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Sweetheart scams on the rise, AG Cooper warns
Release date: 2/13/2013
Con artists use dating, social networking websites to find victims
Technology is giving new life to an old scam where con artists use the promise of love to win victims' trust and steal their money, Attorney General Roy Cooper warned consumers today.
"These days many people look for companionship online, and con artists know it," Cooper said. "Sweetheart scammers are using websites to meet, woo and romance their victims out of their money."
The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division heard from 25 victims of sweetheart scams last year who lost a combined total of more than $2 million dollars. That's up from 2011, when Cooper's office heard from 17 victims who lost approximately $700,000 total to sweetheart scams.
Sweetheart scams first operated in person with con artists pretending to fall in love with lonely people in order to gain their trust and then exploit them financially. The scam has now moved to dating and social media websites such as match.com, seniorpeoplemeet.com, christianmingle.com and Facebook.
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Some victims lose hundreds or even tens of thousands of dollars to the scam. Many repeatedly wire money to their so-called beloved, and only realize they've been scammed once the wire company or their bank becomes suspicious.
Sweetheart scams can strike men and women of any age but seniors can be special targets, Cooper warned, especially if they post information online about a recent tragedy such as the death of a spouse. Of the 25 consumers who complained about sweetheart scams to Cooper's office last year, 10 were senior citizens.
One Lexington senior lost more than $1 million to a man who befriended her on Facebook. He led her to believe he was originally from Charlotte but was currently working in Africa. He conned her into repeatedly sending him money overseas, supposedly to cover expenses until he was paid for his contract work and could return to North Carolina to marry her.
Perpetrators of online sweetheart scams are usually located overseas, and Cooper's office works with international authorities to investigate them. Fraud experts with the Consumer Protection Division have helped intercept thousands of dollars sent overseas by victims of sweetheart scams, and last year thwarted three attempts by seniors to fly to other countries and hand-deliver cash to con artists.
"If someone you meet online starts asking you for money, even a small amount, that's a good sign you're dealing with a scammer," Cooper. "Contact my office if you or a loved one may be caught up in a sweetheart scam."
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These were the unspeakable and ghastly tools used to force a society made up only of Hitler's "master race." Within the thousands of camps he placed those he considered sub-human, including Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, criminals, communists, prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, intellectuals and the mentally ill. None of these millions of captives were given any form of judicial process, and were used as slave-laborers before being massacred. Join WatchMojo.com as we learn about the Nazis' use of concentration and extermination camps during World War II.


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I rate SINYC above Mind Games. MG is my least fav. SINYC is hard for me to listen repeatedly because:
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Addressing the Mental Health Problems of Chinese International College Students in the United States
This article identifies unique mental health problems experienced by Chinese international students in the United States. The uniqueness of these problems suggests the need to address them independently from other Chinese and international student communities. First, an overview of the common sources of mental health problems and specific stressors these students face is provided. This article then develops culturally sensitive programming recommendations to improve collaborative efforts between health providers, mental health social workers, faculty, and academic staff within universities to serve these students more effectively.
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Film Review: The Happening
Bottom Line: This paranoid thriller has its moments, but weak story and characters do more damage than any neurotoxic menace.
By Kirk Honeycutt
Jun 10, 2008
Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and Ashlyn Sanchez in "The Happening"
Opens: June 13 (Fox)
M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit, "The Sixth Sense," achieved just the right balance of creepiness, horror, supernatural thrills and pop psychology. The writer-director has been chasing those elusive qualities ever since, sometimes down intriguing sci-fi backstreets ("Signs") but more often down blind alleys ("Lady in the Water").
In "The Happening," he manages to recapture some of those elements, particularly the creepiness and supernatural thrills. But the central menace -- an airborne neurotoxin that causes mass suicides in the northeastern U.S. -- doesn't pan out as any kind of Friday night entertainment. The movie seems more like a '50s science fiction film of extreme paranoia or an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that even at a swiftly paced 90 minutes feels padded.
Look for "Happening" to land somewhere between the grosses of his most recent two films, the flop "Lady in the Water" ($42 million) and the reasonably successful "The Village" ($114 million). Much will depend on how younger audiences -- who with Shyamalan's first R rating will be more challenged to gain entry -- react to scenes of mass suicide: Will they gasp or chuckle?
