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We know that IMDB isn't always reliable (remember Bella's Stove?), but hopefully we have a fourth movie to look forward to!
May 11, 2009
Breaking Dawn Potentially Moving Forward? Who's Gonna Play Renesmee??
We know that IMDB isn't always reliable (remember Bella's Stove?), but hopefully we have a fourth movie to look forward to!
45 comments:
- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 6:09 PM
That would be so flipping awesome!!! I really hope they make this movie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 6:44 PM
oh gosh! i hope kristen doesn't see this photo. i hope she can laugh about it and not freak. i think i woulld.ReplyDelete
I would love to see this movie made but have it be two parts.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I sooo loved the first three books... and I sooo absolutely hated Breaking Dawn. So I'm not too sure about wanting it to see it made into a movie...ah, well...ReplyDelete
Even though I wasn't exactly thrilled with BD I still hope they make the movie.ReplyDelete
And that picture kind of freaks me out for some reason... lol.
OMG I really hope they make this movie. I do hope that they make it longer or 2 movies cause there is so much in that book they cannot cut.ReplyDelete
I'm really nervous about this being made into a movie - I'm just having a really hard time picturing great big pieces of this on the big screen (birth scene, Renesmee?). Also - with the bigger budget that New Moon has gotten and confirmation that CGI will be used for the cliff jump ... I fear a CGI Renesmee running around the screen for half of Breaking Dawn. Ugh.ReplyDelete
- TwiSuzMay 11, 2009 at 8:30 PM
At first I was taken aback by how different Breaking Dawn was from the first three, but by time I finished it and really thought about it, I felt it was a brilliant way to tie up all of the romantic and moral dilemmas. Meyer is an amazing storyteller and never veered from her vision or the mythology.ReplyDelete
I too, was skeptical how to make BD into a decent movie without being too gothic horror or graphic. But after watching a couple of Harry Potter movies in recent months, I think they can do ANYTHING with CGI which hopefully includes a hybrid vampire baby. We all know they'll have a buttload of money by the fourth flick to do spectacular effects. I'm excited to see all of these books come to life in the next couple of years.
(Not that I've thought about it a lot or anything.)
I just hope that they give us some honeymoon action. hehe.ReplyDelete
Amen to that TCA!! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Double Amen to the honeymoon action! ; )ReplyDelete
I was so disappointed that Bella got preggers their first time! Ugh! But,
I enjoyed the rest of BD and I can see the end, with the gathering of all of the covens and showing their skills off, etc. being really cool! I can't help but wonder how Renesmee' will appear on-screen because some of the scenes in the book freaked me out and I know what they can do with CGI. I'm just imagining this little infant suddenly speaking like an adult with a full set of shiny white teeth....Something kind of unsettling about that. I'm hoping the next couple films with morphing wolves and Volturi will bring hubby on board with me. That would be awesome. I want a Twubby. hehe. Addicted to this site, btw! Thanks for feeding me, lol.
I loved Breaking Dawn, I am 36 and i found that BD was geard toward the Adult than the Tween audience. The Romance, the real hot honeymoon (Bedroom scenes) but even the Birth. Ive given birth and it wasnt that pretty and neat it was rather messy and gross. I just feel it related to me more so and i found myself reading it over and over. The characters are more mature and evolved and if they made this a movie i would be made if they cut anything out.. Almost all of it is a necessity especial the love between Edward and Bella when she wakes up how she feels when she still longs for him more than she did before; they would need to not miss any of those little details they are what make the book. But i do think it should be Rated- R!ReplyDelete
I agree with NewEmber. I really think Breaking Dawn was aimed at older fans. I loved it. I've read many disappointed posts about the honeymoon fading to black while the birth scene was so graphic. Oddly I didn't notice the honeymoon scene fading out so I guess I was able to fill in the blanks. If you ask women who have lived life the birth events they have experienced tend to impact them far more than their "love events". So far it appears that the Twilight saga is a gold mine for Summit. They would be foolish not to make "Breaking Dawn". R rated movies make far less money than G or Pg rated movies so if their goal is to make money they need to keep it PG-13, which is a joke rating anyway.ReplyDelete
How can Reneesme NOT be CGI? I mean, the child jumps 8 feet in the air to catch a snowflake. How would they also find a series of real children that look that alike THAT close in age to each other?ReplyDelete
I think they can make a real-looking CGI Reneesme . . . they'll just have to have a real baby for the actors to hold while filming, I guess.
ha ha. I guess Rob will have to hold a baby for a while, too, ha ha haaa! " And I don't like children. At all." haaaaa! :)
(it's silly that I think that's so funny)
Also, think of how 'visually dynamic' the gathering of the covens v. The Volturi will be at the end. Think of how many actors will be necessary!! I mean, they really couldn't cut any of them b/c the Cullens NEED a lot of witnesses for their plan to make sense. Having five witnesses isn't exactly going to phase The Volturi into listening to you . . .
Go big or go home, Summit!
- AnonymousMay 12, 2009 at 3:51 AM
No no no. Please no.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2009 at 7:52 AM
They need to elaborate on the HONEYMOON. We've all been waiting for this part to finally come! All that tension finally released. "Isle Esme" needs to come to life!ReplyDelete
- Sarah (L)May 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM
WELL! i kinda really liked breaking dawn condraticting everyone's belives here, the book i hated was new moon.. it made me cry like anything! :'( but i am still looking forward for the movie cause i get to see my dream boy in it! :)ReplyDelete
hell yea! i want honeymoon part.. and i really want breakind dawn to come out as a 3 hour movie
love ya'll
I agree with Sarah, the lord of the rings did a 3 hour movie why cant Breaking Dawn? I really hated New Moon too, the end was the only good part but to have that good part we have to have the bad parts too as is LIFE and that is why i am so attached to this saga.ReplyDelete
The Saga represents characters and a storyline of fantasy but THE EMOTIONS CAN ALL BE REAL LIFE and that is what relates to me and how I feel; I dont think i have felt something hit me this hard before, it is amazing.ReplyDelete
That is going to be a really wierd movie. I dont really like the book. So yeah....how can they have a real renesmee?ReplyDelete
doenst make sense
p.s. the faske picture is freaking hilarious!! the hands arent proportionate!
i laughed when i saw it!
- AnonymousMay 15, 2009 at 3:21 AM
There are definitely parts of BD that I'd like to see as part of a movie... the wedding,honeymoon,& Bella changing into a vampire. But so many parts I hated... Edward asking Jacob to father a baby for her! I can't see Rob pulling that one off. Then Jacob and Rosalie holding it all the time, and all the other weirdo alien things the baby does. And suddenly her parents don't care about her life. Her father doesn't want details? What? I thought the characters went awry in it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 17, 2009 at 7:21 AM
If any of yo have seen the Curious Case of BEnjamin Button then you would know that the level of technology including CGI to bring to life Renesmee is out there. BD was geared more toward an older audience,but after everything Edward and Bella have gone through it makes sense that she would mature, therefore the story content with her. BD should be 2 movies, it is far too pivotal for all characters to be condensed down to 120mins.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Whoa, the picture is weird! I think it would be foolish for Summit to stop after Eclipse, especially if the series continues to pull in the kind of money that Twilight has made. Fingers crossed!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I guess they need a lots of actors and actress but they can´t cut anything out.
So much is important to understand the following action...well...i must go...maybe i see you again
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 8:50 PM
i am a teenager and i loved bd i thinkh that it was a really good book. i dont think that they should make it rated r because some parents wont let kids see that and then summit will probably loose a lot of money. i mean it was not all that graphic the only part that i am worried about is the pool part. if they take the honeymoon out of it then the movie wont make any sence. so if they want to make money like twilight did then i suggest that they make it pg 13. and i totally agree the pic is really weird. and i do think that they should do the cgi otherwise renesmee will look really weird. and i think rob would make a really good father. all i have to say is thought that if they don't make a bd then they will have a lot of very unhappy fans and i will be one of them. that will ruin all of the other movies that they put out then. it would almost be like a big waste of money. i also agree that they should make it 2 movies because they need to describe a lot of stuff on all the characters. and they should have all the witnesses that they had in the book otherwise it will look stupid.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 9:12 PM
oh and i forgot to add well i am 15 and i dont really read much but i have read the whole saga 4 times and it never gets old stephanie meyer did a great job. and when i first read new moon i agree that it was pretty boring. but then i read it again and i realzed that i loved it and that that book ties all 4 of them together.so if you read it again i gurantee that you will like that. stephanie meyer has enspired me to read vampire love stories and also to read. now i love to read vampire books and i love to read the whole saga as much as possible. but now i really love to read.ReplyDelete
Lol OME thats well good news!! I'LL PLAY AN OLDER NESSIE (I'm willing to dye my hair)!!!! I heard that suri cruise might play Renesmee, lol. OMG im excited now!!!! thats very, very good news :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2009 at 7:47 PM
i hope they cut BD into a 2 part movie there is just 2 much to that has to be in the movie.ReplyDelete
they CAN'T cut out most of the book it all leads to the END
- AnonymousNovember 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM
I LOVED breaking dawn. hands down my favorite. but um..aparrently nobody is thinking about kristen stewart...AND WHAT AN AWFUL ACTRESS SHE IS. its almost physically painful for me to watch the first two movies. i just can't pictur her acting like a mom in the movie or being gorgeous enough to pull off a vamprie.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2010 at 11:02 PM
i loved bd but i wonder how they're gonna do the whole honeymoon thing and still be able to keep they're teenage(tween) fans. That part was very graphic. and it can still be a whole movie. think about it the jackson 5 movie was like frekin 5 hours long and the color purple was like a billon hours long so you can still have it. plus they can just have intermissions like a hockey game or somethingReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM
i think that the little actress of Renesmee Cullen should be a little girl with blond ringlets and pretty red eyes. In the book Renesmee is part of three age groups 14-18 weeks 1-4years and 5-7 years. You need to pick three girls that are around those age groups.ReplyDelete
love from anonymous!
- AnonymousApril 15, 2010 at 1:41 AM
Yea they should make it into 2 movies so they dont leave anything out!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Bella Thorne will be perect for play renesmee!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2010 at 6:12 PM
ahhhh :) this movie better be oming !! it should be pretty long orr ill be mad !!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 6:49 PM
i don't know who it was that said Kristen Stewart is a totally rocking actress and who ever said that she was an awful actress can kiss my but cause she awesome and she is like the one of the most prettiest people ever so don't hate!!!(but i gotta agree with you there i can't really see her as a motherly figure.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2010 at 7:27 AM
Renesmee cant have red eyes. In the book it clearly says she has Edwards eyes. BEFORE he was a vampire. And they were pretty green.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 11:33 PM
I think Renesmee should be played by several young children. Like take a baby for one scene, a 2yr old, 4yr old, and a teenager. THey can use technology and special effects to make them a bit similar as well.ReplyDelete
Breaking Dawn movie has GOT to have alllll the details in the book. I mean theres the marriage, honeymoon, jacob's point of view, birth, the volturi and witnesses. Summit has got to take a step up and go big on this movie!
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 11:35 PM
I think Summit should take a little twist in the movie. In the end, they could put 6 years later where Renesmees 12yrs old and shes hangin out with Jacob and elaborate on what happened to everyone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Can't wait for Breaking Dawn movie but cant wait for Eclipse movie more! It's coming out in two days :) YAY!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 28, 2010 at 11:46 PM
I personally think that Bella should have chosen Bella. Team Jacob♥ maybe summit could tweak the Breaking dawn movie a bit and Bella could choose Jacob...lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 1, 2010 at 3:53 AM
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! TEAM EDWARD ALL THE WAY!! PERIOD...ReplyDelete
I saw the midnite showing of Eclipse on the 29 and it was awesome =D Team Jacob! Can't wait for Breaking Dawn!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 3, 2010 at 4:52 AM
okay, so twilight was awesome, new moon wasnt very good, and eclipse was great! so i have high hopes for breaking dawn. reading twilight has changed me soo much! i am a teen, and the character bella made me realize that being yourself is much better than trying not to be (following the crowd). she did nothing to change herself to fit in the people around her, and the outcome was falling in love with her soulmate. stephenie meyer is a genious! i think kristen stewart can portray a mother because she is good at every character she portrays. breaking dawn is coming out november 2011!!! i cannot wait that long!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2010 at 10:27 AM
iv enjoyed every book and every movie and i am anticipating the release of the breaking dawn movie.i think its going to be excellent as long as nothing is left out.kristin is a really good actress and robert has proven to be yummy eyecandy..its such a beautiful love story..looking forward to november 2011!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 at 4:07 AM
i enjoyed all the books,but i think that breaking dawn is my favorent.i have seen all the movies and so far i would have to say that i liked eclipse was the best.i can't wait for breaking dawn.ReplyDelete


