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Iliotibial Band Syndrome
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Iliotibial Band Syndrome
(IT Band Friction Syndrome; ITBFS; ITBS)
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- Structural abnormalities, such as a short, tight IT band
- Problems related to the foot, ankle, or hip
- Opposing muscle imbalances, such as the quadriceps stronger than hamstrings
- A very prominent lateral femoral epicondyle, the bony structure on the outer side of the knee
- Inward rotation of the leg
- Angle where knee flexes
- Legs of different lengths
- Bowlegs
Risk Factors
- Certain sports with repetitive motions, such as running and cycling
- Incorrect training technique
- Increasing distance run or cycling too quickly
- Running up and down hills
- Overtraining
- Using damaged or worn out equipment or footwear
- Wearing improper shoes for a sport or athletic activity
- Athletic equipment that is not properly fit to the user, such as a bicycle
- Dull aching or burning sensation on the outside of the knee during or after activity
- Sharp stabbing pain on the outside of the knee during or after activity
- Pain that shows up in the hip, known as referred pain
- Progressive, worsening pain
- Snapping, creaking, or popping when the knee is bent and then straightened
- Obers test—determines the tightness of the ITB
- Rennes test—specifies the area of pain while full weight is placed on the bent leg
- Nobles test—determines the area of pain while the leg is flexed at a certain angle
Acute Care
- Do not do activities that cause pain. This includes running, jumping, and weight lifting using the leg muscles.
- If normal walking hurts, shorten your stride.
- Do not play sports until your doctor has said it is safe to do so.
- Over-the-counter medication, such as aspirin , ibuprofen , or acetaminophen
- Prescription pain relievers
- Corticosteroid injections
Recovery Steps
- Learning proper training techniques
- Increasing mileage run gradually
- Wearing appropriate shoes for each sport
- Replacing athletic shoes as they show signs of wear
- Being aware of running surfaces
- Using properly fitted equipment
- Strengthening quadriceps, hamstrings, and gluteal muscles
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons http://orthoinfo.org
American College of Sports Medicine http://acsm.org
Canadian Orthopaedic Association http://www.coa-aco.org
The University of British Columbia Department of Orthopaedics http://www.orthosurgery.ubc.ca
Baker RL, Souza RB, et al. Iliotibial band syndrome: soft tissue and biomechanical factors in evaluation and treatment. PMR. 2011;3(6):550-561.
Fredericson M, Wolf C. Iliotibial band syndrome in runners: innovations in treatment. Sports Med. 2005;35(5):451-459.
Iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome. http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated September 5, 2012. Accessed May 3, 2013.
Strauss EJ, et al. Iliotibial band syndrome: evaluation and management. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2011 Dec;19(12):728-36.
Revision Information
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Hearth & Home: Greener Cleaners
Nontoxic technology throws cold water on dry cleaning
by Kim Erickson
In the beginning there was soap and water. But over the years, we've increasingly turned to dry cleaning to handle our laundry needs. This method (not really dry at all) often involves submerging garments in perchloroethylene, or perc. Used by 80 to 85 percent of the dry cleaners in the United States, this chlorinated hydrocarbon was originally developed as a metal degreaser for airplane parts before the dry-cleaning industry adopted it more than 50 years ago.
Classified as a hazardous substance by the EPA, perc has been linked to cancer, neurological and reproductive disorders, and liver and kidney damage. Employees in dry-cleaning plants are at particular risk. A 1994 study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that dry cleaners have seven times the average rate of esophageal cancer and twice the rate of bladder cancer. Other studies link perc to miscarriages and low birth weights among pregnant workers.
Until the 1980s, it was legal for dry cleaners to pour used perc down the drain. According to a government survey, perc now contaminates up to 25 percent of U.S. drinking water. The 35,000 dry-cleaning establishments in the United States and Canada use about 300 million pounds of perc annually, recycling less than 5 percent, leaving most of the rest to evaporate into the atmosphere.
