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When millions of television viewers tune in to the Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game Tuesday night (July 10), they'll see something green at Kansas City's 40-year-old Kauffman Stadium besides its carefully manicured field: a glistening bank of 120 solar panels.
The new panels are expected to produce 32,000 kWh of energy this year, the equivalent of the power used by three homes.
Baseball continues to be weighed down by a steroids scandal. While pitcher Roger Clemens won his recent court case, suspicions that he and many other former stars used performance-enhancing drugs remain, along with a heated debate over whether they should be allowed into baseball's hall of fame.
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But while that dark spot lingers, a positive environmental spotlight on baseball grows brighter. Consider:
• The league's newest stadium, built for the Miami Marlins and opened in April, is LEED certified (a rating bestowed by the US Green Building Council), in recognition of its green features. They include 249 waterless urinals that should save about 6 million gallons of water per year. Most of the building materials, including concrete recycled from the previous stadium, were harvested and manufactured locally to reduce transportation emissions.
Most of the construction waste also was recycled, and air-quality-friendly paints, adhesives, carpets, and flooring materials were used. Overall, the new ballpark is about 22 percent more energy efficient than a typical project of its size.
• This year Miami joins four other MLB ballparks in Milwaukee, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Washington D.C. that have earned LEED certification.
• Besides the Kansas City Royals, solar panels have been installed in the home stadiums of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, the San Francisco Giants, the Colorado Rockies, the Boston Red Sox, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Cleveland Indians.
• Working with the Natural Resources Defense Council's Sports Greening Project, in 2011 the Cardinals undertook a "4 a Greener Game" program that included a comprehensive energy audit. It found nearly 200 energy-saving improvements to make at Busch Stadium. The facility already has diverted more than 2,400 tons of material from landfills over the past four seasons by increasing recycling and composting.
• The Stadium Managers Association has created an annual Energy Bowl Competition among MLB teams. Together, the 30 teams have reduced their annual energy use by almost 50 million kBtu, enough energy to light 7,500 homes for a year. The Tampa Bay Rays won the top prize for 2011 by cutting stadium energy use by 16.6 percent during the year, largely by operating heating and cooling systems more efficiently. Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, and Nationals Park, home to the Washington Nationals, were runnersup, each cutting yearly energy use by more than 10 percent.
Many of the projects are double winners: They clean up the environment and cut energy costs as well.
While US baseball may be going green the fastest, other pro sports are jumping in too. Internationally, soccer's 2014 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, will feature a solar-powered stadium and other planet-friendly features.
Even NASCAR, the We-Love-the-Smell-of-Gasoline stock-car-racing circuit, is greening up. It's partnering with the Environmental Protection Agency to encourage better practices among competitors and fans. NASCAR now promotes Design for the Environment-labeled products, such as safer chemicals, and it's greening up the concession stands at NASCAR events, cutting water use, and encouraging recycling.
Baseball, America's Pastime, is showing that sports entertainment and environmental responsibility can form a winning team. It's past time that every sports league do the same.


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Unravelling Assessment and Feedback Literacy is a symposium aimed at encouraging in-depth discussions around the conceptualisation and enactment of assessment and feedback literacy in higher education. The day will involve the sharing of, and support for, developing pedagogic practice relating to assessment and feedback literacy. An HEA facilitated panel discussion aimed at consolidating the key themes emerging from the symposium and the identification of future developments for higher education will conclude proceedings.
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When blood gets into urine (pee), it's known as hematuria (hee-ma-TUR-ee-uh). Hematuria is pretty common, and most of the time it's
not serious.
Peeing is one
way the body gets rid of waste products. The process starts in the kidneys, which remove excess fluids and waste from the blood and
turn them into urine. The urine then flows through tubes called ureters into the bladder,
where it's stored until it's peed out. If blood cells leak into the urine at any part
of the process, it causes hematuria.
The two kinds of hematuria are:
A person can get hematuria for many reasons. The more common causes are:
In rare cases in children, hematuria can be a sign of kidney cancer or bladder
cancer, a blood disease, or a blood clot. If something like that is going on, hematuria
usually will be one of many other symptoms.
Very occasionally, what looks like hematuria might be something else. It's possible for things like food dye, some foods (like beets or
blackberries), or certain prescription medicines to make a person's urine look red.
Technically speaking, hematuria is a symptom. Microscopic hematuria has
no visible signs. Doctors will only know someone has it if a urine test finds it. Gross hematuria can be seen because it changes the
color of urine, which can happen with just a little bit of blood. In many cases, red
or tea-colored urine is the only symptom.
In more serious cases, hematuria can be just one of many symptoms of another condition.
For instance, if a bladder infection is causing the hematuria, other symptoms might
include fever, pain while peeing, and lower belly pain.
If you ever see blood in your child's urine, don't panic. Chances are it's no big
deal. But you'll want to make sure, so take your child to see a doctor. It's important
to find the cause in case any treatment is needed.
The doctor will do a physical exam and ask about symptoms, recent activities, and
family medical history. Your child will give a
urine sample for testing. If the urine test comes back negative, the doctor probably will do another test 1-2 weeks later, just to make sure the urine
is free of red blood cells. Hematuria that only happens once won't require any follow-up
with the doctor.
If your child has microscopic hematuria with no
other symptoms (like pain or fever) and no protein in the urine, the doctor will do more urine tests over a few months
to see if there's still blood in the urine.
If test results point to something more serious, or if your child has had a recent
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Kids who have hematuria and protein in the urine should see a nephrologist
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kids with microscopic hematuria that doesn't go away after a few months, or who have
microscopic hematuria and high
blood pressure and other symptoms.
Additional testing can help find the cause of blood
in the urine. Tests may include:
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it's nothing to worry about.
Those who get blood in their urine more than once but have no other signs of illness
may need urine tests and physical exams every few months for a year and then yearly
after that as a precaution.
If another condition is causing the hematuria, doctors will treat that condition.
For instance, hematuria that is due to a urinary tract infection (UTI) will
be treated with antibiotics.
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do follow-up tests to make sure your child's urine is free of red blood cells.
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What do Netflix, Kevin Spacey and a North Beach actor have in common?
Marc Goodman followed a link on Facebook to the set of the big-budget television series House of Cards.
The first series produced by Netflix, House of Cards remakes a 1990 British series set in the last days of Margaret Thatcher's administration. This updated take transplants the story to American electoral politics. Director David Fincher is no stranger to Maryland, where he shot part of his 2011 Academy Award-winning The Social Network.
Fincher is a perfectionist, and filming had been going on for a month — long for a single episode — when Goodman came in. His first lesson was that being an extra can be tough. At Baltimore's Lyric Opera House, Goodman endured two hours of rehearsals with stand-ins in place of the main actors. Once stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright entered, filming continued for a couple dozen more takes.
"It was grueling," says Goodman, a North Beach energy consultant and avocational actor. "But it's something anybody interested in acting should do at least once."
Goodman headed home at 2am, though the shoot continued for another couple of hours.
Goodman won't be the last Marylander to appear in productions like House of Cards. Last year, the state passed the Film Production Employment Act, upping the tax credits for productions from $1 million to $7.5 million each year. The provision helped bring the HBO productions Game Change and Veep — and stars Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson — to Maryland.
House of Cards has a budget of $100 million, against which even Maryland's $7.5 million credit is small potatoes.
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Game 2 Box Score
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Santa Clara University baseball team split a Sunday doubleheader with Gonzaga, losing game one by a 9-7 score before winning game two 10-0 behind Joe Diefenderfer's complete game shutout. Santa Clara's record moves to 10-17 overall and 2-2 in the West Coast conference while Gonzaga's record goes to 9-11-1 overall and 1-4 in league play.
The Broncos started off the scoring in game two with five runs on four hits in the top of the second inning, highlighted by a three-run home run by Scott Dierks, his third of the day. Mark Folgner also had a big hit scoring Jack Headley and Michael Thompson with a soft-liner to right center field. The hit for Folgner was his first in the 2003 season.
