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Beached, the culmination of a £170,000 project staged by Opera North, was due to feature 280 children from the local Bay Primary School in Bridlington. The main character, a retired painter, is gay.
On the eve of the production and after six months of rehearsals, Opera North has withdrawn its support for the project after parents voiced their disapproval.
The local education authority said the content was inappropriate for children as young as four and "goes against everything we teach in school".
A furious Hall accused the local education authority of homophobia. "I am fighting to keep the opera on. It will be a scandal if it is not performed - not just because of the public money wasted, but because ignorance and timidity will have won the day," he wrote in The Guardian.
"That a play about tolerance, community and civic values could founder over this seems unbelievable.
"Effectively, I feel I am not being allowed to represent a gay person. The idea that being gay is something inappropriate for a child to witness is insupportable - as if gay people weren't fathers or mothers or sisters or brothers.
"That an opera company or a school could make this mistake seems extraordinary."
Mike Furband, head of improvement and learning for East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: "Since the school received the full script at the end of May, it was made very clear to the writer there were certain elements the school found offensive.
"These included references to drug taking, sexual conduct and the use of homophobic name-calling - behaviour that goes against everything we teach in school. Of particular concern and offence was a character who groomed and abused children in his early days in Ibiza.
"It was made explicitly clear to Mr Hall that we did not have an issue with having a gay character - it was the language and tone of the scene that were problematic."
Mr Furband added: "I am sure that any parent would not want their child exposed to or to take part in such scenes from the original script, including, 'You're a fat little queer... I like a bit of rough... Are you taking the ----'.
"Although the language was toned down, it was still deemed as unacceptable for four- to 11-year-olds to be exposed to. One of our primary roles is to safeguard children. Children have the right to be protected from offensive language and behaviour.
"Having said this, we still believe that this could be resolved through judicious and sensitive reworking of elements of the scene in question."
The council's statement drew an angry response from Hall, who said it misquoted the play. His spokesman said that Beached "does not now and has never contained" a character who groomed and abused children.
Hall has started a Facebook group and urged supporters to email the chief executive of Opera North to register their anger at the decision.
The playwright pointed out that he had toned down the language in the contentious scene at the school's request "but not the character's straightforward defence of his sexuality".
A cast of 400 were involved in Beached and Opera North said that £15,000 has been wasted as a result of the decision. It was planned as the finale of the company's Sing Up Bridlington project, which began in September 2009 as a way of regenerating the seaside town and has so far cost £170,000.
A spokesman for Opera North said it was "a huge disappointment" that the row had overshadowed the project. "Opera North respects Lee's rights as an author and Beached is a wonderful piece about bringing all different sections of the community together. On the other hand, we can appreciate the viewpoint of the school.
"Lee has raised a hugely valid debate and Opera North wants to be part of this. We have a fantastic reputation for building relationships between artists and communities and are really disappointed that on this occasion it has failed."
A replacement performance will go ahead on July 15 at the same venue, the Royal Hall at The Spa in Bridlington. Mr Hall will not attend.

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It's not unusual (cue the Carlton dance!) for people to go through phases with their eating habits. For most people, that's something like "I love avocados and I'm adding them to tons of dishes!" or "I can't stop eating pints of Ben and Jerry's since the breakup!" or even "I'm so broke this month all I'm eating is ramen and mac n cheese."
For someone like me (read: weird), these phases usually involve cereal. For new readers, understand that cereal basically raised me. As a child who hated everything her mother cooked, cereal stepped in. It was a quick breakfast before the bus came, it was dinner when mom made pot roast, it was a sweet dessert while watching tv.
Sadly, these habits never faded. And while I try to eat more adult cereals, I usually cave and stock up on boxes of artificial, colorful, and sugary kid's cereals.
Since I got back from my cruise, and have been working through a post-vacation funk, cereal once again became a main staple in my diet. And this most recent craving has been for fruity pebbles. I'll typically eat three bowls a day, and if we do the math, that equals three boxes a week. I'm not proud of this addiction, and wished like hell I could kick this sugar habit.
I figured if I finished up the boxes in my house and refused to buy more, I could quit cold turkey. And how to use them up quickly? Why, add more sugar of course!
I used the original rice krispy treat recipe from Kellog's website, and just swapped out the rice krispies for my precious pebbles. The result was an atrocious, psychadelic, but pretty damn tasty snack. They were referred to as "technicolor leprechaun vomit," but I think that was meant endearingly. Because they were delicious, and more importantly, made my favorite cereal portable!
So now I can eat it for even MORE meals a day, when I'm out of the house!!!
And as much as I love making complicated recipes with multiple steps, I'm pretty much in love with food that demands minimal effort on my part. Less work for me equals more time to stuff my face with sugar. Because clearly I need more.


