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I've been on holiday! It is becoming a tradition that each Christmas my wife and I go up into the White Mountains for a few days. Though New Hampshire is a small state, the North country and the South Country are pretty different (as we're often reminded by those that live in the North). You can cut the state in half and vary the temperature by 10 degrees. Life is different there, including living in the lower elevations of the northern Appalachian Mountains. It's a great time, though this year absent snow. We are expecting a blizzard to hit tonight, so that should make up for it. Of course, it was supposed to start snowing 2 1/2 hours ago, so who knows if that will actually materialize.
If you're ever in North Conway, consider staying at the Wyatt House Bed & Breakfast. They were great to us. The food was delicious. And it's ideally situated.
While I was there, Jen too copious amounts of naps, more than usual, which gave me the writing time I needed to wrap up JH and send it off to beta readers. That number is down to two, now, which is disappointing. But people have lives and it's the holidays, so I understand.
I had thought to maybe spend a few weeks reading. I'm going to put attention to finishing Tad Williams' SHADOWHEART. I finished MOCKINGJAY yesterday. It was good, but I don't think it was worth the hype that it got. The ending averted being a disaster and ended up being just okay. The whole trilogy almost seems like it was written just to show which boy the character will choose, which is interesting for all of five pages, not three books.
As for me, spending time reading is turning into prep work for writing THE 7TH SACRIFICE (I've officially changed its name to be 7TH instead of SEVENTH).
For starters, I'm no longer calling the counties the counties. I originally conceived this story between writing WANTED: CHOSEN ONE and THE TRIAD SOCIETY. The former puts a lot of focus on duchies and a king. The latter puts more focus on counties. For 7Sac, I had wanted to use counties as a regional boundary because so often people focus on duchies or kingdoms and I like that county is still a word we use today. When I abandoned my first attempt at 7Sac, that bled over to TTS. The problem is, now TTS is a finished novel and the possible first in a trilogy, so using counties again seems like beating a dead horse.
I went horseback riding on my vacation. The farm was 77 acres of an original 1000 acreage granted to the owner's family in 1771 by King George III. Yup, I went horseback riding on a 239-year-old farm. New England is awesome. This made me tweak things a bit.
Basic breakdown. "The Kingdom" is where this takes place. The Kingdom is broken into four areas, originally called counties. Each of these counts claimed the thrown after the king died under mysterious circumstances. That's getting modified. The counties are acreages. Acreage is a little cumbersome to say. I was watching "Valhalla Rising" yesterday (disembowelment on Christmas!) and they calls Mads a terror from the southerlands. Well isn't that nifty. You always hear highlands or lowlands or East and West or what have you. Hell, I even used Southerland in TTS as Soderland (German), but this feels different. The acreages are delineated by compass.
Cumberland Acreage, the Westerlands
Arostook Acreage, the Northerlands
Somerset Acreage, the Easterlands
Kennebec Acreage, the Southerlands
Now, instead of counts, each of the Acreages is rules by a prince or princess, with Cumberland being home to the Crown Prince and rightful heir. The rest claim he assassinated their father and thus forfeited the throne. Each of them now call himself/herself King/Queen, but most just refer to them as the Pretenders (a term I made the first time around that was used much less).
I also used Tinkers in JEHOVAH'S HITLIST, so it wouldn't do to include them again in 7Sac. But I love the tinkers I've created, so really I'm just changing the name since the two types of tinkers were completely different. Now they'll be called Peddlers.
One thing that's getting dropped all together is the varying naming structures. Each county represented a different European culture in terms of naming. I think I'll just stick with Brittany this time as I so often move into other areas of Europe for inspiration. Main character's name is Cheshire, after all, and don't want to change that. So it wouldn't make sense if everyone else had a Russian name.
The visuals in "Valhalla Rising" were pretty amazing, enough to make up for the fact the story (there was a story?) made no sense whatsoever. Quite inspirational. Gave me a lot of ideas on description for the Four Corners, where the four acreages meet and where the abandoned royal palace still stands. I had thought to write the description here, but I'm not in the mood any more, so I'll save that for next time.
Hope you all had an enjoyable week while I was away. Time to get back to work. :)
(Oooo, and I got a Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock t-shirt in my stocking! Woo hoo!)
(And a titanium spork!!!!)
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The Effects of Music Intervention on Patients during Epidural Block Procedures
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My drawing was inspired by the research of Anne Marie O'Toole at the Clevelend Clinic. Her research was based upon music as medicine, and how a familiar or touching melody could help release someone from his or her condition. My goal was to portray this study as detailed and as relatable as possible. The girl is the focal point in the composition. Her poise demonstrates the elevating effect music has on her once restricted body. The things that once repressed her, the wheelchair and the hospital gown, are drawn without color. However, she is enlightened from the music, and her vigor is restored. The subject of the drawing is young, making her relatable to students. This allows fellow students, like myself, to comprehend the healing powers music has as a medicine.
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The artwork I have created was inspired by the research of Anne Marie O'Toole and illustrates her topic of music as medicine. She researched the effect of musical therapy for patients with chronic and acute pain. Music that calmed seemed most effective and because the patient was calm, less medicine needed to be used. Upon my canvas, a classical piece of music has been painted to demonstrate the enjoyable, comforting experience one goes through while undergoing "musical sedation." The actual ledger lines of the music are constructed with pill bottles and the musical notes are their caps, literally showing music and medicine going hand in hand. Not only is that apparent, but the use of pill bottles shows that medicine is not going to waste, but to a better cause.
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Leave No Trace Climbing Ethic
Climbing has become very popular. There are lots of climbers at the crags these days. We need to practice a Leave No Trace climbing ethic to reduce our impact on fragile climbing areas. Follow these guidelines from The Access Fund to protect climbing areas.
All About Belaying
Belaying, the process of one climber managing and holding the rope for another person climbing, is an essential rock climbing skill that every climber needs to know. Learn here what belaying is and the 3 factors needed for a safe belay.
Moving Over Stone
Climbing is all about movement. It's about learning to use your hands and feet to ascend vertical rock faces. It's about the specialized techniques used in face climbing and crack climbing. Climbing is a natural human activity. Learn the basics here about moving over stone.
All About Rappelling
Rappelling is a climbing technique that allows you to do a controlled descent down a rope from a cliff or mountain. Learn here all about rappelling and the essential climbing skills you need to learn to safely rappel.
All About Bouldering
Bouldering, the discipline of rock climbing on small cliffs and boulders, celebrates the joy of movement over stone. Bouldering is all about movement, of climbing with purity and simplicity and without a rope and protective gear. Bouldering is simply you and the rock. Learn all about bouldering here.
Climb Fast Climb More
Climbing fast makes you a better climber. You improve your technique and climb more efficiently. Your rope management skills improve. You get stronger and have more endurance. And you get more climbing in every day. Learn here about learning to speed climb.
Top-Rope Climbing Basics
Top-rope climbing is all about fun. It's also safe and doesn't require a huge amount of gear. Learn here about top-rope climbing--the necessary equipment; the needed climbing skills; and how to create safe anchors.
Let's Go Sport Climbing
Sport climbing, the pursuit of bolt-protected gymnastic climbing, offers the rewards of rock climbing without a lot of the risks. Learn here what sport climbing is and what skills you need to get out on the rocks.
Slab Climbing is Fun and Teaches Footwork
Slab climbing is ascending rock faces that are angled less than vertical. To learn how to climb slabs, you need to use good footwork, learn to read the rock, and keep a cool head. Find out the most important parts of slab climbing and the best places to climbs slabs in the United States.
