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One Direction 'Ecstatic' With 12m Sales
2nd August 2012
One Direction are ''ecstatic'' to have sold 12 million records in less than a year.The 'What Makes You Beautiful' boy band were presented with a special disc by their label, Syco, for selling eight million...
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One Direction 'Ecstatic' With 12m Sales
2nd August 2012
One Direction are ''ecstatic'' to have sold 12 million records in less than a year.The 'What Makes You Beautiful' boy band were presented with a special disc by their label, Syco, for selling eight million...
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Beyonce Knowles To Make Personal Documentary
2nd August 2012
Beyonce Knowles is to star in a documentary about her life and career.The 'Crazy In Love' singer is to direct, produce and appear in the film which will include concert footage, backstage scenes and interviews...
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Beyonce To Direct Her Own Documentary
2nd August 2012
Beyonce is preparing to take her life story to the big screen by directing and starring in her own documentary film.The Crazy In Love hitmaker is following in the footsteps of other artists including Justin...
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Nelly Had No Idea Joe Jonas Was So Famous
2nd August 2012
Joe Jonas has surprised his 'The Next' co-stars with how famous he is.The Jonas Brothers singer will star with Nelly, Gloria Estefan and country star John Rich in the reality TV show which will see...
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Snooki Wants To Give Birth In Heels
1st August 2012
Snooki wants to give birth in heels.The 'Jersey Shore' star is expecting her first child with fiance Jionni LaVelle but the diminutive celebrity says she has no intention of giving up her high heels when...
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Snoop Dogg Given New Reggae Moniker By Rastafarian Priest
1st August 2012
Rapper Snoop Dogg was appointed the name Snoop Lion by a Rastafarian priest.The hip-hop superstar, 40, has adopted the new moniker for his first reggae project, Reincarnated, and he reveals the new stage name came...
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The Artists You Didn't Know Were Nominees For The 2012 Mtv Video Music Awards
1st August 2012
Leading up to the Mtv video Music Awards 2012, there is a massively diverse list of nominees up for the fifteen award categories. You may already be familiar with the predictably high-rated new music videos...
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Eminem Becomes First Living Person To Top 60 Million Facebook Likes
1st August 2012
It's strange; ask the average person in the street and they'd probably tell you that Eminem was at his most high profile during the late 90s and into the early millennium. If Facebook is anything...
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Ne-yo Thinks Conor Maynard Is A Better Singer Than Him
1st August 2012
Ne-Yo thinks Conor Maynard is a better singer than him.The 'Beautiful Monster' hitmaker heard the British singer performing a cover of his song and was so impressed he wanted to sign him.Conor told MTV News:...
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Conor Maynard's Praise For Frank Ocean
31st July 2012
Conor Maynard has praised Frank Ocean for getting people interested in R&B again.The 19-year-old singer recorded a song written by Frank for his record 'Contrast' and Conor is proud to have worked with Frank before...
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Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen Competing In Summer Jam Games
30th July 2012
Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen and her mentor Justin Bieber are among the acts going head-to-head for the song of the summer (12) in an Olympics-inspired music contest.The inaugural Summer Jam Games will pit chart-toppers...
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Odd Future Storm New York With Two Gigs In The Same Night
27th July 2012
If there was any doubt that Odd Future weren't supportive of the collective's own Frank Ocean and his decision to come out about his bisexuality earlier this month, then it was emphatically consigned to history...
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Ed Sheeran Loved Working With Swift
27th July 2012
Ed Sheeran found it easy to write with Taylor Swift because they are so similar.The singer-songwriter admitted he isn't usually a fan of working on songs with other artists but says it was enjoyable because...
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Jennifer Lopez: Motherhood Is Most Important Thing
26th July 2012
Jennifer Lopez says motherhood is the most important thing to her.The former 'American Idol' judge has twins Max and Emme, four, from her former marriage to Marc Anthony and although she has a successful career,...
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Christian Bale Gives Thumbs-up To Batman Reboot
26th July 2012
Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan have both given the thumbs-up to the notion of a future cinematic re-boot of the Batman tale. Mtv News spoke to Bale, who said "I'm very intrigued to see another...
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Jennifer Lopez Sides With Flo
26th July 2012
Jennifer Lopez chose Flo Rida over Big Sean for 'Goin' In'.The singer wanted the pop-rap star to appear on her latest single - along with Lil Jon - because he has the skills for a...
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Ed Sheeran Promises Love Songs On One Direction Album
26th July 2012
Ed Sheeran has provided One Direction with love songs for their new album.The singer/songwriter wrote compositions for the boy band's first record and revealed they were so impressed they have asked for more romantic tunes...
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Robert Pattinson Upset By Twilight Hair Extensions
25th July 2012
Robert Pattinson hated his hair extensions for 'Twilight' so much that he ripped them out.The actor - who plays vampire Edward Cullen in the 'Twilight Saga' franchise - was initially supposed to have long hair...
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Rick Ross' Seizures Inspired New Song
24th July 2012
Rapper Rick Ross relied on his 2011 battle with ill health for inspiration when completing his upcoming album, revealing his new track Diced Pineapples is a nod to the food he ate during recovery.The heavyweight...
Jennifer Lopez Is A Better Singer After American Idol
24th July 2012
Jennifer Lopez has credited American Idol with pushing her to "grow as an artist" after stepping down as a judge from the TV talent show.The On The Floor hitmaker has quit the panel to return...
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Nas: Amy Winehouse Was 'One Of A Kind'
24th July 2012
Nas has praised Amy Winehouse as ''one of a kind''.The rapper collaborated with the 'Rehab' singer before her tragic death on July 23, 2011 and speaking on the first anniversary yesterday (23.07.12), he admitted he...
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Carly Rae Jepsen Closes 2012 Teen Choice Awards
23rd July 2012
Carly Rae Jepsen capped her incredible rise to fame by closing the 2012 Teen Choice Awards on Sunday (July 22, 2012). Unless you've been living under a particularly large rock for the past couple of...
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One Direction's Liam Payne Denies Band Are Set To Split
20th July 2012
One Direction 's Liam Payne has played down reports that the group may soon be splitting up to go their separate ways. The boys profile has arguably never been higher following their first US number...
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Jojo To Release 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Album
20th July 2012
Jojo is set to release her third album 'Jumping Trains' inspired by best-selling erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' by E.L James.The former 'America's Most Talented Kids' star (real name Joanna Levesque) showed off her...
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Jojo Takes Inspiration From 50 Shades Of Grey For New Album
20th July 2012
Pop star Jojo is set to shock fans with a raunchy new sound - her next album is inspired by erotic novel 50 Shades Of Grey.The singer shot to fame aged 13 when she became...
Eve's Ex Denies Leaking Sex Tape
20th July 2012
Rapper Eve's ex-boyfriend Stevie J has shot down rumours he leaked the pair's infamous sex tape in the early 2000s.The Let Me Blow Ya Mind hitmaker and the producer were engaged but split in 2000....
