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Are you pushing your children too hard to grow up fast? You may be confusing your own needs with theirs, which has repercussions, child psychologist and author Dr David Elkind warns.
In our competitive, fast-paced world, parents want their kids to excel in every field. But often, they don't realize that in the bargain, they are raising a "hurried child" -- a term proposed by child psychologist Dr David Elkind, in his groundbreaking book, The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast. He stresses that parents need to slow down the process of "hurrying up a child into a mini adult". Elkind talks about how rushing your kid will do him more harm than good.
Describe the Hurried Child Syndrome.
It is a set of stress-linked behaviors, which result when a child is expected by his parents to perform well beyond his or her level of mental, social or emotional capabilities. Basically, parents over-schedule their children's lives, push them hard for academic success, and expect them to behave and react as miniature adults.
Other reasons are a result of current commerce. Those who merchandise to children these days understand that parents aren't dictating them anymore about what to eat, wear or watch. The consumerist market is taking advantage of this fact, which in turn is affecting children.
How are children being affected?
Hurrying can lead to a wide range of childhood, teenage and adulthood crises. If children are offered the stresses of adulthood, they will also exhibit the ailments of adulthood. One of the effects of excessive expectations by parents is stress. Also, stress-induced psychological problems such as depression, not getting along with others, anxiety, crying, stuttering, and sleep issues can follow. The most common physical symptoms include stomach ache, diarrhea, nervous twitches, headaches, hyperactivity, stammering, muscle tension and bed-wetting. The number of children and adolescents suffering from -- one or more -- stress-related symptoms has increased dramatically over the last two decades.
As for parents, the ones who push their children too hard, the results may be the opposite of what's intended. Once Sigmund Freud was asked what eventually happened to the street-savvy shoe shine boys of Vienna when they grew up. He replied, 'they became cobblers'. Parents fail to understand this -- growing up fast can mean NOT going very far in life.
Is this syndrome a result of parents' desire to raise an alpha child?
No, there are multiple reasons. Most parents demand more from their children. They are concerned about the global economy and their children's ability to compete in it. Other reasons are competition between parents, small families and overinvestment in each child etc. I think, in most cases, it is just a matter of necessity; parents need the children to take more responsibility than before when only one parent worked. It's not wrong if the demands from the child are age-appropriate.
What do you mean by age-appropriate demands?
You have to match the responsibilities given to your child with his age and actual ability. For example, you can ask a two-year-old to pick up his toys and clear his plate from the dining table but you cannot expect a 10-year-old child to understand the differences in your marriage or your divorce complications.
You've lamented about the loss of playtime during childhood. How big is the price?
It's through playing that children learn about themselves, others and the world. There are many different forms of play and a child learns different values from each, like co-operation, persistence, compassion and so much more. Playing also teaches children about their own powers and abilities. It educates them on how to interact co-operatively with peers, and it makes them understand the limits and the constraints of reality.
For example, when they interact with kids their age, they automatically learn appropriate social behaviors, such as sharing, co-operating, and respecting the property of other children. It teaches them to be tolerant, and may even help control aggressive behavior.
What can parents do to build a healthy culture of play?
It is a question of balance. Childhood has moved indoors and that is not going to change. Parents just need to insist, and show by example, that time on c o m p u t e r s , iPhones, iPads, etc. need to be balanced with time spent socially engaged with parents and other children; with time spent in the real rather than the virtual world.
Do you believe children lose their innocence too early these days?
I am not sure if there's really a loss of innocence. Of course, there are children who have personally experienced violence, natural disasters, suffered abuse, and they have abiding scars. But just because children may dress, talk and try to act like older children or adults, you can't forget that they are still children. You can't hurry development. For example, most children do not understand death in the biological sense, until they are eight or nine, despite their constant exposure to it via the media.
How can one prevent raising a hurried child?
The most import thing is for parents to distinguish between their own needs from those of the child. They often confuse the two, and that is the single most common cause of hurrying...
How far is technology/gadgets responsible for this change?
Technology has knocked down many of the barriers that once shielded children from the darker side of human nature.
What are the signs of a child being neglected?
Children who are ignored can act out, get in trouble and bring attention to themselves, even if it is negative.
How can parents maximize their children's learning potential without overburdening them?
The main thing is to watch the child carefully, and try and understand his/her specific needs and knacks. If a child enjoys learning and extracurricular activities, that is great but if the child is struggling and resistant, it is time to back off and let him take his own time to learn as much as he can.
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Big Green holds 3-Game Lead over Bulldogs with 8 Rolfe Games Left
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University baseball team sits just three games out of first place in the Ivy League's Red Rolfe Division with eight league games remaining, making this weekend's four-game set against visiting Dartmouth, the Rolfe Division Leader, a crucial one for the Bulldogs.
Yale will host Dartmouth for a pair of doubleheaders this weekend, with the twin bills on Saturday and Sunday scheduled to begin at 12 p.m.
The Bulldogs enter the weekend with an 8-22 overall record, 5-7 in Ivy League play, and they will also have to keep an eye on Harvard, which also holds a 5-7 Ivy League record entering its weekend series at Brown. Not only do the Bulldogs need to keep pace with the Crimson in the race for the Rolfe Division crown, but they will likely need to take three out of the four games this weekend against Dartmouth (23-6, 8-4) to have a chance in the race for the Rolfe Division berth in the Ivy League Championship.
Trailing Dartmouth by just three games in the standings, Yale can surge into first place with a sweep of the four-game series.
Yale's Live Stats game-tracker for all four games can be found on YaleBulldogs.com.
Probable Starters
- Game 1: Rob Cerfolio (Jr. LHP, 1-4 record, 2.54 ERA) vs. Cole Sulser (Sr. RHP, 3-2 record, 2.75 ERA)
- Game 2: Michael Coleman (Jr. RHP, 2-4 record, 3.76 ERA) vs. Kyle Hunter (Sr. LHP, 3-1 record, 1.82 ERA)
- Game 3: David Hickey (Jr. LHP, 2-2 record, 3.42 ERA) vs. Mitch Horacek ( Jr. LHP, 5-1 record, 2.25 ERA)
- Game 4: TBA vs. Michael Johnson (Jr. LHP, 5-0 record, 1.52 ERA)
Series History
Yale and Dartmouth have met 208 times entering this weekend's four-game series. Yale holds an overall advantage of 118-89-1 in the series that dates back to 1881.
Since 1928, Yale also holds a 58-30-1 edge over Dartmouth in games played at historic Yale Field.
In an odd quirk in the recent history of the series, the home team has swept the season series in each of the last three seasons. Dartmouth last won a game at Yale Field four years ago when it took three of the four games in 2009.
About Yale
Since collecting 15 runs on 18 hits, both season-highs, in a 15-5 win over in-state rival UConn on April 3, Yale has struggled at the plate in the last 10 games. Since that victory, Yale has averaged collected five hits or fewer in seven of those 10 games, winning just three of the 10 games.
Overall, Yale has struggled at the plate this season and enters the weekend with a team batting average of .236 while averaging 3.5 runs per game.
Senior captain Chris Piwinski leads a Yale squad that includes 16 returning players from the group that finished 13-31-1 last season, with a fourth-place finish (5-15) in the Ivy League's Rolfe Division. The Bulldogs' roster includes seven new players, including five freshmen and two players that joined the team after spending time on Yale's football team in junior Jake Semones and sophomore Charles Cook.
Thirty games into the season, junior first baseman Jacob Hunter is leading the Bulldogs in hitting (.301), slugging (.387), total hits (28, tied with Eric Hsieh), and total bases (36). Freshman Brent Lawson leads the team in doubles (6), while sophomore second baseman David Toups is the team's home run leader with two.
