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Education has always been considered an important factor in gauging a nation's strength. Thomas Jefferson understood that an uneducated populace was doomed never to be free; and virtually every modern president proclaims "education" a top priority.
Determining how well a citizenry is in fact educated, however, always has been problematic. Standardized testing has long been employed as part of this evaluation.
However, in a rush to simplify the processes whereby colleges and universities judge the potential for success of their schools' applicants, many educators rely on – and legislators in North Carolina recently mandated reliance on — the use of a standardized test now found to be significantly lacking in predictive capability.
The test in question is the ACT; which has been gaining in popularity among high school students as an alternative to the SAT.
A study released in May by the independent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), casts serious doubt on the ability of the ACT to predict whether or not high school graduates applying for college will actually succeed in successfully finishing their college career – notwithstanding that such predictability is the primary purpose for such testing. In fact, the ACT's own publications highlight the test's purpose as measuring "college readiness."
The problem – as detailed in the NBER's report, "Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam" – lies in the fact that only two of the four tests comprising the ACT (English and math) "can effectively predict outcomes in college." Neither the reading component, nor the science portion of the ACT, was found to have any value in predicting a student's success in college. The ACT's science test, for example, largely tests one's ability to read and interpret graphs and charts; almost entirely ignoring actual science like physics, chemistry and biology.
If college admissions offices simply considered the scores received by applicants in each of the four component subjects – math, English, reading and science – the process would be far more likely to reveal whether those students were prepared for, and likely to succeed in, their post-secondary education experience.
However, for some reason, the vast majority of colleges that use the ACT consider only a "composite score in their admissions process." This means that the students' overall unpreparedness is effectively masked.
The result of this problem, as noted by the NBER, is that students taking the ACT may be matched to schools either too difficult or too easy for their capabilities. This in turn exacerbates the alarmingly high dropout rate we see in American colleges and universities. As found by the NBER researchers, more than one third of students who began post-secondary education, had not received a degree or were no longer enrolled in any institution of higher learning after six years.
Like most states, Georgia includes as an "important" component of its criteria for admission to the University system, an applicant's standardized test scores; but does not mandate specifically either the SAT or the ACT. (Unlike the ACT, the SAT provides colleges with individual scores from its three component tests, reading, mathematics and writing.) Georgia does require a minimum score on the SAT in order for students to receive a full HOPE scholarship.
Thanks to a law recently enacted in North Carolina, on the other hand, all high school juniors in the Tar Heel State, will be forced to take the ACT. Unfortunately, this law was passed shortly before the NBER study revealed the serious shortcomings in the ACT.
Hopefully, Georgia or any other states considering a move similar to North Carolina's will require legislators and governors to first read the NBER study. This homework hopefully will short-circuit any such legislative move, and also force colleges and universities to reevaluate the manner in which the ACT is used in the first place.
by Bob Barr — The Barr code
July 4th, 2011
5:28 am
Thanks to a law recently enacted in North Carolina, on the other hand, all high school juniors in the Tar Heel State, will be forced to take the ACT. At Georgia State University, undergraduate tuition for this fall will be $3,641 per semester, a $106 increase from the previous fall, it is really high and that is the reason people like universities on the "High Speed Universities" list
July 4th, 2011
7:06 am
I'm glad to know about the shortcomings of the ACT. I think standardized tests are overrated in general. Isn't it curious how the bar on the SAT (passing levels) continues to be stealthily raised over time by educational pundits. What was a good score on the SAT in 1980 (e.g., 1000), would be insufficient today. So if students are scoring much higher to enter college, I'd say our society is better educated today than in the past. Yet, people keep bashing the quality of public schools. I'd say our education system is doing great!
July 4th, 2011
7:48 am
The ACT measures how much students have learned in high school vs. other American high school students. It has never marketed itself as comparable to the SAT.
Let's remember that both of these tests come from a for-profit company, not an educational organization and keep that in perspective.
July 4th, 2011
8:14 am
For politically correct resons, politicians have convinced the public that college is a right that every student should have. The "alarmingly high dropout rate we see" shows the fallicy of this kind of thinking. Unfortunately, for political reasons, no politician will dare tell the public the truth about this. So, look for even more social engineering in this area to occur now and into the foreseeable future.
July 4th, 2011
8:23 am
The SAT was recentered in '95. Kids weren't getting smarter, they were getting dumber so they moved scores up about 100 points. The 1000 in 1980 is closer to an 1100 today. In the early '90's an 800 would get you the median at UGA. HOPE + recentering has moved that number up dramatically.
July 4th, 2011
8:29 am
I'd say our education system is doing great.
I'd say you have blinders on. Our education system is one of the worst in the developed world.
July 4th, 2011
8:31 am
The ACT is an easier test, but I can't imagine it is that far out of line from the SAT on the margins. Anything below a 20 is poor, anything above a 30 is exceptional. As long as the subject scores are in that range, what is the problem?
July 4th, 2011
8:42 am
It always amazes me how people speak about education as if they are experts in the field. I would never pretend to do such in medicine, law or business.
@Mishap – The median SAT score at UGA in 1990 was 1045.
@Eric and Mishap – The average SAT score in the 60's, 70's, and 80's was 1000. Think of the SAT as an IQ test but move the decimal one point over to the left. Thus, an SAT score of 1000 then and now would equate roughly to a 100 IQ score….both right at average.
@ Bright Shining Star…. I agree with the poster who stated our public schools do an amazing job. Name one other developed country that attempts to educate everyone, including a large percentage of its people who don't even speak the language.
July 4th, 2011
9:09 am
"More than one third of students who began post-secondary education, had not received a degree or were no longer enrolled in any institution of higher learning after six years." Include me in that one third–specifically the second category. I was no longer enrolled in any institution of higher learning after six years, because I graduated before then.
July 4th, 2011
9:18 am
The ACT and SAT are tests by for-profit companies. When a student sits for this test, it still is one test on one day and the stressed student's future depends on it. I have had students take the SAT as many as six times. Others have taken the SAT and ACT both more than once. At nearly fifty dollars for each test (not including the possibility of late fees or changed dates fees because of life happenings), just how much does each of the companies make in a year? Are these companies really about education? Have educational institutions "bought in" to their bottom line?
July 4th, 2011
9:31 am
The problem with the ACT is that it does not test for actual intelligence. It is intended to get the inner city kids into real colleges. But then these same kids find that they are not as smart as the other college students, so they drop out.
Universities should focus on the SAT instead of the ACT.