Shyamalan generally likes to place a small nuclear family in jeopardy, and this film is no exception. High school science teacher Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) and wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) have their problems, but these are swiftly overwhelmed by a mysterious plague rushing from New York's Central Park toward their Philadelphia home. It causes people to grow disoriented and confused, stop in their tracks, then do terrible things to themselves. Nature seems to be having one big freakout.
The couple takes to the road by train, then by car and on foot. A fellow math teacher, Julian (John Leguizamo), and his 8-year-old daughter, Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), come along only for Julian to leave his child with them so he can search for his wife who took another route out of town.
Everyone winds up in the Pennsylvania countryside. The science teacher decides, on the basis of absolutely no evidence, that the toxins are generated by plants and trees and are airborne, so every breath of air, every flutter of tall grass or rush of wind causes hearts to stop. Even Elliot's mood ring -- yes, he has a mood ring -- is going bananas.
But the movie's own logic and logistics are never clear. If the toxins are in the wind, where is everyone rushing to? Why aren't our heroes taking shelter in airless buildings or breaking into pharmacies for an antidote to suicidal tendencies? We're told that the toxins attack people in large groups, but then an old kook (played with an odd stridency by stage and screen veteran Betty Buckley) kills herself with no one around.
The ecological idea of Planet Earth striking back at humankind might bring a smile to Al Gore, but in terms of cinematic intrigue and nail-biting tension, it's just not happening.
Production: 20th Century Fox, UTV Motion Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, a Blinding Edge Pictures production. Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley; Screenwriter-director: M. Night Shyamalan; Producers: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer, Barry Mendel; Executive producers: Ronnie Screwvala, Zarina Screwvala, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber; Director of photography: Tak Fujimoto. Music: James Newton Howard; Production designer: Jeannine Oppewall; Costume designer: Betsy Heimann; Editor: Conrad Buff.
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Along the lines of Hitchcock's The Birds, it makes you aware that we will have our hands full if nature should decide it has had enough of mankind. Although The Happening is not a gore fest, it is a bit unsettling to think that in a matter of seconds people could go from being normal to wanting to do themselves in by the handiest means available.
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There is lots of information in the State of the Region report the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission released today -- the demographic changes in central Ohio, charts on business growth and commercial building vacancies, transporation plans, etc.
It also has info on reccycling rates in Franklin County, at least for communities that report. Leading the way: Upper Arlington, with a 41-percent residential recycling rate. Second? Dublin, with a 24-percent residential rate.
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Hopefully I'm not the only one, but I'm more confused now than I was before...
Does NY style pizza sausage have fennel seed in it?
Premio's answer notwithstanding, the ingredients for the Sweet and Mild products are not identical according to the two Nutrition Facts. The Mild has BHA and BHT and citric acid. Not big differences, but still different. If the formulation are the same, or nearly so, then I wonder why the number of links is different for the Sweet and Mild packages, both of which are one pound.
It's not that complicated. For Premio, Sweet = Mild. For other brands, Sweet, outside of the NE, can have different ingredients (like the Johnsonville bastardization )
I recommend the mild because ... the sweet does not taste right for my style of pizza...
Bob--do you mean that for Chicago thin, mild is the way to go? Is one more fennel heavy than the other?Cheers,Garvey
Thanks, Bob. Will give it a go. I had tried everything in the stores down here in NC years ago and gave up trying to find a real pizza sausage. But this Premio sounds worth a pizza or two.BTW, the one great pizza sausage I've found in stores down South is at Whole Foods. I've had it in Birmingham many times with my buddy Dave (co-creator of the Pizza Factory recipe), and it was excellent. The guy at the meat counter said it was a recipe from Chicago. Tastes like it. If you have a WF, try it out some time. (I haven't tried it locally yet--it's across town from me and I'm too cheap to go down there...rather make my own, usually).If you do make some from scratch using the recipe I posted but don't want to grind your own meat, I've had good success with pre-ground Smithfield from the grocery store. It's no leaner than 80/20, which would be the leanest I'd use for sausage. I've tried the store ground stuff and generic "ground pork," and they have always been way too lean. The sausage just doesn't turn out right without the proper amount of fat. So the Smithfield has been AOK. Runs 3.99/lb or better on sale at all the usual suspects down here.Cheers,Garvey
The simple answer is yes.I have come across a no fennel version of store made Italian sausage, but this is an outlier that sees only occasional home use, but never in a pizzeria. If you're in a NY pizzeria and ask for sausage on your pizza, it will have fennel.
