the Tour Championship. Even if he were to finish third, he still would be in good shape to win the FedEx Cup.
Tiger Woods, the No. 1 seed, didnt make a birdie until he chipped in on the 14th hole. He rallied for a 69, the first time he has broken par all week. Woods was at 3-over 213, 14 shots behind in a tie for 26th.
Among the other FedEx Cup possibilities Sunday:
Stricker, who had a 68, could win the FedEx Cup by winning the Tour Championship. He could win with a runner-up finish, provided Stenson finished lower than ninth and Zach Johnson in the group at 4-under 206 was worse than seventh.
Zach Johnson, the No. 4 seed, still had a shot at the $10 million even without winning. He was seven shots behind, but one scenario if for him to finish runner-up and Stenson to finish third.
Yes, even Dustin Johnson is mathematically still alive as the No. 30 seed. He would need to win (possible), have Woods finish last (possible) and make sure Stenson finishes in the 15th place (total long shot). Johnson wasnt interested in all that math and it wasnt his field of study at Coastal Carolina, anyway.
They didnt require math, he said.
All he cares about are the scores, and hes still in with a chance after making up five shots on the back nine. That was mostly Stensons doing. The Swede got loose with a few shots, and the rain didnt help.
I cant really complain that it was any tougher for me than for anybody else, Stenson said. When you lose a little bit of momentum ... its just hard to find your rhythm again when youre kind of jumping in and out from underneath an umbrella and trying to whack it to get back in underneath again. So its a little more difficult, but we still kept it together. Like I said, weve still got a four-shot lead.
If anything, he felt bad for Adam Scott, whom he led by four shots at the start of the day.
Scott felt so miserable overnight and Saturday morning that he had IV fluids administered at East Lake and only showed up on the range about 25 minutes before his tee times. He was sick and it showed with a 40 on the front nine. Scott wound up with a 74 to fall nine shots behind, and was thankful to doctors for getting him ready to play.
Pretty disappointed, because I felt like I could have made a run today, Scott said. When youre body is feeling so lethargic and heavy, the club feels like it weighs 60 pounds. And it was just hard work to get anything moving.
That might have ended his bid for PGA Tour player of the year. A win would have given the Masters champion three wins (including a major) and the FedEx Cup, which might have been enough to trump Woods and his five wins (no majors).
DIVOTS: Stenson was able to find another 4-wood overnight and played with 14 clubs. I didnt use it once, he said. ... Jordan Spieth, playing in the final group with Stenson and Scott, shot a 71 and was in the group seven shots behind with Justin Rose and Billy Horschel. ... Phil Mickelson shot 70 and was nine shots out of the lead.MORE IN Wire SportsFOXBOROUGH, Mass. Tom Brady has been impressed by rookie running back James White. Full StoryCHARLOTTE, N.C. Jeff Gordon viewed his Brickyard 400 win as a turning point for his race team. Full StoryAKRON, Ohio Dustin Johnson is taking a leave of absence from golf to seek help for personal... Full Story
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The Daily Star
---- — The principle of objectivity is so deeply imbued in the ethics of journalism that it's common to hear the topic mentioned frequently around the newsroom.
It will come up in discussions with reporters about the various angles to a particular story, or in editorial board meetings where the newspaper forms its stance on the issues of the day. But most often, questions about objectivity stem from the feedback we get from our readers.
In this regard, I've concluded that it's probably best if a newspaper's critics are scattered somewhat uniformly across the political spectrum, as sardonic as that may sound. No audience is ever unanimously pleased, and if you're standing in the dead center of issues, occasionally you'll get caught in some partisan crossfire.
Maybe the reason objectivity is such a frequent subject for debate is that – perhaps ironically – no objectively definable metric exists for determining whether a journalist attempting to report objectively has done so. Media watchdog groups such as the right-leaning Media Research Center and left-leaning Media Matters base their work on inherently subjective judgments about how to define fairness, or what constitutes positive or negative coverage.
It seems easier to define objective journalism by what it isn't. Here at The Daily Star, editors Sam Pollak and Rob Centorani don't always see eye-to-eye on all things editorial. But both agree that MSNBC hosts Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz should either take part in political rallies and campaign events or cover them for MSNBC – but not both. The same goes for Fox News, which employed Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee as paid contributors while all four were considering campaigns for the White House.
This question becomes a bit more nuanced in cases such as that of a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel intern who, according to Columbia Journalism Review, was fired this year after signing a petition in support of recalling Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
The Journal Sentinel tried unsuccessfully to find a different opening for her – since such activity wouldn't be a problem if she covered, for example, sports or entertainment. But since the intern was to be assigned to the paper's capitol news bureau, the paper determined that she had an insurmountable conflict of interest.
The intern's case illustrates the harsh lesson that journalists should limit their political activity to voting and nothing else. As former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee once said of his reporters: "You can't (expletive) the elephants if you're gonna cover the circus."
It is often said that journalism is the first rough draft of history. But it's a profession for people who simply want to document history, not make it. Those who insist on viewing things through an ideological prism are better suited for some other line of work.
