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For many, many years, those of us in South Florida have idolized Dan Marino. With six kids, two of them adopted, he's not only a beloved retired Dolphins quarterback, he's the ultimate family man. He's usually photographed alongside his wife or family. His personal, family situation is part of his brand.
Today, we learn that Dan Marino fathered a child with a woman who was not his wife.
The New York Post reported that Marino, a current CBS football analyst, had an affair with former CBS Sports production assistant Donna Savattere, and the two had a daughter, Chloe, in June 2005. (She is now 7 years old.)
"This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then," Marino said in a statement. "We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved."
My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years and have six children together," Marino said. "And we continue to be a strong and loving family."
After the birth of Chloe, the Post reports Marino "agreed to pay millions" and Savattere moved from New York to Texas to keep their relationship and child a secret.
Obviously, Marino messed up in his personal life. But how does that affect his work life, his brand and
his future? We have seen this before with other celebrities. Some bounce back. Others don't. I asked PR guru Maria Pierson for her thoughts. Maria is co-founder and CEO of Pierson Grant Public Relations in Fort Lauderdale and has more than 30 years of public relations experience.
Q. Have we always cared about the family life of celebrities?
A. I think we are in an era where family life becomes synonymous with the person. With 24/7 news coverage now we're more focused on watching things play out on TV. Look at people like Lance Armstrong and Manti Te'o. They chose a public televised way to come clean. We live in that culture now. That's what they think they should do. Years ago in PR, we would say you know you're in trouble if you see a 60 Minutes reporter at your door. Today, everything plays out on a computer screen or television. From Marino's perspective, I'm a little surprised it took this long for the news to come out.
Q. How do you think Marino managed to keep up his image as a family man for seven years while having a child with another woman?
A. Dan marino has such a high profile in South Florida so I think from that perspective had it happened in South Florida we would have known earlier. It happened in New York where he was spending every weekend during football season. I don't think people realized he was regularly away for the entire weekend during football season.
Q. Has this done permanent damage to his brand?
A. There is such equity in the Dan Marino brand. He's a hero on field. We he retired, he became known for his work with the Dan Marino Foundation. He and his wife single handedly brought the issue of autism to the forefront in South Florida. He had that going for him.
Q. So is that equity diminished?
A. What we tell our clients in these type of crisis issues is the truth will set you free. The sooner you tell truth and get ahead of the story, the news cycle will stop. If you don't talk it becomes news worthy for a longer time and you're open to rumors and stories. This issue with Dan Marino should end now that he's spoken out and was remorseful ,sincere and apologetic.
Q. Will the public accept his apology and move on?
A. It will only be back in the news if his wife decides to talk or divorce him or if the other woman sues. Right now, he's done everything he could do to put lid on it.
Q. Does this mess now become part of Marino's public image, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger and his child with the housekeeper?
A. The public has a short term memory. The best thing for Armstrong was Manti. The best thing for Manti was Dan. Dan is now in that list of people, which are men most of the time. When people think of Dan Marino, it does become part of the tag line and his brand takes a hit in short term.
Q. Did he get PR coaching?
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2008) - Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), an outside hitter on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Training Team, has provided the following responses to questions posed to her as part of a "Getting to Know" feature.
What are the top songs in your iPod?
"Rainbows" by Jack Johnson and G. Love, "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears, "Wreckless Love" by Alicia Keys, "Foundations" by Kate Nash, "Astair" by Matt Costa, "Desert Sunrise" by Brett Dennen, "G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition)" by Common, "Pour Down the Sunshine" by Bob Marley, "Put Some Time" by Natural Vibrations, "Shy That Way" by Tristan Prettyman, "Serious Times" by Gyptian
Name three things that most people do not know about you.
I skipped first grade. I want to take Portuguese and live in Brazil for a few years. I love dark chocolate
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Sleep, eat, listen to music, go to the beach (if the beach is nearby), photography
What do you envision doing as a career after competing for the national team?
Something that I can be creative with and involves a lot of travel
Who was your club coach prior to going to college?
Joy McKienzie and JP Calderon
Where would you like to spend a week's vacation?
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Brazil (Rio)
What is your favorite room in your house and why?
The kitchen, because of the food
What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
My laptop
Rank the following types of television programs in order you like best: Reality TV, crime dramas, game shows, sit-coms, music television, cable news, sports.
Reality TV, sports, music television
What is your favorite television program?
America's Next Top Model, Lakers, and Gossip Girl at the moment
What is your favorite movie?
There's too many good ones to pick…but some of my favorites are Blow, The Godfather, Almost Famous, City of God.
Are you a morning person, afternoon person or night person?
Night person, no doubt.
What is your pre-match ritual?
Eating and listening to music.
On an airplane, would you rather, sleep, read, work on a computer or talk with the person sitting next to you?
Usually sleep and listen to music.
What is the best thing about competing on the USA Women's National Team?
Working with great coaches and being surrounded by amazing players.
What is your favorite volleyball drill?
Anything competitive
What sport would you be competing in if not for volleyball?
Realistically, basketball. Ideally, tennis.
Who is your favorite athlete?
Kobe Bryant
What is your favorite food?
Dark Chocolate, peanuts/peanut butter, seafood
What is your favorite restaurant to eat at?
El Sombrero, Zao, Arigato, Riviera Grill
What is your hometown best known for?
How many different languages can you converse in?
One. I know a little bit of French, but I'm not sure I could actually communicate with someone.
What was your favorite class in school?
English, Government and Appreciating the Arts
What is your fondest child-hood memory?
Traveling every summer with my family.
If you could see any musical act or performer (dead or alive) in concert, who would it be?
Jack Johnson and Bob Marley
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing that you would buy or pay for?
Trip to Brazil
If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you?
My ipod, my camera, and my cell phone.
If you could live in another time period for a week, which one would you choose?
The 70s.
If you could be on the cover of one magazine, which one would you choose?
Sports Illustrated.
What is the most "embarrassing" song on your iPod?
Anything by Spice Girls or Britney Spears
What three words would you use to describe yourself?
Competitive, persistent, and easy going
What is your favorite holiday?
What is your favorite season – winter, spring, summer or fall?
What reality show (American Idol, the Apprentice, the Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, etc.) would you be best on?
Not American Idol!
What communication tool do you use most often – text messaging, talking on the cell phone or e-mail?
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
The 3 bears minus Goldilocks
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Soap, Water and................
Notice what Ziggy is doing? Yeah, adding more! There can never be enough that's for sure. Also notice the bottle. It started out full 30 minutes prior to shoot. Great fun. I just laughed and smiled
Do you see the flying Omega in this one? What about the terror on Ziggy's face in this one?
Who needs a slip a slide anymore, these boys have a trampoline.
WOW, They even hover too. I sure have some talented kids.
My sweet precious boys looking closely at bubbles. NO tub needed!!