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8 Anime ladies who are kick-ass, and 8 who aren't
Anime has a really weird rule when it comes to female characters: either they're all uber-cool-assassin-that-kills-you-and-crushes-your-shin, like in Dragon Ball Z, or they're all helpless-lass-that-can't-fight-her-way-out-of-a-paper-bag, like in Pokemon. Therefore, in honor of anime's schizophrenic approach to storytelling, here are 8 anime ladies who kick ass…and 8 who don't.
Yes, she is virtually the only Z-fighter that can't blow up mountains, regenerate limbs or disintegrate planets. But that is exactly what makes Videl so awesome: her willingness to step into battle against super-powered psychopaths that could crush her like an ant. After all the times she has risked her life, she's incredibly brave to keep fighting…and incredibly lucky to be alive.
2) Ayumi Yamada (Honey and Clover)--Doesn't Kick Ass
Before you point out that she's an art student and therefore "not supposed to be kick-ass," consider this: kickassery is not defined as simple acts of violence—it is defined as a demonstration of ability so far above your peers, that they will literally feel like you kicked their ass when you beat them in anything, and it is in that regard that Ayumi fails. She has tremendous skill in her field (ceramic arts), but she is always so preoccupied with emotional troubles that she ruins almost everything she makes. For someone with so much talent and the ability to create masterpieces, that kind of inattention—that unwillingness to own everyone around you—is almost as bad as being useless.
3) Deunan Knute (Appleseed)—Kicks Ass
Long before Angelina Jolie's Salt or Milla Jovovich's Ultraviolet, Deunan Knute showed the world one very simple thing: you don't need to be a guy to crack some criminal skulls. Even though she is part of a very small resistance who is against forces that are so far out of a former police detective's league, give Deunan a gun and she can fight the world. Don't give her a gun, and she can still fight it just fine.
4) Mamori Anezaki (Eyeshield 21)-Doesn't Kick Ass
Her best friend, who she's essentially raised like a little brother, puts on a little green visor that covers half his face, and she suddenly can't recognize him. And if that isn't proof of just how utterly useless Mamori is to the Devil Bat's football team, she's also a terrible manager that never seems to arrive at a strategy before captain Hiruma has already figured it out. The NFL's simulation programs cost millions; they are completely wasted on this sweet but very, very useless lady.
5) Fuu (Samurai Champloo)—Kicks Ass
Even though she has absolutely no martial arts training whatsoever, this courageous lady of action stands up to thugs, hires two mercenaries of questionable loyalty to accompany her, and sets out on a dangerous trek across feudal Japan in search for a samurai that smells like sunflower seeds. Does she sound entirely mentally fit? Not at all. But is she ridiculously brave? Without a doubt.
6) Mimi Tachikawa (Digimon)—Doesn't Kick Ass
Proof that even when accompanied by a personal killing machine, crybabies are still crybabies. Quite possibly one of the most irritating people you will ever see, Mimi acts like saving the world is too much work, having your own digimon to command is a waste of time, and not having makeup is the worst thing ever. Because of her aversion to anything meaningful, the rest of the digi-destined have to do all the work every time something dangerous happens while Mimi just sits by and cries about how she was just visiting summer camp before being transported to the hellhole known as the Digiworld.
7) Anna Liebert (Monster)—Kicks Ass
Anna isn't a trained killer like her twin brother, but she's always up against some of the most evil people in the world. That doesn't break her resolve, however, and she has still gone undercover, snuck around dangerous buildings, learned how to fire a weapon and done whatever it takes to find out the truth about who she is. If any regular person was ever confronted with the kinds of criminals she regularly destroys, they would feel too scared to go on, but Anna shows us that, just like Johan, she is a stone-cold killer.
8) Kagura (Gintama)—Doesn't Kick Ass
An alien with the understandable intention of escaping a life of killing and earning money for her family, Kagura decides to get away from her violent heritage…by joining a gang. When she suddenly develops a conscience and decides not to kill (as per the requirements of any gang, by the way), she decides to join our hero by intimidating him into accepting her company. Plus, her psychotic approach to life could be forgiven if she was cool, but not only does Kagura puke all over and make perverted jokes, her weapon of choice is an umbrella. Yes, she has medical reasons for carrying it, but anyone imitating Batman's Penguin is never going to look cool.
9) Miria Harvent (Baccano!)—Kicks Ass
You have to love someone so irredeemably stupid that you can't even consider her a criminal. Working with her lover-cum-partner Isaac Dian, Miria Harvent steals watches (to have more time) and front doors (so no one can enter buildings). It also took her more than half a century to figure out she was immortal, because evidently that kind of thing doesn't pop up every day. Considering the level of intellect on display, can you even be mad at her, or do you just want to love her for being so awesomely ridiculous?
10) Tea Gardner (Yu-Gi-Oh!)—Doesn't Kick Ass
Tea has only one function in life: to keep reminding Yugi about the stupid "heart of the cards." She also has a weird habit of drawing friendship symbols on her group's hands, and it's really creepy that she has fallen in love with an ancient spirit that takes over her friend's body. Mai Valentine, who Tea always seems to hate, let the poor girl win a match when she was trying to inspire her friends, otherwise Tea couldn't win a duel if her life depended on it (and several times, it did).
11) Ayako (Slam Dunk)—Kicks Ass
Now here is a team manager. After the Shohoku High School decides to take in self-proclaimed genius Hanamichi Sakuragi (or rather, after he forces his way in to impress the captain's younger sister), Ayako is the one who teaches him all the basics with a caring but firm hand. She also frequently breaks up team fights, keeps control when Coach Anzai isn't around and even inspires all the players whenever they're feeling nervous. Together with the coach and captain Akagi, she is easily one of the most formidable managers in the entire high school gaming scene and plays a big part in getting their underdog team to the nationals.
12) Sakuno Ryuzaki (Prince of Tennis)—Doesn't Kick Ass
With a grandmother that serves as a coach, you would think Sakuno would be a bit more conducive to actually helping the prince of tennis become the king of tennis. Instead, rather than inspiring Ryoma to do great things, as a proper sidekick does, Sakuno spends most of her time swooning over how awesome he is. The prince of tennis finds no help here, and anime finds no awesome lady here either.
13) Triela (Gunslinger Girl)—Kicks Ass
While you could easily make an entire list on the amazing gunslingers in this anime, a special tip of the hat would go to Triela, a former victim of child trafficking who quickly becomes one of the deadliest assassins at her agency. Incredibly practical and extremely uninterested in trivialities like fashion, Triela has an acerbic wit, can use virtually any weapon, serves as a leader for all the other assassins and dies one of the most epic deaths in anime history; you simply don't get a better resume than that.
14) Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson (Trigun)—Don't Kick Ass
Already in one of the most boring professions known to man—insurance agent—Meryl and Milly are maddeningly inept. They don't do much to stop people's premiums from going up, they can't stop Vash from destroying things wherever they go (which is their job, by the way), and they definitely cannot help out in a firefight. They are, at best, beautiful distractions that allow Vash a moment to shoot when the villains are busy ogling the ladies, but he would just as soon abandon them for good.
15) Nadi (El Cazador De La Bruja)—Kicks Ass
When someone's hometown is destroyed and they end up being the sole survivor, it's easy to have a somewhat depressing outlook on life. Not so with our girl Nadi, who went and became the coolest sharpshooter in the history of this not-so-cool profession. But before you start to think that she is just as much a turncoat as any bounty hunter, Nadi also risks her own life to save her friend Ellis, who she forms an unbreakable bond with. Before killing her opponents, Nadi always gives them a chance to say their last words, so, evidently, she also has a heart of gold.
If you had a notebook that could be used to magically kill anyone, would you announce that to the world? Well, evidently, our friend Misa would, who broadcast this information on live television to attract the vigilante known as Kira. Of course, Kira also happens to be one of the biggest jerks in anime history so, to add to her stupidity, Misa also has terrible selection when it comes to guys. So terrible, in fact, that she sacrifices half her life's age to help him…twice. Yeah, totally not kick-ass in the least.
So, what other anime ladies did you think were kick-ass or not? Sound off in the comments below! And for all your entertainment needs, be sure to follow DramaFever and myself on Twitter.


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As your organization enters another year what are your procurement goals and or resolutions for 2013. Below are some high level thoughts that you might use as a source of inspiration.
1. Drive lower costs.
2. Drive improved quality.
3. Insure that products are guaranteed safe.
4. Build and maintain and update high quality product specifications.
5. Find a source for vetting of unlimited new sources of supply.
6. Collaborate internally and aggregate your purchases.
7. Look at ways to use newer low cost cloud based solutions.
8. Make procurement education and training a priority.
9. Review all of your existing suppliers.
10. Collaborate with other businesses to increase savings.
Writing is a psycho, muscular, neurological process. So remember that simple goals written down are the most achievable.
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Social Media for the CIO, Part 3: Social Media Compliance
In the first two parts of our series, "Social Media for the CIO", we explored how a CIO can consolidate governance over social media assets and then lock down social media security across an organization. In Part 3, you'll learn 6 steps a CIO can take to ensure policy compliance for all social media activity.
Download Secure Your Social Organization With HootSuite Enterprise to find out why HootSuite Enterprise is trusted by CIOs for social media compliance.
As organizations rely more and more on technology to meet their compliance obligations, CIOs are becoming vital partners to chief compliance officers (CCOs) and chief risk officers (CRO). The typical CIO can offer a valuable overall perspective on the enterprise's operations and help compliance professionals integrate new modes of communication like social media into existing systems for compliance workflow, policy enforcement, and archiving.
Here are 6 ways the CIO can make social media compliance a reality:
1. Protect Social Media Assets
There's a reason social media compliance is the subject of our third CIO post and not the first: no compliance policy can work without stable enterprise governance over social media accounts or comprehensive security measures to protect them. If an enterprise doesn't have centralized control over user access levels to social media assets or the ability to keep hackers on the outside looking in, it's impossible to ensure compliance with non-disclosure regulations, consumer privacy laws or even brand use guidelines.
The SEC has ruled that publicly traded companies may use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks to communicate with shareholders, as long as they are "recognized channels of distribution." To keep compliant with fair-disclosure rules, an organization must publicly identify the specific social media accounts it intends to use to disclose material information. But it's also critical that these social media accounts are brought under the governance of an organization's social relationship platform and publishing approval process.
2. Maintain Compliance Workflow
A CIO can remove an enormous stumbling block to an organization's social media programs by bringing social media publishing into the organization's regular compliance workflow. When all regulated social media accounts are managed by a single social relationship platform, any outbound messages can be held in a publishing queue until approved by a compliance officer. Compliance officers can review social messages from within the same system the organization uses to draft, schedule and publish its content, eliminating tiresome email threads between content producers and compliance officers. By deploying technology that's as easy to use for compliance professionals as it is for marketers and salespeople, the CIO can accelerate publishing turnaround and allow the organization to scale up its social activity.
3. Enforce Policies with Automated Tools
In addition to providing a smooth compliance workflow for manual publishing approvals, the CIO can implement technology for automated content filtering:
Data classifiers can be used to identify non-compliant language in outbound social messages and alert compliance officers of potential policy violations.
Anti-malware scans on URLs in social content can ensure that no bad links are sent out from designated accounts.
Non-compliant social content can be flagged for a compliance officer or removed immediately and archived for future auditing or ediscovery.
User-generated spam, hate speech or other undesirable content on a Facebook wall or Youtube comment section can be filtered out, keeping the organization's brand reputation intact.
Every organization will find its own balance between manual and automated policy enforcement, but the CIO is vital to both approaches.
4. Archive Social Communications
Enterprises are already archiving electronic communications for compliance purposes. The challenge is to incorporate social media into existing archiving procedures. When the CIO takes leadership in consolidating social media governance, it becomes much easier to maintain a universal, auditable record of the organization's social activity.
The CIO should choose a vendor-neutral social relationship platform that supports whichever archive the enterprise already uses.
5. Create a Compliant C-Suite
One of the biggest compliance opportunities for CIOs is in the C-suite, where many of their peers are becoming personally active on social media. When leadership teams participate on social media, they humanize and enhance their organization's brand image. Recent research has shown that social CEOs are more far more likely to be described as inspiring and trustworthy than their non-social counterparts. And an overwhelming majority of people believe that CEOs who engage in social media make better leaders.
An executive's social messaging can also have immediate and significant business impact. For example, when Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings announced on his Facebook account that his company's monthly online viewing had grown to over 1 billion hours, Netflix shares jumped 6.2 per cent. However, the compliance risks of a socially active C-suite must be deliberately managed.
In 2012 Gene Morphis, the CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's carelessly revealed non-public information in a Tweet from his personal account: "Board meeting. Good numbers=Happy Board." Although his Twitter page was public, the SEC took the position that his message provided his 238 followers with insider information. He was quickly fired for "improperly communicating company information through social media."
Had Morphis's social message been reviewed by a compliance officer before being published, the entire affair could have been avoided. Fortunately, CIOs are well positioned to inform their C-level colleagues of proper social media security and compliance procedures.
6. Use Technology to Educate the Organization
Of course, the need for social media education extends beyond the C-suite and into the workforce at large. Employees must be aware of social media policies and best practices for security, whether the organization is in a regulated industry or not. The sheer number of active social media users in a typical enterprise demands a scaleable education solution. CIOs are able to help organizations meet this need by deploying technology for social media education, such as on-demand HootSuite University courseware.
Enterprises are already leveraging technology to train workers in compliance procedures. In April 2013, PriceWaterhouseCoopers surveyed hundreds of senior executives with responsibility for compliance, and found that 71% of them rely upon technology to conduct training for risk and compliance initiatives. Bringing social media into existing training programs is the next logical step.
The full guide, Secure Your Social Organization with HootSuite Enterprise is available for download. To learn more about how HootSuite Enterprise is an effective solution for your social media security and IT requirements, request a demo today.


