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How to Maximize Free DNA Testing
DNA testing has not been limited to the study of the human gene, but has also included that of our beloved canines. DNA testing centers for dogs are open to identify the breeds and ancestry of our pets. Free DNA testing also shoots from legal cases with proceedings done underway. DNA testing for these circumstances can include not only the victim and possible suspects but also other individuals present at the crime scene. Some legal reasons that require DNA testing are for alimony or patrimony reasons. In these cases, the genetic markers are looked into to determine, for example, the [more...]
Date: 2010-05-03 22:41:52
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Johnson: Give DNA Storage Plans A Chance
Shadow Home Secretary calls on coalition government for period of grace before binning potential evidence ... The Shadow Home Secretary has suggested that the DNA of those arrested should be held for the next six years to determine if there is a firm case for doing so. During a debate at the APA-ACPO conference, Alan Johnson told Policing and Justice Minister Nick Herbert that using stored DNA to check against evidence found at crime scenes is a valuable weapon in detecting crime. The new coalition government has pledged reform of the national DNA database amid concerns that samples of [more...]
Date: 2010-07-01 07:07:00
DNA Evidence Clears 2 Men After 30 Years - Crime in the News ...
They confessed to rape and murder. They pleaded guilty and went to prison for decades; but they were innocent and DNA evidence proved it last week. On September 16, a judge in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, overturned the convictions of two of the three men serving time for the rape and murder of Eva Gail Patterson, in 1979. The third man, Larry Ruffin, died in prison in 2002. The Innocence Project organized DNA testing for the three men. In petitions filed for Bobby Dixon and Phillip Bivens, (and in a separate one filed for Ruffin on September 15) attorneys asked the court to throw out the [more...]
Date: 2010-09-20 13:12:40
New forensic test can match suspects' DNA with crime samples in 4 ...
Browse > Home / Technology / New forensic test can match suspects' DNA with crime samples in 4 hours (ChattahBox) – As we have seen even in high profile cases, getting confirmation on a DNA hit can take a very long time. But a newly developed test could make checking DNA from people arrested for crimes with DNA samples from crime scenes stored in forensic databases almost as easy as matching fingerprints. With the test, police could check on whether a person's DNA matches that found at past crime scenes while suspects are still being processed and before a decision on whether to [more...]
Date: 2010-08-04 17:57:32
DNA Collection Swab [DNASWAB] - $1.75 : Crime Scene, Forensic Supplies
Cap-Shure protective swabs are tip-protected applicators designed for convenient, reliable DNA and evidence collection. Each sterile, cotton-tipped swab comes as an individually sealed unit with a resealable, ventilated cap for air-drying and transportation of fluid samples such as blood. After a sample has been collected, simply pull the cap to the end of the swab and seal. The cap protects the swab during handling at the crime scene and in transit back to the lab, and ensures there is no risk of cross-contamination from the swab during transit. Each cotton-tipped swab is sterile and [more...]
Date: 2008-10-04 23:57:14
DNA Criminal Investigation, Crime Prevention And Detection
DNA can be taken from a suspect and checked against the National DNA Database. DNA taken from other crime scenes may be linked to that person. DNA can positively identify offenders through DNA taken from discontinuance relatives. [more...]
Date: 2010-09-30 13:13:30
DNA at center of daycare rape trial | Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg ...
Tampa, Florida -- One in 6.8 quintillion in caucasians, one in 320 quadrillion in African Americans and 1 in 2.2 quintillion in southeastern Hispanics... those are the chances that the DNA found on the rape victim match someone other than the suspect, Kendrick Morris an FDLE crime lab tech testified today in the 19-year-old's trial. The second day of testimony continued Wednesday morning in the first of two rape trials Morris stands to face. He's on trial this week, accused of the 2007 rape of a 62-year-old daycare worker at the Children's Lighthouse Daycare Center in the Clair-Mel [more...]
Date: 2010-09-01 21:46:38
Police get new DNA powers - crime - national | Stuff.co.nz
Police fingerprinting suspects can now collect their DNA and match it against profiles from unsolved crimes, Justice Minister Simon Power has said. Until now police had to wait until someone was convicted or obtain an order from a High Court judge. The Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Act means they can take samples on arrest. From today they will be able to take DNA from anyone they intend to charge with an offence punishable by more than seven years' imprisonment. This will see an estimated 4000 more samples taken each year. From the middle of next year if the Government [more...]
Date: 2010-06-09 07:00:00
Researcher making advances in crime-scene investigation
The rapid DNA testing will be much faster than the traditional method. Today, the time for DNA to go from crime scene to identification can span 14 days. If the new miniaturized instrument is taken to a crime scene, the same process can [more...]
Date: 2010-08-06 00:40:54
DNA test favors Va. man convicted of rape - Maryland Daily Record
DNA tests conducted under Virginia's one-of-a-kind post-conviction DNA testing program indicate that a man who served seven years in prison for a 1979 rape didn't commit the crime, and he wants Virginia's high court to declare him innocent. Calvin Wayne Cunningham would be the eighth man exonerated by decades-old biological evidence and the third since Virginia began its massive project to clear those who may have been wrongly convicted in the 1970s and 1980s from biological evidence saved before DNA testing was available. Cunningham, 57, was convicted in 1981 of raping the [more...]
Date: 2010-08-12 00:17:00
Orchid Cellmark Announces DNA Contracts With Five New UK Police Forces
Each three-year contract, extendable for an additional seven years, is to conduct DNA analysis of crime scene samples for submission to the National DNA Database. Cellmark was awarded 100% of the work tendered as the 'DNA Crime Scenes [more...]
Date: 2010-10-07 18:09:37
Bully Pulpit: New Analysis Shows Freed Man's DNA at Crime Scene
After his release, items from the crime scene were sent off for additional testing in hopes of uncovering a new suspect. Police said Wednesday that Abbitt's DNA was present on a flat sheet from one of the victim's [more...]
Date: 2010-10-06 16:54:00
Ancestry Found Through DNA Testing In Vegas - Las Vegas News Story ...
LAS VEGAS -- What can you learn from your DNA?Turns out, a lot. From ancestry to health issues you may be predisposed toward, DNA can serve as a guide.Once specifically limited to crime scenes and paternity tests, a business in Las Vegas is now offering DNA testing to anyone willing to pay."We have a lot of Caucasians that come in and we find they have a lot of Native American markers or Hispanic similarities," said Patricia Schoonmaker, of the DNA Shop.To process and identify the DNA, the shop simply gathers cells from a swab inside the cheek. Copyright 2010 by KVVU.com. All rights reserved. [more...]
Date: 2010-09-16 06:24:05
Lab Offers Free DNA Testing for Skinner — Hank Skinner | The Texas ...
Chromosal Laboratories, a DNA testing lab in Phoenix, Ariz., has told Gov. Rick Perry that it will test evidence in the Hank Skinner case for free and within 30 days if he grants a reprieve of the convicted murderer's March 24 execution date. Skinner was convicted in 1995 of murdering his girlfriend and her two sons in the small West Texas town of Pampa. He has professed his innocence, though, and Skinner argues that DNA testing on a rape kit, knives, a man's windbreaker and other materials from the crime scene could prove someone else was the killer. For a decade, Texas courts have denied [more...]
Date: 2010-03-18 20:26:29
India may soon have DNA database to crack crime [Science] | Times ...
0 Comments | Times of India, The, Sep 16, 2010 | by Menon, Priya M CHENNAI: The FBI has a DNA index system. The UK has a similar database. And if Parliament passes the DNA Profiling Bill, 2007, India will soon join the league, creating a national DNA database that will help police arrest serial offenders and give a boost to forensic investigation. "The bill, drafted and sent to all ministries and departments for their feedback, has been modified. The final version has been sent to the law ministry, which has sent it to the legal department for final drafting," says Dr J Gowrishankar, head [more...]
Date: 2010-09-16 07:00:00
Innocence Blog: Maryland Man Pressed for DNA Test and Made History
Posted: June 25, 2010 2:19 pm This week marks the seventeenth anniversary of Maryland fisherman Kirk Bloodsworth's exoneration. In 1985, Bloodsworth was charged and convicted of the rape and murder of a nine year old girl. A 1992 DNA test proved his innocence after he had incorrectly served eight years in prison, two of which he spent on death row. In July of 1984, a nine-year old girl was found dead having been brutally raped, strangled, and beaten. The police received an anonymous call; the caller claimed that Bloodsworth was seen with the victim on the day of the crime. A police sketch [more...]
