LeSports Launches Facebook and Twitter Campaigns

New Mills, United Kingdom, December 28, 2012 --( PR.com )-- LeSports, a leading golf specialist in the UK, announces the launch of two new social media campaigns. Customer satisfaction is a key focus at LeSports, as they are...

New Mills, United Kingdom, December 28, 2012 --(PR.com)-- LeSports, a leading golf specialist in the UK, announces the launch of two new social media campaigns.

Customer satisfaction is a key focus at LeSports, as they are dedicated to providing an unrivalled level of service on top of their high quality golf products. Therefore, they have launched two new social media campaigns in a bid to provide their customers with a forum to discuss their products, receive discount codes and to read more about their latest products or company news.

Customers can now follow LeSports on Facebook and Twitter to talk more about their experiences, contact the company directly or enter an online community to discuss golf and more. LeSports is also encouraging their customers to post what they?d like to see featured on their website in the future. The social media websites can also improve the brand?s online reputation and help them reach a wider consumer demographic.

A spokesperson for LeSports commented: ?We want to hear what our customers love and want to see more of on our website, and Facebook and Twitter will allow us to do this. The social media websites will allow us to get a little closer to our customers, as well as allowing them to communicate with each other to discuss our products and more. We?ll also be offering fantastic promotional codes through Facebook and Twitter from time to time.?

For more information on LeSports and their women?s golf clothing, visit their website http://www.lesports.co.uk

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LeSports is a leading provider of ladies? golf clothing in the UK and have been supplying their high quality products since 2009. Customers can choose from an array of competitively priced golfing products, including golf sweaters, women?s golf shoes, golf trousers and more.

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James Mclivenny
Lesports Ltd,
The Factory Unit,
1 Woodside Street,
New Mills,
High Peak,
SK22 3HF
Tel: 01663 746654
Email: James@lesports.co.uk

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Flurry: Santa crammed more tablets than smartphones into Christmas stockings

Assuming you were a non-naughty-lister who didn't get the proverbial coal lump, it looks like that gift under the tree was more likely a tablet than a phone this Noël, according to Flurry. The analytics outfit said that just over half of December 25th activations were slates, and we can't imagine too many gift-getters letting their new devices simlessly fester in a box over the big day. Overall activations more than doubled from last Christmas, and were up 332 percent on that single day from the first 20 days of December, combined. As might be expected, Apple came up big with iPad sales, but Flurry said that Amazon was also a winner with its 7-inch Kindle Fire HD tab, showing a "several thousand percent" increase over baseline activations. None of this likely comes as a huge shock to our readers, who rather overwhelmingly said that they'd rather have a Nexus 7 tablet than a pricier RAZR M as a gift if they toiled at Google.

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2013 ? The Greatest Year for Your Fitness and Health! | Arcadia ...

Here are Some Guidelines to Help You to Be the Best that You Can Be!

Another year has passed. Have you done all you can for your fitness and health? Have you procrastinated? Have you said you are going to do the things you know you should? Let?s break out of a rut today by following these simple guidelines for your well being.
1. How much exercise are you getting? The latest research from the various medical boards that keep track of our health needs show that as little as 40 minutes three times a week can maintain a healthy body. This includes cardiovascular workouts like walking, cycling, circuit training, as well as swimming. Couple this with weight training, 8 ? 10 exercises like curls, presses, squats, bent rows, leg extensions, hamstring curls, upright rows, and bench presses. This will take care of your muscular needs. One of the neglected areas as a trainer I?ve seen in my clients is lack of flexibility. There are excellent programs for this that include pilates, yoga, and other flexibility exercises that we can show you that will keep you injury free and youthful.
2. What about your nutrition? The holiday season is winding down, time to put away the See?s candy, cookies, and sugary treats that are empty calories that put on weight. Begin 2013 with fruits like bananas, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, honeydew, oranges and apples. Some of these you can find in the 99Cent Store if you are on a tight budget. Set a goal of losing one pound a week if you are overweight. Coupled with exercise up to 40 minutes a day, the pounds will come off very quickly. Add vegetables like salads, broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, tomatoes, and cucumbers. These will provide the necessary nutrition to retain good health. Water is very important to drink. It is caloric free and won?t put on weight.
3. Your spiritual and mental well being is very important in the year 2013. Do you have a relationship with God? Do you pray? Do you study the Bible and other inspirational material? We are in need of healing in this nation as never before. With the mass shootings and violence in our country we need to return to Godly principles that made this nation truly great. It?s up to you and your family. Will you keep things in a positive light in the year 2013? Don?t watch violent movies or play violent video games that do effect one psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. Get out in our beautiful Southern California environment. Take a walk; breathe in the wonderful fresh air. Thank God for your life.
This will be our 45th year as professional fitness trainers, motivators, and leaders in our nation in helping people stay healthy and well. We can be reached at 626-355-8964 or harrysneider@earthlink.net. YOU DESERVE HEALTH AND FITNESS. GO FOR IT!
By Harry Sneider

