text: Print We're welcoming patients at Mayo medical institution See our safety precautions in response to COVID-19. Request an appointment. Overview Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects the large intestine. Signs and symptoms include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation, or both. IBS is a chronic condition that you'll need to manage long term. Only a small number of people with IBS have severe signs and symptoms. Some people can control their symptoms by managing diet, lifestyle and stress. More-severe symptoms can be treated with medication and counseling. IBS doesn't cause changes in bowel tissue or increase your risk of colorectal cancer. Products & Services Book: Mayo medical institution on Digestive Health Symptoms The signs and symptoms of IBS vary. The most common include: Abdominal pain, cramping or bloating that is typically relieved or partially relieved by passing a bowel movement Excess gas Diarrhea or constipation — sometimes alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation Mucus in the stool Most people with IBS experience times when the signs and symptoms are worse and times when they improve or even disappear completely. When to see a doctor See your doctor if you have a persistent change in bowel habits or other signs or symptoms of IBS. They may indicate a more serious condition, such as colon cancer. More-serious signs and symptoms include: Weight loss Diarrhea at night Rectal bleeding Iron deficiency anemia Unexplained vomiting Difficulty swallowing Persistent pain that isn't relieved by passing gas or a bowel movement Request an Appointment at Mayo medical institution Causes The precise cause of IBS isn't known. Factors that appear to play a role include: Muscle contractions in the intestine. The walls of the intestines are lined with layers of muscle that contract as they move food through your digestive tract. Contractions that are stronger and last longer than normal can cause gas, bloating and diarrhea. Weak intestinal contractions can slow food passage and lead to hard, dry stools. Nervous system. Abnormalities in the nerves in your digestive system may cause you to experience greater than normal discomfort when your abdomen stretches from gas or stool. Poorly coordinated signals between the brain and the intestines can cause your body to overreact to changes that normally occur in the digestive process, resulting in pain, diarrhea or constipation. Inflammation in the intestines. Some people with IBS have an increased number of immune-system cells in their intestines. This immune-system response is associated with pain and diarrhea. Severe infection. IBS can develop after a severe bout of diarrhea (gastroenteritis) caused by bacteria or a virus. IBS might also be associated with a surplus of bacteria in the intestines (bacterial overgrowth). Changes in bacteria in the gut (microflora). Microflora are the "good" bacteria that reside in the intestines and play a key role in health. Research indicates that microflora in people with IBS might differ from microflora in healthy people. Triggers Symptoms of IBS can be triggered by: Food. The role of food allergy or intolerance in IBS isn't fully understood. A true food allergy rarely causes IBS. But many people have worse IBS symptoms when they eat or drink certain foods or beverages, including wheat, dairy products, citrus fruits, beans, cabbage, milk and carbonated drinks. Stress. Most people with IBS experience worse or more frequent signs and symptoms during periods of increased stress. But while stress may aggravate symptoms, it doesn't cause them. Hormones. Women are twice as likely to have IBS, which might indicate that hormonal changes play a role. Many women find that signs and symptoms are worse during or around their menstrual periods. More Information Irritable bowel syndrome care at Mayo medical institution How irritable bowel syndrome affects you Risk factors Many people have occasional signs and symptoms of IBS. But you're more likely to have the syndrome if you: Are young. IBS occurs more frequently in people under age 50. Are female. In the United States, IBS is more common among women. Estrogen therapy before or after menopause also is a risk factor for IBS. Have a family history of IBS. Genes may play a role, as may shared factors in a family's environment or a combination of genes and environment. Have a mental health problem. Anxiety, depression and other mental health issues are associated with IBS. A history of sexual, physical or emotional abuse also might be a risk factor. Complications Chronic constipation or diarrhea can cause hemorrhoids. In addition, IBS is associated with: Poor quality of life. Many people with moderate to severe IBS report poor quality of life. Research indicates that people with IBS miss three times as many days from work as do those without bowel symptoms. Mood disorders. Experiencing the signs and symptoms of IBS can lead to depression or anxiety. Depression and anxiety also can make IBS worse. Prevention Finding ways to deal with stress may help prevent or ease symptoms of IBS. Consider trying: Counseling. A counselor can help you learn to modify or change your responses to stress. Studies have shown that psychotherapy can provide significant and long-lasting reduction of symptoms. Biofeedback. Electrical sensors help you receive information (feedback) on your body's functions. The feedback helps you focus on making subtle changes, such as relaxing certain muscles, to ease symptoms. Progressive relaxation exercises. These exercises help you relax muscles in your body, one by one. Start by tightening the muscles in your feet, then concentrate on slowly letting all of the tension go. Next, tighten and relax your calves. Continue until the muscles in your body, including those in your eyes and scalp, are relaxed. Mindfulness training. This stress-reduction technique helps you focus on being in the moment and letting go of worries and distractions. By Mayo medical institution Staff Irritable bowel syndrome care at Mayo medical institution Request an Appointment at Mayo medical institution Diagnosis & treatment March 17, 2018 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter Show references Feldman M, et al. Irritable bowel syndrome. In: Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2016. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed May 12, 2017. AskMayoExpert. Irritable bowel syndrome. Rochester, Minn.: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research; 2016. Wald A. Pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed May 11, 2017. Wald A. Treatment of irritable bowel syndrome in adults. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed May 15, 2017. Lucak S, et al. Current and emergent pharmacologic treatments for irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea: Evidence-based treatment in practice. Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology. 2017;10:253. Wald A. Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome in adults. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/search. Accessed May 12, 2017. Camilleri M, et al. Dietary and pharmacological treatment of pain in IBS. Gut. 2017;66:966. Lacy BE. The science, evidence, and practice of dietary interventions in irritable bowel syndrome. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2015;13:1899. Harris LA, et al. Irritable bowel syndrome and female patients. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America. 2016;45:179. Symptoms & causes of hemorrhoids. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/hemorrhoids/symptoms-causes. Accessed May 15, 2017. Ferri FF. Irritable bowel syndrome. In: Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2017. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier; 2017. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed May 15, 2017. Laird KT, et al. Short-term and long-term efficacy of psychological therapies for irritable bowel syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2016;14:937. Valentin N, et al. Potential mechanisms of effect of serum-derived bovine immunoglobulin isolate therapy inpatients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. Physiological Reports. 2017;5:e13170. Feldman M, et al. Complementary and alternative medicine. In: Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2016. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed May 12, 2017. Irritable bowel syndrome. Natural Medicines. https://naturalmedicines.therapeuticresearch.com/databases/food,-herbs-supplements/professional.aspx?productid=881.Accessed May 15, 2017. Brown A. Allscripts EPSi. Mayo medical institution, Rochester, Minn. June 15, 2017. Related How irritable bowel syndrome affects you Spastic colon: What does it mean? 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Of all the tests we conduct when we review a phone, for some reason we've never checked to see how well a handset skips across a lake. But a Chinese man has, officially ending the iPhone vs. Android debate.
In his test he pitted the iPhone 4 against the HTC Desire HD to see which made for a better skipping stone. And lets just say packaging obviously wasn't the only obscure detail Steve Jobs obsessed over. The iPhone 4 was the clear winner here, with the Desire HD fizzling out after just a couple of hops, which is very disappointing.
And yes, we're pretty sure this video is all kinds of fake. But even if he's just swapped out the real phones with dummy display models at the last minute, they still have the same form factor as their working counterparts. So these results aren't completely dismissive. [YouTube via M.I.C. Gadget]

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Family Adopts 9th, 10th Kids
Merritt Family Spends $400 On Food Weekly
Saturday was National Adoption Day, and an Omaha couple just gave two more children a place to call home.