July 4th, 2011
10:06 am
I'm at the top of a very large science field internationally. I've been lauded by the National Institutes of Health and the Nobel Foundation. But my SAT, ACT and GRE (graduate record exam scores) suggest that I should sweeping the floor at the AJC, not writing a comment about standardized tests. What is missing in these tests is the ability to measure desire, dedication and creativity. Apparently that's where I must shine. The world still sends their best and brightest here for graduate work (doctorates). Why? Because our post secondary education system is still the best, warts and all. Despite that, with some exceptions that are increasing, we are far ahead of the world in most of our disciplines. Why? Because our trump card is creativity. Our country was founded on thinking out of the box, when it came to religious freedom, and that has extended into the very fiber of today's America. Unfortunately, with the persisting and extreme cuts in support of colleges and universities, our greatest national asset is being destroyed, bit by bit. Couple that with the compromised focus on standardized tests in the high schools and you have the loss of what made American science, technology and business what it is and/or was today/yesterday. The lack of support for the arts also is misplaced bean counting. Creativity is the key and it pervades the sciences, arts, business and technology. Applicants to our graduate programs from around the world dwarf those from the US when it comes to scores on the GREs, for example, yet they are not, by and large, the best graduate students in our programs. Why? Because they mostly have been raised in overcrowded countries where independent thinking on all fronts cannot be tolerated due to the enormous masses of people. When these student get over here (and they do and have for decades now), some flourish and rise to the top because here, we tolerate and have, at least in the past, encouraged creativity, hard work and scholarship. We now are handing that over, slowly at first, rapidly now, to the rest of the world. So keep cutting education at all levels and watch the US continue its slide academically. Focus on these standardized tests, cut the budgets every year, underpay teachers and devalue education and you will reap what you sow.
July 4th, 2011
10:08 am
southpaw: It did not count you as the one third. When you finished, you were considered an on-time completer. Look for the little word OR.
Roll Tide: SAT does not test for intelligence, either. It is a mastery of skills test. For a kid with weaker advanced math skills, ACT is the test because it is so much more reading-dependent. For my son and elder daughter, the ACT produced higher scores. For my younger daughter, the math whiz, the SAT was the best because it is so heavily math. I allowed my own kids to do as I did, take each one once. If they couldn't show basic skills with one try, they didn't need to be thinking about college. Do the producing companies make a mint? Sure, but with the variation in grades, you need some sort of baseline. Of course, SAT and ACT scores, like grades, tend to be in direct relationship to parental SES (money and education).
In most states, success in college can be predicted by high school grades at a higher r level. However, HOPE has so skewed grades in Georgia especially that to get good predictive value you need to add in SAT/ACT. (U of A, BS, class of 1973)
As part of my master's work at a large, popular, OOS school, I had the unpleasant chore of generating denial letters. In 1989, this school was denying kids with SATs of 1200 and GPAs of 3.8, and admitting kids with SATs of 800 and GPAs of 3.8. Let you guess what the difference was.
But my point is, how a kid can have a 3.8 and an SAT of 800 is beyond me. But this happened time after time, and that is why the need for a standardized score.
July 4th, 2011
10:16 am
Roll Tide, inner city kids? The ACT has historically been favored in the southern states, which as a whole aren't that urban or that focused on the success of "inner city kids". Sounds like you have a standard answer to everything to gets twisted to whatever is the topic of the moment.
As for the third that don't complete a degree in six years, sometimes life happens. I had to drop out of school after one year due to family issues. I ended up working low income jobs for years but eventually I was able to earn an engineering degree from a major university. It look ten years of working and taking classes part time but I made it. It's unfortunate that because it took me more than the traditional number of years to work my way through college that my degree is considered worthless by Mr. Barr. Luckily my employer doesn't feel that way.
July 4th, 2011
10:28 am
Well done!!!
July 4th, 2011
10:35 am
"require legislators and governors to first read the NBER study. This homework hopefully will short-circuit any such legislative move"
ha ha ha ha ha
the only thing the state officials in Georgia can understand is what the lobbyists tell them at dinner! Or on vacations in Europe. Or at the beach for a business conference. Or in the boardroom of a big law firm with government contracts.
July 4th, 2011
10:54 am
The truth of the matter is most careers don't really require a 4 year degree. Hope funding should instead be prioritized on Georgia's Technical Colleges and Associate Degree programs. Unfortunately, UGA, GT, the GSU's, and KSU will NEVER permit that.
If we want to see that our college students finish what they started, then the schools and degree programs should be appropriately matched to the career interests of the student.
July 4th, 2011
11:19 am
The real FLAW with testing is the people who put too much emphasis on them.
July 4th, 2011
11:49 am
Standardize testing has one purpose. It gives universities a reason to exclude someone. It does not give them a good reason. I am somebody who typically does well on standardize test but on the job neither standardize test or grades can predict how well you work with other people. They do provide insight to certain abilities but they also give people a sense of entitlement. I have seen people who have graduated from college with close to 4.0 but they have a hard time because they can't work with other people. Most people have to learn this once their on the job because the culture and educational system don't teach them any people skills. People need a balance between people skill's and individualism.
July 4th, 2011
11:55 am
Roll Tide, when I was in school in Alabama in the 70's, the test of choice, as it is today , was the ACT. Both Alabama and Auburn and all the other schools in Alabama utilized ACT test scores in their admittance decisions. Are you telling me Alabama and Auburn were trying to enroll "inner city kids? I don't thnk so.
One more thing. Bob Barr, sounds like you're on the SAT's payroll.
July 4th, 2011
6:29 pm
The "standardized tests" have been greatly dumbed down in recent years. This is the reason for the higher scores required to get into colleges that actually retain some semblance of standards.
The high IQ societies used to use SAT scores as one of the possible ways to gain admission to their ranks, but no more. MENSA, which requires an IQ in the 98th percentile, would allow a test taker with a score on the SAT in the 98th percentile or greater to belong without further testing, but now even a perfect score will not qualify.
The tests also used to be quite statistically valid and reliable. In other words, high scores on the standardized tests used to predict college success very well. Today however both college and the tests have been dumbed down.
July 4th, 2011
6:47 pm
Reality Check
July 4th, 2011
10:54 am
The truth of the matter is most careers don't really require a 4 year degree.
That ^^^. We do kids no favors when we steer them en masse toward college. Many aren't college material but they have some aptitude that will make them successful in a skilled trade. When my A/C dies in the middle of July I need a guy/gal that can repair it in a hurry, I don't give a rat's hiney if he/she never spent a day in a college. classroom.
July 5th, 2011
12:39 am
As a private college counselor and test prep coach, I think the SAT and ACT need to be kept in perspective. Neither test is an accurate prediction of how students will do once they are in college. The SAT and ACT are factors, like many others, that should be kept in context and not given any more importance than they deserve. The grades students get in college prep courses is far more important than any set of test scores.
College Direction
July 5th, 2011
7:35 am
By all means, let's get rid of standardized tests that actually measure achievement and learning and instead….
Well… we can have committee who meet in secret to use subjective criteria to decide who gets in and who does not. That way there will be no trail, no accountability to the educators at all. They can pick the kids they like and nail the kids they don't.
Who said "predictiveness" was the key determinant of the value of the test. In most of life, success at one level is a prerequsite for progressing to the next level. If you do a poor job in college, should graduate schools allow you to enroll becasue you are "predicted" to be capable. How about med school? Should we let doctors who fail their courses and can't demostrate a command of the subject practice medicine because they are predicted to be a good doctor?