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Welcome to The Janus School! The decision to enroll your child in The Janus School can be life altering. In an environment that accommodates unique ways of processing information, your child can flourish like never before. A learning difference is not something that will be outgrown some day. But there's no reason it should define or limit your child's success. The biggest step in overcoming a learning difference is "learning how to learn." And we are proud to say that we utilize research-based teaching methods, caring instruction, and individualized learning strategies that will benefit your child for a lifetime.
The Janus School is dually accredited by the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) and Middle States Association (MSA).
The Janus School accepts students for grades K-12. Janus admits students of any race, color, and national and ethnic origin. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, disabilities or sexual orientation in the administration of our educational policies, admission policies, and school administered programs.
Visit Janus
Our goal in the Admissions Office is to help you gather all the information you need to make the best informed decision for your child. We invite you to see firsthand how our experienced teachers, individualized instruction, and a nurturing environment can make all the difference in a child's life. We hold Open Houses on the first Thursday of most months and welcome you to reserve a spot or schedule a private visit by calling 717-653-0025 or by completing this form.
Open House Dates:
Open HouseSeptember 27 @ 9:00 am
Open HouseNovember 1 @ 7:00 pm
Open HouseDecember 6 @ 9:00 am
Open HouseJanuary 27, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
Open HouseFebruary 28, 2019 @ 9:00 am
Affording Janus
A Janus education is an investment in a child's lifelong success. Janus students receive a rigorous, quality education, and learn valuable techniques to ensure their continued academic success. But we teach more than academics. We make sure our students are prepared to succeed in all aspects of life – at home, with friends, and at work.
Tuition at Janus is reflective of the close one-to-one contact and individualized education each student receives. However, Janus does not charge the full cost of providing our type of specialized education and relies on the philanthropic support of our friends and family to help close the gap between tuition and the actual cost of our programs through our Annual Fund and special fundraising events.
Financial Aid
To help keep Janus affordable for all families, need-based financial aid is available to help parents pay tuition costs. Between one-third and one-half of our students receive financial aid from The Janus School. Eligibility is determined on a first-come, first-served basis. The Janus School works with the Financial Aid for School Tuition (FAST) program through Independent School Management. Families must reapply each year.
To apply for financial aid, visit FAST's website. FAST administers the application process and any financial documents required will be submitted directly to FAST. FAST offers 24/7 phone and e-mail support for any questions you may have about completing the financial aid application. The fee to apply for financial aid through FAST is $41.00. If you are unable to pay this fee by credit card, or have general questions about financial aid at The Janus School, please contact Michael Peterson, Director of Finance and Operations at 717-653-0025 x103.
Core Academic Program
$2,500 deposit
Grades K-11: $29,250 (includes deposit and technology fee)
Grade 12: $29,750 (includes deposit, technology fee, and internship transportation)
First year students receive one-to-one tutorials, including speech-language therapy and/or occupational therapy if needed, as part of their tuition
Flex Options
Includes tutorials, speech-language therapy, and occupational therapy for returning students
1x/week: $1,257
2x/week: $2,514
3x/week: $3,771
4x/week: $5,028
5x/week: $6,285
Roundtrip Bus Transportation Fee
(per year, per family)
From Harrisburg: $2,390
From York: $2,390
From Reading: $2,590
From Lebanon/Palmyra/Hershey: $2,390
An alternative form of transportation available to Janus students is the Amtrak train. The Mount Joy Amtrak train station is 1 mile from the school, and transportation can be provided from the train station to the school at a nominal cost. To view the train timetable, visit www.amtrak.com.
Tuition Management System
The Janus School offers a monthly payment plan option through Tuition Management Systems (TMS). Click here for a brochure with more information about TMS.
Admission Process
Personalized learning at Janus starts by understanding the specific challenges that must be addressed for your child. The primary criteria for admission to The Janus School includes consideration of your child's diagnosis of a learning difference (such as Specific Learning Disorder, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, etc), their potential for skill improvement, and the absence of a primary emotional or behavioral disability.
To apply to The Janus School, follow these steps:
- Complete the Application Form
- Submit a $75 application fee, with the application form, payable to The Janus School
- Complete record requests from current:
- Teacher
- School
- Physician
- Optometrist or ophthalmologist
- Send all records to The Janus School
- Send a psychoeducational or neuropsychological evaluation (no more than three years old) for your child
- Complete the Financial Aid process if necessary
After reviewing the completed application, the Director of Admission will schedule a 2-3 day student visit if the applicant meets the primary criteria. Placement testing may take place during this visit. An admission decision will be made after all application materials have been received and the student has visited Janus.


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A unique football / soccer game for one or two players, with very simple controls… Just press one button to make your whole team jump and kick the ball, and score goals! Lots of fun guaranteed!
IMPORTANT: This game requires Unity3D plugin installed. Install it when your browser prompts you, or download and install the Unity3D player directly from this official Unity3D download page. For better gaming experience, enter the Fullscreen Mode (right click on the game screen and choose the "Go Fulscreen").
Game Controls: W – Player One, Up Arrow – Player Two


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Please be sure to attend this month's UVNA Meeting – come out to discuss what's going on in our neighborhood and get to know your neighbors. Anne Shaw, who has organized a group focused on saving the 13th district police station will be at our meeting to talk about the work her group is doing to stop the closing of the station, including their online petition as well a planned rally before the Community Meeting on October 25th.
- Thursday, October 20th, 6:30pm
- St. Helen's School, 2347 W. Augusta, (Downstairs cafeteria)


