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HTC had shipped blocked phones with Apple patent work around; release coming?
0. phoneArena 17 May 2012, 01:03 posted on
With the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE unable to get through U.S. Customs thanks to Apple's claim of patent infringement, HTC had actually shipped the units with a version of the software that didn't infringe on Apple's patent meaning that the devices could be released soon...
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1. I_Slap_Fat_Kids (Posts: 40; Member since: 04 May 2012)
I don't see how the joke is on Apple...
I see it hurting HTC and Sprint more than Apple for sure.
5. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
Well, the joke would be on Apple if the work-around is found to not infringe Apple's patent claims language. There is a very specific functional ban that has been approved. If the HTC handsets do not operate in violation of the ban, they get to move out of Customs. And Apple gets to suck on a rotten egg.
10. I_Slap_Fat_Kids (Posts: 40; Member since: 04 May 2012)
But that in no way is bad for them. Apple probably knew that they had not included that software, and, from the looks of it, they are going to push back the release by at least a few days.
The only ones in jeopardy here are HTC, Sprint, and AT&T to an extent.
12. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
It is bad for Apple if the HTC handsets quickly leave Customs and go to market. Apple is trying to slow-march the smartphone market until probably late Summer, 2012 when the iPhone 5 is supposed to be announced and Fall, 2012 when the iPhone 5 ships. Sales of competing handsets in the interim are sales that could have gone to an iPhone 5 had they not gone to HTC, Sammy, and, and, and.
Right now, the game for Apple is delay, delay, delay.
32. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
very true.
Also, if the phones are not actually breaking the patents, it give Apple a bit of negative press.. again.. for being an aggressive bully.
50. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
No it doesn't. It does amongst us Android elites, but the masses will still love and praise Apple and will never hear of this story, or will go in fanboy defense mode if they do hear of it.
60. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
dount outside of fandroids anyone thinks Apple is a bullied.. when HTC was the one criticed for not doing anyhting about it
36. I_Slap_Fat_Kids (Posts: 40; Member since: 04 May 2012)
Do you really think this could have delayed the shipment for four months?
Even if it did have copyright infringing software on it, another shipment would arrive here and get through customs a month later and a half, tops.
49. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
The thing is, the patent is retarded in the first place. And Im sure that "clicking a link and getting to choose from different options" has been around since any kind of user interface has been around. And how is it even a patentable function?
6. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
It's a grim time when government commissions operate at the whims of billion-dollar corporations like Apple. HTC did nothing wrong, but they'll be paying millions of dollars per day that the One X and Evo isn't available.
My original stance was that Apple was little-to-blame for the current situation. After it came to light that Apple requested the halt, most of the blame is on them. They could have requested the ITC investigation any time over the last month, but they waited until the last possible moment. This smells of anti-competitive behavior, and an abuse of government authority. (Although why HTC didn't confirm with the ITC that their product was compliant months ago is beyond me. They really dropped the ball on that one, and Sprint suffers because of it.)
48. BREvenson (Posts: 240; Member since: 17 May 2012)
My guess is that HTC didn't expect the ITC to be on them mere days before the release, and they also didn't expect to have to physically prove their product didn't infringe on the patent. If that's the case, then HTC could have done a little more to keep it from geting to this point.
Looking at the big picture, though, the blame does fall on Apple. They chose to go after them at the last possible moment, and they are going after HTC the only way they can...by using the law. If the phones indeed do not violate the patent(s), Apple will take a strong blow to its credibility (well, whatever credibility they have) and it will prove that they are nothing but technology bullies who will suppress the competition by any means necessary.
26. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13103; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
HTC knew what they were doing. They never learn from their mistakes of copying other designs and their poor decisions. Like when they lock the bootloader of their newer phones. Typical HTC behavior. Least they're better than Motorola.
42. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
The locked bootloader is unique to the AT&T One X. The Evo doesn't have this problem. I'm not sure about the T-Mobile One S. The sad thing is HTC will probably lock it down on the Droid Incredible 4g LTE, because Verizon will probably ask them to.
45. HTCfan14 (Posts: 2; Member since: 17 May 2012)
I can't believe that Apple is whining like a baby. That choosing thing??? That has been used by HTC may smartphones ago, Desire HD even has that, it makes me choose to either open the video with MX player, Stream player, Browser, or YouTube, what's new with that??? Apple's just threatened by HTC's advancements, phone designs, amazing Sense UI, and their phone's superb specs that beats their iPhone which has a crappy box design, and of course, has the AppDrawer for its homescreen.
61. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
thanks I will forward this to Apple to eliminate thos crappy phones
2. GeekMovement (Posts: 2156; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
Apple's goal = stop competition.
19. wendygarett (unregistered)
Apple's goal = turn all the US citizen into sheep :D
27. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13103; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
And Android's goal is to turn everyone into Drones?
28. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13103; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Stop competition from stealing their ideas. They are not trying to stop competition. Actually, the competition isn't really much of a competition when the offerings don't compare to what Apple offers.
30. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10456; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Yeah because the same "revolutionary design of iOS" has gotten major face lifts since 2007. How's that five year design treating you?
37. bigdawg23 (Posts: 449; Member since: 25 May 2011)
Also remember that Apple invented the slide to unlock they just flied for. Nevermind the G1 had this from the beginning.
As for iOS its time for a serious change and to start unlocking features like Call Blocking without Jailbreaking.
44. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
And we the consumer have to suffer for it.
62. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
no need to as SGSIII is a bust.. android is stoping themselves as they show no innovation anymore..
3. x7black7x (Posts: 118; Member since: 19 Feb 2012)
and will they be able to acomplish that goal
i really dont think so
4. le_pman (Posts: 3; Member since: 14 May 2012)
on the bright side, competitors will innovate more in order to circumvent Apple trolls, er patents.
bad side, more stuff for Apple to steal from the competition while leaving itself unharmed.
9. I_Slap_Fat_Kids (Posts: 40; Member since: 04 May 2012)
I think all of this suing and anti-competitive business strategies is going to begin to (if it hasn't already) mark them with an undesirable stigma that may harm them in the long-run. I'm glad that other companies have not taken up the same tactics.
It's embarrassing to have America's competitor in this market reinforcing our intrusive, sue-happy image viewed by most of the world.
7. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Alan, this is great news, but how exactly did HTC "play Apple like a fine violin?" From what it looks like, Apple cut the supply line to its second-largest competitor, costing them millions of dollars. I also wouldn't say HTC is "two steps ahead" of Apple. HTC obviously wouldn't risk millions of dollars in one of the largest markets in the world by NOT implementing the workaround, and I don't think anybody (except maybe the mindless drones at the ITC) actually thought they didn't: the consumers knew it, HTC obviously knew it, and I'm sure even Apple knew it. Apple most likely convinced the ITC to investigate HTC not because of a suspected patent violation, but simply to delay the Evo's release, and their tactic seemingly worked perfectly, and Sprint will be hard-pressed to get it to launch in time. If anything, HTC's been on the defensive the entire time.
18. Altair (Posts: 367; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
Human nature tends to favor freedom. Everyone knows that. Apple is preventing freedom over here.
I have always been against those asian clone android devices. They are playing dirty game along with the Googles "stolen product". However Apple is going too far with this.
At the end of the day, this Apple game is turning against it.
8. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5711; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
this manner of selecting an application to launch with certain selections has been around forever on a multitude of different Android Devices. why now? why HTC? the answer is obvious. Apple wants to slow down the competition.
15. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
The answer is obvious. Google and HTC should stop copying and invest in R&D.
24. chadrick0814 (Posts: 209; Member since: 23 Nov 2011)
Good job completely ignoring the first sentence of his comment. Since you mentioned R &D, tell us, exactly what did Apple invent in the smartphone arena? I know they have patented lots of things, not sure exactly what their R & D has come up with.
31. tedkord (Posts: 11736; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Cmon Taco, even a rabid fanboy like you must recognize how silly this patent is. It's overly broad, and duplicates something PCs have done for many years. It's like if Samsung patented "a touchscreen device with a screen over 3.6 inches" and sued Apple if the new iPhone rumors are true.
The patent system us really f***ed up. Unethical companies like Apple really take advantage of it, to our detriment.
52. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
How is Apple unethical for defending their inventions?
33. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
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38. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
So... I guess Project Glass and Imagesense took no R&D whatsoever, eh?
63. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
you are right in a way as Samsung tried to set themselves apart from copying the iphone and look the ugly design.....
11. fr33h33l (Posts: 7; Member since: 17 May 2012)
I sincerely don't understand how a country like the U.S, which is built upon entrepreneurship and free markets, can allow such completely anti-competitive and outright ridiculous patents as "choose-an-application-based-upon-a-link" and to have it completely block a competitor from entering a market, in effect denying the american people choice and lower prices (due to the competition that would otherwise have been).
Sure, true innovation needs to be protected but when it is so extremely obvious that a patent does not even meet the novelty criteria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_(patent)) and there is so obviously prior art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art), one can only conclude that the U.S. patent system does no longer work in other ways than bringing in funding to the US Patent and Trademark Office and fueling a corrupt company culture, in particular that of Apple.
Given the american love for using the justice system, wouldn't it even be possible to sue the USPTO, government or states for anti-competitive practices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) and/or the USPTO for not following its own simple criteria for issuing patents?
I would be very interested in hearing why this, so obviously corrupt, patent system and the severe effect it has on in particular the mobile market, is not met with more resistance from the american people and its companies.
13. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
I love fandroid logic:
Companies stealing Apple's IP and using it without permission is "A ok and good for the consumer"
Apple protecting its IP, which it invested a lot of money in "anti competitive and blocks innovation"
How exactly is allowing others to copy your hard work helping innovation?
17. le_pman (Posts: 3; Member since: 14 May 2012)
I, meanwhile, love ifan logic.
Apple copying from others: "wow! magical!"
Apple being copied by others: "sue them and make sure their products don't reach US soil!"
Anybody copying is slowing down - not really blocking - innovation. but the way Apple does it is simply anti-competitive. in this case, Microsoft's approach (charging royalty) is far more preferrable.
20. fr33h33l (Posts: 7; Member since: 17 May 2012)
How exactly is using an obvious mechanism such as selecting an application based upon a link copying others' hard work?!
And please realize that by calling other people names instead of providing any reasonable counter arguments, you just validate the points of the people you try to insult.
53. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
It wasn't obvious until Apple did it actually.
25. chadrick0814 (Posts: 209; Member since: 23 Nov 2011)
'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' Remember your late hero, Steve Jobs' words when using "copy" and "steal" to describe companies other than Apple. According to Apple's co-founder, copying and stealing is what Apple does.
34. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
why bother arguing with him. he's not smart enough to get it, and hes way to biased to believe it anyways.
43. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Apple wasn't acting to protect their IP, they were acting to delay HTC's shipment. If they really cared so much about their IP they would have gone to HTC months ago when the One X was first announced and investigated it then. Again, nobody in their right mind actually thought HTC was shipping patent-infringing products.
51. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Apple has been fighting this patent for years
55. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
And Apple won this patent case six months ago, forcing HTC to change their software. Case closed. Apple had absolutely no reason to "fight" recently, since HTC clearly reworked their software in Sense 4.0. This is just a play to slow down the competition until the iPhone 5 is released, and HTC played right into their hands by not confirming with the ITC that their software is compliant months ago.
56. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Well that's on HTC then. Why wouldn't they show they're compliant?
57. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
I have no idea, and I agree that it is their fault for not doing so. However, Apple could easily have ordered an investigation on the One S when it was imported by T-Mobile a few weeks ago, so why didn't they do it then?
64. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
they were too busy loading the new ipad into delivery trucks
14. wendygarett (unregistered)
many countries doesnt know HTC exist...
Im guessing this will rise HTC reputation even it is not sell well in US...
Im glad im not in US :D
16. tiara6918 (Posts: 2036; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
Maybe they should just sell the one xl instead if both one x and evo 4g lte cannot be sold in the us
21. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Taco is two or three tools short in the ole tool shed....logic cannot be used to reason with it or G-King.
22. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
'Apple owns U.S. Patent #5,946,647 (remember this number as there will be a quiz later) which covers the situations using Android where you click on a link and see a menu of choices from which you can complete the action. For example, you press on a video link and see a menu that gives you the option of viewing the video on your browser or on YouTube.'
You call this protecting IP? The U.S. is a joke for allowing such a thing to be patented.
