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Lady Lynx overcome turnover issues to
beat Illinois College JV
By Justin Tierney
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[January 14, 2013]
Some games are just
inexplicable, even for a coach as experienced as Lincoln College
women's basketball coach Carol Wilson.
Lincoln College finished the game with a whopping 38
turnovers -- and still found a way to win their 10th game of the
"Maybe it was because it was on a Sunday afternoon. I really have
no idea," said Wilson of Sunday's game. "This was like night and day
after the game we played on Friday. That night, our passes were just
perfect. We read the floor, saw the open person and hit them right
in the hands.
"Then today, the ball seemed like it was everywhere except for
where it needed to be. Way, way too many turnovers. And we played
terrible on defense at times, with no help defense at all. We let
them go wherever they wanted to. But we won. I don't know how to
explain it."
While the Lady Lynx (10-6) surrendered too many easy shots for
Wilson's liking, they were able to help balance the offense's
turnover issues by forcing turnovers from their opponents. Illinois
College finished the game with 29 turnovers.
As frustrating as the game was for Wilson, the Lady Lynx and
their fans, Lincoln never trailed in the contest.
Much of the credit for that could go to sophomore forward Ally
Friday, who hit back-to-back 3-pointers in the opening minutes to
help LC to a 9-3 advantage. The Lady Lynx would maintain that margin
for the remainder of the first half, pulling away to a 36-25 lead at
The second half started almost exactly like the first, with
Friday once again draining back-to-back 3-pointers. Her second trey
gave the Lady Lynx a 42-25 advantage, their largest lead of the
But, for remainder of the second half, LC was outscored 38-27.
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If not for Friday's 3-point shooting, it might have been an
entirely different game.
"Ally played well. The last time we played them, Ally put us on
her back too," said Wilson. "The last time we played them, Ally had
27 points and really rose to the occasion. This time, it was the
same kind of game. She knocked down some big shots today that really
helped us."
Friday led LC with 16 points. Freshman guard Cassidy Jennings
added 13 points, while freshman forward Shannon Hall had 11 points
for the Lady Lynx, who also got eight points and 10 rebounds from
sophomore forward Erika Spiller.
It was the second win over a junior varsity squad in three days
for LC, who defeated MacMurray College's junior varsity on Friday
night. The Lady Lynx will play their third junior varsity opponent
Monday night, when they take on the junior varsity squad from
Millikin University.
Wilson said playing the junior varsity teams this week has two
primary benefits.
"The benefits of this week are twofold. First of all, those teams
will throw different things at us than we've seen thus far from
other teams," said Wilson. "That helps prepare us for our conference
"The other thing is, it allows my girls to play in front of a
Division III opponent that maybe they can play for after they're
done playing for me. But, the main thing right now is help us
prepare for Saturday."
Saturday is when the Lady Lynx begin Mid-West Athletic Conference
play, taking on Parkland Community College at home.
Wilson is hoping for some improvement before then.
"We got a win today, and to an extent, that's all that matter,"
said Wilson. "But we need to be playing better."
[By JUSTIN TIERNEY]
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"Fiber Tractography on a Crossing Fiber Phantom using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution MRI", Liège Image Days, Liège, Belgium, 2008.
"Can residual bootstrap reliably estimate uncertainty in fiber orientation obtained by spherical deconvolution from diffusion-weighted MRI?", 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, vol. 41, Melbourne, Australia, June, 2008.
"Bootstrap methods for estimating uncertainty in Constrained Spherical Deconvolution fiber orientations", ISMRM, 16th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, pp. 3324, May, 2008.
"Estimation of Uncertainty in Constrained Spherical Deconvolution Fiber Orientations", 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Paris, France, pp. 907-910, 2008.
"Probabilistic Fiber Tracking using the Residual Bootstrap with Constrained Spherical Deconvolution MRI", ISMRM, 17th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, USA, April, 2009.
"Fiber Tracking on the 'Fiber Cup Phantom' using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution", MICCAI workshop on Diffusion Modelling and the Fiber Cup (DMFC'09), London, United Kingdom, 2009.
"Estimating the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels: a constrained spherical deconvolution study", ISMRM, 18th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2010.
"Counting the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels using constrained spherical deconvolution", 2nd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Utrecht, The Netherlands, January, 2010.
"Correction of DWI gradient orientations using registration techniques", 3rd meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, Hoeven, The Netherlands, January, 2011.
"Registration based correction of DWI gradient orientations", ISMRM, 19th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Montreal, Canada, May, 2011.
"Probabilistic fiber tracking using the residual bootstrap with constrained spherical deconvolution", Human Brain Mapping, vol. 32, issue 3, pp. 461 - 479, March, 2011.
"Improved analysis of brain connectivity using high angular resolution diffusion MRI", Department of Physics, vol. PhD in Sciences: University of Antwerp, pp. 208, 03/2012. Download thesis book (35.42 MB)
"HARDI-based methods for fiber orientation estimation", ISMRM, 20th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 3585, May, 2012.
"Assessing the implications of complex fiber configurations for DTI metrics in real data sets", ISMRM, 20th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 3584, May, 2012.
"Investigating the prevalence of complex fiber configurations in white matter tissue with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging.", Human Brain Mapping, vol. 34, no. 11, pp. 2747-66, 2013.
"How to make sure you are using the correct gradient orientations in your diffusion MRI study?", ISMRM, 21st Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, USA, pp. 2047, April, 2013.
"Brain Tissue Types Resolved Using Spherical Deconvolution of Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI Data", ISMRM, 22nd Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Milan, Italy, pp. 973, May, 2014.
"Automated correction of improperly rotated diffusion gradient orientations in diffusion-weighted MRI", Medical Image Analysis, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 953-962, 2014.
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October 23rd, 1958 was a big day.
It was a Thursday, and at around eight o'clock that evening something bad happened at the No.2 colliery in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Bumps are underground earthquakes and are probably set off by our infernal digging. They are common enough and were often ignored – there had already been a bump an hour previously. The eight o'clock bump, though, was huge.
A hundred and seventy-four miners were in the deep, deep shafts of No.2 and only a hundred would see daylight again. Under the circumstances this was good going – rescue teams came from far afield. It even became the first major international event to be broadcast live.
