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It's been a busy few weeks here at Video Guy HQ, which means we'll have to recap the latest releases in a hurry. Off we go…
THE BLING RING (R, 3 stars): Sofia Coppola's much-buzzed about flick based on the true story of rich and bored L.A. kids who turn to robbing their Beverly Hills neighbors doesn't reach the heights of her earlier efforts, but it does contain some biting commentary on the nouveau riche and a fantastic performance by Emma Watson as a vapid young socialite with a twist on the notion that all publicity is good publicity.
NOW YOU SEE ME (PG-13, 2 1/2 stars): The kind of film that would crumble under the weight of close scrutiny, this heist thriller boasts an impeccable cast led by Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson. Films about magic are always tricky (no pun intended), but this surprise summer hit is the kind of breezy fun that rarely hits screens these days.
THE ICEMAN (R, 3 stars): Michael Shannon is pretty much electric in any role he plays, and here, he takes on the part of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer who hides his profession from his wife (Winona Ryder) and family while racking up the bodies. Shannon's trademark intensity serves him well, but the film does fall into the standard mob cliches at times despite an all-star cast that includes Chris Evans and James Franco.
EMPIRE STATE (R, 1 1/2 stars): How does a film starring The Rock and Liam Hemsworth go straight to DVD? When it's as bland as this one. The true story of the then-largest cash heist in U.S. history, the movie squanders The Rock's oversized charisma and Hemsworth's telegenic appeal in a drab morality tale. It's supposed to be set in New York, but I saw them filming this in New Orleans last year, and it shows.
THE LORDS OF SALEM (R, 2 stars): I appreciate Rob Zombie's passion and enthusiasm for the horror genre, and the man certainly knows how to create disturbing images. But he's still trying to find his way around telling a compelling story. This tale of a DJ (Sheri Moon Zombie) being recruited by a coven of witches has an interesting premise but peters about halfway through, leaving the viewer with very little in the way of scares and a lot of questions.
EPIC (PG, 2 1/2 stars): The great barometer of watching kid's movies is, do I want to fall asleep in the middle? But this one held my interest, and my daughter's, who immediately asked to see it again after we finished. A teenage girl (voiced by Amanda Seyfried) discovers a hidden world of tiny plant life and must join forces with a reluctant soldier (Josh Hutcherson) to save the day. Yeah, it's bright and loud, but also quite sweet at its core.
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (R, 2 1/2 stars): A movie that is adept at raising tough questions yet deficient in answering them, it's still an interesting and timely look at a complicated subject A young Pakistani (Riz Ahmed) comes to American and becomes a Wall St. success story, but after 9/11 is plagued by racism, forcing him to return home with radical thoughts. To say too much would be spoiling some of the film's mystery, but I didn't always agree with the motivation of the film's characters.
MUD (PG-13, 3 1/2 stars): Arguably the biggest surprise of the year, this little indie continues Matthew McConaughey's unbelievable hot streak. A Gothic, deliberate slice of Southern life, director Jeff Nichols shows again that he is one of the brightest young talents working today. McConaughey stars as the titular character, a fugitive who uses the help of two young boys to help him reconnect with his lost love (Reese Witherspoon). Great acting all around makes this a must-watch.
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R, 2 1/2 stars): You can't say that director Derek Cianfrance isn't going for the fences with this one. A sprawling, multi-generational film that intertwines the lives of several characters, "Pines" doesn't quite connect, starting strong but fizzling out over its 2-plus hour running time. Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper star as men on either side of the law, and both young actors deliver strong performances.
NO ONE LIVES (R, 2 1/2 stars): A unique twist on the horror genre, in which the attractive, wealthy young man is not the hero at all, but actually an unstoppable killer. Luke Evans stars as an unhinged, almost supernatural force of evil who is unwittingly captured by a group of low-level thugs. When the unnamed killer escapes, he starts picking them off one by one with the goal of reacquiring the girl (Adelaide Clemens) he has a … unique relationship with. I liked it, but then again, this is right up my alley.
VEHICLE 19 (R, 1 1/2 stars): What is it with Paul Walker and cars? The "Fast and Furious" star moves on to a different vehicle here as an American in South Africa who finds himself caught up in an international conspiracy when he stumbles into the wrong minivan. The entire film takes place inside the claustrophobic car, with Walker evading dirty cops and cruising through the Johannesburg slums. You'll really have to suspend belief to swallow this one, and I found that I couldn't, even though I do like Walker.


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Why You Should Give Blood: "Mary's Story"
From Hopkinton resident Jackie Potenzone:
I read an article in the news on the critical shortage of blood at this time and the need for donations. I want to tell you why I donated blood after reading the story, and why I'm now a blood donor.
We need to take a time machine back to the summer of 2005. My sister was fighting the end stages of gall bladder cancer. Her name was Mary and she was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in October of 2003. Her cancer was inoperable but treatable with palliative care. I did not understand what that meant at the time or maybe I did not want to. The summer of 2005; as my mother put it, that summer was the beginning of the end for Mary. Every weekend my family and I would take the ride to New Hampshire to go visit her in the hospital. With us having small children, my husband would visit with her for a short visit then take the kids to a local park so I could have more precious time with her. The park and that pint of blood were so important and precious. Time is something that is cherished by families of loved ones suffering from an illness. I noticed every time I went to visit her a bag of blood being given to her. I did not understand at the time why she always needed blood. I asked the nurse one day why she always needed blood transfusions. The nurse explained to me that her body no longer made blood cells as a result of her cancer; she needed transfusions to stay alive. I am sure there is a medical name for this condition, but I don't know what it is. I sat by her bed side and thought to myself, thank you for the person who donated the pint of blood that was being given to my sister, so we could have one more day together. This was a common occurrence during the summer of 2005. The summer time is when blood donations are at their lowest. Mary passed away August 26, 2005, just 11 days after her 51st birthday.
I want to thank the unselfish people who donated blood in the summer of 2005 for giving my family one more day.
I personally gave blood once in high school and never even thought about how important giving blood was. Now I donate blood much more often. After reading in the news of the shortage of blood, my thoughts drifted to my sister and the joy I got seeing her alive one more day. The joy was a gift given to our family by a generous blood donor that summer.
Please take the time and find a blood drive. Donate blood. Give that gift to some family.
As I write this I still miss my sister, but her death has made me a better person. I try to sit back and enjoy life. I found my passion for gardening. I try to enjoy every sunset from my deck and enjoy watching the hummingbirds that come to the feeder near my front porch. I try to make time everyday to enjoy special moments. I don't worry about everything, especially things I can not control. I also became a blood donor.
