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Web 2.0 has had a profound impact on the way most of us live our lives. It has enabled us to communicate, create and consume on a scale that was unimaginable just a few years ago. Perhaps most profoundly, it has arguably established a level playing field upon which anybody with an internet connection and rudimentary IT skills can express their opinion and make an impact in the world. Twitter, Facebook, blogs – all of these are said to be the new drivers of democratisation, giving a voice to the once voiceless.
Nowhere has this disruptive shift been more documented than in the social movements that sprung up in 2011 and which have continued into 2012. Even before the dust had begun to settle on the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, commentators from all sides were quick to celebrate the internet and its new communication platforms as central – in fact necessary – to their proliferation. As the Spanish social theorist Manuel Castells wrote in his latest book, Networks of Outrage and Hope:
… The digital social networks based on the internet and on wireless platforms are decisive tools for mobilising, for organising, for deliberating, for coordinating and for deciding. Yet the role of the internet goes beyond instrumentality: it creates the conditions for a form of shared practice that allows a leaderless movement to survive, deliberate, coordinate and expand. It protects the movement against the repression of their liberated physical spaces by maintaining communication among the people within the movement and with society at large in the long march of social change that is required to overcome institutionalised domination.
So far so good. Yet as attractive as this argument is, and as a compelling and readable as Castells's new work is, it is also true that the internet, particularly Web 2.0 platforms, are as much a force for division as they are for collaboration and unity.
We shouldn't forget that an enhanced ability to communicate works both ways. Yes, it can help people to form new connections with likeminded individuals and to express their opinions to a wider audience. But as these individuals form closer bonds with one another, they may also lose their connections to others – this is the ultimate in vs. out critique of social bonding capital.
According to the 'networked individualism' theory of Canadian sociologist Barry Wellman, a new social phenomenon has emerged whereby people increasingly seek out communities that can affirm their chosen identities, rather than allow their native communities to naturally mould their identity. No doubt the internet and Web 2.0 tools are playing a central role in driving this further forward. Castells himself intimates as much within his new book:
The key success of an SNS (social networking site) is not anonymity, but on the contrary, self-presentation of a real person connecting to real persons. People build networks to be with others, and to be with others they want to be with, on the basis of criteria that include those people who they already know or those they would like to know.
What this suggests is that the emergence of Web 2.0 platforms may be part of the reason for the polarisation gripping modern day politics. If I self-define as a liberal, websites like Twitter and Facebook have made it easy for me to connect with liberal crowds and solidify and further ingrain my identity. Likewise, if I see myself as a conservative, I can similarly be absorbed by corresponding online communities on the right of the political spectrum.
There is also another cause of division to contend with here. As well as enabling people to connect more easily with partisan communities, Web 2.0 also creates a space for people to create and store opinionated content themselves. This sounds harmless in itself, but what happens if hearing the echo of our own output – tweets, blogs, or Facebook comments – spurs us on to write more partisan content?
In his latest book The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt describes an interesting experiment undertaken by Drew Westen that looked at what drives partisan behaviour. During the 2004 presidential election, Westen asked a group of partisan democrats and republicans to watch a series of slides that showed their chosen candidate, Bush or Kerry, making hypocritical judgements. Using fMRI brain scanners, they found that participants experienced negative emotions when shown information about their candidate's hypocrisy (e.g. Bush praising then denigrating Enron's CEO) and felt positive emotions (i.e. a measure of dopamine) when they were 'released' from this negative information. In effect, they gained pleasure from surviving their political challenge.
Haidt goes on to say that since partisans engage in this type of attack-and-defence activity on a regular basis, they become literally 'addicted' to extreme prejudice. To return to the rise of Web 2.0, if these new online communication tools make it easier for people to share and hear the political opinions of others, it may also mean they speed up and amplify the cycle of negative-positive emotions and in turn get people 'hooked' on spouting off. More importantly, by allowing anybody, not just the partisan, an easy way of throwing their two pennies worth into the mix, it arguably provides a stepping stone for once placid people to enter the arena of extreme partisanship.


