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Act Now, Save Later: new UN social media campaign launchedJul 2, 2012
Each dollar invested in disaster preparedness, saves seven dollars in recovery
New York— A new social media campaign launched by two United Nations bodies calls on member states to boost funding for disaster preparedness in order to significantly reduce the often devastating economic impact that floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters have particularly on developing nations.
The Act Now, Save Later campaign– a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) – sheds light the exorbitant cost of recovery assistance following natural disasters, and urges wealthy nations to spend now in order to save later.
The campaign aims to raise awareness of the stark economic and human costs of natural disasters. Not only have natural disasters killed more than a million people and affected over a quarter of the global population since 2000; they have also cost the world upwards of US$1 trillion.
"Investing in preparedness saves thousands of lives and billions of dollars later," said Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator.
The campaign's animated video - released today – draws attention to the fact that every single dollar of aid spent on preventing and mitigating disasters saves an average of seven dollars in humanitarian disaster response. The video – which features colorful imagery produced by New York-based company Ataboy – also calls on the global community to help raise awareness of disaster prevention needs by sharing the video via social media platforms, for example by using the hashtag #actnow on Twitter.
The video launch takes place one day before high level delegates from 55 countries meet in Sendai City, Japan at the World Ministerial Conference on Disaster Reduction on 3 and 4 July to determine a set of principles to prevent and mitigate the impact of disasters worldwide.
"We can't prevent disasters, but preparedness can help prevent the human tragedies they cause," said Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Currently, the international community spends only 1% of aid on disaster preparedness, despite it being an important investment against natural hazards. Not only does it provide the humanitarian community with valuable time when disasters strike, but it gives vulnerable people a buffer against repeated crises, which can push them further into poverty.
Join the campaign: www.actnowsavelater.org | use #actnow in your tweets.
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There has been plenty of political talk about the economy this week, but precious few words about one of the biggest drags on the economy: housing.
Despite recent signs that the housing market is improving, it is far from healthy.
Home prices are still down 31 percent from their 2006 peak according to the latest S&P/Case-Shiller home price report, and nearly 12 percent of all mortgages are either delinquent or in the foreclosure process, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. (Read More: How Investors Are Skewing Home Price Recovery.)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has said that government should stay out of the housing market and let it correct on its own. Wednesday night, his running mate, Paul Ryan said President Obama didn't do enough to "correct" the housing crisis, but offered no plan of his own. (Read More: CNBC Special Report: Your Money, Your Vote.)
You would think they would hit housing harder, given that many of the nation's swing states also have the dubious distinction of holding the highest foreclosure rates.
Take Florida. It had the third highest foreclosure rate in the nation in July, according to RealtyTrac, and that's up from the sixth highest just in June.
The numbers there are rising because of a huge backlog of delinquent loans stuck in a judicial foreclosure pipeline. Now that the courts are starting to move again, the foreclosures are coming home to roost.
In addition, 46 percent of Florida borrowers owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to CoreLogic. That's twice the national number.
Nevada, another key swing state which President Obama recently visited to push his refinance plan, has the sixth highest foreclosure rate. Sixty-three percent of borrowers there are underwater.
The government's Home Affordable Refinance Program, which lets underwater borrowers with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages obtain lower interest rates, refinanced 422,969 loans in the first half of this year, more than all of the HARP refinances last year, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
That is largely due to changes in the plan, one of which lifted the cap on how far underwater a borrower could be. More than two-thirds of borrowers in Nevada refinanced through HARP. \(Read More: 'Wind Down' of Fannie, Freddie: 'Positive for Housing'?\)
Michigan and Ohio also rank in the top ten highest foreclosure rates, and their underwater borrower rate is also well above the national average. Neither Governor Romney nor President Obama have targeted any housing policy action at either of these states of late.
While many have criticized the Obama administration's housing bailout, calling it too little and too complicated, the Romney camp has offered nothing other than to criticize the president's home buyer tax credit that ended in 2010.
Last year, when asked about his plan to fix housing, Romney said, "Don't try to stop the foreclosure process, let it run its course and hit the bottom." Later he suggested that the housing market was unlikely to "cure" itself.
One thing working in both sides' favor is that those hardest hit by the housing crash likely won't vote. You would think that homeowners in trouble would want to make their voices heard, but the opposite is the case. (Read More: Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama.)
Not only are Americans who lost their homes to foreclosure less likely to vote, but those in neighborhoods impacted by foreclosure are also less likely to vote than those in more stable communities, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside.
"Neighborhoods affect the political participation of their residents," the scholars wrote. "Other things being equal, individuals are more likely to vote when they live in places where neighbors vigorously participate in politics, while individuals are less likely to vote when their neighbors are less civically active. Given that foreclosure creates instability in communities, areas that experience higher levels of foreclosure have lower voter turnout."
There is also a large body of evidence that homeowners are more likely to vote than renters, and that is true in high and low income neighborhoods alike. Given that more Americans are now renting, we could see a big drop in overall voter turnout. (Read More: As Housing Recovers, Will Apartment Boom End?)
Perhaps that is why housing, one of the biggest issues affecting Americans today, is getting almost no voice in the political rhetoric.
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From its beginnings in 1819 as the home of a wealthy naval hero, Decatur Houseon Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, D.C.has served as an elegant setting for social gatherings. Presidents, ambassadors, senators, congressmen, and other influential people gathered to listen to the gentle sound of their hostess playing the harp, gossiped about those who were not present, or engaged in hushed conversations about the rise or fall of the fortunes of other guests. Ambitious guests often used social events at Decatur House as a means to affirm their own power and influence in Washington.
Stephen Decatur's mansion reflected the importance that the politically ambitious once placed on being in close proximity to a site of authorityin this case the president's house. For more than 130 years, Decatur House was the coveted residence of individuals seeking political or social influence. Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation operates Decatur House as a museum.
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Two key Senators in the effort to crack down on military sexual assault said on Thursday they would not support a bill that would strip commanders of their authority to say whether a case should be prosecuted.
Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., told reporters they believe a special panel that studied the issue and recommended by a 7-2 vote in late January to keep commander authority made the right choice.
"When they look at this and say [removing the commander's authority] is not going to increase reporting and it's not going to reduce the incidents of sexual assault [then] I'm still not sure what is the goal of doing" it," Ayotte said.
The announcement by the two lawmakers is a blow to legislation filed last year by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., that would remove the commander's role and leave the call to the prosecuting judge advocate. Proponents for pulling the commander out of the chain argued that they have a vested interest in suppressing incidents of sexual assault, or may simply be biased in favor of defendants.
McCaskill and Ayotte have proposed their own legislation, which includes removal of the so-called "good soldier defense," which has allowed defendants to use "good military character" as a consideration in their favor. It also requires special counsels to advise victims of the advantages and disadvantages of a case being prosecuted in the military or civilian justice systems and gives victims a say in the venue.
Finally, it also allows victims to challenge their discharge or separation from the military and gives the prosecutor more of a role in advising commanders on going to court martial with a sexual assault case.
Based on the findings of the panel, taking the commander out of the picture does not do anything to improve the situation for victims, Ayotte said.
McCaskill said she agreed Gillibrand's argument early in the debate because "it sounded right." She said that was also a point made by members of the Response Systems Panel, one of them former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-NY, who authored the federal Rape Shield Law, and Mai Fernandez, executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime.
A spokesman for Gillibrand slammed the panel's recommendation last week, telling U.S. News and World Report that there "is nothing surprising about a Pentagon sub-panel working mostly behind closed doors supporting stated Pentagon policy and encouraging more time to wait and see if the problem gets better."