I hope you read this and do not feel sad; I hope you make a difference. Donating blood only takes about an hour. You get little gifts every time you donate such as Dunkin Donuts give cards, coupons for free water, and you can enter the American Red Cross raffle for Boston Red Sox tickets.
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often,
Jackie Potenzone
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Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 8:33pmThis result makes sense, but is also kind of a bummer, it would be nice if we could get students to buy an ebook reader that would work and then never have to buy a text book for certain classes, the savings for the student would be huge.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 9:41pm
Re:...the savings for the student would be huge.
What student savings? The ebooks are usually priced the about same as the print versions. The only ones saving money are the publishers.
A Dan (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 4:18am
Re: Re:Not really, because pirated books would become widely available, and college students don't tend to have moral issues avoiding being ripped off by textbooks.
Richard (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 4:47am
Re: Re:. The only ones saving money are the publishers.
Plus it would kill the availability of secondhand copies - which is one of the lifesavers for poor students (as buyer - get it cheap and as seller - recover investment at the end)
The publishers will be rubbing their hands with glee at the thought of getting every cohort to pay for a new set of copies.
tuna, 27 May 2010 @ 6:50am
Re: Re: Re:The best way is to check it out of the library and just pay the late fees. Way less than the cost of the book.
tim, 3 Jun 2010 @ 10:29am
Re:There'd hardly be any savings pertaining to prices of books unless you're referring to P2P acquisition. Space saving would be immense, though, students would be going to lectures and seminars with just one device which would contain books, notepads etc. A heaven, if you think of it, but hardly practical.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 8:37pmit is the same reason that online references are nice, but little beats a good quality textbook for computer languages and systems. i personally find that kindle style devices are nice for casual reading, providing that reading isnt for more than 20 - 30 minutes. i cannot imagine reading a science fiction "paperback" that way. there is just something about the experience that doesnt encourage long term reading.
tintin (profile), 26 May 2010 @ 8:37pmNow what they can do is use this information and improve upon it if possible. It could work and should work. Also, younger generations might catch on to it better like most generations. It's coming it just not quite there yet.
Robert Ring (profile), 26 May 2010 @ 8:39pmAnother real pain is when Amazon deletes all the notes you took on the device.
FreemonSandlewould (profile), 26 May 2010 @ 8:40pmWho knew? I knew.
Since day 1 of dealing with computers in the 80's.
Just some stuff doesn't work like quickly paging through a book etc.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 10:45pm
Re:You know at my school I took some classes where the book is both on computer/PDF AND in text/physical format. That way you get the best of both worlds. You want to look up or search for something real quick, like a reference or to go back and figure out what page something was on that you read or to look up something you haven't read yet, you use the search feature on the computer. Then, you can see what page something is on and either read it on screen or reference it in the book. I've had one book, a very thick Oracle book, that comes with a CD with a PDF file of the book in it. I think that a combination of computer, some small hand held device or a laptop/netbook, and hard cover for each book might be a good idea, until at least they figure out how to master digital books without the need for hardcover.
Re:Just some stuff doesn't work like quickly paging through a book etc.
yeah, like clicking "search" and typing in what you are looking for.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 8:48pmGoing offtopic a little though, can you imagine telling online acquaintances about your experience?
"I'm using the Kindle Dx"
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 8:48pmMike: Some people don't like Kindle textbooks.
Me: Go get a haircut, hippie.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 9:22pm
from the obvious departmentBeing a CS student I know that sometimes you just want a physical book in your lap while you're doing work, and I've found ebook versions of the text books I was using in my classes and they are horrible for using like you would a dead-tree book.
BUT that doesn't mean they don't have a use, what ebooks need is a re-think of how the book is written, perhaps a better table of contents/index, perhaps call it 'ebooks quick reference section' or something. Just scanning in a book and putting it as a PDF, or w/e format you want doesn't improve the user experience, adding in hotlinks that will allow you to jump around in the book, or from book to book (functionality like wikipedia url links) would make ebooks have an advantage over dead-tree books. Perhaps selling a collection of ebooks on a topic like Compiler Design or Architecture would be a way for them to give a RtB.
However publishers/authors/amazon/etc really haven't provided a good enough RtB. the Que from B&N I think is a much nicer reader plus it runs Android which I feel is inherently better than the Kindle's OS where Amazon can go in and delete your highlighting/books/notes/etc. (The que probably has the same functionality, but if you root the device that can probably be turned off)(This could easily get into a rant about unlocking/rooting hardware you purchase, but i'll skip that for now)
As a CS student and someone who enjoys reading novels a lot, and as someone who has read his fair share of ebooks on the computer, I know that the books being converted to ebooks now are not any better than the print versions. excluding the functionality to search for a word, (which is so trivial its almost not worth mentioning but is still one of the greatest benefits of ebooks over print books)then ebooks haven't really given readers a RtB because they are still overpriced and feature light.
I have a stats prof who is really big into R and has written his own book for Intro to Probability and Stats. This book was written from the ground up to be accessible to those who were on a computer, so therefore it flows a lot better than I've ever seen a textbook as a ebook. If more profs/etc wrote books like that, then maybe there would be a RtB.
so... ebooks =/= RtB
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 10:49pm
Re: from the obvious department"BUT that doesn't mean they don't have a use, what ebooks need is a re-think of how the book is written, perhaps a better table of contents/index, perhaps call it 'ebooks quick reference section' or something."
You know what they need is URL's. The table of context and the index should link to the parts that they are referring to and there should be a back button to go back to where you were. and any time the book references another section in the book it should link to that section, again with a back button that allows you to go back to the original section once you've read the linked section. A web page type format might be OK. E - Books can take advantage of URL's to other sections of a book whereas hard copy books can't. Page flipping to something referenced in a book (and flipping back when you're done) through E - books is harder than through hard copies, but we have a solution, a URL.
Add ValueDigital textbooks actually offer the opportunity to add a whole lot of value beyond just being cheaper / lighter replicas of the paper copies. It's unfortunate that textbook makers aren't tapping into this.
Some simple examples:
(1) Any margin notes and highlighting you make on the text can be shared online. And aggregated somehow. When it's time to review for finals, it'd be amazing to see what my class as a whole thought was important in the book and what wasn't. And for the professor or book author, reviewing the notes and highlighting could provide useful data for future editions (e.g. "huh, no one seems to understand Chapter 7. We should rewrite that").
