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Because of her incredible global audience, she is one of science's most potent advocates. Here's my interview with Elise: You've just passed two million "likes" - that's a greater reach than most big media organisations. How does it feel? It's overwhelming. It's very overwhelming. I don't know how much you know about how it started, but I was just bored and interested; I never anticipated getting even a hundred, a thousand – two million is very scary! Does it feel pressured? It is, obviously. I haven't got any media or journalism training, [and] it is a lot of responsibility; if I show something inaccurate or wrong, it goes out to two million people. There is a lot of pressure involved. I live in fear of making a typo. Has anything ever gone wrong? I've never shown things that were inaccurate. Somebody tried to troll Reddit and faked a Neil Degrasse Tyson quote, and I shared it not realising it was a fake. With quotes it's much more difficult to track; it's something that happened to go online, and it's difficult to keep track of who said what and when. I'm using quotes less now. Where do most of your posts come from? Do you use Reddit? I don't actually use Reddit myself – but a lot of my fans do, and they post on the wall. A lot of it is news, and that comes from various different news sites. We get a lot of stuff posted on the wall, and I create a lot myself. You recently said that your "this week in science" feature was your most shared. Yeah. It got a mention on [popular American comedy podcast] the Joe Rogan Experience; and Richard Dawkins' website reposted it. How did that feel? Good! Really good, actually. The person who mentioned it on the Joe Rogan experience, [neuroscientest and science journalist Cara Santa Maria] is a hero of mine, so that was very exciting. How did the idea come up? I used to post all this stuff to my personal page, one day a friend of mine said "you're clogging up my news feed, you should make a page" – and I got a thousand "likes" in the first day. Why do you think it has been so successful? Does the name have something to do with it? I think the name is a big part of it. The nice thing about the name is that you can't ignore it, you have to go and look. A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing. How much time does it take to run the page? It is a lot of time. It is kind of an obsession, to be honest, and I'm lucky that I work in social media and I got my job through [running the page], so they don't mind me doing it at work. It's hard to put a number of hours on it, because it's kind of constant in the background. But: a lot. Where next? We're looking at making a website at the moment; somewhere I can post longer articles. It's not that you don't have space on Facebook, but I think I'd lose people's attention. Hmm. People have been asking about merchandise for months and months, but I'm wary about it. Then there's the Science Channel thing. There's lots of things people want for the page, but at the moment it's something I do for fun. I don't want it to change direction too much, I don't want it to become something different. I think it's fun, and I think people learn along the way, because they enjoy it. Has the site led to other things? We're in the middle of talking to the Science Channel about a deal, that's very exciting. Not anything huge; a nine-month thing. Short educational videos, only online, testing the waters. Then maybe it will develop into more in the future. I got my job... I work for LabX Media doing their social media, and a whole bunch of pages for them, I got that job because of this page. Do you feel you are a representative for good science, against bad? It is difficult, because we get a lot of nonsense posted on our wall. All this stuff about about when the world's going to end, or that we are going into some "photonic belt"... I do feel the need to respond to that. I try to let it go, but after the fiftieth message it becomes very frustrating. I'm trying not to, because it's good not to give these people a platform... but there are times when it becomes very frustrating. Like the picture you ridiculed the other day of the supposed planetary alignment over the pyramids? Yes. People were posting it to my wall fifty million times a day. It is frustrating. There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking: it isn't real! Stop it! Are you in a good position to debunk this sort of thing? Yes. [Newspapers like] the Guardian are too, but the thing about social media is the virality; that kind of reach is incredible. But a lot of pseudo-science spreads online too. All the stuff about the Mayans: that spread online. Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themselves doctor something-or-other, and then you look them up, and they're trying to make it sound like something it's not. There's this entire field that's adding the word "quantum" to everything. It doesn't even make sense in that context. The latest thing is people talking about the "photonic belt" that the earth is apparently going to pass through – it doesn't mean anything, but it sounds like science – "photons" – so people take it seriously. Do you want to be debunking pseudo-science more? I want to, but I think that's not as much fun. And it gives them a platform that they don't deserve. 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When my Grandpa was alive he took great pride each Christmas in sourcing a nice smoked Scottish salmon and each year would tell us, in some depth, why this was not the same thing as a Scottish smoked salmon. It's been fifteen years since his last smoked salmon monologue and I hope he would be pleased that we've kept his traditional salmon starter each Christmas.
Instead of smoked salmon though I cure a salmon. It's cheaper than buying smoked and is ideal at Christmas as it takes ten minutes to prepare and then you can just forget about it in the fridge until you serve it.
I originally got this recipe from a Donna Hay Christmas magazine that came free with Living Etc. five or six years ago and due to my family's hankering have made it each year since. Five of the twelve family members joining us for Christmas dinner on Sunday have made a point of double checking with me in advance that it will be served again this year.
- 1kg side of salmon, pin boned (or ask the fishmonger to do that bit)
- Bunch of dill
- 500g rock salt
- 1 tbsp white peppercorns
- 2 tbsp castor sugar
- 1.5 tbsp water
Cover a dish or tray with enough clingfilm to wrap the salmon in, I recommend using one with sides as it can get quite juicy. Lay the salmon in the centre and rub the chopped dill into the flesh.
In a food processor (or large pestle and mortar if you're in need of some stress relief) combine the rest of the ingredients and then pack the mixture around the salmon, making sure all the flesh is covered.
Wrap the salmon as tightly as you can in the clingfilm, using another layer for security.
Place in the fridge for at least 24 hours with a tray on top and something heavy on top of that to compress it (the turkey is good or wine bottles).
When you're ready to serve remove the salt and finely slice the salmon. I normally have this with rye bread, horseradish mayonnaise and the obligatory lemon quarters.


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|This is the article on the manga chapter. For the episode, head to Reinforcements Arrive.
"Reinforcements Arrive…!!" (増援到着…!!, Zōen Tōchaku…!!, Viz: Reinforcements…!!) is chapter 559 of the original Naruto manga.
Mū finishes summoning Kabuto's trump card, whose power makes the coffins lid burst open. The figure gets out of the coffin, figuring Nagato grew. Mū is impressed that someone would bring this person back with Impure World Reincarnation. The summon is confused, thinking it had been brought back with Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique. Naruto finishes off the White Zetsu attacking Hinata. Neji and Kiba notice how Naruto is different, and wonder if it's really him. Hinata is convinced it's Naruto, and has her confidence shaken by the fact the one she wishes to protect ends up protecting her instead. Naruto reassures her that she's strong, and begins fighting the White Zetsu. Kakashi cuts through Fuguki Suikazan, creating an opening for Sai to seal him. Guy says there are three more reincarnated shinobi to be sealed. Lee says he'll cover for Sai. Many White Zetsu arrive at the Third Division's location, but so does one of Naruto's clones. Naruto decides to go for quality instead of quantity. Another clone reaches Mifune's division, preparing to fight Kimimaro and Chiyo, who notice his growth. A clone reaches Mei's group and begins fighting Black Zetsu. Inoichi receives reports from all divisions, that Naruto is identifying and defeating all White Zetsu. Shikaku thinks they should focus their efforts on finding and capturing Madara. Ao detects a presence near Gaara's division. A local sensor detects Mū's split double, Ōnoki is impressed he managed to do that just before being sealed. Mū is joined by a reincarnated Madara Uchiha, causing all to wonder who is the man behind the mask, leading the opposing side in the war.


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Development/Tutorials/Games/Palapeli Slicers
|Tutorial Series
|Programming with the Palapeli API
|Introduction to KDE4 programming
|What's Next
|Further Reading
|API reference for Palapeli::Pattern, Palapeli::PatternConfiguration
This tutorial shows you how to create a pattern for Palapeli, that is: a plugin for the Palapeli libraries that describes an algorithm to split an image into pieces.
The pattern we will be constructing is quite easy: It splits an image into two equally sized pieces. To give an example of configurability, we let the user define whether the image is splitted horizontally or vertically.