Learn to Read the Rock and Use Your Feet
If you want to become a better slab climber or even just a better all-around climber, then you have to learn how to read the rock surface and how to use your feet better. Learn here how to read the nuances of the rock surface, how to find the best footholds, how to move upward more quickly and efficiently, and how to place your feet with precision and exactness on small footholds.
Basic Rock Scrambling
The easiest way to start climbing is to learn how to scramble, which is simply climbing easy rock that doesn't require the use of a rope or technical climbing equipment. Learn here about all the basic climbing and mountaineering skills required to become a safe and proficient scrambler as well as safety suggestions and when to use a rope.
Six Rock Scrambling Skills
If you climb mountains then you have to learn basic rock climbing moves when you're scrambling over exposed rocky sections without a rope. Use six basic climbing skills to improve your scrambling and to stay safe in the mountains.
Six Performance Climbing Tips
Use these six climbing movement tips to improve your performance on the rocks. Learn about properly using your feet, legs, and hands; how to make basic climbing strategies; and how to be one with the rock. Read them, practice them, and get climbing.
Crampon Safety
Crampons are essential equipment for climbing snow and ice in the mountains but they are also dangerous. Think about it...you're walking around with 24 sharp metal points on the soles of your boots. Crampons can gash, jab, and trip you when you're climbing. Learn 5 tips to use crampons safely.
Learn to Crack Climb
Crack climbing is the basic technique used by rock climbers to ascend or jam cracks in cliff faces. Learn what crack climbing and jamming is all about; types of cracks; and how to learn how to jam cracks.
Practice Jamming to Climb Cracks
Crack climbing, also called jamming, is a learned climbing technique. The best way to learn how to jam cracks is to practice jamming at your local cliff. Read more about how to learn how to crack climb by practicing jam cracks and finding a crack mentor to help you jam better and higher.
Cracks Form Natural Climbing Routes
Cracks form natural weaknesses in rock faces that rock climbers ascend by jamming or wedging their hands, fingers, and bodies in the cracks. Learn about all the different sizes of cracks, how the difficulty ratings of crack climbs are body-size dependent, and how crack climbs are rated.
Learn How to Hand Jam
Learn how to climb hand cracks (cracks the width of your hand) by using hand jams and good footwork. Hand cracks are the best cracks to learn how to crack climb since they offer tbe easiest and most secure jams.
3 Types of Rock Faces for Climbing -- Slab, Vertical, and Overhanging Faces
There are 3 types of rock faces you'll encounter when you're rock climbing — slabs, vertical faces, and overhanging faces. Find out about these faces, how to climb them, and America's best areas for each type.
Two Important Belaying Rules
Belaying is one of the most serious climbing skills that you learn and use when you go rock climbing. Follow these two important belaying rules--Pay Attention and Don't Let Go--and keep your climbing partner safe if they fall.
Learn to Belay in a Gym
The best place to learn how to belay is at an indoor climbing gym in a controlled setting. At a gym you can take a class in belaying or have one of the gym staff give you a belay lesson. Then practice belaying in the gym until you are competent and safe. After that you can venture outside and belay your partner on top-rope climbs.
Rock Climbing Skills
Climbing is a skill-based activity. Learn rock climbing skills and techniques so that you can climb faster, safer, and have more fun. Learn climbing skills including how to belay and rappel; how to create equalized anchors for belays and protection; how to lead climb and top-rope; how to face climb and jam cracks; how to speed climb and move...
Raptor and Wildlife Cliff Closures
Climbers, like birds of prey, like high places. Cliffs, crags, and mountains provide important wildlife habitat, so many climbing areas have seasonal closures to protect nesting birds and other animals. Find out more about wildlife closures at American climbing areas and where to find a list of closed areas.
Emergency Info Planner Card
Before you go climbing, fill out an Emergency Info Planner card and leave it with a family member or friend so that they know your climbing plans and when they should call search-and-rescue services if you're overdue home.
Use Colored Chalk to Leave No Trace
White climbing chalk leaves unsightly blotches on the surface of cliffs and boulders, as well as damages the rock surface. Many climbing areas, including most national parks, require climbers to use colored chalk which matches the color of the rock. Find out more about colored chalk and how to Leave No Trace of your passage when you're climbing.
All About Indoor Climbing
What's the easiest way to learn how to climb? Go to an indoor climbing gym. The weather is always good. There's lots of terrain to climb around on. You can meet new partners and friends. And you will learn basic climbing skills and how to move across the vertical world. Learn more about indoor rock climbing here.
Avoid Climbing Injuries by Climbing Smart
Climbing is a physical sport so you can injure your fingers, elbows, and shoulders if you're not careful when you climb and train. Most climbing injuries are due to overuse and to accident. Learn how to avoid climbing injuries from overuse and what to do if are injured rock climbing by following my smart climbing tips.
Climbing Style and Ethics
The style that we climb a route or mountain is often more important than getting to the top. Learn about climbing style and ethics, why equipment and technology makes climbing easier, and why adding fixed gear like bolts to routes can bring them to a lower level.
Practice Climbing Footwork at Indoor Gyms
It's easy to lose your footwork when climbing at indoor gyms. All the holds are usually big or positive so you can get by with sloppy feet. Follow these 8 tips to improve your climbing footwork by practicing in your local indoor gym so you can keep your best foot forward out on the rocks.
Dynamic Moves: Dynos and Deadpoints
Dynamic movements—dynos and deadpoints—are essential to modern climbing and getting up hard routes and boulder problems. Learn what a dyno is; how to perform dyno and deadpoint moves; how to practice dynos; and why dynamic moves are important.
Learn to Climb Outside
If you learned to climb in an indoor gym, you need to get outside climbing on real rock. The best way to learn to safely climb outside is to take a climbing class or take lessons from an experienced guide. Here's the low-down on climbing guide services and how to pick the right climbing guide for your outdoor adventures.
All About Canyoneering
Canyoneering is the sport of descending down narrow rocky canyons, usually using technical rock climbing skills, like rappelling and rigging anchors, as well as scrambling, down-climbing, swimming, wading, and hiking. Find out more about canyoneering; how it differs from rock climbing; and how to find canyoneering adventures.
Traditional Climbing is Adventure Climbing
Traditional or trad climbing is all about adventure. Trad climbing is starting at the base of a cliff and climbing to the top, placing your own equipment for protection, creating belay anchors, finding the best route, and having a great adventure. Learn more about traditional climbing skills and how it differs from sport climbing
5 Ways to Die Climbing
Climbing is a dangerous activity. The good news, however, is that most climbing accidents and deaths are preventable since they are caused by human errors. Learn about the 5 ways that most climbers die--lead climbing falls, loose rock and rockfall, solo climbing without a rope, rappelling, and in bad weather and lightning--and how to prevent becoming a climbing statistic by following basic safety tips and using good judgment.
3 Types of Rock for Climbing: Granite, Sandstone & Limestone
Climbers become intimate with different types of rock, discovering that the characteristics of different rocks creates different climbing experiences. Three of the main rocks for climbing--granite, sandstone, and limestone--are some of the best and most common rock mediums for climbers to practice their vertical sport. Find out more about these 3 rock types, how they were formed; the characteristics that allow climbers to ascend them; and their main exposures at American climbing areas.
All About Climbing Chimneys
Learn all about chimneys and how to climb them. Chimneys are simply cracks that are wide enough for you to fit your body inside. Learn what kind of chimneys you will find on cliffs and the best way to climb chimneys.