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Casino revenue dip blamed on Ohio

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Officials are expecting Indiana's state government could see a big drop in casino tax revenue over the next two years because of competition from new casinos in Ohio.

The latest state revenue forecast projects the state's annual casino tax revenue to decline by about $42 million, or 9 percent, for the second year of the new two-year state budget legislators will decide during their session that starts next month.

State Senate appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley tells The Times of Munster that he doesn't believe Indiana's casino revenue will ever return to the levels seen when there was little competition from other states.

But Kenley said state lawmakers should support measures helping Indiana casinos to remain as competitive as possible.

A Cincinnati casino is expected to open in the spring.

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Did you get a new iPhone or iPad for Christmas?

Did you just get a new iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or iPad mini for Christmas? Which one did you get? What size? What color? What capacity? Any awesome accessories come with it? Any amazing apps already installed? If you scored some great new Apple gear this holiday season, I want to know all about it, so tell me in the comments below -- what did you get?

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Long-lived bats offer clues on diseases, aging

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The bat, a reservoir for viruses like Ebola, SARS and Nipah, has for decades stumped scientists trying to figure out how it is immune to many deadly bugs but a recent study into its genes may finally shed some light, scientists said on Friday.

Studying the DNA of two distant bat species, the scientists discovered how genes dealing with the bats' immune system had undergone the most rapid change.

This may explain why they are relatively free of disease and live exceptionally long lives compared with other mammals of similar size, such as the rat, said Professor Lin-Fa Wang, an infectious disease expert at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore who led the multi-centre study.

"We are not saying bats never get sick or never get infections. What we are saying is they handle infections a lot better," Wang said in a telephone interview.

What was missing from both species of bats was a gene segment known to trigger extreme, and potentially fatal, immune reactions to infections, called the cytokine storm.

Cytokine storms end up killing not only offending viruses in the body, but the host's own cells and tissues too.

"Viruses rarely kill the host. The killing comes from the host's immune response. So it looks like what bats are doing is depress the inflammation (cytokine storm). If we can learn that, we can design drugs to minimize the inflammation damage and control viral infection," Wang said.

The study, which saw the participation of researchers from China, Denmark, Australia and the United States, was published on Friday in the journal Science.

Compared with other mammals of similar size, bats live a long time, with lifespans of between 20 and 40 years. Rats live between 2 and 3 years, on average.

IMMUNE GENES LINKED TO FLIGHT

Interestingly, Wang and his colleagues found that the highly evolved genes that give bats their superior immune system also enable them to fly.

Out of more than 5,000 types of mammals on the planet, bats are the only one capable of sustained flight and some species can fly more than 1,000 km in a single night.

Such intense physical exertion is known to produce toxic "free radicals" that cause tissue damage and it is these same genes that give the bat the ability to repair itself, Wang said.

"What we found was the genes that evolved fastest were genes involved in repairing DNA damage. That makes sense ... because when you fly, metabolism goes up and it generates free radicals that are toxic to cells," Wang said.

"Because bats fly, they (would have had) to evolve and adapt ... to get genes that can repair DNA damage."

Wang said we have much to learn from the bat, which has evolved to avoid disease and live exceptionally long lives.

"Cancer, ageing and infectious disease, these are the three major areas of concern for people," he said.

"We have studied rats for 150 years to understand how to do better in these three areas. Now we have a system, the bat, that has done very well in evolution. We can learn from the bat. With modern techniques, we can design new drugs to slow down the ageing process, treat cancer, fight infections."

