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Bee Movie (US - BD)
Gabe isn't too sweet on this movie. Get it? Sweet? Take that Gene Shalit!
Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice for the rest of his life after graduating bee high school. After pseudo-sneaking out of the hive with the pollinating bees, Barry the disillusioned is saved from a squashing by a human florist named Vanessa (Renee Zellweger). Enamoured, Barry talks to Vanessa, and the two begin a strange bee/human relationship. While exploring the human world Barry is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries.
Will Dreamworks Animation ever make a film that stands up on an emotional and narrative level to Pixar's or classic Disney's level (without the help of Aardman Animation, of course)? Can the folks working at the studio, many of them ex-Disney employees, write a story that stands up as a story rather than a series of semi-clever pop culture references and quick fire physical gags? Does Jerry Seinfeld make a better computer animated bug with an identity problem then Woody Allen?
The short answer to questions one and two is not yet, and the short answer to question three is no. The film opens with a numbing wave of audio and visual puns, which give way to a series of kids' movie clichés and more mind numbing audio and visual puns. The characters are set up in seconds, the plot is ironed out in minutes, and the surprises never appear. Strangely enough Seinfeld and the other writers have basically put together an animated bee version of The Graduate (there's even a few visual references). In short, it's just another Dreamworks Animation feature. So I'll skip the expectations and cut right to the animation and comedy.
The jokes don't get much better than the puns (the 'drag queen' joke is a particularly huge groaner), though there is a tinge of that specifically Seinfeldian humour. I'm actually not a fan of Seinfeld's style so I'm not the best judge of this stuff. Really what we've got here is a short (a bee sues humanity for stealing honey) stretched out to feature length, peppered with really obvious racial metaphors (though I suppose the pro-status quo, near apocalyptic final act lesson is a bit of a moral shock). The best gags were in the trailers, actually, in real Dreamworks tradition, the original teaser, which featured the actors in bug costumes, was a funnier few minutes than the whole film. I smirked a few times, but I didn't laugh.
The character animation is a little inconsistent, but I think that it's the character designs that really hurt (though the bee clothes are cute). The bees actually have more descriptive features than the humans, and every one of them looks suspiciously like moving chew toys. The animators have a little trouble with scale and eye lines in a few shots, which is understandable. The backgrounds and props are an uneasy mix of realistic and super-deformed, but feature some super-tight details, and make for a fun environment for the many rollercoaster-esque action moments.
All the problems people had with Jerry Seinfeld's acting in live action aren't really solved by animated him. The comedian's distinct vocal patterns are flaccid and incapable of much range. His yelling scenes are grating, but he works well enough for the basic speaking scenes. Either I got used to him or he genuinely got better, because I wasn't as bugged with him by the end (aw crap, I made a pun). Renée Zellweger does well, and works well in animation, mostly because we can't see her scrunchy face, and John Goodman and Matthew Broderick don't sleepwalk. The show is, as per usual, stolen by voice acting pro Patrick Warburton, whose naked voice is actually funnier than most of the writing.
Bug's Life…I mean, Bee Movie was a casualty of Paramount's sudden dropping of the HD DVD format. A few folks did get their hands on that initial release (collector's item!), but I was not one of them. I just have to assume that this Blu-ray release looks more or less exactly the same as the HD DVD release. Hopefully fans of the film with Blu-ray players waited for the Blu-ray release, because computer generated animation was more or less made for the format.
The 1080p detail party comes mostly in the form of backgrounds and props. The hairs on the tennis balls are particularly impressive. Colours are solid, ultra-vibrant, and never once did I notice a bleed or bloom. Edge enhancement is virtually non-existent, though I did notice a few fleeting glimpses of minor compression noise specifically allocated to edges during a few of the action scenes. The vast majority of the film is brightly lit and coloured, so there isn't a lot of time to enjoy deeper, darker subtleties, but the blacks of the bee bodies are rich and full without any low-level noise or coloured tint.
The Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack is surprisingly tame for a big budget animated feature, only really springing to life during the roller coaster scenes and the end credit music. I turned the system up pretty high, higher then usually, and still wasn't particularly blown away by the experience. Everything is clean and clear, dialogue is bright, and music is warm, but there's a distinct lack of distinction to the whole track. The musical score is a particularly forgettable amalgamation of every kid's cartoon with a decent budget you've seen in the last fifteen years, and curiously the musical number has been sent to the very, very end of the credits.
Jerry Seinfeld joins the directors, writers, producers and editors on a shockingly dull commentary track. The problem with the track is the number of people on the track creates a lot of cross talk, and to avoid speaking over each other people just stop talking. There's also a lot of patting cast and crew on the back ("he was great", "she was great", "they were great"), and people saying "This is my favourite part" too many times (you really should only be allowed one 'favourite part'). The commentators also seem to get bored with the film rather quickly, because the words start slowing to a crawl.
Of the Blu-ray specific extras (which were, I'm told, on the HD DVD release) I could not get the PiP 'Animator's Corner' function to work due to my lack of PiP capabilities (really, screw you Sony), but the Triva Track works swimmingly (even if the facts aren't particularly fascinating), and the 'World of Bees' onscreen text…thing…worked too. It's sort of a splashy blob across the left side of the screen that has personal facts about the bee characters. The 'My Menus' option is listed as 'customizable', but it's really just a choice between four menu themes (each of which takes about a minute and a half to load).
There are three 'lost scenes', which are presented as moving storyboards. Each is introduced by Jerry Seinfeld, each presented with finished voice work, and temporary soundtrack. The first is an alternate version of Barry's first time touring the company, where he interviews before getting his job. The second is a kind of funny sequence featuring the queen bee, who intends on sleeping with and killing Barry. The final scene features Ray Liotta attacking Barry on the Plane (finished voice too, it seems). In all they run about five minutes.