How to Toss Rappel Ropes
It is important to learn how to properly and safely toss your rappel ropes off from the top of a cliff. If you do it wrong you can end up with rope tangles, your rope snagged on flakes and in cracks, and a big mess. Learn how to properly coil and toss your rappel rope and be a happy climber.
All About Aid Climbing
Aid climbing is the discipline of ascending rock faces by using equipment and technology to climb upward rather than hands and feet. An aid climber places gear in the rock and moves upward my standing in aiders or webbing ladders, creating a vertical path. Learn all about aid climbing and how to get started.
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins, originally published in 1971, was once the best how-to-rock-climb book available. While some sections of the book are now dramatically out-dated, this classic book by an American master climber, offers lots of insights into the development of the Yosemite-style of climbing as well as Robbins' thoughts on...
Big Wall Climbing and Training Tips
You want to climb a big wall in Yosemite or Zion? Here's everything you need to know to prepare yourself for the hardest but best climb of your climbing career, including how to get in shape, improve your aid and crack climbing skills, learn to create anchors and haul the pig, how to ascend ropes and clean pitches, and how to prepare yourself...
Backpacker Books from FalconGuides
Review of a book series on outdoor skills for backpackers, hikers, and climbers, published by FalconGuides and Backpacker Magazine, that are great pocket-sized books full of useful, practical, and portable information about a wide variety of outdoor topics, including using GPS, travel in bear country, outdoor survival, outdoor hazards,...
Ascenders: Essential Climbing Equipment
Ascenders, mechanical devices used to ascend a fixed rope, are an essential piece of equipment used for climbing big walls and followoing aid routes. Learn all about ascenders, which ascenders you need for rock climbing, and important safety tips to follow when you are using ascenders.
Take Better Climbing Photos
Climbing is one of the most photogenic sports. Find out about climbing photography and how to make better photos of your climbing and mountaineering experiences from climbing guide Stewart Green, a long-time professional adventure photographer.
How to Find and Use Climbing Rests
Finding and using rests while you're rock climbing is just as important as the moves you make using handholds and footholds. Learn all about rests, what a resting point is on a climb, and a couple basic rest techniques to help you rest and recover if you get pumped climbing.
Do I have to be strong to go rock climbing?
"How strong do I have to be to go rock climbing?" is a frequently asked question (FAQ) about climbing. The answer is "Not very strong." Read my long answer to find out why economical climbing movement and good technique is more important than strength when you're rock climbing.
Use Climbing Hand Signals to Communicate
How Can I Rock Climb if Im Afraid of Heights?
"How can I go rock climbing if Im afraid of heights?" is a frequently asked question (FAQ) about climbing by beginners. The answer is "Everyone is afraid of heights because it helps us survive but you can get over that fear." Read my long answer to find out why we're afraid of heights and some tips on getting over a fear of high places.
Your Personal Trad Climbing Gear
4 Ways to Descend Cliffs and Mountains
Once you climb to the top of a mountain or cliff, you need to get back down safely and efficiently. Climbers descend off cliffs and mountains in four different ways--hiking down, downclimbing, rappelling, and lowering. Learn more about the four types of descents and how to evaluate terrain for the proper descent.
Basics of Indoor Gym Climbing
If you want to learn how to rock climb there is no better place to start than at an indoor climbing gym. Find out about types of gyms, what to expect when you climb indoors, some safety tips, and how to avoid injury when you climb in the great indoors.
Do Climbers Get Doped Up to Rope Up?
Do climbers use performance-enhancing drugs like steroids to help their performance on hard routes and at competitions? With climbing being considered as a future Olympic sport, it's important to consider drug testing to create a level climbing wall.
Energy Bars and Foods are Ideal for Climbing Nutrition
Energy foods and drinks, including energy bars, are an ideal food to take climbing and mountaineering. Energy bars are easy to carry, don't get damaged, last a long time, and have lots of nutrition. Read more about eating for climbing performance and energy foods.
How Many Climbers are in the United States?
How many climbers are in the United States? A 2012 study and survey details how many sport and traditional climbers are in the US and compares them to previous years. The results are surprising. Are there more or less climbers than you think? Read and find out...
Take Your Kids Rock Climbing
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The antiparticle that corresponds to an electron. Also called antielectron.
The antiparticle for an electron; it has the same mass as an electron, but carries a positive charge.
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The shoot for the year 2006's biggest movie AVM's "Sivaji", starring Rajnikanth and directed by Shankar, is going on at a brisk pace. A 12-day schedule has just been completed during which a song tuned by A. R. Rahman was picturised on Rajni and ...
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The main problem, among a handful, with the three-quel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is that if you're a big fan of the series, then you already know EVERYTHING about the flick! If you were paying close attention to the Act III back-story that's doled out in the original Underworld, then you've already heard the story about the First Werewolf (Lucian) and how he fell in love with the daughter (Sonja) of the Vampire Lord (Viktor) and how that forbidden combination ultimately led to a centuries-old mega-battle between the forces of bloodsucker and man-wolves. So as far as surprises go, Underworld 3 (being not only a prequel, but also a feature-length version of a 5-minute flashback sequence) doesn't have all that many surprises. Except one, perhaps: It's actually kind of fun.
As an unapologetic supporter of the first Underworld, and as a semi-fan of the undercooked Underworld: Evolution, I walked into the prequel more than prepared to judge the flick as just a basic weekend afternoon matinee. And by that standard, which I'll admit is a pretty charitable one, this third iteration of the Vamps vs. Wolves saga is actually pretty fun. The key this time around is that we have a very basic story (which, again, we've been lectured on once before) and since the flick takes place IN the backstory, we're spared a lot of the "legacy this" and "prophecy that" stuff that slows down both of the previous Underworld adventures.
And since we're dealing with much of the same cast and crew from the earlier films, Rise of the Lycans is all but awash in those things that the loyal fans are craving: Pulpy, florid, colorful dialog; lots of very attractive non-humans who strut around with muscles bared and hips all slinky, a handful of actors well aware of the type of movie they're making, special effects that range from quaintly corny to surprisingly nifty; and lots of butt-kickin' (if over-edited) action sequences in which vampires in leather battle with musclebound wolf-men. The plot -- that vampires created "Lycans" as slave labor but eventually live to regret it...and how -- is just enough to keep your eyes open during the talky bits, but if the first two flicks were a bit over-plotted (and I'd contend they were) then this one succeeds on simple efficiency.
Taking over the lead role from Kate Beckinsale (although they play totally different characters) is the rather similar Rhona Mitra. Perhaps Ms. Beckinsale just got tired of swinging all the swords and bouncing on all those wires, but (as Doomsday capably proved) Ms. Mitra can certainly carry a comic-booky action flick through the combined power of bad-ass attitude and fanboy-friendly sexiness. But those who'll walk out of Underworld 3 the happiest are those who adore the British character actor Bill Nighy, and would simply love to see him chew his fangs through the scenery for 90-some minutes. Some would bemoan the fact that such a classy actor is "stuck" doing such broad material, but for someone who grew up enjoying the gothic theatricality of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, I say Nighy's having a damn good time playing Mega-Evil Vamp-Lord. And he leaps into the villainy with a palpable sense of enthusiasm. Oscar material? No. A good actor having some infectious fun? Damn straight.
Despite the fact that you probably know every plot point before it's delivered, the long-standing fans of this series should take to Rise of the Lycans with a small sense of pleasant surprise. Obviously the novelty of "vamps vs. werewolves" has waned since the first movie hit the scene, but if the producers choose to keep delivering popcorn flicks on this level, I'd be fine with one or two more trips to the Underworld. But I wouldn't mind a few surprises the next time out.