A pattern plugin consists of two classes. The first one (derived from Palapeli::PatternConfiguration) tells Palapeli what features this pattern plugin has and which configuration values it needs. The second one (derived from Palapeli::Pattern) does the actual slicing.
The code: mypattern.h
- ifndef MYPATTERN_H
- define MYPATTERN_H
- include <Palapeli/Pattern>
- include <Palapeli/PatternConfiguration>
class MyPattern : public Palapeli::Pattern
MyPattern(const QString& type);
virtual ~MyPattern() {}
virtual int estimatePieceCount() const;
virtual void doSlice(const QImage& image);
QString m_type;
class MyPatternConfiguration : public Palapeli::PatternConfiguration
MyPatternConfiguration(QObject* parent = 0, const QVariantList& args = QVariantList());
virtual ~MyPatternConfiguration() {}
virtual Palapeli::Pattern* createPattern() const;
- endif // MYPATTERN_H
As described above, we have declared two classes deriving from the base classes Palapeli::Pattern and Palapeli::PatternConfiguration. For this simple example, we do only reimplement constructors, destructors and some pure virtual functions.
The code: mypattern.cpp
- include "mypattern.h"
- include <QImage>
- include <KLocalizedString>
- include <KPluginFactory>
- include <KPluginLoader>
K_PLUGIN_FACTORY(MyPatternFactory, registerPlugin<MyPatternConfiguration>();)
MyPattern::MyPattern(const QString& type)
: Palapeli::Pattern()
, m_type(type)
int MyPattern::estimatePieceCount() const
return 2;
void MyPattern::doSlice(const QImage& image)
int pieceWidth, pieceHeight;
QImage leftPiece, rightPiece;
if (m_type == i18n("Vertical"))
pieceWidth = image.width() / 2;
pieceHeight = image.height();
//create piece images
leftPiece = image.copy(QRect(0, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
rightPiece = image.copy(QRect(pieceWidth, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
//add the pieces to the puzzle scene
addPiece(leftPiece, QRectF(0, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
addPiece(rightPiece, QRectF(pieceWidth, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
//define a neighbor relation between the pieces
addRelation(0, 1, QPointF(pieceWidth, 0)); //0 and 1 are the consecutive indices of the pieces
else //m_type == i18n("Horizontal")
//like in the other branch, only with other metrics
pieceWidth = image.width();
pieceHeight = image.height() / 2;
leftPiece = image.copy(QRect(0, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
rightPiece = image.copy(QRect(0, pieceHeight, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
addPiece(leftPiece, QRectF(0, 0, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
addPiece(rightPiece, QRectF(0, pieceHeight, pieceWidth, pieceHeight));
addRelation(0, 1, QPointF(0, pieceHeight));
MyPatternConfiguration::MyPatternConfiguration(QObject* parent, const QVariantList& args)
: Palapeli::PatternConfiguration(parent, args)
addProperty("splitting", Palapeli::PatternConfiguration::String, i18n("Splitting direction:"));
QVariantList options; options << i18n("Horizontal") << i18n("Vertical");
addPropertyParameters("splitting", options);
Palapeli::Pattern* MyPatternConfiguration::createPattern() const
return new MyPattern(property("splitting").toString());
We will start with the MyPatternConfiguration class, because this is the logical entry point. The pattern configuration class is created when Palapeli is started. (The constructor arguments are necessary for the plugin loader, you will not need to bother with them as long as you pass them to the base class constructor.) Its job is to manage the pattern's settings.
In this case, one is able to configure whether the image should be splitted in horizontal or in vertical direction. A configuration option is described by a property. (These have nothing to do with QObject's property system.) Properties are defined with a data type. Note that property data is always passed as QVariant, the data type does only determine which widgets should be used in the configuration interface for the pattern. Legal data types include String (represented by a KLineEdit) or Integer (through KIntSpinBox). The creation of those widgets is done in the Palapeli::PatternConfiguration class, you do only need to define the properties correctly.
When we define our "splitting" property, we assign the data type String to it (from the Palapeli::PatternConfiguration::DataType enumeration). Also, we give some parameters to this property. It depends on the data type how these parameters are used. In this case, the parameters define a list of valid inputs to this property. Therefore, not a line edit is used in the configuration, but a combo box, which limits the user input to the given strings.
When the user has configured its game (and therefore the pattern), the Palapeli game engine will call the createPattern method to create a Palapeli::Pattern object. If you have added properties, read them and pass them to the constructor of your pattern object.
Now we have a Palapeli::Pattern instance. Its main purpose is the doSlice method which takes a method. In this implementation, we copy the left and the right part (or the upper and the lower part) of the image to get two pieces. To add these pieces to Palapeli's puzzle scene, use the base class' addPiece method. It will properly report it to Palapeli.
After we have added all pieces, we need to define neighbor relations between pieces. Neighbor relations are used to snap pieces together when they're near enough. Consider three pieces in a row: If piece 1 is near piece 3, nothing should snap because they do not have a common edge. If piece 1 is moved near piece 2, these should snap together. Therefore, we define a relation between piece 1 and piece 2 (and piece 2 and piece 3, respectively). The relation is added through the addRelation function. In our case (line 29), we define a relation between the first piece (index 0) and the second piece (index 1). The piece indices are based on the order in which you added the pieces to the scene, and start at zero.
Integrate into Palapeli: mypattern.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=The best KDE hacker
[email protected]
Name=My pattern
Name[de]=Mein Schnittmuster
Comment=The best pattern in the world
Comment[de]=Das beste Schnittmuster auf der ganzen Welt
We need to tell the Palapeli library that there is a new plugin out there. We need a desktop entry file like shown here. You can mostly copy everything you see here; as long as you keep the fields X-KDE-Library and X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name in sync with the library name (see next section). You should not change the PatternIdentifier field because that will invalidate saved games created with previous versions. Note also that the name is used in the "New puzzle" dialog to identify this pattern. (It can be translated; for example, a German translation has been added in the above example.)
Build everything: CMakeLists.txt
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
find_package(Palapeli REQUIRED)
add_definitions(${QT_DEFINITIONS} ${KDE4_DEFINITIONS})
include_directories(${KDE4_INCLUDES} ${PALAPELI_INCLUDE_DIR})
kde4_add_plugin(mypattern ${mypattern_SRCS})
target_link_libraries(mypattern ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS} palapelipattern)
install(TARGETS mypattern DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
install(FILES mypattern.desktop DESTINATION ${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR})
Everything of this is pretty straightforward if you have previous experience with CMake (and this is what I assume). Make sure you compile everything as a plugin, and install it into the plugin directory. After having installed the plugin, run kbuildsycoca4. This will locate your plugin, and enable Palapeli to use it.


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- Pitching - Surprise! The pitching is the main issue. Sure the loss of BJ Ryan is a major factor, but the biggest factor is that beyond Roy Halladay, no other starter seems to be able to go past the fifth inning (I realize that Ohka went into the eighth last night). This puts a heavy strain on the young guys in the pen. Toronto needs another arm. But how? Hard choices will need to be made.
- The Mental Game - Unless the Jays are at the plate, we don't see much intensity from the team. This is squarely a management issue. Either they have players that aren't capable of being in the game mentally, or the management doesn't know how to keep them in the game. Maybe it's time for a change at the head of the team. We love Gibby and value the job that he did through some tough times, but we have the feeling that he is a better manager for a group of loveable losers, than a team with playoff expectations.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
It's Time To Panic!!!
2 comments:
- Jim Briggs said...
First off, I'm a great fan of your blog and of Dave Stieb (wore his #37 in all my ball as a kid).
Second, I am not even sure I like Gibby as a manager of lovable losers. Give me Matthau any day if that's what you're looking for. Plain and simple, Gibbons can't get much out of limited talent and he's not getting much more out of AL-East competitive talent. I wouldn't mind seeing him, and a trainer who has overseen I-don't-know-how-many guys with throwing arm injuries, canned pronto in hopes of saving this season. Me, I'd snap up Girardi before the Yanks start looking too long and hard at him. That, or we finally give Ernie his shot.
