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DURHAM, N.C. – Maryland finally ran into an offense it couldn't stop.
The stingiest defense in the Atlantic Coast Conference allowed No. 1 Duke to shoot 52 percent in an 84-64 loss to the Blue Devils on Saturday.
Mark Turgeon's team hadn't allowed a team to shoot better than 44 percent all season. But the Terrapins had no answer for Duke freshman Rasheed Sulaimon, who scored a season-high 25 points.
"We made some mistakes defensively that got him going," Turgeon said. "Our ball screen defense wasn't good enough all day, and theirs was really good. That was the difference in the game."
Dez Wells and Charles Mitchell both had 13 points for the Terrapins (15-5, 3-4). They have lost four of six and were denied their first victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2007 and first win over a No. 1 team since '08.
"We really played hard in the first 25 minutes, but I'll look at the last 15 minutes," Mitchell said. "That's when you're supposed to learn how to play and win the game, and we didn't do that."
Mason Plumlee added 19 points and Seth Curry had 13 to help the Blue Devils (17-2, 4-2) bounce back from one of their worst losses under coach Mike Krzyzewski.
"This was just a game to show basically what our character was like," Sulaimon said. "Are we going to fold after a big loss, or are we going to step up and be men?"
They had just four turnovers — none in the second half — while hitting 11 3-pointers. Plumlee finished 9 of 12 while Sulaimon was 9 of 13 with six 3s — twice as many as his previous high, and four in a 3-minute span of the first half.
That came after he earned a seat on the bench because Wells was beating him on the boards.
"When we took him out, we got on him and he did something that I think is so terrific. ... He said, 'I got you, Coach. I'll do better,'" Krzyzewski said. "He just embraced responsibility, and anybody who embraces responsibility has a chance to do better. 'It's my fault. I'm responsible for it.' He came in the game and he gave us a huge lift there."
Alex Len, who leads Maryland with a 13.5-point scoring average, finished with eight points and 10 rebounds. But aside from an early reverse dunk over Plumlee that looked effortless, he was essentially a nonfactor against a Duke front line that was without injured 6-foot-11 forward Ryan Kelly for the fourth straight game.
The tough job of replacing him fell to high-energy freshman Amile Jefferson, who responded in his second straight start with 11 points and nine rebounds while blocking four shots and affecting several others.
His layup with 9:23 left gave the Blue Devils their largest lead to that point at 66-53. That came during the late 19-8 run that put Duke in complete control.
Logan Aronhalt pulled Maryland within single digits for the final time when his 3-pointer with 13 minutes left made it 58-49. Sulaimon countered with his sixth 3 to start the run, and Quinn Cook capped it with a jumper that put the Blue Devils up 20 for the first time, 77-57 with 4:39 left.
Cook finished with 11 points for Duke, which was coming off its most lopsided regular-season loss since 1984, a 90-63 beatdown at No. 25 Miami that will assuredly send the Blue Devils tumbling from No. 1.
"Everybody has to look in the mirror and say, 'What do I need to do?'" Plumlee said. "It's not fun. We hate losing, naturally. People are always like, 'What did Coach do to you?' We don't like losing. Coach isn't the only one who hates to lose."
The only thing resembling a bright spot in that complete clunker might have been Sulaimon, who led them in scoring for the first time with 16 points while taking another step out of a midseason slump in which he was 7 of 32 during a rough four-game stretch.
The Terrapins hadn't allowed a conference opponent to shoot better than 38 percent this season, and they might have kept that going had Sulaimon not turned this one into his personal shootaround.
He hit four straight 3-pointers and scored 13 points during a 15-5 run that gave Duke its first bit of breathing room. That burst included a four-point play and a deep 3 in transition that had Turgeon calling time out to cool him off and drew "Holy 'Sheed" chants from the Cameron Crazies.
"After that, everything else just kept falling in," Sulaimon said.


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Why the Smart Grid Might Be a Dumb Idea
Security experts worry that the more connected our electric utilities are to the Web, the more vulnerable they'll be to cyberattack.
Foreign hackers don't just pose a threat to classified material, corporate secrets, and individual privacy. Security experts say the greatest cyberthreat to the United States is the fact that the Chinese and Russian governments—and possibly other players—have succeeded in hacking into the nation's electric grid, giving them the ability, if they wish, to bring the U.S. economy to a screeching halt with the click of a mouse.
Such an attack—executed not by gun-wielding terrorists on planes but by hackers activating software programs from thousands of miles away—could "deny large regions of the country access to bulk-system power for weeks or even months," concluded a National Academies of Science study declassified late last year. "An event of this magnitude and duration could lead to turmoil, widespread public fear, and an image of helplessness that would play directly into the hands of the terrorists. If such large extended outages were to occur during times of extreme weather, they could also result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths due to heat stress or extended exposure to extreme cold."
And the cyberthreat is growing as U.S. utilities seek to modernize aging electric infrastructure. When power companies invest in updating the 20th-century power grid with 21st-century "smart-grid" technology—particularly digital tools that increase the efficiency of electricity distribution while cutting global-warming pollution—they're also making the grid more vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks.
"The modernization of electric utilities nationwide has left security loopholes that can be fairly easily exploited by hackers. It's created more efficiencies for utilities and convenience for consumers. But it's come at the expense of security," said Michael Dubose, managing director at Kroll, a risk-management firm, and a former chief of the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Division.
"A few years ago, the grid was routinely being hacked by the Chinese and Russians.... They mapped the lay of the land, and now we have to assume they're inside the firewall," Dubose said.
Government officials say there's plenty of evidence that hackers have made their way into the 200,000 miles of transmission lines that provide electricity to more than 300 million people. In May, the Homeland Security Department told a House panel that between 2011 and 2012, DHS processed 68 percent more cyber incidents involving federal agencies critical infrastructure, including the electric grid, than it had the previous year.
And power companies are making it easier for hackers with the advent of the so-called smart grid. Experts say that the more the electric grid is integrated with the Internet, the easier it is for hackers to break in. President Obama has championed smart-grid technology as a way to address global warming. His 2009 stimulus law included $4.5 billion to increase smart-grid investment.
On Wednesday, the State Department announced a U.S.-China partnership in promoting smart-grid development—in both countries—to help reduce carbon pollution from power plants. That's good news for global warming, but potentially bad news for cybersecurity. "If your primary focus is reducing vulnerability, then a smart grid doesn't seem like a very good idea," said Adam Segal, an expert in China studies and cybersecurity at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Segal said that for now, the fact that hackers likely possess the capability to take down the U.S. grid doesn't mean they'll act. Bringing down major infrastructure is tougher than simply snooping on e-mails, he said, and it appears that only a few state actors—China, Russia, and the U.S.—have that capability. "It's hard to imagine a scenario where the Russians or the Chinese would turn off our grid for no reason," Segal said. "I suspect the Chinese have mapped these grids in case there's an escalation that spins out of control and they want to send a message that the U.S. is vulnerable." But, he added, "the Iranians are spending more on cyber [warfare], and al-Qaida has expressed an interest—we know this is something terrorists are interested in."
The threat of a terrorist attack even inspired the plot of a thriller novel. Retired Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota has just released Gridlock, in which the Iranian and Venezuelan governments team up to attack the U.S. electric grid, leading to rolling blackouts that shut down 14 major U.S. cities. "This is fiction, but the threat to our electric grid system—it could happen," Dorgan, a former member of the Energy Committee, told National Journal.