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Georgia Tech @ CHI 2017
CHI is the Association for Computing Machinery's annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Georgia Tech Among Top Participating Institutions at CHI 2017
This week, the Mile High City is transforming into the "Mile CHI City" as scores of researchers from across the country and around the globe descend on Denver this week (May 8 – 11) for the Association for Computing Machinery's annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Among the throng is the 29-person Georgia Tech contingent. Better known as CHI, the event is the premiere international ACM conference on human-computer interaction (HCI) attracting researchers from around the globe.
The faculty and students representing Georgia Tech at CHI 2017 are from the College of Computing, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the GVU Center. Together, they have 17 research papers and notes accepted as part of the technical program.
Georgia Tech also boasts an expansive alumni network at CHI. These researchers, along with the faculty and student contingent, will take part in a variety of workshops, panels, courses, and other parts of the CHI technical program.
Overall, Georgia Tech ranks in the top ten for participation among the 500 or so institutions represented at CHI 2017.
Papers and Notes
Women's Safety in Public Spaces: Examining the Efficacy of Panic Buttons in New Delhi
We present a qualitative inquiry through the lens of feminist Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) into women's perceptions of personal safety in New Delhi, India. Since a brutal gang-rape incident took place in Delhi in December 2012 and received global attention, women's safety has been the focus of much attention India-wide. In April 2016, the Indian government issued a mandate that all mobile phones sold in India 2017 onwards must include a panic button for women's safety. We draw on interview and survey data to examine women's responses to the mandate, also investigating what factors influence their perceptions of safety, positively and negatively. Our findings indicate that women's sense of safety may be deconstructed into a multitude of factors–personal, public, social, technological–that must align for this sense of safety to be preserved. We then discuss the implications these factors have for the success and (re-)design of the panic button and similar interventions.
Topics: Safety; Gender; India; HCI4D; Feminist HCI
Naveena Karusala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Rice Today, Roti Tomorrow: Diets and Diabetes in Urban Indian Households
In India, where diabetes is a growing concern and approximately 69 million are affected, we investigate the factors that influence diet management, a critical component of living with the disease. Taking the middle-income diabetes-affected household as our unit of analysis, we use a combination of semi-structured interviews and a design probe to understand if and how diets are monitored, tailored, and balanced. We research the various information-seeking behaviors of our participants and their culturally situated approaches to food and eating. Our findings illuminate how contextual nuances shape individuals' beliefs around dealing with diabetes and the ways in which family, friends, and broader social networks influence dietary decisions. We conclude by offering a framework of Learning-Being-Doing to inform the holistic design of technologies for managing diets and diabetes.
Topics: Diabetes; Diets; India; Qualitative Methods
Jasmine Hentschel (THRIVE)
Samyukta Manjayya Sherugar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Rui Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Vaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan)
Rajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Situated Anonymity: Impacts of Anonymity, Ephemerality, and Hyper-Locality on Social Media
Anonymity, ephemerality, and hyper-locality are an uncommon set of features in the design of online communities. However, these features were key to Yik Yak's initial success and popularity. In an interview-based study, we found that these three features deeply affected the identity of the community as a whole, the patterns of use, and the ways users committed to this community. We conducted interviews with 18 Yik Yak users on an urban American university campus and found that these three focal design features contributed to casual commitment, transitory use, and emergent community identity. We describe situated anonymity, which is the result of anonymity, ephemerality, and hyper-locality coexisting as focal design features of an online community. This work extends our understanding of use and identity-versus-bond based commitment, which has implications for the design and study of other atypical online communities.
Topics: online communities; anonymity; ephemerality; hyper-locality; commitment; transitory use; community identity
Ari Schlesinger (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Eshwar Chandrasekharan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Christina A Masden (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Amy S Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
W Keith Edwards (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Rebecca E Grinter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Understanding the Cost of Driving Trips
Driving is the second highest expense for the average American household. Yet few people know the total cost of owning and operating their vehicles, and most cannot estimate accurately how much a common driving trip (like a daily commute) costs. There are an increasing number of viable alternatives for personal transportation, such as car services (e.g. Uber, Lyft), in addition to ridesharing, transit, biking, and walking. Cost is one factor in transportation mode choice, and awareness of the cost of driving is useful in making better informed decisions. To bridge this awareness gap, we built and deployed a system that makes the total cost of each driving trip (including depreciation, maintenance, insurance, and fuel) visible to the user. After this intervention, participants were able to more accurately and confidently estimate costs of their driving commutes, and transfer this knowledge to other trips for which they had not seen a cost.
Topics: Transportation; driving; mode choice; personal informatics
Caleb Southern (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Yunnuo Cheng (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Cheng Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Gregory D Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Locating the Internet in the Parks of Havana
Since March 2015, the public squares of Havana have been transformed from places where people stroll and children play to places where crowds gather to try to connect to the internet at all hours of the day and night. We present a field investigation of public WiFi hotspots in Havana, Cuba, and examine the possibilities of internet access these limited and expensive hotspots present to individuals, many of who are experiencing the internet for the first time. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2015-2016, we underscore the reconfigurations that have resulted from this access, as evolving internet users reconfigure their interactions with place, time, and individuals in their efforts to locate the internet. We also discuss the implications our findings have for the design of internet access interventions in Cuba and in other low-resource environments across the world, as well as the broader implications for social computing across diverse geographies.
Topics: Cuba; internet; WiFi; place; HCI4D; social computing
Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Institute of Technology)
David Nemer (University of Kentucky)
Laura Pina (University of Washington)
Nithya Sambasivan (Google)
Amy S Bruckman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Self-tracking for Mental Wellness: Understanding Expert Perspectives and Student Experiences
Previous research suggests an important role for self-tracking in promoting mental wellness. Recent studies with college student populations have examined the feasibility of collecting everyday mood, activity, and social data. However, these studies do not account for students' experiences and challenges adopting self-tracking technologies to support mental wellness goals. We present two studies conducted to better understand self-tracking for stress management and mental wellness in student populations. First, focus groups and card sorting activities with 14 student health professionals reveal expert perspectives on the usefulness of tracking for three scenarios. Second, an online survey of 297 students examines personal experiences with self-tracking and attitudes toward sharing self-tracked data with others. We draw on findings from these studies to characterize students' motivations, challenges and preferences in collecting and viewing self-tracked data related to mental wellness, and we compare findings between students with diagnosed mental illnesses and those without. We conclude with a discussion of challenges and opportunities in leveraging self-tracking for mental wellness, highlighting several design considerations.
Topics: Self-monitoring; self-tracking; personal informatics; Quantified Self; mental health; mental wellness; health communication; patient–clinician communication
Christina Kelley (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Bongshin Lee (Microsoft Research)
Lauren Wilcox (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Supporting Families in Reviewing and Communicating about Radiology Imaging Studies
Diagnostic radiology reports are increasingly being made available to patients and their family members. However, these reports are not typically comprehensible to lay recipients, impeding effective communication about report findings. In this paper, we present three studies informing the design of a prototype to foster patient–clinician communication about radiology report content. First, analysis of questions posted in online health forums helped us identify patients' information needs. Findings from an elicitation study with seven radiologists provided necessary domain knowledge to guide prototype design. Finally, a clinical field study with 14 pediatric patients, their parents and clinicians, revealed positive responses of each stakeholder when using the prototype to interact with and discuss the patient's current CT or MRI report and allowed us to distill three use cases: co-located communication, preparing for the consultation, and reviewing radiology data. We draw on our findings to discuss design considerations for supporting each of these use cases.
Topics: Families; Adolescents; Radiology Report; Patient–Doctor Communication
Matthew K Hong (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Clayton Feustel (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Meeshu Agnihotri (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Max Silverman (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Stephen F Simoneaux (Children's Healthcare of Atlanta)
Lauren Wilcox (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Intersectional HCI: Engaging Identity through Gender, Race, and Class
Understanding users becomes increasingly complicated when we grapple with various overlapping attributes of an individual's identity. In this paper we introduce intersectionality as a framework for engaging with the complexity of users'—and authors'—identities, and situating these identities in relation to their contextual surroundings. We conducted a meta-review of identity representation in the CHI proceedings, collecting a corpus of 140 manuscripts on gender, ethnicity, race, class, and sexuality published between 1982-2016. Drawing on this corpus, we analyze how identity is constructed and represented in CHI research to examine intersectionality in a human-computer interaction (HCI) context. We find that previous identity-focused research tends to analyze one facet of identity at a time. Further, research on ethnicity and race lags behind research on gender and socio-economic class. We conclude this paper with recommendations for incorporating intersectionality in HCI research broadly, encouraging clear reporting of context and demographic information, inclusion of author disclosures, and deeper engagement with identity complexities.