Snooki Calls Newt Gingrich "So Cute" After 'Tonight Show'
20th July 2012
Snooki, aka Nicole Polizzi, appears to have made an unlikely friend in conservative former speaker Newt Gingrich after the pair appeared together on 'The Tonight Show' on Wednesday (July 18, 2012). Gingrich had tweeted of...
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Rick Ross '3 Kings' With Jay Z And Dr. Dre: Biggest Track In Hip-hop?
20th July 2012
There's never been much room for humility in the world of hip-hop. When you're Rick Ross and you have managed to land guests spots from Jay Z and Dr Dre on your latest single, you...
Lauren Conrad's Plastic Accessories Range
20th July 2012
Lauren Conrad hopes her accessories range can teach people the importance of ''environmental sustainability''. The 26-year-old fashion designer - who has unveiled a range of 20 travel and cosmetic accessories made out of recycled plastic...
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I have an idea that complex numbers are a way of understanding woo. Every treatment has real (chemical and biological) and imaginary (placebo etc) effects; one source of conflict between the reality-based community lies in the fact that quacks look only at the magnitude of the effect vector, and ignore how much is real versus imaginary.
I think that the concept of two-dimensional representations might help to understand another problem.
For a typical treatment, the curve of published evidence tends to start with early, vivid findings and move through early trials to long-term meta analyses. In virtually every case, the effect size seems to decrease during this process.
The magnitude of the decline changes of course, and in some cases the effect line actually crosses the axis. The use of HRT against heart disease is a good example; early studies suggested that HRT protected against heart disease, but an RCT showed that actually outcomes were worse and HRT was simply a marker for middle class – women who tended to have better nutrition and exercise patterns.
We know how quacks seize on early results. It's the cardinal health reporting sin of the Daily Mail, it is the stock in trade of screaming headlines in WDDTY, and it is the catalyst that sent Ralph W. Moss down the rabbit hole as he decided that early results were right, the experiments that failed to replicate them were wrong, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's publications and subsequent studies showing laetrile does not cure cancer are a huge sinister conspiracy to suppress a "natural" cure for cancer.
I believe that this inability to properly accept later, disconfirming results is a symptom of the fundamental weakness of woomeisters: their system for judging correct from incorrect results.
Evidence v. ideology
In science, results are judged by the strength of the evidence. In woo, they are judged by ideological consonance.
Scientists will give little weight to early results from studies in a petri dish or test tube, and reserve their real excitement for the unambiguous results from clinical trials. Scientists are excited by solid fact, and the more solid the fact, the more exicited they are.
Woomeisters don't actually care about solid fact, because, as I noted in the article on complex numbers, they don't actually accept the fact that the real effect is more valid than the perceived effect. They think that perception is reality, even if, as with homeopathy, it's based on a ridiculous idea and the effect is nonspecific and evaporates under critical analysis, i.e. it is entirely imaginary.
The thing is, the woomeisters very often sincerely believe they are being scientific, or at least methodologically rigorous. But the judgment of sources by ideological consonance means than not only is woo not self-correcting, as science is, but in fact it gets worse over time.
The example of laetrile
With laetrile, there were early results that showed promise. Some of this was supported by additional studies. Further studies proved inconclusive, with a mix of positive and negative results. Clinical trials found no effect and finally meta-analyses also found no effect.
Science views this through a filter of evidential robustness.
The more robust the evidence, the thicker the line. Science concludes that laetrile does not work. This is not considered controversial as there's no good reason to suppose it would work. The claimed rationales (e.g. it is a "vitamin", B17, without which the body is unable to suppress cancer) are, to put it charitably, speculative and apparently derived by proctomancy.
But the woomeister filters results by ideological consonance not by scientific robustness.
The woomeister discounts results that don't support the belief. We tend to think of this as irrational, but it's actually differently rational: the initial claims are based on anecdotes, and to the woomeister these are the most powerful form of testimony. Rather like a juror who is presented with three alibi witnesses who say the accused was somewhere else, might discount DNA evidence showing that the accused committed the crime, because DNA evidence can be wrong. In reality DNA evidence is far less often wrong than alibi witnesses, who may have a personal interest in a not guilty verdict, but the element of personal testimony is always compelling.
And it's even more complicated because the flat line of inconclusive replication is made up of numerous individual results:
Exactly the same applies here.
So to the woomeister, this is not a flat line of unconfirming evidence, it's a collection of a few confirming results and some that are wrong.
Laetrile devotees howl that science is ignoring or suppressing positive results, as seen in Eric Merola's petition to MSKCC, but this is true only if you assume, as woomeisters do, that only the positive evidence is valid. In reality science weighs up positive and negative evidence and forms a judgment based on the combined weight of evidence.
What this means for self-correction
For thousands of years, humanity proceeded by halting steps, with folk ways given as much weight as anything else and the standard of truth being set by religious belief: if the priest said it was true, then it was true. Beginning in the 17th Century, methods were developed for systematically testing ideas with the aim of establishing objective truth independent of any interpretation of sources. Natural philosophers conducted experiments to verify whether they could replicate a result. Scientists conduct experiments to test the result – not just to see if they can replicate it, but also to see if there is a simpler explanation.
Science, in short, self-corrects, by design. Woo cannot self-correct because it is based on the religious model of judging truth. No religious model of judging truth can self-correct, because it is designed to confirm belief and to bend the interpretation of data to validate the .
The difference between the scientific way of judging fact and the way used by woomeisters is a relatively recent invention in human history. The woomeisters are actually following lines of thought that might have been considered perfectly valid as little as two centuries ago, a tiny fraction of the age of modern humanity. But the difference between the two ways of proceeding, is responsible, more than anything else, for the unprecedented pace of development of our undertstanding of the universe. The period from the invention of the Newcomen engine to its eventual phasing out is approximately equal to the interval between the development of the first programmable computers in the 1940s, and today. Or if you prefer, the period from Bolton and Watt's patent to the invention of the first steam locomotives, is more than twice as long as the period between the invention of valve-based computers and the invention of massively parallel supercomputers.


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Over 0.2: Putland to Nevill, OUT, no run, full ball swings in late to crash into his pads. Nevill is almost falling over trying to get bat on it but can't. Huge shout for LBW and Umpire Martell eventually raises the finger! P.Nevill - lbw b:Putland 0 (1 ball, 1 minute).
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FWIW, with the cattle we've been given:
1. Cowan
2. Warner
3. Hughes
4. Khawaja
5. Clarke
6. Watson (only if bowling, otherwise Rogers)
7. Haddin
8. Harris
9. Siddle
10. Pattinson
11. Lyon
12. Bird
At 35, Rogers isn't going as the reserve batsman. Lock him in to the XI, he'll play and probably bat in the top 3.
No Marsh. Thats all I care about atm. Whew.