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The Phoenix Suns want to make 'the right choices,' which could mean letting Steve Nash walk
The Phoenix Suns want to make 'the right choices,' which could mean letting Steve Nash walk
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns $11.7 million Unrestricted
The Phoenix Suns held a luncheon with the media to close out their season and the biggest topic discussed was the situation surrounding Steve Nash.
The Suns had offers and options to trade Steve around the trade deadline, but stood by their promise not to trade Nash, who asked the team to stay the course with him.
In return, they are going to get a chance to either re-sign him to a new deal sources say there has been talk of a two-year, $20 million contract or they will get the chance to sign-and-trade him and get something in return.
Nash has downplayed his desire to chase a championship ring, but the truth of the matter is the 38-year-old All-Star point guard is the answer to a lot of problems in a lot of places.
Steve will have his pick of situations, but continues to tell people that returning to Phoenix, where his career has flourished, remains a real and viable option.
If the Suns can make some moves in and around the draft and really add some help to the roster, getting Nash back is a bit more than probable, mainly because they can and will offer a lot more money than most. However, if the rumors of an agreement to do a sign-and-trade are real, that might not be as much of a chip in Phoenixs favor as once believed.
Nash has said hed like to play for at least three more years the question is will anyone invest major contract dollars into a player that turns 39 years old in February?
I have been giving Nash some updated thought of late.
For me the prospect of signing Nash comes down to what happens with Jose.
A simple question: who would you rather have for the next 3 years? Jose or Nash?
Personally, even though Nash is 8 years older, I think he will continue to perform at a higher level than Jose and he would be less of an injury risk (all my opinion, nothing to base it on really).
If Jose can be put in to a trade and good assets are brought back in return, sign me up for Nash.
If Nash can only be had through amnestying Jose, then I think no. Jose is too good of a player to let leave for nothing. The amnesty can also be kept as an insurance policy in case of serious injury to or ridiculous drop in play from Amir or Bargnani.
here, it would be nice to use all the cap space below the cap prior to July 1st. In doing this the Raptors can extend the qualifying offer to Bayless and use himas part of any sign and trade with Phoenix.
How many teams will be willing or able to sign Nash for $10M? How would an offer of Bayless and Ed Davis/Amir Johnson compare to an offer from anyone else in the league?
If Nash is to sign here, then the only thing I can see happening is Toronto sending Jose to Phoenix in a trade/swap (along with our 2012 pick and some other pieces - like JJ maybe. Comparing Nash to Jose is like comparing Coke to RC-Cola. It's just not the same, but Calderon would be an expiring contract and Phoenix would get a pass first PG that could fit into their system pretty seamlessly. This deal would be worth a lot more than losing Nash for nothing.
I do see Bryan making a move prior to free agency that will cut the cap in half which would make it difficult to acquire a guy like Nash. I do not see them using the amnesty on Jose either.
Not to burst our collective bubbles, but it wouldn't really surprise me if July 1st comes and goes without any activity from Colangelo. Yes, he's talked a lot about the added "flexibility" gained from losing Barbosa's contract, but he justified the Bosh TPE in a similar manner, which ultimately went largely unused.
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Not to put a fly into the ointment here, but why would Nash come to a team like Toronto when he wants to go to a "winning" team (I think). The Suns currently with Nash are arguably better than the Raps...why wouldn't Nash just stay there with all of his local commitments etc. I realize that there are not too many of the so-called winning teams with the cap space to take a Nash like contract except possibly the Mavs (which would be interesting) especially if Cuban can swing a trade for DH ...otherwise he would have to take a shave on the salary.
If I were to name one player who puts loyalty ahead of money it's Nash.
Even when he was ready to sign with Phoenix. He let Dallas know every detail and was like it's up to you guys.
I would be surprised if he didn't go play with his buddies Dirk and Shawn.
Oh the rumours we'll hear for the next 2 months.All indications in Phoenix are the Suns will make Steve Nash a limited offer and hell move on. It makes sense as the Suns will have $23 million in salary cap room and theyve gone as far as they can go. The Suns were always a player destination, and this will test whether they still are under the frugal Robert Sarver management. Many believe Nash instead of chasing a title with a contender for a lesser salary will go back to Canada and the Raptors for a three-year deal and help bring their young players along.
Bring on the truth! July 11th, 2012
As if the roster isn't in flux enough, without the potential fallout a Nash signing would cause!
- at what salary? and what cap space impact would his signing have?
- what is the market for a veteran pass-first PG on an expiring contract? or could/would they co-exist, even to the trade deadline?
sooooo many questions... may 30th can't get here fast enough, so we can start getting some answers instead of just more questions!
Is this foreshadowing a link to another Canadian team?Canada Basketball sent out a press release earlier this evening stating that they will host a press conference at 12pm tomorrow at Air Canada Centre.
No details were given, but there is strong speculation that what I first wrote about / reported 6 weeks ago could finally be made official (at in PART) on Tuesday:
Wednesday March 21 2012 10:40pm Eastern Toronto, ON
The details are sketchy right now but there is strong speculation swirling at the moment that Canada Basketball could be close to making a major announcement regarding its Mens National Team.
Steve Nash may be taking over as the General Manger of Team Canada.
It would be a role similar to what Steve Yzerman (and, previously, Wayne Gretzky) has served for Hockey Canada.
This move has been swirling in the rumor mill for weeks (if not months) and it is apparently closer than ever.
If / when this unveiling is made, there is strong indication that Jay Triano will be named as Head Coach of the Canadian squad; his second stint as the lead man on the sidelines for the Canucks.
The Mens National Team did not qualify for this summers Olympic Games in London and, thus, doesnt really have any meaningful games on the horizon for at least another year. However, the hope would be with Nash taking over that the 2-time MVP would be able to attract Canadas top talent (some who have arguably not shown up in Red and White in the past) and convince them to represent their country.
Time will tell if this truly goes down and what impact it could have on the future on the Canadian National program and the growth of the sport with current and future generations.
I will be all over this news on Tuesday as will @Paul__Jones and as soon as any new information comes along, Ill have it in this space and on Twitter ( www.twitter.com/Eric__Smith ).
A huge step for the present and FUTURE of Canada Basketball is (likely) about to be taken.
Have a good one folks.
E. Smith
Maybe. Maybe not.
D Smith seems to agree that that's where the announcement is going (Nash and Canada Basketball)
BTW, always a fun game when manic speculation gets started...google Steve Nash and check the news items. We might as well start fitting some dino shoes for him
.Canada's biggest basketball star has been hired to head up its men's national program.
Steve Nash was named general manager of Canada Basketball men's team Tuesday.
The sport's national governing body has had the two-time NBA MVP from Victoria in its sights for some time to head up a program that hasn't made an Olympic appearance since the 2000 Games in Sydney.
Nash led Canada to a seventh-place finish in Sydney, with Jay Triano as coach.
The men's team has been without a head coach since Leo Rautins resigned in September following Canada's disappointing performance at the FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament.
Rowan Barrett was also hired Tuesday and will serve as Nash's assistant general manager.
Canada's women's team also hasn't played in the Olympics since Sydney, but still have a chance to qualify for the 2012 London Games.
They'll play in a last-chance qualifying tournament next month in Turkey.
The 38-year-old Nash was already a member of Canada Basketball's Council of Excellence.
The job will be a lot easier with less travel...
Nash recruiting/attracting Canadian talent shouldn't be hard at all, very good news for Canadian Basketball.
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Drop shadows are inauthentic ...
Window layering is inauthentic.
No, it's not. It's not because a display can do it, it just doesn't cast a fucking shadow while it does it. I can't believe I have to point this out to you. Are you trolling?
A display can 'do' all sorts of things, including render a shadow or a 3D space, but neither are authentically flat (or both are authentically digital, take your pick).
Layered documents are 3D metaphors for 'real-world' objects. They are (or can be) as flat as Manet, but not as Mondrian. Read up on the history of flatness in modern visual representation (you can start with my previous posts, and the Greenberg article, and go from there). Unless you are being intentionally ironic, you can't tout digital authenticity ala flatness (much less in a retro-Futurist manifesto) and be taken seriously if you are going to pile document windows on top of each other. Metro-style app-snapping is flat. Windows desktop in Metro-style garb isn't. Sorry.