This is followed by no less than six alternate endings. These are also presented as moving storyboards (in various forms of completion), with final voice work, temp soundtrack, and a Seinfeld introduction. I'll leave these a surprise for fans (there's a lot of hints towards bee on human action), and just say I actually liked numbers one, three, and four more then the ending in the film. The alternate ending run around fourteen and a half minutes and none of them feature Barry dropping dead of old bee age.
'Inside the Hive' is your usual EPK, which probably played on some movie channel between Rambo movies. The focus is on the cast, but there's some talk with the directors and producers as well. I am surprised with how hands-on Seinfeld appears to have been with the project (though this could all be in the editing of the piece), but it may explain the film's lack of magic. I'm not saying Jerry Seinfeld is a bad guy or untalented comedian, but he's not an animator. My favourite bits are the ones featuring Patrick Warburton, not surprisingly. The featurette comes in under fifteen minutes.
'TV Juniors' are a series of sixteen mock-featurettes. These are kind of like skits, featuring various celebrities and real Dreamworks dreamworkers doing amusing things with Jerry Seinfeld. I've got to say, Ray Liotta acting this 'wacky' kind of underscores his funny Muppets in Space cameo, though the girl in the pretend Bee Movie knock off is really hot, so you know, there's that. Actually, if the movie was this absurdist I probably would've liked it. These total about twenty-four minutes.
'Tech of Bee Movie' is another EPK, which focuses more on the technical animation aspect of the film. Somehow Bee Movie required a lot of new technology, but I really didn't notice any of it, except maybe the honey. Visually it's a really unimposing film. By the end of the featurette you'll realize you just watched an eight-minute HP commercial.
'Jerry's Flight Over Cannes' is a featurette about the film's introduction at the French film festival. To promote the movie to the prestigious market Seinfeld dressed as a giant bee and slid down a wire onto a boat. It's just as awkward as it sounds, and the Cannes folks don't look particularly interested. 'Meet Barry Benson' is an 'interactive' 'interview' where the viewer has to push a bunch of buttons in order to 'ask' Barry the bee some questions, which he answers in the form of animation clips. The disc also houses a bunch of trailers (including the live action ones), a music video, and a Dreamworks Kids 'jukebox'.
Under the Dreamworks Kids banner are four additional extras aimed specifically at the kiddies. 'Build a Bee' is a kind of digital paper doll, which allows you to build a personalized bee, which is slightly animated when you're finished. 'The Buzz About Bees' is a little lesson for the lads and little ladies concerning bee history and basic facts. 'The Ow Meter' is an interactive…thing, about bee stings, the bees that are stinging, how to avoid being stung, and how to avoid being killed by a person if you are a bee. 'That's Un-Bee-Lievable' (my God the puns) is an interactive quiz about bees.
I've come to expect very little from Dreamworks Animation (when not working with Aardman Animation), and I'm not a very big fan of Jerry Seinfeld, and yet Bee Movie still managed to disappoint me. It's really bland all the way around, and only barely works from all angles—it's visually average, it's only slightly amusing, and I don't see the story interesting kids. So basically kids and adults are left out on this one. Folks that own and enjoy the DVD release may want to upgrade for the super sharp video quality, but the new extras are only going to work on some players.
* Note: The Images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Some material may not be suitable for children
Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd June 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English HoH, French, and Spanish
Extras: Actor/Writer/Filmmaker Commentary, Animator's Corner, Trivia Track, The World of Bees, Build a Bee, Making of Featurettes, Jerry's Flight Over Cannes, Lost Scenes, Alternate Ending, Jerry's NBeeC, Music Video, Dreamworks Jukebox, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith
Cast: Jeff Altman, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Mario Joyner
Genre: Animation
Length: 90 minutes
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With the end of its 40-year license approaching in 2012, the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth have applied for a 20-year extension. But opponents of the plant, including some local and state politicians, question the reactor's safety after three sister reactors in Japan experienced explosions and likely meltdowns this past year. There also is the lingering issue of a tightly packed spent-fuel storage pool at Pilgrim. Finally, there are concerns about the fact that hundreds of thousands of residents and visitors on Cape Cod would have nowhere to go in the event of an emergency. This WGBH News three-part series looks at these issues and others, while discussing how the context for plant relicensing has changed in light of the ongoing crises at Fukushima in Japan.
PLYMOUTH — Scott Allen, 54, set down his drink at the Seaside Club in Plymouth and picked up a letter to the editor sent to a local newspaper. The letter was signed by a Scott and Kathy Allen. But Scott said that neither he nor his wife Kathy wrote it.
"Especially if it came over on a computer, I didn't write it," he said, chuckling. "OK?"
The letter appeared in the Cape Cod Times last month [read the letter] in support of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power plant. It reads that nuclear power is clean and safe; that Pilgrim provides more than 700 local jobs; and that if the plant closed, the loss in local taxes — about $8.5 million dollars a year — would lead to town layoffs.
For his part, Allen said that he didn't write the letter but that he agreed with it.
"I think that whoever wrote this has the same thoughts that I do," he said, "but a different Scott and Kathy Allen, apparently, just a coincidental, similar name."
Not exactly. The letter was sent to the newspaper by Joyce McMahon, a PR professional with ties to Pilgrim's parent company, Entergy. McMahon said she sent it for a Scott Webber and his wife Kathy Allen-Webber, who live across town.
"They didn't want to use their email address," McMahon said. "And they asked us to submit it for them. Based on a typo, the last name was wrong. The gentlemen has a different last name from his wife so it came out Scott and Kathy Allen instead of Scott Webber and Kathy Allen."
The explanation spurred more curiosity. But no one answered a knock on the door at an address McMahon provided or returned a phone message requesting comment on the letter.
In any case, Pilgrim's relicensing process, which has been running for 6 years and counting now, is a real political and legal fight. The fact that PR professionals are stewarding letters onto local editorial pages speaks to its magnitude.
Differences in opinion near and far
What's clear is that many locals and Plymouth politicians do support the relicensing. But outside Plymouth, officials and citizens are concerned that Pilgrim is the same make and model as three reactors that experienced fires and explosions at Fukushima, Japan.
