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Many health and advocacy groups are concerned about the influence of premixed alcohols — known as ready-to-drinks (RTDs) — on teenage alcohol use. An RTD is part spirit or wine and part non-alcoholic drink, such as milk or a soft drink, bought in a premixed format. They're also known as 'alcopops' or 'designer' drinks. Research shows that alcopops are extremely popular with underage drinkers, and the drink of choice for underage binge drinkers. They're the most commonly consumed form of alcohol among 12–17-year-old girls, are considered an initiation drink by many young people, and have been described by industry and concerned groups alike as 'bridging' or 'gateway' beverages for less experienced drinkers, who aren't yet used to the taste of alcohol. Their popularity among younger teenagers has been attributed to their trendy packaging and sweet flavours, which can mask the taste of alcohol. As one journalist quipped, an alcopop is "a fizzy drink which allows alcohol to be introduced into the bloodstream while bypassing the taste buds". With the above concerns in mind, we set out to find how easy it would be for young people (of drinking age, to keep it legal) to detect the presence of alcohol in alcopops and other alcoholic beverages, using a blind taste test that included a mixture of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
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As the table above shows, many of our teenage participants had difficulty detecting alcohol in the alcopops — only 69% thought they contained alcohol, compared with 100% correctly identifying the beer and wine as alcoholic drinks. Almost a quarter of the teenagers couldn't taste the alcohol in alcopops. They found it most difficult to identify it in Vodka Mudshake (which looks and tastes rather like a chocolate milkshake), particularly the males — only 51% thought this beverage contained alcohol. Bear in mind, these were 18 and 19-year-olds with some experience drinking alcohol. It's likely younger drinkers would find it even harder to tell. According to one participant, "That's what these are great for — because they do taste like soft drink, it's good for kids that have no alcohol experience whatsoever, so they don't have to taste the alcohol and they don't realise how drunk they're getting." And in terms of appeal, alcopops were the most popular alcoholic beverage in our trial — 60% of participants liked their taste (not far behind the 77% who liked the soft drinks), compared with 25% who liked wine and 38% beer. They're even more appealing when you're younger, according to our 18–19-year-olds. Said one, "I used to drink all of these when I was a bit younger ... Like when I was at school." Alcopop producers use colours as shortcut cues to flavour expectations — green for apple or lime, pink for guava and red for raspberry, for example. But colour itself is also a major part of the appeal of many alcopops for teenagers. An advertorial for Bacardi Breezer describes deep raspberry red as the "hot glamour colour this season" for nails, lips, heels and clutch bags, and goes on to say, "All you need to complete your hot, berry delicious look is another fashion accessory — the new Raspberry Bacardi Breezer." According to one of our teenage participants, "Wine obviously doesn't have a good colour to it but you see some of these alcopops and you go 'oh, it's pink!'"
78 teenagers aged 18 and 19 years old, roughly half of them male and half female, took part in our taste test of a range of drinks that included beer, white wine, four kinds of soft drink and four alcopops — 10 in total. Samples were unbranded and each participant received them in a different order. Each participant tasted all 10 samples. The alcopops used in the taste test were:
For each sample, participants were asked if they thought the drink contained alcohol, and whether they liked the taste and found its colour appealing. The teenagers also completed a survey about their drinking habits and awareness of alcohol advertising. Sixteen also took part in focus groups, discussing alcohol consumption in general, and alcopops more specifically.
Every day in Australia, young people are exposed to high and increasing levels of alcohol advertising and marketing, which research shows can have an influence on teenage drinking. 91% of our taste test participants recalled seeing alcohol advertising in the past month. The most recalled advertising was for beer at 43%, followed by alcopops, 16%. Most alcohol advertising was last seen on television, 71%, followed by billboards at 56%, pubs and clubs at 49%, bottle shops at 39%, magazines at 34% and 14% on the internet. In relation to alcohol advertising, there are two complementary industry self-regulation codes: the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) Advertiser Code of Ethics (which applies to all forms of advertising) and the Alcoholic Beverages Advertising Code (ABAC). In addition, many of the larger companies have their own marketing code of practice. The codes give guidelines for advertising with specific reference to children and adolescents, but there are some gaps — a major one being the internet. The ABAC extends to websites owned or endorsed by alcohol beverage brands. But at present there's no stipulation as to what kinds of third-party site are deemed acceptable for online alcohol ads. And the youth-appealing internet is a surefire way of reaching a young audience.