Kenneth and Felicia Merritt have taken guardianship to every child who walked into their home -- adopting No. 9 and No. 10 this weekend.
Felicia Merritt, who works full-time as a school resource officer at Northwest High, said she is "crazy about her kids." The couple has two biological children, making it a total of a dozen, from diaper age to 30 years old.
The couple said it's never simple with a dozen kids, they need two vehicles to travel, and if they're going out to eat, it better be in an all-you-can-eat restaurant.
Felicia Merritt said 10 of her children still live at home, cycling through six loads of laundry a day and demolishing $400 worth of food per week.
"We fight about silly stuff like cleaning the kitchen and who's going to do the chores. (There are lots of) 'You're getting on my nerves' and 'You're too close to me.' It's not easy," 16-year-old Kenae Merritt said.
"If I can watch facial expressions when I'm interrogating them, I can tell who did what," Felicia Merritt said.
Felicia Merritt, who wasn't close to her mother, said what each child has done for her is fill a void that she's lived with her whole life.
"I know what it is to want and long for your mother to be there, so that allows me to get closer to them as well," Felicia Merritt said.
Addicted to adopting and the feeling of becoming a family Felicia Merritt said she wouldn't have it any other way.
"When you come to the Merritt home, this is it. This is the (last) stop (because) we'll take over and make sure everything is OK," the mother of 12 said.
State Health and Human Services said there are 250 children waiting to be adopted in Douglas and Sarpy counties alone.


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Which Is The Best Pumpkin Beer?
Seeking out the best in malty, hoppy refreshment.
With Halloween next week and Thanksgiving on the horizon, pumpkin beers have taken center stage in just about every store with a decent beer selection. Love them or hate them, they're here to stay—for the season, that is—and they have quite a long history.
While pumpkin beers are typically brewed with an amber or brown ale base, many brewers are now getting creative with their recipes and using pumpkin in a variety of unusual styles. Jonathan Moxey curated a list of 6 unusual pumpkin beers to check out last week.
But which pumpkin beer is the best? Some have gathered quite a bit of hype, so I recently assembled some of the most highly regarded and sought-after pumpkin brews (along with a few that are widely available) for a little blind tasting. Some were brewed by tiny craft breweries, others by much larger ones. Each beer was rated blind, solely on aroma, flavor, balance, and overall experience. Would we like the most coveted, cult-favorite beers? Or would something else stand out from the crowd? Of the 17 pumpkin beers we sampled, here were our favorites.
Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
This top-scoring beer likely came as no surprise to those living in the Midwest—Schlafly makes a darn good pumpkin beer. This pumpkin ale smelled like Thanksgiving at Grandma's house. The beer has heavy spicing without letting that dominating the palate, allowing the pumpkin to shine.
Uinta Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Uinta's Oak Jacked was a very different beast from the other beers sampled. Clocking in at 10.8% ABV, this beer clearly had some heat, tasting fairly similar to a barleywine (with pumpkin). The brief slumber in oak barrels—combined with added spices and the bit of residual sugar in the brew—reminded us of candied pumpkin and brown sugar. Delicious!
Samuel Adams Fat Jack
This brew really surprised and impressed us. With 28 pounds of pumpkin per barrel, Fat Jack did not lack on pumpkin flavor. But what won the panel over was the use of smoked malts, which evoked roasted pumpkin deliciously.
Southern Tier Pumking
Pumking has grown to a near cult-like following, and our tasters scored it highly. It smells like pumpkin pie with a punch of vanilla and tastes just as good. Fortunately it was much less sweet on the palate than it was on the aroma. The finish: just like fresh whipped cream.
Cigar City Good Gourd
Easily the most heavily spiced beer in the tasting, Florida's Cigar City brews Good Gourd with Ceylon cinnamon, Jamaican allspice, Zanzibar cloves, and nutmeg. But the aroma was filled with fresh pumpkin even with all of the added spice. This creamy-textured brew would make an excellent dessert beer.
Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela
Despite their name, Jolly Pumpkin did not actually brew a pumpkin beer until this one rolled out. La Parcela is a sour pumpkin ale that works incredibly well. A beautiful aroma of spice, funk, and a bit of pumpkin is backed up by a very complex collection of flavors. This is not the beer to drink if you're looking for liquid pumpkin pie, but it's perfect for those who love sour beers.
Tommyknocker Small Patch Pumpkin Harvest Ale
Small Patch Pumpkin Harvest Ale is a brown ale with some added pumpkin, molasses, and spice. The malt profile lends itself to fall flavors with notes of toffee, bread, molasses, and hints of pumpkin. This is a great seasonal beer for those looking for a "spiced-up" brown ale.
Of course, these beers are all really different, and there's no single "correct" way to brew a pumpkin beer. You might prefer one style or another. Have you tried any of our top picks? Which is your favorite pumpkin beer?
All beers tasted: Samuel Adams Fat Jack, Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela, Cigar City Good Gourd (sample provided), Southern Tier Pumking (sample provided), Uinta Oak Jacked, Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin, Elysian The Great Pumpkin (sample provided), Upslope Pumpkin Ale, Tommyknocker Small Patch Pumpkin, Schlafly Pumpkin Ale (sample provided), Dogfish Head Punkin Ale, Shipyard Pumpkinhead, Lakefront Pumpkin Lager Beer, Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale, Buffalo Bill's America's Original Pumpkin Ale, Saranac Pumpkin Ale, Uinta Punk'n
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Doersch teaches student actors the art of the fight for 'Rover'
The distinctive "ting, ting, ting!" of metal hitting metal rings out as two young men face off with swords flying. The setting of their skirmish is not the deck of the Queen Anne's Revenge or the countryside of 17th-century France. It is the Dodge Room in William & Mary's Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall, and the two battling are students in the College's own stage combat club.
David "Pops" Doersch, instructor of stage combat at William & Mary, has run the club – euphemistically called "fight club" or "sword club" -- for 10 years. And now, with the fight-heavy play "The Rover" set to open at Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall on Thursday, he is busy walking yet another group of young actors through the carefully choreographed dance that is stage combat.
"It's a grand and fun, rollicking life to live as a stage combat choreographer," said Doersch, who has taught at William & Mary for 12 years. "You get to basically be a swashbuckler all your life, which is all too much fun. But it's also a tremendous teaching tool for acting."
Doersch has taught and choreographed stage combat around the world for more than two decades. In addition to overseeing the stage combat club and teaching a course in stage combat at the College, Doersch is also the fight director for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival and the co-founder of the International Organization of the Sword and the Pen. Founded in 1999, the organization has members in 20 countries, including stunt coordinators for major motion pictures and theatrical fight directors for some of the world's most acclaimed theatres. The group also offers workshops, which students from all over the world attend. Doersch said that William & Mary is always well represented at those events.
In fact several of the students in "The Rover," including Megan Malone Behm '11, recently attended one such workshop in Canada. As fight captain for the upcoming show, Behm is now passing the skills she learned at the workshop on to the students she's supervising.
"There are some people in the show who have had no training whatsoever, and they are doing really, really well," Behm said. "They've had to pick up really fast and they've had to really dedicate themselves to doing basically two years of training in about two weeks. It's been really phenomenal to watch them develop."
It's a skill that is more difficult than it looks. Doersch said that hundreds of hours of rehearsal are required for every moment that's on stage.