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INTERPOL Regional Bureau hosts meeting to enhance South America's response to drug trafficking
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A meeting of South American national agencies dedicated to the fight against drug trafficking has closed with a decision to set up a multi-disciplinary group of experts in the analysis and trends of drug trafficking in order to strengthen cooperation against the trade in illegal drugs.
The three-day meeting (9-11 November), organized by INTERPOL's Regional Bureau in Buenos Aires, brought together experts and specialists from drugs enforcement police, customs, armed forces and governmental agencies in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela, as well as representatives from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
At the meeting, agency representatives who agreed to set up the network of multi-disciplinary experts and specialists also outlined joint action strategies against the trafficking of drugs by sea, river, air and land, as well as the trafficking of chemical precursors used to illegally manufacture drugs.
The experts group will strengthen the strategic and operational support of anti-drugs groups in the different participating countries, under the coordination of INTERPOL's National Central Bureaus in the region.
"The idea behind the creation of the multi-disciplinary group of experts is to have a permanent and comprehensive structure that can facilitate the sharing and exchange of experience so as to harness a joint regional approach against drug trafficking and related crimes," said the head of INTERPOL's Regional Bureau in Buenos Aires, Rafael Pena-Hernández.
The meeting also led to the elaboration of three maps highlighting the flow, routes and trends of drug trafficking in South America, and from this region to the different drugs markets in the world.


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Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Rhode Island, Working Toward Wellness (ICPSR 33782)
Principal Investigator(s): Kim, Sue, MDRC
The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ (HtE) Demonstration and Evaluation Project was a 10-year study (taken on by the MDRC) that evaluated strategies aimed at improving employment and other outcomes for groups who face serious barriers to employment. The Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ was the first comprehensive attempt to understand the diverse low-income population and to test interventions aimed at the most common barriers to this population's employment. The HtE demonstration was designed to assess ways to boost employment, reduce welfare receipt, and promote well-being in low-income populations. This study analyzed the effectiveness of the Rhode Island "Working toward Wellness" (WTW) program, a one-year program that provided telephonic care management to depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island. The Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology Self Report (QIDS-SR) questionnaire was administered to parents in order to identify those with major depression. All consenting parents who were found to have major depression were then assigned to the study. The Working Toward Wellness full research sample consisted of 499 individuals randomly assigned between November 2004 and October 2006 (245 members in the program group and 254 in the control group). The research team followed the two groups for three years using surveys. All 400 sample members completed a baseline survey at random assignment, providing basic demographic information, data on depression, other health outcomes, employment, participation in outreach programs, receipt of behavioral health services, and material hardship prior to enrollment in the study. Three follow up surveys were collected at the sixth month, eighteenth month, and thirty-sixth month marks. The WTW 6, 18, and 36 month reports include data from surveys administered to parents and children; however, only measures used in the adult/parent analysis are included due to restrictions. Care managers recorded information on attempted and completed calls with 230 members in the program group. Data was collected on respondent's general health, depression scores and treatments, substance abuse, work performance and attendance, as well as wages and income. Demographic information includes age, race, marital status, education, employment status, individual and household monthly income, as well as social security and disability status.
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Kim, Sue. Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Rhode Island, Working Toward Wellness. ICPSR33782-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-01-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33782.v1
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Subject Terms: caregivers, children, depression (psychology), employment, health, health attitudes, health behavior, health care services, low income groups, Medicaid, mental health, mental health services, parents, welfare reform
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Geographic Coverage: Rhode Island, United States
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Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Depressed parents receiving Medicaid in Rhode Island.
Please refer to these related data collections featuring the sites that participated in the Hard-to-Employ project: ICPSR 33783, CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES (CEO) NEW YORK CITY; ICPSR 33784, ENHANCED SERVICES FOR THE HARD-TO-EMPLOY DEMONSTRATION AND EVALUATION PROJECT, PHILADELPHIA, PA; ICPSR 33801, KANSAS AND MISSOURI ENHANCED EARLY HEAD START.
Users should be aware that the Working toward Wellness sixth, eighteenth, and thirty-sixth month reports include data from surveys administered to parents and children; however, this collection contains data from only adult respondents due to data sharing restrictions.
For additional information on the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Rhode Island, Working toward Wellness, please visit the MDRC Web site.
Study Design: For more information on study design, users should refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook, as well as visit the MDRC Web site.
Sample: The sample includes 499 individuals randomly assigned with 245 members in the program group and 254 in the control group. For more information about sampling, users should refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook, as well as visit the MDRC Web site.
Mode of Data Collection: telephone interview
Response Rates: All 499 sample members completed the baseline survey at random assignment. Six month follow-up survey - 370 participants, for a 74 percent response rate (76 percent of the program group and 72 percent of the control group). Eighteen-month follow-up survey - 428 participants, for a 86 percent response rate (86 percent of the program group and 85 percent of the control group). Thirty-six month follow-up survey - 429 participants, for a 86 percent response rate (89 percent of the program group and 83 percent of the control group). Care managers made contact with 230 participants in the program group, for a 93 percent response rate.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2013-01-21
Metadata Exports
- Citations exports are provided above.
Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)
If you're looking for collection-level metadata rather than an individual metadata record, please visit our Metadata Records page.