I was drawn to journalism by my interest in history, or more specifically, historiography – the study of how history is understood and recorded. One fascinating example of this is the first-century Roman emperor Caligula, known to history as an irredeemably cruel and deranged tyrant.
Our knowledge of Caligula comes from four sources. Two – contemporaries Philo of Alexandria and Seneca the Younger –
offer little more than anecdotes. Most of what we know about Caligula comes from Suetonius and Cassius Dio, who wrote 80 and 100 years after Caligula's death.
The tales of his debauchery and violence are well-known. But, as our sources concede, Caligula brought back democratic elections for municipal officials and ordered the regular accounting and disclosure of public finances – two practices that were abandoned by the earlier emperors.
When the emperor Augustus ordered the works of dissident historian Titus Labienus seized and burned after a controversial trial, Labienus committed suicide. Thirty years later, Caligula ordered all Labienus' works, and those of several similar authors, to be retrieved and republished in the interest of posterity.
Was Caligula an unhinged lunatic? Or was he champion of transparency, democracy and free speech who was simply victimized by a harsh press? This depends on how much faith one has in our sources, but I'm guessing it's somewhere in between. History in those days was written by senators such as Suetonius and Dio – who couldn't criticize sitting emperors, and settled instead for targeting those who were no longer present to defend themselves.
Today, history is being documented in ways that were unimaginable only a few decades ago. But the debate over what constitutes objectivity remains as elusive and open-ended as ever.
JUSTIN VERNOLD is a copy editor at The Daily Star. Contact him at email@example.com or 432-1000, ext. 216.


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Upstart Unthink wants to become the new anti-FacebookCall it "Occupy Facebook." Or, perhaps, "UnOccupy Facebook."
Hoping to capitalize on frustrations with the social networking giant, not to mention some of the anti-corporate sentiment bubbling up on Wall Street and beyond, entrepreneurs have launched an upstart site called Unthink.
The Tampa, Florida-based startup wants to be everything that Facebook and rival Google+ are not -- and it has the manifesto and sassy YouTube video to prove it.
"I couldn't wait to tell my story. I couldn't believe that all this was free," says an actress in the video, strutting through Bohemian city streets in an off-the-shoulder T-shirt with the words "Wild and Free" scrawled on it. "But I never knew that I'd be part of some damn puppet show -- that you thought you could own me. Well, you can't own me!"
Later, she confronts a guy in a Google+ T-shirt and another hoodie-wearing character with a striking resemblance to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Can't wait for someone to come up with" Occupy Railroad Tracks".SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
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It's vaporware now but it's called Diaspora. If they ever get it going it is the privacy version of social networking...Pleasing nobody, one person at a time.
That which does not kill me, better start fucking running.
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WASHINGTON — The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.
The 217-210 vote was a win for conservatives after Democrats united in opposition and some GOP moderates said the cut was too high. Fifteen Republicans voted against the measure.
The bill's savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults without dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely.
House conservatives, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., have said the almost $80 billion-a-year program has become bloated. More than 47 million Americans are now on food stamps, and the program's cost more than doubled in the last five years as the economy struggled through the Great Recession. Democrats said the rise in the rolls during tough economic times showed the program was doing its job.
Finding a compromise — and the votes — to scale back the feeding program has been difficult. The conservatives have insisted on larger cuts, Democrats opposed any cuts and some moderate Republicans from areas with high food stamp usage have been wary of efforts to slim the program. The White House has threatened to veto the bill.
House leaders were still shoring up votes on the bill just hours before the vote. To make their case, the Republican leaders emphasized that the bill targets able-bodied adults who don't have dependents. And they say the broader work requirements in the bill are similar to the 1996 welfare law that led to a decline in people receiving that government assistance.
"This bill is designed to give people a hand when they need it most," Cantor said on the floor just before the bill passed. "And most people don't choose to be on food stamps. Most people want a job ... They want what we want."


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I write about enterprise innovation.
When I first bought an iPhone I thought: How beautiful and sleek – in fact the phone was so sleek it kept sliding out of my hand. Like most people who do not carry a handbag, I had to buy an ugly, black, plastic cover to stop me dropping it. My iPhone resided inside that case where nobody could see its sleek, rounded edges. To my surprise those edges made up part of the recent Apple vs Samsung infringement action. I say surprised but I mean astonished – how can anybody win a billion bucks for a design error? Or for that matter for being a trend setter?
But dare I say it – I rarely see an iPhone that is not encased. I rarely see one that is not hidden from view because of its impractical form (and wasn't Steve Jobs promising free covers to help overcome a mic (sorry antenna)-design defect two years ago?) Still, it is a design icon and there is a cost of iconic status. People copy you, defects and all. Apple's inability to deal with that should get us asking questions about its liberal arts credentials.
If Apple had really been in the design business then they'd have seen Samsung's copy as sheer flattery (at least at the trade dress level) and moved on to the next iteration. Design is fashion, a peculiar form of intellectual property that wavers and transforms by the season.
In Brussels right now you can buy Pierre Marcolini's autumn collection of chocolates. Since Marcolini began making single estate chocs, combining them with ingredients like Earl Grey tea, that fashion has swept through the chocolate making business. His neat idea of copying the seasonal element of fashion is also out there and copied. Marcolini is no longer alone in launching seasonal sweets.
