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A new smart phone app called "FLOW" (Field Level Operations Watch) that lets people in developing countries snap photos of broken water pumps, has been developed for the Android phone. (Click on the image to the left to try it out!) Water charities install pumps in these nations in an effort to bring clean water to the developing world. While in most cases all intentions are good, in 30-45 percent of cases, these pumps don't work.
Sometimes, groups knowingly install broken pumps so they can add one more case to their file of successful, happy stories. Other times, they may work upon installation, but they usually break within a decade, according to Ned Breslin, the CEO of the nonprofit group, Water for People. Breslin recalls the story of a mother who found her son dead after he unknowingly drank contaminated water from a pump that was broken – one of several stories that has motivated him to take a stand to ensure that villages in developing nations are able to care for these water treatment systems long-term.
The Android app does just that. Anyone who comes into contact with a water pump that has a smart phone can take a picture of it, complete questionnaires designed to determine how well it is or is not working, and log GPS coordinates. Anytime a photo of a broken pump is taken, it is stored in a person's phone and automatically uploaded once that person comes in contact with a high-speed mobile connection or Wi-Fi.
This app could be replicated by other nonprofits for other purposes in the future, and is one of several apps designed to provide people with clean water to drink. Several months ago, iPhone released the 'Oasis Places' app, designed by Thermos. This app allows users to track locations, ratings and photos of water fountains across the U.S., where they can go to fill up their reusable water bottle.
Don't have a smart phone? You can still help bring clean water to the world by clicking on the widget above this post. Just one click donates water to someone in need for an entire day!

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Last time we checked, Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson were duking it out for the lead in director Alfonso Cuaron's upcoming space thriller, with co-star Robert Downey Jr. But a late push to get Angelina Jolie on board has failed, putting the film in jeopardy.
Jolie turned down the role in "Gravity," about a woman attempting to make her way back to her child on Earth after a satellite crash sets off a chain reaction of further crashes, ages ago.
This sent Cuaron on a quest that led him to consider pretty much every woman in Hollywood hot and/or famous enough to open an $80 million film set in outer space: Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Abbie Cornish, Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, Blake Lively...
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Eventually they whittled the field down to Lively and ScarJo, but then Warner Bros. got a panicky at the thought of having an unproven box-office attraction on screen for virtually the entirety of a 2-hour plus film with a 20-minute opening shot set in zero-gravity that will be 60% CGI. So they made a late push for Jolie, who said "No" yet again, reported Deadline.
Now Warners is reconsidering the whole thing. Which is too bad, because Cuaron's a proven visionary, Robert Downey Jr has a small role, but is a proven draw and the story sounds great.
And in a world where someone's willing to put up $200 million to have Rihanna star in a movie based on the board game "Battleship," spending $80 million to send Blake Lively floating through space for two hours seems ike a perfectly reasonable gamble.
While the studio tries s to sort out this miss, you can catch Jolie in "Salt," which wasn't half bad, or catch Lively in "The Town," out Sept. 17.


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'Eyes Wide Shut'
In recognition of Armistice Day we're posting our film that tells the story of a young sergeant in WW1 who was one of 306 British soldiers executed for military offences. The most common charge was desertion or cowardice. All their names were omitted from war memorials, their relatives did not receive military pensions and many families lived with the shame of the events and could never celebrate or commemorate their relatives' involvement in the horrors of 'The Great War'.
It's been 5 years since all 306 were granted a full pardon by the British Government and this film (made prior to that pardon) recalls the campaign of one relative seeking justice for his great Uncle and portrays the events and circumstances that led to the final tragic execution by firing squad.


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Unfortunately, Chris Valaika suffered a broken hand for triple-A Louisville. Valaika had been scuffling early in the season and this will only hinder his efforts to right the ship during the 2009 season.
"Chris Valaika was placed on Triple-A Louisville's disabled list with a broken right hand.Valaika will be in a cast for four weeks. Between the injury and his early .161/.210/.290 line, Valaika won't be a candidate to solve the Reds' shortstop woes any time soon. He's not likely to see big league action before September call-ups."
At this point, Alex Gonzalez and Paul Janish are doing a nice job holding down the shortstop position at the MLB level, so there isn't a pressing need for Valaika. However, it would be nice to see Valaika settle into a position full time and earn a promotion to the majors. Clearly, that will have to wait a while longer.


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I've been using BW for six or seven years and have been pretty faithful in following the upgrade path. This time around (i.e., with the release of BW9), I'm not so eager, in part because I'm watching my budget more carefully. I guess I'm willing to be persuaded, though.
My question: do you think an upgrade from BW8 to BW9 is worth it? Please provide specifics.
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Although we might pride ourselves on our ability to smell a rat a mile off, swindlers aren't stupid; they make their operations look as plausible as possible so we need to be on our guard.
"One of our employees was called up last week from a man claiming to be from the Ministry of Pensions. The number was from a mobile phone and although it sounded suspicious, the caller knew her name and address and told her she was due a backdated pension payout of £5,000. To get the money released she would have to pay £200 and at this stage she wisely hung up the phone."
Gillian Morgan, June 2012
"A company pretending to be DHL emailed me to say it had attempted to deliver a parcel to my address but was unable to, and if I wanted to rearrange the delivery I needed to download a reference number.
"Attached to the email was a PDF, which I stupidly thought would be safe to download. As soon as I did every file on my computer became blocked and I had to take the laptop into a local centre to get it fixed."
Dave Hope, June 2012
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"An email arrived in my personal inbox this week supposedly from Santander. It said someone had tried to send me money but as the transaction looked suspicious it was declined and my account is now restricted.
"Therefore I was asked to confirm some personal details to be able to access my account again. Although it looked quite genuine there were also a lot of spelling mistakes in the text, which hinted it might be a scam."
Vanessa Preece, June 2012
"I have been in contact with a man who is stuck in Ghana after finishing work on an oil rig there for the Ghanaian government. He says he hasn't been paid yet and needs money for a ticket back to the UK and claims he is a structural engineer living in Manchester. The money needs to be transferred online but I believe it's a scam so I have instead alerted the British Commission in Ghana."
Joanna Farrington, June 2012
"Someone posing as the Co-op emailed me last week to let me know about a potential fraud alert to my account. To avoid this, 'the bank' has updated its security system I was told I need to hand over my sort code and account number by email to make sure my account is protected."
Frederick Burns, May 2012
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"Ever since the end of last year, I've been in touch with a woman I met through an online dating website. Apparently she lives in Australia but is currently on a trip in London.
She emailed me yesterday to say that while over here she's been mugged and now no longer has her debit or credit cards or any cash. Therefore she's asked for me to transfer money to her for a flight back home. Instead, I'm alerting ScamWatch as I believe this is a con."
Phillip Hall, May 2012
"My inbox is regularly filed with scam emails and the latest claims to be from the student loans company. It says it's being sent out to all students who have received grants and loans and asks for the student to verify their personal details. Within the email was an attachment which needed to be downloaded to complete the process."
Frederick Burns, April 2012
"Although my phone account is with BT I was a little suspicious when I received an email from the company recently. It was titled "action required" and said my last payment wasn't processed properly. This was either because my personal details had been changed or there was an error when I had paid the bill. To resolve the situation it asked for further details, and included a link, so instead of carrying on I marked it as spam and deleted it."
A Brooks, April 2012
"I have been trying to get a loan so I can take my wife on holiday and we had a phone call recently from a firm offering this. It seemed completely genuine and we weren't asked for personal or financial details. We were told we should buy a voucher for £50 and then we would have the loan deposited into our account. However, we were never called back and there seems to be no way to get our £50 back. If they can do this to one person I wonder how many more times have they done it."
Stephen Gibson, April 2012
"A lady with a Scottish accent called me this week suggesting I ring fence my assets, so that they could not be used in the event of entering a care home. The alarming thing is she mentioned a password I do actually use for some of my accounts but I've never had any dealings with this company before. I've now changed all my other passwords."
Margaret Herd, April 2012
"The public need to be aware of yet another Amazon scam in circulation. It is a voucher that advertises a £10 voucher for Amazon. However, once you sign up to the voucher and give your personal details to the company £29 will be debited from your account each month and will be described as an administration fee."
Shan Lamptey, April 2012
"Today I received a letter from a so-called private investigator in China to say someone with my surname had died and he was the lawyer representing the case. The deceased man apparently had millions of pounds in his investment portfolio and as there are no other interested parties, the funds could be split equally between the author of the letter and myself. Funnily enough I have taken this no further."