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Seeing as I'm one of the true fantasy geeks at the News, I figured it was about time I made an appearance on this blog. My fantasy hoop team is holding on to first in the News league. Last night, I had the pleasure of watching one of my guys, Nate Robinson, carry the Knicks over the Spurs in overtime. Robinson -- ""The Champ'' -- has become my favorite NBA player.
But have you NBA fantasy types been watching Kevin Durant lately? The second-year pro has been blowing up lately for Oklahoma City. Durant had 47 points last night and over the last 14 games, he's averaging 32.1 points a game. He's now a superstar-caliber scorer. Durant was criticized for being a little soft when he came out of Texas, but he's doing a nice job of getting to the line. He has averaged over eight points from the line during that recent run. Durant has shot 87 percent from the line (117-135) over those 14 games. Wow. And the Thunder just traded for Tyson Chandler, so don't be surprised if they make a big jump next year in the West. --- Jerry Sullivan


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Green light for Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm
(Oslo, 1 July 2014) Statoil and Statkraft have decided to start building the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk, UK. The project aims for full production in late 2017.
Statkraft sells hydropower assets in Finland
(Oslo, 27 June 2014) Statkraft has entered into an agreement with a Finnish consortium for the sale of hydropower assets in Finland. Statkraft receives a fee of approx. NOK 2.0 billion. The accounting gain is approx. NOK 1.2 billion.
Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm awarded Contract for Difference
DECC has announced today that Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm – which is jointly owned by Statkraft and Statoil – has been awarded a Contract for Difference.
Joint wind power venture established on Fosen
The four Norwegian energy companies Statkraft, NTE, Agder Energi, and TrønderEnergi have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture to develop and operate three of nine licensed wind energy projects on the coast of the Trøndelag counties.
Result for the fourth quarter of 2013: Solid quarterly result
(Oslo, 13 February 2014) In the fourth quarter of 2013, Statkraft posted an underlying op-erating profit before depreciation (EBITDA) of NOK 3843 million, an improvement of NOK 326 million compared with the corresponding quarter in 2012.
CFO Jens Bjørn Staff leaves Statkraft
(Oslo, 6 February 2014) Jens Bjørn Staff has resigned his position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Statkraft. Staff has been appointed CFO of Orkla ASA.
Climate initiative mobilising young leaders
(Davos/Oslo 24.01.14) World Economic Forum has launched an initiative to mobilise young leaders to contribute to climate solutions, with Statkraft on the lead. The Norwegian Crown Prince Couple and young leaders from several countries attended the launch.
Statkraft donates NOK 1 million to Red Cross Norway's relief work in the Philippines
(Oslo, November 12, 2013) Statkraft donates NOK 1 million to relief work after the typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The money will be canalized through Red Cross Norway in which Statkraft already has a cooperation agreement with. Statkraft has operations in several Asian countries, including the Philippines through its subsidiary SN Power.
Statkraft AS: BKK negotiations ended
(Oslo 11 November 2013) The letter of intent from 24 January between Bergenhalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK), Haugaland Kraft, Sunnhordland Kraftlag (SKL), Sognekraft and Statkraft has been has been terminated. It has not been possible to reach agreement as regards the value of the assets involved, and the efforts to achieve an agreement based on the intention to implement changes in the ownership structure of BKK and power plants in western Norway have therefore come to an end.
Result for the third quarter of 2013: Solid operating profit
(Oslo, 7 November 2013) In the third quarter of 2013, Statkraft achieved an underlying1 operating profit before depreciation (EBITDA) of NOK 1867 million, an improvement of NOK 614 million compared with the corresponding quarter in 2012. Unrealised currency effects resulted in a net loss of NOK 1681 million, compared with a profit of NOK 638 million in the third quarter of 2012.


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Angle encoder has a functional safety setting
Heidenhain's RCN Series now features a functional safety setting that generates absolute position values and error bits in a safe control while maintaining a secure connection between the shaft and encoder.
Heidenhain's RCN Series of absolute angle encoders now has a functional safety setting that are part of an immediate machine shut-off process in case of machine or component malfunction.
With a Functional Safety RCN angle encoder, two independent absolute position values and error bits are generated for evaluation in a safe control. To ensure a secure connection between the shaft and the encoder during operation, an additional feature on the rotor has been added to be used when mounting a RCN.
The angle encoders have integral bearing and hollow shaft provide high accuracy, reliable position and speed control through use on rotary tables, tilting axes and direct drives.
The RCN Series of angle encoders have strong mounting tolerances, optimized new scanning, and evaluation electronics with diagnostic functions, plug-in cables with quick disconnect at the encoder, and a variety of hollow shaft diameters. The Functional Safety component is now a part of RCN 2000, 5000, and 8000 with EnDat 2.2 and Drive CliQ interfaces.
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Customers are permitted to choose an alternative generation supplier under New Jersey's Energy Choice Program. However, the following tips may help customers avoid sharing information with a third-party who is fraudulently representing him or herself:
- JCP&L employees and contractors do not engage in telemarketing or door-to-door sales for the purpose of encouraging residential customers to switch energy suppliers.
- JCP&L employees do not ask for sensitive information such as social security numbers or bank account numbers. In addition, JCP&L employees do not ask customers to provide a copy of their electric bill.
- Virtually all visits to customer homes by company representatives or contractors are prearranged by the customer or through a call to the customer.
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- If customers have any doubts about a caller or visitor claiming to represent JCP&L or FirstEnergy, or about the information they are being asked to provide, they can call JCP&L at 1-800-662-3115 for verification. If the caller or visitor is a scammer, customers should contact their local police department to report the fraud..
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Nickelodeon Yanks Legend Of Korra Off TV, Shoves It Online
Y'know just today my whole family sat back to enjoy the last few episodes of Legend of Korra on our Tivo and EVERY time commercials showed up I repeated out-loud 'thank god my kids don't watch the other Nickelodeon shows' because everything looked like such ridiculous devoid-of-quality crap. Hearing Disney Channel blaring on the tvs in my house bugs me a lot, but compared to most Nickelodeon shows, they are AMC (wait, does Disney own AMC yet? I need to do some Walking Dead pin swapping!). I digress.
Legend of Korra, Nickelodeon was beneath you anyway.
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps. We're working on it!
Hiya gang! I was a teeny bit confused by "big-time" on panel 3, so I asked Pete about it. A few of you might be similarly confused so I figured it's best to post the explanation here.
When Shanklin says Bun-bun is on big-time, what he means is that bun-bun's got plenty of people, securing his timeline, and is in no danger of freezing in timeless space. I'd thought that perhaps Big-Time was the original name of the ship that is now called the Bloody Bun, but that's not the case at all. Stupid Thyla.


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The Magic have a chance to win more games than last season, which sounds like a good thing.
Except that, as we know, the 2014 draft class includes some studs at the top of the lottery. Only the biggest losers can get in line for a shot at them.
The Magic finished with the NBA's worst record last season at 20-62, and wound up with the No. 2 pick (Victor Oladipo).
The Magic won their 14th game of 2013-14 on Wednesday night, beating the Detroit Pistons 112-98 at Amway Center. They have the NBA's second-worst record at 14-37.
There are 31 games left – and here's the situation: Twenty of those remaining games are against opponents in the wretched Eastern Conference, including two against the Milwaukee Bucks, who have the league's worst record by a mile.