Keep blogging, btw, it's too good.
- May 6, 2007 at 10:21 AM
- shortwaveboy said...
Thanks for the positive feedback! We enjoy writing the blog and hearing from fellow Jays fans like yourself.
I agree with you on Girardi. I think he is just the type of leader that this team needs.I also think that the odds are good that we'll see a new face soon after todays loss to Texas.
- May 6, 2007 at 5:46 PM


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There has been a surfeit of plays and books about the Roman Emperor Caligula, all arriving at the same conclusion: he was pretty terrible. Caligula ruled for just four years, yet his reputation for cruelty, sexual deviance and financial irresponsibility still persists today. He built a bridge across the Bay of Naples out of boats. He executed countless people, including his uncle Tiberius' grandson. He funded his lavish lifestyle by extorting prominent Roman citizens. And while Caligula never officially made his favorite horse Incitatus a Roman senator, Roman historian Suetonius wrote that he provided the pampered equine with "a stall of marble, a manger of ivory, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones."
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"I wish the Roman people had but a single neck."
"[My grandmother looks like] a Ulysses in petticoats."
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Interesting article. This is something humanity as a whole must address and soon.
Take for example that you need something like 14 kilos of grain to produce 1 kilogram of beef. You could feed a lot more people with the grain than with the beef.
However, meat consumption is rising in many countries (especially places in Asia where increased wealth means increased meat consumption). In countries like Taiwan and Japan meat was an occasional luxury, but now people eat meat three meals a day.
Whether this happens or not remains to be seen (I doubt it will).Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.


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While doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing war in Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.
Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be turning military service into a male sexual fantasy land, where recruits are paid actual money to cohabitate with drunk, stoned, horny teenage girls.
UCSF scientists tested and surveyed 2,157 female U.S. Marine recruits — out of 2,288 possible respondents — with an average age of 19. Researchers found that the young women were more than twice as likely as non-military young women to be infected with venereal diseases. And the recruits were prone to engage in behaviors likely to get them sick again.
The sexually-precocious female recruits "perceived that sex is more likely and enjoyable under the influence of alcohol, and were heavy alcohol and drug users before recruit training entry," according to a November 2008 UCSF study titled "Relationships among Sociodemographic Markers, Behavioral Risk, and sexually transmitted infections in U.S. Female Marine Corps Recruits."
In 2005 a Colorado high school journalist named David McSwane showed that military recruiters were willing to help him cheat drug tests and falsify academic records so he could qualify to join the military. Stories since then have suggested the armed forces have become even more desperate, venturing far and wide for recruits willing to enter dangerous battle zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Apparently, that means finding and signing up girls with low self esteem.
The Marines seemed to find their most sexually adventurous female recruits in rural areas, where a disproportionate number of them whiled away their high school years having drunken, stoned, unprotected sex, according to the UCSF report.
"Young women enter recruit training for the military with high levels of STIs [sexually transmitted infections] and increased risk for acquisition of STIs including sex under the influence of alcohol or drugs, sex with a risky partner, and infrequent condom use," the UCSF study said.
This is great news for randy young men weighing a career in the Marines — as long as they're fastidious about wearing rubbers.
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"Washington has been the home of a number of very good comics and a few great ones (Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, Martin Lawrence). Erin Jackson could be next in line." —The Washington Post
Armed with a megawatt smile and a pocket full of dreams, Erin Jackson is poised to conquer the world of stand-up. In fact, she'd probably be well on her way to superstardom by now if her friends and family hadn't spent so many years hating on her dreams and stealing her joy.
Since first making a name for herself at colleges and east coast comedy clubs, Erin's warm, conversational style and relatable humor have helped to propel her onto the national stage. She has performed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and Comedy Central's "Live at Gotham," and she was a semifinalist on season 6 of NBC's "Last Comic Standing." Erin has appeared on VH-1, TBS and IFC, and has been panelist on pop-culture countdown shows, such as "Best Movie Kisses" and "Sexiest Hollywood Geeks." She was featured most recently on TV Guide Network's "StandUp in Stilettos," and is currently touring the country as part of the "Pumps & Punchlines" theatre tour.
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Counseling Psychology Career and Professional Resources
Alumni Spotlight: Kendra Morris-Jacobson, MA
February 13, 2010
A celebrity interview. A county fair. A teen's disappearance. An accidental shooting. A schizophrenic musician. A brain tumor. A chair-ridden giant. A court appearance. This list has all the components for a sensational best-seller. Yet, these are mini-snapshots from my career as a Lewis & Clark Counseling Psychology 94 alumnus.
Equipped with a BA in English literature from Gettysburg College, I entered graduate school with visions of tidy, office-based counseling. Instead, I have been privy to an array of eclectic adventures. I wish there were time and space to share the stories.
My graduate school internship at an outpatient psychiatry clinic evolved into a position offering individual, family and group counseling to depressed and suicidal youth under the supervision of an outstanding psychiatrist. After a few fruitful, dramatic years, the birth of my own children necessitated that I seek less intense work.
A switch to my present, part-time recruitment and outreach position in foster care adoption offers flexibility, and the blending of therapeutic and literary skills. While not as colorful as psychiatry, outreach is replete with thrills and surprises. For the last 15 years, I have contributed to organizations such as Boys & Girls Aid, Wendy's Wonderful Kids, and Voice for Adoption where my tasks have included: reading children's case files; evaluating adoption home studies; interviewing adoptive families and children; writing family stories, writing and and editing newsletters; pitching articles and ads to the media; speaking at community events; and much more.
My counseling psychology degree is critical, both for understanding and communicating clinical content, as well as for guiding sensitive interactions with clients, and with the public. Ethically, with over 120,000 foster children nationwide waiting for adoptive homes, including hundreds in Oregon, it is a cause I can advocate for unequivocally.
I'm happy to network or consult with Lewis and Clark Counseling Psychology students or alumni. On occasion, the Northwest Adoption Exchange and its partner program the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center are in need of volunteers or interns. Who knows, perhaps a new adventure is poised for you just around the corner!
Kendra Morris-Jacobson, MA


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Mirror Neurons, Individuation Spellcraft, and the Art of Shamanic Writing
"Don't scorn the word:
Poets, the world is noisy
and silent, only God speaks."
—Antonio Machado
Pornography and Shamanic Healing
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
—E.L. Doctorow
In 1992, Giacomo Rizzolatti and a team of neuroscientists accidentally discovered mirror neurons while experimenting on monkeys. The monkeys had their brains wired up in order to observe how motor neurons related to hand movements, and when a monkey picked up a peanut, the neuron fired. But to the team's surprise, the same motor neuron also fired when the monkey was watching a lab assistant pick up the peanut. Apparently, to the monkey's brain, seeing someone grabbing a peanut was a similar experience to grabbing the peanut itself. Action and perception were "tightly linked." The neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran believes that the discovery of mirror neurons for neuroscience is equivalent to the discovery of DNA for biology, and that the "fifth revolution" is the neuroscience revolution (following Copernican, Darwinian, Freudian, and Crick and Watson's discovery of DNA).
Before we look more closely at what mirror neurons are, I'd like to begin by citing an interesting demonstration of how they function, using for an example a subject we are all acquainted with—pornography. The following is from "Porn and Mirror Neurons," by Jonah Lehrer.
"But how does porn work? Why do humans (especially men) get so excited by seeing someone else have sex? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: watching porn triggers an idea (we start thinking about sex), which then triggers a change in our behavior (we become sexually aroused). This is how most of us think about thinking: sensations cause thoughts which cause physical responses. Porn is a quintessential example of how such a thought process might work.
"But this straightforward answer is probably wrong. Porn does not cause us to think about sex. Rather, porn causes to think we are having sex. From the perspective of the brain, the act of arousal is not preceded by a separate idea, which we absorb via the television or computer screen. The act itself is the idea. In other words, porn works by convincing us that we are not watching porn. We think we are inside the screen, doing the deed."
