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Kendall Jenner is still grappling with her father's transition.
The supermodel landed the cover of Vogue's coveted September issue. In the story accompanying her photo spread, Jenner opens up about Caitlyn Jenner.
In the year since the former Olympian sent shock waves through pop culture with her Vanity Fair cover, Caitlyn's daughter said she still experiences painful moments that take her back to her childhood.
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"It's super ironic to think about now, but it's something I can thank my dad for: how much of a tomboy I was," she said. "That's why I think the whole thing — her transition — was really hard for me, because I was like, 'But you taught me everything tomboy!'"
And although the 20-year-old admits everything is "super normal" and "not weird at all" between her and Caitlyn, she said coming to terms with the transition can be difficult.
"Sometimes I look at a picture of my dad when she was a guy, and it makes me a little sad," she told Vogue. "You have to get past it — you've got a new person to love. It's kind of a blessing in disguise."
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Jenner — who the interviewer points out sometimes mixes up gender pronouns when referring to Caitlyn — said her father's transition shifted the way the model sees the world.
"I want to be careful about how I say this because I don't want it to come off wrong, because I've never said this out loud, but I have recently... even when I say 'him' or 'her' about someone who is clearly a guy or clearly a girl — even with my mom — I second-guess it now because of my dad," Jenner explains.
But as everyone else was finding out about Caitlyn's identity for the first time, Kendall Jenner said her and younger sister Kylie knew for quite a while.
"My whole life we would, like, catch her, and we would be like, 'What is going on here? I think we know, but do we?'" Jenner said. "At one point Kylie and I thought he was cheating on my mom, because he had makeup and nail polish. One time we found those squishy boob things."
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Jenner details one run-in with Caitlyn that went unmentioned in the years that followed.
"She would wake up really early just so she could dress up and move around the house and get that little kick for the morning, and then go back to being Bruce —take us to school, totally normal," Jenner said.
"So one morning I woke up at 4:00 a.m. so thirsty, came downstairs into the kitchen, and grabbed a bottle of water. And as I was coming back out, my dad was coming down the stairs in, like, a wig and makeup and shoes, the full nine. And she didn't see me. I literally froze. Please don't turn left. Because she could either turn left or turn right. Thank God she turned right and--to this day!--has no idea that happened. That was the first time I had ever seen her," Jenner said.
Jenner claims her mom Kris Jenner was fully aware of Caitlyn's behavior behind closed doors.
"My mom knew. She knew since their third date," Jenner said.
Despite the ups and downs, the E! reality star maintains the importance of acknowledging the bad but focusing on the good.
"We're very accepting of people and of being different and being who you are," Kendall Jenner said. "We're not judgmental. But obviously it's strange having your dad, who was so male, completely reverse. It is definitely a gnarly experience."


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COLUMBUS – The Columbus Crew today announced that it has signed midfielder Daniel Paladini. The 29-year-old midfielder has formally been added to the Black & Gold's roster following last week's deal with Chicago. Per Major League Soccer and club policy, further terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Last week, on December 12, the Crew traded the club's 2014 Fourth Round SuperDraft pick to the Chicago Fire in exchange for the rights to Paladini.
"Daniel is a very technical player who has good vision and passes the ball well. He's also good at quickly turning with the ball and these qualities will help complement our attack," said Crew Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter. "He's a strong two-way midfielder in our League and we look forward to working with him soon."
Prior to joining the Crew, Paladini posted 58 regular-season appearances – including 30 starts – and recorded four goals and six assists in three seasons with the Chicago Fire. In his final season with the Fire, he made 20 appearances and set a new career high in assists (three) and his pair of goals matched his previous high, set in 2012.
TRANSACTION: Crew signs midfielder Daniel Paladini.
Name: Daniel Paladini
Position: Midfielder
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 164
Born: November 11, 1984 in Van Nuys, Calif.
Hometown: Northridge, Calif.
Citizenship: United States
Acquired: Signed by the Crew on December 20, 2013. Rights were traded to the Crew from the Chicago Fire on December 12, 2013 in exchange for Crew's 2014 Fourth Round SuperDraft selection
Professional Experience: Chicago Fire (2011-2013), Carolina RailHawks (2009-2010), Chivas USA (2008), San Fernando Valley Quakes(2007), LA Galaxy (2006)


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Honoring Choices Health Care Directive Workshop, June 14
On Saturday, June 14, The North Shore Health Care Foundation will host a workshop to assist people with completing their health care directives. WTIP talked to NSHCF board members Jerry Lilja and Katie Anderson about what the Honoring Choices Health Care Directive is, and why it's important to complete.
Honoring Choices: Completing your health care directive
Saturday June 14, 2014 , 9:30am to noon – at the Arrowhead Center in Grand Marais
A program of the North Shore Healthcare Foundation designed to help you get started on your Health Care Directive.
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The Xinjin Zhi Museum is located near the entrance to a holy Taoist site in Chengdu, China and boasts a perforated facade that is both pretty and practical. Completed at the end of 2011, the museum was designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates and is a Taoist expression of nature & balance. The museum's flow is arranged in a spiral, allowing visitors to move through the space as if walking through a garden. The exterior is covered in a screen of tiles hung on wire that works to minimize direct light inside the museum and create harmony between light and dark.
The Xinjin Zhi Museum is located at the foot of Laojunshan mountain in Xinjin and serves to usher people to the holy place of Taoism. Dedicated to the religion of Taoism, the design of the museum shows the essence of Taoism through its space and exhibitions. Visitors move from front to the back, and from motion to stillness, and the space is laid out like a planned spiral, moving from darkness to light. At the top of the museum, visitors can enjoy views of Laoujunshan mountain.
The museum was constructed using local materials and worked on using methods traditional to the region in order to pay tribute to Taoism. The exterior is covered with a tile screen hung and floated in the air with wire, giving the feeling of lightness. Each facade is treated differently depending on the surroundings and the solar access. The tiles also serve to block direct sunlight into the museum and shade the interior from glare. In this way harmony between light and darkness is achieved and the interior enjoys a gentle light with beautiful particle-like shade.
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The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, started in 1986, is a long-term undertaking to
The Project held an international symposium, Assyria, 1995, September 7-11, 1995, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and an exhibit, Nineveh 612 BC, opened at Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, on September 8, 1995, in conjunction with the symposium.