Jack Headley increased the Santa Clara lead to 6-0 in the third inning with a solo home run to left field, his second on the day and third on the year.
SCU took advantage of a Gonzaga error in the top of the seventh inning, scoring two unearned runs on RBI singles by Will Thompson and Matt McColgan. Thompson's single plated Jason Matteucci who reached earlier in the inning on his third hit of the game while McColgan's shot up the middle scored Thompson.
Two more runs on four hits in the top of the eighth inning gave the Broncos a 10-0 lead. Shawn Epidendio knocked in both runs in the inning with his pinch-hit single up the middle on a drawn in infield with runners at second and third.
Diefenderfer was masterful on the afternoon, improving to 4-3 on the season after scattering six hits and striking out seven in his nine innings of work.
The Bulldogs took game one by a score of 9-7 despite five Bronco home runs. Gonzaga got the scoring started off in the bottom of the first inning as the first two batters reached base with a single and a walk before advancing one spot on a Matt Travis wild pitch. After back-to-back groundouts to the shortstop Gonzaga led 2-0 despite getting only a single during that span.
After giving up the early lead the Broncos relied on the long ball to catch up and eventually take the lead. Dierks got the team's first hit in the third inning, lining a two-out single to left field. Headley brought him home one batter later as he connected on his first home run of the year with a two-run shot that just cleared the left field fence.
With the scored tied at two in the top of the fifth inning, Santa Clara tooks its first lead of the game on a Michael Thompson home run to left field. Dierks picked up his second hit of the game later in the inning and gave the Broncos a 4-2 lead with a monstrous blast over the center field fence. The home run for Thompson was his second of the season while Dierks' blast was his fifth of the year.
Gonzaga played a little long ball of its own in the bottom half of the fifth inning as Gordon Corder connected on a two-run home run over the left field fence, scoring Brad Welker ahead of him who reached when he was hit by a Travis pitch. The two-run blast tied the score at four runs apiece.
Scott Shapiro connected on his second home run of the season with a solo shot over the left center field fence in the top of the sixth inning to give the Broncos back the lead at 5-4.
The Bulldogs exploded for five runs on four hits in the bottom of the sixth inning, highlighted by a two-run single by Sam Hess. Two Broncos errors led to three unearned runs in the inning as Gonzaga opened up a 9-5 lead heading into the seventh inning.
Dierks picked up his third hit of the game and second home run with another solo home run, this time a long drive over the left center field fence to narrow the Bulldog lead down to 9-6.
The Broncos trimmed the Zags' lead down to 9-7 in the eighth inning as they pushed across their first run in the game that was not the result of a home run. A.J. LaBarbera led off the inning with a single and moved to third base on a double down the left field line by Scott Shapiro. Jim Wallace picked up an RBI when LaBarbera came home on his groundout to third base.
Santa Clara would get no closer as Ed Clelland picked up his second save of the year after sending the Broncos down in order in the ninth inning. Gonzaga starter Errol Simonitsch improved to 4-2 on the season after throwing seven full innings in which he picked up six strikeouts.
Matt Travis fell to 1-5 after allowing six runs on seven hits in five plus innings of work. Chad Fillinger threw three solid innings of relief in which he allowed only three hits while striking out four.
Gonzaga and Santa Clara are scheduled to conclude their three-game series Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. before heading back home for a three-game series with Pepperdine next weekend in Buck Shaw Stadium.


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Wonderful idea.
I was so scared that Sven was going to profit from this after his 'risky' (read, 'shit') decicion-making during the World Cup. Thank God for Ricardo and Frank Lampard.
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Considering the Legal Ramifications of Video Surveillance
Before installing IP cameras at your small business, make sure you understand the potential "gotchas".
Small businesses install surveillance cameras for many reasons. They keep your business and assets safe, improve productivity, and can provide a strategic advantage. Today's IP cameras and monitoring software make it easy for any small business to manage its own surveillance. But before you aim any cameras at your front door or shop floor, make sure you carefully consider all of the legal ramifications of setting up video surveillance. There are more legal "gotchas" than just what you can and cannot record.
Video surveillance is ruled by common sense and laws at the city, state, and federal levels, and dictate against setting up cameras that violate people's privacy. For example, you cannot record anyone in or near bathrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, hotel rooms, exam rooms, or other private spaces in which people can reasonably expect to maintain their privacy. Public places, however, are a different matter. You can set up cameras in lobbies, hallways, waiting rooms, and other public areas. Depending on where your business is located, the law might require you to post a sign in an obvious place, such as by your front door, that states "video surveillance in use."
You may, however, run into a gray area between the public and private spaces in your office. What if you need to aim your IP camera down a hallway to monitor the entrance to your business, but the view happens to include the bathroom interior when the bathroom door is opened? You can't record people entering and exiting the bathroom, but you need to monitor your front door. That's where technology comes in. With IP-based video cameras plus sophisticated monitoring software like the Cisco Advanced Video Monitoring System (AVMS), you can create a more intelligent surveillance system that can, for instance, apply privacy blocks to particular areas in a video stream, like that bathroom door. The privacy block permanently removes the video of the area selected not to be viewable.
It's also important to know if the laws that govern recording in particular situations or for different types of organizations apply to you. For example, schools must adhere to very strict rules about recording children, and a doctor's office needs to know how HIPPA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) applies to video surveillance and patients' privacy.
Wait … don't press Record yet!
You can run into additional legal "gotchas" after you hit the record button. You need to consider the ramifications of having video recordings of the area surrounding your business. If a crime occurs within your camera's range, your business could get dragged into the legal proceedings, even if none of your employees or property were actively involved in the incident. This can be time consuming and a drain on employee productivity if your video surveillance system doesn't make it easy to find the recording in question.
Imagine this scenario, for example: There's a robbery at an ATM across the street from your business and your surveillance cameras happen to record it. The police are likely to request a copy of the recorded incident, and you'll be required to provide them, no matter the impact on your business. However, if your surveillance system's monitoring software, like the Cisco Advanced Video Monitoring System (AVMS), lets you find recordings quickly based on time stamps, that impact will be negligible.
If you have any questions about surveillance laws at your city or state level, you can contact a local law enforcement agency for more information. You could also enlist the help of a Cisco reseller that specializes in deploying IP-based video surveillance. As experts in such systems, they understand surveillance laws and have the know-how to help your small business comply with all rules and regulations.
What legal "gotchas" have you encountered with your video surveillance system?
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Take Two's announced Ben Feder will stand down as CEO of the publisher, effective as of January 1, 2011.
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Mafia II to be a "profitable title," says Take-Two
Take-Two said last night it expects Mafia II to be a "profitable title".
BioShock 2 was not "hugely successful," admits Feder
Take-Two CEO Ben Feder has admitted that BioShock 2 wasn't the smash it should have been.
3D to be bigger deal at E3 than motion controllers
Natal and Move? They're so last year. 3D is the new black at E3 this year.
Feder: Take Two a lot more then "the 'GTA company'"
Grand Theft Auto is great, sure. Outside of the Daily Mail lot, everyone loves it. But Take Two wants you to see it more than just as "the 'GTA' company".
Take-Two: CEO Feder to stand down from Board
Take-Two's just said that three members of its Board are to be replaced at shareholders' requests, including CEO Ben Feder.