"If you have a fight on stage that's 30 seconds long, the actors may well have spent between 40 and 50 hours in rehearsal trying to get that little 30-second moment perfect," he said.
Though the weapons are not sharpened, stage combat is still potentially dangerous and so every effort is made to ensure absolute safety for the actors.
"We have to make sure that it's all rehearsed in extreme slow motion so that the blades placement is exactly safe and done with not just precision but a light touch," said Doersch.
Although stage combat isn't just about swords – other weapons and even falls are included in the training – "The Rover," a Restoration-era comedy, was written during a time in which "it was very popular to put lots of sword fights on stage," said Doersch.
There are numerous sword fights throughout the show, including one large skirmish in which seven fights happen at once and another showcase fight between two of the show's main characters who wear masks while brandishing three swords and even a cape. Capes were once commonly used as weapons, said Doersch, adding that their hems were often lined with lead shot, glass, fish hooks or other dangerous materials.
"So when you got hit with that cape, you knew you were getting hit by a weapon," he said.
Because the play is set in Naples, Italy during the 1650s, Doersch is teaching his actors two main fighting styles: one for the English cavaliers who were roaming Europe during that period and another for the Spaniards who controlled the area at that time.
The actors playing Spaniards are using Spanish hilt cup rapiers, which are heavy and have a broad blade.
"They are very high, very erect, very formal in their swordplay versus the English cavaliers who are using smaller, lighter blades," said Doersch.
"Given it's a comedy, we're taking some liberties with the historical facts and making them broader and coloring them with a broader pen because it's more fun," he added.
Every move in the fights in carefully choreographed, Doersch said. And in fact, much of the language and many of the moves used in stage combat are borrowed from dance.
"The fights and the dances of any given time period always mirror each other because they are drawn from the same cultural aesthetic," Doersch said.
Though learning how to fight for the stage can be a lot of fun, it is also now a necessary skill for theatre professionals, Doersch said.
"Stage combat is very important," he said. "They expect actors when they come out of any kind of credible training program to know how to handle a sword, or at least know how to throw a punch or slap."
But Doersch wants his William & Mary students to go one step further, giving their audiences not just fights, but good fights.
"The audience should come away from a fight knowing more about the characters than they did going in, just like any good scene," he said.
"A good fight involves all the elements that good theatre does because it is just theatre."


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Originally published on dolphinmusic.co.uk Fri December 11, 2009 With the London band's second album, Primary Colours, being voted "Album Of The Year" by NME, now's the time to take a look at the gear they used to create their critically-acclaimed mix of pyschedelia, krautrock, indie and shoegaze. Including vintage synths, cutting edge software and...home made FX pedals!
The Horrors are an English indie rock band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached number 37 on the UK Albums Chart, in 2007. Their second album Primary Colours was released in 2009 and reached number 25 in the UK. It was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, and won the voting for NME Album of the Year. They are currently working with Damon Albarn on a new Gorillaz album. Here's a quick Horrors gear Guide!
Guitarist Joshua Third uses mostly Fender Jaguar and Fender Jazzmaster electric guitars. He also uses a red jazz-style hollow body guitar, similar to a Tanglewood TSB49 (though this is not the model he uses). Bassist Spider Webb uses a short-scale Fender Mustang bass. Some photos show him using Orange bass amp & cabs. Amps: The current setup includes a Vox Ac30 and a Fender Hot Rod DeVille, an excellent combination! FX Pedals: Here, things get very interesting! Guitarist Josh uses a mix of normal fx pedals with a few hand-built by himself, a former Physics graduate and the self-styled "mad scientist" in the band. On a interview with Vice magazine, Josh explained that the only reason he started making his pedals was because he had no money and the actual parts that make a pedal are actually quite cheap! Josh says that all he needs to make a pedal is "...a soldering iron, some chit-chat with the people at Maplins and some resistors and capacitors and transistors. Thanks to the internet there's a lot of bullshit about parts people need for pedals. They tell you that if it's 40 years old it will sound better. Unfortunately it's all bollocks. It's quite funny watching people spend £100 on something that costs tuppence.... Some guy was telling me he had a part that had aged for 60 years and that it would make my guitar sound like Hendrix. "Yeah, mate! That's how Hendrix plays." What? He went into the future to play it?" Looking at Josh's pedabloard (above) you can see quite a few grey boxes, his hand-built pedals. Since there's no sign of recognisable fuzz or distortion pedals there, it's easy to conclude that his hand-built pedals are all (or mostly) fuzz boxes and distortion pedals. If you like The Horrors fuzz sounds, good options are vintage-style fuzz pedals such as the Fuzz Face, or the Z-Vex Fuzz Factory. On the top left of the pic, you can also see a Z-Vex Machine. If you don't fancy a Z-Vex, here's our 5 best fuzz pedals available today. This second photograph shows some pedals that appear on the previous pic, but also an Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff, an old DOD Envelope Filter, and a Boss PS3 Pitch Shifter (discontinued and replaced by the Boss PS-5 Super Shifter ) Other pedals that appear in the photographs include Boss DD-7 Digital Delay, Boss TR-2 , Boss TU-3 , Boss GE-7 and Electro-Harmonix HOG Guitar Synthesizer (now replaced by the Electro Harmonix HOG 2) A big part of his sound is about delays, reverbs and reverse reverb sounds. Amongst other pedals he's said to use/ have used, we can mention: Boss RV-6, Ibanez DE7 Delay / Echo (we recommend the Ibanez Analogue Delay Mini Pedal) , and Digitech XDV DigiVerb Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal. He also uses a vintage Binson Echorec pedal, which curently goes on eBay for over £1000! The new Line 6 M9 Stompbox Modeler has an excellent Binson Echorec mode, if you fancy paying a little bit less than that... A chorus pedal is also used. He used to have a Marshall Supervibe and now it appears that he uses a Electro-Harmonix Small Clone (out of production, but replaced by the Electro Harmonix Nano Clone). Keyboards: Main keyboardist Tom Furse is said to have an extensive collection of vintage analog synths. Previously, they used to have combo organs onstage, such as the Roland VK-8 , a Nord organ and Hammond XB-2 which they don't use anymore. Now, it's mainly synths. If you want to sound like The Horrors, a Korg microKORG will help you get there! If you think we've missed anything in our Horrors complete gear guide, let us know! Other: The Horrors are well-known users of Ableton Live . Tom Furse, the synth man, told Ableton: "A running joke in our band is that I always seem to have my headphones on; that's because I'm always using Live. When I have to work with other engineers and programs the requests I make are often met with a quizzical look, and we always end up going back to Live eventually for something. Its integrated pitch-shifting and time stretching features are second to none and its ease of use and streamlining mean it's always very easy to get your ideas down quickly. It offers new sound possibilities and is constantly offering up new ways of working with sound."
Now, enjoy some of The Horrors' music, and try to figure out how these sounds were created!


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Weird aliens. World spanning action. Intergalactic drama. Ben 10 wraps all these elements into an exciting PSP adventure that will thrill you even if you've never taken a journey into the popular animated series before.
You play as Ben Tennyson, a plucky 16-year-old with the ability to change into different alien forms thanks to the Ultimatrix, a gauntlet-like device of incredible power. You'll need to take advantage of all your skills if you want to succeed in your quest to retrieve an ancient alien artefact that will save humanity from a mysterious cosmic storm. Fancy a trip around the world to places such as Paris, China and Rome?