Seven games of the Magic's games are against teams – Milwaukee (twice), Philadelphia (twice), Cleveland, Utah and the Lakers – who all appear to be in tank mode.
Orlando is now 11-21 against the East.
It could get interesting, especially down the stretch, where the tanking tactics might be comical. Can you call entire teams for flopping?
The Magic, as currently constructed, could win 10 or so more games against such pitiful competition.
Will around 25 wins still get you a good enough seat at the lottery table?
Sounds insane to ask, I know. But this is the climate created by college stars Joel Imbiid, Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker.
The Bucks have just nine wins, so they are probably going to lay claim to the league's worst record and thus have the best shot at the No. 1 pick.
The rest jockeying for top spots could be a free-for-all.
Of course, moves made at the Feb. 20 trade deadline by the Magic and other lottery contenders could add another element to the chase.
But the bottom line is this: The Magic's rebuilding plan since the Dwightmare is to lose and land the best draft picks possible. Let's see how they apply that mission statement as the season winds down.
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Consider this a thread on Barack Obama's speech following his North Carolina primary victory from Raleigh.
Update [2008-5-6 21:37:47 by Todd Beeton]:Again, Obama is taking on the unpatriotic BS head on.
I love this country too much to see it divided and distracted at this critical moment in history. I believe in our ability to perfect this nation because it's the only reason I'm standing here today. I know the promise of America because I've lived it...it is the light of opportunity that led my father across an ocean, it's the founding ideals that the flag draped over my father's coffin stand for. It's life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In this country justice can be won against the greatest odds...and when we are told that we can not bring about the change that we seek, we answer in one voice: Yes we can!


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A group of prominent business leaders from Houston whose companies represent $1.5 trillion in assets has launched an aggressive statewide campaign to overhaul retirement for future law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, judges and other state and local government workers.
In a drastic move that wipes out the contracts of police, firefighters, teachers and other town employees and cut pension checks by as much as 50 percent, the small Rhode Island town of Central Falls, which found itself unable to pay for retiree pensions and health care premiums, has filed for bankruptcy with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston. It is the first city in Rhode Island history, and the fifth city in the United States, to declare bankruptcy. "The current situation is dire," noted Governor Lincoln Chafee. In addition, more savings will be sought through layoffs, cuts to health care benefits and piggybacking with neighboring communities to share some services and costs.
For decades, San Diego used benefits like DROP, retiree health benefits and pensions in place of competitive salaries to recruit and retain police officers. Poorly funded and designed, San Diego found itself with large liabilities due to these programs. Since 2005, the city has either eliminated or modified the majority of these benefits for new employees. Pension costs were shifted onto officers who now pay 13 percent to 19.5 percent of their annual salary to fund their pensions, one of the highest contribution rates in the state.
One of newly-elected California Governor Jerry Brown's first acts when he got settled into his office in Sacramento was to announce he would cut the number of cell phones used by state employees by half. Brown was reportedly shocked when he learned that the State of California was paying for 96,000 cell phones for state employees.
Pay now or pay later. That was essentially the choice faced by both parties as contract negotiations recently wrapped up in Philadelphia between police and the city. An arbitration panel recently awarded a five-year contract to the city police union that provides officers with a 7 percent raise. But the deal includes benefit changes that the city says will save major cash in the long haul. "We face a significant challenge in paying for this contract, but the short-term pain is offset by the long-term gain," Mayor Nutter told reporters during a press conference.The long-term gain for the city amounts to a long-term loss for new police hires.
The "Wills for Heroes" program offers estate planning free of charge for first responders throughout the state, including police officers, firefighters, paramedics and EMTs.
It was created by the State Bar of Wisconsin's pro bono program, in partnership with Foley & Lardner LLP, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, LexisNexis and the State Bar Young Lawyers Division.
A pilot legal clinic was held in Milwaukee last month where members of the Milwaukee Police and Fire Departments and their spouses and partners received assistance in creating wills, financial powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney and living wills.
"Our police and firefighters are always serving the community and doing good things for them; this program allows the community to do something for our public servants," said Mike Tobin, executive director of the City of Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission. "The pilot program was very successful and we are proud to help make this a statewide program for all first responders," he added.
Five dollars will be deducted from the paychecks of those 65 officers until the raises are "paid back."
The decision outraged police union officials who attended the meeting.
"If they do that, I can assure you we will file an unfair labor practice," Greg Stout, president of the Tampa Police Benevolent Association told reporters from the Associated Press. "I don't care if it's a dollar a month. Our hardworking police officers deserve that money."
In Massachusetts, the state's highest court has ruled that Boston failed to bargain in good faith with the city police union when it changed how it pays overtime to officers back in 2002. According to an article by Boston Globe reporter Maria Cramer, the ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected the city's argument.
That argument was basically that federal law allows municipalities to pay overtime only after officers have worked more than 171 hours in 28 days, instead of more than 40 hours over seven days. The ruling means the city will owe hundreds of officers hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime.
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Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland made her third trip to Guatemala over the summer in support of the Nashville-based Shalom Foundation. While in Guatemala, Jennifer and Sugarland documentarian Valarie Allyn Bienas shot footage of the community for an upcoming documentary short.
The Shalom Foundation is a humanitarian aid organization dedicated to providing assistance to children and their families living in extreme poverty. The organization focuses on providing services in four key areas: medical care, nutrition, education and community development.
"I don't want this to be in my words, 'cause it's not my story," Jennifer said of the documentary. "I wanted to interview these people whose lives had been affected. It's their story to tell, and I feel like we are honored by them sharing it. I just want to be the person who goes, 'Listen!'"
In June, Jennifer had the opportunity to visit Shalom's new hospital, The Moore Pediatric Surgery Center in Guatemala City. The hospital's construction was made possible thanks to money collected through Sugarland's four-year practice of donating one dollar per ticket to Shalom. While visiting, Jennifer also renewed friendships with local families receiving housing and education assistance from Shalom.
Jennifer is currently focused on Shalom's Medical Program. She is working with the organization to launch a women's health initiative project and will share more details in the months to come. Jennifer recently had dinner with Bono and the leaders of the ONE Foundation before U2's concert in Nashville, where she was able to discuss the work she is doing with Shalom.
"It was an evening of allowing different people to talk about the causes that they are currently championing, with the hopes that they could cross-pollinate," Jennifer said. "Bono is rocking it. He recognizes the power of one – no pun intended – within a community."
With the upcoming documentary, Jennifer has a simple goal in mind. "I hope to inspire people to action, either in support of Shalom – if they are blessed with the resources – or within another organization that supports their community or the world," she said. "I think ideas are contagious. Wouldn't it be great if something positive caught on and was communicated among people that started a big fire?"
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On average, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn for the same work, according to U.S. government data. That figure was unchanged from about 2000 to 2011, after rising from a level of 60 cents in 1971. The persistence of a gender pay gap means that families are poorer. After all, women's wages account for more than a third of household income, and 34 percent of working moms are the only breadwinner for their entire family.
You might wonder whether women make more money due their personal and lifestyle choices. But an analysis by the American Association of University Women found a pay gap of 5 percent between male and female college graduates in their first year of work, after accounting for college major, occupation, industry, sector, hours worked, workplace flexibility, experience, educational attainment, enrollment status, grade point average, institution selectivity, age, race, ethnicity, region, marital status, and number of children. A similar analysis 10 years after college graduation found a 12 percent unexplained difference in earnings, according to AAUW.