David Storrar, March 2012
"I arrived home from work today to find a card behind my door telling me a parcel had been left under my patio table. I had not ordered anything from this catalogue company and rang it up asking why these items of jewellery had been sent. I was put through to the fraud department and the member of staff asked if I was a company director to which I replied that I was. Apparently the latest scam is for con artists to use your name and address (which they can find on a company website) and then change the address for delivery once the account has been accepted. Thankfully I acted straight away and a fraud marker was put on my file and I was advised to check my credit record."
Angela Oakley, March 2012
"Last week an email arrived in my inbox from a friend and immediately alarm bells began ringing. For a start the language was strange and it went on to say she was on holiday in London and had been mugged and had everything stolen apart from passports. It then went on to ask for help settling the hotel bill and getting a flight. There were lots of things in it that didn't match up so I contacted my friend and she confirmed it was a scam."
Ann Street, March 2012
"Halifax, or at least I thought it was the bank, contacted me to say it had detected irregular activity in my Halifax online banking login. As I was the primary contact the email asked me to verify my account as a hold had been placed on my debit card so I couldn't access my cash. There was an attachment with the email, which I had to download to verify the account. Alarm bells rang and so instead I checked my online banking in a new window and found no problems."
Aysha Begum, February 2012
"I received an official looking email from a company pretending to be Amazon to say the order I had placed had been cancelled. The email included a new order number and a link to what I thought was Amazon. I clicked on this and it directed me to the website of a Canadian pharmaceutical company selling drugs."
Barry Arrowsmith, February 2012
"I've been emailed as apparently my email address was the star pick from an automated ballot system which means I'm entitled to receive the grand reward of 2.5 million dollars. The suspect email said the prize was from a reward program for the 'patronage of internet services' and the promotional draw is conducted in the Netherlands. In order to claim this prize the email says I must send personal details out immediately."
Bob Hope, February 2012
"Apparently my death certificate has been handed into a branch of HSBC in Canada by a man who claimed to be my representative and also to have power of attorney of my finances. There is also a fund of 12.5 million dollars in my name, which I need to claim in the next 48 hours while at the same time confirming I am still alive. This is very clearly a scam."
Eirik Vestgard, February 2012
"A scam email arrived in my account supposedly from Yahoo. It said I needed to update my personal details after a series of illegal attempts on my email account from different IP addresses. It went on to say it was for my own safety and if I wanted to keep my account open I would need to fill in details such as, email address, password, date of birth and country of residence."
Richard Search, February 2012
"Quite unexpectedly we received a phone call one evening at 8 o'clock and my wife answered. She said npower, our electricity provider, was on the phone and wanted a meter reading there and then. We had just started to watch a favourite TV programme so I said I would send one online the next day. The caller was persistent but settled eventually and said they would call again – which didn't happen. I phoned npower the next day and was told everything was fully up to date and no reading was required. It's difficult to imagine what would have followed had we complied and gone to the meter and provided a reading. Doubtless the company would have tried to obtain some sensitive personal information on some pretext or other."
Clifton Pyrke, November 2011
"This message arrive in my inbox from a friend in my address book. The subject of the email was 'Dearest Beloved'. The message said: 'As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me because I believe everyone will die someday. I have been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, view attached mail for full details.' My friend is not ill and the email had an attachment which I did not open."
Kunio Uematsu, November 2011
"I was checking through our bank statement online and discovered a transaction marked 'Sky Subscription' which is strange as we have not been with Sky for over six years.
We rang Sky to ask why and it told us all of its payments are labelled 'Sky Digital'. We rang the bank and stopped the debit card this transaction had been used on. The scam appears to work by taking random amounts from your bank account. We have spoken to others and found this is a growing problem with one friend being debited as much as £200. The message here is – always check your bank statements."
Peter Balshaw, November 2011
"I sold a mobile phone on eBay and a bidder offered me double the price I had hoped for. I accepted this and he sent the authorisation code for the payment but no money arrived in my account.
I contacted PayPal who told me this was a scam as the authorisation code was an old one. The bidder looked genuine and had good feedback and I contacted him again. He sent another code but still no money arrived so in the end I sold it to someone else."
Joel Brown, October 2011
"I tried to buy a Chihuahua puppy on the free advert side Oodle for £150 plus delivery from Dundee to Edinburgh. I emailed the seller and asked a lot of questions about the puppy and delivery and he assured me that everything would be straightforward.
I was sent the details of the delivery agency and I paid the seller through MoneyGram. Next my husband spoke on the phone with the agency and suddenly it wanted another £600 to cover insurance and to deliver my puppy by plane. We didn't want to do this so but the seller would not listen and he even said if we pulled out of the deal the dog would be put in quarantine and we would be in trouble with the police.
This was not the first advert I applied to and it seemed genuine. Looking back I shouldn't have wired the £150 but I was so desperate for this puppy I went ahead with it."
Mrs Elizabeth Heppell, October 2011
"An old friend who now lives in America emailed me last month asking to borrow £2,000 as he was on holiday in Wales and had been mugged. The email was very convincing and said his cash, cards and mobile phones had been stolen but he still had his passport and flight tickets.
It said he had gone to the American embassy and police but had not had much luck and needed to settle hotel bills before getting a flight back to America the next day. I would have sent the money to him but the use of the headline 'Sad News' suggested a death in the family, which this was not, and made me feel uneasy.
I hadn't contacted him for years, but I found the number and rang his home in North Carolina. It turns out his emails had been hacked and similar messages had been sent out to everyone in his address book."
Victor Courtice, October 2011
"I was contacted by a man who told me my computer was not running at the right speed and offered me a free security health check. The caller asked me to switch on my pc and log onto a website. At this point the computer would be accessed remotely and cleared of any bugs.
When I asked the name of the company I was told it was part of Microsoft and the caller said this would be totally free. As a PC engineer I didn't go any further as alarm bells began ringing and I believed the company's intention was to get passwords and data off my PC."
Stuart Strong, October 2011
"My poor elderly mother was sent a letter from a company called Vitamail telling her she was in debit of her account by £5. She did not have an account with this company and the letter looked very convincing.
"However, I noticed the letter had her name but no initials, the company asked her to send cash, it was not signed and also threatened to send someone round to her house if she didn't send her bank details.
"I searched for the company on the internet and found there were many people who had received the same letter who had never heard of this company let alone had an account with them. This company trades under many names and many addresses but is based in France."
Mrs S A Walsh, October 2011
"I received an email telling me I had won a £1,000,000 lottery prize from the BBC. I contacted a few names on their email messages and questioned the matter to see if it was for real. No one got back to me and after reading the email again I noticed they used a delivery services which asked for a £250 fee to release the cheque."
Mr M Chai, October 2011
"I placed an advert through Autotrader on my partner's behalf and naively I put my personal email address on the advert. Within 24 hours I had emails from two different people expressing interest. Both said they would buy the car without viewing it, pay via PayPal and send an agent to collect vehicle.
My partner expressed immediate concern and a quick search on the internet confirmed a well-known scam whereby someone accepts an offer and their car is collected but the money is withdrawn from PayPal before the transaction is complete."
Debby Curry, October 2011
"A company in Seattle rang me around six times trying to persuade me that I had 10 times as many shares in Avis Europe than I actually have. It also said it had a buyer for these shares at 10 times their value. In order to move forward I would have to sign a confidentiality agreement and send it some money. This is clearly proof that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is."
Guest - September 2011
"Recently I received a message from PayPal about a transaction but I have never had an account with the company. When I queried it I was informed it was a type of phishing scam. Paypal says it will always address you by name when emailing you so if you ever get an email from Paypal addressing you as 'Dear Member' it is a scam."
Guest - September 2011
"Today I received an email from someone supposedly representing Arab millionaires who have had their funds frozen after the 9/11 attack. The email says these millionaires have been investigated by the FBI and found to be clean but now the funds, for some reason, can't be returned to their rightful owners. It then says these funds are available to be claimed by first sending over card details. This is clearly a scam."
Guest - September 2011
"Having decided to up my weight training I searched the internet for items to help me out. I found a suitable website and then sent off several emails regarding price and asking how long an order would take. A man contacted me and was very efficient so I had no reason to suspect anything. He requested I deposit the payment of £50 into his bank account and sent me the sort code and account number. I was informed my order would take around a week to arrive but after this period had passed I emailed him to ask about my order. I had no further replies from him after this and have lost out on this money."