While alcopop producers may argue they're exclusively aiming at the 18–25-year-old market, it's not surprising that the marketing still manages to reach millions of impressionable young teenagers. We found promotions for alcoholic products, including the alcopop WKD ('wicked') Original Vodka Blue, for example, alongside promos for the latest teen movies and Nancy Drew games on girl.com.au — an online girls magazine that 'addresses issues which face today's youth'. This is at odds with a message on the website of WKD drinks owner, Beverage Brands, which states: "The marketing of our brands is strictly targeted at the 18-plus age group." After CHOICE contacted WKD, the item was removed from the website. Alcopop marketing in particular draws heavily on pop-culture references and young, hip images to create a sense of identity and individual style, clearly appealing to the young, fashion-conscious consumer. The producer of Vodka Cruiser, for example, describes its drinker as someone who 'blends in with their peer group'. You're invited to 'get on and ride the wave with this bright, bubbly and fun brand'. And you're assured that 'Vodka Cruiser is still the fashion RTD for the 21st Century'. Alcopop marketing cleverly uses the knowledge that young people today choose their drinks to reflect who they are and who they want to be. As one of our female participants told us, "I think with girls, if they see another girl that's 18 or 17 [drinking alcopops], and they're 15 or 16, they think it's cute ... like the bottle."
In Australian society, drinking alcohol is part of the 'rite of passage' to adulthood and is an important part of the social life of many young people and adults. But levels of underage drinking are high. The most recent national survey of Australian secondary school students found that by the age of 13, 80% had tried alcohol. This number increased with age to around 86% of 14-year-olds and 96% of 17-year-olds. Ten per cent of 12-year-olds were current drinkers, meaning they'd drunk alcohol in the week prior to the survey, and this increased to reach a peak of 49% among 17-year-olds. And it's not just their age; the way they're drinking is also a cause for concern. Around 20% of all 16- and 17-year-old students (and around 40% of current drinkers in these age groups) drank alcohol at risky levels — that's seven or more drinks in one day for males and five or more for females (usually referred to as binge drinking). Why does it matter? Many people probably think experimenting with alcohol is a normal part of teenage development. However, apart from the risks associated with being drunk (such as accidents), there's a growing body of evidence that early onset of alcohol use, including binge drinking, puts people at increased risk of problems later in life, including adult alcohol dependence, illicit drug use and psychiatric problems.
It's clear from CHOICE'S test that the use of sweet flavours reduces the natural resistance many teenagers have to the strong and (to many of them) unpleasant taste of alcohol. In fact it's long been argued that alcopops entice youngsters to begin drinking at an earlier age and that they're associated with more frequent drinking and binge drinking in young people. And the way these products are marketed hardly deters young drinkers from aspiring to drink them. According to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the growth of this product category in the Australian market has been fast. Between 2004 and 2006 there was a 21% increase in the availability of alcopops, and estimated consumption of alcopops by people aged 15 and over increased by around 16%. Some studies have found alcopops to be partially responsible for the observed increase in total alcohol consumption in adolescents. Contrary to this, though, a recent review of the published literature on the impact of alcopops on adolescent drinking found that evidence for these associations is scarce.
It's difficult for parents of young teenagers to know what approach to take with alcohol. Do you introduce your children to alcohol in an attempt to educate them to be discerning about drinking or, alternatively, encourage them not to use alcohol until they reach the legal age? Is it appropriate to provide your teenager with alcohol to take to a party? Is there something you can do to help your teenagers avoid alcohol-related harm? Unfortunately, there's little in the way of official guidelines for parents to follow. However, a government report conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies concluded that there's a number of key messages for parents on the topic that might help.
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The P100 is definitely the current big deal in Nikon's Coolpix performance line. It's a camera that surpasses the P90 (a good performer in its own right) in so many ways. Shutter lag and AF performance are faster. The really nasty chromic aberration that popped up in certain P90 telephoto shots is a dim memory. High ISO noise performance is noticeably better and 1080p HD video is on board, along with some speedy continuous shooting options and other specialized image enhancers that owe their existence, at least in part, to BSI technology. The 3.0-inch monitor now boasts twice the resolution of the P90, and the lens has a little extra "tele" on the telephoto end of the zoom.
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DHAKA - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will sign defence and nuclear energy deals worth US$1.5 billion (S$1.8 billion) during a three-day visit to Russia which begins on Monday, the government announced.
Ms Hasina flew out the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Monday at the head of a 54-member delegation to Moscow where she is expected to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin at his Kremlin offices on Tuesday.
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By Razor Sharp Sports
Back in Mid-August myself,along with a group of handicappers here on Freeplays.com made our predictions for the upcoming NFL and College Football season. I am happy to report that my prediction for the Super Bowl was better than last year, but then again it couldn't have gotten much worse. This year at least I had one of my teams that I predicted in the Super Bowl make the playoffs. As for College Football I had two of the four teams in the College Final Four. I would have had three if Braxton Miller wounld have gotten hurt a week later. I had Ohio St in the Final Four originally, but took them out when Miller got hurt. So again I was off. Still some of our handicappers have done much better. Lets look at back at the predictions and see who did the best.