They worry about low levels of tritium, a cancer-causing, radioactive form of hydrogen; the groundwater at Pilgrim has tested positive for the substance at varying levels since 2007. They're concerned about the number of spent fuel rods stored at Pilgrim. Most of all, they're concerned about the power plant's age.
"I started asking people the question, 'Go home tonight, look around your house and give me a call when you find a piece of technology in your house that you're still using that's 60 years old,'" said Sen. Dan Wolf of the Cape and islands. "I have yet to hear somebody really come back to me and say, 'You know, this makes a lot of sense.'"
He added, "The speed with which we are advancing technologically makes it very difficult for me to understand how in 19 years we're going to be well served in this region by a 59-year-old nuclear power plant."
A substance in the ground, and no explanation
Opponents and nuclear power watchdogs say similar things happen when a nuclear reactor gets old as when a person does: pipes start leaking. The discovery of tritium is an example of that.
Joseph Lynch, Pilgrim's licensing manager, said all the plant's systems have been tested and found to be intact. It's not known where the isotope came from but the amount is well below EPA drinking-water standards and it's being found at diminishing levels, which he said indicates that there is not an active leak.
"The systems that we have at the plant that contain tritium by design contain much, much more, higher concentrations of tritium than what we are seeing in our wells," he said. "If we had a leak from one of those systems it would be very apparent."
In April, a frightening event
Criticism and concerns being voiced about Pilgrim increased both after the Fukushima disaster and after an error made at Pilgrim this past April led to an automatic shutdown.
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesperson Neil Sheehan said the reactor began heating up too quickly during a restart.
"The unit was being brought back into service and they experienced some fluctuations in power that in our view certainly could have been avoided," Sheehan said. "Given the years of training that's involved with control room operators… they should not have allowed this to happen in the first place."
When told of the heat-up and automatic shutdown, Scott Allen, the man who didn't write the letter to the newspaper, said that he's just a regular guy, a maintenance supervisor at a local mall, and that he doesn't understand how anyone could be opposed to Pilgrim. He raised his family in its shadow of without any problems. To him, the automatic shutdown is an example of the system working.
"That just goes to prove that they are doing the best they can to make this thing work right and keep the place safe," he said. "I mean, if those things didn't shut down, or if it didn't come out right at the end, you know, if we were still here, then we'd have issues."
In testimony before the Legislature, energy officials said the lights would stay on in New England even without Pilgrim's 677 megawatts. But opponents of Pilgrim said they expect it will be relicensed. In fact, some say they have resigned themselves to the idea that Pilgrim won't be decommissioned until it breaks and is too expensive to fix, or until there is some type of accident.
In the second part of the series, WGBH News looks at the 3,000-plus spent fuel rods now sit in a pool of water in the plant's attic, above the reactor. The pool was originally designed more than 40 years ago to hold only one-third of that amount. That segment airs on Nov. 22.
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Some economic rules of the last century no longer apply. Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company, says the times are changing and cattle producers should take note.
"When we get high grain prices, we typically get herd liquidation," he said. "I don't think that will occur this time." Basse spoke at a recent feedlot meeting cosponsored by Certified Angus Beef LLC, Feedlot magazine, Pfizer Animal Health and Purina Mills.
Global poultry production is at a record high, the hog numbers are increasing and the world cattle herd is starting to expand.
"High grain price does not translate to lower livestock prices. Higher grain prices, at this point, do not translate to lower cattle prices," Basse said. "That's because we're in agricultural demand-led markets."
Demand is the number one cause for higher grain prices, he said.
"Normally in our business we see rallies because of a loss of supply, such as from adverse weather," Basse explained. "The environment we see today is far different, because this rally is led by demand."
Since 1988, there hasn't been a major drought in the key U.S. corn-producing regions, but domestic use of corn has increased.
"In 2008, in this country we will be consuming around 13.2 billion bushels of corn," he said. "That means, to keep stocks steady, we need to plant about 90 million acres and get a yield of 156 bushels per acre — a big chore."
Basse said grain diverted from feed to ethanol production is a very small part of the equation. "The reason we have grain prices as high as they are is not so much because of biofuels; it's really globalization taking hold," he said. "That's why I believe corn prices won't fall below $3.50 per bushel any day soon."
Countries like China and India have a rapidly growing middle class. Across the world, 44 countries have expanded their economies at a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rate of 4 percent or more.
"That has never before happened in the history of the world," Basse said.
More people, with more money to spend, translates to a strain on supplies of all ag products.
"If you're in China and you get more disposable income, the first thing a Chinese family will do is spend it on diet," he said. "When you make more money, you consume a better quality of food."
That's true in the United States and abroad, said Larry Corah, vice president for CAB. "Consumers will pay more for good beef," he said. "As the middle class continues to grow in our country and abroad, the demand for high-quality beef will support increased premiums paid to producers of that product."
High shipping prices and lack of agricultural land in highly populated countries could be a positive factor for U.S. cattlemen, Basse said.
"Today it costs $3.70 for me to ship a bushel of corn from the Gulf (of Mexico) to Japan, China or India," he said. "It costs me as much to ship it there as it does to buy the corn itself. If I live in those countries, I'd rather import the meat than pay for the grain."
Basse predicts global freight rates will trend higher for the next three to five years.
"Meat trade is going to show real vigor because of these rates as we go down the road," he said.
Basse's key message to cattle feeders was that prices aren't going anywhere.
"The good news is, if I have normal weather in the year ahead, I won't see any significant increases in price or stock because of supply," he said. "We are forecasting that $4 corn, $10 beans and $8 wheat will expand global grain production, thus keeping high prices somewhat under wraps."
From 2000 to the present, world grain stocks have been in decline, mainly due to demand.
"Everybody needs to differentiate today from what occurred before 2000. Whatever it is that you learned up until then, forget it," Basse said. "This is a new world. It's a brand new environment for the grain farmer."
