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Nokia's new networking mobile tested
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A new device that is claimed to be ideal for social networkers has been reviewed this week by Mobile Burn.
In an article for the online resource, Ricky Cadden looked at the Nokia 6790 Surge and highlighted some of the points which may make it a tempting purchase for those recycling mobile phones.
He draws attention to the Finnish manufacturer's insistence that this is a handset that is perfect for sites like Facebook and MySpace, while incorporating technology that promises fast video and photo uploading.
One of the other features of the gadget which may appeal to such users is a slide-out qwerty keyboard, while Nokia's decision to "bless the 6790 Surge with plenty of onboard RAM and internal storage" is also welcomed.
It was also announced this week that the latest social networking-focused device from 3 Mobile - the INQ Mini 3G - would be available from early next for free on certain contracts, as well as £59.99 on pay-as-you-go.
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A year after Patrick Kane fired a shot into the goal in overtime to give the Blackhawks their first Stanley Cup championship since 1961, the game-winning puck is still missing.
The rubber disc hasn't been found since it was dug out of the net while the Blackhawks celebrated their victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at the other end of the ice. An auction house says the collectible is worth six figures, at least, and a Chicago sports collector is offering a $50,000 reward for its return.
Images from the game showed veteran linesman Steve Miller looking at the puck in the moments after Kane's goal, but he has denied that he touched it.
However, the Tribune last week located a series of photos by a staff photographer that clearly show Miller picking up the puck with his right hand, shifting it to his left and skating away.
When the Tribune presented the pictures to Miller in Boston, where he is officiating the Stanley Cup Final between the Bruins and the Canucks, Miller he said he didn't remember picking up the puck and doesn't know where it is.
"I pick up a thousand pucks a year," Miller told the Tribune. "You can ask me what I did with a puck 10 minutes ago. I can't remember every single thing I do with a puck."
In the mystery of the missing puck, the photos provide a clue — but they haven't solved the case.
Gary Meagher, the NHL's senior vice president for communications, said the league spoke with Miller about the incident several months ago and stands by the linesman's account.
"He didn't remember getting the puck," Meagher said in Boston. "We sat with him. We met with him. I've talked to him numerous times. Other league officials have talked to him.
"We all wish we knew where the puck was."
The Hawks do too.
"I would certainly like to see the Blackhawks be in possession of that," team President John McDonough told the Tribune. "If ... someone would deliver it to the Blackhawks, it would be very meaningful."
Bill Hay, a member of the Hawks' 1961 Stanley Cup team, said the puck belongs in the Hockey Hall of Fame, of which he is chairman and CEO. "Those pucks should go on display and not on eBay for someone to make money off of," Hay said. "It's important to the Hall of Fame and to the public."
The NHL's officiating handbook does not address what is to happen to pucks once games end, and no rule prohibits a hockey official from taking one. Miller said there were several things he may have done with the puck — throw it in a bucket with others, for example. But he told the Tribune he can't recall.
"Pucks don't mean anything to me." Miller said. "So why would that puck mean anything to me?"
Andy Van Hellemond, a Hall of Fame referee living in Canada, said it is not uncommon for referees to snag pucks and that he's got "quite a few" in his collection, including ones shot by Mario Lemieux and Johnny Bucyk. The motivation, according to Van Hellemond: If a player reaches 500 goals in a career, wouldn't it be "neat" to have the milestone puck?
And what of Miller, the last person seen with the puck from Kane's goal?
"He's the only one who can unconfuse you," Van Hellemond said.
Miller, 38, has been an NHL linesman since 2000 and began working playoff games his second season. He lives with his family in a small Ontario city where he played junior hockey for the Stratford Cullitons.
Tribune photos provide clue in case of missing Blackhawks Stanley Cup puck
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Bridge Inspections Start Today In Winona
If your traveling on Highway 43 over the Mississippi River in Winona this week, expect to run into lane closures. It's that time for annual bridge inspections. Single lanes will be seen all week from 8am to 6pm and the DOT will have flaggers out letting you know where to go. These inspections take place annually with in depth inspections occurring every other year.


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For girlsMeghalaya Board of School Education announced results for HSSLC 2011. Read more ... », the numbers were better as regular candidates secured a pass percentage of 75.58%, private candidates secured 58.16%. The overall pass percentage was 73.10%
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Need to caclulate 120 days from date of last furnishing for a notice of lien?