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction's visuals pack a punch that would do the green-clad superhero proud - they look like they've stepped straight off the TV show, with smooth animation and electrifying special effects. Excellent voice acting brings the characters to life as they travel around the varied locations, with some high quality cutscenes superbly complementing the gameplay.
With the ability to access concept art and an in-depth behind the scenes video, there's plenty of value in this stellar package. Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction crackles with energy on PSP, allowing you to explore a galaxy of sci-fi excitement wherever you go. So what are you waiting for? Go Ultimate!
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Cosmic Destruction on PSP puts the power of an intergalactic superhero in your hands. As you travel around the exotic locations you'll need all your amazing abilities to overcome a range of puzzles, platforms and enemies. If you want to succeed, you had better master the powers of over 14 different alien forms, each with their unique uses.
The colossal Humungousaur can use his incredible strength to smash through brittle walls and manipulate heavy items. The cute Echo Echo, on the other hand, is able to squeeze through tiny gaps due to his miniature size, as well as create copies of himself to help solve puzzles where two bodies are better than one.
It's a great gameplay element which creates a diverse and entertaining way to approach each level, as you change Ben's forms to suit the task at hand. Battles are just as fun due to the range of abilities offered by each alien, which you can combine in the heat of combat to smash your foes. Burn your enemies with Swampfire's flame-thrower blasts, then switch to NRG to hit them with beams of radioactive energy!
The game succeeds in making you feel like Ben 10, with its slick and inventive action. Counter-attacks and combos are easily achieved, and as the baddies get tougher, you get the chance to upgrade your powers. And a selection of set pieces keeps you on your toes as your reflexes are tested in events such as saving civilians and taking on dastardly bosses.
Challenging and full of humour, this is the perfect Ben 10 adventure on PSP that will hook you with its fast paced, stylish and entertaining gameplay. It's all up to you now - can you save the Earth from cosmic destruction?
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The internet has spoken, and it hates the uniforms the Steelers unveiled yesterday to mark their upcoming 80th season:
• "Absolutely terrible"
• "Bumblebees in prison"
• "The NFL reclaims the low ground"
• "A nice gesture, but a cringe-worthy result"
• "Really, really, really ugly"
• "Ugliest-looking uniforms in NFL history"
The point missed by every one of these critiques is that the uniforms are throwbacks. They are not designed with any sort of modern sensibility, and they would not work in 1962, let alone 2012. They are a homage to the team's founding, a noble reminder of the franchise's Depression-era roots. They are based on what was worn in 1934, for the simple reason that that's what the Steelers wore in 1934.
Tradition is something Steelers fans often like to bleat about—the uninterrupted local family ownership, the three coaches since the moon landing, those "classic" uniforms that have remained largely unchanged since the early '70s. But many of those same fans tend to overlook what the franchise looked like—literally and figuratively—for the 40 years prior to the Immaculate Reception. And you know what? For pretty much all of those years, the Steelers sucked. From 1933 until 1971, they had just seven winning seasons. Their only postseason game in all that time was in 1947, when they were shut out by the Philadelphia Eagles in what was actually a playoff tiebreaker. During World War II, because of a player shortage, the Steelers combined with the Eagles and the Chicago Cardinals in back-to-back seasons just to survive; in '44, during their merger with the Cardinals, they didn't win a game. Until 1940, the Steelers were called the Pirates, and the Pirates remained the city's more popular franchise right up until the '70s.
The Steelers only plan to wear the '34 throwbacks twice next season, and then they'll be put away, at least until they decide to bring them out again, much like they occasionally do with those duds from the early '60s. And for all the talk about unchanging traditions, Steelers fans will likely add them to their jersey collections. Sure, sporting one of these will make you look like you're auditioning for a Stryper tribute band. But history is just another stock of inventory at the team store. At $160 plus shipping, the NFL and the Steelers know you'll do it anyway.
Ed Bouchette, the longtime Steelers beat reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, shares a great anecdote today about the team's 1934 uniforms. The story involves the first time Bouchette was invited into Art Rooney Sr.'s office in the mid-1980s. Bouchette's article is behind the newspaper's pay wall, but the relevant part is right here:
Rooney's office was something to behold, especially all the photos on the walls, many of them autographed. On one wall, he had team photos from the early years. He sat behind his desk as I gawked at many of the photos. When I began looking at the team photos, I laughed at the picture of the 1934 outfit. It was in black and white, and I said outloud to the Chief, "They look like jailbirds.''
Art Rooney did not laugh. He did not smile. He said nothing. I knew immediately I committed a faux pas, and began talking about some of the other uniforms and asked questions about some of the teams to dig myself out of the hole. The Chief never rebuked me, but I could tell he still had a sense of pride in that team. It could not have been their 2-10 record. Who knows? Maybe he was just proud he was able to pay them during that year of the Great Depression and able to keep afloat so he could field another team in 1935. Maybe he designed those uniforms himself, for all we know.
Here, in fact, is how dreadful the Steelers were, and for how long: My 83-year-old father has been a Steelers season-ticket holder for longer than I've been alive. To this day, he remains convinced that Rooney Sr., the team's late founder and the closest thing Pittsburgh has to a patron saint, took money to have the Steelers lose on purpose during those early years. My dad has nothing to base this on, other than Rooney's known propensity for gambling, which includes the fact that he bought the team with money he won while betting on racehorses. My dad's theory proves nothing more than when you watch a team lose so consistently for so many years, and you find yourself still giving a shit about them, you'll believe pretty much anything. And how ugly is that?


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JOHN HARDING Former Concertmaster & Associate Conductor, Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a splendid musical mind", Mark Isaacs has achieved widespread international recognition as a composer and pianist working in both classical music and jazz.
He has given recitals as a classical pianist, conducted orchestras and as a classical concert hall composer has composed more than 100 major works, many commissioned by some of Australia's most prestigious ensembles, orchestras and soloists and ranging across orchestral, chamber, choral, solo pieces as well as scores for film, television and the theatre.
His music has received numerous awards and accolades, including an Australia Council Fellowship, the inaugural Miriam Hyde Composer-Pianist Award, the 2007 Albert H. Maggs Composition Award from the University of Melbourne, and the 2012 Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition from the University of Newcastle. Isaacs has also been a prize-winner in the Tokyo International Competition for Chamber Music Composition, and was a finalist in the 2013 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize.
As a jazz pianist he has toured extensively in Europe, Russia, Asia, the USA, Australasia and the Pacific performing at major festivals including the Tokyo Jazz Festival and Pori Jazz, Finland. He has collaborated with some of the most distinguished figures in international jazz including Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Adam Nussbaum, Vinnie Colaiuta, Bob Sheppard and Jay Anderson and he has released numerous internationally-acclaimed albums on labels such as Naxos, ABC, Soundbrush, Vorticity and his own label Gracemusic.
Isaacs has twice been nominated for the ARIA Award (Australian "Grammy") and his composition Walk a Golden Mile received the award for "Instrumental Work of the Year" at the APRA/Australian Classical Music Awards. In 2010 & 2011 he was nominated for several Bell Jazz Awards and for Best Independent Jazz Album at the Jägermeister Independent Music Awards. As well as his many original tunes for jazz ensemble, he is also a songwriter, mostly writing his own lyrics.
Mark Isaacs' first symphony, commissioned by former media executive Kim Williams AM, was premiered by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in 2013, and the TV program of the premiere – which Isaacs co-produced – has been screened on Foxtel in Australia and Sky TV in New Zealand.