It's also a noticeably different environment for the cattle producer, but Basse said that's not all bad. High prices are here to stay for inputs, but so are relatively high prices for the beef consumers demand.
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Los Angeles County prosecutors said Tuesday they will review newly released documents showing that retired Archbishop Roger Mahony and another church leader maneuvered to shield priests accused of child molestation from law enforcement.
The flood of confidential records offers the first public glimpse into the Los Angeles Archdiocese's handling of abuse allegations in 1986 and '87, and how Mahony and then-Monsignor Thomas Curry tried to prevent police and parishioners from learning that children -- mostly young boys -- were being molested by priests.
The details renewed anger among victims of clerical abuse, and calls for Mahony and Curry to be held accountable. A spokeswoman for District Attorney Jackie Lacey said the office "will review and evaluate all documents as they become available to us."
The archdiocese is slated to release the files of about 75 additional priests in the next few weeks under a settlement reached in 2007 with more than 500 victims, who also received a record payout of $660 million.
The church had fought to withhold the names of officials involved in the sex-abuse scandal, but a judge ruled earlier this month that the names of Mahony, Curry and other supervisors should not be redacted.
Legal experts, however, said it's unlikely that Mahony or others could be prosecuted because there's a 10-year statute of limitations for obstruction of justice and three years for conspiracy, and the documents were written in the mid-1980s.
"It's a long shot, but I'm sure it's something that Jackie Lacey -- with her interest in the welfare of children -- will look at closely," said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at UCLA and Loyola law schools.
"This further taints Mahony's legacy," Levenson said. "He was supposed to be upholding the highest moral standards, but history books will show the truth.
"It's unclear, however, whether the files will ever lead to criminal prosecution."
In 2007, when the settlement was announced and officials thought the release of personnel files was imminent, then-District Attorney Steve Cooley vowed to pursue criminal charges against anyone implicated by their contents.
"(The) massive civil settlement highlights the institutional moral failure of the archdiocese to supervise predatory priests who operated for years under its jurisdiction," he said at the time.
"If these documents reveal evidence of criminal activity on behalf of individual priests or anyone else, we will pursue them."
During a news conference called Tuesday outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, several members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests dismissed Mahony's efforts at atonement.
"If he knew what was going on, he was alongside them, with these pedophiles," said Frank Zimora, who said his son was molested while attending St. Paul of the Cross School in La Mirada.
Jim Robertson, 66, who said he was molested as a teen by two instructors at Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, brandished a pair of metal handcuffs.
"We can put these people in jail if we want to -- if the law works for the people."
The archdiocese responded with a statement noting changes in how the church handles complaints of suspected sex abuse.
"No institution has learned more from mistakes made decades ago in dealing with priests who have abused young people than the Archdiocese of Los Angeles," the archdiocese statement said. "We have apologized for the sad and shameful actions of some priests, as well as for our inadequate responses in assisting victims and in dealing with perpetrators."
The documents released Monday are part of a lawsuit filed by an unidentified man who claims he was abused by the Rev. Nicholas Aguilar Rivera, who was assigned to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church when he first arrived in L.A. from Mexico in 1987.
After Aguilar Rivera was accused of molesting several young boys, Mahony and Curry transferred him to St. Agnes Catholic Church, where similar allegations were made. Curry told the priest about the complaints and encouraged him to return to Mexico, two days before school officials contacted police.
According to documents, Aguilar Rivera continued to work as a priest in Mexico, and continued molesting young boys, until he was defrocked in 2009.
The personnel files of 13 other priests were attached to the plaintiff's demand for punitive damages to show a cover-up pattern, said attorney Anthony De Marco, who represents the 35-year-old man.
Curry, who is now the bishop of the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region, did not return a phone call for comment.
However, he issued an apology on Tuesday "for those instances when I made decisions regarding the treatment and disposition of clergy accused of sexual abuse that in retrospect appear inadequate or mistaken.
"Most especially," he wrote, "I wish to express my sympathy to all the victims of sexual abuse by clergy."
Mahony had issued a statement Monday, saying he's taken responsibility for failing to protect children and apologizing to those abused by clergy.
He also said that after 1987, as he and other church officials began to comprehend how damaging sexual abuse was to the child victims, the archdiocese changed its policy to better screen priests and others who come into contact with children.
Staff Writer Dakota Smith contributed to this report.


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Jim Westaby
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Dynamic Network Theory
Our research has focused on how social networks influence goal pursuit, performance, and emotional contagion in social and organizational settings. Social networks permeate our lives, both in-person and online, such as through social networking and social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). After years in development, our work has culminated in the development of dynamic network theory (DNT) to predict and understand the way social networks impact goal pursuits in various domains (Westaby, 2012). For example, individuals have used the theory to model the in-person networks involved in their pursuits to get jobs, start businesses, lose weight, run marathons, quit tobacco, and improve social and organizational systems, among many others. In contrast to the classic study of social network structure alone, DNT examines how a taxonomy of only 8 social network roles can explain the complex ways in which networks wield their influence on our goals, dreams, and aspirations. Dynamic network charting, another new contribution, is also used in the theory to model how these roles are involved in specific goal pursuit cases.
The 8 Social Network Roles
The first two roles in dynamic network theory (Westaby, 2012) represent the functional ways that entities in social networks are involved in our goal pursuits: goal strivers (G) and system supporters (S). Together, these roles show the network motivation underlying our pursuits. The third and fourth roles show network resistance working against our goals: goal preventers (P) and supportive resisters (V), which helps explain the genesis of many human conflicts. The fifth and sixth roles show how individuals in social networks demonstrate negativity toward our pursuits (i.e., system negators, N) or our negativity toward those resisting us (i.e., system reactors, R). These roles can illustrate prejudice and hostility linkages as well. The last two roles illustrate the peripheral behaviors in networks that can inadvertently influence our goal pursuits: interactants (I), who may be in the vicinity of our goal pursuits but not paying attention to them, and observers (O), who are watching or aware of our goal pursuits but are not helping, hurting, or closely interacting with us.