John Boyd - September 2011
The HMRC SCAM
"A member of staff has just alerted me to the fact that they have recently received a scam email which purports to be from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and appears to be advising them that they are due a tax refund. It offers a link for them to follow where it is likely that they would be asked to confirm their bank details. This is a scam."
June 2011
"I received a phone call from a lady claming to be from the Ministry of Justice last week. She had a strange accent and although she gave me a number to call back on, this was different to the number she had called me on. I bank with Santander and the lady calling enquired about a payment to my bank account. I've now received another call from the same company and have tried reporting them to Consumer Watch and the Ombudsman but as no fraud as yet been committed neither will help me."
June 2011
The EHIC SCAM
"With the holiday season upon us, people need to watch out for scam websites charging a £10 renewal fee for the EHIC card. Renewal through the NHS website is free, so beware of the top picks on a google search for 'EHIC renewal'."
May 2011
"I was contacted by a company called 'Camphire Now' [supposedly a recruitment firm] and a lady by the name of Julia Marks sent me an e-mail asking me to enter a code and fill out an application pending an interview in London in a few days.
"When I got to the IQ Test section of the website I discovered in order to carry on I would be charged £4.50 per month thereafter. I have e-mailed Julia twice now asking for information on the company as I cannot find it anywhere on the website. The links on the website provide no information at all. It's a scam. I have reported it to the OFT and trust you will warn others."
May 2011
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Working with entrepreneurs and world-class venture capital firms to create and build fast growing Internet services, eCommerce and Digital Media businesses.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Digivate becoming a serious digital agency
Digivate is one of TAG's oldest investments. Its positively mature. TAG invested about 7 years ago. Far from getting a 7 year itch, we're pretty excited about the way its shaping up. Profitable and cash generating from its core business of building eCommerce websites on its own open source platform, Digivate has fairly recently extended its activities beyond eCommerce and database building/email marketing into search engine marketing (SEM) and particularly into SEO.
Their approach to SEO is comprehensive. Understanding the internal structures of websites through building dozens of them certainly helps but adding a really good understanding of how contextual links works and building forums, blogs and developing (writing) appropriate content for clients all go to deliver a compelling solution.
Digivate have developed their own sophisticated SEO evaluator tool that emulates the Google search algorithm and breaks down the relevant site to identify the specific areas where improvements can be made. Its tools can also provide detailed reports of competitors' weaknesses to provide an advantage for the most competitive search terms.
The next step for Digivate is to extend their graphical and UI (User Interface)design capability
The heritage of the founders lies in catalogue mail order, direct marketing, database design and development. It shows.
Digivate clients include leading high street retail groups, catalogue companies, new internet services and financial services companies.
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Iowa State University
Department of Psychology
|Download a pdf of a recent
talk at the Digital Media &
Developing Minds Congress by clicking here.
Note that you will need a password from that meeting to open
this document.
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Links to media violence statements by scientific societies
News, Interviews ...
| Publications
from 1995 to the present
|A listing of titles,
citations, and abstracts of articles and chapters published
in 1995 and later years, and "in press" works. This page
also contains a link to various scales used in our research.
Publications by domain
|Links to earlier publications categorized by
research domain.
|Pre-1995 Publications by year
|Links to early publications in chronological
SPSSI Media Violence Statement
|A statement I helped write with a research
summary on media violence for the Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).
Presidential Address to the International
Society for Research on Aggression
Web link (YouTube) 48 minutes
|I delivered this address at the 2012 ISRA
World Meeting, held in Luxembourg from July 17-21. The title
of the address was: Video Game Effects on Attention,
Aggression, and Helping.
International Society for Research on Aggression Media
Violence Report
|As President of the International Society of Research on Aggression Media Violence Report, I appointed a Commission of top researchers to prepare a report on the scientific research about media violence effects. This link takes you to that report.
|2012 Media & Technology Discussion (scroll to the bottom of the linked web page)
|This audio recording by Professors Victor Strasburger, Ed Donnerstein, and Craig Anderson was originally created for the continuing medical education program by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Court Case (pdf)
Justice Breyer's Dissent (pdf)
|Professor Doug Gentile and I
wrote this Op-Ed piece to help parents to distinguish the
Supreme Court's legal decision that States cannot require
parental consent for children to purchase violent video
games, from the scientific reality that such games do cause
This is the dissenting opinion by Justice Breyer, apparently the only Supreme Court Justice to carefully read and consider the research summary statement that was the Appendix in the Amicus Curiae brief linked below.
|2010 Amicus Curiae Brief
from California Senator Yee on Supreme Court Case
|This pdf contains the "Friend
of the Court" brief submitted on July 19, 2010 to the U.S.
Supreme Court in the case of Schwarzenegger vs. Video
Software Dealers Association. The brief makes extensive use
of research on violent video game effects, and includes a
statement (appendix) from leading scholars. Note that this
statement merely summarizes the empirical research; it does
not specifically address the legal or public policy issues.
| 2009
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement on Media
|After several years of work,
this revision of the Academy's earlier statement was
completed, passed, and released by the Academy. My Iowa
State University colleague Doug Gentile and I did much of
the updating and rewriting; pediatrician and media violence
scholar Victor Strasburger served as the lead author and
driving force.
| 2007
Book on Violent Video Games
|My co-authors on this book
are Doug Gentile and Katherine Buckley. The book can be
ordered online from the Oxford
University Press web site, or Amazon.
For reviews of this book click here.
| Video
Game Recommendations
|A letter to parents, grandparents, and other individuals with questions about sources of good educational video games and concerns about violent video games and youths. It contains some recommendations and guidelines.
| Current
|Course syllabi and related information on classes taught on a regular basis--intended primarily for students in these classes.
| Research
|A listing of titles,
citations, and abstracts of articles and chapters
categorized by research topic. Note that this page has not
been updated for years. For a complete listing of
publications since 1995, go to http://www.craiganderson.org/wp-content/uploads/caa/recpub.html.
| Biographical
|A brief sketch of educational background, employment history, awards, and research interests.
| Tips
on buying video games
|Print version of an NBC TV
Omaha News 6 story on "Expert Tips on Buying Video Games"
for children, Nov. 23, 2009.
| Video
Game Violence FAQs
|15 frequently asked questions (and
answers) about the effects of exposure to violent video
|APA Resolution on Violence in Video Games
|An August 2005 press release on the American Psychological Association's call for a reduction of violence in video games used by children and adolescents, and the full resolution, in pdf format. alternative link
Change Documents
|A few documents on climate change and
News Reports, Interviews...
Youth Violence Risk Factors & Mass Shootings. March
23, 2018
|Iowa State University Professors Craig Anderson & Douglas Gentile were interviewed by Grayson Schmidt of the Ames Tribune about mass shootings and the need for policy to be based on scientific findings. Here is the link to the story.
Shootings, Mental Illness
March 20, 2018
|Iowa State University Professors Douglas
Gentile and Craig Anderson were interviewed by ABC-TV-Des
Moines reporter Rafael Lopez on mass shootings, mental
illness, and risk factors for aggressive and violent
behavior. Here is the link
to the story.
Mass Shootings, Youth Violence
March 19, 2018
|An Iowa State University press release on the
Report of the Youth Violence Commission by leading
International Society For Research On Aggression scholars on
guns, violent behavior, and media effects. Click here for
the press
release. It contains a link to the ISRA website and
the full report.
|Media Violence Effects, March 15, 2018
|A 30 minute podcast for Dr. Ryan C. Martin's
blog "All the Rage." The discussion focuses on the
scientific evidence concerning media
violence effects on aggressive and violent behavior.
Game Violence Effects, March 11, 2018
(Des Moines) news story on violent video game effects
on aggressive & violent behavior. Alternative link to
the video
file. Alternative link to the pdf
|Guns, Media Violence, Mental Illness, & Mass Shooting, March 8, & March 29, 2018
Op Ed article published in the Des Moines Register, in
response to conflicting (and over-simplified) claims by
President Trump, the gun lobby, and the video game lobby.
The same Op Ed (with a few minor tweaks) that was published by the Washington Examiner.
Violence & Mass Shootings, March 8, 2018
|A FactCheck.org article on the link (if any)
between media violence and violent behavior. The linked
pdf is the USA Today report.