Now let's reframe this argument and apply it instead to a shamanic healing ritual.
How does shamanic ritual work? Why do humans get healed by seeing someone else perform a ritual? At first glance, the answer seems obvious: watching a ritual triggers an idea (we start thinking about healing), which then triggers a change (we are healed). This is how most of us think about thinking: sensations cause thoughts which cause physical responses. Shamanic ritual is a quintessential example of how such a thought process might work.
But this straightforward answer is probably wrong. Shamanic ritual does not cause us to think about being healed. Rather, shamanic ritual causes us to think we are doing the healing. From the perspective of the brain, the act of healing is not preceded by a separate idea, which we absorb via watching the shaman. The act itself is the healing. In other words, shamanic ritual works by convincing us that we are not watching a shamanic ritual. We think we are the shaman, doing the ritual.
This interpretative model can be applied to absolutely anything within the parameters of human experience; but what we are interested in applying it to here is writing, most specifically journal writing, which involves the observation of behavioral patterns. What are the ways in which writing can be used to hold a mirror to our psyches and develop empathy for ourselves, as well as for others? How is isolating ourselves from the input of others a means for self-examination and a way to become more integrated into the community? What is a group mind, how is it formed, what makes its hold upon us so complete, and how does writing help to break that hold? What is individuation, how does it pertain to finding our own unique "voice," as writer-programmers of our reality—and what does all this have to do with porno and shamanism?!
Stay tuned, all will be revealed.
Reality as a Language-Based Construct
"The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself). We should be able to hear this information, or rather narrative, as a neutral voice inside us. But something has gone wrong. All creation is a language and nothing but a language, which for some inexplicable reason we can't read outside and can't hear inside. So I say, we have become idiots. Something has happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this: arrangement of parts of the Brain is language. We are parts of the Brain; therefore we are language. Why, then, do we not know this? We do not even know what we are, let alone what the outer reality is of which we are parts. The origin of the word "idiot" is the word "private." Each of us has become private, and no longer shares the common thought of the Brain, except at a subliminal level. Thus our real life and purpose are conducted below our threshold of consciousness."
—Philip Dick, Valis
As many of us have long known (or are beginning to suspect), writing is a lot more than just marks on a page or pixels on a computer screen. Computer programming and html code are helping us to conceptualize reality as a language-based construct, and however foreign, even revolutionary, this idea is, it is not without its precedents. In fact, biology's discovery of DNA and genetic code has already established this idea for several decades, but because DNA is something few of us have direct knowledge of, it remains a largely abstract hypothesis. With computer programming, however, the idea that a series of letters could give rise to material reality—image—is something that we get to experience for ourselves every time we boot up our PC. We all know that code creates images, and images reflect (and can pass for) reality.
Once upon a time this idea—and most of all the possibility of applying it—was restricted to the few. Once upon a time only initiates were privy to the occult knowledge required to activate "junk DNA," raise the "Kundalini," and recalibrate consciousness from human to divine frequencies. In Gnostic tradition, this self-activation process was symbolically described as moving up the chain of planetary "Archons," using certain key words of power to get past each Archon or gatekeeper, until individual freedom was attained. These days, kids who don't know an archon from their elbow are playing video games which require certain clues and passwords to get past a series of obstacles, or "gatekeepers," in order to make it to "the next level." Without digressing any further into the sacred science of occultism, you might say there's been a progression from the magical tradition of spellcraft once reserved to the priestly caste, to government-sponsored biologists and neuroscientists tinkering with DNA and monkey brains, until today, when the oldest and most arcane art and science is being taught to pre-schoolers, and anyone with the time and patience to master computer-programming can summon occult forces and shape reality—via the power of words.
All of these various disciplines and media have one thing in common: language. Language is a series of symbols which only become meaningful once their meaning is agreed upon and they can be used to communicate. DNA, html code, god-names and video games are all metaphors, because in a reality that's interpreted (and therefore shaped) via language, everything is metaphor. So what are they all metaphors for? In simplest terms, they are metaphors for the human psyche, and the process being described is that of individuation, or, to use another metaphor, the alchemical transmutation of consciousness. This is the "real life and purpose" which (writer) Philip K. Dick intuited as being "conducted below our threshold of consciousness." It is happening right here, right now, beneath the surface and between the lines of our everyday narratives.


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Last winter, Dan Harmon, who was then the executive producer of the television sitcom Community, shared that he tried, "many times a season" to put star Alison Brie "in a situation, wardrobe-wise, that I know is going to end up as an animated GIF file!"[1] Those GIFs, which circulate on Tumblr and other social media networks that traffic in images, are frame-capture GIFs. Unlike other GIF types, frame-capture GIFs plainly collect and endlessly repeat a single pop cultural moment from movies, TV shows, sporting events, political occasions, newscasts, cartoons, or even video games. As GIFs are silent, text is used to share dialogue or help shepherd the meaning of a GIF. Frame-grab GIFs are low-quality, incessantly mobile things, they can be awkwardly cropped and their focus is always obviously legible. Somewhat counter to this are what Daniel Rourke has termed art GIFs,[2] which, while also frequently sourced from movies or television, contain higher resolutions and have a self-consciously highbrow pretention, usually focusing on subtler, "artistic" moments.
A frame-grab GIF
Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that "with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient machine, the sign that generates all consequent signs, the Frankenstein and the thinking computer that have the capacity to erase their authors and, even more significantly, to erase the labor of their authors."[3] Stewart's diagnosis of the filmic watching-state returns, in a modified form, with the frame-grab GIF. These GIFs are in some sense the ultimate in self-sufficiency, not merely in the eternal return of their endless loop, but also within what Rourke has called the co-ordination of "their own realm of correspondence."[4]
The quality of the frame-grab GIF is important. Borrowing insights from Hito Steyerl's analysis of the poor image, the creation and distribution of frame-grab GIFs "enables the user's active participation in the creation and distribution of content, it also drafts them into production. Users become editors, critics, translators, and (co)authors of poor images."[5] Perhaps due to their quality and size, frame-grab GIFs have necessarily abstracted authorship. They are deployed in variable contexts, as reactions, illustrations, or expressions. Art GIFs, on the other hand, are circulated to be admired. Their authorship is also more consistently policed, as their authors demand credit for their work.
An example of what Daniel Rourke terms an "art GIF" (via)
While Stewart's description of "the sign that generates all consequent signs" is one that erases authorship, the vernacular of frame-grab GIFs does something different. Instead of completely erasing authorship, the creation of frame-grab GIFs rearranges its tenets. Generally centered on a performer, framing the actor/actress in a context removed from the narrative flow of their source media. With their behavior on display, they carry a kind of performative authorial focus within the GIF. While the GIF is not by them, it is of them...


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This is the third in a four-part series on child sexual abuse. On Tuesday, a victim tells her story in the Aiken Standard.
Nelson Mandela, who was South Africa's first black president, once described education as "the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Education also is an important tool in the prevention of child sexual abuse.
Series: Advocacy center aids victims of child abuse"Children are taught to obey adults, and that is a good thing," said Gayle Lofgren, executive director of the Child Advocacy Center of Aiken County. "But kids also need to know there are times when it's appropriate for them to say no."
According to Lofgren, parents need tow warn their offspring about the threat of sexual abuse and teach them how to protect themselves from being molested.
"Sit down and talk with them about what kind of touching is OK and what kind of touching is not OK," she said. "Tell them a hug is OK if it's from somebody they want it from. But if they don't want a hug from someone, and they feel uncomfortable, tell them it's OK to say no. Then teach them how to say no in a nice way and let them do some role-playing exercises involving different situations."
Lofgren recommended a book called "The Swimsuit Lesson" to parents who are uneasy about discussing sexual abuse with their children. Written by Jon Holsten, a retired police sergeant and child sex crimes investigator in Colorado, the book teaches youngsters that it is inappropriate for someone to touch the parts of their bodies that are covered by their bathing suits. It also has a parents' guide offering advice about talking to children about sexual abuse.