Just a quick resource note:
As anyone who has had the misfortune of sitting through the North Carolina General Contractor's exam can tell you, there are two very important deadlines to keep in mind if you are not getting paid on a project– 120 days and 180 days. These are dates associated with filing a Notice of Claim of Lien on Real Property and Notice of Claim of Lien upon Funds, and the date associated with perfecting a Claim of Lien with a Complaint. Once these dates have passed, you may still sue to collect unpaid fees, but your statutory lien rights are lost (and with them, your most likely chance to get attorney fees). There is no room for error here. One good site to bookmark is this online Date Calculator. Use it to plug in the date of last furnishing to determine your notice and complaint deadlines. For future reference, I have added a permanent link to this calculator to the "Resources" page.
50 state lien law resource:
If you need to know the basic notice and filing requirements of lien laws in other states, check out this article which details mechanic lien law information in all 50 states.
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Green Design—is it for the cache or the environment?
A building can be designed to meet energy efficiency and sustainability goals, without actually obtaining LEED certification. However, LEED certification is becoming one of the most recognized ways of demonstrating your commitment to green building. It does not come, however, without a cost. In addition to the registration fee to the Green Building Certification Institute, costs depend on the square footage of the building, ranging from $1,750 to $17,500 for GBCI members to $2,250 to $22,500 for non-members. There are also commissioning fees and the soft costs associated with a green design.
Enter the Town of Cary and the new fire station. While meeting many green goals, the Town has elected to forego getting it LEED certified because of the estimated $41,000 costs involved in doing so. Is this the next trend in green building? If not LEED certified, what is to stop unscrupulous builders from unilaterally declaring their work to be green without actually making it environmentally friendly? Is the cache of being green worth multiple thousands of dollars in these lean economic times? Is this a way to avoid risks associated with failing to meet LEED certification?
For more on this issue, check out Matt DeVrie's article on this same subject, "What are the benefits of Leed Certification?"
Bad Construction Design– a lighthearted post
Construction don'ts:
2. Don't worry about how someone will actually reach the threshold to get into the building– that's what step ladders are for!
3. Don't worry your head about such petty issues as structural integrity– it's only a shed, right?
* Photo credits: "An extra room" by JaviC; "Entrance, Ufa/RU, 2009" by William Veerbeek; "Bad Construction P1000892" by RogueSun Media. All via Flickr and made available via an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License.


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11 Works Of Art Inspired By Young Adult Novels You Grew Up With
Artists took Goosebumps, Nancy Drew, and Sweet Valley High as inspiration for pieces in this YA collection.
1. Maggie Mull, "Young-And-Awkward-Adult Books"
Inspired by various YA novels.
2. Angie Samblotte, "Get This Shit off My Face"
Inspired by the Goosebumps book The Haunted Mask.
3. Danielle Murray (Rizzolo), "Nancy Drew Sleuth Kit"
Inspired by the Nancy Drew series.
4. Cuddles and Rage, "Night Of The Living Dead"
Inspired by the Goosebumps book Night of the Living Dummy.
5. Erica Williams, "Stratemeyer's Summer Girl (Blue Variant)"
Inspired by the Nancy Drew series.
6. Jessica Deahl, "Choose Your Own Adventure"
Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
7. Kiersten Essenpreis, "Jessica & Elizabeth"
Inspired by the Sweet Valley High series.
8. Lauren Gregg, "Life Is A Mystery"
Inspired by Harriet the Spy.
9. Little Miss Cindy Pants, "Night Of The Living Dummy"
Inspired by the Goosebumps book Night of the Living Dummy.
10. Nan Lawson, "Say Cheese And Die"
Inspired by the Goosebumps book Say Cheese and Die.
11. Tara Krebs, "Reader Beware"
Inspired by the Goosebumps series.
These pieces are on display at pop culture-centric Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. You can view the entire collection here.


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Jeffrey Automotive Introduces Plan for a DIY Electric Car
5 March 2007
Jeffrey Automotive is introducing plans for a do-it-yourself (DIY) electric car. The vehicle is a two-seater, powered by a 72volt DC motor with an anticipated top speed of 60 mph and a range of 50/60 miles on one charge from six 12v deep cycle lead/acid batteries. The car can be built for $5,000 or less.
The company provides the plans only, the builder supplies everything else. Purchase of the manual includes the license to build one car.
George Jeffrey was well known in the 70s as a designer and builder of sports and racing cars in Britain. The best known was the J5, a two-seater, open-top sports car.