Maybe the creator of the touch screen can sue APPLE next.
We all know that HTC will get this fixed, and that HTC will provide the mod just to thumb their noses at APPLE.
54. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Clearly you don't understand patents
68. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
unlike you don't understand patens as well
29. tedkord (Posts: 11736; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Wait. Thats what this patent us about? A menu asking what program you want to use if more than one will work? That's absurd. My PC has done that forever. Does Apple have any patents that aren't patently silly?
39. becazican (Posts: 52; Member since: 09 Nov 2011)
when is everyone going to learn, apple went from this green loving company to lets make as much money as we can to hell with everyone else. very much like a politician, they start out honest but end up a bloodsucker. would never buy another apple product again.
40. dallas90733 (Posts: 36; Member since: 06 Mar 2011)
All that is left now is for MMI to file the paperwork to have all Apple products ban from entering the States.
41. kabukijoe (Posts: 102; Member since: 06 Mar 2010)
Apple is retarded if they think people will buy their product instead because of this, if anything it'll give people more of a reason to hate this joke of a company. Perhaps Google should patent the notification shade and block all iphone sales being that Apple completely ripped it off (even though apple would probably claim that they invented it)
46. HTCfan14 (Posts: 2; Member since: 17 May 2012)
I can't believe that Apple is whining like a baby. That choosing thing??? That has been used by HTC may smartphones ago, Desire HD even has that, it makes me choose to either open the video with MX player, Stream player, Browser, or YouTube, what's new with that??? Apple's just threatened by HTC's advancements, phone designs, amazing Sense UI, and their phone's superb specs that beats their iPhone which has a crappy box design, and of course, has the AppDrawer for its homescreen.


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"Let me get that for you. YOU KEEP YOUR FUCKING EYES ON THE GROUND, GRANDMA!"
To me, the person walking past in silence is an uppity, entitled piece of shit, thinking, "Yeah, you better hold the door for me, peasant." But to them, it's most likely "Don't make eye contact. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit ..." Either way, I walk away pissed off, and one day I'm going to say the wrong combination of "fuck" and "yourself," and the recipient is going to charge me like a rabid moose.
Canadians may have to help me iron out that last simile.
Regardless, I'm trying to keep in mind that the whole point of doing good deeds in the first place is to make someone else's life a little easier. I didn't hold the door open for the specific purpose of receiving a thank you. But the second I don't get one, you'd think it was currency and holding that door is my job. I've been shorted a paycheck, and you can damn well bet I'm shitting on the boss's car in retaliation.
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The only tough decision is "hood or seat?"
#4. It Can Make Someone Feel Worthless
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The only thing worse than having to ask a friend for money is ... well, drowning or burning alive sounds pretty bad. But aside from the death things, it's having a friend give you pity cash. For the seven rich people reading this article, let me explain, because it may clear up some confusion about your ungrateful friend who keeps refusing your help.
We have a small gift exchange each Christmas at my grandmother's house -- it's not a big deal. We have a $20 limit on gifts, and we draw numbers to see who gets what because white people are weird. Several years ago, I was in a tight spot and couldn't afford a present, but since we're drawing numbers, that's an easy fix: I just don't draw one. So when it came time to do the deed, I excused myself to the other room because I didn't want to have to go through the shame of explaining that I worked a shitty job, all of my money went toward my kids' presents, and mustache wax doesn't pay for itself -- blah blah blah.
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"I'm so sorry. I just had my hat rechained. I'm flat broke."
What happened instead was that my family got together behind my back and picked out a present from under their tree (one that wasn't a part of our gift exchange) and put a number on it for me. The gesture was as well-intended and gracious as any I had ever received. But I felt like complete trash because of it. It felt like I was being pitied. A pat on the head with an unspoken "Awwww, we have you covered, little guy. We know you can't live like the rest of the adults, so we'll just pretend you bought a gift like all the rest of us had no problem at all doing."
I hated that feeling, and it's one of the reasons I've worked my ass off for the last several years -- so I could keep improving my income and never have to feel that again.
Now, I'm in the exact opposite position. I have the ability to help my friends and family out when they get into a bind, but I find myself having to convince them that it's not a big deal. That I don't mind it ... that they don't owe me anything, and it should definitely not make them feel bad. And each time, I remember people telling me the same thing when they were trying to help me with an electric bill or just a little extra gas money.
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Black market babies.
What we tend to forget -- even those of us who have been in both situations -- is that there is no amount of consolation that will ever take away the recipient's shame. That shit is lodged in there like an underestimated butt plug, and there is no shitting it out. In my experience, the ones who flat-out refuse the help aren't doing it out of pride. They're doing it out of positioning themselves as far away from that awful feeling as possible. And I can't say I blame them.
Understand that not everyone is like that, though. Some people take advantage of your help without batting an eye, and suddenly ...
#3. You Open Yourself Up to Be Their Personal Service Person
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Every single "friend who is good with computers" knows exactly what I'm talking about here. A friend or family member's computer goes to shit because they haven't quite learned that not all boobs are free -- some are secretly malware cannons. Or they did virtually anything at all, because the Internet is a clusterfuck that requires 50 layers of protection in order to navigate. So they give you a call, and being the nice angelic person that you are, you merrily skip right over and spend the rest of the night unfucking their porn box.
Maybe they provide you with a free dinner or a few beers, but you don't expect much. If they could afford a computer repair person, they wouldn't need you. And it feels pretty good to help someone out.
Until they call you again the next week to come over and fix it again.
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"Oh, this shouldn't take long. Can you bring me a hammer and a blowtorch?"
And then twice a month for the rest of your life. Even if you're not physically there, it doesn't stop them from calling and asking you how to do it themselves, which you know for a fact means that you're about to be on the most frustrating phone call of all time, most likely for a couple of hours, as they clumsily slap around their keyboard. You're pretty sure that at one point you're going to have to remind them that they can't eat the mouse.
It's not just "computer people" who get shafted with this. Any service-based profession is a potential target. I'm sure there are tons of mechanics reading this article thinking, "Yeah, sure, I can diagnose your car problem over the phone without ever looking at it, based on noises you're making with your mouth. And sure, I can make you understand what's wrong. Get comfortable while I teach you the entire inner workings of the combustion engine."
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That's not a smile of joy. It's one of insanity.