People living near a dry cleaner are exposed to high levels of perc as its vapors invade their homes. Just having your clothes dry-cleaned can expose you to unhealthy levels. Hung in your closet, these garments release residual perc into your home. Consumers Union found that people who wear freshly dry-cleaned clothing once a week are at an increased risk of developing cancer.
Fortunately, an alternative is catching on. "Wet cleaning" uses water, nontoxic soap, and special washers and dryers that are calibrated to safely clean a broad variety of materials, including leather. And except for a few fabrics such as antique satin, wet cleaning is comparable to dry cleaning in quality, price, and turnaround time.
Despite perc's health and environmental consequences, many dry cleaners are still reluctant to shift to wet cleaning. Industry associations encourage them to meet emissions regulations by purchasing newer perc machines, even though at $60,000 apiece they're more expensive than equivalent wet-cleaning equipment. "Dry clean only" labels add to the problem by raising the threat of liability if an alternative cleaning method damages clothing. And, as Jonathan Grossman, owner of the Natural Valet in Huntington Beach, California, points out, "Chemicals are easy. Wet cleaning is more labor-intensive because each garment gets individual attention."
In 1992 the EPA created a partnership with the dry-cleaning industry that has resulted in a voluntary reduction of perc use by half. However, the agency hasn't come up with any clear-cut plan to phase out perc and has delayed publishing a risk-assessment report for more than three years. Some states aren't waiting for industry volunteers or more stringent federal regulations. New York, for instance, has banned dry-cleaning stores in residential buildings, forcing the operations to either relocate or convert to an alternative method of cleaning.
Until perc is completely phased out, there are steps consumers can take to limit their perc exposure. The easiest is to avoid buying clothing that requires dry cleaning. Air out your clothes and use a lint brush to cut back on trips to the dry cleaner. Remember that some fabrics, such as cotton, linen, and certain silks, can be hand-washed in cold water, despite manufacturers' dry-clean-only warnings. Or give wet-cleaning a try. Not only will the planet breathe easier, but your clothes will smell a lot fresher.
Kim Erickson writes on health and environmental issues.
To find a wet cleaner in your area, check out the Greenpeace Web site at www.greenpeaceusa.org, or call (800) 326-0959. Ecomat, an East Coast wet-cleaning chain, will pick up and deliver your laundry by UPS. For more information, call (800) 299-2309.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The latest storm to roll off nature's assembly line during this bustling winter spread heavy snow and sleet along the Northeast corridor Thursday, while utility crews in the ice-encrusted South labored to restore power to hundreds of thousands of shivering residents.
The storm shuttered schools and businesses, made driving scary, grounded thousands of flights and made more back-breaking work for people along the East Coast, where shoveling out has become a weekly chore - sometimes a twice-weekly one.
"Snow has become a four-letter word in Delaware County and all along the East Coast this winter," said Tom McGarrigle, chairman of the Delaware County Council, in suburban Philadelphia.
Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow. Washington, D.C., had at least 11, and federal offices and the city's two main airports were closed.
Philadelphia had nearly 9 inches by early morning, making it the fourth 6-inch snowstorm of the season - the first time that has happened in the city's history. Harrisburg, Pa., had at least 8 inches.
At least 14 deaths, most of them in traffic accidents, were blamed on the storm as it made its way across the South and up the coast. The victims included a truck driver in Ashburn, Va., who was working to clear snowy roads. He had pulled off the road and was standing behind his vehicle when he was hit by a dump truck.
Across the South, the storm left in its wake a world of ice-encrusted trees and driveways and snapped branches and power lines.
More than 200,000 homes and businesses in the Atlanta area alone were waiting for the electricity to come back on. Temperatures were expected to drop below freezing again overnight.
In North Carolina, where the storm caused huge traffic jams in the Raleigh area on Wednesday as people left work and rushed to get home in the middle of the day, National Guardsmen in high-riding Humvees patrolled the snowy roads, looking for stranded motorists.
State Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry said there was no way to estimate how many were stuck in their vehicles.