Agent story, 2017
|Highlight story on the Iowa State University
web site about Dr. Craig A. Anderson's work and influence on
violent video games. Published online on June 26, 2017.
Tips, June 14, 2017
|Parent tips on monitoring their children's
video game content and time to ensure a healthy video game
diet. Part of Richie Bernardo's Wallethub.com story on
"2017's Best Cities for Gamers."
|Meet the
Professors link
|Seven 30 minute web-based interviews by
Professor Deana Pollard Sacks, for her new online show "Meet
the Professors," described as a "A Sociopolitical
Educational Talk Show." Episode 1: Sex on Television and its
Effects. Episode 2: Bullying, Harassment, & the Courts.
Episode 3: Mass Media's Influence on Your Mind. Episode 4:
Violent Video Games' Effects on Children. Episode 5: Racism
in America and Implicit Bias. Episode 6: The Politics of
Mass Media. Episode 7: Regulating Violent Video Games.
Violence & Parenting
|Interview with in media parentis
blogger Tina Peterson, Jan. 8, 2014.
violence effects, parental roles.
mp3, 39 minutes
|Link to a November 2013 Podcast with Parent
Coach Institute's CEO Gloria DeGaetano on media violence
effects and positive roles parents can and should play in
establishing a healthy media diet.
Games and Human Behavior (web link, 26
|YouTube interview with Gary Smith for his
blog "Button Bash." October 17, 2013.
New York Times article & opinion piece on media
12, 2013 NY Times article (pdf)
February 12, 2013 NY Times opinion (pdf)
Violence & Gun Violence
mp3, 60 minutes
|Interview by Nebraska Public Radio's Lewis Hernandez, Feb. 6, 2013. Panelists include Dr. Craig Anderson, Chris Ainsworth (video game creator and journalist), Bob Irwin (Owner, The Gun Store), and Patrick Miller (Editor, Game Developer Magazine).
Violence, Mental Illness, and Gun Violence
mp3, 45 minutes
|Interviews by Iowa Public Radio's Ben Kieffer, Jan. 22, 2013. The first half is with Craig Anderson on media violence effects. The second half is with Dr. Donald Black on personality disorders.
|Newton, CT, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shootings, Dec. 14, 2012
interview on Violent Video Game effects. (mov)
*KCCI interview on Violent Video Game effects. (mov)
*Univ. of Michigan Aggression Research Program statement
*Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence Statement
*APA Links
Media Violence interview
|In this 1-hour Iowa Public Radio podcast,
host Ben Kiefer interviews Dr. Douglas A. Gentile and Dr.
Craig A. Anderson concerning the recent international report
on media violence effects.
|2012 Bystander Intervention interview (mp3)
|In this 22 minute interview, Iowa Public Radio's Ben Kiefer interviews Dr. Craig A. Anderson about a recent subway train fatality in New York, and about what influences people to help in emergency situations.
|2011 Reports on the Supreme Court
decision on California's Violent Video Game Law
with Professor Sacks (mov format)
June 27, 2011 Scientific American (pdf) alternate link
June 27, 2011 Wall Street Journal article (pdf)
June 27, 2011 CA Senator Yee's response
June 28, 2011 Slate (pdf)
Jon Stewart's piece on the Daily Show (mov) very graphic
June 20, 2011 Game Spot story (pdf)
June 28, 2011 Wired.com interview with Prof. Bushman (pdf)
June 28, 2011 ABC News (pdf)
July 5, 2011 Wisconsin Public Radio-Joy Cardin (mp3 45 min)
|2010 Pediatrics for Parents articles and
extended interview on violent video games
|Download the two articles on
Violent Video Games and
Other Media Violence that appeared in early 2010 in
Pediatrics for Parents
magazine by clicking on these links: Part
1, Part
2 (pdf). Listen to the extended interview (35 minutes)
on this topic with Editor Dr. Richard Sagall by clicking here or
this alternative
link (mp3).
State Press Release on the Violent Video Game Supreme
Court Case
|This press release highlights
the role of two Iowa State University faculty members in the
scientific aspects of the Supreme Court Case on a California
law that would require parental permission for minors to
purchase or rent certain types of violent video games. It
also highlights why Professors Anderson and Gentile focus on
the science and do comment on any specific law.
|Violent Video Games and the
Supreme Court
|Interviews inspired by the
Supreme Court decision to review lower court rulings that
laws restricting children's right to purchase any violent
video game are unconstitutional. (Note: Dr. Anderson never
comments on the legal aspects, but focuses only on what the
science has to say.)
April 26, 2010 CNN interview with Campbell Brown (mov format)
April 28, 2010 NPR interview, Diane Rehm Show (51 minutes mp3)
|Global Warming & Violence
|TV, radio, and newspaper
coverage of research linking global warming to violence.
April 6, 2010 interview with Ben Kieffer on "The Exchange" show on Iowa Public Radio. (30 minutes, mp3)
April 22, 2010 Ames Tribune article. (pdf)
April 22, 2010 interview on WHO TV 13, Des Moines, Iowa. (mov format)
|Violent Video Game Effects
(mov format)
|TV news interviews about our
new comprehensive meta-analysis that was published in the
American Psychological Association's journal Psychological Bulletin.
March 1, 2010 interview on KCCI TV 8, Des Moines, Iowa.
March 7, 2010 interview on WHO TV 13, Des Moines, Iowa.
|Violent Video
Game Effects
(mp3 format)
|A 2010 interview with Ben
Kieffer on Iowa Public Radio's The Exchange news and call-in radio show
about our new comprehensive meta-analysis that was published
in the American Psychological Association's journal Psychological Bulletin
(24 minutes) (QuickTime
.mov version)
|News articles on our March,
2010 Psychological
Bulletin article, which shows that
violent video games are a causal risk factor several
harmful outcomes.
|USA Today, 3-1-10, front page, (print version).
Washington Post, 3-1-10. (print version).
Ames Tribue, 3-2-10, lead story, (print version).
Futurity.org, 3-1-10. (print version).
Video Game Violence Update
|A 2003 article in the American Psychological Association's electronic publication Psychological Science Agenda. alternative link
Violent Video Games: Protecting Children
|A 2004 article in the
American Psychological Association's electronic publication
Psychology Matters, a compendium of psychological
research that has had a positive impact on modern society.alternative
The Parent Report
(mp3 format)
|Brief interviews (about 1
minute) in 2004 with Professor Anderson on violent video
games, by host Joanne Wilson, in MP3 format.
8/17/04, "Media Violence & Children"
11/18/04, "Violent Media and Behaviour"
11/26/04, "Rules Around Video Games"
6/15/05, "Influence of Video Game Violence vs. TV Violence"
|A brief report on Professor Anderson's 2004
American Psychological Society's address on "The Influence
of Media Violence on Youth"
| JFK Assasination Video
(mov format)
|News stories and interviews
concerning the video game "JFK Reloaded" on CBS and KCCI TV8.
CBS Evening news with Dan Rather, 11/22/04
KCCI Des Moines news (TV8), 11/22/04
Long radio shows (mp3 format)
|Todd Mundt-NPR show, violent
video games, 1/8/03, 27 minutes.
Wise Guys, WHO Radio, media violence, 1/18/03, 41 minutes.
Iowa Public Radio, WOI, Katherine Perkins, media violence and our new book on violent video games, 4/4/07, 43 minutes.