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
It's a Wonderful Life
How are you doing? We are staying as busy as ever. With Zeus gone I try really hard to spend lots of time with my babies. They are very special to me and today God shined a light down on me and opened my eyes to something I haven't seen before. Nothing in life is important other than our families. I have always cherished this but today, I had an open heart and realized the only things I need are these 4 beings and my husband. Nothing more, nothing less. Today I got to sleep in til like 8:30 waking up to see 4 smiling happy, kissy faces all over my bed snuggling with me, their mom. WOW, what a wonderful feeling. They wanted to be with me.Oh how I love these special moments. The holiday weekend always comes with advantages, and the pool opening being one of them. The kids and I took a short little drive over to the base pool at 11am. They were so excited to get into that water. Here at our base pool they are required to take a swim test and then based on how well they do on the test they are given one of 4 different color wrist bands. Zero, Omega and Zulu all jumped in and got tested. This being the very first time in the water in 9 months I was leery of how they would do. Well to my surprise, Zero and Omega both got the top color, blue. They were so happy. Zulu is still a little rusty but did great too and got the second color, yellow. I was so proud of all of them for trying and finishing. Ziggy will be at the bottom for a short while but I am confident Zeus will work with him and he will be moving right on up. With armbands on, the sunscreening began. Standing in a row like little ducks each child helped the one in front spread sunscreen on his/her back and body. It really was cute. I wish I got pictures of it but I was in the row too. We ended up staying there for 5, yes 5 hours swimming up a storm and playing with lots of friends, well not Twinkle. Days like these I feel like I could use 3 more sets of eyes. Trying to make sure everyone is safe and in the same place and is minding their manners and sharing and all that stuff that goes through our(moms) heads. We had lunch courtesy of the staff and the kids bounced in a bounce house and slid down a big huge blow up water slide. What a great day.
Later once we had showered and dressed into clean clothes I decided to get a little shopping done. We ran to the grocery store/Commissary and then stopped by the Starbucks for a few Frappucinos, which the babies absolutely love.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Potty Training 101
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Childhood and long distance
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Tiny Task Tuesday
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Mothers Day
(My first Mother's Day in Atlanta, Ga)
The kids and I stopped and ate lunch at Chili's since I had a gift card and they were starving, or thought they were starving. It was a wonderful lunch. They were all well behaved and ate beautifully. If only they behaved like this all the time. I got lots of blank stares and people commenting on me taking 4 children to lunch. This was very special to me though. I had a great day, got some new shirts, spent shopping time with my babies and got lots of great fashion tips from them as well. So my Mother's Day will not be what I had deeply hoped it would be but today was better than I could have imagined. My babies and me. I think we will take a hike out at Great Falls Park and have a picnic lunch.
(Hanging out around our house)
Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful ladies and if your day does not go as planned just remember those babies, always your babies, love you, appreciate you, thank you and will always want you to feel special on your day.
(My Mother and I in Hawaii, 2005)
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Friends and Family Friday
Once again another Friday is upon us. Today I am a little sad because Zeus had to leave again for another month long world tour. This is extremely sad also because he has only been home 10 days from his last month long world tour. But I must be strong and carry on with some sort of normalcy for these 4 little beings that call me mom. Today, I bring back my Family and Friends Friday tribute. This is a tribute to my personal friends and family that have made a difference in my life. It is a living tribute to tell them all the things that don't normally get said until the coffin rolls into the church. I despise holding back and not sharing peoples accomplishments while they are still living and breathing on this planet. Why wait. This is my own time to share my wonderfully crazy and somewhat bizarre family and Friends with you.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
Tiny task Tuesday
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What is love, honor, unions?
Tonight I sit here wondering those simple questions. What is love? I read the dictionary's 14 descriptions of what the word means but honestly what does it mean to us. How true is it to love someone as much as you love yourself? Can you really do that for an entire lifetime? I am amazed when I read or see news of marriages that have lasted longer than 50 years. Were those 2 people genuinely happy the entire time and if not how in the world did they get through those rough times? My mind is racing right now and I know you must be confused but trust me, I am too. I can not seem to make everything right. Whether it is feelings or events, I seem to be falling short of the goal. I looked up some verses in the bible to try to help myself feel better or understand better God's meaning of love. But, he is something we will never be, the all forgiving, all LOVING, all excepting of beings. I will never be able to wrap my head around him. He is so awesome. But then I think, wow, he created this thing called love and marriage and wonder how we make the hike through the dense and dark forest only on trust. Do we ever know if we are with our soul mate? How do we know we chose the right person? What is the feeling of completeness? Are society's expectations more than we can create? What does binding as one flesh really and truly mean to the married? How do we travel today's obstacles as married couples? I never wonder why and am never surprised by the high divorce rate. I know that I never really understood to true meaning of love, marriage and lifetime unions. How do you understand it? Does marriage really mean only 60% happiness or does it mean 100% happiness? I was at a wedding last summer and the Minister mentioned times where spouses would give 100% and 0%. I believe this wholeheartedly to be true. only because I have lived it, not because a preacher said so. But my question is how long should you be the 100% giver? How long should you be allowed to give 0% or nothing. Marriage is a union, a creation of 1 from 2 but how long should 1 take the burden of 2? I know you must be reeling with your questions or answers. I am just pondering what life really is about. I being a loving mother and wife love my family more than ANYTHING in this entire world. I do mean this with all my heart. I want nothing more than to be a happy family. I want to be that model for my children, that model I never had. But having never had it or seen it until I was an adult I am not sure how to make it. Does that make any sense? I want to make sure the decisions I make now do not adversely affect these 4 beautiful beings I so desperately am trying to mold into responsible, productive members of society. I want them to see what true love is and what them to desire that. I want more than anything to understand what I couldn't. This is a very narrow, rocky, slippery and down right scary path which I walk. You must think I am nuts to be thinking about this now that my babes are all under 10 but I feel now more than ever is the time they soak up the most information and pick up the most habits of their elders. I am not sure how to hold their hands through the life of relationships but I want to start now so they can feel confident when it is their own time. I want to have all the answers to this questions that will soon be coming. I am trying to prepare myself for those tough ones. So I sit here at 2 o clock in the morning, not able to sleep a wink asking myself if I am doing this correct, if there is a correct way. I pray to God that he leads the right way and provides me the right answers when the time comes. I am hoping the kids wait several more years before these questions come flying but for now I think I will be doing my own research in love, relationships and marriage. The bible has been extremely helpful for guiding me to the right answers but my brain does not work properly anymore. I have lots of crossed wires that misfire and blah, blah, blah, that is another blog topic for another day. Anyways Pray for me, pray for my mind to relax, pray that the stress of raising these children does not completed make me brain dead, pray that the questions come later rather than sooner. Pray that I can be ok with my own relationship. Pray that my own submission and happiness and journey down this uncharted land be successful and mind blowing. I realize you must be thinking holy cow, what kind of drugs is this girl taking. I assure you I am not on anything not even any alcohol. This is my natural thinkings and my honest self just trying to manage a life and raise a family. I feel so uneducated to be raising 4 children. I wonder how we all were raised since there are no pre-requisites to becoming a parent. Something tells me we should prepare our youth a little more about the pathway to parenthood. So bare with me here, I just had all this craziness on my mind tonight and thought what better place to relieve the stress, pressure and pain than right here in my blog where I am the boss. I am the writer. I thank you for being here and reading with me and supporting me. I appreciate your thoughts and prayers as I struggle to get through life hoping I make the right choices to set a good example for the 4 beings watching my every move. Blessings to you and yours and Happy Monday
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Dexter Malware May Have Ties to Zeus Trojan
Researchers have uncovered some links between Dexter, the custom-made malware targeting point-of-sale systems, and Zeus, the notorious banking Trojan.
In active development since September, earlier versions of Dexter communicated with IP addresses belonging to Zeus-related domains, according to researchers from Verizon's Research Investigations Solutions Knowledge (RISK) team. Dexter also shared similar behavioral patters with some Zeus versions.