(2) For that matter, get rid of editions! I keep around some of my old textbooks for reference purposes, and I'd pay more upfront (or even pay a small subscription fee) to have them automatically update based on new technologies or development.
(3) Let the professor rewrite parts of the book. Sometimes a professor will assign a textbook because 95% of it does a great job of dealing with the material, but feel that the remaining 5% gets it wrong. Letting the professor edit, reorder, emphasize, and otherwise customize a textbook for his class would be a great value-add. Also, the publisher and the original author are getting great feedback about how the textbook is actually being used.
And so on. There's a lot of potential in digital textbooks, but people have to stop thinking of them as digital copies of books and as ... I dunno: services, tools, communities, something -- but definitely not a book in the traditional sense.
For that matter, they could get rid of editions!
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 10:28pm
Re: Add Valuepoint 1 is nice but complex, as many of the student will not want to share notes around.
point 2 is nice but a bad business model. paying a higher fee up front for life long updates is a contract that is bound to bankrupt the publisher. it just will not happen.
point 3 is very difficult, because it would require getting permission from the rights holders to modify the text book. it might also get into some weird issues of having creationists screwing with science books, etc. teachers can give out hand outs and additions, but modifying a text book is a truly horrible idea.
Re: Re: Add Value(1) Largely depends on the field. I know law students would love it.
(2) So do subscriptions instead of an upfront. Actually, it'd probably make sense to do this as a hybrid -- e.g. pay a large price for the first year and a small recurring fee for every year after that. This would allow you to better segment your market -- students who only need the book for the one year they're taking a course pay only the first larger fee, while people who want to keep the text as a reference guide pay a recurring fee to have it update.
(3) Rights might be an issue, but so long as any edits you make are confined to your students and not otherwise distributed, I doubt there'd be a problem. As for creationists modifying the science textbooks, you can use a wiki-like history feature to distinguish between what the author initially wrote and what your professor wrote. Also, I'm really thinking of this more for college and grad professors.
Alternatively, you could implement this in the same way as (1) -- e.g. the teacher might annotate something in her copy of the book and push that change to other student copies.
Niall (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 4:29am
Re: Re: Re: Add Value(1) Fantastic if someone finds a good source or identities an error and passes the annotation around. E-books are no more immune to mistakes than print ones, they are just easier to 'fix'.
(2) There can be benefits to having older copies around, for comparison or for instance in computer hardware situations. But it would certainly be good to have it updatable, with maybe the option of storing old text.
Editions still have value for historical reference purposes: "This chapter was in the second edition but removed from the third" where you may actually want to reference that chapter. Remember, libraries often have older editions of books without them suddenly becoming useless.
Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2010 @ 5:45am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Add Value"E-books are no more immune to mistakes than print ones, they are just easier to 'fix'."
No, because then the publishers will get into the habit of "user-spell-check" like most online tech news sites.
Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2010 @ 5:23am
Re: Re: Re: Add Value3) might work better as a supplement written by the teacher as a file that gets distributed as text book or pdf to the class.
Having worked at a Kinko's in the nineties that assembled texts from licensed works and professors own writings this might even be doable. It would require some one running down rights for the sections used and paying what ever royalty would be required. It would certainly be easier to track sales.
anymouse (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 8:21am
Re: Add ValueEgads....
Next people will be saying that movie studios could do away with release 'windows' and still make money...
You do realize that expecting companies NOT to charge you over and over for the same thing (in a different format, in a 'new and improved' version, in a new edition, etc) will be the DEATH OF THOSE COMPANIES....
I mean it's not like they know how to provide customers with value, all they know how to do is suck every last dime out of their existing products, then they slap it in a new format/edition, rinse, and repeat.
Now where did I leave that tinfoil....
Email Marketing Services, 26 May 2010 @ 10:02pm
Email Marketing Services CaliforniaI have been reading a lot of stuff about it. but it is different presented, i loved to read this. keep it up.
Atkray (profile), 26 May 2010 @ 10:05pmI'm in an IT program and we have only Ebooks. The first 2 bothered me, now I would not want a textbook at all. I have a 17" laptop that is probably too heavy for most people but it allows me to read ebooks, listen to my music, and do research on the web all from the same device, and all with a full size keyboard and 32bit true color. ¿Kindle? No thank you.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 10:38pmI agree, for educational purposes you often need to look at detailed graphs and pictures to understand new concepts and it helps to write in your book and highlight certain key concepts as well. Pleasure reading isn't designed to teach you anything so the Kindle makes more sense in that regard since detailed images and graphs and charts aren't necessary.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 10:39pm
Re:(to continue)
Though I never used the Kindle, I am merely making an "educated" guess on why I think the Kindle works for pleasure reading and not as a textbook.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 11:03pm
Wired magazine demoHow do you compete against something like this-
JEDIDIAH, 27 May 2010 @ 6:28am
Re: Wired magazine demoYou mean an "interactive magazine"? They had these in the 80s. The useful part about content is being able to manipulate it rather than reducing it to a souped up Television experience.
That's the key problem with the survey group. They are forced to deal with content in the locked down manner that Big Content wants them to and Apple is a willing accomplice. So is Amazon.
The Kindle and iPad are fine until you stumble upon users with a little imagination. Then both kind of fall apart.
Andy, 26 May 2010 @ 11:05pm
ReasonsOne reason fro the slow adoption of online books or resources is that they organize them the same way as a printed book - although computer, Kindle, and even the iPad are not as good at beings books as books are. However, we need to rethink how we prestn material in electronic form. The same goes for elearning - we limit ourselves to the knowledge of how classroom learning works - instead of taking advatnage of the unique properties and capabilites of electronic media.
One big drawback in pdf documents is that very few producers use bookmarks at all - and the lack of note taking capabilites is a serious drawback - Adobe needs to rethink this process before Google decides to and makes pdf a useless format.
Books replaced oral tradition - and I am sure that if humans had gone right from oral tradition directly to the printing press than the printed word might have been scrapped as overly technological and limited. It is the same with energy - we constantly try to replace fossil fuels by simply tying other sources into a system designed for the efficiencies of fossil fuels - ignoring the different capabilites and limitations.
New technologies sometimes require a new way of thinking about how we interact.
Anonymous Coward, 26 May 2010 @ 11:07pm
Wired Magazine goes to iPadI can't blame them... When you see what Wired did with the iPad, you can't compete.
It's simply a better technology platform.
Allen (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 12:30amI wonder how much this is an artifact of teaching methods.