After the bump, the Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation shut the mine down and it never reopened. Lives had been lost, others devastated and a town robbed of its principal source of income. The disaster is now an entry in the annals of North American folklore. It has been written about in any number of books and sung of by artists from Peggy Seeger & Ewan McColl, to Peter, Paul & Mary, to U2.
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Ashley Priess' decision to return as a fifth-year senior to the University of Alabama gymnastics team came with numerous upsides — her steady leadership, superb talent and the ability for the team to field a lineup almost identical to the one that won the program's sixth national championship in 2012.
TUSCALOOSA | Ashley Priess' decision to return as a fifth-year senior to the University of Alabama gymnastics team came with numerous upsides — her steady leadership, superb talent and the ability for the team to field a lineup almost identical to the one that won the program's sixth national championship in 2012.
But there was one caveat — Priess would need to be monitored carefully throughout the season.
The Wheaton, Ill., native missed the entire 2011 season after having two ankle surgeries following the 2010 season — one in the summer and one in the fall. In 2012, Priess was held back at the beginning of the season. But as the year went on, she was given a bigger workload and finished the season competing in the all-around in all four of the Crimson Tide's postseason meets.
Priess' health will be under an even more careful watch in 2013. Coach Sarah Patterson is taking a week-by-week approach in how she manages her star senior's "glass ankles."
"We have to be pretty smart in what we're doing," Patterson said. "But I also think, what a great opportunity. She's been on two national championship teams. She helped lead one in her senior year. And then now she's going to finish her master's by the time we're done with this season. It's a remarkable story."
In last Friday's season opener against the Missouri Tigers, the rust was apparent. Priess only competed on the uneven bars and balance beam, scoring 9.825 and 9.75, respectively.
"Her endurance didn't come back as quick as some of the others, and that's being in your fifth year as opposed to maybe a freshman or sophomore," Patterson said. "We'll just be really smart in terms of when she's ready and when she's available."
Last season, Priess was held off of the vault — the hardest event on a gymnast's ankles — until a showdown with the Florida Gators in the season's fourth meet. She didn't return to the vault until four weeks later on the road against Oklahoma, which was ranked No. 2 at the time.
2013 will feature more of the same, with Priess only going full-speed when she is needed against top opponents.
"I think the coaches have been very smart and we've had good communication to maintain my health," Priess said. "And I feel great this year. Just week by week we'll see how I feel."
There will also be constant communication between Priess and her coaches. In last season's Oklahoma meet, for example, Priess felt her ankle lock up while warming up for the balance beam. That would have been her fourth event of the night, but even in a tight meet, she told Patterson and Patterson was quick to pull her star in favor of a healthier but less experienced option.
"(Priess is) one of those athletes who knows her body really well," junior Ria Domier said. "So she's not pushing herself too hard right now."
With the depth Alabama brings into the season — the Crimson Tide lost just four routines from its national championship rotation — Alabama's coaches can be as cautious as they need to while Priess builds her strength.
"She's definitely taking it easier at the beginning of the season, relying on the rest of the team knowing that they can back her up," Domier said. "We love having her compete, but we don't necessarily need her to compete in the all-around every week to still post great scores."


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NEW YORK — Even as Democratic lawmakers vowed to move beyond the controversy surrounding a lewd photo sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account, residents of his New York district expressed mixed feelings over the incident and the media furor surrounding it.
Weiner stayed out of the limelight Thursday after spending Wednesday doing a round of interviews trying to explain how a waist-down photo of a man's bulging underpants had been transmitted from his Twitter account.
The media blitz raised more questions than it answered, as Weiner insisted the photo had been set by a prankster but couldn't rule out the possibility that it was a photo of him.Story: Rep. Weiner says he didn't send Twitter photo
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Outside Weiner's district in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, constituent Evelyn Carson said she had voted for Weiner but regretted doing so now. "That's an embarrassment for children to see something like that, especially from a big-time figure."
Another constituent, Ronald Tirino, said the incident had been blown out of proportion by the press.
"I thought it was a joke," Tirino said. "The way media has been going it's hardly news anymore."
The uproar began over the weekend when conservative activist Andrew Breitbart reported on his website that Weiner had sent the photo to a 21-year-old female college student in Seattle who was one of the New York congressman's Twitter followers. Weiner has insisted he did not send the photo. He says he saw it online before deleting it.
Though generally mum in public, Democrats privately fumed at the forced detour in their arguments about Medicare and spending, leaving the seven-term congressman from Brooklyn and Queens largely to fend for himself for a third day in a row. Most Republicans seemed content to let the controversy simmer.
Democrats stonewall
On Thursday, Weiner joined Democratic lawmakers at the White House where the caucus met with President Barack Obama. As they walked from buses on Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats stonewalled when they were asked about their colleague.
"I will have nothing to say about that," said fellow New Yorker, Rep. Louise Slaughter. "I'm here to put people to work."
"We're not distracted by that," said Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J.
The House's top Democrat, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, earlier told ABC News that she was "a late-comer to the issue" — one that cable TV and the Capitol press corps have been fixated on for most of the week.
Still, Pelosi added, "I have confidence in Anthony Weiner that if an investigation is in order that will take place."
Other top Democrats expressed a desire for the issue to disappear. Longtime Rep. John Conyers of Michigan said Weiner was a valuable member of the Democratic caucus, and he called the issue a distraction.
"The public mostly likes entertainment and excitement and that's what the Weiner issue provides," he said. "That's human nature."
Noting that the House was heading into a week-long break, Conyers said he hoped the issue soon "will not have the entertainment value that it currently enjoys."
It seemed to be a bad week for politicians and their social media elsewhere, too. The Twitter account of the speaker of the Ohio House, William Batchelder, was hacked and phony comments were posted making it appear the Republican leader was championing liberal causes.
Weiner failed in a 2005 bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City, but has been considered a likely front-runner in the race to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg when the mayor's third and final term ends in 2013.
Republican leader to Weiner: 'Come clean'
Republicans were content to highlight the incident's many unanswered questions. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told Fox News that Weiner needed to "come clean."
"There's a lot of explaining going on without a lot of clarity," said Cantor, a Virginia Republican. "The American people are right in saying that they don't have tolerance for this repeated kind of activity going on surrounding their elected leaders."