At least four variants dating back to September have been identified and submitted to VirusTotal between September and October, Verizon found. Some antivirus solutions had detected those Dexter variants as Zeus, according to the RISK team.
"We feel it is likely that additional samples exist in the wild," Verizon's Keith Gilbert wrote.
As SecurityWatch reported recently, Dexter targets point-of-sale systems such as electronic cash registers, kiosks, and automatic teller machines (ATMs). Dexter has infected hundreds of systems from businesses in 40 countries and intercepted data for tens of thousands of payment cards, according to Israel-based Seculert, who first issued an alert about the malware. The researchers said the gang behind Dexter is likely using the harvested track 1 and track 2 data to create cloned cards.
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The malware had "potentially interesting aspects" which "could link it to additional families, infrastructure, or actors," Gilbert wrote.
Instead of hardcoded command-and-control domains, three of the earlier malware samples relied on the same IP address and a specific path. The address appeared to have a poor Web reputation and a history of malicious activity. In contrast, the version analyzed by Seculert included seven distinct domains for command-and-control, Verizon found. It appears that these earlier versions with the IP address was used for development and testing purposes, while the version with the domain names was "ready for prime time," Verizon's RISK said
The first six domains were registered using a privacy protection service, and were associated with an IP address known for hosting Zeus-related domains and Vobfus, a worm often used to deliver a Zeus payload
While there are links between a novel malware bot and more established pedestrian online banking attacks, its' possible we will see more similar malicious attackers over the next year, Verizon said.
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Volatility Labs analyzed the malware and found the technique the malware used to scrape payment data out of the infected system's memory wasn't particularly novel. "I'm slightly disappointed that the memory dump parsing function is just a ReadProcessMemory() loop," Michael Hale Ligh, a developer with The Volatility Project, wrote on the Labs blog. Researchers at Trustwave Spiderlabs also uncovered how the attackers obfuscated the data received from command-and-control servers as well as the information sent to the C&C servers from infected machines.
Verizon also noticed how Dexter created a randomly named folder in the user's APPDATA folder, and copied in a binary with a randomly generated name. A universal identifier is added as a value in the Windows Registry and the location is set to the randomly named executable, Verizon said.
"Some versions of Zeus also exhibit this activity," Verizon said, adding that file and folder name generation and placement are nearly identical between Dexter and Zeus.
Of the seven domains, one didn't use a private service, so Verizon was able to uncover some information about "hgfrfv," a possible member of the crew running Dexter and living in the Russian Federation. This person also had a freelancer.com profile and had recently posted requests for help on several tech forums.


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Let me begin with a moment of confession. When I began coming to Washington, D.C., to teach journalism my first class sessions were held in the Mark Hatfield Library at the national headquarters of what has become the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. As a pro-life Democrat, I greatly admired the senator from Oregon, in part because of his willingness to infuriate people on both the political right and left.
Needless to say, I am paying close attention to the obituaries that are running after Hatfield's death. Suffice it to say that journalists still do not know how to label him.
But journalists will keep trying. The sprawling Los Angeles Times headline proclaims:
Mark O. Hatfield dies at 89; longtime Oregon senator was bedrock of moderate Republicanism
Hatfield was a devout Christian who opposed prayer in the public schools and managed to negotiate common ground among the environmentalists, loggers, anti-abortion activists, death penalty foes, business owners, farmers and antiwar protesters who were his constituents.
Yes, that's all in the headline. The "anti-abortion" language is a bit painful, I think, since Hatfield was someone who was known as a consistently pro-life public figure.
This language even showed up in the Washington Post obit -- which elected to call Hatfield a "liberal," in the context of the Republican party.
Former senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, whose liberal Republican politics during five terms in Congress made him an increasingly rare breed within his party, and who used his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee to denounce what he considered the "madness" of excessive defense spending, died Sunday evening in Portland, said Gerry Frank, a longtime friend and former aide. He was 89.
As a young Navy officer during World War II, Mr. Hatfield saw the devastation wrought by atomic warfare in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. That experience, coupled with his Baptist faith, were defining forces in shaping Mr. Hatfield's political views during nearly half a century in elected office. He became an opponent of abortion, the death penalty and war -- a "consistently pro-life" politician, said Oregon political scientist Bill Lunch, "who took the religious injunction not to do harm to others seriously."
During his three decades on Capitol Hill, Mr. Hatfield was one of the Senate's most unwavering pacifists.
Meanwhile, the New York Times all but ignored the senator's faith and the role that his pro-life beliefs played in his achievements and struggles inside the DC Beltway (especially in terms of his strong support for science funds). Glance at it, if you wish. It's disturbingly shallow, for such a complex public figure.
It's interesting to watch journalists attempt to make sense of this man, struggling to figure out if he was a "cultural conservative" or not. He was consistently anti-war, yet he was also opposed to violence against the unborn (and, yes, I worded the second half of that sentence the way that Hatfield would have worded it). He was opposed by the Religious right, at times, but always remained close to Billy Graham and influence him quite a bit in the post-Watergate era.
For me, there are two keys to judging these obits. The first is obvious -- is the content of Hatfield's faith discussed, perhaps even in his own words.
The second is a pivotal biographical detail, as illustrated in this passage from the Los Angeles Times obit:
He joined the Navy and served as a landing craft officer during the World War II invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was one of the first U.S. troops to enter Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.
Those "inhuman, shock-ridden" scenes, as he later described them, inspired a lifetime of activism against war and nuclear weapons.
Thus, this man was a soldier who knew war and who also saw Hiroshima with his own eyes. And his faith commitment? This is a few paragraphs after the Hiroshima reference. As a young man and a political scientist:
... Hatfield tells of having reached a crisis in his faith akin to the "born again" experience of many evangelicals, but which in his case was more rational than emotional. If Jesus Christ is truly a divine savior, he reasoned during an intense moment of reflection, then the only possible response was to offer his entire life to that service.
"Define your own spiritual commitment," Hatfield wrote later in "Against the Grain: Reflections of a Rebel Republican," which he wrote in 2001 with Diane Solomon. "Energize your conscience. Use loving spirituality to infuse your personal, public and political acts. Take advantage of spiritual stewardship when dealing with political issues such as the environment, the needs of humans, the dangers of war."
Former staffer Lon Fendall, who wrote a book about what he describes as Hatfield's evangelical progressivism, "Stand Alone or Come Home" -- the advice Hatfield's father gave to his son about facing tough moral choices and relentless peer pressure -- compared his boss to the 18th century British politician William Wilberforce, whose evangelical Christian convictions spurred him to lead the fight to abolish slavery. Hatfield himself, who read widely in history and political biography, was keenly aware of Wilberforce's legacy and had written a preface to an abbreviated collection of his work.
"He said, 'You know, I've been doing these things in my life in particular ways, and I've come to the realization that here's a person centuries ago that did exactly the same things for many of the same reasons,' " Fendall said in an interview. "I think Hatfield was drawn to him because they both came to their personal faiths while already in politics and on their life pathway, and began to ask themselves, 'What is my life pathway?' I think Hatfield's calling as a believer was to take on a variety of issues that many other believers weren't ready to face."
To write about Hatfield, a journalist has to wrestle with Hiroshima and with the content of the senator's moral convictions -- all of them.
How many of the obits got this done? Please use the comments pages to share URLs. But stick to the journalism issues in the obituaries and tributes. We are not interested in comments that bash Hatfield from the left or the right.