(Editing by Robert Birsel)

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A Southern California-to-Las Vegas party train is being called "a nightclub on r...

A Southern California-to-Las Vegas party train is being called "a nightclub on rails."

The company behind the X Train hopes San Diegans will decide to get on board instead of drive or fly the next time they travel to Sin City. Its first trip is planned for New Year's Eve 2013.

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Steps for Families to Consider in Aftermath of Shooting at Sandy ...

MILLIONS OF KIDS ARE SENT TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY?with the expectation of a safe return home. Our notion of this guarantee has been shattered, leaving adults feeling as though their children are not safe and children feeling vulnerable to danger. Since it is the job of the adults in a society to keep children safe, this tragedy will lead many to experience a range of emotions. Some of the emotions many adults will move back and forth between include fear, sadness, anger, helplessness, and even denial in the struggle to process the senselessness of how these lives were lost on an elementary school campus last week. Children and adolescents may experience a range of emotions but often do not have the ability to identify or express their feelings. In this case some children may even feel their own lives are in danger, since the main target of these mass murders was children.

Adults can help children and adolescents through this difficult time by:

• Not becoming over anxious (children pick up on your anxiety and that can add to their stress).
• Model how to express feelings of sadness and grief and explain how you feel to your children.
• Reduce the amount of time you and your children watch TV and Internet reports of the tragedy.
• Find ways to comfort your children and provide strength for your children.
• Hugs and cuddling are known to reduce stress. Include your pets in group hugs. If your child is feeling very fearful they may benefit from sleeping in close proximity to you for a couple of nights (in your bed or in a sleeping bag nearby).
• Maintaining normal habits such as dinner time and a bedtime ritual helps provide structure.
• Play can help reduce stress, especially games you can play with your children (coloring, board games, card games, etc.). Drawing can also be a way for children to express their feelings.
• Reassure your children that they are safe and that you are safe too. Children may become clingy, not wanting to leave your side for fear that something bad will happen to them or to you.
• Maintain a connection to the community. Visit the local recreation center where families gather and share comfort. Visit your local religious establishment offering comfort and connection.
• Offer to volunteer as a playground monitor at your child?s school for a few days, especially if you are a coach of a community youth team or a regular presence at the school, as this will help children feel safer while they are coping with shock and fear reactions resulting from this tragedy.
• Keep communication open by being present and available for your children. You don?t need to have all of the answers, just be there.

Don?t force children to talk about their feelings. Be ready to listen when they are ready to talk. All feelings are valid. A child may be more ?clingy? than usual and this is normal behavior under the circumstances. Adolescents in particular have moments when they are open to engaging in a discussion with parents or guardians. In general, you may have noticed your child or adolescent is best at communicating on the ride home from school, at dinner, or via text message. Often during the long process of their own identity development, children and adolescents can become less talkative and moody, leaving parents and guardians frustrated over difficulties with communication. This is where it is up to the adult in the relationship to discover the best time to share meaningful communication with their child or adolescent. Children and adolescents will experience healthier outcomes when they are not left alone to process powerful feelings and emotions. Find a way into their world where you can help them identify and normalize their experiences. Sometimes it starts with sharing how you feel.

Some children and adolescents may already be dealing with a crisis such as parents divorcing, loss of a pet or significant person in their lives, family member in the military, etc. ?This tragedy may amplify difficult feelings they are already struggling with. Some children may experience severe reactions like crying, shaking, and regression (bed wetting, thumb sucking). If your child or adolescent demonstrates impaired functioning in concentration and school performance, aggression, isolation, changes in appetite, and lack of healthy connections and relationships then it is time to visit the pediatrician and ask for a referral to consult with a child and adolescent mental health specialist.

This tragic event takes a toll on everyone. Help the vulnerable in your community who may be less able to cope with this tragedy if you are able. If you feel overwhelmed, stay connected to friends and family, consult with your general medical practitioner, and seek guidance from a mental health professional if needed.

In the days to come we must continue to focus on what can be done to prevent these avoidable tragedies. Clearly, firearm-related mortality among children and adolescents must be recognized as a major health problem in this country. With high levels of suicidal tendencies among adolescents, easy availability of extremely lethal means, and low levels of mental health support, it is incumbent on policy makers and health care professionals to determine how to effectively translate research into life-enhancing outcomes for society?s youth.