House Speaker John Boehner, asked twice about the incident at his weekly news conference, said reporters needed to "talk to Rep. Weiner."Story: Rep. Weiner hires lawyer after Twitter account hacked
But by then Weiner had declared he didn't want to talk about it. Emerging from his office to a phalanx of reporters on Thursday morning, Weiner said he was going to get back to work, but if they needed anything to make their stay in the hallway more comfortable he was happy to help.
Weiner has hired an attorney and a private firm to investigate. But Twitter's policy states it will not provide information about postings without a subpoena, court order or other legal documents, raising questions about why law enforcement wasn't investigating a possible cybercrime against a member of Congress.
Kimberly Schneider, a spokeswoman for the Capitol Police, said Thursday the department was not probing the incident, because "we have not been asked to investigate."
By hiring a private firm, Weiner controls the release of information about the investigation.
There were also questions about why the congressman, married recently to an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, was following the female college student on Twitter.
The woman has been identified by media outlets as Gennette Cordova. Despite multiple calls to phone numbers and an email address for Cordova, she could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press.
Weiner, 46, married Clinton aide Huma Abedin last July, with former President Bill Clinton officiating. Before that, Weiner had been known as one of New York's most eligible bachelors.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Supplemental food assistance checks for families are in limbo due to the federal government shutdown.
The Kansas Department of Health Environment said Wednesday it's ordered local WIC offices to only issue checks dated for October and withhold checks for November and December until further notice. KDHE says it cannot guarantee the backing of checks dated November and December until the shutdown ends.
WIC stands for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. It provides nutrition education, breastfeeding support and supplemental, nutritious foods to low-income families.
KDHE says WIC serves approximately 70,000 Kansans every month. It differs from the traditional food stamp program, known as SNAP, which is administered through the Department of Children and Families.
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TOPEKA, Kan. – Today, Oct. 9, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment directed local WIC offices to limit the issuance of WIC checks to only those checks dated October 2013 and to withhold checks dated November and December until further notice. KDHE is able to fund WIC purchases made with October checks; however, the agency cannot at this time guarantee its backing of grocery purchases made with checks dated November and December because it cannot predict the end of the federal government shutdown.
KDHE will keep authorized WIC grocery stores informed regarding the current situation including specific instructions if restrictions are placed on the redemption of WIC checks.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) is a federally funded program administered in Kansas by KDHE through contracts with county health departments. Currently, all Kansas WIC clinics are fully operational and serving clients.
Printed on each WIC check is a date labeled: "Do not use before this date." WIC checks are valid for 30 days from that date. For instance, October checks issued today are valid from Oct. 9 through Nov. 9; the October checks issued tomorrow are valid from Oct. 10 through Nov. 10, and so on. All checks with a "Do not use before this date" in October or September may be redeemed by participants and grocery stores will be reimbursed for purchases made with those checks.
"Limiting the issuance of WIC checks is the appropriate response at this time," said Dave Thomason, Kansas WIC Director within the Bureau of Family Health at KDHE. "We are hopeful that the shutdown will be resolved before it impacts WIC past the month of October, but we must be fiscally responsible during this time of uncertainty. KDHE understands the inconvenience of our current situation, and we appreciate WIC staff in their work to ensure that WIC participants receive proper nutrition education and assistance during this time."
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In these affairs
We wish thee also well aware of this:
The atoms, as their own weight bears them down
Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times,
In scarce determined places, from their course
Decline a little- call it, so to speak,
Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont
Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one,
Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void;
And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows
Among the primal elements; and thus
Nature would never have created aught.
But, if perchance be any that believe
The heavier bodies, as more swiftly borne
Plumb down the void, are able from above
To strike the lighter, thus engendering blows
Able to cause those procreant motions, far
From highways of true reason they retire.
For whatsoever through the waters fall,
Or through thin air, must quicken their descent,
Each after its weight- on this account, because
Both bulk of water and the subtle air
By no means can retard each thing alike,
But give more quick before the heavier weight;
But contrariwise the empty void cannot,
On any side, at any time, to aught
Oppose resistance, but will ever yield,
True to its bent of nature. Wherefore all,
With equal speed, though equal not in weight,
Must rush, borne downward through the still inane.
Thus ne'er at all have heavier from above
Been swift to strike the lighter, gendering strokes
Which cause those divers motions, by whose means
Nature transacts her work. And so I say,
The atoms must a little swerve at times-
But only the least, lest we should seem to feign
Motions oblique, and fact refute us there.
For this we see forthwith is manifest:
Whatever the weight, it can't obliquely go,
Down on its headlong journey from above,
At least so far as thou canst mark; but who
Is there can mark by sense that naught can swerve
At all aside from off its road's straight line?
Again, if ev'r all motions are co-linked,
And from the old ever arise the new
In fixed order, and primordial seeds
Produce not by their swerving some new start
Of motion to sunder the covenants of fate,
That cause succeed not cause from everlasting,
Whence this free will for creatures o'er the lands,
Whence is it wrested from the fates,- this will
Whereby we step right forward where desire
Leads each man on, whereby the same we swerve
In motions, not as at some fixed time,
Nor at some fixed line of space, but where
The mind itself has urged? For out of doubt
In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself
That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs
Incipient motions are diffused. Again,
Dost thou not see, when, at a point of time,
The bars are opened, how the eager strength
Of horses cannot forward break as soon
As pants their mind to do? For it behooves
That all the stock of matter, through the frame,
Be roused, in order that, through every joint,
Aroused, it press and follow mind's desire;
So thus thou seest initial motion's gendered
From out the heart, aye, verily, proceeds
First from the spirit's will, whence at the last
'Tis given forth through joints and body entire.
Quite otherwise it is, when forth we move,
Impelled by a blow of another's mighty powers
And mighty urge; for then 'tis clear enough
All matter of our total body goes,
Hurried along, against our own desire-
Until the will has pulled upon the reins
And checked it back, throughout our members all;
At whose arbitrament indeed sometimes
The stock of matter's forced to change its path,
Throughout our members and throughout our joints,
And, after being forward cast, to be
Reined up, whereat it settles back again.
