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Metronomes: 10 of the best
A metronome is any device that produces a regulated aural, visual or tactile pulse to establish a steady tempo in the performance of music. It is a useful practice tool for musicians that dates back to the early 19th century.
The word metronome first appeared in English c.1815 and is Greek in origin:
metron = measure, nomos = regulating
Ludwig van Beethoven was the first notable composer to indicate specific metronome markings in his music, in 1817.
Mechanical metronomes
One common type of metronome is the mechanical metronome which uses an adjustable weight on the end of a pendulum (also known as a double-weighted pendulum) rod to control the tempo: The weight is slid up the pendulum rod to decrease tempo, or down to increase tempo. The pendulum swings back and forth in tempo, while a mechanism inside the metronome produce a clicking sound with each oscillation.
Electronic metronomes
Most modern metronomes are electronic and use a quartz crystal to maintain accuracy, comparable to those used in wristwatches. The simplest electronic metronomes have a dial or buttons to control the tempo; some also produce tuning notes, usually around the range of A440 (440 hertz). Sophisticated metronomes can produce two or more distinct sounds. Tones can differ in pitch, volume, and/or timbre to demarcate downbeats from other beats, as well as compound and complex time signatures.
Many electronic musical keyboards have built-in metronome functions.
Software metronomes
Metronomes now exist in software form, either as stand alone applications or often in music sequencing and audio multitrack software packages. In recording studio applications, such as film scoring, a software metronome is often used to generate a click track to synchronize musicians.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — It's hard to tell if Tyler Seguin's tougher task for Thursday will be trying to score against the Toronto Maple Leafs or trying to convince some of his closest friends to change allegiances from the Leafs to the Bruins.
The Brampton, Ontario native grew up rooting for the Blue and White, but obviously last June's draft and the contract he signed with the Bruins made quick work of his transformation. Some of those close to Seguin, however, have been harder to convince.
"I'll probably just send them some nice text messages to try to get them on my side," said Seguin this week after a practice in preparation for Thursday night's Toronto-Boston clash at TD Garden.
That Seguin made the NHL roster out of training camp and is still around for this first installment of Kessel Mania 2010-11 is an accomplishment in itself. He's now two thirds of the way through his nine-game stint that'll determine whether he sticks around Boston or heads back to Plymouth of the OHL. Once he plays a 10th NHL game, Seguin starts the countdown on his entry-level contract. While no one among the Bruins' decision-making brass is tipping its hand about whether he'll stay or go, Seguin seems to think he belongs.
"[It's gone] good. I've improved a lot and I feel comfortable and confident every day more and more. So it definitely feels good," said Seguin.
His one-goal, two-assist performance through six games hasn't overwhelmed anyone, but he has created numerous other scoring chances and come along defensively. The sure money is still on Seguin sticking around. Torching the Leafs and convincing more Ontario natives to switch over rooting interest from Toronto to Boston could go a long way toward earning him permanent residence in the Hub.

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Secondary: Blue (as a disguise); Red
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|Pawn shop owner
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|Lux (formerly)
Galt (formerly)
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|Mark Boone Junior
|TRON: Uprising
Kobol was a minor character in TRON: Uprising.
Kobol was a gang leader in Purgos, operating out of a pawn shop. He not only dealt in stolen identity discs, but strung along any programs that would come asking about their missing dics, waiting until they became strays so he could turn them in to Clu's forces for repurposing.
He came into possession of Beck's disc when it was sold to him by Galt. When Tron, disguised, came to Purgos with Beck in search of the disc, Kobol agreed to meet them nearby after he inquired about the disc elsewhere. As Tron and Beck left the shop, they were attacked by a disguised Kobol and his gang, but were saved by the arrival of Lux. When Galt was cornered by the trio, Kobol derezzed him by stabbing him through the chest with his identity disc. After escaping on his light cycle, Kobol met up with Lux, who had been manipulating the memory-impaired Beck, and prepared to turn him in to General Tesler.
While awaiting the recognizer that would take Beck away, Kobol battled Tron, gaining the upper hand when Beck turned on Tron and held him at bay with Kobol's staff. When Tron removed his helmet and caused Beck's memories to resurface, Kobol attacked him but was unable to overpower him. Resolving to capture him at any cost, Kobol handcuffed himself to Beck, intending to trap him there until the recognizer landed, but was struck and derezzed by Lux's disc before the craft could land.
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Kobol's skills with weaponry such as his identity and staff are noteworthy. He was able to battle and hold his own against Tron, the legendary hero of the Grid, for quite some time and was later able to overpower the former System Monitor, most likely due to the fact that the latter was already severely weakened. He's also able to fight with two identity discs.
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She does it "to feel empowered" Marie, 24, here in a park near her home in Seattle
It was a hot, humid evening two days before her twenty-third birthday, and Amy,* a part-time media intern, had the post-college blues. "I needed a real job and a real apartment—I felt more bored, angst-y and lonely than I'd ever had in my life," she says. That night, Amy clicked away from the New York City rental listings on Craigslist to the Casual Encounters section, a posting board for men and women, many of whom are seeking no-strings sex. "A lot of my friends had used it," says Amy. "But I'd never had the guts. Now I thought, Why not me?" So she typed in a single line referencing one of her favorite books, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying: "Looking for a Zipless F—k, Do You Know What That Means?" Then she took a deep breath and hit "post."
Within minutes, dozens of responses flooded in—some salacious, some sincere, some horribly misspelled. With every one, Amy's adrenaline surged: What could happen with him, she wondered. Or him? "First," says Amy, "I deleted the responses without pictures. Then I picked a young-looking guy who lived down the street and told him I was coming over. Even as I wrote to him, I didn't believe I'd do it. But after pacing around my room for a while, I decided, screw it, I'm going to make something happen in my life.
"Ten minutes later, I'm in a stranger's apartment undressing him. It was surreal, but I told myself it was just like online dating, only more to the point, and more empowering."
Hookup or "casual dating" websites like Fling, Sex Search, OnlineBootyCall, AdultFriendFinder, HotorNot, and the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist work a lot like traditional dating sites, only they're much more risqué. On AdultFriendFinder, for example, users check off what they're into: "1-on-1 Sex," "Discreet Relationship," "Erotic Chat/E-mail/Phone Fantasies" or "Group Sex." Forget waiting until the third date; forget dating altogether. Most users on these sites just want to hook up, and they're fueling a booming trend.
The sites are so popular, in fact, that they often outperform mainstream dating sites—by a lot. Match.com, a traditional dating site, had 5 million unique visitors in May. AdultFriendFinder, by comparison, had nearly 24 million, and Fling (where any straight female who logs on is greeted by live videos of men masturbating) followed just behind, with 18 million. Statistics show that nearly half of these users are women, mostly in their twenties, thirties and early forties. But who are these women really? Not who you might think. In interview after interview, Glamour learned that, for the most part, they are articulate, thoughtful, even shy—just normal young women who think a quick fix of insta-sex is well worth the risks.
Tragically, it's not always that simple. In April, 25-year-old Julissa Brisman, a part-time student, was killed in a Boston hotel room—allegedly by a 23-year-old medical student who had responded to her post on the (now dismantled) Erotic Services section of Craigslist. Certainly, Brisman's dating experience wasn't typical—she was a "masseuse," offering a service. But it would be naive to assume that the risks she undertook don't exist for the millions of women using these sites. And yet a representative from OnlineBootyCall—which has 50,000 new female users a month—reports a 5 percent increase in female members since Brisman's death. The obvious question is: Why are so many young women—your colleagues, your neighbors, your study partners, perhaps even your close friends—living this perilous double life?
"I wanted sex without the rules"
Suzanne, 25, a legal secretary in Washington, D.C., explains it this way: "Craigslist helped me get over a breakup. Those two years were my crazy, promiscuous phase!" Suzanne would post an ad, pick a guy and meet him at Starbucks. Then, if she liked him, they'd go back to his place. "My favorite was a hot lawyer with a city apartment," Suzanne says. "I remember he played Rachmaninoff and had world maps on his walls, but I called the shots. He did what I wanted. If you don't let yourself get used or abused, it can be a great tool."
Like Suzanne, many users have a (maybe misguided) confidence that they hold all the power. Marie, 24, who works at an arts nonprofit in Seattle and authors the cheekily titled blog I'm a Craigslist Dating Whore, says the sites give her control. She tried monogamy in college. "It just wasn't me," she says. "One boyfriend treated me badly; I never wanted to feel that again. I wanted to feel empowered." So Marie went online, and she's still there. "I'll say something like, Hi, I'm looking for a nice guy to meet. I'm Asian and 24, and I like boxing, video games and good food.' I keep it basic. Guys don't care what you write anyway; they just want to see the photo." Once, she posted an ad saying she just wanted to cuddle. About 50 men responded within a day, but Marie never kids herself about their intentions. "The rule is he's just not that into you."