If you've been taught out of a text book your whole life and marking passages and writing notes in the book are part of that, changing your learning method by the time you get to an MBA is going to be hard.
I dont expect it would bother me. We borrowed texts from the school in high school and dark and terrible things were threatened to anyone who dared to mark the books in anyway. Even when we had to buy the books in uni I wrote my notes separately in loose leaf.
Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2010 @ 8:07am
Re:We borrowed texts from the school in high school and dark and terrible things were threatened to anyone who dared to mark the books in anyway.
I use sticky notes in my books, because often my marginal comments themselves need to be edited later. If I've written "this equation is !$!@#$ up!" and later figure out that it isn't it's impossible to erase the original. In that sense full Acrobat would work just fine.
Way back when when Apple first introduced the hyperstack it was expected to replace the conventional book because you could easily go from topic to topic and back. E-books seem more like a reversion to scrolls that must be read from top to bottom.
Bookmarks would help here. A 1000+ page software reference that I use all the time is very usable because the TOC links to the section.
I'll use whatever is available when doing research. In many cases, Google Books and the Internet Archive are the only options.
But hard copies of books are always preferable. You'd think it would be easier with ebooks, as the text can be searched and whatnot. But my experience has been otherwise.
Books have been around for a long time. The codex book format predates printing by a thousand years. There are good reasons why they are still in use, and will be for many years to come.
abc gum, 27 May 2010 @ 5:51am
real pita"Another real pain is when Amazon deletes all the notes you took on the device."
Or when they delete the entire book.
Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2010 @ 6:10amI must say that this only applies to the kindle dx. I have a Sony Reader Daily Edition, and I do use it to scribble and highlight (it has a touch screen), and the built-in dictionary is a great plus. I use it for technical books (which I think is close to using it for school) and it's great.
abc gum, 27 May 2010 @ 6:40am
Re:"I must say that this only applies to the kindle dx."
I would think the complaints & comments are applicable to all ereaders.
boost, 27 May 2010 @ 6:33am
dual screens would be valuableFor using as a textbook reader, I would imagine that the kindle would be more valuable with two screens. Say a left screen that shows the text you're currently reading, and the right screen that shows any charts or graphs that might be applicable.
Hephaestus (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 6:38am
Larger screen needed ...A month back I purchased a Samsung 46 inch Led TV. A week ago I opened a pdf file in dual page mode on it. It was the first time I could actually deal with an e-book on screen.
The problem with the kindle is the small size and the fact that it only displays one page at a time. If they were to create an fold up 8 1/2 x 11 dual display kindle it would probably be accepted by students.
There is a psychology behind this, people are used to books displaying two pages. Then there are the issues of easy of use, ease of taking notes, and readability.
jsf (profile), 27 May 2010 @ 8:48amFor me he biggest problem with ebook readers for text books and technical stuff is twofold.
First, you can't have multiple books open at the same time. There are many times when I have had to compare multiple sources to each other. While you can do this ok on a PC you can't display more then one source at a time on any of the ebook readers that I have seen.
Second, physical books are often faster to access. Many of my "go to" reference books sit within arms reach and have the most frequently used pages marked with Post-It notes. I can get to the page I need in a matter of seconds. Much faster then an ebook reader.
For things like novels I have no problem with ebook readers however.
It really comes down to random versus sequential access. Todays ebook readers just don't work well for random/semi-random access.
Brian, 27 May 2010 @ 9:17am
Like?I am an MBA student and have purchased over a thousand dollars worth of books in the past year. If I would have used kindle or other ebooks it would be more than twice that.
There is no like in the equation, it is dollars and cents.
Students can buy a used book for $22.13, a new one for $105.42 or an ebook version for $99.98 that can't be sold ...
Troi, 30 May 2010 @ 9:25amYeah, using a highlighter is a prerequisite to collegiate success.
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The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) South Carolina Lowcountry Chapter has named Steve '89 and Emily Swanson '89 the 2016 Outstanding Philanthropists of the Year.
Announced at the chapter's National Philanthropy Day celebration on Nov. 17, 2016, the award honors the Swansons for their generosity, exemplary leadership in the philanthropic community, civic and charitable responsibilities and their commitment to encouraging philanthropic leadership in others. The AFP is a professional association of individuals responsible for generating philanthropic support for a wide variety of nonprofit, charitable organizations.
The Swansons are deserving recipients of this award, as is evident in their ongoing generous support of the College of Charleston. They have been supporting their alma mater for more than 23 years and are the College of Charleston's most generous alumni donors in its 246-year history.
"Steve and Emily Swanson are model alumni and model philanthropists," says College of Charleston President Glenn F. McConnell '69. "They don't just give of their money, but of their time and knowledge as well."
In 2012, the couple established the Swanson Scholars Program in the Honors College with a commitment of more than $2 million to create endowed and immediate use scholarships. The program has attracted more than 45 of the best and brightest students from across the country to study at the College, with the first cohort of 11 Swanson Scholars graduating in 2016. The recipient of a full-ride scholarship himself, Steve knows first-hand how scholarships impact students' lives. He and Emily sought to have a similar impact on current and future generations of students through their gift.
RELATED: Read more about the Swanson Scholars Program.
"Steve and Emily have said on multiple occasions that it seems natural to them to give back to a school that gave them so much. And their actions certainly reflect their words," says McConnell, adding: The Swansons "constantly inspire me to serve our alma mater and move it forward as best we can."
Steve became an active player in moving the College forward when he was recruited to co-chair the College's BOUNDLESS comprehensive fundraising campaign, which went public in 2014 and culminated last June. Steve embraced his role, recruiting members to the Campaign Steering Committee, helping to develop strategies for major gift solicitations, giving campaign presentations to volunteer boards, hosting campaign events and being involved closely with the day-to-day campaign activities. During the College's presidential transition, Steve was the constant force that fueled the campaign's achievements and motivated others to invest in the College.
Evidence of the Swansons' inspiring others to give to the College and the BOUNDLESS Campaign is their additional $1 million pledge to challenge donors to support endowed scholarships in the Honors College, bringing their total commitments to the College at more than $3.5 million. As a result of this extraordinary gesture, 43 donors pledged $1.05 million to endowed scholarships in the Honors College, surpassing the goal of the challenge. Furthermore, Steve's leadership, combined with leadership on campus and philanthropic generosity of more than 22,000 donors resulted in the BOUNDLESS Campaign exceeding its original goal by hitting the $139 million mark – the largest amount ever raised in any campaign at the College of Charleston.