July 5th, 2011
8:17 am
Best Comment of the Day:
Unfortunately, with the persisting and extreme cuts in support of colleges and universities, our greatest national asset is being destroyed, bit by bit. Couple that with the compromised focus on standardized tests in the high schools and you have the loss of what made American science, technology and business what it is and/or was today/yesterday. The lack of support for the arts also is misplaced bean counting. Creativity is the key and it pervades the sciences, arts, business and technology. …………………………because here, we tolerate and have, at least in the past, encouraged creativity, hard work and scholarship. We now are handing that over, slowly at first, rapidly now, to the rest of the world. So keep cutting education at all levels and watch the US continue its slide academically. Focus on these standardized tests, cut the budgets every year, underpay teachers and devalue education and you will reap what you sow.
Great job!
July 5th, 2011
8:18 am
Roll Pride: The problem with the ACT is that it does not test for actual intelligence. It is intended to get the inner city kids into real colleges.
I'm amazed that you can equate intelligence with "Roll Pride". Killed off any trees in Auburn lately?
July 5th, 2011
8:29 am
The U.S. is falling woefully behind China and other far eastern countries in the field of education. I took a walk around Cornell, an Ivy League University in Ithaca, N.Y. Everyone I saw walking on the campus was oriental. Most all the restaurants are Chinese. That says a lot. The natives[U.S.] are having to attend lower quality educational institutions.
However, a little known fact, the upper classes in this country of equal opportunity are going to fertility experts and learning how to have offspring with high IQs. This is the new status symbol, "designer babies". Now, do not rush into this new phenomenion, it is not always perfect, occasionaly, "anomalies" pop up. There are no guarantees. However, if you want to crow around the office about your super smart children, get off to the right start at "The Baby Store."
July 5th, 2011
8:55 am
[...] College Entrance Test Shown To Be Flawed (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Bob Barr discusses a study produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research which casts doubt on the ACT's ability to predict a student's success fin college. [...]
July 5th, 2011
9:23 am
The Asian students are dominating what you consider 'lower quality education institutions' such as UGA, GaTech, GSU and every university I know of across the US, not just Ivy League-type schools (Emory as well). Again, this is because we have the best post secondary education in the world, although many of the PhDs that have been trained in the US are going back home and raising the level of the institutions there… thus, soon we will lose our edge on this front as well. Those staying in the US are taking the jobs away from the US citizens (many of these people are on H1 VISAs and convert them into Green Cards and then citizenship). Therefore, they will dominate here as well. That's fair, as we are all about the best and brightest, no matter where people are born or what religion or race etc. This trend will continue. At my institution, the last 5 hires in the sciences have been Chinese individuals trained in the US. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the way it is and will continue to be. I know this is the same at other institutions including our medical schools, such as the Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly known as MCG). It may be too late to reverse that trend, even if someone were interested in doing so (not by stopping those applicants but by creating competitive US applicants). Learn Manderin, Korean, and Japanese now if you want to more effectively communicate with the current and forthcoming generations of academics here in the US. Just keep cutting education funds in GA and elsewhere and this is what you will get. Companies come to cities because there are educated people to hire locally because it's expensive to transfer people from other locations including the place they are moving from to come to Georgia. Why move here? We don't have the people to perform those jobs. Not only do we have a pathetic number of college graduates, we have a large number of non-high school graduates. Let's have another round of academic cuts this year too. Let's have a fifth year of no raises for State employees including college and university professors (who are leaving in droves for other states who value education). Let's keep it up and then sit back and wonder what happened to the GA economy. Let's keep the undocumented out of the state as well so there are people to harvest the crops (because the high school drop outs and those laid off will not do this). Then we can either slide into the economic status of Mississippi or Alabama etc. Watch your property values drop and wonder why. That's the road we are waaaaaaaaaaay down and moving fast. Really!
July 5th, 2011
10:27 am
The "higher education for all" philosophy and the ethnic diversity of the US is why our standardized test scores are often lower than other countries' scores in various areas. Countries that are demographically homogeneous and that only allow the top percentiles of students to pursue higher education are always going to have better scores. The same is true for state to state comparisons within the US. Think about it.
July 5th, 2011
11:20 am
Let's all hope criminal charges are brought against the greedy ignorant crooks
of the Atlanta Public School System.
July 5th, 2011
11:52 am
All I know is that is white kids can be tested–so can black ones. Just because you don't like the results–too bad!
July 5th, 2011
1:24 pm
No doubt Bob forgot about the Bachmann and Palin On-Line school of knowledge and history to get around this legal loophole to raise the IQ of the Republican Tea Party….
July 5th, 2011
1:34 pm
"However, for some reason, the vast majority of colleges that use the ACT consider only a "composite score in their admissions process." This means that the students' overall unpreparedness is effectively masked."
This means that it is also true for the opposite. Someone who scored poorly on a section may not be considered because of a composite score.
July 5th, 2011
1:41 pm
I love threads. Everyone has an opinion, no one has an answer,.
July 5th, 2011
2:18 pm
The SAT doesn't exactly do a great job predicting future college performance either.
July 5th, 2011
2:26 pm
IMHO, scrap the ACT & raise the bar on the SAT…then make GPA + SAT score the key prerequisites for college admission.
July 5th, 2011
2:48 pm
In 1980 I made a 1020 on the SAT. I was hungover and had stayed out all night. I had taken the PSAT once and never had any sort of prep course. I thought I had 'failed' the test because I didn't know you added the Math and Verbal to get your total score.
I now have a BS and 2 Master Degrees. After 30 years in industry I am taking a post as a college professor. Standardized tests show one thing…they show who takes standardized tests well. People that study and do their assignments do well in college. No test predicts that.
July 5th, 2011
3:02 pm
From the ACT faq page (http://www.actstudent.org/faq/answers/actsat.html):
"What is the difference between the ACT and SAT?
The ACT is an achievement test, measuring what a student has learned in school. The SAT is more of an aptitude test, testing reasoning and verbal abilities.
The ACT has up to 5 components: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and an optional Writing Test. The SAT has only 3 components: Critical Reasoning, Mathematics, and a required Writing Test. "
The ACT is a criterion-referenced test. Think of it as more of a CRCT-type test on steroids. It tests what the kids learned in high school. The SAT is an aptitude test. It tests how well you can reason things out (an intellectual processing skill), not how much you have already learned. As it is currently configured, the SAT Reasoning Test is a "rough measure of intellectual preparedness for college." (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98373&page=1).
The fact that colleges use these tests as part of the requirements for admission is okay, but as predictors of future college success neither test does such a bang-up job. Even the SAT has only been shown to be an adequate predictor of students making it through their freshman year, not their entire college career.
What seems to have an equal or greater impact on whether college students complete their degrees is what type of student that college freshman becomes. How much work is the student willing to put into his or her classes? Sometimes this has a great deal more to do with the maturity level of the student rather than his or her academic bona fides.