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Tuesday Apple announced that Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt has
been elected to the company's board of directors bringing the board's total
membership to eight. Dr. Schmidt currently also sits on the board of directors for
Google and Princeton University's board of trustees."Eric is obviously doing a terrific job as CEO of Google,
and we look forward to his contributions as a member of Apple's board of
directors," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Dr. Schmidt has a long history working
with leading companies in the technology sector. Prior to his chief position at
Google Dr. Schmidt was chairman and CEO of Novell and before that he was the
CTO at Sun Microsystems.Dr. Schmidt has also held positions with Xerox in the
company's Palo Alto research center (PARC) as well as Bell Labs and Zilog. Dr.
Schmidt holds a bachelors degree from Princeton University in electrical
engineering and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley.


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YouTube Gallery
Youtube Gallery is a video media management solution for Joomla! The component that shows a video gallery - catalog of selected videos, Play Lists, Channels etc. Supports popular video hosting: Youtube, Vimeo, Break.com, Own3d.tv, UStream, Dailymotion, Present.me, College Humor, SoundCloud and local .FLV files.
Youtube Gallery Example
Download Eminem's 'MMLP2' Album – Deluxe Explicit: http://smarturl.it/MMLP2
Music video by Eminem performing Survival (Explicit). (C) 2013 Aftermath Records/Interscope Records
Eminem - Survival (Explicit)
Eminem - Survival (Explicit)
272 sec.
Views: 137,482,385
Likes (new): 1,100,500
Funniest Farting Girl Prank - Just Kidding
79 sec.
Views: 4,857,773
Likes (new): 9,784
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
315 sec.
Views: 399,976,739
Likes (new): 1,112,932
Youtube Gallery Extension for Joomla - Key benefits, and How to Use It.
The YoutubeGallery extension for Joomla is a simple way to add your videos to any Joomla website, and supports videos from Youtube, Vimeo, and many other video hosting sites. The software is responsive, user friendly and can really enhance the SEF of your site when people search for related topics and videos, whether on Youtube or search engines in general.
Getting your Youtube extension working is straightforward, with a few simple steps required to build this great video resource on your Joomla site. All that needs to be done is to select 'components', on the back end of your site, then 'Youtube gallery', and then 'new'. You can now add the video links you require. Adding your existing Youtube channel, and all the videos you might already have uploaded there is also easy to accomplish, and thanks to the simple layout and responsive interface, it can take a matter of minutes to incorporate whole video plays lists on to your site. Additionally, adding your own custom features, such as title, description, of video thumbnail, only requires some basic link syntax.
The benefits of the Youtube Gallery are already making a real difference for all kinds of sites, from business oriented to hobby or entertainment pages. The great thing about the YoutubeGallery is that it allows users to express their creative editing skills when composing a video collection, slideshow, or even workshop and information content. Being able to engage with site visitors this way, directly with video also helps to make your site much more SEF.
In general, the Youtube Gallery extension is one of the easiest ways to get your videos on your website that exists today, being easily accessible to the wide variety of site operators that use Joomla without requiring hours of tweaking. Of course, if you should ever need some help with your version of the software, then Joomlaboat are more than happy to help get your Youtube Gallery Extension up and running, or address any problems that crop up.
Please leave a review about this extension here: extensions.Joomla.org
Youtube Gallery - Documentation
Youtube Gallery is a video media management solution for Joomla! The component that shows a video gallery - catalog of selected videos on your Joomla website.
All you need is to create a Video List , add list of video links or a links to playlists, then select (import) ready to use theme or create your own theme add create menu item with YouTube Gallery type, or use plugin or module.
Key benefits:
- Supports many Video Sources: Youtube, Vimeo, Break.com, Own3d.tv, UStream, Dailymotion, Present.me, College Humor, SoundCloud and local .FLV files;
- Supports Youtube Playlist, Youtube User Uploads, Youtube User Favorites, Youtube Standard Feeds;
- Supports Youtube Search;
- Supports Youtube Show;
- Supports Vimeo Channel, Vimeo Album, Vimeo User Uploads;
- Supports Dailymotion Playlist;
- Youtube Gallery comes as Component, Youtube Gallery Module and Youtube Gallery Plugin;
- You can mix videos from different sources and mix playlist with individual videos;
- It will update videos from Youtube (and others) playlist or channels automatically;
- Can manage large video collections;
- Create categories of Video Lists and mix them to form special lists etc;
- Fetch latest videos from Youtube or Vimeo channel;
- Get as maximum as possible information about the video including likes, views etc;
- Downloadable and custom Themes;
- Custom Layouts to satisfy any design;
- Conditional tags in Custom Layout (If - End if);
- Theme Import and Export functionality (to share/distribute your art work);
- Pagination;
- Youtube Logo Cover;
- Glass cover (to prevent click on video and go to Youtube);
- Youtube Gallery has "Responsive" feature/option;
- Facebook head tags preparation;
- SEF links to videos (convert video title to the link);
- Switch Video without Page reload (optional);
- HTML5 and Flash Players
- Youtube Player settings: Autoplay, Repeat (loop), Allow Playlist, Fullscreen, Related Videos, Show Info, Controls, Mute Player, Initial Volume, Border, Primary Border Color, Secondary Border Color (most of these settings are applicable to other player as well);
- Youtube Parameters (you may pass parameters like hd=1 directly to player).
Download and install the right version of Youtube Gallery extension that corresponds to your Joomla version (1.5/1.6/1.7/2.5/3.0).
For free download click on "Download" tab on this page. Or click on "Pro Version" if you need more features and no link to our website.
To install - open your site administration back-end, click on "Extensions" select the file you just downloaded and click "Install"
Create Video List and create or import Theme - go to "Components"->"YoutubeGallery" ... More Here
Group your videos in categories, adjust the layout with many options, cover the logo, place a "glass" on top of the video, use your favorite shadow/light box.
Enable Cache to increase page load speed.
Use it as Component (menu Item)
Create the Video List and Theme, open Menu, click on "new" icon to add new menu item, select "Youtube Gallery" menu item type and select already created video list and theme.