Looking at the full list of state salary statistics, the pay gap for women was worst in Wyoming (67 percent) and best in Washington DC (90 percent). Ranked second through fifth were Vermont, Maryland, Nevada and California. At the bottom of the barrel were Louisiana (second worst) and Utah (third to worst).
Also according to AAUW analysis of government data, the pay gap is the worst for Asian American women, then white, with African American and Hispanic women tied for earning the closest to what African American and Hispanic men earn. However, African Americans and Hispanics earn substantially lower than the other two racial groups, making it a bit of a sour pill to have the most equal pay gap.
International Gender Pay Gap
Looking at all developed countries around the globe, women earn 16 percent less than men working in similar jobs, according to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. Even though young women graduate school with better qualifications than young men, the OECD said, as both genders advance their careers, women's earnings fall behind by 10 percent before they turn 30. The gender pay gap is 7 percent for people without children, but that widens to a 22 percent pay gap between mothers and fathers with at least one child.
Comparing the U.S. gender pay gap to other developed countries, the U.S. falls roughly in the middle. The OECD report put the U.S. pay gap at 19 percent, better than Korea's 39 percent but not as equal as Hungary's 6 percent. The other countries highlighted by the OECD were New Zealand at 7 percent, Norway 8 percent, Belgium 9 percent, Sweden 15 percent, the United Kingdom 18 percent, Germany 22 percent and Japan at 29 percent.
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What a shocker. In November, months after calling it quits on their on-again, off-again engagement, Von D wrote on her Facebook that she "encountered the 19th girl…[that] Jesse cheated on me with." Said Von D of James, who cheated on wife Sandra Bullock: "I deserve a big fat 'I told you so.'"


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Six Republican congressional hopefuls met in Claremore Tuesday night for a debate at Rogers State University.
The debate was sponsored by the Claremore Progress newspaper and KRSU TV. The moderator was Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb. A Republican congressional debate in the 2nd Congressional District has historically been a mere civics lesson, given the lopsided voter registration. The predominantly Democrat district has elected two Republicans in the past century. In 2002, the district was combined with the 3rd Congressional District after Oklahoma lost a congressional seat. The 3rd District was the southeastern part of the state known as "Little Dixie," for its dominant Democrat voter registration. The late Carl Albert represented the former 3rd District for 30 years and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1971 until his retirement in 1977.
With a Democrat president who is largely unpopular in Oklahoma, and the retirement of Rep. Dan Boren who comes from an Oklahoma political dynasty, this congressional race is wide open.
The six candidates appeared at identical podiums and wore almost identical dark suits. Each candidate wore a red tie, or a predominantly red tie.
Dakota Wood is a graduate of the Naval Academy in Anapolis , Md., and served for 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. He lives in Claremore. Wood told he audience that despite the nation's problems, he is optimistic because of Americans and their ideals.
Rep. George Faught is the only elected official in the group. Faught represents parts of Muskogee and Cherokee counties in the state house. He was elected in 2006. Faught owns a carpet-cleaning business. Faught told the audience that Congress has failed to cut spending. Faught said he fought the implementation of a national health care exchange at the state capitol that is part of the planned national health care passed by Congress in 2010.
Mark Wayne Mullin is an entrepreneur who owns several businesses. Mullin is a native of Westville in Adair County. He is a graduate of Stilwell High School. Mullin told the audience that given his background as a businessman, he never thought he would wake up one day and decide to be a congressman.
Wayne Pettigrew is a former state representative from Edmond. He was elected in 1994 and served until 2004. Pettigrew told the audience that he was ranked as one of the most conservative legislators in 20 years by the Oklahoma Constitution newspaper. He graduated from McAlester High School in 1980 and received a degree from East Central University in Ada. Pettigrew stressed his background in financial matters, telling the audience that only 10 percent of Congress has any background in economics.
Dustin Rowe was the youngest elected mayor of Tishomingo at 18. He served two terms. Rowe graduated from East Central University in and received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma. Rowe worked in the Stillwater office for then- Rep. Wes Watkins. Rowe is the Tishomingo town attorney. He said he is running because he is concerned by the level of federal government growth.
Dwayne Thompson is a native of Owasso. He graduated from Northeastern State University and received a master's degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His background is in sales. He pastors a church. Thompson said he is most concerned about the country's drift from its founding principles of civil government and Christianity.
Concerning Social Security, Rowe said he wants to take Social Security off budget so that it cannot be raided by Congress to fund other things. Rowe said that 43 percent of every dollar the government spends is borrowed money and the federal debt is now $15.2 trillion.
On the economy, Pettigrew said President Obama has spent $4 trillion on government jobs that do not create anything to benefit the economy, while killing the Keystone pipeline that would go from Canada through Oklahoma to Texas and produce thousands of jobs. Pettigrew said that there are only two to three years left before the nation goes into economic collapse, should spending not be stopped.
All the candidates support private sector over government involvement.
On social and cultural issues, Thompson said that more local control is needed and less from the federal government. Wood said social and cultural issues are critical, and one way to restore them is to restore the stigma that one-half of the public living off the other half who are working and paying taxes. Wood and Thompson said the nation needs to return to what it means to be American, pushing for assimilation over multi-culturalism.
On military spending as it relates to budget cuts, Wood said the military budget has to be looked at based on necessity and military readiness. He said when the world is more at peace cuts can be made, but when the world situation is unstable cutting the military budget is dangerous. He said he is concerned by the military cuts made by the Obama administration. Faught said his problem with budget votes is that it unconstitutionally takes the power away from Congress and places it in a small committee known as a "Super Committee" to make those cuts.
On illegal immigration, Faught said that amnesty is not the answer. He said that the porous border makes it too easy to come to America illegally and take away American jobs. He suggested one way to solve the problem is to go after businesses that hire illegal aliens. Mullin said he believes the thing to do is make it easier for people to come to the U.S. legally.
On public education, Mullin said the answer is local control. Pettigrew said that the Department of Education didn't even exist until 1979, that he graduated from high school in 1980 and received a great education without that department. Pettigrew said that the education department has a budget of $80 billion and that it has doubled in budget during the Obama administration.
On regulations, Mullin said that 40 cents of every dollar he earns in his businesses is spent complying with regulations.
The greatest threat to the nation, Faught said, is the breakdown of families. Thompson said it is the rise of radical Islam. On the issue of experience, Mullin said his business experience taught him priorities and he dosesn't care who gets the credit, Republican or Democrat. Wood said that having some "fire in the britches" to change things isn't enough, a candidate must understand complex issues.
Pettigrew said that the Community Reinvestment Act must not be reauthorized because it created the "liar loans" that created the housing bubble. He said that 80 percent of the loans have to go to people who are below the median income.
On Indian Nations as it pertains to water rights, Faught said he would work with the Indian tribes on water issues, especially in southeastern Oklahoma, to produce jobs.
Rowe said he is an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation and Congress has an important responsibility to respect tribal sovereignty.
On energy independence, Mullin said, "Drill baby, drill." Mullin said the number of regulations needs to be elimiated that make it more expensive to drill in this country. "We need to get oil from Canada that likes us rather than the Middle East, which has been hostile."
On the presidential candidates, Pettigrew said he likes Rick Perry and Herman Cain and has a little in common with the other candidates although he dislikes Mitt Romney's state health care mandate.
Wood said he likes Rick Santorum as the most genuine candidate and that Newt Gingrich is too erratic.
Thompson said if elected, he would not enact any now legislation because there is enough. Mullin said he would go after regulations. Wood said he would work to defund some of the government initiatives. Pettigrew said he would work to create oversight of the Federal Reserve Board by auditing its books.
