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Fresh off her big sit-down with Manti Te'o, Katie Couric scored an interview with Sue Paterno, the widow of the late Penn State head football coach. The segment, which is scheduled to air Monday, will mark the first time Sue Paterno has spoken to the media in any detail since Jerry Sandusky's arrest in November 2011, which led to her husband's firing. Joe Paterno died two months after that, at the age of 85. Last summer, former FBI director Louis Freeh's private investigation of Penn State—which was bought and paid for by Penn State—accused Paterno and three university administrators of covering for Sandusky. Paterno was never charged with a crime, but those other three administrators were, and they're all still awaiting trial.
The Hollywood Reporter says Couric visited with Sue Paterno at her home in State College, Pa., and that Sue Paterno is also expected to be in-studio when the segment airs. The Paterno family's own evaluation of the Freeh report's findings are expected to be made public soon; the Couric interview will mark the beginning of the family's redoubled efforts to salvage its late patriarch's reputation.
[Hollywood Reporter, via Onward State]


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TORONTO - Ottawa should eliminate some cash payments and child tax benefits and credits offered to Canadian parents and instead direct the money to the lowest-income families, an anti-poverty coalition said in a report released Wednesday.
Campaign 2000 said the government should nix the child tax credit, the child fitness tax credit and the universal child care benefit and put the money towards the national children's benefit for families earning up to $42,700 a year.
If Ottawa also kicked in another $174 million per year, the group said the child poverty rate would drop 15 per cent and about 174,000 kids would be lifted out of poverty.
"The concept was very much that in order to make an impact on poverty a little more progressivity has to be introduced into the taxation system," said Sid Frankel, a University of Manitoba social work associate professor and Campaign 2000 committee member.
The current national child benefit supplement maximum is $3,485. With the additional funding from Ottawa, the maximum could be increased to $5,400, the group said.
"For many families it would mean higher quality food," Frankel said.
"For many families it would mean better housing and housing is a very important determinant on its own of health. For some families it might mean that children can become involved in activities that they otherwise couldn't become involved in...Some children would certainly be clothed better."
Coleen Turner, 45, a single mother with two dependent children, is one of those people making tough choices each month. She sometimes can't send her kids on field trips because the $18 is the difference between groceries and going hungry.
The Toronto-area mother works part time, earning a meagre $14,000 a year. She gets a little over $1,000 in social assistance and about $600 in child benefits each month.
After she pays $960 in rent — her adult children who also live with her in the four-bedroom apartment contribute a few hundred dollars each month toward rent — and other household bills, it leaves little for bus tickets, groceries and clothing for her children.
"It puts me in a really bad situation, financially," Turner said. "If they raised that amount it would help."
A spokeswoman for Human Resources Minister Diane Finley defended the current child tax and benefit system.
"The Canada child tax benefit and the universal child care benefit help more than 3.5 million families," Alyson Queen said in the statement.
"Today, there are 225,000 fewer Canadian children in poverty compared to the last year that the Liberals were in power."
Opposition parties were quick to criticize the government for failing to address child and family poverty in Canada.
"Instead of taking action, they have opted to cut programs and services that help prevent poverty, such as Employment Insurance, frozen funding for affordable housing, and stood idly by as youth unemployment and student debt have reached record highs," said Rodger Cuzner, Liberal critic for human resources and skills development.
The NDP urged Ottawa to "put aside reckless ideology" and adopt Campaign 2000's recommendations.
"The government is touting an economic recovery yet one in seven children is still living in poverty," said NDP critic Chris Charlton.
"Their action plan has no action for children. Poverty reduction should be at the centre of any economic recovery plan."
Frankel said decreasing child poverty would also boost the economy as impoverished children are less likely to obtain higher education, and it would ease the strain on the health-care system.
"Unfortunately, children who grow up in poverty, their...morbidity for a whole range of diseases is higher in children and remains higher throughout the life cycle," he said.
"Research has found that even short spells of poverty in childhood are good predictors of disability in adulthood."
The House of Commons in 1989 unanimously resolved to end child poverty by 2000. At that time 13.7 per cent of children in Canada were living in poverty. In 2010 — the most recent available data — that number was 14.5 per cent.
"To me it's alarming that when we compare 1989 and 2010 we actually find the poverty rate among children higher," Frankel said.
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nectar necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 257 diseños de 79 diseñadores freelance.
Logo design for a new website design start up. Logo around the word nectar - modern but approachable style. May lead to further reqd items.
Desired Color Scheme:
black, yellow, orange, cool grey
Desired Style:
contemporary web 2.0
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
This logo is for a website design company called nectar. This is in the early planning stages at the moment including no website. This means you can take as much creative license as you wish.
We will use design cues from the logo in the website and branding. There may also be an opportunity for the winner to be involved in these later stages.
Our only stipluations are as follows but some of these are more suggestions than mandatory.
Should just contain the word nectar but should allow for strapline addition in future. Must work on both white and black backgrounds. (n could be caps or lower case but lower case may look more 'friendly/approachable')
Our style is professional but informal.
Should also work on printed items such as buiness cards and stationery etc but are happy to go with 3 or 4 colours.Â
The name nectar was chosen as the aim is to create attractive sites which attract lots of visitors (like bees to nectar) So it would be nice to see use of bee imagery (not too cartoony) or flowers or both if it doesn't look too much. Hopefully in a nice modern illustrative style.
In terms of illustrative style as long as it is contemporary looking - fitting with a web design agency anything goes.Â
We do like the style used in this illustration though http://www.istockphoto.com/file_clo…id=1553575
Again don't want to be too restrictive on colours but we were thinking colours like black and yellow or orange would be fitting.
Suggestions from our team include orange letters 'growing' out of a thin strip of grass or use of bee type coloursimagery or at least yellow and black and a cool grey text. These are only basic ideas for starters.
If it also helps our potential URL's are dropofnectar.com and nectarwebdesign.com
Will need to be supplied (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
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