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James Kochalka is a comic artist and musician, and now he's a video game designer too. The awesome, prolific creator took some time in February 2010 to answer Dan Copulsky's questions about his comics, life, and new venture.
You've been doing daily diary strips for over ten years. You've created a rather extensive portrait of your life and self, but there are some limitations to the form. You only have a few panels for each comic, and each generally has to focus on one day. Taken as a whole, do you feel like there's anything missing from American Elf, or do you feel like it shows a pretty accurate picture of you and your life?
Both actually… it's pretty accurate AND there's lots and lots missing. But what I omit, either by design or accident, can be just as important as what I show in the strip. For as much as I reveal, I don't reveal everything, and some things are only hinted at. It's actually a strength of the strip. It's a simple fact that our fellow human beings will always remain unknowable on some level. No matter how much you know about somebody, the vast majority of their life still remains secret. And so it goes with my strip as well. You will get to know me quite intimately by reading the strip, yet still the majority of my life will remain veiled. Basically, I reveal as much as one might reveal to a really really close friend.
Your website once required visitors to pay a small monthly subscription fee to read your comics. A couple of years ago you switched it so that most of your work was available to anyone but only subscribers could see some bonus material. Did the change have a noticeable effect on the number of visitors or subscribers?
Ultimately, no. Although there was a HUGE rush of attention when the site changed over from the subscription only model to the mostly free model. I think a few hundred thousand visitors came to American Elf in just a few days. It's basically evened out.
The important thing about having the archives free is that it's very useful for attracting new readers, and I can't really get new subscribers if I don't attract new readers. In the long run, it's kept the site making money. Even though it doesn't make any more than it did under the old system, at least it doesn't make less… which is the direction things were heading before I switched.
Your two sons have appeared regularly in your diary strips since they were born. Oliver might still be too young to really understand what's going on, but Eli must be pretty aware of your work. Does it seem like being a character in a well-read comic makes life more exciting or do you think growing up with it just makes it normal?
Both! That's actually part of the point of American Elf… that the "normal" stuff in our lives is actually magical and exciting, if you're open to it.
Being a character in my strip is something that Eli really likes, for now at least. He's only 6. He even seems to like the attention that he receives from fans. The strip runs in our local newspaper, Seven Days, and people often recognize them on the street just by hearing me call their names. People hear "Eli and Oliver" and their ears perk up and they ask, are you from American Elf? He thinks it's cool.
What happens if your kids become teenagers and are totally embarrassed by your comics about them? Would you stop putting them in comics? Would you take older strips out of your archives?
I expect they both will eventually reach an age where they don't want that kind of attention drawn to themselves. I'm prepared to navigate those treacherous waters. I can easily just refocus the strip more prominently on myself, for instance.
No way in hell would I remove the strips from the archives. I don't think they will ask for that, and if they did, well I'll have to make some other compromise. My friend Steve Bissette suggests just paying them royalties.
How do you manage the time you spend working on art? For projects that you're not necessarily doing a little every day, do you have deadlines (imposed by yourself or others)? Do you spend a set amount of time working on things every day or work when you're inspired?
I do very little work that has a real "deadline," so I don't have to worry about that. But it's still a trick to manage the time. I work when Oliver is napping or after Eli and Oliver have gone to bed at night, or sometimes a manage to steal a few minutes here and there. Eli is in first grade, so he's gone all day, but Oliver only goes to day care two days a week… so I have just two days a week to really concentrate and get work done.
You've done a wide variety of creative projects, including diary strips, vulgar superhero comics, children's books, paintings, and music. Is there anything else you'd still like to do, like drawing a really serious memoir or writing a novel?
One of my big dreams, since I was a little boy, has been to design a video game. So… a few years ago, I just started working on it… designing it on paper, working on the character and gameplay ideas. Then recently I was introduced to a small indie video game company called Pixeljam. I happened to be a huge fan of their games Dino Run and Mountain Maniac… and it turns out that they were huge fans of my comic.
So… we started work on my video game idea together. It's called Glorkian Warrior. It combines my hand-drawn art style with their low-rez pixel graphics style. The bulk of the game is hand drawn, but Glorkian Warrior has a little pixel-robot version of himself in his pocket who can go into little caves and tunnels, where you play old-school style single-screen levels. We're trying to fund the project through Kickstarter, and there's a lot more information about it on our page there.
How much of your attraction to comics and video games is the same (like love for storytelling and art) and how much is different (like love for the interactivity of games)?
One of the things that I love about art is that it opens up a magical space for you to enter and explore. This feeling happens in novels, comics, music… but especially in video games.
Did you expect the game to actually get made when you started designing it?
I think I started work on it when one of my readers said, "Hey, I make videogames, do you want me to help you make a videogame?" We were going to make it as a GameBoy Advance game. So I started work on it, but they were really too busy and I never really heard much from them again. But I kept on working on the game on my own… mostly in my mind, but also sketching things on paper. And then I drew a short Glorkian Warrior comic for Pop Gun, and then I started working on a Glorkian Warrior graphic novel, which I'm about 2/3rds of the way done inking at this point.
Do you think you would have found a way to get the game made if you hadn't been introduced to Pixeljam? Did those expectations shape the way you imagined or worked on the plans for the game?
My hope was to find someone to make the game eventually. But I wanted to be sure I found someone pretty professional and not flakey that would actually be able to put the work in and get the thing made.
I tried to keep my design ideas simple enough that I could explain them to a collaborator easily. I tried to hone the ideas in the game to something clear and precise and fun that a collaborator could make quickly and easily without much fuss. I actually came up with 2 or 3 clear different game ideas, but when I hooked up with Pixeljam they loved them all so much that they insisted that we combine them into one game. And then we all got so excited that it started to balloon wildly as we got more and more crazy ideas. But we know we can't explore every idea or the game won't get made… we'd just go on for infinity thinking up new amazing features, so we're prepared to cut things back to the core.
Could you describe what the game's going to be like once it's ready?
We've made a very simple rough prototype of the basic gameplay elements, and it's fun. The core of the game is good, it's really strong. Basically, it's sort of a combination of Super Mario Bros. and Galaga with some gravity flipping.
Here's the premise: The Glorkian Warrior is supposed to patrol his asteroid field, but he lost the keys to his Glorkian Supercar, so now he has to go look for them. So, he follows his patrol route on foot from asteroid to asteroid, looking for his keys. He has a Super Backpack that he uses to shoot space-invadery type aliens flying above him, but there's other creatures on the ground that he can jump on and bounce off of and stuff.
But he also has a little robot version of himself in his pocket that he can send into little secret caves to look for his keys and stuff. In the caves you will play an old-school style pixel-graphic version of the game. It's going to be really cool.