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Nemesio Ortiz, vice president of Medicare sales at Healthfirst, said the celebration was a way to spread the knowledge of their services to the community.
"This lets the community know that Healthfirst is working in partnership with Elmhurst Hospital to render services in Queens," Ortiz said. "Currently, we have 200,000 Hispanics that reside in Queens that are members with Healthfirst, so this is our way of celebrating with them."
The Hispanic Federation, Elmhurst Jackson Heights Senior Center, Ecuadorian International Center, FDNY, Costco, Department of Labor and Girl Scouts were just a few of the organizations on hand.
Healthfirst's 2012 Nassau Youth Singing award winner, 11-year-old Krisia Romano, performed several songs with her brother Khristian at the festival's main stage.
"Since we were little, we always liked to hear music," Romano said. "I just want to make the audience get happy."
Romano and her brother have been performing together for the last three years, and together they performed some of their favorites, including; "Tù Solo Tù," "La De La Mochila" and "Aźul."
Tanya Whittmore, community affairs site developer with Healthfirst, was presented with a citation for the program from the office of Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras.
"It goes to show that we have a great partnership with the councilwoman's office and it also shows that we are doing things to give back in the community," Whittmore said. "We not only want to make sure people have health insurance, but we also want to make sure that they're healthy."

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Originally the concept of Gaspar Baez in 1570, though only granted official licence five years later, the convent was funded by the Viceroy Toledo and the wealthy María de Guzmán, who later entered the convent with one of her sisters and donated all her riches to the community. The most striking feature is its predominantly Mudéjar style, adapted by the Spanish from the Moors, but which rarely found its way into their colonial buildings. The quality of the design is emphasized and harmonized by a superb interplay between the white stone and brilliant colours in the ceilings, the strong sunlight and deep-blue sky above the maze of narrow interior streets.
Once you enter, you file left along the first corridor to a high vaulted room with a ceiling of opaque huamanga stone imported from the Ayacucho Valley. Beside here are los locutorios – little cells where on holy days the nuns could talk, unseen, to visitors.
The Novices Cloister, beyond the locutorios, is built in solid sillar-block columns, with antique wall paintings depicting the various qualities to which the devotees were expected to aspire and the Litanies of the Rosary. Off to the right, the Orange Tree Cloister (Claustro Naranjal), painted a beautiful blue with birds and flowers over the vaulted arches, is surrounded by a series of paintings showing the soul evolving from a state of sin to the achievement of God's grace. In one of the side rooms, dead nuns were mourned, before being interred within the monastic confines.
Calle Cordoba runs from the Orange Tree Cloister past a new convent, where the nuns now live. The road continues as Calle Toledo, a long, very narrow street that's the oldest part of the monastery and connects the main dwelling areas with la lavandería, or communal washing sector, is brought to life with permanently flowering geraniums. There are several rooms off here worth exploring, including small chapels, prayer rooms and a kitchen. The lavandería itself, perhaps more than any other area, offers a captivating insight into what life must have been like for the closeted nuns; open to the skies and city sounds yet bounded by high walls. Twenty halved earthenware jars stand alongside a water channel, and it also has a swimming pool with sunken steps and a papaya tree in the lovely garden.
Broad Calle Granada brings you from la lavandería to the Plaza Socodobe, a fountain courtyard to the side of which is la bañera, where the nuns used to bathe. Around the corner, down the next little street, are Sor Ana's rooms. By the time of her death in 1686, 90-year-old Sor Ana was something of a phenomenon, leaving behind her a trail of prophecies and cures. Her own destiny in Santa Catalina, like that of many of her sisters, was to castigate herself in order to offer up her torments for the salvation of other souls – mostly wealthy Arequipan patrons who paid handsomely for the privilege. Sor Ana was beatified by Pope John Paul II in the 1990s.
The refectory, immediately before the main cloisters, is deceptively plain – its exceptional star-shaped stained-glass windows shedding dapples of sunlight through the empty space. Nearby, confessional windows look into the main chapel, but the best view of its majestic cupola is from the top of the staircase beside the cloisters. A small room underneath these stairs has an intricately painted wall niche with a Sacred Heart centrepiece. The ceiling is also curious, illustrated with three dice, a crown of thorns and some other, less recognizable items. Within the quite grand and lavishly decorated main chapel itself, but not part of the tour these days, are the lower choir room and the tomb of Sor Ana.