McCaskill was dismissive of such criticisms. She pointed out that the majority of the 7-member panel were civilians and female, among them Holtzman, whom she described as "a liberal feminist icon," and former Federal District Judge Barbara Jones, who wrote the judicial opinion striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.
"Anyone who says this was a Pentagon panel, they are only saying that because they didn't decide what they wanted them to decide," McCaskill said. "I can assure you, if the decision had gone the other way they would be acknowledging that this was not a panel that was under the control of the military or the commanders, but that they were in fact dedicated professionals and experts who made a call her based on evidence."
Ayotte said the Pentagon has been involved in the issue lately only to the extent officials there responded to lawmakers request for information.
"My sense is that when specific members have inquires they want the pentagon to answer, they will, but beyond that I think this is really a policy debate based on what the evidence is," Ayotte said.


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WEST POINT - Schaads Reservoir has fallen on hard times in the past decade or so.
WEST POINT - Schaads Reservoir has fallen on hard times in the past decade or so.
An abandoned junker sits where the road dead ends at the east end of the lake, potholes and mud discourage many motorists from trying the entry road, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife no longer stocks the lake with trout.
Closed, too, are the famous campground and bar that Effie Schaad operated here starting in the late 1930s.
But parks advocates and a new property owner who bought part of the old Schaads Ranch in 2011 say they plan to restore at least some of the shine to Schaads soon.
"It seems to be an achievable goal," said Chris Wright, the Calaveras County supervisor who represents District 2, which includes the West Point area. "We can get this thing started this year."
What Wright and District 2 Parks Commissioner Pat McGreevy hope to do this year is to get the access road graded and graveled, install a vault toilet, and stock the lake with trout.
Part of the reason the prospects to restore Schaads are brighter now is that in 2011 retired custom home designer Floyd Cornett of Friday Harbor, Wash., purchased property that the entry road crosses.
"My wife and I are very much for this," Cornett said during a telephone interview from his home in Washington. "We have been working with the parks and recreation people on possibly developing some hiking trails in there."
According to former property owner Rick Schaad, fish stocking at the lake stopped more than a decade ago because of conflict over the road.
"I went 'round and 'round with Fish and (Wildlife) when I owned the property," Rick Schaad said. "They couldn't show me that there was a public access but they wanted me to maintain the road and keep it open."
The informality of such arrangements in the past has often been fatal to parks in Calaveras County.
A once-popular baseball field in nearby Rail Road Flat, for example, is now closed because it is on private property and parks advocates were unable to negotiate an understanding with the owner.
Calaveras has no countywide parks department, and most parks in the county are maintained by small districts or community clubs.
According to research done by McGreevy, it was the late Effie Schaad who negotiated an agreement with the Calaveras Public Utility District, which operates the dam that makes the reservoir. That agreement still allows public recreation at the lake.
Right now, the waters of Schaads Reservoir are used only to generate electricity.
But the utility district has in the past and may again distribute drinking water from the lake, said Donna Leatherman, the general manager of the utility district.
The utility itself has no desire, however, to operate a recreation site or maintain the road, Leatherman said. In the past few years, utility district workers have been emptying the trash cans on the lake shore even though it is not the utility's responsibility.
Leatherman mentioned that when she ran into McGreevy at a barbecue in October.
"I said it would be nice to have somebody else empty the trash cans," she said.
McGreevy agrees, and even already has a nonprofit organization, the Sandy Gulch Park and Recreation Council, that can be mobilized to do that. His vision, however, goes far beyond picking up trash.
McGreevy also wants to ultimately create a network of foot trails around the lake, including one using the gentle grade of a former ditch that could provide wheelchair access to fishing.
Wright wants to help McGreevy to negotiate with other land owners around the lake, such as Sierra Pacific Industries and the U.S. Forest Service, to make that possible.
Cornett, too, has a vision, including reopening the campground and moving his 40-foot yacht from Puget Sound to West Point to become a guest cabin on the property.
And Cornett said he plans to move to the property to live there full time later this year.
"My main concern is to meet the needs of the local old-timers like myself that like to fish and to make it accessible," Cornett said.
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Santos say Neymar's transfer to Premier League Chelsea was 'almost certain'
Santos were 'almost certain' Neymar would be sold to Chelsea but now think the Brazil superstar could stay beyond 2014.
By Paulo Freitas
Last Updated: 12/11/12 10:26pm
The forward was linked with a summer move to Stamford Bridge and reports have also suggested a deal is in place for a transfer to Barcelona.
But Santos president Luis Alvaro de Oliveira Ribeiro thinks it is possible Neymar could stay with his club even beyond the end of his current contract in 2014.
He told ESPN Brasil: "When I met the lawyers and his agent, it was almost certain he would be sold to Chelsea but I left an empty seat in the meeting.
"I said that the last one that sat there was Ayrton Senna, the last Brazilian idol. And that Neymar could be the next one.
"Nowadays Neymar sits there and he needs to stay happy in the place where he is happy. I believe he will stay even beyond 2014".


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I'm a professional videographer who owns two video production company's. One of the company's is Steven Fowler Films which creates high end elegant wedding and event films. The other is VIDEOEXPERTS which produces high end corporate video productions and training videos.
Side (1) of the card is for VIDEOEXPERTS:
Our target audience is corporations and business. We are looking for a slick and professional look.
Side (2) of the card is for Steven Fowler Films:
Our target audience is mainly 25 - 35 year old brides. We are looking for a Elegant and Classy look.
Two sided business card to promote both of my company's. Please use attached Photoshop template to create the card. Also be sure to read Photoshop instructions. In the end I would like a PDF's according to attached instructions and layered Photoshop files. *** Please don't use clip art or photos of bride's and grooms ***
Side One / Slick and Professional – VIDEOEXPERTS - Corporate Video Productions
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Steven Fowler – Owner
The font in the VIDEO portion of our logo is: Futura Lt BT (italic)
The font in the EXPERTS portion of our logo is Futura Md BT (italic)
In the past our logo has been either white or gold but you are free to try new colors if you would like. Also, I'm a big fan of the mirror refection look that Apple advertising has become famous for.
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Found lying around the lathe--not sure what this is?
Final version--now dubbed the Kuukuu Mokume Killer--the word kuukuu is Swahili for "old, worn out".
Found lying around the lathe--not sure what this is?
Final version--now dubbed the Kuukuu Mokume Killer--the word kuukuu is Swahili for "old, worn out".
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Looks like copper and ????
I like it and (of course with the 80mA driver and 4 die LED)
It's cute - thats what it is!
that would be mine.
I left it on your lathe.
Timascus ????
Looks COOL
Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, "Hey, at least I'm not pregnant
Can I play?
I really like that one....
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
whoa sweet!
a twisted killer
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have
their shoes.
Well I am certified to handle/dispose of haz-mat/haz-waste. So I could take care of it....
It is very nice. How was it to work with? Is it expensive material?
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Since it is mostly copper, it cuts like copper, i.e., a bit gummy and grabby at times, especially so with the addition of the nickel silver. But overall, except for the drilling, it wasn't too bad to deal with.
Expensive? Yes, anything hand forged is expensive, regardless of the materials. This particular piece was over $25 an inch, which is about what a 6' bar of 1" diameter aluminum sells for. Let's see that would make a 6' bar worth $1,800--not that one can buy a 6" length of Mokume Gane.
Sorta looks like we have the same shop fairies, I found a similar "random" piece laying around my lathe
Nice work Fred, I guess it wound up threading ok after all. The pics look great and I'm sure they don't even do it justice, I'm sure there will be even more amazing stuff coming from your direction.
This is a new, to me, metal combination that requires some sort of etching, or coloring, or perhaps even etching and coloring, to bring out the pattern.