Dynamic Network Charts
The following presents a very simple example illustrating how some of the social network roles in the theory are modelled in dynamic network charts, which are different from traditional network diagrams, because they directly insert goals into the social network. This chart is examining who's involved in Joan's goal to get her project completed tonight:
Other Key Concepts
A number of other original concepts are introduced in the theory to explain important dynamics related to dynamic network systems, such as the "network rippling of emotions," which explains how emotions become contagious in networks based on goal achievement or failure, and "dynamic network intelligence" (DNI), which explains how accurate individuals are in knowing other people's roles in their goal pursuits. Also, the theory has many applications for the study of human conflict, given its ability to model conflict linkages in dynamic network systems. Westaby and Redding (2014) illustrated these applications and demonstrated the unique aspects of the theory in comparison to traditional network approaches to conflict. They also developed network conflict worksheets to show how individuals in a network can be categorized to understand their motivational roles on the different sides of a conflict, which may be easier to apply for practitioners. Our work is now generalizing this worksheet method to more general goal pursuits.
Workgroup Members:
- Jim Westaby
- Danielle Pfaff, Ph.D. Student
- Nick Redding, Ph.D. Student
Current Research Projects:
- Examining the hidden psychological world underlying our observable behavior: A review of different theories and methods
- A review of the social media literature through dynamic network theory
- Examining the reliability and validity of dynamic network charts
- Comparing dynamic network charts to traditional social network diagrams
- Using dynamic network theory for social interaction analyses in dyads, groups, and social media
- Explaining complex organizational behavior through network dynamics
Past Research Projects:
First, our past work has tested different aspects of dynamic network theory (Westaby, 2012) and presented this work at various social psychology and industrial-organizational psychology conferences. Second, our previous, more micro work has developed and tested behavioral reasoning theory (Westaby, 2005; Westaby, Probst, & Lee, 2010), which is geared toward predicting human behavior from individual perceptions alone, such as intentions, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived control, and reasons (for and against) a behavior. Ph.D. students have used concepts from the different theories in our lab for their dissertations, and other researchers have used the theoretical concepts to ground their empirical studies.
Representative Publications:
Westaby, J. D. (2012). Dynamic network theory: How social networks influence goal pursuit. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Westaby, J.D., & Redding, N. (2014/in press). Social networks, social media, and conflict resolution. In P.T. Coleman, M. Deutsch, & E.C. Marcus (Eds.), The handbook of conflict resolution: Theory and practice (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Westaby, J. D. (2012). Social networks, social support, and goal pursuit: Testing dynamic network theory. Paper presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Westaby, J. D. (2005). Behavioral reasoning theory: Identifying new linkages underlying intentions and behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98, 97-120.
Westaby, J. D., Probst, T. M., & Lee, B. C. (2010). Leadership decision-making: A behavioral reasoning theory analysis. Leadership Quarterly, 21, 481-495.
Westaby, J. D., Versenyi, A., & Hausmann, R. C. (2005). Intentions to work during terminal illness: An exploratory study of antecedent conditions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 1027-1035.
Westaby, J. D., & Lowe, J. K. (2005). Risk taking orientation and injury among youth workers: Examining the social influence of supervisors, coworkers, and parents. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90, 1297-1305.


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A few brief self-hypnosis classes may not persuade women to skip epidural painkillers while giving birth, according to a new Danish study.
Researchers found that a group of women who had three one-hour self-hypnosis classes used epidurals during labor just as often as women who practiced relaxation techniques or just got standard care.
"What was done in this particular study was a fairly brief preparation. So it's not surprising that they didn't see any differences in the use of epidurals," said Dr. Bill Camann, director of obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"There is a lot of interest in hypnotic or mind control techniques for labor pain, but in general the ones that are most effective are ones that take a lot of preparation," said Camann, who was not involved with the new research.
Hypnosis has been used to control pain for over a century, the study's authors point out in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. And several past studies showed a benefit from self-hypnosis for expectant mothers during labor pains.
Epidural - meaning delivered into the spine - painkillers have been linked with negative effects, including longer labor duration, higher likelihoods of instruments being used during delivery and disturbances in the newborn's basic body functions.
Although hypnosis is typically done under the guidance of a hypnotist, the researchers say women can be taught to self-hypnotize.
The goal of the new study was to see if teaching pregnant women self-hypnosis would limit their use of epidurals - currently the preferred pain relief method during labor - and reduce some of their pain.
For the new study, Anette Werner, the study's lead author from Aarhus University in Denmark, and her colleagues recruited 1,222 pregnant women from their hospital who were randomly assigned to one of three groups.
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Overall, about 30 percent of women had an epidural injection during their labor regardless of which group they were in. There were also no differences in the amount of pain they reported experiencing.
Werner told Reuters Health in an email that she was surprised there were no differences between the groups.
"When I have provided hypnosis to women on an individual (basis), I always have an agreement with them that they return after the birth and tell me about their experience - and it seemed that they benefitted from the hypnosis," said Werner.
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Camann, who authored Easy Labor, a book that explains available labor pain relief methods, said that it's also important for women to know that they don't have to choose between self-hypnosis and epidurals.
"You can still use some of these mental imagery and relaxation techniques in the presence of an epidural," he said. "I don't think it needs to be an either/or decision. They're completely compatible."


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Journal 2012-03-22 New Finished Collabs
These are just some of our latest finished collabs.
Do you like what you hear? Then be on our next vids, you have plenty to choose from here
Lydian Spring Love
Here's our first finished collab of the month, led by Cosmin Lupu and featuring our members Derper, Sensible Jones, Steve-rec-freak, thefireball and Cosmin
Grunge Vs Metal
The backing track in this one was made out of 2 types of riffs - a grungy one and a metal one. Our member's task was to choose whichever they liked and solo over it, while trying to wear an outfit appropriate to the style they chose
In order of appearence: Rammikin, Gitarrero, Todd, ElHombre, Derper and Cosmin himself
Slash Video Collab
A short collab led by Gabriel Leopardi, in which instructor Todd Simpson & Gitarrero tried their best to emulate a guitar hero such as Slash!.