Additionally, at the beginning of the BOUNDLESS Campaign, the Swansons encouraged alumni to support the College of Charleston Fund by challenging their fellow graduates to give. They matched donors at leadership giving levels and attracted more than 100 new donors in the College's 1770 and GOLD Societies. During the first year of the challenge, the College of Charleston Fund raised more than $1 million in cash for the first time ever.
RELATED: Read more about the College of Charleston's BOUNDLESS Campaign.
Beyond their generosity as donors, the Swansons are among the most fervent champions of the College of Charleston. They are tireless promoters of the College with their family, friends and professional connections. Steve is a proficient volunteer, serving as a member of the School of Business Board of Governors, Honors College Advisory Board and School of Mathematics and Sciences Board of Advocates. He also served on the College's Foundation Board (2003–2016), acting as chair from 2008 to 2010.
The Swansons' impact on fellow volunteers is also a tremendous boon to the College's efforts to engage those most capable of supporting and influencing the campus.
"Steve's gratitude for the scholarships he received from the College during his education has encouraged me to provide further support to the College," says Hilton Smith, who most recently served as the College's Foundation Board chair and has advocated for the College through his positions with numerous charitable organizations. "Years ago Steve told me that he had his eye on me as a member of the College's Foundation Board and that he hoped I would consider a leadership position. I thank him for his thoughts, and I'm so grateful that I took him up on his suggestion."
The Swansons' engagement and involvement in many areas on campus as volunteer leaders and their personal connection with the faculty and students is unparalleled. Their greatest joy in their connection with the College is getting to know the Swanson Scholars and knowing that their support is making a difference in each student's life. They have a vested interest in student achievement as a whole, especially the Swanson Scholars, and they are parent-figures to many of the students they support, inviting them to Thanksgiving dinner when the students cannot go home for the holiday, attending their campus events and keeping current on their progress in school.
RELATED: Read about one of the first Swanson Scholars.
Says McConnell: "Steve and Emily's impact on the College will surely benefit the lives of so many past, present and future College of Charleston students."


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Malcolm Arnold: Planning the Training Year (part 1)
Malcolm Arnold talks in late 2010 at the European coaching conference on planning and periodization for the 400 hurdles. He discusses race pacing and uses video analysis and touchdown times of British Athletics top hurdlers to emphasize the importance of a strong well-drilled stride pattern.
Malcolm Arnold OBE is currently a senior coach working for British Athletics and formerly worked as National Event Coach for Hurdles. He has attended every Olympic Games since Mexico City in 1968 as a coach to national teams and has coached athletes to more than 65 major medals over a 44 year career.
Malcolm was Director of Coaching for Uganda between 1968 and 1972 and during this period coached John Akii-Bua to Olympic Gold in a World Record time in 1972. Since 1974 he has worked in various national coach roles including being Director of Coaching and Development between 1994 and 1997. Since 1998 he has coached at the University of Bath and coached athletes at Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic level.
Athletes that he has coached have included Colin Jackson, Dai Green, Jack Green, Andrew Pozzi, Craig Pickering, Rhys Williams, Lawrence Clarke and Eilidh Child.
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Outline for Vibe Segment: Caffeine Dependency
James Gallo, Paul Carriere, Kelly Burnett and Zara Brandt
Focus: This focus will be on our demographics dependency on caffeine in general. This being coffee from Tims or energy drinks which have been proven to be unhealthy in large amounts as well as cause anxiety.
Esther Eapen – Nutritionist at Sheridan College
Esther Eapen is the daughter of Catherine and James Malik, wife of Denny Eapen and mother of Dennyelle Eapen. After living in Dubai for 21 years, Esther migrated to Canada in July 1999 and lived in Aylmer Ontario for two years.
After completing her OAC's in Aylmer Esther received a scholarship in 2000, to study at McMaster University. She completed BSc Honours degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and
decided to pursue her Masters in Medical Science in Paediatric Nutrition at McMaster. She has successfully completed her MSc and is now working as a clinical researcher in the Department of Paediatrics at McMaster University.
She teaches nutrition part-time at Sheridan College
Background Info on Caffeine:
Coffee, caffeine and tea
After water, the beverage that the largest proportion of adults reported consuming the day before they were interviewed tended to be coffee (Table 2). In fact, men older than age 50 were more likely to report having had coffee than water. The exception to the trend toward coffee was 19- to 30-year-olds, who were more likely to report having had milk the previous day. As well, the proportion of men in this age group who reported having had regular soft drinks exceeded the proportion who had coffee.
Among those who drank coffee, consumption peaked at ages 31 to 50, averaging 639 grams for men and 586 grams for women. By age 71 or older, the average amounts were considerably lower at 489 grams and 398 grams.
Coffee accounted for almost all the caffeine that adults consumed: 80.6%. (Tea and soft drinks made up 12.3% and 5.9%.) Caffeine has a number of biological effects resulting from its diuretic and stimulant properties. For some sensitive individuals, these can include restlessness, anxiety, irritability, muscle tremors, insomnia, headaches and abnormal heart rhythms. Health Canada advises healthy adults to limit their daily caffeine intake to 400 milligrams,4, 5 the equivalent of three 8-ounce cups of coffee.
More than 20% of men and around 15% of women in the 31-to-70-age range exceeded the 400 milligram per day recommendation (Figure 1). Not surprisingly, the age and sex patterns of caffeine intake parallelled those of coffee.
Figure 1Percentage with usual daily caffeine intake greater than 400 milligrams, by gender and age group, household population aged 19 or older, Canada excluding territories, 2004
Contrary to the trend for most beverages, the proportion of Canadians who reported drinking tea rose steadily with advancing age. Among men, the increase was from 20% at ages 19 to 30 to 49% at age 71 or older; for women, from 30% to 56%. And unlike many other beverages, the amount of tea consumed remained relatively stable regardless of age. For example, among male tea drinkers, 19-to-30-year-olds consumed an average of 525 grams; those aged 71 or older averaged 507 grams.
Interviewees :
- Ministry of healthy representatives – specifically someone who deals with the effects of caffeine
- Esther Eapen – Nutrition professor at Sheridan College
- Dr. Jaime Ginter – Agony and ecstasy professor at Sheridan College
School of Community Liberal Studies
Ext. 2226
- Students from Sheridan College who have a caffeine dependency
Possible questions:
- What are the effects of too much caffeine?
- Why/When did you start drinking coffee?
- Can you get addicted?
- Do students actually produce better work after consuming caffeine?