Isaacs premiered his solo piano cycle Children's Songs at the 2012 Adelaide Festival and recorded it for international release on the New York label Soundbrush Records. Children's Songs was hailed by classical music luminary Vladimir Ashkenazy as a "wonderful cycle [that] is highly inventive and inspiring".
Mark Isaacs conducted the premiere of his Chamber Symphony in July 2015 at the City Recital Hall, Sydney, and in September 2015 he conducted the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in a program of his own orchestral works.
In 2017 Mark Isaacs completed the composition of his Symphony No. 2.
Mark Isaacs holds a Master of Music degree in classical composition and piano performance from the Eastman School of Music, New York. He is also a trained and accredited telephone crisis supporter at Lifeline Australia, the nationwide suicide prevention service.
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Conference Chair
Ko Hyeong-Seok
Seoul National University
Hyeong-Seok Ko has been an active member of ACM SIGGRAPH for many years and has been a member of the ACM Advisory Board since 2007. His research interests include clothing simulation and animation, hairstyle modeling and animation, physics-based reproduction of fluids, Heand deformable solids. Ko has organized courses on clothing simulation for SIGGRAPH 2003 and 2005.
He holds a PhD in computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a professor in the School of Electrical Engineering of the Seoul National University. He is also director of the university's Digital Clothing Center. He has published many technical articles and is currently a member of the editorial board of Graphical Models, an international bi-monthly journal published by Elsevier.
Computer Animation Festival Chair
Jinny HyeJin Choo
ONCOMM & Korea National University of Arts (K'ARTS)
Jinny HyeJin Choo is a researcher and instructor at Korea National University of Arts(K'ARTS) and the programming director at ONCOMM. She majored in Illustration and animation and made her first short animated film in 1999, when she began her career as a freelance illustrator and animation artist. She has worked for several animated film festivals, including SICAF and PISAF in Korea, as programmer and manager and has contributed articles to animation magazines. At present, she is lecturing and doing research in animation and related fields at Korea National University of Arts and training to be a color therapist at Korea Color Psychical Therapy Society.
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Sophie Revillard
Connecting Worlds
Looking for a way to combine a curriculum in history, a master in interactive techniques, and an early passion for cinema and graphic arts, Sophie Revillard decided in 1995 to turn the most famous French monument into a game: "Versailles, Complot à la Cour du Roi soleil" (Cryo Interactive). She was then adopted by the interactive entertainment industry and has since designed numerous games and interactive projects in both cultural and educative areas. She has also contributed to the organization of several world-class events dedicated to 3D and interactive techniques such as Imagina, FMX, FITA, and SIGGRAPH.
Currently, she manages Connecting Worlds, an agency that specializes in conceiving innovative experiences and content for cultural exhibitions, education, sustainability, serious games, and, of course, recreational games.
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David Spoelstra
MediaMachine LLC
For 28 years, David Spoelstra has created hardware and software products, managed technology projects and people, and led major technology initiatives at both start-up and Fortune 500 companies. Today he is the owner of MediaMachine LLC, a technology consulting company that performs hardware and software design, project management, and technology vision initiatives with a specialty in digital video. He has been involved with several video hardware startups and served on several boards including VESA.
In 1992, while working for Truevision, the first videographics company, he first served on the SIGGRAPH conference committee as Audio/Visual and Donations Chair. Since then, he has served as a conference committee chair nine different times including the GraphicsNet Chair for the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia conference. An avid auto racing photographer, he is in charge of turn three at the world-famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway for The Associated Press. His work has been published multiple times in newspapers worldwide, and in Sports Illustrated, and he was awarded the World Press Association Award for Sports Photography in 1982.
Student Volunteers Chair
Wei Keong Tan
Polygon Pictures, Inc.
Tan Wei Keong is an animation director whose works have won awards at the Singapore International Film Festival. He is currently an animator in Tokyo at Polygon Pictures, Inc. He was a member of the Student Volunteers Committee for previous SIGGRAPH Asia conferences and a team leader at SIGGRAPH 2008. He has a bachelor of fine art degree in digital animation from Nanyang Technological University.
Technical Papers Chair
George Drettakis
REVES/INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
George Drettakis holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (1994) in computer science and is currently a senior researcher at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Math (INRIA). He held a researcher position at INRIA Grenoble in the iMAGIS research group from 1995 to 2000 then moved to INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, where he heads the REVES research group on rendering for graphics and audio. He has published many papers in graphics, in particular on global illumination, visibility, relighting, augmented reality, interactive rendering, and 3D audio. His current research interests are in combining image-based simulation and procedural methods for effective rendering, as well as the use of perceptual principles for audio/visual rendering in virtual environments.
He publishes regularly at major international conferences and journals in the field. He has coordinated several national and European Union research projects, most recently the EU FET OPEN project CROSSMOD (2005-2008). His administrative responsibilities at INRIA include membership in the Scientific and Technological Orientation Council (COST), supervising INRIA's international activities (2005-2007), and the prospective committee for the perception, cognition, and interaction research domain. He has served on program committees for many international conferences (Eurographics, SIGGRAPH, and others), co-chaired the papers program of the Eurographics workshop on rendering (1998), co-chaired the Eurographics 2002 and 2008 conferences and served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He won the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2007 and has been a Eurographics Fellow since 2007.
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Marie-Paule Cani
Grenoble Universités & INRIA
Marie-Paule Cani is professor of computer science at the Grenoble Institute of Technology and head of the INRIA research group EVASION, part of Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, a joint lab of CNRS and Grenoble University. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she received a PhD from the University of Paris 11 in 1990. In 1999, she was awarded membership in the Institut Universitaire de France, and in 2007 she received the national Irène Joliot Curie award to acknowledge her support of women in computer science.
Her main research interest is creation of digital content for animated virtual worlds, which leads to developing techniques for both shape design and animation. Her contributions include algorithms for efficient physically based animation, using implicit surfaces and constant-volume space deformations in interactive sculpting systems, 3D clothing design from sketches, physically based models such as super-helices for hair animation, and design of layered models for efficiently animating natural scenes. She was general co-chair of IEEE Shape Modelling & Applications 2005 and papers co-chair of EUROGRAPHICS 2004, the ACM-EG Symposium on Computer Animation 2006, and Sketch-Based Interaction and Modelling 2008. She was a member of the editorial board of Graphical Models from 2001 to 2005 and of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics since 2006. An active member of the French Computer Graphics association since the 1990s, she created and was the first president of the French Chapter of EUROGRAPHICS in 2003 and served on the Eurographics executive committee from 2004 to 2008. She was named a Eurographics fellow in 2005 and was elected to the position of Director at Large of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2008.
Alla Sheffer
The University of British Columbia
Alla Sheffer is an associate professor in the computer science department at The University of British Columbia. She investigates algorithms for geometry processing focusing on computer graphics applications. Her work has been published at leading conferences, including SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, and the Symposium on Geometry Processing. She has co-chaired the Symposium on Geometry Processing, the leading geometry-processing conference, and served on the program committees of major graphics conferences including SIGGRAPH and Eurographics.
She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1999), then did a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was an assistant professor at Technion, Israel. She is the recipient of a Killam Junior Research Fellowship (2009) and an IBM Faculty Award (2006).
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Mark Billinghurst
Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand
Mark Billinghurst develops innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged. Director of the HIT Lab New Zealand at the University of Canterbury in, he has produced over 130 technical publications and presented demonstrations and courses at a wide variety of conferences. He has a PhD from the University of Washington and conducts research in augmented and virtual reality, wearable computing, and mobile interfaces. He has previously worked at ATR Research Labs, British Telecom, and the MIT Media Laboratory. One of his research projects, the MagicBook, was winner of the 2001 Discover award for best entertainment application.