Pitchers Ben Joseph (So. RHP, 2-1), David Hickey (Jr. LHP, 2-2) and Michael Coleman (Jr. RHP, 2-4) hold the team lead in pitching victories, while Chris Lanham (Fr. RHP, 1-6) and Rob Cerfolio (Jr. LHP, 1-4) each have one victory.
Cerfolio leads the Bulldogs' starters with a 2.54 earned run average and 39.0 innings pitched, while reliever Robert Baldwin is leading the bullpen with a 1.69 ERA. Junior Cale Hanson leads the team with two saves, while Joseph leads the team with 28 strikeouts in 11 appearances.
About Dartmouth
Dartmouth enters the weekend riding a six-game winning streak, its third streak this season of at least four straight wins. The Big Green started the season with eight consecutive wins.
The Big Green bats are hitting .308 in 29 games, while the pitching staff is holding an overall ERA of 2.85, leading the Ivy League in both categories. Dartmouth is also leading the Ivy League in slugging (.463), on-base percentage (.378), runs scored (192), RBIs (181), and home runs (20), and it is second in total hits (301), doubles (67) and triples (12).
Jeff Keller is Dartmouth's leader in hitting (.394), slugging (.778), on-base percentage (.475), runs scored (30), total hits (39), doubles (18), triples (4), and total bases (77), and he is second on the team in RBIs (32), home runs (4), walks (14), and stolen bases (5).
Sunday's Game 2 starting pitcher, Michal Johnson, leads the Big Green in ERA (1.52), opposing batting average (.179) and he is tied with Sunday's Game 1 starter, Mitch Horacek, with five wins.
Overall, Dartmouth's pitching staff has held opposing hitters to a .244 average.
Last Time Out
Yale held in-state rival Sacred Heart to just two hits over the final seven innings of Wednesday's game at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the Pioneers scored three first-inning runs on a bases-loaded double by Rocco Gondek, which was enough for Sacred Heart to take a 3-2 win over Yale.
The two teams split the season series, with Yale earning a 5-3 win at Yale Field on April 2.
After Gondek's double, Yale starter Chris Lanham (1-6) settled down and retired the next nine Sacred Heart batters that he faced to hold the Pioneers to just the three first-inning runs.
Combined, Yale's five pitchers held Sacred Heart to just two hits after Gondek's double and a total of five hits in the game.
Yale bounced back with a run in the third inning after Cam Squires led off with a double, advanced to third on a groundout by Chris Piwinski and then scored when Tom O'Neill grounded out to short for the second out of the inning.
Yale picked up another run in the eighth inning when Eric Hsieh was hit by a pitch with two outs and later scored on an RBI single by Joe Lubanski. Yale had runners on first and third, but could not produce the tying run
Next Up
Yale will close out the 2013 season with a pair of doubleheaders in a home-and-home series with Brown, hosting the Bears for two games on Friday, April 26, before visiting the Bears for two games in Providence on Saturday, April 27. Both doubleheaders are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

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Is the return of the U.S. auto boom already over? According to an analyst at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research institute, it seems so.
In a recently released report titled "Households Without a Light-duty Vehicle," Michael Sivak writes that the decrease in households with vehicles in the last few years supports the hypothesis that motorization in the U.S. peaked during the previous decade, according to a story in USA Today.
While other analysts agree there's a slump in vehicle ownership, they are less likely to see this as an anti-car shift and more as the fallout from the Great Recession, the story notes.
According to a report from Experian Automotive cited in the story, the number of vehicles on the road in mid-2013 was 247.9 million, the highest since 2008. Experian said that slipped slightly to 246.9 million the third quarter of last year, but that still was up from the same quarter a year earlier.
Lacey Plache, chief economist at Edmunds.com, says the number of vehicles on the road will continue to grow, especially as auto owners who nursed old vehicles through the Recession will purchase new vehicles in the coming years.


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The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
Commissioned by President Richard M. Nixon, March, 1972
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Letter of Transmittal
I. Marihuana and the Problem of Marihuana
II. Marihuana Use and Its Effects
III. Social Impact of Marihuana Use
IV. Social Response to Marihuana Use
V. Marihuana and Social Policy
Legal and Law Enforcement Recommendations
Index of Contributors, Contractors and Consultants
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Part One -- Biological Aspects
I. History of Marihuana Use: Medical and Intoxicant
II. Biological Effects of Marihuana
III. Behavioral and Biological Concomitants of Chronic Marihuana Smoking by Heavy and Casual Users
Part Two -- Social Aspects
I. Marihuana Use in American Society
II. Marihuana and the Use of Other Drugs
III. Marihuana and Public Safety
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I. Control of Marihuana, Alcohol and Tobacco
II. The Legal Status of Marihuana
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Bridging almost a century of Brazilian art, Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia at Blum & Poe in New York (30 April–22 June 2019), hosted in collaboration with Mendes Wood DM, offers a rereading of Brazilian Modernism through the works of artists practising at different times, from the 20th century through to the...
In 1969, Horikawa Michio, schoolteacher and member of the artist collective GUN (Group Ultra Niigata), filled out the customs paperwork to mail a one-kilogram river stone from Niigata, the proverbial 'backside of Japan', to President Nixon. In return, Horikawa received a thank you note for this 'most unusual Christmas gift'—a muted anti-war...
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My memory is fuzzy, so please forgive me if I met you and forgot your name. Over the VKLive weekend, I got to meet Katie (the new Design Coordinator) from Spud & Chloë, Laura Nelkin, Cirilia Rose (Creative Director) from Skacel, Melissa who makes gorgeous porcelain buttons, Vicki Howell, Anna Hrachovec, Marly Bird, the ladies from Soho Publishing: Emily Jones (Graphic Designer), Minty aka Erin (Editor in Chief of Yarn Market News), Renee Lorion (Yarn Editor), and Carla Scott (Editor in Chief of Knit Simple Magazine).
After we finished the 2nd part of Ysolda's class in the afternoon, we rested in Brandy and Claudia's hotel room before the gala dinner. Here is picture of me and Brandy in her hotel room. Brandy noticed that I was looking a little worse for wear by the end of the day. I think my medicine had worn off and I was so tired. I even contemplated skipping the dinner and going home. Brandy went into her purse and pulled out some Pez Candy and told me eat some of the candy before dinner. And the sugar really did the trick!
And here is the second reason I am glad I didn't miss the gala dinner.
The next morning, I headed back for another 2 part class with Ysolda. This time the class was called, Beyond the Raglan. The class covered the different types of sweaters that can be knit from the top down and explored ways to get the best fit in a top down sweater. Yoke styles included: compound raglans; round yoke; saddle shoulders and set in sleeves and we discussed the calculations involved in creating these. Wow, Ysolda really knows what she is talking about. I wished I was able to absorb more, but I was exhausted. I was carrying around Dayquil in my bag so I could medicate myself whenever the medicine wore off and my coughing fits started. During the 2nd part of the class, we all chose a different top down seamless set-in-sleeve construction method and knit a small shoulder swatch. That way, Ysolda could walk around the room and help us when we ran into problems or had questions while we were knitting.
When class ended at 5pm, I headed back home. I was sad to skip the champagne charity auction in Tribeca (they rented buses to take us from the hotel), but I knew I had to rest or I would fall over. So all in all, I had a fabulous time. The only thing I wish that they would do differently is to schedule the morning classes an hour later, 9am instead of 8am.