Image: A 2007 file photo of Hatfield, visiting the Oregon legislature.


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Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach of the DoubleLine Funds is out with his latest monthly presentation going over the economy, the state of the market, and society.
This time the title is "To Have and Have Not," as he spends a fair amount of time on one of the hottest issues of the day.
He always likes to pepper his presentations with interesting images, and this time he uses this picture of Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) to make a couple of points: One is that we're seeing Great Depression-like levels of inequality these days; and two, he reminds us that Bonnie and Clyde were heroes in their day, and that it's likely, in his view, that social unrest will only increase.
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January 2001
"Men are neither angels nor devils; that makes morality both necessary and possible."7
Scientists from the human genome project predict that we will determine the genetic causes of human disease long before treatments are available. Access to genetic and sequence maps will alter the face of clinical medicine in the twenty-first century8. With the gap between our ability to diagnose and treat or cure genetic diseases ranging from five to twenty or more years9, coupled with the high economic and social costs of disease, there is increasing pressure to explore genetic manipulation of somatic cells. How do we decide among current scientifically available options? How do we make those difficult ethical choices?
Adolescents are passionately interested in ethical questions suggesting adolescence may be a critical period for including bioethics in science education6. Knowledge arises when the mind interacts with content; an understanding of ethical issues develops as an evolving process around real-life situations. The question is what role should teachers play in the acquisition of this knowledge?
How do we make ethical choices?
Plato asked a form of this question more than two thousand years ago: Is ethics taught, inherited or passed on by some other mechanism? Does ethics need to be taught? Experts have studied how we learn ethical concepts and behavior and what roles nature and nurture play in the process (figure 1). Their hypotheses don't always agree.
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Hypothesis 1: Nature is more influential than nurture. Can the mind actually build knowledge from sensory information? We instinctively know some things, although group interactions and environmental factors may modify this knowledge. For example, as an extension of the mother-infant bond, we learn kinship preferences, recognition of specific individuals, social communication, and long term infant care.
Some scientific studies support this view. For example, neurologist Oliver Sacks13 befriended a young boy named Stephen, an autistic savant who was capable of memorizing complex scenery at a glance and retaining the information for long periods of time. From an early age he appeared to have little need for nurture - - human or otherwise.
Hypothesis 2: Nurture is more influential than nature. Leading a field of neurobiologists, who explore how the human brain learns about the world, Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman hypothesizes that with repeated experiences, we develop and reinforce anatomically based concept maps. These concept maps subsequently modify how sensory information is processed and organized.3
"Natural Law" ethics, which has been traced to the writings of Aristotle and Plato, states that decision-making principles can be discovered through careful reflection and by observing nature. The law of nature, rather than individual preferences, determines what actions are right. The human mind need only possess the capacity for reasoned thought and the ability to communicate.2
Hypothesis 3: Nature and nurture interact in sequential stages.
In a series of elegantly designed experiments, child psychologist Jean Piaget1 proposed that children pass through developmental stages where one stage builds on an earlier stage through assimilation and accommodation to the real world.
Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg strongly believed that moral development occurs in six stages.14 We grow from a point of self-interest to one of an increasingly larger circle of people. Our perspective changes with age and is comparable to growth in areas of psychological development. Educators should note that educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, Kolberg's student, criticizes his theory because it is based on studies of males and, therefore, contains a significant gender bias.5 Others have also criticized Kohlberg for placing a higher value on one form of moral reasoning over another.
Hypothesis 4: Nurture interacts with nature at the critical window stage. We appear primed to receive specific environmental stimuli that are most easily incorporated during windows of opportunity (i.e., critical windows). For example:
A familiar example of a critical developmental window is the medical condition known as "lazy eye." If the human brain fails to receive input from both eyes before about the age of five years, the information from the eye with very poor vision is permanently ignored even after corrective surgery or lenses.4
The acquisition of bird songs has also been extensively studied in the context of what is inherited and learned. For example doves, who have a species specific cooing rhythm, are unaffected by efforts to disrupt their learning. Their song likely has a genetic model that does not require a specific environmental stimulus .The sparrow, however, needs to acquire a template for its species-specific song sometime during its first four months of life. If no template is provided, the sparrow fails to produce a normal song even with subsequent adult song exposure.10
Evolutionist Ernst Mayr observes, "Man is distinguished from all other animals by the openness of its behavioral program… so in human beings ethical norms and definite values are laid down in the open behavior program of an infant."12 He further states this is a very special type of learning akin to imprinting based on an innate capacity to acquire ethical beliefs.
What does this mean for science educators?
The acquisition of ethics and other forms of knowledge are dependent on exposure to content, properly timed experiences, and practice with reasoning skills. Since we acquire this knowledge from heritable and external sources, such as the classroom, students need an opportunity to:
- engage in discussions that allow them to examine their values
- practice resolving ethical conflicts in a real world context11
Science discoveries are occurring with unprecedented speed. Every day, we are faced with new ethical choices posed by these discoveries. The inclusion of bioethics in classroom curricula is more important than ever before. Bioethics is an excellent vehicle to generate interest and establish the relevancy of science content:
The ambiguities of ethical viewpoints challenge critical thinking abilities and promote the development of problem solving strategies.
After students become interested in an ethical problem at the emotional level, they are motivated to discover the facts, better understand the problem, and come up with a reasoned solution.
Science topics are not void of personal or societal values and are open to subjective interpretation.
- Bioethical decisions often come down to a question of values or determining priorities in competing values. Students need to understand the difference between fact, opinion, and values; and develop an ability to make rational decisions, while recognizing the role of subjective interpretation.
We can assist adolescents in creating their own concept maps for the classification of objects and also for ethical values. The process of concept map construction will not happen with an imposed prescription for ethical norms, but through facilitating the process of adolescent self-discovery as they tackle real world conflicts.
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Yoga and Pilates are the missing ingredients in many fitness plans, the ideal complement to cardio and strength work. Here, just in time for the holidays, are four convenient, space-saving innovations and the timeless gifts of flexibility and postural alignment.
Pilates gear: In the Dec. 8 Saturday section, two photos with an article about yoga and Pilates equipment were switched. The photo with the item about the PeakPilates PilatesStick Basic Kit Package, a door-mounted exercise system, was actually of the Empower Pilates Studio, a portable Pilates trainer. The photo with the Empower Pilates Studio description was of the PeakPilates PilatesStick Basic Kit Package. —
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Yogahitch: Ring-shaped, 7.6-by-33-inch cotton towel that can be used as a mat carrier, yoga strap and towel.
Likes: It's a multitasking, space-saving wonder — ingeniously simple, stylish and functional. The efficient loop configuration allows you to cinch it to a rolled-up mat almost instantly and use it as a strap during yoga positions, as well as keep dry.
Dislikes: If it had a pocket, it could also store your gloves and booties.
Price: $45. (877) 964-4824; yogahitch.com
Pilates on the go
Empower Pilates Studio: Portable Pilates trainer that includes a 3-foot-long padded bar with two handled stretch cords attached. A three-workout DVD is included.
Likes: A great workout, especially for the price. The DVD, directed by aerobics legend Gin Miller, includes about 20 exercises, including side-lying leg lifts, double leg pulls, bridges, V-ups, arm curls and overhead presses. You definitely feel your core struggling to keep hands and feet in line, due to the stretch cords not being anchored to a fixed point (as they are with the Pilates Stick, reviewed here). To increase the resistance, just roll the bar to take up slack on the stretch cord. The two-section bar assembles/disassembles in two seconds, making it portable enough for travel.