For more of the critique on whether to use ACT or SAT for college admissions, you can read this research paper here: http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=srhonorsprog&sei-redir=1#search=%22What%20reliability%20does%20SAT%20have%20predicting%20college%20success%3F%22
July 5th, 2011
3:15 pm
The SAT and ACT are not meant to be predictors of performance. They are a way for college admissions to compare students from dissimilar high schools. The SAT has always been scored on a bell curve and the re-centering in 1995 of the bell curve to 500 was simply a reflection of the scores of the moment. One probable reason was that with more students taking the SAT a more accurate mid point was observed. It is a well known fact that a high SAT score does not necessarily mean academic success, and this is why GPA, essays and achievements are taken into account. Having taught SAT test prep for many years, I can tell you that the only predictor of success on the SAT is family income.
July 5th, 2011
8:07 pm
The fact is that the ACT and the SAT were reliable predictors of success in college before they were dumbed down. Don't take my word for it. Do the research yourself.
The tests were not the only reliable predictors of college success, but they were accurate predictors. Now they don't mean much, just like a Bachelor's degree doesn't mean much.
July 6th, 2011
9:42 am
the SEC and ACT are biased against African-Americans with a lot words and problems they've never been exposed to. both tests should not be required for minorities–I'm tired of this.
July 9th, 2011
5:43 pm
The College Board, "owner" of the SAT test, is a non-profit organization, with about 6500 high schools and colleges in its membership. I'm not sure about ACT, but think it's a non-profit as well. Even if they were for-profit, the couldn't be nearly as corrupt as the public service employees in the Atlanta school district, administrators and teachers, who have been systematically changing student test scores for years.


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- SXSW Music 2012: The Weird, Wild And Wonderful At The Festival [PHOTOS]
March 19 2012 10:11 AM
IBTimes took to the 25th annual SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas to snap the weird, wild and wonderful: scroll through for photos of bathrobes, bonnets, blunts, b---h, ballcaps, banditos, bright green suede boots, bedazzling, subwoofers, the barefoot, some on horseback, ad hoc bands, an oddly tall and thin man, banjo, and shots of Widowspeak, Doldrums, Andrew W.K, Fear, Woodsman, Light Asylum and more make the edit during the final days of SXSW 2012 music coverage.
- 23 Photos Of People With Cameras At SXSW 2012
March 19 2012 7:12 AM
IBTimes took to the streets to point a lens back at the lens-bearing.
- SXSW 2012 Live: Experience Youth Lagoon Live At Crossroads House [PHOTOS & AUDIO]
March 15 2012 4:47 PM
Youth Lagoon played to the Boise party at the IFC Crossroads House on day two of music for South By Southwest. March 14, 2012. Read a full review of the performance. See photos of the performance here; listen to them playing live; check out the fans at the scene.
- SXSW 2012 Style: All Black and Gold Everything [PHOTOS]
March 15 2012 3:33 PM
As the sun stayed shrouded most of the second day of music at South By Southwest 2012, those who frequent a darker pallet weren't fretting the absorption of the sun--the coolest both in temperature and in style Wednesday in Austin used black as the platform to pop some gold, in texture, pattern, accessory and style. IBTimes was on the street, armed and shooting the best looks.
- SXSW Music 2012 Day Two: On the Street And In The Clubs at the Festival [PHOTOS]
March 15 2012 3:23 PM
Scroll through for photos of fires, lasers, smoke, a camel under a pyramid, marimba/conga hybrid bands, dueling tap dancers, the canal at the bottom, found street eats, and shots of Little War Twins, Thelophilus London, Le Fleur, Danny Brown, Two Chainz, Mr. Dream, The Men, Oberhofer, Finn Riggins, Brett Netson and every street performer who caught the eye.
- SXSW 2012 Music Day Two: Best Bets And In-Brief
March 14 2012 12:26 PM
This year's 25th iteration of the industry-geared event is at the height of demand: promoters, labels, bands, partiers, punks, parasites, the pigeonholed, the plied-for, and the primped are all out in full force
- SXSW Music 2012 Day One: On the Street And In The Clubs at the Festival [PHOTOS]
March 14 2012 11:10 AM
Following film and interactive portions, the much-anticipated music segment of the 25th South By Southwest festival began Tuesday, March 13. IBTimes was on the scene, armed and shooting.


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Viewpoints: 'Balanced' budget hides pension debtsSunday, January 20, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Earlier this month Gov. Jerry Brown released his 2013-14 state budget plan to a round of political applause because it appears to be balanced. Of course, last week the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office confirmed that the plan does not...


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The New African Films Festival STARTS TODAY! Are you joining us for the week long festivities and excellent films? Learn more on our website
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#filmfest #DCevents #africanartists #africanissues
On the occasion of International Women's Day 2014 - celebrated on March 8 around the world - UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka stresses that…
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Opinion: The UN is not above the law
Few people dispute that the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH, is culpable for introducing the devastating cholera epidemic to that country. Yet the U.N. continues to evade responsibility. The U.S. government must decide Friday whether to support the victims' right to their day in court or bolster the U.N.'s impunity. The U.S. is authorized by law to file a statement of interest with the court outlining its position, as it has done in previous cases.
The deadly outbreak first hit Haiti in October 2010, ten months after a calamitous earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and ravaged the country's already crumbling infrastructure. The diarrheal disease, which had not been seen in Haiti in at least a century, infected hundreds of thousands within months. Haiti now hosts the world's largest cholera epidemic: Between 2010 and 2012, cholera cases there represented half of the total reported to the World Health Organization. To date, 8,500 people have died and more than 700,000 have been sickened by the waterborne pathogen. By the U.N.'s own estimate, another 2,000 Haitians may die from cholera in 2014.
The U.N.'s liability has been independently verified. At least 10 studies, including a comprehensive report by Yale University's Law School and School of Public Health, have confirmed the U.N.'s responsibility for the outbreak. "By causing the epidemic and then refusing to provide redress to those affected, the U.N. has breached its commitments to the Government of Haiti, its obligations under international law, and principles of humanitarian relief," the Yale report said.
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Historian, Basil Davidson visited the Arthur R. Ashe Jr., Foreign Policy Library in Washington D.C. in February 1994 to give a lecture on his experiences in Africa.
Listen to the lecture here.
About Basil Davidson: English born historian and journalist with particular expertise on pre-colonial Africa. He campaigned for Africa's freedom from colonial rule and the oppression of apartheid.
Read more from these news sources: The Independent, The Guardian
Preview and download the podcast Africa Now - TransAfrica on iTunes. Read episode descriptions and customer reviews.
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Lupita Nyong'o's Oscar for "12 Years a Slave" has raised hopes of a much-needed boost to Kenya's fledgling entertainment industry.
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Brenda Procter has an AB with honors in Economics and an MS in Consumer & Family Economics from the University of Missouri (MU). She has been an Extension Associate Professor with a focus on poverty, serving on the MU Personal Financial Planning faculty for 17 years. Brenda has worked extensively with low-income families. She taught Children and Families in Poverty, an undergraduate class in Human Development and Family Studies. She is co-founder of a statewide social justice organization led by low-income women, GRO - Grass Roots Organizing, and she serves on their Board of Directors. Brenda provides technical and logistical support for GRO's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program and had one-on-one financial conversations with more than 200 rural VITA clients in 2008. Collaborating with GRO, she recently created a predatory lending curriculum, When Creditors Are Predators. She is a frequent presenter, speaker and guest lecturer on issues related to poverty and predatory lending.