Ready to see my latest published design? Well, it's published in Knit Noro Accessories! Yes, it's one of the books I won. I had recently received my complimentary copy, so I gave the copy I won to a good friend of mine.


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Power Outages Reported in Midland and Odessa
Hundreds of people are said to be without power after outages are reported across Midland and Odessa.
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California Department of Transportation
Date: August 23, 2012
District: 04-Oakland
Contact: RocQuel Johnson
Phone: (510) 286-4948
OAKLAND - The California Transportation Commission today allocated $745 million in new funding to 118 transportation projects that will provide congestion relief for motorists statewide and bolster the state's economy.
"We're providing much-needed jobs and putting people to work building better roads, bridges, rail, and transit for California," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. The allocations include nearly $82 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, nearly $14 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
The remaining $663 million in allocations today came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal dollars.
Highlights of the funding allocations include:
- Alameda County- $1,174,000 for a Caltrans project to remove and replace old metal median barriers and concrete slab with new concrete median barriers and concrete slabs. The completed project will reduce needed repairs, crews' exposure to traffic and provide additional shoulder width.
- Contra Costa County- $5,868,000 for a Caltrans and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) project to widen eastbound State Route(SR) 4 in Antioch from Hillcrest Avenue to SR160. The project will widen approximately two miles of SR4 from four to six lanes.
- Contra Costa County- $18,910,000 for a Caltrans and MTC project to construct auxiliary lanes in both directions of I-680 between Sycamore Valley Road in Danville and Crow Canyon Road in San Ramon. The completed project will include two miles of auxiliary lanes and shoulders with retaining walls and soundwalls.
- Contra Costa County- $18,459,000 for a Caltrans project to rehabilitate bridge decks near Richmond at Scofield Avenue and another location at Western Drive. The project will rehabilitate three bridges by replacing bridge decks to maintain structure integrity
Please see the attached file for more information about all projects that received
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Clarkson University Research Team Analyzes Relationship Between Frogs and Roads
The classic video game "Frogger" may have been onto something: traffic and development could be reducing frog populations, according to research co-developed by a Clarkson University team.
Associate Professor of Biology Tom Langen and Jessica Beach '15, a biology major from Constable, N.Y., collaborated on a nationwide frog research project. The Clarkson team recently met with researchers from 10 other colleges and universities at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif., to analyze frog population data from 10,000 points across the country.
The data, collected by the U.S. Geological Survey's National Amphibian Monitoring Program, recorded the number of frogs in an area three times per year for up to 10 years, as well as the number of cars passing by on nearby roads. Frogs are a bellwether for the environmental health of a location; their condition can point to other problems within an ecosystem, Langen said.
There was a correlation between the number of roads and the amount of traffic on those roads and the health of frog populations, Langen said. Undeveloped areas had higher concentrations of frogs than locations bisected by a road or highway.
"Individual species are less likely to be seen when you have a higher density of roads and road traffic," Langen said. "It helps make decisions about growth patterns, especially when there are areas of wetlands."
"You can tell when an environment is stressed based on the conditions of the amphibians," Langen added.
Prior to traveling to California, Langen's ten students in his Biological Systems and Global Environmental Ecology class specifically analyzed 120 data points across New York State. Langen and Beach then merged their data with the other universities to reach conclusions.
The research will be presented as a poster at the Ecological Society of America conference in Minneapolis, and as a research paper. The experience has proven invaluable for Beach, who had a chance to meet other researchers in the field and gain relevant career experience.
"Sitting in a room with a bunch of people all coming from different educational backgrounds was a great opportunity to see how the scientific community really works together," Beach said.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Photo Caption: Associate Professor of Biology Tom Langen (pictured) and Jessica Beach '15 recently traveled to the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif. They worked with researchers from 10 other colleges and universities nationwide to analyze the relationship between frog populations and traffic and development.


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Strong Storms Possible Today [UPDATE]
Strong thunderstorms are possible across all of East Texas today as a cold front moves through the area. As the cold front enters the western parts of East Texas they will begin to strengthen. More after the jump.
This line of thunderstorms will move through the area during the late morning and early afternoon hours. The main threat from these storms is going to be strong winds and small hail, but there is also a chance for an isolated tornado. KLTV 7's Grant Dade says right now the tornado threat does not appear that great.
In addition to wind and hail, some areas could see very heavy rain. Most of East Texas has the potential to see between a half inch up to two inches in some isolated areas!
Behind the cold front, much cooler temperatures will greet us. In fact, by Friday morning most of the area could be at the freezing mark!
UPDATE: A tornado watch is now in effect until 6pm for all of East Texas - except Hunt and Kaufman Counties.
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"Owner of a Lonely Chainsaw"
"The timeless classics from the '80s vs. the dance music of today." It sounds like an ultra-cheesy "as seen on TV" K-tel pitch. Instead it heralds a generous compilation of decade-transgressing mash-ups by DJ Schmolli (djschmolli.com), highlighted by this forced marriage of Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and Dutch DJ Fadil El Ghoul's "Chainsaw the Night" (bit.ly/fadnight), a remix of Lady Gaga's "Marry the Night" (bit.ly/gaganite) but minus the GaGa. (From 80s Now!)
"Aching Bones"
There's more than a little P.J. Harvey lurking in this ominous-sounding track from Shah, who grew up in a village near the North Sea in northeast England. Despite the title, this sounds less world-weary than sinister, to the point where you can imagine an unfortunate act of violence taking place a few seconds after the song ends. (From Aching Bones)
8. MYTHS feat. GRIMES & MAJICAL CLOUDZ
"The Horizon (remix)"
TheVancouver duo of Lief Hall and Quinne Rodgers not only toured with Montreal's Claire Boucher, a.k.a. 2012's favourite electro-pop act, Grimes, but also served as her backing band, which makes this collaboration seem not only natural but also inevitable. The third side of this musical triad is one-man band Devon Welsh, who fits in so well, you'll wonder why the hell you hadn't heard of him before. (From Deadlights)
"Clint Eastwood"
While the singer/guitarist from Phish gently steers this Gorillaz hit (the one with the "I got sunshine in a bag" hook), toward something more closely related to soul than reggae, it's longtime band member Jennifer Hartswick who executes this cover's most daring left turn: She takes the bits on the original that were rapped by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and sets them to a melody. Her jazz background allows her to retain the swing that underlies Del's phrasing, while also affording her the vocal agility to dance around the bass drum that anchors the beat to the floor. (From The Traveler)
"Before We Run"
It may not exude the luxurious melancholy of what remains, for many, this band's signature track, "Autumn Sweater." However, this six-minute piece of orchestral pop does feel more like a natural progression from that moment than anything on 2009's Popular Songs. A tantalizing preview of YLT's first album in more than three years, a tour for which will bring them to Toronto on Feb. 9. (From Fade, out Jan. 15)
"Some Dreams Never Die"
One of the most-covered, least successful artists of the past 40 years, the late Newbury is probably best known for the "An American Trilogy," the "Dixie"-inspired ballad that has been recorded more than 500 times — most famously by a jump-suited Elvis Presley — as well as for the late-'60s psych-pop nugget "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)." This impossibly elegiac ballad, which kicks off a reissue of Newbury's final album, opens with a full minute of a train rolling along the tracks. It's that kind of song. (From Blue to This Day)
"Dub Like an Eagle"
Yes, "Fly Like an Eagle" reconceived as a booming, spaced-out dub track. The nuttiness of the idea alone is almost enough to recommend it, but that would slight the masterful execution by Brighton sound manipulator Eric Kleptone. The result cries out for a legitimate release.