Dislikes: I would have paid $5 more for a carry bag and spiral-bound exercise book with all the possible exercises, rather than a folded-up piece of paper with just six exercises on it.
Price: $24.95. (800) 704-5561; https://www.empowerfitness.com
Pilates door prize
PeakPilates PilatesStick Basic Kit Package: Doorjamb-mounted exercise system that allows many Pilates-style exercises. System includes a 26-inch-long, 1.25-inch-diameter wooden stick with padded hand-holds, 5.5-foot-long stretchable Slastix tubing, two foot straps, a ground pad and an hourlong workout DVD.
Likes: A variety of fun and challenging leg and upper-body strength and stretching exercises, done laying down, kneeling, and standing with and without the stick. To increase resistance of the Slastix cords, move farther from the door. A bag holds the mat and the stick, using the Slastix as the carry strap.
Dislikes: The fold-out wall chart displays only a dozen exercises; for the price, I think a dedicated manual with dozens of exercises should be included.
Price: $149.95. (800) 925-3674; https://www.peakpilates.com
Yoga block Party
Stick-e Wrist Saver Block: Traditional foam yoga block with an added internal handle to position the wrist for upper-body movements.
Likes: Very functional and effective, allowing for additional exercise options. Along with standard block uses (assisted toes touches and squeeze-between-the-knees situps and leg lifts), they allow for deeper dips, pushups and chatteranga.
Dislikes: None
Price: $19.95 (one block). (708) 960-4855; https://www.stick-e.com
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CRYSTAL LAKE - The Boylan girls basketball team had two hurdles cleared on Thursday.
The Titans defeated Huntley 54-39 to win the Class 4A Crystal Lake South Sectional title. It was the Titans' first sectional win since 2009. Along with the win, Titans guard Jensen Blassage scored her 1,000 career point, finishing with a game-high 16 points.
"It was a great night for us," Boylan coach Paul Perrone said. "We're going to the supers and for Jensen to get her 1,000 career point is great. She is a great guard, who works hard and is a great leader. I am happy for all the kids."
Boylan led 18-14 at the half, but had led 13-4 at the end of the first period.
"We just played a little lackadaisical, but our coach talked to us and we were able to get it turned around," Blassage said.
Thanks to a tough defensive effort in the second half, the Titans (27-4) put themselves into another gear. They would lead by as many as 22 points (41-19) with 2:46 left in the the third period.
"We knew they were going to play physical," Perrone said. "We just had to match their intensity on our end. Our defense was the key. We used a triangle defense and it worked. The girls worked our game plan to perfection."
Huntley (27-6) made a late push to get back into the game soon after the Titans took their 22-point lead. The Red Raiders went on a 9-0 run to pulled to within 13 points (41-28) with 7:04 remaining in the game.
Boylan guard Kayla Steward made a basket to stop the run. She finished with 13 points.
The Red Raiders would get as close as 10 points the rest of the way. Ali Andrews scored 12 points for Huntley.
As the game came to a close, the Titans made sure to get Blassage open for any scoring opportunities.
"We told her that we would help get her points," Boylan's Haley Stull said. "I knew she would get it and when she did, we were excited for her. She's a great player and works hard all the time."
Blassage said she appreciated her teammates.
"It was great," she said. "They got me the ball and I was able to score in the last couple of seconds. It's was a great experience. "
Blassage reached the milestone when she was fouled and went on to convert two free throws with under 30 seconds left.
The Titans advance to play Geneva in the Elgin Judson University Supersectional final at 7 p.m. Monday.
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Many Fold Farm Letterpress Business Cards
So often, what we do for our clients in the graphic design profession is disconnected from personal passions. This project managed to combine both food and design values. The food our family eats falls into a traditional foods diet, as recommended by the Weston Price Foundation. Which is why we were especially excited when Rebecca and Ross Williams asked us for business cards for their new adventure called Many Fold Farms. Their must-read blog is smartly written and shows a true passion for food and land. I've been learning about fine cheese and feeling a bit envious of their farming adventure. This was both a design and print project for us, which is where our company can truly shine. Not that we don't love printing the custom work of other designers and collaborating in the production process. We also love owning a design project from concept through production completion.
The design for the logotype merges custom 19th century inspired decorative capitals with slab serifs. We combined typographic texture with a folk inspired pierced tin borders and an inverted round corner die cut. The letterpress printing is on Crane Lettra Ecru (Ivory) 220lb Cover stock for a thick and soft feel in a nice warm color. We produced two different sizes - an oversized card with farm information and a smaller card with personal contact info.


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One of our favorite nonprofit organizations Healthy Child Healthy World has always teamed up with celebrities to promote a healthy world. This week, HCHW is giving a nod to 3 celebrities that are truly making a difference and spreading the word about living healthier.
From the Healthy Child Healthy World website:
Jessica Alba
"Healthy Child Healthy World has been rallying moms to fight for more protective policies for nearly two decades and this week we were thrilled to see celebrity mom, Jessica Alba, promoting the Safe Chemicals Act on Capitol Hill. 'You can't hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. . . I mean, I barely have time to brush my teeth with a toddler and another one on the way. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them,' said Alba. Thanks to all of our colleagues at the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition for spearheading this effort and to our former CEO and Executive Director, Christopher Gavigan, for facilitating Jessica's involvement."
Join Jessica in showing Congress that Americans care about this issue by asking your Senators to co-sponsor the Safe Chemicals Act!
Jessica Capshaw
"Earlier this month, Jessica Capshaw acted as moderator for the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center's (CEHC) Greening Our Children luncheon – the fourth annual fundraiser to support the important work of this distinguished institution. And last week she spoke up about mercury pollution and the dire threat it poses to children's health during the Moms Clean Air Force Clean Air for Our Kids webinar. Jessica's been an active supporter of Healthy Child Healthy World (another nod to Christopher Gavigan) and it was wonderful to hear her passion and knowledge of the issues in these types of forums."
Support clean air for our kids by signing our petition to tell America's #1 polluter to clean up their act!
Kelly Rutherford, Healthy Child Healthy World Luminary
Celebrities are concerned parents, too. That's the message behind our new Luminary Advisory Board, which counts Laila Ali, Gabrielle Anwar, Amy Brenneman, Laura Dern, Jenna Elfman, Mariel Hemingway, Josie Maran, Kelly Rutherford, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Taylor as members. These concerned parents have joined Healthy Child to inspire small steps to big change.
"I joined the Luminary Board of Healthy Child Healthy World to shine some light on the issues that affect my children and me everyday. Be it the environment we live in to the foods we eat or the products we use, all of these things have an impact in our health and well being. It's important for me to do my part as a mother to keep my children healthy and myself healthy—so I can be here to watch them grow up. Creating awareness is so important." –Kelly Rutherford, "Gossip Girl"
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Top Cow wants to do something unprecedented and revolutionary and we can only do it with your support! To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Top Cow and Image Comics, we are planning on re-launching and re-imagining Cyber Force, the series that launched our company. We want to push the envelope not only in terms of content, but also by utilizing forward-thinking distribution methods and the groundbreaking Kickstarter to help us fund the project. With your support, Top Cow aims to be the first major US comic publisher to launch one of their biggest properties with top tier creators concurrently for the traditional print market and exploding worldwide digital market for FREE.