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If fresh, ripe mangoes aren't available, look for refrigerated mango slices in your grocer's produce section.
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Place bell peppers on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet. Broil 5 inches from heat 15 minutes or until blistered. Place bell peppers in a large zip-top plastic bag; seal and let stand 10 minutes to loosen skins. Peel peppers, discarding skins.
Process peppers and mango in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add mango nectar and next 6 ingredients; process until smooth*. Cover and chill mixture 2 hours. Top with sour cream, and garnish with fresh mint, if desired.
*Note: If desired, press mango mixture through a wire-mesh strainer, using back of a spoon to squeeze out liquid. Discard pulp and solids. Straining and discarding solids yields less volume but makes a very smooth soup.
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Archive for April, 2012
Romney's Latino Problem
The liberal press is making much hay over Mitt Romney's inevitable loss in November if he does not secure the Latino vote. The meme goes that Mitt is alienating Latinos based on his stance on immigration.
Wrong. Romney is alienating Latinos based on his stance on illegal immigration. The more I think about this, the less sense it makes. Every country has a right, no, an obligation to secure its borders. Every country has a right to set in place procedures that govern who comes and goes in that country. Illegal immigration has been a thorny issue in the United States because we can't figure out first, how to protect our borders and second, what to do with those folks who have already entered illegally. The problem is how to handle this in a manner that tips the hat to human dignity. The problem is NOT the virtue of the illegal immigrant. The illegal immigrant has committed a crime by entering the country illegally. Dealing with the criminality with some semblance of decency is our challenge but ignoring it is not an option.
Do Latinos want the situation ignored? Does dealing with a Latino who entered our country illegally somehow reflect on law-abiding Latinos? I think not. Law abiding Latinos should support efforts to humanely deal with folks who are here illegally. Some of our attempts to deal with the problem, such as the Arizona law now under review with the Supreme Court, are missteps in my opinion but that doesn't mean we should do nothing. In fact, I find Mr. Romney's notion of "self deportation" one of the best ideas going. If we make conditions intolerable for illegal immigrants (i.e. deny employment for starters) then they will want to go home.
The bottom line is Mitt Romney does not have a problem with Latinos. Latinos have a problem with Latinos and with facing up to their responsibility to support an effective immigration policy in the United States.
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Enough PC Talk About Working Women
With "Rosengate" virtually gone from public discourse, as I knew it would be, there remains one related item that still gnaws at me. On HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher", Maher, a blunt, rude, confrontational SOB if there ever was one, made the following comment:
What she [Rosen] meant to say, I think, was that Ann Romney has never gotten her ass out of the house to work.
No one is denying that being a mother is a tough job. I remember that I was a handful. Okay, but there is a big difference in being a mother, and that tough job, and getting your ass out of the door at 7am when it's cold, having to deal with the boss, being in a workplace, and even if you're unhappy you can't show it for 8 hours, that is a different kind of tough thing.
via Maher's comments on Ann Romney spark outrage – POLITICO.com.
Now, I won't get into whether or not Maher's (or Hillary Rosen's) comments actually apply to Ann Romney. I don't know enough about Ann Romney to discuss her work history. But if we take Ann out of the picture, what Maher said is 100% dead on accurate.
As this debate about "working" women has gone back and forth there has been a politically correct bit of foolishness that has bothered the crap out of me.
Work in common parlance is defined as an effort that is rewarded with remuneration from another party, typically called an employer or a boss. By that definition women who earn money doing something at home, work at home. My wife works at home. Women who are not compensated for what they do at home, do not work at home. Do they expend lots of effort? Sure they do. Is raising kids, cooking and keeping a house clean hard "work"? Of course it is. But it ain't a job and it doesn't pay the rent and no amount of politically correct talk will make it any different.
So why do we tie ourselves in knots talking about what used to be called housewives, working at home? The feminist movement is largely to blame for this. They fought for equal access to the workplace and equal pay, both lofty and righteous goals, but along the way they passed judgment on women who did not want to enter the "rat race". By the way, that is a concise way of describing the world Bill Maher referred to. It's the rat race. Women who chose to stay at home and devote most of their effort toward raising children and "keeping house" were judged sell-outs, or not living up to their potential. This of course, is nonsense. Being a housewife is as valid a choice as sitting in the corner office sixty hours per week.
So now, when housewives hear that they don't work, it is equivalent to hearing that they don't contribute and that understandably gets them angry. Well let's set the record straight. Housewives don't work, in the sense of earning a living. They do contribute beyond measure. In fact I think it's high time the old-fashioned word housewife returned to its former prominence. Women who steer the family ship deserve a title that rightly distinguishes them.
Working women and housewives are not the same. One is not better than the other. They are simply different. Why can't we acknowledge that difference without a volcano of debate erupting?
Postscript: We won't even touch the fact that most working women must pick up the housewife role at the end of the work day, adding to the complexity and resentment attached to these issues. That is for another post on another day.
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The N.R.A. Poster You Will Never See
The National Rifle Association (NRA) guards our 2nd Amendment rights with great virtue and patriotism. Yet somehow, I doubt the photo above would ever be used on one of their posters. The person pictured is Guardian and The Nation contributor Gary Younge who covered the recent NRA convention in St. Louis, Missouri. He described his experience to Chris Hayes this past weekend on "Up with Chris Hayes".
Younge encountered folks who you would find quite decent and pleasant so long as the topic wasn't guns. Once guns was the focus, there was a pronounced paranoia regarding whites being the target of an insurgent black America. A persistent theme was the need to have a gun because the threat to personal safety was ever-present. There was also the completely irrational notion that the federal government, led by Obama, was coming to take your guns away. As Younge points out, this fear flies in the face of Obama's failing grade with gun control groups.
When you couple Younge's observations of racial paranoia with the paucity of blacks at the NRA convention, you get the distinct impression that whites with guns represents a free nation while blacks with guns represents this:
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Allen West Channels John Iselin
Fans of the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate know that John Iselin was the hapless tool of his wife, a Communist plotter played by Angela Lansbury. A running joke in the film was that Iselin (modeled after Joseph McCarthy) always named a different number of Communists who had infiltrated the department of defense. His wife helped him settle on a number with the help of a bottle of Heinz 57 ketchup.
Fast forward to 2012 and truth becomes stranger than fiction. Tuesday, Florida congressman Allen West told a gathering that there were between 78 and 81 Democrats in Congress who are Communists. I desperately wanted to find a video of the original John Iselin declaration but RightWingWatch.org did my work for me.
Now could someone just tell Allen's wife (who by scary coincidence is named Angela) to get him a bottle of ketchup so he can settle on one number?