In July 2001, The Project, In conjunction with the Institute for Asian and African Studies and the University of Helsinki, hosted the 47th Rencontre Assyriolgique Internationale, the International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology, in Helsinki.
The Project was funded principally by the Academy of Finland and the University of Helsinki from 1986 to 1996. From January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2001, the Project was a Centre of Excellence of the University of Helsinki. Since January 1, 2002, the Project has had no source of funding. The Project has cooperation agreements with the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, the British Museum, and the Suomen Itämainen Seura.
In cooperation with the The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Higher Education Academy and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities of the University of Cambridge and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Project has made available on the web transliterations and translations of all texts published in the SAA volumes so far at the Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Website, the Assyrian Empire Builders Website, and the State Archives of Assyria Online Website.
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Oscars 2013: Snubs and Surprises
Every entertainment journalist in Los Angeles woke up in the wee hours of the morning to listen to Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced this year's Oscar nominees. "Lincoln," "Life of Pi," "Amour" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" scored big while "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Master" got some major snubs. -- By Jonathan Crow, Yahoo! Movies


text: Toronto FC down 7 starters vs. Chivas - CBCsports.ca September 5, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Spare a thought for Toronto FC coach John Carver. Carver will be down nine players, including seven starters, when Toronto hosts Chivas USA on Saturday (CBC, CBC Bold, CBCSports.ca, 4 p.m. ET). Three of Toronto's starting four defenders — captain Jim Brennan (Canada), Marvell Wynne (United States) and Tyrone Marshall (Jamaica) — will miss Saturday's Major League Soccer regular-season contest because they will be away on international duty with their respective national teams. The Canadian club will also be without starting goalkeeper Greg Sutton (Canada), defender Julius James (Trinidad and Tobago), midfielders Carl Robinson (Wales) and Amado Guevara (Honduras), and forwards Carlos Ruiz (Honduras) and Jarrod Smith (New Zealand). On top of that, defenders Todd Dunivant (ankle) and Nana Attakora-Gyan (knee) remain sidelined with injuries. And if that wasn't bad enough, Canadian midfielder Tyler Hemming left the team Tuesday after asking to be released. All of which leads to some serious problems for Carver. "I've had some challenges in my life, but I've never had anything like this," Carver told reporters earlier this week. "We have played games with six or seven players missing, like when we beat L.A. earlier this season, but this time, Julius James and Marvell Wynne got call-ups, and Jarrod Smith is also away with New Zealand. "Whatever team we put out there, we need the fans to get right behind the players, support them, and give them the best possible opportunity to get something out of the game. We will all be fighting for the cause." Carver is also concerned that some of the players available for Saturday won't be able to play the entire game, most notably forwards Chad Barrett and Danny Dichio. "Chad has not lasted a full game yet. Dichio hasn't played a full game since suffering from [a] concussion and [midfielder] Kevin Harmse has a problem with his knees," explained Carver. Kambere on loan for Saturday game Toronto took steps to address some of its defensive concerns by signing Vancouver Whitecaps defender Diaz Kambere to a one-match loan deal. Kambere, 22, will be available to play for Toronto Saturday and will return to Vancouver following the match and will be available for the Whitecaps' USL First Division home game against the Minnesota Thunder Sunday evening. Even though the club is severely short-handed, Carver won't use that as an excuse and expects his players to rise to the challenge. "I've been in situations like this where my team has been up against it, and sometimes, people come out fighting. I'm certainly one of those guys, and hopefully, the players respond that way as well," said Carver. "We have to approach the game in a positive manner. Whatever team I put on the pitch, I'm sure they won't let us down." Carver's team dropped a 2-1 decision to Chivas in Los Angeles last Saturday when Atiba Harris scored the winning goal in injury time. Sporting a 7-10-5 record with 26 points, Toronto is in sixth place in the Eastern Conference, six points out of a playoff spot with eight games left in the season. Toronto's next game is at home on Sept. 13 against the Columbus Crew (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 3:30 p.m. ET). Previous Next


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Power Output Announced for 2016 Ford F-650, F-750 Trucks
Claimed Best-In-Class Standard Diesel Horsepower, Torque
To keep the line running at its Avon Lake, Ohio, plant, Ford is ending its collaboration with Navistar in building the F-650 and F-750 in Mexico and transitioning production to the former E-Series van plant. The big trucks got a styling makeover to increase their familiarity with the smaller Super Duty models and in addition to the new design, got new powerplants, dropping the familiar and popular Cummins ISB 6.7L I-6 in favor of Ford's in-house 6.7L Power Stroke V-8 diesel. When the initial release came out announcing the 2016 F-650 and F-750, we didn't have horsepower figures for the Class 6 and 7 trucks, but now we do.
The 6.7 Power Stroke is offered in three power levels for different economy and capability needs. Ford is claiming a best-in-class standard horsepower and torque rating of 270 hp and 675 lb-ft for the first power stage, with a 300 hp and 700 lb-ft intermediate rating, and a top power rating of 330 hp and 725 lb-ft of torque.
Although those numbers may pale next to the 440 hp and 860 lb-ft rating for the 2015 Super Duty models, durability and operational economy take precedence in the commercial market. For comparison, the F-650's rival and former platform-mate, International Durastar, has a 6.4L V-8 with an entry-level power output of 220 hp and 560 lb-ft. Ironically, a version of this engine was also used in the Ford Super Duty until the '11 model year, following the debut of the 6.7L "Scorpion" Power Stroke.
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Political predictions: now that Barack Obama has retained the presidency and Democrats still control the Senate, we can forecast U.S. foreign policy, financial policy, and government growth.
What are we to expect from a second Obama term? Simply put, more of the same, but with tax hikes. In his first term in office, President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have shown themselves to be shrewd pragmatists, continuing all of the important planks in the bipartisan program that has propelled America toward receivership and post-constitutional rule for several generations. And these planks were espoused with equal enthusiasm by candidate Mitt Romney, as they have been by every Republican candidate and president from Thomas Dewey onward. Pared down to their essence, these planks amount to three realms of orthodoxy that the leadership of neither party is permitted to question. These realms are foreign policy, financial policy, and the expansion of federal government power at the expense of state and local government and individual freedom of choice.