Date: 2010-06-25 19:19:00
Trinity - Biology (Trent Uni Trip)
The DNA runs through an agarose gel matrix due to a current and the smaller the piece (the fewer base pairs) the further the DNA will go. The DNA can then be analysed; for example DNA from a crime scene against suspects or finding faulty genes for diagnosis of disorders like cystic [more...]
Date: 2010-10-08 00:00:00
Hialeah Man Sentenced to 30 Year Prison Term - Miami Criminal ...
Despite the fact that the assailants broke into the wrong home, they decided to rob the elderly woman. During the robbery they tied up the woman and taped her mouth shut. Detectives were able to locate a fingerprint on a the piece of scotch tape located at the crime scene that matched the defendant's fingerprints. The third case against the defendant was a kidnapping charge that allegedly occurred when the defendant held a pawn shop owner hostage in his home for over 9 hours. The defendant and his accomplices beat the victim for hours in an effort to secure the pass codes to get into his [more...]
Date: 2010-09-15 17:51:45
The Crime Report » Archive » Kansas Cuts DNA-Testing Backlog ...
The samples were taken from people under arrest and collected at crime scenes. The attorney general said backlog had grown after new laws mandated DNA samples from anyone arrested, not just from those convicted. The KBI said the reduction has led to matches with crimes under investigation in Kansas and other states. Six said the backlog could be eliminated as soon as next February. But he cautioned that additional resources are needed to stay current with the samples, such as a new crime [more...]
Date: 2010-09-02 15:09:42
National Museum Exhibit
The El Paso Division has consulted with and received contributions from the Nuclear DNA Unit, the Mitochondrial DNA Unit, the Federal DNA Database Unit and CODIS from the Laboratory Division at FBI Headquarters. In addition, the El Paso ERT has provided a case study to include the murder of Sophia Martinez and with the assistance of KFOX News, was able to provide a local news broadcast that aired during the initial stages of the investigation. Participants will be able to identify items in a crime scene that can be used for potential DNA exploitation. In addition, the El Paso ERT has loaned [more...]
Date: 2010-10-08 18:52:00
National DNA bank for the control of crime is a violation of the ...
One big concern that DNA matching brings up is the spreading practice of "familial searches." This happens when the police finds DNA material at the scene of a crime that matches the DNA of a known criminal. Then the police starts investigating his or her family members on the grounds that only those within the same family could have such a similar DNA marker. Civil liberties critics argue that this new version of "guilt by association" violates individual rights as well. Five states including Virginia already allow the DNA scanning of people arrested. Even when such people are not [more...]
Date: 2010-09-21 14:30:38
Ident - Not as Seen on TV
"We might take DNA swabs from the crime scene, footwear imprints, tire tracks, paint chips or ballistics evidence from firearms, then send the evidence to one of five National Forensic Laboratories across Canada," says Corp. Nielsen. "It can take time. But it's also possible to take fingerprints at a murder scene and match them within hours."Developing the refined skills of an Ident expert isn't easy. It begins with a three year apprenticeship program, which includes an eight week college course and numerous exams. Then the apprentice does field work with a fully trained Ident [more...]
Date: 2010-10-08 16:32:00
Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing
John Butler, bestselling author of Forensic DNA Typing, now applies his expertise on the subject of DNA analysis into an introductory textbook. Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing walks students step-by-step through the DNA analysis process beginning with collection of evidence at a crime scene to the statistical interpretation of the results. Also included are brief discussions of such news worthy topics as victim identification from the September 11, 2001 attacks, the identification of the remains of the Romanovs, the last Russian Royal family, and the O.J. Simpson case. New applications, [more...]
Date: 2010-06-10 05:45:00
1422200264 DNA Analysis (Forensics: the Science of Crime-Solving)
1422200264 DNA Analysis (Forensics: the Science of Crime-Solving) 1422200264 Details Reading level: Young Adult Library Binding: 112 pages Publisher: Mason Crest Publishers (November 30, 2005) Language: English ISBN-10: 1422200264 ISBN-13: 978-1422200261 Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Price:$15.95 1422200264 DNA Analysis (Forensics: the Science of Crime-Solving) Description A flake of skin…a strand of hair…a fleck of saliva…a drop of blood…everywhere we go we leave behind bits of ourselves that are as unique as fingerprints. Each cell contains [more...]
Date: 2010-10-09 12:36:45
DNA fingerprinting, help explain the idea and logic
"DNA fingerprinting" is a recently-introduced biochemical procedure that uses a pattern derived from a person's genetic material to match a suspect's genetic material against that of a specimen from a crime scene. Proponents have claimed astronomically high odds against obtaining a match by chance alone. These odds are based on an assumption that there is independence between the different characteristics represented by a single pattern. Which one of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the claim of the proponents of DNA fingerprinting? (A) The large amount of genetic [more...]
Date: 2010-09-16 15:31:01
Forensic DNA Typing, Second Edition: Biology, Technology, and ...
I thought this was an outstanding overview of DNA typing. Product is awesome, Service is Gruesome ! Forensic DNA typing its an awesome book. 6 stars is more like it . . . Rarely are such complex subjects treated so well. Outstanding Text Book on Forensic Science. This book is an outstanding text book for those interested in Forensic Science, Genetics, and Genealogy. Forensic DNA Typing, Second Edition: Biology, Technology, and STR Markers. I would not recommend this book to someone who was completely new to the use of genetics as a tool for forensics. Marvelous work! This book has opened my [more...]
Date: 2010-05-19 19:12:13
Cat DNA Can Aid in Criminal Investigations | easyDNA Blog
If you have ever inquired about a hair DNA test or know some of the basics of DNA you may know that DNA is found throughout nucleated cells in the body. Since hairs are simply made up of protein then we know that there is no nuclear DNA in hair. The same applies for cats- there is no nuclear DNA in cat hair. However, cat hair and human hair contain what is known as MtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) and this, like nuclear DNA, is unique to each of us. Cat DNA convicts murderer A body was found in a grave on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Police investigators identified the body as belonging to Shirley [more...]
Date: 2010-05-20 08:24:39
Cal State LA forum looks at Grim Sleeper case - Pasadena Star-News
Although advances in DNA technology are changing crime scene analysis, firearm and fingerprint evidence still dominate cases seen in forensic labs, Hudson said. "Not one form of analysis stands alone," said Assistant Director of the [more...]
Date: 2010-10-02 05:28:25
Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Kentucky – William Van Meter ...
Two young men, whose lives seem preordained to intertwine, are jailed for the crime: DNA evidence places Stephen Soules, an unemployed, mixed-race high-school dropout, at the scene, and Lucas Goodrum, a 21-year-old pot dealer with an ex-wife, a girlfriend still in high school, and an inauspicious history of domestic abuse, is held by an ever-changing confession. The friends of the suspects and the foster and birth families of the victim form complex and warring social nets that are cast across town. And a small southern community, populated by eccentrics of every socioeconomic class, from [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 16:38:42
(BLOG) - Lifestyle in Computers: Exonerating the innocent: using ...
As with normal fingerprints, governments around the world have built a database of DNA fingerprints since the late 1980s. DNA often is found on the crime scene in the form of bodily fluids, such as blood. Using these samples, DNA can be compared in a laboratory using gel electrophoresis, which uses a magnetic field to separate the strands of DNA. Unfortunately, especially in the early history of DNA fingerprinting, mistakes were often made. It is estimated that one tenth of a percent of DNA comparisons are incorrectly done. This may not seem like a lot, but considering that there are more [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 18:35:00
Supreme Court: Can Texas inmate Henry Skinner use civil rights law ...
