New Study: LGBT Characters On Television On The Rise - News One

TV-Gay CharactersTV-Gay CharactersNEW YORK (AP) ? The number of gay and bisexual characters on scripted broadcast network TV is at its highest-ever level in the season ahead, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The total on cable television is also going up.

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The 17th annual ?Where We Are on TV? report, released Friday, found that 4.4 percent of actors appearing regularly on prime-time network drama and comedy series during the 2012-13 season will portray lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters. That is up from 2.9 percent in 2011, which saw a dip in what had been a growing annual trend.

The study reviewed 97 scripted TV programs scheduled to air in the upcoming season on the broadcast networks, counting a total of 701 series regular characters. The study found that 31 of them are LGBT characters.

ABC has the highest amount, with 10 out of 194, or 5.2 percent, of their regular characters identified as LGBT.

After leading last year, Fox ranks second with six LGBT characters out of 118 total series regulars, or 5.1 percent.

CBS was saluted as much improved, with four out of 142 LGBT series regulars, or 2.8 percent, up from 0.7 percent last year. Among CBS?s new fall series is ?Partners,? a comedy about two childhood friends and business partners, one of whom is gay and in a relationship. The network?s lineup represents ?an authentic and conscious effort by CBS to improve its diversity,? the study said.

Regular gay and lesbian characters on what the study termed ?mainstream? cable television has also risen this season to 35, up from 29 last season.

Among those networks, Showtime leads with 12 LGBT characters. The study also cited HBO, FX, Adult Swim, ABC Family, MTV, Syfy and TeenNick.

The HBO drama ?True Blood? remains cable?s most inclusive series, featuring six LGBT characters.

On broadcast TV, male characters (64 percent) continue to outweigh female characters (36 percent, including the transgender character Unique on ?Glee?).

Compared with last year, African-American representation has grown from 9.9 percent to 12 percent, while Hispanic representation has decreased from 5.6 percent to 4.1 percent.

?It is vital for networks to weave complex and diverse story lines of LGBT people in the different programs they air,? said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. ?More and more Americans have come to accept their LGBT family members, friends, co-workers and peers, and as audiences tune into their favorite programs, they expect to see the same diversity of people they encounter in their daily lives.?

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Penguin is going to publish a (hetero) One Direction fanfic.

A One Direction fan has bagged herself a publishing contract from Penguin books, after their Senior Fiction Editor spotted her 1D fan-fic on movellas.com.

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Lindsey Heaven came across 16 year-old Emily Baker?s story ? which was the most popular fiction on the site and had over 30,000 Directioners asking her to write more - and thought it would be a perfect fit for the publishing house.


?Penguin had been looking to commission a writer to pen a romantic YA fictional novel that tapped into the current obsession with boy bands,? said an official statement.


?Emily proved to be just the right kind of new talent to write such a novel with powerful emotion and authority and world rights were duly acquired from movellas.com.?


Emily ? clearly ? seems pretty over the quaff-shaped moon. "I wrote my original novel on Movellas at the time that I was taking my GCSEs, so I had to balance my studies with writing. It was hard work, but it all paid off when everybody on Movellas was so supportive of what I was doing, which just urged me to continue writing chapter after chapter. That book then inspired me to write ?Loving the Band?.


"I am very excited to be published by Penguin and it also helps that everyone there is so lovely!"


Loving the Band will publish in ebook on 1st November and tells the tale of what happens when you meet the boy band of every girl?s dream - and not one but two of them fall for you.

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Handling A No Response In Your Telemarketing Campaign ...

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By: Belinda Summers Have you got any problems with your telemarketing campaign? Well, that is an issue if you think about it. We are aware that it would be painful for us in lead generation if we encounter a lot of obstacles and delays along the way that would influence our sales pipeline and generation of B2B leads. One of these that we usually take notice from the prospects is their response: 'No'. As soon as we hear that word (or its variants), we tend to give up easily. But it is not supposed to be that way. We can convert such refusal into our favor. All we have to do is to lean how to deal with it. Different objections will have its own answer:

1. "Send me some information" - when a prospect asks that, you should do it immediately. In addition, ask him what captured his attention. Is it the product you have or the business you own? Ask it in the most natural way possible.