Topics: Intersectional HCI; gender; ethnicity; race; class, socio-economic status; intersectionality; identity
Ari Schlesinger (Georgia Institute of Technology)
W Keith Edwards (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Rebecca E Grinter (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop
Although we may complain about meetings, they are an essential \ part of an information worker's work life. Consequently, \ busy people spend a significant amount of time scheduling \ meetings. We present Calendar.help, a system that provides \ fast, efficient scheduling through structured workflows. Users \ interact with the system via email, delegating their scheduling \ needs to the system as if it were a human personal assistant. \ Common scheduling scenarios are broken down using well-defined \ workflows and completed as a series of microtasks \ that are automated when possible and executed by a human \ otherwise. Unusual scenarios fall back to a trained human \ assistant executing an unstructured macrotask. We describe \ the iterative approach we used to develop Calendar.help, and \ share the lessons learned from scheduling thousands of meetings \ during a year of real-world deployments. Our findings \ provide insight into how complex information tasks can be \ broken down into repeatable components that can be executed \ efficiently to improve productivity.
Topics: Scheduling; microtask; macrotask; crowdsourcing; conversational agent; assistant
Justin B Cranshaw (Microsoft Research)
Emad Elwany (Microsoft Research)
Todd Newman (Microsoft Reserach)
Rafal Kocielnik (University of Washington)
Bowen Yu (University of Minnesota)
Sandeep Soni (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research)
Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Microsoft Research)
Goodbye Text, Hello Emoji: Mobile Communication on WeChat in China
We present a qualitative study of mobile communication via WeChat in Southern China, focusing on the rapid proliferation of emoji and stickers and the lessening dependence on text. We use interview and observation data from 30 participants to investigate how rural, small town, and urban Chinese adults creatively and innovatively balance the use of emoji, stickers, and text in their mobile communication practices. We also discuss design implications of our research for the field of HCI, offering ways of leveraging the non-textual communication practices that we uncover, in scenarios where purely text-based communication may not suffice.
Topics: China; WeChat; Mobile; Emoji; Stickers; Qualitative Methods
Rui Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Jasmine Hentschel (THRIVE)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
A Social Media Based Index of Mental Well-Being in College Campuses
Psychological distress in the form of depression, anxiety and other mental health challenges among college students is a growing health concern. Dearth of accurate, continuous, and multi-campus data on mental well-being presents significant challenges to intervention and mitigation efforts in college campuses. We examine the potential of social media as a new "barometer" for quantifying the mental well-being of college populations. Utilizing student-contributed data in Reddit communities of over 100 universities, we first build and evaluate a transfer learning based classification approach that can detect mental health expressions with 97% accuracy. Thereafter, we propose a robust campus-specific Mental Well-being Index: MWI. We find that MWI is able to reveal meaningful temporal patterns of mental well-being in campuses, and to assess how their expressions relate to university attributes like size, academic prestige, and student demographics. We discuss the implications of our work for improving counselor efforts, and in the design of tools that can enable better assessment of the mental health climate of college campuses.
Topics: college mental health; Reddit; social media; transfer learning
Shrey Bagroy (Indian Institute of Technology)
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (Indian Institute of Technology)
Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Modeling and Understanding Visual Attributes of Mental Health Disclosures in Social Media
Content shared on social media platforms has been identified to be valuable in gaining insights into people's mental health experiences. Although there has been widespread adoption of photo-sharing platforms such as Instagram in recent years, the role of visual imagery as a mechanism of self-disclosure is less understood. We study the nature of visual attributes manifested in images relating to mental health disclosures on Instagram. Employing computer vision techniques on a corpus of thousands of posts, we extract and examine three visual attributes: visual features (e.g., color), themes, and emotions in images. Our findings indicate the use of imagery for unique self-disclosure needs, quantitatively and qualitatively distinct from those shared via the textual modality: expressions of emotional distress, calls for help, and explicit display of vulnerability. We discuss the relationship of our findings to literature in visual sociology, in mental health self disclosure, and implications for the design of health interventions.
Topics: social media; mental health; Instagram; visual attributes
Lydia Manikonda (Arizona State University)
Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Localized Technology To Teach Around Taboos
Cultural taboos can restrict student learning on topics of critical importance. In India, such taboos have led multiple states to ban materials intended to educate youth about HIV, putting millions at risk. We present the design of TeachAIDS, a software application that leverages cultural insights, learning science, and affordances of technology to provide comprehensive HIV education while circumventing taboos. Using a mixed-methods evaluation, we demonstrate that this software leaves students with significantly increased knowledge about HIV and reduced stigma toward individuals infected with the virus. Validating the effectiveness of TeachAIDS in circumventing taboos, students report comfort in learning from the software, and it has since been deployed in tens of thousands of schools throughout India. The methodology presented here has broader implications for the design and implementation of interactive technologies for providing education on sensitive topics in health and other areas.
Topics: Taboo Topics; Education; HIV; AIDS; India; HCI4D
Piya Sorcar (Stanford University)
Benjamin Strauber (Stanford University)
Prashant Loyalka (Stanford University)
Neha Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Shelley Goldman (Stanford University)
Creating a Sociotechnical API: Designing City-Scale Community Engagement
Community engagement is to cities what user experience is to computing: it signifies a large category that simultaneously speaks to general qualities of interaction and to specific ways of doing that interaction. Recently, digital civics has emerged as a research area with a comprehensive approach to designing for civic encounters where community engagement is a primary concern for designing systems and processes that support broad civic interaction. In short, over the past year, we worked with municipal officials, service providers, and city residents to design a community engagement playbook detailing best practices for city-scale engagement. The playbook, as well as the collaborative process that produced it, provides a roadmap for thinking through the kinds of systems that might populate the design space of city-scale digital civics. This paper details our design-led research process and builds on emerging literature on designing for digital civic interaction.
Topics: Digital Civics; Participatory Design; Publics; Community Engagement
Mariam Asad (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Christopher A Le Dantec (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Becky Nielsen (IT University of Copenhagen)
Kate Diedrick (Solidarity Research Cooperative)
Multimodal Classification of Moderated Online Pro-Eating Disorder Content
Social media sites are challenged by both the scale and variety of deviant behavior online. While algorithms can detect spam and obscenity, behaviors that break community guidelines on some sites are difficult because they have multimodal subtleties (images and/or text). Identifying these posts is often regulated to a few moderators. In this paper, we develop a deep learning classifier that jointly models textual and visual characteristics of pro-eating disorder content that violates community guidelines. Using a million Tumblr photo posts, our classifier discovers deviant content efficiently while also maintaining high recall (85%). Our approach uses human sensitivity throughout to guide the creation, curation, and understanding of this approach to challenging, deviant content. We discuss how automation might impact community moderation, and the ethical and social obligations of this area.
Topics: content moderation; social media; pro-eating disorder; deep learning; computer vision; deviant behavior; Tumblr
Stevie Chancellor (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Yannis Kalantidis (Yahoo! Inc)
Jessica Annette Pater (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology)
David A. Shamma (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
The Bag of Communities: Identifying Abusive Behavior Online with Preexisting Internet Data
Since its earliest days, harassment and abuse have plagued the Internet. Recent research has focused on in-domain methods to detect abusive content and faces several challenges, most notably the need to obtain large training corpora. In this paper, we introduce a novel computational approach to address this problem called Bag of Communities (BoC)—a technique that leverages large-scale, preexisting data from other Internet communities. We then apply BoC toward identifying abusive behavior within a major Internet community. \ Specifically, we compute a post's similarity to 9 other communities from 4chan, Reddit, Voat and MetaFilter. We show that a BoC model can be used on communities "off the shelf" with roughly 75% accuracy—no training examples are needed from the target community. \ A dynamic BoC model achieves 91.18% accuracy after seeing 100,000 human-moderated posts, and uniformly outperforms in-domain methods. Using this conceptual and empirical work, we argue that the BoC approach may allow communities to deal with a range of common problems, like abusive behavior, faster and with fewer engineering resources.
Topics: social computing; online communities; abusive behavior; moderation; machine learning
Eshwar Chandrasekharan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mattia Samory (University of Padua)
Anirudh Srinivasan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Eric Gilbert (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Tap the "Make This Public" Button: A Design-Based Inquiry into Issue Advocacy and Digital Civics
This paper examines the strategies of cycling advocates when deploying digital tools in their advocacy work as they support and create better cycling infrastructure and policies. Over the course of two years, we interviewed and conducted design-based fieldwork in two large U.S. cities with individuals and advocacy organizations, learning about the goals, motivations, and constraints that inform their work in their respective urban homes. Our design-based investigation and fieldwork advance a deeper, situated understanding of the role that computing technology plays when engaging across multiple sites of advocacy work. From this, we add detail to the connections across resources, identities, and issues and continue to advance the emerging area of digital civics, which seeks to design tools that support relational civic interactions across multiple categories of civic actors.
Topics: Digital advocacy; community computing; participatory design; civic engagement; publics; digital civics; cycling
Mariam Asad (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Christopher A Le Dantec (Georgia Institute of Technology)