But that's trivial you might say…. not to Pierre though, I'm sure. And that is the central issue with ideas and designs. To a degree, they are shared property. On the bigger stage, in the fashion business, Zara is a b-school case study in how to copy catwalk design and to get them into the shop, pronto. Zara in fact has built a new retail business model around being deft enough with color and shape not to be a total copycat but to get close enough that buyers crave its goods, while the original is still fresh in people's minds.
When the Duchess of Cambridge wears blue, knitted, shops fill with blue, knitted. Chinese car manufacturers are upbraided for copying the designs of western car makers. But take a look at the new Audis. Audi is the up and coming design house in autos but I happen to think their latest shapes are a rip off of Mercedes. There's only so many ways you can do four wheels and a cabin (or cockpit I guess we should say).
Design is not invention. It arises from a common pool of creativity. I happen to think Apple's icon designs are superlative but no more so than Chris Bangle's designs for BMW – now take a close look at Opel, which are as similar to BMW as Audi are to Mercedes and not just because Opel designers finally know how to do curves – more importantly they have the technology to bend the metal like BMW does.
Apple deserves no kudos for taking the trade dress fight to the courts. Maybe if they were a bunch of losers whose design advantage had been unfairly appropriated and now they had no cash for the kids' school fees, then there would be a cause for sympathy. But this is is the most valuable company in history. Mr Cook. Move on. Create.
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It is not competition if the competitor is selling stolen goods but cheaper, now is it? If Samsung were to compete honestly, they would have to invest time and money on designing a user-interface to interact with the phone. By not doing it, they were able to market their products sooner; lending undue disadvantage to Apple for they had to spend time and money to come up with a good interface.
Your article smacks of communism because you are trying to justify Samsung's action because Apple is rich enough – in fact it is the most valued tech company in the world.
How copying is more competition?
That's not competition. Competition is the companies that makes phones that do not have the look and feel of an iPhone. There are many out there, most made by Samsung. Now Samsung is #2, because the copied the iPhone. Not competition, theft.
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Except the case involves patent infringement. How could Apple ever have gotten away with patenting a shape or a color covered under prior art?
So the Samsung devices have completely different internals and user interface from the Apple offerings, the operating system isn't at issue since Samsung didn't develop it, but licensed it from Google. That leaves the fact that the Samsung products look similar to the Apple products…? This was a lawsuit about patent infringement, not copyright infringement. So how exactly did Apple ever get a patent on a general shape or a color in the first place?
Haydn, you have two heads and two arms etc. Looks like you ripped off the rest of 6 billion people on this planet.
You mean like Apple's apparent effort to block all opensource Android mobile phones off the market if they could? So that they could dictate what people could have in their personal phone?
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Montgomery County has formal liaisons to the African American, Latino, Asian American, and interfaith communities. Should the county also establish a liaison to the LGBT community?
Wheaton residents Peyton Myers and Linda Amendt believe that the LGBT population needs a dedicated champion in county government, someone who will funnel information to the community and be a point of contact.
They hope to make their case in a meeting on Monday with Bruce Adams, director of the county's Office of Community Partnerships.
Myers and Amendt say they also want more recognition and support from the county for PRIDE activities during June, Coming Out Day in October and Transgender Remembrance Day in November, among other things.
Liaison positions in the county government have evolved over time, Adams said. Former county executive Charlie Gilchrist appointed liaisons to the African American and Latino communities during his time in office. Another county executive, Sidney Kramer, appointed a liaison to the Asian community.
In 2006, a group of non-profit organizations asked for a liaison, and Councilmember George Leventhal proposed a liaison for the interfaith community. A joint liaison position emerged.
But when the economy fell apart, the liaison functions were divided and added to existing staff positions, Adams said.
Karla Silvestre serves as the Latino liaison and the director of the Charles Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity in Wheaton. Diane Vy Nguyen-Vu is the Asian and Middle Eastern liaison and the county's language access coordinator. Daniel Koroma works with the African American and faith communities.
"It would be great to have full-time liaisons," Adams said. "We just don't have the money and resources to expand the staff."
He said that a possible first step for the LGBT community might be an advisory committee to the county executive.


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The Toronto Maple Leafs have even by their standards had a very quiet offseason. Since late May, GM Brian Burke has focused almost entirely on improving the forward corps for the 2012-2013 season with the signings of both Leo Komarov and Jay McClement; and trading for potential sell-low steal of the year, James van Riemsdyk. The acquisitions have mostly been lauded as beneficial to the club, in particular for infusing some snarl, defense and skill into the beleaguered clubs front ranks.
But it takes only the most cursory of sifting through tea leaves to discover that these moves, while improving the team, are a precursor to even more change in the appearance of the forward ranks heading into next season.
Even without the additions of Komarov, van Riemsdyk and McClement, the Maple Leafs already have 13 forwards under contract for next season who played at least 10 games for the club in the 2011-2012 season.