"There are some really good pointers," Lofgren said.
Copies of "The Swimsuit Lesson" are available online at www.amazon.com.
In the Aiken County Public School District, guidance counselors are responsible for educating children about protecting themselves from sexual abuse, according to Gina Bassford, who is the district's liaison for counseling services. She said they follow a set of standards known as "The South Carolina Comprehensive Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program Model." Under those standards, counselors identify and explain appropriate and inappropriate touching to prekindergarten through fifth grade students as part of their efforts to teach them safety and survival skills.
"There is no mandate to specify how counselors cover that, so it gives them the freedom to tailor their guidance to their students; they are the ones who know their students best," Bassford said. "I know they particularly talk to children a lot about safety before they go home from school for the summer because the structure of their schedules change. They're with different caregivers and things like that."
At least two bills that address child sexual abuse education in the public schools have been introduced in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
One of those bills would make changes to South Carolina law to require school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction in sexual abuse and assault awareness. It also would require the State Board of Education to select or develop the instructional units that would be used in such education. Those units, according to the bill, should be appropriate for each age level from 4-year-old kindergarten through 12th grade.
The other bill would require the State Board of Education to develop curricula and other written materials to educate students, school personnel and parents and guardians about child sexual abuse. It also would require local school districts to maintain a list of school and community resources that provide services for children who may be victims of sexual abuse.
Both bills were referred to the House Education and Public Works Committee. The next step would be for those bills to be considered by that committee's K-12 Subcommittee, but that hadn't happened as of the end of last week, said Bill Taylor, a representative from Aiken County. The 2013 regular session of the 120th South Carolina General Assembly is scheduled to end June 6. There will be another regular session in 2014.
"Given the crunch of time, they probably won't be heard this year, but they could be heard starting next year," said Taylor, who is the 1st Vice Chairman of the Education and Public Works Committee and also is a member of the K-12 Subcommittee. "Because we're only in the first year of a two-year legislative meeting, bills can stay alive and keep moving or keep not moving as the case may be. It's not until the end of the second year that they all die."
While Taylor said he considers child sexual abuse education an important issue and he supports it, he wasn't sure bills addressing it were needed. According to Taylor, the State Department of Education provided him with information that many teachers in South Carolina had received training involving child sexual abuse education in recent years from an organization called Darkness to Light.
"I sometimes question whether it's necessary for the State Department of Education to develop curriculum; that's not really its job," Taylor said. "What is there to prevent the local school districts from taking this on and enhancing their programs if they don't think they're up to full speed? I thoroughly embrace home rule."
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TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: Dual-screen sporting revolution
Watching the big game on telly isn't what it used to be, with the integration of Twitter and Facebook now giving sports TV a real-time social dimension.
In the brave new world of contemporary sport-watching, the goalposts have moved. Watching the big game – once a simple matter of grabbing a beer and some chips and settling down in front of the television – has become increasingly active for those who wish it so.
The television – now a flat-screen, high-definition behemoth – is still pre-eminent, but a relatively new phenomenon has emerged to complement traditional viewership.
This is known as the 'second screen' and, as you might have guessed, it involves using a second device – such as a computer, tablet or smartphone – to allow interaction and engagement in addition to regular viewing.
The phenomenon is set to gather pace this year, given the ABC has partnered with CSIRO researchers to integrate Twitter and Facebook with TV shows.
In practice this will mean tweets about a show appearing over the TV image. The technology will also be able to recommend shows based on your past viewing behaviour and the viewing patterns of your Facebook friends.
Various studies have found between 68 per cent and 86 per cent of owners of second-screen devices use them while watching television. While not all of these are necessarily browsing content related to the program they are watching, the phenomenon is nevertheless very real.
Facilitating this already is a burgeoning range of apps such as: GetGlue, a check-in based, entertainment social network; Fango, a similar platform, used by Channel Seven during the recent Australian Open, and finally; WiO, which allows users to access information about products and services they see on the primary screen.
Broadcasters are also starting to supply content in multiple ways as seen in services such as Sky Go or C-Cast. Such services allow viewers to access exclusive content or content complementary to the main broadcast program.
Of course the advent of second-screen sport-watching has also created further traffic for the dominant social media networking services – Facebook and Twitter.
The defining moment in this space came a few weeks ago with Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. The broadcast of the New York Giants versus New England Patriots game attracted 111.3 million American viewers, making it the most watched show in the history of US television.
Such was the second-screen interaction that it was also declared the biggest social television event in history.
While the broadcast attracted a relatively small increase in viewers from the previous year (111 million to 111.3 million) the number of social commenters increased from 793,000 in 2011 to 5.4m in 2012. Similarly, there was a near-600 per cent growth in the number of actual comments on social media, with 12.2 million comments for the 2012 event as opposed to 1.8 million for 2011.
Twitter, with approximately 100 million active users and counting, dominated the social conversations during the game with 12,233 tweets per second recorded for the last three minutes of the match.
Last month's Australian Open tennis tournament also served to illustrate the rise of social media in sport, albeit at a lower level than the Super Bowl. As an early social media adopter (it was the first grand slam tournament to have its own Twitter account, in November 2008) the event now boasts more than 82,000 Twitter followers and more than 628,000 Facebook fans.
For the 2012 event a total of 222,813 tweets were sent using the #ausopen hashtag. The tournament's media team even created a Fan Centre leaderboard to rank the top ten male and female players according to their social media mentions. Both losing finalists in the tennis – Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova – took out social leaderboard titles with 69,511 and 30,222 mentions respectively.
But the rise of social sport-viewing is not limited to those watching in the comfort of their living rooms. Modern stadiums are increasingly being fitted out with technology that aims to transform the fan experience.
Consider the dual 2,100-inch (53.3 metres) HDTVs hanging less than 30 metres above the playing surface of Cowboy's Stadium in Arlington Texas. Or there's the pre-Rugby World Cup upgrade to Auckland's Eden Park that boosted mobile capacity and coverage in the stadium but also allowed event staff to direct fans to their seats and control digital menus at concession outlets via 300 well-placed monitors.
Better wi-fi in stadia also enables fan engagement through Twitter and Facebook and through innovative applications such as GetGlue's geographical location counterpart, Foursquare.
While we are yet to see uptake of second-screen viewing on the same scale as that experienced overseas, there's little doubt the Australian passion for sport and social media will continue to be linked in the future.
That won't be as competitors, of course, but as team mates.
Dave Arthur is a Senior Lecturer, Southern Cross Business School at Southern Cross University. This article first appeared in The Conversation. Republished with permission.


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Facebook sees the future — a 3-D virtual world where you feel as if you are hanging out with your friends rather than staring at their pictures.
To fulfill that vision, the company announced on Tuesday that it had reached a $2 billion agreement to buy Oculus VR, the maker of a virtual reality headset. It's a bet that a technology commonly associated with science fiction can help eventually turn social networking into an immersive, 3-D experience.
Virtual reality technologies give people the illusion that they are physically present in a digital world.
Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and the chief executive of Facebook, said the deal reflected his belief that virtual reality could be the next big computing platform after mobile, a technology the company has spent most of the last several years adapting to, for the most part successfully. Facebook's deal came as a surprise, because Oculus, a small start-up that has not yet shipped a product to the broader public, is working on what some view as a niche technology aimed at hard-core video game players.
Mr. Zuckerberg, though, said Facebook had much bigger plans for its acquisition. "Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face to face — just by putting on goggles in your home," Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Facebook.
With the deal, Facebook is the latest Silicon Valley company to invest in wearable hardware that reimagines how people will one day interact with information and other forms of content. Google has taken a different approach with Glass, its high-tech eyewear that overlays maps, messages and other data on a transparent lens in front of people's eyes, through which they can still view their surroundings.
The acquisition is one of several bets that Facebook, with about 1.2 billion users worldwide, is making in its effort to anticipate the future and secure its dominance of social communication.