Some roads around Raleigh remained clogged with abandoned vehicles Thursday morning. City crews were working to tow the vehicles to safe areas where their owners could recover them.
The procession of storms and cold blasts - blamed in part on a kink in the jet stream, the high-altitude air currents that dictate weather - has cut into retail sales across the U.S., the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Sales dipped 0.4 percent in January.
Many cities are seeing their supplies of road salt dwindling fast, and school systems have run out of school days.
In New Cumberland, Pa., Randal DeIvernois had to take a rest after shoveling his driveway. His snowblower had conked out.
"Every time it snows it's like, oh, not again," he said. "I didn't get this much snow when I lived in Colorado. It's warmer at the Olympics than it is here. That's ridiculous."
The sloppy and dangerous weather threatened to disrupt deliveries of Valentine's Day flowers.
"It's a godawful thing," said Mike Flood, owner of Falls Church Florist in Virginia. "We're going to lose money, there's no doubt about it."
Battered, beleaguered: Storm socks East Coast
Snow, sleet and freezing rain are falling on the East Coast - from North Carolina to New England - a day after bombarding the Southeast. Here's a sampling of what the latest round of winter weather is bringing:
DIRE FORECAST: A National Weather Service map of the storm showed possible effects hitting 20 states from Alabama to Maine. Winter storm warnings were issued for much of the Eastern Seaboard, including Georgia, where an ice storm warning remained in place. Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow, while 11 inches accumulated in parts of Washington, with more falling. The Philadelphia area could get 6 to 12 inches, up to 14 inches was possible in northwest New Jersey, and New York City and its suburbs could get 8 to 12 inches. Up to 18 inches of snow was forecast for central and western Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, could see 8 or 9 inches. The National Weather Service had called the storm "catastrophic ... crippling ... paralyzing ... choose your adjective" for the South, including Atlanta, where a storm two weeks ago created huge traffic jams.
IN THE DARK: More than 800,000 homes and businesses lacked power in several Southeastern states on Thursday morning. Power companies in the Northeast were preparing for outages.
TREACHEROUS TRAVEL: More than 5,200 flights were canceled across the country, according to the website FlightAware. Amtrak canceled some of its trains and modified schedules for others. Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston, Northeast Regional trains between Boston and Norfolk, Va., Keystone Service between New York and Harrisburg, Pa., and Empire Service between New York and Albany, N.Y., are operating at reduced frequency or modified schedules. Amtrak has canceled Auto Train, Crescent, Carolinian, Palmetto and Piedmont trains. The Silver Meteor is canceled from New York to Miami and the Silver Star will operate south from Jacksonville, Fla.
At least 14 deaths across the South have been blamed on the weather, including three killed after an ambulance careened off a slick Texas highway and caught fire and a firefighter killed when he was knocked off an interstate ramp in Dallas. In the Northeast, municipalities imposed parking and travel restrictions so roadways and streets would be clear for plowing. Speed limits have been lowered on some highways.
POTHOLE PLETHORA: A relentless cycle of snow and bitter cold is testing the nation's infrastructure. New York City crews filled 69,000 potholes in the first five weeks of the year - nearly twice as many as the same period in 2013. In Iowa, a Des Moines official said the city has never endured so many broken water mains.
WINTER CANCELS WINTER: A celebration of winter tourism in the Olympic village of Lake Placid, N.Y., has been postponed because of storm forecasts. Plans had called for visitors take part in skiing, bobsledding and other winter sports at the sites that hosted the 1980 and 1932 Winter Olympics. A new date has not been chosen.
UPSIDE-DOWN WEATHER: While Northeast residents suffered through bitter cold yet again, the temperatures soared to 63 degrees at the Winter Games in Sochi, providing Olympic visitors with opportunities for outdoor napping, sunbathing and even a dip in the Black Sea.
PROMPTING THE PROFANE: "Snow has become a four-letter word ... all along the East Coast this winter," said Tom McGarrigle, chairman of the Delaware County Council in suburban Philadelphia.