Caren Caty, Ph.D.

Source: http://americanhumaneblog.org/2012/12/steps-for-families-in-aftermath-of-shooting/

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Amy Winehouse inquest to be heard again

LONDON (AP) ? Officials in London say the inquest into the death of soul singer Amy Winehouse was overseen by a coroner who lacked the proper qualifications and will be re-heard next month.

Camden Council says a new hearing will take place on Jan. 8.

Winehouse was found dead in her London home in July 2011 at age 27. An inquest in October 2011 found the "Back to Black" singer had died of accidental alcohol poisoning.

Assistant deputy coroner Suzanne Greenaway, who oversaw the inquest, resigned the next month after her qualifications were questioned. She had been appointed by her husband, Andrew Reid, the coroner for inner north London.

Reid was suspended, and resigned earlier this month.

Winehouse family spokesman Chris Goodman said Monday that family had not requested a new hearing.

Associated Press

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Understanding B2B Web 2 . 0 Campaign Imperatives For Online ...

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Comcast CEO: What we learned from Apple - Fortune Management

By Geoff Colvin, senior editor-at-large

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts: "The company can take an event and expose it widely across a fragmented world."

FORTUNE -- America's biggest media company isn't what you think. Comcast (CMCSA) takes in more revenue and commands a higher market value than Disney (DIS), News Corp. (NWSA), Time Warner (TWX), or any other competitor. Even CEO Brian Roberts marvels at how the company has risen. Founded by his father as a small cable-TV system in Tupelo, Miss., Comcast is now majority owner of NBCUniversal, as well as the country's largest cable operator (by far), the largest residential Internet service provider, and the third-largest phone company. Roberts, 53, talked recently with Fortune's Geoff Colvin about what he learned from last summer's Olympic coverage, continually changing the business model, and much else. Edited excerpts:

Q: The Peter Drucker question: What business are you in?

A: We're now clearly in the cross-section, maybe uniquely, of media and technology. Comcast NBCUniversal has an incredible array of brands and ways to deliver those brands and experiences for consumers. We're no longer a cable company or a broadcaster. We're right at a cusp of change in media and technology.

An example of media and technology was your coverage of the Olympics, which seemed to be a model of what you envisioned when you bought NBC. These events were streamed live online through every kind of device and also broadcast on traditional TV, sometimes live, sometimes taped. You called it a laboratory. What did you learn?

A bunch of things. The first job was to try not to lose money on the Olympics. Based on the prior couple of Olympics, it looked as if we would lose money, and we were very fortunate to break even, maybe even make a small profit. That bodes well for the multibillion-dollar [$4.4 billion] decision we made to carry the Olympics through 2020.

We had projected we'd be about 10% below Beijing because Michael Phelps won eight gold medals, and how could you top that? And the [Beijing] time zone was so far away that a lot of events were broadcast live in the U.S. Europe is the most difficult for that live factor. So we budgeted it down 10% and in fact came in up 10%. Why? Well, social media was something the NBC team embraced. We also used all our networks [NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, Bravo, USA, and many others], not just one. The number of hours of television was unprecedented. We put every single event live online and had mobile apps. The cable side of the company, Xfinity, had on-demand information on every American athlete on laptops, on mobile phones. We had 40 million to 50 million on-demand sessions in 17 days.

So the public could not get enough ways to experience and touch the Olympics, and that bodes well for the future model. This company is in a position to take an event or a news happening or a movie and expose it as widely as possible in a very fragmented world, different from almost any other media or telecommunications company out there.

Telephony is another thing you're doing in a big way. Voice is becoming essentially a wireless business, but you've sold your wireless spectrum. What's the future?

While that is certainly the trend, we still are adding hundreds of thousands of wireline voice accounts because it's more than wireline voice. It's a great bargain. If the babysitter's cellphone doesn't work, you want to call your house and make sure somebody answers -- how much is that worth to you? One day it was $100. Today maybe it's $25. There's a number at which a lot of people say, "You know what? Just as a backup for my home security system." We've also tried to bundle our wireline technologies to be more than a standalone product. I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.