At present, Phil Kessel, Tyler Bozak, Joffrey Lupul, Clarke MacArthur and Mikhail Grabovski will join newcomer van Riemsdyk in the top six. Tim Connolly, Matthew Lombardi, Mike Brown, Matt Frattin (when healthy) and David Steckel are set to compete with Komarov and McClement in the bottom six. And then theres Nazem Kadri, Joe Colborne and Carter Ashton who despite showing promise havent yet proved capable of cracking a top-tier offensive corps.
This was as much the reason for both Colby Armstrong and Joey Crabb being let go. Both would have challenged at best for an already full-to-bursting bottom six, regardless of their unappealing salary or salary demands.
Of course, Nikolai Kulemin is as yet unsigned, and while his drop in production could most diplomatically be described as precipitous, his two-way play and skillset suggest that his re-signing is a given. The benefit of Kulemins 200-foot ability is that he can hypothetically be slotted seamlessly onto any line. Putting on my GM hat, a one-year, 2.5-3-million dollar show me contract should be appealing to both sides.


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The company's net interest income for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $41.4 million, an increase of $4.2 million or 11.4% compared to the same period a year ago. The increase was driven by the higher level of average earning assets which totaled $5.1 billion in the fourth quarter of this year, up $584 million over the fourth quarter of 2010.
The net interest margin was 3.24% down slightly from a year ago. The Company's loan loss provision was $829,000 compared to $718,000 in the fourth quarter of 2010. Nonperforming and restructured assets declined to 0.71% of total assets compared to 1.01% a year ago. Net charge offs were 0.08% compared to 0.09% for the same period in 2010, well below the industry average.
Noninterest income totaled $19.4 million up from $18.8 million a year ago. The increase was attributable to acquisitions made in December 2010 and July 2011. The growth was in commercial deposit revenues, insurance commissions and treasury management services. Noninterest expense for the fourth quarter was $41.4 million compared to $39.3 million for the same period last year primarily driven by acquisitions and conversion costs of $742,000 in the fourth quarter of 2011.
At December 31, 2011, the Company's total assets were $5.6 billion, an increase of $549 million or 10.8% compared to the prior year. Loans totaled $3.0 billion, up from $2.8 billion at December 31, 2010. Deposits increased $534 million to $5.0 billion at year end 2011. The Company's equity capital was $483 million, an increase of $24.4 million compared to December 31, 2010.
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Why is it called "Black Friday"?
Traditionally, black is the color of mourning and if the day after Thanksgiving served the purpose the merchants intend there should be dancing in the streets.
Considering the sums of money this "official" start of the holiday shopping season was expected to generate, a more appropriate name might be "Green Friday."
For that matter, either "Silver Friday" or "Gold Friday" could also be fitting. "Black Friday" may apply only to those disappointed shoppers who either didn't get up early enough or who found the bargains all gone by the time they got to the front of the line. Or maybe it would fit shoppers who got a black eye or other bruises when a fist-fight broke out over the final few of the bargains. Black might also be a bargain purchase for the next of kin of those who actually got trampled to death in the mad rush.
Certainly "Blue Friday" wouldn't work. What with the dancing in the streets by those who actually did score a bargain, and by the merchants who sold them, the thought that either of these triumphant parties would be sad and blue doesn't work. They may be exhausted, but they are not depressed.
I did give a brief thought to "Yellow Friday." This time of year we could all use a little sunshine which might also apply to the smiles on the faces of the merchants. If the latter are too exhausted to party, may I suggest relaxing at home with a glass of wine and a quiet dinner?
If we must go with color, I toyed with the idea of "Red Friday" but decided that red, as in red ink, is exactly what the merchants are trying to avoid by advertising all those alluring bargains and encouraging the "shop-'til-you-drop" approach to Christmas. Even if the bargains are something we neither need nor want, the lure of a bargain is sometimes too tempting to resist.
After thinking it over, maybe "Black Friday" is the way to go. Since the purpose of this day of all days is to get to the stores and finding a super bargain to the benefit of the bottom line, we should just acknowledge that we are hoping to find a bargain, yes, but also to end the year in the black and not in the red. We want the black ink at the end of the bottom line. We want celebration. Too bad if some of it might end in mourning.
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The second class of the N.C. State Athletic Hall of Fame features one of the best individual stars the school has ever produced and the coach and one of the best players from perhaps the schools greatest team, the 1974 national championship basketball team.
Torry Holt, Tommy Burleson and Norm Sloan are three of the 11 new members of the N.C. State Athletic Hall of Fame.
The class, which will be honored on Nov. 22 at Reynolds Coliseum, was announced Monday.
Theres so many good athletes in so many sports, its a really a tremendous honor, said Burleson, one of the stars of the 74 title team coached by Sloan.
Burleson and Sloan are the second and third members from the 74 championship team to make the schools Hall of Fame, joining David Thompson from the inaugural class last year.
Ronnie Shavlik (basketball), Andrea Stinson (basketball), Mike Caldwell (baseball), Betty Springs Geiger (distance running), Steve Gregg (swimming), Sylvester Terkay (wrestling) and Earle Edwards (football coach) were also elected.
San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers was selected but deferred his induction until he is able to attend the ceremony.