It seems like the worst possible response to a favor -- to assume that it implies infinite future favors -- but it's less about them being greedy time leeches and more about assuming you now "own" this problem. When any problem comes up in the future, they (not unreasonably) just assume it's related to the previous one, so they think it's just following up on the last thing and that it'll thus be easy to fix. If their geeky nephew knows how to fix "their Internet," why start over from scratch with somebody else and have to re-explain everything? So the call goes something like, "Hey, my Internet is doing that thing again, can you do what you did last time?" "Sure, remind me what 'thing' it's doing?" "You know. That thing where it stops working properly. Remember? And you fixed it by spending 14 hours reinstalling every single piece of software I own?"
It doesn't take long to start regretting the initial offer to help once that cycle starts.


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WASHINGTON – Forty years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion, 40 teens from the Buffalo area led the way Friday during the annual "March for Life," each of them carrying a white flag that symbolized strength, not surrender, 55 million abortions later.
About 400 people from Western New York marched behind the youths with white flags, and many thousands of people from all around the country followed on the annual trek to the steps of the Supreme Court – which, in the view of protesters, legalized murder when it legalized abortion.
They marched beneath a pewter sky on a breezy, bone-chilling afternoon, but the weather couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the teens from Western New York at the front of the protest.
"It feels awesome to be in front," said Amelia Evans, 16, a student at Holy Angels Academy in North Buffalo. "When you're in the middle, you feel like part of the community, but up front you feel like you're leading. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
The March for Life is almost as old as Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on Jan. 22, 1973, and for years tradition had it that the march would be led by youths from metro Washington.
But this year, the teens from Buffalo, along with students from the University of Notre Dame, led the way, and the reason why may best be found in scripture.
"Ask, and it shall be given you," the apostle Matthew said.
In this case, Cheryl Calire, the director of pro-life activities at the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, pushed for the Buffalo youths to be put at the front of the line.
The timing for that request may have been just right. The march's founder, Nellie Gray, passed away last year, and her successor, Jeanne F. Monohan, has shown an openness to change, installing Jumbotrons on the National Mall for the event for the first time, revamping the march's 1990s-vintage web site and starting a Twitter feed.
Asked how she got her way, Calire said: "It was a lot of prayer and convincing and explaining to [march organizers] that while the march is held in Washington, people come from all around the country for it. We have an 8½-hour bus ride to get here, and I told them it would be really nice to be recognized in this way."
And on Thursday night, Calire and other Catholic leaders from Buffalo got the good news that the Knights of Columbus, who handle the march logistics, had approved their request.
"The students of St. Francis High School [in Athol Springs] and all parishioners in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo should feel exhilarated that young people from the region will be playing such an important role," Phil Eddy, northeast regional coordinator for Students for Life of America, told the Buffalo contingent via email.
Sure enough, the students were exhilarated.
"I feel so excited to be here," said Maddie Weitz, 15, also a Holy Angels student. "I really feel like we're making a difference in people's lives."
The original plan was for students from St. Francis, which sends a large contingent to the march every year, to be the flag bearers.
But then the chaperone for the St. Francis group, Rory Reichenberg, was told there would be 40 flags – one for each year that has passed since Roe v. Wade. That being the case, the flag-bearing duties were spread out to students at several other local Catholic schools.
It seemed appropriate that youths should lead the parade.
While the March for Life is a familiar Washington event, its demographics have changed dramatically over the years. Once dominated by older protesters bearing hand-made signs, the march now seems like a youth rally, filled with students from Catholic schools and other religious institutions from across the country proudly showing off their school colors.
"Most importantly, we are here with so many young people," Monohan told the crowd at the rally that preceded the march. "Your generation is a pro-life generation."
That's certainly the way the teens from metro Buffalo talked.
"I really believe all life is to be respected, even as an embryo, just as we all ought to be respected," said Aaron Hayes, 17, a junior at St. Francis.
Andrew Swift, an 18-year-old senior at St. Francis, agreed.
"I was adopted, so this issue is personal to me," he said. "To be able to come out here just means so much to me."
It obviously meant plenty to many others as well.
While authorities no longer provide crowd estimates at such events, Eddy said this year's crowd was expected to be the largest ever, and the National Mall and the parade route did seem jammed with many more people than in recent years.
Anti-abortion activists continue to flock to Washington amid many small victories and some large failures.
While state legislatures passed 92 laws restricting abortion in 2011 alone, abortion opponents have not been able to achieve their ultimate goal: overturning Roe v. Wade.
What's more, a Pew Research Center poll released last week showed that 63 percent of those surveyed oppose overturning Roe in its entirety, a move that only 29 percent favored. Those numbers are similar to those in polls from a decade and two decades ago, Pew said.
To abortion rights supporters, those numbers are a stark reminder that the Roe decision was right.
"On this day we remember the countless women who died from unsafe abortions prior to Roe," Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, said earlier this week. "Those brave women were the senseless victims of a society that historically has treated women like second-class citizens, tossed their rights around like a political football and patrolled their bodies as if they belonged to the state."
A handful of counter-protesters brought those sentiments to the streets Friday, but they were vastly outnumbered by those who see abortion as an abomination.
Among those was Bishop Richard J. Malone of the Diocese of Buffalo, who delivered the homily at a morning Mass for the Western New York visitors prior to the march.
Noting that New York's abortion rate is double the national average, Malone said: "The only way that can change is through conversion, change of heart and mind."
The "apostles for life" who attend the March for Life are trying to accomplish just that, he said, urging them not to get discouraged.
"Even though we come here for something grave, we should have hearts full of hope," Malone said.
Then again, hope seemed to come naturally to many of the Buffalo teens at the front of the march.
"It was a privilege," Tanner Kendall, a 17-year-old junior at St. Francis, said after carrying a "March for Life" flag from the National Mall to the Supreme Court. "It really feels like we did something today."
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Happy Hallo-weenie! Keepin' it safe....
October 30, 2009 - Amy Hanna-Eckenrode
BOO! Happy Halloweenie!
I wasn't going to do a traditional "trick or treat holiday safety" blog but then I have to remind myself that some people are truly hearing and learning these critical safety facts for the first time. Therefore, you can never stop educating people. (So, don't ever stop)
Mazey, my old Golden gal, only wants bothered with breakfast, dinner, treats and her trips out to go potty. Oh, and the smell of chicken, rice and toast actually put an amazing little 'hop' in her arthritic step.