Media Violence Report
(pdf format)
|A 2004 report funded by the
Government of Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
Office for Victims of Crime. This comprehensive report
reviews political, research, regulatory and other aspects of
media violence. It was written by Valerie Smith.
| Violence in the Media -
Psychologists Help Protect Children from Harmful
|Two 2004 articles in the American Psychological Association's electronic publication Psychology Matters, a compendium of psychological research that has had a positive impact on modern society.
|CNN News Excerpt
(mov format)
|An edited
interview on violent video game effects which appeared
on CNN on December 4, 2004.
|APA Resolution on Violence in
Video Games
|An August 2005 press release on the American Psychological Association's call for a reduction of violence in video games used by children and adolescents, and the full resolution, in pdf format. alternative link
| Violent video game
report & parent advice
(mov format) (flash format)
|News story on WOI TV5 (ABC) in Des Moines, Iowa, 11/29/05, on the video game report card, and parent shopping advice.
|MSNBC interview
flash format mov format
|A 6 minute live interview
with MSNBC TV on 9/19/06 on violent video game effects, and
parental and industry responsibility.
|Plenary Address at the National Summit on Video
Games, Youth, & Public Policy
click here
|A 48 minute presentation at
the Summit held October 20-21, 2006 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The Summit was co-sponsored by the National Institute on Media
and the Family, a grant by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to the Iowa State University Center for the Study of
Violence, and by the Iowa State University Institute for Social and
Behavioral Research. The address was titled Violent Video Games: Effects
and Public Policy.
|Learning to Be Violent
mov format
|An 8 minute clip on media
violence effects, including Bandura's Bobo doll studies and
violent video game studies. This clip also is available as
part of the supplemental package for Roy Baumeister and Brad
Bushman's social
psychology textbook.
|CNKW Radio Interview
mp3 format
|A 15 minute interview by
CNKW's Sean Leslie, radio 980AM, Vancouver, British
Columbia. This interview of Professor Anderson and Professor
Douglas Gentile discusses recent findings on violent video
games from our 2007
book, and concerns about the video game Bully.
|NPR/Justice Talking interview
mp3 format
|A 6 minute interview with
Justice Talking host Margot Adler (granddaughter of Alfred
Adler) on the scientific facts about media violence effects.
on Psi Chi interview
pdf format
|An interview by 3 Nebraska
Wesleyan University students on video game violence, as part
of the FAWL lecture series. Published in the Psi Chi
magazine eye on Psi Chi
and on their web site. alternative
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901 Stange Rd.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011- 1041
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Back in 2004, ABC debuted two new primetime dramas that blew up all over the place. One was "Lost." The other was "Desperate Housewives." Both shows got enormous opening ratings and helped ABC claw back from its fourth-place status. "Lost," as you know, ended its celebrated run just a couple months ago. Ah, but "Housewives" is still around and, in light of current executive turmoil at ABC, more important to that network than ever. So it's a bit of blow to learn today that showrunner Marc Cherry plans on ceding control of the show after next season. Deadline's Ray Richmond reports:
He's now penning a pilot for a potential new ABC series that he hopes will be up and running by next June. He wouldn't elaborate on what the pilot is about, only noting it "will not be set in suburbia".
"I've got a contract that keeps me around ABC for a few more years," said Cherry, who is under a rich overall deal through the 2011-2012 season. "I hope (Housewives will be around) for a couple of more seasons, and my thing is I always will be executive producer and consultant on the show. It's my baby. I can't let go. I have control issues. They can't totally get rid of me."
But they'll get rid of him a little bit. Cherry was sued earlier this year by former show costar Nicollette Sheridan, who alleged that Cherry was verbally and physically abusive to his subordinates (Cherry denies all of this). Perhaps all that drama has served to wear on the showrunner, who once said he'd never cede control of his baby.
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If you have been asked to give a military retirement speech to thank the retiring veteran for his/her services and sacrifice at the military retirement party, so you trying to write that perfect retirement speech.
How to Make the Military Retirement Speech?
A perfect military retirement speech is a speech delivered wonderfully and one that touch the heart and soul of retiree and the audience all in the appropriate way. Your speech can be informal interspersed with humor or retirement poetry/quote. But the important thing is that you are sincere, real, and you.
The following tips will help you give the successful military retirement speech.
- Prepare Speech Content. You will want to collect all the important things you want to say, or ask your colleague, superior for contributions and achievements about retired soldier to highlight your speech.
- Check Common Pitfalls of Speech. You should consider that one of common pitfalls when giving a retiree speech is the feeling of wanting to rush through the speech.
- Practice. Practice your military retirement speech out loud if you finished. Rehearse in front of your military buddies for get a right feel for how long the speech will last.
- Retirement Speech and Retirement Wishes. After your speech you might want to show your best wishes for your retired buddies by some tangible retirement presents, but give a letter or card is also great.
How to Write the Pastor Anniversary Speech?
1. Introducing Retired Soldier
The introduction about retiree is the big part. To create a meaningful and memorable military retirement ceremony/program/party speech, one must know how to play with words to play with the emotion of the audience.
2. Jotting Down Everything that You Appreciate and Honor.
When writing about military veteran, you must first by jotting down everything that you appreciate and special stories or achievements themed veteran's contributions.
3. Why Should We Honor Veterans?
At the middle, the speech must slowly become intimate to your subject, appreciate and honor our veterans – they deserve all the accolades and gratitude coming them – perhaps even more – because nothing compares to what they have gone through to defend the honor of their country.
4. Keep Speech Short, Simple but Meaningful
The most important and perfect thing is to keep the speech short, simple but yet meaningful to both the speaker and the audience. You know overly long appreciation retirement speeches, no matter how thoughtful and organized, will soon lose its appeal.
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Here are some important things to know about Ev at 3 months:
It's been a month since she visited the pediatrician, but at her last visit she was in the 90th% of weight and 95th% for height!
She's wearing 3-6 month clothes.
She dropped one feeding over the weekend, so she now eats 6 times a day.
Her hands are her favorite toy! She loves to stare at them, rotate them, and try to eat them.
Other than her hands, her favorite form of entertainment is talking to her brother and sissy.
In the last week or so she's decided she likes tummy time (if she's propped with her chest on the Boppy). Before that, though, it was just about the only thing in the world she hated.
She sleeps through the night (and has since 6 weeks old!) and takes several short naps during the day. She doesn't nap very well at school since there are other little ones there to interrupt her sleep, so she's usually asleep by 6:30 on weeknights.
Just like her brother and sister before her, she doesn't do well when Mommy eats dairy. In fact, she's probably thrown up more in her 3 months than Katelyn and Elliot have in their combined 8.5 years. Hopefully she'll outgrow this intolerance just like they did.
She is the sweetest, easiest baby ever! Someone reminded Mommy that she used to claim the same about Elliot, but Evelyn has overtaken the title.


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Here at Apartment Therapy, we talk a lot about small spaces, but we don't often get a chance to look at design for a group of people who often find themselves living in smaller spaces — senior citizens. That's why we're so excited to share this Before and After with you.
Designer Emily Henderson partnered with Sunrise Senior Living to make over the home of Fran Ferguson, an 81-year-old military widow, grandmother of 8, and all-around active, creative lady.
The beautiful furniture in Fran's original space is a testament to her good taste. Emily sought to add color and declutter the room, while still leaving places for Fran to display the treasures she's collected in her travels around the world. She also strove to create a space that would be safe and comfortable for Fran, who uses a wheelchair to get around. Check out the lovely results below, as well as our interview with Emily, who was kind enough to answer our questions and tell us a little more about the project.
EH: 100% Fran. She's just a super hip lady with a really great eye, and she knows what she likes. She had so many beautiful pieces of furniture and art that I wanted to incorporate. She also has a strong affinity for color. She loves aquas and salmon pink, so I concentrated on using her favorite colors and incorporating her amazing style into her home.
Thanks, Emily! You can see more of Emily's tips for designing for seniors on Sunrise Senior Living's website here. To see more of Emily's work, check out her blog.


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Let us take a walk on memory lane to get to the bottom of this subject: the first reference appeared on the 17th Century, on the book of São Nicolau de Oliveira. "O Livro das Grandezas de Lisboa" (The Book of Lisbon Grandeurs): it surely resumes the content, where the saint describes his city with details.
The seven giants — São Jorge, São Vicente, São Roque, Santo André, Santa Catarina, Chagas e Sant'Ana — all of them where visible when arriving in Lisbon by river.
But São Nicolau de Oliveira forgot one hill: Graça, the highest of the city, only shadowed by São Jorge's Castle.The truth is that this oblivion was very convenient at the time: in fact, it's always better to share similarities with the legend of Rome than having one too many hills...
São Jorge
If we follow the legend – and keep Graça out of this counting — São Jorge the highest hill in town. Way up high, we can see the Castle, where the village that originated Lisbon was founded.
It was an important fortress that resisted years of wars. In 1147, the troops of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, invested against its walls for three months so they could conquer Lisbon to the Moors.
The name of the castle was dedicated to saint patron of the knights, in a manner of thanking the protection during the crusade. Nowadays, the area of the hill occupies the neighbourhood of Mouraria, the Castle and a small part of Alfama.


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It's not my family/ In your head, in your head, they are fighting/ With their tanks, and their bombs/ And their bombs, and their guns/ In your head, in your head they are crying."