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The True Impact of Occupy — Our New Language
The Occupy [fill in the blank] Movement has gotten some (deservedly) bad press and has temporarily faded from view. Critics pointed at the crudeness (and sometimes criminality) of the crowds. There were cries of no real message, no action plans, just slackers camping out instead of punching into work.
This observation is not particularly profound but if Occupy never has any future impact whatsoever, they have one lasting legacy. Were it not for Occupy, we would not be talking about wealth inequality in such a concise and powerful way — the 99% vs the 1%.
Almost as if a Hollywood script were being followed, who has the Republican party cast in the role of Presidential nominee? After his triple crown victory in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin, it is quite clear that Willard "Mitt" Romney will be Barack Obama's opponent this coming Autumn. Mitt thinks a few hundred thousand dollars is chump change for speaking fees. Mitt starts the betting at ten thousand dollars. Mitt casually brags that his wife drives two Cadillacs. Mitt has a lobbyist on the payroll to help him get a permit to renovate his California mansion to accommodate an elevator for his cars.
In short, Mitt is the walking poster boy of the 1%. Let's be clear. There is no inherent shame in being wealthy. I believe Mitt worked for just about every dime he has. It's a matter of how you carry that wealth. Mitt seems to carry it totally oblivious to the fact that most people don't share his experience. It is not so much what has gone into Mitt's pockets but what comes out of his mouth that defines him.
While the Occupy movement never endorsed Barack Obama or his policies, you have to think they are tailor-made for him this year. They came along just in time to frame the debate in a way that makes some forget about Obama's mistakes. By changing the language we use concerning wealth inequality, Occupy has made it virtually impossible for Mitt Romney to be elected President of the United States. That is the ultimate political impact even if that was not their original intent.
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Greyhawk Wrote:
Oct 06, 2012 7:52 AM
And now you know the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say. And under the Obama Regime, the falsification of documents and data are worse than any in history. Also notice that all these Bogus Official Figures are coming out Just Before the Election. These scoundrels in the Obama Regime and the Bureaucracy of the Obama Machine will do anything to stay in power and to grow the size of government by ever increasing the Control of our Economy and Of Our Freedoms. Folks we are living under a Fascistic Federal Government run by crooked and subversive politicians and just as ruthless Bureaucrats who run the government bureaucracy, with it's hundreds of Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, Departments, Task Forces, etc etc. ad infinitum. Thi


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well for everyone, the questions are slightly different, but you can always prepare for questions such as "why are you good for the job" "what can you contribute" etc. as long as you tell them that you can provide skills that are necessary for the job, you should be okay. mentioning any achievements you've had looks good too.
you just want to make yourself look good, but don't lie because the people who do the interviews are most likely very good at what they do and can tell right away.
and be confident (or at least act like it :p) cuz people like seeing confidence
lol sorry this doesn't exactly answer your question, since i don't know what exactly you're applying for :>
LOL umm well the interview i had was slightly different cuz i was applying for a journalism position at a company run by high schoolers, so it was extremely informal for the most part.
they ask you stuff like why you're interested (which i totally screwed up and said i don't know -.- don't ever do that), what your work habits are, why you would be good for the position, and then there's more specific questions relating to the company and the position you're going for
oh but a tip, if someone ever asks you "is there anything else you'd like to say" don't say "nothing" it's better to add in a little i think i'd be good for the position or something :pp
lol at the end of it the guy asked me if i wanted to know what he thought, and i took forever deciding whether i should say yes or no -.- i swear i was shaking on the inside during the whole interview xDD
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Deron Williams Dribbles & Spray Paints on SI's Enhanced Tablet CoverPosted: October 10, 2012 Filed under: Sports Illustrated Digital, Sports Illustrated Tablet, Weekly Issue | Tags: Deron Williams Sports Illustrated Video, Sports Illustrated Animated Cover Comments Off
When fans download the October 15 tablet issue of Sports Illustrated they will immediately see that SI's tablet cover is more than a static image. Brooklyn Nets point guard Deron Williams appears on the cover, at first against a white background, dribbling a basketball in his Nets uniform, but then through some spray paint and animation the background changes to colorful graffiti highlighting Brooklyn legends and landmarks, freezing on the final cover image. Print subscribers can access the digital editions as a part of their subscription (Activate Digital Access). Here is a look at the cover animation:


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The disease of fibromyalgia, also referred to as fibromyositis and fibrositis, has four commonly recognized symptoms: chronic and incapacitating fatigue, muscle pain and stiffness, severe depression, and serious sleep disorder. Although these complaints are common, except for muscle pain, they are not exclusive thus making diagnosis difficult. There is a long history of fibromyalgia symptoms being dismissed as psychosomatic or even misdiagnosed often resulting in inappropriate and dangerous misuse of prescription drugs. The American College of Rheumatology estimates that at least six million people in the United States suffer from fibromyalgia.
The attractiveness of Whole Body Vibration lies in its ability to be applied in a low impact manner, which is critical for individuals with these symptoms. Studies in Spain and at Indiana University suggest that "a six-week traditional exercise program with supplementary Whole Body Vibration safely reduces pain and fatigue, whereas exercise alone fails to induce improvements." Whole Body Vibration exercise has been shown to induce maximal muscular electrical activity. Whole Body Vibration training and therapy is also an effective way to maintain or enhance skeletal mass while relieving the symptoms of fibromyalgia, especially in low-mobility individuals.
Whole Body Vibration therapy is rapidly becoming a widely recognized, holistic cure for both muscle pain and lack of energy. It is known to increase muscle strength, flexibility, range of motion, bone density, blood oxygenation and circulation and neuromuscular stimulation. Because muscle tissue is prompted to grow and strengthen with Whole Body Vibration, excess fat is also reduced in the process.
This product, a Whole Body Vibration platform or plate, sends healing vibrations throughout the entire body, and a recent study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine says that Whole Body Vibration (WBV) can actually reduce pain and fatigue, and improve physical function for those of us with fibromyalgia.
In this study, the researchers had a group of women with fibromyalgia who followed an exercise regimen consisting of aerobic activities, stretching and relaxation twice a week. Half of the women followed their work-outs with Whole Body Vibration therapy, while the other half didn't. A third control group didn't exercise or participate in any Whole Body Vibration training or therapy.
After 6 weeks, the Whole Body Vibration group showed significantly lowered pain and greatly reduced fatigue scores than the exercise-only group and the control group. In fact, the exercise-only group wasn't significantly different from the control group.
As bizaar as all of this sounds, further research into Whole Body Vibration exercise shows it's been proven to help overall physical function in the elderly as well. Whole Body Vibration has helped (and continues to help) a variety of people from professional and amateur athletes, to fitness buffs, personal trainers, health and fitness enthusiasts, even those undergoing physical rehabilitation. So whether you suffer from fibromyalgia or any of a host of other ailments and conditions Whole Body Vibration therapy may benefit and improve the quality of your life.
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The Chicago Blackhawks have selected Finnish left wing Teuvo Teravainen with the 18th pick in the NHL draft on Friday.