No Change There
U.S. foreign policy has changed little since the end of World War I, except that the U.S. Congress, in defiance of President Woodrow Wilson and the establishment, refused, in the wake of that ruinous conflict, to authorize entry into the League of Nations, an organization that was perceived correctly as a precursor to world government that would require the United States to give up a large amount of sovereignty. But with U.S. entry into the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations at the end of World War II, the die was cast. And from that day to this, no U.S. president--and precious few even in Congress--has challenged U.S. membership in the UN. With recent presidencies, starting with George H. W. Bush, who sought authorization for the Gulf War from the UN Security Council, the United States has come to defer more and more to UN authority on matters of war and peace. President Obama has certainly been no exception, waging war on Libya only upon securing UN authorization for limited hostilities, and refraining from intervening in Syria for want of a Security Council mandate. The rightness or wrongness of such interventionist activities aside, the point is that the U.S. government, for all practical purposes, has ceded its authority over war and peace to an unelected international body.
It is worth noting that the modern state of Israel was effectively created by a UN General Assembly resolution in November 1947. Should war break out with Iran over the alleged "existential threat" that the Persian state poses to Israel, expect the United States to jump in as the leading member of the global community's enforcement arm.
For the United States to play the role of the world's policeman under UN auspices, it has been necessary, following the precedent set with the Korean War, to abandon the constitutional requirement that Congress--not the president, much less an international authority like the UN--has sole authority to declare war on behalf of the United States. No U.S. war since the creation of the United Nations has been fought under a congressional declaration, a circumstance neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney has ever expressed any intention of rectifying.
During their three debates, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama sparred spiritedly over foreign policy issues ranging from Israel and Iran to trade with China. But, as most Americans perceived, there were no differences of substance. Both men favored the decades-old program of military interventionism and membership in the United Nations and affiliated internationalist organizations like NATO. Neither uttered so much as a whisper about restoring the congressional authority to declare war, since both appear to believe that war has become the sole prerogative of the U.S. president, with the advice and consent of the United Nations. While President Obama is perceived to be less bellicose than Romney and his predecessor George W. Bush--he did, to his credit, denounce rather forcefully in the debates any rush to military involvement in Syria or Iran--make no mistake about it: If his superiors at the UN Security Council or among America's foreign policy elites at the Council on Foreign Relations and other private, non-elected policymaking bodies require him to, he will not hesitate to embark on more feckless and expensive overseas military adventures, no matter what American public opinion has to say about it.
And within hours of Romney's concession speech, European leaders announced a push for new involvement in Syria, including the possible deployment of Patriot missile batteries to enforce a no-fly zone over a NATO-declared safe haven for the Syrian rebels--measures already under discussion in secret, but which were kept from public view until the reelection of Obama. As Shashank Joshi, an analyst with London's Royal United Services Institute, a military think tank, told the Associated Press, "With the re-election of Obama, what you have is a strong confidence on the British side that the U.S. administration will be engaged more on Syria from the get-go."
Here at Home
Financially and economically, the United States has never in its entire history been in graver circumstances, and Obama 2.0 will do nothing to rectify matters. Only once before has our national debt as a percentage of GDP ever exceeded 100 percent: after World War II. Back then, be it noted, the amount of additional debt stemming from future obligations to unfunded mandates like Social Security was then nowhere near what it is now. In the late 1940s, the Social Security program was still in its infancy, and Medicare didn't even exist. Our real debt situation, therefore, is incalculably worse now than it was 65 years ago. Also, much of the cost of government back then was eliminated when wartime programs were terminated (and yes, the U.S. military was scaled back, too). Postwar real cuts in the cost of government amounted to at least 30 percent, and possibly much more. In stark contrast, today's Republican budget warriors, like Paul Ryan, are proposing no real cuts at all, preferring merely to cut the rate of growth in future projected spending by a few percentage points, cosmetic flourishes that provoke howls of outrage from Democrats nonetheless.
The notion of actually cutting real government spending below the current level--not just slowing its growth--is, as Washington insiders like to say, a non-starter on Capitol Hill and in the White House. And for good reason: Everybody in Washington knows that, if more money is needed, the Federal Reserve, in cahoots with the U.S. Treasury, can create it out of thin air simply by issuing more debt. This is the reason that no U.S. president in the nearly one hundred years of the Fed's existence has ever proposed hobbling or eliminating the Federal Reserve System; the allure of easy money on credit has proven too intoxicating for our venal political leaders. And the one candidate in this electoral cycle who dared to challenge that orthodoxy--Ron Paul--was ridiculed, attacked, and, along with his followers, effectively shown the door at the Republican convention in Tampa. (In the case of almost half the Maine delegation, it was literal.)
If the United States somehow discovers the moral fortitude to renounce borrowing and spending before financial catastrophe supervenes, it will become the first nation in world history to do so. A far likelier outcome, and one that may overtake us sometime in the next four years, is a collapse of the entire global fiat money system, including the highly leveraged American dollar. The massive debt America has incurred for wars of choice, for cradle-to-grave welfarism (including, unhappily, a brand-new socialized medical system), and for subsidies and bailouts too numerous to list, will likely never be repaid. Once it dawns on America's creditors that the best they're going to get on their Treasuries will be repayment in massively depreciated dollars, things will get interesting.
Of course, no one can predict when the financial tipping point will occur; unforeseeable events, like another major war in the Middle East or another costly natural disaster, may hasten the day. But it is likely that a second Obama term will see many more trillions piled on the national debt, even as taxes are hiked in a vain effort to keep the federal beast properly nourished. Under such conditions (which will commence with the arrival of the new year and the tax hikes that will be instituted), another steep recession is a certainty. Where we go from there, and how quickly, is anybody's guess, although soaring inflation and more job losses are foregone conclusions.
Serious Second Term
President Obama's first term saw not only an affirmation of the garrison-state measures put into effect by his predecessor--the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, warrantless wiretapping, the Guantanamo gulag, the Patriot Act, and so forth--it also strengthened many of them. New security measures in airports now see passengers strip-searched by machine and molested by unaccountable agents with blue rubber gloves. The TSA has begun taking its act to bus stations and even interstate rest areas, searching and interrogating travelers at random. Predator drones now hunt down and assassinate alleged enemies of the state, including American citizens, with impunity. And, despite Candidate Obama's promises prior to the 2008 election, the Guantanamo internment camp continues to operate apace, safely beyond the scrutiny of congressional investigators, lawyers, and concerned private citizens alike.