2. "We have no budget for that" - either he is just looking for some reasons or they really do not have the funds. In this case, it would be best if you determine whether your offer is good enough for them, if price was no longer involved. From there, you can figure out what your next step will be.

3. "That is not my priority right now" - still, they can provide you with a wealth of information. In this case, you can ask them what their priorities in business are. Surely, you may not obtain any business leads at this point, but this can aid you develop a strategy that will catch their attention later. Besides, there is a possibility that you can actually help them in their priorities.

4. "We already have our own preference (competitor's product)" - here, you may not be able to persuade them to change products, but they can be very informative when you ask them why they prefer the competition. You might actually get something helpful from what they say, and use those findings to improve your proposal.

5. "It just costs too much" - in this case, they are sort of interested. You just need to fan the flames. Now, the best way to go about this is to ask them what they really mean about when it costs too much. Is it the price itself, or are the benefits of the product not that worth the price in their viewpoint? Questions such as these can help you navigate the negotiation better.

6. "Call me back in (period of time)" - this is not a direct no, maybe a delay of the inevitable. But that should not stop you from asking them why they prefer that you call them at that time. Are they busy now, or something like that?

7. "Someone else makes the buying decision" - it is then an opportunity for you to ask who that person is. The person you are dealing with might be the gatekeeper, so better get to their good graces. They might help you reach the right person.

Undeniably, if do not feel up to the job, you have an alternative to let a professional lead generation company to perform the job for you. It is also another good business investment. Find for qualified lead generation services providers, these companies have the proper skills and professional telemarketers that are well-trained to generate leads for numerous industries.

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Verbal abuse, can you relate? - Talk About Marriage


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Hi there!
This is the first time I have posted on a site like this, I'm hoping some of you might be able to identify with my situation, and perhaps offer some support, if not solutions to my problem.

In brief, my husband, for the 8 years of our 8 and a half year marriage, has shouted at me for the slightest little thing, he is also sarcastic and insulting, swears, bangs things around, storms off and slams doors, and on the few occasions I have answered him back at the time, he says it was me who was horrible to him, when all I did, was to politely ask for a little more room in the kitchen to do the washing up, or perhaps I used the last of the butter, or moved his record player off the floor so I could hoover up, or asked the same question twice when I didn't understand him the first time, and he just blows up! No warning, 0 to 90 in a split second and back down again as quickly.

You may wonder why I'm still with him, I wouldn't blame you, but the thing is, when he's not being like this, which is most of the time, I couldn't wish for a kinder, more loving and supportive husband, and once he has calmed down he is usually sorry for the hurt he has caused me, and he has agreed, at my insistence, to go to an anger management councillor, but until that happens he still thinks it's OK to express his anger with sarcasm and disrespect, as long as he doesn't slam doors, and apparently I am the only person in the world who clearly does not understand, that if you are feeling annoyed or angry then it is OK to express that emotion with the level of force and aggression the crime deserves!

I am very depressed this evening, as he has ruined this, and last weekends events, both of which were special occasions, and I am in despair at the thought that I will just end up hating him, and will not be able to find my way back from that.
Reasoning with him after he has calmed down usually just buys me some temporary respite from it, but after 8 years of this, how can I be intimate with him when I don't feel if is safe to be so?

On a very few occasions, feeling backed into a corner, I tried giving him a taste of his own medicine, and I challenged him back, and even shouted at him, and he went beserk! and recently it bordered on a physical assault with me trying to keep him out of a room with him forcing the door to get in at me.
He has never hit me, and says he never would, but to be perfectly honest, I can't be so sure I will not hit him one day, and that is something I would be deeply, deeply ashamed of,
so, I just say nothing and take it like a doormat, and withdraw from him, because quite frankly, I have run out of ideas.