By funding this project, you will help Top Cow (along with comic shop owners in the US, Canada & around the world, Diamond Comic Distributors, our digital partners, and others) produce and give away the first full five issue story arc of the brand-new Cyber Force full color ongoing series. Sure, we could have done this the tried-and-true method and given our awesome hardcore fans a Cyber Force series that they'd be excited about, but we saw an opportunity to change how mainstream comics are produced and reach both new readers and lapsed fans. This isn't just about making an amazing, action-packed comic series. It's about changing the landscape of mainstream U.S. comics!
Good question! Cyber Force is about a group of cybernetically enhanced resistance fighters on the run from a monolithic multi-national conglomerate. The essence of the new Cyber Force series is bio-cybernetic steampunk. Top Cow founder and Cyber Force creator Marc Silvestri (The Darkness, Incredible Hulk) is returning as co-writer, art director, and cover artist spearheading the unique vision for the new series. Co-writer Matt Hawkins (Think Tank, Lady Pendragon) is collaborating with Marc to create a cutting-edge world based on real technology. Artist Khoi Pham (Mighty Avengers, Daredevil) will be working hand-in-hand with Marc to make sure that every issue is filled with the spectacular, dynamic art fans have come to expect from Top Cow. Rounding out the team will be master colorist Sunny Gho (Artifacts, Incredible Hulk) and letterer Troy Peteri.
Marc Silvestri had this to say about why now for Cyber Force and what it's about:
"Well on the surface, one could say that it's to celebrate Image and Top Cow hitting the 20 year mark which isn't a bad reason but celebrating anniversaries isn't enough. To warrant bringing something back and in turn retooling it, you'd better have something new to say. And that thing you want to say needs to be relevant and organic to the concept/characters. Thematically, the ideas for Cyber Force fit in today's world much more fluidly than they did 20 years ago. The literal fusion of nature and technology is a future we can all see coming and the doors that open because of it are as interesting as the doors it will close."
"The big idea is that for the first time in history, mankind and his intelligence is outpacing evolution. It takes nature thousands of years to adapt to changes and the things we've accomplished technologically in just the past 100 years have thrown our ability to evolve, and in turn survive, completely out of whack. In other words, we're creating a world of wonders and conveniences that we could never hope to survive. This dilemma is at the heart of what CYBER FORCE is all about."
Judge yourself, take a look at the preview pages, character designs and other art below!
The money you'll be pledging will go primarily to pay the art team on Cyber Force including Khoi Pham, Sunny Gho, and Troy Peteri. Additionally, it will help offset the cost of printing the physical copies of Cyber Force in order to keep the cost shouldered by comic shop owners to an absolute minimum, pay for shipping the rewards out and offset the cost of producing a number of the rewards. We'll be taking on the cost of production, marketing, and writing the series. In the event we exceed our goal, the additional funds will go toward the added cost for the additional rewards, lowering the cost of copies to retailers and/or creating additional issues of Cyber Force for free. This is an ongoing series we plan on doing it for a long time and more FREE is ALWAYS better!
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Dear Editor,
Steve Kabe has written 2 letters to the editor in the past month and if nobody replies to his lettershe is going to think we do not care.
Steve's latest letter was scolding columnist Rich Lowry for ridiculing Obama's latest job creation bill. Steve also says we are a "hopelessly divided nation?"
I will tell you what was "hopeless" .the first 2 years of the "Anointed One's" Presidency when we had Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress and a man in the oval office who has by far been the most liberal President the nation has seen in its 235 year history.
The government was spending money like a "drunken sailor on shore leave".
We sure did not hear anything from the left side of the aisle about "hopelessly divided " when Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed hurriedly stuck us with Obamacare on a memorable Sunday afternoon. (We will read the bill later to see what is in it. )
The only thing that saved the nation from a total collapse was the 2010 mid term elections when the America people said "enough is enough".
Mr Kabe's letter of Sept 10 accuses columnist Cal Thomas of conveniently excluding certain facts about the "freedoms" that the people of Turkey and Indonesia enjoyboth Muslim countries.
To understand where Steve is coming from you need to know Steve is a retired EHS teacher who taught a couple of years over in Egypt which is a "Muslim Country". ( In my mind, Steve is a survivor.
He taught in Egypt for 2 years and came back home with his head still attached to his body. Amazing. )
He stated in his letter that most Muslim countries are not governed by "Sharia Law"but are instead governed by a "mixture of European legal traditions derived from colonial days."
When it comes to "tolerance, religious pluralism, a free and independent press, and equal rights for women in Muslim Majority countries"..how naive does Steve think we are?
For the past 32 years since 1979, when the "Muslim Students" took American hostages in Iran, we Americans have witnessed a steady stream of deadly images via our TV sets of the "freedoms" NOT enjoyed in the various Muslim countries around the world.
Our politicians and both Presidents since 911 have taken great pains to tell the American peopleour battle is with the Radical Islamic terrorists, not the religion of Islam. Well, the jury is still out as to who or what we are battling.
Many sober minded folks around the world strongly suspect the battle is not solely with Radical Islambut may also include the religion of Islam itself.
To be credible, followers of the religion of Islam really need to step up to the plate and show a skeptical world that it is as "peaceful and tolerant" as it claims.
How many Protestant Churches are there in Islamic Majority countries today ?
Any Lutheran churches in Mecca ? I rest my case.
And that my friends is something to think about.
Larry Loeschen


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2013 Update: Replanting Our Nation's Forests
These 2013 stories are here for archive purposes. Visit our latest stories.
For more than 20 years, the Arbor Day Foundation has been helping replant our Nation's Forests. In fact, we've helped plant over 42 million trees in forests that have been damaged by fire, insects, and disease. 2013 is no exception. Here are a few examples of how the contributions of our members and supporters are making a positive impact on our world this year. There are many more.
Bayfield County Forest
Bayfield County Forest is a 167,000-acre public forest in northern Wisconsin -- one of 29 county forests in the state which total 2.4 million acres.
Boise National Forest
The mountainous landscape of Boise National Forest lies just to the northeast of Boise, Idaho. More than 2.6 million acres of forest naturally protect and filter the water that originates on the landscape.
Four Creeks State Forest
This forest serves an important role in the watershed management of northern Florida and the need to replant areas on the forest lost to wildfire are great. The goal, with help from our members and donors, is to help replant 131 acres of damaged areas that are critical to the area watershed and to the animals that dwell in the forest.
John Tully Wildlife Management Area
The John Tully Wildlife Management Area is a 15,500-acre haven for wildlife and is filled with a diverse population of bottomland hardwoods and swamp habitats.
Los Padres National Forest
Los Padres National Forest stretches more than 200 miles from north to south and encompasses 1.75 million acres of beautiful landscape in south-central California.
Manchester State Forest
The Manchester State Forest is a beautiful 25,000-acre expanse of trees, wildlife, swampland, and bays.
Naneum Ridge State Forest
Naneum Ridge State Forest is a 71,000 acre forest oasis of the central Cascade Mountains and also home to one of the largest elk herds in the state of Washington.
Payette Lakes State Forest
Payette Lake is a 5,330 acre expanse of clean, glacial water at an elevation of about 5,000 feet in the forests of Idaho.
North Carolina Sandhills
North Carolina's Coastal Plain contains vast stretches of longleaf pine forest ecosystems.