In response to the original post -When I lived in NYC, I too enjoyed Premio's Italian sausage. It wasn't as good as the sausage I grew up with in the Chicago area, but it was the best stuff I could get from the local neighborhood supermarkets.I've been living in Florida for the past few years and have found that the Premio's that I have been able to find here isn't nearly as good. Not sure whether the stuff I've found here is produced in New Jersey and shipped down here, or is produced more locally. Could they have changed the recipe? Regardless, it just doesn't taste like the Premio's I used to get and really enjoy. After four bad experiences, I've stopped buying it.(I should clarify that I haven't tried any that I've bought here for making pizza. I've only tried it for eating on pasta or by itself.)


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Chicagop... wrote:Finally have a free minute...Can say that this is my favorite SO, hands down. I had actually been watching Eiichi's work on Ebay for a while, but never really had a great reason to purchase any. That and the pieces were usually bid up much higher than I would be comfortable paying. The price for this SO was definitely a steal! I am particularly interested in his work because of the fact that hie is a fairly young potter and already shows a great deal of material understanding and creativity. The clay body of this SO, in particular, exhibits quite a bit of fluidity while being made of an extremely rigid and static and material. Looking at and feeling the unglazed foot area reminds me of being at the beach -- such an amazing sandy color and feel. The hand-carved foot exhibits controlled spontaneity. The glaze is a beautiful glossy white that has an extremely silky feel. I certainly wouldn't be heartbroken if the glaze on mine didn't crackle...But I will definitely love it regardless.
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U.S. Women Handle Costa Rica
MIAMI, Fla. (June 26, 2009) – The U.S. Women's National Team, the 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist, opened the Eighth Pan American Cup with a 25-7, 25-6, 25-16 victory over Costa Rica on Friday evening at the University of Miami's BankUnited Center.
The U.S., hosting its first international volleyball tournament since 2000, returns to action on Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET versus Guatemala, which lost to Puerto Rico earlier today.
"This was a nice start to the tournament," U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon said. "Costa Rica is a good team, and it showed in the third set. I was glad to see that we managed the game well in the first two sets."
Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.), playing in her first competition with the U.S. Women's National Team after completing her eligibility at University of Nebraska last fall, led all scorers with 14 points with 12 kills and two aces. Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa) made her official return after an absence of two year-plus years from the team by scoring 11 points on seven kills, three aces and a block. Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) chipped in nine points via the attack, while Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) added seven points on five kills and two blocks.
Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) tallied six points in the victory, while Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) tacked on five points. Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) contributed four points off the bench and Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) rounded out the scoring with a kill.
Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) provided a team-high six digs. Larsen had a team-high six excellent receptions on 11 attempts. Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) recorded seven assists off the bench, while Spicer added five assists.
"My compliments to the Costa Rica team," Scott-Arruda said. "They fought hard to the end. Any time you win 3-0 is good, but we need to work on minimizing our errors. It was good to play at home."
U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon started Scott-Arruda and Bown at middle blocker, Richards and Larsen at outside hitter, Spicer at setter and Metcalf at opposite. Davis served as the libero. Haneef-Park and Barboza subbed into the match in the first set and started the third set for Metcalf and Richards, respectively. Thompson started the final set in place Spicer.
The U.S. jumped to a 9-2 lead in the opening set as Richards and Scott-Arruda led the way with two points apiece in the spurt. After Costa Rica cut the deficit to 10-5, Team USA rattled off 11 unanswered points as Metcalf scored four points in the run. The Americans closed out the set with a 25-7 victory on a Richards kill.