Dorgan and other policymakers lament the lack of coordination among the entities that manage the electric grid. Electricity transmission is overseen by a patchwork of federal, state, and local agencies; public and private electric utilities; and regional managers. "We need leadership on this," Dorgan said. "There's no one running the signals."
In February, President Obama signed an executive order requiring government agencies to re-evaluate and improve their oversight of cybersecurity risks. But the order didn't provide agencies with additional statuatory authority to address cyber risks—that authority can only be granted through an act of Congress.
This spring, the House passed a cybersecurity bill aimed at reducing the vulnerability of the grid, in part by requiring electric utilities to share more information with the federal government. But the bill's backers say that, for now, its prospects of Senate passage are nil: In the wake of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's leaks about the U.S. government's surveillance of civilians, there's no chance the upper chamber will take up a bill that would result in private companies turning over customer information to the government.
"We need close coordination between the government and the private sector on this. We need the government's intelligence-gathering ability, and they need our electric-utility operations expertise," said Scott Aaronsen, director of national security at the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association representing privately owned electric utilities. "I lament that … the NSA saga is hampering that," he said. "It now means there's greater mistrust of government and corporations sharing information." And continued vulnerability to an attack.
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OXFORD, Ohio -- Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh will be inducted into the "Cradle of Coaches" at his alma mater Miami University next year.
Around The League examines what's next for the NFL's 32 teams in 2013. Gregg Rosenthal covers the Ravens. **More ...**
John Harbaugh's team won Super Bowl XLVII, beating his brother Jim's San Francisco 49ers 34-31 for the Ravens' second NFL title. John Harbaugh graduated from the southwest Ohio school in 1984.
A bronze, life-size statue of Harbaugh will be added to the Cradle of Coaches display on a plaza outside Yager Stadium early next year, joining the statues of Earl "Red" Blaik, Paul Brown, Carm Cozza, Paul Dietzel, Weeb Ewbank, Ara Parseghian, John Pont and Bo Schembechler.
The statues honor Miami graduates who have been named a coach of the year, won a national or pro title, or been inducted into the college or NFL Hall of Fame.
"To me, there is no greater recognition in coaching," Harbaugh said in a statement. "To be included with these great men is something only dreamed about."
When the Ravens won the Super Bowl, Harbaugh joined Ewbank and Brown as Miami alumni who have taken their teams to NFL titles. Ewbank won NFL titles with the Baltimore Colts and a Super Bowl title with the New York Jets. Paul Brown won NFL titles with the Cleveland Browns before the Super Bowl era.
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When I think back to why I first started this blog, it was mainly to capture some of the adventures the Claws were having in game, as well as to share random thoughts and stories of mine. Thus, I shared the name of my toon, my guild, and server from the very beginning. I definitely chuckle when friends and guildies and yes, even complete strangers whisper me in game around something related to the blog. That's probably why I didn't make it an anonymous blog, and I don't regret doing so.
But I also think I started this blog as an avenue to be able to vent about stuff in game as well. For me, writing about things sometimes helps me to get it out and perhaps let it go, or even see it from another perspective. Thus, there are times when I do wish for the complete openness and honesty that can come with total anonymity. If this was an anonymous blog, I would probably share or comment or vent about a lot more stuff. But its not anonymous, and I know the people who are reading it (yay statcounter! hee hee), whether they are friends or other folks.
Anyways, not sure what I'm trying to say here, but my blogger friends can probably relate to some of what I'm saying. Damn, I really do wish I could vent more here. It's my freakin blog... I wish I could say all I wanted to say. Maybe you're asking me, well why don't you then? Well, even I have limits, or a conscience. If I really vented here, the way I do to close friends, I would feel a bit guilty, even if what I was saying was true.
Trust me when I'm venting, its pretty damn funny... being part amusing, part super super feisty, and part downright scary. Hmmm... maybe I need to create a level 1 alt and go troll the server forums or something. :)


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12 Manny Being Manny John Hart, the general manager of the Cleveland Indians when they drafted Manny Ramirez in 1991, remembered, "He was kind of a different kid." Really? Never noticed. Hart recalls that Ramirez had been late paying some bills during […]
By Nick Cafardo
Jun 06 2008
John Hart, the general manager of the Cleveland Indians when they drafted Manny Ramirez in 1991, remembered, "He was kind of a different kid." Really? Never noticed.
Hart recalls that Ramirez had been late paying some bills during a stretch in his first season with the Indians and bill collectors were beginning to call the Indians' offices. Hart decided to get to the bottom of it. "What we found was, Manny hadn't cashed any of his paychecks for the season. We were about halfway through the year. They were all in envelopes in the glove compartment of his car. We asked him why and he just gave us that Manny shrug and said, 'I don't know,'" Hart recalled.
There are so many stories and so many episodes of Manny being Manny. The player even had a shirt made up with the "Manny Being Manny" mantra printed on it.
Ramirez was born in the Dominican Republic and spent his high school years in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood at George Washington High School. He was a shortstop when Hart first saw him play, but the most striking quality of his game was his hitting — it was like nothing Hart had ever seen before. The Indians planned to draft him in the second round, but Hart's scouts predicted Ramirez would be long gone. So the Indians took him 13th overall, and they have no regrets.
Ramirez, a hitting savant, studies and practices his hitting ad nauseam. His ability to look at pitches going by before settling on an 0-2 pitch for a home run is legendary. Once during the '07 season David Ortiz kidded, "Manny, are you just playing around with the pitcher?"
Ramirez signed an eight-year, $160 million contract with the Red Sox in the winter of 2000. Leaving Cleveland was painful for him, especially since they had actually offered him more money, but the deal wasn't structured as well as Boston's. To say anyone can live up to that contract would be silly. But Ramirez, who was the 2004 World Series MVP and followed that with a .348 average with four homers and 16 RBIs in 14 postseason games in '07, has had a remarkable Red Sox career following his memorable time with the Indians.
Entering the 2008 season, Ramirez, without question a future Hall of Famer, will be 10 home runs shy of 500. His .593 slugging percentage is eighth all-time. His 1,604 RBIs are 28th and his 490 homers are 26th. He's hit 133 homers at Fenway Park and 131 at Jacobs Field. That's 250 homers in his home ballparks, with another 240 on the road. The '08 season will be his eighth in Boston, after the eight he spent with the Indians.
Ramirez has always been the subject of trade talk. The John Henry ownership group put him on waivers in an effort to rid itself of his contract. During the off-season in '03 they tried to deal him to the Texas Rangers — where, ironically, Hart had become the general manager — for Alex Rodriguez, but the deal fell through. Ramirez demanded trades in '04, '05, and '06, but the Red Sox were unable to ever get proper compensation in return for him. In 07 the reluctant Ramirez declared that he wanted to spend the rest of his career with the Red Sox. It looks like he'll get his wish.


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New Partnership to Address Digital Literacy and Job Skills Gap
FCC Chairman Genachowski and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis visited an employment center in Arlington, VA, for an announcement related to digital literacy and job training.
Washington, D.C. – On Monday, July 16, 2012, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski joined Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, representatives from Connect2Compete, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to announce an effort on digital literacy and job training as part of a national initiative to close the broadband adoption gap.
Connect2Compete is a national non-profit coalition to help narrow the digital divide by making high-speed Internet access, computers, educational and jobs content, and digital literacy training more accessible for millions of Americans without home connectivity. The program recently announced the first-ever, multi-media, multilingual, nationwide ad campaign on digital literacy with the Ad Council, which will launch in early 2013.