You can help repair damage to wildlife habitats. Read about our efforts in each and restore the awe-inspiring beauty of our state and national forests.Help Today


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Report: Next Iran nuclear talks to be in New York
April 20, 2014
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state news agency is reporting that the next round of expert-level talks over its contested nuclear program will be held in New York.
The report Sunday by the official ISNA news agency quotes Iran's senior nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as saying the talks will be held along the sidelines of a meeting about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May.
This would be the first time in years that Iran and the West would hold talks on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in New York.
Iran and world powers continue to negotiate a final deal over its nuclear program. Under an interim deal reached in November, Iran agreed to cap its nuclear program for the easing of some financial sanctions.
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A vegetarian diet is interpreted differently by people around the world. Therefore if a person informs you that they are vegetarian, you need to probe a bit further as they have various concepts on what a vegetarian diet constitutes. The foods that are allowed, or restricted, differ according to the person's perception and they should look for foods to substitute, so that they get the right nutrition that their bodies require. This is how they can succeed in keeping their weights down and leading healthier lives.
We give below a list of headings that are adopted by vegetarians who decide the type of foods that they would like to consume.
A Vegan is a person who does not eat any meats at all. They abstain from eating eggs, fish, all dairy products, meat and poultry. They even avoid any by-products that come from these sources. Some vegans will not even eat honey!
The Lacto-vegetarian consumes dairy products but will refrain from eating fish, poultry, meat or eggs. The Ovo-lacto-vegetarian will consume dairy products and some eggs but will avoid poultry, fish or meat.
If you are planning to switch over and becoming a vegetarian, consider these salient factors, if you wish to lose weight, before you change your diet plan. Do not give up eating meat suddenly, especially if you have been partial to meat in your diet till now. Slowly make a transition from eating non-vegetarian meat to becoming a vegetarian. Do this by increasing the days you do not eat meat slowly by introducing a vegetable delicacy, such as a stir fry as replacement.
Once you get used to not eating meat at every meal, you can look at substitutes and opt for versions such as fake ground beef or faux chicken to


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Although around for a few years now, the Wally 118 is nothing short of sensational, still able to turn heads amongest super yachts lined up in Monaco. Her design is futuristic and simplistic to the eye but underneath she oozes technological advances that are still not seen on some of today's newly launched super yachts.
Luca Bassani's Wally Yachts are not just an exercise in styling, it is in fact driven by some of the most demanding technical challenges ever taken on by a boatbuilder.
Genuinely new and high-tech, from her engine room to her folding radar mast, the Wallypower 118 has carbon, glass, and honeycomb construction, a superbly minimalist Euro interior by Lazzarini & Pickering, and a nearly 60-knot top speed. Scale models were tank tested at SSPA in Sweden and in Ferrari's wind tunnel at Marinello, Italy. Intermarine, the renowned warship builder, built her. As a conscious re-evaluation of what express motoryachts should be like, she's entitled to look a little out of the ordinary.
The 118 is an express motoryacht with berths for six guests in three en suite staterooms and six crew, and her accommodations are arranged symmetrically on each side of a straight, central corridor in that unique angular hull. The tender garage—in the bow—is revealed when a triangular section of the foredeck lifts, dead level, on three hydraulic rams. Just forward of the superstructure is an inset seating area, which can be shaded by a bimini top. That mysterious glass-sided deckhouse shelters a capacious saloon aft, with white upholstery, plain wood surfaces, and a seductive, beach-house ambience. The dining table sits amidships, just aft of the helm, made of carbon fiber.
The 118 has a CODOG (combined diesel or gas) propulsion system—jet engines for speed, diesels for everything else—common on small warships, but rare on yachts this give her the ability to hit that magic 60knot mark with ease.
While gas turbines offer tremendous power-to-weight benefits (3.6 hp per pound in the TF50s), they do have a downside, as one British Harrier pilot discovered not long ago in 100-plus-degree conditions in the Persian Gulf, when his breathless aircraft landed in the sea beside the carrier. Although the Wallypower is unlikely to suffer such drastic consequences, jet-engine output typically declines by about 0.5 percent for every 1ºF increase in air temperature.
The Wallypower uses three DDC TF50s (maritime cousins of the Chinook helicopter engine) driving three KaMeWa waterjets. Their 5,600 hp is calibrated at a lab temperature of 59°F—a little different from an August afternoon in Florida. However hot it gets, though, the 118 should always be able to cruise at 40 knots without effort. Not many 100-footers can make that claim.
There is a more conventional engine option as well: twin 3,650-hp MTU 4000 V16 diesels, which Bassani claims will give the boat a 45-knot top speed and around a 40-knot cruise speed. Go for these, and you'll also save about $8 million on the asking price (which is $16.55 million when the yacht is equipped with twin diesels, $24.83 million as tested above, with triple gas turbines).
It seems though that Wally only ever produced one fully operational 118, there is speculation that they produced another 2 hulls in preparation for orders for the yacht, however to date they don't seem to have happened.
If you know of more than one Wally 118 out there please let us know.
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text: LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets showed upbeat moves in early action on Wednesday, recouping from the prior day's steep losses, which came after inconclusive election results in Italy stoked fears of political instability in the euro zone. Investors also took inspiration from Asia and the U.S., where bourses gained after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the central bank's quantitative-easing policy. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +1.24% rose 0.3% to 285.34, after dropping 1.3% on Tuesday. Bouygues SA EN, +2.07% climbed 7.4% after a well-received earnings report, while shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev ABI, +1.33% BUD, +1.77% fell 1.1%, as the brewer reported a drop in fourth-quarter profit. Among country-specific indexes, France's CAC 40 index PX1, +1.22% gained 0.7% to 3,645.46, while Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, +1.31% put on 0.6% to 7,639.83. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.71% rose 0.4% to 6,297.63.


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Consumer Benefit
Q Colour
See full colour in the latest movies. Only Samsung QLED is certified to deliver 100% colour volume*, making movie nights spectacular and enabling you to experience the sport as if you're in the stadium. See over a billion colours and shades brought to life. Samsung's QLED technology, unlike other technologies, is able to transform light into breath-taking colour without degradation over time.
* 100% colour volume measured to DCI-P3 standard, certified by VDE.
Q Contrast
Finally a TV that delivers bold contrast night and day, with extremely low light reflectivity for exceptional viewing in all conditions. Clever analysis and management of bright spots allows the precise amount of light to be output ensuring that blacks are deeper and whites are brighter. With almost no light reflectivity, QLED TVs deliver an incredible picture and impeccable contrast. Never miss a moment of your favourite sport, even with the sunlight streaming through the window. Brighter whites and deeper darker blacks make every colour pop on screen.
Q HDR 1500 powered by HDR 10+
Only Samsung delivers exceptional detail as the creators intended with HDR 1500. Never miss the detail in the dark shadows of a horror movie, or the bright sun filled scenes of the latest sci-fi. QLED technology delivers the highest brightness levels from any TV to date. With HDR 10+ each frame of your movie or show is optimised to ensure the picture delivered to your screen is as detailed as in the real world.
Ambient Mode
Finally a TV that removes the big black screen, seamlessly blending into the room with Ambient Mode. Ambient Mode elevates your living room with decorative content, useful information, your own photos and can mimic the texture of the wall behind it. It can even play a bit of light background music if you want it to.