The main cloisters themselves are covered with murals on an intense ochre base with cornices and other architectural elements in white stone; the murals follow the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Although they were originally a communal dormitory, their superb acoustics now make them popular venues for classical concerts and weddings and the space can absorb up to 750 people standing or 350 seated around tables.
Before exiting the monastery, there's a rather dark religious art museum full of obscure seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings. The best of these are in the final outer chamber, lined mainly with works from the Cusqueña school. One eye-catching canvas, the first on the left as you enter this room, is of Mary Magdalene. Painted by an anonymous nineteenth-century Arequipan, it's remarkably modern in its treatment of Mary and the near-Cubist style of its rocky background.
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Nigel Campbell | August 26, 2013
Kelly Clarkson had no love for last night's stand out performances at the MTV Video Music Awards! What did she have to say??
Just saw a couple performances from the VMA's last night. 2 words.... #pitchystrippers
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March 1, 2014, PORTLAND, OREGON (ISN) – Uruguayan midfielder Sebastian Fernandez scored his first goal of the preseason as Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Portland Timbers played to a hard-fought 1-1 draw Saturday at Providence Park.
After the host Timbers opened the scoring in the third minute, Fernandez smashed home a late second-half penalty to salvage Whitecaps FC's undefeated record at the Rose City Invitational.
The 'Caps finish the tournament as the top team with a 2W-0L-1D record and enter next weekend's season opener undefeated in four preseason matches.
Vancouver's squad on Saturday looked similar to the one that defeated Portmore United 5-1 last weekend, though there were a few changes.
Right back Ethen Sampson and striker Kenny Miller came in to replace Steven Beitashour and Darren Mattocks, who are both away on international duty.
Midfielder Gershon Koffie also drew into the starting lineup, which moved Russell Teibert up to the right wing. And goalkeeper David Ousted made his first appearance of the tournament.
Saturday's contest got off to a physical start at Providence Park, which is often the norm in meetings between these Cascadia rivals. In fact, there were a total of 16 fouls committed in the first half alone.
Unfortunately for the Blue and White, however, an early foul led to Portland's first goal of the match – a Will Johnson free kick from 25 yards in the third minute.
The 'Caps nearly equalized a few minutes later when Fernandez let loose a curling strike from distance, but Timbers goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts tipped it just over the goal.
Aside from the early marker, there wasn't much between Vancouver and Portland in the opening 45 minutes. The host Timbers came on in spurts, but the 'Caps back line anchored by Jay DeMerit and Andy O'Brien kept them at bay.
For Whitecaps FC, Uruguayan midfielder Nicolas Mezquida looked particularly dangerous. The 22-year-old showed great vision on a throughball to Miller in the 18th minute and some nifty footwork in midfield a few minutes later.
The 'Caps couldn't connect in the final third, however, and it just about cost them .
Portland had a great chance to double their lead in the 35th minute, as Maximilano Urruti slipped behind the 'Caps defence only to float his ensuing effort over the crossbar.
They came close again just after the break, when Darlington Nagbe found some space in the middle of the park before letting loose a heavy strike from 20 yards that went just wide.
At the other end of the park, Whitecaps FC showed some attacking flair again in the second half. And they received a boost just after the hour-mark, when local lad Erik Hurtado and Argentine midfielder came Matias Laba into the match – followed shortly by winger/striker Kekuta Manneh.
And the trio combined to set up Vancouver's equalizer in the 79th minute.
After a receiving a pass from Laba in midfield, Hurtado took a touch and released Manneh into the box before the Gambian was hauled down by Timbers defender Jack Jewsbury. Then Fernandez smashed home the ensuing penalty kick to level the score at 1-1.
Manneh had a pair of half-chances in the dying stages of the match, but in the end the Cascadia rivals battled to a hard-fought 1-1 draw – just as they did in each of their three regular season meetings in 2013.