- Does it cause high amounts of anxiety within our youth?
Possible BROLL: Students, Tim Horton's line up, Coffee being made/drank/purchased/ Caffeine drinks being sold in our school
Sound-up – at Tim's/Second Cup/Starbucks staff making coffee, lattes etc.
Opening shot - stationary camera outside of Tim's, fast forwarding the image of people going throughout the line to illustrate to the mass consumption and dependency on caffeine.
V/O – "Did you know that the youth amongst us are consuming ……"
CLIP: Esther Eapen
"Caffeine can……"
BROLL - Money transferring hands , to either coffee shop or money into vending machine to acquire energy drinks.
Possible Graphics: Statistics of caffeine consumption, graphics of levels in anxiety in youth who consume it on a regular basis


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Silje Nergaard has ventured into an exciting collaboration with the great jazz pianist Espen Berg. Espen is considered a world class pianist and was the recipient of Molde Jazz Festival's renowned music award in 2016.
For decades, Silje has travelled the world with her own songs, which keep getting covered internationally. Her album At First Light still reigns as Norway's top selling jazz album of all time. This duo has carefully selected songs from Silje's vast musical catalogue, resulting in a best-of concert with gorgeous versions of her best songs, including Be Still My Heart, The Waltz, Japanese Blue, and Tell Me Where You're Going. They also have surprises in store, with their very own interpretations of well-known classics.
They invite the audience into a warm and intimate concert experience, sometimes even with the audience on stage, always bringing the personal stories behind the songs to light. Espen is a masterful pianist, and Silje's beautiful and expressive voice is truly allowed to shine in this wonderful musical landscape created with Espen's dynamic and playful piano. This duo will give you a unique concert experience - nothing less than pure medicine for your ears, your heart, and your soul!
"A beautiful spring flood of Silje's own and other's songs in lyrical, melodious streams … as if from some other world..." - Romsdals Budstikke ★★★★★
This show is part of EFG London Jazz Festival 2019.
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By DOUG HAIDET
T-G Staff Writer
I walked out of Hillsdale High School on Saturday night with a box of leftover popcorn in my hand and a smile on my face.
Despite watching the Falcons lose to Dalton in their second overtime game in as many nights, it was easy to see. Hillsdale and coach Jim Hanna are doing it again.
The Falcons began last season with a 6-8 overall record before winning five of their last eight for a .500 season. Hanna seems like he won't rest well if this year's team doesn't hurdle its way to a winning record.
Despite Saturday's loss to the Bulldogs, Hillsdale (8-8, 5-7 Wayne County Athletic League) has bounced back from a 4-6 start to put itself in position for the program's first winning season in six years.
Missing three of their varsity regulars for multiple reasons in the past five games, the Falcons still went 3-2 in that span.
And even though it came with comeback theatrics very much worth the price of admission " and the cost of a helping of the school's ever-popular Chili, Chips and Cheese " Saturday's loss was especially bruising for the members of the team.
"It was a home game and we really wanted to get the community to start supporting us again," Hanna said. "We really thought if we could get another win, by next week, people would say, "Hey, we're going to come out and see this team.' But we'll see what happens."
The Falcons overcame a 16-point halftime deficit to take a fourth-quarter lead at one point, and sent the game into overtime when Tyler Cline " wielding blood in his veins that would have required an auger to blast through " buried two free throws with 1 second left.
Hanna said Cline's succeed-or-lose effort showed the character of his boys. I think it proved their end-of-the-year potential.
Due to weather postponements earlier this season, the Falcons will need that potential to emerge. Hanna said the squad should be back to full strength Friday when it hosts Waynedale in the first of Hillsdale's final four regular-season games, which will take place in a nine-day stretch.
The only local team with an equally taxing finish is Loudonville, which plays the first of its final four regular-season games in eight days tonight at Centerburg.
And while the winner of that game will win at least a share of the Mid-Buckeye Conference title " and Hillsdale will finish no higher than fourth in the WCAL " it's a warmup for what I think is the most intriguing first-round boys tournament matchup in the area.
March 3 at Wooster High School, Hillsdale and Loudonville square off in a sectional semifinal at 7:30 p.m. The bitter nonconference rivalry will be a rematch of last year's first-round game in which the Falcons were a 48-38 winner.
The Redbirds have come a long way from that night, including a 52-45 win over Hillsdale on the opening night of this season.
"It's all winding down, and in a couple weeks, we'll be down there trying to figure out who's better," Hanna said. "And that's the exciting part of everything, building your team for the end of the year and then playing in the tournament."


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Man, when it comes down to it, I just LOVE the music of Aussie musician Brett Every. I've been a fan for since the first time I saw the video for Prince Charming, from the 2009 album Fairy Godmother's Gone To Vegas, the second of 3 albums in his discography. And I just discovered this new video for another song off the album, Close. The video is really a slide show of images of male couples over the years, courtesy of Bob Young. You can see more here.
Obviously, Brett is an out and proud gay man. And for those interested in the pictures, he also suggested you find John Ibson's book Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography. You can find it on Amazon here. To purchase this song on iTunes, click here to get to the album on iTunes, and for Amazon, click here. His most recent release, the beautiful Menu, can be found on iTunes here, and Amazon here. I have all three albums, and love them all. I bet you would too! To get more information about Brett Every, check out his official website here.


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In my last post, I wrote about the way my seminary education is preparing me to do worship, and, largely, my problems with it. These posts come out of a pretty extreme frustration with the fact that what I am learning in seminary today is not much different from what I learned in seminary in 2001 and, likely, not very different from what and how the pastor I grew up with learned in seminary. I love Jesus, I am a child of God commissioned to spread the good news of Jesus' life, death and resurrection and to be a representative of God on Earth. What I am learning in seminary is preparing me to use telegrams in the age of Twitter. For the moment, I am complaining – letting it all out so that I can have empty space in which I can ask constructive questions and, hopefully, come to some solutions of my own. But, before that, I have more to dump.
Spiritual but not religious vs. Religious but not spiritual
We are in a time when the church is declining but a majority of Americans still claim they believe in some kind of higher power, and many call that power God. A 2011 Gallup poll showed that 92% of Americans believe in God. In a 2009 Newsweek poll, 48% of respondents described themselves as religious and spiritual and another 30% said they were spiritual but not religious. Most important for those of us thinking about the future of the church: a study by Lifeway Christian Resources showed that 72% of Millenials say they are spiritual but not religious.