So seest thou not, how, though external force
Drive men before, and often make them move,
Onward against desire, and headlong snatched,
Yet is there something in these breasts of ours
Strong to combat, strong to withstand the same?-
Wherefore no less within the primal seeds
Thou must admit, besides all blows and weight,
Some other cause of motion, whence derives
This power in us inborn, of some free act.-
Since naught from nothing can become, we see.
For weight prevents all things should come to pass
Through blows, as 'twere, by some external force;
But that man's mind itself in all it does
Hath not a fixed necessity within,
Nor is not, like a conquered thing, compelled
To bear and suffer,- this state comes to man
From that slight swervement of the elements
In no fixed line of space, in no fixed time.
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A new book is to be published on May the 24th. By John F. Hoffecker the book is entitled "Landscape of the Mind: Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought" – it aims to look at the emergence of human thought and language through archaeological evidence
Archeologists often struggle to find fossil evidence pertaining to the evolution of the brain. Thoughts are a hard thing to fossilize. However, John Hoffecker claims that this is not the case and fossils and archaeological evidence for the evolution of the human mind are abundant.
Hoffecker has developed a concept which he calls the "super-brain" which he hypothesises emerged in Africa some 75,000 years ago. He claims that human's ability to share thoughts between individuals is analogous to the abilities of honey bees who are able to communicate the location of food both in terms of distance and direction. They do this using a waggle-dance. Humans are able to share thoughts between brains using communicative methods, the most obvious of these being language.
Fossil evidence for the emergence of speech is thin on the ground and, where it does exist, is quite controversial. However, symbols emerging in the archaeological record coincides with an increase in evidence of creativity being displayed in many artifacts from the same time. Creative, artistic designs scratched on mineral pigment show up in Africa about 75,000 years ago and are thought to be evidence for symbolism and language
Hoffecker also hypothesises that his concept of the super-brain is likely to be connected to things like bipedalism and tool making. He claims that it was tool making which helped early humans first develop the ability to represent complex thoughts to others.
He claims that tools were a consequence of bipedalism as this freed up the hands to make and use tools. Hoffecker pin points his "super-brain" as beginning to emerge 1.6 million years ago when the first hand axes began to appear in the fossil record. This is because hand axes are thought to be an external realisation of human thought as they bear little resemblance to the natural objects they were made from.
By 75,00 years ago humans were producing perforated shell ornaments, polished bone awls and simple geometric designs incised into lumps of red ochre.
Humans are known to have emerged from Africa between 60,00 to 50,000 years ago based on archeological evidence. Hoeffecker hypothesises that – "Since all languages have basically the same structure, it is inconceivable to me that they could have evolved independently at different times and places."
Hoeffecker also lead a study in 2007 that discovered a carved piece of mammoth ivory that appears to be the head of a small figurine dating to more than 40,000 years ago. This is claimed to be the oldest piece of figurative art ever discovered. Finds like this illustrate the creative mind of humans as they spread out of Africa.
Figurative art and musical instruments which date back to before 30,000 years ago have also been discovered in caves in France and Germany.
This looks to be nothing new but archaeological evidence is something which a lot of people interested in language evolution do not often discuss. I also don't really know what to think of Hoeffecker's claim that "all languages basically have the same structure". What do you think?


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Autistic Adults in Rural America: Part II
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Autistic adults face numerous challenges, regardless of where they live. Lack of services, lack of jobs, lack of housing and family supports are universal hurdles to increased quality of life for adults on the spectrum. However, not all communities are created equal. For many families living in rural America, the experience of living with autism is markedly different from that of urbanites—for better and for worse. Quality services can be harder to come by, job opportunities can be limited, and residential options outside of the family home can be virtually non-existent. By the same token, the tight-knit quality of rural communities can often be more socially and emotionally supportive. In this two-part series, AA16 takes a closer look at autism in rural communities as experienced by families in different parts of the country.
Housing & Transportation
Finding appropriate housing for adults on the spectrum is a national challenge, as Angela D. Leonard, Director of the Blue Ridge Autism and Achievement Center in Roanoke, Virginia well knows. Virginia is near the bottom of the national list for Medicaid services and autism services. Few residential opportunities and an abundance of individuals on service waiting lists equal a housing crisis. Leonard notes, "Parents are faced with keeping their adult children at home, in many cases ... a lot of people are on their own." Leonard's long-term housing plan for her autistic son, Joshua, involves constructing an apartment-type building on her family's property. Leonard recognizes that her plan wouldn't work for every family, saying, "Our circumstances allow us to do something different, and not everybody's does."
Leonard also notes that transportation issues often prevent rural families from accessing programs and supports. While urban transportation infrastructure often allows higher-functioning autistic adults to gain a degree of independence, rural residents do not typically have such options. If an autistic adult can ride the bus or subway to their work or day program, they may be able to live semi-independently. But if they live in a rural area and cannot access public transit and are unable to drive, they are much more likely to be homebound.
In the Roanoke area, families work together to use existing transit supports to their advantage. Many area families utilize a disability-based public transit system called RADAR. However, RADAR runs within city limits only. So parents carpool and select meeting places that are right on the outskirts of RADAR's reach. Leonard also says that living in a rural area renders transportation training for autistic individuals nearly impossible. She describes a Roanoke public school teacher who implemented a successful program for her students on the spectrum that taught them how to use local bus lines. They practiced daily, and gained a new life skill. However, Leonard says, rural students don't have such opportunities. She sums up the situation: "We'd have to drive into the city to access the bus line to teach them ... so we just don't."
Since autistic adults Julia Triassi, Eric Burns, Steele Carmon, and Grant and Blake Way are all living at home, finding autism-appropriate housing is not a current concern. However, all interviewees mention that transportation poses a challenge to acting more independently. Since Triassi (a resident of Mansfield, Georgia population: 413) doesn't currently drive, she relies on her mother and friends for rides. She has filed paperwork with Georgia's vocational rehabilitation program, and hopes to start driving lessons.
Likewise, Eric Burns lives at home and does not drive. The Burns family has lived in a rural area near Rapid City, South Dakota (city population: 69,200) for 20 years. Eric's parents are looking to the future in hopes that Eric can live a more independent life outside their home. Eric's mother, Sandy Burns says, "We are working with adult services to find an apartment [for Eric], and we are also looking at buying a house that he can share with two other individuals." However, Rapid City, like Roanoke, has limited public transportation options.