— From "Zombie," by the Cranberries
Marie Colvin, the acclaimed international war correspondent for The Sunday Times in London, lived a frenetic life, squeezed into a narrow space between sanity and madness.
That was made clear in the 2018 biographical account of her life, "A Private War," in which the Yale-educated native of Long Island's North Shore hurried from one war zone to the next, reporting on the worst of humanity, again and again. This hard-bitten reporter, who was raised by two schoolteachers in East Norwich, in the Town of Oyster Bay, seemed at once out of place amid the chaos of war and utterly in her element.
Rosamund Pike, who was magnificent in "Hostiles," plays Colvin to near-perfection. Even Cathleen "Cat" Colvin, Marie's sister, has said so.
"A Private War" will be shown at Stony Brook University's Staller Center for the Arts, in partnership with the SBU School of Journalism and the Press Club of Long Island, on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. The film's director, Matthew Heineman, will be on hand to answer questions. For ticket information, go to bit.ly/2RR9NY9.
The film speaks to the strained dichotomy that was Marie Colvin's life. She had a fierce public persona. She was tough, driven, relentless and seemingly fearless, even when bullets and mortars rained down on her. At times she appeared, at least in the film, so focused on finding the heart of the story, on reaching the center of it and wrapping her head around it, that she became borderline reckless.
When others around her — colleagues, friends, military officers — told her, even ordered her, to stand down for her safety and that of her photographer, she would not relent. She pushed ever forward into those nightmarish places where most journalists will not venture — where humanity's most evil acts of violence are perpetrated.
Privately, though, Colvin was torn apart psychically by the images of death and destruction she had seen. She was haunted by nightmares. She was a chain-smoker. Alcohol was her escape.
Colvin covered many of the world's hot spots — West Beirut, East Timor, Iraq, Libya, Syria. She died in 2012, at age 56, amid the rubble of Homs, Syria, in a rocket attack launched by the Syrian army, which President Bashar al-Assad controls. He is a merciless tyrant who has bombed the hell out of his own people, including with chemical agents, in a civil war that has left the country a shell of its former self.
According to NPR, Syrian Maj. Gen. Rafik Shahadah directed his intelligence apparatus to find the grimy, makeshift media center from which Colvin and a handful of other journalists were reporting in the middle of Homs, and ordered its bombing. A witness later reported that Shahadah had said, "Marie Colvin was a dog and now she's dead. Let the Americans help her now."
Last month, the Colvin family won a $302 million lawsuit in a U.S. court against the Syrian government. It was a largely symbolic victory. Don't expect Syria to pay up.
Like most reporters, Colvin was motivated, in part, by the need to stay ahead of the competition — for "scoops" — and, yes, she craved the adrenaline rush of war reporting. More so, however, she wanted to tell the stories of the innocents caught up in war — the individual citizens who are so often referred to by government officials as "collateral damage." For Colvin, they were not statistics. They were people, with ambitions and dreams. They mattered. "A Private War" shows the extent to which she cared. She wanted to give a "voice to the voiceless."
That desire, that need, to tell the victims' stories came at great personal expense. In 2001, at age 44, Colvin lost her left eye in Sri Lanka, when the Sri Lankan army fired a rocket-propelled grenade at her, even after she had raised her hands in surrender and identified herself as a journalist. She was covering the army's attempt to squelch an 18-year rebel insurgency. The Sri Lankan government claimed that Colvin didn't have the required permit to report from territories held by the Tamil Tiger rebels. More than 63,000 people had died in the fight between the government and the Tamil minority.
According to the film, Colvin wanted to have children, but never did. She married and divorced the same man twice. Her second husband, a fellow war correspondent, took his own life in 2002. "Maybe I would have liked a more normal life," she said. "Maybe I just don't know how."
Colvin was inducted into the Press Club of Long Island's Hall of Fame in 2016. I can think of no one more deserving of the honor.
Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers' executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? email@example.com.


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Here's one from the GAR with their symbol on it.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Women's Relief Corps Quilt
Here's one from the GAR with their symbol on it.
14 comments:
- Leslie said...
It's nice another orphan has a loving home. I love a story with a happy ending.
- April 25, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- WoolenSails said...
What a wonderful treasure from that era, and wonderful that she gave it to you first. I can imagine the things people throw away without realizing what they have.
- April 25, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- Cynthia@wabisabiquilts said...
This quilt has made its way to an ideal home. Thanks for sharing such an interesting quilt!
- April 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM
- Becky in VA said...
What a treasure!
- April 25, 2012 at 9:24 AM
- regan said...
Thanks goodness she asked you, and not some twit who would have her toss it! Yay!
- April 25, 2012 at 10:09 AM
- Beth D said...
The AuSable is a river that runs through the middle of Michigan from Grayling through to Oscoda where it empties into Lake Huron. Muskegon is on the west side of the state on Lake Michigan.
- April 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM
- ewmasters said...
Thanks for sharing your sleuthing, fascinating to read.
- April 25, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Me and My Stitches said...
I am sitting her laughing out loud at this story! Tattered or not, there's no way I could have thrown it out. Glad it has a wonderful new home!
- April 25, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Mandy Currie said...
What a beautiful quilt, I agree, I couldn't have thrown out such a thing of beauty, perhaps you can do a little restoration job on it. What a wonderful gift. Regards Mandy Currie (email@example.com)
- April 25, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Hi Barbara, I was delighted to see your "new" quilt top, and it rang a bell, as I live about 30 miles north of AuSable, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. My friend, Marcia, who is a Civil War historian, wrote this about the town:
"There was a small town on the south side of the river at Oscoda, MI, called AuSable. There was a big fire and it was destroyed. Eventually Oscoda rebuilt and spread to the south side of the river for all of it to be called Oscoda. My grandfather lived in AuSable before the fire. I have post cards stamped and addressed with AuSable. After the fire he relocated to Alpena.
The John Earl post has turned up several times in my Civil War research. The ribbons are from "State Encampments" comparable to conferences. "
Marcia said she would be happy to help with your research if she can. Let me know, and I will give you her email address.
- April 26, 2012 at 11:37 AM
- Sally said...
how cool is that! A real win-win. I'm envyous!
- April 26, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- Gena Philibert-Ortega said...
The Women's Relief Corps was just one of the auxiliaries to the GAR. There's quit a bit of information you can find in places like Google Books regarding convention proceedings. I love this quilt. Thanks for sharing it. Gena
- April 26, 2012 at 5:20 PM
- Zuzan said...
Hi Barbara,
From rags to riches in people's lives. Well, it would have been riches first I suppose then...left to be found.....for its centenary...just love it.
Does today's silk have the same properties? How should I prepare silk for today's quilting? or refer me to a site...Thank you.
- April 28, 2012 at 6:30 AM
Barbara - i am so glad you adopted the quilt. Thanks for saving a piece of history. The National Woman's Relief Corps formed in 1883 remains in existence today. See www.suvcw.org/wrc
We maintain a museum in Springfield ILL in Memory of the Grand Army of the Republic GAR, as well, filled with artifacts of Civil War veterans and the WRC.
Cindy NSVP WRC
- November 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM


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Markets: where are we now?
Markets: where are we now?
Marcus Brookes, Head of Multi-manager
Marcus Brookes holds a strongly positive view on the US economy thanks to the Federal Reserve's willingness to remove its quantitative easing measures, a falling unemployment rate and, most recently, signs of real wage growth.
He thinks the large recent falls in the oil price are a "fantastic tax break" for consumers in the US and Europe. Indeed, in Europe, the prospect of less austerity, a weaker euro and lower oil prices also make for a promising economic outlook.
On stockmarkets though, Brookes favours Europe and Japan over the US:
"As bullish as we are on the US economy, we think it is already in the price. It's not new news that the US has had a fantastic recovery and we think returns from the US market will be slightly stodgy from here.
People are still pretty bearish in their view on the European and Japanese markets and I think they need to upgrade them. You find relatively cheap valuations there, and this is where our multi-manager portfolios are overweight".
Meanwhile, he thinks the bond market is heading for a shakeup:
"Considering our bullishness on the economy, it means we are probably going into a different environment where interest rates of zero look less appropriate. For the US, if our bullishness is correct and the last piece of the recovery jigsaw was wages picking up, then our view is that rates will go up this year.
The bond market needs to be pricing a different environment, which it really isn't at the moment. It's still fretting about deflation rather than focusing on the economic resurgence."