Holt made his mark as one of the best football players in ACC history. He rewrote the conference and school receiving records in his four-year career from 1995 to 98.
He was the 98 ACC Player of the Year and his 1,604 receiving yards from that season stand as the ACC record. Hes third in the ACC in career yards (3,379) and first in school history in career catches (191) and touchdown catches (31).
Holt, who is from Gibsonville, went on to a prolific, 11-year NFL career, which included seven trips to the Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl title with the St. Louis Rams.
Edwards is the first football coach to be honored by the Hall. He led N.C. State to five ACC titles in 17 seasons, including three straight from 1963 to 65, and the highest ranking in school history (No. 2 in 1967).
Thompson, Genia Beasley and three basketball coaches (Everett Case, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow) were honored in the first class. Burleson, Sloan, Shavlik and Stinson joined the basketball group Monday.
Burleson, a 7-foot-2 center, is second in school history in career rebounds (to Shavlik), and twice was the MVP of the ACC tournament, in 1973 and 74. He scored 38 points in the Wolfpacks 103-100 win over Maryland in 74 ACC title game, which is often called the best college basketball game ever played.
Sloan won the NCAA title and three ACC titles in 14 seasons at his alma mater. His 266 wins trail only Case, his former coach, in school history.
N.C. States 2013 Hall of Fame class
• Tommy Burleson, basketball, (1971-74): Two-time MVP of the ACC tournament, helped the Wolfpack win back-to-back ACC titles and the NCAA title in 1974.
• Mike Caldwell, baseball (1968-71): Led N.C. State to its only College World Series appearance (1968) and still holds the ACC record for shutouts and complete games.
• Earle Edwards, football (coach, 1954-70): Led Wolfpack to five ACC titles and a 55-45-5 ACC record in 17 seasons.
• Steve Gregg, swimming (1973-77): 1976 NCAA champion in the 200-meter butterfly and won the silver medal in the 1976 Olympics in the same event.
• Torry Holt, football (1995-98): Big Game was the 1998 ACC Player of the Year and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection in 11 NFL seasons.
• Ronnie Shavlik, basketball (1954-56): ACCs first All-American (in 1954) still holds the school record for career rebounds (1,598).
• Norm Sloan, basketball (coach, 1966-80): Former Wolfpack player led school to three ACC titles and the 1974 NCAA title as coach.
• Betty Springs Geiger, track and field/cross country (1979-83): Won the first NCAA womens cross country championship in 1981 and repeated as individual champion in 83.
• Andrea Stinson, womens basketball (1989-91): Highest career scoring average (22.7 points per game) in school history.
• Sylvester Terkay, wrestling (1990-93): Three-time All-American, individual national champion in 1993.
• Philip Rivers, football (2000-03): Finished his college career second in the NCAA in career passing yards (13,494) and fifth in touchdown passes (95).
Rivers was elected to the Hall of Fame but deferred induction until he is able to attend an induction ceremony.
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By Wallace Witkowski, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Earnings for technology companies are firmly in investor focus following a rash of disappointing results in the sector, and that will increase the pressure on such companies as Apple Inc., which are scheduled to report in the coming week.
More than 150 S&P 500 companies, along with eight Dow components, are scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week. "Apple may be watched closer than normal because of the weakness in tech earnings so far, because of the move away from desktops," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management.
Dow tumbles 205 on tech selloff
Stocks close week with biggest single-day point and percentage declines in four months, after weak earnings reports. (Photo: Reuters)
Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL -0.23% reports after market close on Thursday. More than 40 analysts polled by FactSet estimate, on average, fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of $8.92 and revenue of $36.34 billion for Apple.
Given the drop-off in desktop sales and tablets on the rise, Stone reasoned that many investors are going to be looking to what extent Apple is cashing in on that trend.
Tech stocks were the biggest drag on markets Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA -0.19% closing down 1.5%, the S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX +0.0061% declining 1.7%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP +0.45% falling 2.2%. For the week, the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 clung to fractional gains, while the Nasdaq finished down 1.3%. Read more on U.S. markets on Friday.
On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. /quotes/zigman/20493/delayed/quotes/nls/msft MSFT -0.70% and Google Inc. /quotes/zigman/30194416/delayed/quotes/nls/goog GOOG +0.31% reported disappointing quarterly results. Read more on Microsoft and Google.
That followed similarly poor results from International Business Machines Corp. /quotes/zigman/230066/delayed/quotes/nls/ibm IBM -0.29% and Intel Corp. /quotes/zigman/20392/delayed/quotes/nls/intc INTC +0.47% late Tuesday. Read more about IBM and Intel earlier in the week.