Tags: 1993 New Year's Eve slayings, Henry Skinner, Pampa Texas, post-conviction DNA testing, prove his innocence in a triple murder, seeking DNA testing of key evidence from the crime scene, Skinner's attorney Robert Owen, Supreme Court, Texas death row inmate, Texas inmate Henry Skinner, Twila Busby Previous Topic: Qatar Airways pilot dies while flying [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 20:32:13
Feline Fur Flushes Out Felons
The hair cats leave in their owners' homes through their frequent grooming can help authorities to catch criminals. Here, Catster member Leo shows off his grooming technique. New research has revealed that cat fur can help to identify and convict criminals. Dr. Leslie Lyons, a cat genetics expert, pioneered the research. Lyons, who works at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, was already compiling information on cat DNA, when she had an "A-ha!" moment. "I'm a big fan of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," she says. In two episodes of [more...]
Date: 2010-09-29 14:43:50
Latest Trend: Taking DNA Sample from your Kids | Impact Lab
Many parents across the country are swabbing the inside of their children's mouths to get a DNA sample just in case they need it if the youngster is kidnapped, runs away or suffers a terrible accident. News reports about child abductions and television shows such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" are helping drive the interest in keeeping genetic records that could be used to identify remains, hair or blood. "It's the CSI mentality: that DNA is going to be the answer to any problem that comes up," said Jerry Nance, supervisor of the forensic assistance unit of the nonprofit National [more...]
Date: 2006-11-27 08:00:00
UTLaw Magazine | Capital Punishment Clinic Director Rob Owen ...
Owen, along with lawyers from the firm of Skadden Arps, represents Skinner in his bid to use a civil rights statute (42 U.S.C. § 1983) to gain access to certain evidence from the crime scene for DNA testing—testing Skinner says can [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 14:17:38
HowStuffWorks "How DNA Evidence Works"
But catching a criminal using DNA evidence is not quite as easy as "CSI" makes it seem, as this article will demonstrate. Our first step in exploring DNA evidence is the crime scene -- and the biological evidence gathered there by [more...]
Date: 2010-08-02 20:19:54
Unsolved Mysteries In The World: Boston Strangler
Finally, if DeSalvo was driven by a mother fixation, as psychiatrists claimed, why had he chosen young women (including one African American) as five of his last seven victims? The police were impressed at the accuracy of DeSalvo's descriptions of the crime scenes. Though there were some inconsistencies, DeSalvo was able to cite details which had not been made public. However, there was no physical evidence to substantiate his confession. As such, he stood trial for earlier, unrelated crimes of robbery and sexual offenses in which he was known as The Green Man and The Measuring Man [more...]
Date: 2010-10-10 23:58:00
Richard and Selma Eikelenboom
After renowned Dutch forensic scientists Selma and Richard Eikelenboom agreed to analyze the evidence for "touch DNA," O'Connell said she thought she had caught a break. They had taken tiny particles left at crime scenes and solved several famous cold cases throughout the United States. Seneca County agreed to pay the $10,000 to $30,000 it would cost for testing, but the health department won't release the evidence to the Eikelenbooms because they don't have the special certification required by state rules. "At this time we are still awaiting their application," department spokesperson [more...]
Date: 2010-10-01 07:00:00
Dog DNA leads to murder conviction
A man who set two dogs on a 16-year-old gang rival before stabbing him to death was Nike Running Shoes found guilty of his murder at the Old Bailey today after his dog's DNA was linked to the crime scene. [more...]
Date: 2010-10-05 01:43:53
Lester Street Murder Trial Focuses on DNA, Crime Scene Science
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Date: 2010-10-02 02:10:20
YouTube - Death Row DNA Test
Henry Skinner, convicted of triple homicide and sentenced to death, claims DNA from the crime scene will reveal his innocence. Jan Crawford reports on the [more...]
Date: 2010-10-11 01:16:30
Treyvons Blog » Blog Archive » Buy Your C.S.I. Miami - The Fifth ...
That long blonde hair of Cally's must get everywhere at a crime scene, but you never see any of the CSIs bagging and tagging blonde hairs for later DNA analysis only to discover it was one of their own shedding over everything. It's a bit silly. As I said, I do like this show and am somewhat entertained by it. But as for coming over as realistic and genuinely dramatic, it's become more and more of a let down as the seasons have passed. Click Here To Buy Now At Amazon! Tags: Buy Your C.S.I. Miami - The Fifth Season From Amazon!, C.S.I. Miami - The Fifth Season, DVD This entry was [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 11:24:28
Report: Israeli scientists discover way to counterfeit DNA ...
New York Times reports Israeli firm created blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a third party. By Haaretz Service Israeli scientists have shown it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, according to an article published in the New York Times on Tuesday.The findings could possibly call into question the credibility of DNA as evidence in criminal cases. In their tests, the scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples that contained DNA taking from a different person, the New York Times reported. The article states that the scientists also could take a DNA profile in a database and [more...]
Date: 2010-10-01 16:54:47
High court hears arguments on 'retrying' with new DNA testing ...
Supreme Court justices cast a skeptical eye at a Texas death row inmate's novel efforts to have new DNA testing on old crime scene evidence in an effort to prove his [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 20:30:46
Crime Lab DNA Databases Under the Microscope
Researchers in the field of DNA forensics are calling for the FBI to improve the quality of its sizable genetic database by letting them look under the hood. As Osagie Obasogie explains, reviews of a handful of state crime lab DNA databases have revealed anomalies that might not make prosecutors' claims that a crime-scene sample matching a profile in the database is "slam dunk" evidence. Genetic information is a powerful law enforcement tool—both for catching criminals and for exonerating the innocent, but both uses require robust, accurate science. Yet quality of the information in [more...]
Date: 2010-04-07 07:00:00
Technology Times Online | Nigeria Police builds DNA laboratory to ...
Superintendent of Police for the Nigeria Police Force, Elias Uzoemeka, said, "we appreciate learning how to use advanced forensic DNA technology from Sorenson Forensics, a highly respected organization among law enforcement agencies worldwide. Today, Nigeria is experiencing economic growth, which enables us to develop advanced law enforcement tools that promote justice and security for our citizens." Executive Director, Sorenson Forensics, Tim Kupferschmid, said, "we are proud to help educate scientists who will bring forensic DNA technology to Nigeria, the most populous country in [more...]
Date: 2010-06-03 08:19:02
CSI Television Shows a Fraud. Crime Scene Evidence Collection ...
I gathered my evidence collection kit and carefully dusted and lifted prints from the point of entry while the experienced officer went to adjacent homes and made inquiries. After working for about 30 minutes I was very proud of ... For the sites included in this study and for the time period reviewed, DNA testing was rarely performed across all offenses and was concentrated in homicides and, to a lesser extent, rapes. 5. Although rates of arrest and conviction in study [more...]
Date: 2010-10-08 00:31:41
Gang Stalking World » Report: Israeli scientists discover way to ...
In their tests, the scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples that contained DNA taking from a different person, the New York Times reported. The article states that the scientists also could take a DNA profile in a database and use it to make a DNA sample to match the profile without needing any tissue from the person. The article quotes the lead author of the scientific paper, Dr. Dan Frumkin as saying that the study shows "you can just engineer a crime scene" adding "any biology undergraduate could perform [more...]
Date: 2010-10-01 17:46:46
Florida Issues: Prosecutors agree to go beyond the toothbrush with ...
WEST PALM BEACH — Prosecutors about-faced Wednesday and agreed to DNA testing of some key evidence in the acase of Esdras Cardona, a Guatemalan dishwasher sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of a fellow employee at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. In what is known as the "toothbrush case," 34-year-old Cardona is linked in part to Melissa Legare's rape by a Colgate toothbrush found in her room that bore a virtually exact match to Cardona's DNA. Cardona, identified confidently by Legare as her rapist, denies any part in the crime, and Innocence Project of Florida attorneys have [more...]
Date: 2009-03-01 20:09:00
Handshake | The Guidebook To Modern Geek Culture » John Waters is ...
John Waters is narrating a movie about dollhouse diorama death scenes Anyone else confused by the above video? I have no clue what's going on. I know John Waters is cool. His voice is creepy. I see dollhouses portraying death scenes. And then a bunch of real people talking about serious criminal justice issues. Add up all of these and my final reaction is: "Cool. Wait, what?" According to the film's website, the documentary, Our Wildest Dreams: A True Crime Documentary of Dolls & Murder, explores a series of dollhouse murder scenes created to train police officers in the 30s and [more...]
Date: 2010-10-12 14:09:32
DefrostingColdCases.com » Blog Archive » Skinner gets Supreme ...