With the draw, Whitecaps FC conclude the preseason with 4W-2L-1D record. The 'Caps will return to Vancouver on Sunday in advance of their season opener next Saturday, March 8 against at BC Place. Season tickets start at just $349 and single-match tickets start at $22, subject to applicable fees. The 'Caps also offer a flexible range of ticket products, including half-season tickets ($244), 5-packs ($149), student season tickets ($199), and a youth soccer half-season ticket ($100). For more information on all Whitecaps FC ticket options, call 604.669.9283 ext. 2 or visit whitecapsfc.com/tickets .
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3′ – POR – Will Johnson
79′ – VAN – Sebastián Fernández
Match Stats
Shots: Portland 15 – Vancouver 12
Saves: Portland 5 – Vancouver 1
Fouls: Portland 15 – Vancouver 16
Offsides: Portland 1 – Vancouver 1
Corners: Portland 3 – Vancouver 2
30′ – VAN – Nigel Reo-Coker
57′ – POR – Pa Modou Kah
Portland Timbers
1. Donavan Ricketts; 13.Jack Jewsbury, 23.Norberto Paparatto, 44.Pa Modou Kah, 5.Michael Harrington; 4.Will Johnson, 21.Diego Chara, 8.Diego Valeri (11.Kalif Alhassan 62′); 6.Darlington Nagbe, 37.Maximiliano Urruti (14.Ben Zemanski 77′), 10.Gaston Fernandez
Substitutes not used
33.Andrew Weber, 9.Frederic Piquionne, 12.Schillo Tschuma, 17.Michael Nanchoff, 19.Jorge Villafana, 21.Rauwshan McKenzie, 98.Futty Danso
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1.David Ousted; 27.Ethen Sampson^, 40.Andy O'Brien, 6.Jay DeMerit, 2.Jordan Harvey; 20.Nigel Reo-Coker, 28.Gershon Koffie (15.Matías Laba 56′); 31.Russell Teibert, 29.Nicolás Mezquida (19.Erik Hurtado 56′), 7.Sebastián Fernández; 9.Kenny Miller (23.Kekuta Manneh 66′)
Substitutes not used
44.Marco Carducci+, 3.Sam Adekugbe, 8.Matt Watson, 16.Johnny Leveron, 22.Christian Dean, 24.Carlyle Mitchell, 36.Bryce Alderson
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Being the first Honeycomb tablet adds a lot of pressure to perform well. When you're an overweight, bulky powerhouse from the same company that brought Android into the spotlight with the Droid, the expectation to be great is a little intensified. The Xoom was essentially released as an unfinished product, put into the hands of consumers with the expectation of future upgrades like a functioning SD slot and LTE support. To many, this made the Xoom seem like a sinking ship as competing tablets began to surface.
We've long since passed the 90-day mark Verizon and Motorola set for the resolution of these issues. And now it seems there might be a less-than-great reason for the delay. Coupled with rumors of mediocre sales and the announcement of the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on Verizon sporting LTE, a video from Verizon has cropped up with whispers of a sequel to the Xoom, dubbed the Xoom 4G, that is on its way.
If you haven't stopped reading to go start a Vancouver-style rampage on your town, here's what we know. This device is more than likely (as in, all but definitely) the tablet we saw in those leaked images of the Motorola website awhile back. Motorola had dubbed the tablet the Xoom 2 on the website leaks, but apparently the device will be called the Xoom 4G on Verizon wireless. It's possible, given Sprint's recent rekindling with Motorola, that the Xoom 2 name will pop up again on their network. But that's just speculation. The Xoom 4G is the next in Motorola's line of tablets, and as the name suggests, it's coming with LTE ready to roll.
From the video, we can spot a few interesting things. For starters, the camera placement, Verizon Logo placement and the way in which the woman in the commercial holds the device leads us to believe the tablet has been built to be much more portrait friendly. Maybe even portrait preferred. The Xoom 4G doesn't seem to be terribly thinner than the Xoom around the bezel, but it seems to be flat all the way across instead of bulged in the middle. Add the softer corners, and it seems the device will be lighter and easier to hold for extended periods of time. The front of the device appears to be completely computer-generated, which tells me that the apparent lack of a front facing camera is simply due to an incomplete render. But it's anyone's guess at this point.