"After the wreck we saw in tech, we'll be looking at that [sector] more," said Brad Sorensen, director of market and sector research at Charles Schwab. Texas Instruments Inc. /quotes/zigman/7971332/delayed/quotes/nls/txn TXN +0.98% and Yahoo Inc. /quotes/zigman/59898/delayed/quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO +2.58% report on Monday. Facebook Inc. /quotes/zigman/9962609/delayed/quotes/nls/fb FB +1.31% and Netflix Inc. /quotes/zigman/87598/delayed/quotes/nls/nflx NFLX +2.38% report Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Dow component AT&T Inc. /quotes/zigman/398198/delayed/quotes/nls/t T -0.63% reports, and then Zynga Inc. /quotes/zigman/7720406/delayed/quotes/nls/znga ZNGA -0.17% releases results after the market close. On Thursday, Amazon.com Inc. /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed/quotes/nls/amzn AMZN +0.78% , which seeks to take market share from Apple's iPad with its Kindle line, reports results.
Sorensen also said he'll also be looking at companies with a large global presence to see how the worldwide economic slowdown is impacting demand as reflected in revenue. "That top-line number is concerning investors," he added. "Revenue is shaking investor confidence."
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Of the 98 S&P 500 companies that have reported quarterly earnings this season, only 42% have reported revenue above the Wall Street consensus estimate — the worst rate since the first quarter of 2009, according to John Butters, senior earnings analyst at FactSet.
Over the past four years, an average 59% of companies have beaten revenue consensus estimates at this point in earnings season, Butters said. Closer to the norm, 70% of those companies have beaten consensus earnings estimates.
Of those 22 companies that have issued an earnings guidance for the fourth quarter, 21, or 95%, put their estimate below the Wall Street consensus, according to Butters. The usual rate around this time during earnings season is 82%, he said.
Other Dow components reporting next week include Caterpillar Inc. /quotes/zigman/221644/delayed/quotes/nls/cat CAT -1.25% on Monday; 3M Co. /quotes/zigman/302497/delayed/quotes/nls/mmm MMM -0.19% , DuPont /quotes/zigman/225806/delayed/quotes/nls/dd DD -1.22% and United Technologies Corp. /quotes/zigman/244482/delayed/quotes/nls/utx UTX -0.89% on Tuesday; Boeing Co. /quotes/zigman/220026/delayed/quotes/nls/ba BA -0.02% on Wednesday; Procter & Gamble Co. /quotes/zigman/238894/delayed/quotes/nls/pg PG -0.62% on Thursday; and Merck & Co. /quotes/zigman/574389/delayed/quotes/nls/mrk MRK -0.85% on Friday.
"Despite some high-profile misses, we'll probably end up better than consensus, but we're continuing to see pressure on the top-line revenue side," PNC's Stone said.
Other notable earnings releases on Tuesday include United Parcel Service Inc. /quotes/zigman/251269/delayed/quotes/nls/ups UPS +0.50% and Whirlpool Corp. /quotes/zigman/246389/delayed/quotes/nls/whr WHR -1.86% On Wednesday, Lockheed Martin Corp. /quotes/zigman/150087/delayed/quotes/nls/lmt LMT +0.50% and Northrop Grumman Corp. /quotes/zigman/236055/delayed/quotes/nls/noc NOC -0.41% report results. Then on Thursday comes Colgate-Palmolive Co. /quotes/zigman/222734/delayed/quotes/nls/cl CL -0.38% , ConocoPhillips /quotes/zigman/294662/delayed/quotes/nls/cop COP -0.09% , Dow Chemical Co. /quotes/zigman/224698/delayed/quotes/nls/dow DOW -1.81% and Sprint Nextel Corp. /quotes/zigman/18855261/delayed/quotes/nls/s S -3.00%
Economic data take back seat
Next week is also a big one for data about global business conditions, according to Stone. Markit releases its October preliminary purchasing-managers' index results for the United States, euro zone, China, Germany and France on Wednesday.
Also, on Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee is set to release its statement following a two-day meeting, but not much new is expected given the Fed's most recently announced easing measures.
Housing data will also be of particular interest, Sorensen said. On Thursday, pending home-sales data for September is released by the National Association of Realtors, and the August home-price index comes out from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Also, on Friday, the Commerce Department releases third-quarter gross domestic product data, and the University of Michigan releases its consumer-sentiment index for October.


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The Real Warriors Campaign is a multimedia public education campaign designed to increase awareness among service members of the availability of psychological health and traumatic brain injury resources. The Real Warriors Campaign promotes help-seeking behavior among service members and veterans with invisible wounds and encourages service members to increase their awareness and use of these resources.
The program addresses the barriers to care that prevent service members from obtaining appropriate treatment for psychological and traumatic brain injury issues in the same way they would seek treatment for physical wounds and illnesses.
The campaign features a broad-based call to action, including information for family and employers on what to expect when their loved ones come home, how to support them and encourage them to get the help they need.
For more information, see About the Real Warriors Campaign.
How do you overcome the barriers to care in the treatment of psychological health problems?
Education is key. So is providing and promoting contact with other service members who sought psychological health care and treatment and maintained a successful military career or otherwise achieved success. Both of these approaches are addressed in the Real Warriors Campaign.
What is PTSD and where does it fit into the psychological health picture?
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a traumatic event. A traumatic event is an event that threatens one's life or physical integrity, such as military combat, natural disaster, terrorist incident, serious accident or sexual assault in adult or childhood. Most survivors of trauma return to normal given a little time. However, some people will have stress reactions that do not go away on their own or may even get worse over time. These individuals may develop PTSD.