Texas has firmly refused to carry out the tests on evidence found at the crime scene, arguing that Skinner received a fair trial when he was convicted by a jury in 1995, and that DNA testing was not commonly used at the time. Under current judicial precedent, states are not required to carry out such DNA tests but only a handful refuse to do so.More here…to be [more...]
Date: 2010-10-13 18:14:44


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Can You Recover from Prescription Drug Abuse?
Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in many areas of the world. While medications offer many benefits, there is also the possibility of developing physical and emotional dependency on those same drugs. Fortunately, there are ways to overcome the drug abuse and regain control of your life.
Medical Detox and Withdrawal
With many prescription drugs, it is not an option to simply stop taking the medication. Doing so can trigger a wide range of undesirable side effects. In addition, suddenly ending usage can be very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous. Rather than trying this approach cold turkey approach at home, it is best to undergo medical detox under the care of a physician.
The detox phase may involve incrementally lowering the dosage over a period of time and careful monitoring of the patient. Depending on the severity of the prescription drug abuse, medical detox may take a few days or even a week. Keep in mind that the physician will monitor the reactions of the patient and may need to delay further treatment until the person has no drug left in their system at all.
Rehab for Prescription Drug Abuse
After getting clean, an individual suffering with prescription drug abuse must undergo therapy to address the behavioral issues caused by addiction. In therapy, a person will learn to cope with their triggers, identify strategies to avoid relapse and determine a plan for long-term recovery.
Counseling and Group Support
No matter the severity of the prescription drug abuse, individual and group therapy is critical in helping a person overcome addiction. Trained counselors can aid patients in understanding what is happening to them, identifying the underlying reasons for the abuse and teaching them strategies for overcoming triggers.
Along with private counseling sessions, the therapist may also recommend group counseling in a support group environment. This approach allows the addict to interact with others who are also dealing with prescription drug abuse and draw inspiration from their experiences. Many addicts feel that they are alone and that no one really understands what they are going through. By being involved in a group effort, they feel less alone, less judged and more motivated to kick the habit.
Prescription Drug Abuse and Loved Ones
Substance abuse doesn't affect just the individual suffering from drug abuse. Loved ones often feel helpless when it comes to dealing with any type of substance abuse. They want to help but simply don't know how. This is where counseling can also help. Therapists can help loved ones identify ways to support addicts in their recovery efforts. The counseling may take place in a group setting or involve individual sessions. If you know someone who is dealing with an addiction to prescription medication, take the time to educate yourself on how you can participate in the recovery process and offers the support that is so desperately needed.Family therapy can be very healing for family units that are coping with prescription drug abuse. Like individual or group counseling, family therapy gives each family member the opportunity to express their feelings, hopes and desires to each other. It allows a family unit the opportunity to forgive and to heal their wounds.

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WILKES-BARRE — Wilkes-Barre is getting more than $1 million to fix crumbling sidewalks and make them accessible to people with disabilities
State Representative Eddie Day Pashinski announced state funding for the project on George Avenue between Parkin and Scott Streets.
The $600,000 project also calls for new street lighting and trees.
Another $430,000 will go to roadwork and new sidewalks between East Northampton and West Market Streets in Wilkes-Barre.
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For my second NaNoWriMo update, I must start with…
I may or may not have mentioned to you my Reeders, but my novel this year is very different from other years. In fact, it's different from other stories that I have written before.
My genre is still sci-fi/fantasy as per my usual enjoyed genre, but this time it is the content that is different from usual.
Content which includes topics of sexual encounters, bars and women, physical beatings and others. I don't want you to think that I'm writing a descriptive romance novel with intense details about any of these or other topics, but simply that they are a part of the plot.
The best way to say it: It's a very adult novel with adult topics and conversation.
This is new for me because up until this point most of my main characters–aka the protagonists–have been a lot like me in that they don't drink, smoke, go to bars, do wild and crazy things–I'm a happy hobbit–so my characters have been too. Even my antagonists don't do anything within these contexts (at least not that I share through my writing).
Writing with a new style and a new edge has been quite enjoyable for me.
This is how I explained it on a Google+ post on Oct 22, 2013…
And it turned out to be a great way for me to write. Exciting too. I actually thought about the possibility of all of my stories getting this tone. As a newbie writer but an EXPERT outliner (just a reminder it takes me years to outline stories with gaps in between and then I only write in November, go figure…I BLAME YOU LIFE! ahem…sorry), I know that I am still working on finding my style. I have already noticed a few things about my writing style and am seeing what I can do about keeping them going.
So far, so good.
As my final update for today, you may have read that I wrote over 5k words the other day. I would love to say that I am that much more ahead, but unfortunately this weekend threw me for a loop(or a couple of them), and I didn't write for two days. I must say that it was a good thing I had a 2.75-day cushion, that's for sure. Sooo, I may just do some more 5k NaNo Word Sprints…
Well, off to week three I go. I must say though, after over a week of writing about my main characters, it is finally time for them to meet! Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, BUT DEFINITELY by Wednesday.
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The Carleton University Office for Chemistry Outreach (CUOCH) is presenting its 10th Annual Indoor Chemistry Magic Show on Saturday February 25th.
There will be 3 shows (10:30PM, 1:00PM, 3:45PM) held at the Richcraft second level auditorium, where the audience can enjoy watching and learning about amazing glow-in-the-dark substances, fun colour changes, spontaneous combustion reactions, fluorescent minerals, and much more. The superlab will also be open all day for everyone to get their hands dirty with fun hands-on activities such as making slime, and ice cream. Tim Horton's will open their doors for our special event until 3:00PM, however, we will have complimentary popcorn and cotton candy all day long.
Special this year for CU75 and the magic show's 10th anniversary, there will be exclusive never-before-seen demos.
Admission is free, the show seating is first come first serve basis to secure a spot in the auditorium. Overflow rooms with live HD stream is also available.
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At the February 2015 meeting of the National Church Extension and Capital Fund (CECF), the following adaptive challenge was articulated: Despite our desire to use the CECF fund faithfully, creatively and effectively, we are unsure how to participate in God's mission today in our changing local contexts. Hence we do not know how to best steward the use of the CECF resources (formerly used to buy land and mortgage new buildings).
This ELCIC, CECF fund provided a total of 200K for use in 2015 – 2018 in support of activities in this Synod which are experimental in spirit and genuinely seek to explore what it means to participate in God's mission in the world today.
Creative Initiatives overview:
Funds are intended to support or create learning opportunities as people join in the work God is already doing in our neighbourhoods and communities, not for solution based fixes to problems or those with a known and measureable end point, like more people in worship, more youth, or financial success. Instead these experimental activities are intentionally relational and open, with the expectation of learning along the way (listening, attending, discerning, experimenting and reflecting)
New Creative Initiatives missional formation learning opportunities are guided by a statement of the challenge we face for which we don't know a solution; We want _______________but we don't know how to ___________ .
Characteristics of Creative Initiatives:
- Discernment of the work of the Holy Spirit is central
- Focussed on learning about God's planned future
- Localized, contextual and relational
- Collaborative in nature, joining in with other groups in the neighbourhood
Experiment Challenges:
Challenge One: When there are no answers or sure outcomes in sight, how do we create environments where we can re-imagine ways to navigate into this new space? How do we get comfortable with the open-ended processes of experimenting so that we become learners rather than those in control of pre-set outcomes?
Challenge Two: Experiments require the confidence to test things about which we are not sure. They involve a willingness to try and fail; in this cycle of trying, failing, reflecting, adjusting and trying again we learn new ways of acting. Our church systems are risk averse. How, therefore, do we create cultures of experimentation in systems that minimize risk?
CECF grant expectations:
Creative Initiatives Experiments will include activities that foster discernment of God's mission and how to faithfully join in God's redemption, restoration and reconciliation of the world. These experiments facilitate a learning opportunity about how to join in in the work of the Holy Spirit in our local context.
Annual reports will be made in January via the Missional Consultant to the annual CECF Advisory Board. These reports must include financial accounting and reflection on what is being learned and discovered about how to participate in God's mission in our changing context. Funds must be used by June 2018 or returned to the CECF.