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So it's a wooden car? interesting... somehow that seems like it would be pretty heavy. Sadly it seems to be the "rollerskate on wheels" that Dick "Vader" Cheney so rails against....
Please, Uncle Sam, allow me to import and drive a Reva in the land of the free!
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Will credits earned at other colleges apply to my Eastern degree upon my return?
Students who have completed course work at another accredited institution are required to submit an official transcript to the Office of Admissions for transfer credit evaluation. Eastern's transfer credit policies apply. While credit for courses taken at other accredited institutions may be awarded in transfer, the grades earned at the prior institution do not transfer to Eastern, and therefore do not impact the student's Eastern GPA. Moreover, grades earned in courses taken at other colleges have no bearing on the decision for readmission to Eastern.
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YIELD: Makes 6 Servings
Combine garlic, parsley, 1 tablespoon oil, a pinch of salt, and 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan. Add peas and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until peas are tender, about 5 minutes for fresh peas, about 2 minutes for frozen. Drain, reserving cooking liquid.
Transfer pea mixture to a food processor; pulse until a coarse paste forms. Transfer to a medium bowl; mix in chives, 1/2 tablespoons preserved lemon peel, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon Aleppo pepper, and 2 tablespoons oil. Stir in reserved cooking liquid by tablespoonfuls until mixture is still thick but spreadable. Season pea mash with salt, black pepper, and more lemon juice, if desired.
Drizzle toast with oil; top with pea mash, sprinkle with remaining 1/2 tablespoons preserved lemon peel and more Aleppo pepper, and drizzle with more oil.
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Weekend East City Event Round Up
Linn Myers.Every now. And again. (Detail), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Photo courtesy of the artist.
G fine Art will exhibit a single work from the following artists: Graham Caldwell, Linn Meyers and Marilyn Mahoney. Each of the works is ambitious in concept and execution to the point where they are 'known' yet unfamiliar. For more information, click here.


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Memory of the Month: Springing forward
By Greg Marsh on May 31, 2013 at 3:03 PM
Posted in: Odds & Ends, Working at GEICO
Each month, we share an image from GEICO's past and invite you to exercise your caption-writing skills.
GEICO's an incredibly successful company by just about any measure, but it has never been one to stand pat. Prior to moving into the current corporate headquarters just on the Maryland side of the border with Washington, D.C., in 1959, GEICO occupied a couple of different properties in the District.
GEICO is continually on the move, literally or figuratively, thanks to the growth of the company combined with the constant quest for better ways to conduct business and better places in which to conduct it. The most recent example is the new sales and service facility we've just opened in Indianapolis.
And even though I've worked at the same location for nigh unto 30 years now, if I let a few weeks go by without walking around the building, I'll find new faces in old places. We regularly relocate people within our walls in search of greater efficiency and better use of our existing space.
The folks in this photo appear to be involved in some sort of moving operation, but what I can't figure out is whether they're coming or going. What do you think? Are they packing in preparation for a move, or are they settling into a new space? Let us know in the comments.
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Matt's fort made out of cardboard boxes was working perfectly, no one will ever find him.
C'mon, you know that little Gecko is hiding in here somewhere!
How are we suppose to move all of this on our break?
This new organization technique is so much more efficient! We should have made these changes years ago.
Do we get overtime for unpacking and resorting all this paperwork?
Guy on vest. Whistling,
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a wonderful day
Does anyone know where the menu for Billy's House O Burgers is?
^^^ Says lady in the middle with hands on hips: "No. But why are you standing there taking pictures when you could be helping us find this menu? You must not realize the gravity of the situation. It's lunch time."
I know that Chinese food menu is here in one of these boxes…
All this came out of Susan Atwell's apartment?
England's Boxing Day holiday never really caught on in America.
Quick, camera! Everyone look as busy as possible!
"Does anyone know what happened to the 2:00 AM files? I have 1:00 – 1:59 and 3:00 – 3:59! What happened to 2 AM?
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Storytime with Miss Celeste
Fe fi fo fum
It's time for us to have some fun!
Hello Everybody,
I must say, I simply can NOT believe all the new faces that we have had the last few weeks! I do hope that you will all become regulars. For those of you that are new to our group, generally we read from 1-4 books - depending on the 'mood' of the kidlets. As we have SO many new littles, our group has been extremly lively - which is why we only read 1 book this last Tuesday. Don't worry about it, they will get used to the group and your little one will settle down and listen.