However last night as I was preparing my costume for work, Eli, my wonder cat, got into a playful mood and became obsessed with trying to combat my jumpsuit and wrap himself in it. It was so funny to watch until I realized how easily an everyday item can become a potential hazard to a pet (or child for that matter).
So on this fun, festive holiday, let's remember how colorful, out-of-the-ordinary items and/or tasty treats can be exceptionally enticing – yet dangerous -- to our fur kids.
Dog and cat digestive systems are not designed to process artificial foods such as chocolates and sugars. (Not that our human bodies are designed to process such foods either) but… these foods can not only upset your pet's digestive system and cause the you-know-what's but the ingredients can be fatal to your pet - don't feed your dog chocolate, period.
Don't forget about the wrappers either. A plastic candy wrapper can easily become lodged in your pet's throat blocking the airway and be too far down the tract for your big fingers to retrieve.
Buttons, wigs, sparkly sequins, ropes, toy accessories, even the bags that costumes come in can all be quite attractive to your fur kids who are bred with an unending curiosity and an inherent nature to explore.
If you feel the need to dress your animal in costume these tips are extra important to remember.
Excited, wagging tails and curious cats will want to examine this round object you've carved holes into and scraped goopy gook out of– it has an interesting smell to it you know – and the glow of candles are an added attraction and can be easily knocked off their safe foundation.
If you're entertaining at home, don't forget that your pets may not be accustomed to all the additional commotion. Their hearing is also superior to yours so loud music and loud people will add extra stress. Too much noise and an open door make for a welcome reprieve for pets seeking the solace of a quiet place. Partying peeps aren't necessarily paying attention to what they're sitting around on nearby tables or furniture. If easily accessible at pet level, all is fair game in a pet's eyes.
Have a bewitching good time this weekend – just don't forget to look at everything through the eyes of your fur babies as well to make sure your holiday remains as safe as it is fun.
Amy, Mazey and Eli
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It was, I thought, an awfully good joke on critical hype. The title of Joel Lovell's interview with George Saunders in the Jan. 3 issue of the New York Times Magazine – printed in sarcastically small letters on an otherwise all-black cover – was "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year."
To be pretending to say that on the cover of a year's first (Jan. 3!) issue of anything at all is a pleasantly acerbic broadside at the merciless penchant for hyperbole in the public opinion racket. In context, it is also, simultaneously, an admission that periodically in the worlds of movies and books some (author, director, actor) suddenly hits every reliable witness as someone who must now – and ever after – be attended to. Obscurity is no longer permissible.
And this is George Saunders' time, as his new story collection "The Tenth of December" makes abundantly obvious.
One not only finds our nation's major newspaper shouting his name through its matchless megaphone, one finds on the dustflap of the book itself encomia from Zadie Smith ("Not since Twain" etc.), Jonathan Franzen ("makes the all-but-impossible look effortless") and, yes, no less than Thomas Pynchon, the phantom of American fiction's opera ("an astoundingly tuned voice – graceful, dark, authentic and funny"). One also finds more specific dustflap blurbing for "The Tenth of December" from Jennifer Egan ("George Saunders at his most subversive, hilarious and emotionally piercing") and Dave Eggers ("a complete original, unlike anyone else, thank God" while also invoking a trio of sanctified names – Barthelme, Vonnegut and, of course, Twain).
In the world of Jung's synchronicity, though, something else happened that brought this truly extraordinary collection of stories into far greater clarity: at the same time that advance review copies of "The Tenth of December" went out, so too did advance review copies of the magnificent 900-page Library of America edition of Sherwood Anderson's "Collected Stories" (including many left "uncollected or unpublished at his death" in 1941 at the age of 64, from the consequences of inadvertently swallowing a toothpick from a cocktail olive, a preposterous but appallingly real joke that no putatively "humorous" writer would have dared put into a story or novel).
Despite the insistence of all the eminently justified blurbsters found on and in "The Tenth of December," they were clearly talking about Saunders' previous work more than "The Tenth of December" which tends far more to the horrific – even when satiric – and just as much about that Thoreauvian "quiet desperation" which was so hauntingly explored by Sherwood Anderson (as identifiably American in tonality in his stories as, say, Edward Hopper in his paintings).
Saunders' "Escape from Spiderhead" is a brilliant story set in a not-very-distant future that scores satiric points off industrial drug research (human subjects receive such trademarked enhancing drugs as Verbaluce and Vivistiff from the Mobilpak they all wear), but the effect is horrifying, not funny. The tone seems the outrage of a writer who once worked as an engineer for Radian International in Rochester, not the playfulness of Barthelme exploring a social/aesthetic milieu.
"Victory Lap" is a virtuosic deep dive into the minds of two high school 15-year-olds – until, that is, the story is terrifyingly invaded by the Gothic streak that has resided in our fiction from the very beginning. The juxtaposition of those two things – teen brains awhirl with trivia and a dark world trying desperately to envelop them – is accomplished in a way that takes, say, a Joyce Carol Oates story into the 21st century.
"Puppy" is, similarly, too savagely naturalistic to be funny, even if its tone is completely original. Saunders is, it seems, not a writer who needed Emily Dickinson to tell him to tell the truth but tell it slant.
He not only worked as an engineer in Rochester, he teaches at Syracuse University and has, reasonably often, been on conspicuous tap for literary occasions in Buffalo (importantly for a library celebration of its Twain manuscripts).
He is not a writer whose stories are in a hurry to declare themselves for what they are. "Exhortation" – which presents "Todd Birnie, Divisional Director" writing a staff memorandum about "March Performance Stats" – begins with a pseudo-folksy corporate metaphor so thick that its virtuosic joke of plunging the reader into "Room 6" and "a de Facto Hall of Fame" is all the more harrowing in so few pages. Some of these stories are often told so "slant" that one can have brief doubts they'll reveal themselves at all. But that, I assure you, is their glorious originality.
You can't say that Saunders is incapable of giving us a clunker. "My Chivalric Fiasco" is a little theme park tale that, as short as it is, never works at all. But in a little 18-page masterwork called "Al Roosten" we're in a sublimely inventive 21st version of that kind of small town story for "The Book of the Grotesque" that Sherwood Anderson's old man was supposedly writing in "Winesburg, Ohio."