"Bath Salts"
Based on sheer talent, Lauren Jenaveve Severson should have become a household name this year. The 23-year-old Los Angeleno may look like Gwen Stefani, but she sounds like a throwback belter. What distinguishes the material is the pairing of her big voice with the glitchy production techniques perfected by the roster of TriAngle Records. With an EP due in January, as well as her work with San Fran producer Alexander Spit, there's always next year. (From Sunday's Best)
2. RYAN STINSON feat. GHETTOSOCKS
"And she's disguised to survive/ Or at least make it through the recess alive…" This deeply stirring collaboration between Calgary's Stinson and Halifax's Darren Pyper, a.k.a. Ghettosocks, is as atmospheric a piece of hip-hop as you're likely to hear this year, from any country. A nuanced tale of schoolyard bullying, it ends on the kind of unresolved note you might expect from a Raymond Carver short story. (From Futura (Deluxe Edition) )
"Deadline"They're billed as a Scottish rap trio, but that description, thankfully, bears little resemblance to what these guys actually sound like. Based in Edinburgh but getting there from Liberia, Nigeria and the U.S., this trio skillfully combines indie rock, hip hop and that virtually meaningless catch-all "world music," which more often than not signals a polyrhythmic approach to the beat, a path this track follows to a remarkable destination. (From Tape One, out Dec. 11)
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"That Someone Is You"
You know what would totally elevate a video by a band we don't think about much these days? Superimposing a giant cat head on the body of someone dressed up like Sandy, the Olivia Newton-John character from Grease. And then having said cat-head woman cavort around with renaissance dude James Franco, who's dressed up like Travolta's Danny Zuko and who also directed this clip, which perhaps explains why it's arriving more than a year after R.E.M. split up.


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It looks like the Bears will have running back Matt Forte on the field against the Seahawks on Sunday.
During last week's victory over the Vikings, Forte tweaked the ankle injury that kept him out of one game earlier this season. He's been sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber at his house and visiting a chiropractor to help the injury, which Forte says isn't as serious as the original one, heal up in time for this weekend's game. He said that he expects to play as a result of the work he' done to heal up this week.
"I had a lot of different treatments and I'm feeling pretty good," Forte said, via Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Forte has been able to practice on both Wednesday and Thursday in a limited fashion, which is a pretty good sign that he'll be on the field. The Bears are 6-1 this season when they run for at least 100 yards, so his presence should be a good thing for their chances at staying in front in the NFC North this week.


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guardian.co.uk |July 2, 2012
When foot and mouth disease struck Britain in 2007, Glenys Stacey was in the front line. As chief executive of Animal Health (formerly the State Veterinary Service), her job was to ensure it didn't spread. In that, as she proudly explains, she was successful, averting the crisis in British agriculture and tourism caused by the outbreak of 2001. "We had about a dozen outbreaks and we contained them all," she says. We may have her to thank that meat supplies weren't wiped out and that, when the virulent H5N1 virus was found among Suffolk turkeys, we didn't all fall victim to avian flu.
But can she now cope with what some would describe as an outbreak of Mad Gove Disease? In March last year, she became chief executive of Ofqual, the examinations regulator. If the education secretary goes ahead with plans to scrap the GCSE, bring back O-levels and put them under a single exam board, she will have to make them work. When we meet at the Commonwealth Club in London, I ask if she knew about them before they were leaked (by Gove himself, according to some accounts)?
"We've known for months," she says, "that ministers were concerned about the quality of GCSE qualifications. Our job is to give ministers wise and timely advice about how policy aims should be met and how transition can be managed without putting standards at risk. We've had opportunities to provide that advice."
Which I take to be a "yes". So what was that advice? "Significant change takes very careful planning indeed and, in that time, children are still taking exams and still need viable qualifications. We have to advise the minister on what is an achievable timetable. It depends on the details. His immediate interests are in English, maths and science. It makes sense to focus on some subjects, not all, and to choose the hard-hitting ones that affect people's life chances." The implication – though she won't confirm it – is that Gove may have to rethink his ambitious timetable to scrap GCSEs by 2014.
Ofqual is answerable to parliament, not to Gove, but John Bangs, a former National Union of Teachers official, now a visiting professor at London University's Institute of Education, says "it acts as if accountable to the secretary of state". That view was shared by others I spoke to, but Alan Smithers, director of the centre for education at Buckingham University, was more generous: "She has brought a sharp brain and considerable political skills to the job. She briefs herself very thoroughly. She knows the world in which she has to operate. She navigates the political landscape, rather than confronting it." The political reality, he said, is that "she may be at arm's length from Gove, but it's not a very long arm".
Stacey herself says: "It's a relationship. Government can take a policy decision on qualifications but, if it tries to change the nature of assessment, and we believe that will affect standards, it's our obligation to say no."
So far, there has been no overt clash. On the contrary, Stacey shares many of Gove's concerns on GCSE and has striven "to strengthen the qualification, to get it to where it should be". When she arrived at Ofqual, she dismissed grade inflation – the suggestion that "dumbed down" papers and more lenient marking made it easier to get top grades – as a "not very helpful expression" and argued that it could be attributable to "young people being taught well and working hard". A year later, after looking at data that "just didn't make sense" and discussing it with "real experts in assessment", she said there had been "persistent grade inflation … over at least a decade" at both GCSE and A-level.
She ordered that some GCSE syllabuses be rewritten to ensure candidates cover wider ground; agreed to Gove's demands that marks be awarded for grammar, spelling and punctuation, albeit so far only in four subjects; launched a review of "controlled assessment" (a new version of "continuous assessment"), arguing that it eats too much into teaching time; and announced a review of how GCSE results are graded. When we first talked at Ofqual's headquarters in Coventry, two weeks before Gove's plans were revealed, she echoed another of the minister's concerns: the growth of non-academic GCSE courses. "Should there be a GCSE in flower arranging?" she asked. "Where is the line drawn? I don't have a predetermined view, but at the moment the line isn't drawn."
On one matter on the Gove agenda – having a single exam board to set and mark GCSEs – she has seemed consistently cool. "If we moved to a single exam board," she says, "the transitional risks would be very significant."
For now, she says, her job is to ensure that the competitive market at GCSE and A-level operates in a "healthy" manner. Each board has an incentive to bump up pass rates so that it gets a higher share of the hefty exam entry fees. This, Gove believes, is partly responsible for grade inflation. Stacey has already banned seminars in which board representatives "coached" teachers in how to get their pupils through the exams – sometimes giving strong hints about that year's questions – and has now begun "a very close look" at whether boards should continue publishing textbooks, which schools are naturally tempted to buy and follow slavishly. She has a new power to fine boards up to 10% of turnover for misbehaviour. Has she used it yet? "Give me a chance, we've only just got the power." Has she issued any warnings? "I wouldn't be warning them, I'd be giving notice of an intention to fine. I'm not in that position now, but I am ready."
Stacey has a soft voice and great charm, but there is also an underlying sternness and, if I were Gove, I would be wary. She has no background in education – beyond two children and 25 years of marriage to a teacher – though she is taking an MA in educational assessment. She has spent most of her working life in important public-service jobs, yet is unknown to the public and not well-known even to practitioners in areas where she played a leading role. That may be because she has never worked in London.
Now 58, she is a living embodiment (her words) of mid-20th century social mobility. Her father was a painter and decorator, her mother a factory worker. She went to grammar school near Walsall and got "seven or eight" O-levels, but left school at 16 because that's what people of her background did. Armed with a couple of science O-levels and (she thinks) a short skirt, she landed a job in a Royal Ordnance laboratory, quality assessing explosives. "I realised I wasn't going to be a Nobel prizewinner, so I went to work for a local law firm, and fell into something I really enjoyed." After taking A-levels at evening classes, she read law at Kent University before qualifying as a solicitor and working first in private practice and then for the Legal Aid Board, where she became an area manager.