Today I decided to play with a sample of the Mokume Gane, one that I had sanded and polished to a nice, smooth finish. Here are some shots before the etching. One can clearly see the pattern, but the depends a lot on the angle of the light coming off the piece:
The color differences alone are defining the pattern here, for the most part, although this macro seems to show the copper being a smidgen lower than the nickel silver.
After etching, with ferric chloride:
Now the pattern is easier to notice, since the difference in height between the two metals is greater. I'm not sure that I like the difference in height, but I will reserve judgment until I see the alternative: pattern enhancement by the darkening of the copper. My wife liked it--said it looks like jewelry, so that's one endorsement.
Not a crack--just some detritus--after all I did find it lying on my lathe, not known to be the cleanest in the world, unlike Anglepoise's.
This Mokume Gane is top-class, no flaking, no gaps, nothing wrong at all--I'm very pleased with it.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
As for the price of a Killer in Mokume Gane, it would be well north of the production pieces' pricing, I'm afraid. First, the cost of material is considerably higher, second, it would have to be hand machined, not done on a CNC, and finally, the Mokume Gane calls for a much higher standard of finishing than most lights. Or at least in my book it does.
Today, I spent about an hour just sanding down the four axial grooves on the light. And I still have to do the circumferential grooves, as well as the main surface of the light. And then comes the etching/coloring before final assembly. I would love to be able to make a Killer in Mokume Gane for $200, but it won't happen anytime soon, sorry.
It is still beautiful.
Thanks for the info and pics!
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Uhhhh..... How did I miss this? Fred, awesome, awesome, awesome!
What's the OD of the Mokume Gane sample you were messin' around with above?
Hi John,
The bar was 5/8" diameter, or 15.87mm and was turned down to 14.25mm for the Killer. I have another 5/8" bar on order, and I'm hoping to shoe-horn in a mini FluPic and slightly larger Li-Ion battery in the next one.
First, though is learn how to get a great finish on the material. Whatever happens, it will be coated with some Renaissance wax for protection.
Is this true Mokume Gane, or the new XPM version (Extruded Patterned Metals Corp)?
This is true hand-forged Mokume, copper and nickel silver. It will be a show piece, only, certainly not for keychain use. I have contacted the XPM folks, but they are primarily geared up for large volume manufacturers, of which, I am not one. With a little luck, I might possibly get some stock from XPM as they are still doing prototype metal combos and might have some that would work for flashlights. We will see.
In the meantime, I've been polishing and waiting for a variety of coloring compounds to arrive, hoping to bring to life the faint patterns that are currently barely visible:
Hey, John, of course I have your number, along with a bunch of others.
It's so beautiful!
It really is beautiful.
Apparently, one of the major players at XPM is a big-time authority on real mokume.
From what I understand, the majority of their production is in tubes, to be cut for rings and other jewelry.
I have some good contacts in the jewelry biz, and I've sent out some feelers for these tubes. Seems like they're ready made for flashlight fab. You'd have to figure out a solid end for the tail, but that shouldn't be too difficult. Plug the tube with platinum, or some such.
book on Mokume Gane, or two, and Jim Binnion is of one of the top jewelers in the U.S., specializing in Mokume Gane.
XPM does do solid extrusions, too. However, a thick walled tube would be perfect--assuming one wants to use a tail switch.
Why don't you ask your jewelry friends to find us a nice round bar of Mokume Gane, with some precious metals in it.
A bunch of chemicals came in today, so I wanted to play with them a bit. I was expecting the patinizing to be very easy--little did I know.
So another learning experience as I tried different solutions, techniques, etc.
I like shiny objects, but making Mokume shiny, while still having some sort of patina, is not an easy thing to accomplish, as I'm learning. The problem, of course, is that to get something shiny means it has to be polished, or buffed, but doing that will most likely remove the color that patinizing gives to the copper portion of the Mokume. But, if the Mokume is etched first, then the copper layer is lower than the nickel silver, so theoretically, it might be possible to polish the nickel silver while leaving the copper patina untouched.
So, that's what I've tried to do, as these photos show. What the patina really adds, though, is the instant impression of holding an antique in your hands. And, generally speaking, there aren't a lot of shiny metal antiques kicking around. Maybe I will go for the subdued, non-shiny look after all.
Your feedback would be appreciated.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A roundtable discussion is a debate in which students take on the roles of people involved in a political crisis. Students imaginatively project themselves into political or historical situations they've studied, and debate each other about the correct action to take.
One key element of the roundtable discussion is that the students control the flow of the conversation; instead of having the teacher guide discussion or pose questions, students control the decision-making process. In order to help students guide themselves in this way, teachers can ask the group to choose one student to act as a recorder (writing down the arguments that have been made) and one student to act as a facilitator (making sure participants speak one at a time). By assuming these roles, students are further trained in taking responsibility for their own decision-making processes. It's important for teachers to explain to students that they will have to guide the conversation themselves, and will be responsible for keeping the debate grounded and civilized. Every student should have a chance to speak at least once.
Roundtable discussions are best used after students have been thoroughly introduced to a political situation. Once students understand the issues at stake, teachers may ask them to imagine themselves in the position of the people affected by a situation. Students need to be reminded of the social, political, and cultural context of the activity before any substantive discussion can take place. Then, students should sit down together to decide how best to resolve the situation. This process works well when students are asked to come to conclusions about a fairly specific problem. For example, teacher Sandra Childs sets her students the task of deciding whether or not they would voluntarily move to internment camps if they were Japanese Americans during WWII. Before concluding the debate, students should vote on the issue to see whether or not they convinced others with their arguments.
Following the debate, it is crucial that teachers process the experience with the students and provide time to reflect on the discussion. Sandra Childs uses this time with her class to highlight important historical events, cultural differences, and political positions within the Japanese American community. Teachers should also provide opportunities for students to examine the personal experiences of those who were actually involved in the situation debated. For example, students could learn more about those interned during WWII through resources such as films, historical documents, or interaction with Japanese American citizens.
By debating each other in a roundtable format, students learn a number of important skills. First, they learn to empathize -- to imagine the situations of people in unfamiliar circumstances. Second, they learn to make cogent arguments based on the materials, both historical and literary, available to them. And finally, they learn to compromise and work together to solve problems. Each of these skills motivates students to act more responsibly, both in the classroom and in the community.
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Thanks to Trivium, I have had the privilege of being in countless magazines around the globe. Recently, I was published in the latest edition of Effilee (a fantastic German Food and Wine magazine) and I think I was more excited for this than anything in years.
Thanks to a dear friend and colleague/a&r-dude Ulf Zick (Apogee, Spotify, ex-Gibson) introducing me to Dr. Martin Tesch (from Tesch Wines in Germany (insanely delicious wine)), who connected me with Ursula Heinzelmann (http://www.ursulaheinzelmann.de/) - this was all made possible.
I am proud to call Ursula a friend and food-soul-mate of mine, and her featuring me in Effilee was a new sort of accomplishment that I never imagined possible. Please pick up the magazine and cherish this bad boy like I do.


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TORONTO - An American professor specializing in studying the psychology of boys and men, masculinity and manhood will make the case for creating men's centres on campus during an address in Toronto.
The speech by Miles Groth is slated to take place Friday evening at an event organized by the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE), which is working to raise funds to create the Canadian Centre for Men and Families.
Advocates on both sides of the border are seeking to fill what they view as a void at schools and within communities — programs dedicated to studying, serving and supporting male interests and needs.
"Essentially, we feel there's no space for men specifically to discuss their issues from a men's point of view; so we're hoping to get something started that will hopefully be a catalyst for maybe some more male-oriented programs running," said CAFE spokesman Adam McPhee, who also serves as food programs liaison for the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation.