Now that I've thought about it consider Faulkner to be a wasted selection. Prefer Smith instead. Well done Rogers but it proves how desperate we are. Happy that only one spinner is going. In my very early squad I picked only Lyon thinking that if Doherty is next best why bother. However there is nominally one position left. So a 2nd spinner might be announced eventually.
The comedy show continues. Haddin returns as VC.
faulkner is invers knew love child, will not be surprised if he plays the 1st test
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Brawl, Waterspout Make for Interesting Browns/Bills Game [VIDEO]
Okay, let's everybody just take a deep breath. We're all running a little hot when it comes to football these days.
Okay, let's everybody just take a deep breath. We're all running a little hot when it comes to football these days.
Hurricane Isaac has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. And it never packed more than a Category 1 punch, but that was clearly plenty for enough folks who are currently dealing with the powerful storm's onslaught of rain.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
It's one of the most famous quotes of all time. And the American legend, the great American hero, who said it has passed away at the age of 82.
Just like a lot of the nation, we are praying for the families of the victims following the Colorado shootings during the new Batman movie. We have learned that 12 people have died and 59 injured when a 24-year-old medical student James Holmes opened fired with four weapons full of ammunition into an unsuspecting crowd.
Like many around the nation this morning, I was glued to the television as events in Aurora, Colorado unfolded surrounding the mass shooting at a movie theater that, at this writing, has left 12 dead and another 38 injured. I'm angry...and I'm concerned.
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Why the gunman opened fire is still not known, but in the early morning hours a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a midnight showing of 'The Dark Knight Rises.' Fourte
Former assistant Penn State football coach, Jerry Sandusky, has been found guilty on 45 of 48 counts of child sexual abuse. I have to tell you, I'm pretty shaky as I write this.
A few months ago we told you about a group of students from Western Kentucky University, Bike 4 Alz, planning to bike across the country in hopes of raising $175,000 for Alzheimer's research. Well, theyare about 1,000 miles into their journey and made a stop here in Owensboro.
They stopped by the studio this afternoon and I really enjoyed their visit. They are SO much fun and I hope that they not only meet, but exceed their goal!
They will be making several appearances in town today and tomorrow starting with Friday After Five tonight downtown. They even have two hometown boys on the team.
How many of you still have a VCR? If it's gone to that great scrap heap in the sky, how many of you still have old VCR tapes?
I have never been ashamed to say that I'm a pageant junkie. Yep, I love em! I can remember sitting in my living room as a little girl, my mom, sister and I having friends over with our own score sheets watching the Miss USA and Miss America pageants.
Last night, another little girls' dreams came true and we have a new Miss USA. Warning: She is gorgeous!
On Yesterday's Waking Crew Show Chad and I talked about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanting to ban super-sized sugar soft drinks in the Big Apple. We had a Facebook Tad Poll to determine what you thought about it.


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Monthly Toronto Branch meetings resume this month after our summer break! The September 2014 meeting of Toronto Branch will take place on Monday 22 September starting at 7:30 in the evening at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York subway station).
Our featured speaker, Guylaine Pétrin, will tell us how she drew on both public records and oral history to piece together the story of a strong and remarkable woman who faced upheaval and hardship because of the actions of the men in her life, but went on to re-invent herself and fight two governments along the way. The title of Guylaine's talk is "The Widow Cathy Brown: Proving a Family Story".
During our mid-meeting break, take the opportunity to drop by our information tables and find out about our other Branch activities, or mingle and catch up with fellow family history enthusiasts. We'll close out the evening with a short presentation by Branch member Pat Javor on "A Smuggler, a Shipwreck and Mrs. Heron".
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PhD Conferring Ceremony at NUI Galway
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Over 50 students were recognised by NUI Galway today (Thursday, 22 March) at a special ceremony when they were conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from NUI Galway President, Dr Jim Browne. One student, Elizabeth Mary Gosling, was also conferred with a DSc on Published Work. Degrees on published work awarded by the NUI are higher doctorates and are the highest qualifications awarded by the University. They are awarded to scholars who have, over a sustained period, published a substantial body of ground-breaking and influential work in a field of specialisation and who have achieved outstanding distinction internationally in that field. All Colleges of the University were represented at the ceremony, with graduands from the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, the College of Business, Public Policy and Law; the College of Engineering and Informatics; the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; and the College of Science. NUI Galway President Dr Jim Browne said: "I would like to congratulate each graduate on their achievement in earning their doctorate degrees. We in NUI Galway are determined that this University will play its full part in producing the graduates and the leaders who will create the future. We have significantly increased our number of PhD graduates in recent years as we strive to meet the needs of the knowledge and innovation economy." The next conferrings to take place at NUI Galway will be the summer conferring on Thursday, 21 June and the conferring of Honorary Degrees on Friday, 29 June. -ENDS- _______________________________________________________________________ Searmanas Bronnta PhD in OÉ Gaillimh Ag searmanas speisialta in OÉ Gaillimh inniu (Déardaoin, 22 Márta), bhronn Uachtarán OÉ Gaillimh, an Dr Jim Browne, Dochtúireacht san Fhealsúnacht (PhD) ar bhreis agus 50 mac léinn. Chomh maith leis sin, bronnadh DSc as Saothar Foilsithe ar mhac léinn amháin, Elizabeth Mary Gosling. Is ard-dochtúireachtaí iad céimeanna a bhronnann OÉ Gaillimh as saothar foilsithe, agus is iad na cáilíochtaí is airde a bhronntar san Ollscoil iad. Bronntar iad ar scoláirí a bhfuil bailiúchán de shaothar úrnua agus cumhachtach i réimse speisialtóireachta foilsithe acu, thar thréimhse áirithe, agus a bhfuil aitheantas den scoth bainte amach acu go hidirnáisiúnta sa réimse sin. Bhí céimithe ó gach Coláiste san Ollscoil i measc na gcéimithe sin ar bronnadh PhD orthu, Coláiste na nDán, na nEolaíochtaí Sóisialta agus an Léinn Cheiltigh; Coláiste an Ghnó, an Bheartais Phoiblí & an Dlí; Coláiste na hInnealtóireachta agus na hIonformaitice; Coláiste an Leighis, an Altranais agus na nEolaíochtaí Sláinte; agus Coláiste na hEolaíochta. Bhí an méid seo a leanas le rá ag an Dr Jim Browne, Uachtarán OÉ Gaillimh: "Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh le gach céimí as a gcáilíocht dochtúireachta a bhaint amach. Cuirimidne in OÉ Gaillimh romhainn go ndéanfadh an Ollscoil seo a cion féin le céimithe agus ceannairí a chur ar fáil a mhúnlóidh an todhchaí. Tá méadú suntasach tagtha ar líon na gcéimithe PhD le blianta beaga anuas chun freastal ar riachtanais an gheilleagair eolasbhunaithe agus nuálaíochta." Beidh an chéad searmanas bronnta céimeanna eile ar bun in OÉ Gaillimh i rith an tsamhraidh – Déardaoin, an 21 Meitheamh agus is ar an Aoine, an 29 Meitheamh, a bhronnfar na Céimeanna Oinigh. -CRÍOCH-
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Interactive eLearning Programme Designed to Promote Equality in the University Sector Launched
Friday, 23 March 2012