I am not a person lacking in confidence, and I am amongst those people who are bewildered at women who stay with physically violent men, my mother was one of them, and I swore I never would be like her, but my husbands verbal assaults on me hurt every bit as much as a physical blow, I ought to know, as my father started hitting me just before I left home, but it hurts so much more coming from a man who makes you love him with his kindness, and then slaps you in the face with his words.

I feel like I'm on a piece of elastic with my husband bouncing me about all over the place, and the only thing I can do is disengage from him, but what kind of a marriage is it when I do that! Isn't that called passive aggressive? I don't do it to punish him, it's purely instinctive self protection, I veer away when he tries to kiss me and he gets nasty with me about that, and it's all poison to our marriage, which has everything else going for it, we don't have any serious circumstantial problems to complain about!

Oh dear! I feel so down, it's saturday night, and we should be having fun together, well, it has helped me putting my feelings into words, with the hope somebody might be listening, if you can identify with any of this, please get in touch, it would help me so much to not feel as though I was battling all on my own with this.

Thanks for listening

Dustbin ( I'm calling myself that because of all the toxic rubbish my husband tips on to me )

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It is no small wonder in my eyes that with all the pain out there that so many of us carry around the baggage and $h!t from those formative experiences. Whether it originated in the family from relatives that were in depression, hated their lives, or whatever, from underfunded public schools which do not have the resources/capacity to facilitate healthy socialization, work environments that encourage, competition and ranking (total bs imo), failed relationships, toxic social structures that reinforce retrogressive value systems and class hierarchies, etc, etc. There is no shortage of sources for the anger that seems to rear its provocative head in our lives.

Sorry, a bit of a rant there!

In your case, I would suggest couples counseling first, that way he recognizes himself how destructive his behavior when a neutral party provides constructive observations. It would also hold him to attending, hopefully. Then he may, again hopefully, get the motivation to take a good hard look at his own issues with anger and where its roots lay.

There may be many more of those nights before things get better but if you invest importance in your m, as it sounds like you do, better to try the mc sooner (ASAP!) than later before the demeaning/dehumanizing behavior reaches a point of no return.

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EMERALD i would love it if you gave a little more insight into your relationship and how you found the courage to leave after 22 years. you will know why after you read my reponse to dustbin.

DUSTBIN, i am in the same boat as you are. I am fed up with my husband raging fits I am ready to end this marriage over it. My husband cannot understand why I do not desire him as a married woman should (he believes I do not have a sex drive) that is not true I have a raging sex drive, just not for him. What person want to be intimate with someone after they haved hurled hurtful, forceful and very, very, very, very angry words at you. I told my 17 year old son it is a shame I have to leave a marriage because another human being does not know how to speak to you. What is funny as hell (not really funny, actually quite sad) my husband demands to be respected by me and the children, and if i cursed at him the way he does to me there will be hell to pay.

Sorry I have no answer, i know i need to leave, but Im afraid of putting the kids through the turmoil of a divorce. And i know im not helping them by staying with an abuser. If any TMI family members can chime in...im listening.

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EMERALD i would love it if you gave a little more insight into your relationship and how you found the courage to leave after 22 years. you will know why after you read my reponse to dustbin.

DUSTBIN, i am in the same boat as you are. I am fed up with my husband raging fits I am ready to end this marriage over it. My husband cannot understand why I do not desire him as a married woman should (he believes I do not have a sex drive) that is not true I have a raging sex drive, just not for him. What person want to be intimate with someone after they haved hurled hurtful, forceful and very, very, very, very angry words at you. I told my 17 year old son it is a shame I have to leave a marriage because another human being does not know how to speak to you. What is funny as hell (not really funny, actually quite sad) my husband demands to be respected by me and the children, and if i cursed at him the way he does to me there will be hell to pay.

Sorry I have no answer, i know i need to leave, but Im afraid of putting the kids through the turmoil of a divorce. And i know im not helping them by staying with an abuser. If any TMI family members can chime in...im listening.

Hardest thing I ever did - leave.

The verbal abuse was hurled at our children but not as bad because they were scared. I also protected them as much as possible.