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It is time to kick off the football season! A time of the year when so many of us celebrate as much Christmas morning! Whether your game is college or NFL it doesn't matter because they both get underway for real in the next couple weeks. Because of that it is time for the Freeplays.com Handicappers Football Predictions. 9 of our handicappers have made their predictions for the NFL and BCS. They are Razor Sharp Sports (RS), Jim Feist (JF), #1 Sports (#1), Vegas Steam Line (VS), Arthur Ralph (AR), Easy Money (EM), Teya Sports (TS), Hawkeye Sports (HS) and a brand new handicapper to the Freeplays family, Kevin Todd (KT). I have to warn you that predictions can be tricky and not always work out. Last year was the perfect example as I made possibly the worst Super Bowl Prediction ever with Houston over Atlanta. So lets see if I can redeem myself and she who everyone else likes.
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Back in Mid-March when everyone was thinking about March Madness, some of the Freeplays.com handicappers were thinking about baseball and making their 2013 predictions. As we expected there were plenty of suprises and misses. We had 7 of our top Freeplays.com handicappers make their picks – Razor Sharp (RS), Mike Wynn (MW), Kenny Towers (KT), Vegas Steam Line (VS), Hawkeye Sports (HS), Teyas Sports (TS) & Easy Money (EM). So what were the biggest surprises, misses, and who was right? Let's take a look.
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Every year hopes are high in the NFL for pretty much all 32 teams. Unlike the NBA where only about 5 or 6 teams really have a legit chance of winning the championship, or even less in Major League Baseball, the NFL has seen teams rise from the bottom one year to a Super Bowl the next. The word "repeat" is hardly ever heard after the term "Super Bowl Champion". Finally the 12 playoff teams from the past season, return to the playoffs less than 50% of the time. As a matter of fact, in the past 7 seasons, of the 12 teams that made the playoffs the year before, only an average of 5.4 teams per season make it back to the playoffs and when you think that that Colts have made it to they playoffs every year since 2002, the rest of the leagues average drops even more. As a matter of fact, in the last 7 seasons, there has never been a season with more than 7 repeat playoff teams from the season before. So with that said we asked some of the Freeplays.com handicappers to predict their 2010-11 NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl. Lets take a look at what they come up with. A couple quick notes. First the 12 playoff teams from last season were the Patriots, Jets, Bengals, Ravens, Colts, Chargers, Cowboys, Eagles,Vikings, Packers, Saints and Cardinals. Second of all, it was Spike Measer at Big Time Sports that predicted the Colts and the Saints in the Super Bowl last year. So this year we had 10 handicappers fill out their selections, so lets take a look at what they selected. The handicappers we Mike Wynn (MW), Razor Sharp (RS), Jim Feist (JF), Big Time (BT), #1 Sports (#1), Easy Money (EM), Arthur Ralph (AR) Vegas Steam Line (VS), Hawkeye Sports (HS) and Teya's Sports (TS).
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There are always a few surprises in week one and this year was certainly no exception. The Patriots got a tight victory but lost QB, Tom Brady, for the season. The other two of many 'experts' top three in league, the Colts and Chargers, both lost and week two is sure to have more excitement. The only action for me in those three games was a best bet win with ten point underdog Carolina (Outright over San Diego) and overall for the weekend we delivered a Perfect 6-0 with Football Locks. Our complimentary game breakdown for week two is when those Panthers from Carolina host the Chicago Bears. Last week it was the Bears that took down Indianapolis as a double digit underdog and it was even further surprising how it was accomplished with considerable ease, but more on that in a bit.
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We are focusing our complimentary game breakdown this week on the start of conference play in the Atlantic Coast Conference this weekend in Chestnut Hill. Where the Boston College Eagles host the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Georgia Tech has a new head coach for 2008, in the form of Triple Option Offensive Wizard Paul Johnson. Johnson has earned that reputation with more than a few overachieving teams in Navy that were propelled by his high octane option attack. Week one was an easy win over a 1-AA Jacksonville State team, however both good and bad signs were evident for the Yellow Jackets. For instance, sophomore QB Josh Nebit gained only 87 yards through the air on 5 completions out of 12 attempts with no touchdowns but added 11 carries including two touchdowns and total of 60 rushing yards. Also looking good was sophomore RB Jonathan Dwyer, who totaled 112 rushing yards on 11 carries and added two more touchdowns on the ground. Also rushing into the end zone for GTech was freshman RB Roddy White with a score to highlight his 3 carries for 61 yards and he added 2 catches for 50 yards as well. But they fumbled six times as a unitand that is obviously way too many, but is also part of learning the time and ready triple option.
College football gets underway with a full board this week and directly out of the gate is a very nice Thursday card. Our well earned Vegas strip reputation as 'The College Football Gurus' has the sportsbooks dreading our excitement but players from coast to coast giddy with future profit pleasure and the wait is over as it starts with a bang on Thursday!