With a 3-2 lead in the second set, the U.S. extended the lead to 9-2 with six straight points on Metcalf's serve which netted three aces. The Americans built the lead to 17-3 as part of an overall 14-1 run. Larsen ended the set with an ace at 25-6.
Costa Rica recovered to take an 8-4 lead at the first technical timeout of the third set. However, Barboza led the U.S. to a 6-0 run with two aces and a kill for a 10-8 advantage. Team USA rolled off an 8-1 run to grab an 18-10 lead with Scott-Arruda scoring a kill and block during the spurt. The U.S. finished out the set with a 25-15 victory on consecutive kills from Bown and Barboza.
"While it was a nice effort by the team, I think there are obvious areas for improvement," McCutcheon said.
Verania Willis Lindo led Costa Rica with seven points, while Melissa Fernandez Monge added three points.
Team USA held a 6-1 advantage in blocks and served an 8-3 margin in aces. The U.S. converted 43 of 71 attacks into kills with only seven errors. In contrast, Costa Rica was only able to convert on 14 of 72 attempts.
Earlier in the day, Puerto Rico handled Guatemala 25-9, 25-19, 25-18 and Peru defeated Mexico 25-13, 25-15, 25-10 in Pool A action. Over in Pool B, Brazil topped Canada 25-11, 25-12, 25-13 and Dominican Republic beat Argentina 24-26, 25-13, 25-18, 27-25.
Pan American Cup pool play, scheduled for June 26-30, is a five-day, round robin preliminary to determine classification round matches. The U.S. Women's National Team, part of Pool A at University of Miami with matches at BankUnited Center, will compete against Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico in pool action. All U.S. pool matches are scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET.
Pool B, played at nearby Florida International University's U.S. Century Bank Arena, includes Argentina, top-ranked Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic and Trinidad & Tobago. The 2008 Olympic Games gold-medal participants of U.S. and Brazil are on opposite sides of the bracket. Colombia was originally part of Pool B, but was unable to attend.
A Pan American Cup tournament pass, good for all matches at both venues, is $75 for adults and $60 for children. Tickets for each date of competition at the specific venue (either University of Miami or Florida International University) are $20 for reserved general admission, $12 for adult general admission and $10 for child general admission. Tickets can be purchased online at www.miamisports.org.
After the preliminary pool round, the Pan American Cup quarterfinal and classification matches are set for July 2, followed by semifinal matches and additional classification matches on July 3. The championship match and final classification round matches are scheduled for July 4. All non-pool matches will be played at University of Miami. Classification round matches will be played on July 2 at 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all ET). Matches on July 3 and final classification matches on July 4 will be played at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. (all ET).
The Women's Pan American Cup is a qualifying tournament into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix and the 2009 Women's Final Four. The top three NORCECA teams and top team from South America receive berths into next year's FIVB World Grand Prix. The top two teams from NORCECA, Brazil and the top remaining team from South America qualify for the Final Four to be hosted by Brazil.
Miami will be a busy location for volleyball the last week of June and first week of July. The 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships is being played June 26-July 5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Typically, the tournament attracts 788 teams and approximately 9,500 athletes in addition to parents and relatives. A total of 19 championships are contested in age groups ranging from 12 to 18.
U.S. Women's National Team Preliminary Roster for Eighth Women's Pan American Cup
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
2 – Danielle Scott-Arruda (MB, 6-2, Baton Rouge, La., Long Beach State)
3 – Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OH/OPP, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 – Angie Pressey (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California)
5 – Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 – Nicole Davis (L, 5-6, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 – Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 – Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
10 – Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
11 – Jordan Larson-Burbach (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 – Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
15 – Courtney Thompson (S, 5-7, Kent, Wash., Washington)
16 – Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)
17 – Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
19 – Jane Collymore (OH, 5-11, Seattle, Wash., Florida)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coaches: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.), Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer: Jill Wosmek
Women's Pan American Cup Schedule (all times Eastern Time)
Pool A
(at University of Miami)
Standings: USA 1-0, Peru 1-0, Puerto Rico 1-0, Guatemala 0-1, Mexico 0-1, Costa Rica 0-1
June 26: #1 Puerto Rico def. Guatemala, 25-9, 25-15, 25-18
June 26: #2 Peru def. Mexico, 25-13, 25-15, 25-10
June 26: #4 United States def. Costa Rica, 25-7, 25-6, 25-16
June 27: #6 Costa Rica vs. Peru, 3 p.m.