Her first big job, at 43, was to set up the Criminal Cases Review Commission, created after the belated acquittals of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four on IRA bombing charges. She moved on to run the magistrates courts in Greater Manchester and, after Animal Health – the job which, to judge by the enthusiasm with which she recalls it, gave her greatest pleasure and success – she became chief executive of Standards for England, responsible for dealing with misdemeanours in local government. The latter body disappeared in the coalition government's quango cull.
Her work there was largely about stamping out corruption. Now she is dealing with a system that Mick Waters, a former official at Ofqual's predecessor, has described as "almost corrupt" and which has never before been properly regulated. It involves 25m exam scripts a year, 2,500 different papers, 15,000 qualifications (most of them vocational) and 180 awarding bodies. She has taken a more proactive approach to this daunting portfolio than many expected. For example, she commissioned a study of how other countries assess exams at the equivalent stage to A-level, concluding that they make far more use of teacher assessment and multiple-choice tests. On the latter front, we can expect activity.
"I have never sought a public profile," she tells me. But before the GCSE saga is over, she will surely have one. It is impossible to believe she won't cope.
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Pianist Adam Clark will perform at Hope College on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Clark will perform the "Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2," by Frédéric Chopin; "Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1," by Frédéric Chopin; "Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 5," by Muzio Clementi; "Troismouvementsperpétuels," by Francis Poulenc; and "Concert Paraphrase on Mozart's 'Turkish March,'" by Arcadi Volodos. Clark will conclude the concert with "Pictures at an Exhibition," by Modest Mussorgsky.
Clark has performed to great acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician and concerto soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Belgium, Italy and South Korea. His performances have been broadcast on WMUK in Michigan as well as MBC National Television in Korea. Of his playing, "New York Concert Review Magazine" wrote, "Clark brought out much beauty in Chopin's soulfully embroidered melodies. He played with thoughtful expressiveness" and "achieved an excellent blend [with the orchestra]."
Clark is an assistant professor of music at Hope, where he teaches courses in applied piano, piano ensemble, keyboard skills, piano pedagogy and accompanying. He is also director of the Hope College Young Artists Piano Competition, coordinator of the Hope College Keyboard Concerts Series and collegiate chapter chair for the Michigan Music Teachers Association.
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This Vatican move, its about-face on liturgical language, may receive less automatic, unquestioning obedience than most.
For about thirty years, scores of translators, consultants, theologians, etc. had labored to add more reverence and awe to English-language Mass prayers that were hurriedly produced after Vatican II. It was agreed that the language of ritual needed a tone more elevated, more set apart from the familiar style heard in everyday speech. The product of decades-long work by the International Commission on English (ICEL), submitted to the Vatican with the expectation that it would be speedily approved, was rejected.
Instead, the Vatican imposes its own English translation, refusing to accept the work of the world-class experts assembled to carry out the liturgical reform launched at Vatican II. This time, reaction to Rome's tyrannical move raises anger around the world in addition to the usual gearing up to obey.
Language experts find the Vatican-imposed translation of the missal awkward and obscure because it too slavishly maintains the structure of Latin, which renders the literal translations clumsy and hard to understand in English. Prelates around the world are affronted by this latest example of Rome reversing "collegiality"—the sharing of Church governance by the bishops begun at Vatican II. Some have responded with the words "scandal" and "outrage." The National Catholic Reporter writes of liturgy wars.
Father Anthony Ruff, who worked for ICEL, complains that
a couple thousand passages in the new missal have to be in stilted, unnatural English to follow the Latin literally, . . . There is a major issue here of whether the Vatican has [a] coherent position in throwing 1998 in the wastebasket and then approving an incoherent mess like 2010.[This appeared as an unverified comment that I should have verified. Anthony Ruff contacted me to say it doesn't sound like himself. I agree and actually wondered about the language in it—Anthony is highly articulate. I await his statement. Stay tuned. . . .
Here is Anthony's statement amending the one that inaccurately quoted him.]
I would say that many passages throughout the new missal use stilted, unnatural English in order to follow the Latin literally. There is a major issue in the Vatican rejecting a coherent translation in 1998 and approving an incoherent approach to translation in 2010.Catholic womanpriest Bridget Mary Meehan writes:
It appears the Vatican is heading full speed backwards to medieval times. . . . the good news is that Roman Catholic Womenpriests use inclusive language and imagery for God in our liturgies. . . . Let me make a prediction—one day—the Vatican will adapt or perhaps even copy our inclusive liturgie (sic).It will be interesting to see how obsequiously Vatican marching orders will be followed by local bishops and—what could prove more interesting—theologians and linguists around the world. This "liturgy war" creates one more opportunity for Catholics to question top-down governance in their Church. We can add it to the forces mentioned in the previous post.
When I was growing up in the 1950s, the pope was next to God. Catholics might disagree with a priest—my dad did on occasion—but disobeying the pope was unthinkable. Today, critiques of the pope's actions and words are common; Vatican directives are dissected and often resisted. While Benedict XVI may not be personally responsible for this translation fiasco, he strongly pushes centralized Vatican power, as NCR informs us in an article calling the eminent theologian Hans Küng a straight arrow.
Küng . . . believes that the present crisis in the church shows that he was right [about his progressive theological views]. The whole Roman system is in question, he maintains, though neither the Vatican nor the majority of the bishops yet realize it.I agree with Küng that the whole system is in question, and to Bridget Mary Meehan's prediction, I add my own. One day the Vatican will be a clearing house for Catholicism instead of its seat of government; it will be a unifying symbol instead of a tyrannical force. Prelates will stop wearing the garb and carrying the insignia of Roman emperors. Catholicism will cease being a monarchy and move closer to democracy, perhaps even adopting practices such as congregations choosing their pastors.
Küng recalls how French theologian Yves Congar, who played a major part at Vatican II (1962-65), would tell him, "If you want to understand the Roman Catholic church today, look at the 11th century." There one sees the break between West and East, the rise of "Roman absolutism" and "enforced clericalism—including the law of celibacy." Küng thinks that Benedict is still wedded to that paradigm. "He is an antimodernist in the deepest sense of the word."
I may not be around when these things happen, but that the present system is falling apart I do not doubt.
January 31
No issue adds more urgency to the need for change in the Church than the exclusion of women from ordination, governance, and imaging the DIVINE. After the Vatican did its about face on liturgical language, the new team it brought in officially included only one woman. It adds significance to Bridget Mary Meehan's prediction (below).
I attended a fascinating presentation on the Vatican's upcoming language changes. The morning was exhilarating, as we heard an informative and fascinating explication of "What's Happening to the Mass." One AHA moment came for me because I am familiar with the role in some languages of inflectional endings, which in English have almost disappeared—"who" and "whom" are left but rarely used correctly. We were shown how Latin's inflectional endings clarify relationships between words in Latin, and these meanings are lost in word-for-word translations into English—only paraphrases can convey them accurately. But the Vatican directive specifically avoids paraphrases—part of the reason for the fiasco.
But then came a midday prayer that, as usual in Christian prayers, reduced the Transcendent Source of All to a humanlike male individual, a "he." It was a typical Christian prayer, and I suppose organizers just didn't bother to clean up the language for this setting, but after the morning's presentation, non-inclusive language stood out more conspicuously and offensively. It was an insult to the women and men there who know better and are open to a broader vision.