Fusion insanity collab
This one was Alex Feather's first collab, and it sported an amazing Ami7 - D9 funky backing, excellent to practice blues, pentatonic and dorian scales
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Big thanks to Zoom, Casinostrat, DeGroot, Derper & Coffeeman. Great job all!
Fanatic Collab
Sinisa's latest project is ready too! You can listen to the final mix here.
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This is an activity about using spectrogram plots as an indicator of magnetic activity on Earth. Learners will analyze spectrogram data and compare it to local Kp indices in an attempt to determine global magnetic storminess. This activity uses real... (View More) data from the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer, and requires a computer with Internet access. This is activity 20 in the Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality teachers guide. (View Less)
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This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is an activity about area and volume. Learners will use fabrication software to determine the optimal size of a satellite which can fit within a given rocket cylinder. To complete this activity, fabrication software is required (an example is... (View More) suggested in the lesson). This is the sixth activity as part of the iMAGiNETICspace: Where Imagination, Magnetism, and Space Collide educator's guide. Instructions for downloading the iBook educator's guide and the associated Transmedia book student guide are available at the resource link. (View Less)
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Shirakawa was considered as something of an oddity in central banking and financial circles and was out of tune with the more proactive approach epitomised by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of creating vast amounts of new money to counter deflation, to restart economic growth and to fight unemployment.
However, on reflection Shirakawa's arguments for pursuing a less aggressive monetary policy are rooted in some quite sound arguments. The way he saw it Japan's major problem was its ageing population. It's not a particularly exciting argument, but it is a compelling one that deserves some consideration.
Nearly a quarter of Japan's 128 million population is over the age of 65 and by 2060 that is forecast to rise to 40% with the population shrinking to 87 million people. Simple logic dictates that with household consumption comprising 60% of the economy, there is bound to be less growth and even deflation as the BoJ has often noted in its own research. People who are over 65 tend to spend less and their consumption patterns change.
Interestingly, Shirakawa also warned that the West now faces the same demographic time bomb that went off in Japan around two decades ago. Unfortunately, currency debasement is unlikely to turn the clock back on the consumption patterns of older people, something Shirakawa appeared to understand better than the rest of the central banking community.
The effects of demographic decline cannot be sustainably reversed by quantitative easing and infrastructure projects. A more sinister interpretation for the enthusiasm for aggressive QE is to erode high debt levels through inflation as sustained economic growth is not happening.
Until the next devaluation
If JPY resumes its rapid decline it is bound to stoke more tensions with Japan's trading partners and rhetoric over currency wars. But in the short-term, devaluation does reap rewards. U.S. exports have been helped in the past by a weaker USD. Even in the U.K. with its ballooning current account deficit, a weaker GBP has helped exports grow outside Europe. The problem is its oversized financial sector — a sunset industry — and over-reliance on Europe.
Japan is now hoping to get some of that benefit as well, but it is likely to be temporary until another major trading country decides to weaken its currency in what is a zero sum game. The USD's trade weighted index (USD value versus basket of other currencies) has been edging up recently — it's quite possible that the Fed will seek to halt any long-term rally in the USD, and if it does that will undermine the trade benefits gained by other countries from devaluing their currencies. But in the meantime, it sets up some nice trends for momentum and trend traders to take advantage of.


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One last thought on some unsightly, and sometimes unsanitary, behaviors. Sure, every facility has experienced the typical "gross" incidents — clogged toilets, overly sweaty spin bikes and members who produce massive amounts of hair in your locker room — and learned the best way to deal with them, but what about that time of year when colds and allergies run amuck?
Well, last week I found myself in an interesting, although fairly common predicament. After feeling fine the night before, I woke up with a nasty head cold. My nose was runny, my brain was foggy, and I had a full day of work ahead of me at the magazine. Knowing that I'd have to teach my kickboxing class that evening, I tried to take it easy, eat well and drink my fluids, hoping that I could save my energy. Well, after spending a fuzzy day at work, I made it home in time to take an hour-long "power nap" (most of my power naps are 15-20 minutes, but when you're not feeling well, extreme measures must be taken). I woke from the snooze feeling slightly groggy, but generally revived. I put on my brightest workout gear, in hopes of at least appearing to be healthy, and headed out to the gym.
After starting the warm-up I knew I was in for the longest hour of my life. With just a few low-impact movements I was already sweating and out of breath. I knew there was no hope. I'd have to bring out the secret group instructor trick. When you feel like you're not going to make it through your own class you can do one of two things: 1) walk around A LOT or 2) break out the circuit. Since I seemed to have a particularly energy-draining cold I went with the second option. I set up five stations that ranged from squats and sidekicks to hook-jab combos, anything to get my students moving and give myself a break. An hour later I stumbled out of the studio feeling exhausted, but proud that I made it through.
But was it really good for my class participants? Sure, I said encouraging things to keep up their intensity, but after getting home and looking at myself in the mirror, I realized I may have done more harm than good — and not only to myself. My Rudolph-like nose was red from the blowing, my eyes were bloodshot from the effort and my skin wasn't exactly glowing from the workout. Although I made sure to wash my hands before class and tried not to touch anyone, I'm sure my germs got passed around.
Now why did I insist on teaching? Well, finding a specialty class sub eight hours before a class starts is no easy task, and honestly, I love teaching and didn't want to miss giving my regulars, and myself, a good workout. How many of your members do you think are just like me and put their health and full-recovery aside for their usual feel-good workout? Plenty.
I remember one yoga class from a particularly rough flu season that had members mastering the "dance of sneeze residue avoidance" while one sneezing member was perfecting her Lord of the Dance pose. Then, there was the Kleenex junkie that for a two-week period couldn't leave any piece of cardio equipment without leaving behind a trail of used tissues. And, there was the forgetful member who unfortunately left his tissues at home (too bad the Kleenex junkie and this forgetful member weren't at the club at the same time!), and instead used his towel repeatedly.