Glorkian Warrior Kickstarter Page
Glorkian Warrior Homepage – pixeljam.com/glorkianwarrior
American Elf (James' daily strips) – americanelf.com


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Jefferies Group LLC announced today that the Board of Directors of Jefferies has elected Barry J. Alperin to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Alperin, who is retired, served as Vice Chairman of Hasbro, Inc. from 1990 through 1995, as Co-Chief Operating Officer of Hasbro from 1989 through 1990 and as Senior Vice President or Executive Vice President of Hasbro from 1985 through 1989. He was a director of Hasbro from 1985 through 1996. Prior to joining Hasbro, Mr. Alperin practiced law in New York City for 20 years, dealing with corporate, public and private financial transactions, corporate mergers and acquisitions, compensation issues and securities law matters. Mr. Alperin currently serves as a director of Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. and Henry Schein, Inc. During the past five years, Mr. Alperin served on the board of directors of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. He serves as a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, President Emeritus and a Life Trustee of The Jewish Museum in New York City and is a past President of the New York Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Mr. Alperin also formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College, was President of the Board of the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center in New York City, was a trustee of the Hasbro Children's Foundation, was President of the Toy Industry Association and was a member of the Columbia University Medical School Health Sciences Advisory Council.
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To create this unique volume, Karen Lehrman Bloch interviewed renowned aesthetes with homes all over the world, including interior designers Juan Montoya, Darryl Carter, and Vicente Wolf; fashion designers Donna Karan, Alberta Ferretti, and Consuelo Castiglioni; stylist Lori Goldstein; and artist Michele Oka Doner.
The direct and practical advice featured inside, along with a wealth of extraordinary photographs of the homes, teaches us how to feel visually, understand color and texture, and find objects, new and used, with a sense of life. An inspired home, Bloch reveals, fulfills our physical and spiritual needs, provides an enduring sense of rejuvenation and pleasure, and is both easily attainable and timeless.less
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Electrical Bike Bell: What Will They Think of Next?
An astonishing new device is set to shake up the world of cycling, and to make the road a safer place. The bicycle accessory is called the "Electric Sound Bell" and comes from a forward-thinking company called QBell. It mounts on your handlebars and – at the push of a button – it will sing out a warning to pedestrians and other road users, enabling them to smilingly get out of your way as you slowly pedal through town.
This miraculous invention requires just 2 AA batteries to do its work, and the four different "ringtones" can be trilled at any of three volume levels. We recommend starting low so as not to startle strolling citizens, as at full volume it is capable of a swoon-inducing 110 dB. It is even waterproof, to keep you safe in a passing shower.
The price? Just $24. Who would have thought such a revolutionary product could be sold for so little?
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(WCS) West Coast Swing Dance Lessons 7-9pm | Open WCS Dancing 9 to 12:00 am.
at the American Legion's Main Ballroom in Reseda. (San Fernando Valley), Los Angeles, California.
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... Club Dance.
Hello, ... Glad you found us.
This site is dedicated to the dance and dancers of ' West Coast Swing' and its variants. If your into West Coast Swing or want to be...you have come to the right place. There is much dance information here on other dances as well, plus video clips, Shoes, dance
dvd's, books, music etcetera especially in our huge, Free Dance History Archives sections. Weekly WCS Dance instruction and weekly social dance.
We offer one of the best and most socially fun WCS Club Weekly (Wednesday) Social Dance (V.S.D.C.) in southern California since 1985 on Wednesday Nights after (9pm.)
7:00 p.m. starts with a Beginning West Coast Swing Dance Lesson and after ...
a Intermediate/ Advanced West Coast Swing Dance Lesson at 8:30pm in Reseda, (San Fernando Valley) California as well as other Group and Private lessons in Northridge for all levels.Your gonna have a good time!.
Valley Swing Dance Club members have full access to this site and membership is never a requirement at any dance class or function ... Enjoy! ). If you have a website ... link to us and help us get found.
The Valley Swing Dance Club !
meets every Wednesday Night in Reseda.
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7338 Canby Ave. Reseda, Ca. | 7-12am
(San Fernando Valley) ... Los Angeles, California.
- West Coast Swing Lessons & Weekly Dance with: -
Sonny Watson ... DJ: Jack Smith.
(Over 18 OK!, Full Bar, membership not required to participate)
Learning to dance West Coast Swing can be alot of fun, but tricky. We have taught thousands and thousands of dancers just like yourself, helping them to find the joy in learning and dancing West Coast Swing (WCS). We would like to work with you too.
See our Lesson Schedule for more WCS Dance Class Lessons, Weekly Dances or Workshops, Private Lessons and Dance Information.
Want to practice WCS at home !
Sonny Watson's Sonsational DVD's!
Sonny's West Coast Swing and Dance Instructional DVD's
................. Our Instructional Video's .................
Assisted by U.S. Open Champion:
"Deanna Mollmann"
Everything you always wanted to know about: 'WEST COAST SWING Dance'
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Excel is a great (but underrated) BI tool. Several BI vendors gave up fighting it and offer Excel platform add-ins as front-ends for their BI solutions. So, if you want
Excel Platform – A Great but Underrated Reporting tool (Part-2)
Excel Platform – A Great but Underrated Reporting tool (Part-3)
Excel Platform – A Great but Underrated Reporting tool
Excel is a great (but underrated) BI tool. Several BI vendors gave up fighting it and offer Excel platform add-ins as front-ends for their BI solutions. So, if you want to create a dashboard you should consider Excel, since it really offers better functionalities than many other applications for a fraction of the cost and development time. I know that Excel platform is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but first you should be sure that your requirements are not met by Excel.
But, shouldn't I just ask my IT to create the dashboard?
This is a fact: many IT departments hate Excel platform. The IT spends millions in BI solutions and users keep using Excel. Why? Because they know it, they like it, they feel in control and can do what ever they want with the data. Ask your BI manager to replicate the image above using an expensive BI solution and he'll come back six month later with something you didn't ask for, to answer a need you don't have anymore (I know, I'm oversimplifying…).
1. Go to the point, solve a business need
So, you have your idea for a dashboard, you've discussed the project with the users (right?) and you are ready. But where to start? Remember this: a graph, a table, the entire dashboard, are merely instrumental to solve a business need. It's about insights, not about data, not about design.
2. Don't use formulas
Yes, I know, this is Excel, and it is supposed to have formulas. What I am telling you is that you should aim at minimizing the number of independent formulas, and this should be a fundamental constraint to your global strategy. Too often I see Excel used as a database application. It is not, it is a spreadsheet (not everyone finds this obvious).