A new interactive Equality and Diversity eLearning programme (LEAD) will allow staff in the university sector to consider their role in building an inclusive environment. The LEAD programme was launched by Minister Fergus O'Dowd this week at a joint Irish Universities Association (IUA) Equality Network and Equality Authority event supported by the Workplace Diversity Initiative led by the Department of Justice and Equality. Developed by six of the Irish Universities Equality Network member institutions, TCD, DCU, NUI Galway, UCC, UCD and UL, in conjunction with Aurion Learning, the aim of the LEAD project is to introduce a tailored eLearning programme covering all nine grounds of discrimination under Irish Equality Legislation as part of a blended approach to generating mainstream staff engagement with equality and diversity issues in the workplace. The LEAD programme is a self-paced modular learning tool that features an intuitive navigation system with core content split into five modules of learning. Module topics cover 'Understanding diversity', 'What's it got to do with you?', 'From compliance to commitment', 'Recruitment and Selection' and 'Dignity and Respect'. Each section contains video and multimedia stories and scenarios including interviews with university staff and students, interactive games and quizzes, and online instant assessments to offer staff valuable feedback on their learning. By using this interactive and multimedia resource, staff will have the opportunity to consider and reflect on the part they play in building an inclusive culture across the university sector. Delivered online, one of the key elements of the LEAD programme is the development of tailored content that addresses issues unique to the third level sector. The eLearning programme can reach a wider audience of approximately 16,000 staff in the Universities and has the potential to be rolled out to other institutions in the higher education sector. The LEAD programme was part funded by the Equality Authority Equality Mainstreaming Unit and by each of the six participating Universities. Recently LEAD was awarded Outstanding Achievement in the category of Most Innovative Use of Technology at the IITD National Training Awards. -ENDS-
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NUI Galway Executive MBA Information Evening
Monday, 26 March 2012
NUI Galway's Executive MBA celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and a series of information evenings have been scheduled around the country for students wishing to join the programme in September 2012. The first of these information evenings will take place on Wednesday, 4 April, at 6.30pm in CA117 in the Cairnes Building, NUI Galway. Organised by the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, the information evenings will give prospective students the opportunity to meet programme faculty, as well as current MBA students. The MBA is the one of the most prestigious business degree with global appeal and the NUI Galway MBA is one of the leading MBA programmes in the country. Recent innovations include an international study trip to Fordham University in New York, input on personal innovation and creativity from the Burren College of Art, and dedicated Masterclass events with leading national and international speakers. Dr Alma McCarthy, Programme Director of the MBA at NUI Galway, said: "Our Executive MBA has a very strong focus on career and professional development and we have an excellent bespoke mentoring programme for MBA students with key business leaders from the locality." Current NUI Galway MBA student and Sales Manager with Dycon, an Irish manufacturing and distribution of construction and DIY products company, Brendan Galvin, said: "The MBA programme at NUI Galway has amassed immense benefits for me personally and professionally from day one. The lecturers are extremely approachable and the camaraderie experienced through fellow classmates has given me deep-rooted networks which I suspect will last throughout my career." Further Executive MBA information events will take place in Dublin on 26 April, Sligo on 2 May and in Athlone on 3 May. For further information, visit http://www.cairnes.nuigalway.ie/mba/ -ENDS-
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Trí Lionsa Sualannach / Through a Swedish Lens: Images of Irish Life at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Monday, 26 March 2012
The James Hardiman Library in NUI Galway is hosting a photographic exhibition entitled Through a Swedish Lens celebrating the contribution made by four Swedish folklorists, who were also competent photographers, to Irish culture in the first half of the twentieth century. The twenty photographs taken by Äke Campbell, Albert Eskeröd, Carl von Sydow and Harriet Wetterström portray Irish people at work and play and illustrate beautifully the interiors and exteriors of Irish houses at that time. This exhibition mirrors the folklore being collected in Ireland in the 19th Century by Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann (Irish Folklore Commission) and which continues to the present day. This collection, now kept at the Archives Department of UCD, is available for viewing in microfilm format in the James Hardiman Library. The personal library of Séamus Ó Duilearga, Director of the Irish Folklore Commission 1935-71, containing over 4,000 volumes on folklore, folklife and celtic studies material is held as part of the Special Collections material in the James Hardiman Library. Professor Ó Duilearga undertook a study trip to the Scandanavian countries in the late 1920s where he made contact with some of the scholars whose work is represented in this exhibition. This personal library includes a significant collection of offprints received by him from academic colleagues throughout the world. The current exhibition also links with photographic material in other collections held in the James Hardiman Library such as the Balfour Album which is now available online at http://archives.library.nuigalway.ie:8080/balfour/, the Ritchie Pickow collection, also available online at http://call.library.nuigalway.ie:8180/Pickow/index.jsp and the Heinrich Becker Collection. The photographs in this exhibition are on loan from the National Folklore Collection, UCD. The exhibition is located in the foyer of the James Hardiman Library and continues until Friday, 27 April 2012. The opening hours are available at www.library.nuigalway.ie ENDS
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NUI Galway and Amnesty International Join Forces for Seminar on Legal Capacity
Monday, 26 March 2012
NUI Galway's Centre for Disability Law and Policy and Amnesty International Ireland will jointly host a seminar exploring how Ireland can learn from other jurisdictions on legislating for legal capacity, the law that governs decision-making. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 3 April, from 10.30am to 2pm in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin 2. Looking Globally, Legislating Locally: The Irish Legal Capacity Bill will examine practical and technical legislative solutions to ensure that Ireland can comply with its obligations under international human rights law, most specifically Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Professor Gerard Quinn, Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway, said: "The new capacity law must be in line with the latest international human rights standards so the Irish Government can fully adopt the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The emphasis must be on respecting the persons' will and preferences and supporting him/her where necessary. The Convention is clear on what capacity law should primarily look like – we need to focus on law and policy that supports people to make their own choices and decisions insofar as possible. Crucially, handling decision-making deficits should be part of an overall and more positive approach of enabling voice to be expressed and respecting that voice." Speakers at the seminar will include: Lana Kerzner, Canadian lawyer who specialises in disability law and policy, will deliver a lecture on The Canadian perspective on legal capacity law and supported-decision making; Anna Nilsson, European expert on legal capacity, will present a lecture entitled 'Supported decision-making and the Swedish Personal Ombudsman System'; and Genevra Richardson, Professor of Law Kings College London, will speak on Reflections on legal capacity law in England and Wales and the interface between legal capacity law and mental health law. Colm O'Gorman, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland, said: "We are on the cusp of making very real strides towards achieving greater disability equality in Ireland. Ireland now has the opportunity to enact progressive legislation on decision-making capacity. This seminar demonstrates we have the research and expertise to ensure the new capacity law reflects the most up-to-date human rights standards. We are urging law-makers to take this on board as they put the finishing touches to this urgently needed capacity law." Places for the seminar are limited so early registration is advised. Please RSVP by Friday, 30 March to email@example.com or 01 8638313. -ENDS-
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European Telemedicine Research Project Experts Convene in Galway
Monday, 26 March 2012