Use it as A MODULE
Create the video list and theme, open "Module Manager" click "New", type the name of the module, select desirable position and select already created video list and theme.
Use it as A PLUGIN
Create the video list and theme, create an article and place a special code there:
{youtubegallery=Video List Name,Theme Name,|Itemid|}
{youtubegalleryid=Video List Id,Theme Id,|Itemid|,|Mobile Theme ID|}
Itemid - very optional. Id ID of Menu Item where to open the video (if "rel" option not set and "Switch Video As" is not set to "Update Player")
Mobile Theme is optional parameter and available only in Pro Version.
example 1:
{youtubegallery=Hot for words,Simple Grid,|Itemid|,|Mobile Theme Name|} - will show the gallery "Hot for words" with default settings, but create it first.
example 2:
{youtubegalleryid=1,2} - will show the video list (id:1) as set in theme (id:2).
Each video list and theme has it's own ID and name, this ID or Name you may use in plugin.
You can control a lot of Youtube Player Parameters Here is more
Download YouTube Gallery FREE.
You can use our extensions free of charge but we do appreciate that you keep the link to our website.
If you need the extension without any links to our website please purchase the PRO Version (click on a Tab "Pro Version")
We can install and configure the extension for you (CSS etc) - click on a Tab "Setup it for me"
Compare Youtube Gallery Free and PRO version:
Free version
PRO version
|The link to our website
|No Link
|Multiple video source
|Custom Layout
|Option to Show Gallery Name
|Cache Update Period
|Prepare Head Tags
|Show Active Video Title
|Rel option to apply any shadow/lightbox :
|Show Active Video Description
|Description position
|Player Border Color
|Related Videos, Show Info, Controls
|Initial Volume
|Player Type
|Youtube Parameters
|Navigation Bar
|Thumbnail Background color
|Show Video Title (Under thumbnail)
|Autoplay, Repeat (loop), Fullscreen
|Mute Player
|Navigation bar CSS Style
|Thumbnail CSS Style
|Line CSS Style
|Randomization :
|Use glass cover
|Logo Cover
|Gallery Name CSS Style
|Active Video Title CSS Style
|Active Video Description CSS Style
|Number of Columns
PRO Version
Get YouTube Gallery PRO Version
Key benefits:
- Additional features/options;
- Use it on as many websites as you want;
- Use it as long as you need;
- Life-time free support (Live Chat, email and Forum);
- 30-days money back guarantee;
- You are eligible for 1-year free updates;
- No link to our website.
We are fully appreciate your support as it inspires us to build this extension and keep on working on new options, features, which you may estimate during 1-year of free updates.
Change Log
- 4.4.0 (2017.08.11) Vimeo (Single Video) API updated.
- 4.3.8 (2016.02.09) Youtube API updated.
- 4.3.6 (2015.08.16) Vimeo API Clint Secret may contain "/" and "+" characters.
- 4.3.4 (2015.08.01) Checks server requirements.
- 4.3.3 (2015.08.08) "5 Videos" problem solved. Just add maxResults=Number of videos parameter to your link. Should get any number of videos, depends on your server performance
- 4.3.1 (2015.07.29) Video Title and Description HTML sanitation added.
- 4.3.0 (2015.05.18) Youtube API 3 Supported.
- 4.2.9 (2015.05.06) Settings: API key size extended.
- 4.2.8 (2015.02.08) Video details tag bug fixed.
- 4.2.7 (2014.10.30) No backlinks anymore.
- 4.2.6 (2014.10.19) Back-end - sub-menu added.
- 4.2.5 (2014.09.25) Code maintenance.
- 4.2.4 (2014.09.22) Code maintenance.
- 4.2.3 (2014.09.15) Youtube Channels supported.
- 4.2.2 (2014.08.21) Youtube API Key "dash" bug fixed.
- 4.2.1 (2014.08.04) Back-end / Add Video - Javascript bug fixed.
- 4.2.0 (2014.07.29) Security Release! More sanitation added. No more link to our website.
- 4.1.9 (2014.07.18) Security Release! Additional sanitation added to prevent SQL injections.
- 4.1.8 (2014.07.17) width and height tags added to Navigation Bar Custom Layout (JSE theme fixed).
- 4.1.7 (2014.07.06) A good "How to get API Key" instruction added.
- 4.1.6 (2014.07.05) API 3 to get video info - optional.
- 4.1.5 (2014.06.30) [navigationbar] width,cols fixed.
- 4.1.4 (2014.06.29) [navigationbar] default layout width "simple" fixed.
- 4.1.3 (2014.06.28) Glass Cover+Hot Switch issue fixed.
- 4.1.2 (2014.06.27) Glass Cover+Responsive CSS issue fixed.
- 4.1.1 (2014.06.16) Logo Cover+Responsive CSS issue fixed.
- 4.1.0 (2014.06.05) Playlist video switch in FF+Flash bug fixed.
- 4.0.9 (2014.06.05) ***Video not found*** Front-end filter added.
- 4.0.8 (2014.06.04) IMPORTANT: Player Controller rewritten.
- 4.0.2 (2014.05.29) Playlist+HTML5 API player bug fixed.
- 4.0.1 (2014.05.27) Video List form - Additional fields/tags added:
[videolist:author] - in Pro version
[videolist:authorurl] - in Pro version
[videolist:image] - in Pro version
[videolist:note] - in Pro version
[videolist:watchgroup - in j2.5, 3.x Pro version]
- 4.0.0 (2014.05.25) Youtube Gallery detects the device and checks Flash Player availability. It will use iFrame API player if no Flash Player available.
- 3.9.9 (2014.05.24) "HTML5 (New IFrame API Player)" fixed. this includes: change video title when video ends and another starts automatically, playlist in IE problem fixed.
- 3.9.8 (2014.05.19) Update Video List button incompatibility bug fixed.
- 3.9.7 (2014.05.19) Export Themes as Standard Joomla Extensions.
- 3.9.6 (2014.05.13) Facebook comments link fixed, https image links fixed. And other small bugs are fixed.
- 3.9.5 (2014.05.05) Soundcloud cURL Link Resolve method added (auto).
- 3.9.4 (2014.04.29) Image HTTPS links fixed.
- 3.9.3 (2014.04.25) Back-end pagination bug fixed.
- 3.9.2 (2014.04.22) Social-Facebook-Comments declaration fixed.
- 3.9.0 (2014.04.22)
Description and Image fields added to Category Form;
Database Autofix added;
Social-Facebook-Comments current url fixed.
Download YouTube Gallery FREE
You can use our extensions free of charge but we do appreciate that you keep the link to our website.
Get YouTube Gallery PRO Version
Key benefits:
- Additional features/options;
- Use it on as many websites as you want;
- Use it as long as you need;
- Life-time free support (Live Chat, email and Forum);
- 30-days money back guarantee;
- You are eligible for 1-year free updates;
- No link to our website.
We are fully appreciate your support as it inspires us to build this extension and keep on working on new options, features, which you may estimate during 1-year of free updates.


text: "The disc spans Golson's recordings from 1957 to 2004. The first three tracks are mono, and things spring into life stereowise with 'Blues After Dark,' Golson front-lining with trombonist Curtis Fuller. On 'Along Came Betty,' which tune helped reinvigorate the Jazz Messengers, the front line of Fuller and Golson is join by Art Farmer on flugelhorn. Little observations from Golson adorn the paragraph on each of the tracks in Marc Myers' notessuch as the spiffy pimps strutting into Birdland inspiring the title of 'Killer Joe'."Audiophile Audition