Associated Press writers Sarah Brumfield in Washington; Matthew Barakat in Falls Church, Va.; and David Dishneau in Frederick, Md.; contributed to this report.
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Posted: January 31, 2011
The first leadership fundamental
Win the game by learning the basics
Laurence B. ValantHaving played college basketball and later being blessed with two sons who were athletically gifted, I did my share of coaching basketball during their school years. As anyone who has coached children knows, a coach receives young players with a mix of skills and abilities. I was assigned very few naturally gifted basketball players.
Typically these young players arrived for practice with little or no knowledge or skills in the game of basketball. However, regardless of the mix of talent that was given me, I set out to win and we usually did. How did I take ordinary, not especially gifted young boys and build them into a winning team? I taught them the fundamentals of the game: blocking out for rebounding, setting picks, passing for assists, getting steals and taking open shots. They learned the fundamentals of the game of basketball, and as a result, they won games. In fact they won championships.
In a similar manner, the majority of people who take on leadership and management positions are rarely naturally gifted leaders and managers who instinctively understand and use the appropriate strategies and tools required for their roles. In fact, most leaders and managers are never taught the fundamentals of the game.
When we use the word leader, we will be referring strictly to that person within a company who is responsible for determining the vision and overarching strategy for the company, or in some cases, a division or business unit within a company. The term manager will be used for that person tasked with carrying out the vision and the overarching strategy determined by the leader.
The leadership fundamentals we're talking about here will be the responsibility of the CEO, business owner or business unit leader charged with the growth in value of their company or division. For obvious reasons, it is equally important for those who manage or implement the vision of the leader to thoroughly understand the tools used by those they have chosen to follow. Someone effective at implementation may someday become the creator of the vision. And, effective managers must not only understand the leader's vision, but in turn be capable of crafting the vision or direction for their area of responsibility so it will mesh with and support that of the leader.
The fundamentals of leadership are:
Creating the vision
Determining the overarching strategies required to achieve the vision
Outlining the organizational requirements for executing the vision
Selecting competent managers to carry out the vision
Implementing a compensation system that measures performance quantitatively and rewards contributors fairly
Formalizing the vision into a written statement
Leadership Fundamental #1 - Creating a vision for the entity
A leader must establish the direction or vision for their enterprise. They must know where their company is and where they will take it. A clear vision carries with it the essential requirement that success can be understood by those who follow, and that success is aligned with the outcomes sought by the followers. In order to be willing and committed, followers must feel that the leader's success will lead to their own success.
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There are literally hundreds of websites that provide instruction on the creation of a vision. Wikipedia's definition of Vision, Mission Statement and Values agrees with our own:
Vision: Defines the desired or intended future state of a specific organization or enterprise in terms of its fundamental objective and/or strategic direction.
Mission: Defines the fundamental purpose of an organization or an enterprise, basically describing why it exists.
Values: Beliefs that are shared among the stakeholders of an organization. Values drive an organization's culture and priorities.
A mission statement is often confused with a vision statement, but confusing the two would be an error. A mission statement provides a basic explanation of the values or purpose for the organization. A vision is the expression in quantitative terms of where the leader sees the entity at the moment, and where he intends to take it in the future. The mission statement is meant to be reviewed by customers and clients; the vision statement is used internally to give direction to a company's leaders and managers. The vision defines the overarching strategy that will be employed to realize the objectives, and defines success quantitatively so followers will know when they have achieved their objectives.
Guidelines for creating a vision:
Define the existing environment of your enterprise both internally and externally. Project what that environment will look like in five years and in 10 years. Answer these questions:
o Where is your company or division in terms of quantitative performance? What has been your rate of growth on a percentage over the past five years in revenues, gross profit, net income and residual income?
o If you are growing, how fast? If you are making money, how much? If you are winning or losing, define your wins or loses quantitatively.
o How is your overall market doing? How is your company performing in comparison to your competitors? How doesis your market share performance compare to your competitors?