Spiritual but not religious gets a lot of flack. Some in Christian leadership see it as a cop out or a symptom of our individualized society (see here or here). They rightly observe that this is often a pretty self-centered look at spirituality and can neglect important Christian ideals like helping the poor (both of these could be critiques of Christianity, BTW). Those critiques might be right but, here's the thing: that's the reality of our situation. Mock spiritual but not religious all you want, that's our mission field. And we're not prepared.
Another effect the industrial revolution and the enlightenment had on churches is that, in mainline Protestant churches, God became a thinking game. We thought a lot about God, pontificated a lot about God and talked a lot about God for generations. We threw out mystical things (or things that were "too Catholic") like the laying on of hands, personal prayer, icons, chanting and things we didn't understand fully in favor of activities of faith that fed the mind.
As the enlightenment fades we have begun to enjoy mystery again. As science (and with it, humanity) learns more, it learns how much it doesn't know. Yet we have stripped mystery from the daily practice and education in most of our congregations. Where do people go to deal with this newfound appreciation for mystery and their desire to connect with it? They go outdoors to see God in the sunset, they go to yoga to be with God in the silence, they read books that connect them with worlds of fictional magic (most excellent worlds of magic, I might add). Like Fox Mulder, people want to believe. They go to these places and not church there because we have little to offer them in the church outside of talk about the mystery and wonder of God.
Back to what seminary is not teaching me: how to have a spiritual life. I am learning how to be religious without learning how to be spiritual. Maybe there is some kind of assumption that because I am in seminary, I have it down. But I don't. We don't. In conversations with fellow seminarians, it is clear that few of us have active, disciplined prayer lives. We have never been taught how, and most of us don't know where to begin. We are often terrified at the idea of having to pray out loud with another person outside of the pastoral role. As long as we are in charge, we can pray with others. We can take classes at the Catholic or Unitarian school on prayer, that's their thing (Protestants, in my experience, fear the Holy Spirit and seem to ignore it past Pentecost). We learn how to lead prayer in worship. But we don't learn how to dwell in the mystery of God. In my pastoral care class, it seemed like I shocked most everyone (including the professor) by suggesting that we make room for the possibility that God actually can (and sometimes does) cure people. We don't learn how to use a labyrinth or chant or do liturgical art or even have a non-intellectual conversation about God. Some of us know how to do this inherently, but many don't. For the most part, we are pushed further and further into the intellectualization of faith, and, while that is important, it seems to be the opposite of what God's stray sheep are asking for. We don't have to agree with our context, but we have to understand it. God's people want to know the mystery that is our creator. Let's help them. But we'll have a hard time helping them connect with God if no one helps us.


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I must admit I had to Google this when I heard an article about this on the radio, as I had no idea what Loom Bands were.
Loom bands: Exclusive designs from drinks holders to butterflies for you to try at home - Mirror Online
Child's dress hand made from Rainbow Loom Bands fetches €215k on eBay - Independent.ie
As far as I can make out, it's basically a new twist on the "French Knitting" that we used to do as kids, with a cotton reel & 4 panel pins, only with custom made elastic bands, which sell for about 1p each. 1p each may not seem much, but it looks like it can soon add up when it comes to larger projects.
The thing is, that now it seems that these are being banned on H&S grounds in schools, as they're causing arguments & fights in the playground (so, what else is new with kids?).


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President Trump Signs Executive Order on HBCUs
Lauren Victoria Burke | 3/3/2017, 9:38 a.m.
continued In September 2013, President Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan apologized to HBCU leaders and advocates for the Parent PLUS loan decision. In 2012, Duncan proposed an end to a three-year implementation of summer Pell Grants.
The elimination of summer Pell Grants is an issue HBCU presidents often say they'd like restored. Almost two-thirds of African American undergraduate students receive Pell funding.
In 2015, President Obama proposed two years of free community college without consulting HBCU advocates. Many of those advocates viewed the proposal as a threat to HBCUs. The proposal, which was never enacted by a Republican-controlled Congress, was later changed to include HBCUs.
In early 2015, during a meeting with members of the Congressional black Caucus, President Obama expressed what many members later told the NNPA Newswire was a lack of support for HBCUs. President Obama was critical of HBCU graduation rates and loan policies.
In February 2015, President Obama's own HBCU Board of Advisors Chair, Hampton University President Dr. William Harvey, was critical of the Obama Administration.
"We are not consulted when it comes to policy changes and decisions impacting— in a major way— the institutions on whose behalf we are to advocate," said Harvey. "It happened with Pell. It happened with Parent PLUS. And, now it is happening with the new community college initiative."
Regarding their visit to the White House on Monday, that included seeing President Trump and Vice President Pence, many HBCU presidents said they were happy to see HBCUs receiving attention within the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, but they were cautiously optimistic.
"There was very little listening to HBCU presidents today. We were only given about two minutes each, and that was cut to one minute, so only about seven of maybe 15 or so speakers were given an opportunity today," wrote Dillard President Walter Kimbrough detailed in a column posted on Medium on the night of February 27.
The HBCU presidents convened at the Library of Congress on February 28 for an all day session with members of Congress.
Lauren Victoria Burke is a political analyst who speaks on politics and African American leadership. She is also a frequent contributor to the NNPA Newswire and BlackPressUSA.com. Connect with Lauren by email at email@example.com and on Twitter at @LVBurke.


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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
'The Brickmaker's Bride' by Judith Miller
Yearning for a fresh start, Ewan McKay travels with his aunt and uncle from northern Scotland to West Virginia, promising to trade his skills in the clay business for financial assistance from his uncle Hugh. Hugh purchases a brickmaking operation from a Civil War widow and her daughter, but it's Ewan who gets the business up and running again. Ewan seeks help from Laura, the former owner's daughter, and he feels a connection with her, but she's being courted by another man--a lawyer with far more social clout and money than Ewan. Besides, Ewan has resolved he'll focus on making the brickmaking operation enough of a success that he can become a partner in the business
and be able to afford to bring his sisters over from Scotland.
But when Hugh signs a bad business deal, all Ewan's hard work may come to naught. As his plans begin to crumble, Laura reveals something surprising. She and her mother may have a way to save the brickworks, and in turn Ewan may have another shot at winning Laura's heart.
As her father was killed in the war, Laura and her mother feel compelled to sell his beloved brickyard, and the only people who seem to be looking to buy in the economically tough times is an uncle and nephew partnership from Ireland, Hugh and Ewan. But are they quite on the level?