Although they may be working out, your members and sometimes your staff don't always take time out when their health needs it. They enjoy their runner's high, they like spending time with others who love fitness and, for your regular members, it's part of their routine. Educating your members and staff that it's okay to take a day or two off when you're under the weather is important, as is having tissues available, cleaning equipment frequently and putting up reminders to wash hands and cover your mouth when sneezing.
And, speaking from personal experience, having an updated sub list sure does help when health disasters hit the group exercise studio, as does the reassurance that instead of giving my kickboxers a mediocre, sniffling workout, I can rest up, get better and give them the best workout of their lives. That is after one week of sleep, cold medicine and lots of nose blowing.


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Forensic Chemistry program in line for national accreditation
Loyola press release - January 13, 2012
The Chemistry Department at Loyola University New Orleans recently announced substantial changes to the forensic chemistry degree program that will bring it in-line with accreditation standards of the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission, a committee of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, which is the only body accrediting undergraduate and graduate forensic science programs.
Currently, only 15 forensic chemistry undergraduate programs in the United States are accredited by FEPAC, and once accredited, Loyola University will be one of only a few in the southeast.
Approved by Loyola's Standing Council for Academic Planning, the modifications to the program strengthen the chemistry curriculum while also creating concentration options that allow students to specialize in one of three areas: instrumental analysis, biochemistry and genetics or human mind and behavior.
Another change is the addition of a required advanced course, Forensic Instrumental Analysis, which emphasizes techniques common to a forensic crime laboratory. The department also added a Forensic Seminar course, which builds upon the current chemistry seminar series and provides the opportunity to offer a rotating menu of hands-on experiences and in-depth social topics lectures by practitioners.
The goal is to create a well-rounded forensic chemistry program that is both competitive on a national level and still true to the Jesuit ideal of educating the whole person. The Department of Chemistry has worked in conjunction with the biology, psychology and criminal justice departments to develop a unique and challenging state-of-the-art curriculum to attract and retain academically gifted students from across the country.
"This change will allow our program to compete nationally for students interested in working in a crime laboratory and give our graduates a unique advantage over most other programs," said Thomas Spence, chemistry professor and department chair.
Refocused and more rigorous in its updated form, the degree should provide a strong chemistry education for those students wishing to go on to graduate work, while simultaneously establishing the qualifications of those students entering the workforce. The current minor in chemistry will remain unchanged.
For more information, contact Jess Brown in Loyola's Office of Public Affairs at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 504-861-5882.


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Sunday picks: It's swing time at the Hemmens
Celebrate swing
Vocal and performing ensemble Five By Design joins again with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra for a nostalgic look back at the 1940s with the show "Club Swing" this weekend at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. $18-$68. (847) 888-4000 or elginsymphony.org. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Bluegrass celebration
The 19th annual Great Northern Bluegrass Music Festival takes place this weekend at the Hyatt Regency, 1800 E. Golf Road, Schaumburg. National touring acts and regional favorites will perform, including Special Consensus, the Boxcars, Copper Creek, Donna Ulisse & the Poor Mt. Boys and the Harmans. The festival also will include a guitar trade show, instrument workshops and more. Suburban bluegrass fans are lucky to have a festival with this much talent happen in their own backyard. Tickets are available at the door. For prices and a full schedule, go to bluegrassmidwest.com. Starts at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 24
Spring Weekend at the Farm
Take part in Easter egg hunts, head out on a hayride and view baby chicks, hens and bull calves at the Spring Weekend at the Farm event at Susanna Farms, 24153 Town Line Road, Lake Villa. Guests can take part in the activities, which include a spring plant sale and viewings of the farm's miniature donkeys and horses. Admission is $2 per person; hayrides are $5. (847) 838-0798 or susannafarms.com. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 24
5,000 eggs!
Capannari Ice Cream hosts its 11th annualEaster egg hunt in the park behind the ice cream shop, at 10 S. Pine St., Mount Prospect. Five thousand Easter eggs will be hidden, for youngsters ages 2-7 to find. The Easter Bunny will be on hand to greet guests. Free. (847) 392-2277 or capannaris.com. Noon Sunday, March 24
Piyesta Pinoy sa Chicago
Celebrate the culture of the Philippines when Philippine Fest Chicago rolls into Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago. It's an afternoon of free live music, dance, colorful costumes, authentic cuisine, folk art and more. There will be performances by Sama Sama Project, PACF Performing Arts, the Apuli Brothers, GMA Pinoy TV, Hataw Pinoy Chicago, Chicago Angklung Rondalla Ensemble, Hinsdale Fil-Am SDA Rondalla, Transfiguration Dance Troupe and St. Isidore Simbang Gabi Dance Crew among others. Cuisine provided by Sunda New Asian. (312) 595-7437 or www.navypier.com/neighborhoods/philippine.html. Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Swim with the Bunny
Meet the Easter Bunny at the Swim with the Bunny celebration at the Pavilion Aquatic Center, 1000 Wellington Ave., Elk Grove Village. Youngsters are invited to play games, swim and collect Easter eggs in the pool. Those eggs can be traded in for prizes. The Easter Bunny himself will be on hand to meet with children and pose for photos. Participants should bring a swim suit and a basket for collecting eggs. Registration is required by Saturday, March 23. Parents must register with their children. Cost is $5 for all adults; $7 for resident children and $10 for nonresident children. Sign up in person at the pavilion, call (847) 593-6248 or visit elkgroveparks.org. 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 24
A tale of two rabbits
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny" is featured onstage at the Steel Beam Theatre, 111 W. Main St., St. Charles. This musical adaptation is based upon "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," the classic children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. $10-$15. (630) 587-8521 or steelbeamtheatre.com. 1 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Big top wows