Time can be a writer's cruelest adversary but it can also come to a great writer's rescue. Sherwood Anderson's once-worshiped Nobel Prize-winning contemporary Sinclair Lewis hasn't found time to be much of a friend of late. But as American literature of the past 50 years gave us Raymond Carver, Frederick Barthelme, Richard Ford and Charles Baxter, Sherwood Anderson called out ever louder to be read and not just as a key stylistic influence on Hemingway (who repaid the influence in his first novel "The Torrents of Spring" with an Anderson parody that even Hemingway's then-wife found unnecessarily "mean").
The Library of America answered the call with one of its best in a long time, a "Collected Stories" from Anderson edited and with biographical commentary by Charles Baxter.
Until now, Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" it seems to me, has been the most hauntingly unread American masterpiece of them all. Read the story "Hands," for instance, and you can imagine a straight line between Anderson's six-page story and a Russell Banks novel eight decades later.
Edmund Wilson always thought Anderson's stories preferable to his novels. As early as 1925, H.L. Mencken was writing presciently "none of the new writers who have come into notice since the close of the Howells era in American letters seems to offer more difficulties to the academic critics than Sherwood Anderson." But then, as Mencken splendidly points out, literary criticism is not an exact science "like thermodynamics or urinalysis … The agony of man in this world interests him immensely but he doesn't know what causes it and he has no remedy for it. He describes it, he speculates about it, he feels the tragedy of it but the riddle that is in it he doesn't undertake to solve."
His ambition, as Alfred Kazin quotes from Anderson's own memoir "A Story Teller's Story," was to "become a writer whose sympathy went out most to the little frame houses, on often mean enough streets in American towns, to defeated people, often with thwarted lives" (whose relative "Al Roosten" in George Saunders' "Tenth of December" deliberately kicks the wallet and keys of an envied neighbor under a gym riser and then suffers misery over its consequences).
Hemingway's "bitterness toward Anderson" said Kazin astutely "was as much a recognition of the older man's advantage in his awkwardness as it was a revulsion against his self-indulgence and groping."
So here, at last, is a whopping Anderson "Collected Stories" from the Library of America despite the fact that, along with everything else, Anderson is one of those writers easy to catch in the act of racial and religious incorrectness in our era (the case of the former, from the very expression of what was intended to be its era's liberalism, in the manner of Carl Van Vechten).
Time, though, has given Anderson too many progeny – literary grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren – to ignore.
Literary spotlights are unavoidable – for Saunders at the age of 54, Sherwood Anderson 72 years after his death.
Tenth of December: Stories By George Saunders
Random House,254 pages, $26
Collected Stories By Sherwood Anderson,
edited by Charles Baxter, Library of America 900 pages, $35
Jeff Simon is The News' Arts and Books editor.


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Post yours...either or both.
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February 4, 2013, 08:37 PM
I have the PPS. Here it is pictured with my P99 (top) and P22 (bottom).
February 4, 2013, 08:45 PM
Il get my Shield up Friday. Should be made an official owners thread.
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February 4, 2013, 08:48 PM
PPS and his big brother the PPQ, and my PPS holstered in an MTAC Minotaur:
February 4, 2013, 09:02 PM
TT Gunleather Slim IWB holster will be here in another couple of weeks. Until then, it gets to hang out with big brother P99. The PPS is one heck of a sub-compact pistol. A real tack driver in my hands compared to my Glock 26, which is now for sale in the B/S/T forums. :D I just installed Meprolights on mine too. It will be my primary concealed carry piece from now on.
February 4, 2013, 11:03 PM
Wow haven't really looked at the PPS that's a nice ass looking handgun!
February 5, 2013, 08:57 AM
CPshooter, get that hideous Glock mat out from under those beautiful Walthers!
February 5, 2013, 09:11 AM
I've never owned a "Walther" but have shot several over the years. A couple months back I was putting on a pistol class for LEO's and one of the students brought a "PPQ" & "PPS" and allowed me to put some rounds through both. I must say that I was impressed with their accuracy, ergonomics, and especially their "Triggers". Next to my 1911's they had the best "factory" triggers that I have ever felt. If I weren't already issued M&P's for duty and have already bought a "C" model as a back-up, these would definitely be next on my list.
February 5, 2013, 09:20 AM
I only have a Shield.
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February 5, 2013, 11:22 AM
The Shield next to a Walther...might as well post up Kel Tec PF-9s. :D J/K
February 5, 2013, 02:14 PM
Shield wins everytime. I hate that grip on the Walthers.
Nice guns but wht did they have to ruin it with all those silly finger grips that get it the way of those of use with larger hands or very small hands. Should have made it with some options!
Here's mine, from a week or so ago when it finally arrived....
February 5, 2013, 05:21 PM
Shield wins everytime. I hate that grip on the Walthers.
Nice guns but wht did they have to ruin it with all those silly finger grips that get it the way of those of use with larger hands or very small hands. Should have made it with some options!
Here's mine, from a week or so ago when it finally arrived....
Congrats, I get mine Friday.
...and I agree. Well before I'd considered a slim 9, the Walther PPS wasn't even piquing my interest. They look cool, but I'm not a fan of the bore axis, the mag release on this type of gun, and the trigger. Nothing like a PPQ, but hey, what is these days.
I held the Shield, had trouble letting go. I'm excited for Friday.
February 7, 2013, 03:46 AM
Serious question. Is the bore axis on the Shield even appreciably lower, or lower at all? I've not handled them side by side. Nor have a seen a picture that would clearly show it, nor am I aware of measurements that I'm confident is using as an apples to apples comparison. In handling them individually I didn't perceive the bore axis to be notably higher on the PPS and bore axis and a high grip is one of the things I'm real big on. Its one of the reasons (more the effect of it really) that I carry a steyr over some of the other guns I have. Incidentally the Steyr M series had the same designer, Bubbits, as the PPS. All of his guns I'm familiar with have low bore axis. Although the PPS is somewhat higher that the steyr and Caracal which have extremely lower bore axis.
If someone has pictures or measurements comparing the PPS to Shield I'd be interested in seeing them. I'm not sure a difference in bore axis taken alone will be enough for most folks to choose between them, as I think there are bigger differences that are more like to fall in line or rub up against peoples preferences. That said it would still be of interest to me.