But how do you minimize the use of formulas? If your data table resides in an Excel sheet you'll have to rely heavily on lookup formulas, and that's one of the highways to spreadsheet hell. Instead, get the data from an external source (access, OLAP cube…) and bring data into Excel. Calculations should be performed at the source. After removing all the formulas you can, the remaining should be as clear as possible.
Excel Platform – A Great but Underrated Reporting tool (Part-2)
3. Abuse Pivot Tables
On the Excel Platform, every object (graph, table) in the Demographic Dashboard is linked to a pivot table. Let me give you an example. One of the charts shows population growth over the years, using 1996 as reference. Pivot tables can calculate that directly, I don't need to add a new layer of complexity by using formulas (to calculate the actual values and look up formulas to get them). So, make sure the specifications are understood and approved and the consequences of a radical change are clear.
The population table has 200,000 records, so I coundn'd fit into the Excel limit of 65 thousand rows (yes, that's changed in Excel 2007, but it is debatable if a table with a million rows in a spreadsheet application can be considered good practice). By using a pivot table I can overcome that limit in Excel Platform.
4. Use named ranges in excel Platform
To be able to use self-document formulas ("=sales-costs" is much simpler to understand than "=$D$42-$F$55″) is one of several uses of named ranges. But they are also the building blocks of interaction with the user and they make your Excel dashboard more robust.
5. Use as many sheets as you need, or more
You don't have to pay for each additional sheet you use in a workbook, so use as many as you need. Each cell in your dashboard report sheet should point to some other sheet where you actually perform the calculations. You should have at least three groups of sheets: a sheet with the dashboard report itself, sheets with the base data and other group with supporting data, definitions, parameters, etc. Add also a glossary sheet and a help sheet.
6. Use autoshapes as placeholders
Once you know what you need, start playing with the dashboard sheet. Use autoshapes to test alternative layouts or, better yet, use real objects (charts, tables…) linked to some dummy data.
Excel Platform – A Great but Underrated Reporting tool (Part-3)
7. Get rid of junk
There are two ways to wow your users: by designing a dashboard that actually answer needs, or by planting gauges and pie charts all over the place (this one can guarantee you a promotion in some dubious workplaces, but it will not help you in the long run). In the series on Xcelsius Dashboards you can see how difficult is to create something beyond the most basic and irrelevant charts.
So, get rid of Excel defaults and just try to make your dashboard as clean and clear as possible. You'll find many tips around here to improve your charts, so I'll not repeat myself.
8. Do you really need that extra-large chart?
Charts are usually larger than they should. What it really matters in a chart is the pattern, not the individual values, and that can be seen even with a very small chart.
9. Implement some level of interaction
A dashboard is not an exploratory tool, is something that should give you a clear picture of what is going on. But I believe that at least a basic level of interactions should be provided. User like to play with the tools and can they learn a lot more than just looking at some static image.
10. Document your work
Please, please, structure and document your workbook. Excel platform is a very flexible environment, but with flexibility comes responsibility… I am not a very organized person myself, but from time to time I try the tourist point of view: I pretend I never saw that file in my life and I'll try to understand it. If I can't or takes me too long, either I must redesign it or write a document that explains the basic structure and flow.
Bonus tip: there is always something missing…
Once you have a prototype, user will come up with new ideas. Some of them can be implemented, others will ruin your project and if you accept them you'll have to restart from scratch.


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Liu Wen stars in this stylish fashion editorial for Vogue China which is very attractive, and very hot.
Her face is stunning, and by the look of all the catwalks she has waltzed down and fashion campaigns she has fronted this year, Liu Wen could become a major face of Asia in the forth coming years.
In this Vogue China editorial, Liu Wen takes on the fashionable headwrap with charm and grace. Take note this chic belle will appear on covers and fashion stories in all the magazines you can think of, and she may even appear in every issue of Vogue China from now until a new girl comes along.


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Alcoholics Anonymous. Available at:
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/en%5Finformation%5Faa.cfm. Accessed April 15, 2007.
Carson RC, Butcher JN, Mineka S.
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Huebner R. Advances in Alcoholism Treatment.
Alcohol Research & Health. 2011;33:295-299.
Kleber HD, Weiss RD, et al.
Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorders.
2nd ed. American Psychiatric Association website. Available at:
http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/clinical-practice-guidelines. Accessed April 14, 200.
Marlatt GA, Donovan DM, eds.
Relapse Prevention.
2nd ed. New York, NY: The Guilford Press; 2005.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
website. Available at:
Rubak S. Motivational interviewing: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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I'm happy to announce that my ListenerProxy is updated to version 3.0.0. I also made it OpenSource. See the ListenerProxy page for more information: ListenerProxy v3.0.0
How we managed to get Alchemy1 working with FlashPlayer 11.2 Incubator and the secrets of SWF Tag 92
NOTE: The technique described in the following text is no longer used in public builds. It was limited to the Incubator release of FlashPlayer 11.2.
A few weeks ago, EPIC published it's Citadel Demo, driven by Alchemy2 with Stage3D. I assume, if you read this post, you'll know it wasn't possible to run Alchemy1 in FP 11.2. There was a lot of discussion about this on the internet and also at Adobe's prerelease forums. If you wanted to run your Stage3D application along with some Alchemy1 code, e.g. a physics library, the SWF won't run.
The mysterious thing was that EPIC's Citadel Demo also uses Stage3D along with Alchemy2. We thought the Player must be told by something inside the SWF that it's allowed to run Alchemy2 with Stage3D, so we started looking inside the UDKGamePreloader.swf. It's compiled with SWF Verison 13, while the UDKGame.swf is also compiled with SWF Version 13, but won't run if started directly.
What is this magic behind the scenes?
Adobe recently announced a nice little tool, called SWFInvestigator. With this tool you can inspect SWF files. We used this on the UDKGamePreloader.swf file and discovered a new unknown SWF Tag 92. I extracted the Tag by opening the file in a Hex Editor and jumping to the beginning of the Tag. SWFInvesitagor is so helpful that it tells you the position of the '(invalid)' Tag:
Name: (invalid)
Type: 92
Position: 8816
Length: 2722
RecordHeader: long
To extract the Tag, jump to this position and copy 'Length' Bytes from that position into a new file.
If you look through these Bytes, you'll discover some human readable Strings like 'Flash Runtime MOP' or 'Adobe Flash Runtime Premium Feature Certificate Authority1′. This might tell you the SWF is signed with some kind of code signing certificate. @ASVGuy found out it's ASN1 and shared his ASN1 Dump.