Steele Carmon lives with his parents in a historic home in Powell, Wyoming (population: 6,393) without access to public transportation. While living in a sparsely populated area means travel must be done by car, Steele's mother, Betty Carmon notes that being a resident of Wyoming affords other advantages for autism families. "Since it's less populated, people can get on the [Medicaid] Waiver much faster," she states. "This means training and providers, respite care, job coaching … everything. We're very fortunate. Kids can get services and training that they need to help make them independent."
Health Care
Another challenge of rural life for adults on the spectrum and their families is accessing medical and therapeutic resources. From the start, individuals with autism living in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to health care, as they are often diagnosed later than their urban and suburban counterparts. This delay means fewer early interventions, and an increased potential for skill regression. (To address this problem, a University of Alabama research team has begun developing a video-based diagnostic aid, which they hope will facilitate earlier diagnosis for children with ASD in rural areas.)
But the difficulties go beyond childhood; individuals on the spectrum in rural areas have ongoing issues accessing health care providers. As Leonard observes, "It's much more difficult to find providers in our [rural] area." She cites examples of people who drive over an hour to access health care covered by their insurance.
Triassi has experienced the difficulty Leonard describes in accessing providers; she sees several doctors, most at a significant distance. Her psychiatrist is a 45-minute drive away, her neurologist, an hour. Triassi has utilized the Atlanta public transit system in the past, but Mansfield is at a significant distance from bus routes. She says that it's difficult to manage appointments with far-flung doctors, and expresses a desire to attend support groups for people with Asperger's in Atlanta. "I'd like to go," she says, "But I can't get there." In turn, Burns says that it was difficult to find good doctors for her son in his early years. She recalls, "One doctor refused to see us because I didn't want [Eric] to get immunizations." Furthermore, Eric's medical needs have meant several hospitalizations. "He has had numerous surgeries and some complications because he doesn't seem to feel pain," she explains. However, she notes that they don't have to travel extended distances for her son's medical appointments at this time, and that they're now able to access providers.
Likewise, Carmon remembers trying to find a pediatrician who would listen to her concerns about her son. She says, "I knew that something was wrong … I'd take [Steele] to the doctor, and they'd say, 'Leave him alone.' He wasn't meeting milestones, and there was a lack of good medical help for us." Carmon's community took her concerns seriously, raising money to send her to autism conferences and neurologists from Helena. She says, "There were good doctors [for Steele], but we had to go a long way to get to them." The school system has lent support as well. Carmon recalls, "Since no one [in our town] knew what to do with [autism], the school system paid for us to go to Denver for an evaluation. It was around the time of IDEA '97. They sent Steele's teachers to Denver to learn about autism."
Community Connections
Life in a rural area can bring a sense of isolation for autism families. However, sparsely populated places can also give rise to close-knit communities and an atmosphere of acceptance. Leonard observes that parents and siblings make tremendous contributions and creating opportunities for their loved ones where none have existed before.
For many autistic adults in rural areas, religious communities are a primary place of connection. Triassi's social connections in Mansfield come from her church. She attends religious services every Sunday, and has been a member of a weekly support group for over three years. She also volunteers at her church by working the light board. Though Triassi does struggle with aspects of life in Mansfield, she is committed to serving her community. She recounts, "When I was diagnosed [with Asperger's], I didn't really like it, but now I use [my diagnosis] to help people." Triassi volunteers with the A.skate Foundation, a nonprofit that invites young people with autism to socialize and engage with the world through skateboarding.
Like Leonard, Burns notes that an absence of autism resources has translated to greater collaborative effort. For example, there were no after-school autism programs in their area, so the Burns family and other members of the Autism Society of the Black Hills developed them. At present, Eric's social connections come from a "Buddy Program" with the local college and the gaming community. Sandy Burns recalls, "The kids in the neighborhood would all come over to our house because we always bought [Eric] the latest video game. He loved it." Unlike Triassi, the Burns family does not attend a church. Burns recalls an early negative experience, saying, "We tried [to attend church] when [our son] was young, but they asked us that he not attend the regular service, and they would not take him in the daycare ... so we never went back."
Becky Way—who lives in a rural area 25 miles north of Roanoke, Virginia—says that her family has been invited to events at their church, and that these invitations are the only ones they receive from their community. Since the move to rural Virginia, she believes that more people have reached out to her family, but the absence of a peer group for the twins makes attending church events more challenging. Way notes that her sons would have had a better shot at a peer group in a bigger city, or within a larger church and educating her community has been a long process. She remembers sensing fear and distance when her sons first started attending their local respite care center, but years later, they have formed relationships. Yet at the same time, their neighborhood hasn't warmed up. "Our neighbors have said two words; we've lived in our subdivision for nine years," she notes.
Carmon cites school as Steele's primary source of socialization, as well as the local Boys and Girls Club and Special Olympics chapter. She believes that her son has been able to make connections in part because of a decision she made: "Every year, [the school] would have us sign a confidentiality agreement, and I made my own clause that allowed anybody to talk about [his autism diagnosis]." Her strategy seems to have worked. "Once, I overheard two students. One said, 'That kid [Steele] is the weirdest,' and the other said, 'Don't you talk about him like that. He's the Rainman.'" And when Steele was hit by a car as a pedestrian, breaking his collarbone and injuring his leg, Carmon remembers a flood of students coming to visit him in the hospital. They brought Oreo cookies and Pepsi … her son's favorite foods.
The challenges and joys that autistic adults and their families encounter as a result of living in rural areas are not so very different from those faced by their urban and suburban counterparts. Across the nation, autism families struggle to access support services, secure jobs, and help their young adults forge connections. But being an autistic adult in a rural area can mean that these universal challenges and joys are magnified. If accessing housing, transportation, and care providers is already difficult, living in a rural location makes it even more so. If the educational system hasn't caught up to the wave of young adults with autism in schools, rural life makes that gap even more evident. However, if it's personal connections that help most young adults with autism find jobs, rural communities can often provide those in ways large cities cannot. And if autism parents and family members are gaining influence in grassroots organizations, living in a rural area means that the groups' impact may be more keenly felt.
In a world where autism families have to fight for services and supports, life in a rural area can make the struggle ever more strenuous. Yet families in rural America are no strangers to hard work. Way speaks for many autism families when she says, "If we need it, we'll look for it. We don't really let location be a barrier. We do what we have to do."