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The state of Connecticut is doing just that in this rock-bottom real-estate market. The government can use more office space -- it currently leases more than it owns -- and prices for recently constructed buildings are about as low as they are going to get.


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Wonder Girls' Sohee Exudes "Senior Force"
Wonder Girls' Sohee showed her "sunbae (senior) force" and made comedian-turned-singer Jung Hyung Don and Defconn bow their heads deeply.
On the episode of Mnet's "Wide Entertainment News – Mnet Behind" that aired on July 5, behind-the-scenes footage of the June 21 "Mnet Countdown" was shown. Jung Hyung Don and Defconn, who have recently released an album as a duo, were seen backstage.
Jung Hyung Don and Defconn's song was up for the number 1 spot on this day and like a diligent rookie, they began to deeply bow to their senior artists after their rehearsal stage. However, they forgot to bow to the Wonder Girls' and just stared at them.
Then Sohee said, "Aren't you going to bow to us in a 90 degree angle?" She momentarily exuded great "senior force" making Jung Hyung Don and Defconn uneasy for a moment. Eventually, Jung Hyung Don and Defconn bowed deeply to Sohee and the rest of the Wonder Girls, making everyone laugh.


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10 Points About Lost Loves That Might Surprise You
Questions that journalists frequently ask me, and my answers
Posted Oct 31, 2013
Here are some questions that journalists have recently asked me. Some of my answers might surprise you:
1. Do you believe that there really isn't anything as special as our first love? And why?
A: I repeated my lost love survey with a sample of people who have never tried reunions and just like to fill out surveys of all sorts. In age, locations, education, etc. they matched my rekindled participants. 56% of these adults reported that they have no interest in their first loves—the romances were not good: not getting along, cheating, drug abuse, physical abuse, abortion, etc. In fact, some of them wrote that they couldn't understand why anyone would want to reunite with an old flame! Another 24% reported that they would like a reunion, and the rest said they weren't sure.
So first love is special only for some people!
2. Why do you think the success rate of reunited couples is so high?
A: Those people who choose reunions are a special group of people. Rekindlers separated for situational reasons: moved away, parents disapproved, too young. Their first romances were at younger ages than the non-rekindlers, and their initial romances lasted longer. They never finished their love.
Rekindlers grew up together and have a shared history, shared roots. They are similar in background, and they were friends years ago - a good start for any long-term romance.
Not all the rekindlers were first loves, only about 2/3.
3. I've read that the connections we make with people between the ages of 14–25 are some of the strongest we make in our lives. Is there any evidence to support this?
A: Yes, because of their shared history, high school students are still forming their identities, and they do so with their friends and romantic partners. And we never have as much time to put into friendships later in life as we do in high school, and maybe college.
4. Can people feel resentment that they missed out on being with each other during their time apart? Can they feel angry about having wasted their time?
A: Some are angry and resentful—of their parents who tore them apart (26% of these couples). When they reunite, many grieve for the children they did not have together. And many feel that they wasted time with other people and hurt other people. Rarely, a reunited wife (I have not found it in the husbands... yet) cannot let go of these feelings of lost time, jealousy about the ex-wife, and what could have been, even after marrying her lost love; this can destroy the lost love reunion marriage.
5. When we meet a long-lost love, does it tap into a subconscious memory bank? Are our brains wired in such a way so that they appreciate having positive emotions come back?
A: Emotional memories from the past, including lost love memories, are stored in a primitive area of the brain as feelings. These emotional memories are very resistant to being forgotten—Alzheimer's patients may not know their own names, but they retain those old memories.
But again, not everyone experiences this with an early love.
6. Why does rekindled love often feel more powerful than love the first time around?
A: It's a love that was interrupted. And it's an ambiguous loss ("Could it have worked out?" "Is my lost love still thinking of me?" etc.)
7. Do you think that love that began in adolescence and love that begins later, in adulthood, are different?
A: People who reunited with lost loves they met when they were over 25 do not have the high success rate that the teen rekindled romances have. There is something special about the formative years. That's true of friendship bonds, not just young love.
8. Do rekindled lovers learn from the mistakes they made last time? If so, please explain/give examples.
A: Very few people broke up the second time because of the same reasons they broke up the first time (2 participants out of my original 1001 sample).
The high success rate is not because they learned what they did wrong, but because the situational factors that broke them apart are gone.
9. Do you think there is a need to clear the air about what went wrong first time around?
A: That's often the given reason for making contact. But deep down, most people want more than a discussion of old problems!
10. Your website mentions that lost love reunions may not always go well. Can it be harmful if we look back at people with rose-tinted glasses too much?
A: Some people should not have tried these reunions: they were not getting along in high school, they had personality issues, so they find the same problems when they reunite (but these are not common reunions). And most often, they don't go well because some people who try reunions are married.


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Tom Carson, former chief financial officer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will join Spelling Entertainment in the same capacity.
Carson begins today as CFO/senior VP.
He will oversee financial and administrative matters, human resources, insurance and management information services for the company's film and television divisions.
"Apart from Tom Carson's special financial experience and capabilities, we are looking to him to help further Spelling Entertainment's growth," chief operating officer Ron Lightstone said in announcing the appointment.
In 1985 Carson joined MGM, where he negotiated the studio's credit lines with Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland and Bank of America; structured various financing arrangements to fund MGM's production and distribution operations and directed other domestic and international financing opportunities for the company.
Carson, a former partner with Arthur Anderson & Co., replaces John Brady, who ankled Spelling in June.


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Kristen Stewart Quotes About CharacterQuotes about: Character
I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.
Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of Twilight, and then it happened again on New Moon. Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.
It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.
One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.
Kristen Stewart
- Born: April 9, 1990
- Occupation: Actress
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Hannah Rochelle aka En Brogue has just released another book (The Trainers Guide) and I am thrilled to be featured in it (in an on the background wall kind of way) and to be along side a truly great pair of sneaks!
The Trainers Guide is available to purchase here
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Check out this new little book my friend Drew de Soto has designed...
Each page comes with a handy little tip to help you design better. Have a look at this and his other helpful design publications here
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Attractive Actor to Hide Looks in Furry Blue Suit for X-Men: First Class
Nicholas Hoult will play The Beast.
Nicholas Hoult, the actor who got his start in About a Boy and recently appeared in Tom Ford's A Single Man (and, since, some of his ad campaigns), has joined James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, and likely Aaron Johnson, in the X-Men reboot as The Beast, a.k.a. Hank McCoy, a.k.a. a giant blue creature (who is also a mild-mannered doctor!) Finally, Hoult will get to play a part where no one pays attention to his face. Oh wait. [Deadline]