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Sens. Tom HarkinThomas (Tom) Richard HarkinOn Nicaragua, the silence of the left is deafening Dem Senator open to bid from the left in 2020 Senate GOP rejects Trump's call to go big on gun legislation MORE (D-Iowa) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a bill Thursday that would end a tax subsidy for the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children.
"Our nation is facing a childhood obesity crisis that demands our urgent attention, and one effective way of combating this epidemic is to ensure that our children are not confronted by persistent advertising from soda, snack, and candy makers," Harkin said. "Given the enormous public health costs associated with childhood obesity, our bill promotes healthier lifestyles."
Under the current tax code, companies can deduct marketing and advertising expenses from their income taxes.
Harkin and Blumenthal's bill would amend the tax code to prohibit a deduction for advertising directed at children to promote the consumption of food and beverages of "poor nutritional quality." The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Institute of Medicine would define what food and brands are considered unhealthy.
"This measure makes taxpayers allies of health advocates and nutritious eating, rather than aiders and abettors of junk food," Blumenthal said. "By eliminating the nonsensical tax loophole allowing companies to write off the cost of marketing junk food and sugary beverages to children, the Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act will encourage companies to put their creative talents toward promoting nutritious foods, and bring in revenue that will be put to good use — providing fresh fruits and vegetables for elementary school children."
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Wednesday on CNN Today, Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., told hosts Amara Walker and Michael Holmes that the violence that erupted in Ferguson in the wake of the grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown is not what his father would have wanted.
"It's been some five decades since Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, spoke to about 250,000 people there, and talked about his dream for equality," Walker began. "What do you think he would have made of the riots we saw last night and the things that incited them?"
"I don't know that any of us can really speak for my father," King replied. "I will do the best I can based on some of his writings and views. I'm sure he would be greatly disappointed. First and foremost, he would certainly be feeling very bad for the family, I mean, he would have empathy for the family."
"Secondly, he would feel disappointed that it erupted into a scenario of violence all across communities," King continued. "He used to say that violence is the language of the unheard. And he constantly talked about, we must find nonviolent ways to address our conflicts, so he would be always advocating nonviolence, never stooping to and encouraging violence.
"What would you say to those people [who would not heed your father's message?]" Holmes followed up.
"I think that we have to use as many voices as possible to speak to the younger generation," King said. "My voice is one voice, but you really need those who are of that age, young people speaking to young people saying, 'Look, there's a more constructive way.' We understand your frustration. This particular strategy is not going to yield a long-term result, it's not going to create peace… in the long run, peace creates peace, not violence."
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It's not easy entering the mind of a child. Children would not unfurl themselves as comfortably as adults do to get a therapy. Rather they may never understand that they are under a session or therapy and need to cooperate. In ugly cases they may hate the session or the idea of being treated with psychologists. That is why any normal ordinary psychologist may not be the right choice to handle the therapy of your child. You would need child psychologists for this.
How to prepare your child to go to a psychologist?
This is one of the toughest episodes for many patents. It's tough understanding that your child needs a therapy. But it's tougher getting them ready to face a therapist or a session. Hence, you must be very careful. In fact before talking to the child you may talk to the therapist to find out the best option. You may get appropriately advised by the therapist to make the child ready and bring on.
Sometimes child psychologists have a special room built for children where they can keep the child engaged into some kind of activity to slowly get comfortable. There can be various styles and techniques, and these too vary depending on the temperament of the child. The therapist therefore decides the right steps the best.
How a child psychologist would help?
A child psychologist would help by talking to your child and finding out gradually the root of the problem. There are special ways to deal with the soft hearts of children. Due to internal and external triggers many of them are suffering deeply within, and such cases may need more patience of dealing. Child psychologists understand this special demand, and hence would never force a child into confessions or talking, and would rather give the child the time needed to get accustomed with the therapist. That is why this job is specially time taking, and parents also need to understand that.
The best part of taking the child to child psychologists is that, the therapist would help the child get over the problem slowly, and as the parent you would be helping the child get out of the mental trauma or trouble at an early age. Often smaller problems left untreated at childhood may get seriously bigger in adulthood and interferes with a normal life. Hence its best to get help for the child at earlier stages of the problem, as soon as its detected.
How to know that the child needs help?
How would you know that the child needs help? Well there are a few ways. Aggression, poor concentration, repetitive behavior, not listening deliberately to you after repeated calling or talking, looking elsewhere when you are communicating, showing aggression or destructive actions on certain objects, getting paranoid without any reason, getting too silent or quite suddenly, or talking excessively and repeating words or sentences etc can be the symptoms, that there is some issue going on which is interfering with the abilities to behave normally. You may take note of that and before concluding yourself that there is a problem, should talk to child psychologists and get advised.


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Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Zaki's Original Review: The Mummy (1999)
Occupying the lower tier of Universal Horrors was the Mummy series. Never quite as overtly terrifying as his creature kin, the Mummy (first brought to life by Boris Karloff in the 1932 film of the same name) still obviously left enough of an impression on director Stephen Sommers (the underrated Deep Rising) for him to mount a stylish remake cast in the '90s mold.
In these self-aware days of Scream and its ilk, it's doubtful a revival of The Mummy could have worked any other way. As it stands, the film emerges as a rousing adventure peas, a thrilling a romper that brings to mind 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and King Kong. Brendan Fraser stars as rock-'em-sock-'em mercenary Rick O'Connell, the only man who knows the location of Hamunaptra, The famed Egyptian city of the dead.
An expedition to the city with the flighty librarian and her ne'er-do-well brother (Rachel Weisz and John Hannah) lead them to the tomb of the mummified Imhotep (Karloff in the original, South African muscleman Arnold Vosloo in this version).
As in any movie of this sort, the inevitable tampering with "forces man was never meant to control" leads to the waking of the dead, and soon enough, the Mummy is back with a vengeance, absorbing the bodies of others and reconstituting his own.
Naturally, it falls to O'Connell and company to hold the creatures advance before he sets in motion a plan that will destroy all life on earth. It's mindless stuff, to be sure. Most of the characters hit their marks like well-oiled machines, going through the motions that keep the story chugging right along and, in Fraser's case, spouting sardonic one liners along the way.
It works, though. From the prologue in ancient Egypt detailing Imhotep's treachery against the Pharaoh that led to his mummification right on through to the effects-laden finale depicting Fraser's O'Connell facing off, sword in hand, against an army of skeletons (shades of Jason and the Argonauts), The Mummy never fails to engage.
With the creature unleashing plagues, locusts, and scarabs that burrow into people's skins, it's often chilling, but never grisly, and never excessive. Every frame bespeaks a love of the adventure genre, and in many ways The Mummy is a valentine to all the Errol Flynn action yarns of old.
I've always had a soft spot for period adventure films, and although The Mummy misses the high Mark achieved by last summer's The Mask of Zorro, it surely surpasses any number of recent by the numbers creature features based solely on its spirit of old-fashioned heroics and derring-do. B+
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Melbourne punk rock band, Antiskeptic are back after 'disbanding' in March 2008 with a new crowd funded album, Stare Down The Ocean. They play Newcastle's Small Ballroom on September 26.
It's been 6 years since the band hit the road for a national tour, so we thought it was appropriate to share 6 reasons why we're pumped for their show.
1 – Their release Stare Down the Ocean was funded entirely independently though crowdfunding site Pozible and a grant from Arts Victoria
2 – The video for their new single is kick arse
3 – The band originally formed in 1999 at the back of a record store. We think that's pretty cool
4 – They've been rehearsing their arses off
5 – We want to hear their song Hallelujah which often goes for over 10 minutes when they play it live.
6 – We're giving you the chance to win a double pass to the show and a copy of their new album. Check our Facebook page this week.
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EUROPE'S women golfers brilliantly won back the Solheim Cup in Sweden yesterday - and wasted little time doing it.
Needing five points from the 12 singles, they achieved them from the first seven games to add the trophy to the Ryder Cup won last year - a professional double which has never been done before - and the Walker Cup retained by Britain and Ireland's amateurs last week.
Scot Janice Moodie led the way, then Swede Sophie Gustafson and Iben Tinning added the next two points.
World No 1 Annika Sorenstam looked as if she might fittingly be the match-winner on her home turf, but by beating Angela Stanford on the 16th she allowed Scot Catriona Matthew to take Catrin Nilsmark's side over the line.