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On Friday, May 20, a CLE seminar will be held at the Charleston Federal Courthouse in the same courtroom where Briggs was tried. Seminar faculty includes Professor Ogletree, Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Perry and U.S. District Court Judges Richard M. Gergel and J. Michelle Childs. Click here for registration information. Members planning to attend are encouraged to secure hotel reservations as soon as possible. Non-compliance with MCLE requirements The Court has published a list attorneys who have been administratively suspended for failure to comply with MCLE requirements as of May 5. To view the list, click here. Eddie Weinberg is making a difference Ethel (Eddie) Weinberg is the latest attorney to join the Bar Foundation's planned giving efforts with a significant gift to the Foundation. If the name seems familiar, it should. 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"Seizures may develop immediately after an injury to the brain or may develop in delayed fashion, showing up months or years after the initial trauma. Generally speaking, the risk of post traumatic seizures is related to the severity of the injury — the greater the injury, the higher the risk of developing seizures. Even mild to moderate injuries can result in seizures.
There are many kinds of seizures and seizures are not an uncommon condition among persons without head injuries. It is thought that a head injury disrupts the pathways of the brain and that an epileptic seizure can be viewed as a sort of short-circuit of the brain's electrical functioning. During the seizure the electrical fields in the brain are overloaded, resulting in seizures.
The most commonly seen seizures related to traumatic brain injury are "generalized" seizures, which are also called "Tonic-Clonic" or "Grand Mal" seizures.
Persons who have had head trauma are twelve times as likely as the general population to suffer seizures.
Approximately 57% of head injured individuals developed epilepsy within one-year of injury. Longer onset epilepsy beginning more than four years after the trauma occurs in 20% of patients who developed epilepsy.
It is estimated that 30% of all individuals suffering head trauma developed post-traumatic seizures and 80% of the time they occur within the first 24-months."
Reference: http://www.braininjury.com/seizuresandheadinjury.html
Phylis Feiner Johnson
Tags: accident, brain, injury, post-traumatic, risk, seizures, tonic-clonic
My epilepsy occurred 2 years after falling and getting a concussion while snowboarding. Nobody told me it could happen but it did and now I have grand mals. My husband always asks me if I regret snowboarding now. It's hard to answer. Part of me says no. Part of me says yes. Hard one to answer.
It's interesting to see these statistics. I'm one of those people who has no definitive idea why I have seizures. I have had a number of MRIs over the years and they always come back normal. I was in a motorcycle accident about a year before the seizures started and had hit my head on the ground. I was wearing a helment and never lost consciousness, so I figured I would be OK. So, maybe it was the accident, maybe not. I'll never know for certain. But, the statistics here make a strong case for it being the head trauma.
I think for the rest of my life I will be confused how my seizures all of the sudden started. It started with the neurologists saying that the falls that I had, where I hit my head, was the reason for the seizures. These were bad falls where I hit my head on concrete, but it was over 20 years earlier. Once it was in the bottom of a swimming pool where I felt a shocking/electrical feeling up my body through my neck when it happened. It wasn't until they cut out an area of my brain that was discolored, that they gave a different reason for the seizures. After the section that was cut out and tested, I was told that the seizures were being caused by "Chronic Spinal Meningitis". I just have a hard to believing that. I still, years later, don't trust that is the whole reason. How could I have "chronic spinal meningitis" and never know it?? Would you go ahead and just believe that. I had read about the spinal meningitis, and everything I read said that you need to get to medical care immediately. I never did, never knowing I had it! I can look back at being really sick, like a bad flu, and wondering if it was related but.....I will never know. I still wonder then why did I have "chronic" meningitis? Does that mean I can still get it and cause more seizures??? I have not been told anything my the medical experts and wish they did so I don't have to continue wondering if if will return for the same reason. hmmmm, what do you think? laura
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Life is never quite what you expect, and neither is writing—or publishing. I haven't been active in the publishing industry for the last few years, but not because of the dwindling market, the shrinking midlist, the economy, or any other such practical-sounding reasons. It's been my personal life that's been a little crazy, but once a writer, always a writer—and even the worst of times finally gets better.
So here I am. The worst of times are over, and it's time to rejoin the world of publishing. I'm excited about it—and the new project I'm working on. It's too soon to say much, so stay tuned...
Thanks for visiting, and I hope to see you again soon.
Harlequin Historicals published my first two books. Shades of Gray was released in March 2002, and The Unlikely Groom was a February 2005 release. Although Shades was my first published novel—the book of my heart—and will always be special to me, Groom was set in Alaska, my beloved home of 30 years.