So, has Verizon given up on the Xoom? Will the Xoom 4G come out before the Xoom gets the upgrades it deserves? Will there be a trade-in program where you can trade in your not-quite-done tablet for what Motorola should have released the first go 'round? Hopefully these questions and more will be answered in the coming weeks!


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Next Ford F-150 Likely to Save Weight With Aluminum Construction
- Next Ford F-150 expected to use aluminum construction
- Aluminum will save weight and improve gas mileage
- We'll know more next year, as the 2015 F-150 draws closer
Ford will likely shave weight from its next F-150 pickup by using aluminum construction. The material, which is already used in some cars and SUVs, could trim several hundred pounds from the F-150, improve the truck's gas mileage and offer a more carlike ride.
While Ford has not yet confirmed that it will use aluminum in the next F-150, the step is a logical -- if radical -- choice for the automaker. That's because there's an ever-increasing focus on gas mileage these days, even in the world of full-size pickups. And while Ford's EcoBoost V6 has certainly improved the F-150's fuel economy, aluminum would go even further to eke out extra miles per gallon.
And exactly how would aluminum benefit gas mileage? Simple: It saves weight. Land Rover boosted its use of aluminum construction in the all-new Range Rover, for instance, and saved 700 pounds in the process. The result is a vehicle that gets substantially better gas mileage than its predecessor, despite being longer, wider and larger.
Another benefit of aluminum over steel is a more carlike ride. As vehicles drop pounds, they become more easily maneuverable. That's even true with a full-size truck such as the F-150, whose handling will likely improve with the use of aluminum.
The drawbacks? Admittedly, there are a few. An obvious one is crash repair. Aluminum isn't as easy to repair as steel, and it's more costly, too. The same goes for construction, as aluminum panels are more expensive to manufacture than traditional steel. That means an aluminum F-150 may be more expensive to buy -- and fix -- than a current model.
But we're not expecting Ford to put aluminum on every surface of the F-150. Instead, we think the material will be used in just a few body panels and the bed -- easy places to save weight where the typical driver will probably never notice.
We'll have more information as the 2015 Ford F-150 draws closer to production, which will likely be sometime next year.
What it means to you: If you're looking for the most efficient truck on the market, you might want to consider waiting to see what Ford has to say about its latest F-150.


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All NEMC soccer selections
1st Team
Nick Hulea, Tawas Area, Goalkeeper
Brad McCree, John Glenn, Midfield
Rob Kish, Ogemaw Heights, Midfield
Dylan Loga, Tawas Area, Midfield
Aran Freel, Tawas Area, Midfield
Kyler Rosin, John Glenn, Defender
Ben Wiltse, Ogemaw Heights, Defender
Ty Richards, John Glenn, Forward
Stefan Michalsky, John Glenn, Forward
Cody Jordan, Tawas Area, Forward
D.J. Decker, Tawas Area, Forward
2nd Team
Eric Reder, John Glenn, Goalkeeper
Sean McClintic, Ogemaw Heights, Goalkeeper
Dakota Suchyta, John Glenn, Midfield
William Stanley, Standish-Sterling, Midfield
Ian Morton, Tawas Area, Midfield
Ryan McIntosh, John Glenn, Defender
Lukas Earl, Whittemore-Prescott, Defender
Derek Keim, Tawas Area, Defender
Pedro Xavier, John Glenn, Forward
Shay Irving, Standish-Sterling, Forward
David LaPoint, Whittemore-Prescott, Forward
Derek Hughey, Ogemaw Heights, Forward
Honorable Mention
Cody Bechtel, Standish-Sterling
Michael Grusnick, Pinconning
Matthew Prohaska, Standish-Sterling
Jessica Dietzel, Whittemore-Prescott
Matthew Schmidt, Standish-Sterling
Kevin Laney, Ogemaw Heights
Tanner Trombley, Standish-Sterling
Matt Stonehouse, Tawas Area
Ryan Kaschner, Tawas Area
Sawyer Schwab, John Glenn
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