PTSD is one type of psychological health issue. Like other mental health problems, PTSD is a product of the complex interaction of biological, psychological, historical and social factors. It is not the result of moral failing or weakness in character.
How does DoD screen for PTSD and how many service members have psychological health concerns after combat?
No military system in the history of the world has done more to identify, evaluate, prevent and treat the psychological health needs and concerns of its personnel than the United States Department of Defense.
In-theater psychological health support is provided across combat theaters to respond to the psychological health needs of service members.
Within five days of returning home from deployment, service members complete the Post-Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) and privately see a health care provider face-to-face to review and discuss any health concerns.
Three to six months after returning, service members and former service members complete the Post-Deployment Health Re-Assessment (PDHRA) to check again for any physical or mental health concerns.
The PDHRA screening is a mandatory outreach process that is implemented by commanders for all current active and reserve component members. The screening and assessment of the PDHRA survey is administered by a primary care provider.
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The No. 14-ranked IU Southeast men's basketball team needed double overtime to improve their winning streak to 11 games, edging Asbury 97-92 on Saturday.
Cameron Mitchell led the Grenadiers with 24 points, Kevin Mitchell had 22 and Matt Trimnell had 20 in the win.
IU Southeast (17-3, 7-0 KIAC) led by two with 13 seconds left in the regulation, before Adam Delph, who led all scorers with 28 points, was fouled by Jake Simpson. Delph hit both shots and Terrence Billups could not hit a game-winning 3-pointer on the Grenadiers' final possession.
Asbury (11-9, 2-3 KIAC) scored the first four points of overtime before IU Southeast scored the next six. Kevin Mitchell took over in overtime, scoring 10 points in the first overtime to keep IU Southeast in the game.
C.J. Penny had a chance to win the game for Asbury after scoring off a rebound and being fouled by Billups. He missed the free throw and the Grenadiers and Eagles went to a second overtime tied at 88.
Billups carried the scoring load in the second overtime. He opened the frame with a 3-pointer then gave the Grenadiers a lead on a jumper with a minute to play.
Kevin Mitchell and Trimnell hit free throws down the stretch to secure the win.
Asbury was led by Delph's 28 and CJ Penny's 22 points.
There were 10 ties and 10 lead changes in the game.
IU Southeast hosts Berea in the second game of a men's/women's doubleheader Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
NEW ALBANY — The IUS women's basketball team dropped its second straight game to a KIAC opponent with a 101-77 loss to Asbury on Saturday.
The Eagles (14-7, 4-3 KIAC) were dominant on both ends of the court. They shot 49 percent from the field and 63 percent (15-of-24) from 3-point range.
Four Eagles scored in double figures. Trenia Barbee had 29 points, Laura Carroll had 20 and Lakin Griffith and Dorian Downs had 17 apiece.
Ashmere Woods had 23 points and six rebounds for the Grenadiers. Heather Wheat added 21 points and Andrea Owen had 10 points for IU Southeast.
The Grenadiers (10-9, 3-5 KIAC) shot 42 percent from the field but could not keep up with the 3-point barrage from the Eagles. They shot just 20 percent (4-of-20) from behind the arc.


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A glass piece create by an Anderson University student is currently being offered by Steuben Glass based in Corning, New York, the preeminent maker of fine glass internationally. The work created by Melissa Taylor, a Fine Arts major at Anderson University, is entitled "The Nutcracker" and marks the first time that Steuben has offered a piece created by an undergraduate university glass student. The piece is currently featured on the front cover of the Steuben Christmas catalog.


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More than 8,500 children throughout the developing world are sponsored through Plan Ireland by kind hearted people and companies. In addition, many very well known and influential people in Irish society are supporting our work, which we really appreciate.
John Hume
Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume and his wife Pat sponsor a boy called Juan in El Salvador. John has been a loyal patron of Plan Ireland since its foundation in 2003.
John Hume spoke as a Plan Ireland patron at the reception for Partners in Learning - a project between a rural city in Uganda and Mitchelstown.
"At first glance, it would appear Mitchelstown and a rural village in Uganda would not have a lot in common. Yet both communities share dreams for their children."
Bláthnaíd Ní Chofaigh
TV personality Blathnaíd Ní Chofaigh is Plan Ireland's "Ambassador for Girls" and has used her public profile to great effect in boosting Plan Ireland's Because I am a Girl campaign. She sponsors a little girl named Anna in Togo.
Blathnaid is particularily motivated by issues facing girls in the developing world such as lack of education, female genital cutting and equal rights.
At the moment she is also a big part of Plan Ireland's campaign "Do Something Wonderful".
Malcolm O'Kelly
Irish Rugby legend Malcolm O'Kelly and his wife, Stephanie, sponsor three children with Plan Ireland and he has supported several of Plan Ireland's events.
"Child sponsorship is personal. Stephanie is great at writing to the the kids. We hear how they are getting on. I know I'm making a difference."
At the moment he is the face of Plan Ireland's big campaign "Do Something Wonderful" which is a call for people to sponsor children in the developing world.