GTA does not need to be an "annual franchise"
Grand Theft Auto titles do not need to be annualized said Take-Two during its Q4 fiscal call to investors. According to Take-Two, GTA is a strong enough franchise that it does not need a new release annually, especially with the completion of the GTA IV story through DLC proving to remain profitable. Guess GTA V […]
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Borderlands' expected to become a "key franchise" for Take-Two, according to both big bossman Strauss Zelnick and CEO Ben Feder. This bit was cemented by the game's "successful launch". So, it looks like there is more Borderlands in our future. The call is ongoing, we'll let you know if there is anything else you should […]
LA Noire is "exciting" and "innovative," says Feder
Not only is LA Noire not dead, but it's also "innovative". Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said so in the publisher's Q3 earnings call last night. "It's in development," he said in response to a direct question on the game's status from Janco's Mike Hickey. "Nothing to announce today. When we have more to announce we […]
All Take-Two games "need to have a download component," says Feder
During the Take-Two Q3 2009 financial call tonight, company CEO Ben Feder told investors that while retail is important, downloadable content is a main component to the company's game releases. "It's clear that retail is the channel for the foreseeable future. Nonetheless, there is a download component to a lot of our games, and there'll […]
Take-Two: Natal dev kits "embedded in just about all of our studios"
Take-Two CEO Ben Feder told investors during the company's Q3 2009 financial call today that motion sensor kits are currently in-house and in the hands of its development teams right now. "Natal motion-sensors – yes we have dev kits, yes we're working on them," he said. "Obviously, we can't comment on games we haven't announced. […]
Max Payne 3 joins BioShock 2 in FY2010
While BioShock 2's delay into fiscal 2010 quite rightly dominated last night's confessional press release and subsequent conference call from Take-Two, you may not have noticed that it wasn't the only big game to take a tumble. Max Payne 3 has also been pushed into the next financial year, having been originally planned for a […]
Agent is "about espionage, set in the 1970s"
Agent, the PS3 "exclusive" Take-Two announced in Sony's press conference at E3, is set in the 70s, Take-Two boss Ben Feder's told EG. "It's a completely different storyline, there is completely different character development," the exec said of the title's similarities to GTA. "It's a game about espionage, set in the 1970s. GTA is obviously […]
Feder - PS3 exclusivity will "help launch" Agent
Take-Two boss Ben Feder has explained the reasoning at announcing Agent as a PS3 exclusive at E3, citing timed GTA PS2 exclusives as examples of how the strategy can work for a franchise. "The trade-offs a publisher will typically make is, if you're platform-agnostic, you get a larger installed base," he said, speaking to Gamespot […]
Game CEOs make loads more than you do
Ever wonder what game industry CEOs make in a year? It's loads more than any of us, we guarantee. According to The Game Trade Journal, between bonuses, stock options and incentives, the following CEOs are paid the most according to proxy statements filed with the SEC. Activision – Bobby Kotick: $14.9 Million; Base pay is […]
Wii "viable" for mature content, says Feder
Speaking in an earnings call following the release of full-year financials last night, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said the firm was taking a harder look as which mature games could be brought to Wii. "We believe we'll continue to benefit from the growing install base of the Nintendo Wii," said Feder. "Our relationship with Nintendo […]
Old GTA games sold 1 million units in May-July
Speaking in an earnings call following the release of Q3 financials last night, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder said that old GTA titles have sold in seven figure units for the quarter. "More than one million units of previous GTA titles were sold in the third quarter of fiscal 2008 alone," said the exec. "Based on […]
Rockstar launching new GTA IV campaign for autumn and Christmas
In Take-Two's third-quarter earnings call last night, CEO Ben Feder said that Rockstar is planning a new Christmas push for GTA IV. "Rockstar is launching a new marketing and PR campaign which will start in the fall and extend into the Holiday season," said the exec. "Also as a must-have game for all fans of […]
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William Farr (1807-83)
William Farr was a leading British epidemiologist who was a pioneer in the field of medical statistics. A qualified doctor, he was able to develop his interest in the generation and use of medical statistics following his appointment in 1838 to the General Register Office (GRO) - the government department responsible for recording births, deaths and marriages. Here his most important contribution to public health was in setting up a system that routinely recorded the cause of death. Such detailed statistics provided the raw data which allowed a far more detailed analysis of death within the general population. For example, the mortality rates of different professions or of those living in different locations could be compared.
Like most of his medical contemporaries, he subscribed to the miasma theory of disease. As such he took particular interest in environmental conditions. For example, he suggested that in low-lying ground along the banks of the River Thames the concentrations of deadly miasmas would be greater than on higher land situated further away from the river. This seemed to be confirmed in his report on the 1849 cholera epidemic, published in 1852, where Farr's statistical calculations suggested a link between deaths and land elevation. This was promoted as further evidence of miasma theory.
Although they disagreed over the cause of cholera transmission, John Snow used the detailed statistics produced by Farr when developing his own alternative theory. However, William Farr remained unconvinced by Snow's work, and when Farr's committee reported on the next cholera outbreak - centred on the Broad Street pump - they made a point of dismissing Snow's proposal of a waterborne mode of transmission.
Farr was finally converted to Snow's theory in the wake of the final London cholera epidemic of 1866. Snow's report showed a clear linkage between victims of the epidemic and one particular water source, which in his opinion suggested that water, rather than air, was the likely cause of disease transmission.
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J M Eyler, Victorian Social Medicine: Ideas and Methods of William Farr, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)
S Halliday, 'William Farr: campaigning statistician', Journal of Medical Biography, 8/4 (2000), pp 220-227
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In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Kevin Tancharoen - the director behind the wildly popular Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series and the upcoming Mortal Kombat feature film reboot - talked about his love for fan-films.
Tancharoen broke onto the scene with his own fan-film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, and we've since seen the trend of fan-films rapidly gain traction - including multiple sleek productions featuring DC or Marvel superheroes. Well, Tancharoen is aware of how fan-films have grown, and is happy that other are finding similar routes to success through their own creativity and vision.
As he explained,
I see a lot of fan films and I just love that the Internet has allowed a lot of creators out there to just go and make something. Like, that Portal short was awesome. I recently saw some Dragon Ball Z short that was great. They made a Naruto short that was awesome. I mean, there's so many things out there that people are making on their own, and I like to see their take on the franchise because it's so different from what the studios are developing.
Tancharoen's love of fan films is no surprise, given that his own horror-themed Mortal Kombat fan film (Mortal Kombat: Rebirth) is what gave him the opportunity to make Legacy. But one surprise that Tancharoen did share was the next classic franchise he wants to take on: Power Rangers.
Tancharoen told us that he's "always wanted to get the original cast of Power Rangers back together and do some sort of crazy dark tale of where they are now." He went on to explain what the plot might look like.
Kevin Tancharoen: Zordon is dying and Red Ranger has to go find the Green Ranger, who's now an MMA fighter, and the Yellow Ranger died in a car accident and they all have to reunite together. You know, just make it as dark as possible. I thought that would be really fun to do.
Screen Rant: That's brilliant. I think you would set the Internet on fire.
KT: [Laughs] You open up with the Red Ranger doing MMA. I would want to go there and I think it would be a lot of fun.
Though Tancharoen was laughing, he wasn't joking. Of course, whether the busy director will actually find time to bring his dark vision of Power Rangers to life remains to be seen.
Sadly, getting the original cast back together would be impossible:
- Red Ranger Austin St. John - No longer in the Hollywood game.
- Blue Ranger David Yost - Left the series under controversial circumstances.
- Yellow Ranger Thuy Trang - Died in a car crash.
Of course, the Power Rangers brand has a long list of actors who have donned the colored suits and helmets, so there are ways to fill the gaps with some range of authenticity. Update: There is the small issue of a Power Rangers Fan Film already in the works - which also happens to center on Green/White Ranger Tommy. Then again these are fan films we're talking about, so multiple interpretations are allowed. Maybe all forces should combine on this one?
With the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy kicking off next week and pre-production in full swing on the Mortal Kombat feature film, Tancharoen has a pretty full plate. That being said, maybe if enough people were excited about the idea, maybe they could convince him to find the time. That is, of course, if you think it's a good idea.
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As stated, Mortal Kombat: Legacy II will debut online on September 26, 2013, only on Machinima.


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July 26, 2010
By Paul Feinberg
Sunil Rajaraman ('08) couldn't have scripted it any better.
Like any good Hollywood movie, the story of Rajaraman's company - Scripped.com - has had its share of compelling moments, along with a few fortuitous plot points. But the company's continuing saga proves an uplifting tale of entrepreneurial success, all that's left to be written is the ending.