I found this nice program to inspect the certificate: ASN.1 Editor that provides a more comfortable viewing of the contents. But there's another way of inspecting the certificate. Just rename the file with the extracted Tag 92 to the suffix 'p7b', so you'll end up with a file 'Tag92.p7b'. Double click it and the Windows certmgr will open (I don't know if there're similar tools on Mac/Linux). Now you can easily view the contents. Unfortunately I don't know much about certificates, but I know that for code signing you need a public and a private certificate.
The big question is, how does FlashPlayer certify that the loaded SWF is well signed? Either they do an online-lookup, but Wireshark didn't capture any connection to be like that. So the private certificate has to be somewhere inside the FlashPlayer Plugin.
Please note that the License Agreement prohibits to reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the plugin. However, in my interpretation, it does not cover extracting private certificates. You can also get the private certificate with a hex editor by opening the plugin DLL and search for 'Premium'. I won't describe it any further and leave this up to you.
Fine. Found out the SWF is signed and if so, changing any Byte will cause the SWF to fail, but that's not entirely true. You may change the Bytes prior to the FrameRect Tag. But this is not really interesting.
Ok, let's get to the part how we got Alchemy1 running in FP 11.2.
EPIC's Loader is really fantastic! They've got a background picture as well as a soundloop playing while the SWF loads. We simply tried to load one of our demos by renaming our SWF file to 'UDKGame.swf'. SUCCESS! It loaded :)
It really was that simple to work around this code sigining thing. With EPIC's epic preloader SWF, you've got the ultimate weapon. A preloader loading the content you want, a background screen, music – anything else you need? ;)
We immediately contacted Adobe to inform them about this major security hole. This might be why they changed how this will work in future. I'm unsure, but I think the details are covered by the prerelease NDA, so I won't talk about this. What I can say is that Premium Features won't be signature based. Adobe will use a solution that is as straightforward as possible, so that devs can easily distribute their SWFs without having to resign them constantly.
Some last words on the future of Alchemy and Stage3D.
The following information about Alchemy2 is my very own interpretation.
Alchemy2 is not really a new version of Alchemy, since the produced ByteCode uses the same 'MOPs' as Alchemy1, e.g. li16. What's new about Alchemy2 is that it will be more easy to reuse existing C++ code with less modification. Alchemy2 will for example have it's own VFS(Virtual File System), it will also wrap a lot of libraries (we found an OpenGL ES2 wrapper in the UDKGame.swf). If you liked Alchemy1, you might want to continue using it. It will continue to work without needing to sign a SWF, buy licenses or anything else.
But if you want to use Stage3D along with Alchemy, you'll need a license and share revenue with Adobe. You won't have to share anything unless you made $50K. More details at Adobe.
Quote Tom Nguyen
- Anyone can use Alchemy (domain memory) with any SWF version now, no special signing or cert needed, in the final release of FP11.2 that we just released.
– The approach used in the FP11.2 prereleases was temporary behavior, and is not related to how premium features will be enabled in the future.
noobFuscator released
Our Flash / ActionScript 3.0 obfuscator is being shipped right now.
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212: Animal Handlers Policy
Safety Policy & Procedure Manual
Section 200: Workplace Safety
Revised: 2/22/2012
- Purpose
- Definitions
- Policy
- Additional Resources
The primary goal of the OSU Animal Handler Occupational Health and Safety Program is to evaluate and, if necessary, address potential risks that may be associated with the use of animals in the workplace. Enrollment in this program is mandatory for all OSU personnel who have substantial animal contact, including faculty, classified staff, faculty research assistants, research associates, technicians, graduate students, post-doctoral students, undergraduate students, visiting faculty, and others involved with animals.
Any live, vertebrate animal.
Animal Facility
Any and all buildings, rooms, areas, enclosures, or vehicles including satellite facilities, used for animal confinement, transport, maintenance, breeding, or experiments inclusive of surgical manipulation. A satellite facility is any containment outside of a core facility or centrally designated or managed area in which animals are housed for more than 24 hours.
Risk Assessment
The process by which risks associated with working with animals (such as hazardous biological, chemical, or physical agents; allergens; or zoonoses) are identified.
Risk Management
The process by which identified risks are managed through such actions as education, training, personal protective equipment, zoonoses surveillance, or immunization.
Risk Training and Education
A program of training and education about areas of risk when working with animals in general or with specific species.
Department chairs, faculty, and other OSU employees or affiliates who have oversight of University employees, students, or other individuals and who are involved with animals; those individuals who are not OSU employees but are affiliated through courtesy or adjunct appointments may serve as supervisors.
It is the policy of Oregon State University to comply with all pertinent Federal, State, and local regulations regarding the provision of personnel health programs for individuals who have animal contact.An occupational health and safety program must be a part of the overall animal care and use program and should focus on maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. The program should be based on risk assessment, risk management, training, preventive medicine, and medical treatment.
All persons involved in animal research, care, and handling (including animal fluids and unfixed tissues) as defined by this policy, shall participate in the university animal handler occupational health and safety program. Supervisors (department chairs, faculty and other OSU employees or affiliates who have oversight of University employees, students, or other individuals) are responsible for implementing this policy with individuals under their supervision.
A risk-based assessment of all persons involved in animal contact is performed to determine the level of participation in the OSU program. This assessment is initiated by a review of information provided on the completed Animal Contact Review and Initial Health Surveillance Questionnaire (ACRIHSIQ). This assessment considers hazards:
- Posed by the animals
- From biological, chemical, or physical agents used in the animal activity
- Arising from susceptibility of personnel.
Preventative Medicine
Participants are enrolled in the program prior to contact with animals. Each participant completes an ACRIHSIQ, which requires input from both the participant and their supervisor. The completed form is sent to the OSU Student Health Services (SHS) for risk assessment. A copy of the first section of the form, which outlines safety training and use of hazardous biological, chemical and physical agents, is forwarded to Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S). No medical information is included in the first section of the questionnaire.
If screening identifies potential health risks, SHS providers will further evaluate participants, provide immunizations, order titers, give occupational medicine recommendations, and refer as appropriate. Additional consultation is available through the Corvallis Clinic or Oregon Health Sciences University, and technical assistance is available from the OSU Laboratory Animal Resources Center (LARC) and EH&S. Individuals who decline participation in the medical evaluation portion of the program may do so by signing appropriate waivers acknowledging their awareness of risks.
Medical care of OSU personnel for work related injuries or illness will be provided by the employee's primary health care provider.
Employees will be asked about allergies associated with animal handling. Employees with a history of preexisting animal allergies or asthma will be provided with information and training as appropriate, and if needed will be referred to other medical providers.