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Big Bold Beautiful Brooch composed of alternating rings of mesh and solid circles having three large rectangular faceted cut glass stones. Amethyst center stone is flanked on either side by same sized deep luscious ruby red glass stones. Glass at first looks to be emerald cut, but it is not. Although similar to emerald cut, each piece of glass is faceted on all sides. These facets twinkle a bit and show very nicely when in the light. Depending on the light source, the center stone seems to change in color from amethyst to topaz.
The ruby red glass is a very deep ruby color, not a cherry red by any means. In the shots with the light behind the brooch, you can see that the glass is transparent – it has very nice clarity.
Each stone is prong set. This is a knock your socks off brooch. It is very well made, sturdy and in great condition. There is an itsy bitsy chip (that I noticed when using my loupe) on the center stone. It is the size of pin prick or smaller and not noticeable unless you examine it as closely as I did. I take my photos up close in macro mode. View the photos- it is so hard to notice. I guarantee your complete satisfaction.
Brooch measures 2-5/8" x 1-3/4". This is a high quality, heavy and very well made piece. Back is signed MARVELLA in a raised rectangular cartouche. This dates the piece prior to 1955, as the copyright symbol first appeared after 1955.
This was tested and it is plated with either 10K or 12K gold. Guaranteed to not be less than 10 Karat gold plating.
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The Foland Group
The Foland Group is comprised of four distinct merchandising divisions uniquely positioned to capitalize on strong international growth trends in location based entertainment, specialty retailing and mass merchandising.
The Dennis Foland, Inc. the merchandising services division, and parent company, founded in 1979 as a custom souvenir and novelty supplier, steadily building a customer base of theme parks and attractions that have all become American and international household names: Knott's Berry Farm, San Diego Zoo and Chuck E. Cheese's, among many others. DFI remains a key component of The Foland Group, adding custom merchandise, and merchandising planning capabilities.
Acquired in 1996, Charm Company is America's leading supplier of battery-operated motion toys. In addition to having the nation's largest selection in this unique toy category, Charm maintains a higher quality standard than competitors. For this reason, the company has built a strong customer base among high-end specialty retailers, catalogs and department stores. Charm products have always set toy store standards. With the trend towards specialty and themed retailing, these toys are now seen running, barking, jumping and oinking in theme parks, hotels, and gift shops everywhere.
The Foland Group's success is based on a simple formula: build sales by building lasting customer relationships. Foland personnel work closely together to attend to all the critical details that ensure trust, commitment, and satisfaction among our customers. A high level of product quality, personal service, and professional integrity differentiates The Foland Group from its competitors.
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Joseph Rael received the vision to build the Peace Chambers in 1984. In his book 'Being and Vibration' Joseph Rael talks about his vision of the sound chambers:
"My vision came during a long dance. The Cosmic Mother/Father being came in a flash of light, a point of illumination which lasted only two or three seconds. I cannot begin to explain this vision, it was so beautiful. In the vision I was given a task – to build sound chambers around the world."
Fire Ceremony
"We light a fire for peace and for harmony, as we enter the new world that has always existed. We are re-born seeds of peace. We are the manifesters. We are the presence of God. We are the reverence. We are the blessed ones. We are the sacred. We are the holy ones. We are harmony. We are being and vibration. We are everything. This is where we can know that we belong, all of us together, for we are the people." Joseph Rael – Beautiful Painted Arrow
The fire ceremony comes from the visionary work of Joseph Rael. On the 7th of every month EarthSong joins with other Sound Peace Chambers around the globe in lighting a fire for Oceanus and the purification of the waters of the earth. A fire is ceremonially prepared and then lit by a fire tender at 7pm. Those in attendance settle into silent observation to watch the flames, hold intentions and offer silent prayers for peace, harmony and purification of the waters of the earth.
Green Building
Aside from wanting the construction of EarthSong to be a community project created in a loving and joyful attitude by individuals who felt called to participate in its creation, we also wanted to assemble the peace chamber using natural, environmentally safe building materials collected from local surroundings. The walls of EarthSong are made from cob, which is mixture of Earth, sand and straw. The lumber for the posts, beams and roof as well as the straw bales were collected from the neighborhood and the sand came from the excavation of the site.
The Truth Window
This door is typically found in buildings constructed with straw bales. The comfortable thick walls (which have an insulation value at least double that of typical construction) are made of straw bales covered inside and outside with several layers of cob. If you doubt that such a solid structure as this actually has straw for walls, you are encouraged to open the small oak door to find out the truth.
The Roof Construction
The roof is supported by ten 6"x 6" posts to which the ceiling beams are attached. The wood for the posts, beams and ceiling timbers were made from trees that were cut down at GilChrist Retreat Center in the Fall of 2000 to make way for a new gas pipeline which traversed their land. The trees and the milling to our requirements were a gift of GilChrist. Thus, the posts, and not the straw bales bear all of the weight of the roof.
The Wall Tiles
The first wall tiles were created in three workshops during the winter of 2000 led by Kalamazoo art therapist Sharon Cipriano Galbreath. Participants were directed to create images which reflected their thoughts about Peace, Joy, or living lightly with Mother Earth. Since then many other friends, visitors and relatives have created tiles which we have also placed on the walls.


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Lascal BuggyBoard Saddle Fitting Video02-Jul-2015
The BuggyBoard Saddle is an exclusive accessory for the BuggyBoard Maxi, which transforms the ride-on board in to a seat for young children.
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Take your toddler on a BuggyBoard from Lascal (the original). It's easy, safe, comfortable, fun and speedy. For extra comfort add a BuggyBoard Saddle.
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Lascal KiddyGuard Assure, Accent and Avant retractable baby safety gates with automatic locking system. These baby safety barriers are very easy to install and to handle. Approved according to EN and ASTM standards.
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Lascal KiddyGuard Assure, Accent and Avant retractable baby safety gates with automatic locking system. These baby safety barriers are very easy to install and to handle. Approved according to EN and ASTM standards.
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The new elegant Swedish design of the KiddyGuard baby safety gate / safety barrier fits beautifully into both classic and modern homes. The black mesh roller blind and brushed aluminum housing are aesthetically appealing to today's parents.
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Installing the KiddyGuard Avant Safety Gate using the Bannister Installation Kit. The Bannister Installation Kit allows you to mount the KiddyGuard® Avant™ on square bannisters (up to 50 x 50mm (2x2 in.)) or round bannisters (up to diameter 50 mm (2 in.)). Available in black or white.
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Tom the BuggyBoard Rider15-Dec-2010
BuggyBoard rider, a one day ride. BuggyBoard make you life so much easier for most of your daily activities and when your newborn comes the toddler gets to have some fun too.
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(Eng) Family travel to London Olympic Games 2012 with Kids using Lascal BuggyBorad™31-Aug-2010
If you go to London Olympic Games 2012 this year, you may need BuggyBorad™. (London Eye, Jubilee Gardens, Hungerford Bridge, Westminster Bridge Road, Big Ben, Palcae of Westminster, House Of Lords)