According to studies, one-third of all Americans — 100 million people – have not adopted broadband high-speed Internet at home and 66 million Americans lack digital literacy skills. Through Connect2Compete, the public-private partnership seeks to overcome the top obstacles to broadband adoption, including digital literacy, relevance, and cost. Yet, more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies require online job applications. Through Connect2Compete, the public-private partnership seeks to overcome the top obstacles to broadband adoption, including digital literacy, relevance, and cost, enabling all Americans to compete successfully in the job market.
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10 generals guilty of arming Boko Haram
KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Ten generals and five other senior military officers have been found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, several Nigerian newspapers said Tuesday, though the military insisted there was no truth in the reports.
They follow months of allegations from politicians and soldiers who told The Associated Press that some senior officers were helping the Islamic extremists and that some rank-and-file soldiers even fight alongside the insurgents and then return to army camps. They have said that information provided by army officers has helped insurgents in ambushing military convoys and in attacks on army barracks and outposts in their northeastern stronghold.
Leadership newspaper quoted one officer saying that four other officers, in addition to the 15, were found guilty of "being disloyal and for working for the members of the sect."
Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, who last week denied reports saying senior officers were being investigated, reiterated in a statement on Tuesday that defense headquarters "wishes to state once again categorically that there is no truth whatsoever in the report."
He called it a "falsehood" concocted by those who "appear hell-bent on misleading Nigerians and the international community to give credence to the negative impression they are so keen to propagate about the Nigerian military."
Nigeria's military often denies substantiated reports, such as on extrajudicial killings of civilians and detainees. It is accused of such gross human rights violations that the U.S. efforts to help in the rescue of nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls have been limited by U.S. law restricting sharing of some types of information and technology with abusive security forces.
The alleged sabotage by senior officers could explain the military's failure to curb a 5-year-old Islamic uprising by Boko Haram that has killed thousands despite a year-long state of emergency in the northeast.
Boko Haram has attracted international condemnation and U.N. sanctions since its April 15 abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls, of whom 272 remain captive.
Nigerian activists pressing the government to rescue the schoolgirls filed a complaint Tuesday against a police ban on protests.
"We filed a complaint that the police don't have any right to stop people from expressing themselves," said community leader Pogu Bitrus of Chibok, the town from which the girls were abducted.
The protests have "degenerated" and are "now posing a serious security threat," Abuja police commissioner Joseph Mbu said in a statement Monday banning all protests in the capital related to the topic.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, said such a ban violates basic rights under the Nigerian constitution.
However, Nigerian police on Tuesday said they had not ordered a ban on peaceful assemblies or protests in Nigeria.
"The Police only issued advisory notice, enjoining citizens to apply caution in the said rallies," the statement said. "Citizens are strongly advised to reconsider their positions on the issues of rallies and protests" given the current threats by militants.
The kidnapping crisis has highlighted Nigeria's failure to curb Boko Haram's uprising.
Leadership newspaper on Tuesday quoted military officers saying the 15 allegedly found guilty of providing arms to Boko Haram are among many more being tried at divisional level. The verdicts are being referred to defense headquarters in Abuja, the capital, where the fate of the officers will be decided, the newspaper said. The officers it quoted spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to give information to reporters.
President Goodluck Jonathan said last year that he believed that some members of the military and even of his own government, including some Cabinet ministers, sympathized with Boko Haram or belonged to the group. Jonathan in January fired his entire military command and weeks later replaced the defense minister.
His government and military have been harshly criticized for lack of action that has led to the schoolgirls' prolonged captivity. Defense chief Air Marshal Alex Badeh said last week the military knows where they are being held but fears to use force as it could get the girls killed. Jonathan is under increasing pressure to make a deal with the insurgents, who are demanding he free detained fighters in return for the girls.
Associated Press reporter Maram Mazen in Lagos, Nigeria contributed to this report.
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Speaking at a Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry event on Monday, Meghan McCain said it's a "bitch" being a Republican who supports marriage equality. Umm...yeah. No doy. But good on her for sticking by her beliefs in what, on many occasions, must be a hostile situation.
According to the Huffington Post, shortly after Romney lost to Obama, McCain said she would consider switching parties if the GOP failed to change some of its stances. While it's a start, one Senator with a gay son does not a changed stance make — so what's the word, McCain?


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With more than 40 million people living under exceptional drought conditions in East Africa, the ability to make accurate predictions of drought has never been more important. In the aftermath of widespread famine and a humanitarian crisis caused by the 2010-2011 drought in the Horn of Africa -- possibly the worst drought in 60 years -- researchers are striving to determine whether drying trends will continue.
While it is clear that El Niño can affect precipitation in this region of East Africa, very little is known about the drivers of long-term shifts in rainfall. However, new research described in the journal Nature helps explain the mechanisms at work behind historical patterns of aridity in Eastern Africa over many decades, and the findings may help improve future predictions of drought and food security in the region.
"The problem is, instrumental records of temperature and rainfall, especially in East Africa, don't go far enough in time to study climate variability over decades or more, since they are generally limited to the 20th century," explains first author Jessica Tierney, a geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Tierney and her colleagues at WHOI and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University used what is known as the paleoclimate record, which provides information on climate in the geologic past, to study East African climate change over a span of 700 years.
The paleoclimate record in East Africa consists of indicators of moisture balance -- including pollen, water isotopes, charcoal, and evidence for run-off events -- measured in lake sediment cores. Tierney and her colleagues synthesized these data, revealing a clear pattern wherein the easternmost sector of East Africa was relatively dry in medieval times (from 1300 to 1400 a.d.), wet during the "Little Ice Age" from approximately 1600 to 1800 a.d., and then drier again toward the present time.
Climate model simulations analyzed as part of the study revealed that the relationship between sea surface temperatures and atmospheric convection in the Indian Ocean changes rainfall in East Africa. Specifically, wet conditions in coastal East Africa are associated with cool sea surface temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean and warm sea surface temperatures in the western Indian Ocean, which cause ascending atmospheric circulation over East Africa and enhanced rainfall. The opposite situation -- cold sea surface temperatures in the western Indian Ocean and warmer in the East -- causes drought. Such variations in sea-surface temperatures likely caused the historical fluctuations in rainfall seen in the paleorecord.
The central role of the Indian Ocean in long-term climate change in the region was a surprise. "While the Indian Ocean has long been thought of as a 'little brother' to the Pacific, it is clear that it is in charge when it comes to these decades-long changes in precipitation in East Africa," says Tierney.
Many questions remain, though. "We still don't understand exactly what causes the changes in sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and the relationship between those changes and global changes in climate, like the cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age or the global warming that is occurring now," says Tierney. "We'll need to do some more experiments with climate models to understand that better."
In the past decade, the easternmost region of Africa has gotten drier, yet general circulation climate models predict that the region will become wetter in response to global warming. "Given the geopolitical significance of the region, it is very important to understand whether drying trends will continue, in which case the models will need to be revised, or if the models will eventually prove correct in their projections of increased precipitation in East Africa," says co-author Jason Smerdon, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
While it's currently unclear which theory is correct, the discovery of the importance of the Indian Ocean may help solve the mystery. "In terms of forecasting long-term patterns in drought and food security, we would recommend that researchers make use of patterns of sea surface temperature changes in the Indian Ocean rather than just looking at the shorter term El Niño events or the Pacific Ocean," says Tierney.
In addition, Tierney and her colleagues lack paleoclimate data from the region that is most directly affected by the Indian Ocean -- the Horn of Africa. The paleoclimate data featured in this study are limited to more equatorial and interior regions of East Africa. With support from National Science Foundation, Tierney and her colleagues are now developing a new record of both aridity and sea surface temperatures from the Gulf of Aden, at a site close to the Horn.