If it was a movie, the pitch would read something like this:
After being accepted to business school, a young man leaves his consulting job, summers in Barcelona, but gets a little bored. He and a close friend, a talented-but-undiscovered screenwriter, start looking for ways to use the Internet to get exposure for good writers lacking the connections and marketing skills to draw the attention of studios and producers.
Just as blogging was becoming ubiquitous, the original pitch for Scripped was, "a blog for screenwriters." As it happens, Rajaraman had another friend who happened to be developing online software for writing collaborative novels. The three decided to join forces and use the software to aggregate screenwriters on the 'Net. The goal, Rajaraman says, was to, "use the Internet to pull together enough writers so that Hollywood would eventually say 'Look, there are actually quite a few people trying to write that may not be part of the Writer's Guild and these people come from everywhere.'" The goal was to create "an army of writers" to whom studios and producers could go when they were in need of a script or screenplay.
The current version of Scripped (www.scripped.com) offers a suite of features. The most basic is script writing software akin to industry standards like Final Draft and Movie Magic, the difference being those can cost a couple of hundred dollars. Scripped's basic version is free, while a more robust version is available for a low-cost, monthly subscription. There are also collaboration features, a variety of script formats and monthly contests for budding writers to enter.
Scripped, first conceived in '06, did not actually become a company until 2007. Rajaraman, in fact, accepted an internship between his first and second year at Anderson in the renewable energy industry and was fully prepared to make that a career. All along though, and with the help of a variety of Anderson resources, he and his partners continued to write Scripped's story.
"I can't tell you how much Holly Han ('02), Angela Klein and Elaine Hagan ('91) of the Price Center helped me," Rajaraman said, "They connected me with people who would benefit my business. I took advantage of all those opportunities and anyone who is at Anderson needs to take advantage of every opportunity that's presented."
Though he worked on building Scripped throughout his b-school tenure, Rajaraman did not follow a typical entrepreneurial path while in school, eschewing the typical entrepreneurial track and even opting not to take a business plan development course. But professors like George Geis ('81), Sanjay Sood and Bob Foster ('65) provided feedback whenever asked on Scripped's development, as did other Anderson faculty. "We're very much an Anderson company," said Rajaraman, who also credits Assistant Dean Allison Holmes and Anderson Director of Media Relations Dianne Dillingham for their assistance with Scripped. Always the fan, Rajaraman credits the success of Scripped to being an avid fan of HBO's "The Wire." "Everything you need to know about entrepreneurship, you can learn from Stringer Bell," he says.
Scripped's original funding came from the three partners. Upon graduation, Rajaraman took a full-time position with Applied Materials in Sunnyvale, California - telling the company he needed a September start date. He spent the summer of 2008 trying to secure angel funding for Scripped, but none came through during that year's tough market. He began working full-time at Applied while still trying to build Scripped. At the same time, he also was planning a wedding to Anderson alum Chitra Balasubramanian ('09).
Almost by accident, Rajaraman learned that the chief technology officer of one of their competitors had resigned his position. Curious, he reached out to the CEO of that company and learned his rival was already on to a new business. The two companies merged, which enabled Scripped to secure funding and double its user base at the same time.
The company's revenue model is two-fold. Software subscriptions are both profitable and steady. Scripped also charges producers to run contests through the online user base. "A producer might be looking for a 15-page horror script set in Los Angeles," Rajaraman explained. "We'll put out a call for scripts; our editorial board reads the entries and establishes a top five, which we'll then present to the producer, who in turn selects the winner." Winning entries earn a cash prize and the producers get the rights to the script.
To this point, Rajaraman cannot point to any Scripped-produced material that has gone viral or broken big in the mainstream, but dozens of scripts and screenplays have been produced at a time when the Web has become voracious in its need for fresh content. Rajaraman acknowledges that mainstream Hollywood still turns to established Writer's Guild members for its content and, while there is still a gap between independents creating Web content and the entertainment industry establishment, Scripped is making inroads to the mainstream.
Producer Ed Burns has joined Scripped's Board of Advisors and Anderson alumnus Nate Williams ('05), a former agent with William Morris has been instrumental in making introductions to his entertainment industry connections. Recently, Scripped ran its most prominent contest to date when Spike Television ran a two month contest for a 30-page teleplay for a pilot television show. The winner of that contest might be produced this fall.
Scripped is now a three-person operation as one of the three original founders has turned to dentistry. In typical start-up fashion, Rajaraman never knows what his day will be like. One minute he's researching business insurance or looking for office space and the next he's figuring new ways to increase the conversion rates for the Web site's landing pages. Sunil has tried his hands at a couple of scripts - he took a screenwriting class at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television as an elective while at Anderson - but says there's nothing he would show to anyone else.
The ending for Scripped has yet to be written. Rajaraman is open to a variety of possibilities.
"What I really like about this business is that there are a number of different exit routes. If we decide to produce our own content there is a compelling play there, as there are enough talented writers in our user base and enough quality content where Scripped could become a low-cost production studio," Rajaraman said. "Another potential exit is that it could become a small to mid-sized independent production house that's looking for a steady pipeline of content. Or a studio could decide to buy us when they realize that the writers on Scripped.com are just as good as anyone. There are a lot of options."


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E2 SPAWN POINT[edit]
This team's spawn is in the underground tunnel. A ladder leads up to their sniping building, and a tunnel here leads out to the main corridor where most of the murders occur. C4 is a great spot here to spawn camp -- you just need to time the enemy's invulnerability period so your explosion hits them.
E2 SPAWN POINT RIGHT...[edit]
...towards the north end. This leads to a long corridor emptying out the main murder hall, as well as a back alley running along the north side of the map. The north side will have boxes allowing you to clamber onto the rooftop of one of the opposing team's sniper perch, but you will be vulnerable. It would be better then, to set up ambushes along this route and wait for them to come to you.
While we're at it, the above shot shows the entrance of the second tunnel. The wood box and cardboard box next to the stairs hides the passage that leads near the opposing team's spawn. Great place to go through if you are Snake, but you need to be wary of enemies who go through.
The exit from the above tunnel. The garbage dumpster here offers good cover to ambush enemies, but you need to make way from the tunnel to the dark spot on the left. Note that you can be seen from the rooftops if someone looks down, so if you are shot at and cannot see anyone around your sides, flee for cover, since your attacker is above you.
This is the exit of the E2 tunnel. It is fairly exposed, but if you pop out after someone runs by, it can be a usable ambush spot.
The ladder above the E2 spawn. The hole here can be crawled through prone, and the fence interferes with your targeting (but not your shots). If you need to, stand on a crate and fire downwards, as enemies and friends will not have their names displayed when separated by the fence.
TYPICAL LADDER[edit]
This ladder is but one of many to lead to the rooftops. Climb on one and start your ascent. Just beware of enemies who can see you climbing and shoot you down. Sometimes, it is more efficient to wait for enemies to start climbing, then start firing on them as they are going up.
NORTH ALLEY TOWARDS THE B5 SPAWN[edit]
This is the spot to start your ascent to the B5 team's rooftop. There is a man-cannon atop the structure here, but don't bother using it unless you are sure your destination is clear. Unlike Groznyj, the man cannon here is more useful since the ladders are so dangerously exposed. This is the outer limit of the B5 spawn, so hiding here for ambush is logical.
The boxes here are also serviceable, but watch for fire from the stairs and from the opposite rooftop (enemies can see and fire on you). Sometimes, you can wait under the catwalk here and wait for members of the B5 team to jump down before ambushing them.
B5 TEAM ROOFTOP ACCESS[edit]
This alley is generally where players from B5 will go to for sniping. They climb the ladder and have access to the rooftop. Hiding here is plausible, but dangerous, since a B5 spawn spot is right here on this corner. Instead, hide in the alcove on the left (you can barely see it in this picture). Wait for them to pass and whack them. Similarly, B5 players will want to wait here at the ladder for any E2 players who attempt to spawn camp.
B2 CORNER SPAWN POINT[edit]
...looking south. To the right of the above corner, you can see across to the other side of the map. A bad idea if snipers are combing your spawn point. Avoid standing out in the open unless required.