Neither Shades of Gray nor The Unlikely Groom is available in bookstores any longer—unless you find them used, which you can do through Amazon.com. If you haven't read them, I'm delighted to invite you to spend some time with Derek and Amber on the Double F Ranch in post-Civil War Texas, or with Lucas and Ashlynne during the Klondike gold rush in Skagway, Alaska.
I've started and stopped many different projects over the last few years, always with much hope that this was the one. The one that wouild take me back to that place of passion, where I couldn't wait to sit down at the computer and give life to the ideas and people in my head. Nothing seemed to work, but I give myself credit for continuing to try.
My perseverance finally seems to be paying off, and I'm more than 100 pages into the book I call The Scent of Forgiveness. I'll be posting about it on my blog, so check back soon for updates.
Thanks to all of you out there who have written asking about Gideon, Beau and other characters I left behind in Shades of Gray, and even Willie from The Unlikely Groom. I don't know when it might happen, but I'll do my best to bring them back to life again soon.
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The Bath International Dance Festival sees top dance stars visit venues across this historic city to teach their graceful moves to all willing students. Leave as an expert in the Modern Jive, street dancing or even Georgian period dancing.
Saturday's programme is filled with varied dance classes and exhibitions in the Abbey Square, while Sunday sees an attempt at the world's largest Umbrella Dance, followed by a Masked Ball in the evening at Bath's Georgian Assembly Rooms.
On the Monday, the classes continue in the morning before the festival is wrapped up with an afternoon show and the closing cabaret.
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Gareth Bale scored his first goal in six weeks as Real Madrid powered their way past Real Betis 5-0 to go joint-top of the Primera Division.
Bale sent a left-footed free-kick into the net midway through the first half after Cristiano Ronaldo had opened the scoring with a thunderous strike from over 30 yards out.
Karim Benzema then widened the scoreline even further before the break, taking advantage of a fine move from Luka Modric, and in the second half Angel Di Maria scored his second goal in as many games before substitute Alvaro Morata piled further misery on Liga whipping boys Betis.
Rayo Vallecano, meanwhile, were pushed into further relegation trouble after losing 2-0 away to fellow strugglers Elche.
The outcome of the game was never in doubt once the visitors went a goal and a player down after 19 minutes, Raul Baena shown a red card for bringing down Coro in the area and Edu Albacar scoring from the spot.
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It's not often that Menorca gets a mention on the 9 o clock news, and on the few occasions that it has happened – when the oldest man in the world died (he was 114 and lived in Es Migjorn), or other, not so nice events involving death and/or illegal immigrants that are probably best forgotten – it hasn't always been for the most charming of reasons. So it was particularly refreshing to see images of Binissafúller beach beamed across to the nation last night, showing Menorca's pale, sugary sands at their finest, bordered by inoffensive waves that the crystal blue sea sent shorewards from time to time. And the fact that only a handful of bathers shared this summery scene made it that much more attractive – nothing like the chaos of crowded sands and sardine-style towel laying that occurs on certain beaches in August.
So who do we have to thank for this valuable promotion of Menorca's undeveloped coastline on prime-time telly? Well, by some freak of nature, while the rest of Spain has been drawn out of its Indian summer in a flurry of flash floods, torrential rain and rumbling volcanoes, Menorca's somehow managed to wallow in the last rays of sunshine and not only is the sea still swimmable, but the beach is very much still sunbathable too – even for locals (and they're the first ones to stay at home at the slightest wisp of cloud or if the mercury falls below 25 degrees).
Menorcans had good reason to feel smug, then, when picture-postcard shots of the island's sun-drenched coastline appeared on our screens – just seconds after scenes of ladies wearing wellies in Valencia, geologists staring skywards for signs of smoke from El Hierro's volcano or frustrated waiters closing their sodden beach bars early in Mallorca. All in all, it's a good argument to come on holiday here, rather than anywhere else.


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All about the Benjamins, or How Mark Zuckerberg cemented control of Facebook $100 at a time
One hundred dollars doesn't go very far these days.
But for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, a C-Note was the key to cementing his control over the social networking phenomenon.
As we learned last week when Facebook filed its prospectus for a $5 billion initial public offering, Zuckerberg has the voting rights to shares owned by some of Facebook's biggest stakeholders, including venture capital firm Accel Partners, Digital Sky Technologies and former Facebook President Sean Parker.
In an amended filing on Wednesday, Facebook provided a little more color about the agreements that contributed to Zuck's controversial control of 57 percent of the company's voting shares.
Most intriguing was the price that Zuckerberg paid each of the various shareholders in exchange for handing him their voting rights: $100 in cash.
That's not a typo.
One hundred bucks may seem like a pittance for such an important right. But it's possible that the $100 payment was merely a formality, and that forfeiting voting rights to Zuckerberg was the real price of admission for (the raging horde of) investors seeking to buy into Facebook.