"This will give us the best picture of what's happened to climate in the Horn, and in fact, it will be the first record of paleoclimate in the Horn that covers the last few millennia in detail. We're working on those analyses now and should have results in the next year or so," says Tierney.
This research was based on work supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Weekly review: Week ending October 19, 2012| weekly
The Small Business Forum was fun to sketchnote. Did lots of good stuff at my consulting gig. Biked through the rain on Friday after a successful pub night experiment with Quantified Self Toronto. Lots of social get-togethers. Need to block off more time to recharge in quiet and solitude; looking forward to catching my breath after conference season winds up!
From last week's plans
[X]Earn: E1: Consulting (1 day a week)
[X]Connect: Sketchnote Small Business Forum
[X]Connect: Host Quantified Self Toronto meetup (had pub night, too)
[X]Connect: Sketchnote Entrepreneurship 101
[-]Build: Set up meeting regarding Entrepreneurship 101 PDF?
[X]Build: Prepare templates for sketchnoting
[-]Build: Work on lettering and typography
[X]Build: Check out art classes
[X]Build: Order more sketchnoting resources
[X]Build: Register new domain names for business
- Build: Hired Linda for virtual assistance
- Build: Listened to Ramit Sethi's course through CreativeLive
[X]Have Dan over!
[X]Recover =)
[X]Get the house sorted out again
[-]Sign up for Cantonese tutoring; postponed until I have more brainspace
[X]Get ready for Saturday parties: David Ing, Eric Buchegger
[-]Harvest basil
[X]Write long-delayed monthly review
[-]Categorize topics
- Biked in the rain!
Plans for next week
[ ]Earn: E1: Consulting (2.5 days)
[ ]Connect: Sketchnote MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 course (Wed)
[ ]Connect: Sketchnote mobile business track at AndroidTO (Thu)
[ ]Connect: Sketchnote The Changing Nature of Influence meetup (Thu)
[ ]Connect: Sketchnote TEDxToronto (Fri)
[ ]Connect: Talk to QuantifiedSelf.com crew (Mon)
[ ]Connect: Order new business cards
[ ]Connect: Outline presentation
[ ]Build: Document my sketchnote process for post-conference follow-up
[ ]Build: Train Linda on post-conference follow-up process
[ ]Send post-party thank you notes
[X]Help Rachel Lane paint
[X]Attend David Ing's party
[X]Attend Eric Buchegger's party
[X]Restocked freezer
[X]Put away deck chairs
[ ]Analyze groceries / spending data
[ ]Harvest basil
[ ]Update categorical index
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Owl Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids
How to Make Owl Crafts and Learning Activities
Bobble Head Owl Cup Craft for Kids
What you will need:
Two 9-oz. Party Cups
Color Coding Labels (Dot Stickers, Found at Office Supply Stores)
Brass Brad Fasteners
Stapler or Tape
Hole Punch
Colored Paper
How to make the bobble head craft:
1. To make the head of the owl, measure two inches from the bottom of one cup, draw a line around the cup, and then cut on the line. To add the scallops along the edge, draw them with a pencil first and then cut along the lines.
2. Print out the owl face patterns or make your own and glue it to the cup. Punch a hole in the back of the head about 1/2" from the edge.
3. To make the wings, cut the rolled up top off of another cup. Place the seam of the cup towards the back and fold the cup in half creasing the sides to find the sides of the cup. Measure 2 1/4" down on each side of the cup and cut slits. Press the front of the cup down rolling the sides in towards the center of the cup. Bring the back sides of the cup over the front and staple the sides down.
4. Punch a hole about 3/4" down from the top edge in the back of the cup.
5. Insert a brass brad into hole in the body cup so that the prongs are facing out. Place the head cup on top of the body placing the hole over the prongs of the brass brad. Spread out the prongs.
6. To finish draw the owl's feet on construction paper, cut them out, and glue or tape them to the bottom of the cup.
7. Stick double-sided tape on the bottom of the cup and stick it to your car dashboard. Watch the head bobble as you drive.
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Types of Owls Printable Coloring Sheet or Activity Sheet
Use this activity sheet to help your children study the different types of owls. They can color the sheets and talk about the differences between the species, or cut them out and write descriptions about each one including their habitat, characteristics, physical attributes.
This pattern comes in both color and black and white and is available to members only.
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Owl Puppets Craft and Creative Play
Owl Babies Stick Puppet Skit
Read "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell or watch the animated version on YouTube. Have your children make three baby owl puppets and a mother owl and then make a puppet skit.
Then have your children make up their own story and skit using the puppets.
The Patterns for these puppets are available to members only.
Great Home School Learning Activity!
Use this craft with Owl Babies: Candlewick Storybook Animations by Martin Waddell.
All preschoolers will identify with the separation anxiety the owlets feel in this adorable story. When the owlets wake up in the middle of the night to find their mother is gone the worried owlets wonder where she might be. They are overjoyed when she returns safe and sound.
Flying Owl Stick Puppet Craft for Kids
Glue a craft stick to the owl's tail to make a stick puppet.
These patterns are available to members only.
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This pattern also included the barred owl pattern.
"Wow! Said the Owl" Writing and Art Activity
"Wow! Said the Owl" by Tim Hopgood is a delightful little story about a curious little owl who instead of staying awake all night took a nap so she could stay up during the day to see what it was like. And "Wow!" is what she said over and over when she saw all the wonderful things that show up during the day.
Writing and Art Activity
Read this story to your children then have them think of something else the owl might see and then draw a picture and write a sentence starting with: "Wow!" said the owl, when she saw . . .
When your children are done staple the pages together to make a book.
Visit Tim Hopgood's Web Site to learn more about his books and illustration techniques.
Paper Bag Owl
What you will need:
Brown Paper Lunch Bag for the Body
Brown Construction Paper for the Wings
Black Marker
Yellow Card Stock or Construction Paper for the Eyes
Newspaper Ripped into Quarters (Plastic Grocery Bags also Make Great Stuffing.)
How to make a paper lunch bag owl:
1. Stuff a paper lunch bag with wrinkled up pieces of newspaper or plastic grocery bags about half full.
2. Pull the sides of the paper bag out from the top so that you can make a flat surface at the top of the bag.
3. Fold down the sides from the middle top of the bag and glue them down. Fold the down the point to the front of the bag making the top of the owls head. Pull up on the sides to make the horns and open them slightly.
4. Draw wings on brown paper and eyes and a beak onto yellow paper using a black Sharpie, and cut them out. Glue them to the bag.
(Printable patterns for the wings, eyes, and beak are available to members.)
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No-Sew Sock Owl Craft for Kids
What you will need:
Brown, Yellow-orange, Tan, and Black Felt
Brown Fun Foam
Hot Melt Glue Gun
How to Make a Sock Owl Craft:
1. Cut the bottom part off the sock all the way up to the heal.
2. Stuff the cut off part leaving the top inch empty.
3. Cut brown and orange circles for the eyes and glue them about one in below the cut edge of the sock. Glue eyes to the center of the circles. Cut a long oval shapes for the beak from black felt and glue it to the face as shown.
4. To make the ear tuffs fold the back side of the cut edge of the sock over the front side and glue it to the front of the owl covering part of the eye circles. Poke in the material formed on each side to make the ear tuffs. Use a little glue to keep them closed.
5. Cut wing shapes from felt and glue them to the sides of the owl.
6. Cut claw shapes from brown fun foam and glue them to the bottom or toe of the sock.
To make even more sock animals go to the Sock Crafts and Learning Activities of Kids page.