Meanwhile, the federal government during the first Obama term amassed ("usurped," the Founders would have said) a vast array of new unconstitutional powers, including unprecedented controls over the financial and insurance sectors and, of course, the nationalization of healthcare. Among many other things, the recent election, combined with last summer's Supreme Court decision upholding Obama-Care, has all but guaranteed that socialized medicine, once almost universally viewed as un-American, is here to stay, outside of state nullification.
Unfortunately, Candidate Romney offered few contrasts with President Obama, with nearly identical takes on foreign policy issues, and a gubernatorial track record in Massachusetts that featured the creation of a system of state-controlled healthcare that included compulsory insurance, and which was the model for ObamaCare. Governor Romney also signed into law onerous new anti-firearms legislation, and was avowedly pro-abortion until his comparatively recent political epiphany. Not surprisingly, the American electorate concluded that a Romney administration would be little different than Obama (except, perhaps, in fiscal matters), and opted to stick with the devil they knew.
In broader terms, it is difficult to escape the new demographic realities that the 2012 election has brought into sharp focus (to the gloating delight of the Democratic Party and its more radical constituencies). Huge numbers of new Hispanic immigrants, who have a strong cultural preference for welfarism, are changing the political map all over the South and West. According to the Washington Post, one in 10 voters nationally was Hispanic in 2012, for the first time ever, ensuring that formerly conservative western states like Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico are now reliably Democratic and pro-Big Government.
Today's senior citizenry, except for the very superannuated, grew up in the post-Depression culture of entitlement; almost no one left alive can remember pre-New Deal America. Meanwhile, the rising generation is supportive of what used to be viewed as ultra-radical attacks on American culture, including most prominently the legal countenance not only of the homosexual lifestyle but now, via successful ballot initiatives in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state, so-called same-sex marriage. The "swing state" of Wisconsin not only repudiated the Romney-Ryan ticket resoundingly, it also sent to Washington the nation's first-ever openly homosexual senator in Tammy Baldwin.
In a word, young Americans mostly reject the cultural and moral values of a generation ago; growing minority constituencies, especially Hispanics, clamor for immigration reform (read: amnesty and open doors); unionized workers now expect their employers to be bailed out in hard times; and senior citizens have little appetite for scaling back costly government programs on which they have come to depend, especially Social Security and Medicare. The old Right, traditionally included in the Republican Party, is dwindling. "We're going the way of the dinosaurs," admitted Florida GOP strategist David Johnson to the Washington Post. "The meteor's already hit, and we're just trying to wonder what the blast zone will look like."
But the Republican constituency and the freedom constituency, while traditionally overlapping, are not the same, especially in the era of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. The Republican Party, with its decades of me-tooism and broken promises, has little lingering appeal for many people committed to limited constitutional government and laissez-faire economics. The only realistic chance that the freedom constituency ever had of wresting the reins of power from the GOP establishment was with the Goldwater candidacy in 1964. Since then, with the exception of a handful of GOP congressmen who have mostly been prevented from wielding any clout on Capitol Hill, the GOP has been the party of Less Big Government Than the Other Guys, and its most visible mouthpieces, from the radio talk-show warriors to effete, former Trotskyite neocons, have made sure that the party has toed the liberal internationalist establishment line in all the critical areas of orthodoxy. A Mitt Romney presidency would have been no different; perhaps Romney's defeat betokens the disintegration of a Republican constituency that has been such an enervating distraction to the freedom movement.
We may expect that the partisans of Big Government and social revolution will continue to find a home in a hyper-charged Democratic Party and a champion in Barack Obama and his epigones in the new Congress. But the real story of the next four years, other than the looming fiscal catastrophe, will be the reconstitution of the freedom movement outside the framework of the GOP, and the vigor it will eventually assume.
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If the computing industry was a stagnant pond in late 2009, the introduction of tablets a few months later was less akin to a pebble flicked from the shore and more like a boulder hurled from 10 feet up. The ripples have been widespread and lasting.
And the rocks haven't stopped dropping from the sky. With the introduction of compelling new tablets from Microsoft, Google, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon (which just announced new Kindles last week), 2012 is shaping up as the definitive "year of the tablet." That means that the disruptions we've seen so far are just the beginning.
Let's look back at a few ways tablets have already shaken up the rest of the surrounding tech world, and what those disruptions can show us about the future.
The death of netbooks
Netbooks, which in 2009 seemed to be the computing format of the future, have been one of the biggest casualties of the growing popularity of tablets. Rumors of the "death of netbooks" began soon after the iPad's release in April 2010, and have continued ever since.
By the second quarter of 2011, just a year after iPad's introduction, tablets were being shipped at a rate nearly double that of netbooks, with 13.6 million and 7.3 million units produced, respectively. More recent analysis from Canalys suggests that this gap continues to widen. In May of this year, the firm reported that first-quarter 2012 netbook shipments had fallen 34 percent from the previous year. More dire, Canalys wrote that this was "the sixth such fall in succession."
Besides dropping sales, consumer interest in netbooks has also waned. Cnet's Dan Ackerman put together a graph on netbook traffic that illustrates this point quite handily. More than 500,000 unique visitors viewed "netbook" pages on Cnet in December 2009, prior to the iPad's introduction. In December 2010, that number had dropped to 300,000 visitors, while more than 800,000 unique visitors viewed tablet pages.
The decline of Flash and rise of HTML5
Though Steve Jobs described netbooks as "cheap" devices that "aren't better than anything," he didn't necessarily target them for destruction. Their decline was simply a natural consequence of growth in tablets.
Adobe's Flash, however, was a different story. Jobs' distaste for Flash was so great that he wrote an open letter on the subject in April 2010 to outline the reasons that Apple had outlawed Flash on its mobile devices, and to encourage adoption of HTML5.
There are many reasons for Flash's decline in favor of HTML5. Two of the biggest persuaders, however, had to have been Steve Jobs and iOS.
Following up 18 months after what he described as Jobs' "essay," the Wall Street Journal's Don Clark wrote in November 2011 that "HTML5 is rapidly winning over the Web." At that time, 34 of the 100 most popular websites were using HTML5.
Analysis from W3Techs.com suggests that HTML5 has surpassed Flash even at that rate of adoption. At the time of writing, 22.8 percent of Alexa's top 1 million websites use Flash. This is a decrease from about 27 percent from a year prior.