For example, last month, the company announced it would buy WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app, for $16 billion plus as much as $3 billion in future payouts. That purchase was a bet on the fast growth in mobile messages, a type of one-to-one communication that largely bypasses Facebook.
More recently, the company has tried to leverage its strong position in mobile applications into new mobile markets, and Mr. Zuckerberg seemed to suggest that Oculus, which now requires the horsepower of a personal computer, could one day work on mobile devices.
James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research, questioned Facebook's strategy in buying Oculus, because he does not believe virtual reality has compelling applications beyond gaming.
"The fit is so poor," he said. "You could easily have done some kind of partnership."
And Brian Blau, an analyst with the research firm Gartner who worked in virtual reality over two decades ago, said that back then, "Virtual reality had hip, hype and hope." He added, "Unfortunately the story is still the same today."
Oculus Rift, the headset Oculus VR is developing, is a boxy set of goggles that envelops the eyes of its wearers, completely surrounding their field of view with high-resolution screens that create 3-D images. Motion sensors in the headset track the movement of a person's head, shifting their view on the screen and creating the feeling that the wearer has an active presence in a virtual world.
Brendan Iribe, a co-founder and the chief executive of Oculus VR, said Facebook would be able to use the technology to allow avatars representing its members to interact with one another — perhaps by socializing at online parties.
"If you can see somebody else, and your brain believes they're right in front of you, you get goosebumps," he said. "You start to realize how big this could be."
For tech fanatics, virtual reality is a long-running dream that has never quite made the leap from Star Trek and other science fiction fantasies into a product that ordinary people would buy. It has made modest inroads in some industrial and medical applications — for treating post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans, for example.
There is hope among virtual reality aficionados that now may finally be the technology's moment. Essential components for virtual reality headsets, like high-resolution screens and motion sensors, are now relatively cheap and plentiful because of the boom in mobile devices, allowing companies like Oculus VR to make higher-quality, better-priced products than those in the past.
Oculus has sold more than 75,000 of its headsets to game developers, but has not announced when it will release a version to the public.
Sony recently said that it, too, would create a virtual reality headset for its PlayStation 4 game console.
Facebook is paying $400 million in cash and about $1.6 billion in stock for Oculus, with up to $300 million more depending on Oculus's performance.
Antonio Rodriguez, an Oculus board member and general partner at Matrix Partners, one of the two largest institutional investors in the company, said in an interview that Facebook had promised that Oculus could operate largely autonomously within the larger company, much as do WhatsApp and the photo-sharing service Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012.
Although Facebook plans to continue the development of Oculus's gaming hardware, there are many other applications longer term. "People will build a model of a place far away and you'll go see it," Mr. Zuckerberg said during a conference call. "It's like teleporting."
About 40 percent of the time that people spend online on computers is on gaming, Mr. Zuckerberg said, and 40 percent is on social communication.
"You need to fuse both of those together," he said.
According to a person involved in the deal who was not allowed to speak publicly because he was not authorized by either company, Facebook eventually plans to redesign the Oculus hardware and rebrand it with a Facebook interface and logo.
Some developers were not happy about the deal. "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus," said Markus Persson, creator of the popular game, on Twitter. "I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."
Palmer Luckey, the 21-year-old co-founder of Oculus VR, said Facebook's huge audience and resources would help give the technology backing that it has never had before. "This is the best shot virtual reality has ever had and probably will ever have," he said.


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The Habersham County Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) investigates child abuse; finds foster homes for abused and neglected children; helps low income, out-of-work parents get back on their feet; assists with childcare costs for low income parents who are working or in job training; and provides numerous support services and innovative programs to help troubled families.
DFCS is overseen locally by the Division of Family and Children Services Board as mandated by the Georgia Public Welfare Act of 1937. This Board is responsible for the administration of all public assistance and child welfare programs in the county in accordance with state law.
DFCS is responsible for welfare and employment support, protecting children, foster care and other services to strengthen families. The three most notable services are food stamps, Medicaid and TANF.
Food Stamps
The Georgia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federally-funded program that provides monthly benefits to low-income households to help pay for the cost of food. A household may be one person living alone, a family, or several unrelated individuals living together who routinely purchase and prepare meals together.
Anyone may apply for food stamp benefits. The program helps households that have limited income and resources.
Medicaid provides health care services to individuals that meet the requirements for income, resources, and citizenship. Individuals may apply for Medicaid at any local DFCS office, by mail, telephone, fax, email, or at designated agencies.
PeachCare for Kids
PeachCare for Kids is a Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH) sponsored program that provides comprehensive health care to children through the age of 18 who do not qualify for Medicaid and live in households with incomes at or below 235% of the federal poverty level.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is the monthly cash assistance program with an employment services component for low-income families with children under age 18 and children age 18 and attending school full-time.
Cooperation with Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Child Support Services is a requirement of receiving TANF benefits unless good cause can be established.
Commodity Food Assistance Programs
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a federal program that helps supplement the diets of low income persons in Georgia, including the elderly, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance at no cost.
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a federal program that helps supplement the diets of low income elderly, 60 or older, pregnant women, and children up to age 6 in Georgia by providing them with nutritious commodities and nutrition education at no cost. Applicants for CSFP must apply for and meet certain eligibility requirements before being determined eligible to receive CSFP products.
Energy Assistance
The Energy Assistance Program (EAP) pays for some home heating and cooling costs for low-income eligible families in crisis.
Applications for all energy assistance programs can be made through a local Community Action Agency or non-profit organization. The assistance is available in all 159 counties in Georgia.
The general public cannot apply for Regular Energy Assistance until the first of December each year. Applications should be made at West Central Georgia Community Action Council, Hwy 90 E. Vienna Rd., Montezuma, Phone: (478) 472-3607, Fax: (478) 472-3609.
Subsidized Child Care Assistance
Subsidized child care in Georgia is provided through the Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program to help low income families afford quality child care. The CAPS program is administered in all 159 Georgia counties through the county Department of Family and Children Services.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Protective Services staff investigates reports of child abuse or neglect and provides services to protect the child and strengthen the family.
Every child needs to be treasured, protected and nurtured. Unfortunately, some parents can't -- or won't -- care for their children. When they neglect or abuse them, someone must step in to ensure the children's safety. That's the job of DFCS, along with the police and the courts.
To report child abuse, please call the DFCS Child Protective Center at 855-GACHILD/855-422-4453. Reports are taken 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you have an immediate emergency, please call 911 or your local police department.
Foster Care
DFCS is responsible for assuring that children are safe from abuse and neglect. When DFCS determines it is not safe for a child to remain in the home of his or her caregiver, the child is placed in foster care. Foster care is intended to be a temporary home away from home while the agency works with the child's family to eliminate or minimize the safety issues that caused agency involvement.
DFCS's goal is to return children safely to their families as soon as possible, but only after the safety issues have been resolved.
Interested in volunteering as a foster parent? Contact the foster care and adoption recruitment intake line at 877-210-KIDS.
The local county Department of Family and Children Services provides Adoption Services based on the premise that a permanent, safe home is the right of every child. All children have a right to a family and a home of their own. When a permanent home is not provided by the birth family and permanent, legal separation from them is necessary, adoption services are provided.
DFCS Local Board
The local DFCS office is overseen and assisted by the Habersham County DFCS Board. The role of local County DFCS Boards is a combination of advocacy, resource development, political activism, staff relations, customer service, and administrative functions.
When the DFCS Boards were first created, local county boards had limited authority over county operations. That has changed over the past several decades to more of a supportive role. The Board's primary role is to be the link between the agency and the community.


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Now this is something you don't see every day: actual video footage of a binary star system exploding into space.
This isn't to be confused with a supernova, which is a star that has collapsed in on itself causing it to completely self-destruct — rather, a nova is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion that happens in a binary system when one star sucks away too much hydrogen from its partner. A white dwarf can only hold so much hydrogen before it reaches critical mass and completely explodes, thereby ejecting all its excess mass into space.