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This is a board for Audi enthusiasts in the Kansas City and surrounding area. Anyone is welcome who has positive contribution to the Audi Driver community.
Group Information
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Group Settings
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PHP Emoticon Parser can replace emoticon text with HTML image tags. It can search for emoticon text characters in a given text string and replace them with equivalent emoticon images. The emoticon text and image mappings are defined in a separate script that maps emoticon names to the different equivalent representations for emoticon text symbols.
Metrix++ is a platform to collect and analyze code metrics. It has a plugin-based architecture, so it is easy to add support for new languages, define new metrics, and/or create new pre- and post-processing tools. Every metric has 'turn-on' and other configuration options. There are no predefined thresholds for metrics or rules; you can choose and configure any limit you want. It scales well to large codebases. For example, initial parsing of about 10000 files takes 2-3 minutes on an average PC, and only 10-20 seconds for iterative re-run. Reporting summary results and exceeded limits takes less than 1 - 10 seconds. It can compare results for 2 code snapshots (collections) and differentiate added regions (classes, functions, etc.), modified regions, and unchanged regions. As a result, easy deployment is guaranteed into legacy software, helping you to deal with legacy code efficiently, and either enforce the 'leave it not worse than it was before' rule or motivate re-factoring.
lihata is a compact textual language which can represent a tree of lists, hashes, and tables. The syntax tries to be minimal and flexible to allow formatting a lihata file to fit the context it represents. The source release contains an event and DoM parser and helper functions for maintaining lihata trees. lihata is a convenient language for both simple and complex configuration files and text representation of data files.
gradle-sablecc-plugin is a gradle plugin which creates parsers using SableCC. SableCC supports automatic CST-to-AST transformation, emits all the visitor patterns and analysis helpers you will likely ever need, and is LR, not LL(k). Many example grammars are available for modern languages; the author of this plugin has written dozens.
The Link Grammar Parser (link-grammar) is a syntactic parser of English, Russian, Arabic, and Persian (and other languages as well), based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax. Given a sentence, the system assigns to it a syntactic structure, which consists of a set of labelled links connecting pairs of words. The parser also produces a "constituent" (Penn tree-bank style phrase tree) representation of a sentence (showing noun phrases, verb phrases, etc.). The RelEx extension provides dependency-parse output.
libstudxml is a streaming XML pull parser and streaming XML serializer implementation for modern, standard C++. It has an API which the authors believe should have already been in Boost or even in the C++ standard library. It is compact, external dependency-free, and reasonably efficient. The XML parser is a conforming, non-validating XML 1.0 implementation which is based on tested and proven code.


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Threat of the Week: APT Will Get You
Absorb the devastating security news: in a very short span early this year it was revealed that the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post had suffered significant website penetration by highly skilled hackers who are believed to be associated with the government of China.
If you are not afraid, you aren't paying attention.
What is occurring is a rapid ramp up of sophistication of cyber attackers and, in many cases, they are seeming to get the jump on those tasked with protecting sensitive websites.
In the case of the big media hacks, it appears the hackers entered the systems with specific shopping lists in hand, namely, they wanted information pertaining to possible coverage of the wealth accumulated by outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao -- said to have raked in a family fortune around $2.7 billion.
The Chinese hackers, apparently, wanted advance notice of what was coming out in print and they also wanted to sift through the work files of reporters on the story.
Traditional hacking is opportunistic, hit and miss and run. Put up a show of defense and, in many instances, that's plenty to thwart an attacker.
Not so what security professionals call APTs – advanced persistent threats. "They are low and slow. Very targeted. Hard to defend against" said IBM Vice President Marc van Zadelhoff.
The apparently Chinese attackers did not want entry into any newspaper. They wanted to crack the leading media that shape top-level U.S. opinion about China. That's what they targeted. That's what they broke into.
"These are very sophisticated attackers," said Michelangelo Sidagni, chief technology officer at NopSec, a New York security firm. "They got log-in information for many reporters."
Mandiant – the security firm brought in by the Times and the Post to unravel what was occurring inside their systems – has issued a glum take on the outlook for APTs emanating from Beijing. (The free report is here.) It expects no reduction in APTs and they may in fact increase.
How did the Chinese hackers gain entry into well-protected systems? The old-fashioned way, said Sidagni, who indicated they apparently used phishing attacks that baited target reporters into clicking on links they shouldn't have. "People think hacking is technical but the weakest link usually is human."
It might take many months of emails before a target clicks on a bad link but, with APT, time is on the attackers' side. Patience is their virtue and, sooner or later, they believe they will gain entry.
Protecting against this starts by recognizing that traditional anti-virus tools are near to worthless. "There are many ways to bypass them," said Sidagni.
He urged institutions to seriously monitor their intrusion logs – sometimes ignored by many organizations, he said.
As for exactly what else credit unions can do to toughen their barriers to entry against APT attackers, Ken Baylor – a vice president at NSS Labs and a former vice president for security at Wells Fargo – said, "It's not easy. Guarding against attackers with these skills and focus requires a complete re-think of security."
He ominously added that there is ample evidence that, already, nation state APT attackers are sniffing around inside financial institutions. So far, he stressed, they have perpetrated no frauds that have been detected "They seem focused on gathering information," he said, and elaborated it might, for instance, be hunting for data about who is paying a certain politician how much.
But that could change. These attacks could morph into classic fraud and, right now, many financial institutions are poorly defended against this.
Ask yourself: how well defended are you?
And know the security bar has been nudged ever higher.


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DENVER Colorado will expand its Medicaid program to cover 160,000 low-income adults, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday.
The expansion originally was mandated in President Barack Obamas Affordable Care Act, but the Supreme Court partially overturned the law last summer and left it up to the states.
Hickenlooper said his staff worked to find ways to save $280 million in 10 years so Colorado taxpayer dollars wont be needed to pay for the increased coverage.
At the same time youre expanding coverage, you can also improve outcomes, and if you really focus on it and push, you can also control costs, Hickenlooper said.
It will be the second major expansion in Medicaid eligibility in four years in Colorado. In 2009, the state adopted a fee on hospitals that was used to draw matching money from the federal government in order to expand coverage for children, pregnant women and some adults.
Kids who were covered under the previous expansion are doing better in school, and adults are more likely to get preventive care and treat diseases before they become serious and costly, said Sue Birch, director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.
Simply put, healthy people cost us a lot less money, Birch said.
Hickenloopers expansion will cover people who make up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Thats $14,856 for a single person or $30,657 for a family of four. Colorado already covers children and some adults at this income level, and the new expansion will reach mainly adults.
The new people will be eligible for coverage starting in 2014. The federal government will cover 100 percent of the expansions cost through 2016, but then its reimbursement will taper down and, by 2020, Colorado will have to pick up 10 percent of the cost.
Medicaid costs are the fastest-growing part of the general fund and threaten to squeeze out other programs such as colleges and the justice system in the coming years.
Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, thinks its a bad idea to rely on federal promises for such an expensive program.
We havent made the current caseload sustainable, Roberts said.
Congress is looking for ways to cut costs, but no one seems to be saying what the cuts might be, Roberts said. However, she has heard that reimbursement to states for hospital fees like Colorados is high on the list.
To me, all of that spells trouble for Colorado in taking that extra step (and expanding coverage), Roberts said.
Hickenlooper promised that no money from the taxpayer-funded general fund will be used for the expansion. Instead, Colorado can save money by improving its technology, reducing duplicative care, rooting out fraud and paying doctors for outcomes instead of the volume of procedures they perform, according to information from Hickenloopers office.
Medical and patients lobby groups were delighted at the news. The Colorado Hospital Association, the Colorado Medical Society and the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved all support the expansion.
Lives will be saved, lives will be improved, and we will be able to see that in many ways, said Gretchen Hammer, director of the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved.
The expansion does not require approval from the Legislature.


text: Trading down or out of the first round entirely for veteran help would be so incredibly premature for this team and will without a doubt put us right back on the treadmill. If anything they should be looking to trade up and increase the likelyhood of landing a true allstar. Building around Derozan, Bargnani, Jonas, and Granger is sheer stupidity. High draft picks on rookie contracts are the most valuable pieces this team can acquire.


text: "While Welty and her New Yorker editor Maxwell were contemporaries, he 34, she 33 when they first met at a New York literary party in 1942, they seemed to be virtual opposites. He was a devoted family man; she was a loner. His nearly 200 letters to her divulged his entire personality; among the surviving letters, Welty omitted any reference to the love of her life, married crime novelist Ross Macdonald. But Welty and Maxwell recognized from the get-go that they were kindred spirits. The correspondence of this volume, gracefully edited and annotated by Welty's biographer Marrs, takes off in 1951, when The New Yorker began to publish Welty's fiction. Maxwell was an accomplished writer, too, and in these unfailingly cozy letters, which take us up to the 1990s into his old age, the pair discuss not only their work together and apart, but the orchids they loved, their day-to-day lives, and the writers they admired, from Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas to J.D. Salinger. Both correspondents were blessed with personality-plus, mirrored in these letters. Also included are one essay, one speech, and one reader's report by Maxwell."Publishers Weekly