"Male-specific programs are normally in relation to say, homelessness, but they're not normally geared directly towards men."
McPhee, who works with predominantly gay men, said he's been involved in a number of discussions where domestic violence targeting men has emerged as a key issue. There's also interest within CAFE about father's rights and exploring options for greater shared parenting opportunities for dads following divorce, he added.
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Groth, a professor of psychology at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., has established a website seeking to highlight efforts in North America, Europe and elsewhere to create study groups for men on campus — centres for "male-positive discussions of boyhood and what it means to be a young man in the 21st century."
His speech is slated to examine a number of issues affecting men who have reached college age or are bound for post-secondary study, focusing on the declining rate of enrolment and completion of bachelor's degrees among young males.
During the 2010-11 academic year, women accounted for 56.5 per cent of enrolment in public post-secondary schools in Canada compared with 43.5 per cent of men — a ratio which has remained constant over the past decade, according to Statistics Canada. Females represented 58.2 per cent of total graduates, continuing "a long trend" where women have outnumbered their male counterparts.
"What do I think is going on? The answer is we don't know," Groth said in an interview from New York. "That's why these kinds of centres are absolutely essential because the answer to the question is not going to come primarily from people like me ... but it's going to come from the boys and the men themselves.
"To make things more difficult, one of the outcomes of this trend is an increasing silence — or I'll say reticence — on the part of young men to talk about their experiences."
In a piece entitled "Are Colleges Not Welcoming Young Men?" published in August by Psychology Today — where Groth regularly posts on his "Boys to Men" blog — he offered a few theories.
Groth wrote of what he saw as a change in environment that left men feeling "less welcome on many — perhaps most — college campuses," an issue he described as "complex."
"A changing faculty, changes in content of programs and courses, and the disproportion of male-female classmates are causing young men to say no to college life, even though they know that not attending may mean being at a disadvantage when applying for certain jobs after graduation ..." he wrote.
Certain orientation programs focused on proper behaviour and interpersonal relationships of a sexual nature have tended to portray boys as "dangerous," Groth said.
"Indeed, what does it mean to a first-year male student to have to attend a date-rape seminar where they are told they harbour dangerous impulses that must be controlled, when they have never for a moment ever in their lives thought about coercing a female (or anyone) sexually," he wrote in Psychology Today.
Annalee Lepp, associate professor and chair in the department of women's studies at the University of Victoria, said she believes the issue of violence on campus has broadened from a discussion solely centred on women to encompass other targets of potential attacks, such as gay and trans students.
Lepp said while she has nothing against the creation of men's centres on campuses, she questions the politics behind it.
"I think there has been a lot of work done by men who align themselves with feminism that have been doing the kinds of work that feminism has been doing for many, many years and becoming allies of the movement — or actively calling themselves feminists," said Lepp, president of Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Feministes.
"In some segments of the men's movement, it's definitely a backlash against feminism as if feminism has created a context where something has been taken away from men."
As for the decline in post-secondary enrolment, Lepp said there seem to be "economic options" certain young men are pursuing rather than going to college or university. She pointed to the employment boom in British Columbia where it appears male high school graduates with access to fairly well-paying jobs in the construction industry, for example, would pursue that line of work rather than accumulate student debt.
"There is kind of a rationale for this that isn't just simply that boys are falling behind, but I think that one could argue that young men have more job options out of high school than women do out of income-generating capacity."
University of Toronto PhD candidate Christopher Little is completing his dissertation on education, masculinity and development. In an email to The Canadian Press, Little said that he had seen "heaps of overly ambitious reasons" purporting to account for the underperformance of boys, including behavioural differences and curriculum changes.
"My personal feeling is that there is no one answer, because this is a complex issue to which there is no one answer," Little wrote.
"I don't think we can or should speak of this as simply an issue of the performance of 'boys' versus 'girls,' and instead we need to look more closely at performance within the category of 'boys' and 'girls' within particular classrooms. What kind of households are they from? What are their social backgrounds?
"I think if one parses the data in such a way ... it is likely that he (or) she will see other important trends/issues which need to be addressed."


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Isaak, Abraham (1856-1937)
On 6 September 1901 in Buffalo, New York, a young man named Leon Czolgosz shot United States President William McKinley. Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, believed his deed was in the interest of the working class. Three days later, McKinley was dead. What followed was the questioning, detention, and arrest of hundreds of anarchists across the country. One of those arrested more than 500 miles away, in Chicago, was Abraham Isaak. He had been born in fall 1856 to Abraham Isaak (1832-1898) and Maria Wiebe Isaak (1835-1882) in the Chortitza Mennonite colony in South Russia.
At the turn of the century anarchism, a movement and doctrine that rejected all government authority, was as popular as it would ever be in the United States. Far from meaning chaos or violence, the doctrine espoused a natural order based on voluntary association in which people would live peaceful and productive lives. Isaak was well-known in late 19th-and early 20th century anarchist circles. He contributed to the American anarchist movement through a publishing career in three different cities, a career that spanned at least 13 years.
After he immigrated in 1890, Isaak with his wife and three children first settled in Portland, Oregon. In 1895, with the help of several friends, the Isaaks launched the publication of an anarchist weekly called The Firebrand. This paper was short lived. In 1897, it was suppressed and its associates arrested after they published an issue that contained a poem by Walt Whitman. Portland officials declared that the poem, "A Woman Waits for Me," was "obscene" and that mailing it violated federal law. Sometime between 1898 and 1900 the Isaaks left Portland for San Francisco in search of greater tolerance. Here again they published an anarchist newspaper.
In San Francisco they also met and became close friends with America's most prominent anarchist, Emma Goldman. Goldman warmly described them as "unusual" people. "The particular attraction of the Isaaks for me," she later wrote in her autobiography Living My Life, "was the consistency of their lives [and] the harmony between the ideas they professed and their application." The Isaaks, whose family lifestyle was authentically anarchistic, were indeed "unusual." But they were unusual for other reasons.
The Isaaks had roots in the Mennonites, whom Goldman called a "liberal religious sect in Russia, of German origin." In Russia Abraham Isaak became involved in revolutionary activity, and under threat of arrest left for the United States. His wife, Maria whom he had married in 1879, and their three children joined him in Portland, Oregon. In response to a letter that asked whether there has ever existed a true anarchist society, Isaak wrote in 1897 in the pages of The Firebrand: "I was born and raised in a community of Mennonites in Russia.... These people [had] obtained the privilege from the Russian government to manage their own affairs, and as their religion was against civil laws they lived for about 70 years without laws or officers .... These people had been persecuted. . . in western Europe and were considered as the lawless, just as the anarchists are today." But when wheat-raising became profitable and accumulation began, Isaak continued, the "rich and the poor" among Russia's Mennonites had become distinct. Hence, "government stepped in, and today there are beggars, thieves and drunkards among them, but I have not heard of a murder yet."
By 1901, at the time of McKinley's assassination, the Isaaks were living and publishing yet another anarchist newspaper in Chicago. Incidentally, there they met the would-be assassin Czolgosz, whose constant espousal of violence evoked Abraham Isaak's suspicion. These suspicions would soon prove well-founded.
Isaak was released soon after his arrest. The Isaak family remained in Chicago publishing Free Society until 1904 when they moved to New York. After five years of struggle to continue Free Society in that setting, they moved to California to establish what became the Aurora Society. Abraham Isaak purchased a ranch and subdivided it and sold it to other settlers in an attempt to establish an anarchist community. However this venture ended in failure by 1920. Isaak remained on the property, farming it until his death in 1937. By all accounts he remained an anarchist until his death.