Ron Rolheiser in the Sunday Visitor models clean, uplifting language for Catholics. Here is an excerpt from his column:
". . . God who is the author of beauty, sexuality, intimacy, truth, justice, energy, color and pleasure. . . . the One of which these things are only a pale reflection.I appreciate his avoidance of male pronouns in reference to God.
The religious sister who emailed this comment to me also uses language that enlightens.
I continue to enjoy your blog. You make a difference in my life by clear explanations. I find it fascinating that our Beloved Source is NO THING, and ALL IN ALL, as well as VOID and FULLNESS OF BEING.How I wish we could hear terms like these in our liturgies! Instead of conjuring up the image of a humanlike individual, they induce wonder and awe, a genuine appreciation of Transcendence. I believe we'll see more of this language in the future as Catholicism absorbs lessons from science, other religions, and even the carping of some atheists.
Sending positive energy to you and into the universe, Mary Lou
February 5
Here's the latest, reported in America magazine:
Anthony Ruff, OSB, a prominent liturgical scholar and professor of liturgy at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., . . . publicly withdraws from all diocesan speaking engagements promoting the new translation of the Roman Missal. . . .Ruff came to a larger realization:
". . . When I think of how secretive the translation process was, how little consultation was done with priests or laity, how the Holy See allowed a small group to hijack the translation at the final stage, how unsatisfactory the final text is, how this text was imposed on national conferences of bishops in violation of their legitimate episcopal authority, how much deception and mischief have marked this process—and then when I think of Our Lord's teachings on service and love and unity—I weep."
"My involvement in that process, as well as my observation of the Holy See's handling of scandal, has gradually opened my eyes to the deep problems in the structures of authority of our church."Finally someone with authority in the Church has the guts to tell the truth! Reactions to Ruff's stance include predictable variations of "he is not obedient to Christ because he is not obedient to the hierarchy"—the conflation of hierarchy with divinity.
Now what we need are more men like Roy Bourgeois with the guts to participate openly in the liturgies of Roman Catholic Womenpriests. We need liturgies that induce awareness of holy Transcendence, using the sort of terms used by Mary Lou below. To use a not yet overused phrase, I hope the Church chooses the right side of history.
Martin Luther King & Catholics, January 20
Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail is one of his most celebrated compositions. It was written in 1963 on jail-house scraps of paper to 8 white Christian leaders in Birmingham who criticized his work as "unwise and untimely."
My present reading of his answer strikes me as remarkably wise, timely, and pertinent to the present conflict between the Catholic hierarchy and growing Catholic authority challenging the hierarchy. One center of such burgeoning authority is women religious with high status, responsibility, and visibility in health care, education, and other service areas. Another center is Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP), and a third is the Catholic press, publications such as National Catholic Reporter and America.
Here are quotations from King's Letter and their relevance to the conflict in the Catholic Church.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.Church rulings with unjust effects for some threaten unjust effects for everyone. The whole institution is undermined by these:
• excluding women from ordination and governance,
• punishing persons who demonstrate exceptional moral courage (Roy Bourgeois and others for supporting women priests),
• punishing Catholic health care institutions for disobeying bishops whose decisions run counter to the views of ethicists,
• Punishing theologians who question familiar beliefs.
These acts of injustice by the hierarchy rob Catholicism of its moral authority when it addresses the larger society. Why listen to the pope or bishops talking of peace or pornography when they show such poor moral judgment in their own house?
It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.It is unfortunate that Catholics disobey their religious leaders, but it is even more unfortunate that people with conscience have no alternative.
I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." . . . we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension [that helps us rise] to the majestic heights of understanding . . .To the gadflies I identified above as tension creators in the Church, I add theologians who enlighten us about the Divine Feminine.
Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.We cannot expect Church hierarchy to surrender its privileges voluntarily.
As Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.Religious institutions (Vatican offices, bishoprics and parishes) are more immoral than individuals in them. How many of us have experienced compassionate individuals reluctantly laying down a rule they personally opposed? Individuals tend to perpetuate the norms of an institution they work for. It takes extraordinary discrimination and courage to discern its failings and act on them.
A just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. . . . A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law.The pertinence of this to Church laws discriminating against women and other lay people could not be more obvious.
Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.Often I hear people express disgust with Christian churches. Catholics are leaving in droves. A Pew Forum study showed that about a third of American adults raised Catholic are no longer Catholic, 71 percent of them saying they left because their spiritual needs were not met. Until now I haven't even mentioned the clergy sex abuse scandal, which exposed the clerical culture of privilege and the hierarchy's growing irrelevance as a moral force.
I challenge Catholic leaders to apply Martin Luther King's words about freedom "for the Negro" to freedom for our Church.
February 10
The events in Egypt remind me of the Catholic hierarchy's tight hold on the reins of power. I do not promote or suggest revolution in the Church, but it's good to see the parallels in our religious institution to a political system of oppression/repression. It's good to look at the hard truth.


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Criminal Minds Cast on The Talk
The cast of CBS's "Criminal Minds" celebrate their 200th episode on THE TALK, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 on the CBS Television Network. From left, Thomas Gibson & Joe Mantegna. Photo: Monty Brinton/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Watch the full episode here for all the inside info on Criminal Minds!


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The for-profit nature of the privatised academies schools project in England is again in the spotlight with revelations of large bonuses paid to individuals associated with commercial entities running these schools. It is increasingly apparent that public funds are being siphoned off for the same kind of massive executive payments seen in the recently discredited banking and investment sectors.
As many commentators pointed out in the early years of the academy project, it is increasingly apparent that funds are not being spent on educational facilities, buildings and qualified staffing but on gigantic director pay-outs. When we also consider the disassociation of the academies from the National Curriculum, school safety regulations, requirement to hire qualified teachers and the special educational needs regulations, we are left with a highly questionable and increasingly discredited liberalised schools sector at the mercy of deregulation and commercial exploitation.
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Of course we only went through the slides for about an hour and a half, the rest of the day we built an Ionic app together. The app uses geolocation, ajax, Google Maps, data from YP.com, side menu, routing, continuous scrolling, and local storage for persisting settings. In other words it is a pretty good example of a lot of the things you will want to do with Angular/Ionic.
What is really cool is it does all this, works fast and is cross platform, running on both iOS and Android. The source code for the app is on my GitHub repo at: https://github.com/Rockncoder/ionic-coffee
My next workshop will be on January 31st. This one is FREE. It is a three hour tour of a lot of the command line tools we use in developing apps. The class will be held at ITT Technical Institute in Torrance, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. If you haven't signed up do so quickly. I will post some preparation information later this week. Here is the sign up link: AngularJS Workout #1
Next week I will a new tutorial series which will break the ionic coffee app into 6 bite size chunks explaining how it all works in detail. So be sure to check out the rockncoder blog every week.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Continuing with the theme of debunking accusations that Israel imposes institutional racism and apartheid on the Arabs of the region is a story by the AFP on a senior Bedouin tracker in the Israeli army.
Lt.-Col. Magdi Mazarib, the highest ranking Israeli Bedouin army tracker, is featured in the story. He tells the news agency that compared with neighboring countries, the status and position of Arabs in Israel "is better...It's a different league."
When asked if, as a Muslim, he is bothered serving an overtly Jewish state, Mazarib responds, "The flag of England also has a cross on it, and the Jews there are fine with it."
The article highlights the fact that, despite their Arab Muslim background, Mazarib and other Bedouin trackers are the "gatekeepers" of the Jewish state. It is they who guard against infiltration and who guide every Jewish-dominated military patrol defending the borders.