Time went by & I fell out of love of course.

My plan was to leave when the children (2) left for college.

I had threatened to leave many times over 22 yrs.

When my youngest left for college, I rented an apartment, sat him down, told him why I was leaving, left & never looked back.

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I dealt with TWO verbally abusive husbands...the second, who started out so much better than the first, was the worst. He criticized everything about me: my clothes, my underwear, my hair, my makeup, my cooking, my cleaning, my driving, my parenting, my interests. EVERYTHING. He was totally negative about EVERYTHING, hated everyone, and was getting more and more nasty to my daughter. I was an empty shell of myself, and I walked on eggshells constantly, felt like I was always ducking. I would walk into the house after work and he would give me looks like I was dog crap he scraped off his shoe. My breaking point came when he said something really horrible in front of my daugher, said to me but aimed at her. At that moment I knew I was done. I got out.

This website was very helpful to me:

Welcome to Dr. Irene's Verbal Abuse Site|Dr. Irene's Verbal Abuse (Site)!

I hope you find the strength to get out, I know firsthand what a horrible example this is for children.

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Okay, I have typed this opinion in MANY threads, it seems to be like a plague. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER with some NARCISSISTIC TENDENCIES. He runs hot and cold. Rages for no apparent reasons. Will blame YOU for the rants. Won't let you fight back. Do you walk on eggshells due to his mood of the moment?

Basically, this man is a bully and a coward and you have every right to get the hell out of dodge. He is not going to change. I was raised by one of these bullies. My childhood was hell and I spent years on therapy over it. Who calls their six year old daughter a c*********? When my dad pulled up in the driveway after work, us kids would actually run and hide because he would stomp in complaining about traffic, the weather, you name it. He would look for things to yell at us about.

So yes, I can relate. Try not to let him damage your soul. Don't let him isolate you from friends and family. Every time you "let things go just to shut him up" your resentment will grow until it's overwhelming.

I'm glad you came here and reached out. That means you see the problem and you know who to blame. My mother still thinks there is hope for my father. STUPID STUPID STUPID. Take care of yourself. This self-hating monster will take you down with him only if you let him.

Keep us posted on what is going on okay?

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Exclusive: Credit Suisse probed over mortgages - sources

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. federal and state authorities are investigating Credit Suisse AG over mortgage-backed securities packaged and sold by the bank, people familiar with the probe said on Thursday.

The Justice Department and the New York Attorney General are among those probing Credit Suisse's actions, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A spokesman for Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-largest bank, declined to comment.

Zurich-based Credit Suisse is the second bank known to be targeted by U.S. authorities probing how banks bundled mortgage loans into securities during the U.S. housing boom.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a civil fraud case against JPMorgan Chase & Co on Monday over mortgage-backed securities originated and sold by Bear Stearns.

The lawsuit accuses Bear Stearns of a "systematic abandonment of underwriting guidelines" and says that defects among loans sold to investors were largely ignored.

Creating and packaging defective loans for sale to investors helped cause the housing bubble and subsequent collapse.

The JPMorgan complaint was the first action to come out of a working group created by President Barack Obama earlier this year to go after wrongdoing that led to the 2008 financial crisis. JPMorgan, which bought Bear Stearns for $10 a share in March 2008, said in a statement it would contest the allegations.

The details of the investigation of Credit Suisse were not immediately known. However, lawsuits by pension funds, insurers and others against the bank claim it misrepresented the quality of mortgages underlying securities it created and sold. Loans were alleged to be issued on the basis of inflated appraisals and overstated incomes.

Credit Suisse was a "huge player" in residential mortgage-backed securities until the market collapsed in 2007, according to a lawsuit by Assured Guarantee Municipal Corp. The bank securitized some $128.5 billion in residential mortgage loans starting in 2004, the suit said.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed mortgage-related documents from Credit Suisse, bond insurer MBIA Inc disclosed in a court filing in May 2011.

The New York attorney general's office, Justice Department and SEC declined comment.