All participants will have the following vaccinations documented through their ACRIHSIQ:
- Immunization with tetanus and diphtheria toxoids adsorbed (Td) will be updated according to recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) of the Center for Disease Control. Booster doses will be recommended as needed.
- Other vaccination recommendations will be determined on an individual basis after the risk assessment that reviews animal species, risk exposure, and personal health issues. SHS, with added consultation as needed from the Biosafety Officer, LARC or the Principal Investigator of the project, will make this determination.
Animal-Related Illness, Injury, or Unsafe Condition
- Individuals must notify their supervisor of suspected zoonoses or suspected work-related illness or work-related injury.
- Supervisors must report work-related illness or injury as defined in the OSU Safety Manual.
- Bites and scratches should be flushed immediately with water and then scrubbed with soap and water prior to reporting for treatment. Injured personnel should report for medical attention unless the injury is very minor.
- During clinic hours, it is highly recommended that students go to SHS for treatment or referral.
- Employees (faculty and staff) should report to the Corvallis Clinic Occupational Health department for treatment or referral during clinic hours.
- In the event of clinic closure, all injured personnel should go to a local health care facility or the emergency department, depending on the nature of the need.
- Employees, students, volunteers, and visitors should report all unsafe conditions, practices, or equipment to the supervisor, instructor, the University Safety Committee or EH&S whenever deficiencies are noted.
- Non-OSU affiliated individuals should see their normal health provider.
Training will include personal hygiene, occupational hazards (including injuries that might be incurred while working with specific species and allergies), zoonoses, and other safety/health risks related to animal contact. Initial training is documented on the ACRIHSIQ and signed by both the supervisor and the participant. Training topics presented will include, but not be limited to:
- Description of the OSU policy on animal handler occupational health and safety
- General safety procedures in use/handling of animals
- Animal Biosafety Levels
- Facility entry/exit procedures and general safety features
- Specific safety topics, including:
- How to handle and report injuries, illness, or exposures, including:
- Medical assistance and health care providers
- HR Advocate Public Incident Reporting Form and SAIF 801-Notice of Occupational Injury/Illness Form
- Points of contact for additional information
- Specialized training will be provided as needed based on evaluation of the ACRIHSIQ (e.g. training on respirator fitting and use, or Hantavirus protection for rodent field studies). Continuing occupational health and safety education will be provided as needed based on risk assessment.
Personal Hygiene
For Animal Biosafety Level II or higher, the department will provide animal handlers with suitable clothing, laundry arrangements and storage for street clothing as determined by the supervisor. Eating, drinking, and smoking are prohibited in all animal rooms.
Personal hygiene for biosafety is discussed in the OSU Biosafety Manual
Serum Banking
The OSU Biosafety Officer will assess which program participants, if any, should submit a serum sample for storage based on risk assessment. Storage and maintenance of sera will be the responsibility of SHS.
Individuals Covered Under Policy
OSU Employees
- Enrollment in this program is mandatory for all personnel for which OSU has responsibility and who have substantial animal contact. This includes but is not limited to faculty (including courtesy and adjunct faculty), classified staff, faculty research assistants, research associates, technicians, graduate students, post-doctoral students, student employees, visiting faculty, professional degree students, and any others involved with animals as defined under this policy. Volunteers or visiting clients should be apprised of health and safety issues by the appropriate OSU contact person at the animal site.
Non-OSU Individuals
- Non-OSU individuals are those who are non-employees working on non-OSU projects, but using animals on OSU facilities. This group of individuals will comply with this program. Cost for compliance (i.e. vaccinations) will be the responsibility of the non-OSU individual or their employer.
- Non-OSU individuals who are affiliated with OSU through courtesy or adjunct appointments are required to follow this policy as if they were OSU employees, due to their affiliation appointment with the university. Cost for compliance will be the responsibility of the affiliated individual or their employer.
- OSU students will not normally be required to enroll in the animal occupational health and safety program if their only exposure to animals is limited to structured, or centrally scheduled credit-courses. However, the class instructor should provide them with information about any health considerations relative to the species with which they will be working.
- Veterinary students and veterinary technicians receive additional services, such as rabies vaccination, under the direction of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Enrollment Process
- Participants will be formally enrolled using the OSU ACRIHSIQ for each individual who is listed on an IACUC Animal Care and Use Proposal (ACUP) or employee position description as working directly with animals. The questionnaire is completed at the time a new ACUP is submitted for review, when new personnel are added to the ACUP, or when requested during the hiring or employee review process. The principal investigator and the participant must complete this form.
- The LARC will enroll animal care personnel covered by the scope of this policy.
- Instructors of classes using animals will be responsible for providing the class students with information about
- species specific information
- personal hygiene information
- risk issues to humans
Services delivered by SHS will be subject to user-fee charges. Charges will be applied for any risk assessment when health issues are identified, as well as all required inoculations. The referring supervisor will provide information to SHS about the university account to charge for the services.
Responsibility for Program Components
1. Risk Assessment
- Managed and evaluated through review of a two-part form (ACRIHSIQ):
- initial screening to identify potential health risks and proper training;
- review of pertinent medical information by SHS
- Complemented by:
- a review by specific oversight committees for hazardous biological, chemical, and physical agents.
- a review of an activity by the IACUC.
- Assessments are based on information collected on the OSU ACRIHSIQ and on other forms used by oversight committees for animal use and hazardous biological, chemical, and physical agents. The individual employee's job description may also be used to assess risk as necessary.
2. Risk Management
- Managed by the supervisor of animal handlers.
- Managed by class instructors.
- Managed by department chairs and unit heads in ensuring awareness and accountability by members of the department or unit on this policy.
- Managed by the SHS, EH&S, and the LARC.
- Managed by the review processes for specific OSU oversight committees for hazardous biological, chemical and physical agents.
Research or teaching activities which involve individuals who are not enrolled in the occupational health and safety program, but are working with animals, will be interrupted or terminated at the discretion of the IACUC.
The Laboratory Animal Resources Center (LARC) will ensure compliance to this policy for all employees hired through LARC.
Additional Resources
Animal Contact Review and Initial Health Surveillance Questionnaire
Annual Health Surveillance Questionnaire


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Dear Lazyweb, I've been using git for a while for most of my projects, and I love it. It's fast, powerful, and it's actually quite simple to use. Whenever I start hacking on something, even if it's just a little utility that will never see the light of day, I generally initialize a git repo […]
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Publishing Git Repositories
May 29, 2007 – 3:00 pm
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GDB slowness
January 8, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Since I've been hacking on the Nemiver debugger, I've been doing a lot of faux-debugging (i.e. start up debugger, step through a few lines, shut down). One thing I noticed very regularly was that there were times when I'd step into a function (usually a function defined in an external library), and gdb would grind […]
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Colorscheme 0.3.90 Released
February 18, 2006 – 6:13 pm
Well, I've finally made another release of Colorscheme. I had put it on the back burner for a bit while I was doing a bunch of work on cairomm and gtkmm. But now I'm back working on it with a vengeance. A big part of why I'm excited to be hacking on Colorscheme again was […]


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Dean Lombardi: Anze Kopitar Must Learn To Handle Success
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LOMBARDI ON KOPITAR: Los Angeles Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi talks about his star center, Anze Kopitar, and his struggles this season after starting the year on fire. Part 2 of a series. Look for part 3 early next week.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings started the 2009-10 season on fire, as did center Anze Kopitar.