June 27: #7 Mexico vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
June 27: #9 United States vs. Guatemala, 8 p.m.
June 28: #11 Costa Rica vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.
June 28: #12 Puerto Rico vs. Peru, 5:30 p.m.
June 28: #14 United States vs. Mexico, 8 p.m.
June 29: #16 Mexico vs. Guatemala, 3 p.m.
June 29: #17 Costa Rica vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
June 29: #19 United States vs. Peru, 8 p.m.
June 30: #21 Guatemala vs. Peru, 3 p.m.
June 30: #22 Mexico vs. Costa Rica, 5:30 p.m.
June 30: #24 United States vs. Puerto Rico, 8 p.m.
Pool B
(at Florida International University)
Standings: Brazil 1-0, Dominican Republic, Argentina 0-1, Canada 0-1, Trinidad & Tobago
June 26: #3 Dominican Republic def. Argentina, 24-26, 25-13, 25-18, 27-25
June 26: #5 Brazil def. Canada, 25-11, 25-12, 25-13
June 27: #8 Argentina vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 5:30 p.m.
June 27: #10 Canada vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
June 28: #13 Trinidad & Tobago vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
June 28: #15 Brazil vs. Argentina, 8 p.m.
June 29: #18 Brazil vs. Trinidad & Tobago 5:30 p.m.
June 29: #20 Argentina vs. Canada, 8 p.m.
June 30: #23 Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago, 5:30 p.m.
June 30: #25 Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 8 p.m.
July 1: Off Day
Classification Rounds
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July 2: #26 Pool B 4th vs. Pool A 5th, 1 p.m. (class 5-10)
July 2: #27 Pool A 4th vs. Pool B 5th, 3 p.m. (class 5-10)
July 2: #28 Pool B 2nd vs. Pool A 3rd, 5:30 p.m. (quarterfinals)
July 2: #29 Pool A 2nd vs. Pool B 3rd, 8 p.m. (quarterfinals)
July 3: #30 Loser #26 vs. Loser #27, 11 a.m. (class 9-10)
July 3: #31 Winner #26/#27 vs. Loser #28/#29, 1 p.m. (class 5-8)
July 3: #32 Winner #26/27 vs. Loser #28/#29, 3 p.m. (class 5-8)
July 3: #33 Pool B Winner vs. Winner #28/#29, 5:30 p.m. (semi)
July 3: #34 Pool A Winner vs. Winner #28/#29, 8 p.m. (semi)
July 4: #35 Loser #30 vs. Pool B 6th, 11 a.m. (class 11-12)
July 4: #35 Loser #31 vs. Loser #32, 1 p.m. (class 7-8)
July 4: #36 Winner #31 vs. Winner #32, 3 p.m. (class 5-6)
July 4: #37 Loser #33 vs. Loser #34, 5:30 p.m. (class 3-4)
July 4: #38 Winner #33 vs. Winner #34, 8 p.m. (Final)


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That's a record amount of online advertising, and up 15 percent from the amount online display ads we saw in the first quarter of 2009, according to digital marketing analysis firm comScore Inc.
U.S. spending on online display ads? $2.7 billion for the quarter.
Display ads do not include video ads, in-house ads and very small ads of less than 2,500 pixels.
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And who's placing these ads? Telecom giant AT&T was the top online display advertiser, according to comScore, placing 2.4 percent of the display ads. Competitor Verizon was next with 2 percent, followed by Scottrade Inc. (1.5 percent) and Experian Interactive (1.4 percent).
Amazing, staggering numbers, those are. And one can only assume that as online becomes the default way we all get our information and entertainment (says the reporter who loves his streaming Netflix and Slacker and who has spent his 17-year career watching the traditional, paper-bound portion of his industry continually wither and waste away – a trend that's been accelerated by the Internets) that those numbers will continue to grow by sizable amounts as advertising dollars increasingly head into the cyber ether.