A Helsinki native, he split last season between Jokerit's junior and senior clubs. He also played for Finland at the 2012 Under-18 World Championship and finished fourth on the team with eight points in six games.
How soon he'll contribute for Chicago remains to be seen.
The Blackhawks are looking to return to the Stanley Cup finals after consecutive first-round playoff exits. They fell to Phoenix in six games last season.
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Catch Us at the Fire on the Mountain /Christmas Fair. Look for us in the Sierra Building at the Sonora Fairgrounds, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Nov 25-27). We'll be selling limited edition Capitol Christmas Tree memorabilia!
08-Nov | Oakdale 11am - 3:30 pm G St near Yosemite Ave
08-Nov | Manteca 5:30pm - 7pm opening comments 5:45 Yosemite
and Manteca Avenue (Library Park)
09-Nov | Sacramento 1pm to 6pm Capitol Bldg
10-Nov | Modesto, 10:30-12:30 p.m., near Modesto Centre Plaza on 11th Street
between K and L Streets
10-Nov | Merced 4:00-6:00 Main Street and Canal (Bob Hart Square)
11-Nov | Fresno 11am Downtown Fresno parade
11-Nov | Central California Children's Hospital 1:30 pm - 3 pm Madera
at Hospital SNF firetruck/Smokey
11-Nov | Kingsburg 5pm - 7pm
12-Nov | Santa Clarita 10am - 3pm Saugus Swapmeet, 22500 Soledad Canyon Rd.
13-Nov | Los Angeles 11am - 5pm Autry Center
14-Nov | Rancho Cucamonga 10am - 2pm Victory Gardens - Mall
14-Nov | Barstow 5pm - 7pm unknown
15-Nov | Flagstaff, AZ
16-Nov | Gallup, NM 1:00-5:00 Cultural Center Parking - Railroad Museum
17-Nov | Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Place Mall
18-Nov | Amarillo, TX 330 Downtown Library 413 E. 4th Ave
19-Nov | Tinker AFB, OK 2:30-6:00 on base - call Kathy 30 min out -
enter at Truck gate 33
20-Nov | Ft. Leonard Wood, MO 2pm - 5pm PX at Constitution and Replacement
21-Nov | Santa Claus, IN Cringle Place Shopping Center
23-Nov | Cherokee NC 1000-100 Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds
24-Nov | Greensboro, NC 1pm - 530pm outdoor iceskating rink
25-Nov | Newport News, VA time info to come Oyster Point City Center
26-Nov | Mount Vernon Community School at 2601 Commonwealth Avenue, Alexandria, VA
27-Nov | Hershey, PA time info to come Hershey Entertainment Complex
This activity is based on the premise of performing acts of kindness as a remembrance of kindnesses you have received in the past. Our Pay It Forward project is a food drive that will be a gift from the people of California to the people of Gallup New Mexico (one of the poorest communities in our nation). Donations from areas around the state will be picked up during the trees 7 day tour of California in November and delivered to the Gallup community as "The People's Tree" is en-route to Washington D.C..
For more information about the food drive and the many other exciting events and activities surrounding the Capitol Christmas Tree project please call or email Shandy Bearden at
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If you're ready to have sex, it's important to use safe, effective contraception. Here's everything you need to know about condoms, from putting one on to where you can get hold of them...
Durex, sheaths, johnnies, rubbers... condoms are a thin sheath of latex rubber or polyurethane that fits over a boy's erect penis and prevents the exchange of bodily fluids between partners.
They are chosen by millions of people every day because:
When a man has an orgasm, millions of sperm are released from his penis. A condom collects all these sperm, providing a barrier between them and the girl's vagina and as such no egg can be fertilised.
Out of harm's way, sperm cannot cause pregnancy. If used correctly, the male condom is 98% effective against STIs and pregnancy.
Also: If you use a lubricant make sure it's water-based (like KY Jelly) - oil-based lubricants (like Vaseline) can cause condoms to break. If the condom splits, see your doctor or family planning clinic right away. The morning-after pill is more effective the sooner it's taken.
The female condom is made of polyurethane and loosely lines the girl's vagina. For more details about female condoms visit the Family Planning Association website.
The female condom is 95% effective.
You can buy them from chemists, supermarkets and corner shops. Or get them for free from family planning clinics or your doctor.
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Newspaper Distinguishes Between "Nice Korea" and "Naughty Korea"
Nice Korea sounds nice.
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Newspaper Distinguishes Between "Nice Korea" and "Naughty Korea"
Nice Korea sounds nice.
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Incredible Gymnastics Routine Slowed Down and Set to Linkin Park
In the end, it doesn't even make sense.
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Michael Phelps' Mom Mistakenly Thinks Her Son Won
Wow, she really "Phelpsed" that one. Except instead of letting her country down, her failure made it happy.
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This is a weird sport.
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The 10 Best Pictures from the Olympics So Far
The Olympics have just started, and amid the athletic triumphs there's also been moment of stupidity and weirdness, each worthy of a gold medal. Here's a roundup of the best Olympic
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XXX Olympics.
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15 Pictures of Athletes Making Silly Faces
The Olympic opening ceremonies are tonight. It's time to watch the fastest, strongest, fittest people from around the world throw things and themselves as far as they can. And sometimes when you're really pushing yourself, you'll wind up contorting your face into a terrifying bug-eyed, loose-lipped, puffed-cheek horror straight out of a child's nightmare. Here's 15 pictures of athletes that are stronger than you'll ever be, looking stupider than you'll ever look.
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CollegeHumor's Round-Up of Best Tweets: July 30th
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London Olympics Take Place in London
In other news, summer Olympics to occur in the summer.
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Celebration, NJITs Black-Tie Benefit Dinner, Set for Nov. 10, 2006
November 03, 2006
NJIT will hold its annual black-tie benefit dinner, called Celebration, on Nov. 10, 2006, at the Pleasantdale Chateau, West Orange. "Dinner proceeds will endow scholarships for students enrolled in NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and College of Science and Liberal Arts," said Jacquelynn Rhodes, associate vice president for development at NJIT. >>


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Vietnamese patriot Hanoi Jane Fonda was once the workout video queen of the 1980s. And now she's back! The two-time Oscar-winner is releasing a new video aimed at people in their golden years. Definitely better than Georgia Rule 2.
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Tomato Plant Girl Recap
Did you miss Tomato Plant Girl?
It Was An Empowering Journey for Young Audiences
Being a kid isn't always easy. Making friends, dealing with bullies, peer pressure — it's not fun and games all of the time. With Tomato Plant Girl, which recently closed at the University of Idaho Hartung Outdoor Theater, young audiences were taken on an empowering journey with funny and quirky characters they found recognizable and relatable.
"For me, the play was about finding yourself, and subsequently finding your own strength and happiness," said Travis Gray, director of the IRT 2014 summer youth theatre project. "We all learned from Little Girl's journey, and risk being "different" in order to be ourselves," he said.