Broadly identify how your company will capitalize on the opportunities defined by your marketplace.
o How are your key products doing in terms of market share?
o Identify broadly the market targets you must meet with these product and service offerings.
o What are the products and services that will be used to achieve the vision?
o What new products will be developed to capitalize on existing market opportunities, and what is the marginal cost/return for each?
o What are the future market opportunities and the products required to capitalize on them, and what is the marginal cost/return?
Define your success quantitatively.
o What will result in terms of revenues, gross profit, and company value (marginal RI) when the enterprise succeeds?
o How will your ranking in your industry or marketplace change if you succeed?
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Laurence B. Valant is President and CEO of Valant & Co., a Denver-based business performance improvement consultancy that has worked with almost 300 firms to increase their value by billions of dollars. He is co-author of the hot-selling new book, "Make Plan! With Effective Execution" and now, "Lead and Manage!" Valant can be reached at email@example.com or at 303-589-3840. If you want more information or would like to order a copy of "Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance," please visit www.valantco.com.


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After playing Orianna when she was free, I have to say that she probably has the most room for skill out of all the champions. I thought I had crazy fast reaction/judgement speed, but it was not enough to make the most use out of Orianna, especially with making full use of her E spell and ball positioning. It was a rush playing her to the max of her abilities... times like when you are pushing into the enemy base and the enemy is coming out, healing back up, and coming out again all while your team maintaining the push just makes you feel so powerful when you really leverage the power of your abilities. Zone control, support, AoE, good melee attack... she is amazing. I noticed she had a maxed out difficulty bar. Any other champ have this characteristic? I'm curious. I was thinking Anivia, LeBlanc, and a few others but compared to Orianna, it seems only hers is truly justified, unless you only play with 3 of her abilities and ignore doing dmg with the 3rd ability. Using it as a shield is powerful, especially if you get the timing right, and lets you help without sacrificing positioning since the ball acts independently.
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This is the slide deck from my presentation of "Getting Down With Markdown" [aka "Upgrading Markdown"] given to the Grand Rapids Python Users Group on 2013-02-18. I can't decide which name is more punny, so I kept both.
This presentation covers basic use of the markdown module in Python and how to perform a couple different types of extensions. I used the markdown module to add a simple wiki protocol bundle to OpenGroupware Coils; using the extensions demonstated in the presentation the wiki can render some dynamic and security-model-aware content - making the wiki an easy productivity tool.


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The Flea Market is a city-based event that occurs in both Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk.
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[edit] About
A flea market is a type of get together where you set up a "shop" with secondhand and inexpensive items. The items are sold or bartered for. The flea market in the Animal Crossing world is exactly like a real flea market, only you are holding it inside of you and your villager's houses!
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[edit] When?
The flea market happens every first Saturday on every month except for January and August. You will get a advance notice of when the flea market is coming because it will be posted on the bulletin board within a week before the event. The flea market lasts all day, starting at 6:00am and ending at 12:00am.
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[edit] When?
The flea market will occur every month except for December and August. It will occur every third Saturday for the months that there is a flea market. Again, you will recieve a notice on the bulletin board with a week's notice. It will start at 6:00am and end at 12:00am, making for a full day to shop.
[edit] Villagers buying from you
If you enter your house and wait a little bit, a villager will randomly pop in to your house. As soon as they greet you, they will start walking around your house looking for anything that might catch their eye. If they are interested in am item, they will stop in front of it and stay there staring at it. You need to talk to them. They will say that they like your item and ask how much it is. At this point, you may either enter an offer or refuse to sell it. If you enter an offer too high, the villager will be outraged and ask for a lower price. You may lower it until you find a good deal or you can decide to keep it if you feel you are getting ripped off.
[edit] Buying from villagers
If you want to buy some new things at a great price, then search for villager's that have their house lights on. Enter their home, and they will greet you with the name of their store. You can then go around and choose items that you would like to buy. Villagers will tell you a price that they would like from the item that you chose. You either take it, or you don't. The villagers will not haggle with you. You can only buy a certain number of items from your neighbors or else their house will be totally empty!
[edit] My villager won't let me buy this item!