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Using magazine clippings; photographs; found or created notes, letters, and postcards; and other items, construct a story from ephemera. Put the items in box and add to it as the week goes on. When you feel that you've compiled enough, write the story relying on the ephemera as a guide.
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By NICOLE BARDO-COLON
Published May 30, 2007
Domestic violence may not be a popular topic among men, but one activist aims to change that through comedy and celebrity voice impressions.
Ben Atherton-Zeman said his goal is to approach this serious subject in a not-so-serious way so that his audience will be relaxed and open to hear it.
"We think men are generally good, " said Linda Osmundson, executive director of Community Action Stops Abuse, a local organization that aims to combat domestic violence. But she said men need to hold one another responsible.
The organization is sponsoring Atherton-Zeman's play, Voices of Men, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Studio@620 at 620 First Ave. S.
For more than a decade, he has been working to help victims of domestic violence. He is also a spokesman for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism.
"This is a group women that is universally made fun of, " Atherton-Zeman said. "It makes violence easier and more tolerated."
He wrote the performance six years ago. It's important for many reasons, but "especially with current events, " said Osmundson, referring to the recent news about Devil Rays rookie Elijah Dukes, who allegedly threatened his wife and children.
"As long as we accept domestic violence at home ... I think men are saying it's acceptable on some level, " Osmundson said.
"I often hear, 'Well, he's a good father. He just beats his wife.' How can you be a good father and beat your wife?"
The play is directed at men because Atherton-Zeman said that is where the problem begins.
"We're hoping that a lot of men will come so that men that are domestic abusers know they are not part of any good club, " Osmundson said.
She said men need to send the message to other men that "your behavior is criminal" and that they won't tolerate having friends who are abusers.
The main topics of the play are sexual assault and consent, dating violence and domestic violence, sexual harassment and objectification.
Atherton-Zeman said he chose this path after dating women who had either been raped or abused.
"Men are beginning to get involved, but it's not enough for me, " he said. "The reality of what their lives are like is strong in my heart."
He said he has other ventures he would like to pursue but said he won't stop fighting this battle until the numbers of raped and abused women each year decrease.
"The strength of the voice inside me won't let me do anything else, " he said.
The event is open to the public, but guests are asked to call ahead. Refreshments will be served.
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South of the island of Majorca, in the Balearic Islands.
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An archipelago made up of a main island, Cabrera, and six smaller islands and a dozen islets. It is the emerged extension of Majorca's Sierra de Levante mountain range, and it has mountainous landscape and an irregular outline. The fauna includes large colonies of sea birds such as Cory's shearwater, European storm-petrel, and Audouin's gull. In the sea there are many other species such as bottlenose dolphins, loggerhead sea turtles, octopuses and moray eels.
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Online games that can be played on any kind of personal computer in a typical Internet browser will get massive improvement in quality, according to a former high-ranking executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. Those games will also get more immersive and will be able to attract so-called core gamers to open platforms, such as PCs.
"I think [we will] see [a game of the quality of Modern Warfare 2 running in a browser]. I think in the next five-to-ten years we will easily get this level of game inside a web browser, on your mobile platform, on your iPad, and we will be able to deliver that level of immersion to any kind of screen," said Phil Harrison, a co-founder of the London Venture Partners and the former president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, during his keynote session at the Italian Videogame Developers Conference.
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Eric in New Mexico writes:
"Today Our Hearts Remain With Our Japanese Friendsâ€
-Ambassador Roos
It would be improbable to be there otherwise.
Please convey to the good ambassador that there's this 104 year old Rinzai Buddhist Monk I know who would most likely if Mr. Roos was his student, be asking him this koan right about now...
" aha~, so how do you realize your true self when you are with your friends? "
...with my best regards to his team for their worthy efforts,
Hamayan in Japan writes:
Thanks USAID team. Thanks US peoples. Tthanks US gov. Thanks nice dogs. ARIGATOU.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
That's mankind's best friend, at your service Hamayan...(chuckle).
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Have not Drinking water, not enough food to eat, long line waiting for live... No anger, No resentment, just to survive ....
"Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in the reactor becoming radioactivity, Chernobyl disaster repeated in the potential."