Our letter this last week was P. The kidlets certainly knew a lot of P words - did you work with your little one? I am pretty sure that Pizza is my favorite p word. ;-)
Our theme last week was 'Chinese New Year'. I must confess, I forgot to write the name of the book that we did read (oops!), so I can not list it. But here is a small list of other Chinese New Year books that E.P. has;
The runaway wok : a Chinese New Year tale
by Ying Chang Compestine
Happy Chinese New Year, Kai-lan!
Lauryn Silverhardt
Celebrate Chinese New Year
Grace Lin
My first Chinese New Year
Karen Katz
This next New Year
Janet Wong
They have quite a few more for you to chose from.
Author Website of the Week
I hope that you will check out some of Grace Lin's books - there are a LOT of them. Her website is packed with crafts and fun things to do, most of them relating to one of her books. You click on the book and it takes you to a page with coloring sheets and activites. She has activites for all ages, from a simple coloring sheet for your little to activites for your older child and things for you to do as well.
Next Week (February 12)
Our letter of the week will be Q. So think up some q words (Queen Celeste, anyone? tehehe!) Do we have anyone whose name starts with Q?
Our theme will be 'Be my Valentine', I am seeing a heart craft in our future!
I am going to take a wild guess and believe that most, if not all, of my storytime parents are readers themselves. Are you finding ways to feed your own reading addiction? I remember how hard it was when MY kids were littles. I am pretty sure that I hid books in the bathroom.
Until next week,
Miss Celeste
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This special issue of Memory is devoted to an investigation of those mechanisms by which memory is edited for inaccuracies and inconsistencies. In the past 20 years false memories have been investigated from a variety of different angles. Substantial evidence indicates that false memories can be...
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Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain confirmed Damion Lavent Street, 33, of 581 Cannon Road, was killed by Oktibbeha County deputies Monday.
Deputies were dispatched to Cannon Road at 5:47 p.m. Monday after receiving a report of a man standing in the road and wielding a knife. Oktibbeha County Chief Deputy Chadd Garnett said two deputies were sent to the scene and were attacked after they approached the suspect. They tased and pepper sprayed on Street, but he continued to attack, allegedly stabbing one of the deputies multiple times.
Deputies then opened fire on Street, killing him.
Since the investigation was handed to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations, Garnett would not comment on how many shots were fired or who fired them.
Strain said the MBI Crime Scene Unit responded to the scene and collected evidence for the state's crime laboratory. An autopsy is pending, he said, and no other details were available at press time.
"We're in the very preliminary stages," Strain said. "Until we get reports back it would be premature to discuss any components of the investigation as it progresses."
Garnett declined to identify the injured deputy but did confirm the deputy was out of surgery at OCH Regional Medical Center at approximately 2:15 a.m. Tuesday and was released later that morning.
OCSD Commander Brett Watson said no information is available at this time as to a motive behind Street's actions.
"We're not really 100 percent sure of the circumstances of why he was out here yet," Watson said. "That's part of what the MBI will be doing in the course of their investigation is taking statements from people who may have witnessed it or have knowledge of what happened before deputies arrived."


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By End the LieLate Saturday night in the Central Business District of New Orleans, a New Orleans Police Department cruiser allegedly ran a red light, struck a taxi and then a young couple after which it smashed through a fence.
It appears that police might be covering for the officer who was responsible, as they have not even acknowledged that the incident occurred. Unfortunately, this would not be too surprising given the long history of police getting away with criminal activity thanks to the corrupt practices of their colleagues.
Thankfully, a photographer was at the scene and was able to capture an image of the incident, although police were reportedly attempting to make him leave the scene.
The young couple was sent to the hospital as a result and the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has yet to publicly comment on the incident according to local criminal defense attorney, Jason Williams.
Williams is representing the couple who was allegedly injured by the police car and has already come out swinging at the NOPD at a news conference Wednesday morning, held at the scene of the crash.
"Three days have passed and no official statement from the NOPD," Williams stated.
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I guess it is a lot easier for the NOPD to just ignore that it happened completely rather than actually deal with the aftermath of the tragic incident.
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Williams also pointed out that the cruiser had neither its lights nor sirens on at the time.
The patrol car stopped after hitting a pole which was holding up a sign which advertises the pay-to-park lot which was surrounded by the fence.
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Tim Mullen is naive in saying the owners of computers without virus protection and a firewall are responsible for the damage their computer invokes when a virus from their computer spreads (12 June, p 26). If these people were not operating a computer, but a car, the manufacturer would be responsible.