Gareth Isaac, Fund manager, Fixed Income
Gareth Isaac broadly agrees with Marcus Brookes' view of the world economy, but – focusing on his own asset class - admitted "something strange is going on in bonds".
"Against a backdrop of an improving economic outlook driven by falling unemployment and rising wages, the recent bond market rally does not seem justified. Due to the oil price fall we're still going to have deflationary pressures in the short-term, but as a strategic investor focused on the medium-term I think that the lower energy prices will help drive consumption and economic growth higher. Our analysis indicates that yield curves have flattened too much and the markets are concentrating too much on where headline inflation is today rather than where it will be over the medium term."
Something strange is going on in bonds.
I think we are nearing the end of the current falling yield cycle. Bond yields are clearly mispriced if you think, like me, that the outlook for the economy is quite promising. Despite my immediate concerns over the level of bond yields, I don't foresee a structural bond bear market due to demand from pension funds, but I do think we will get a re-normalisation of bond yields as interest rates start to rise in 2015."
Andrew Rose, Fund manager, Japanese Equities
Looking at Japan, Andrew Rose thinks "Abenomics", the economic programme implemented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has not yet achieved its goals.
"Abenomics hasn't delivered growth and has not really been of broad benefit to Japan yet. Under Abe's watch both real GDP and real incomes have been flat lines. The re-firing of the first two arrows of the programme (aggressive monetary policy and more flexible fiscal policy) is an implicit recognition that more needs to be done. This begs the question: will it be more successful this time around? This remains to be seen, but lower oil prices and a tight labour market increase the chances of success."
On the equities front, Rose is positive.
"The macro backdrop is supportive, but there is a positive bottom-up story too when you consider valuations, profits and incentives to improve corporate governance."
Many observers remain focused on the yen's trajectory, as it depreciated sharply in 2014. Rose thinks its outlook is hard to predict, but is cautiously positive that the bulk of its depreciation is over.
"The key driver for the yen will be how the Bank of Japan responds to the impact of lower oil prices on core inflation. Ultimately a lower oil price has a stimulatory economic impact, but it also makes meeting short-term inflation targets impossible."
James Sym, Fund manager, Business Cycle - UK & European Equities.
James Sym thinks there is a considerable opportunity in European equities.
"Europe is very cheap compared to other asset classes, especially considering the recovery that could occur in companies' profits. I think 2015 will be the first year in five that profits in Europe will grow faster than in the US. This is not only because the euro has weakened by about 15%, but also because of the fall in the oil price which, broadly speaking, I think will boost consumption by around €750-€1000 per household. Both of these factors should provide a big boost to the economy and to corporate profits.
Combine them with depressed earnings and reasonable valuation levels, and I think there could be some attractive returns from the region.
Of course, I have to be very selective as some companies look very expensive, but there is a very deep opportunity set available."
He also points out there could be a significant asset allocation shift to provide further support.
"Most global investors are underweight Europe and overweight the US. If 2015 is the first time in five years that European profit growth outstrips the US, then there is a huge amount of money that is going to need to move from one asset class to another."
Matt Hudson, Head of Business Cycle
Looking at the UK equity market, Matt Hudson explained where he is seeing the best prospects at this point in the cycle.
"This business cycle was always likely to be extended, particularly given the unconventional stance of monetary policy, and the recent falls in the oil price will help to extend it further. We are in the later expansionary stage of the cycle and I am positioning portfolios more defensively.
However, there is an opportunity to make decent potential returns in UK assets that have either been deemed not high enough quality or too cyclical. The market seems to have given up on anything that isn't a bond proxy or long duration and that is where the opportunities lie. We are favouring consumer and services companies over manufacturers and industrials."
Nick Kirrage, Fund Manager, Co-head Schroder Global Value Team
Nick Kirrage also focused on the UK market, and prefers to concentrate on the long-term prospects of individual companies, rather than the effect of shorter-term macroeconomic events.
"2009 presented a generationally attractive opportunity to buy shares on low valuations. Six years later and with the UK market up nearly 100%, investors face a very different set of investment choices.
Despite the market's rise, pockets of value remain and today's opportunities need to be seen in the context of long-term valuations, not near-term price moves. Areas like banks and supermarkets present compelling value for long-term investors and we are in a small minority buying in these areas."
Ultimately, value investing is about exploiting human nature; identifying companies where emotions have divorced share prices from long-term reality. This is not the preserve of either bull or bear markets but a constant feature of the stockmarket over many decades. In the near-term, we remain cautious, as ever, given the significant run-up in equity markets over recent years. However, over the long-term, we remain convinced that humans won't change; they will continue to be the constant factor in markets, providing the emotional aspects of fear and greed that gets into stock prices and allows a value investment strategy to outperform, as it has over the past 100 years."
Peter Harrison, Head of Investment
Summing up, Peter Harrison discussed the increased level of volatility he expects to see throughout 2015.
"There has been a bull market in complacency, and volatility has been very low as the world became very comfortable. Yet, in the past few weeks, we've seen the third largest move in the oil price since 1900 and with the Swiss franc we saw the largest one-day move in a major currency pair ever."
Tensions in the world are very real and it seems inevitable that this year volatility will be higher than it has been in the recent past. I think that's a good thing – we need to get risk back into markets."
We are seeing more growth everywhere; the oil price fall is a huge stimulus that has changed a lot of things and made Europe considerably more attractive relative to other asset classes. There are still signs of value in equity markets."
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I'll admit that I haven't watched any hockey since the Penguins were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs 16 days ago. After the strong finishes to each of the last two seasons it was just too painful to watch other teams continue to play for the Cup. After a bit of time off I was hoping that the Canadiens and Sharks would win the conference finals. No dice there either. Now I just hope that Jonathan Toews and the Chicago Blackhawks can keep the Puppy Drowners Flyers Cupless since 1975 as I look on to next season.
The NHL made a lot of announcements today regarding next season's schedule, the first being that the full schedule will be released on June 22. Highlights for this Penguins fan: The Winter Classic will be in Pittsburgh at Heinz field on New Year's Day, and the hated Flyers will be in town to open up the new Consol Energy Center on October 7.
I hope everyone has a fun Memorial Day weekend. Please take a minute on Monday to think about the people who are currently putting themselves in harm's way for our country.
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January 23, 2013 Library Adds Congressional Record, CBO Cost Estimates to Congress.gov Beta Website
New for the 113th Congress
Contact: Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456
Website: http://beta.congress.gov External
The Library of Congress today is adding the Congressional Record, published by the Government Printing Office (GPO), and cost-estimate reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to its Congress.gov beta website, a public site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information.
The additions will supplement bills, bill summaries, Member profiles and legislative history information already available on the site. Launched in September 2012, Congress.gov features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation. Congress.gov eventually will replace the public THOMAS system and the congressional Legislative Information System (LIS).
"It's exciting to see these crucial elements added to Congress.gov to coincide with the start of a new congressional session," said Jim Karamanis, the Library's head of web services. "By integrating these new features, people can target their searches to find a bill, corresponding floor statements and cost estimates—all from a single search results page. We have had positive feedback from congressional staff, teachers, researchers and other users on this new information tool and we hope these additions make for an even better, more comprehensive user experience."
Congressional Record
The Congressional Record from the 112th Congress will be available, as well as records from the beginning of the 113th Congress and going forward. Congressional Records from previous Congresses going back to 1994 will be added during future updates. The Congressional Record is the official record of House and Senate floor proceedings and includes debates and statements made on the floor of each chamber as well as records of various parliamentary actions and roll-call votes. Like other data on Congress.gov, the metadata and contents of the Congressional Record are searchable through the single search box that enables targeted searching. Among the features:
- A Congressional Record landing page that will default to the most recent available issue of the Record.
- A persistent navigation header that will display details about the currently displayed issue, including a link to a PDF for the full issue.
- Ability to navigate the Record via a date selector or via year/volume and page.
- A web page displaying one issue of the Record, including tabs for each of the sections available for that issue: Daily Digest, House, Senate, Extensions of Remarks.
- A tabbed view of each section of an issue of the Record, listing all articles within that section.
- Detailed viewing of an article, including a link to the PDF for the page(s) containing the article.
- Page view – listing all articles that begin on a particular page.