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Proof both that fashions are cyclical and that the time frame for nostalgia is growing ever shorter, Terra Diablo is the obvious response to the neo-new wave synth dance bands of the early years of the 2000s: behold the shoegazer revival! Terra Diablo's manager, Jez Hindmarsh, used to be the drummer in Swervedriver, one of the leading lights of the original scene; his old band's influence, alongside contemporaries like the Stone Roses and My Bloody Valentine plus more recent rockers like the Foo Fighters and fellow Glaswegians Mogwai, is all over Terra Diablo's blend of alternately jangling and droning guitars, indie pop tunes, and diffident vocals. Terra Diablo formed in 2000, unsurprisingly by a pair of record store clerks: singers and guitarists Ian Fairclough and Davey McAuley bonded over the LP racks and soon were writing and demoing songs together. Adding bassist Paul Wilson and drummer Davie Calder, Terra Diablo began trudging up the ladder of Glasgow's competitive local music scene. A trio of EPs on various small labels followed, along with tours across the United Kingdom opening for bands like Snow Patrol, which pinched Wilson in 2005 after their bassist Mark McClelland left the band; Wilson's replacement was Stu Mileham. Signing to the indie label Nocturnal Records, Terra Diablo released their self-titled debut album in the fall of 2006, featuring re-recorded versions of all of the group's previous singles. Around that same time, Terra Diablo was in New Orleans, recording their second album with Evanescence producer Jeremy Parker. ~ Stewart MasonPortions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation.
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About the Name of the Method / Cognitive Gains – IQ Results / Origins and History of the Method
A brief history of the evolution from "The Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method" (The Cornerstone Method) to the more precise term: Reflective Network Therapy
Reflective Network Therapy has been widely practiced in therapeutic preschools by Kliman and his colleagues for more than four decades with over 1500 children treated by over 22 teams. Originally developed by Kliman in New York at The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, the method was first dubbed "The Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method". The name "Cornerstone" was originally used to convey "building" the foundations of personality. The first publication using the term "Cornerstone Method" was Kliman, G. (1968) Psychological Emergencies of Childhood, Grune and Stratton, NY. Over the years, it has often been referred to as "The Cornerstone Method" or simply "Cornerstone" by practitioners and in earlier published scientific papers. Dr. Kliman devised the method and began using it with teachers in White Plains New York in 1965, giving emotional support and preventive guidance to parent-bereaved families with very young children and another kind of orphan: foster children.
The phenomenon of children getting intellectually brighter as well as mentally healthier with an in-classroom combination of education and psychotherapy proved to have psychometrically measurable beneficial effects. As the method was applied to children with psychiatric disorders and severe cognitive delays, it soon became clear that traumatized children and children with developmental disorders similarly benefited rapidly.
After the method's forty-four years of evolution and its increasing emphasis on how a network of others cares about, reflects on and responds to each child's thoughts and emotions, with that child and with each other in the child's presence, the name "Reflective Network Therapy" became preferred by our newer therapeutic teams.
The name change also avoids confusion with numerous religious schools which have since sprung up, calling themselves "Cornerstone Schools." Thus, for several reasons, we have transitioned to the more precise term: Reflective Network Therapy.
Throughout this website, any instances of the use of the earlier terms: "Cornerstone" and The Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method" should be considered interchangeable with Reflective Network Therapy. Applied in multiple classroom settings by over twenty teams of teachers and therapists around the country, the essential techniques of the method were ultimately manualized.
Cognitive Gains – IQ Results
Reflective Network Therapy in the Preschool Classroom, Kliman, G. © 2011 − Excerpt
The phenomenon of children getting intellectually brighter as well as mentally healthier with an in-classroom combination of education and psychotherapy began to emerge into my awareness when working in Cornerstone classrooms, around 1965. At first it did not occur to me that there was a psychometrically measurable effect. Christopher Heinicke (1966), working with child in Los Angeles, had published an anecdotal report of an IQ effect a year earlier among four young children treated four times a week, but did not give a description of a replicable methodology or a quantitative account of the IQ gains. Headstart programs had shown IQ gains (summarized by Zigler 1979) The Lovaas method's important findings of IQ rises among autistic children had not yet come along (Lovaas 1987). (See chapter 9 of Reflective Network Therapy In the Preschool Classroom, G. Kliman, 2011 for cost-benefit detail and other advantages of Cornerstone over Lovaas treatment.) It was to be decades before The Wisconsin Early Autism Project (2006), demonstrated that thousands of hours with the Lovaas method over a period of four years produces IQ gains similar to those of much briefer Cornerstone in classroom psychotherapy treatment. Cornerstone treatment regularly produces such results in as little as 8 months, using 15-20 minutes therapy sessions. We have found some therapists were effective using two long sessions a week, but most had to work three to five times a week. In contrast, a much larger number of professional hours is needed using Behavioral Modification methods to obtain similar IQ effects. In that regard, the Wisconsin Lovaas' method data is summarized in the following abstract:
Twenty-four children with autism were randomly assigned to a clinic-directed group, replicating the parameters of the early intensive behavioral treatment developed at UCLA, or to a parent-directed group that received intensive hours but less supervision by equally well-trained supervisors. Outcome after 4 years of treatment, including cognitive, language, adaptive, social, and academic measures, was similar for both groups. After combining groups, we found that 48% of all children showed rapid learning, achieved average post-treatment scores, and at age 7, were succeeding in regular education classrooms. Treatment outcome was best predicted by pretreatment imitation, language, and social responsiveness. These results are consistent with those reported by Lovaas and colleagues (Lovaas, 1987; McEachin, Smith, & Lovaas, 1993).
Twenty years after the method's invention in 1965 and following initial publications about Cornerstone treatment (Kliman, 1968, 1970), Stanley Greenspan's excellent "floortime" method of bringing resistant children into affectionate emotional contact came along (Greenspan 1992). When floortime did come into wider use, it was not considering rises of IQ as one of the outcomes. In fact, that is not surprising. It is quite possible that "floortime" is producing effects which it is not measuring, (as may be the case with other interpersonal therapies. The Cornerstone Method's effect on growth of intelligence, which my psychological colleagues measure by Stanford Binet and Wechsler Preschool Scale of Intelligence IQ tests, started in our Cornerstone nursery school without our noticing the regularity of this result. It happened right under our eyes, almost immediately after we founded the first school in White Plains, New York. In the first class, a mute three year old boy with autism began to speak. Others just seemed smarter, but we didn't start measuring them with IQ tests for another year or two. The regularity of IQ growth as formally measured by psychologists using Stanford Binet and Wechsler Preschool Scale of Intelligence tests was clear enough by 1970 that I assigned psychology interns the task of giving IQ tests regularly to Cornerstone children. In 1974 I began presenting preliminary reports on the IQs of the first 12 twice-tested children. They all showed significant IQ growth. In 1976 I designed and in 1978 I implemented a generously funded NIMH study at the same Center, including in the design and actual project the IQ testing and retesting of the majority of 104 consecutive foster children. They are now included as a comparison group in statistical consideration of outcomes with the Cornerstone twice tested children. Curiously, the reasons for the intern's testings and my presentations themselves, as well as the IQ testing of most of the 104 foster children in the project supported by the NIMH grant on foster care all were largely forgotten by the White Plains staff during a traumatic time. This was when I became disabled by a severe physical illness and about the same time our Educational Director (Doris Gorin) developed a fatal carcinoma. The staff was psychologically devastated But my associates, Arthur Zelman, Shirley Samuels and David Abrams continued working on aspects of the Cornerstone project and rediscovered the 12 cases on which I reported and 40 more twice-tested children at the same Center (Zelman 1996, 1999). They renewed and extended my research with deep considerations of variables related to IQ rise. Fortunately, remarkable intellectual growth of Cornerstone children seen in New York is still happening regularly among our child patients in California and Argentina. Every one of the children in Cornerstone's twice-tested follow up series has shown the IQ rise effect. There have been no exceptions so far, although we are sure there will be. The shortest testing follow ups are eight months and the longest has been nine years. Clinical follow-ups of earlier Cornerstone work sometimes span as long as 30 and 37 years. In IQ follow up studies, over sixty children who were treated at the same Cornerstone sites, often by the same staffs, and six children in an untreated public special education control group showed no IQ rise. Unlike the Cornerstone children, some children in the comparison group had declines of IQ.