The fact that Zuckerberg appears to have obtained such agreements from some of Facebook's earliest investors suggests that even as a young college-age entrepreneur, he had a sense of how big his dorm-room project could one day become, and was astute enough to not let opportunity slip through his fingers.
Speaking of Facebook's early days, anyone who saw the David Fincher film The Social Network knows the name Eduardo Saverin, the fellow student who helped start the company, but was pushed out and embroiled in a bitter dispute with Zuckerberg.
It turns out Saverin was one of the people who sold shares to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies. The amended prospectus, filed Thursday, refers to a "Saverin Agreement" in connection with DST's stake, though it does not provide many details.
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Another 1950s Breitling Worldtime in Stainless Steel: A Vintage Globetrotter's Best Friend
You may remember that back in May we showed you what is probably our favorite vintage Breitling: the stainless steel Breitling Unitime Worldtime with the map dial. That particular mint example was snatched up a short time after our post (by one of our readers, no less!).
Lucky for you, another stainless steel Worldtime will be up for consideration at the Antiquorum auction on September 15th. Although not as minty as the one we featured in May, it still would look good on any globetrotter's wrist.
With a pre-sale estimate of $3,000-$5,000, this might be one lot worth watching, particularly when considering the cost and rarity of comparable watches with a true worldtimer complication. We really don't see these for sale very often. For more information, click here.


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Cry-Adam wrote:Oooh dunno, I think I prefer the previous logo. New character has nice chompers
Cry-Adam wrote:Just prefer the way the "Revenge of the Dark" is done in some kind of cryptic neon glow, better themed, i think. The yellow is just "fun". I think the new logo would be better suited to a game about the stone age, rather than a colourful, fun game like Rayman.
JasperHope wrote:Looks good so far! Do you plan on releasing this eventually?
TesterStorm wrote:Love it, you have become my Inspiration!
I'm gonna bug you later about how you achieved that Cartoony effect!
Dictator93 wrote:Hey, would lvoe to try out your performance test but the link to forum is currently down. If you can perhaps repost in some fashion I would love to see your accomplishment!
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Hearty vegetarian lunches in the centre of Guildford
Go there for: Your five a day – and more!
Avoid: Not checking the opening times: it has short hours and shuts in the summer.
Is it worth the calories?: Eat all your veggies and reward yourself with an old-fashioned pudding.
Tips: On Leone's days you can have two half portions of the main courses if you can't make up your mind!
Thought there wasn't a vegetarian restaurant in Guildford? Think again! Tucked away on the first floor of the Guildford Institute, the Beano has been established for 28 years and has a loyal following. Leone runs the cafe Monday to Thursday, her daughter Emma (who has also managed the Watts Gallery tea shop) runs it the rest of the time with the exception of Friday when Maija Lawrence is at the helm. All three of these chefs are dedicated to serving great food
Leone wanted to encourage people to eat more vegetables when she started out (she isn't vegetarian) and thinks we're so lucky to have such a beautiful variety of ingredients available. She serves rib-sticking main courses like vegetable curry, lentil bake, courgette frittata and chickpea tagine. They'll usually be a gluten-free option, a vegan dish, something egg free and a garlic/onion-free offering. In winter they have more casseroles, in summer more fritters and lighter dishes. There are always four salads as well.
Leone prepares everything at home and bakes it on site. It's served from a counter in the dining room, so arriving early means you have a great choice and food is at its hottest. It also means you can beat the crowds, who queue politely but firmly (pushing in very much frowned on). Main courses are £4.75, salads £1 per generous serving and puddings £3.10. A main course, two salads and a pudding is a bargain at £9. Puddings are pretty traditional: sticky toffee pudding, pavlova, crumble, apple cake. All are good – not too sweet and satisfyingly homemade.
We tried the vegetable curry. Made with freshly ground spices from an Indian shop in Aldershot, it was terrific to have a plateful of tasty proper vegetables and rice. The spinach pie, cheesy and lightly flavoured with nutmeg, was creamy and rich.
We chose two salads: coleslaw with pineapple, which was tangy and fresh, and beetroot. We splashed out on a moist apple cake and a deliciously light chocolate cake with whipped cream – the tinned cherry sauce took us straight back to the eighties, but in an unexpectedly good way. A Rombouts coffee (£1.70) rounded out our meal.
Leone, Emma and Maije love being generous with their food and enjoy seeing customers tucking in. They don't get any complaints – but who would complain when healthy fresh food tastes as good as your mum's?
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County Manager Merrett Stierheim has appointed one of his assistants, Barbara Jordon, to work with MMAP to resolve the issues raised by the audit. Jordon says before the February planning session: "If they can come up with a plan where they are much more focused, the outcomes will have a greater impact ... but if it is going to be where you take your resources and you are still trying to concentrate on a vast program, it is going to get lost."