With the ever increasing popularity of iOS and HTML5, it's unlikely that this decrease in the use of Flash can be reversed.
The rise of cloud storage
Though Adobe's Flash has taken a hit from tablets, other Web services companies are prospering.
Take Dropbox, for example. To borrow an oft-used metaphor, Dropbox is the glue that keeps my digital life together — especially on my iPad. In fact, Dropbox delivered the outline for this column from my iPad to my MacBook Pro. It did so as it always does: quietly, reliably, and with beautiful simplicity.
Others must agree with my love of Dropbox: The service has grown explosively in the weeks and months following iPad's introduction. In the early months of 2010 just before the iPad arrived, Dropbox reported only 4 million users. Just a little more than a year later, in April 2011, it had reached 25 million. As tablets hit their stride in November 2011, that number had ballooned to 45 million.
There are other reasons for Dropbox's growth, of course. The company has a highly-successful viral marketing strategy, and their service is vital in a number of use cases beyond tablets. But, what else happened while Dropbox was experiencing its explosive growth through 2010 and 2011? Apple sold millions of iPads — 7.33 million in the first quarter of 2011 alone. Many of those purchasing iPads discovered a need for cloud storage for the first time in their computing lives.
The importance of Dropbox (or one of its competitors) to tablet usage means that tablets will be a big driver of growth in cloud storage. I guess Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wasn't kidding when he said the company was just getting started.
The rise of streaming video
Dropbox isn't the only cloud service making hay as tablets come to dominate. A combination of small solid-state hard drives and abundant wireless Internet connections has seen several streaming media services positioned for major growth in the tablet economy.
Take Netflix, for example. Netflix is a magical experience on iPad. Its design is fantastic, and the app is so responsive during use, that it's easy to forget that it's a Web application.
Not surprisingly, Netflix subscriptions have boomed alongside tablet growth. Netflix reported 23.9 million streaming customers in the second quarter of 2012, up from 21.5 million less than one year earlier. The availability of great Netflix apps for most tablet platforms (sorry, Blackberry Playbook) indicates that Netflix sees a major opportunity in this segment. The strength of its brand and quality of its execution have Netflix poised to make a fortune from tablets.
That Netflix hasn't seen more growth from tablets may be due to the strength of its competitors. Hulu Plus has grown rapidly since its release in November 2010. In April, Hulu announced that its subscription service had reached 2 million subscribers, double the 1 million subscribers number that Hulu revealed in a blog post from October 2011. Though Hulu doesn't offer an experience as polished as Netflix, it does have content that Netflix lacks. Due to this, Hulu will continue to see growth from tablets, and will continue to be an important player in the video streaming space.
The future
These aren't the only ways that tablets have changed the computing economy. Desktop operating systems are now borrowing design elements from tablets — Apple's Launchpad and Microsoft's Modern UI interfaces both reek of "tabletification." It's clear that both Apple and Microsoft view tablets as the future, and are doing everything they can to move consumers towards that future.
In that future, tablets will continue to have more and more surprising effects on the industry. These effects may be worrisome for companies like Intel that make their profits on desktops and laptops, but for the rest of us, tablets will continue to make using tech more convenient, affordable and entertaining than ever before.
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By Elvin Lim
On 9/11 each year, the media reenacts the trauma the American people experienced in 2001. Images already burnished in our minds are replayed. Memorials services are held, moments of silence are observed, and the national anthem is sung. National myth-making occurs at the very site where national disaster occurs, so that a new birth of freedom rises phoenix-like from the ashes of ruin.
Or so it seems. What is poignant about the memorial services this year is that they are occurring against a backdrop of a nation so divided that the unity and fellow-feeling that the media is drumming up on 9/11 appears almost to be a parody of reality. Just a week before, we heard a presidential candidate repeat his characterization of Social Security as a "ponzi scheme" in a nationally televised debate, followed by a didactic presidential speech to a joint session of congress where some members did not deign to attend.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the Arab Spring has arrived; but America is still reeling from three summers of discontent. The juxtaposition of a relative national consensus on foreign policy and a national dissensus on domestic policy reveal that Americans love their nation, but they also hate their state. This is the paradox that Barack Obama's message of hope and change in 2008 tried to defuse; yet it has been the cold reality doused on his domestic agenda from this first day in office. If Barack Obama electrified a nation and rose to prominence when he declared that we are neither the red states of America nor the blue states of America; he has come full circle to the reality that we are still, if not even more so than before, both. Worse still, he must take some responsibility for the outcome.
In no other area has Obama done more harm to his credibility with the political Right than in the perception that he has broken the first commandment of fiscal conservatism: that government should do no harm; but the national debt is the surest proof that it has. Where there was once hope, many now look back and see hubris in the bank bailouts, the stimulus spending, and "clash for clunkers."
Fourteen months from the next election, it has dawned on his team that even Obama, Camelot incarnate, cannot reconcile Americans' patriotism and our deep distrust of the federal government. If it is now a foregone conclusion that there is going to be a huge enthusiasm gap between supporters of the Republican nominee and Obama groupies in 2012, then the president's best bet is to do no more harm. If the economy is not likely to rebound anytime soon, there is little point picking yet another fight with small chances of victory, and even fewer guarantees of economic consequence. Obama's jobs speech to Congress last week, then, was a fiery opening volley intended to disguise the new campaign logic for 2012: slow and steady wins the race. No more big ideas, just tried and tested formulas.
The day has come when even the USPS is no longer spared the vilification due to another perceived beneficiary of federal largesse. In such a day, Rick Perry has burst into the national scene, ready to take on the paradox that Americans are patriotic and anti-statist. Obama has lost the credibility needed to reconcile the tension in that paradox, so his best bet is to lie low, and hope for a Republican nominee to propose something crazier than Obamacare.
Elvin Lim is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com and his column on politics appears here each week.


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Want to know more about System BIOS and how to Check and Update the BIOS on your Dell System? This article will show you how.
BIOS is an acronym that stands for Basic Input Output System. Also know as "System Setup", the BIOS is software that is contained on a small memory chip on the PC's Motherboard, typically referred to as the CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor). It acts as an interface between the computer's hardware and its operating system, e.g. Windows, allowing the software to control the PC's hardware.