Tammi, 32, a photographer in Houston, developed a "compulsive" hookup habit in her twenties. "Where I live it's pretty traditional," she explains. "At a bar, any assertiveness from a woman would be a turn-off. But not online." There, on a casual-dating site, she met Jack. They e-mailed for a couple of months before she got in her car one day and drove four hours to meet him. "I told no one where I was going. In retrospect, I should have worried, but the spontaneity was the sexiest part." When she got there, she wasn't attracted to him—but they still had sex. "I felt icky after," she says. "I realized I'd disconnected from myself, and drove home in shock."
Crazy. Disconnected. Compulsive. They're familiar words to addiction counselors like Kelly McDaniel, author of Ready to Heal: Women Facing Love, Sex, and Relationship Addiction. McDaniel has counseled dozens of women who, like Tammi in her heyday, are hooked on hooking up. "For men, the problem tends to be Web porn," says McDaniel. "For women, it's usually the compulsive use of online forums to find sex partners. Most say they get a rush from sleeping with a stranger. But what they don't understand is the rush may be largely fear. If you mix the chemicals involved with fear [adrenaline and norepinephrine] and those involved with sexual arousal [serotonin and dopamine], you create the most potent cocktail the brain can handle. And with the Internet, you can sip that cocktail anytime."
For Amy, who used Craigslist to search for her "zipless f—k," that cocktail was intoxicating. "I went back again and again," she says. Casual Encounters quickly became a way for her to explore new areas of her sexuality: the threesome she'd always fantasized about, "a little light bondage and handcuffs, nothing hard-core." Amy knows now that her hookup phase wasn't just about exploring, though. "I had self-esteem issues," she says. "I'd gone from 170 pounds to 130 pounds that year, and I was test-driving my new body. I would get more nervous that a guy might meet me and not want to have sex than that he'd hurt me. I know that sounds crazy." The more Amy experimented, though, the less she enjoyed regular dates, and the less she confided in her more conventional friends. "I wanted sex without the rules," she says. "With Craigs%list guys, there were no expectations, no disappointments. That is, until I fell for one when I was 24. I asked him if he'd consider dating, and he said no, he wasn't looking for a girlfriend. I was devastated—and angry that I'd let myself become so vulnerable. After that, I had one last hookup, but suddenly it seemed so desperate and sad."
"Secretly, I'm trying to find a husband"
For all their sexual bravado, could it be that what these women are really seeking is good old-fashioned love? "In many cases, yes," says Laura Sessions Stepp, author of Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both and host of sexreally.com, a sex and relationships discussion forum for young women. "They may think sex is all they want—and for some it is—but they may find they want more. I see a lot of women trying to deny their need for connectedness. But our ability to connect is a strength, not a weakness."
"I fully admit that I'm on Fling to find sex—and more," says Kira, 31, a divorced single mom in a small Pennsylvania town. Kira's Fling profile is a study in contradictions: "I want to be a man's priority, not his option," she writes, and then, "Seriously, just leave the pieces when u go…. I'll be fine!" After multiple on-site exchanges with guys that interest her, she arranges babysitting for her daughter and meets up for dates. "I've met some very sweet guys," says Kira. "I've also met some real jerks that think they can send lewd messages. But I don't invite that. A simple Hello, I think ur hot' will do. Unlike many women, I post only clothed pictures. We as women have worked so hard to get where we are today. If we have to pose nude to get a man's attention, what was all of that for?"
It's an almost poignant question, considering the acres of skin on display on Fling—everything from cleavage to out-and-out crotch shots. Sex educator Logan Levkoff, Ph.D., hypothesizes that women aren't choosing to meet men this way because they're empowered but—get this—because they're shy. "My biggest worry," says Levkoff, "is that we are creating a generation of tech-savvy women who have no idea how to communicate in a real relationship. Expressing yourself on-screen seems easier—he can't see you blushing or crying. Then, when you find yourself face-to-face with a real partner, you may not be able to deal."
So can an online hookup turn into love for women like Kira? That seems unlikely when you talk to self-proclaimed "sexaholic" Steve, a 30-year-old man who says he's had sex with 100 women he's met via Match, HotorNot, Bangme and even eBay (where a woman sold him a record, then personally delivered it): "My perception of relationships has been so skewed by the Internet," says Steve. "And a lot of the women seem to have it backward too. I'll say I'm just looking for a hookup, but sex is what they use to connect. Often, they want a relationship." That's why, Steve says, he travels out of state to hook up. "You know there won't be any expectation of commitment."
"Of course the guys trolling Hotornot are commitmentphobes!" says Beth, 31, a real estate agent in New York. "That's why I use good old Match, even if I'm just in the mood for sex. I go on dates and sleep with the ones I like. Secretly, I'm trying to find a husband, but don't tell! I love meeting men this way. My job is clear: Be open-minded, sexy and fearless. His job? The man who brings me the most pleasure wins."
Listening to Beth, it sounds like a thrilling game. But her hookups haven't all been so lighthearted. "Once I answered an e-mail from a foreign filmmaker," says Beth. "Expecting Mr. Sexy-Accent Guy, I arrived at the bar only to find a man much older than his picture, with no accent. He looked freaky, very tall, physically imposing. Two martinis later, though, I was sitting on his lap." He took Beth home and pushed her down onto the bed aggressively. She wondered whether she should have been there, but she admits it was exciting. Then things got weird: "He bound me, blindfolded me and spanked me, all while snarling like a wounded animal," she says. "I don't know what would have happened if I'd screamed at him to stop, but for whatever reason—too many drinks, the rush—I didn't. I do know I never want to see him again."
Beth's experience hasn't dampened her enthusiasm for what she calls "adventurous" dating. But experts like Stepp are concerned about the emotional repercussions for women like her. "I don't think we know the answer to how women process these experiences," says Stepp. "Technology has given us new ways to be sexual, but no new understanding of how to cope."
The dilemma, of course, wasn't born with the Internet. Thirty-two years ago, the film Looking for Mr. Goodbar—about a mousy teacher who ends up dead when she tries to create some excitement in her life by having sex with strangers she meets in bars—shook American women to the core. It launched a heated national debate about whether the sexual revolution had truly empowered women, or just let men take better advantage of them. Today, Stepp wishes we'd have the same debate about the new online-hookup culture: "It's relatively anonymous, so women think they're in control. But it's that anonymity that makes them less safe."
Paige Padgett, Ph.D., a sexual health researcher at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, adds that while the Internet can be a tool for sexual empowerment, "these sites bring people together so fast it can be a scary deal, and one of the greatest dangers may be to women's sexual health." A study Padgett conducted in conjunction with seven online dating sites found that an unbelievable 77 percent of women who'd had sex with men they'd met online did not use condoms on the first encounter. "These women believe they have cultivated an intimate relationship," Padgett explains. "If they've exchanged 20 e-mails and he tells her he's STD-free, that's going to sound more trustworthy than it would coming from someone she's just met in a bar. But either way, you don't know this guy."
"Then he handcuffed me and left me there"
Thankfully, none of the women who Glamour talked to said they'd been seriously physically harmed, and none would admit to practicing unsafe sex. But, like Beth, they did describe some pretty questionable encounters. There was Suzanne, of the Craigslist "crazy phase," who admitted, "I got some verbal abuse from guys I didn't want to sleep with." And Laura, 25, an aspiring model who used to wear a knife clipped to her belt for protection, who said, "I walked into one guy's apartment, and he said he had no way of knowing if I was a serial killer. He wanted me to take the knife off, but I wouldn't." And Amy, who once found herself alone in a stranger's bedroom: "Then he handcuffed me and left me there," she says. "The 10 minutes he was gone felt like forever. I was outside my body, like it wasn't happening." But it was.
Perhaps the most frightening what-if scenario of all comes from Steve, the guy who told Glamour he knows every hookup site under the sun. Roguish, "I'll drive to another state to avoid commitment" Steve. Turns out even he's looking for something more. And when he thought he'd found it with a smart, pretty 25-year-old he'd met online, she turned the tables. "We'd been talking, texting and chatting for two or three weeks, and I was into her before I even got there," remembers Steve. "After we had sex, I told her I had feelings for her and I didn't want to leave, and she said something like, Look, you were just here to f—k me. Now get out.' I was like, Wow, now I know how they all feel! And it was so bad, so awful, I remember looking at her and thinking, Why are you even still alive? Because I really want to kill you right now!" He was joking, being melodramatic. But the comment chills when one thinks of the Craigslist killing—and two more recent alleged attacks. In both cases, it seems the guy may have just snapped. One New Jersey woman claims she was choked and sexually assaulted after refusing to be videotaped; the other, from Virginia, claims she was kidnapped. "We get situations where there's online contact and there's an assault," confirms Bergen County, New Jersey, prosecutor John Molinelli. "They're frequent and common. [With online hookups], if you've got boundaries, I don't know how you're going to enforce them."