That being said, as we looked at wireless, which is clearly the growth engine, we wanted to partner rather than build our own. It just did not seem viable at this time to do something like that. So Verizon Wireless has opened up all their products to our customers and to our technologists to innovate, so we can make for consumers a seamless world between our Xfinity home products and your tablets, your TV on the go, your downloading, your preferences, your history, all coming together, and then market it with Verizon Wireless in certain markets where we give great deals to consumers.

You've been losing traditional cable subscribers for several years. Why did that happen, and why does it now seem to be stopping?

We had more competition -- DirecTV (DTV), Dish Network (DISH), Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T). It forced us to innovate, to get more high def, to have more emphasis on broadband and phone. The fastest-growing part of our residential company is broadband. It's a 10-year-old product; you don't usually see your rate of growth increasing. We've also adjusted our strategy by going into businesses with the same product suite. The fastest-growing part of the company is taking the same products, altering them for commercial use, and having them go into small and medium-size businesses. We will have a great operating margin, over 50%, and several billion dollars of revenue less than five years after starting up a new business line.

We've grown cash flow every year while we had increased competition over the past decade, and it's nice to feel like we might be able to win back many of the customers we lost when we didn't have the best suite of products.

Is it a problem that just watching TV is becoming very complicated for the consumer?

Everything we could learn from what Apple (AAPL) has done so well is how to take really complicated things and make them simple, make them fun, make them beautiful and easy. As I think about where I'd like to see us go, it is absolutely to take this overwhelming amount of content choices -- now with the Internet so many more choices -- and make them personalized, make them easy to interact with and have anytime on any device.

Many years ago Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

I was recently in Silicon Valley, and somebody said to us, "Every idea you've heard about someday is going to happen." None of those ideas are necessarily bad; they just were way ahead of their time, too expensive, maybe a little quirky. But we now have tablets: You touch them, things happen. Software is changing everything. So you have to reinvent your company all the time and reinvent the business model. If commerce and knowledge of your behavior and your desire -- with privacy very much top of mind -- can make it easier to consume content, then that's a winner. We're playing with voice technology that lets me talk into my remote and say, "Find movies, dramas, high definition, that my kids would like," and boom! -- up come answers. You click and you watch. Those are the kinds of things we're working on that I think have great promise.

You've been talking about innovating the business model, which is highly relevant for a lot of companies in every industry. What have you learned about how to do that?

It all comes down to the people you choose. The hardest part in business is to pass somebody over who's been loyal, to go outside, to have someone leave. To make those calls is the name of the game, and I've been very fortunate with great stability. Steve Burke [who now runs NBCUniversal] ran our cable company for many years successfully. But when he moved over to NBCUniversal, we recruited Neil Smit from Charter [a cable operator]. That was hard for Neil and hard for the organization. But a couple years later, I think it's one of the best decisions I've ever been involved with.

So when you're trying to figure out how to change your trajectory, it's who's on the team and how honestly you're talking among yourselves. How focused are you on not accepting status quo? We've got a real entrepreneurial culture, and I think it comes from the roots of the company, being family-oriented, feeling like we're the underdog. As we've gotten larger, how do we use that size to innovate and go faster, not slower, and take more risks, not less risk? Those are counterintuitive as you get bigger. That's my job, to keep the culture feeling feisty -- paranoid, as Andy Grove said.

This comes through time and again. Comcast has a lot of physical capital, but it's the human capital and the culture that are the most valuable.

It's corny, but it's 100% right.

This story is from the December 24, 2012 issue of?Fortune.

The Leadership series?This is the latest interview with a top executive by Fortune senior editor-at-large Geoff Colvin. See video excerpts of this interview at?fortune.com/leadership?-- plus find Colvin interviews with Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, Medtronic's Omar Ishrak, Jack Koraleski of Union Pacific, GM's Dan Akerson, and many more.

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Bridgecorp's Bruce Davidson Guilty Of Damaging Legal... | Stuff.co.nz

Former Bridgecorp chairman Bruce Davidson, who was convicted of issuing false statements to investors who lost more than $460 million, has also been found guilty of bringing the legal profession into disrepute.

Possible penalties for the charge include being struck off as a barrister, although a penalty hearing date has not yet been set.

A majority decision just published by the legal profession's disciplinary tribunal has found Davidson did not fulfil his duty as a director of Bridgecorp which therefore reflected badly on all lawyers.