Written by Wesley Middleton, Tomato Plant Girl explored relationships through sharp dialogue, physical action and high-energy encounters. Characters included "Little Girl" the new kid in town, "Bossy Best Friend" who liked to be in control, and "Tomato Plant Girl", a magical, messy girl-creature who came between the two with her new ideas about the meaning of friendship.
With the topic of bullying a concern among parents and schools, Tomato Plant Girl presented an important message, Gray said, but he was sensitive to delivering it in a way that was fun and engaging.
"Part of the reason I'm in theatre is that I refuse to grow up," said Gray, who is an MFA student in the University of Idaho Theatre Arts department. "I'm still very much in touch with my inner child and doing theatre appeals to me in that way. There is just something magical about theatre, and my hope is that magic is transferred from the stage to our audiences, young and old."
Helping Gray make the play come alive were cast members Lauren Walters, Maggie Miller, Lo Miles, and Edward Pitcher as the off-stage Mother.
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It's us versus them, and normally you want to side with the home team, but when it comes to the so-called "Bay State boondoggle" — the extra hundreds of millions the feds are sending to Massachusetts hospitals — we are, regrettably, in the wrong. Rather than fighting a rear-guard action to justify the unjustifiable, Massachusetts's pols need to stand up and lead the way to a reformed and more equitable system.
The scam was, no question, wicked clever. Medicare is the federal program that covers health care for those over 65. Under its rules, labor-related payments to urban hospitals have a floor that is equal to wages at a state's rural hospitals. In the Bay State, it turns out there's only one such qualified rural hospital: the lovely Nantucket Cottage Hospital, just at the edge of the island's historic district. Of course, we're not talking some godforsaken region of Appalachia here, where land is cheap and wages crushingly low. Rather, Nantucket is the playground of the wealthy, and everything is exceptionally expensive (to their credit, islanders do their best to soak the rich in their midst).


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Today, the crossword question is "Trees with poisonous seeds". First we find similar definitions for Trees with poisonous seeds, Next we will look for a few extra hints for "Trees with poisonous seeds". Finally, using all gathered information, we will solve , slangily crossword definition and get the final answer.
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Yew trees contain taxanes, highly poisonous alkaloids that in particular are found in the seeds.
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There are many steps in the process of applying, matriculating, and graduating from law school. The Pre Law Advisor can assist you at every step along the way. This is an advising program, not a major or minor, though there are a number of courses at Stonehill that may be of interest to students who wish to pursue the law as a career. Students interested in the law should also join the St. Thomas More Law Society, Stonehill's student-run pre law organization, and the Stonehill College Mock Trial Team.
We run a number of events during the year for all students to learn about the law, careers in the law, and the admissions process. Any student with an interest in the law is encouraged to attend.


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The Halfway Home Diaries - Chapter 1: Settling The Score
Greetings, true believers!
I know you've been patiently awaiting our new full-length album "Kobiyashi Maru", but as a means to keep those mouths watering, I am extremely excited to return to you with the introduction of a new feature…
"The Halfway Home Diaries", a song-by-song blog series in which I intend to openly analyze, scrutinize, brutalize, romanticize, and otherwise come to terms with "Songs for a Halfway Home", the 2009 full-length album by my now-defunct Upstate, NY rock outfit, The Score. (The first, and only, full-length album I have had the privilege to release at this point)
First and foremost, if you haven't heard the album, CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD "SONGS FOR A HALFWAY HOME" FOR FREE. (320kbps mp3)
sunset manifesto.
dear hollywood, i know i probably don't look like you think i should. you won't find me at an audition for a reality show. you will never see me wearing eyeliner at a show, and you will certainly never see me with a fucking neck tattoo, but when i'm on stage in my looney toons shirts and my beat up sneakers, i will perform with such ferocity that you will not be able to look away. you're gonna know all the words to every single song that i write and you're gonna hate me, because you're never going to be able to forget them. you simply have no idea what you're in for.


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Zandia, the farthest planet in the known universe, is usually peaceful, but they're about to have their views on women blown apart.
Sui Erom has taken drastic measures to live as suits her, not society. Hiding on a transporter, she leaves her home planet for another world. Working as a translator, she feels intelligent and productive, if not entirely fulfilled. She has been unable to find a mate who satisfies any of her physical needs or one to trust with her heart.
The Zandian national speedball team comes to town for a Universal competition and sets in motion events that force Sui to make a decision on what exactly she wants from life.
Listening to the official translator's voice, Xer Rieh realizes she is Zandian and asserts his right to mark her as his. He does not believe her claim that she is not Zandian – despite evidence supporting it. Xer is certain she is and will not be denied.
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"Tell me what's in your heart, Sui, tell me now."
"I see it in your eyes, feel it in your body," he moved a hand to hold her leg bent at the knee and pressed to the bed, "…especially here in your pussy." Xer started out slowly, sliding in and out of her damp clasp, pulling juice out coating his dick. "I hear it when we love…"
Slow and easy, it was maddening! Her immediate needs had been satiated and yet were once again uncontrollable. She wanted to feel his climax beating its own rhythm inside her.
"I hear it in your voice…" He picked up speed, pounding in and out of her.
"Uhhh, please."
"Tell me, baby, tell me." He was incredibly big and hard.
"Yes! Yes, I love you, ahhhh! Xer!"
"Shit! Sui!" One thrust was all it took. He was fully imbedded in her and he let loose. She could swear he had seed coming from the bottom of his balls, because each load he shot felt like it had the velocity of a rocket behind it. He grunted with the intensity of his climax as it took over his body.
He collapsed atop her and she enjoyed having him there, even if he was a little heavy. When her breath came back, she tuned in to his kissing her shoulder and followed the line up her neck to her ear. He rubbed his nose along the way and she loved it, but something was still niggling at her mind, something wasn't right.
"I claim you, Sui, as my chosen path-mate. To always be at my side, be I prince, king or pleb."
With his dick still hard and pulsating in her pussy, he rose to his knees and, using her legs, pulled her even farther onto his hard-on.
"No waiting, Sui."
He reached to the side and grabbed something he must have put on the bed earlier. Following his movement, she saw the room was full of people, a mix of the security staff and his speedball team members. She should've realized they were here but had been too involved with their loving, she'd even forgotten about Rol being there. They were all solemn, although in her quick glance at them she saw a few with their hands holding tight to their hard-ons. At least they were mostly dressed this time.
"You are mine in all ways…"
He left the words hanging. She knew he was waiting for her to reply with the formal acceptance. There'd been no time to think about what she'd do if he claimed her. She hadn't thought it possible until he'd mentioned it earlier at the restaurant. Although, if she put her mind to it, she guessed Rol had warned her this morning. She looked to the other man and found him beside them on the bed, watching her with a gaze that said everything would be all right, to trust in her feelings.
Or had she hoped to see it and therefore put it there?
Sui looked back at Xer, took in everything about him, and the minutes passed by silently. He didn't rush her nor offer any pressure, but waited patiently for her to speak the traditional female Zandian response, although she thought the wait must be difficult for him. Honestly, there was only one thing she wanted, and it may break her to do it, but she loved him and would support him.
Taking a deep breath she gave him his words.
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