Parry Aftab, a lawyer specializing in Internet privacy and security law and the executive director of wiredsafety.org, often hears from women who've let their guards down and paid the price. "Last year we saw a spike in cyber-dating abuses," says Aftab. "We helped authorities with the case of one woman who showed up at a guy's apartment and opened her coat to reveal lingerie. Then two other guys came out of the bedroom and grabbed her. Somehow, she got away, but we've heard many stories where that's not the case."
Millions of sexually daring young women, millions of stories still playing out. They can't all end happily, but everyone deserves to be safe. Marie, the blogger from Seattle, has some straight-from-the-trenches wisdom for her fellow casual daters: "You have to be careful," she says. "I usually e-mail or talk on the phone for a couple days to a week before meeting guys. It's important to hear their voice. Waiting keeps my instincts good." When she does hook up, Marie says she uses condoms, plus spermicide, plus the Pill, plus she gets tested for STDs twice a year. While she seems to have her sexual health figured out, Marie says she's still using her blog to "grapple with how to understand my lifestyle and choices."
Amy, who's now happily writing a book, training for a triathlon and dating "traditionally," thinks Marie is brave for blogging openly about her lifestyle. "Other girls [doing this] could use the camaraderie and guidance," says Amy. "It's a lonely experience. I just kept asking myself: What am I really looking for? And how many strangers' ceilings am I going to have to memorize before I find it? I'm so glad that I don't even feel a tug of wanting that life anymore." Not long ago, one of the guys Amy met during the height of her hookup phase called her cell. She picked up. "I told him, I don't live in the same town anymore. I moved. Sorry.' And, in a way, it was true."
Genevieve Field is a * Glamour contributing editor.*
* Names have been changed.
if you meet anyone online…
Even on match.com (and certainly on "casual dating" sites), follow these stay-safe Dos and Don'ts from Parry Aftab, executive director of wiredsafety.org, and Jennifer Wilson, hotline director for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.
DON'T give out your personal info (full name, address, cell number).
DO talk before meeting. Call him from a private line that won't appear on his caller ID. His voice will tell you a lot.
DON'T assume anything he said online was true. (In one study, 81 percent of online daters admitted to lying in their profiles.)
DO meet in public the first time, someplace you know well (not his turf).
DO tell someone where you're going, or bring a friend with you.
DON'T decide to sleep with a guy before you've met, no matter how intimate you've been online. If he expects it and you're not 100 percent game, say, "I've enjoyed meeting you online, but I want to take this part slow." And if you do sleep with him…
DO practice safe sex!


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STOCKTON - You may have seen the signs around town - handmade reward posters offering $10,000 for information leading to "the conviction of these coward(s)" responsible for the unsolved shooting death of David Lewis Jr. more than two years ago.
STOCKTON - You may have seen the signs around town - handmade reward posters offering $10,000 for information leading to "the conviction of these coward(s)" responsible for the unsolved shooting death of David Lewis Jr. more than two years ago.
Lewis, 34 at the time of his death June 11, 2011, was shot three times about 2 a.m. on a sidewalk about a block from his home in central Stockton. The father of five was out at that hour because, according to his mother and aunt, he had just had an argument with his girlfriend. His family believes he was walking to a friend's house for a ride or was going to walk the entire two miles to his mother's home in south Stockton to spend the night.
Lewis was struck while walking in front of a closed liquor store at North California and East Park streets, according to what his family was able to piece together. Police investigators have provided them with scant information, and even less has been made publicly available in the case still considered active.
Without a cellphone, the mortally wounded Lewis - known as "Cutty" to many of his friends - managed to leave the shooting scene, making it several blocks away to the 600 block of East Fremont Street. There, he knocked on a stranger's door before collapsing.
The resident called 911 and first responders discovered Lewis deceased on the front porch. Police acknowledged that the family's account was correct, but they would not provide any other details.
"This case remains unsolved, and our investigators are encouraging anyone who has information to contact the Police Department," spokesman Officer Joe Silva said.
Lewis' family believes that rather than run wounded toward his home, where children were present, Lewis went in the opposite direction in case he was being followed. They said Lewis was not in a gang and they don't believe robbery was a motive because he was found with his wallet and a backpack containing a laptop computer.
Devastated by her son's homicide and the lack of information forthcoming on his killer or killers, Rachel Vargas, 52, and her sister, Theresa "Aunty Tassy" Baker, 54, and other family members made several reward posters. They have posted the signs around town during the good-weather months the past two years in the hope of generating information and interest surrounding Lewis' case. To date, no clues have been generated - at least none that police have shared with the family.
Signs are posted across California Street from the shooting scene, along Alpine Avenue just west of California Street and on the southeast corner of Center Street at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The family is in discussions now with a company offering billboard space. Baker said she is putting up the $10,000 reward herself for information leading to a murder conviction.
Vargas described her son as "the kind of person who always had you in mind and would bring you something. He was a real caring, loving person who would literally give you the shirt off his back. He was friends with everybody, even the homeless. He respected the elderly, always going up to them and saying, 'Can I help you?,' and would put their groceries in their car. He had jobs off and on."
Unemployed at the time of his death, Lewis, a graduate of Franklin High School, was living with his girlfriend and several children in an apartment in one of the city's most dangerous crime hotspots because her family owned the complex. Lewis expressed his discomfort with the neighborhood several times to his mother and aunt, they both said.
Baker has taken the lead among family members in keeping Lewis' case out in front of the public.
"We decided to do that because the police were so busy and there were so many homicides around that same time. Somebody is going to talk, somebody will want that money - one day. Maybe (the perpetrator will) feel guilty seeing those pictures," Baker said.
June 2011 saw 11 killings in and around Stockton, including a second homicide - that of Dominique Jones, 41 - on June 11, the same day Lewis was gunned down.
The family has hosted candlelight vigils in Lewis' memory every April 1, his birthday, and June 11. "It kind of helps everybody. We release balloons. I made candles with his picture on them. I'm going to keep that name alive," Baker said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Stockton Police Department Investigations Unit at (209) 937-8323 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600, where callers can remain anonymous. Citizens also may text information from their cellphones to CRIMES (274637) and type the keyword TIPSPD and then their tip or log on to the Stockton Police Department's Facebook page and click "Submit A Tip." In addition to the family's reward, Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000 for any information that may lead to an arrest.
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Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, full-time Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said today that advice columns written by her uncle for Ebony magazine in 1957-58 reveal a man who today would be regarded as a social conservative.
"In advising men and women on questions of personal behavior 50 years ago, Uncle Martin sounded no different than a conservative Christian preacher does now," said Dr. King. "He was pro-life, pro-abstinence before marriage, and based his views on the unchanging Word of the Bible. Today, Planned Parenthood would condemn Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as part of the 'religious right.'"
In advice columns written for the African American-oriented magazine, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told a young man who had impregnated his girlfriend and refused to marry her, resulting in a "crime," that he had made a "mistake." He urged another reader to abstain from premarital sex, noting that such activity was contributing "to the present breakdown of the family."
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of peace, justice, and most of all a man of God," added Dr. King. "Were he alive today, he would be working to secure peace and justice for those in the womb and healing for a nation that is still pained by over 50 million missing lives."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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Ben Revere and Jamey Carroll each had three hits and two RBIs and Josh Willingham also homered for the Twins, who have won 10 of 13 games.
Jimmy Rollins had four hits and two RBIs for the Phillies, who left 10 runners on base and couldn't overcome another poor start from Kyle Kendrick (2-6). The right-hander gave up six runs on eight hits with two walks and two strikeouts. He has a 7.80 ERA in his last three starts.
The injury-plagued Phillies fell to 29-34, 9½ games behind Washington in the NL East.
Joe Mauer added two hits and two RBIs for the Twins, who scored at least 10 runs for the third time in seven games, got up big early and then kept turning the Phillies back every time they started to close the gap.
Span started the Twins first inning with a home run to right field, his second of the season and fifth career leadoff homer.
The Twins tacked on four more in the second inning on Plouffe's two-run homer and base hits from Revere and Mauer to take a commanding 5-0 lead.
But the Phillies started chipping away, scoring four off Nick Blackburn (3-4) in the fourth inning, stringing three straight hits together to get the rally going. Rollins was in the middle of everything, starting the game with a single, picking up doubles in the third and fourth and getting a single and scoring on a base hit from Jim Thome, the slugger who reached the 600-homer plateau in a Twins uniform, in the sixth to cut Minnesota's lead to 8-7.