Davidson traded on his reputation as a senior lawyer and a former councillor and president of the Auckland District Law Society, as well as councillor and vice-president of the New Zealand Law Society, the decision said.

"Mr Davidson was sold to readers of the [Bridgecorp] prospectuses as an experienced commercial lawyer with a distinguished career," said the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal's decision.

"The clear implication of the biographical details was that the Chairman of Bridgecorp was a man investors could trust, someone on whom they could rely."

A majority of the tribunal said that "a reasonable person fully informed of the background of the offending" would link the fact that the leader of the failed company was an experienced commercial lawyer, and that the link "must tend to reflect on the reputation of the profession as a whole".

The tribunal quoted Davidson himself as saying: "My professional and commercial reputation has been greatly diminished, if not entirely destroyed."

Davidson pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him for his role in Bridgecorp but said it was his naivety and the trust he placed in the other directors of the company - Rod Petricevic, Rob Roest and Peter Steigrad - that was his downfall.

In October last year he was sentenced to nine months home detention and 200 hours community service on the 10 charges, and agreed to pay $500,000 in reparations.

However, Davidson defended the latest allegations at the tribunal, saying the convictions did not reflect on his fitness to practise law and denying that they brought the legal profession into disrepute.

A minority of the tribunal's members, which usually includes three lawyers and two lay people, sided with Davidson saying that while the reputation of public company directors may have been diminished it did not automatically translate that the legal profession would be brought into disrepute.

The tribunal said the case was "one of the most difficult" it had faced because the members had to assess Davidson's reputation from the viewpoint of a reasonable person who was informed of the circumstances surrounding the offences and convictions.

The tribunal was unanimous that the conviction did not reflect on Davidson's fitness to practise law and it accepted that he was a competent lawyer who had never had a complaint made against him.

"To the contrary his integrity as a person and a legal practitioner was unquestioned," said the decision.

According to definitions set out by Justice Paul Heath, a majority of the tribunal considered that Davidson's offending should be categorised as "a major departure from the standard of care expected when a director performs a statutory duty" rather than "an innocent misrepresentation arising out of greater or lesser degrees of carelessness".

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Love says he's happy with T-Wolves direction

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Kevin Love didn't apologize. He didn't make excuses or suggest his words were taken out of context.

What the Minnesota Timberwolves power forward did do on Wednesday in the wake of some harsh words toward the organization was offer some balance to the idea of him as another unhappy star in a small market seemingly destined to move on to bigger and better things.

Love met with the media on Wednesday morning before the Wolves were scheduled to host the Denver Nuggets to address comments he made to Yahoo! Sports that were critical of Timberwolves leadership. In it, he complained about getting a four-year deal instead of the maximum five-year contract extension last January, called into question the plan that team president David Kahn has for building around him and even seemed to hint at a perception that the organization was favoring Ricky Rubio over him in the team's long-term plan.

Love stood by his complaints about his contract and his criticism of Kahn on Wednesday, but also said that he's happy with the direction of the franchise and hopeful he will be here for a long time.

"I'm not going to fall back and say I didn't mean the things that I said," Love said. "I do believe this is the closest-knit team that we have, the coaching staff has been great and we have a chance to make something very special this year and for years to come."

Love can opt out of his deal in two years, putting more pressure on the organization to help get him to the playoffs for the first time in his career. He said he had no regrets or apologies for making the critical remarks, but he does wish that he would have aired them internally and not in a public setting.

He also said he still sees the possibility of a bright, and long, future for him with the Wolves.

"I'd love to end my career as a Timberwolf," he said.

Love's displeasure with his contract has been no secret, practically from the moment he signed it. He wanted the five-year deal and the validation that it brings. But the Wolves can only offer one of their drafted players a five-year deal during the life of the current collective bargaining agreement. There is speculation that they are saving that for Rubio, though Kahn has said that he would prefer not to give that deal to anyone on the roster so the team can have as much salary cap flexibility as possible.

Love has heard the whispers about Rubio getting the five-year deal, and he told Yahoo that "it was a projection over a sure thing. There's no question there was an agenda here. A different agenda."