Matthew, left out of the last two matches, beat Rosie Jones three and one to give Europe only their third victory in eight contests.
As the celebrations started four games still out on the course decided to join them. First Norway's Suzann Pettersen, one down with three to play, conceded to Cristie Kerr, denying herself the chance to become the first player in the event's history to win a maximum five points.
Then Americans Meg Mallon, Beth Daniel and Kelly Robbins conceded to Laura Davies, Mhairi McKay and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc respectively, giving a final scoreline of 17 -10 that was Europe's biggest-ever victory.
With the first game teeing off at 8am to fit in with afternoon television coverage of the men's Lancome Trophy in Paris it was all over by lunchtime - a fact that Sorenstam did not think much of.
"It's just very sad, I think," said the 32-year-old, who finished with four points.
"We're showcasing the best women's golf and when we don't get a good slot it doesn't feel right.
"TV is important and we've got to do that, but one of these days I hope we get the respect and get prime time.
"You have to be a die-hard fan to come out at seven in the morning. It's just unfortunate that we have to do this."


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Wetlands in the desert? Here in Tucson we have the Sweetwater Wetlands, an artificial wetlands area on the (usually dry) Santa Cruz river. This wetlands is a part of a waste-water reclamation project built in 1996 under the direction of US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, City Parks and Recreation Department, the University of Arizona and many local environmental education and wildlife organizations. To me it is a unique opportunity to photograph flora and fauna that I wouldn't otherwise see in the Sonoran desert. Just don't go wading into the water.
In the desert, water is life. From the little Sweetwater Wetlands Bird Checklist obtainable at the park, I count almost 250 species of birds have been reported at the wetlands. This is a favorite sport for birders. In winter months hundreds if not thousands of migrating waterfowl make their home here. A family of Harris hawks are often seen in the large eucalyptus trees north of the ponds. Cooper hawks, herons, grebes, doves, flycatchers, hummingbirds, wrens, blackbirds, roadrunners, towhees,...all these avian species, and more, benefit from the environs here. I had to buy a couple bird guides to help me identify all the different birds I've photographed. It's been an educational experience.
Birders have great fun looking through their binoculars for the relatively rare species to these wetlands. It seems every time I've been there I hear them ask each other if they've seen a Least Grebe. One time I was on one of the observation decks photographing some American Coots displaying territoriality when a birder approached me and asked if I had seen a Least Grebe. I said, "No, what do they look like?" I had never seen one. A couple minutes later he exclaimed, "Oh, there's one!" Huh? I swung the camera around on the bird he indicated and fired away with my shutter. I felt gratitude for observing a bird rare to this area.
In summer months, when the waterfowl have long left for more northern climes, I photograph the abundant dragonflies and damselflies. I've noticed they don't really get moving until the sun has been up a couple of hours. I used to try and photograph them as they hover, but I found it is much easier to photograph them when they land on a bullrush or cattail blade. In the cool of the morning, before any breeze starts, is a great time to photograph spiders in their webs or hanging to blades of grass.
So if you're in Tucson and have a couple idle hours, bring along a long lens and extension tubes and try the Sweetwater Wetlands for avian and insect photography. From the eastbound I-10 freeway exit Prince Road to the frontage road. Be ready to quickly make a right turn on Sweetwater Drive. The Sweetwater Wetland entrance and parking lot is on the left, about 0.1 mile.
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Wood, earthy accents, marble, rustic finishes and everything in between.
Flooring as a whole remains pretty consistent to a large degree. There will always be solid and neutral tones highlighted, and while it won't be invisible, it won't exactly be screaming with detail either. Part of the fun is taking the canvas and working off of it with accent furniture, wall patterns and more. But, each year will see new trends in flooring that can highlight anything from material to color to installation method. At Alexander's Carpet One in Corpus Christi, TX, we want to help keep you informed on flooring trends and be your source of great home design ideas. Here are some of the major trends we're seeing:
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One of the most fascinating minds of the twentieth century belonged to Buckminster Fuller. Systems theorist. Inventor. Mathematician. Cultural critic. Fuller was an anachronistic figure in his own time, whose enigmatic ideas about the future of the human race and the advent of technology marked him as an intellectual eccentric possessed of alien ideas. Fuller's ideas were so constrained by the language and terminology available that he occasionally created his own words to describe his novel concepts. One of these was ephemeralization.
Fuller defined ephemeralization as the ability to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing." That last word seems like an impossibility, but Fuller looked at the solar system and beyond as evidence that some complex systems can occur with invisible forces; that invisible force may be the enigma that is gravity, but it is a variable nonetheless.
If you dial back from the extremity of that statement, you can find that this is a prescient concept. Automation in the workforce is accelerating and will surely factor out the human element of the equation in many industries and circumstances. Manufacturing will be done by robots. Robots will be directed by algorithms and artificial intelligence, which will also displace white-collar jobs such as insurance, financial planning, and entry-level programming. Our status as masters of these creations is debatable. The recursive element of technological progress and creation itself will always put us at the mercy of what we put into the world.
Moore's Law is often compared to ephemeralization. It posits that computing power doubles at least every two years as we are able to have more transistors on an integrated circuit. After all, the computers we carry around in our pocket are exponentially more advanced than those which used to fill entire warehouses not too long ago. How far will this trend go? Hard to say. When we figure out quantum computing the notion of Moore's Law will be shaken up. Nonetheless, that is hardware. What about software?
I believe that blockchain is a potent enough revolution of our digital infrastructure to earn a significant place in the discussion of Fuller's concept. Blockchain is gathering more and more advocates and acolytes for its promise of decentralization in many industries and the disruption of old paradigms. The notion of smart contracts in particular democratizes the power of executables, facilitating and streamlining connections and collaborations between individuals to achieve certain results. Business and the nature of work itself will change drastically within the next ten years as transaction costs of operating a business are reduced to the point of making the traditional 9–5 work week obsolete. Programmatic agreements in systems that simply work. Imagine speaking in plain language the conditions of a contract to Alexa, Cortana, and the like as they compile the smart contract code, verify and double-check its content with you, and then send it to a blockchain. If the technology is ever fine-tuned and implemented on a large scale, brain machine interfaces will give personal computation the semblance of magic. The strands of the future will intersect in such novel ways that the only sources we can refer to for clarity will be science fiction (and any regulation or legislation on the matter will read as a science fiction device.)
While there is an immense amount of infrastructural R & D for this to occur on a global scale, it is entirely feasible. While the end spectrum of Fuller's ephemeralization would probably demand us harnessing some of the quantum weirdness of our universe, blockchain, smart contracts, and other technologies here and now could lead to relationships between ourselves and our systems where things simply work efficiently and effectively to our design.
Empowering generations and giving them agency in the world. That is the goal.
It sounds like magic.
But then again, what's the difference?
Originally published at Embermine.com and my Medium blog.
B. Fuller image via Wired.com


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I started small today with my little headband braid. I'm sure some of you have seen these, but in case you haven't, I posted a few pictures on how to do it.
Step 1: Pick which side to start on, and clip back the top part of that side. Use hair right above your ear to make the braid. You can make it as thick or thin as you like.
Step 2: Braid that piece of hair. Then cross it over to the other side.
Step 3: Use bobby pins to hold hair down. Make sure they are gripping hair underneath.
Step 4: Look like a dork while your husband takes your picture.
That's all there is to it. Now maybe I'll stop being lazy and try a different hair style tomorrow.


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The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows program aims to recognize graduate students currently working in digital rhetoric who want practical experience in online publishing and website development. Fellows are selected on a yearly basis by the editors and board of the DRC, and receive an annual stipend of $500 as well as recognition on the DRC website.
DRC Fellows commit to attending monthly online team meetings to plan projects that extend the DRC website and its contributions to the community of computers and writing. They work independently and collaboratively to complete two projects within the year of their term; typical projects include: coordinating a blog carnival, developing the DRC wiki, enhancing the resources section of the website, or taking part in editorial work associated with DRC publishing.