Sometimes, a villager will refuse to let you buy one of their items. This is because it is very near and dear to their heart, and losing it would be very hard for them. Some of those items that villagers can not part with have had old memories and great fun with them. No matter how many times you try to buy the item, they will not give in. This usually happens with the rarer and more expensive items.
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- Get ready for the flea market. Prepare your items that you would like to sell and place them in your room the day before the event occurs.
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London: Ryan Giggs, captain of team GB's football team, is a worried man. He fears that the British national anthem will be met with a chorus of boos when it is played ahead of their game against Uruguay in Wales tomorrow. The Football Association of Wales has for long been opposed to the idea of a British team. They share these reservations along with the Scots and Northern Irish who argue that the concept of drafting such a team could hamper their single nation status within soccer governing body Fifa.
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Anthem a matter of concern for Giggs
Team GB skipper feels song will be met with boos in Wales
It's not just the associations. People feel the same way too. The fact is, however, that the four parts of the United Kingdom compete as individual teams in non-Olympic international soccer competition. Those who watched Britain's game against Senegal and the UAE last week would know that Giggs himself did not sing God Save The Queen. Giggs, who became the oldest goal-scorer in Olympic soccer history, 38 years, 246 days, completes a line-up of five Welshman in Team GB. Perhaps, this could be his finest hour in the international stage because as a Welshman, he hasn't managed to play in a World Cup, European Championship or any other major tournament. They say that in life, you play with the cards you are dealt with.
New look Wimbledon
Staid and formal Wimbledon has been replaced with a peppy and vibrant new look for the Olympic tennis competition. The authorities have decided to do away with all the tradition and stiff upper lip formality and the place has undergone a huge transformation since the same players from the ATP and WTA Tour trooped into its hallowed portals, except that this time, they are playing for their country and not as professionals. The traditional whites have been replaced by tennis gear of luminescent colours and the latest fashion is on show.
The Olympic rings are on display everywhere and the traditional British racing green of the Championships is nowhere to be seen. Raucous fans, chattering media, flags from multiple countries, and crying babies are forcing the umpires to mutter "quiet please" as they are supposed to do, but the fact of the matter is that nobody really cares.
New location for flame
The Olympic cauldron has been lit again and shifted to a new location. The flame had actually been extinguished during the shifting process and this is very unlike other Olympic Games when it is considered a bad omen for the flame to be put off.


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Sinodinos' $3.7m shares giveaway
PUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2013 00:05:00 | UPDATED: 27 Feb 2013 21:02:47PUBLISHED: 27 Feb 2013 PRINT EDITION: 27 Feb 2013Arthur Sinodinos in the Senate . . . he says he will not pursue the share stake, worth up to $3.7 million, in infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
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Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid Photo: Rob Homer
Australian Water major shareholder Nick Di Girolamo Photo: Wolter Peeters
The former president of the NSW Liberal Party, Arthur Sinodinos, has abandoned a claim to a 5 per cent shareholding, worth up to $3.75 million, in infrastructure company Australian Water Holdings after revelations that linked the company to Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid.
Senator Sinodinos, who was chairman of Australian Water and is now Parliamentary Secretary to federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, told The Australian Financial Review he would not pursue the share stake.
He was responding to questions from the Financial Review on how Australian Water became one of the largest donors to the NSW Liberal Party within days of Mr Obeid's family contracting to buy a $3 million stake in the company in November 2010.
Australian Water's value jumped by up to $65 million after it signed an exclusive 25-year deal with the state-owned Sydney Water, after the Liberals took power from Labor in the March 2011 state election, offering what would be a $15 million windfall profit to the Obeids.
Donor records show that in the months before the election, Australian Water gave $73,803 to the Coalition parties and would have been the NSW Liberal Party's fifth-largest donor that year. But many of the donations were not reported by the Liberal Party.
A spokesman for NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell confirmed he had met once with Australian Water's major shareholder, Nick Di Girolamo, in 2011, with Finance Minister Greg Pearce, "to discuss issues relating to the company". But he said the decision to award the 25-year contract was made by Sydney Water.