Willingham hit a solo home off of lefty Joe Savery in the sixth and Carroll drove in Plouffe with a single in the seventh for a little more breathing room.
The epitome of the Phillies' hard-luck season may have come in the seventh when the Twins had two on and two out and Revere at the plate. Revere popped a foul ball up along the third base line and Phillies third baseman Mike Fontenot gave chase.
Just as he was about to haul in the final out, a young boy reached up with his glove and snatched it away. The youngster was wearing a Phillies cap and Phillies jersey. Given new life, Revere poked a single through the right side of the infield to score Span to make it 11-7.
The offensive outburst helped the Twins overcome a shaky start from Blackburn, who lasted five innings. The right-hander gave up four runs on eight hits with two walks and a strikeout in his second start since coming off the disabled list.
NOTES: Willingham tipped his cap to his wife, Ginger, after crossing home plate in the sixth. Ginger tweeted that it was her birthday and she asked her hubby for a homer. ... Mauer picked up his 500th career walk in the seventh. ... Phillies 2B Chase Utley (knee) started a rehab assignment with Class-A Clearwater on Tuesday night. ... Phillies manager Charlie Manuel came out to argue with 2B umpire Manny Gonzalez in the fifth inning that Plouffe missed third base while scoring on a double from Carroll. ... The Twins held a moment of silence for former RHP Dave Boswell, who died at his home in Maryland on Monday. ... P.J. Walters (2-1, 4.42) will take the mound for Minnesota on Wednesday in Game 2 of the series against Phillies LHP Cole Hamels (8-3, 2.93).


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MOVIE REVIEW- Fight for Peace: Battle for Terra-ble
Their parents may have been conceived in a hippie commune, but today's kids don't want to watch movies about people sitting in a circle singing "Kumbaya."
Hence the hypocrisy of movies like Battle for Terra. It may help create a new generation of peaceniks with its simplistic message, "War bad. Peace good." But as the title indicates, much of its 75-minute narrative is devoted to videogame-styled armed conflict. If you don't pique adolescent boys' interest with war, you're not going to be able to sell them peace.
Marketing realities aside, Battle for Terra isn't a very good movie. In a twist on the usual "space invaders" plot, it's the survivors from a destroyed Earth who are looking to colonize another planet, taking it over by force.
The planet they choose is one they've named Terra (Latin for Earth, so they'll feel at home– if they speak Latin). It's a peaceful place, but, we eventually learn, it was not always so. The peace is maintained by totalitarian, if benevolent, rulers who dictate every detail of the people's lives.
Well, not people exactly. In this animated feature, the Terrians look like pale green sperm with big eyes. Typical of cheap computer animation, Terra is a world of surfaces with no texture; and like most science-fiction since 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hardware is more interesting than the lifeforms, human or Terrian.
Evan Rachel Wood voices our heroine, Mala (speaking of translations, why is the good girl named "Bad"?). She's a brilliant but rebellious teenager who ditches school with her boyfriend Senn (Justin Long) to go flying in primitive machines that look like Leonardo da Vinci meets H.G. Wells.
Speaking of Wells, an early mention of a kid with a cold suggests we may be in for a War of the Worlds ending, with a germ killing off the invaders; but that's a red herring, if it's even intentional.
Suddenly there's "a new god in the sky" over Terra. It's the Ark, the mother ship carrying the last of the human race. After an aerial dogfight, Mala rescues the pilot of the fighter plane she's downed, Lt. James Stanton (Luke Wilson), creating the only friendly dialogue between the opposing cultures. For comic relief, Jim's accompanied by a puppy-like robot named Giddy (David Cross).
The Ark is falling apart and has a limited amount of oxygen remaining. Sharing Terra is ruled out because Terrians breathe something else and the Earthlings will have to change the planet's atmosphere, killing its natives, to survive there. They have a gizmo that enables them to do this, which raises the question of why they don't use it on the Ark to increase their oxygen supply and buy them more time.
For that matter, Mala is able to build an oxygen tent for Jim at home. How come the grown-ups of two cultures can't be so resourceful?
Both sides have relatively reasonable leaders (Danny Glover and James Garner), but they're drowned out by the military coup-ing of Earth's General Hemmer (Brian Cox), who is glad to hear the Terrians know how to fight: "Then they'll die with honor."
The voice cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Chris Evans, Amanda Peet and some relatively big names in small roles: Mark Hamill, Rosanna Arquette, David Krumholtz, Ron Perlman, Danny Trejo, Beverly D'Angelo and Laraine Newman.
Will they give peace a chance, or will both sides lose the Battle for Terra? You'll have to see the movie to find out. If you do, you'll come away with an anti-war message and a bonus message about preserving our environment, so we won't have to move.
But perhaps the most important message to be gleaned from Battle for Terra is that it's possible to learn good lessons from bad movies.


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MORRISON, Colo. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday rallied thousands of supporters at the majestic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, casting his bid as a candidacy on the upswing and saying Democratic President Barack Obama's bid is waning.
Obama's promise of more of the same "is why he's slipping and it's why we're gaining," Romney told the cheering crowd of over 10,000 gathered in the open-air amphitheater cut into mountain rocks outside Denver.
Romney is working to project optimism, though polls show a close race in the final two weeks of the campaign.
"We're in the home stretch now, and I think the people of Colorado are going to get us all the way there," Romney said, looking out at a crowd that had been given colored t-shirts so they formed the shape of the Colorado state flag when viewed from afar.
At the amphitheater, known for hosting live music, rocks rose on either side of the crowd. The campaign lit them with blue lights and the Romney "R'' logo.
It was one of Romney's largest events to date. He's typically held campaign rallies at local small businesses, in town squares or even, in one instance, in a back parking lot of a wheelchair company. That was largely aimed at holding down costs.
With the election just two weeks away, though, the events are getting bigger — and more expensive. Red Rocks costs around $100,000 to rent for an evening.
As he walked to the microphone, Romney put his hand over his heart, thanked the crowd and marveled at the setting.
"You look at the handiwork of our creator," he said. "It's just overwhelming."
The amphitheater, though, is partly man made. Workers with the Works Progress Administration and other government agencies spent years building it into a public venue as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
The Red Rocks event came after a rally in Henderson, Nev., at another open-air amphitheater. Romney had the same message there, calling Obama the "status quo" president.
"We haven't heard an agenda from the president and that's why his campaign is taking on water and our campaign is full speed ahead," Romney said there.
He accused Obama of running a small campaign.
"He's been reduced to try to defend characters on 'Sesame Street' and ... word games of various kinds, and then misfired attacks after one another. You know the truth is that attacks on me are not an agenda," Romney said.
The pair of events were the beginning of an aggressive multistate swing that represents a significant uptick in the pace of campaigning. Through the end of the week, Romney had a packed schedule planned in the states most critical to his bid. He was set to fly back to Nevada for an event in Reno on Wednesday before touching down briefly in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Then he planned to overnight in Cincinnati ahead of a three-stop campaign swing in Ohio on Thursday. On Friday, he'll stop in Ames, Iowa, before turning right back around to spend the night in Akron, Ohio.
On Saturday, he'll be in Pensacola, Fla.
Romney's advisers have been particularly optimistic in recent days as polls have shown a close race in the critical battleground states. Aides say their internal data shows them even in Ohio, where Romney will spend three nights this week. With 18 electoral votes, it's critical to their hopes.
The schedule shows an intense effort to shore up Romney's support even in places where Obama seems to have advantages — Iowa and Nevada, for example — states that could make a difference in a close Electoral College contest.
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By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football Writer
A young Xavi Hernandez was weeping uncontrollably. It was May of 1992 and the 12-year-old from Terrassa had been told by his parents that he would not be allowed to travel to Wembley to watch his idol Pep Guardiola in the final of the European Cup for his beloved Barcelona.
Just over two decades on, Xavi was captain and Guardiola the coach as the Catalans claimed the trophy again; the two men stood together in London at that same stadium - they had come full circle. Guardiola had been Johan Cruyff's 'cerebral' midfielder in the Dream Team - an extension of the coach on the pitch. For Pep, that man was Xavi.
As a footballer, Guardiola was the pin-up player for the majority of the aspiring young prospects at La Masia. "Like most midfielders at Barcelona, my idol was Pep," Xavi has said. The two went on to become team-mates and are now great friends, but living in the club captain's then significant shadow made life very difficult indeed for a teenage Xavi and the constant comparisons with Guardiola almost forced the young man out of the Catalan club altogether.
"I had moved up to the first team at 17 or 18 and those comparisons made it a tough time," Xavi on Canal Plus. "I knew there was a person ahead of me [Guardiola], with whom I wouldn't be able to play too much."