She believes that prioritizing means allowing certain pressing needs to go unaddressed for the time being. It also demands accountability. The shift is almost painfully difficult for MMAP, whose purpose was predicated on advancing all the issues facing the black community all at once. "It is always difficult to cut off something that you love," Jordon says.
The difficulty is apparent at the planning session, the goal of which is to create a five-year strategic plan. The last such plan ended in 1998. MMAP board members delayed work on charting their next five years out of pique that the county commission had bypassed them to fund what they considered a duplicative Mayor's Task Force on Urban Economic Revitalization. "We wanted to find out where we stood," Sherwood Dubose explains.
MMAP got an answer with the audit. After its release the county manager's office demanded a five-year plan be formulated immediately.
At the meeting MMAP staff member Ralph McCloud's frustration finally boils over. "We have let Uncle Bubba paint us into a corner with this ambitious task and then [he] says we haven't accomplished it," McCloud seethes. "It's a sin." McCloud is a job-training specialist employed by the City of Miami on loan to MMAP since 1987. He has been involved in two of MMAP's more successful efforts: the nonviolent training workshops and more recently, the Miami-Dade County Teen Court, which aims to steer first-time offenders away from crime.
This is where tonight, on the second floor of the South Dade Government Center, teenagers mete out punishments of community service and teen-court jury duty to minor offenders, under the watchful eyes of adults. Victoria Osorio, a mother whose sixteen-year-old son Carlos walked out of a store wearing a hat without paying for it and into the arms of a security guard, is thrilled with teen court. "It gives him a lesson in civics," she says, adding that she hopes it will wake him up. She has already grounded him for two weeks. In addition the teen-court jury adds fifteen hours of community service and four turns as a juror at the court. Carlos thus becomes one of the 200 postarrest cases McCloud believes will be heard before the end of the school year. Both teens and adults who have participated in the court lavish praise on it, but it is only a small step in addressing youth violence and crime in the inner city.
Today at MMAP's strategic planning session, such achievements are overshadowed by the organization's flaws.
Consultant Donna Ginn tries to get the group to acknowledge their contradictions and forge a new identity. Is it a funding or an advocacy program? How much control should the board have over the staff? How can it be both a nonprofit environment and a government agency?
McCloud gives some history. "The [1992] ordinance was an order of execution for MMAP that we turned around and made into a new life," he says. "We were driven away from advocacy for survival."
Ginn tries to get the group to move forward. "You can't keep returning to what keeps you down," she says. She uses her own example as a successful black businesswoman. Originally from Ohio, she was an executive with Procter and Gamble before moving to Miami. "I live in a community based on segregation that was never resolved," she tells them. "I'm not going to let environmental conditions put me out of where I want to be."
The MMAP staffers and board members struggle with the message, returning again and again to the community's failure to its commitment. "When MMAP was started, the larger community saw it as a way to [prevent] a riot," Bradford Brown says. "If you don't have a riot, they don't care."
By the time MMAP is actually creating a strategic plan it is 5:00 p.m. and there are eight people left in the room.
In the end those remaining limit MMAP's strategic goals for the next five years to increasing home ownership, business retention and development, lowering juvenile arrest rates, and raising test scores for students. Ginn forces the group to come up with concrete plans to meet each goal.
One of the most important items on the agenda, planning for independence, is barely touched on. But Ginn leaves them with one thought: She asks them whether they believe in what they are doing enough to continue regardless of whether they stay part of the county or not. When those in the room nod yes, she says, "Then by God you better raise some money."
Later the board discusses and approves the results of the strategic planning session. The board agrees on a plan that includes several measures to give MMAP more financial independence, including securing equity in businesses it helps and buying rental property.


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Every four years, a party comes together to craft a statement of values. Their platform is a declaration for voters to see what a party stands for and how they'd like their nominee to govern.
And this year, the Republican Party's declaration is loud and clear: No choice for women. No exceptions.
The GOP voted today to include in their platform a "human life amendment" that bans abortion nationwide—without any exceptions for rape or incest. As our chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, "Republicans had the opportunity to strip this language out today but instead voted to affirm it. In a year that has shown us no shortage of Republican candidates trying to prove themselves more extreme than the other on issues affecting women's health, Republicans have finally hit rock bottom."
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, echoes that sentiment. She says that Romney, Ryan, and the Republicans have proved "at every turn and in every conceivable way" that they'd be a disaster for American women.
"We want choices—choices that put us in control of our careers, our families, our bodies, and our health. These rights and freedoms will only be protected if one candidate is voted into office, and it isn't Mitt Romney. Because when it comes to the issues women face, you either get it or you don't. The fact that the human life amendment is even considered to be a part of the GOP's platform clearly demonstrates that the Republican Party is out of the mainstream—somewhere American women don't want to be."