The 2017-2018 fellows are:
Lauren Brentnell, Michigan State University
Lauren Brentnell is a PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. Her research focus is in trauma studies, examining how trauma survivors use nonlinear, multimodal, and digital forms of composing during the recovery process. She currently works as a research assistant with the Corpus and Repository of Writing (CROW), a multi-institutional research project devoted to creating a new digital archive to support new forms of writing research. She tweets at @RhetoricNSpice.
Carleigh Davis, East Carolina University
Carleigh Davis is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. Her research focuses on using Memetic Rhetorical Theory to explore the intersections of rhetoric and social justice in digital spaces. She is currently using this theory in her dissertation as a way of examining the proliferation of fake news items through social media networks. She tweets at @CarleighJoan.
Brandee Easter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brandee Easter is a doctoral student in the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on intersections of gender and digital rhetoric. She also enjoys talking about videogames, graphic design, and her dogs.
Lauren Garskie, Bowling Green State University
Lauren Garskie is a PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing Program at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include design, literacies, digital rhetoric, and multimodality. Lauren's dissertation analyzes the rhetorical uses of a new collaborative space on BGSU's campus and the influence of such space on its users and a design thinking process.
Kristin Ravel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kristin Ravel is pursuing her PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Kristin's dissertation explores ethics and digital multimodality in the composition classroom through, what she is calling, a pedagogy of techno-social relationality. More specifically, a pedagogy of techno-social relationality, motivated by feminist theory on ethics, explores how relationality ought to be understood as taking place online in an inseparable blend of the technical and social. She tweets at @kristin_ravel.
Jason Tham, University of Minnesota
Jason is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota––Twin Cities. His current research focuses on making and design thinking in writing pedagogy, multimodality, and emerging technologies such as wearables and mixed reality.
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As one of the talented dancers in the industry, it's not a hard sell to envision R&B crooner Omarion as a solid basketball player.
"I'm super-athletic," Omarion said. "I do my thing on the court."
Still, an Allen Iverson-inspired, ankle-breaking, look-away pass throwing, jump shop draining blacktop beast?
"There was a celebrity game a few years back where I was really doing my thing," Omarion said. "I'm talking Magic behind-the-back, looking over there and passing over here, threes… I was just that dude that day. I don't claim to be the illest but I've got skills."
We caught up with Omarion to chop-it-up about everything from his hoops skills to his new album Reasons to what crime he'd commit if he'd 100 percent get away with it.
Jason Jordan: I always like to gauge the sports backgrounds and experiences of all of my guests on the Celeb Chop-Up; what sports did you play coming up?
Omarion: Well, I was really into everything, but I really liked basketball the most. My mom let me play football in the yard, but she never let me play with the pads and everything like that. Plus, basketball had that swag too; that was more my thing. I do my thing on the court.
JJ: In hoops everyone has a shining moment at some point; tell me about yours?
O: There was a celebrity game a few years back where I was really doing my thing. I'm talking Magic behind-the-back, looking over there and passing over here, threes… I was just that dude that day. I don't claim to be the illest but I've got skills. I'm super-athletic. Plus, we won that game too! I was doing it that game.
JJ: OK! What player does your game most resemble?
O: Well, everyone looked up to Michael Jordan and I did as well; just his swag and all that, but the player that I most looked up to was Iverson and later in life it was Kobe. Those were my guys.
JJ: Gotcha. Let's take it random; which fast food restaurant has the best burgers?
O: Well, it's been a minute since I've had fast food, but I'm gonna go with a sandwich and say the spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A. That thing is pretty serious!
JJ: Cosign! In the epic game of Paper, Rock, Scissors which object do you find that you get the most wins with?
O: (Laughs) The rock!
JJ: When you see a yellow traffic light what's the first thing that pops into your head?
O: Speed up!
JJ: What was your worst pre-fame job?
O: I didn't really have bad jobs. My mom used to work in a hair salon in Hollywood and I used to sweep up the shop to get a couple dollars. I loved doing that!
JJ: What movie absolutely deserves another installment?
O: I would love to see another Matrix movie! That would be nice with some new characters. Maybe the new Neo!
JJ: Starring Omarion of course!
O: (Laughs) You dig!
JJ: President Obama's Secret Service code name was Renegade, President Trump's is Mogul; if you were President what would you pick your code name to be?
O: My name would probably be Hotep. I can't get into the meaning because it would take a while, but it's an ancient word and there's a lot of history behind it. Look it up when you get a chance!
JJ: I see you went deep there! OK, if you would 100 percent get away with it which crime would you commit?
O: (Laughs) Ooh, I've gotta be careful with this question because the first thing that came to my mind was not good! OK, I'd probably do something along the lines of Robin Hood; stealing from the rich to give to the poor. I'd go that route!
JJ: What competition based reality show would you absolutely win?
O: American Ninja Warrior! I'd win that for sure.
JJ: OK, you tap a car in a parking lot and no one's around, do you move to a different row or do you leave a note?
O: (Laughs) Well, if there's real damage you've gotta leave that note. You don't want the karmic effect to hit you. You say something like, "Hey, I hit your car, I can't really pay for it right now, but at least I told you about it!"
JJ: (Laughs) By far the best answer I've gotten on that question yet.
O: (Laughs) There you go!
JJ: What sitcom intro song do you know every word to?
O: Of course Fresh Prince! Iiiiiin, West Philadelphia born and raised on the playground is where I spent most of my days!
JJ: Unfortunately, you've found yourself in the Witness Protection Program, what's your new name going to be?
O: (Laughs) My name would be Brad Pitt.
JJ: OK now Omarion, I don't want you to get wacked so I've gotta tell you that choice isn't the most low key. Just saying!
O: (Laughs) Yeah, that's true! OK so maybe something simpler like Kevin Ross. That's better.
JJ: Yes, Kevin Ross is going to live a long life! OK, what random fact can you reel off to me right now?
O: OK, this caters to the fellas; 9 times out of 10 if you meet a cute girl and you pick out something about her that's obvious about her and you kinda downplay it that will start a conversation that will get you in the door. For example, if she's got beautiful lips you'd say something like, "Your lips are so big, but, hey, they're beautiful as well." Make sure that timing is right though fellas. That's a little game from O!
JJ: I actually think that would work. Blindfolded can you tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke?
O: (Laughs) Probably not.
JJ: If you could go back and get the truth about one past mystery which would you choose?
O: Great question! I would want to know about aliens and portals and things like that. If you've ever seen Interstellar it's about the fifth dimension and I'd love to know how true some of those things are. It's actually kinda scary if you really think about it.
JJ: Definitely. OK, we've got your new album Reasons coming soon; talk about everything you've got going on that fans can look forward to.
O: Well, first thanks for the fun man! This was hilarious. I'm very excited about my fifth installment. It's coming out at the end of April or May. The reason why I'm so excited about this album is because it's sort of a reintroduction. Being a child prodigy, starting young and growing up in front of people is difficult. After having kids and living life it has an interesting way of introducing new things to you and deeper emotions. I feel that I've finally reached the level of fully understanding my true power in music and that there have been reasons for all of my experiences. The music feels good, it's positive, it's energetic and I'm excited about it. We shot the first two videos in South Africa, which is a place a lot of people have never seen. Reasons is really about the struggle between life and happiness. Distance is the first single, it's rhythmic so it's gonna make you want to dance. This will be a visual album so you can expect nothing but great visuals. Also, deeper meanings, history and tools to help you look within. I've really found myself! It's good vibes!
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Slam poetry is poetry that is meant to be performed. It's usually shorter than traditional, page poetry because most slams only allow the poet 3 minutes to recite their work. But within those 3 minutes is the power to move an audience to its feet – tears, clogged throats, and lots of enthusiastic finger-snapping. The same goes for the slam poetry at the Jersey City Poetry Slam.
Walk into the Tea NJ cafe in Jersey City, and twice a month you'll find the small cafe packed with slam poets and poetry enthusiasts. This is a boisterous bunch. They're loud, vocal, and full of passion. Most nights you'll find Mark Skrypczak, a tall, quiet figure, seated at a table against the wall tallying up the scores for each poet.
Mark's been running the Jersey City Poetry Slam for almost six years. And since then, the JC Slam has evolved from a twice-monthly event with hardly anyone showing up, to a nationally-known group that packs the Tea NJ cafe every other Thursday night, sending its slam poets to national competitions around the country.