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Search for a child
Maybe you'd like to sponsor one of the children below instead? Alternatively, you can try a different search or call our Supporter Care team on 01908 84 10 10 who can help you with your original search.
Hello, my name is Mausam
Sponsor Mausam
Gender: girl | My age: 9 |
My home: Vaishali, India
My birthday is on the 12th November and I have 2 brothers. My favourite game is playing ball games. In Vaishali life is hard for children like me. But sponsor me today and you can change my world for good.
I live in Vaishali, India
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Change my world today
Life is hard for me, but your child sponsorship will change my life and bring me hope. Here's where your money will go:
We struggle to grow enough nutritious food to eat, and live in fear of hunger.
Your sponsorship will provide training, tools and seeds to help families feed themselves.
We can't afford essentials like nutritious food, medicine and education.
Your support will provide livestock families can breed to earn a living.
Schools are overcrowded and lack basic equipment like desks and books.
Your sponsorship will help improve schools and train teachers to give children a better start in life.
"Meeting my sponsored child was one of the best days of my life"
Amanda from Buckinghamshire has been sponsoring children for nearly 30 years.
Watch her video to find out why child sponsorship is such an enriching life experience,
what it's like to receive letters from your sponsored child and the emotions of sharing
in their development and seeing them flourish.
Watch child sponsor Amanda's video
World Vision is the world's largest, international children's charity. We have over 60 years' experience working with parents and communities to improve the lives of their children. Our organisation upholds the highest levels of transparency and accountability. We build relationships, trust and give families the tools to help themselves and future generations. But this work takes time, effort and commitment. Our programmes within a community usually last for 10 to 15 years.
The impact of child-focused community development is long-lasting and along the way children's health improves, communities become more resilient and families gain hope.
£26 per month is what it costs for us to do this well. And it works.
We work with national governments and other international agencies to identify the regions and communities that are most in need; the hardest places where the most vulnerable children live. We meet with community leaders and the wider community to understand their challenges and opportunities, and we develop a long-term plan together, to break the cycle of poverty.
The donation you give does not go directly to your sponsored child or family. That's because experience has taught us it's more effective to use the money on projects that will benefit your child's whole community, at the same time improving their personal wellbeing.
When you sponsor a child, you can write to each other, and you'll have regular news from their community. The relationship could change both your lives. "I am so happy to have a friend in another country that I can write to and share pictures with," says Nareh from Armenia. "I am studying the Armenian alphabet. When I learn them all, I will teach them to my distant friend. I am so happy to have a friend in another country."
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"Emma Newman is an extraordinary new voice in SF/F."
Paul Cornell, Hugo Award winner, and author of London Falling and Saucer Country
"Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such élan and authority
her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works
should be stolen by every other writer in the field. Her characters are
complex and troubled, courageous at times and foolhardy.
This book of wonders is first rate."
Bill Willingham, Eisner Award winner, and creator of Fables
Something is wrong in Aquae Sulis, Bath's secret mirror city.
The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer.
There is a witness but his memories have been bound by magical chains only the enemy can break. A rebellious woman trying to escape her family may prove to be the ally Max needs.
But can she be trusted? And why does she want to give up eternal youth and the life of privilege she's been born into?
File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Gargoyle Sidekick | Finder's Keepers | A Rose By Any Other Name | Manners ]
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Book Info:
The First Book in the Split Worlds Series
UK Print
Date: 7th March 2013
Format: Medium (B-Format) Paperback
US/CAN Print
Date: 26th February 2013
Format: Large (Trade) Paperback
Date: 26th February 2013
Format: Epub & Mobi
Other Books in This Series:
2. Any Other Name, book two (June 2013)
3. All Is Fair, book three (October 2013)
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"JK Rowling meets Georgette Heyer…Newman renders the Split Worlds with verve and an infectious sense of fun, and presents in Cathy a strong and personable heroine."
– Eric Brown, The Guardian
"The plot is pure candy. I went right out and got the second book."
– Locus Magazine
"Emma Newman has created a reflection of Bath that reminds one that charming is not safe. Between Two Thorns shows the darkness beneath the glamour of the social Season. Learning to be a young lady has never seemed so dangerous."
– Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo Award winner, and author of Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass
"With a feather-light touch, Emma Newman has crafted a very English fantasy, one brilliantly realised and quite delightful, weaving magic, mystery and parallel worlds together with ease. Newman may well be one of our brightest stars, The Split Worlds: Between Two Thorns is just the beginning of a remarkable journey."
– Adam Christopher, author of Empire State and Seven Wonders
"Between Two Thorns is magical, exciting, and clever. It manages to conjure a world that feels completely natural but also mysterious, sometimes dangerous, sometimes funny, combining several different kinds of urban fantasy into one story, and capturing a lovely sense of modern Britishness that is reminiscent of other fantastic British fantasy. I'm eagerly awaiting the sequel!"
– Fantasy Faction
"An enchanting novel from Emma Newman, an urban fantasy that has no sign of tattooed women in leather pants. A headstrong scion and an investigator discover dark doings in the outwardly genteel world of Bath's secret mirror city."
– Paul Weimer, SF Signal
"Between Two Thorns really was an unalloyed pleasure to read and it's hard to write a review for it that isn't just gushing … Newman has created a unique blend of urban, historical, and crime fantasy clothed in a Regency veneer. Between Two Thorns is delicious, engrossing, and enchanting and, so far, my debut of the year."
– Mieneke van der Salm, A Fantastical Librarian
"a modern fantasy that playfully mixes magic and interesting characters into an intriguing mystery."
– John DeNardo, Kirkus Reviews
"Treading similar thematic ground to the likes of Clive Barker's Weaveworld and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Emma Newman's first Split Worlds novel still manages to be a wonderfully iconoclastic affair. I feel like I've only been given a tantalising glimpse through a fantastical doorway."
– Pablo Cheesecake, The Eloquent Page
"Between Two Thorns is a fascinating new take on the fairytale myth, and it keeps the elegance and old-fashioned glamour we tend to associate with the fae whilst adding a fresh modern perspective."
– Ros Jackson, Warpcore SF
"Wow, what a book! I can't remember when was the last time I enjoyed reading something so much … a stunningly original take on the Faerie myth and worthy beginning of one of the most exciting fantasy series on the market today."
– Kris at Upcoming4me
"Missing people, kidnap, three wishes, charms, deception and Grand Tours collide in a story that's part fairytale, part fantasy, part Jane Austen, with a sprinkling of bonkers brilliance."
– Sarah Watkins, And Then I Read a Book
"As with all first of series there are slow moments and a lot of details that need to be absorbed but I felt that Newman did a very good job of introducing and creating a world of dangerous politics, magic and a resentment for those of us that were born on the wrong side of the barrier."
– Beth Syler, Sky Rose Reviews
"This novel draws you in from the very first, tempting you with magical creatures set against present day Bath. I tried only reading one chapter just to test the writing style, etc but found myself, a few hours later, having read a vast amount of the book … It sits beautifully within my favourite type of fantasy novel, fairy tale within the present day."
– Sarah Bruch for SF Crowsnest
"The world-building in this novel was very strong and was what transformed this novel into something distinctive."
– Christal at Badass Book Reviews
"Between Two Thorns had good prose, great characters, and was a well done mystery. I recommend it to anyone who loves faeries, high society related books, and/or a good mystery."
– Momo the Mome Rath at Where the Mome Raths Outgrabe
"a solid start to a great new fantasy trilogy that will be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys urban fantasy, stories about the Fae and detective stories."
– Elloise Hopkins
"The sensory language was fantastic – especially when we were in the Nether or in Exilium. That's where Newman really shines the most – showing us entirely new worlds that are only connected by a thin string, and that are absolutely gorgeous to behold."
– Usagi at Birth of a New Witch
"I enjoyed every minute of these split worlds. The fairy-tale mythology, fantasy, sci-fi-mystery, police procedural, romance and all the other genre-bending elements worked together seamlessly."
– Merikay Noah, Popcorn Reads
"Good fantasy is the ability to not only tell a good story set in a different world – but to create that world with beautiful worlds. Evoke it in the reader's mind. Where it comes alive and leave the impression as if one visited there. Newman definitely has a gift for that."
– Deniz Yildiz, Closet Geeks and Slow Mo
"What I want from an alternate, magical reality is a mix of the expected and the surprising, and Between Two Thorns does a good job of delivering that, primarily through the use of some off-beat points of view and the addition of some unique flourishes."
– Steven M. Long
"Between Two Thorns is a book that is packed with a ton of things to entice the reader … I can definitely recommend this to readers of urban fantasy if you are looking for something different"
– Shadowhawk, Founding Fields
"This was a well-crafted fantasy novel which makes a great start to a new series … I can't wait to see what happens next."
– Rebecca at Book Chick City
"Between Two Thorns is an excellent read and I highly recommend it to fantasy fans looking for something a bit different, particularly in the form of merging modern day settings with fantasy worlds."
– Tsana Dolichva, Tsana's Reads
"gimme the next book! This one wraps up most, but not all, of the mysterious web that Newman weaves – just enough threads are left dangling to keep me intrigued, so I'll definitely be buying the second book to find out where those threads lead."
Lisa, Over the Effing Rainbow
"This is a book that contains MANY THINGS. This can be tricky sometimes … [but] Newman managed to corral the different worlds, characters and machinations to deliver an engaging read that left me wanting more."
– Kathy at Kindle-aholic's Book Pile
"If you like a bit of fairy magic, the juxtaposition between ancient and modern, here and there, and you don't mind being left in suspense for a good few months, you'll really enjoy it. 9 stars out of 10."
– Fantasy Faction
"An urban fantasy book that should be on everyone's bookshelf. ****"
– Heart of Glass magazine
"A wonderful marriage of the magical and the mundane, with plenty of high society intrigue to satisfy any Downton Abbey fan and more than enough to appeal to fantasy lovers as well. Emma Newman's world building is sublime, her characters larger than life, and the pages crackle with magic."
– My Bookish Ways
For The Split Worlds Series:
"You know that feeling you get, after you have read something so incredible and feel empty once it is over? That is how I feel with The Split Worlds. I feel that no review I could write would justify the amazing-ness of this series. The series is humorous, political, aggravating, and heartbreaking. All in one. There is violence, fantasy, romance, some smut, corruption, mystery…every genre all rolled into one plot line." – The Bibliophile's Apprentice
"The Split Worlds Trilogy marks the author as someone to watch for her future endeavors, be they within the Split Worlds or elsewhere." – Skiffy and Fanty