- Page range view – listing all articles that begin on a specific range of pages
Congressional Budget Office Reports
All bills from 2001 through the present that have a CBO Cost Estimate will now include a "CBO Cost Estimate" link to the right of the Overview section on the legislative detail page. This will open a pop-up that displays a list of associated CBO Cost Estimates, with a link to the CBO page displaying that report.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world, holds more than 155 million items in various languages, disciplines and formats. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs, publications and exhibitions. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov.


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They have corrected over 133,000 entries!
According to their blog, there were definite issues with the Canada West and Canada East.
"In Canada West, the records for the cities of Hamilton, Kingston, London, Ottawa and Toronto were previously reported missing but the records did exist. The five cities, although enumerated separately in 1861, were tucked away amongst their neighbouring rural districts. For example, the city of Ottawa was listed under the district of Carleton and the city of Kingston was listed under Frontenac. The five cities are now correctly identified as districts and their respective wards are identified as sub-districts.
Additionally in Canada West, the rural districts of Renfrew and Russell were also reported as missing. The records for those two districts and their sub-districts can now be searched. In the rural district of Kent, the sub-districts of Camden and Gore, the town of Chatham, and the district of Chatham have been correctly identified. The images in the districts of Brant and Dundas are now correctly linked.
In Canada East, several image linking errors were corrected, particularly in the districts of Argenteuil, Montcalm and St-Jean".
It is good to see that the LAC is listening to our comments, complaints and they are correcting their databases.
To go to the 1861 census, you can go to


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Yann M'Vila Uncertain | Walcott Fit | Pat Rice Departs.
With twitter it's impossible to know whether to believe something or to disbelieve it. Afterall it's where breaking news happens first these days. From "deal agreed and waiting to be announced" on the M'Vila front to "no deal in place yet, no contact, just interest".
It's going to be a long summer as it always is for we gooners, but wait, le boss wants to conclude all (or most) of his business before the start of the European Championships so it won't be.
Where are my manners, top of the morning to you wherever you are. A lot of has been happening this week regarding the club, both rumors and actual events. The M'Vila deal would still happen, knowing how Wenger operates, he wants it quiet till it's concluded and then announced officially. Fingers crossed. He's the player we need.
Oh please spare me the "we have Coquelin and Frimpong and Song" cliche. The former two are at best upcoming players despite the obvious talent they have. Playing with world class players only helps you get better, it doesn't stunt your growth. If he comes, it would be exciting to see who he replaces in the starting XI.
The Arsenal legend departs the club after 44 years of service as a player and as a coach. His career is one laden with success and a loyal servant to the club he is. He's very much loved within the club and would be missed but I'm sure Steve Bould (the man replacing him) will perform just as good.
Word is Mr Bould is a no nonsense man who is outspoken and respected by all players and even Wenger. Finally we can have someone to shout at Gervinho & Ramsey from the sidelines. \(^_^)/.
Speedstar Theo is set to recover and play in the curtain closer of the season, should he pass a late fitness test. If he's fit I say start him. We need all the ammunition from the start. Hopeful the Ox gets to start too. The game against Brom is a must win. No f*cking excuses, no relying on results of the other teams/games. 3 points and 3rd place. Thank you.
"We Did Doubt" – Kozzer
In an interview with France Football, defender Laurent Koscielny is quoted to admitting a feeling we had back then, that the players doubted their abilities and le boss' following the horrendous start to the season, summed up by that defeat I much 8-2 mention.
"The group was not giving enough for the club and we realised that." said Kozzer. "We got down to work and we said the things we needed to say. After that, one win, two wins, confidence returns and things follow on from that. The new players were immersed in the group and so on". Get us one more win Kozzer, so we know it's real!
I have Options – Vela
The Mexican forward has had quite a good season with Real Sociedad, hitting a dozen goals in for the Basque club in 31 la Liga matches. A form that prompted the 'prince of the lobbed goals' to declare his preference of making the move permanent a while ago.
Now however, making his stay there permanent may not happen after the player admitted Sociedad's budget will likely hinder them from doing just that.
But… "I have more options" said Vela, cushioning the minor setback to an immediate exit from the Arsenal. Going by his form though, him getting a decent club shouldn't be a problem.
RvP: One More Record to Break
With 30 league goals so far, captain vantastic is at least two goals from setting a new league record of 32 league goals (or more) under the 38-game format. The standing record has Alan Shearer and Cristiano Ronaldo tied at 31 goals.
It would be great to have RvP get the goals, to cap a phenomenal season. But I can sense many gooners would rather the goals came from anyone, as long as we get the win at the Hawthorns.
And we'll be here tomorrow to give a prematch report on the game. Till then have a great day wherever you are.
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Posted on May 10, 2012, in News and tagged Arsenal, Pat Rice, Walcott, West Brom, Yann M'vila. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Arsene wenger no gambling dis time becos we need all three-point gunners 4life.
Spot on bro!One Love


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Police: Man tries to mug Worcester County District Attorney
Joe Early, off-duty officer fight off attacker
A robbery suspect is under arrest, accused of trying to rob the Worcester County District Attorney.
Jason Beaudreau, 27, faces assault and battery charges after he allegedly tried to steal Joe Early's wallet as the DA was picking up dinner for his family on Sunday.
Early said he was in line to pay at Ciao Bella Restaurant Sunday night when the suspect moved in.
"Immediately this hand came over and tried to grab(my wallet). I grabbed his hand, he pushed me, I pushed, put my shoulder down put him up against the wall," Early said.
The two men struggled, but Early and an off-duty court officer managed to pin the man down until police arrived.
Early said he was wearing a State Police jacket when the incident occurred.
Beaudreau is being held on $2,000 bail. He will be back in court Jan. 8.


text: Nick Cannon faces the unenviable responsibility every holiday season of having to find a Christmas gift for the woman with everything: Mariah Carey. It's a small price to pay for getting to call one of the music industry's most successful and desirable women his wife, but a stressful task nonetheless. Add to that the fact that Carey is a Christmas fanatic and is often associated with the holiday thanks to her hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and, well, Cannon — host of NBC's "America's Got Talent" and MTV2's "Wild 'N Out" — has his work cut out for him every year. "My wife is the empress of Christmas," Cannon said Saturday at Macy's on State Street, where he took part in the lighting of the department store's Great Tree with "American Idol" alum Lauren Alaina, and promoted his tie collection. "She is Mrs. Christmas. She puts the M.C. in Merry Christmas." Here, Cannon breaks down the gift-buying process for the mother of his 2-year-old twins, from beginning to end: Start early: "I try to start out as far in advance as possible, and it still ends up being last minute. Something custom-made isn't the way it's supposed be, and I have to send it back or the font was wrong on the engraving. I have to start thinking about it at least six months beforehand, especially because we always do this thing where we try to top each other." Play to win: "It's gotten to the point where it's just absurd. I'm running out of stuff to get her. I tried to buy a dolphin one year because we had a house in the Bahamas. Even if we had to keep it at an aquarium, how cool would that be? We just didn't have a place to keep it, and then you have to have all these (documents) and go through a license process. I didn't have time for all that. I can't believe it when I think about it. It sounds ridiculous. That's what happens when you try to top each other. 'Bet you she would never guess I got her a dolphin. How's she going to top that?' " Do your homework: "I listen to what she says, like, 'Oh, I'd love to have this.' The last good gift I got her was a chandelier. As grandiose and decadent as a chandelier sounds, it was the fact she didn't ask for it. She would say, 'I really want a chandelier,' and this showed I was paying attention. I also ask around and talk to a few people who know her taste, just in case I need someone to blame: 'Well, they said you would like this.' " Put thought into it: "She doesn't need a gift from anyone. She can pretty much go buy whatever she wants. The more thoughtful it is, the better the reaction. I'll put together a video of the year or a Christmas video and edit stuff together with music in the background. I had one of her favorite artists paint a picture of her. That type of stuff goes over pretty well." Avoid jewelry: "I don't buy my wife jewelry anymore because she's Mariah Carey, and it's kind of like she has all the jewelry in the world. Early on, I tried. I did pretty well with the wedding ring, but other than that I stay away from it. For one, it can break your pockets. You try to spend all this money on one piece of jewelry she never wears, like, 'Where in the world are those earrings I pretty much mortgaged (the house on)?' " Hope for the best: "You want that reaction. Everybody is going to be like, 'Wow, thanks.' But you can always tell 15 minutes after they open it if they like it or not when your gift is buried somewhere."