There are currently thousands of Israeli Bedouin serving in the IDF, and like Mazarib, they proudly lend their expertise and risk their lives to protect the Jewish state.
Interestingly, the AFP article was carried by the typically anti-Israel Saudi-owned news agency Al Arabiya, demonstrating that many Arabs around the region are fully aware that the claims of apartheid are nothing but a propaganda ploy.
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C Kalaza necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 281 diseños de 90 diseñadores freelance.
The Alberta Ingenuity Phytola Centre ("Phytola"; the name is derived from "phyto" meaning "plant" and "oleo" meaning "oil") is a collaborative network of university-based scientists working to develop high-value oilseeds and specialty oils (e.g., canola/rapeseed and flax). We are a multidisciplinary team with expertise ranging from plant biotechnology to oil analysis and processing. A major distinguishing feature of Phytola is our emphasis on moving products from the laboratory to the marketplace - our vision is to "be a leader in the development of novel oilseeds and specialty oils—solving market needs in collaboration with industry ", and our mission statement is "To provide market-responsive, oilseed biotechnology products & technology solutions in partnership with industry.
The Phytola team includes researchers from across Western Canada. We are seeking a creative, professional logo for use on all Phytola-related materials to showcase our innovative spirit and attract potential industrial and scientific partners from around the world.
The Phytola logo will reach a broad audience, most importantly industry collaborators and investors, scientific collaborators, prospective students and employees, but also various government agencies, oilseed producers/producer groups, and the general public.
We are looking for a professional, corporate-looking logo.
Many logos related to our research area include a stylized leaf and/or an oil drop – we would prefer something more original, although we may consider logos with these elements if they are fresh (we've seen a LOT of these logos, so it really must be something different!). The word "Phytola" should appear in a font that is clean and looks good at various sizes - our logo will appear on everything from letterhead to large posters. We have found that "Phytola" looks good in Optima or similar fonts but we are open to other ideas. Feel free to experiment with colors, but keep in mind that the logo should also look good if printed in grayscale or black/white.
The chosen logo must be made available in several formats (jpg, ai, pdf, eps, png). RGB values should be given for all colors.
Although we are not looking for a stylized leaf we will consider it if it is original.
We like the logos which can be found on the following pages:
Things to avoid:
No cartoons
No DNA helix
No stock images or clip art
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Funeral Set for Teens Killed in Little Falls Home
LITTLE FALLS (AP) — A joint funeral will be held Saturday for two teens who were killed in a Little Falls home.
Eighteen-year-old Haile Kifer of Little Falls and 17-year-old Nick Brady of Randall were shot multiple times in what authorities called a "cold-blooded" slaying after they apparently broke into Byron Smith's home on Thanksgiving Day.
Authorities say they didn't learn of the deaths until a day later. The Morrison County Sheriff's Office says Smith told investigators he shot the teens as they entered his basement.
Kifer and Brady are cousins.
Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Emblom-Brenny Funeral Service, with a prayer service scheduled for 7 p.m. that evening. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Living Hope Assembly of God Church in Little Falls.
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Communications Bill: Data access 'vital' anti-gang tool
Government plans to monitor all Britons' online activity will help police to infiltrate criminal gangs, Parliament has been told.
Ministers want to strengthen the law on internet data retention to help the police tackle security threats.
Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said access to data could help "capture people further up the tree" in organised gangs.
Home Secretary Theresa May will face questions on the issue on Wednesday.
Under the government's plans, currently being scrutinised by Parliament, service providers will have to store details of internet use in the UK for a year to allow police and intelligence services to access it.
New platforms
Records will include people's activity on social network sites, webmail, internet phone calls and online gaming.
Civil liberties campaigners and MPs from all parties have expressed concerns about the scope of the new powers.
But giving evidence to the parliamentary committee studying the proposals, Mr Fahy said getting access to basic details of who was talking to whom were "absolutely vital" in "proving associations" between criminals.
In his force's fight against organised crime in Manchester, Sir Peter said it was often able to penetrate the top of a criminal gang by linking "foot soldiers" selling drugs or stolen goods to those running operations.
But he said he was "very fearful" about the authorities' ability to keep track of suspects in future as they changed their behaviour and used social media and other less traceable channels to interact.
"What you are trying to prove is associations between different groups of criminals," he said.
"Up to now we have been able to use the more readily available communications data but criminals are realising that and moving to new technology and platforms.
"We already have specific examples of them using new platforms to defeat us."
Asked to give details of the new methods that criminals were using, Sir Peter said he was reluctant to reveal too much since offenders could be listening to the hearing, but he identified online "gaming platforms" as a growing concern.
Although many internet service providers were "very co-operative" at the moment in responding to police requests for information, others were "essentially obstructive", he said, and this needed to change.
Privacy risk
Giving evidence earlier on Tuesday, a leading IT executive said there were "big downsides" to the government's proposals "in terms of people having their privacy invaded".
Trefor Davies, chief technology officer of business-focused service provider Timico Limited, said high-profile data losses by government departments and banks in recent years showed information held by the state and private firms could not be regarded as totally secure.
Citing the example of someone visiting the Alcoholics Anonymous website, he said sensitive information was at risk of being compromised if details of online behaviour were stored on a database and then a laptop containing information was left in the back of a cab. He said: "This kind of information will escape."
While the industry wanted to help the authorities to "catch crooks" and prevent mass terrorist attacks, he said there needed to be serious debate about the privacy implications of the proposals.
Privacy campaigner Guy Hosein, from Privacy International, said police and other public authorities already had access to the information, and there was no need for new legislation. "This data is already collected here in this country," he said.


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AlexKGoldfarb necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We need a logo for our Canopy Tour. This is a zipline tour through the rainforest. This is one of the largest and most extensive tours on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Osa Canopy Tour
Our project is located on 800 acres of primary rainforest and is home to hundreds of different animals and thousands of different plants. People going on the tour can expect to be safely harnessed to a device that will allow them to "zip" from tree to tree on a steel cable. From this height people can see plants and animals that are only up at that height in the "canopy" of the treetops. We would like the logo to be simple, elegant, and use some of the colors and animals found in the rainforest
1. The logo will be a circle, more or less
2. The word "Osa" will be on top. Possibly it could be arched like a rainbow, but not necessary. Just an idea
3. The word "Canopy" will be in the middle of the circle, more or less.
4. The word "Tour" will be at the bottom and could possibly be arched like a smile.
5. We would like the colors to be bright and could include reds, oranges, blues, greens,
6. We would like some of the following animals to be incorporated into the logo.They could be peeking out from behind the letters or be in the middle of the circle, or be poking out from the sides or top of the circle as well. It would be best if only 1 -3 animals were used because we would like it to be not too busy. Animals could be: Parrots, Spider Monkeys, Howler Monkeys, Iguanas, Tucans, Plant leaves as well, 3 toed sloths.
7. the animals should not be in the form of photos but instead a artistic representations. They could be detailed or simple.