The law requires car manufacturers to build safe vehicles. Somehow, that is still not true of computers. So stop chasing the hackers, and start chasing the guys that sell software almost as rich in safety loopholes as it is in code lines. Get Bill Gates and the rest to pay for the damage they are inviting those hackers to invoke.
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Evaluation Tools
There is a variety of art-based assessments that are used clinically and in research. Some of these assessments are listed below. Please be aware that these assessments should be administered only by art therapists or professionals who have received specific education in how to administer them. For information on training in each assessment, please refer to the contact name provided.
The Research Committee is seeking information about published and unpublished studies (Paper Presentations, Masters' theses, Doctoral Dissertations) on all the instruments currently in use or being developed. Please contact Donna Kaiser if you have information you would like to contribute.
Art therapist educators, practitioners, researchers, students and others will find the Art Therapy to be an invaluable tool in their work.
Please click here to view The Arrington Visual Preference Test (AVPT)
Horovitz, E.G. (2002). Rochester, NY: Julia Production, 6-minute film: Designed by Dr. Ellen Horovitz, allows the viewer to glean an understanding of how to conduct the BATA both as an administrant and clinician. The videos take the guesswork out of what materials to use and how to work with thus projective assessment battery. Approximately 6 minutes in length. Available in CD-ROM or VHS - $35 (US)
To order: send check or money order made out to Dr. Ellen Horovitz. Please add $3.00 for shipping and handling. New York State residents add 8% sales tax. Allow two weeks for delivery.
Mail to: Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz, ATR-BC, c/o Julia Productions, 28 Laureldale Drive, Pittsford, NY USA 14534
Horovitz, E.G. (2002). Rochester, NY: Julia Production, 6-minute film: Designed by Dr. Ellen Horovitz, allows the viewer to glean an understanding of how to conduct the BATA both as an administrant and clinician. The videos take the guesswork out of what materials to use and how to work with thus projective assessment battery. Approximately 6 minutes in length. Available in CD-ROM or VHS - $35 (US)
To order: send check or money order made out to Dr. Ellen Horovitz. Please add $3.00 for shipping and handling. New York State residents add 8% sales tax. Allow two weeks for delivery.
Mail to: Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz, ATR-BC, c/o Julia Productions, 28 Laureldale Drive, Pittsford, NY USA 14534
For information regarding the Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) and current research visit www.diagnosticdrawingseries.com
For information regarding upcoming trainings, visit www.diagnosticdrawingseries.info/
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For other questions and requests for digital packets and training, contact Barry M. Cohen, ATR-BC, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Clinician/Researcher's Packet - Digital Version: $20.
Includes: Handbook, Drawing Inquiry, Rating Guide, Resource List, Style Guide, How to write up an evaluation, researcher number, Master List, sample release form, and Drawing Analysis Form. Basic (single page) DDS instructions in Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish available upon request; other language translations sought. Your packet order helps defray costs, including maintaining the DDS Archive and offering the annual DDS Research Award.
The DDS Archives is housed in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, and is available by appointment to students and professionals seeking to do research and/or publish papers involving the DDS. The DDS Research Award ($300) is made annually in October, pending qualified submissions. DDS supervision, in person or online, is also available. For further information, contact Barry M. Cohen ( firstname.lastname@example.com).
THE SILVER DRAWING TEST AND DRAW A STORY (SDT and DAS)
For information regarding the SDT and DAS, contact Rawley Silver, Ed.D., ATR-BC, HLM. firstname.lastname@example.com or www.rawleysilver.com.
A new book, Identifying Risks for Aggression and Depression Through Metaphors, published in 2010, proposes that responses to the Drawing from Imagination task in the DAS and SDT assessments tend to be metaphors that can serve as a first step in identifying children, adolescents, and adults at risk for harming others or themselves. Respondents tend to perceive the same stimulus-drawings differently. They also tend to represent the subjects they choose as metaphors for themselves and others. Responses are assessed for their emotional content and self-images, and if they suggest humorous intent, their use of humor, using rating scales that range from strongly negative, such as suicidal or homicidal fantasies, scored 1 point; to strongly positive, such as caring relationships or playful humor (5 points). This book also reviews previous studies of reliability and validity, procedures, and findings. It includes scored examples of metaphorical responses, as well as rating scales and a sample test booklet. $25.00
ISBN: 0-9633740-28 Purple Finch Press 109 Warwick Rd, Dewitt, NY. 13214 Phone (315) 445 8087 or email email@example.com
The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story, Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills, published in 2007 by Routledge, N.Y.and Taylor & Francis, U.K.is the 5th edition of the SDT, and the 4th edition of DAS. These evaluation tools use stimulus drawings to elicit responses that provide access to thoughts, feelings, and fantasies. They are also used as pre- and post-tests to assess changes in emotional states and cognitive skills. This book includes quantitative and qualitative findings including reliability and validity, normative data, developmental techniques, outcome studies, responses by children, adolescents, and adults in clinical and non-clinical settings, and the use of these assessments by practitioners in the USA, as well as Russia, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, and Turkey. The Appendices include testing materials and scoring forms for personal use.