The BIOS also contains instructions that the PC uses to perform basic instructions, such as whether to Boot from Network or Hard drive, which drive to Boot from first.
BIOS is also used to identify and configure hardware components in a computer such as the hard drive, floppy drive, optical drive, CPU, memory, Plug and Play devices etc. This is called the ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data) and this is usually stored in additional non-volatile memory also referred to as NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random Access Memory)
Over the years as technology has changed people still refer to the BIOS as both CMOS and NVRAM, however they are subtly different. The CMOS contains the BIOS and its settings, the NVRAM contains the ESCD, updating the BIOS will not clear the NVRAM.
You can enter the system BIOS or Setup on a Dell PC by pressing F2 at the Dell loading screen. (Figure 1)
Figure 1: BIOS Loading Screen
Or by pressing F12 and selecting BIOS Setup from the menu. (Figure 2)
Figure 2: One Time Boot Menu
Here is an example of what the BIOS system set up screen looks like: (Figure 3)
Figure 3: OptiPlex 990 BIOS Screen
Dell recommends updating the BIOS as part of your scheduled update cycle. Like Operating System and driver revisions, the update contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible with other system modules (hardware, firmware, drivers and software) as well as providing security updates and increased stability.
Unlike Windows and Anti-Virus program updates which are usually automatic, BIOS has to be updated manually.
Dell provides an easy to use self installing update package that allows this task to be performed relatively easily.
There are several ways to check your BIOS version but the easiest is to use System Information.
On the Windows 8 and 8.1 "Metro" screen, type run then press Return, in the Run box type msinfo32 and click OK.
On Windows 10 type msinfo32 into Search and press Return
On earlier Windows versions, to view the System Information screen, click on the Start Button and click Run, in the Run box type msinfo32 and press OK
Once the System Information window opens, make sure System Summary is highlighted in the left navigation window, and look for BIOS Version/Date in the right summary window (Figure 4)
Figure 4: System Information
You can also check the BIOS version from the command prompt.
Click Start. In the Run or Search box, type cmd, then Click on "cmd.exe" in search results.
If the User Access Control window appears select Yes
In the Command Prompt window, at the C:\ prompt, type systeminfo and press Enter, you will find the BIOS version in the results (Figure 5)
Figure 5: Command line systeminfo
It is important to keep your System BIOS up to date. Newer releases of BIOS can provide improvements to Hardware compatibility, improved Diagnostics, as well as Security updates and Increased stability.
Once you have established that you require a BIOS update you can download the newer version from the Dell support page www.dell.com/drivers
The video below will give you a visual guide on how to Update your system BIOS.
Video (English Only)- Update your System Setup (BIOS) (2:07)
Open a web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) and go to www.dell.com/support/drivers
If you are asked to "Identify your product", then either enter your Service tag, or select "Browse for a product" to select manually.
If the system shown is incorrect, click on "View a different product" and again either enter your Service tag or Browse manually
After the correct system is selected, you may have to click on the tab that says "Find it Myself" then look further down the page, where it says "Refine your results:". In the pull-down Category menu, choose BIOS. This will refine the results to show only the BIOS category.
If there is more than one file listed, Click on "View details" on the most recent version of the BIOS. Then click on "Important Information".
Click Download File to begin the download
Save the file to your Desktop
Once downloaded, you can double click the icon on your desktop.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation (Figure 6). This will reboot your system and perform a BIOS update
Figure 6: BIOS Flash Update Continue Prompt
The above screen may vary depending on version and system type.
Most Dell systems built after 2012 have the ability to be updated from the F12 One-Time Boot Menu. This process can be executed if you have a USB memory stick formatted to the FAT32 file system and the BIOS executable file that you downloaded from the Dell Support Website and copied to the root of the USB key
For more information on this process, please see the following article:
You will then be prompted to enter the recovery key to progress and the system will ask for this on each reboot.
If the recovery key is not known this can result in data loss or an unnecessary operating system re-install.
For more information on this subject, please see Knowledge Article:
If the system cannot load into Windows but there is still a need to update the BIOS, download the BIOS file using another system and save it to a bootable USB Flash Drive.
Download the BIOS update .EXE file to another system
Copy the file e.g. O9010A12.exe onto the bootable USB Flash drive.
Insert the USB Flash drive into the system that requires the BIOS update.
Restart the system and press F12 when the Dell Splash logo appears to display the One Time Boot Menu.
Using arrow keys, select USB Storage Device and press Return
The system will boot to a Diag C:\> prompt
Run the file by typing the full filename e.g. O9010A12.exe and hit Return
The BIOS Update Utility will load, follow the instructions on screen (Figure 7)
Figure 7: DOS BIOS Update Screen
If you wish to update the system BIOS in a Linux environment such as Ubuntu, then you can get some help by following the link below:
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GSA announces new lease that saves taxpayers $65 million over 15 years.
The National Science Foundation will be moving from Arlington, Va., to neighboring Alexandria, the General Services Administration announced on Friday. The deal gives the grant-making agency more space while saving taxpayers an estimated $65 million over 15 years.
NSF's 2,100 employees will remain in its current location in a high-rise in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington until 2017, when construction on the new Alexandria site is set to be completed by Hoffman Development Inc. at the Hoffman town center.
The new rental rate for 660,848 square feet is more than 30 percent below market rate, GSA said in a release. The deal also gives the government $35 million that can be applied to further rent savings, reduce costs of relocation and reduce overall operational costs.
The new site "will offer a more efficient use of space than NSF's current locations and use less energy and water than typical office buildings," GSA said.
In 2011, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., issued a report critiquing NSF's "pricey" rent. "NSF's headquarters in Arlington…currently costs taxpayers $39 per square foot, or $26 million annually," the report said. "NSF's lease is expiring in two years and the agency is currently making plans to lease or construct an entire new building -- requesting $45 million in 2012 just to customize and [make] technology enhancements to their future headquarters . . . According to documents, among the reasons NSF is looking to move from its Ballston . . . headquarters is the desire to become more environmentally friendly and create a larger lobby and space for a museum and an auditorium."