Technologies to facilitate the remote delivery of healthcare to patients in their own home is the focus of a new EU-funded project underway at NUI Galway. The €2.3 million project, Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions (ITTS), aims to deliver a range of projects on mobile self management, video consultation and home based health services to the rural and remote communities of northern Europe. This week research partner teams from Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden and Finland will gather at NUI Galway for a two-day meeting. The ITTS teams and their respective clinicians, speech therapists, researchers, engineers and technologists work in a variety of fields including psychiatry, emergency services, diabetes, rehabilitation and care of the elderly. Dr Liam Glynn is senior lecturer in General Practice at NUI Galway and Principal Investigator of the Irish ITTS research team: "This project has the potential to deliver significant innovation in the connected health space. Our aim is to investigate the potential to deliver aspects of healthcare via a variety of technology platforms including the internet, smartphones and via video conferencing. These will include speech therapy, diabetes care and self management, inflammatory bowel disease management and physiotherapy based rehabilitation for COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This can improve access to healthcare and strengthen primary care services. We aim to allow those living in rural areas, the elderly, and a range of other groups to monitor aspects of own health and access healthcare professionals from their own homes." The Irish ITTS team includes Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin from NUI Galway's College of Engineering and Informatics. His group is responsible for the coordination of an innovative project on the use of smartphones for tracking physical activity. Smartphones possess tiny accelerometers which can be used for this purpose. The team aims to utilise and develop a suitable methodology and application, to increase physical activity in various patient sub-groups thereby leading to a wide range of potential health benefits. The Galway conference gives experts the opportunity to hold lectures and workshops where information and knowledge transfer will allow all partner teams to proceed with their respective projects so that in the future all projects are both viable and sustainable within partner countries. The ITTS project is funded under the EU Northern Periphery Project (NPP), which aims to help peripheral and remote communities on the northern margins of Europe to develop their economic, social and environmental potential. ENDS For more information on the project visit http://www.abdn.ac.uk/crh/research/current/telemedicine
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NUI Galway Medical Student brings Heart Health to fingertips with New App!
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
A unique collaboration between the heart and stroke charity Croí and a fourth year medical student at NUI Galway has resulted in the novel use of mobile phone technology and medicine to bring heart health education literarily to our fingertips! Following on from the success of the charity's Croí MyAction Programme, a cardiovascular disease prevention initiative, targeting individuals at increased risk of heart disease or stroke, Mike McNamara, from Ennis Co. Clare and a fourth year medical student at NUI Galway, has developed two new Apps which have just been launched on the App Store. Croí FoodWise is a user friendly app which uses a novel traffic light system to inform people on their food shopping choices. Users simply compare the information on the food label with the values assigned to the colours red (unhealthy choice), amber and green (healthy choice). Croí HeartWise empowers individuals as they attempt to make healthy lifestyle choices. The user can calculate their "Heart Age" by inputting simple information about themselves. They can track their dietary and alcohol consumption patterns and monitor their smoking habits, including how much money they would save if they quit. A detailed physical activity tracker ensures that the user meets the recommended weekly levels of exercise and they can also monitor their goals by observing their progress around a virtual running track. Announcing the launch of the two new Apps, project supervisor Dr Gerard Flaherty, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Medicine and Medical Education at NUI Galway and Director of the special study module in Preventive Cardiology which is delivered in conjunction with the Croí MyAction team, remarked: "With the widespread use of smartphones and iPads by people of all ages, mobile applications represent a highly effective means of delivering key health promotion messages to a wide audience with the aim of orienting individuals towards healthier lifestyle choices. These apps are a further example of the productive partnership which exists between NUI Galway and Croí as a community partner." The Apps are free to download from the App store onto the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices and they will be updated regularly. Since their release, the Apps have been downloaded by users in over 25 countries and Croí HeartWise has already achieved a five star rating in the App store. Speaking at the launch, Croí CEO, Neil Johnson, indicated that the development of these Apps is directly in keeping with Croí's aim to educate and motivate people to make heart healthy lifestyle choices. The Croí Foodwise App will help educate shoppers on the rationale for choosing foods with lower saturated fat, sugar and salt levels and the Croí HeartWise App will help highlight the importance of a healthy lifestyle. "In developing these apps, we have once again worked with medical students at NUI Galway, thus strengthening our relationship with the medical faculty at NUI Galway and this is a further step in developing new educational initiatives in preventive cardiology" he said. ENDS
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Regenerative Medicine and Life Sciences Research lead to MOUs in China for NUI Galway
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Pictured this week in China where NUI Galway announced collaborations with both Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and the Fourth Medical Military University Hospital in Xi'an as part of the Trade and Investment Mission to Shanghai and Beijing by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister Richard Bruton TD (back row, l-r): President Wei Cai SJTU; An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD; Minister Richard Bruton TD; Professor Sanbing Shen, REMEDI, NUI Galway; Frank Ryan, Enterprise Ireland. Front: Dr Jim Browne, President NUI Galway and Professor Lin He, Director of Bio-X Institutes, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Pictured this week in China where NUI Galway announced collaborations with both Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Fourth Medical Military University Hospital in Xi'an as part of the Trade and Investment Mission to Shanghai and Beijing by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister Richard Bruton TD (back row, l-r): Professor Lin He, Director of Bio-X Institutes; An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD; Minister Richard Bruton TD; Professor Sanbing Shen, REMEDI, NUI Galway; Frank Ryan, Enterprise Ireland. Front: Dr Jim Browne, President NUI Galway and President Wei Cai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. NUI Galway is delighted to announce collaborations with both Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Fourth Medical Military University Hospital in Xi'an as part of the Trade and Investment Mission to Shanghai and Beijing this week by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister Richard Bruton TD. The Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) based at NUI Galway has signed collaborative agreements with the Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Bio-X Institutes and the Tangdu Neurosurgery & Neurology Hospital, research institutes based in two leading Chinese Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an. Funded by Science Foundation Ireland, REMEDI is Ireland's leading research institute in the area of regenerative medicine and stem cell research. The agreement will see REMEDI work closely with both Chinese partners in a number of research areas and will facilitate student and researcher exchange between Galway and China. At the signing were NUI Galway President, Dr Jim Browne and Professor Sanbing Shen, who recently moved to Galway and REMEDI as Professor of Stem Cell Biology. Through Professor Sanbing Shen and Professor Tim O'Brien, REMEDI Director, NUI Galway is developing formal partnerships in the area of regenerative medicine and life sciences with research Institutes at the Shanghai Jiaotong University which has over 10 affiliated hospitals in Shanghai, and with Fourth Medical Military University Hospitals in Xi'an, which is considered to be one of the top three medical universities in China and has pioneered neurosurgery and transplant procedures in China. One of the first joint projects will involve Professor Shen, who is developing cutting edge induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology at REMEDI. iPS technology involves generating "embryonic-like" stem cells from adult cells and has been hailed as one of the top scientific breakthroughs in the last number of years. REMEDI will also work with both Chinese institutes to develop joint clinical trial programmes in the area of regenerative medicine. Professor Tim O'Brien, Director of REMEDI at NUI Galway: "REMEDI's commitment to clinical trials of treatment using adult stem cells will be greatly enhanced by these collaborations as both institutions have similar scientific and clinical interests as NUI Galway. This will provide for much more extensive patient involvement in clinical trials, as well as the sharing of expertise in the design of the trials and the analysis of the resulting data." Speaking at the singing of the Memoranda of Understanding in both Shanghai and Beijing, President of NUI Galway, Dr Jim Browne said: "These partnerships will see NUI Galway and these two significant Chinese universities develop joint research programmes which will encourage the exchange of faculty, researchers, and graduate students with the objective of fostering academic cooperation and collaboration between both parties. NUI Galway has a range of excellent relationships with Chinese higher education institutions in areas from marine science to engineering to human rights. These new agreements in the area of regenerative medicine with our Chinese partners will bring new and positive developments to our activities in the biosciences." In addition to signing these agreements President Browne hosted a reception for Chinese-based alumni of NUI Galway. Almost 90 Galway graduates are based in China and the event attracted almost a third of these to a reception in central Beijing. Among those alumni and friends in attendance were Tsingua University academic, Professor Yu Ming and his wife Betty Liao and Mr Zhou Ji, former Minister of Education in China. For further information on REMEDI see http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/listings/regenerative-medicine.html). ENDS
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NUI Galway Researchers Win Prestigious Wounds UK Award
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Researchers at NUI Galway were recently awarded a Wounds UK Award for a new Electronic medical technique which aims to assist in the restoration of sensory function lost, due to aging and disease, particularly due to diabetes. The Wounds UK awards recognise the outstanding achievements of those in who are improving standards in wound prevention and management, through research, clinical audit and practice development. The NUI Galway team, who presented at the 2010 Annual Wounds UK Conference, observed that lost sensation in the feet, which is known to lead to loss of balance, foot ulceration and ultimately to amputation, may be partially restored by applying low voltage electrical noise to the affected nerves, through the skin, via electrodes. The new technique relies on the principle that the nervous system is in fact an electrically noisy transmission system. The team found that applying a noisy electrical signal to the affected nerves, resulted in the enhancement of the associated nerve signals and their transmission. If the transmission characteristics of nerve signals can be enhanced through the use of a wearable electrical device, then there is the potential to treat a wide range of medical conditions. Currently there is no treatment available to restore neural function lost due to aging and diabetes. With the current dramatic rise in both of these populations, the need for such treatments is greater than ever. This work, funded by the Health Research Board, brings together a multidisciplinary research team including: Dr Paul Breen and Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NUI Galway; Dr Caroline McIntosh, Podiatry, NUI Galway; Dr Sean Dinneen, Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Galway and the School of Medicine, NUI Galway; Dr Leo Quinlan, Physiology, NUI Galway; and Professor Jorge Serrador, Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey and Neurology, Harvard Medical School. The researchers believe this may only be the starting point for this research. According to Dr Paul Breen, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway: "What is really exciting is that, while we have shown this to have an effect on the lower limb, theoretically it should work on any nerve. Potentially we could build a whole range of devices for a variety of neural problems." Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, NUI Galway, said: "This work which is funded by the HRB and which was facilitated by an SFI Walton Fellowship, shows the potential for producing highly innovative, medical solutions, when a team of researchers from such diverse disciplines as Engineering, Medicine, Podiatry and Physiology, pool their expertise to solve complex medical problems." -ENDS-
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NUI Galway Promotes Italian Language and Culture in the West of Ireland
Thursday, 29 March 2012
NUI Galway's Italian Studies and School of Education, and St Joseph's Patrician College (The Bish) have initiated a collaboration which, if successful, will see the establishment of Italian language and culture course in secondary level schools in Galway. As part of this unique project entitled Andiamo, NUI Galway lecturer, Dr Laura McLoughlin and postgraduate student Dr Francesca Magnoni, have designed, and are currently teaching, an eight-week pilot intensive course in Italian with first year students at The Bish. To date 26 students have enrolled in the course. Professor Paolo Bartoloni, Head of Italian at NUI Galway, said: "This initiative has the potential to make a strong contribution to the language proficiency and diversity of Galway and its region, provide continuity and the necessary link between primary, secondary and tertiary level, foster cross-cultural awareness, enhance exchanges between cultures, and strengthen business synergies between Italy and Ireland. Italian at NUI Galway is committed to offer innovative curricula, employing multimedia technologies and related skills developed during years of training and experience in the teaching of Italian as a second language. It is also looking forward to sharing this knowledge with the post primary school sector, establishing effective and productive collaboration between the University and schools in Galway." At present, there is no Galway school offering Italian as a subject, despite of the growing presence of a vibrant Italian community in the city, and a growing interest in Italian Studies at NUI Galway. Currently Italian is present in primary schools through Community Based Learning, which is coordinated by NUI Galway, and is offered in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and lifelong learning courses with the evening Diploma in Italian at the University. An online Diploma in Italian is also currently being developed at NUI Galway. Andiamo embraces the core elements of best practice and design currently in use in the intergenerational curricular model of Living Scenes* developed by NUI Galway's Dr Mary Surlis. In this instance the focus will be on the intercultural element of the programme, promoting the sharing of language, culture and heritage and tradition through a structured eight-week pilot programme. The President of NUI Galway, Dr Jim Browne, and the Ambassador of Italy, Dr Maurizio Zanini, will award certificates of attendance to the students on Friday, 11 May at a ceremony in Galway. -ENDS-
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Best Websites To find Online Halloween Games
Top 5 Websites to Play Online Halloween Games
There are many places where one can find free online web games. There are sites that offer free online Halloween games too. Here are some of the best.
ultimatenaruto.org has a few fun ninja Halloween games. You can try to escape a mummy's tomb or battle a ninja army online. Here you can also play "ultimate naruto online", where you use skeletons like drums, and carve a virtual pumpkin to fight other ninjas. These ninja anime games are a lot of fun and children usually get addicted to them.
Kaboose has some fun Halloween games that are kid friendly. Kids can help Dr. Frankenstein with his experiments – it seems he got some heads mixed up and needs help figuring out which head has the brain in it. Children can also help Colonel Kerfuffle escape Castle Calamity with his treasure, or color a spooky picture.
playhappywheel.com has an excellent selection of online happy wheels games. Most of these games are suitable for all ages. Gamers can navigate their way through a castle or virtual haunted house or have fun with the "magic 8 ball of horror" or the "oracle of horror". The oracle of horror gives timely advice like when you party in a public building, which route to take, where to park the wheels and don't eat the urinal cakes.