I caught up with Mark at the end of the last poetry slam. The cafe was closing – they stay open late twice a month for the JC Slam – so we went outside and found a bench and spent an hour talking about slam poetry.
How is it being slam-master?
It's a very rewarding experience. Some people look at it as work. I really don't look at it as work. I mean there's things I have to do to make it work, like organization and all that. But I enjoy it so much it doesn't feel like work.
I love to perform. I've taken a real long break from actually being a straight performer, I've been a full-time slam-master and coach. I used to coach at Rutgers and I've been coaching here the last couple years. I'd like to get back into slamming, I've been putting my toes in there, but it's just sometimes different things going on. Like right now life outside the slam is kind of crazy. I don't have the time to do the poems right now, but to keep the slam running, I have time to do that.
It gets to a point where it's like, you can present a schedule and offer them a space and do all of the paperwork nobody wants to do, or even most people don't know goes on. There's meetings I go to and forms I need to keep track of, and it's just stuff to run the slam basically. Most people don't even know what I do behind the scenes. I can come up with a schedule, be here most nights we have a slam or an event, I have a good rapport with the owner, but at the same I run all the social media. So it gets to a point where that's all I can do. People are coming, that's great, but there's so much more that you want to see done.
To become PSI-certified you need to have a venue, you need to prove that you have an audience – it's pictures, flyers, sign-up sheets. I use the Instagram pretty much as a form of saying the slam goes on. People don't even know that.
What's been the best part of being a slam-master?
I lot of people have told me that being a slam-master is a thankless job, and I haven't really seen that here. I don't know if it's the community or if I'm doing something right. Sometimes people are like, Ughhh, I gotta run the slam – they complain, say there's no joy in it. I think I've found more joy in it. I think sometimes you fall into positions you need to do. I was a slammer, I was a very competitive slammer. I competed at Nationals, I was on final stage for the national Haiku slam – I've done a lot. Part of me is getting the bug to go back and try it again, but to give other people a chance to do it….
Like for instance, you look at somebody like R____ – that's a person who needs to be heard. That's a poet that's really hungry. He's only been to one nationals, and that first year everything was so new to him he actually got better when he came back. It wasn't the preparation that made him good, it was coming home and realizing what he had to do to be great. And I really hope there's a chance we can get someone like him back at that stage because this is somebody that has a lot to say.
You used to coach at Rutgers. How did you get into coaching?
Coaching kind of fell in my lap. I found out that the first time they (Rutgers Slam Poetry Team) competed in the CUPSI Invitational, I heard they had a coach and the coach didn't come to practice and couldn't coach them at the tournament itself. I felt really bad for them, and I told them, if you need any help let me know. And the first year I coached they called me two weeks before the tournament, and were like, we need your help. They needed a lot of help, and I was able to get off of work to go coach them. And yeah, it just kind of fell in lap, and they then were like, Well what if you're here the whole year? So I did two years of it and came into position of taking over this slam (Jersey City Poetry Slam), and that was because this slam was going through a lot of turmoil, a lot of changes, and I was one of the more consistent figures that's been around the whole time.
What's you coaching method like?
It all depends on your team. With the college team it's basically taking their poems, and taking a red pen, and covering their paper with red ink. You need to explain to me this, this this, and they come back with a poem that looks similar to what they handed you before, and then you have to explain it to them again, and then you're like, well you need to go out and practice and try this out on different audiences and they don't do it. So you have to force them to perform in front of an audience. There's times where it's like I'm going to make you stand on the New Brunswick train platform and perform.
But with the Jersey City team I don't have to go to those extremes.
We had one poet, Theron Jenkins, and he made our team but he hadn't written any new poems in almost two years. And he had this idea for a poem but he kept saying like, It's no good, it's no good, I feel like I don't have anything good. With his poem it was just taking the steps and telling him this is a good poem, you need to work on it. It's more of like it was just the encouragement to get him to finish it. It ended up being one of the best poems that was at Nationals this past year. He got a perfect score. It was him being painstakingly perfect. Just before we left it was ready, just the night before.
What's been your best memory of being a slam-master?
It was at nationals this year. I told Theron, I feel like you're the game-changer of this group. That your work is the work that stands out – I'm not saying he was better than everyone, but that his work stands out the most. It turned out that I was right when he went up there and got the perfect score and there's a stupid video of me jumping around like a fool. It's just that moment when you realize that he got the perfect score. I was jumping around like a fool. My face was in shock and I was just jumping around.


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Chicago police were searching for several people who fled from a stolen vehicle after it struck three children and a woman in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on Saturday, police said Sunday.
The most severely injured child was an 11-year-old girl who was hospitalized in critical condition after being hit and run over by the car, said Chicago Police News Affairs Det. Jamie Duignan.
The accident happened at about 5 p.m. on the 6200 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, and in addition to the 11-year-old girl, the others injured were a 12-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman, said Duignan. Police previously said four children and a man had been injured.


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SAUGET, Ill. – The Grizzlies scored seven runs in the eighth inning in an impressive comeback, but Schaumburg regained momentum in extra innings. FINAL SCORE: Schaumburg 10, Grizzlies 9.
Schaumburg carried its early offensive firepower from Tuesday night into Wednesday afternoon. Four hits, including a two-run home run by Seth Spivey, gave the Boomers three first-inning runs.
After Gateway scored one in the bottom of the first, the Boomers picked up where they left off. Three runners came across home plate off of three hits. Schaumburg broke the game open, taking an early 6-1 lead.
Schaumburg added three insurance runs between the fourth and eighth innings. After the one-run first inning, Gateway was held scoreless through the next five frames.
Down 9-2 going into the bottom of the eighth, Gateway's offense came alive.Seven runs came across off of seven hits. Garrett Mattlage launched a grand slam over the right field wall and Zach Lavy came through with a two-out, two-run single to tie the game up at nine apiece.
Both teams were scoreless through the ninth and tenth innings. The international tie-breaker rule, placing a runner on second base at the start of the 11th inning and beyond, came into play for the second game this week for Gateway.
Schaumburg scored one run in the top of the 11th inning, but stranded the bases loaded. The Grizzlies had another chance in the bottom half of the 11th, but went down 1-2-3 and fell in game two by a final score of 10-9.
The two teams combined for thirty hits in the slugfest on Wednesday afternoon.
Garrett Mattlage hit his first two home runs of the 2017 season. He also added five RBIs.
Gateway will resume action on Thursday night in the series finale. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. All of the action can be heard on the Grizzlies Media Network.


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5 steps to take a good soil sample
SoilCares technology makes soil testing faster and more affordable. This allows you to do a soil test more often. However, the quality of soil testing results depends greatly on the quality of the sample submitted for analysis. Therefore, collecting a soil sample in a proper manner is crucial. You can do that easily by following these five steps.
Step 1: Put together the tools
First put together all the tools you will need:
- A soil auger
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Step 2: Determine the right pattern
Determine where to sample and collect your samples following a zig-zag pattern. The area to be sampled should be as uniform as possible in terms of soil type, previously planted crops and applied fertilisers.
Step 3: Check if you take samples at the right depth
The samples should be taken 25cm deep using an auger. This is the recommended depth because that's where the rooting zone of most crops is situated.
Step 4: Mix it thoroughly
Put all the samples collected with the auger in a bucket and mix it thoroughly. Remember that samples taken in different fields (where different crops were grown or different fertilisers applied) should not be put in the same bucket. Each field should have its own bucket.
Step 5: Take it to a lab
Put the equivalent of 800 grammes of the soil from each bucket in a plastic bag, seal it and take it to your laboratory.
Make sure to collect your sample in the correct area:
- Take samples at least 200 m distance from roads where cars are passing.
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A Midsummer Night's Run 30K
Bib #411 Chip time – 2:58:23 Pace – 5:57 Category place – 54/108 Gender place – 141/297 Overall place –373/630 Saturday August the 16th was the Mid Summer Night's Run 30K race in Toronto. This was my first time running this race. I wanted to run it last year but after they announced the race would move to the island because of … Continue reading
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A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
Life is busy! Don't we all know that? Since I have been back to work and with my running schedule I just can not find the time to sew like I was sewing while on maternity leave. That is not to say that I am done with sewing, or blogging as I enjoy both. I … Continue reading


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