8. The logo should be easy to read.
1. No "cartoon-ish" animals
2. Not too crowded-leave some "white space"
3. Logo has to be easy to read.
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text: Keenan Palmore scores 23 Rick Voight ODU Opens C-USA Play With 81-70 Win at ECU January 11, 2014 By ODU Athletics MBB at ECU - Recap MBB at ECU - Postgame Presser ODU-ECU Box GREENVILLE, NC—ODU (7-9/1-0) sophomore guards and co-captains Keenan Palmore and Aaron Bacote combined for 41 points to lead the Monarchs to a 81-70 victory over East Carolina(11-5/0-1) Saturday night in Minges Coliseum. The victory was the Monarchs first ever win in Conference USA. ODU has now defeated ECU five straight and seven of last eight meetings. Keenan Palmore scored a game high 23 points, one point shy of his career high while Bacote scored 18 and red-shirt junior Dimitri Batten added 12. Bacote also dished out six assists. The two teams battled to a 37-37 tie at halftime as Palmore chipped in 17 points on 8-of-9 shots from the field. ECU was led by Paris Campbell with 19 points, while C-USA's leading scorerAkeem Richmond was held scoreless. In all, there were 10 ties during the first half as ODU shot .517 (15-29) from the floor to the Pirates .458 (11-24). In the first half, Palmore scored eight of ODU's first 12 points,then eight of its final 11 to close the half. In the second half, Dimitri Batten scored the first bucket to put ODU up 39-37, followed by a basket from Palmore and the Monarchs were never tied or trailed again. ECU cut the ODU lead to one, 45-44 at the 16:55 mark on a Richmond layup, but Bacote hit two free throws, then after a steal, Batten scored to put the Monarchs back up five, 49-44 with 15:26 left. The Pirates would cut the lead to one at 51-50 with14:16 left on a Richmond three-pointer, but Bacote would go on a 8-0 run with two three-point plays and two free throws to give ODU a 59-50 lead with 12:14 remaining. ECU would get no closer than seven (67-60) with 6:43 left. ODU shot a season best .564 (31-55) from the field while ECU was .400 (22-55), and ODU hit .778 (14-18) from the free throw line. ODU outrebounded the Pirates, 36-29 which is the 11th time in the last 13 games they have outrebounded an opponent. Monarch freshman forward Denzel Taylor and red-shirt junior forward Richard Ross both hauled down six rebounds. Ross, who ranks second in C-USA in blocked shots, swatted three more tonight. ECU had four players in double figures. Joining Campbell, Akeem Richmond scored 14, Petar torlak 12, andMichael Zangari added 11. The Monarchs return to action next Thursday in the Miami area at Florida International, then to Florida Atlantic on Saturday.


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With the unprecedented success of movies like "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc.", Pixar has solidified its place as a juggernaut of American entertainment. While the games based on Pixar's properties have been largely hit-or-miss (OK, most of them have missed), a lot of people think that THQ's Finding Nemo was the best of the bunch. It's no surprise, then, that Pixar has tapped THQ to publish the game version of their upcoming superhero flick "The Incredibles".
Developed by Heavy Iron Studios, the team behind the surprisingly fun SpongeBob SquarePants: The Battle for Bikini Bottom, The Incredibles tells the story of Mr. Incredible, a superhero forced into an early retirement by the greatest villains of all - lawyers. See, when you're trying to save the world, a lot of property tends to get damaged (remember when Superman tossed the big dumb Kryptonian into the neon sign in Superman II?) and many people have no problem suing to get some money out of it. When the lawsuits start to roll in, Mr. Incredible and his family hang up their tights and go into hiding. An old enemy appears on the scene to get Mr. Incredible back in the game, because, well, super villains just don't know any better, and madness ensues.
The Incredibles looks like it will be a great blend of platforming and action fighting. Each character has a different set of powers and strength, just like any good crimefighting team. Mr. Incredible is very strong, and has the ability to punch through, as well as pick up, just about any enemy or object that crosses his path. His wife Elastigirl is a lot like the Fantastic Four's Mr. Fantastic or Plasticman, in that she can stretch her arms and legs to knock out criminals from afar or to reach places that other characters can't. They were the only two I saw in the demo, but the producer assured me that the couple's children - Violet, Dash, and Jack Jack - will be playable characters as well.
Each level is tailored for a particular character. The demo I saw featured Mr. Incredible punching his way through killer robots and using his mighty strength to push levers that opened door. The level I played was very platformy, with Mr. Incredible jumping from ledge to ledge, toss enemies into switches, and even catapulting himself across the level with a palm tree.
While I only saw 2 of the estimated 20 levels, I was very impressed by the quality of the graphics. The outdoor levels were surprisingly beautiful, especially the jungle stage. The trees were a lush green color, and shone as if there was sunlight streaming through the leaves. Even the underground bunker level looked very good, despite the fact that it wasn't much more than some gray walls and the occasional laser beam barrier.
Added to the mix are some vehicular battles, although I only saw one. Mr. Incredible was flying around in a saucer shaped mini-craft, and he needed to blast the tops of control towers in order to open a hangar door so he could progress in the level. The flying and fighting was fun, although it seemed like the controls could use a little work. I was also told that we'd be seeing bosses at the end of each level, although they couldn't tell me who they were or what they'd be like. Apparently Pixar has been keeping a tight grip on any and all info, so they really couldn't tell us much about the main baddie or the plot.
I was really excited for The Incredibles movie before, and, after seeing the early build, I am almost equally pumped for the game. There's nothing like a few hours of fun platforming to make a guy feel incredible.


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Doobies Proud To Be Legendary Indie Band
The Doobie Brothers are one of the many '70s bands out on the road that have embraced releasing their albums independently and calling the shots with their live shows. Guitarist Patrick Simmons told The Las Vegas Review-Journal, that he feels that fans are excited seeing them play their latest material alongside the best loved hits, explaining, "They know the band's not just living off its former glories, but actually trying to achieve and break new ground on stuff. We do this music because we like to play. We have to do things for ourselves, that's just the bottom line. Whether people like it or not it doesn't really matter, because we're gonna do it anyway. It's one of the things you can be self-indulgent about when you're on the road and riding buses every night and putting up with a lot of bad food and stuff. That's the perk for us, that we get to go up there and play a few songs that are out of the norm."
He spoke about the band's critically acclaimed 2010 album, World Gone Crazy, which the Doobies released through the indie label HOR Entertainment: "(They) didn't have huge clout, but they were pretty supportive and had enough resources to get us out of the chute, so to speak. We end up selling 100,000 albums, maybe, but then we sell a lot of downloads of songs."
Guitarist and frontman Tom Johnston maintains that the Doobies aren't in it just for the glory or the money: "We're very fortunate that we're still out here able to be workin' on a regular basis, because people wanna hear us. It's been a long run -- but it doesn't seem like a long run. It seems like it was only yesterday that we started doing this, and we're still out doing it now. But times have changed, and we got to witness it all. And having a good time -- and that's basically why we're still doing it. If we weren't having a good time, I don't think I'd still be doin' this."
The Doobie Brothers tour dates (subject to change):
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On Saturday, all teams had to finish the process of dropping from 75 players to 53. Only four days earlier, all teams were permitted to have up to 90 on the roster.
Here are the final AFC cuts. And here are the final NFC moves.
That's 2,880 to 2,400 to 1,696. From Tuesday to Saturday.
But plenty of those 1,696 shouldn't get too comfortable. Some guys on the fringes will get a belated visit from the Turk, as their teams find better guys on the waiver wire or through free agency.
Some vested veterans (i.e., players with four or more years of service) will be squeezed in the coming days to take less money, with the possibility of being cut before their presence on the Week One roster essentially makes their full-year salary guaranteed. (Every vested veteran has the option once in his career to collect the balance of his base salary as "termination pay," if he's cut during the season.)
With each passing hour, it will become harder for those veterans to find new jobs for as much or more than their current teams were offering on a reduced deal. Still, some will refuse to blink — and they'll quite likely get cut.
So while the rosters are now at 53, the churning will continue throughout the season. From injuries to ineffectiveness to opportunities to pick a guy's brain about a former team, plenty of moves will be made moving forward, and plenty of guys who exhaled on Saturday night will be exiting the building soon.