Schneiderman said in a statement Tuesday that the Bear Stearns lawsuit was a "template for future actions" against those who "defrauded investors and cost millions of Americans their homes."

Schneiderman is a co-chair of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group formed to probe the pooling and sale of risky mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

Obama said he created the group to "hold accountable those who broke the law" and to "help turn the page on an era of recklessness."

(Reporting by Karen Freifeld and Alison Frankel; Editing by Bernard Orr)

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From Stem Cells To Eggs (And Beyond)

Reporting in Science, researchers write that mouse stem cells can be transformed not only into egg cells?but into newborn pups. Sean Morrison, a stem cell expert at the University of Texas Southwestern, explains the stem cell's journey, and what it could mean for fertility and assisted reproduction.

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Up next, turning stem cell into mouse eggs. Scientists have been growing stem cells in the lab for nearly 15 years now. And in that time they've learned to transform stem cells into pretty much anything they wanted to - heart cells, liver cells, brain cells. But now a group of Japanese scientists has raised the bar by transforming mouse stem cells into mouse eggs. And not only do they look like eggs but they can be fertilized and developed into healthy mice.

Their research appears in the journal Science this week. How do they do it? Could the same thing work in humans? Just take a tiny piece of a woman's skin, turn it into fresh egg cells. Would it be ethical to do so? Joining me now to talk about these issues is Sean Morrison, director of the Children's Research Institute at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Welcome back to SCIENCE FRIDAY, Dr. Morrison.

SEAN MORRISON: Hey, Ira. Nice to talk to you again.

FLATOW: So give us a little thumbnail sketch of what happened. Scientists made egg cells from stem cells. How did they do that?

MORRISON: Well, they used either mouse embryonic stem cells or, as you know, it's also possible now to reprogram adult cells to have properties similar to embryonic cells - embryonic stem cells. Those are called induced pluripotent stem cells or IPS cells. They could use either of those kinds of pluripotent stems cells - pluripotent meaning they can make any cell type in the body. And they were able to generate mouse eggs or oocytes from the pluripotent stem cells. And, you know, what's particularly important about the paper, as you said, is that they confirmed that these were really functional eggs by using them in in vitro fertilization to make healthy adult mice.

FLATOW: And the mice themselves had offspring also?

MORRISON: Yes.

FLATOW: And those were healthy mice also?

MORRISON: As far as they know.

FLATOW: You know, this opens up all kinds of questions...

MORRISON: Yes.

FLATOW: ...about where do you move forward with something like this, because...

MORRISON: Well, there's two kinds of important implications. One is that this creates a system in which it's now really possible to study the differentiation of oocytes and the process by which they're formed. But secondly, if it's possible to do this with human pluripotent stem cells and if it's possible to identify an ethical path forward to really study the properties of those cells, it could really have important implications for how in vitro fertilization is done.

You could imagine for women who either can't make eggs or who can't make genetically healthy eggs that it could become possible to, as you said, take a small sample of normal cells, like from their skin, to derive induced pluripotent stem cells from those skin cells and then to use those cells to derive eggs that could be used during in vitro fertilization. Now, it's important to note that nobody has done this yet with human cells, and it's not clear whether it will be possible. But this paper that was published yesterday raises that possibility. And if it were possible, there are patients that - who could undergo more effective fertility treatment as a consequence.

The other issue, of course, is that the key experiment in the science paper was showing that the egg cells were functional by showing that they could be fertilized and they could be used to generate healthy mice. There would have to be a lot of thought given to how that could be tested with human cells because of course you don't want to fertilize human eggs as part of a research project in a laboratory.

You would only want to do that in the context of fertility treatment, and you would only want to do that if you had a pretty good reason to believe that the eggs had a chance of giving rise to healthy pregnancies.

FLATOW: That is a can of worms.

MORRISON: Yes.

FLATOW: Talking with Sean Morrison on SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow. Can you walk us through, how do you actually tell the stem cells, hey, turn into eggs now?

MORRISON: Well, they had a pretty complicated process that was described in their paper that involved, first, exposing the stem cells to certain signals in laboratory dishes, and then they mix the stem cells with cells from the mouse ovary so that the cells could be exposed to chemical signals that would normally be present in the ovary.