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"Be Wise" Owl Crafts and Learning Activities
Great Home School Learning Activity!
Paper cup owls hold "wise quotes" on sheets of rolled up paper. For a writing assignment children can write about what they think each quote means, or if they agree with the quote.
Go to the Ready-for-school Crafts and Activities Page for patterns and directions.
Owl Shape Book with Moveable Wings
1. Print out the patterns and make copies.
2. Color the owl and feathers and then cut them out.
3. Attach the feathers to the back owl pattern and then staple the front to the back.
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Owl Shape Book with Lined Paper
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Wax Resist Owl Craft for Kids
Home schoolers can use this craft as an art project and science project. Have your students write facts about owls on the back of the paper or cut out owl-shaped pages to match the owl craft. Wax resist is a great artistic technique to make the texture on the owl.
What you will need:
White Crayon
Water Color Paint
Card Stock or Water Color Paper
How to Make the Wax Resist Owl Craft:
1. Draw an owl on a piece of card stock or water color paper with a dark crayon or permanent marker.
2. Draw the feathers in with a white crayon or other light-colored crayon.
3. Paint over the crayon with water color paint. The water color paint will not stick to the crayon and the pattern you drew will show through.
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Horned Owl Milk Jug Recycle Craft for Kids
What you will need:
Empty Plastic Milk Mug
Yellow and Brown Craft Foam Sheets
Brown Valspar Plastic Primer Spray Paint or Krylon Clear Plastic Primer Paint - If you are using the Acrylic Patio Paint
How to Make the Milk Jug Owl Craft:
1. To remove the label fill the jug up with hot water and let it sit for a minute. This will loosen the glue. Carefully pull off the label. Do not get the label wet before trying to remove it or it will just disintegrate and you will have a hard time getting it off. Once the label is removed you can wash and dry the plastic milk jug.
2. Cut the top off the jug where the lid screws on with scissors. Fill the jug with a few cups of sand or pebbles to add weight to the owl.
3. Spray the jug with plastic primer paint and then paint it with the acrylic patio paint or use brown spray paint after using the primer paint and add details with acrylic paint.
4. Cut the wings, feet, and horn pattern from fun foam and glue them to the milk jug. To make the horns bend up, slightly stretch the fun foam with your fingers at the points.
If you use this craft and put it up on the web, please link back to this web site for the directions.
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Owl Printable Valentine's Day Card Craft for Kids
These cute little owls can not only be use as valentine cards, but can be used to decorate your home school. Go to Valentine's Day Craft Page 1 for directions and patterns.
"The Little White Owl" Crafts and Activities
Here's another great home school craft for kids. Use the owl puppets to act out the story, and as an art project to study color. This craft is available with "Artistic Design and the Great Creator" lesson series.
Owl Paper Plate Puppet Crafts for Children
Use this craft with your owl unit studies in your home school!
What you will need:
One Regular-sized
Two Snack-sized Paper Plates
Acrylic Paint
How to Make the Cardinal Paper Plate Craft:
1. Fold down the edges of the large paper plate to make the owls wings. (You can fold down just one side or both.)
2. Paint the body and wings with acrylic paint to match the type of owl you are studying, and let it dry.
3. To make the head trace the head pattern onto the two snack-sized paper plates.
4. Glue the head shapes together top to top at the top and sides but not the bottom.
5. Paint the head and let it dry, then place the head on the body pattern sticking the body into the inside of the head. Children will enjoy moving the head.
6. To finish cut out the feet, paint them, and glue them to the body.
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Great Horned Owl Craft Made with Real Feathers
What you will need:
Brown Feathers
Yellow Construction Paper
Black Magic Marker
Sunflower Seed Kernel
Brown Construction Paper or a Paper Plate
How to make:
1. Draw an egg shape for the owl on to brown construction paper or paper plate and cut it out. The wider end of the egg shape is the owl's head.
2. Glue two feathers on for the wings. Then glue on long feathers for the body.
3. Glue the shaft end of the feathers to the neck area so that the tips of the feathers form the owl's tail feathers (Feathery part).
4. Cut the tips off of some of your feathers and glue them in a circular pattern onto the face area to make the facial disk.
5. Cut yellow circles from the construction paper and use a magic marker to color in the pupils. Glue on a sunflower seed for the beak.
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Pinecone Great Horned Owl Craft
What you will need:
Pinecones (If possible use pinecones that are twisted at the bottom so that the bottom of the pinecone is showing from one side.)
Yellow Construction Paper
Sunflower Seed Kernel
Yellow and Black Paper or Animal Eyes
How to Make the Pinecone Owl:
1. Glue feathers on the pinecones to make the face and horns of the owl.
2. Cut small circles from yellow paper and black paper to make the eyes and glue them on the pine cone.
3. Glue a sunflower seed on for the owl's beak.
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Letter O for Owl Printing and Cursive Writing Worksheets
This Worksheet goes with the ABC series of lessons in which children learn godly concepts and study animals at the same time. They are great for Christian preschools and home school children. They are designed for preschool through third grade. Children can print the letters, trace them, write them in cursive, write the complete Bible verse in cursive or print it, or write the word.
These lessons also include other learning activities to go along with the theme including math, spelling, writing, science, and review games. Lessons and worksheets are available to members only.
Owl Crafts on Other Pages
Owl Caddy Made from an Oatmeal Box
This box cannot only be used for a Valentine Card Holder, but would be great to store words of wisdom, trinkets, or cards with new words your children have learned. Open the box weekly and review all the new words so your child can see how much he is learning.


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About ICTU
Information Technology and Telecommunication Association
The Association's Profile ICT UNIE (ICTU)
ICT UNIE is a professional association of companies active in the field of information technology and electronic communication, as well as other areas such as business and education.
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Designer Matt W. Moore emailed over some images from his show An Abstract Dialogue running now at Heidelberg, Germany's Galerie P13 through September. The works are in collaboration with painter Tim Clorius (Portland, Maine).
The exhibition is sponsored by the Maine Arts Commission, through the National Endowment for the Arts.


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After MTV's hit show Jackass ended in 2002, what was a boy like pro prankster Bam Margera to do with his idle time and boundless energy? Seeing as there was no stopping him, MTV decided to give him his own show, Viva La Bam, where he spent five seasons playfully tormenting his ever-patient parents, April (aka Ape) and Phil, with his outrageous antics. What was Bam able to get away with? Whatever the @#!% he wanted! Margera and his CKY crew -- Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Raab Himself and Rake Yohn -- played every practical joke imaginable on Bam's family, always with hilarious results. Viva La Bam usually revolved around destroying Ape and Phil's home and forcing family members to compete for "prizes." From outrageous scavenger hunts to converting the family home into a skate park to loading elephants onto the front lawn, Bam and his clan always managed to up the ante and push his parents' sanity to the limits. Each episode of Viva La Bam revolved around a challenge, mission or theme that would be completed through a series of stunts involving Bam's friends and family. Bearing the brunt of physical abuse was Bam's uncle Don Vito, who was often duct taped to chairs, held down as motorcycles jumped over his head or forced to complete a "slobstacle course." Season 1 of Viva La Bam ended with Ape and Phil's house being "blown up," and the family was forced to move because the neighbors had had enough of the Margeras' antics. But moving the family to a bigger house in a quieter neighborhood during season 2 only encouraged Bam and his CKY crew to try even crazier stunts, including holding a demolition derby in the backyard. By season 4 of Viva La Bam, Bam and his clan had caused so much trouble in their new neighborhood that Ape and Phil dragged them across the Atlantic, where they pranked their way through Europe. Guests that appeared on Viva La Bam included rockers like HIM, the Bloodhound Gang, Hanoi Rocks, Gwar and Billy Idol, as well as freestyle motocross team Metal Mulisha and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk. Although Viva La Bam ended in 2005, Bam continued his wild ways on Bam's Unholy Union. This time around, though, Bam played his over-the-top tricks on his fiancée, Missy, while she struggled to plan their wedding. During Viva La Bam's five seasons, Bam proudly put Ape, Phil and Don Vito through more hell than anyone could have ever imagined -- probably even Bam himself...