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This sit-on-top fishing kayak will help you make the most out of your time on the water. It's a high-performance fishing machine for ponds, lakes and bays.
Made exclusively for L.L.Bean by Perception Kayaks, this is a serious fishing machine designed for serious fishermen. Stadium style seat feature two positions; lowered for paddling and raised for casting. It has generous storage capability for tackle boxes, a cooler, rods and everything else you need for a day on the water. Stable hull design and keel makes it easy to paddle, even for anglers new to kayaks.
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Entertainment in Bhaktapur1 - 8 of 8 listings
Bagmati clubSports of Bhaktapur - Seepadole (Bhaktapur) - June 12, 2016 Check with seller
Club bagmati is a totally a luxurious Restaurant and Bar with swimming pool plus very comfortable room and best service ever in Seepadole Bhaktapur. It is one of the finest Swimming pool in bhaktapur. It takes Reservations, Walk-Ins Welcome, Good For...
Shooters Futsal and Game ZoneSports of Bhaktapur - Bhaktapur (Bhaktapur ) - June 5, 2016 Check with seller
Shooters Futsal and Game Zone is situated in Bhaktapur near Suryabinayak and has been providing space for futsal enthusiasts of Nepal at its best. It is established on 2072 BS. It has organized different tournaments on futsal in Nepal. you can reach ...
Karate and Kickboxing trainingSports of Bhaktapur - Suryabinayak (Bhaktapur) - January 3, 2016 Check with seller
Bhaktapur Shito-ryu Karate Association and Kickboxing Association -Bhaktapur has combined to organize training session of Karate and Kickboxing. Training is being hel at Suryabinayak. You can contact in below numbers for enquiry on training . 9851055...
Khwopa Futsal AcademySports of Bhaktapur - Libali (Bhaktapur) - November 25, 2015 Check with seller
Khwopa Futsal Academy serves a futsal ground for all the lovers of football at Libali,Bhaktapur. It has initiated it service from this year 2015 from morning till evening.For more information on Khwopa Futsal Academy you can reach to https://www.face...
Khwopa Futsal and Training CenterSports of Bhaktapur - Sundarbasti (Bhaktapur) - November 25, 2015 Check with seller
Khwopa Futsal and Training Center present you a well facilated futsal ground at Sundarbasti,Bhaktapur. Few minutes walk far from the main chowk of Suryabinayak, the ground has facility of cafe with hot and cold drinks and bakeries and CC camera recor...
Ajima Physical FitnessSports of Bhaktapur - Bharaisthan (Bhaktapur) - November 25, 2015 Check with seller
Ajima Physical Fitness, a gym club loacated at Bharaisthan, Bhaktapur. It opens from 5 am to 9 am in the morning and 4 pm onwards at the evening.
Club DesperadoSports of Bhaktapur - Byasi (Bhaktapur) - November 25, 2015 Check with seller
Desperado gym is one of the oldest gym and fitness service provider of Bhaktapur which started from 1996. It is situated at Byasi-10, Bhaktapur nearby Bhaktapur Municipality. For more information, you can reach at https://www.facebook.com/Club-Desper...
Bhaktapur FutsalSports of Bhaktapur - Bhaktapur (Bhaktapur) - November 8, 2015 Check with seller
It deals with all kinds of football accessories. It deals with futsal turf exactly the way you want. The ground can be booked for school sports activities and organizing futsal tournaments who are interested.If there are any questions you can contact...
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Sysbiz Technologies Pvt. Ltd Walk-in interview for fresher's on 21st May 2016 for Java,testing Opening at Chennai. B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech, MCA graduates can apply for the opening. Grab the great job opportunity to kick start your career as a fresher. Before you apply, read the job profile clearly to get to know the eligibility criteria. Sysbiz Technologies Pvt. Ltd Walk-In B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech, MCA freshers 2016 for Java,testing Opening at Chennai. Candidates who have completed B.Tech/B.E, M.Tech, MCA can apply for this job from Sysbiz Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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Service Agreement Period – 3 Years
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P. Allen Smith's Garden Home "Making A Bold Statement" Allen talks about choosing the right trees, shrubs and containers to make a statement in a small garden. He takes viewers to his insectary at the Garden Home Retreat and visits a beautiful Knot garden in the Hamptons.G
10:00 am
Rick Steves' Europe "The Majesty of Madrid" Rick tours the Royal Palace, enjoys art-packed museums, is mesmerized by flamenco dancers and munches on pigs' ears.G
10:30 am
New Fly Fisher "Lake of the Woods" In beautiful Northern Ontario, near Kenora, lies Lake of the Woods. A place where Smallmouth Bass, Musky, Pike and Walleye can be found. Get your notebooks ready as Bill Spicer takes you through a very technical show. D
11:00 am
Habitable Planet, The "Looking Forward: Our Global Experiment" Earth's essential systems are being stressed in many ways. There are many tipping points in the environment, beyond which there could be serious consequences. Will human ingenuity, resiliency, and cooperation save us from the worst outcomes of our global experiment?. D
11:30 am
Body's Secret Army The program introduces viewers to scientists, doctors, and patients who are united by their determination to unlock the immune system's mysteries, as well as to some of the Nobel Prize awarded pioneers whose discoveries opened the doors to today's advances.G
12:00 pm
Bridge Between Silence and Sound One-hour documentary narrated by Mario Cuomo that focuses on hearing loss and the Cochlear Implant, a cutting-edge, but controversial technology that gives the deaf and hard of hearing the ability to hear sounds. D
1:00 pm
Art Through Time: A Global View "Converging Cultures" Explores hybrid forms and motifs of visual art and objects produced as a result of cultural exchange - including African ivory carvings depicting Portuguese traders, Turkish ceramics emulating Chinese porcelain, Impressionist works inspired by Japanese printmaking, and contemporary works by Takashi Murakami and Miguel Luciano. D
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Art Through Time: A Global View "Dreams and Visions" Shows how artists including Hieronymus Bosch, Aboriginal painters, Islamic miniaturists, Surrealists like Magritte and Dali, and contemporary artist Sandy Skoglund have depicted ephemeral feelings, unknowable mysteries, personal fantasies, and inner visions in their work. D
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Craft In America "Community" Focusing on the spiritual connection between artisans and their communities, the episode reveals deeply held beliefs that craft is about more than just the making of an object.G
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Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop In American Literature "Workshop 7. Ritual Artifacts" From Victorian calling cards to Puritan gravestones, ritual artifacts reveal how humans create and define order in their lives. This session explains how to apply close reading skills to sacred and secular ritual objects to enrich understanding of the cultural setting of a literary text. D
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Hands On Crafts for Kids "Ghana" Ghana is located in Western Africa. The temperature is tropical and the population is very diverse. There is a great emphasis on handcrafted items with many symbols accenting the designs. D
4:30 pm
Hey Kids, Let's Cook "Breakfast for Mom" Whether it's Mother's Day, your mom's birthday, or just simply just because she's special, you should set your alarm, ask your dad to meet you in the kitchen at 6:00 A.m., and go for it! Make your mom that special breakfast and take it to her before she gets up! And today we're going to learn how to make scones, a delicious bread brought to us from the English and Scottish. And we'll serve it up with an omelet, and fresh fruit. D
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Essential Pepin "Economical Offal" Pork Liver Pate; Roast Sausage With Potatoes; Braised Sweetbreads In Mirepoix; Braised Tongue With Lentils. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Irish Comfort Classics" Host Christopher Kimball heads into the test kitchen with test cook Julia Collin Davison to update a classic recipe for Shepherd's Pie. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her favorite quirky kitchen gadgets. Then, Chris answers questions from viewers. D
6:00 pm
Chef John Besh's New Orleans Oyster Dressing, Cornbread and Crawfish Dressing, and Shrimp and Mirliton Dressing. D
6:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Argentina Remembered" Craving the bold flavors she tasted in Argentina, Joanne shows her student Leigh how to give grilled skirt steak a boost with a fresh and zesty chimichurri sauce. And potatoes get the double treatment of roasting and grilling becoming twice as flavorful. Recipes: Gazpacho Salad, Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, Roasted and Grilled Potatoes. D
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Ask This Old House "Using Hand Planes/Repairing A Cracked Stone Walkway" In the workshop, general contractor Tom Silva demonstrates the proper way to use hand planes. Then, Tom, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and landscape contractor Roger Cook, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Roger helps a homeowner repair a cracked stone walkway. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of Slovenia" In the little-visited and underrated alpine country, Rick begins in the capital city of Ljubljana, enjoys the mountain resort of Lake Bled, ventures into the Julian Alps, goes spelunking in a gigantic cave, and swims with Slavs in a charming Adriatic port.G
8:00 pm
Rudy Maxa's World "Tahiti & Bora Bora" For sheer tropical splendor, the islands of Tahiti and Bora Bora stand alone. Hyper blue lagoons, white-sand beaches, fish of every shape, size and color, as well as a generous and welcoming people make these islands favorite destinations for travelers from around the world. Lush aerial photography is a highlight of this episode. D
8:30 pm
Essential Pepin "Economical Offal" Pork Liver Pate; Roast Sausage With Potatoes; Braised Sweetbreads In Mirepoix; Braised Tongue With Lentils. D
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Irish Comfort Classics" Host Christopher Kimball heads into the test kitchen with test cook Julia Collin Davison to update a classic recipe for Shepherd's Pie. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her favorite quirky kitchen gadgets. Then, Chris answers questions from viewers. D
9:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Golden Gazpacho & Chicken Breasts with Relish" In this episode, Joanne helps her student Del develop his knife skills by teaching him to chop, mince, and dice vegetables and other ingredients for two of her specialties. Recipes: (1) GOLDEN GAZPACHO WITH GARLIC CROUTONS, (2) GRILLED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH SWEET CORN AND PEPPER RELISH. Student: Clodel "Del" Gosuico - Programmer. D
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Taste This! "Fish Tail" On this episode Chef Joe joins David Burke at his newest restaurant, Fish Tail. Fish Tail is located on the Upper East Side and specializes in seafood. The restaurant features a Raw Bar, Sushi Bar, and any other seafood dish you can imagine. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of Slovenia" In the little-visited and underrated alpine country, Rick begins in the capital city of Ljubljana, enjoys the mountain resort of Lake Bled, ventures into the Julian Alps, goes spelunking in a gigantic cave, and swims with Slavs in a charming Adriatic port.G
11:00 pm
Theater Talk "Nielsen & Hyde Pierce on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, plus Carden and Gilford on FINKS" We focus on two of the best new plays this season. First up, we focus on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's madcap yet moving modernization of Chekhov. Actors Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce tell us about the background of the play, as well as experiences in their careers that led them to star in it on Broadway. D
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Closer to Truth "If God Knows The Future, What Is Free Will?" If God is infallible and knows the future perfectly, then God knows what I will do at every moment from my birth to my death. So where's my free will?. D


text: 3 Durham Police officer shot 4 bullets into the back of an unarmed 24 year black man a few doors down from me today. I know because I saw him laying face down in the grass. They told his mother they would shoot her too as she tried to approach his body. They wouldn't even let her say good bye. I'm so sick of this story replaying over and over. I'm triggered and so is my community."You mean to tell me our kids can't come out here without being harassed like that?" Linda said.


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In Ferguson, Missouri, a woman by the name of Natalie Dubose, had a bakery called Natalie's Cakes and More vandalized. The bakery was vandalized during the protests that have recently been occurring in Ferguson. The bakery needs repairs to fix the broken windows and replace the broken baking supplies. Kind strangers are helping the woman get back on her feet. A GoFundMe page has been opened benefiting the bakery owner. Over $250,000 have been raised by strangers, not just in the United States, but worldwide. The outpour of generosity of strangers has been amazing, especially because the goal was just $20,000.
Amid what is occurring in the town of Ferguson, it is great to hear stories like this. This certainly made Ray Lane pretty happy. It is wonderful knowing, we humans can still believe in humanity. Strangers all over the country are supporting this woman, who had a dream to have her bakery store. Now, with this donated money that dream will be achieved. This store was built with hope and dreams, that were shattered one day, but now that bakery will be improved. There are other stores that were affected during the protests that are not receiving the same type of support. While, this woman was fortunate enough to get support from strangers, it would be great if everyone got the same support. It takes the media to speak about it, to get attention to one person's need.