B5 SPAWN POINT[edit]
This is the B5 spawn point. The corridor opens out to the main murder corridor, so avoid going out unless you are backed up with buddies. Up the stairs and right leads to the grassy courtyard (another bloody spot). Try to go left and force enemies to come down the stairs so you can nab them, as going upstairs with snipers around generally means a high death count.
A higher shot of the same area, showing where the snipers would be (white building). The crack in the wall can be dove through, but that only leads down to murder avenue. Hiding in the grass though, is a valid tactic if no one sees you doing it. The grass though, will generally not be thick enough to cover you if you decide to move to aim.
This tunnel connects the two team's spawn points. This is the B5 tunnel entrance; when you respawn on this side of the map, check the tunnel entrance briefly to make sure you are not watched.
The tunnel to E2's spawn. It's a short ways away, and it's actually a good spot to get to the E2 spawn and camp on their tunnel. When people spawn and run into murder avenue, you can chase them and nail them. If anyone comes towards your position, ambush them with CQB.
GRASSY YARD[edit]
This yard is where the most bloodshed can occur, apart from the corridor under it. Snipers from the metal rooftop can fire into this spot, as well as from the stairs past the wall. It is a good spot for E2 players to ambush B5 players however, and can serve as a kill funnel for teams with no plan.
C4 SPAWN CAMP[edit]
Any player can spawn camp B5 or E2 from the top of these stairs. It fires into the grassy yard. Cover yourself with a trap or a buddy in this corridor, or players can eventually get around and kill you.
Once you're on top, you will recognize the rooftops. This is the one near the B5 spawn. Notice you can see to the other rootop and that there are several spots to climb up here, so you need to be alert.
The E2 building from the other side. A set of three or four snipers on those rooftops can be all the team from E2 needs to shut down the enemy team. B5 operates at a disadvantage unless they know where to counter-snipe from the ground.
View from the E2 team's building. The white building is dangerous and difficult to get into, so counter-sniping is almost a given when fighting skilled snipers.
CENTER ROOFTOP[edit]
You can only get to this rooftop by rolling off from the E2 building (above) and you will barely make it (you have to do this at the edge of the metal catwalk). Notice there's no cover and getting off is difficult without lowering yourself first. However, it is sufficiently difficult to get onto (one way in) that you should consider leaving a GA-KO and KEROTAN on this rooftop while your buddies score with the other target. Alternately, leave annoyance items like the ENVG and Drum Can here so other players cannot get to them. Hold L2 and press Circle to drop items.
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Brain stimulation may offer benefits earlier in the course of Parkinson's disease than it is currently used, researchers found.
In a randomized, controlled trial, patients with early motor complications had a 26% increase in quality of life scores if they had neurostimulation compared with a 1% worsening for those on standard medical therapy, G. Deuschl, MD, of the University of Kiel in Germany, and colleagues reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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- Brain stimulation may offer benefits earlier in the course of Parkinson's disease than it is currently used.
- Note that there was no significant difference in serious adverse events between the two groups, but adverse events related to surgical implantation of the neurostimulation device occurred in 17.7% of patients.
Since the treatment appears better than standard medical therapy "before the appearance of severe disabling motor complications," it may be an option for patients "at an earlier stage than current recommendations suggest," they wrote.
Mark Stacy, MD, of Duke University, who was not involved in the study, said some doctors have already been practicing that way.
"Many of us are already using the treatment earlier on, so this data is important because it confirms what we believe," Stacy said in an interview with MedPage Today. "It gives us more confidence to think about this with our patients. It helps us to provide data to people ... [to show comparative outcomes] 2 years in."
Neurostimulation is already an established treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease. But Deuschl and colleagues hypothesized that it would benefit patients in earlier stages of the disease as well.
They conducted the 2-year EARLYSTIM trial, enrolling 251 Parkinson's patients with early motor complications. Patients had a mean age of 52 and had had the condition for a mean of 7.5 years.
They were randomized to either neurostimulation of the subthalamic nucleus, or to standard medical therapy.
The primary endpoint was quality of life at 2 years as measured by the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39). Secondary outcomes included Parkinsonian motor disability, activities of daily living, levodopa-induced motor complications, and time with good mobility and no dyskinesia.
Overall, the team found that neurostimulation improved quality of life at 2 years by a mean 7.8 points, compared with a worsening of 0.2 points for those on medical therapy, a significant difference of P=0.002.
It also proved superior for the secondary endpoints, with significant mean differences in scores between groups for:
- Motor disability (16.4 points, P<0.001)
- Activities of daily living (6.2 points, P<0.001)
- Levodopa-induced motor complications (4.1 points, P<0.001)
- Time with good mobility and no dyskinesia (1.9 hours, P=0.01)
The differences were typically driven by improvements in the neurostimulation arm and not worsening in the medical therapy arm. For instance, there was no significant change from baseline in motor score and only minimal worsening in activities of daily living for those on medical therapy.
Deuschl and colleagues reported no significant differences in serious adverse events, which occurred in 54.8% of neurostimulation patients and 44.1% of those in the medical therapy group.
Two patients in the neurostimulation group and one in the medical therapy group committed suicide. Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts were of similar frequency in the two groups, but depression was more frequent among neurostimulation patients -- suggesting that stimulation isn't associated with a greater risk of suicide, they wrote.
Also, serious adverse events related to surgical implantation of the device occurred in 17.7% of patients, and that included a brain abscess and a case of unspecific edema -- both of which "resolved completely," they reported.
In an accompanying editorial, Caroline Tanner, MD, PhD, of Stanford University, called it "one of the most rigorously conducted trials of neurostimulation," but warned that the patients in the trial don't represent most patients with Parkinson's disease -- given that all were younger than 60 at the time of surgery, they didn't have dementia, and they all had a good response to levodopa challenge.
Only 11% of Parkinson's cases are diagnosed before age 60, Tanner wrote, and about a third tend to have dementia.
"Whether these results would be obtained in older patients with Parkinson's disease or in less-experienced medical centers is not known," she wrote.
Tanner was also cautious about suicide in the neurostimulation group. Since the risk of suicide appears to persist for years after surgery, she wrote that "careful and sustained monitoring should be a requirement."
The study was supported by grants from the German Ministry of Research, the French Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique National, and Medtronic.
The researchers reported relationships with Medtronic, Lundbeck, Teva, Union Chimique Belge, Bayer, Meda, Orion, GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim, Desitin, Gianni Public Relations, Eumecom, Cephalon, Abbott Laboratories, GE Healthcare, Bayer Schering, Thieme, Ipsen, Merck, Merz, Agueettant, Novartis, Eutherapie, BioProject, and Roche.
Tanner reported relationships with the Michael J. Fox foundation, ADAMAS Pharma, Impax Pharma, Parkinson's Institute, Parkinson's Disease Foundation, and Brin Foundation.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Source Reference: Schuepbach WMM, et al "Neurostimulation for Parkinson's disease with early motor complications" N Engl J Med 2013; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1205158.
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New England Journal of Medicine
Source Reference: Tanner CM "A second honeymoon for Parkinson's disease?" N Engl J Med 2013; DOI:10.1056/NEJMe1214913.


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NEW YORK - Can't decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now, you won't have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash keyboards and touch screens together in different ways.
NEW YORK � Can�t decide if you want a PC or tablet? Now, you won�t have to. With the release of Windows 8, computer makers are doing their best to blur the boundaries with an array of devices that mash keyboards and touch screens together in different ways.
Some of these configurations are new, while others have appeared and disappeared on the market since at least 2002, when Microsoft Corp. released Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
Microsoft says it has certified 1,000 devices for use with Windows 8 and its sibling operating system, Windows RT. The two systems look the same, but under the hood, they�re quite different.