Then they took that mixture of cells and actually transplanted it back under - into the ovaries of mice, you know, inside their body, and then waited for the eggs to mature and then re-isolated the eggs and did in vitro fertilization with mouse sperm and then re-implanted the embryos into mice. And they were able to deliver successful pregnancies.

FLATOW: Could you apply the same the method to make sperm cells? If you're making egg cells, what about sperm cell?

MORRISON: Well, in fact, the same laboratory has already done this, shown that they could generate mouse sperm that was effective and functionally normal. And there are early indications that it's possible to take human pluripotent stem cells and generate cells that look a lot like sperm, although, you know, it hasn't been possible to do the key experiment to test whether or not the sperm-like cells that are derived from human pluripotent stem cells, whether they could, you know, really successfully fertilize an egg.

FLATOW: Would it be ethical to do this, you know, some of this work in humans? Would it take away some of the stigma about using embryonic stem cells?

MORRISON: Well, there's a whole lot of issues to consider in that I think a lot of people are going to have to involved in working through and thinking about under what circumstances it would be permissible to use this kind of approach in humans if the science really supports the idea that this kind of approach could generate cells that look like eggs from human pluripotent stem cells. I think the two key factors, I mean one key factor is that you would want to do this in the context of an effort, you know, for in vitro fertilization, in the course of reproduction rather than just generating embryos for the sake of research by fertilization.

And secondly, you would only want to go forward, I think, if you were sure enough from the preliminary studies that the eggs really looked healthy and normal and really felt like they had a chance of giving rise to successful pregnancies because you wouldn't want to engage in in vitro fertilization with a patient if there really wasn't much chance of having a successful pregnancy.

FLATOW: Is there any reason - going the opposite direction of thought, is there any reason to believe this would not work in humans?

MORRISON: You know, there have been so many twists and turns in the plot of pluripotent stem cell biology over the past 10 years that I wouldn't bet against anything, and I also don't think we should be in the business of making sure predictions about exactly what's going to happen. It's possible that what's described in this paper won't work on human cells. But it wouldn't be surprising if it did.

FLATOW: All right. We're going to leave it right there. And thank you very much for taking time to be with us today. Some interesting food for thought this Friday. Thanks a lot.

MORRISON: All right. Nice talking to you, Ira.

FLATOW: Sean Morrison, director of the Children's Research Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. That's about all the time we have today. A quick reminder - a couple of quick reminders. Go to our website at sciencefriday.com. We have our video pick of the week up there, and there are some battling beetles that I'm sure you're going to want to watch as they battle all about - well, size means everything on these beetles. You're going to want to see that up on our website at sciencefriday.com.

Also, the SCIENCE FRIDAY Book Club, we're meeting again on October 26. Our next book is "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman. We just mentioned him and talked about what a great writer he was and how thoughtful he was. You can get your copy and start reading it and then join our conversation a few weeks from now on our book club date. That's going to be October 26.

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Alcoa's third-quarter profit expected to fall

NEW YORK (AP) ? Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. will open what's expected to be a disappointing earnings season when it reports third-quarter results Tuesday after the markets close.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Alcoa produces aluminum for a wide range of businesses, from automobiles to appliance makers and energy companies. It is the first company in the Dow Jones industrial average to report earnings so investors often watch its results for signs of how earnings may unfold for other companies

The slower global economy is expected to weigh on quarterly results for U.S. companies across a broad range of sectors. Analysts predict a decline of 1.3 percent in third-quarter earnings from a year ago for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500, according to S&P Capital IQ.

The economies of the U.S. and China are slowing. Europe's debt crisis has forced some countries into recession. Alcoa faces challenges from a slowdown in manufacturing in all three regions. Demand has been mixed and prices have been weaker while supplies are plentiful.

Alcoa's sales to automobile manufacturers and aerospace companies likely remained solid but construction markets are still weak, analysts said.