Original stake worth $500,000
Senator Sinodinos, a former chief of staff to Liberal prime minister John Howard, said on Tuesday that in late January 2011 the Australian Water board had agreed to provide him with the 5 per cent shareholding.
Based on the Obeids' buy-in price the stake was worth $500,000. Senator Sinodinos declined to say why the shares continued to be held in the name of Mr Di Girolamo, but said that that part of the stake "was subject to conditions precedent".
"When I resigned that shareholding had not been transferred to me," Senator Sinodinos told the Financial Review in an email.
"Because I believed I was entitled to that shareholding and had been assured it would be forthcoming I disclosed it on my Senate register promptly on entering the Senate.
"To date, I have not received that shareholding and will not be pursuing it."
He downplayed the value of his shares, pointing to claims by former NSW treasurer Michael Costa, who replaced him as chairman of AWH in November 2011, and by the company's chief financial officer, Robert Groom, that AWH was worth $10 million to $20 million net of debt.
However, share issues in June 2012 at 40¢ a share and higher valued the company at $50 million, which would value Senator Sinodinos' stake at $2.5 million.
Law firm worked with obeids
In December, Mr Di Girolamo said AWH was worth $75 million, a level which would value Senator Sinodinos's stake at $3.75 million.
Electoral Commission records show that law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley, where Mr Di Girolamo had been managing partner until 2007, also donated $37,000 to the NSW Liberals in 10 separate donations in the month that the Obeid family was to complete the deal to buy in to AWH.
Colin Biggers & Paisley has worked extensively for the Obeids and partner Greg Skehan was previously director and sole shareholder of Voope Pty Ltd, a company used to hide the Obeids' interest in coal exploration leases.
Mr Skehan told the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) he did not suspect the company was being used to hide the Obeids' involvement.
Mr Skehan was a director of AWH from March 2009 until he resigned last month.
Mr Di Girolamo could not be contacted for comment. AWH did not answer the phone or reply to voicemail messages or emails.
Mr Skehan said he was "not able to assist" when asked to forward an email to Mr Di Girolamo.
The managing partner of Colin Biggers & Paisley, Dunstan de Souza, said the firm did not represent AWH and also declined to forward queries to Mr Di Girolamo.
Mr De Souza said the decision to make donations was made by partners, "but mostly by me" and was unrelated to clients.
No recollection of individual donations
"There was never any collaboration or discussion between CBP and AWH on political donations."
Senator Sinodinos said he was "not aware of any of the arrangements proposed or entered into by Mr Di Girolamo with the Obeid family".
"I have no recollection of individual donations and am unable to speculate about the motivation of third parties making donations."
A spokesman for Mr O'Farrell said the Premier's 2011 meeting with Mr Di Girolamo was not set up by Senator Sinodinos.
NSW Treasurer Mike Baird's office said he had met with Mr Di Girolamo on November 30, 2011, and again on August 2 last year, along with the then chairman of AWH, Mr Costa. Neither meeting was set up by Senator Sinodinos.
A spokeswoman for minister Mr Pearce said he had "known Senator Sinodinis and Mr Di Girolamo for some years through the Liberal Party and has been at meetings and events with both from time to time".
"The contract between AWH and [Sydney Water Corp] was negotiated by the SWC board [and] replaced an existing disputed contract and it is considered commercial by the board," his spokeswoman said.
The North West Growth Centre Delivery of Water Infrastructure Deed is an exclusive agreement for AWH to install infrastructure in Sydney's north-west. Signed on 18 January last year, it provides for a series of rolling contracts over the next 25 years without a tender.
Focus on Mount Penny coal deposit
The state's ICAC hearings have shown the Obeids from early 2008 were focused on the Mount Penny coal deposit in the NSW Bylong Valley. Eddie Obeid, who is at the centre of the ICAC inquiry, was a key party powerbroker and former resources minister in previous NSW Labor governments.