Show Info
Network: MTV (2003 - 2006)
Schedule: Sundays at 21:30 (30 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type: Reality
Genres: Comedy
Episodes ordered: 8 episodes
Official site: www.mtv.com
6.5 (10 votes)
Previous Episode
Viva La Spring Break (2)
Episode S05 Special; Mar 22, 2006
Bam and his friends, his parents April and Phil, and his uncle Don Vito, travel together from West Chester, Pennsylvania to Fort Lauderdale, Florida to cause mayhem at a beach party, doing stunts and pulling pranks on the way.
Previous Episodes
|Episode Name
|S05 Special: Viva La Spring Break (2)
|Mar 22, 2006
|S05 Special: Viva La Spring Break (1)
|Mar 22, 2006
|5x08: Finlandia
|Aug 14, 2005
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text: SOS Children's Village Raipur SOS Children's Villages has been present in India since 1963, our work developed rapidly all over the country and we started our activities in Raipur in 2007. The state of Chhattisgarh is one of the least developed in India and in spite of government efforts, poverty still remains a curse for many families. A rise in the number of families living in poverty Friends in the children's village (photo: SOS archives). Raipur, with around one million inhabitants, is the capital of the state of Chhattisgarh. The province's economy has improved recently due to its rich mineral resources and big industries such as steel, aluminium and cement. There is, however, an unequal distribution of wealth and, in spite of economic growth and governmental efforts, the number of families living in poverty has nearly doubled in the last ten years. These poor families live mostly in slum areas; there are dozens of such shanty towns in the city. The housing is precarious, and there is little basic infrastructure such as safe drinking water and sanitation or access to services such as medical treatment and education. In recent years, there have been various government initiatives to improve the lives of the urban poor, but administrative delays mean that thousands continue to live in destitute conditions. Many of the children who are taken into our programmes are facing multiple hardships. Those who are in family-based care have lost the care of their parents, sometimes to diseases such as tuberculosis, cancer and HIV/AIDS. Others have been abandoned because the parents are not able to meet their emotional and material needs. Girls are particularly at risk of discrimination and ill-treatment. For example, girls are more likely than boys to drop out of school. Although the average literacy rate stands at a relatively high 86.9 per cent, there is a significant difference between the male rate - 92.4 per cent - and the female rate - 81.1 per cent. Worse still, is the threat of human trafficking as most victims are young girls who are promised work as domestic servants in other cities but are then forced into prostitution. Working closely with the community, aiming for self-sufficiency SOS Children's Villages started working in Raipur due to the harsh social and economic conditions many families faced. We approached the provincial government who donated a plot of land in an area called Manna Camp near the Raipur airport. We continue to work closely with local agencies and community-based organisations in order to identify families who are in need of our support. What we do in Raipur Children gardening outside their family home (photo: SOS archives). A central part of the work that SOS Children's Villages carries out in Raipur is related to supporting children and families in the region. Our SOS Social Centres run a family strengthening programme which offers a comprehensive package of services to enable families to stay together and take good care of their children. In addition to providing day-care we aim to raise awareness of hygiene and child rights and give guidance on parenting skills. We provide families with food, as well as educational support and medical treatment. In order for families to generate income, we offer them vocational training, career counselling and advice. If self-help groups do not exist, we enable their creation. Some of the people we have worked with now make a living by making jewellery and clothes or keeping animals. When children can no longer stay with their families, they can find a loving home with one of the fourteen SOS families, where they grow up with their sisters and brothers. The children attend the local kindergartens and schools, thus making friends with children from neighbouring families and integrating into the community. Children from local families also participate in festivals that we organise. When the young adults are ready to leave their SOS families they can join our SOS Youth Programme. With the support of qualified professionals they are guided through this new stage of their lives, as they start vocational training courses, attend higher education and look for work. The young people are encouraged to develop perspectives for their future, learn to shoulder responsibility and increasingly make their own decisions. There is also an SOS Vocational Training Centre, where young people are trained as electricians, welders, plumbers, masons or car mechanics, and to work in IT.


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Though it's been nearly 30 years since Traci Lords, then just 15 years old, posed for Penthouse and starred in a slew of adult films, it's her porn past with which people still tend to associate her. Which is, in some ways, unfair, as she's garnered praise and success for her music, mainstream films and book projects since then. Still, it's not entirely surprising: sex sells, especially when it's controversial sex.
But Lords isn't embarrassed by her past and today she says that it was her experience in the adult industry and her ability to harness her sexual power that has informed the other choices she's made since then. Her latest offering, "Traci Lords Presents M2F2 (Music To Fuck To)," a collection of songs she curated and which includes several of her own tracks, finds the star urging us onto the dance floor -- and then perhaps into the bedroom.
We caught up with Lords to discuss the album, her feelings about her past and sexual puritanism in America, the sex advice she has for her son and more.
The Huffington Post: Why did you want to make "M2F2"?
Traci Lords: I wanted to make a sexy record. You could put it on at the beginning of a date night and let it play all the way through. Foreplay really starts on the dance floor. You see someone, maybe you kiss them -- especially in the gay clubs. Girls are with girls and boys are with boys and people are just there and grooving on it. That's where the concept for "M2F2" came from. The title is cheeky and it's meant to be fun!
The album is called "Music To Fuck To"…
Well, that's the title. But it's music to dance to. It's music to party to. If you were to put it on from the beginning to the end, it's got an old school DJ mix to it. So if you were having a dinner party, you could put it on and it could be flirty or whatever. Music isn't explicit the way images are explicit. It has a slinky, sexy vibe to it. I wanted to really do something musically that was a collaboration of a lot of different artists that had a theme. I wanted to do a theme record that wasn't show tunes! [Laughs]
Maybe that can be the next album?
Actually, I'm putting together a show for Vegas right now. It's a bit of a trip and I can play with some cotton-candy fun type stuff. But "M2F2" was really meant to be a summertime party record. Something sexy that you can really get down to and then take that boy home. You're definitely not going to be sitting down to dinner with your mom and putting this album on. I've been listening to it a lot as I'm getting ready to go out. I have one room in my house that's just a closet and no one is allowed into it unless they knock. It has my costumes and my wigs and my lingerie and I feel like I walk into that space kind of normal and I walk out of it a goddess. Years ago when I first started dating my husband, he knew even then -- he would just knock and the hand would come in with a glass of wine or a martini. And he loved the transformation.
You were first known for being an adult film star. Is sex and sexuality still a big part of your life?
The first thing people think about when they think about Traci Lords is sex. They think about underground porn. It's nothing that I have any kind of issue with, it's nothing I'm defensive about -- it's just kind of part of the package. That's where it all started 25 years ago and then after that all this other stuff happened. There was an avalanche of other things that happened in addition to it.
You've worked in so many different genres -- movies, music, books -- is there one form of expression that feels truest for you?