We originally created the Cornerstone therapeutic preschool as a way to help children who had experienced the death of a parent. The idea was to create an educational and therapeutic service dedicated to giving emotional support and preventive guidance to bereaved families with very young children. We also began working with another kind of orphan --foster children (the subject of a whole chapter in this book). Soon many other children with differing neurotic and behavioral problems, stressful or traumatizing life experiences and family troubles came as well.
We were often impressed with how rapidly and measurably some of the children grew, both emotionally and intellectually, in Cornerstone's early years. Responding to an early publication of mine (Kliman, 1970), Anna Freud (1969) made an editorial comment that the child described in my paper had an unusually adult way of expressing himself (Newman 1969). She was so skeptical about the accuracy with which we quoted the child's vocabulary that were particularly pleased with an event which occurred shortly thereafter. The child's grateful grandfather donated a video recorder so that we could begin highly objective documentation. In retrospect, I think Anna Freud was noticing in my account (Kliman 1970) the unlikely (but nonetheless actual) growth of a particular child's intelligence and development. After a few more years, similarly striking growth would become regularly and objectively noted in series of children (Zelman et al 1996, 1999, Diaz Hope 1999, Kliman 2006). as described in later chapters.Ultimately, instead of retrospectively using The Center for Preventive Psychiatry's archives, a deliberately prospective (forward-looking) study was designed by Miquela Diaz Hope (1999), who did so in a California public school special education setting and found very strong rise of Wechsler Preschool Scale of Intelligence IQ among ten consecutive Cornerstone treated children, but not among 9 control and comparison children. Similar effects are continuing to be observed at the Ann Martin Center in Piedmont, California and at Cornerstone Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Origins and History of the Method
Dr. Kliman devised the Cornerstone Method and first began using it with teachers Doris Gorin Ronald and Florence Herzog in a suburb of New York in 1965. His interests were in combining physiological and interpersonal psychiatry, for the benefit of children. He already had an interest in neurophysiology, had published on stress hormones (Kliman 1953), and made some presentations about an autistic child to Margaret Mahler, while a trainee in child psychiatry. Marianne Kris was then his supervisor in child analysis, as he was a student himself, at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She was very encouraging, and voluntarily contributed two hundred supervisory hours to the project between 1965 and 1967, particularly helping him tell her about and receive her feedback about his first discovery (Kliman 1970) – that a real psychodynamic and psychoanalytic process was occurring, in a very unusual setting – the children's real life school. She, together with Peter Neubauer, Mary O'Neal Hawkins, and Al Solnit, formed a Foundation for Research in Preventive Psychiatry, of which they were trustees. They helped start a flow of funding, resulting in over 50 grants which have supported the projects. Soon a nonprofit agency was formed, which was supported in part by contracts with The Westchester County Community Mental Health Board and the Dept. of Mental Hygiene of New York State.Over the ensuing forty years more than 1,400 children of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic communities have been treated and educated using the Cornerstone Method. Research colleagues and Dr. Kliman have begun to systematically follow up the results and now have twice-tested over 56 of those children for IQ They have performed IQ follow ups on a larger number of control (completely untreated) and comparison (otherwise treated) children; [Zelman, 1996, Diaz Hope 1999, Kliman 2006]. The research data provide a strong confirmation of the favorable experiences of therapists, educators, and parents in multiple Cornerstone projects and sites. The data includes not only many emotionally disturbed children but also children with developmental disorders – especially mild to moderate autism spectrum disorders. In Dr. Kliman's career of practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with individual children and their families over more than four decades, Cornerstone has been an outstandingly successful method. His best outcomes in several diagnostic categories have been among young Cornerstone patients. There have been some failures, especially among children who were so totally emotionally unrelated and nonverbal that they could not play at all. But for those children who are related enough to ultimately take IQ tests and who remain available for follow-up assessments, lasting and remarkable successes have been documented. These successes include preschoolers with the very difficult problems of severe anxiety due to trauma, and the interpersonally avoidant children who suffer from autism spectrum disorders.
Cornerstone's outcome studies should give some cheer and encouragement to the hundreds of thousands of families, teachers, and therapists trying to help very young children in need of mental health services.


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Hi All,
I want to make a shutdown policy to shutdown all computers at the end of the day, Say 9 PM. I would like to give them the option to stop the shutdown.
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Hi All,
I want to make a shutdown policy to shutdown all computers at the end of the day, Say 9 PM. I would like to give them the option to stop the shutdown.
EduGeek Shutdownertron
should do it
Relevant link: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/window...s-end-day.html
Searching the forums for Shutdownertron will give more results that will give more results which have content/opinions that are relevant to the original enquiry.
Some of the options that have been mentioned before.
psshutdown from SysInternals run from a scheduled task to ensure that machines are turned off at a specific time. I also use the same program from a script which I can run at anytime to turn off or reboot machines.
I also have used PowerOff 3.0 from http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm as this also give the ability to schedule a shutdown and have remote access.
I schedule a task in group policy that shuts the machine down.
I think the command was somwthing like shutdown.exe -s -t 30
I go mine as a machine schedlue task but this might help. Configure a Scheduled Task Item
I use Fog - It only shuts the machines down if nobody has been logged in for 15 mins - only flaw is it doesn't see logged in via RDP as a session.
Shutdownertron never worked correctly for me :) I only suggest because I know some people do use it fine. I use Impero myself to shut-down computers, and before that a scheduled task.
Shutdownertron works perfectly in one school and not so well in the other
Impero does the job and sooo much more for us. It's the best things we have bought in a long time.
Instead of shutting them down why not use a combination of sleep & hibernate?
We've got all our PC's set to enter sleep mode after 20 minutes of inactivity and then to hibernate after a further 20 minutes of inactivity - once they enter sleep mode they are using very very little power and hibernate is as good as being off.
This way you get power savings during the day (i.e. free periods, lunch etc...) the machines take much less time to resume then they do to cold boot, the machines can wake themselves up from hibernation to install windows updates overnight and you can manage it all via Group Policy - no need for 3rd party software
Another vote for Shutdownertron here :-). Have had no issues with Windows 7, I have disabled Fast User Switching aswell. Using version 1.3.3214 .
I give a vote for using a Group Policy Preference to set a scheduled shutdown task.
I do that here at 7PM, 9PM and 10PM (Giving 30 minutes notice of the shutdown). I've also put a shortcut to cancel the shutdown on the desktop of staff members.
What is the difference between shutdown.exe -s -t 30 and shutdown.exe -f -s, which was listed on another site.
shutdown /?
-s shutdown
-f force
-t time in seconds before shutdown


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