The SDT uses Predictive Drawing and Drawing from Observation to assess concepts of space and sequential order, as well as Drawing from Imagination to assess concepts of class inclusion, the three concepts said to be fundamental in mathematics, reading, and everyday life (Piaget). DAS includes techniques to screen for masked depression and reactive or predatory aggression that may lead to violence in schools and suicide among students.
For information regarding the FSA and current research visit www.art-therapy.us/FSA.htm.
The FSA was developed from 1998-2000 and was presented at the 31st Annual AATA conference in Albuquerque, NM, November 2001, as a paper entitled: "Projective Drawing Research: Assessing the Abilities of Children and Adolescents with Multiple Disabilities."
The FSA needs to be tested for reliability and validity, and a rating scale has yet to be developed, so art therapists are encouraged to conduct research on this assessment tool.
Although the tool was originally designed for use with clients who have communication disorders and are non-verbal, it is also applicable for use with clients of all age groups and cultural backgrounds. Clinician's Packet: $20. Includes: Assessment Templates (Adobe PDF file), FSA Administration & Rating Guidelines, Reference List.
Researcher's Packet: $20. Includes: Assessment Templates (Adobe PDF file), FSA Administration & Rating Guidelines, Reference List, researcher number, sample informed consent form.
Please send orders to: Donna Betts, 728 Beard Street, Tallahassee, FL 32303. The packet is sent via email.
Reference: Betts, D. J. (2003). Developing a projective drawing test: Experiences with the Face Stimulus Assessment (FSA). Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 20(2), 77-82.
For information regarding the LECATA and current research, contact: Myra F. Levick, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, 21675 Cypress Rd. 15G, Boca Raton, FL 33433, (561) 487-3588, Web site: http://www.childrenatrisk.biz
The LECATA was developed in 1986 at the request of Janet Bush, then Director of the Miami-Dade Clinical Art Therapy Program for Exceptional Children. It is based on the original work described in Myra Levick's text, They could not talk and so they drew: Children's styles of coping and thinking and was copyrighted in 1989.
The LECATA has been revised twice, most recently in 2000. In 1998, Dr. Levick's research proposal to norm the test was accepted in the School District of Palm Beach County.
Upon completion of the data analysis the Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment: A normative study was submitted for publication. AuthorHouse published this work in 2009 and it can be obtained from the publisher, www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
Summary of Study:
In developing this normative study, two hypotheses were stated:
Null Hypothesis 1: There will be no statistically significant difference between the chronological age and the age performance in the cognitive and emotional domains overall and on each task.
The 2 tailed T-test, which assumes the two samples have been drawn from the same population, was utilized to test this hypothesis.
Hypothesis 2: There will be a statistically significant relationship between the chronological age and the age performance in the cognitive and emotional domains overall and on each task.
The Pearson r (2 tailed) was utilized to test this hypothesis.
In reviewing the data analysis and the results of these two statistical tests for each age group, it is apparent that neither hypothesis was proven consistently and there are a number of surprises along the way.
The two hypotheses stated above were proven statistically only sporadically in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th grade populations. However, more often than not, throughout much of the data, the mean scores for all tasks, with the exception of task #3, fell within 1 year on the half year perimeters defined in the LECATA. The first question to arise is the structure of the LECATA one that provides accurate data based on a normative study? The documented use of the utilization of this instrument for over more than 2 decades in the Miami-Dade School District and throughout the country has demonstrated that this is a valuable assessment in identifying levels of emotional and cognitive development with a wide range of impaired child and adult populations. The data provided in this assessment has also been demonstrated to serve as a viable basis for establishing treatment goals and documenting progress. All of the children in this study have been identified as normal according to criteria established by the Palm Beach County School District. This criteria provides concurrent validity for the significant results in this project.