One Near-Invisible Cable
Only Samsung allows you to design your space free from clutter with one near-invisible optical cable for all your connections, so you place your TV anywhere you want it in your room. QLED TVs make wall mounting a breeze with just the Near-Invisible Cable connected, there's no longer a mess of wires to hide. You can even plug all your multimedia devices into the One Connect Box shut in a cupboard, leaving you with a stylish, minimalistic living space to enjoy.
One Connect Box
Hide all your devices out of sight with the One Connect Box and enter the minimalist living space of tomorrow. Say goodbye to messy cables and the clutter caused by multiple devices. Hide the box from view, connect all your devices and inputs then control them via Bluetooth even when they're shut away in a cupboard.
360° Design
Stylish minimalistic design from every angle. Discover a boundless 360° design with our most impressive TV yet. Experience minimalistic style from every angle with a stunning clean back and a near bezel-less design that pushes your picture to the limit. Every inch has been thoughtfully crafted from premium materials.
One Remote Control
Control all of your compatible devices and content with the One Remote Control. You no longer need multiple remotes lined up on your coffee table. Your One Remote allows you to multi-task with simplicity, changing channels on your set-top box, playing the latest blockbuster on your Ultra HD Blu-ray player, ramping up the volume on your Soundbar or simply surfing the web on the big screen.
Smart Hub
Easy access to all your content and connected devices from one place*. Discover must-have entertainment through Samsung's intuitive 2018 Smart Hub. From late-night Netflix marathons to bingeing on UHD box sets, you're only ever 3 clicks from your favourite content. Experience Samsung Smart TV, the most awarded TV brand for user-friendly in 2017**.
*The Samsung Smart TV platform is used by Content Providers to make apps available. Content Providers may remove apps from the Smart TV platform or stop supporting them at any time. When new Samsung Smart TV products are launched, there may be a delay before the apps become available on those products.
**Source: Cision (most awards received from a set list of TV/AV media titles between January and December 2017)
Universal Guide
Finally a TV with everything in one place. With Smart TVs, there's just so many shows to choose from. But don't waste time surfing through everything. Our Universal Guide recommends popular shows and content tailored just for you, meaning you can watch more of what you love. Spend less time searching, more time viewing.
SmartThings App
Watch your shows on the go and when you get home, pick up where you left off on your QLED TV. Effortlessly connect your compatible mobile device with your TV to stream the latest viral sensation*. Take your entertainment with you as you move around the house. Sync and share your content to your mobile, TV, and even your refrigerator and across all your Samsung Devices via Samsung Cloud. Control your home devices direct from your new QLED TV. Got laundry on the go? A pop up message on the corner of your TV screen can tell you when it's done. You can even search for your favourite content without disturbing what you're watching. So relax and enjoy the show.
*Compatible phone and app required.
**Exact functionality may change at any time and be withdrawn from the product without notice.
Easy Set-up
Only Samsung can offer comprehensive set-up in just a few simple steps. Your TV and mobile* will automatically connect and your mobile will share your Wi-Fi link with the TV. If your mobile is linked to a Samsung Account, it will automatically be shared with your TV: no additional login required. On your mobile, choose the apps** you want to see on your TV's Smart Hub, share and you're done!
*Compatible phone and download required of SmartThings app
**Limited apps integration will be available from launch
Voice Assistant
Our intelligent voice assistant now enables you to interact with your TV. Holding the dedicated microphone button on your One Remote Control allows you to control a plethora of features on the new QLED TV. Simply ask it to change channel, volume or even search YouTube for the latest viral sensation.
Samsung TV Plus
Experience easy access to the latest UHD movies via your TV guide in addition to all your traditional TV channels. Now you have access to great UHD content right out of the box. Whether you're searching for UHD content or browsing for the latest Hollywood blockbuster, expand your viewing options through a wealth of additional Smart channels with Samsung TV Plus.
Q Style Accessories
Personalise your experience. Effortlessly mount your QLED TV flush to your living room wall using the No Gap Wall Mount in no time at all. Alternatively, use either of the uniquely iconic Samsung Tower or Studio stands to display your QLED TV proudly*. Design your space to suit your style and embrace entertainment like never before.
*Wall mounts and stands sold separately.
Supreme Motion
Samsung's Supreme Motion technology provides our best motion yet meaning there's no juddering of footballs, just beautiful goals. You will never miss the on screen action again.
Q Engine
Q Engine, brings you 100% colour volume and delivers it in the most accurate way possible for lifelike picture quality you have to see to believe.
UHD Upscaling
View content with unparalleled picture quality. UHD Upscaling is a unique four-step picture improvement process that enables the clarity and detail of standard and high definition content to be enhanced to the best it can possibly be. Experience premium picture quality, whatever you want to watch.
Ultra Black
See every detail with spectacular black levels. Ultra Black technology provides clever analysis and management of bright spots, which allows the precise amount of light to be output ensuring that blacks are deeper and whites are brighter. Experience incredible shadow detail when watching your favourite films or indulging yourself with the latest box sets.
10 Year Screen Burn Warranty
Screen burn is a permanent defect on the TV display that is caused by having static images on the screen over a period of time, sometimes even as little as one hour. Content that might cause this could be channel logos, news tickers, black bars from movies or head-up displays on games. Only Samsung can offer a 10 year screen burn warranty*. QLED TVs are composed of inorganic material that provide consistently bright and vivid image quality for years to come.
*Participants must register for the 10 year screen burn warranty within 90 days of purchase, Terms and conditions apply. See www.samsung.com/uk/screen-burn for details.
Q Viewing Angle
Make every seat a great seat with amazingly wide viewing angles. Enjoy watching the game, ensuring everyone gets a great seat. From the middle of the sofa to the armchair in the corner, everyone's seat delivers a great view.
Stream and play world famous games in an instant on your TV with cloud gaming, Steam Link and with optimised game modes*. Access the latest titles and play old favourites through cloud gaming without the need for a console. Use Steam Link to take your PC gaming to the big screen and use gaming modes that have our lowest lag times to date. Turn your front room into your own personal arcade, and take gaming to the next level!
Seamlessly recognise and listen to any background music. Whether it's a catchy tune on an advert or a soundtrack in a movie, our QLED TV is smart enough to seamlessly find the name of a song and the music service where it's available from.
Twin Tuners and Pause Live TV functionality
Take control of how you watch TV with Samsung's Pause Live TV functionality*. And with twin-tuners, there's no more arguments over who watches what - simply watch one channel whilst you record another.
*To use Pause Live TV functionality additional purchase necessary of an external memory device is required.
Tech Spec
|Samsung TVs
|Screen type
|Screen resolution
|3840 x 2160
|Screen size
|55 inches
|PQI (Picture Quality Index)
|Is it 4K?
|Yes, 4K
|Yes, Q HDR 1500
|Backlit or Edgelit
|10 Bit Panel
|Curved screen or soundbar
|Is it 3D?
|Television tuner
|Twin Freeview HD, Twin Freesat HD
|Speaker Configuration
|Integrated stereo speakers and subwoofer
|Number of channels
|Total power rating
|Dolby Atmos
Inputs and Outputs
|HDMI connections
|4 in
|Optical connections
|1 out
|USB connections
|Is it Smart?
|Compatible with Sky Q?
|Web Browser
|Screen Mirroring
|Catch Up services
|BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD, Demand 5
|Pay video services
|Mubi, Netflix, Amazon, NOW TV
|Gaming services
|Remote Control
|Remote control included
|Stand included
|Wall bracket included
|No, optional bracket available
Power Rating
|Energy Rating
|To be confirmed
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