Colin Murphy
Comedian Colin Murphy, is a valued and keen supporter of Plan Ireland. Not only does he sponsor 11-year Beamlak in India but he also took time out to travel to Uganda with Plan Ireland in 2007 where he made a film in the RTE's Storybook series about Plan's work there.
Colin have also done several voice-overs for Plan Ireland. Last year he did a TV advert for Haiti and this year he is doing "... Something Wonderful" in Plan Ireland's newest campaign, where he has done a TV voice-over.
Bibi Baskin
Broadcaster Bibi Baskin, who now lives in India, is one of Plan Ireland's newest supporters. She sponsors a girl, called Suman, in India and has been on RTE's Four Live to talk about girls rights when the latest report in the Because I am a Girl campaign was launched.
At the moment Bibi is a part of Plan's big "Do Something Wonderful" campaign, for which she has made a radio advert. Listen to Bibi's radio ad.
Laura Whitmore
Award-winning and multi-talented TV presenter Laura Whitmore is a long time supporter of Plan and our work with girls. Laura is an active participant in Plan events and is a huge advocate of Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign and hopes to visit her sponsored girl in 2013.
"Plan's work with girls is so inspiring and vitally important. I have no hesitation in supporting their work and urging others to do likewise."
Diarmuid Gavin
Gardener and TV presenter Diarmuid Gavin is one of Plan Ireland's oldest sponsors. Diarmuid was at hand way back in 2003 to launch Plan Ireland's opening in Ireland.
Along with follow TV personality, Ryan Tubridy, Diarmuid has long campaigned for Plan and our work with children. Diarmuid sponsors 14-year old Bertukan in Ethiopia.
David McWilliams
Economic Analyst David McWilliams sponsors a girl in Sri Lanka.
Former President Mary McAleese
Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, sent a message of support for Plan Ireland's "Because I am a Girl" campaign in September 2009:
"... I welcome and commend Plan Ireland's Flagship campaign 'Because I am a girl'. At the heart of this campaign is an urgent call to take the distinctive needs of girls and young women into account. The challenge will be to formulate policy or allocate resources to development in a way that makes an essential difference to the lives of girls. It is important too that civil society organisations, in turn, are concentrating their energies on advocacy to remove the obstacles that threaten girls' survival and potential. It is only through profound changes that the lives of millions of girls worldwide will be transformed".


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Experts: Japan's New PM Could Follow Through on Tough Talk
Shinzo Abe may back up rhetoric on stronger military against China.
The tide has changed in east Asia, where a landslide election in Japan reinstated a veteran leader who may follow through on hard-line language against a neighboring country trying to assert itself as a military power.
The people of Japan have once again voted Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party into power, reinstating the right-leaning party that has governed Japan for almost all of its post-World War II history. Abe ran on a platform of economic reform, as well as a more aggressive policy to China.
Beijing has sought to send a message in recent months that its military is transitioning from a domestic force to more of a regional power, much to the ire of the Japanese government and its immediate neighbors.
"There is no such thing as containing China, given its stature in the world and economic dependence other countries have [on it]," says Nicholas Szechenyi, deputy director of the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Abe's strong rhetoric during the campaign was "another step in Japan's response to changes in the security environment around it."
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"It will evolve in close cooperation with the U.S. and other countries," he says. "We'll see how far he's able to go."
Military maneuvers on the sea and in the air don't represent the first time China and Japan have squared off militarily. Relations between the two economic powerhouses reached a boiling point in 1996 when China tested long-range missiles.
Abe's desire to push back on China has caught the attention of the region, one expert says.
"Mr. Abe's long-cherished objectives of constitutional revision, embrace of collective defense, and — in the run up to this election — his self-cultivated image as someone capable of taking a tough stance with China on the territorial dispute, does create concern among Japan's neighbors," says Mireya Solis, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies.
"But the newly elected prime minister also understands that despite the landslide victory of his party, the LDP does not enjoy widespread popular support," she adds. "Voters care first and foremost about economic growth and not issues such as renaming the armed forces."
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The Japanese electorate conducted an "experiment" by electing Yoshihiko Noda and the Democratic Party of Japan into power in 2009, says Szechenyi, in a desire for change and to spur economic growth. In three years, no one was able to articulate a compelling policy agenda, and now the public has shifted in a different direction, he says.
Abe previously served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007.
Yet, the political math may limit Abe's ability to develop Japan's ability to respond. The United Nations Charter permits any country or coalition of nations to engage in "collective self-defence." However, Article IX of the Japanese Constitution prohibits Japan from declaring war. Amending the constitution would require majority votes in both houses of parliament, and a public referendum. The Japanese Upper House, called the House of Councillors, which the LDP does not control, will face an election in June, so Abe will likely focus much of his energy on economic reforms, not military action, to gain support in the coming months, says Szechenyi.
It doesn't appear that China is planning to change its strategy, however.
"Recent Chinese activities could be associated with political activities in China, but fundamentally this is part of the Chinese strategy to exert its influence on the maritime domain," says Szechenyi.
"The strategy for Japan is to reassure China, on one hand," he says. "But on the other hand, to dissuade China from taking action that could really provoke."
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