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Can we please stop already with the tributes to Henry Kissinger? As more and more material gets declassified, there are periodic exposures of his uglier deeds. Walter Isaacson's biography showed in detail how Kissinger had the FBI put wiretaps on journalists and government officials, including some of his own top staffers. A couple of years ago, it was revealed that back in 1975, while discussing how the Khmer Rouge had killed tens of thousands, he told Thailand's foreign minister, "You should also tell the Cambodians"—the Khmer Rouge—"that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs, but we won't let that stand in our way." More recently, an Oval Office tape was released that captured Kissinger in 1973 saying, "if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
And yet Kissinger continues to be publicly lionized in some circles. After his remarkably successful decades-long marketing campaign, he can still call upon an impressive array of friends and cronies to promote him, give him fancy awards or explicitly exonerate him in the press. Last June, at his gala black-tie 90th birthday party at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, the guests included Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Barbara Walters, Tina Brown and hundreds more. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed him as an "indispensable statesman," while Senator John McCain told a reporter, "I know of no individual who is more respected in the world than Henry Kissinger."
Just this week, Kissinger will be speaking at the Center for the National Interest (CNI), a Washington think tank dedicated to realism and therefore regular encomiums to its most famous practitioner. Once again, he is more likely to be acclaimed than to face serious questions about, for instance, the 1972 "Christmas bombing" of Hanoi and Haiphong or the civilian death toll from the massive bombing of Cambodia.
Of all the incidents in Kissinger's dark past, one of the least defensible must be his and President Richard Nixon's staunch support of Pakistan's military dictatorship while it carried out a bloody crackdown on its restive Bengali population in 1971. As Nixon's national security adviser, Kissinger stood behind Pakistan—a Cold War ally that prized its close military and diplomatic relationship with the United States—even as it swept away the results of a democratic election, killed horrific numbers of Bengalis and targeted the Hindu minority among Bengalis. He reserved his vitriol for India. And he trashed the career of Archer Blood, the brave U.S. consul general in Dhaka who, while witnessing and documenting the onslaught against the Bengalis, dissented from the White House's pro-Pakistan policy. Here is a case where you'd think that even Kissinger's most ardent defenders might settle for an embarrassed silence.
Not so. Confronted with the facts in my new book, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Robert D. Blackwill makes a plea for sympathy—not for the hundreds of thousands of Bengalis killed, nor for the 10 million refugees or the traumatized survivors, but for "those at the top of the U.S. government who have to make momentous decisions." In an expanded essay in The National Interest (which is published by CNI and whose honorary chairman is Kissinger), Blackwill goes further: "We should be grateful" to Nixon and Kissinger for their actions.
These apologetics make a revealing case study in how Kissinger's reputation stays afloat. Rather than grappling with Nixon's racist contempt for Indians, or Kissinger's ignorance about South Asia or emotional misjudgments, Blackwill's ahistorical piece rests on the careful skewing of the record.
When Kissinger's actions get too indefensible, Blackwill simply ignores them. Take Nixon and Kissinger's illegal arms transfers to Pakistan during its December 1971 war against India, where Blackwill goes to considerable lengths to overlook what Nixon and Kissinger knew full well: that they were breaking U.S. law. "Is it really so much against our law?" Nixon asked Kissinger, who admitted that it was. Blackwill ignores such evidence from the White House tapes, as well as the warnings of White House staffers and State Department and Pentagon lawyers that such arms transfers were violations of U.S. law. Instead, trying to change the subject, he writes, "Bass expresses indignation at this proposal, suggesting that it was undertaken to assist in the repression of civilians in East Pakistan"—even though these pages in my book actually concentrate on how Nixon and Kissinger broke the law. Blackwill can't defend Kissinger for breaking U.S. law, but he can't criticize Kissinger either, so he just pretends it never happened.
Blackwill's method throughout is to avert his gaze from the most important evidence at the highest levels, particularly the White House tapes of Nixon and Kissinger's most unguarded conversations, and stare selectively instead at a small portion of the less revealing stuff: Kissinger's self-serving memoirs and books, public declarations, big interagency meetings, mid-level statements. This gives a systematic slant to Blackwill's reading of events, which unsurprisingly validates his own ideological predilections. Anyone wanting the complete story can check out more than 2,600 footnotes in my book (the product of almost four years of comprehensive research in U.S. and Indian archives, untold thousands of declassified pages, and unheard White House tapes), rather than Blackwill's slipshod little sketch. His real problem is that The Blood Telegram painstakingly documents Nixon and Kissinger's whole record and draws measured and reasoned conclusions that don't flatter Kissinger.
While Blackwill—a former senior George W. Bush administration official who is now, aptly enough, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations—wants to believe that Nixon and Kissinger were masters of clear-eyed realpolitik, the White House tapes demonstrate that they were all too often driven by emotion and bias. Don't take my word for it: At the time, Nixon called Kissinger "emotional" and wondered if he needed psychiatric care; Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman saw him as "overexcited" and "overdepressed about his failures"; George H. W. Bush, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, found him "very excitable, very emotional almost" and "paranoid."
Blackwill sidesteps my book's abundant evidence of Oval Office passion and bigotry only by raising the non-issue of profanity, pretending that I am "curiously offended that conversations in the Oval Office are often not the stuff of a church social." In fact, the candid quotes from Nixon and Kissinger are salient because they are cruel, racist or reckless, not because they are PG-13. (I even point out that Kissinger didn't swear much, tending toward "balderdash" or "poppycock.") Indeed, some of Nixon's harshest utterances about Indians use perfectly printable language: "I don't know why the hell anybody would reproduce in that damn country but they do." Kissinger joked about the massacre of Bengali Hindus, and, his voice dripping with contempt, sneered at Americans who "bleed" for "the dying Bengalis." Is Blackwill really untroubled by such statements?
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Hello, Kotaku, and welcome to the evening Open Thread. I hope you've had a nice Tuesday—it's been raining in San Francisco, and but that's been kind of nice.
Here, gathered from the internet, are some things to amuse and bedevil you. Not a ton of links as today has been very busy! We'll have more for you tomorrow.
- "Downton Arby's" - You had me at "Downton Arby's."
- The NYT is on the prowl for "Words we love too much" - Attention clichés, you're on notice. I like "still reeling."
- All of Tami Taylor's "Y'all"s from Friday Night Lights - I'm about 80% certain I've linked this here before. But hey, watch it again anyway.
- Well, you can always get your tacos via Taco Mail - if that whole TacoCopter thing is really a bust.
- 5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women - Man, there is a lot of stuff out there about ladies today.