Windows RT runs only on machines with the type of lower-energy, phone-style chips used in iPad and Kindle tablets. That makes for cheap, thin and light devices with very long battery lives � more than 10 hours. But those devices won�t run any programs written for other versions of Windows. In fact, they can run only applications downloaded directly from Microsoft�s online store, in a setup borrowed from Apple and its iPhone.
A selection of the devices that went on sale Friday or will hit stores over the next few months:
Convertibles: These devices run Intel chips and might, at first glance, look like staid laptops, but one way or another, they convert into tablets.
� Toshiba U925t � To convert this laptop into a tablet, push the 12.5-inch screen back, then slide it over the keyboard with the display facing out. Available now for $1,150.
� Sony Vaio Duo 11 � Similar to the Toshiba but smaller, the folding mechanism on this model leaves no room for adjusting the angle of the screen. There�s no room for a touchpad, either. Instead, there�s a touch-sensitive �nub� in the middle of the keyboard that lets you guide the cursor. The 11.6-inch screen also works with a stylus. Starts at $1,100.
� Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Twist � Like all ThinkPads, the Edge Twist is a business-focused machine. This one incorporates a mechanism that�s been in use in tablet computers for at least a decade: The 12.5-inch screen connects to the base with a swiveling hinge. Flip the screen around and then fold it over the keyboard to turn it into a tablet. Available now starting at $849.
� Dell XPS 12 � The 12.5-inch screen on this laptop is hinged inside its frame. It can be flipped around so the screen faces away from you, then folded over the keyboard for tablet mode. Sound original? Dell has actually tried this design before, for a 2010 laptop. Starts at $1,200, with an estimated ship date of Nov.?15.
� Lenovo Yoga 11 � This 11.6-inch screen goes back � way back. You can push it so far back that it�s flat with the underside of the laptop. Now you have a tablet with a screen on one side and a keyboard on the other. Luckily, the keyboard turns off when you fold the screen back, so you can hold the device. Unlike most convertibles, which run on standard Intel chips, this one uses Windows RT and a processor from Nvidia. Available in December for $799.
Windows 8 tablets: These slates run Intel chips and regular Windows software. Computer makers are hoping they�ll find a home among businesses that need employees to access their work applications while commuting or traveling, but they�re also hoping to entice consumers.
� Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500T � This tablet, with an 11.6-inch screen, looks much like a small laptop when docked into a keyboard base. The combination also folds up just like a laptop. Available now for $650. The keyboard costs another $100 and contains an additional battery to extend the workday.
� Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx � Similar to the Samsung model, the Lynx goes on sale in December for $599. The keyboard will cost $149.
� Hewlett-Packard ElitePad 900 � A 10-inch tablet aimed squarely at business users, the ElitePad is paired with �Smart Jackets� that extend its capabilities with extra battery life, a keyboard, a stylus or memory-card slots. Available in January at an as-yet undisclosed price.
� Hewlett-Packard Envy X2 � The consumer equivalent of the ElitePad is slightly larger, with an 11.6-inch screen, but weighs the same: 1.5 pounds. A keyboard dock with an extra battery doubles the weight and turns it into a small laptop. Launches this holiday season. HP hasn�t said what it will cost.
Windows RT tablets: Though they lack the ability to run standard Windows programs, these light tablets include a version of the Office software suite free.
� Microsoft Surface � Yes, Microsoft is diving into the hardware business, making its own tablets. The Surface will have a screen that measures 10.6 inches diagonally, slightly larger than the iPad�s. Optional covers double as thin keyboards � with no real buttons, just printed �touch zones.� Available now starting at $499.
� Asus VivoTab RT � This tablet looks very much like the Asus Transformer line, which runs Google Inc.�s Android software. The 10.1-inch tablet docks into a keyboard, which also extends the battery life to about 15 hours. The tablet costs $449 and the dock $149. Available now.


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Moroccan Chicken with Lemon and OlivesA traditional Moroccan dish of chicken pieces braised with spices, garlic, onion, olives, and preserved lemon. Cooked in a tagine.
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"Just a word of warning about shipping from the US to the UK.
>About 18 months ago I ordered some harps from C2C and with
>shipping and duty, they worked out about the same as in the
>UK. I was happy to buy from C2C so it didn't matter, but I
>didn't save anything by doing that. The best was when a work
>colleague was in the US. I ordered and got them sent to his
>hotel and he brought them back. That was a deep saving.
>And why do harps cost twice as much in the UK? Especially as
>they are made in Germany. And CDs? And …?
Dammit! I never thought of that! I'll be in Canada next month, so could doubtless have saved a bit of the $40 it cost me. Still saved a lot though - I ordered about 8 harps, from Huangs to Sp 20s, and other bits and bobs (that blues fakebook looks awesome). Best of all, it only took 5 days to arrive - see my Long Weekend reply in the Harp site for full effusive details!
I travel to Germany fairly often for business, but I've never even considered checking Hohner prices there. Could be interesting...
And BF, are you suggesting the US values musical ability over its citizens' health? In that case, how do you explain Vanilla Ice?


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Loewe Spring 2013
For Spring 2013, designer Stuart Vevers was all about sporty luxe. Chic leather pencil skirts were juxtaposed with varsity jackets that came in a variety of colors and prints. Hoods also gave dresses and coats a seriously sporty feel. Safari-inspired pieces, like a cargo vest and dress with oversize pockets, were also sprinkled throughout the show for variety. Thigh-high slits, sheer fabrics, and crop tops gave Loewe's latest line a sexy undertone, while the olive green, bright red, black, and yellow color scheme was serious-slash-spunky.


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In the wake of Adam Lanza's murderous rampage, men in particular must not stay silent. There's an epidemic in our "man culture" we can ill afford to locate on the periphery, ceding center stage to the narrow gun control debate.
In the wake of Adam Lanza's murderous rampage, men in particular must not stay silent. There's an epidemic in our "man culture" we can ill afford to locate on the periphery, ceding center stage to the narrow gun control debate.
It's encouraging that there's momentum in Congress to reinstate the ban on assault weapons that expired in 2004. Let's not miss the opportunity, though, to enlarge the national conversation about guns to centrally include how we raise boys and how we address the mental health crisis among many men. We must, in order to pull back the curtain of denial about mainstream culture's "patriarchal masculine obsession with control," as sociologist Allan Johnson puts it, control "that defines 'real' manhood in this culture, with violence being merely its most extreme instrument. It is that control that links all men with the violence that only some men do." As Johnson, author of the acclaimed "Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy" notes, "When U.S. drones kill children, the act springs from the same patriarchal roots as the mass murder in Newtown." An inconvenient truth we cannot ignore.
How many more lonely, alienated, disconnected, (usually) white males perpetrating murder and then committing suicide need we see before admitting the irrefutable fact that the shooters are mostly male? From police detectives to forensic psychologists, anyone studying mass killings in the U.S. over the past two decades cannot ignore that fact. Still, too many, including much of the media — continue to under-acknowledge this achingly obvious truth. Is it because they don't see the killers' gender, just as fish don't see the water surrounding them? A Mother Jones review of the 62 mass murders in the U.S. since Columbine in 1999 revealed males committed 61 of them.
Absolutely, let's continue the gun control conversation. Let's not kid ourselves, though: It's the masculinity, people. "The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood," says Jackson Katz, longtime men's antiviolence activist and author of "The Macho Paradox" and "Leading Men."
"It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights versus gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood. Of course there are women who own and love guns; Adam Lanza's mother was one of them," Katz notes. But the NRA and its allies have defined "the gun as a symbol of men's potency and freedom."
We need a broader set of measures to define manhood. Let's begin by cultivating boys' emotional intelligence, making is as high a priority as is teaching math and reading. Men of conscience across the country: It is time to speak out — as fathers and mentors, coaches and clergy members, teachers and community leaders. Among our first acts must be to take away the stigma of men undergoing psychotherapy.