Dltk-holidays.com has a handful of games suitable for young children. Halloween themed coloring pages, tic-tac-toe, hangman, memory and word searches can be found here. These would be fun to play at home or even in the classroom.
Even Hershey has a fun Halloween page. This page has coloring pages too. Kids and adults can also take a quiz to see if they know how to stay safe when trick-or-treating. There is also a personality quiz one can take to see what kind of Halloween character they are – a trendsetting Transylvania, perhaps.
Thekidzpage.com has a page full of fun things. From here, you can play Halloween mahjong or "eyeball bounce". Virtual dress-up games, jigsaw puzzles and clip art can be found on this site as well.
If you're looking for more kid-friendly online Halloween games, check out www.surfnetkids.com. The site recommends sites that have games that are safe for kids to play. What makes this particular page great is a person wrote a little bit about each site recommended; links aren't automatically added by website owners.
There are a lot of websites with online games out there, and many of them have games that feature a holiday like Halloween. Hopefully, this has given you an idea of where to start looking. Have fun!


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"Monsters" is a trademark of Monsters IncSo, I remember it bugging me when I realized Monsters University is basically like calling a school "People University." But what if the name is just a reference to it being a feeder school for Monsters Inc? The monsters don't actually call themselves monsters, except as an occupational title when they scare children. As for the name of Monstropolis, it grew up around the first Monsters Inc factory and took its name from the company.
Children really are toxicTo monsters anyway. They limited the amount of exposure necessary to harm them in the film.
The Black Death is the reason they fear children are toxic.Taken from Website/Cracked: Monsters Inc. is set in a world inhabited entirely by monsters, who have figured out how to turn the screams of human children into a renewable, clean source of energy. The only problem (besides the whole "traumatizing kids" thing) is that children are considered highly contagious in the monster world. When a little girl named Boo sneaks into this world, the monsters turn out to be more afraid of her than she is of them. The results are highly comical — the mere possibility of contact with humans causes the monsters asto fly into a frantic emergency disinfectant procedure. But why would they ever get the idea humans are toxic? According to one fan theory by Reddit user Calabim, what terrifies the monsters is actually the Black Death. Here's why: In the movie it's pretty clear that the monster world is a lot more advanced than ours: They have Jetsons-level technology, they can travel across dimensions, and they walk around naked, the mark of a perfect society. Therefore it stands to reason that the monsters have been traveling to our world and collecting our screams for a long time ... like, say, since the Middle Ages. You know, back when the bubonic plague was happily strolling around Europe killing everyone. Now, the main way that the plague spread in Europe was through fleas. And, say, remember what the monsters' reaction was when a single human sock was found clinging to someone's fur? After removing the sock using a pair of extra-large tweezers and vaporizing it, they shave off the monster's fur, then give him a shower, and that's it. No medicine. No mass inoculations. No quarantine in a glass room. The only possible purpose of this, therefore, is to remove the monster's fur as soon as possible, an action which itself only makes complete sense if the disease they're afraid of spreads through tiny insects that cling to hair. No fur, no fleas; no fleas, no re-emergence of plague; no re-emergence of plague, no bullet to the face for Sully when Mike snaps and mercifully spares him a painful death. Everyone's a winner.
Humans are like peanutsIn real life, most people can touch and ingest peanuts without incident, but there are quite a few people who are severely allergic to them. What if the first monsters who discovered humans had a lethal allergy to the species, and it was thereafter presumed that all monsters are vulnerable to people?
Boo's real name is Emily.And in ten years or so, when she gets too old for dolls, she will leave the Cowgirl Jessie doll she showed Sully in a box for charity in the park, as seen in the flashbacks in Toy Story 2.
Boo's real name is Violet.Specifically, Violet Parr. Her ability to get places she shouldn't be without Sully noticing is due to her invisibility powers just beginning to manifest.
Boo's real name is Chell.Her constant vanishing act throughout the film shows that she's clearly thinking with portals. Plus, she and Chell look similar.
Changing the power source to laughs will result in our world being drained of laughs and drowned in laughter.Everyone will become a cold, atheist soulless executive emo. Previously, humans could be happy because the monsters were purging our world of scariness.
At the end there's both a laugh and scare floorComparing the main tower you see in the middle of the complex in the full shot of the factory with the overall shape of the scare/laugh floor, it looks like there's two different scare floors in the beginning. Also, some monsters are more thoroughly trained as scarers and it'd be easier to have half of your floor with already trained professionals while getting used to the new system of using laughs.
The doors are alive.The doors require every large piece to function properly, but at the end, Boo's door still clearly displays the cracks from being shredded. When Mike adds the final piece, he closes a relatively large, irregularly shaped gap. (All of this only occurred to me because I was reading Slaughterhouse V.) As per the cryptic parenthetical, the door can function with cracks (live with slit-shaped wounds) visible, but can't handle missing pieces (in the reference, triangular wounds, but more generally chunks of flesh ripped out—charming, eh?)
Boo is a Slayer....who just got activated really, really early. Explains the whole 'beating the holy hell out of the villain thing'.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters takes place in the same verse'.Why does Aaaah! Real Monsters take place in our world when the monsters in the film live in a different universe you ask! The School is located in our world so the students can get some first hand experience. While the monsters train at the Academy as students, they later find jobs at Monsters Incorporated.
Boo is Haruhi Suzumiya at a younger ageShe used her reality bending powers to make monsters become real and happened to end up with Mike and Sully.
Boo is Russel's mother from Up at a younger ageAnd nothing more.
The monsters speak a different language than humans do.Boo walks, runs, is toilet-trained, and draws remarkably realistic pictures for a young child. I'd put her age somewhere between 3 and 4. Despite this, most of her dialog comes out as gibberish. My theory is that the movie translates the monster language for convenience. This would explain why all we can understand from Boo is "Kitty!" (which must be the same in both languages, for whatever reason) and "Mike Wazowski" (which she learned from Sully). It is also a possible explanation for why the kid at the very end doesn't laugh at Mike's act until he swallows the microphone.
Boo in the sequelThe sequel will be set 10 years after the first film and Boo is a moody Goth teen in vast contrast to how she was as a toddler.
The use of laughter for energy will destroy the monster world.Imagine you have a large group of kids being scared by monsters. A decent percent of them will complain to their parents about this. Now imagine the same kids telling their parents those same monsters are trying to make them laugh. That would have dangerous consequences for the monsters, wouldn't it?