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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's bombshell decision to dump 32 senators from the federal Liberal caucus this week is just the latest in a string of moves designed to turn the page on his party's reputation for arrogance, corruption and entitlement.
The sponsorship scandal, a long history of patronage appointments and a firm belief they were the country's natural governing party all coalesced a decade ago to stain the Liberal brand and contribute to its steady decline to third-place status.
Since being elected leader last April, Trudeau has sought to change this image by:
– Promising to end the long-standing tradition of Liberal leaders using their power to appoint candidates in some ridings. Now, open nomination battles will be held in all 338 ridings.
– Spending most of his time crisscrossing the country recruiting Canadians to volunteer for, donate to and support the party.
– Making his party the first to publish travel and hospitality expenses online.
Akaash Maharaj, former national policy chair for the Liberals, said Trudeau has also successfully ended the decades of divisiveness that plagued the party and contributed to falling fortunes and a disconnect from average Canadians.
Some will question whether these changes represent a real shift in attitude within the Liberal party, but Maharaj said they are "clearly a journey away from the party's old identity."
Trudeau has said his decision to sever ties with the 32 senators is about eliminating partisanship and patronage, and returning the upper chamber to its original purpose as a place of sober second-thought.
It also appears to seize the agenda on Senate reform from both the Harper government and the opposition NDP in a single stroke. Yet in many ways, ejecting the senators from the Liberal caucus was also the next logical step on the path to rebuilding the party.
Robert Asselin, a University of Ottawa professor and one of Trudeau's advisers, described the senators as "great individuals who have served the party."
"But as you've seen with his leadership campaign, (Trudeau) started from the proposition that we needed to rebuild the party from scratch," Asselin said.
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The move also shows that Trudeau "doesn't owe anything to anyone" within the party, Asselin said, which gives him enormous freedom to act on his promises to Canadians.
"Canadians see a bunch of old politicians doing the same thing over and over," he said. "And they see this young guy saying 'I'm going to change things and I mean it. And here's the proof of it. I'm going to fire a bunch of senators from my own caucus.' "
Maharaj said the fact Trudeau was able to single-handedly eject the senators without significant pushback is unprecedented.
"This is not a party he has inherited," Maharaj said. "It is a party he has control of. It shows very much that this is Justin Trudeau's party."
There will be some costs, starting with a dramatic drop in representation from western and northern Canada inside the Liberal caucus. There were seven senators representing provinces west of Ontario, and one from the territories — Northwest Territories Sen. Nick Sibbeston.
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In this lecture, Professor Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester, UK) presents the first results of his research in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive regarding the treatment of corpses in the Holocaust.
In this lecture, Professor Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA) discusses his newest book, The Killing Season. The Killing Season examines one of the largest and swiftest instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century—the shocking anti-leftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965–66, leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention.
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Chrooted jail allows run command or service such as http / mysql / postfix with special root directory i.e. chroot changes the root directory for application. The biggest benefit is a service that is re-rooted to another directory cannot access files outside that directory. Basically you are going to set service in sandbox. Chrooting offers the following 2 benefits:
[a] Service Isolation
[b] Privilege Separation
But how do you find out if service / server is chrooted or not under Linux?
Simply run ls -ld command on /proc/MAIN-PID/root directory.
For example, find out if httpd chrooted or not:
pidof httpd
Run ls command:
ls -ld /proc/23456/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 10 02:52 /proc/23456/root -> /wwwdata
Find out if postfix is chrooted or not (PID 4645):
ls -ld /proc/4645/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 10 02:59 /proc/4645/root -> /
The PID 4645 pointing out to / (root) i.e. the root directory for application is not changed or chrooted. This is a quick and dirty way to find out if application is chrooted or not w/o opening configuration files.


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Logi-Map necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Logi-Map is a new Australian company that provides digital navigation solutions targeting Military, Law Enforcement and other Government Departments. Our key focus is on providing desktop systems that go hand in hand with portable PC's such as tablet PC's and Panasonic Toughbooks etc.
Get There
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Main -Black, Grey, Blue . Possibly vivid burgundy or orange
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Slick, professional, smart, happy and simple. You can separate the words if you like, but consider using the hyphen as it's part of the URL. We like the idea of having a globe (earth)or map theme somewhere in the logo and would prefer any representation
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Our software is unique in that it operates on any windows machine, is touch screen based and simple(logical)to use. Software-wise it is 'lightweight' and not memory or processor intensive. In a nutshell it is designed in helping the user to navigate from point to point using simple search criteria such as suburbs, street names and numbers, latitude & longitude, grid references, places names etc.
The software was developed for use in law enforcement helicopters but the company is also targeting military helicopter and vehicle use, as well as entities such as Police SWAT, Search and Rescue units, Ambulances, Fire Fighters, National Parks (Rangers), State Forrest workers etc. Once the logo is done a website will be developed with a matching theme. We are yet to decide the layout though.
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WEDNESDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Insomnia may triple the risk of developing heart failure, a large new study from Norway suggests.
Heart problems definitely lead to sleep problems, said lead researcher Dr. Lars Laugsand, but his team tried to determine whether the reverse might also be true.
"Insomnia is a frequent and easily recognized, potentially manageable and treatable condition," said Laugsand, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of public health at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim.
Laugsand added that the researchers found an association between insomnia and heart failure, not that insomnia actually causes heart failure.
"We still do not know whether heart failure is really caused by insomnia, and it is still unclear why insomnia is linked to higher heart failure risk," he said.
Heart failure is a chronic condition in which the heart does not pump blood efficiently enough to meet the body's needs.
There are some indications that a biological cause might explain an insomnia-heart failure connection, Laugsand said. "One possible mechanism could be that insomnia activates stress responses in the body that might negatively affect heart function," he explained.
"If our results are confirmed by others and there is a real causal association, evaluation of insomnia symptoms might have consequences for cardiovascular prevention," Laugsand added.
The report was published March 6 in the online edition of the European Heart Journal.
To measure the effect of insomnia on the risk of heart failure, Laugsand's team collected data on more than 54,000 men and women who took part in a Norwegian study on public health factors between 1995 and 1997. None of the participants had heart failure at the start of the study.