- The 10 Best Shows in the Fox Network's 25 Year History - I am proud to have guessed almost all of these.
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The reason I list the "modern era" is because games played in the modern era's highlights are easier to find for the innings that are going to be listed in this thread.
Anyway, you want my take on the greatest innings under pressure?
Kamran Akmal. 109 v arch-rivals, India.
The score when Kamran Akmal walks in? 39/6, after Irfan Pathan destroyed Pakistan's top order, taking a hat-trick in what I believe was the first over.
The pitch? Very green. Nearly impossible to bat on.
But not for Kamran Akmal, he was on a mission. A mission to take Pakistan over their lowest test score (54) and then over the 100 mark.
One of the greatest knocks ever, under pressure. The series drawn 0-0, going into the final test. Green pitch. His team in big trouble, at 39/6.
He may have taken Pakistan to only 230 odd, but when Pakistan were looking to be bowled out under 70 odd, it was really a masterclass.
Because of Kamran Akmal, Pakistan recorded their highest test win vs India, and took the series 1-0. Of course, India responded with I believe 221 (?), and Pakistan made a huge 599 on a greenish pitch leaving India with no hope. However, I think on that day where Pakistan made 599, inspiration was given to them by Kamran Akmal, and the way he took his team out of that situation described and gave them the match.
Any other games / innings like this come to mind? One other game that actually does come to mind, is the Pakistan in India game in 2005, in Mohali, as well as one on this recent tour of India (by Pakistan) in 2007 by again, Akmal.
Any other innings like the one described above? These type of innings are very rare in my opinion. Another one like it, is VVS Laxman's 281 in Kolkata. Another innings from nowhere. Another innings that came when his team were down creek with no paddle to go up


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It's all so beautiful OM. You've done a great job I love the fireplace
Merry Snowy Christmas
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Thanks everyone. Hope to get the rest if the photos posted today. It is raining so don't know about the outside lights
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We are looking to design an 11 x 17 poster advertisement and corresponding brochure for a non-profit program. The poster and brochure are to advertise a restorative justice program at a community-based conflict resolution centre.
Desired Color Scheme:
Anything colourful and eye-catching; see brief for logo colours
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Appeal to youth of many different backgrounds; Be eye-catching (possibly with bright faces and bright colours); Simple enough to be read and be understood in a quick timeframe; Convey information to youth about a serious topic in a calming manner; Be very
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We are looking to design an 11 x 17 poster advertisement and corresponding brochure for a non-profit program. The poster and brochure are to advertise a restorative justice program at a community-based conflict resolution centre.
In helping you come up with ideas and concepts, here is some background on what this program does:
Often, people who have been affected by crime, have needs that cannot be met by the Criminal Justice System. As a result, communities are looking for different ways of responding to crime and the harm that results because of it. Many are turning to restorative justice.
In its broadest meaning, restorative justice is about addressing wrongs. Although it can refer to a variety of contexts, to date its application has been predominantly focused on harms that are defined as violations of criminal laws. Within the context of the criminal justice field, restorative justice views conflict and crime as harm done by one person to another. The consequences of such an action should be "making things right" (as much as possible) between these individuals. Restorative justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in search for solutions, which promote repair and possibly reconciliation.
Common needs expressed by victims that motivate them to participate in a restorative justice process are:
the opportunity to tell their story of how they have been impacted
the opportunity to ask questions (why me?, will it happen again?)
the opportunity to participate in the resolution of their matter
the opportunity to prevent it from happening again
Restorative justice processes offer young people the opportunity to accept responsibility for their actions, and make amends to the victim. It offers them the chance to tell their story so that they may be seen as a whole person instead of being defined by one action. It allows them to deal with the situation and close this chapter in their life.
This program serves young people (aged 12-17) who have been sentenced to a period of probation and their victims. It provides them with the opportunity to meet in a safe setting, with the assistance of trained volunteers to:
discuss the incident of crime,
how they have been impacted, and
what needs to happen to address the harm caused.
Charges which are commonly referred to this program include: assault, mischief, theft, break and enter, fraud, and threatening.
What we are looking for:
We need a poster and corresponding brochure (8 ½ x 11) that will convey the ideas of RJ to youth and other individuals that may benefit from such a programme. The primary target market is todays youth in conflict with the law. This poster will be displayed in offices serving these youth and will provide contact information for the program. It is of prime importance that the poster/brochure appeal to youth of many different multicultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
The poster/brochure should:
Appeal to youth of many different backgrounds
Be eye-catching (possibly with bright faces and bright colours)
Simple enough to be read and be understood in a quick timeframe
Convey information to youth about a serious topic in a calming manner
Be very professional looking
We are trying to convey the following imagery on the poster:
Inclusiveness and interconnectedness
Fairness, respect and dignity
Empowerment and community involvement
Personal and mutual responsibility
Making amends/making things right
Repairing relationships
Cultural sensitivity
Victim/offender dialogue
Encouraging taking responsibility for ones actions
Other keywords: inclusiveness, dialogue, understanding, accountability, impact, harm, responsibility
Poster Content:
conflict resolution centres logo (to be supplied to the winner)
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any words, catch-phrases, or paragraphs that help convey the message above.
Brochure Content:
Program Name (Title)
Agency contact information
conflict resolution centres logo (to be supplied to the winner)
Technical (Poster):
Be 11 x 17 with NO BLEED
All designs must be vertical orientation
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Be 8 ½ x 11
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Winning entrants will need to provide files at 300dpi upon prize award
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Feel free to use any images you have of people, objects etc. But please indicate any costs associated with using/purchasing these image rights. You are free to use any eye-catching colour scheme you wish, however it would be nice if the organization logo looks pretty with it :) Also, please notify us of any separate costs associated with fonts.
Due to regulations set out by the funder of this contest, we are not allowed to identify the organization or supply the logo to anyone but the final winner. However, the logo for the organization is very simple with the wording above a small one-colour graphic. The only colour in the logo is close to: CMYK: 80% - 79% - 0% - 0% (RGB: 81-79-164 or HEX: 514fa4).
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Our challenge is open to all players. Each week a random winner will be chosen, and this week's winner will receive the adorable Celebrating Chloe rubber stamp. In order to qualify for a prize, you must use a Sparkle Creations image on your creation. Most importantly, have fun! We can't wait to see your creations!
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