Love and Rubio are close friends, and when asked about it on Wednesday, he continued to heap praise on the point guard who is due to come back from a torn ACL in his left knee any day now.

"I never have a problem with anybody getting paid," Love said. "If there's one other guy to pay on this team it's Ricky Rubio. I've kind of been enamored with him since he got here. He's a pass-first point guard, a guy I haven't really played with before.

"I'm not going to pick favorites but he's one of my favorite teammates and one of the best guys to be around. And I've mentioned since Day 1 that it's refreshing to be around him because he loves the game so much."

As for his issues with Kahn's roster upheaval the first three years on the job, Love said he was very pleased with the additions that have been made this year. Andrei Kirilenko, Dante Cunningham and Alexey Shved have made the Wolves deeper than they have been in years and also came partly at the behest of Love, who campaigned for more veterans to be added at the end of last season.

Love has always used perceived slights and doubts as fuel. He is constantly working on his game and his body to prove to anyone who thought otherwise that he can be an elite player in the NBA. He proved as much last year by averaging 26 points and 13.3 rebounds per game, then becoming one of the most important players on Team USA's run to the gold medal in the London Olympics.

So in many ways, Love will never forget the contract issue. That's what stars do. They search for motivation wherever they can find it.

"In some people's mental makeup it's just not in them," he said of forgetting. "Just moving forward is the biggest thing. That's the same thing I talked about with coach and with David yesterday. I just need to move forward and hopefully this thing won't keep coming up. I'm done talking about it, really from here on out after today. I'm hoping we can just move on and winning will take care of everything."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/love-says-hes-happy-t-wolves-direction-204307702--spt.html

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Gay student asks Scalia to defend 'bestiality' comment

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, seen in October 2012.

By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET --?Just days after the Supreme Court announced it would take its first serious look at gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia was asked to defend his legal writings on homosexuality.

The Supreme Court justice was visiting Princeton University on Monday to discuss his latest book when a college freshman, who identifies as gay, asked Scalia about the comparison he has drawn between laws?banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder.

?If we cannot have moral feelings against or objections to homosexuality, can we have it against anything?? Scalia said in response to the question,?according to The Daily Princetonian. ?I don?t think it?s necessary, but I think it?s effective.?

Scalia told Princeton student Duncan Hosie that he is not equating sodomy with bestiality or murder, but drawing parallels between the bans.

Scalia added dryly, ?I?m surprised you weren?t persuaded,???the student newspaper reported.

Hosie's question -- which received a round of applause -- stemmed from a 2003 case, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law. Scalia had dissented in the case; in his dissent, he makes a couple of comparisons to laws against bestiality and declares, "nowhere does the Court?s opinion declare that homosexual sodomy is a 'fundamental right.'"

Scalia,?the longest-serving justice on the current court?was at Princeton to promote his new book,??Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,? and to talk about the interpretation of, the Constitution. It was during a question-and-answer session that Hosie asked him about Lawrence v. Texas.?

"It's a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the 'reduction to the absurd,'" Scalia told Hosie, of San Francisco, The Associated Press reported.

Reduction to the absurd, an English translation of the Latin term "reductio ad absurdum," is a form of logic in which one refutes an argument by showing that its inevitable consequences would be absurd.

Hosie later told NBC News he didn't feel persuaded by Scalia's response.

"I was very pleased that Scalia was polite with me. I thought he was respectful with me, so I appreciate that, however, I disagree with the substance of his answer," Hosie said.

"If you?re making an argument to convince people, you don?t want to alienate people, and that?s what Scalia did with his language. He didn?t just alienate liberals by comparing laws against gay sex to laws against murder and bestiality, he has alienated laws conservatives have condemned. It didn?t make sense to me," he added.

The Supreme Court will be?reviewing California's ban on same-sex marriage and a federal law that defines marriage as only the legal union of a man and a woman?in March, with a decision expected by late June.

Scalia has "not been opaque" about his feelings toward same-sex marriage in the past, and gay rights advocates do not expect him to change his mind when the Supreme Court hears the cases in the spring, said Fred Sainz, vice president of communications at Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization.

"It's safe to say he is a vote in the 'no' column," Sainz said. "He is not a justice that has an open mind towards these issues that are coming his way.??

Hosie said he hopes the exchange he had with Scalia, while it may not change the justice's mind, will at least change the fiery words he uses in the future.