In those early days, Xavi often came on to replace his idol and at times the two featured in the same side. At that point, however, the comparisons were unfavourable: Pep was in his prime, an established international and European Cup winner, the heartbeat and symbol of the Barcelona side. Xavi was a young man with undoubted potential, yet his media moniker - 'the next Guardiola' - only served to hinder his progress. And he almost left.
|GUARDIOLA v XAVI - THE STATISTICS
|470 games / 26 goals
|665 games / 79 goals
|47 games / 5 goals
|119 games /12 goals
|2 games / 1 goal
|14 games / 0 goals
|40 games / 0 goals
|133 games / 10 goals
| 1 Olympic Gold Medal
6 Spanish leagues
2 Copas del Rey
1 European Cup
1 Cup Winners' Cup
2 Uefa Super Cups
4 Spanish Supercopas
|1 World Cup
2 European Championships
6 Spanish leagues
2 Copas del Rey
3 Champions Leagues
2 Uefa Super Cups
2 Club World Cups
5 Spanish Supercopas
Luckily for Barcelona, he did not - and he has now played more games for the Catalan club than anyone else in the team's entire history. So has he eclipsed Guardiola? According to Pep, he has. "There is no comparison," the 42-year-old said while still coach at Camp Nou. "He is much better than I ever was. My virtue was to leave before he retired me. He does a lot of things better than I did."
Xavi's reply? "Pep knows how to motivate me - he is a good coach. He has always been a point of reference for me and he still is today."
Guardiola, meanwhile, also once told a journalist he would have no place in the current team. "These players are better than I ever was," he said. "I wouldn't get in this team."
That was probably a mixture of modesty and motivation, yet it is interesting to note that Xavi did not turn into quite the carbon copy of Guardiola that many had foreseen. And although there are similarities in their technique, as well as their influence in controlling games and their sway in the dressing room, their roles definitely differ.
|Like most of the midfielders at Barcelona, my idol was Pep Guardiola. He has always been a point of reference for me and he still is today.
- Xavi on Pep
Guardiola was the classic Barca No.4: a deep-lying, cerebral creator who would receive possession from his defensive colleagues and spread the ball around the pitch with clever short passes and, at times, glorious longer deliveries, to contemporaries such as Rivaldo, Luis Figo and Luis Enrique. His was a dual role combining both defensive and offensive duties - and he is perhaps still the finest exponent of that position the modern game has seen. In the Barca sides coached by Cruyff and later Louis van Gaal, the role of the pivot was just that - pivotal - and the Catalans came to depend heavily upon their charismatic captain.
Blessed with tremendous technique and a remarkable right foot, Guardiola's tactical reading of the game was also second to none. Even back then, it seemed clear a future in coaching would lay ahead.
Lacking in pace and less prolific than he should have been in front of goal, Guardiola was also prone to losing his temper and, along with Hristo Stoichkov, he is the player with the most red cards in the history of the Catalan club.
His real problem, however, was injuries. Pep was sidelined for the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, limiting him to just two games at U.S.A '94, in which he scored a penalty against Bolivia. He also missed large chunks of several seasons with Barcelona and, later, Brescia, while a falling out with Spain coach Javier Clemente deprived him of more than his respectable 47 caps for la Roja.
|There is no comparison. He is much better than I ever was. My virtue was to leave before he retired me. He does a lot of things better than I did.
- Pep on Xavi
That is not the case with Xavi. The midfielder has already appeared 119 times for Spain and has been blessed in that he has formed part of his club's greatest generation of players, as well as the nation's finest footballing side in history. However, he has been at the heart of it all, operating further forward than Guardiola used to but recycling possession and stamping his authority on games at the very highest level for a number of years now, setting the tone and the tempo for the teams' tiki-taka touch passing game.
Neither the quickest nor the tallest, Xavi's football is ingrained in the Barca philosophy and La Masia, from where Pep was one of the first to emerge. Which player is better may be a question of personal preference, but while Pep was something of a pioneer in his position, Xavi has taken both Barcelona and Spain to new levels, this reflected by his presence in the the three-man shortlists for the Ballon d'Or in recent years.
As a footballer, he has achieved much more than Pep and has probably become more of a complete footballer than his idol too, yet he has also benefited from playing in superior sides. And it's also worth remembering these three following facts: Firstly, without Guardiola, Xavi may never have followed the same footsteps to Barca's midfield via La Masia in the first place. Secondly, had Pep not left Camp Nou in 2001, the younger man may have been forced to move on and never have become the player he is today. And third, perhaps most importantly of all: Xavi's brilliant best has come in these last four years, playing under Pep.
So if Xavi leads Barca to another triumph at Wembley this May and cements his status as the finest midfielder in the Catalan club's history, he will surely spare a thought for Guardiola, his friend, former team-mate, coach and idol, a man who has helped him all along the way, ever since those tears in 1992.


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DALLAS (AP) — Jabin Bogan spent seven months sleeping on the floor of a cell in a maximum-security Mexican prison, detained after he accidentally crossed the border at El Paso with 268,000 bullets in his truck. Nine people lived in Bogan's cell, with just five beds. Only one spoke English.
Bogan said he didn't eat for three weeks. He constantly wondered if he was in danger.
"You never know what's going on," Bogan said Friday. "You're surrounded by people that don't speak your language, so you never know what they talk about."
The Dallas trucker gave new details Friday about his release and the ordeal leading up to it. The 27-year-old Bogan returned to the U.S. Friday after being freed from prison the week before.
Bogan maintains he was on his way to Phoenix in April to deliver the ammunition stored in his truck. He says he accidentally crossed onto a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, and tried to turn around after he realized his mistake, but Mexican customs agents wouldn't let him go back. He was detained and eventually sent to a Mexican maximum-security prison.
Bogan was convicted of smuggling and sentenced to three years in prison even though Mexican customs agents contradicted prosecutors' claims at trial that Bogan had hidden the bullets under the floorboards of his 18-wheeler's trailer.
His sentence was later commuted to time served and a fine. His U.S. attorney, Larry Taylor, said about $5,000 in donations covered a fine paid to Mexican authorities and fees for an attorney there.
Taylor and Bogan declined to say whether Mexican authorities had banned him from returning to the country.
Bogan said a few guards spoke English, as did a cellmate who had lived in Oklahoma City. Otherwise, he was isolated. He said he didn't receive letters or phone calls most of the time.
"I prayed in the showers," Bogan said. "I prayed when I ate. I prayed when I used the restroom. I prayed just when I was playing chess with somebody else. I prayed while I was playing with them. I just prayed as much as I could to keep myself focused from losing it."
He said he didn't eat prison food at first and eventually made it through his time by imagining he was being served a cheeseburger or slice of pizza. His first meal on the plane ride home was from Burger King.
Bogan said he was first told an investigation would take two days.
"Forty-eight hours turned into seven months," he said.
Mexican authorities have tried to crack down on smuggling of weapons and ammunition across the U.S.-Mexico border. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has blamed U.S. gun laws for allowing weapons to flow into Mexico, where rival drug cartels are fighting a bloody war.
That sensitivity made it more difficult for American officials to get Bogan back, U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said. Johnson, a Democrat from Dallas, said she and her staff continuously called Mexican embassy officials and others to work for Bogan's release.
American officials wanted to let Mexico "understand that we were at their mercy" and that Bogan had not done anything wrong on purpose, Johnson said in a phone interview from Washington. She said she hadn't spoken to Bogan yet, but likely would meet with him when she returned to Dallas in coming weeks.
"I could write a book on all we went through just trying to make sure we had some kind of humane resolution to this," Johnson said.
An appeal filed in August by Bogan's lawyer in Mexico, Emilio de la Rosa, reduced the charge from smuggling to possession of military ammunition. That cut Bogan's sentence and allowed him to get supervised release, which he can do by mail.
On Wednesday, Bogan repeated that he had made an "honest mistake."
"If I would have known that crossing that line with bullets was going to get me in trouble, I would have backed up from the border in the middle of traffic," he said. "But I didn't know."