As part of the study, researchers asked about the quality of the participants' sleep and if they had difficulty going to sleep and staying asleep.
After 11 years of follow-up, more than 1,400 participants had developed heart failure, Laugsand's group found. People who had multiple insomnia symptoms had a threefold increased risk of developing heart failure, compared to people who slept well. When depression and anxiety were accounted for, the risk was slightly more than fourfold.
Specifically, having difficulties going to sleep and staying asleep almost every night, and feeling tired in the morning more than once a week, were associated with an increased risk of heart failure, compared to people who never or rarely suffered from these symptoms.
These findings remained even after the researchers took age, sex, marital status, education, shift work, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, weight, physical activity, smoking, alcohol use and previous heart attacks into account.
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said,"Heart failure results in substantial [illness], mortality and health care expenditures."
Insomnia has been associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events and death, and two earlier studies have suggested that insomnia may also be associated with the risk of heart failure, he noted.
Insomnia can increase the body's inflammatory and stress responses, said Fonarow, who's also a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
"Activation of these systems, as well as other mechanisms, may link insomnia to an increased risk of developing heart failure and other cardiovascular disease," he said. "However, whether preventing or treating insomnia would lower the risk of developing heart failure requires further study."
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Absurdity Of Copyright Policy Leaves Dutch Supreme Court Confused
from the sidestep-and-postpone deptThe Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) has posed some pre-judicial questions to the Court of Justice of the EU regarding the home-copying exception in European copyright legislation -- raising significant questions about what is legal under EU rules and how it meshes with how people actually consume music. Of course, all it really seems to demonstrate is just how messy the copyright system is today. When the top judges of a country cannot figure out the seemingly simple question of whether downloading music and films is legal or not -- mainly due to a huge patchwork of amendments to copyright law over the years -- something needs to change. Drastically. Let's see if we can make some sense of it:
In essence, the home-copying exception allows people to make copies for non-commercial home uses. Such an exception makes a lot of sense, because these private copies are largely impossible to enforce anyway. A levy is imposed on manufacturers of blank media to compensate rights holders for the supposed "losses" from foregone license fees.
The case in question concerns a group of these blank media manufacturers, who refuse to pay the full levies imposed by the collecting society in charge of the compensation for the home-copying exception. The collecting society considers it fair to charge for "losses" that stem from people downloading unauthorized uploads. You see, in the Dutch system, there is a chicken and the egg problem where you may download copyright protected content, but you may not upload (not unlike its policy for marijuana where buying and selling is tolerated, but growing is not). Any uploaded material is therefore often considered to stem from an illegal source. There is a huge political debate about the desirability of this construction in the Parliament.
The Netherlands is one of the few countries that has a system like this, where the end-user is partly taken out of the equation for copyright infringement. This is due to a particularity in European copyright, which is a headache to comprehend, but necessary to understand the confusion of the Court. Here's a quick summary:
The EU legislator adopted the so called "Copyright in the Information Society" Directive in the year 2001, which was supposed to "adapt legislation on copyright and related rights to reflect technological developments" and make sure all 27 copyright systems in the EU would become more or less uniform. The hope was that this would knock out some of the problems of very different systems, and create a better "single market" for European content.
Of course, no copyright law is complete without the important exceptions and limitations, like the fair-use doctrine in the US. However, in the case of the copyright directive, the exceptions and limitations were optional for Member States, thereby effectively eliminating any chance for a uniform (or "harmonized") copyright legislation in the EU and thus missing the point completely. Information activist Smari McCarthy explains the resulting chaos well:
The directive outlines 21 different optional exceptions or limitations to the right of reproduction of copyrighted works. Each country implementing the directive can choose to either include or leave out the exception clause. This gives us 2,097,152 different ways to implement the directive.Now repeat this for the 27 Member States, and you see where this fragmentation exercise is going. Since only a few countries have also implemented this home-copying exception and there has not yet been a legal conflict about it, no jurisprudence exists on which the Dutch court can rely. The exception reads as follows:
Member States may provide for exceptions or limitations to the reproduction right provided for in Article 2 in the following cases: [...]As you see, this text does not include any information on whether the fair compensation should be based on only foregone license fees (implying only copies from legal sources), or whether all copying on blank media carriers should be included.
[...] in respect of reproductions on any medium made by a natural person for private use and for ends that are neither directly nor indirectly commercial, on condition that the rightholders receive fair compensation which takes account of the application or non-application of technological measures referred to in Article 6 to the work or subject matter concerned;
When the collecting society proposed to start charging for copies from illegal sources in 2008, the manufacturers of blank media went to court hoping for a ruling that levies should only be payable for copies which are allowed under the copyright directive, thus only from legal sources (as this would decrease the levy significantly).
If you read through the lines of the courts' analysis (and if you understand Dutch), I think you can see quite clearly that the judges tried their utmost to find a way to reconcile this copyright exception with the way people share and use works online. The Court states it would like to give rights holders a fair compensation via a levy system for losses from piracy, but it is unsure if EU law allows this. In its questions, the Court proposes some ways of establishing the mechanism for fair compensation and asks the European court whether this would be permissible under law. The questions asked by the Court are rather technical in nature, but here's a quick summary of the main points (my interpretation, not a literal translation!):
1. Can the home-copying exception be interpreted so that the exception applies to all copies, regardless of whether the original was an authorized source? Or does the exception only apply to copies, which are derived from an original, which does not infringe copyright itself?Dutch internet lawyer Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm is confused about the Courts' deliberations:
2a. Can the three-step test be used to expand the scope of the exception to include all copies?
2b. Is the Dutch construct – where downloading from any source is legal – in conflict with EU law? Would it help to mention that feasible technical tools to counter the making of private copies is not yet available, which may influence your decision regarding the three-step test? [...]