The next question to be asked is the data from this normative study consistent with the literature identifying normal and cognitive development? As stated above the LECATA is based on the theoretical constructs of Piaget, Lowenfeld, A. Freud, Kellogg. (see Chapter 1)
After meetings and discussions with professionals educating our children I believe that perhaps we are seeing a new norm. And the suggested basis or causes for these new norms were defined by every group I met to be emanating from the growing divorce rate over the past twenty years and, what we have come to call, the latch key child. This child being one whose parents are either both working, separated or divorced, and comes home to an empty house after school. Surfing the internet on these two subjects is overwhelming and this work cannot begin to list the number of references discussing the impact of these two grave changes in our society. I found that there are services listed to check that Latch key Children are safe: articles on the number of children that are in libraries alone after school; impact of divorce on young children and adolescents. I believe one must also consider the impact the media, I pods and computers and computer games have on traditional
For information regarding the PPAT, contact: Linda Gantt, PhD, ATR-BC
PPAT Rating Manual: The Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) copyright 1997by Linda Gantt, PhD, ATR-BC, & Carmello Tabone, MA, ATR
The FEATS scales rate on 14 different pictorial elements of the PPAT.
Also available: teaching cards, trauma treatment manual, video. contact Gargoyle Press
For information regarding the UPAP and requests for training, contact: Dr. Gladys Agell, ATR-BC
This is a list of literature (published and unpublished) on the research that has been conducted (reliability & validity studies, normative studies, etc.) to further validate/study art therapy assessment rating manuals.
The Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS)
Original sources:
Gantt, L. (1990). A validity study of the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) for diagnostic information in patients' drawings. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Gantt, L. (1993). Correlation of psychiatric diagnosis and formal elements in art work (chapter 16). In F. Bejjani (Ed.), Current research in arts medicine. Pennington, NJ: A Cappella Books.
Gantt, L., & Tabone, C. (1998). The Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale: The Rating Manual. Morgantown, WV: Gargoyle Press


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Diane Paulus Talks The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS, from Dream to Fruition
Diane Paulus (Director) Artistic Director of the A.R.T., where her directing credits include: Prometheus Bound, Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera (premiered in Monaco in September 2010), Johnny Baseball, Best of Both Worlds and The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran for six years Off-Broadway. Her recent theater credits include The Public Theater's revival of Hair on Broadway (2009 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical, nominated for eight Tony Awards including Best Director, as well as winner of a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Musical). Other recent work includes Kiss Me, Kate (Glimmerglass Opera) and Lost Highway (ENO co-production with the Young Vic). Opera credits include Il Mondo Della Luna (Gotham Chamber Opera at the Hayden Planetarium), Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Turn Of The Screw, Cosi fan tutte; and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, L'incoronazione di Poppea and Orfeo at the Chicago Opera Theater. Diane is a Professor of the Practice of Theater at Harvard University. This year Paulus was named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Boston" by Boston Magazine and received the 2011 Elliot Norton Award for Best Director for her work on Prometheus Bound, Johnny Baseball and Hair. She is a recent recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Boston Conservatory.
What about The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS captivated you as something you wanted to work on?
I remember seeing Porgy and Bess at the New York City Opera and I had two memories from that experience: one was being overwhelmed by the number of hit songs in this opera – it was like hit after hit after hit; the other memory is tears streaming down my face in scene two, with 'My Man's Gone.' I was seeing it in an opera house, but I was thinking about this story and the characters and the emotion, hoping maybe I would get to direct this opera. Simultaneously, I was thinking this is an incredible piece of theatre. We all can identify with the different characters in the show and their will to survive and, ultimately, the power of love.
Your previous work includes a number of classic theatre and opera productions. Is there something in the musical form that has been catching your attention and interest?
I think we know The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS today mostly as an opera, because that's where most audiences have seen it — certainly in the last forty years. The more I've learned about the show and understanding the roots of it premiering in Boston and then on Broadway, Gershwin's impulse to write a uniquely American opera that mashes up jazz with his incredible classical landscape of the musical world — but doing it in a way that is story driven and about characters and people in this community — all of that makes this great theatre, which is great theatre with music, which is a musical.
What have been some of the challenges you've had to face during this process?