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Friday, July 27, 2012 - Wank Party 2012 #8, Part 1
Our latest Wank Party is studded with great guys, Kaja Kolomaz, Roman Ditrch, Milos Zambo, Lukas Pribyl and Tomas Kukal. Lukas Pribyl had an accident, in real life, with his first every ride on a motorcycle. As a result one of his ankles was in plaster. So we organised the Wank Party around that. We see Roman and Tomas sitting on a couch in the Doctor's waiting room exchanging stories about why they are there. Lukas arrives and joins them on the couch. Then the medical staff open the door and take Lukas, who has an appointment, in for examination. Tomas and Roman, despite protestations, are made to sit and wait longer. Lukas' examination begins and things seem to be ok. He asks for his blood test results and then tells the doctor that his back hurts. So they decide to examine him more closely. Lukas is told to remove his clothes. He lays, naked, on the examination table and the Milos and Kaja begin to examine his back. Milos puts on some surgical gloves and slides a finger into Lukas' ass to check his prostate. Then he is turned over and Milos drops all pretense and immediately starts sucking on Lukas' cock. Kaja is rubbing himself and pulls out a hard dick which Lukas takes hold of and wanks. Milos stands up and drops his pants to reveal a throbbing cock and then gets completely naked before starting to suck Lukas again. Meanwhile Lukas begins to kiss and suck on Kaja's cock and wanks Milos. They move so that Lukas is sitting up and Milos lays next to him, sucking his cock while Kaja sits as well and sucks on Milos' big cock. Then, as Milos continues to Lukas Kaja moves round and presents his ass. Lukas fingers and rims that tight hole and, before long, wants more. He gets up on his knees and shoves his dick in that eager hole. Milos moves round and feeds his cock into Kaja's mouth for sucking. It all gets very hot indeed and the medics want some ass too. They move Lukas to that his is on his back, legs in the air and take turns to rim his ass. Then Kaja is first up and slides his rock hard cock deep into Lukas ass. He fucks that ass nice and slowly before moving aside for Milos to take over. His dick slips easily into Lukas' open hole and he begins to fuck. He fucks nice and deep as Kaja leans over to kiss Lukas. As he feels that cock deep in his ass Lukas wanks himself and shoots a big, creamy load all over his stomach. He then moves aside so that Kaja can get on the table and have his ass worked by Milos' rampant cock. His hole is stretched wide as he is fucked, wanking himself. Lukas kisses Milos as the action continues and very soon Kaja shoots his load too. That sets Milos off and he fucks even faster before pulling out and shooting his load as well. As the guys begin to dress we see into the waiting room and find that Tomas is on his knees sucking on Roman's big cock. They are by the door and it is clear they have been watching through the keyhole. As everything is quiet Tomas checks again and sees that the guys are dressing, so he and Roman quickly take their places back on the sofa. Kaja and Milos announce that they must have a 30 minute break and leave Tomas and Roman to wait longer. We will see just what they do to occupy their time in part 2.
... more about Wank Party 2012 #8, Part 1, Part 2 further in this newsletter
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Jirka Maly and Rado Smutny came in for a duo. We took them out on to the Vltava river where they rode a two man paddle boat for a while. As they were enjoying the ride they pulled into the bank where Jirka took some pics of Rado dropping his shorts and showing his wares to the passing boats. Then they start riding again, until they are told that they are in a part of the river that they are not allowed to be. When they get inside they are still talking about the guy who told them off. They then share some pics they took while out and about. Rado wants to take some pics of Jirka dropping his shorts the same as he did. When he pulls his shorts down at the front his cock is hard and he covers it with his hands. But Jirka is not fazed by it and takes hold of it, stroking it and then he begins to suck it. Jirka's cock is big and fat and he enjoys having it sucked and wanked. Rado stands up so that Jirka can open his shorts. He pulls out Jirka's cock, which is also rock hard and it is a nice big one too. Jirka goes down and sucks on that throbbing cock and they exchange blow jobs and kisses, enjoying each other. But that is not all that Rado wants and he has Jirka lay down and pulls his legs up, sliding his big cock into his ass. He fucks that hot hole, stretching it wide, slapping Jirka's face and holding his hand over his mouth to smother his moans. That cock is fucking nice and deep, plowing into Jirka's eager hole. At the same time Rado wanks on Jirka's stiff dick. He pulls his cock out and then shoves it back in again and Jirka uses his hands to spread his cheeks to show that hole off. Rado goes down and rims the hole and sucks on Jirka's cock again. Then he sits down on Jirkas big, hard cock, riding it nice and deep. He rides his cock up and down on Rado's rigid pole, taking it all. Then Jirka stands and spread his legs wide apart so that Rado can slide his cock into that ass again. He turns his head and kisses Rado as his ass takes that rock hard cock, wanking himself hard and fast at the same time. It's not long before Jirka shoots his load as Rado fucks him deep. Rado continues to hard that ass, getting faster and faster until he is ready to cum too. He pulls out and Jirka kneels in front of him and catches that cum over his face. Then he sucks on Rado's spent cock before standing up for a final kiss. What a lovely scene, with two very nice guys.
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We start Publishing our latest Wank Party today. I'm on my third Sneak Peek, which I published today. I'll have to rush the rest of them out to stay current.
First up today is part one of our latest Wank Party, with Lukas Pribyl sporting his broken ankle. Joining him are Kaja Kolomaz, Mirek Ceslar, Roman Ditrich and Tomas Kukal. What a great scene, and it is followed by Radek Kupsky in his erotic video and Petr Kotera with his session stills.
Our castees today are led off by Jara Vagon, then Tomas Spratek and finally Daniel Cutka. It is a close call today but my pick will be Tomas Spratek.
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Margaret, who is in her seventies, helped her husband farm for shares when he was alive. Now she survives on just over $400 a month in Social Security. When she can find the work and her health allows, she cleans houses to supplement her Social Security income. At times, she must choose between food and medications, rent or gas.Margaret's story is increasingly common throughout the country and throughout Northeast Tennessee.
Feeding America has conducted extensive research on the issue and reported that the number of older adults is projected to increase by 36% over the next decade. They also cite the fact that seniors are more likely to go hungry if they live in a southern state. This finding is the due to the fact that southern states have rural areas with less access to communication and transportation networks than urban/metro areas.
Second Harvest Food Bank is well aware of this situation and has decided to take action through its Mobile Food Pantry program. Bags of healthy, nutritious foods are distributed to needy seniors and families. In fact, Mobile Food Pantry currently assists 470 seniors per month via its 33 sites. For more information on the Mobile Food Pantry program, you may go to the Food Bank's website or contact Austin Phillips at 423.477.4053, x. 225 or email@example.com.


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Bully Attacks Attendees at Anti-Bullying Rally
Flour Bluff School District came under fire last year when its Superintendent refused to allow a Gay Straight Alliance to form on campus. After significant pressure and national media attention, the District tentatively allowed the group to form. This year, the failures of the administration are again coming into the spotlight.
Teddy Molina, a 16 year old student at Flour Bluff High School, took his own life this past weekend after enduring the wrath of a gang of football players known as "The Wolfpack." Although Flour Bluff administrators deny knowledge of The Wolfpack, students have indicated that teachers are certainly aware of the gang and have even asked them to remove their Wolfpack t-shirts in the past.
Teddy was familiar with the Wolfpack. After being tormented by the group, Teddy turned to his parents. They withdrew him from Flour Bluff High School shortly before his untimely death. Some students have stated that the Wolfpack threatened to invade Teddy's home and harm his mother and sister if "He didn't do something about himself."
Of course, none of the accusations can currently be proven, but there is one thing that is clear – Flour Bluff, like many school districts, has a bully problem.
In fact, at an anti-bullying rally this afternoon, things turned violent. One of the students, alleged to be member of The Wolfpack gang, jumped from the SUV driven by his father and began attacking rally attendees, including family members of Teddy and other students. The gang member's father, Tommy Martin, accused rally attendees of throwing rocks at them as they passed by.
Koby Ozias, a District Lead for GetEQUAL TX, was present. According to Koby, the rally had been going for approximately 2 hours prior to the attack. Several students had noted that members of The Wolfpack gang had been driving by and flipping off the crowd, but no other incidents had occurred. When the attackers hit children, several rally attendees fought back, while others attempted to seperate the grieving family from the assailants.
After the attack, police demanded the rally attendees leave the site. Although attendees complied, they hope to plan another event for tomorrow.


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Baidu Inc. (百度) operates the number one search engine in China[1] and is the most visited Chinese web site.[2] Although the company has some international operations, it earned the majority of FY 2010 revenue in China.[3] The company's core business is selling advertising online, and it offers various services to users (content search, news, community-based information sharing, etc.) to create an audience for its paying customers' ads. Web search is the core of the company's online offering; its ability to deliver the most useful and relevant search results drives its ability to sell advertising (online marketing service comprised 100.0% of FY 2010 revenue).[4]
Baidu's market opportunity has grown with the number of internet users in China, but arguably this also makes the market more competitive, attracting both domestic and international competition. The Chinese government heavily regulates online content and advertisers, something which has helped shape the competitive landscape; major competitor Google was forced to exit in 2010 following disagreements on censorship and content control.[5] Baidu's market share in China search grew to 75.5% after Google pulled out.[6]
Founded in the year 2000, Baidu is the leading search engine in China[7]. Its main search operation provides search for websites (740 million web pages), audio files (10 million), and images (80 million).[citation needed] Baidu went public in America with its initial public offering (IPO) on August 5th, 2005.