It's all kind of the same for me -- it's about being creative in whatever shape that takes on. It's about expression and that's what I feel driven to do. Going back to what you just asked me about sex, I think sex is in everything I do. I'm a sexual person. It's taken many different shapes and forms throughout my career. But I think it's funny that people are taking the whole "M2F2" thing so seriously.
So it's supposed to be figurative?
[Laughs] Well, I thought so! Maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?
I definitely can see people having sex to this album.
Awesome. But it's not just to have sex to…
I guess it's just that I was really struck by the concept of the album. I'm, personally, a very sex-positive person and HuffPost Gay Voices is a very sex-positive site. And, especially coming out of the election season that we just survived, I still don't think this country is very sex positive. When I look around I see Americans stuck in the Victorian era. So if someone comes along and says, "Sex is not a bad thing, and you know what? Here's an album that might make it even more fun…" I get excited.
It's a tool. Sex is one of the really wonderful things that we have -- it's a gift. Good sex, great sex is a gift! It's amazing. So why do we need to squash it down and be puritan about it? There's so much criticism out there of it. I was reading about how pissed off the adult industry is about Measure B [a law passed in Los Angeles which requires adult film actors to use condoms]. I was shocked -- shocked! -- that they passed it because it's unenforceable and it's stupid. You're forcing them to do something they don't want to do. And why?
And we could be spending that time and energy and money on something that could actually help.
That's exactly the point -- help the ones who want to be helped. We're talking about grown ups engaging in adult activities! What a drag!
How have your thoughts on sex and sexuality changed as you've gotten older?
When I was doing porn -- I think the whole reason that was part of my early, early life was that at 15 I was really wanting to take my sexual power back. At the same time, I had a lot of issues with sex because it was forced on me at too early of an age. And I think I could have gone one of two ways: I could have laid down and cried in a corner or I could have come out swinging and I think that [the latter] was my personality. Doing porn was my way of saying, "No, I'm going to fuck you." I was that 15-year-old bad ass in that way. And this is not to defend any of it -- this is just a fact as I see it. But I wouldn't have done that now. It doesn't work in my life the same way. A lot of what I did was really reckless -- I was just too young to be involved in what I was involved in. It would have been a totally different situation if I had been 20. It would have been a totally different thought process. Most kids went to the prom… I was at the AVN [Adult Video News] awards! [Laughs] I was way ahead of my time. But then, as a 20 year old, I'd already lived so much. I'd already been there and done that and said, "Oh, God, no." I made those decisions when I was really young. The bigger bummer of it is that I feel like it's something I've been on trial for all my life. So to take any moral bullshit out of it, the big bummer of that is the judgement that's placed upon it and the fact that we live in a society where sex workers are evil. And still… porn is the most looked at thing on the planet! Hello, hypocrites! [Laughs]
It's ridiculous.
So, if you found listening to this record is an instrument and is music to fuck to -- I don't have a problem with that! Go for it.
Exactly. It's liberating.
The last thing I want my fans out there to hear is that I'm some sort of puritan or I have issues -- I wouldn't be making the music I'm making or doing the things I'm doing. I've owned who I am, I have defended my past and I've been annoyed by my past but in the end, it's just me. It's my past.
Your press release says the album is your first offering from your "empire of romance." What else can we expect?
That is true -- I would love to have an empire of romance. What it's going to entail, I'm not really sure. I could definitely see myself doing scented candles, body lotions, love oils -- erotic, sexy, classy, romantic stuff.
What do you find a total turn off? Have you read "50 Shades Of Grey"?
I've read all three of them because I've been flying a lot this year. I've got a new film called "Excision" that was in Sundance in January. It's gotten me the best reviews of my career. Ironically, I have "M2F2" coming out and it's all about sex and empowerment and then I play a really uptight Christian mom in this film [laughs]. It's an emotional horror film. It's the journey of this family and of this woman trying to make her life OK and at the same time trying to hide the fact that it's not perfect. It's very much about what everyone else thinks. Once again, we're talking about the effects that other people's opinions have on us. So I thought that was an amazing character to explore. I'm a mom myself, I have a five-year-old son, and he's fierce and people constantly ask me "What are you going to do with your son and [how will you] tell him about your career?" And I respond, "You teach children as it's appropriate." Ultimately I want to teach him use his penis for good and not evil! This is a gift. This is your body. Yes, it matters who you share it with because it will matter to you. It's not from any place of "Don't have sex till you're married… Don't do this… Don't do that." I'm not coming form that place. Just when you do it, do it with someone you really love the first time. These are the things I want him to know.
"Traci Lords Presents M2F2" is now available in stores and on iTunes. For more information about Lords, visit her official website and follow her on Twitter.


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Insights based on geo-behavioral data allow marketers to more accurately reach target audiences and evaluate campaigns.
EMERYVILLE, Calif. (May 10, 2017) – Exponential Interactive, one of the largest digital advertising companies reaching over 700 million users monthly, has partnered with Cuebiq, the largest provider of accurate and precise location data in the U.S. The partnership is twofold. First, it provides advertisers the ability to target users based on their offline and online activities by combining Cuebiq's offline location-based audience profiles with Exponential's online interest-based audiences. Second, it allows advertisers to measure campaign effectiveness by using Cuebiq's attribution capabilities.
"As advertisers constantly work to achieve better accuracy and stay connected with their consumers, it is essential to obtain a complete view of the consumer, based on both their offline and online behaviors," said Antonio Tomarchio, CEO, Cuebiq. "We are thrilled to work with Exponential to provide advertisers this kind of data and intelligence needed to drive campaigns forward."
In a recent campaign for a top automotive brand, Exponential used Cuebiq's Attribution solution to test the effectiveness of Exponential's proprietary video VDX ad format. The test analyzed footfall and time spent at the dealerships for consumers who were exposed to the ads.
The analysis showed the VDX video advertising units led to a 68% footfall uplift against the unexposed control group, which when compared to the 24% uplift for IAB standard banners, shows how much more effective the VDX units are at driving footfall into store. In addition, 71% of consumers exposed to VDX formats visited a dealer within seven days of seeing the ad and 32% of users spent over 30 minutes at the dealership.
"This partnership enables us to harness a more complete view of consumers, both online and offline. The success of our advertisers' campaigns, like the one for the auto dealership, speaks for itself and we see only positive gains for our advertisers by partnering with Cuebiq," said Tim Sleath, VP, product management, Exponential. "We look forward to continuing our work together and building our data, which allows us to measure our campaigns more effectively, reach the right audiences and to draw them to physical locations like dealerships and stores."
About Exponential
Exponential Interactive delivers innovative advertising experiences that transform the way audiences interact with brands across desktop and mobile. Exponential's platform fuses one of the largest global digital media footprints and proprietary data with user-centric ad formats designed to drive engagement and performance. Creativity, data and audience insights form the foundation for building smart and relevant brand engagement and brand performance solutions for advertisers and publishers. Exponential was founded in 2001 and has locations in 22 countries. For more information, please visit www.exponential.com.
About Cuebiq
Cuebiq is the largest provider of accurate and precise location data in the U.S. Its leading data intelligence platform analyzes location patterns of 61 million monthly active U.S. smartphone users on over 180 mobile apps, allowing businesses to glean actionable insights about real-world consumer behaviors and trends. Cuebiq provides clients geo-behavioral audiences for cross-platform ad targeting, the industry's only SaaS based real-time campaign optimization and footfall attribution tools, and offline location analytics. Cuebiq does not collect any personally identifiable information. Its privacy-sensitive methodology has earned the company membership status with the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the leading self-regulatory industry association dedicated to responsible data collection and its use for digital advertising. Cuebiq is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, Italy and China.