The Kings were scoring goals in bunches, as the line of left wing Ryan Smyth, right wing Justin Williams and Kopitar were torching just about every opponent they faced.
Kopitar was largely responsible for that, as he opened the season on a serious tear with fourteen goals and seventeen assists for 31 points in the team's first 21 games (October 3 – November 14, 2009).
Indeed, with Smyth going hard for loose pucks and consistently parking himself in front of the opposition's net, Kopitar found himself with more room to maneuver in the offensive zone, giving him more scoring chances.
But it was much more than Smyth that made Kopitar the scoring terror that he was early in the season.
Off-season conditioning and strength work added muscle and endurance to Kopitar's 6-3, 222-pound frame. That gave him more speed and power to get past defenders and to help him win more loose puck battles. Read more of this post


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International Student Design Competition
This is the third year of the UPA international Student Design Competition. Similar competitions have motivated and energized students to work on meaningful projects and led to initiatives that positively impacted lives of real people. Developing an ISDC submission gives your students the opportunity to create a portfolio piece, and being one of the 3 winning teams allows participants to set themselves apart from the crowd in an increasingly competitive job market.
Important Dates
- 15 April, 2011 Project Submissions Deadline 17:00 EST, Round 1 closed
- 10 May, 2011 Notification of Round 1 winners
- 20 May, 2011 Poster Submission Deadline 17:00 EST, Round 2 closed
- 20- 27 May 2011 Remote Judging of Round 2 participants
- 27 May 2011 Announcement of three winning teams invited to attend the conference
- 20-24 June, 2011 Posters and Oral Presentations of winning projects at the UPA International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Design Challenge: Making Life Easy!
Technology today is too hard to use. The design challenge this year supports the World Usability Day goal of Making Life Easy, www.worldusabilityday.org. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, communication, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first. Making products and services more user- friendly means making our world work better and our lives easier.
The iSDC invites student teams to invent a system or create a concept by following a user-centered design process that makes life easier for its users. Their solution could use any type of technology and result in an improvement to the quality of life or 'make life easier' for its users. A submission that also connects to the UPA conference them Designing for Social Change would be desirable, but is not obligatory.
To enter the competition, student teams may present either a concept (a clear, detailed design specification that can be taken to prototype), or a fully realized prototype. Either way, teams must clearly illustrate their design decisions and demonstrate the user centered design processes that have been followed. We strongly encourage consideration of:
- Previous work in this area and in adjacent areas of design, user experience, and human-computer interaction
- Ethnography and contextual research to ground the design decisions
- Evaluation of the designs with target users within iterative design framework


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No this in NOT a Im leaving thread. LOL I would never do that. I love pregame and all I do for it, but what I am sorry for is the very rough weekend I had in all sports. I am also sorry because I felt like i have slacked off the last couple of weeks. I haven't been giving out the normal info that I usually do, i've had allot of BBall threads with no info just picks. That is not me and i am sorry.
I will work very hard to change that and is should be easier on me now that college football is starting to wind down. I am still a busy person as I am doing other stuff for pregame like making sure the videos are published and google news articles, plus my normal handicapping. I do hold myself in to high standard and no matter how much I do I always feel i Can do more. LOL I will try and do more for the community.
On another note (and I really hate getting involved) but I do wish all the drama would be left out of the forums. I myself have been very respectful to everyone here because that is how I feel it should be. We are not here to fight with each other, but to beat the books. I see people leaving, good people and they shouldn't be. If there is a problem then shoot RJ or JD an email and they will look into what ever problems there are. I would never leave cause of the drama, but I just don't want to see other good people leave because someones dishonest or bashing other or whatever else they might leave for.
I found pregame 4 years ago and have loved all my time here and I have seen it grow and I want to continue to see it grow and I hope that everyone else feels the same way.
Again I am very sorry for recent lack of EXTRA participation or EXTRA info in the forums. I will try harder. I also am sorry for the very bad weekend and I will try harder to make sure that don't happen again.
I thank you all for letting me rant a little.
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Jeff hang in. You provide great information and your opinions are well respected. This is a brutal time for professional handicappers because of the overlap in sports with college basketball kicking in. Most 'cappers have strong and weak areas. There's just not enough time to do everything perfect and produce the records you feel you are capable of producing.
I've been concentrating on NFL and NBA. There just isn't enough time for me to do college basketball yet. I respect those who try to do everything. I think the key is doing what's most comfortable and produces the best winning percentage.
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Thanks Jeff. I do enjoy reading your threads. I always like the stats and google news plays you seem to find that are relevant to the games. Sometimes we dont win but atleast you know why you didnt win it. Keep up the work and the results will get there in your favor
Jeff no need to apoligize. I do follow you a whole lot. Even the Tennessee play today. I do not complain bro it is gambling and no one has the right to do so. good luck this coming week!!
Thanks Djs, Stephen, Damon and Chris. I do appreciate it and I feel that the Info I give out is helpful. Im just one of those that feels i can do more. LOL. It was a bad weekend and a rough couple of weeks to get everything doing with all the overlapping sports that I just felt the need to apologize. Thanks again guys
Jeff--- I follow you a lot (prob more than I follow anyone else here). I do that for two reasons...1. track record, 2. organization/presentation of selections is easy to follow. The only thing I would say is consider passing on a sport or two once in a while. This overlap can be overwhelming...don't feel as if your followers will go away if you have one or two days a week where you pass. Keep up the great work....you are one of the reasons I continually come back to pregame...... and I do appreciate the write ups.
Great Post Jeff!! You will bounce back everyone has a bad week, you cant win them all! All we ask for is honesty from these cappers
Big bounce, Jeff. Your posts are very informative and I always look for them. No apologies, buddy.