Baidu's Chinese language search capability is the core of the company's business. The company earns revenue from selling online advertising, and its search technology drives most of the websites where it displays customers' ads. The websites displaying customers' ads include Baidu's own sites (its core search site along with sites targeted for specific audiences or interest areas) and third party sites collectively called Baidu Union. The company's products and services can be divided into two broad categories: Products and Services for Users, and Paid Products and Services for Customers. The company uses both direct sales and a distribution network to sell advertising.
Similar to US-based Google (GOOG), Baidu's business has expanded from a "search-only" model to a plethora of other internet-based services (with offerings focusing on collaboration, entertainment, multimedia, etc.). The aim of this expansion seems straightforward: by offering more services that are attractive to users, the company can offer customers higher-quality audiences for more targeted advertising. Revenues have grown rapidly since listing: from $39.6 million in 2005 to $1.2 billion in 2010.[8] Although the company historically reported revenues in two segments, Online Marketing Services and Other Services, Online Marketing Services comprised 100% of total revenue in FY 2010.[9]
Because China's Internet landscaping is still evolving, Baidu has several opportunities for growth. In the shorter term, increasing average customer spend and increasing customer counts appears to be the solution. The company introduced Phoenix Next (auction-based software that customers use to choose keywords) in 2009 in an effort to improve advertising customers' experience and the quality of paid search results.[10] Considering the ARPU growth from FY 2009 to FY 2010, the new software seems to be increasing customer spend amounts. To increase customer numbers, the company has been increasingly focusing marketing efforts on SME clients. The company traditionally relied on larger clients for the majority of revenues, and a growing focus on the SME segment beings challenges (typically smaller companies lack the marketing expertise to maximize ROI for ad spending). If the company can provide the right amount of hand-holding, the SME customer base could provide a significant revenue boost.
For growth over the longer term, the company needs to maintain its position as the leader in search as Internet penetration in China increases. The company's answer to this challenge appears to be its Box Computing initiative (integrating data, applications, and other kinds of information with search; everything a user could want through a simple homepage search box).[11] As of FY 2010, Box Computing was a work in progress, with unclear monetization targets.[12]
Q3 results include consolidation of QuNar, an online travel retailer (similar to ELong, Expedia, etc.) [13]
Revenue grew +85.1% YoY to 4.1 billion RMB. The number of active online marketing customers grew about +11.8% YoY to 304,000 and the average spend per customer increased +65.1% YoY to about 13,700 RMB. [13]
Gross profit grew +82.5% YoY to 3.1 billion RMB. Gross profit margin declined slightly YoY (to 73.5% vs. 74.6% in Q3 FY 2010) despite a lower TAC costs, due to higher bandwidth and depreciation costs. The TAC / sales ratio declined to 8.0% vs 8.9% in Q3 FY 2010. [13]
Operating profit grew +88.5% YoY to 2.2 billion RMB. Operating profit margin increased to 53.3% vs. 52.4% in Q3 FY 2010. SG&A / sales declined YoY to 11.0% vs 13.1% in Q3 FY 2010. R&D spending grew proportionally to sales.[13]
Net income grew +79.2% YoY to 1.9 billion RMB. Net profit margin declined to 44.9% vs. 46.0% in Q3 FY 2010. The net profit margin decline was due to non-operating losses for equity method investments (related to the investment in QiYi, a website that provides online streaming of movies, TV shows, etc.).[13]
On the balance sheet, the company had 5.9 billion RMB in cash and 5.5 billion RMB in short-term investments.[13]
Cash flow (adjusted EBITDA) generated in Q3 2011 was about 2.5 billion RMB vs. 1.3 billion RMB in Q3 2010. Increased cash flow was mainly the result of increased accounts payable.[13]
Q4 Outlook
The company expected to generate between 4.4 and 4.5 billion RMB in Q4.[13] Assuming the company were to meet its midpoint revenue number (4,473 million RMB) and costs were similar to averages in Q1-Q3 (proportion to sales: 7% business tax, 8% TAC, 4% bandwidth; flat QoQ spending: depreciation, operating costs, share expense), gross profit would be about 3.3 billion RMB (74.3% GPM). Assuming SG&A / sales and R&D / sales ratios are similar to Q1-Q3 averages (11% SG&A / sales and 9% R&D / sales), operating profit would be about 2.4 billion RMB (54.3% OPM). A 54.3% OPM is higher than previous years (OPM grew from 15.7% in 2006 to 50.7% in 2010), but similar to levels in Q1-Q3 FY 2011. Although the company commented that the lower TAC ratio was a short term phenomenon, Google's exit from China combined with the impact of Pheonix Nest could also be factors driving the mix of more organic search traffic, lowering TAC.
With the exception of Q3, the largest non-operating item was interest income. Assuming interest income is flat QoQ (97 million RMB), FX losses are flat QoQ (-2 million RMB), loss from equity investments is similar to Q1-Q2 at 8 million RMB (the loss in Q3 was mostly related to newly-consolidated subsidiary Qiyi[13]), and other income is the Q1-Q3 average, 19.1 billion RMB, net non-operating income would be about 92 million RMB.
If operating profit was 2.4 billion RMB and net non-operating income was 92 million RMB, pre-tax income would be about 2.5 billion RMB, or about 55.9% of sales. Assuming the statutory 15% tax rate for HNTE ("High and New Technology Enterprise", a tax advantaged status in the PRC), net income would be about 2.1 billion RMB (net profit margin of 47.5%, similar to Q2 2011), or 60.17 RMB per share (B class) assuming shares outstanding in Q3 remain unchanged.
Revenue grew +78.4% YoY to 3.4 billion RMB. The number of active marketing customers increased about +17.3% YoY to 298,000 and average spend per customer increased about +53.3% YoY to 11,500 RMB. [14]
Gross profit grew +81.6%, mainly driven by lower traffic acquisition costs (TAC). The TAC / sales ratio was about 7.9% for Q2 FY 2011 vs. 9.4% in Q2 FY 2010. As a result of lower TAC, gross profit margin increased to 74.2% (vs. 72.9% in Q2 FY 2010).[14] The company commented that the lower TAC was due to changes in traffic mix (more organic vs. paid search traffic), a short term phenomenon.[15]
Operating profit grew +91.2% YoY, driven by higher gross margins and and a decline in the SG&A / sales expense ratio (11.1% in Q2 FY 2011 vs. 13.8% in Q2 FY 2010). Operating profit margin increased to 54.4% (vs. 50.8% in Q2 FY 2010).[14]
Net income grew +95.0% YoY to 1.6 billion RMB, and the net profit margin increased to 47.8% (vs. 43.7% in Q2 FY 2010). The increase in net profit margin was mainly the result of higher interest income YoY.[14]
Revenue grew +88.3% YoY to 2.4 billion RMB. The company reported 274,000 active marketing customers (+24.0% YoY), and the average spend per customer of about 8,900 RMB (+50.8% YoY).[16]
Gross profit grew +93.3% YoY, lead by lower traffic acquisition costs (TAC). The TAC / sales ratio declined to 8.2% vs. 13.2% in Q1 FY 2010. [16]
Operating profit grew +125.1% YoY due to higher gross margins and reduced SG&A spending (SG&A / sales was 13.7% in Q1 FY 2011 vs. 16.6% in Q1 FY 2010). The operating profit margin was 49.0% (vs. 41.0% in Q1 2010).[16]
Net income grew +122.8% YoY to 1.1 billion RMB, driven by significantly higher interest income YoY.[16]
Baidu provides users an efficient Chinese language search portal for the web. But like Google, Baidu has also expanded beyond basic search to provide a wide range of web services designed to attract Chinese internet users to its site. The accompanying graph illustrates Baidu's dominance of China's search engine market, while Baidu's individual offerings are explained below.
Services Include:
The products and services that Baidu offers its customers include clickable ads and the software applications to manage the advertising plan (if, when, and how to show the ad based on customer-configured settings). Online Marketing Services comprise the majority of the company's products and service for customers.
Baidu derives the majority of its revenues from internet advertising through its "pay for performance" (P4P) platform, offering customers cost-effective and targeted marketing solutions. A P4P platform is one where customers only have to pay for actual leads (clicks) from potential customers. Baidu also generates income through the sale of enterprise search software and portal search services.
Baidu's Online Marketing Service offers advertisers multiple channels for displaying ads: with search results, contextual advertising (outbound links in specific page content), behavioral advertising (based on previous search or browsing history), and display placement (ads shown irrespective of any search or contextual relevance). The company uses both a P4P and a time/duration model to sell its advertising. Under the P4P method, advertisers bid on keywords so that links to their sites appear when Baidu users search for those specific keywords (or terms associated with the keywords). Advertisers pay Baidu when web surfers actually click on the links to their sites. The company's ad management software allows customers to define demographic, geographic, and other parameters to determine if their ad is shown or not. Similar to competitors Google and Yahoo, Baidu's P4P pricing structure helps align the interests of Baidu and customers: advertisers can pay lower per-click costs if their target content meets users' search needs (exhibiting lower bounce rates, for example).