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At a joint Cedefop-OECD expert forum on 3 October in Rome, participants discussed ways of upskilling, reskilling and employing adult refugees amidst the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Europe.
The forum investigated what is being done at national level in terms of labour market integration of adult refugees and the role of vocational education and training (VET), but also what could be done at a transnational level to manage the refugee crisis better, with labour market intelligence and VET as part of the equation.
Representatives from 24 countries and from European and international organisations, including European social partners, the ILO, the UNHCR, the European Training Foundation and the European Commission, exchanged views on national challenges and practices and discussed how to match skills with labour market needs and how VET could support refugee relocation and integration in the EU.
Cedefop Deputy Director Mara Brugia said: 'The serious humanitarian crisis Europe is facing is unprecedented in terms of numbers, multiple entry routes, citizenships and cultures. Around 300 000 refugees and migrants have arrived on the shores of Italy and Greece this year. Besides ensuring adequate and dignified reception conditions, helping refugees integrate in the EU is a major challenge, a process that has proven cumbersome even in non-crisis situations. Finding a job is fundamental to becoming part of the host country's economic and social life. Employment and vocational training are core parts of the integration process. We shouldn't forget the positive contributions third-country nationals can make to our economies and societies if they have the chance to use and/or develop their skills.'
No quick fix
According to Ms Brugia, 'there is no quick and simple fix and no one-size-fits-all solution: support services for adult refugees need to be tailored to the specific characteristics, qualifications and needs of the different groups.'
She focused on the longer-term policies aiming at:
- mainstreaming migration into the national human capital development policies in the countries of origin and destination;
- developing skills partnerships between the countries of origin and destination through special cooperation programmes between education and VET institutions;
- linking migration management with international development cooperation and using more evidence in migration management and policy-making;
- involving local authorities in the countries of origin, destination and transit (safe country) in the implementation of migration policies and services.
Ms Brugia concluded: 'All actors need to share responsibility and work together: at EU and international levels; national, local and regional authorities; social partner organisations; employers; civil society organisations; citizens and the refugees themselves. Interinstitutional coordination is even more crucial locally, where integration is expected to take place.'
Other speakers agreed that cooperation at all levels is important and should involve social partners, and pointed out that very little knowledge on refugee skills and qualifications exists.
The way ahead
VET for adults was confirmed to be one of the key areas that could be used to prepare refugees for the labour market. However, the systems in many countries are under pressure, and the aim is not to adapt them, but to build something new. This raises questions on funding, infrastructure capacity, availability of human resources, finding places for refugees to learn on the job, etc.
Participants also agreed that: it is better to anticipate because one of the reasons the situation is so difficult now is because EU countries were not prepared; intervention measures should be introduced as early as the asylum claim procedure, e.g. through early skills profiling of refugees – still the exception rather than the rule; public authorities need to cooperate with employers and move from the corporate social responsibility perspective to the business case, which is not obvious; no country can deal with the current situation on its own; complementary pathways increase the range of regulated means by which refugees may reach sustainable solutions to their international protection needs and which may be found within individual (third) countries or through regional means.
During the forum, the Italian authorities proposed to Cedefop to develop a pilot project in the framework of the relocation mechanism and test how skill strategies could support asylum applicants eligible for relocation but not in the category of vulnerable groups, and those with family and social ties in EU countries.
In the frame of this project, Cedefop will make the most of existing experiences and initiatives including the skills-profiling tool for third country nationals (i.e. toolkit) the Commission has been working on over the past year.


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Liquid's codec escapades.
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Eat The Right Foods, Prevent Food Sensitivities
Eat The Right Foods, Prevent Food Sensitivities And Food Intolerances
Food plays a vital role in the proper nourishment of the body. However, it can be difficult to know what effect food has on the body until one eats the wrong thing and experiences uncomfortable symptoms.
Believe it or not, symptoms such as stomach pains, headaches, irritability and fatigue can be treated not with medicine, but by eating the right foods for your body.
Using food in place of medicine is far from a new concept. The ancient Greek physician and father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, once said, "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food."
Unfortunately, this form of thinking has been lost as we make more advancements with medicines and solutions that treat the symptoms, but don't fix the problem.
Arizona board certified naturopathic medical doctor, Suneil Jain of Rejuvena Health and Aesthetics in Scottsdale, says food sensitivities are far more common today than many people might think. Although often equated with food allergies, food sensitivities also include food intolerances that, unlike allergies, are toxic reactions to foods that do not involve the immune system and can be more difficult to diagnose. This occurs when something in a food irritates a person's digestive system, causing him to improperly digest or break down the food. Intolerance to gluten and pasteurized dairy are two of the most common food sensitivities.
According to Jain, the average American eats about 92 grams of sugar a day. However, the human body needs only about eight grams for energy, an amount that should be satisfied mostly through natural sugars derived from fresh fruits, vegetables and grains. Knowing these facts and the foods your body can tolerate can help reduce reaction symptoms.
Jain's Food as Medicine Program teaches patients the right foods to eat and the ones to avoid. Each personalized diet plan is based upon a blood analysis to determine underlying food sensitivities.
The Food Sensitivity test involves running samples of one's blood against a diverse panel of foods to determine intolerances. This might compare to a food allergy test, however, food sensitivities differ from allergies in that:
• Reactions are delayed and not immediate or life threatening.
• A small amount of food may not provoke noticeable reaction, but a large amount will.
• Symptoms can appear immediately or in up to three days.
• A person may be reactive to more than 25 foods and food chemicals.
• Even so-called "healthy" foods such as chicken, salmon, spinach, blueberries, apples or garlic can cause problems.
Knowing the foods your body can tolerate can result in fewer headaches, less bloating and more energy. It can also help you lose weight.
As the saying goes, "One man's food is another man's poison." Different people can have very dissimilar reactions to exactly the same food. Symptoms can come and go and change throughout life. They may not be very harmful, but eventually they will affect an individual's well-being.
Food intolerances and the symptoms associated with food intolerance can be prevented by taking the following simple steps:
Learn which foods in which amounts cause you to have symptoms, and limit your intake to amounts you can handle.
When you dine out, ask your server about how your meal will be prepared. Some meals may contain foods you cannot tolerate, which may not be evident from the description on the menu.
Learn to read food labels and check the ingredients for problem foods. Don't forget to check condiments and seasonings. They may contain MSG or another additive that can lead to symptoms.
Rejuvena Health and Aesthetics specializes in wellness and anti-aging. For more information about food sensitivities and food intolerances, visit www.werejuvenate.com or call (480) 551-9000.


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Dutch illustrator Jos Looman was born in Haarlem. He began his career working in interior decorating and advertising in the USA, before turning to illustrations. He has designed book covers and made illustrations for VNU magazines like Nieuwe Revu and Pep. He illustrated several text stories for Pep, many of them written by Anton Quintana (Anton Kuyten), from 1968. By 1972, editor-in-chief Hetty Hagebreuk asked Looman and Quintana to make a comic series about the life of Genghis Khan. The resulting experimental comic strip, 'Dzjengis Khan, De Strijd om het Bestaan', was published in Pep between 1973 and 1975. It turned out to be one of the most interesting comic strips created by the new school of Dutch comic artists. Looman also drew 'Jacht naar Geluk', a short story for the sole issue of Baberiba in 1974. Looman has since returned to his main occupation, making illustrations.
Jacht naar Geluk (Baberiba #1, 1974)