February 7, 2013, 06:38 AM
^^^While the PPS has a lower overall height, it sits higher in my hand. There's a .200" difference between them, so maybe its just me. If no one chimes in, I'll get measurements on my Shield tomorrow, and we can compare to your Walther.
Also, the Shield has a bit longer sight radius.
I'm not a fan of the paddle mag release. I could train to make it a muscle memory, but I'd just as soon use the "regular" button release. I'm right handed, so ambi controls aren't a must for me.
I'll also admit, for this style of pistol, I won't be adding a light or laser. So, even with the 1913, the Walthers price tag turned me off immediately. Especially after I compared their triggers.
February 7, 2013, 10:56 PM
No PPS, but I do have a XDS and Shield.
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Last month, Lance Armstrong boarded a plane for Denver to do something several of his lawyers had advised against: sitting down for a private conversation with the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Travis Tygart had given the star cyclist no reason to believe that USADA would soften the lifetime ban from elite competition for what the agency called the "most sophisticated doping program on the planet." But Mr. Armstrong hoped he could change that.
At the meeting near the Denver airport, Mr. Armstrong talked openly about doping, arguing that cheating was rampant in all pro sports, including the National Football League, according to someone familiar with the meeting. He complained that he was being singled out for punishment. As the discussion wound down without Mr. Tygart budging, the seven-time Tour de France winner seemed ready to walk out.
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"You don't hold the keys to my redemption," he said, according to the person familiar with the meeting. "There's one person who holds the keys to my redemption," he went on, pointing at himself, "and that's me."
This week, Mr. Armstrong is launching a public campaign to restore his image. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped Monday and scheduled for broadcast Thursday, Mr. Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs.
He also met Monday with the staff of the Livestrong Foundation, the charity he founded to help cancer patients, and apologized for the damaging impact of the doping scandal on their morale.
One of Mr. Armstrong's goals is to lay the groundwork for USADA to consider allowing him to compete in elite triathlons, the three-discipline sport he had taken up after retiring from cycling in 2011.
Mr. Armstrong's legal team had been divided about a possible confession, with some expressing concern about its potential effect on continuing litigation.
Several people who have spoken to Mr. Armstrong recently said that the retired cyclist has expressed regret about his prior tactics of denials and public attacks on his accusers. While that approach may have protected him from criminal prosecution, it didn't shield him from severe sanctions from sports antidoping authorities.
Former teammate Floyd Landis's allegations against Mr. Armstrong in 2010, first reported in The Wall Street Journal, kicked off the USADA investigation and a separate federal fraud probe into whether Mr. Armstrong's U.S. Postal cycling team had defrauded sponsors by using performance-enhancing drugs.
Mr. Armstrong's legal team came to include Robert Luskin and Patrick Slevin at Patton Boggs, John Keker and Elliot Peters at Keker & Van Nest, and lawyers from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton. In addition, he has been regularly consulting Tim Herman, his longtime local counsel in Austin, Texas. In February 2012, the team scored a win when federal prosecutors decided to drop the criminal investigation.
But USADA, which is charged with enforcing antidoping rules in American sports, pressed on with its own investigation, conducting interviews with roughly a dozen of Mr. Armstrong's former teammates.
In exchange for their cooperation, USADA agreed to give them minimal punishments for their admitted doping. In some cases, they received six-month bans from competition, compared with the two-year ban that is standard for doping.
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Last May, USADA's lawyers reached out to Mark Levinstein of Williams & Connolly, a lawyer on Mr. Armstrong's team who had represented athletes and was most familiar with the process, according to someone knowledgeable about the overture. They told him they wanted Mr. Armstrong to have the opportunity to come forward to tell the truth—but that he had a limited time to respond, this person said. Mr. Levinstein didn't return calls seeking comment.
Mr. Levinstein referred USADA to Mr. Herman, Mr. Armstrong's Austin lawyer, who set up a conference call between USADA and Mr. Armstrong's legal team, this person said. Mr. Armstrong's attorneys took the offensive, accusing USADA of improperly using grand jury information from the criminal investigation and questioning USADA's authority in the matter, recalled this person. By the end of the call, it became clear the Mr. Armstrong wouldn't be talking—or getting any deals.
In October, after Mr. Armstrong refused to engage in the USADA investigation process or challenge its findings, the agency stripped him of his Tour de France titles and gave him a lifetime ban.
Mr. Armstrong kept up his public-relations battle against the agency, calling its investigation a "witch hunt" and a "vendetta." USADA then did something that dismayed Mr. Armstrong's legal team: It released thousands of pages of documents from the investigation on its website, including affidavits from about a dozen former teammates, all of whom accused him of doping.
Shortly after the documents were released, Nike NKE 0.94 % dropped its sponsorship of Mr. Armstrong. Within a day, all of his other major sponsors had done the same. Mr. Armstrong's cancer charity, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, cut ties with Mr. Armstrong and later changed its name to The Livestrong Foundation.
In October, Mr. Armstrong huddled with friends and advisers and told them he was considering coming clean about doping. One person who was there said he laid out several options, ranging from a newspaper interview to incorporating a confession into a Lance Armstrong documentary. He also thought about producing a book, and began reading a biography of Steve Jobs.
One of Mr. Armstrong's concerns, said the person who was there, was the potential effect of any confession on his longtime friend and former U.S. Postal team director, Johan Bruyneel, who had elected to fight USADA's allegations against him in a forthcoming arbitration proceeding. The consensus, this person said, was that the situation was tricky because Mr. Armstrong had denied doping for so long.
It is unclear what kind of financial effect his problems are having on Mr. Armstrong, whose net worth has been estimated to exceed $100 million. Last fall, he took out a $1.85 million line of credit, secured by his home in central Austin, which is valued at more than $3 million, public records indicate.
With the holidays approaching, Mr. Armstrong retreated to Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island, with his partner, Anna Hansen, and his young children and friends—a place considered the spiritual home of the triathlon. He directed his lawyers to focus on figuring out how he could get back to competing in sanctioned triathlons, which he saw as his most reliable source of future income, according to one person familiar with that effort.