The snow cones weren't lemon-flavouredThe Abominable Snowman leaves, supposedly to give Mike and Sully privacy. You can clearly see he gets scared easily, so pants-peeing isn't implausible (this takes care of the source). As Sully sleds his way to the town, he comes across the Snowman who now has a new batch of snow cones. If they were lemon-flavoured, then where did he get lemons from? Lemons don't grow in regions as frigid as the Himalayas! He couldn't have gotten them from the town either, as it was a "Three day hike away". Also, this might not have been improper of him, as Monster society probably had such flavours (remember,they have deodorant scents like "Wet dog"). On a side note, the Snowman was probably banished from the world of monsters because of his tendency to get terrified, which was un-monsterlike behaviour.
Boo can teleportThere is no other explanation for how she can disappear without a sound and then be right behind or in front of you.
Boo is a god of the monsters worldThink about it. When she cries, she almost caused a power outage, but when she laughs, the electrical power increases.
At one point, Monsters Inc. had a run-in with Aperture Science.It explains how the doors are able to act as passageways to rooms in the human world - the doors were created using the portal gun technology.
The monsters will eventually lose technology due to lack of laugh or scream powerFollowing the idea that all Pixar films take place in a shared universe, in hundreds of years, the monsters will lose the ability to make technology since all of the humans have left Earth on the various Buy 'N Large cruisers. This probably means that the monsters will either die out or revert to primal instinct in order to survive.
The prequel will explain why and how the Abominable Snowman was exiled.John Ratzenberger has been confirmed to appear in the sequel.
The humans are going to find the monster world, one way or another.The door-vault sequence, with the number of doors it opened and the number of people who probably saw monsters go through, probably revealed at least one door to the human world. And the very act of going through a door and making the kids laugh, which usually takes longer, is fraught with peril�-the monsters have to stay outside their world longer, which means that there's a greater danger of being caught on CCTV/satellite imaging/news video. Discovering a portal to another world through which Starfish Aliens come would be a huge event for humanity. Doors would probably be guarded and filmed, waiting for one to open so that scout/assault/research teams can enter. What the humans will do is uncertain, but it's likely that something monumental will happen.
Randall is also Andy's monster.When Fungus pulls down a variety of backgrounds for Randall to "warm up" with, one of them is Andy's wallpaper from the first Toy Story.
The Backson from the 2011 Winnie-the-Pooh movie is a Monsters Inc. Scarer that got stuck in the human world.Was I the only one who thought he looked like a character from Monsters Inc.? Maybe he was a top scarer before, who through an accident got locked outside of a closet in England, and decided to roam the 100 Acre Woods to find a way home.
Mike and Sully weren't the first to discover the power of laughter.Back when power was invented monsters realized that laughter was more powerful, but either a Corrupt Corporate Executive already designed a scare system and hushed the competition, or it seemed cool in theory but too powerful/unstable and didn't implement well with the current technology.
The prequel will feature Boo in the openingWhere, after a conversation between Mike, Sully and a 16-year-old Boo, the conversation will turn to "How did you two meet?" and the story will actually start.
The prequel will feature a Framing Device involving Mikey and Sully revisiting their College.They would be back on Campus to deliver a speech on their success with Laugh-harvesting Monsters Inc. And the main story would start when either Mike or Sully see something that brings them back to their college days.
Time passes much faster in the monsters' world.
Celia is simply The Beard for Mike.It certainly feels like it, no self-respecting monster would be so Sickeningly Sweet with each other. (maybe) Perhaps she likes him for real and was hoping he'd eventually like her too, and why she becomes so upset at the sushi bar.
Jeff Bridges will have a cameo role in the prequel.And there will be a scene with his character at a bowling alley with Sully and Randall.
Monsters speak at a decibel only children can hear.It would explain why no parent ever seems to have seen a monster (since, if they had, they would no doubt try and defend their child from it in the future, or move immediately, etc), and it would also explain why Boo's parents, who have probably been worried sick about her, don't burst into the room at the sound of Sully tucking her in.
Some of the monsters were once human, but not allWhich would explain why some of them have human names (James P. Sullivan, Michael Wazowski) and why some (Bile, Phlegm) have monster-names.
Monsters Inc is what would happen if Parallax won.In case those were wondering, Parallax is an emotional entity which feeds off and personifies fear. In Zero Hour, it possessed Hal Jordan and made him the Big Bad. Monsters Inc is a world which uses fear as a power source. In an alternate continuity, Parallax managed to recreate the universe to feed him with fear forever-however Hal Jordan's influence prevented Parallax from making Monster's Inc a true world of fear, resulting in a more family-friendly "scare for care" universe.
Theories for what might go into another sequelThis because I read somewhere on Tumblr that they're gonna make one (but I don't know how valid it is). Soooooo any ideas of what would go into such can be put here.
There is a "Cone of Silence" when the doors are activatedWe keep on wondering why the parents aren�t catching on to things. Well, in MU, Hardscrabble specifically says that crying would get a monster caught as opposed to screaming. Why make that distinction when both would be equally audible? Well what if part of Door Tech acts like a green screen for sounds, and filters out the sounds related to the job, but all other sounds, like crying which has no place in monster power needs, get through just fine.
The scream shortage and the ability to switch to laughter are both caused by things like Seasame Street.Basically the monster universe both makes an internal sense and is half made up of the belief of humans. Since humans thought of monsters of as scary the whole monster universe was essentially made of and powered by fear. As children get stories saying monsters are friendly scream becomes a weaker power source since the universe is now made more of laughter and kids become harder to scare as they think monsters are friendly. New monsters are also more likely to look like Muppets than the older generation further sabotaging scream power.
It WAS "Bring an Obscure Relative to Work" day at M.I.Waternoose missed the memo, but that doesn't mean some of the other monsters didn't. The monster kids Boo met are related to somebody somehow...
The auditions of the terrible new Scare recruits were caused by the power shortageThey were desperate for new Scarers to make some more power, hence why they were wasting their time giving pointers/guidance to the clumsy untalented monsters.
The main religion in the monster world is Pastafarianism
The two movies, when put together, become an allegory for the rise of 3D CGI theatrical animation.When Mike and Sully were young, scaring was a highly sought-after career, so much so that highly selective programs at prestigious universities popped up, and looking at the lack of Oozma Kappa or even Roar Omega Roar at Monsters, Inc., it's likely that getting a job in the business is still tough with a degree. After some time, the entire industry finds it increasingly difficult to support itself (that is, paralleling the diminishing box office returns for animated films through the 1990s) until it does a complete overhaul, having more or less accidentally found a new and highly effective sustainability source from the same demographic as before—small children. Unfortunately, this means that most of the workers caught in this shift, who had trained their entire lives and went through hell to get to where they were, were suddenly rendered obsolete and without any useful talents, save for the few who could quickly adapt to the new environment and the demands it requires, like Mike.
The Monsters, Inc. world is an alternate version of GensokyoBoth worlds are separate from the human world, yet depend on it for their continued survival. Both are having issues dealing with the fact that humans are starting not to fear them anymore, and many of the "monsters" are actually quite friendly. This also explains how the door system came into being: Yukari did it. Additionally, this explains how the Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster could still be around despite stories of them having existed for longer than the human lifespan.


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