Now is the moment for gun control advocates and those working to redefine masculinity to join forces, to create a new coalition that recognizes the irrefutable, longstanding relationship between men and guns, men's mental health, and men and power. We can no longer ignore the underreported cases of men's depression and aversion to mental health check-ups (all health check-ups, for that matter). Too many men are at risk to themselves and others; their pain masked by a toxic rage. Nor can we turn a blind eye to a society that venerates violence. We reap what we sow. Sadly, our thirst for dad's blood and guts has always trumped our love of mom's apple pie.
It is the darkest time of the year in the northern part of the world and, as we await the return of the light, let's not squander this opportunity. We need to come together as a country not just to begin to heal but to begin to change, to turn away from teaching our sons to glorify violence, even as we know how difficult it is to definitively attribute mass killings to any one factor. That's not the point. How we socialize males is.
This is a perfect moment for Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to lead a call for the wealthiest 1 percent in the nation to take the lead in launching a national program to train early childhood education and care providers, and pre-kindergarten and elementary school teachers, to create new lesson plans that emphasize boys' emotional well-being. And, let's put men's mental health on the docket, too, beginning by asking the president to charge the CDC with coordinating a national campaign to raise awareness about mental health and males.
We are heartsick at the unfathomable murders of 20 innocent children and six dedicated staff members killed at their school, as well as the murderer's mother, Nancy Lanza. We have 27 reasons to come together as a nation to honor their memories. The families of the dead will soon be asking: What are we waiting for?


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Meinl Sonic Energy Singing Bowl Mallet Small Tip, Small
- Product code: SB-M-ST-S
- Accessories for: Sound bowl
- Length: 8,27" (21,01 cm)
- Size: S
- Weight: 21 g (0.74 oz)
- Material: Felt head, wooden handle
- Country of Origin: India
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The Meinl Sonic Energy range includes a considerable selection of gongs and musical instruments tuned to the planets, including tam tams, sound bars, tuning forks and bells. In addition to the instruments you will also find a variety of accessories such as carrying bags, Stands, sleeves, mallets and care sets. All instruments from the Sonic Energy collection are handmade masterpieces from the famous manufacturer Meinl, which serve esoteric purposes and are used mainly in meditation, sound massage, yoga and sound therapy. The instruments help to bring life into harmony with the cosmic universe. The gongs as well as the sound bars, tuning forks and some Tam Tams are handmade in a traditional European way and are "Made in Germany". They are exactly tuned to the frequency of the moon, the sun and the planets. In production, Meinl reverts to the calculations of the Swiss mathematician and musicologist Hans Cousto, who in 1978 discovered the natural law of the cosmic octave. For the determination of the frequency, calculations are made on the basis of rotation and rotation times of the planets. For each tone, the corresponding frequency of the celestial body is reproduced to provide a special effect. Altogether the Sonic Energy instruments are tuned to 16 different frequencies: from the Sun, Earth and Moon, Neptune and Saturn to the Platonic Year and the Synodic Day.
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Thanks to a surge of apartment-building construction, billings at architecture firms in September increased at their fastest pace since late 2010, according to an index published by the American Institute of Architects.
The Architecture Billings Index increased to 51.6 from 50.2 in August. A score above 50 indicates an increase in billings, while scores below 50 means a decrease.
The strongest sector continued to be residential; the residential index increased to 57.3 from 55.4. Billings for commercial and industrial property rose to 48.4 from 48.


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WGN-TV: Man fatally shot while waiting for ride to dialysis treatment.
A 72-year-old man was shot and killed in his gangway on the Far South Side early Saturday morning as he left a home for dialysis treatment.
The man's grandson was inside and heard the shots that killed his grandfather, who was identified by family and the Cook County medical examiner's office as William Strickland, of the 400 block of East 95th Street.
The man was shot about 3:30 a.m. and pronounced dead about 4 a.m., according to authorities.
The motive appears to be robbery, police said, but detectives are still investigating.
Detectives remained at the scene, across from Chicago State University, into the morning.
Police taped off the northeast corner of 95th Street and Eberhart Avenue, surrounding the two houses between which the man was killed.
Neighbors said Strickland had lived in the neighborhood for more than 30 years. He was described as friendly and willing to lend a helping hand, neighbors and friends said.
"He was just there for us," said Theolene Shears, 84, who has lived in the area since 1965. "He was a very nice neighbor. We couldn't ask for a better neighbor."
Shears said she was inside her home when she heard the shots.
"All I heard was three shots. Bang, bang, bang," she said.
Strickland, who went to dialysis three times a week, had been undergoing treatment for about five years, Shears said.
"He seemed to be very happy about it. The way he talked it was like a little social club," Shears said, adding that he eased her own concerns about potentially having to receive treatment.
He preferred to go early on Saturdays to get it out of the way, she said.
Strickland leaves behind a daughter, three grandchildren and a pet Chihuahua, said Shears.
"He was a good man," said Joshua Miles, 14, a friend of the family "He would help you out if you needed help."
"He always kept you laughing," he said.
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for my second win this week. Remember my previous post, I believe it was yesterday, where I mentioned that I had won a pair of Jeans from a facebook sweepstakes and how sweepers are superstitious about if you won on a Monday, you should also have another win before the end of that week? Well I checked my regular post mail and I got another win!
"Congratulations! You are a winner in the Target Give & Get Sweepstakes". I won a $25 Target Gift card! Yeah Baby! I love Target. They are simply the best store and I choose them over Wally World almost any day.
This particular sweep ended back in Dec 2009. They gave out one Grand Prize (which I would have loved to have won as it was AVR of $ 10,000) and 1505 prizes for the $25 Gift Cards to Target. So lots of winners on this one. I only actually entered this one once, as it was only one entry per person. I love those! It makes the playing field a lot more fair.
So I guess I waited just a little more than 24 hours and I got my second win for 2010! I can only hope and pray that my winning continues for this new decade and I pray that I have a great year with my wins.
I actually thought when I looked at the envelope and felt the card inside, that it was a Credit Card from Target, cause I couldn't remember when my CC expires. So I almost didn't open it tonight. This is another good thing to point out to those who might be new to sweeping..always check your mail..weather it's snail mail (as in actual letters you can hold in your hands) or even your emails. Cause you never really know until you check, that you could have a win on your hands! There have been plenty of times I've gotten stuff that I've almost thrown away, cause it looked like junk mail. This drives me nuts, wondering if I ever did throw away anything good.
Sometimes the judging agency or whoever holds the promotion informs the person who won, that their prize is on their way. Other times, you just never know. You could come home with a FED EX stuff to your door, with a check for a big prize. I know back in 2007 I won a contest from being on the Tony Danza Show and won $5000! Man what a rush that win was! (I will tell more about that in another post I'm sure). I really thought that they would send it registered mail, or something..Nope! It came by regular USPS in a plain white envelope. In a gift card from Disney who owns ABC (which is the company that sponsored the Tony Danza show/and that sweep) I mean anyone could have taken it. I am just glad that I got it..man did that ever come in handy, when we were broke and stuff.
That's one of the reasons why I love this hobby. You never know what kind of surprises you might find or receive. I now have a $25 GC to one of my favorite stores, where I can buy almost anything. Food, Clothing, Medication, whatever I might need. It saves me money and if I combined it with coupons on a item that is also on sale, I reap even more rewards.
So now this makes me even more pumped to enter sweepstakes. I am trying something new this year, and that's to try and enter (snail mail wise) ten entries every day. I also hope to enter at least for an hour, online sweepstakes.
Cause you got to be in it..to win it!
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Dorinda Elliott traveled to Haiti to seek answers about voluntourism. She works with the the Fuller Center for Housing's Global Builders project and recounts her experiences and observations in an article for Conde Nast Traveler.
At the Grace/Fuller project, though, I am wrestling with the subtle social implications of volunteering. I am heartened by the fact that the Haitian homeowners and we Americans are working side by side. But to my alarm, I learn that the construction work stops each time the Americans depart because of lack of funds—leaving the Haitians waiting around until another group of "saviors" arrives.Elliott's article is the latest in what seems to be a slow growing trend of reporting that looks critically at voluntourism. Most readers of this blog will not find the reporting to be revelatory or earth-shattering. Not too much time is spent speaking with experts or going deep into the issue. However, the article is notable because it appears in a place that would often tout the positives of voluntourism.