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Soft hues and vintage-look patterns cheer this little cottage in the big woods
By Susan Hillstrom
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
It was the lush setting—at the edge of a cliff above a river ravine—that seduced Jessica Motherwell and Bill Richardson. But they were also smitten with the cozy house, which had perched there, surrounded by a temperate rain forest of coniferous trees, for nearly 50 years.
he couple bought it, "totally gutted it down to the bare bones…and extensively renovated it in the same footprint," says Jessica. Architect Paul Phillips of Environmental Design Group in Vancouver, British Columbia, updated the circa-1930s English Tudor-style home but remained faithful to its cottage charm and much of the original floor plan.
Once the structural renovation of the 3,000-square-foot house—including installation of reclaimed Douglas fir ceiling beams and completely new wiring and insulation—was finished, the couple enlisted the help of interior designer Nina Hamilton of Napanee Design, based in West Vancouver. She set about furnishing the house, choosing a palette of pure, pretty colors to bring it to life. Such hues also provided a much-needed bonus, a little cheer in the rainy Pacific Northwest climate. "You need lightness to counteract the grayness of our winters," Hamilton says. The house itself doesn't get a great deal of sunshine. And towering cedar trees and mists rising from the river in colder months shroud it in certain darkness, making light interior colors all the more important.
"The owners' sense of color was clean and fresh. They didn't want any muddy or earthy tones," says Hamilton. The white plaster walls on the first floor, for instance, repaired and covered with a clear glaze (but unpainted), cast a soft glow, like "honey vanilla ice cream," says Jessica. Hamilton describes it as "warmer than most shades of white." Against this backdrop, the pale palette in the living room stands out in subtle contrast—toile curtains in a pinkish red, an ivory easy chair, and a sofa covered in a mélange of mellow patterns.
The fireplace surround of silvery river rock dominates the dining room. The stones, their soft hue in perfect keeping with the pale colors used elsewhere, are small—in correct scale to the modest dimensions of the room. Here, a pressed-tin ceiling provides an additional textural element. "When Nina first walked into this room she said, 'Ahh, a tin ceiling would be great here,' " Jessica recalls. "And she was right—it's perfect." Hamilton explains that "a strongly textured detail, such as this ceiling, adds a few degrees of warmth to a room." Covered with white paint, then wiped almost clean, the ceiling acquired an antiquelike patina.
The centerpiece of the dining room is a custom-made, nine-foot-long, hardwood table surrounded by chairs slipcovered in delicate colors—some in a light blue-and-white stripe, others in an old-fashioned floral; the linen covers can be removed easily and laundered, as can all the fabrics and rugs in this environmentally friendly house.
The room, which faces the river, is fitted with four sets of French doors. These, and new double-hung windows that cover "the whole back of the house," replace a long, nearly solid wall with "a few small windows," as the architect says. The doors and windows fulfill his main goal for this remodel: to directly relate the house to its remarkable natural setting. The dining room, the living room, and the upstairs bedrooms are now wide open to the sight of the river with herons and eagles flying overhead, and to "the most wonderful sound of rushing water you can imagine," says Jessica.
A new pass-through between the dining room and kitchen allows people in the kitchen to enjoy that view, too. But it also affords them privacy: "If the kitchen is noisy or messy," says Jessica, "we can close the pass-through door." To step up efficiency, the owners bestowed on the kitchen a new Miele range and Sub-Zero fridge and roomier, floor-to-ceiling pine cabinets—painted the same soft ivory that brightens the other first-floor rooms. To offset the utter simplicity of the cabinet design, Hamilton added color-flecked countertops of Canadian gold granite, honed, she says, "because it's warmer than a polished surface, which can cool down a room;" pewter-tone hardware; diamond-pane casement windows; a backsplash made of slightly rounded tiles; and a sculptural range hood. The kitchen floor consists of 16-inch-square mica slate tiles with a 10-inch-wide mosaic and colored glass border that sparkles "like subtle little jewels," says Jessica. "I walk barefoot here most of the time—it's like having nature underfoot."
The whole house now, though ten minutes from the city center, has the feel of a splendid forest refuge.


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The mission of 21st Century Leaders is to inspire the next generation of Georgia leaders by empowering high school students with essential business and community leadership skills through programs connecting a diverse group of enthusiastic peers and passionate professionals.
Sanjid Dewan, Darlington School, Class of 2014
I enjoyed the opportunity to connect with other students that I might not have otherwise. I had the chance to step out of my comfort zone and connect with those who are not like me. I now know many students in schools dispersed all over Georgia. I have made relationships with students both in my community and across the state.
After this program, I am able to call myself an extrovert. I have gained many networking skills that will benefit me both now, and in the future.
Angela Jiang, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Class of 2015
The level of respect that every participant in the 21CL program is treated with between the coordinators, sponsors, and professionals is practically non-existent in any other organization. Although I am merely a high school student, the respect I am given empowers me and motivates me to pursue my professional goals and dreams. 21CL is a great program that helps students reach their inner potential outside the typical classroom and high school setting. In 21CL, we are not simply teenagers – we truly are leaders of the future, on level with every adult, looked to for our input, and admired for our determination in advancing society.
Because of my participation in 21CL, I can truly call myself a highly motivated individual. I will go to no end to advancing myself, and I will never settle for less than what I have worked for. After meeting and interacting with business professionals, I have role models to look up to. After being given great opportunities, I am not afraid to take initiative. I am truly excited for my future, and I feel that 21st Century Leaders has prepared me for my future career. Establishing confidence in yourself serves you greatly. Even in the classroom setting, I have noticed this year that I have procrastinated less, and that I am more driven to deliver quality work. I have also successfully run for several leadership positions. 21CL has helped me to develop as a young adult.
21CL has opened a great number of new relationships and connections – current and potential. Each 21CL leader recognizes each other because of our experiences. The alumni that continually come back to contribute to this program only serve to prove how strong these relationships can become. During the summer camps, I looked up to my camp coordinators, and in return, I have made long-lasting connections and friendships. Within my fellow leaders, I have made several strong friendships that have lasted, no matter what distance we may be apart. It is truly incredible how a small group of people can open up hundreds of possible new relationships and friendships. Thus, as every person in 21CL strives to advance their lives and because of our goals and dreams, we are inevitably connected and tied together as an organization.
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During my first summer with 21st Century Leaders, I enjoyed the way that the staff made me feel, you feel like you are the King of the world! I also enjoyed the workshops that I went to. They were very engaging and very educational.
I've changed a lot because of 21st Century Leaders. I have become a better leader in my broadcast journalism class because it helped me to understand what a leader is. It's not just about receiving all the fame and the good jobs, but really understanding how to be a proactive leader. I have built tons and tons on relationships with this program, I'm about 200 miles away from half of the leaders that were at the camp, but I stay in contact with them and with Mr. Bob, Ms. Miriam, and with Ms. Prissy. They are wonderful people and the right people to be in the positions that they are in. I really, really, really, think that every child should go through 21st Century Leaders. This a great program!