See exotic animals and daring performers do amazing feats of strength, balance, timing and more when the "Circus Spectacular" plays this weekend at the Sears Centre Arena, 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway, Hoffman Estates. $20-$45; $10 parking. (888) 732-7784 or searscentre.com. 1:30 and 6 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Curiouser & curiouser
Salt Creek Ballet pursues the White Rabbit and questions the Cheshire Cat when it revives its dance interpretation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" this weekend at the Norris Cultural Arts Center, 1040 Dunham Road, St. Charles, $28; $25 for kids 12 and younger. (630) 769-1199 or saltcreekballet.org. 2 p.m. Sunday, March 24
'The Gathering'
Improv Playhouse reprises its production of "The Gathering," Josephine Raciti Forsberg's contemporary adaptation of the Last Supper that takes place during a Seder. Shahab Astabraghpour, of Waukegan, stars as The Teacher in director David Brian Stuart's production at the theater, 735 N. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville. $22.50, $17.50 (847) 968-4529 or improvplayhouse.com. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Chicago Chamber Musicians
The Lake Forest Lyrica presents An Afternoon of Debussy and Beethoven,a chamber music concert by the Chicago Chamber Musicians in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel of Lake Forest College, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. $5-$15. Free for Lake Forest College students, faculty and staff. (847) 234-3100. 3 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Life is a carnival
Carnivale, 702 W. Fulton Market, Chicago, invites families to kick off the season with its annual Spring Break Family Night event. Festivities will include an action photo booth, face painter, balloon artist, stilt walker, magician, coloring stations, cotton candy station and a special kids menu. Free admission. (312) 850-5005 or www.carnivalechicago.com. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Spider Saloff in concert
Renowned jazz vocalist Spider Saloff brings her concert "Cole Porter, Swell Party!" to North Central College's Madden Theatre at the Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. Tickets cost $30-$35. (630) 637-7469 or visit northcentralcollege.edu/showtix. 6 p.m. Sunday, March 24
Colonna Lately
Sarah Colonna, a writer and round-table regular for "Chelsea Lately," performs this weekend at Zanies in Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. (630) 584-6342 or zanies.com. $25 plus two menu-item purchase. 7 p.m. Sunday, March 24


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Members from the "Community Service Club," of Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. and Ricoh Singapore Pte Ltd., collaborated to promote social contribution activities by collecting donations from their colleagues in aid of children from abusive or dysfunctional families that had to be placed in protective care.
To mark both Children's Day and a Muslim cerebration, Hari Raya, RA&RSP donated "goodie bags", containing basic necessities that were purchased using the donation proceeds. The goodie bags, containing a bag, umbrella, water bottles, towels, soap, toothbrush sets, stationary sets and other basic necessities, were donated to 222 children in three facilities.


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The Guardian released its 'Best Dressed of 2008' list last week and along with likes of Carine Roitfeld and Alexa Chung, Henry Conway was featured as a sartorial star. The newspaper reports that "anyone who can steal the limelight from Paris Hilton at her own London party courtesy of a dashing white satin suit is OK by us."
The 10-person long list is women-dominated and the only other men to feature on the list were Take That and Barack Obama so Henry has done rather well!
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Providing a fun math workout for everyone. From pre-school through to advanced math. Powered by a well tuned equation generating engine Train my Brain: Mental Math provides you a varied game experience fitting all your math training needs. No matter if you want a quick daily math workout, achieve highest BrainScores, refresh your mathematical knowledge or create your own math exercise for you and your children; Train my Brain: Mental Math has it all.
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Miley Cyrus Can't Be Tamed!!!!!
Miley Cyrus will world premiere her new single, "Can't Be Tamed," this Friday (April 30) at 12pm EST/9am PST on MySpace Music.
Her album of the same name will be released on June 22 via Hollywood Records.
"Can't Be Tamed" will arrive at radio May 3, and will be available on iTunes May 18. The self-empowering song has Miley asserting that she has to stay true to herself in relationships.
Tim & Antonina produced and co-wrote "Can't Be Tamed" with Miley, and the video was directed by Robert Hales (Justin Timberlake, Gnarls Barkley, Kings of Leon).
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Robert Smith is NPR's New York Correspondent. Before moving into his current position, Smith was NPR's education reporter and covered public schools and universities on the West Coast. He reported on a variety of issues facing the education system, including the challenges of over-crowding, tight budgets, teacher retention, and new technology.
Smith's reports have been heard on NPR since 1994, first as a freelance reporter based in the Northwest, then during a short stint for NPR in Los Angeles. Specializing in the offbeat, Smith has taken his microphone into some strange worlds. He traveled into the backcountry with Gearheads to talk about their obsession with camping technology; he snuck into a all-night rave in the California desert; he has dressed up as Santa Claus for an undercover look at the wild night of Santarchy; and he has trained for the oft-mocked Olympic sport of curling. He is particularly fascinated by clowns and turkeys.
Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Smith emigrated to the United States with his family. He grew up in the ski-resort town of Park City, Utah, where he started in radio by hosting a music show while in high school. Smith graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1989, and began reporting for community radio station KBOO. He followed with reporting jobs at KUER in Salt Lake City and KUOW in Seattle, where he was also news director.
Smith now lives in New York with his wife, Robbyn. When he's not reporting, Smith enjoys barbecuing and model rocketry.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio schools that reportedly had errors in certain enrollment data have gotten state approval of plans to fix the issues.
The state auditor had flagged the errors in a February report. He was looking into a practice whereby schools attempted to improve performance ratings by altering attendance data.
The 49 schools and districts were said to have sporadic exceptions to enrollment reporting requirements in their 2010-11 school year enrollment data. Those errors included a lack of documentation, missing student files and incorrect information submitted to the state.
Ohio's Department of Education on Friday said officials have approved corrective action plans for the schools.
The plans were to describe the enrollment errors, the reasons for the incorrect records, and any steps the school would take to ensure accuracy in the future.