Some of Abraham and Maria Isaak's descendents were distinguished -- daughter Mary worked for lawyer Clarence Darrow, Abe Jr. campaigned to presidential candidate Al Smith and became a New Deal Democratic.
As anarchists, the Isaaks were social and political "gadflies." They rejected the authoritarianism of organized religion and government. As ethnic Mennonites (although they stepped beyond Mennonites' religious, political, and socialperimeters) they participated in a heritage from which they could not divorce themselves. Their history reveals a most rare yet creative "Mennonite response" to an age of turbulence and transition.
Smith, Steven Kent. "Further notes on Abraham Isaak, Mennonite anarchist." Mennonite Quarterly Review 80 (January 2006): 83-94.
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LONDON, April 3 (UPI) -- U.S. first lady Michelle Obama told children at a North London school that being smart is cool, and education is the most important thing in life.
Obama spoke to students at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School Thursday, her last day in Britain, where President Obama was attending the Group of 20 summit of industrialized nations, The Times of London reported Friday.
"If you want to know the reason why I am standing here, it's because of education," she told the 100 teenage girls. "I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. ... I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world."
She urged the girls to believe their dreams, telling them they control their destiny.
"For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American first lady," she said. "I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of. I was raised on the South Side of Chicago -- that's the real part of Chicago."


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Christoph Z. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
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Lumen Spark is a fast growing, privately held software development company based in Seattle, Washington. We are currently working on an iPhone application that allows users to take notes.
We are targeting basic iPhone users - someone who would like to use the iPhone to quickly view or edit notes. The key aspect of this application is simplicity.
Dear All,
At Lumen Spark, we are working on a new iPhone application that will allow users to take notes. This project is for the application icon.
We would like the icon to represent either: note taking, notepad or any other visual along these lines. One of the quintessential features of this application is the ability to sync your notes with the desktop. So, the icon may also indicate data portability / sync.
This icon needs to be absolutely gorgeous, unique, simple, elegant and it must also sit well with other standard icons of the apps that ship with iOS e.g. Mail, Calendar, Messages and so forth. In terms of what we consider gorgeous, you might want to take a look at Awesome Note, 2Do or Twitter iPhone applications.
Here are the technical specifications:
Minimum 1024x1024px square icon, transparent, layered .psd file. It needs to look good when reduced to the following sizes: 114x114px, 72x72 px, 57x57px.
Note that the rounded corners are added automatically by the operating system, so the final icon needs to be square. Otherwise the rounded corners will not be matched perfectly which introduces visible artifacts.
Checkout our existing icons for Daily Tracker at http://www.thedailytracker.com - note that this is for a brand new app, but perhaps you get inspired to create something equally simple. I've also attached a sample iPhone homescreen screenshot which you can use to test your designs.
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Share of Business Customers Is Down to About 5%
BlackBerry Ltd.'s last-ditch move to abandon its consumer business and focus on selling devices to companies is a risky bet that it can hang on to ground that is rapidly eroding.
Just three years ago, BlackBerry had a market share of nearly 70% among business customers in North America, according to the research firm IDC. This year, that figure has dropped to around 5%, IDC says. Globally, BlackBerry's business market share has slipped to around 8% from 31% in 2010, according to IDC....


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I am required to attain a certain level of proficiency in ASL (American Sign Language) by my third anniversary date in order to keep my job at the National Institute for the Deaf. To help me, NTID makes a variety of resources available. I take a class four times a week, have a tutor twice a week, and am going to attend residential camp this summer.
I have been pretty surprised at how little hearing people know about ASL. I didn't know much about it, but I assumed it was a fully developed language. After all, there are many many Deaf people using it to communicate on a daily basis, right? But my hearing friends and family seem to be kind of surprised by this news. It makes me realize how much we (humans) tend to think that if people aren't doing "it" -- whatever "it" is -- the way WE do it, then they just couldn't be REALLY doing it, right? ASL vs English isn't my blind spot, but I wonder what my blind spots are?
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I am required to attain a certain level of proficiency in ASL (American Sign Language) by my third anniversary date in order to keep my job at the National Institute for the Deaf. To help me, NTID makes a variety of resources available. I take a class four times a week, have a tutor twice a week, and am going to attend residential camp this summer.
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Our New Department websitePosted by Unknown
My department at RIT rolled out a new website on Friday. We are accepting projects from faculty and staff -- called Major Design Projects -- that will constitute about 75% of the work we will do for the next year. To advertise the fact that we are now accepting projects, I asked the team to create a little Second Life piece and also to use augmented reality to make another one. The Second Life thing is on the site now -- the augmented reality thing will be there in a day or two.
I used some of the Scrum principles to manage the projects, and it went pretty well -- well enough that I am going to use Scrum in a much bigger way going forward.
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Personal BrandingPosted by Unknown
Good News ... I'm digitally distinct!
Personal branding is something I became interested in a few years back when I realized that for years I had been working very hard at improving someone else's brand and hadn't done anything to protect, cultivate, and promote my own. I decided that I wasn't going to go very far until I changed that.
My first step was to determine what was my value proposition. I started think -- what did the world need? What skills, talents, abilities, experiences did I have that would fill that need? We don't think of ourselves in this way, or at least I didn't. But once I started to think of myself as a product, it became easier for me to talk about myself to potential employers. It also helped me to focus my efforts because I wasn't responding to needs that weren't going to be filled by my value prop.
Once I had determined my value proposition, I started to think about how to talk about it. I started to look for places on the Internet where I could get my message out.
When you have doing that for a while, it's a good thing to evaluate how your efforts are working. ">Here is a site that can help you.
Wanderings in to Photo PictorialismPosted by Unknown
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Commoncraft.com -- What an very cool site!Posted by Unknown
I am very impressed by what I am seeing at CommonCraft -- what excellent e-learning. Take a look.
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Constructivism and Online Learning, part 1Posted by Unknown
A confession. I am a constructivist.
Constructivism is the belief that learners construct mental models of the world, and then integrate new information into those models. Learners need to direct the learning process, because they know where their mental models need work. This integration is an active process, where the learner has to seek out the knowledge, examine it, determine how and where it fits, reject it if it isn't sound. It is about as far away from a traditional learning model, where the teacher is the font of knowledge and determines what is going to be learned.
For a long time I didn't even know what the name of this was. I hadn't heard the term constructivism. But I grew up in a family that revered self-directed learning. As a child and young adult, I spent the summers studying some topic of my own choosing. One year it was falconry. Not a lot of need for falconry in suburban Dallas, Texas in the late 1960s. But that's what I wanted to learn about. Another year it was folklore, the oral tradition and nursery rhymes. I would read everything we had at the Garland Public Library on my subject of choice. Sometimes that wasn't much. It would have been great if there had been a way that someone could have helped me to construct a framework to think about these subjects, or a way I could have discussed my ideas with others. But I did learn how to dig into something for myself, and I didn't have to apologize to anyone for being interested in kind of weird stuff.
Being able to learn on one's own, to direct a program of study, was much appreciated in my family. Here is a story about my father's uncle. (Warning: this is not the History Channel. I have adjusted the "facts" to suit my need, and over time I don't even remember how much I adjusted the facts. I do this all the time. Some people may call this "lying". I call it "story-telling.")
Ok... So, my grandfather and my great uncle had a dairy business. Grandpa was good with the housewives, and Uncle Lawrence was good with the cows. Grandpa was handsome and smooth and a good enough business man that he retired very early and left southern New York and moved his family to someplace nice -- San Diego -- while he was quite young and still enjoying life. Uncle Lawrence was good with the cows.