What's even more fascinating is that the white dwarf remains intact and continues to draw hydrogen from its partner, thus repeating the cycle. This is why NASA is going to keep its eye on this particularly juicy spot in the cosmos.
The video was captured by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft as it kept its camera on that region of space from April 20 to 24, 2012. NASA has yet to determine exactly how far it is. Called Sagittarii 2012, the nova is far weaker than a supernova, and poses no threat to us here on Earth.
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WII M.Sc Wildlife Science Admissions 2013
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehra Dun an internationally acclaimed organization in the field of Wildlife Conservation and Research invites applications from highly motivated students having passion for wilderness for its prestigious two-year Master's Programme in Wildlife Science for the Year 2013-2015.
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Eligibility : Bachelor's degree in Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Social Science, Computer Science and Computer Applications or degrees recognized as equivalent thereof (should have studied in Science stream at Higher Secondary Education Board or other equivalent board).
Minimum of 55% aggregate marks in Bachelor's degree. Candidate must produce result along with mark sheet of their graduation at the time of their personality and aptitude test, failing which their candidature will be treated as cancelled.
Eligible candidates will be required to appear for a written NET in any one of the centres (Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Guwahati) which is nearest to his/her permanent residence. The NET will be for 2.5 hours. The test will have 30 marks multiple-choice questions on General Awareness including Current affairs, Quantitative skills, Geology, Geography, Sociology, Economics and Engineering; 40 marks multiple-choice questions in Wildlife sciences including Natural History, Biogeography, Ecology, Genetics, Vegetation science, Population ecology, Habitat ecology, Behavioural ecology, Conservation biology, Wildlife health and 30 marks Essay Questions covering conservation issues. Shortlisted meritorious candidates based on NET screening will be called to take a Personality and Aptitude Test (PAT) at Dehra Dun. Final selection to the Course will be made on the basis of combined merit of 50% marks obtained in the Bachelor's degree examination and 50% of PAT.
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Justin Bieber's Mom Supplies the Rx Drugs, Dad Is His Party Wingman
The common public response to Justin Bieber's arrest for doing very bad things -- drag racing while DUI, drinking beer, smoking pot and taking prescription drugs -- is: Where are his parents, Pattie Mallette and Jeremy Bieber? Right there with him, and possibly a cause of the problem, as opposed to a solution.
Cops told TMZ that the Biebs was not sure exactly which Rx meds he was on. He claimed it was anti-anxiety and that his mom administered the meds to him. He said he doesn't know the name because he just takes what Pattie hands over. So either he was blaming her or she really is his "supplier."
We don't know if the Rx is in Bieber's name or if Pattie is just sharing her personal prescriptions. If the latter is the case, that's a big, fat no no. If a drug is prescribed to him by a doctor, then it's not likely going to cause him any problems. There was Xanax found during the raid of his home, so… we added two, and we got four.
The Biebs also had a blood alcohol content level of .04. Without getting too mathematical, that equals REALLY bad.
And what about dad Jeremy, who is heavily tattooed like his eldest son and often hanging with him?
Well, Jeremy, 38, was with the Biebs in Miami when he was arrested, and he was part of the goon squad that blocked off the residential street, creating a makeshift drag racing strip for Bieber, which lead to the arrest.
Papa Bear Biebs was also with his son at SET nightclub a few hours before the arrest. Sounds like these two behave like brothers.
We know Bieber is 19 and on the cusp of adulthood, but parents' jobs are not done when their child turns 18. Parenting is a lifelong gig, and someone has to step in and get him off this path. It's leading to a VERY bad place and won't end well. He is not invincible or immune, despite the fact that he may think the opposite.
We realize he is a teen and most teens make mistakes and mess up. But most teens who smoke pot or drink while underage don't have access to really fast Lamborghinis or a crew of handlers blocking off a street to indulge their drag racing whims.
There is a chasm of difference between the Biebs and regular teens. We care about him and don't want him to do something that ends his life. So don't hate on us, Beliebers, for saying that.
Scooter Braun, manager extraordinaire, to the rescue? Bueller? Bueller?


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If you're one of the 30 million Americans being pursued by a collection agency, help is now here when it comes to those bill collectors who are aggressive, harassing and abusive. New this year, a watchdog agency is policing large collection firms.
Kevin Lynn says bill collectors sometimes call his house up to 20 times a day. And get this, the debt isn't even his.
"I always told them I don't owe the debt, they had the wrong person, that I don't know who the person is," Lynn explained.
But that person apparently lived in the house previously. Lynn filed three lawsuits to get the ringing to stop. Even more frustrating, his phone company charges him for each incoming call.
"Very upset that I have to pay to be harassed," Lynn said.
The Federal Trade Commission says it got more than 150,000 complaints about debt collectors last year, that's more than any other industry.
"Some of our number one sources of complaints for consumers are for harassment and abuse calling too often, using profanity, making violent or abusive threats," said Attorney Chris Koegel with the Federal Trade Commission.
To crack down, a new federal agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is going to start policing some of the largest collection agencies in the country.
How bad can some company's tactics get? Attorneys representing consumers say bill collectors have left people threatening messages like:
"I'm going ahead with a warrant for your arrest."
"You will be behind bars for six months. And once you go behind the bars you may lose your job."
In an FTC lawsuit filed against one bill collector, a grieving mother said she was asked how she would feel if the funeral home dug up her son's body and, "dropped it outside my house because i hadn't paid my debt."
Every industry is going to have bad apples," said Patrick Morris, with the Debt Collection Trade Association.
The association says it wants those using abusive tactics weeded out so others can do the right job.
"Don't shoot the messenger. We're here doing our job. We're here respecting laws and regulations and we treat consumers with respect," said Morris.
The new watchdog agency, CFPB, will have new authority to make sure large collection firms are not harassing or deceiving consumers into paying debt and are using accurate data to pursue debts.
Lynn says that's good news because he's still getting collection calls and feels helpless to do anything about harassment.
"Americans definitely need a new watch dog to help them," said Lynn.
The CFPB's new authority started January 2, 2013. The FTC and CFPB are working together and will share information and complaints it gets from consumers.
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If you followed this blog on HealthTalk you now realize that we have a new home here at EverydayHealth.com. My hope is to continue writing the same as before—sharing experiences, recent news, and bringing up topics related to living with psoriasis. This week I want to give an update about my eyes.
Recently I complained about blurry vision, especially in my left eye. I'm not sure why my vision worsened over the past weeks but I suspected my condition could be a result of complications related to psoriasis. For one, the psoriasis on my eye lids returned and the area around my eyes is red and swollen. I started using a low strength hydrocortisone around my eyes trying very carefully not to touch my eyes with the medicine. But could the topical steroid near my eye affect the health of my eye? What about the topical steroids I have used over many years? Could they get into my bloodstream and impact my vision? I also checked my blood pressure to see if the Neoral (cyclosporine) elevated my blood pressure, which could in turn affect my vision.
With all these risk factors in play, I finally visited my dermatologist to ask some questions. He didn't think my medications could cause vision problems but wanted me to see an ophthalmologist just to make sure.
In the meantime I made an appointment with the optometrist. When she looked in my eyes she noticed the opening of the optic nerve in my left eye is larger than my right. Since I complained about the left eye more, and she couldn't correct my vision in my left eye with lenses, she suspected glaucoma. I raced home to call my health provider who, thankfully, could get me in to see the ophthalmologist the next morning.
That night I struggled with the thought of losing my vision. What if I couldn't see, even if only with one eye? I probably wouldn't be able to drive, read, or write which would be disastrous. I also wondered if psoriasis was impacting another major area of my health. My anxiety heightened when I found out some risk factors related to glaucoma include having chronic inflammatory disease, use of topical steroids, and being of Asian descent.