Ever, a breakthrough there any way? By eliminating the capital of Japan, for a while, the stock market and the possibility of an adverse impact on economic recovery, through news reports, we think. The glass manufacturers in the U.S., but a significant adverse economic recovery in Asia .....
Every time I look to Brazil keeps former California Governor Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is thinking. It was not anything wrong (with many internal problems, but) I do not think that will fix the problem. Just a personal opinion. Forget about it.
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Republic of Korea Cheong Wa Dae and the depth of the people involved, 10000000000 (korea won) to think that someone with less. What is the hidden wealth? When working a half in the Blue House, 10 billion (korea won) are registered in the property, I'd like to grab power. Congress to eliminate some of their sins, to change the law, issuing a pass to fellow members of Congress do, among politicians who do not have reliable ... Ever, the U.S.?
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Craig Remsburg column: Lions must hire right head coach
Detroit Lions fans got a post-Christmas present when the club fired beleaguered head coach Jim Schwartz and two of his assistants.
The decision was a no-brainer.
After leading the Lions to the playoffs in 2011, Schwartz failed miserably the last two seasons. He went 4-12 in 2012, then saw the Lions lose six of their last seven games this season to finish 7-9.
The Detroit players must take some responsibility for the team's collapse the past two campaigns, of course. Many failed to play to their potential and were often undisciplined in their play.
There was far too much talent there for the Lions to go 11-21 the last two seasons.
Whether it was the failure of Schwartz and his staff to adequately prepare the club for games or their game strategies were bad – or both – Schwartz and Co. had to go.
As for being undisciplined, Schwartz always seemed to coach on the edge. His players reflected his personality.
Stupid penalties – especially personal fouls and unsportsmanlike conduct infractions – were way too common for the team.
Firing Schwartz was the easy part. Now the Lions must hire a coach who will take the team to the next level and make it at a playoff contender, at the very least.
That's where it gets sticky. The Lions' track record for hiring a good coach has been horrible for a couple of decades. Steve Mariucci might have been the best hire, but he just wasn't the right person for the team he inherited.
Lovie Smith would have been a good hire this time around, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snatched him up.
Penn State's Bill O'Brien is no longer available, having been gobbled up by the Houston Texans.
Former Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt, now the offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers, has been mentioned as a possible hire for the Lions.
So have Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell; Seattle Seahawks assistant coach Tom Cable; Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer; and San Francisco OC Greg Roman.
Lions president Tom Lewand appears to be taking his time in replacing Schwartz. If the time spent results in a good coaching fit for the Lions, it'll be worth the wait.
The next few days – or the next week or two – should be interesting in the Lions' search for the right head coach.
The team must make a good choice. To do otherwise would mean more years of mediocrity.
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Substandard standardization
Lately, there's been a lot of controversy about public schools' standardized testing.
Locally, a group of parents have taken a strong stand and have refused to let their children take the tests. One of their main reasons is the stress the tests cause.
Truth be told, I'm not opposed to stress, per se. In fact, I think stress can be beneficial, if it's constructive and administered competently.
Unfortunately, the standardized tests are neither. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, they're no damned good at all.
As a student, I hated standardized tests, but accepted them as a necessary evil. As a teacher, I still hate them, but now consider them an unnecessary evil.
A change for the worse
I know it's a popular sport among teachers to complain each year that their students are worse than the previous years', but that wasn't my experience. Sure, I had a lousy class here and there, sometimes even a lousy semester. But I never saw it as a trend, so much as occasional runs of bad luck.
For my first 35 years of teaching, I knew what to expect of my students' abilities and performance. Then I noticed a difference.
It was strange, even startling. In fall 2009 I had three sections of freshman composition, and as a group, each section was unlike anything I'd seen.
Things I'd accepted as a given were nowhere to be seen. Homework questions requiring essay answers were dismissed in a sentence, sometimes a fragment. And all too often the students repeated something from the assigned reading, that while true, didn't answer the question.
When it came to in-class discussions, "answers" were frequently a one-word response rather than an explanation of any sort.
If I assigned a 750-1000 word essay, I 'd get a bunch that were 500 words or less.