There's nothing like working on a great masterwork. It's like working on Shakespeare. It just makes you better as an artist because you're in the presence of such a work of genius. What's been challenging and at the same time thrilling has been this process over the last year and a half of looking at the original, and working side by side with Suzan-Lori Parks, who is adapting the book and alongside Diedre Murray, our musical adapter maintaining the integrity of the score, while trying to get to the essence of the piece and heighten what works so beautifully in the piece. The challenge has been how to get inside the original and make choices we think strengthen the piece without disturbing the original. That has been a joy.
We have rigorously gotten into a process of determining when we need to sing and when we need to speak. In opera there is recitative and you sing all the dialogue. In this version we're finding places where maybe we speak the lines, but we're not making decisions where all the songs are songs and all the recites are dialogue. We're trying to maintain the flow of music, and some of the most gorgeous music is in these recites, these little flowers of musical moments. Finding the style for the piece that feels heightened and earned by the drama and not just virtuosic singing. Again, it's been like Shakespeare – when are we in prose and when are we in verse? It's its own world that once you are inside that overture.
There is an incredible team of artists behind this revival. Tell me about working with the Suzan-Lori Parks, Diedre Murray, the designers, and the cast.
I have always wanted to work with Suzan-Lori Parks. I've been a huge fan of hers over the years, and now, to have spent the last year and a half with her inside this classic work excavating it, talking about it, and watching her get inside every character… it has been amazing and totally inspiring. Diedre Murray is a long-time collaborator of mine, so to bring her and Suzan-Lori Parks to a new project working on Gershwin, was a perfect opportunity. Diedre is a hybrid artist herself, so I think she really gets what's special about this score. And Ron Brown is a revelation to me – I've admired his work for years and he's such a deep soul, connected almost ancestrally to his way of movement and his style of working. I always felt a director throws out an idea and the cast gives another and together, we make a third thing that is better than either of our ideas. I'm always looking for a cast that will be creative partners in this process, and this is an extraordinary cast. Their interest in the history of the show is incredible. I think everybody involved feels like we are part of the next chapter of the history of this piece. That's daunting but it's also inspiring, and it makes us all apply ourselves in a way that looks backwards and deals reverentially with the past as well as thinking about who are these people today and what is the meaning of the story for a modern audience today.
What are you hoping audiences will experience when they come to the show?
My biggest dream is that people say 'Oh my god! That music is incredible! The story is so beautiful and emotional in meaning… And those characters!' I think that's the power of musical theatre. It's not just the great music. It's the great book, the great characters. It's who you're rooting for. It's the love stories. It's that dimension of the experience of Porgy and Bess that I'm hoping audiences will come and walk away with. I'm also hoping that the next generation of audience arrives at the theatre and they can feel like this show was written yesterday… a visceral, powerful, immediate, moving story about this couple and this love story, this community and how they all struggled to survive.
Tell us about starting the show at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.).
Porgy and Bess originally began in Boston. You read these anecdotes of Gershwin walking the Boston Common after the first performance on September 30, 1935, and pulling his hair out making 45 minutes of cuts. This very special moment in the history of Porgy and Bess – this cultural moment for Boston where this show was born – it's an amazing circle to come back and be working on it here again. At the American Repertory Theater I feel we're dedicated to the American canon, and there is no greater work of the classical American cannon than Porgy and Bess. No question, it is one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century, and distinctly American. It doesn't get any better than this!
Your last show on Broadway was HAIR. Tell me about returning with The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS.
It's funny to me, HAIR couldn't be more different than Porgy and Bess in some ways. But in other ways, HAIR is obviously about a tribe, and ensemble, and so is Porgy and Bess. You have these title characters, this love story, but Porgy and Bess is about Catfish Row, about this community. I've been thinking about Porgy and Bess in a way like a Greek tragedy: there's a chorus, it's about a community, big emotions, high stakes. The process has been very much working as a company – every person on stage understanding every detail of who they represent on Catfish Row and the power of the community. So, it's different and it's the same. It's a glorious ensemble piece, and it's also the thrill of living inside great, great music. For me, working on this opera as a musical theatre piece is putting together everything I love about working in theater – incredible scores, incredible music, a collaborative team of writers and choreographers and a cast, creating.
Another similarity with HAIR – we're working very simply. That's my interest, is bodies and actors, and how we can create drama in space without a lot of realistic scenery, and that was the way I worked on HAIR. It's so much about the actors and how they transform space and tell story through their bodies in space. That process is central to what this has become.
Winner of the Tony for Best Musical Revival, Porgy and Bess features such classic songs from the Gershwins' legendary score as "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So," and "I Got Plenty of Nothing," plus a cast led by five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald.


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