Along with the P4P method, Baidu also sells advertising that is not based on search or contextual relevance, an effective alternative to quickly market to a wide audience (instead of users who are searching for a particular term). These content-agnostic ads are displayed both on Baidu web pages and Baidu Union sites.
Features of Baidu's Online Marketing Services:
Online Marketing Customer Base
As of FY 2010, Baidu had about 412,000 active online marketing customers. [19] Baidu's customers include SMEs throughout China, large domestic corporations, and local subsidiaries of overseas corporations. These customers are broadly spread over all industries, however customers in the top 5 industries accounted for about 50% of FY 2010 revenue.[19] Baidu uses both a direct sales channel and over 200 distributors[citation needed] across China to reach customers for sales or support services (many new internet advertisers in China require education in order to use Baidu's online marketing services).
This is getting a bit more svejbctiue, but I much prefer the Zune Marketplace. The interface is colorful, has more flair, and some cool features like Mixview' that let you quickly see related albums, songs, or other users related to what you're listening to. Clicking on one of those will center on that item, and another set of "neighbors" will come into view, allowing you to navigate around exploring by similar artists, songs, or users. Speaking of users, the Zune "Social" is also great fun, letting you find others with shared tastes and becoming friends with them. You then can listen to a playlist created based on an amalgamation of what all your friends are listening to, which is also enjoyable. Those concerned with privacy will be relieved to know you can prevent the public from seeing your personal listening habits if you so choose.
The company uses an arguably complicated group structure to operate its business in China. The various linkages are necessary because of Chinese laws that govern information, publishing, and advertising businesses in China (preventing foreign interests from owning companies in those industries).
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In order to comply with Chinese regulations prohibiting foreign investors from owning companies in the communications and other sensitive industries, another level of companies is used to hold the relevant licenses, permits, etc. necessary to operate the group's multiple websites. These 'operating' companies are Variable Interest Entities (VIEs) and include Baidu Netcom, Beijing Perusal, and Baidu HR. Legally these companies are owned by Chinese individuals[21] (Robin Yanhong Li and Eric Yong Xu), but the connections between the "foreigner-owned" Baidu China and Badiu Times and the local companies are tight. Share capital for the "domestic" firms was indirectly provided by the company through personal loans to the individual shareholders. The shareholders in turn pledge their ownership as collateral for the loans and also assign their voting rights to a person of the company's choosing.
There are contractual agreements in place between Baidu Netcom, Beijing Perusal, Baidu HR and Badiu China and Baidu Times (with Baidu Online acting as an intermediary). These companies (Netcom, Perusal, HR) own and maintain the appropriate licensing, permits, and some intangible assets (domain names for example).
Baidu is a foreign company, from the perspective of government regulators. The ownership structure was a source of some investor concern in 2011 when the media reported that China was re-evaluating VIE structure that Baidu and other Chinese companies used in order to access foreign capital markets.[22]
Because Baidu is technically a foreign company and its business involves a sensitive industry (Internet communications), the company faces regulatory risks stemming from domestic government policy. The Chinese government regulates web content accessible in China, and if Baidu were to run afoul of state censorship guidelines, it could face stiff penalties. Also, as China attempts to adopt international standards of intellectual property right protection, Baidu could face potential lawsuits from Yahoo! (YHOO) over its P4P (pay for performance) platform.
As a result of a continued economic boom with GDP growth consistently registering double-digit levels, China has witnessed unprecedented growth in internet usage. The accompanying graph shows the rapid growth of China's internet-using population. Although the number of users is significant, the penetration rate is lower than developed countries (about 30% in mid-2011 vs. over 75% for the US).[23] The difference between China's penetration rates and other more developed countries suggests that as the economy develops, China's Internet penetration rate could increase (along with the market opportunity).
The quality of internet access is also improving in China, with the broadband-using population continue to increase further amid government initiatives.[citation needed]
Surprisingly, Chinese internet users show a great deal of economic diversity, and the largest income group earns less than Chinese 500 RMB (US$64) per month. Only 1.6% of users had a monthly income of more than 10,000 RMB (US$12,800). Currently over half of this population state that they use the internet for online searching. Growth from the remaining half will further increase traffic for Baidu's various web services, making online advertising even more attractive for potential customers of Baidu's online marketing services.[25]
The Chinese government has several regulations governing Internet access, news distribution, and other content. Under these regulations, Internet content providers can be charged with breaking the law if they display so-called "illegal content." Baidu Post Bar and several other third-party link services, Baidu could have difficulty controlling the content for which it is deemed responsible. In June of 2002, Baidu was forced to shut its servers for a week and pay a RMB 10,000 fine because its search results contained "socially harmful" material. Baidu could face the risk of having licenses revoked or servers shut down if it fails to comply with certain government regulations.
As 3G services and smartphones become more popular in China, clear leadership remains up for grabs. Although Baidu and Google are two clear rivals for the Chinese mobile search market, other companies are also competing. China has approximately 460 million internet users, but over 900 million Chinese residents have mobile phones[26], and the mobile search market is expected to grow as new technologies develop (3G, LTE) and data-enabled handsets become more affordable. Mobile is still a developing market, but if Baidu could leverage its leadership in the search market, success could be financially rewarding.[27]
While China is notorious for intellectual property law infringements, the government is being pressured to rise to international standards. With the recent government movement to strengthen IP protection, Baidu faces many potential attacks. Much of Baidu's technology and business methods (namely the pay-for-performance P4P platform) could face claims limiting their use. Yahoo! (YHOO) subsidiary Overture Services Inc. applied for a patent in China for its P4P platform before Baidu applied for its P4P patent. Currently no patents for P4P platforms have been granted in China, but should a patent be granted, determining who is infringing on whom could be complicated. Because intellectual property (IP) case law in China is a work in progress, interpretation and application of Chinese patent laws are evolving. If Overture succeeds in receiving a patent before Baidu, this may place Baidu in the position of having to defend a lawsuit centering on a core component of its business, namely how it sells advertising. To further Baidu's worries, Overture has already been granted patents in the United States for the P4P platform, and has launched patent infringement claims within the USA with websites like Findwhat.com. While Baidu conducts operations outside America, this is no guarantee that holders of such patents will not try to enforce these patents in China as well.
The risk is not limited to Baidu's P4P technology. Baidu also offers a very popular MP3 search application, as well as forums for users to post information. Some of these features could put Baidu at risk for hosting allegedly "illegal" content. Should such lawsuits be filed, Baidu could face potential liabilities which could divert management's attention from growing the business.
With China's continued economic boom and the resulting growth of its internet-using population, the internet search industry in China has become extremely competitive. Baidu faces competition from three sources:
Companies like Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Microsoft (MSFT) have a strong global presence in internet search and are backed by deeper pockets and well-established brand names. Currently, Baidu is sheltered by Chinese government regulations which regulate foreign direct investment and licenses, etc. If this protection were to be removed, the Chinese internet search business could become increasingly competitive as US operators made further investments in their Chinese operations. These websites will compete for traffic in a bid to increase the value of online marketing on their websites. In order to attract visitors, they compete in terms of quality of information (relevance), quantity of information (index size), and in ease of use. The accompanying graph shows Baidu's strength compared to competitors in terms of user satisfaction. Currently, Google poses the largest threat to Baidu.
As shown in the accompanying graph, Baidu stacks up rather poorly with international competition in terms of its user profile. Google (GOOG) tends to attract a better user profile by monthly income, age, gender mix, education level, and urban penetration. The results of this contrast appear in the higher ROI experienced by Google (GOOG) advertisers. Google (GOOG)'s Chinese market share has grown to 19% in 2006, as many customers prefer the international appeal of Google as an advertising platform. In fact, Baidu's market share is expected to peak at 56% in 2007, after which it may decline in the face of fierce competition.
Top Chinese internet portals Sina (SINA), Tencent HLDG (HKG:700), Sohu.com (SOHU), and Netease.com (NTES) offer online services like news, wireless value-added services, email, online shopping, chat, and social networks targeting the Chinese internet audience. Thus, these sites directly compete with Baidu for user traffic. Sina (SINA) has a search engine named "iAsk" which competes directly with Baidu for search-based advertising spending. Other emerging Chinese internet search service providers such as Sogou, Yisou, and Zhong Sou could also evolve into major rivals.
Traditional advertising media in the forms of newspapers, yellow pages, magazines, billboards, TV, and radio also compete with internet advertising for advertiser dollars.


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