This book is a good example of why it's sometimes good to persevere beyond first impressions. I had initial preconceptions of both main characters which I had to push through, and it was worth it.
At first, Laura's self-assurance bordered on brash, especially for a young lady of those times. The explanation is given that she had to watch her mother learn to speak up for herself the hard way, which is fair enough, but Laura's outspokenness seems to go beyond the bounds of self-defence. She certainly knew the ins and outs of her father's business to the extent that her mother would entrust her with such an important matter as the sale of the family business. (I'm not sure it was ever explained why Mrs Woodfield didn't go along on that occasion, even though she wasn't sick.)
Laura has a good heart, but I couldn't help feeling all through the book that if I knew her personally, I'd probably find her one those annoying friends who contradict people all the time. In fact, it would be an interesting exercise to go back over all her dialogue. I'm sure the percentage of times she delivers a rebuke or puts somebody else in their place would have to be high.
Still, when we discover Laura's personal secret which has kept her heartbroken since she was young, it gives her a vulnerability which she lacked earlier on, and we can't help feeling for her. And if the rather wimpish Kathleen is the alternative type of heroine, Laura's forthrightness is probably preferable.
My first impression of Ewan was that he was one of those perfect, 'what a guy' types. Some heroes start off flawed and develop good character traits as they go. As Ewan seemed pretty awesome to begin with, I couldn't see what the plot could possibly draw out of him. That was before I saw him floundering way out of his element, trying to secure future customers for the brickyard, cope with Laura's sarcastic suitor, Winston Hawkins and learn silly etiquette rules all at the same time. I was right on Ewan's side from then on!
I loved Ewan's three sisters, and Uncle Hugh's relationship with Aunt Maggie is fun to read about, leaving readers to decide for ourselves whether their marriage is happy or not.
The parts to do with running the brickyard are well researched and interesting. Down in my city is an old brick works which has been turned into a market, and I love this glimpse into how it would have functioned back in its heyday. The historical times were certainly different to now. Laura and her mother were determined to stay living in their mansion, yet in twenty-first century times, they probably would've considered it far too big for just two women and wanted to put it on the market along with the business.
Thanks to Net Galley and Bethany House for my review copy.
3.5 stars
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Hoarding Support
Hoarding is a condition that has had little support in recent years. It has even been under appreciated or misunderstood by some people.
People hoard for different reasons: they collect things excessively, are bad at organizing or they simply just can't let go.
When Jennifer Morris' sister died, her mother began to hoard her clothing.
"If she can keep a portion of them, or a reminder of them, my sister will still be there," Morris said. "So she can still have a piece of it."
Morris joined around 20 others Tuesday night for a presentation by certified professional organizer, Elizabeth Tawney Gross, titled "Hoarders: How to Help, Not Harm."
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Those present gathered at the Esther Bone Memorial Library in Rio Rancho. They listened to Tawney Gross explain the nuances of hoarding and the best way to handle it.
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"All of us probably have too much stuff," Tawney Gross said. "I have too much stuff, but I don't have too much stuff that I can't live in my house. That's the difference, the amount and whether it keeps you from living."
Hoarding is now recognized by the DSM-V, the standard U.S. classification of mental disorders, Tawney Gross said. Research has found those affected have different brain activity associated with decision making.
"They can't make decisions in the same way that you and I make decisions," she said, comparing hoarding to an addiction. "You can't make an alcoholic stop drinking, you can't make a smoker stop smoking."
Read on to find out more about Tawney Gross' story as well as the mental illnesses that hoarders can suffer, accounts that people have given of hoarding that they've witnessed and how criticism isn't always helpful.
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ORLAND PARK, Ill. (CBS) — He calls himself the "Orland Ghost Rider" and gets his thrills speeding, ignoring stop signs, and mocking police.
CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports police finally caught up with Justin Jachimiec of Orland Park and have evidence of his dangerous stunts thanks to a helmet camera he wore.
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Jachimiec, 22, has been charged with two counts of felony fleeing and eluding, and one count of felony possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
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Keating said Jachimiec was "trying to taunt the police officers to try and chase him, which obviously they didn't. They used great restraint not to."
It's their policy not to chase, but they put on their sirens and their lights.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Ahoy! It's that time of year again!
Yes, it's been a long time!
And yes, I'm still ambivalent about blogging ... it seems Facebook is much more convenient. Still trying to decide ...
But to the subject; it's time for the Kilted to Kick Cancer drive to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research. As my dad is a survivor, it's kind of near to my heart even t hough I've raised nearly no money the last drives I've participated in.
This year, that will change!
If you're interested, please go to kiltedtokickcancer.org to get the details of participating. I don't even know what kind of prizes Kelly (at The Ambulance Driver Files) but I'm sure they're nice, and worth the effort.
Last year, the drive raised over $15,000: we can do better!
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Muck teaches at Gomes Elementary School in Fremont, according to the Fremont Unified School District's website. Parks officials said Muck is 6 feet tall, weighs between 160 and 170 pounds, has a big beard and was wearing a bright blue shirt, green wool pants, black boots and a blue bandana.
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The article itself isn't all that important, but the message it conveyed to me, is.
Apparently Robert De Niro isn't making movies like he used to. Cape Fear, Taxi Driver, The Godfather II, to name a few of the biggies. Now he making movies like Las Vegas, American Hustle, Grudge Match (just to name a few from a HUGE body of work) … and the article writer wishes he'd get back to the former, and steer clear of the comedy!
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Real audio enthusiasts are, of course, not quite pleased with CD sound. As many of them will tell you, the frequency range of CDs is constrained to 20Hz to 20kHz; the rest of the information is discarded. MP3s which toss away already limited musical information are even worse. Yes, there are higher resolution digital format such as SACD, but these have not gained much purchase in a time when MP3 files are deemed good enough by John Q. Public.
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The WSJ also chimes in on how the tide may be turning after LP sales hit a low point in 2006:
Certainly, nostalgia plays a part. Many of the people now buying classic rock and pop reissues grew up during the 1960s and 1970s and are attracted to the idea of buying deluxe editions of the LPs they played in their youth. In the past few months three of the big four music companies – Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music – have started re-releasing rock LPs from their back catalogues by artists such as Cream, Bob Dylan and The Doors, often remastered to bring out the best in the music and pressed on higher-quality vinyl. EMI is also re-releasing old LPs sporadically and several specialist labels have sprung up – among them, Classic Records in the US and Speakers Corner Records in Germany – licensing pop, jazz and classical music from the majors' back catalogues and re-releasing it on audiophile-quality LPs.
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