In addition, spot aluminum prices averaged about $1,900 per metric ton during the quarter, Morningstar Inc. analyst Bridget Freas said. Alcoa's realized price was $2,689 per metric ton in the year-ago quarter.

Shares of Alcoa rose 1.3 percent in the third quarter, ending at $8.86 per share on Sept. 28.

WHY IT MATTERS: Alcoa's performance provides a picture of economic growth because aluminum is used to make so many products for businesses and consumers. About three-fourths of its sales are in the U.S. and Europe.

WHAT'S EXPECTED: Analysts surveyed by FactSet predict earnings of 1 cent per share on revenue of $5.6 billion.

Argus Research analyst Bill Selesky expects Alcoa to lower its 2012 forecast for growth in global aluminum demand to 6 percent from 7 percent. "It's highly dependent on economic growth and until that starts to pick up, you know, we're probably in a steady state right now for Alcoa," he said.

LAST YEAR'S QUARTER: Alcoa's 2011 third-quarter net income totaled $172 million, or 15 cents a share. Revenue totaled $6.42 billion.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/alcoas-third-quarter-profit-expected-fall-182413391--finance.html

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Can a Relationship Survive an Affair? | Relationships in Balance

It depends.

People respond to a partner?s affair in different ways, depending on personal values. Some may respond by immediately leaving the relationship without looking back. Some may believe in the concept of working through adversity together and seeing if they can make it through as a stronger couple. Some may believe that the family is paramount (especially when children are involved) and want to work things out for the sake of the family staying together. And so on.

No matter the personal value systems at play, a relationship can survive an affair only if?both?partners actively want it to. If only one partner is interested in fighting for the relationship, it will be a frustrating uphill battle that can have compounding negative effects (e.g. lowered self-esteem and self-worth).

Affairs have several components to them. There is the emotional impact (e.g. hurt, betrayal, anger, etc.) of the affair. There is figuring out what led to the affair in the first place ? behaviorally and psychologically for both partners. As part of this component, there?s acknowledging the state of the current relationship (e.g. what was missing or happening in the current relationship for the one who cheated? What was the role of the other partner?), as well as the personal psycho-emotional state of the one acting out by having the affair (e.g. what was going on inside that enabled this behavior?).

Basically, there?s the experience and state of each partner, and there?s the experience and state of the unit as a whole, which all need to be considered in recovering from an affair.

So, after the affair has been revealed, and the emotional dust has had some time to settle, the first question to answer will be if each partner is interested in working to repair the damage caused to the relationship. Of course, for both partners, this question is not usually an easy one to answer. There are many things to consider before deciding which direction you want to see the relationship go. Here?s a list of questions to help figure out the next step:

  • How willing am I to work through the process of repairing the relationship?
  • Where do I draw the line? (setting boundaries).
  • What am I fighting for if I stay, and what will be impacted if I leave (emotionally and actively)? This can take the form of a pros/cons list.?
  • Which process am I more willing to take on (working to move forward together? or ending the relationship and dealing with all that comes with this?)
  • How will I feel later if I decide to leave without trying to repair the relationship first?
  • What do I generally want to see happen?

Being able to answer the questions above can help each partner understand the implications the decision will have.

Couples and individual therapy (for each partner) is encouraged as part of the relationship healing process. It is necessary to understand what in the relationship dynamic led to the affair in the first place, in order to prevent a recurrence. However, both partners have room to benefit from individual therapy (not only the one who engaged the affair). The hurt partner could use support to sort out emotions and learn their own role in relationship troubles. Also, the hurt partner at times can develop urges to act out in response to the affair, possibly by engaging in an affair of their own as revenge, or other forms of revenge, including even consideration of physical harm to their partner. So the triad of couples and both individuals in therapy is heavily encouraged for a relationship to make a healthy recovery from an affair.

So the answer is, yes, a relationship can survive an affair. The real question is how much do both partners want it to.



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Anonymous. (2012). Can a Relationship Survive an Affair?. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 7, 2012, from http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships-balance/2012/10/05/can-a-relationship-survive-an-affair/

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