One day, Uncle Lawrence had a question about the education that his childern were receiving. So, after tending to the cows, he hitched up his overalls and made his way to the School Board meeting. Uncle Lawrence didn't have the advantage of much formal education -- he had not finished high school. In those days people did that, they quit school and went to work to support their families. So when he got down to the School Board meeting, he was a man who knew how to work hard, who wasn't educated and was good with the cows. Family lore has it that the School Board men weren't very hospitable to Uncle Lawrence. Maybe they chuckled at his un-educated, go0d-with-cows ways. They embarrassed him. Uncle Lawrence returned home.
But as I said earlier, Uncle Lawrence knew how to work hard. So he decided to work hard at becoming educated. He visited the free public library and he read and studied. Eventually he became the President of the School Board.
The moral of the story to me was always clear: Education isn't only what happens at school. As long as there is a free public library, there is no need for me to ignorant. Hard work, study and reading are all it takes.
In this series of reflections, I will discuss how Constructivist theory can be implemented into the development of online learning. I encourage you to share your thoughts -- this isn't just me talking, it should be one side of a dialogue. So, please, pipe up as you think of stuff. The conversation with help us both.
I Got a New CameraPosted by Unknown
This is the tulip Joanne's kids sent me for my birthday. I was going for a soft focus look.
This is the Japanese Garden in Delray Beach Florida. I saw it while I was down seeing my daughter and her husband.
Learning from My Deaf TeachersPosted by Unknown
Last July I joined the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, NY. Because of NTID, there are quite a few Deaf folks in Rochester, so I had some causual experience of seeing people sign. But I didn't know very much about the culture, and never really thought about how my instructional design "played" to a Deaf audience. Our content was captioned, so it was accessible, right? Wasn't that enough?
When I started to dig into the work at my new job, I decided that I wanted to develop an instructional design model for creating online learning for Deaf adults. It only took me a few minutes of watching my old e-learning to realize that it was woefully poor, if you did have the sound turned on. It lost most of it's meaning and the captions just didn't work to fill the void. But beyond that, I want to develop a model that actually works best for Deaf learners, and doesn't just have access tacked on as an afterthought.
So, it seems to me, that a good place to start is to observe good Deaf teachers. I am assuming that a Deaf person would know the very best how to teach a Deaf student. Lucky for me, I spend an hour a day, four days a week with such people -- my ASL teachers.
We have two languages at NTID: English, and ASL (American Sign Language). I have the opportunity to attend ASL classes and also to work with a tutor twice a week. I have a very long way to go to master this lovely language, but I am making progress.
I have had two different teachers for my ASL classes, and they are both really excellent. They are Sam Holcomb and Barbara Ray Holcomb. I have observed four things that they both do. I am going to assume that these are common practices of excellent Deaf teachers.
1. They don't assume that because they are broadcasting, I am receiving. They make sure I am attending before they communicate. I have started noticing my own communication patterns, and I see that I have a working assumption that because I am talking, you are listening. Of course that's not true -- how many times have I said something, only to discover that the recipient of my communication wasn't listening. Then I have to (after expressing frustration!) repeat myself. Barbara Ray and Sam signal that they are ready to begin -- then check to see if I am making eye contact with them - attending to them. They do that with everyone in the class, all 10 - 15 of us. And if someone isn't ready, they wait.
2. Barbara Ray and Sam both check for understanding after they communicate something. They look right in my face to see if I have understood what they are saying to me. If I don't actively communicate back that I understand, by nodding, saying 'ok' or 'yes' or 'right' -- they communicate right to me and keep doing it until I understand. I can't just zone out and not pay attention because they are checking to see if I am following at every juncture.
3. Both teachers will use a variety of ways to communicate new information -- fingerspelling the word, signing it, and sometimes using pantomime or pictures. Sam frequently explains how the sign might have evolved. It is amazing to me that I have developed the vocabulary that I now have almost completely by this method. Can you imagine learning Spanish at the earliest, most basic level without using English? I can't. Yet, this is how we have learned ASL.
4. The curriculum is entirely material that I need to do my job. It is completely relevant to my everyday existance at NTID. We do learn a little about the daily life of Deaf folks, and a little about Deaf culture, and I find that interesting. It helps me to understand how to modify my communication to be better understood by my Deaf clients and colleagues. But by and large, the stuff I am learning is what I need to survive, on the job.
You may be reading this and thinking, "Well, that's not very ground breaking -- that's just good teaching!" and you would be right. However, in my experience in all levels of education, from primary school up to graduate school, I have rarely had teachers who actively communicated as well as these two people do.
I am going to continue to observe Barbara Ray and Sam, and am going to try to observe some other Deaf professors here. I feel like there is a lot of gold here. Watching them is going to help me to devleop my instructional design theory, and after that, develop the best e-learning ever for the Deaf.
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As the show opens up, Adam reveals that Howie Mandel's son is actually his neighbor. Adam and Howie talk about a rap music video that his son arranged to be shot there, and the guys watch a clip from it. They also talk about bizarre circumcision rituals, and a story about what happened at Howie's son's briss. Later, Howie recalls his early days of stand-up, opening for Diana Ross without an act in mind. As the show wraps up, Adam jokes about trying to train his wife to help him remember people's names, and the guys discuss Howie's germaphobia.
Visit http://HowieMandel.com for more info on today's guest, and be sure to catch him on both 'Americas Got Talent' on NBC, and 'Mobbed' on FOX.
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In the hectic life of a business professional living near the shores of Lake Ontario, it is often hard to have a clear conversation when you are surrounded by wind gusts. Today, let me introduce you to the bluetooth headset that solved my concerns, the Jabra WAVE.
I've always had respect for great quality workmanship, & truly believe that Jabra strives to release products that are most elegant, discreet and stylish Bluetooth headsets. I was a bit leary of Jabra's claim that this headset prevents wind/background noises from affecting with your calls, but upon my initial test call (in 60km/hr wind gusts) I became a believer. The crisp, clear audio quality experienced during my test calls would make you think that I was in a quiet library.
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Juicy nugget in Gasparino's latest HuffPo column:
So the October Surprise is a very real possibility, much to [the] delight of journalists like myself. But before rejoicing we in the media should take a deep breath. These same law enforcement sources investigating insider trading among Wall Street fat cats and other corporate titans are also looking at the alleged improprieties of a major journalist who covers stocks.


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The US squad suffered a tough loss to Armenia in round three of the World Team Championships in Antalya Turkey (also Thanksgiving Day). Today they followed it up with a 3.5-0.5 victory over Egypt.
Against Armenia, GM Hikaru Nakamura lost on board one to GM Levon Aronian.
He later tweeted,
In round four, Nakamura rested as the US team scored a resounding win vs. Egypt.
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Gallaudet University made a valiant comeback in the second half of Saturday's Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) game against Norwich University but the Cadets held onto a 31-23 homecoming victory before 4,100 at Sabine Field.
Norwich (5-1, 2-1 ECFC), the defending conference champion, scored 24 unanswered points to take a 31-7 lead into halftime. The Bison (3-3, 1-2 ECFC) didn't give up as Gallaudet outscored the Cadets 16-0 in the third quarter and had several opportunities to tie the game but fumbles cost the Buff and Blue down the stretch.
GU's defense played lights out in the second half as the Bison held the Cadets scoreless, made two interceptions, recovered two fumbles and forced three punts. Sophomore cornerback Tony Tatum (Gardendale, Ala.) made both interceptions and returned his second pick 39 yards for the touchdown with 2:05 left in the third quarter. Sophomore running back Phillip Hayes (Baton Rouge, La.) ran in the two-point conversion to cut the Norwich lead to eight, 31-23.