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My favorite part about all three 21st Century Leaders programs I attended was being a part of activities that I alone would have never had the opportunity to be a part of. I was exposed to some of the most successful leaders in our state and even got to sit with them at a dinner table and receive some motivational words from them. I was taken to the corporate offices of some of the most popular companies in our state, and even visited the Oglethorpe reservoir! 21st Century Leaders gave me the most unique and wonderful experiences that to this day I consider my favorite.
21st Century Leaders molded me into the leader I am today. While I did take on many leadership roles in my high school before the programs, I was never certain on how to be a great leader. 21st Century Leaders taught me that a great leader does not always have to be the most outspoken person in a team, and can sometimes just be the person that leads by example. 21st Century Leaders staff also showed me great support by taking the time to appreciate small things I would do throughout the week. Through this, I gained a stronger confidence that not even the sky is the limit, and it has made me a more positive person than when I entered the programs. I am no longer afraid to risks because the people in the programs have taught me that there is no such thing as failure unless you stop trying.
21st Century Leaders has also been the catalyst for many of the endeavors I took on my junior and senior year of high school. After doing G5! @ Goizueta and Berry EarthCare Summer Programs, I was inspired by some of the leaders I met to make a change. It inspired me to start the Latinos Unidos club at my high school which is a club that is targeted towards Hispanic students and parents to get them more involved in academics and community service to ultimately help guide them through the high school process to lead them to college. The relationships I made in the program made this very possible because I had a support system that helped give me ideas on how to start and where to take the club as it expanded. At the G5! @ Goizueta program I received a brochure about Robert Goizueta and his scholarship fund. Thanks to learning about him, I applied and became a recipient for his scholarship at Reinhardt University and will now be attending college. Some of my favorite relationships I built occurred at the CNN Leadership Unplugged program. After attending the program, a local magazine invited me to write an article about the program including pictures of my week. 21st Century Leaders then invited me to be a part of the CNN Fix Our Schools Segment with Carl Azuz. I cannot even begin to describe how blessed I feel with the relationships I have made through 21st Century Leaders and its staff. I have great comfort knowing I have them as a support system, and I know they will continue to be there for me throughout the years.
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|Our plans are myriad and excessively complex!
The internet is a schizophrenic piece of technology. It is a true soapbox for any and all to air their ills, their dreams and their ideas. It is a world where one minute I can learn about how to make a motor out of a battery, a button magnet and copper wire and the next learn about how we live in a shadowy conspiracy world where Lizard Men rule us all and only keep us around so that their excessively complex Xanatos Gambit can pay off so they can capture the macguffin that they deeply desire(And no, I can tell the difference between a World Of Darkness scenario and a crazy man's ranting).
|I solve arguments with the lightsaber of skepticism!
For every P. Z. Myers there is a Ken Ham, for every Paul Krugman there is a Ron Paul supporter, for every den of atheist inequity and vice there exists an equally wretched hive of religious scum and villiany. But that is the thing. The internet is a true soap box. A true bastion of free speech, granted there are local rules mostly imposed by individual websites and bar copyright law and illegal pornography pretty much anything and everything goes, but so does the criticism of anything and everything.
Even the cutting edge of taste (the very razor's edge between tasteful and tasteless) that is 4Chan is at it's corroded cynical blackened heart a bastion of free speech. Even 4Chan, a mostly lawless space still does adhere to rules as seen by it's denizens championing such causes such as anti-scientology protests, their known meme of "summoning the party bus" (Tracking a paedophile who was soliciting for images down and having his details sent to the FBI) and even speaking out against animal abuse by a woman who threw a cat into a bin.
But that's the thing, we are free to speak. Any controls on what we "say" (not what we do) is a restriction on freedom of speech. And my freedom of speech can be impinged.
India has passed the IT act of 2000, and this act enshrines a rule stating that any comment that is regarded as objectionable must be removed within 36 hours. Material defeined as "grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially/ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling or otherwise unlawful in any matter what so ever. Anything which threatens "the unity, integrity, defence, security, sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, or causes incitement of cognisable offence or prevents investigation of an offence or is insulting to another nation".
Well that is the whole law. But of particular note is the laws that are considered "grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, hateful, ethnically objectionable, disparaging and things which affect relationships with foreign states and things that are insulting to another nation".
These things are easily open to interpretation. Honest criticism can be slotted into this by simple subjectivity. While grossly harmful can be applied to such practices as homeopathy, it can also be applied by homeopaths to us in medicine. Harassment, Defamatory, Hateful are subjective qualifiers in themselves. Blasphemy is something simply biased against atheists since our entire world view is blasphemous in almost every religion's eyes. Obscenity is again something subjective, pornography is not really bad when taken in a western context. There are genuine criticisms that you make on ethnic situations. Complaints against child marriage, circumcision, caste system, gender selection and arranged marriages are all entrenched in various cultures. The caste system is an Indian cultural phenomenon and complaints about it are ethnic in nature. And there are many things that are insulting to various nations.
Criticism is by nature disparaging, defamatory and can be considered as harassment. Banning criticism is banning free speech. And yes, I know it's suspiciously precise in stopping things like Wikileaks. Infact I am pretty sure what this legislature is aimed at is a combination of knee jerk reaction against criticism of political parties by Indian bloggers (Who are mainly middle class and see this as a forum to unleash their pent up frustration at a universally corrupt government system and inept local leadership.), an attempt to somehow secure India from terror threats by making it difficult to use internet cafes and finally a simple fist shaking gesture at individuals such as Assange whose Wikileaks reports haven't been kind to India.
This is a blow against all freedom. The internet should and must be a free forum where ideas can be discussed. It is a bastion of global discourse and exchange of opinions. Banning the flow of information and criticism is to blind yourself to a truly powerful tool. The globalisation of thought, means that the ideas a person has anywhere across the world are pertinent to people in other parts of the world. That our combined knowledge and opinions can be improved by the opinions of others and thus produce real change in society.
Like it or not, India is changing. My parents keep telling me so, but it still has a long way to go. You cannot have the development of the west with the villager and tribal mindset that pervades a lot of people. You cannot have the economy of the west when you regard women as uppity chattel. Criticism is to be taken, to be analysed and to be corrected by changes and improvements.
I myself would be guilty of cultural criticism, blasphemy and obscene material simply because I am critical of stupid aspects of culture, don't believe in respecting mythical creatures and believe in sexual education and the sexual revolution as a key part of the improvement of women's rights and thinking in the UK and indeed the rest of the world.
This is a step backwards for freedom and for India as a whole.


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