The next day my wife and I left home early to drive to the clinic. The nurse put a myriad of drops in my eyes to numb and dilate them. She performed a number of tests on my eyes. Finally the ophthalmologist took a good look at them. The conclusion? My eyes are healthy. The prominent optic nerve in my left eye has probably been there for many years. To be safe, he wants me back annually for a check up. I only need to get my new prescription for lenses filled and take pictures of my eyes the next week.
Turns out those risk factors related to inflammatory disease and the use of topical steroids are generally inconsequential according to the eye surgeon. While psoriasis is the culprit in many health issues, it played a minimal role in my current eye trouble. I too quickly assumed that it did. The blurriness may be due to the dryness of the air or imperfections on the surface of my eye—but not psoriasis.
This latest drama with my eyes made me think how much of a shadow psoriasis casts over my health and daily life. But it also reminded me how much my life is not in my control and how I need to live each day mindful of how precious health is.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Last weekend members of TOG headed off to Vienna, Austria for the Robot Challenge competition. This is the world's biggest competition for self-made, autonomous, and mobile robots. There where over 600 robots from all over the world are registered for the competition. A group of eight left Ireland for the event, three from TOG and […]
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Yummy Burgers
2 large carrots, grated
1 medium zucchini, grated
1 large potato, grated
1 veggie bullion dissolved in 1/2 cup boiling water, cooled
1 medium block firm tofu
1 tablespoon of each Dijon mustard, soy sauce, black pepper and salt
1 garlic glove, minced
1 small knob of ginger, grated finely
flour of choice
2 cups breadcrumbs
oil, for frying
Freeze tofu, then grate. (It is easier to grate once frozen.)
Mix all ingredients except flour, breadcrumbs and oil in a mixing bowl. This is your burger mix. If it seems to wet, add some flour. If too dry, add some water.
Make little golf ball-sized balls out of burger mixture. Roll in the breadcrumbs.
Fry in the oil, flattening burgers out to a disc with a spatula whilst frying.
Serve in a vegan bun with whatever you like. I like mine some finely sliced tofu, rocket and some vegan ketchup.
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3 Email Marketing Mistakes to Avoid
Email is a powerful marketing tool. That said, the full benefits of email marketing are only truly realized when it's used as part of an overall marketing strategy, as opposed to a vehicle for one-off messages.
Like anything powerful, email can be used for both good and … spammy ("evil" seems a mite harsh) campaigns. Make the most of your email marketing campaigns by making sure you avoid these common mistakes:
1. Blasting the same message to all contacts. Chances are, the interactions you have with prospects are not all the same, and perhaps you have more than one product. Some prospects may already be fans and follow you on social media; others may have never heard of your company before. Prospects are different, and have different interests—and email marketing is wonderfully customizable. Take advantage of that, and avoid blasting the same message to all contacts.
2. Neglecting buyer needs. Does the CEO of a major corporation in California have the same needs as a small marketing team in the Midwest? Probably not. Incorporating segmentation strategies can help target campaigns to buyer needs. Targeting will allow you to provide relevant content that addresses the pain points of your potential customers. That not only catches their interest, but positions you as a friendly company that's paying attention (and you are).
3. Failing to adapt messaging. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Start paying attention to your response rates and you'll prevent some of the head-banging insanity that can result from a bad email marketing strategy. Split testing allows you to test copy and other factors, so you can adapt your messaging based on response rates. This not only creates better open rates for your campaigns, but also allows you to reach prospects more efficiently.
A last bit of advice: Email marketing is even more effective when you use it in concert with other marketing automation tools. In particular, it can amplify demand generation and really enable better lead nurturing.
Atri Chatterjee is chief marketing officer of Beaverton, Ore.-based marketing automation platform provider Act-On Software. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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THE FIRST THING TO TRY is this:
- Close all your browser windows
- Open 1 browser window, and use it to clear your browser cache AND cookies.
- If you browser has a Private Browsing mode, make sure you're NOT using "Private Browsing" mode, because that will prevent sessions/cookies from being usable
- Reboot your computer
- Turn off your firewall software and try again.
- Ensure that your stylesheets don't contain any references to image files that don't exist on your server.
- Test in a completely different browser. IE and Chrome are known to be problematic with cookies sometimes. Switching to FireFox is a good troubleshooting step.
- Don't use spaces in your domain names, nor in the foldernames in which you've installed your store. If yours has a space in the path anywhere, you may have troubles. Rename the folder instead.
NEXT, try to rule out a bad SSL configuration:
- edit your /admin/includes/configure.php and change ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN to 'false'
- clear browser cache AND cookies and try again
then if it's still not working:
- edit your /admin/includes/configure.php and change HTTP_SERVER to a URL that does NOT start with 'https'
- clear browser cache AND cookies and try again
- if your site is using just an IP address and not a named domain, then it's possible your sessions/cookies are getting confused. Edit your 2 configure.php files and set your HTTP_SERVER to an actual domain name, NOT an IP address.
- if you're using a domain name with "www." in it, try removing the "www." from it temporarily ... again, in the HTTP_SERVER setting, and with ENABLE_SSL_ADMIN set to false.
IF IT STILL WON'T WORK, read on:
Admin login sessions (and customer login sessions) are managed via the PHP session-handling functionality.
When you log in, a session is generated, and the session's name is zenAdminId or zenid (for the store).
When a session is started, PHP attempts to set a cookie in your browser. That cookie is intended to store that session ID so that it doesn't need to be shown in the browser all the time (ie: with &zenAdminID=243524524524525 etc) at the end of all your URLs.
If a cookie cannot be set, then PHP simply includes the session name and number (like above) on all your URLs in order to keep you logged in.
When you log out, or the session ID is lost, the session data is reset and your authentication data is removed, requiring login again.
Possible causes of session-mgmt problems include:
- cookies are blocked by firewall or by browser configuration
- PHP is misconfigured or has certain session settings set to methods incompatible with Zen Cart such as session-auto-start and transitive-sid etc. The installer warns about these if they are a problem.
- you have your site configured to store session data in files but your filesystem doesn't have permissions set in such a way as to allow storage of the data
- you have your site set to store session data in the database but the database table ("sessions") is corrupt or database-storage is full and new records cannot be added.
In your /admin/includes/configure.php, what is your setting for STORE_SESSIONS? Is the setting the same for your /includes/configure.php file ?
Is your "cache" folder set to read/write (ie: chmod 777 (or some other suitable value if 777 is not permitted by your server's configuration) ?
Other possibilities:
a) altered files on your server. In that case a proper checkup of all your files is in order: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...Obscure_Issues
b) a server configuration change by the hosting company (such as a PHP version change or anything else that might result in changes to the master php.ini configuration for the server or your hosting account)


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Mumbai: A "pathetic" and "lonely" life has led Mallika Sherawat to find "real" love via a TV show. And the actress is sure that she doesn`t want to marry anyone from the glamour world.
"I don`t want any person for myself from the entertainment industry. They don`t attract me," Mallika said here Thursday at the launch of the show.
"You can see how pathetic and lonely is my life that to find love I have to come on TV. My world, which has glitz, glamour and films, is a make believe world. This is not a real world. I want to come out of this make believe world and enter the real world, where their is certain normalcy," she added.
The actress, who will try to find her soulmate through the reality show 'The Bachelorette India - Mere Khayalon Ki Mallika', said many actresses found their love outside the industry.
"It is because of this normalcy only that you will see many actresses marrying doctors or businessmen. This is because they want real relationship with a real man. That is the only reason for me to come on TV and do the show," Mallika said.
It seems Mallika is taking inspiration from Madhuri Dixit who married US-based surgeon Shriram Nene and Shilpa Shetty who tied the knot wtih NRI businessman Raj Kundra.
The actress, who has had several link ups including actor Antonio Banderas, is confident of finding true love in India.
"I want to find true love and I will get that true love in a Hindustani only and not anywhere else," Mallika said.
Meanwhile, the actress is looking forward to the show.
"For people, it is just a show but for me it is a long journey of my life. In the show, somebody is a clerk, somebody is a businessman and somebody is a computer engineer. There are all sorts of people, but normal people," the actress said.