Two minutes before, Tatum stopped a Norwich drive deep in Gallaudet territory when he intercepted Kris Sabourin's pass at the Bison 2-yard line. The next play senior quarterback Jimmy Gardner (St. Augustine, Fla.) found sophomore wide receiver Ryne Worsham (Chicago, Ill.) wide open at the 34-yard line. Worsham made the grab and a cut back at midfield to lose several Cadet defenders en route to the end zone for a 98-yard touchdown pass from Gardner, easily career highs for both. Gardner ran in the two-point conversion as the Bison trailed 31-15 with 4:29 to go in the third.
Gardner finished the game 6-for-17 passing for 128 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions while he ran the ball 14 times for 50 yards and one touchdown. Worsham caught two passes for 110 yards and a touchdown.
The Bison had several chances to tie the game in the fourth quarter.
Norwich's Andrew Fulford (20 carries, 165 yards) fumbled the ball at the Gallaudet 26-yard line and freshman linebacker Steven Barber (Denver, Colo.) picked up the loose ball and rumbled 64 yards the other direction to the Cadet 10-yard line. Hayes and junior fullback Mike Gimeli (Deer Park, N.Y.) ran the ball three times for a gain of seven yards. Gardner's fourth down pass from the Cadet 3-yard line fell incomplete to sophomore Ryan Bonheyo (Frederick, Md.).
Gallaudet's defense forced a punt and got the ball back to the Bison offense with 10:30 left in the game. GU moved 41 yards down the field on seven plays but with 7:18 left Hayes had the ball stripped at the Norwich 19-yard line and lost the fumble as Cadet Joe Munno made the recovery.
Norwich took four minutes off the clock but Fulford fumbled once more to give Gallaudet new life with 3:19 left. The Cadet defense quickly forced the Bison into a fourth down situation where Gardner's pass was intercepted by Sean Stone at the Norwich 19-yard line and returned 20 yards.
The Bison got the ball back one final time after the GU defense made the Cadets punt with less than a minute left in the game.
Gallaudet started the drive from its own 35-yard line. Gardner had to pass as time was not on GU's side. Gardner hit Worsham for a 12-yard gain and after two incomplete passes he found freshman Josh Hanna (Lower Burrell, Pa.) for a 14-yard pick-up and a key first down. Gallaudet got to the Norwich 39-yard line but turned the ball over on downs. Norwich took a knee to run out the waning seconds.
The first quarter started in a hurry as Fulford took the opening hand-off from the Norwich 38 and rumbled 62 yards for the touchdown to give the Cadets a 7-0 lead 17 seconds into the game. On the ensuing kick-off Hayes returned the ball 74-yards to the Norwich 4. Gardner ran up the middle through traffic on the next play to tie the game at 7-7 just 32 seconds in.
It was all Norwich the rest of the way as Sabourin (7-for-18, 114 yards) threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Chris Denton, Fulford ran in from 26-yards out, a bad snap by Gallaudet led to a safety and Sabourin ran 57-yards for a score before the intermission. Sabourin finished with 128 rushing yards on 14 attempts.
Gallaudet allowed over 300-yards on the ground for the first time in 16 games as the Cadets finished with 361 rushing yards as a majority of those yards came in the first half. National powerhouse Wesley College had 311 rushing yards against Gallaudet back on November 15, 2008, as the Bison lost 55-7.
The Bison were held to 140 rushing yards and 268 of total offense today, both season low totals. Norwich and Gallaudet both struggled on third down as the two teams combined to go 7-for-26.
Sophomore linebacker Tom Pangia (Hammonton, N.J.) led the Bison defense with 12 tackles while Chris Roberto and Rocco DiMeco had 12 and 11 tackles, respectively for Norwich. Pangia and DiMeco are reigning first team all-conference selections on defense. DiMeco went down with an injury after the two-point conversion at the 4:29 mark in the third quarter.
Gallaudet next returns home to host Mount Ida College for an ECFC game at Hotchkiss Field on Saturday, October 16, at Noon.


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Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which Nozlee Samadzadeh breaks down our favorite seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more by the numbers.
Peas! Today we're talking about peas, which are so ubiquitous as a readily-available frozen food that it's almost hard to remember that they are fleetingly in season come early summer. There are three major varieties of peas, and we'll be talking about them separately:
1. Shelling Peas (also called English peas or garden peas)2. Snow Peas3. Snap Peas (also called sugar snap peas)
Before we get started -- aren't these cross-sections beautiful? -- a little bit about starches and sugars. All of these peas develop an intense sweetness as they mature. If left on the plant for too long, those sugars are converted into starches: fibrous and tough, with less flavor. Always make sure your peas are fresh and young -- and preferably recently picked. The sugars in these plants also begin to degrade into starch after harvest, which is why the sweetest snap pea is one that you eat from the vine!
Shelling Peas1(a). The Pods - To open a pea pod, pull down on the stem to string it and gently push out the attached peas. Shelling a pound of peas can take a while, so enlist a friend and get some gossip in while you work! (We halved this pod with a knife just for show, so don't do that.)
1(b). Buying Guide - When you're buying shelling peas at market, look for firm, round pods 3-4 inches long that rattle just a little when you shake them. They should be smoothly green and unblemished -- the peas hit peak sweetness and then rapidly become starchy, so avoid older-looking pods.
1(c). The Peas - Fresh peas should be blanched before serving. It takes less than a minute, so be sure to have a big bowl of ice water ready to stop the cooking after you drain them! And don't toss that pod -- they make a lovely, light spring stock when simmered in a few cups of water.
Snow Peas2(a). The Pods - Snow peas should be stringed, too, although if they're young enough you won't need to. Snow peas are eaten whole, pod and all, and they're good raw, blanched, or blistered in a wok -- many Asian recipes call for snow peas.
2(b). The Peas - Because they're eaten whole, snow peas are harvested long before the peas inside reach maturity -- when buying them, look for very small, flat seeds. The pods themselves range from 2 to 3 inches.
Snap Peas3(a). The Pods - The best snap peas can be eaten raw: sweet, crunchy, and perfectly bite-sized. Slightly larger ones should be blanched or sauteed (after being stringed as for the other peas). Because you're eating the whole pod, look for pretty snap peas with no nicks or bruises.
3(b). History - Snap peas (also called sugar snap peas) are actually a man-made hybrid! They were developed by Calvin Lamborn in the 1970s when he wanted a pea that could be eaten raw or cooked. All peas are open pollinators, so with a little bit of time and care he was able to cross-pollinate snow peas with other pea plants to get the sugar snap. Remember learning about genes with Mendeleev's pea experiments? Snap peas are genetics in action!
3(c). The Peas - The inside of a snap pea looks like the inside of a shelling pea if the pod was shrunken down and given much thinner skin. If, perchance, your snap peas grow too big and tough, you can always shell them and cook the peas separately.
With mutliple ways to eat peas both cooked and raw, you can use them in a huge variety of recipes. Here are three of our favorites: a crowd-pleasing chicken salad with rice noodles, lemon-chili sugar snaps with breadcrumbs, and peas just barely simmered in mint cream.
Chicken Salad with Snow Peas
Snap Peas in Breadcrumbs
Peas in Mint Cream
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Northfield senior Jared Kirtlan is headed for NAIA Kentucky Christian University next year. Kirtlan, a multi sport athlete at Northfield will be playing football for the Knights in the fall of 2013 after signing a national letter of intent Tuesday.
Kentucky Christian is located in Grayson Kentucky which is about two hours southeast of Cincinnati. The Knights football program has only been in existence since 2008 and were ranked #25 this past year. Kentucky Christian is coached by Gene Peterson.
Peterson said he recruited Kirtlan because he liked the way Jared ran his routes. Kirtlan said he hopes to see some playing time as a freshman, maybe as a returner then make the receiving squad the following year if not before.