Regardless of how you feel about the issue, there are problems with voluntourism. Some groups do a terrible job and others are better. At the very least, it is important to disabuse people of the notion that voluntourism is itself a good thing. That can help to make would-be volunteers deliberate when choosing where to go and what group to work with.
Elliott concludes by noting that some are serial voluntourists and posits that good intentions may be doing more harm than good.
After an exhausting day, we all climb into a van and head back to our dorm, where I ask the others, over beers and peanut M&Ms somebody brought from home, why they are here. Many of them, it turns out, go on Habitat or Fuller "builds" all over the world several times a year. "Look, I have been blessed. I have a great job and a nice house," says Kaye Hooker, the team leader. "I'm here because there are so many people in the world who can't even meet their basic needs." Adds John Stanford, a retired heart surgeon: "I'd rather practice my hammer stroke than my golf stroke."
These are kind, generous people. So why do I feel uncomfortable? Something is nagging at me, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I learn much more valuable lessons on my trip to Haiti than how to handle a hammer or sift gravel: I learn the surprising amount of damage that can be done with the very best of intentions.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Tips needs to get my tablet to work! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Tips needs to get my tablet to work!" DRXjunior memberMember #Joined: 07 Dec 2000Posts: 43Location: Netherlands Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 6:26 am Well I'm using one of them cheapo Aiptek tablets, but uhmm.. well it takes me about 30 minutes to 1 hour each time before I can start using it, cuz I have to jumpstart it first by making heavy motions with the pen and such. (not good for my inspiration) And when I finally get it to work, it has a lot of probs some of you may know how to fix... (I hope) A lot of the times, it switches back 'n forth bewteen 'working mode' and 'move 1 inch on pad = move 10 feet on screen". Monitor might be a problem, but even when I sit as far away as the cable allows, the problem stil occurs. (too often) Also I like to sit in front of my monitor so I can see what I'm doing.. Another problem that occurs a lot is when I first lay the pen on the pad to make a paintstroke, it has a habit of 'doubleclicking' the image, and therefor creating 'artifects' I'd rather be without. Usually, these things cannot be undone either. Do I just have a really crappy tablet? Or can some of these annoying probs be fixed? Right now, I can do only so much, and never when I really want to work on something, cuz I have to get that dumb pen to work first. Blah, And even then I just have to hope it'll hold, and not make my art a mess. Anyone... Any tips? ------------------ DRX Aspiring Artist URL forthcoming Back to top MoonlordmemberMember #Joined: 28 Sep 2000Posts: 64Location: Hamburg, Germany Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 6:47 am drx, I assume you're using the usb version of the aiptek tablet. If so, then don't try to get it working b/c a friend of mine had the same problem and somehow it was something on his computer b/c on his brother's it worked... I'm using the serial version and never had or heard about any with this version. Try to get it back to the shop and do an exchange w/ the serial version. It's working much better believe me. Back to top DRXjunior memberMember #Joined: 07 Dec 2000Posts: 43Location: Netherlands Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 6:50 am Oh oops, yes it's the USB version, I forgot to post that. And on top of that, this tabletis from a friend of mine, cuz it doesn't work at all on his puter... hmm.... I guess you're right and we should just exchange it.... Oh well, thanks for the tip! ------------------ DRX Aspiring Artist URL forthcoming Back to top WICKEDmemberMember #Joined: 19 Oct 2000Posts: 275Location: FL Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2000 7:00 am exchange it for a wacom =) might be more expensive but its really worth it. I just bought an inutious 6x8 special edition usb tablet and it works like a baby. It feels so smoth when im using it. Now if only my desk had a good spot for it. WICKED Back to top LightmemberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 528Location: NC, USA Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2000 5:18 pm Hey, I just found this. Have you tried replacing the battery in the pen? Mine uses a 4A battery and had some problems before it was replaced. I just got the AIPTEK 5x4. I can paint with the pencil and the mouse but this size doesn't seem best for drawing the proper way. Also, I know tablet questions get posted a lot but mine is pretty specific can you comfortably hold the 9x12 in your lap? I may just go with some desk/easel. The 5x4 is too small (but neat) and I'm thinking the 6x8 would be a little small too. Back to top DarkMemoriesjunior memberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 16 Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2000 5:38 pm The Wacom 12x12 is god-like. Back to top PaqmannmemberMember #Joined: 01 Sep 2000Posts: 82Location: MI, USA Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2000 6:13 pm hhahaha I gots a 4X5 Wacom. A general question about tablets (yes i know, someone will tell me to search for it.. I ALREADY DID!) I have a serial tablet (wacom) and a very slow computer (166mhz PI with 48 megs RAM). Sometimes when I am drawing the computer can't catch with waht I'm drawing (like I try to sign my name, it gets the first 4 letters, locks up a little, and then just puts squigglies for the rest of the letters. i'm getting a new motherboard, new processor, and new memory soon.. But is it possible that my problem is the tablet (since its serial) not the computer? I doubt it but if so, I need to know so I can return it and get a USB tablet. thanks, sorry for breaking into ur thread. -matt Back to top DRXjunior memberMember #Joined: 07 Dec 2000Posts: 43Location: Netherlands Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2000 11:34 am Hey where'd this old thread pop up from? Light: Yeah, mine uses an 4A battery as well, but those are hard to get. It's not very reliable anyway. Besides, I just ordered my Wacom Intuos A3 (12x18) and should be getting it soon. Happy, Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy, Joy! ------------------ DRX Aspiring Artist URL forthcoming Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Orchid Festival
Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange will celebrate the orchid, one of the most beautiful flowers in the world, from Oct. 6-13. At Shangri La, there will be daily tours of the Exhibition Greenhouses, classes and presentations highlighting the orchid, and a variety of orchids will also be available for purchase at Shangri La's Garden Store.
At 9:30 a.m., the program The Poetry of Plants will begin. Learn to use orchids as inspiration and write orchid haikus. This program will start and end in the Nature Discovery Lab, and will include a stroll through the Epiphyte Greenhouse.
Join Darrin Duling, Director of Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens at 11 a.m. for Paradise Preserved: Adventures in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest. Take a visit to the Macae de Cima Forest Reserve in the Organ Mountains of Brazil. This 38,000-acre tropical mountain paradise, full of endangered orchids and other rare plants, exist only through the efforts of one couple's 30-year struggle to keep loggers and developers away. Enjoy images of breath-taking vistas and beautiful flowers that still remain in this small portion of pristine rainforest.
On Oct. 13, the Saturday Adventure Series will be I Scream for Orchids. In this program, you will learn about the vanilla orchid, make vanilla ice cream, and talk about other uses of edible orchids around the world. Ice cream lovers of all ages will enjoy this program.
Space is limited so call (409) 670-9799 for details or view shangrilagardens.org.
In addition to the events at Shangri La, both the Stark Museum of Art and The W.H. Stark House are hosting activities related to orchids.
The Museum will have a mini-exhibit, Orchid Festival, which features lithographs of exotic orchids from rare books in the Museum's collection. Librarian Jenniffer Hudson Connors will give a spotlight Obsessed with Orchids: Botanical Art of the Nineteenth Century about the role of artists and publishers in satisfying the public fascination with orchids during the 1800s. The spotlight times are Oct. 6 at 12:45 p.m., 1:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.; Oct. 9 at 11:45 a.m.; Oct. 10 at 11:45 a.m.
For more information view starkmuseum.org or call (409) 886-2787.
The W.H. Stark House will have a display of images of the 1917 Lord and Burnham Greenhouse, which originally stood on the grounds of The House and is now in use as the Shangri La Epiphyte Greenhouse, along with images of the preceding 1909 greenhouse and various images from antique orchid books. Those attending Orchid Festival activities at Shangri La are invited to keep their admission ticket from anytime during October 6-13 to receive a complimentary tour of The House during that same week. Call (409) 883-0871 or view whstarkhouse.org for more information.