"I feel as if he?s crossed a line in comparing some of the things he?s compared gay rights to ... so hopefully this media coverage will encourage Justice Scalia to be more conscientious and careful in the words he uses," he said.

Scalia didn't discuss any issues related to specific cases during the Princeton Q&A, but defended his view that divining the original meaning of the Constitution is the best way to interpret it.

?The Constitution is not an organism; it?s a legal text, for Pete?s sake,? he said, reported The Daily Princetonian.??Unless you give [the laws] the meaning of those who enacted them, you?re destroying democracy.?

NBC News' Miranda Leitsinger contributed to this report.

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Letter: Urge Congress to reinstate the Debt Relief Act for 2013-2014

Construction workers finish up on a new home seen for sale Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

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As a real estate agent in the state of Utah, I know what is going on in the housing market in our beautiful state. We have homeowners who are struggling not to foreclose on their homes but to do a "short sale." They have no extra money to pay taxes on money that they have not earned while also losing their homes.

Utah should be at the forefront in helping during these hard times. My concern is that both political parities are doing nothing good for our country ? all they are doing is fighting amongst themselves. We need to urge Congress to reinstate the Debt Relief Act for 2013-2014. Let's remember who we all work for ? not the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, but the people of the United States of America.

Shereen Christensen

Cottonwood Heights

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765617288/Letter-Urge-Congress-to-reinstate-the-Debt-Relief-Act-for-2013-2014.html

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Kweto Africa (Family) by David Bwambale, Bronze Born in 1972,...

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Kweto Africa (Family) by David Bwambale, Bronze

Born in 1972, David Bwambale lives and works in the Rwenzori foothills.? A talented wood-carver and sculptor, he is also Workshop Manager at Rwenzori Founders.

Following an intensive three-year apprenticeship at Pangolin Editions foundry in England, he was one of the team of three Ugandans who returned to set up Rwenzori Founders in 2008.

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Our View: Government's ill conceived property tax will deepen ...

THE HIGHER TAX on immovable property that would be levied from next year will have many negative repercussions that were obviously not considered by the government when it drafted the tax categories. Its only consideration was to satisfy the long-standing demand by moaning union bosses for the taxing of wealth. Now it could boast that it was taxing ?the haves?, even though it would be creating additional problems for the struggling economy in the process.
The funny thing was that the troika had, reportedly, forecasted a revenue of ?20 million from the tax, but the government increased the tax rate so that revenue would be ?70 million. However, based on the calculations of the Cyprus Hoteliers? Association, the tax would bring the government revenue closer to ?200 million, indicating that it is punitive, badly-thought out taxation than just an attempt to improve state finances.
At a news conference yesterday, representatives of the two hoteliers? organisations explained that the immovable property tax that hotels would have to pay would increase tenfold. For example, a four-star hotel that paid ?21,000 in immovable property tax in 2011 would be called to pay ?191,000 next year; a five-star hotel in Ayia Napa which paid ?20,000 last year would pay ?215,000 in 2013. The higher valuation would also translate into higher sewage rates and municipal rates, which could add tens of thousands more on its annual tax bill.
How ironic that a government that constantly harps on about the need for growth and development would propose tax increases that would make the tourist industry less competitive. Is this how new jobs will be created, by increasing the annual tax bill of hotels, even when they?re operating at a loss? It just makes no sense and we suspect the government gave no thought to the matter in proposing tax rates three times higher than what the troika had demanded.
But it is not only hotels that will be lumbered with crippling tax costs. Other businesses will also suffer,as will householders. What will happen to developers, with scores of unsold apartments, who are already heavily indebted to the banks? Where will they find the money to pay the immovable property tax, at a time when the property market is stagnant? In a way, it would be punishment for developers who have failed to issue title deeds to buyers as they will be lumbered with the immovable property tax. And what will happen to the country?s biggest landowner ? the Church? Where will it find the millions it would have to pay in taxes on all its property holdings? Will it be exempted again?
We do not know what scope the political parties have to modify the provisions of the bill on the immovable property tax, but if it is passed unchanged it would push the economy even deeper into recession.

Source: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/opinions/our-view-government-s-ill-conceived-property-tax-will-deepen-recession/20121207

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