Kirtlan also said he chose Kentucky Christian because it was a small school and he liked the teacher to student ratio. Jared will be studying nursing, in which Kentucky Christian is one of the top nursing schools in the nation.
Pictured front row L-R : Cathy Kirtlan(mother), Jared Kirtlan, Steve Kirtlan(father)
Back row L-R : Northfield principal Mike Keaffaber, Chad Kirtlan(brother), Andrea Kirtlan(sister), Northfield A.D. Tony Uggen


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WASHINGTON — By all accounts, the paths traveled by the Tsarnaev brothers in their new American lives had begun to diverge.
Tamerlan, 26, the elder brother, turned more deeply to his Muslim faith as once-promising boxing prospects faded. Dzhokar, seven years his junior, won a college scholarship, gained U.S. citizenship and was seen by friends as embracing the opportunities of his new country.
Still, their lives were far more tightly bound than outsiders might have perceived. They shared a dark, secret connection until the moment that the FBI posted their images as the terrorists suspected of making and detonating twin pressure- cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15.
Such sibling plotting — which is particularly difficult for law enforcement personnel to detect — has precedents, said John Horgan, director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University. In such instances, siblings aren't inclined to confide in outsiders, making their plans more covert than actions by a loose-lipped "lone wolf" operator or a terrorist cell, he said.
"It's actually far more common than people realize, but it's just one of those things that are not really recognized and talked about," said Horgan, who also is an associate professor of psychology.
Spotting terrorist threats relies heavily on tactics that are more difficult to use with family members, such as recruiting an informant or spotting unusual communications, said two U.S. officials familiar with counterterrorism methods.
Family members, as well as those in tight-knit political and religious groups, can avoid arousing suspicion because they're constantly communicating and visiting one another, said the two officials who asked not to be identified because they have access to classified material.
There is a considerable record of how family bonds, coupled with a shared sense of grievance, have drawn siblings to terrorist acts in Northern Ireland, the Mideast, and Russia's Chechnya region, where the Tsarnaev brothers have their family roots, Horgan said in a telephone interview.
There's even a case of twins, the Patterson brothers, convicted bomb makers in the radical Real IRA faction in Northern Ireland, who were sentenced to long prison terms in 2001 after being linked to more than 41 bombings.
Still, how the Tsarnaevs morphed from sibling immigrants to alleged terrorist killers is a question many will be seeking to answer in coming days and weeks. In dozens of television interviews, former friends and acquaintances expressed shock that the two young men with whom they socialized, played video games and studied would commit such a heinous act.
President Obama promised that authorities will determine why such an attack happened.
"The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers," he said in the White House press briefing room after the manhunt ended. "The wounded, some of whom now have to learn how to stand and walk and live again, deserve answers."
As Tamerlan was killed trying to escape the manhunt April 19, the focus is on Dzhokar, who is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston for gunshot wounds.
"We're very fortunate that we have one of them alive," Eamonn Gearon, a professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and an expert on the Middle East, said in a phone interview Saturday.
The FBI's High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a team designed to question detained individuals who may possess information regarding terrorist attacks, is in Boston, according to officials. Federal charges will be filed against Tsarnaev "in the coming days," Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, said.
For now, said Horgan, "we are faced with some very, very thin facts with respect to motivation."
Multiple pathways lead to terrorism, according to Clark McCauley, co-director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Penn. Some people get involved "for thrill and status, some for love, some for connection and comradeship," he wrote in a 2010 paper examining radicalization factors.
"Personal and group grievance can move individuals toward violence, with ideology serving only to rationalize the violence," he wrote.
Arie Kruglanski, a terrorism researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park, said the evidence so far points to a deeply discouraged Tamerlan, who at one point had ambitions to box for the U.S. Olympic Team.
"He wanted to be somebody important," Kruglanski, a senior researcher at the federally funded National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, said in a telephone interview.
Studies of terrorism show that those three factors — a profound feeling of loss or failure, an ideology that addresses that humiliation and a reinforcing social process — are the common elements motivating individuals to commit a violent act.
Tamerlan's disappointment found relief in ideology, as he was drawn to radical Islamic thought, and he created a "shared reality" with his brother, said Kruglanski, who is a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Maryland.
"Together, they formed this bubble, this molecule of extremism, and convinced themselves that the way to go is to basically declare a personal war on America," he said.
The brothers, who lived in Cambridge, came from the former Soviet Union to Massachusetts — a young Dzhokar first followed by his brother and two sisters. Their parents returned separately in the past couple of years to Russia's Dagestan region, near their original home in Chechnya.
Tamerlan was the extrovert and Dzhokar the introvert, John Curran of Watertown, Tamerlan's former boxing coach who hadn't seen them in a few years, told NBC News.
"The young brother was like a puppy dog following his older brother," Curran said.
Horgan said it is "very plausible" that Tamerlan may have drawn Dzhokar to a dark view of life after failing to assimilate into American culture.
Still, he said, "in all the cases we've looked at involving pairs of brothers or pairs of sisters, it's not necessarily the sort of master-apprentice relationship that people think it is."
Usha Tummala-Narra, an assistant professor of counseling psychology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, said, "Sometimes a person can look like they're blending into mainstream culture, and dress like they have, and go to parties and the rest of it, but they may feel like they never belonged."
Brothers like the Tsarnaevs may have formed a "cocoon" mentality, similar to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the high school seniors who killed 13 people and injured 24 in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, said Tummala-Narra, who hasn't met or spoken with either of the brothers.
Their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told Russian TV network RT that she believes the two were "set up."
"My youngest son has been in America since he was 8," she said. "We never talked about terrorism at home. My eldest son became interested in religion five years ago. He began to follow rules of Islam, but he never said he plans to enter the road to jihad."
A YouTube page in Tamerlan's name included videos by radical Australian cleric Feiz Mohammad. A profile attributed to Dzhokar on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte has links to several Chechen-related groups, while a Syrian jihadist video posted April 9 on his page purportedly shows images of atrocities in Syria and ends with the Russian phrase "Syria calls. We answer."
The FBI is particularly interested in determining whether Tamerlan received training or direction from foreign radicals during a visit last year to see his father in Russia's North Caucasus region, a hotbed of separatist movements, ethnic rivalries and extremist Islamic ideology.
Tamerlan, a legal resident of the U.S., flew to Russia in January 2012 for as long as six months, said two law enforcement officials briefed on his travel. His father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told the New York Times that Tamerlan stayed with him in Dagestan and together they went to Chechnya "to visit relatives."
The Tsarnaev brothers' background may have played a role, said Gearon of Johns Hopkins, noting the legacy of Russia's brutal repression of the Chechen separatist movements over more than two decades. Constant talk of war "can brutalize people," he said.
With assistance from Esme E. Deprez in New York, Henry Meyer in Moscow and Brian Wingfield in Washington.


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TASK: Web Graphic Rendering of Provided "Stylized M" logo concepts
DESC.: 3 raw images are given. The logo is to represent the letter "M", evoking motion and improvement (the upward-sweeping curves, like a climbing graph); and include a medal, i.e. an olympic medal.
DETAILS: Logo shall be constructed using a layered approach so that
each element can be manipulated separately. We want to be able to
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PRODUCTS: 3 finished images, each in two formats (.PNG and .GIF). All scalable from thumbnail to postcard without loss of quality.
Image #1 - 4 x 3 (landscape) solid color background and white logo
foreground. This image shall use the negative space (or open) medal.
Image #2 - 4 x 3 (landscape) white background and solid color logo
foreground with contrasting medal. This image shall use the solid, or filled, medal.
Image #3 - Same specs as above, but your choice of style, colors,
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