Mr. Armstrong had begun making overtures to USADA about striking some kind of deal—admit to past doping in exchange for a reduction in his lifetime ban, according to two people familiar with the effort.
Under the World Anti-Doping Code, athletes can get as much as a 75% reduction of a ban if they provide the kind of substantial help to antidoping authorities that enables them to build cases against others.
Mr. Armstrong's Austin lawyer, Mr. Herman, called Mr. Tygart and offered to dispatch Mr. Armstrong's legal team to Colorado to meet with him. Mr. Tygart said he wanted Mr. Armstrong to come. When Mr. Herman pushed back, Mr. Tygart called the meeting off.
At least one of Mr. Armstrong's lawyers, Mr. Luskin, was opposed to the meeting, according to one person familiar with the effort. In December, Mr. Armstrong told Mr. Herman he would meet with Mr. Tygart anyway, this person said. Mr. Luskin declined to comment.
The meeting, which was tense, took place at a conference room near the Denver airport. Mr. Tygart told Mr. Armstrong that he had already had his chance to come clean, and that, at best, if he gave full cooperation, the ban would be eight years.
Mr. Tygart told Mr. Armstrong he stood accused of offenses that stretched beyond doping to a coverup marked by nearly 15 years of denials, threats and actions against anyone who told the truth about doping on the team.
When Mr. Armstrong told Mr. Tygart that he held the keys to his own redemption, said one person with knowledge of the meeting, Mr. Tygart responded: "That's b—." He told Mr. Armstrong that all he wanted to do was figure out a way to compete again.
Mr. Armstrong shot back that he would compete in unsanctioned races, hurled a profanity, and walked out.
While in Hawaii, Mr. Armstrong spent time with Ms. Winfrey. She had interviewed him on previous occasions and had been supportive of him.
He decided to do the interview. Mr. Armstrong told friends and relatives he would not talk about others, only himself, and he would not get into specifics.
In a text message to the Journal last week about the impending interview, Mr. Armstrong wrote: "I hope she hits me hard."
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was downright spellbinding Monday, as Carlton Gebbia cast a seemingly successful curse on Joyce Giraud after she doubted the self-proclaimed Wiccan's powers.
A day after Gebbia's annual R-rated pool party – a Playboy-esque affair filled with bikini-clad pole dancers, "three-way" candles and tequila shots – Yolanda Foster invited the wives over to help make art to decorate her daughter's room when she leaves for college.
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"I have a dream that Kyle is talking negatively about my faith," Gebbia explained. "I'm right on about this woman [saying things about my faith]."
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"Acting is a part of who I am," said the former child actress, 44, who was nervous before slipping comfortably into her new role as a talent agent. "I know I can act. That part's easy. Susan Lucci, watch out."
Richards's sister, Kim, also revisited her acting roots, attending the Hollywood Collectors Show to meet her fans.
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Research Partnerships Build the Service Field in Africa
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Research Partnerships Build the Service Field in Africa
This is a joint special issue of the University of Johannesburg's The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher and the University of Zimbabwe's Journal of Social Development in Africa that reports on VOSESA's Five-Country Cross-National Study on Civic Service and Volunteering in SADC.
The study is particularly relevant in the context of regionalisation and globalisation where civic service is emerging as a growing social phenomenon and institution. It thus contributes to building the knowledge base about service in SADC (for more information on the study, see the Research page).
The articles in this special issue demonstrate how different actors in the region are co-operating to address the human development challenges in the five countries - Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The service initiatives reported on contribute to developing knowledge and good practice, and demonstrate the role that service and volunteering can play in promoting the achievement of national social development goals and priorities.
The direction that service and volunteering is taking in the region is consistent with the key objectives of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which aims to achieve regional co-operation, eradicate poverty and reach high levels of social and human development.
The study was conducted through a unique North-South partnership between a non-governmental organisation, academics and higher education institutions that resulted in the pooling of expertise and resources. Partners included the Centre for Social Development in Africa at the University of Johannesburg, the Global Service Institute at the University of Washington in St Louis, Missouri, USA, Volunteer and Service Enquiry Southern Africa (VOSESA) based in Johannesburg, and universities of Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
To download the joint special issue of the journal, click here or download the different chapters below:
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Morena J Rankopo, Kwaku Osei-Hwedie and Tirelo Modie Moroka
* Youth, service and development in Malawi
Catherine M Moleni and Brenda M Gallagher
* Civic service policy in South Africa
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* Incentives and volunteerism in Zambia: A review
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Winners of two straight and four of the last five games, the Stetson women's basketball team travels to Tampa, Fla. to face the USF Bulls at 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the Sun Dome.
Fans can listen to the game live on WSBB, AM1230 New Smyrna Beach, AM1490 DeLand, or on line at myam1230.com.
The Hatters (5-3) enter the game on an offensive tear, having scored a combined 194 points over the last two games. Six different players scored in double figures in Stetson's 93-48 win over Palm Beach Atlantic Thursday, including freshman Amber Porter who scored 23 points for the second straight game.
"I think our focus has really helped," senior Sasha Sims said. "I don't think we are doing anything different as far as what we are running, we are just playing at a higher level, and that is how it should be as the season goes on."
Sims, who led the team in scoring in each of the team's first six games this season, has benefited from reduced minutes over the last two contests while watching her teammates continue to light up the scoreboard.
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USF enters the game with a 4-3 record after falling 60-55 at Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday. The Bulls have won seven straight meetings in the series with the Hatters, including last year's 70-48 win in Tampa.
"They are a really good team," Stetson head coach Lynn Bria said. "They came off a great year last year and have just about everyone back. We have to take care of the ball and we have to rebound the ball. They are a very good rebounding team, so we are going to have to go the glass extremely hard on both ends of the court. If we can do those two things, I think we will have a chance."
Live video will also be available on a subscription basis as gousfbulls.com ($10.95). Live stats, Hat-Alerts, and the Stetson women's basketball twitter feed will provide in-game updates as well.


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A Cheektowaga man was sentenced to six months in jail for driving under the influence of drugs in July, Cheektowaga Police reported Tuesday.
John E. Finnegan Jr., 46, of Arthur Mussarra Parkway, was sentenced by Cheektowaga Justice Paul S. Piotrowski to the jail term to be served at the Erie County Correctional Facility following his pair of guilty pleas to driving while under the influence of drugs July 24 and 29.
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