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Source - Click hereCalderon became less effective in just about every area of the game last year. New acquisitions Hedo Turkoglu and Jarrett Jack encroached on his duties, Triano fully implemented his preferred offense and the team's lack of defensive personnel further highlighted Calderon's most glaring post-injury weakness. His PER dropped to 16.5, the lowest it had been since his rookie season. He was scoring less (10.3 ppg versus 12.8 ppg the year before), shooting worse (.596 true-shooting percentage versus .613) and he ultimately lost his starting spot due to a left hip injury. After supporting him so fervently two years ago, the fans grew restless with his reduced production, even booing him in a late-season game against Chicago after he missed an open three-pointer. By the end of last season, Calderon looked lost as to what his place even was in Toronto anymore.
Now, after spending all summer on the trading block, Calderon is left on a team that doesn't want him and playing for a fan base that has grown tired of him. It's been nearly two years since his hamstring injury and it's become clear that the burst he lost in 2008 isn't coming back. The growing crop of young, athletic and speedy point guards that are dotting the league are making each night a defensive nightmare for Calderon, and he's forced to play in front of a frontcourt that offers little in the way of help to protect him as a defender. To watch him play this pre-season, where he's averaging 4.7 ppg on 28% shooting (9.1% shooting from behind the arc), is to watch a man that looks wholly out of sorts on the court. While he's still managing an impressive 8.5 assists per-36 minutes, most now believe that he's playing in the starting five not because he's the best option but because the team is hoping to increase his trade value on the open market. In the summer of 2008 he was the future of the team at point guard, today his team wants rid of him so badly they are willing to weaken themselves defensively at the start of every game in the hopes of expediting his departure. You want to know why Calderon is struggling this pre-season? I think you have your answer.


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Kathleen Gordon
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Kathleen Gordon MPA '12
Undergrad: Indiana University
Major: Political Science and French
Hometown: Marlton, New Jersey
What is your favorite place in Monterey?
I probably shouldn't give it away, but my favorite place to study is the corner cubbie on the far end of the second floor of the library, overlooking the parking lot. It gets great light, so it's nice and warm and it feels cozy to study in the corner with two windows!
Out around town, I love to go walking with friends on the coastal trail. It runs for miles and there's always something to see: seals playing on the beach (and giving birth, though that's not as pretty to watch!), scuba divers, weddings at Lover's Point, and so much more. When the weather is a bit cooler I like hanging out at Café Lumiere, a little coffee shop by campus. It's connected to an independent movie theater so it always smells like popcorn, but it has a relaxed atmosphere and is a great place to run into people.
What internships or jobs have you had while attending MIIS?
I had a 6-month internship as part of DPMI Plus (Development Project Management Institute), where I worked with an NGO in Haiti to assess, design, and implement a livelihoods business-training program. I also designed and completed an evaluation of the program. It was a great experience, and I got to live in a tent in Haiti for 6 months!
What are your career aspirations?
I am fascinated by natural disasters and the potential for rebuilding in areas which did not have many resources, even before they experienced a disaster. When I graduate, I want to work on managing development projects in areas affected by natural disasters. I hope to travel to and live in these areas for extended periods of time to be able to create effective disaster relief programs from the ground up.
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fun fact about you:
My baking skills have been compared to those of Martha Stewart, a fact which my roommate and classmates benefit from on a regular basis.
If you were a food, you would be:
Soup! Soup has the potential to be anything you want: hot or cold, veggie or meat, blended or chunky…I like the variety soup offers, and whether it's warm or cold soup I find it always warms the soul when you've had a tough day. I like to think I'm a little bit like soup: varied and comforting all at once.
What has been the highlight of your MIIS experience thus far?
The highlight was either being able to spend 6 months in Haiti or the group work. Haiti is the obvious choice, it was an amazing experience, but the group work stands out when I think back on my time here so far. I don't think many people in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program would say that because we are constantly doing group work, in every class there is at least one group project. Yes, groups can be difficult and annoying, but I have learned so much from working in so many different groups. It has been something that I know will be invaluable in the work I want to do.
And one last thing:
Grad school can be frustrating and exhausting, but I think it's a lot of fun. There's a great mix of people in the school, with varied backgrounds, experiences and stories. We make time for fun.


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Nearly a month has passed yet there is still very little information on what caused the severing of five undersea cables in and around the Middle East.
Sami al-Murshed, head of the International Telecommunication Union said, "We do not want to pre-empt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago."
DailyTech reported that FLAG Telecom found that its FALCON cable was cut by an abandoned ships anchor on February 8. The question in many minds was exactly how the anchor ended up in the area of the FALCON cable since early reports said no ships were in the vicinity of the cables when they were severed.
Adding fuel to the conspiracy theory fire was the fact that no images of the ships anchor were shown. Images would have shown if the anchor was an old barnacle covered specimen long ago abandoned or if it was a shiny new anchor cut from a ship recently. The odds of five cables failing in that period of a few weeks are simply astronomical.
InformationWeek quotes Stephan Beckert, director of research at TeleGeography Research as saying, "There's this big game of telephone going on between bloggers and reporters. Anything is possible. But it doesn't do any good to speculate."
Beckert went on to say he believes fishing nets or ship anchors are the likely causes and when asked about sabotage he says, "[Sabotage] is extremely rare. I'm not aware of any [incidents], but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened."
DailyTech reported on the first pair of cut undersea cables on January 31, the report of the third cable cut came in on February 4; the fourth cut cable was announced on February 5 with the final report of a cut cable coming in on February 6. It was later revealed two of the five cable failures were due to faulty power supplies, and not physically severed cables.