I find it remarkable that Court contemplates a compensation paid for downloading copyright protected works from an illegal source, but that this does entail that the act of copying of this content is permissible under law. In my opinion, there are simply just two options: either it is permissible to make private copies from an illegal source and we pay the levy, or it is illegal and we don't pay the levy. I do not agree with the current system either, though, where downloading from illegal sources is permissible but no levies are charged over this.The court misses some important points here, indeed. First, if people are paying levies for unauthorized downloads, society will perceive their actions to be justified. Second, people mainly use phones, computers and portable devices for music and films. Hardly anyone uses blank media any more. Therefore, levies on CD's, for example, miss the objective. Third, if a levy is imposed, we get into the sticky situation where actual losses from downloading unauthorized content needs to be determined, which is a seemingly impossible task. Finally, the Court may not have been informed about this, but there's been a fierce quarrel on the amount charged for levies at the EU level, which has raged on for the past 15 to 20 years. Recently a mediator had to be hired to find a way out of this mess.
Apart from total confusion about the copyright system and how it should be applied to the internet, the Court may have also chosen to sidestep the current and hostile politicized debate in the Netherlands, which was met with opposition from many sectors of society. The Court has not given a conclusive ruling in this debate, so now the European Court may rule on whether the Dutch construction is legal. Expect an update in a few years time!
Filed Under: blank media, copyright, eu, eu court of justice, exceptions, levies, netherlands


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Dir: Sherief Elkatsha. Egypt. 2013. 77mins
An enthralling, insightful and often rather funny look at the vibrant, complex and dramatic city of Cairo as seen through its teeming roads, director Sherief Elkatsha's film, shot over three years between 2009 and 2012 is a delightful portrait of a city as it goes through a period of massive change yet is still united through the people who drive its street.
It is an engaging alternative look at a city.
As a documentary concept Cairo Drive is a simple one. Elkatsha (also the cameraman) simply becomes one with the traffic of the city, observing from the passenger seat, talking to drivers and observing the hectic and often angry streets with a slightly amused point of view. The film should feature at other film festivals – it had its world premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival – and would be a nice pick up for broadcasters looking for an alternate view of the Arab Spring.
The language and vibrancy of the city is transmitted through the drivers who weave the hectic streets – ranging from frustrated taxi drivers and those who clash with the police through to a pragmatic woman lost in city and a young woman trying to pass her driving test.
One taxi drivers comments that why should he need seatbelts when the traffic moves so slowly, while a vivacious young woman (sporting a t-shirt with the legend 'Single and Fabulous') manages to hit her driving instructor with her cart while practicing reversing the first she takes her test and then is given a license without even doing a test the next time round. Naturally she had driven herself to the exam, busily taking calls on her mobile while driving with one hand on the wheel.
Excitement the streets ranges from the sheer pleasure of Egypt's 1-0 win over Italy in a football match (cue babies being held aloft through sun roofs); the usually packed roads empty when Obama visits the city, and the passion and excitement about the possibility of change in the run up to the Arab Spring.
Perhaps most engaging and amusing is footage of young schoolchildren being taught the rules of the road – and singing "red means stop, green means go…" – with some of them dressed as traffic lights. It is an engaging alternative look at a city.
Production company/contact: Katsha Films, firstname.lastname@example.com
Producers: Pierre Haberer, Laila Muharreb, Samer Zureikat, Ayman Samir Ezzat
Cinematography: Sherief Elkatsha
Editors: Sherief Elkatsha, Pierre Haberer
Music: Sabrine El Hossamy, Hybrid Records
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Oops. Mitt Romney might want to think twice about taking my earlier advice to ramp up his attacks on Rick Santorum's Washington insider status. At least until he manages to do something about the Washington insiders inside the Romney campaign.
For a candidate running against the entrenched interests of Washington, Mitt Romney keeps an awful lot of lobbyists around.
His kitchen cabinet includes some of the most prominent Republican lobbyists in Washington, including Charles R. Black Jr., the chairman of Prime Policy Group and a lobbyist for Walmart and AT&T; Wayne L. Berman, who is chairman of Ogilvy Government Relations and represents Pfizer, the drug manufacturer; and Vin Weber, the managing partner for Clark & Weinstock.
At least 294 registered lobbyists donated a total of at least $401,000 to Mr. Romney through the end of 2011, according to a New York Times review of federal disclosure records, while an elite group of 16 bundlers, representing interests as varied as Wall Street, Microsoft and the tobacco company Altria, gathered more than $2 million worth of checks from friends and business partners for Mr. Romneys campaign.
Other lobbyists serve on one of Mr. Romneys policy advisory teams, have hosted fund-raisers for his campaign or have joined the many influential Republicans whose endorsements Mr. Romneys campaign has hailed. Among them are David Wilkins, a former United States ambassador to Canada who lobbies for the Canadian oil industry, and Stephen Rademaker, a former State Department official who lobbies for the defense contractor General Dynamics.
Come to think of it, maybe the Santorum campaign could keep this in its back pocket to attack Mitt on having Washington insiders in his campaign when Mitt attacks Santorum for being a Washington insider. Not that I'm a Santorum fan, but it makes my job easier.


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Kate Morris necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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We're a boutique online retailer and need a new set of business cards and DL-sized With Compliments slips.
Adore Beauty
Who we are: an online retailer of niche and prestige cosmetics and beauty products - http://www.adorebeauty.com.au
The project:
We need new business cards, and DL-sized "with compliments" slips.
Our image: is chic but approachable. Our site is currently being redesigned so we would like the stationery designs to match the new design, which can be viewed here.
- Logo - download here (font is Lauren Script. Sorry I don't have a vector version.)
- Two sided full colour business card design - usual print-ready format, 89x54mm + 2mm bleed - see artwork specifications
- DL-sized With Compliments slip in print-ready format, 98mm x 210mm + 2mm bleed, as per artwork specifications aboveThere will be five different cards (four different staff members plus one for our store with opening hours etc). We'll need one front of card design, and one back of card concept/template (that can be completed with staff details by the winning designer - I don't want to publish staff names and phone numbers here).
Front of card should include our logo, plus the following information:
357 Nicholson St
Carlton North VIC 3054
Ph 03 9348 1915
Fax 03 8612 3688
You can use the following "dummy" details for the back-of-card design:
Firstname Lastname
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For the With Compliments slip design, it will need to be mostly white (so we can write on it), and must include our logo, plus the following info:
ph/fax 03 8612 3688
357 Nicholson St, Carlton North VIC 3054
Both the business card design and the With Compliments design should include reference to the four main sections of our site (as seen in the new site design): Shopping, Forum, BeautyIQ, Beauty Reviews.
- I don't like script/handwriting fonts