Unfortunately for women, this is nothing new for the Republican Party. Remember: Romney has said he would be "delighted" to sign a bill banning "all abortions," and Ryan was among more than 200 GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would have narrowed the definition of rape. Today's platform news just formalizes what women across the country are realizing: The Republican Party's policies on women and their health are dangerously wrong.
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- State Status: Potentially Extirpated
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Martin Van Buren Bates - The Kentucky GiantAnother very tall guy of interest is Martin Van Buren Bates. He lived from 1837-1919 and actually participated in the American Civil War. Different accounts have him listed between 7'9" to 7"11, but whatever his true height, it had to have been remarkable for that time. Martin fought in the Civil War and was noticed for his amazing size on the battlefield. After the war, he met a woman who actually eclipsed him in size. Anna Haining Swan was around 8 feet tall, taller even than Martin himself. The two married in London, England after a courtship. I find it remarkable that two people of such stature could find each other and marry. From what I've read, they seemed to have been very happy together. The two traveled in the circus and entertained all who came to see. What a riveting site to imagine. A link to his wikipedia article is below. More on Martin Van Buren Bates:
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For more information on the culture and history of Indonesia and Myanmar (also called Burma), the countries featured this quarter, look in the travel section of a local library or go online and type the name of the country into your search engine.
The embassy of Myanmar's website offers some information on culture, religion, and places of interest. Visit www.myanmar.com, and click on "People," "Places," "Lifestyle," and "Religion."
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JILL G. de VILLIERS Professor - Psychology & Philosophy RESEARCH
1. Language acquisition in children
The central organizing theme of my work is an interest in how children acquire a first language in such a short time, especially considering that the grammars of human languages are very complex and abstract achievements. For twenty years my colleague Tom Roeper and I have been obsessed with the grammar of wh-questions. We won a grant once by arguing that wh-questions were the key to understanding almost everything about the childs grammar. They certainly have opened many avenues of exploration in our work, and we continually return to them. If you have the right kind of mind, go to wh-questions. The range of languages being studied for acquisition purposes is ever-increasing. Even though I am virtually monolingual, through work with students and colleagues I have learned interesting things about tiny pieces of African American English, American Sign Language, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Romani, Spanish, Tibetan, Tswana, Turkish and Xhosa. I am deeply interested in universal features of language, but that involves knowing particulars!
2. Assessment of language
To determine whether a child needs special help from a therapist in learning language, it is necessary to get an accurate idea of what the child can do. How can we best assess this, especially if the child may speak a dialect that is not well represented in standard tests? Much of our recent work has been devoted to developing unbiased assessment techniques, especially for speakers of African American English (www.umass.edu/aae). This work has inspired efforts in other countries to seek solutions to issues of non-standard dialects there also (http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/cost/).
In addition, we are developing a new test of Pragmatic skills for children, with a special emphasis on childrn diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. We are conducting research with colleagues at Yale University and the Medical University of South Carolina to try out new pragmatic assessments with children and adolescents with autism who have subtle problems in these areas of language use.
3. Language and Mind
Nobody can study language without wondering about the role that language plays in human minds: does it help you think? The particular interest I have pursued is how learning complex grammar might enable the child to think in new ways about other people's minds: to represent their beliefs, knowledge, thoughts, feelings. This area of cognitive development is called Theory of Mind, and we have asked whether language helps it develop, and if so, how? We have worked on this problem with populations of language-delayed deaf children, and are deeply interested in intervention (see below). I have several past and ongoing collaborations asking a range of questions about this. One is an NIH grant with Peter de Villiers as part of a large multi-site program project on preschool curriculum development that will follow a large cohort of children from roughly 2 to 6 years, looking at their language and theory of mind skills among other measures. (For a version of our complement comprehension test, see here: compcomp10 ) A second is a grant with Jay Garfield at Smith and others at U.Mass. exploring Tibetan - a language with special means to mark how you know what you know. This so-called "evidential" marking is a bit like tense, but marks the source of belief instead of time! How does a young child learn to mark the sources of her belief? (Visit this website for more information on the "Project on Epistemology and Indexicality in Navajo, Tibetan and English.")
4. Intervention
Researchers who have theories about how children learn encounter a new obligation as well as a testing ground for their theories: how can children who fail to learn be helped to succeed? For several years I have assisted in the design of software for language intervention being created by Laureate Learning Systems in Winooski, Vermont, headed by Dr. Mary Sweig Wilson, a Smith alumna who was a professor of communication disorders. It is humbling to put ideas into application: how certain are we that these are the best of all possible procedures? But it is also deeply gratifying to hope that we can give children stepping stones and set them back on the right course for language acquisition. (http://www.laureatelearning.net)
5. What are these people doing?
We hope working in our lab is never dull for long. We often have to create materials for children that involve acting in videos, filming strange activities and so on. Visit the photos page for some random shots of activity to make you ask: what are they up to?
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