And when it came to research papers, the bottom dropped out. Reading, taking notes, understanding and synthesizing information, gave way to cut-and-paste: Essentially, the students downloaded or copied chunks of information and then repeated them (sometimes word-for-word) in the paper.
Even worse, a bunch of the students didn't do the research paper at all, opting out for an F in the course instead.
No matter what I tried (and I tried everything I knew), nothing really changed.
It seemed as if the world had suddenly turned upside-down, and I had no idea why.
One day, in the midst of this, I was talking about this to my best work buddy, Karen Edwards. Karen's a teaching newbie, having a bit over 30 years in the trenches, but she is one very sharp cookie.
After I poured out my tale of woe, she said, "Well, do you realize this is the first No Child Left Behind generation?"
Suddenly I had had my answer: No Child Left Behind – the standardized test makers' Dream-Come-True. And in my not-so-humble opinion, the worst thing that's happened to American education.
Some reasons
Why am I so opposed to standardized tests? If you'll bear with me, I'll give you a partial list of reasons.
First, let me say I'm not faulting our teachers. With NCLB and the imposition of standardized testing, teachers are stuck in a bureaucratic boot camp. They're told what to teach. Period. So much for innovation, creativity, or even working with previously-proven methods and material. Instead, orders from On High come down and must be obeyed. Whether the orders are even sensible is irrelevant – they're to be obeyed, as if the teachers are ignorant recruits, rather than professionals with actual knowledge and experience.
What about the tests themselves? What, exactly, do they accomplish? Good question and one I'm still having trouble answering.
Certainly, at some point they test how many pieces of specific, objective information a student has successfully memorized as of test time. Beyond that, however, I think they're academic fluff.
For one thing, the students get no critical thinking skills. They don't need to compare or contrast information, nor do they have to analyze or subordinate it. They don't have to understand any fine points of relationships or think up analogies or metaphorical explanations. In fact, it's less an exercise in understanding anything, than in barfing back chunks of information that may or may not be related to anything significant.
This may explain why so many students do poorly on the tests: Being forced to learn material they can't relate to is about as odious as it gets. Memorizing discrete bits of information is probably as interesting (and constructive) as memorizing lists of laundry detergents.
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As I said, standardized tests require short, simple answers. This in turn leads to oversimplification of thought – the one or two-word answer, the simplified vocabulary, the drive to fill in the blank rather than actually work to explain something. Of course, explaining things is the essence of English composition, so not doing it makes those skills suffer.
Finally, I believe standardized tests actually train students to forget. Think about it: Students memorize a bunch of information; they take a test on it; they forget it. Then they repeat the cycle. What lesson is being reinforced here?
Surely, though, there must be good things about standardized tests, right? Yes, there are.
One is they're easy to correct – so easy, you don't even need a person to do it. A machine will do just fine, thank you.
Another great benefit of standardized tests – they make oodles of money for some people, somewhere. They may make a lot of other people – students, teachers and parents – utterly miserable, but if some fat cat across the country just bought a BMW or a trip to Rome on our dime, the least we can do is be happy for him, isn't it?
And speaking of the parents, the ones who are not letting their kids take those tests? My hat's off to all of them for their protest. But will that change the standardized test behemoth? I doubt it.
In bureaucracy, there's a principle much like Newton's first law of motion. Essentially, Newton's law says that a body in motion tends to stay in motion. In bureaucracy it can be stated that once a law gets enacted, it tends to stay enacted no matter how counter-productive, destructive, or even downright stupid it is. To rescind such a law would require bureaucrats to admit they made a huge mistake, something you're as likely to see as the government developing alternative energy and mass transit.
No, I admire those parents because they're making a statement, acting on principles, standing up for a belief. In what's become The Land of Chronic Whiners, they are actually doing something.
And that might be the best lesson their children will learn – certainly far better than anything they'll learn from a standardized test.


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Results related to: 6 to 13 years / Down syndrome / Student interview of parent
"If there won't be an accurate score, then why should he take an IQ test? We didn't want a number on the front of his Individualized Education Program (IEP) plan.* We want someone to flip the page and read all about him and not just assume what their expectations
should be based on that number."
"I think there are a large number of parents out there with kids with disabilities who are unaware of the services out there."