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Brown Cunningham Associates
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He has served on the boards of several professional associations, including the Mathematics Association of America and ACM SIGCSE, was on the Executive Board and Executive Committee of the European Association for Computer Graphics, and held several offices in ACM SIGGRAPH including Director for Publications and Chair. He co-founded (with Judy Brown) the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and founded the Eurographics Education Board. He was elected a Eurographics Fellow and received the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award.
His professional focus has been computer graphics, especially computer graphics education. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books on computer graphics-related topics, including two recent textbooks, and one of his texts has been translated into Chinese. He has extensive international speaking experience, has worked on a number of conferences, and is particularly associated with a number of workshops on computer graphics education.
Jin Wan Park
Jin Wan Park is a professor of the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia, and Film at Chung-Ang University in South Korea. He received his BS in computer science and his MFA from Pratt Institute with a computer animation and interactive media major in 1998. The same year, his animation was selected for the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 98. After graduation, he worked as an art director for five years before joining the Chung-Ang University faculty. As an artist and scientist, he has focused his research on new forms of artistic expression that are only possible through scientific research. He has exhibited a series of artworks based on his algorithms in art galleries and art journals, including the SIGGRAPH 98 Electronic Theater, SIGGRAPH 2004 Sketches, Leonardo Vol. 38, the SIGGRAPH 2006 Guerilla Studio, SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches, the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery, Japan Media Art Festival 2007, and the SIGGRAPH 2009 Art Gallery. He also manages the Future Media Art lab, which includes 20 students and researchers.
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Chung-Ang University
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Thierry Frey
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Conference Chair
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Nanyang Technological University
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Keio University
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Seoul National University
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California State University, Los Angeles (retired)
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Maybe that kid who picked on you every day in second period wasn't actually an asshole. He/she may have just been really, really exhausted:
"The researchers found that children who had behavioral issues were twice as likely to have shown symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, like snoring or daytime sleepiness. Among children whom parents specifically identified as school bullies, the finding was similar."
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Retailers turn to mobile apps to drive up sales
Tia Smith clutched her new phone in one hand and a phone case in the other as she shopped at a Best Buy in West Hollywood, Calif.
She clicked away into her smartphone's tiny screen and searched for the case in other nearby stores.
"I'm trying to buy this Otter phone case for my new phone," she said. "But I'm trying to see if Target or Wal-Mart has it for cheaper so they can honor the price match," she said, as she scrolled through Target's mobile site on her new phone.
As more people turn to their smartphones and tablets when they're thinking about making a purchase, retailers and marketing companies are rushing to figure out ways to transform these mobile browsers into buyers. Some are providing special bargains. A few are tracking shoppers' every move around the store and nudging them to seal the deal.
During the fourth quarter of last year, mobile devices were responsible for 16.6 percent of online sales, up from 11.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to an IBM Corp. study. Tablets drove 11.5 percent of those sales, compared with 5 percent from smartphones, IBM said.
"People are using smartphones and tablets on different occasions," said Charlie Anderson, chief executive of Shoptology Inc., a marketing company. "They're using the tablet at night when they're on the couch or in bed and making purchases or doing research, and mobile is more for doing research while you're in brick-and-mortar stores."
Mobile shoppers are always on the lookout for a better deal, said Beth Craig, director of insight for Catapult, a marketing consulting company. In a study produced by Google Inc. last year, 44 percent of smartphone shoppers said they used mobile devices to shop because it saved them money.
Google's search engine is popular for comparison shopping, as are a proliferation of mobile apps that can read bar codes and other coded product identifiers using a properly equipped smartphone.
The field is still relatively young, so consumer product companies and retailers are still figuring out how to attract these mobile shoppers, said Adam Guy, senior vice president of business development for Millward Brown, a market research company.
Several retailers also have turned to special shopping apps. Some are fairly basic, guiding customers to various departments within a store, cluing shoppers in on specials and enabling shoppers to make shopping lists and load coupons electronically.
Tools that provide promotional offers and digital coupons tend to be among the most popular methods of marketing on these devices.
"One of the problems with coupons is access. How many times do you go to a store and get to the counter and realize that you forgot your coupon?" Guy said.
Wal-Mart has released a more sophisticated mobile phone app that tracks a user's location using the phone's GPS and can offer in-store deals when it recognizes the shopper is in a store.
A few retailers are taking the concept even further.
In November, the Macy's department store chain began testing a product called ShopBeacon at stores in San Francisco's Union Square and New York's Herald Square.
The app, created by Shopkick Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., enables a merchant to offer discounts on specific products that a customer has expressed interest in or, perhaps, has lingered near, prodding him or her to buy.
"We can find out where you are standing and how long you've been standing in front of the Michael Kors handbag and if you haven't purchased," Macy's Chief Executive Terry Lundgren said at an analysts' conference in November. "And if you haven't, I'll send you a little note to give you encouragement to do so."
"It's just like when you're at home online and ... you're on a Macy's page and you haven't actually bought, we can come back to you and send you a little pop-up message. Well, now we can do that when you're in our store, when you are thinking about purchasing and you're not purchasing," Lundgren said.
ShopBeacon, which uses sensors in a store to interact with Apple Inc.'s iBeacon location technology, began rolling out in January to 100 American Eagle Outfitters and Aerie stores in Los Angeles and other major cities. Shoppers are enticed to the opt-in technology not only by discounts but also the promise of rewards such as gift cards, music downloads and movie tickets, Shopkick said.
Although the use of mobile devices in shopping is growing, sales from phones and tablets remain relatively low.
Despite the most lucrative mobile shopping holiday on record in 2013, consumers left nearly $16 billion on the table in the form of lost mobile sales during that period, according to Jumio, a mobile payments and ID verification company. Poor mobile payment experiences drove almost half of consumers considering purchases to abandon them.
Consumers don't like having to squint as they browse on their portable screens and aren't hitting the tiny "click" button on their screen.
"Trying to search for things on this iPhone is like looking through a peephole," said Scottie Slane, a musician who was using his phone to research an SD memory card he was interested in buying at a Best Buy in West Hollywood recently.
"You've gotta zoom and then scroll," Slane said. "It's inconvenient, so I'll just do it at home."
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The Secretary of State Project (SoSP) was established in July 2006 as an independent "527" organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected to the office of secretary-of-state in selected swing, or battleground, states; these were states where the margin of victory in the 2004 presidential election (between George W. Bush and John Kerry) had been 120,000 votes or less.[1] One of the principal duties of the secretary of state is to serve as the chief election officer who certifies candidates as well as election results in his or her state.[2] The holder of this office, then, can potentially play a key role in determining the winner of a close election.
SoSP's co-founders were Becky Bond (who also had affiliations with the New Organizing Institute and Working Assets); Democracy Alliance member Michael Kieschnick (who also founded Working Assets and serves as a board member of the leftist evangelical group Sojourners); and James Rucker (who co-founded Color of Change and formerly served as director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action).
The idea for SoSP germinated shortly after the 2004 election,[3] when the Project's co-founders blamed then-Ohio secretary of state Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, for presidential candidate John Kerry's defeat. To their chagrin, Blackwell had ruled that Ohio (where George W. Bush won by a relatively slim 118,599-vote margin)[4] would not count provisional ballots,[5] even those submitted by properly registered voters, if they had been submitted at the wrong precincts. Though the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ultimately upheld Blackwell's decision, SoSP's founding members nonetheless received Blackwell's ruling with the same bitterness they had felt regarding former Florida (Republican) secretary of state Katherine Harris's handling of the infamous ballot recount in 2000, when Bush defeated Al Gore in the presidential election. Wrote political analyst Matthew Vadum, SoSP's leaders and foot soldiers alike "religiously believe that right-leaning secretaries of state helped the GOP steal the presidential elections in Florida in 2000 … and in Ohio in 2004."[6]
Moreover, in 2006 SoSP accused Blackwell and Republicans of conspiring to suppress Democratic voter turnout in Ohio.[7] "We were tired of Republican manipulation of elections," said Michael Kieschnick. "It seemed like lots of decisions were made by people who were pretty clearly political operatives."[8] "Any serious commitment to wrestling control of the country from the Republican Party must include removing their political operatives from deciding who can vote and whose votes will count," added Becky Bond.[9] As Matthew Vadum pointed out, Bond's statement was a paraphrase of Joseph Stalin's aphorism: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
To establish "election protection" against similar disappointments in subsequent political races, SoSP in 2006 targeted its funding efforts on the secretary-of-state races in seven swing states: Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio.[10] As USA Today reported at the time: "The political battle for control of the federal government has opened up a new front: the obscure but vital state offices that determine who votes and how those votes are counted."[11] Democrats emerged victorious in five of those seven elections, all except Colorado and Michigan. Politico.com would later characterize SoSP as "an administrative firewall" designed, "in anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election," to protect Democrats' "electoral interests in … the most important battleground states."[12]
Because few Americans recognize the importance of the secretary of state's duties, candidates for that office tend to draw fewer (and smaller) donations than do most state-level campaigns. Consequently, even a modest injection of cash from just a handful of generous donors can make an enormous difference in the comparative financial resources of rival campaigns, and thereby tip the scales decidedly in favor of the better-funded candidate. Among the more notable contributors to SoSP were Democracy Alliance members Anne Bartley, Patricia Bauman, Susie Tompkins Buell, Gail Furman, Tim Gill, Nicholas Hanauer, Blair Hull, Megan Hull, John R. Hunting, Michael Kieschnick, Barbara Lee (not the congresswoman), Rob McKay, Sanford Newman, Drummond Pike, William J. Roberts, Paul Rudd, George Soros, Rob Stein, Pat Stryker, and Scott Wallace.[13]
In 2006, SoSP raised a total of $500,000 for the secretary-of-state candidates whom it supported[14], a small sum by traditional political fundraising standards, but a weighty total in comparison to the sums that such candidates had typically garnered in the past.
One beneficiary of SoSP funding in 2006 was Democrat Jennifer Brunner, who defeated incumbent Republican Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio. Said Brunner, "I received significant support from the SoS Project, which helped me toward the election." Brunner went on to make her influence felt in several significant ways two years later, during the 2008 election cycle:
Another early beneficiary of SoSP support was Democrat Mark Ritchie, who, with SoSP help in 2006, defeated a two-term incumbent Republican in the race for Minnesota secretary of state. Ritchie acknowledged his debt to SoSP when he said, "I want to thank the Secretary of State Project and its thousands of grass-roots donors for helping to push my campaign over the top."[18] Other contributors to Ritchie's campaign included Heather Booth, Drummond Pike, Deborah Rappaport (wife of venture capitalist Andrew Rappaport), and George Soros.
A former community organizer with close ties to ACORN,[19] Ritchie in the 1990s had been a member of the now-defunct socialist New Party.[20] Moreover, he has ideological ties to the Communist Party USA and has been described by communist Tim Wheeler as a "friend" of the Party.[21]
Ritchie went on to play a major role in a crucial state election in 2008, when George Soros personally gave $10,000 to SoSP.[22] In October of that year, a conservative watchdog group exhorted Ritchie to order "a thorough review and verification of all voter-registration records," citing some 261,000 duplicative registrations and 63,000 voter listings with invalid or nonexistent addresses. But Ritchie dismissed those pleas as politically motivated attempts "to create a cloud over an election so people don't accept the outcome."[23]
Then, in Minnesota's November election for U.S. Senate, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman finished 725 votes ahead of Democratic challenger Al Franken; the thin margin of victory, however, triggered an automatic recount. With Mark Ritchie presiding over the recount process during the ensuing weeks, Coleman's lead gradually dwindled due to what journalist Matthew Vadum describes as a long series of "appalling irregularities" that invariably benefited Franken.
For example, during the recount process a number of ballots were found in an election judge's car; one Minnesota county suddenly discovered 100 new votes for Franken and claimed that a clerical error had caused them to previously go uncounted; another county tallied 177 more votes than it had recorded on Election Day; and yet another county reported 133 fewer votes than its voting machines had tabulated. "Almost every time new ballots materialized, or tallies were updated or corrected, Franken benefited," writes Vadum. In addition, at least 393 convicted felons voted illegally in two particular Minnesota counties.
By the time the recount (and a court challenge by Coleman) ended in April 2009, Franken held a 312-vote lead. In June, Franken was officially declared the victor.[24]
In 2008, SoSP supported Democratic secretary-of-state candidates in Missouri, Montana, Oregon and West Virginia; all four Democrats won. These results represented yet another high return on a relatively small financial investment for SoSP. As of September of that year, SoSP had raised $280,000 for the campaigns it was targeting — not a large sum by any means, but enough to have a profound effect on the lightly funded Secretary of State races.
Just prior to the 2010 elections, SoSP claimed credit for having helped to elect 11 of the 18 left-wingers it had endorsed and funded since 2006. But in the midterm congressional elections of 2010, when Democrats suffered historic losses in the House of Representatives, five out of seven SoSP-backed candidates went down to defeat; only incumbents Debra Bowen of California and Mark Ritchie of Minnesota emerged victorious.[25]
These lackluster results caused SoSP's funding to dry up, and the organization became virtually inactive. In May 2012, Matthew Vadum reported: "The Secretary of State Project's website, secstateproject.org, is currently offline after vanishing from the Internet in July of last year…. [I]ts Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Twitter account [have not] been updated since 2010. The group hasn't endorsed any candidates for the 2012 election cycle and its most recent IRS filings show almost no financial activity since the 2010 election cycle." Then, at the June 2012 "Take Back the American Dream" conference in Washington, DC, SOSP co-founder Michael Kieschnick stated in an interview that while the organization "still exists" on paper, "2010 was terrible so we've switched our efforts."**
[1] http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf
[2] http://www.azsos.gov/info/duties.htm
[3] http://americancourthouse.com/2009/05/13/secretary-of-state-watch.html; http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/02/soros-vote-counters
[4] http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/OH/P/00/
[5] A provisional ballot is used to record a vote when a given voter's eligibility is in question. Whether a provisional ballot is counted is contingent upon the verification of that voter's eligibility. (See: http://www.ncvoter.net/provisional.html)
[6] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota
[7] http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-30.htm
[8] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15105.html
[9] http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf
[10] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota
[11] http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-08-16-secretary-state-democrats_x.htm
[12] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15105.html
[13] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota
[14] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota
[15] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/28/politics/main4483617.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4483617
[16] http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/09/12/payday13.html
[17] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/washington/18scotus.html
[18] http://www.startribune.com/politics/34306799.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiU
[19] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota
[20] http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/11/mark-ritchie-file-2-minnesota-sos.html
[21] http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Mark_Ritchie
[22] http://forms.irs.gov/politicalOrgsSearch/search/Print.action?formId=32217&formType=E72
[23] http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota/print
[24] http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/14/fighting-frankenstein/print ; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365063352229680.html?KEYWORDS=JOHN+FUND
[25] http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/09/soros-supported-secretary-of-state-project-dealt-blow-in-midterm-elections/
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Repercussions from Greece's financial troubles are affecting countries far from the Mediterranean. Not only are Spain and Italy struggling with the possibility that a Greek exit from the euro could doom their efforts to contain their own debt, Ireland worries that all it has done so far will be in vain. Farther afield, the possibility of contagion has caused growth in Asian economies to slow. Japan wrestles with its own fiscal woes, and "doomsday" scenarios induced by the Fukushima disaster are fueling capital flight.
Reuters reported Tuesday that thus far the eurozone's efforts to contain the debt crisis are not stout enough to prevent the spread of bank runs from one country in the bloc to another. The lack of a strong enough backstop to stop such actions by depositors could threaten the entire eurozone and have repercussions far beyond the 17 nations that make it up.
Already, wealthy Greeks have begun to drain accounts and send funds to banks and investments they consider safer than Greece's own. But they are not alone, as Italians and Spanish move their money beyond their countries' borders. According to financial advisors, the main beneficiaries of these tactics are institutions in Geneva, London and Frankfurt.
"It's been an ongoing process, but it certainly picked up pace a couple of weeks ago. We believe there is a continuous 2-to-3-year bank run by wire transfer," Lorne Baring, managing director at B Capital, a Geneva-based pan-European wealth management firm, was quoted saying in the report. He added, "Where there is liquidity it is moving to the safest part of Europe and the perceived safest part of Europe is in the north … It's a no-brainer."
But not all of the northern eurozone is safe, if indeed any of it is. Ireland is watching the proceedings and dreading that a Greek exit could make all its suffering under strict austerity for naught. The country's borrowing costs have already increased on both short- and long-term bonds.
Ian Martin, a supplier of first aid and hygiene products to Irish companies, had felt that the country's economy was beginning to recharge. However, the threat of a Greek exit from the euro and the chaos that would ensue have him worried.
In the report, Martin said, "I think if there is a major crisis, people will literally stop spending money. That little bit of confidence that was coming back will be gone. It is the last thing we need, we have done as we're told and we're still not really coming out of it. It would really just be a further nail in the coffin."
In a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase estimated that a drop of a single percent in the economy of the eurozone would depress growth in other nations by 0.7%. Countries that export, from Britain to China, would see their business fall and Russia would see falling prices on commodities, including oil. Even though economists and analysts are still divided on the likelihood and possible timing of a Greek exit from the joint currency, China International Capital Corp. (CICC) economists said in a report last week that a Greek exit could drive China's expansion down to 6.4% in 2012, from 2011's 9.2%, should policymakers fail to take effective action and if international growth drops by just half as much as it did during the crisis of 2008-2009.
China sends 19% of its exports to the European Union. CICC projected that a Greek departure could mean a drop of 3.9% in exports this year, compared with an increase of 10% if Greece remains in the eurozone.
Robert Prior-Wandesforde, Singapore-based director of Asian economics at Credit Suisse, was quoted saying in a report that a euro-region crisis would also mean that a "renewed, deep recession would be highly likely in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea." He calculated that exports to the euro zone account for more than 5% of total GDP in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. He also said that in 2011, more than 6% of total domestic bank lending in Singapore, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines was from the euro area.
Japan, meanwhile, faces its own problems, not the least of which is the prospect of a drop in business because of a possible Greek exit. According to a Tuesday Reuters report, it is experiencing its own capital flight, with residents worried over everything from taxes and the size of the public debt to further fallout, both literal and figurative, from the Fukushima disaster in March 2011.
Currently, in keeping with the escalation of this doom-and-gloom trend, one of the hottest-selling business books in the country is titled Escape from Japan. Publishers have taken note, and ballooning offerings of books that provide advice on moving money out of the country, opening foreign bank accounts and changing currencies vie with those offering information on how to buy property abroad.
Younger people and the middle class are increasingly moving their money and buying second homes abroad in places like New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore. According to the Malaysian Tourism Ministry, Japan outpaced Iran in 2011 in applying for the most Malaysian second-home visas. As of this March, Japan was still in the lead.
"A lot of people tell me they are worried about nuclear radiation," Hiroshi Kosaka, a real estate agent, was quoted saying in the report. "People also tell me they are worried about an economic disaster in Japan. Since November, I've helped around 25 people buy condominiums at a development in Malaysia. I would classify only three of these people as rich." He is not the only one to see business take off; Yusuke Nozaki, chief executive of Nozaki Asset Management, specializes in New Zealand properties. Nozaki said in the report that his business has exploded, with staff tripling. Nozaki was quoted saying, "I don't expect this growth to slow."
Many of the inquiries about buying property in other countries come from housewives, said Nozaki. They reason that they can take their children and move out of the country, with their husbands following later—even if the move turns out to be temporary.
Although it is just a drop in the bucket, considering the Japanese penchant for savings, the Bank of Japan reported that in Q4 of 2011 households invested 578 billion yen ($7.28 billion) in foreign securities; this was the first outflow in two quarters. However, the overall total of household savings is 15 trillion yen.
Still, if the trend continues, according to Masayuki Kichikawa, chief Japan economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, "The government would be worrying about this the most because they would lose tax revenue. Flows out of the banking sector would mean banks have less capacity to invest in Japanese government debt, so we would see higher yields."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Many TV shows have dispassionate origins, recycling a well-worn format or piggybacking on a trend. But the roots of "Doc McStuffins," an animated program for children ages 2 to 7, are downright maternal.
Chris Nee, creator of the series debuting Friday on the Disney Channel and on the new 24-hour Disney Junior channel, wanted to ease her toddler son's experience with doctors and hospitals after he was diagnosed with asthma.
"It was me as a mom, more than as a writer first, saying, 'What can I do to make this better for him?"' Nee recalled.
The result is a fanciful, music-filled show ("Wash Your Hands" is among the original songs) about Doc (voiced by Kiara Muhammad), a girl who converses with her stuffed animals and toys and treats their scratches, sniffles and whatever ails them.
Doc and her pals share tips about staying healthy and offering care and compassion to others. The show also attempts to demystify what happens in a doctor's office to make visits less scary for its audience.
Among those in the cast: Loretta Devine as a reliably competent plush hippo named Hallie. Ty Burrell ("Modern Family") is a guest actor in the debut episode, voicing a jack-in-the-box dad who takes his son for a checkup.
Nee, who received a prestigious Humanitas Award for an episode of Bill Cosby's Daytime Emmy Award-winning "Little Bill," intends "Doc McStuffins" to be spirited as well as heartfelt.
"It's got a different flavor than usual in the (TV) preschool world," she said, offering kid-friendly humor with a touch of sophistication and bold characters that Nee said harken back to those that she enjoyed on "Sesame Street" as a child.
There is, for instance, a snowman who's a hypochondriac on the series (produced by Dublin-based Brown Bag Films and the Disney Channel).
"Kids love that character. They don't understand the full implications but they find it really funny," said Nee, who sees value in aiming a bit over a young viewer's head.
"We know kids are watching shows over and over again. Trying to create shows so that a kid gets every moment on the first viewing is shortchanging them," she said.
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