Cascade Coal, the Obeids' joint venture partners, reached agreement in October 2010 to pay the Obeids out for $60 million. The first half would be funded largely by a $28 million capital raising for Cascade through Southern Cross Equities on November 26.
The Obeids were already poised to spend some of the proceeds. On Thursday November 4, 2010, Mr Di Girolamo signed a heads of agreement document, co-signed by Eddie Obeid's sons Paul and Moses, witnessed by another son, Edward Obeid jnr, to sell half of his 60 per cent shareholding in two AWH companies to the Obeid Family Trust for $3 million.
The first $1 million was due to be paid on the following Monday, and provided for a formal shareholders agreement with execution on November 30.
Senator Sinodinos had been appointed chairman of AWH on November 3, 2010, the day before the share deal was signed. He had joined the board in October 2008, while he was an executive with National Australia Bank. He has repeatedly said he had no inkling of the Obeids' connection, neither as chairman did he know of any steps for a shareholders' agreement on November 30.
Moses Obeid testified at ICAC this month that the Obeids had never had any interest in AWH. When questioned about the share sales agreement Moses Obeid said he had never seen it. When directed to the signing page, he confirmed it was his signature but said he did not believe the deal went ahead.
"I think this, this was, this was superseded by a loan agreement and the, this share transaction didn't go, go ahead because there were others in the family that didn't agree to it," he said.
tempo of money flow picks up
Accounts for the Obeid Family Trust No. 1 show a $3.4 million loan to "Aust Water". Moses Obeid was not able to say whether the loan could be converted to shares.
By the time of the Obeid sale document, Australian Water had been channelling money to the Liberals for months. But now the tempo picked up.
The day before Senator Sinodinos became chairman, Australian Water made two donations to NSW Liberals totalling $1120; two weeks later another $1500; then on December 3 it donated $30,000.
Earlier that day the Financial Review's front page had been full of the deal announced by White Energy on November 30, to pay $500 million for two coal leases that Cascade Coal had acquired a year earlier for $1 million.
In all, AWH had donated $70,803 to Coalition parties since July on top of a $13,000 donation in March. But it wasn't the only new Liberal donor.
The last time Colin Biggers & Paisley had made a donation to the Libs was $1750 in 2006. It then donated $1500 on July 1 2010, then from November 9 to December 24 it made a series of 11 donations to the Libs totalling $38,500.
Discrepancy in donations made
While both AWH and Colin Biggers & Paisley made individual disclosures to the Australian Electoral Commission, little of their generosity appeared in Liberal Party returns.
AWH's total donations to the NSW Liberals in 2010-11 were $51,603.
But the party's political donations return, lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission in October 2011, includes only $21,800 from AWH.
It would later replace that figure with $30,000 in an amendment in April last year, but the remaining $21,603 was not disclosed.
Similarly, the $13,000 donation by AWH to the NSW Liberal Party on March 30, 2010, was not disclosed by the party in its return for the 2009-10 year, lodged in October 2010.
NSW Liberals' finance operations director Simon McInnes told the Financial Review that individual donations that were less than the disclosure threshold of $11,500, which has since increased to $11,900, did not have to be identified by political parties.
The failure to report the $13,000 donation by AWH in March 2010 was "something we are looking into".
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"Dead Space 3″ & Phil Collins: A Match Made in Heaven
By Dan Casey on January 28, 2013
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Who knew that the dulcet tones of Phil Collins would be the peanut butter to Dead Space 3's undead horror-filled chocolate? Though you'll still have to wait another week to play the survival horror spookfest, this new Dead Space 3 trailer (and the synth-drum breakdown of "In the Air Tonight") should tide you over until you can strategically dismember all manner of Xenomorphs while blasting your homemade "Best of Genesis" mixtape. Plus, thanks to addition of co-op play, you actually can mangle your body weight in monsters (provided you know Collins' Xbox Live handle).
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Total goose pimples!
I've been eagerly awaiting this game since it's announcement. Isaac Clark is one of the coolest game protagonists ever. And this franchise has taken over the 'scare you shitless' mantle that used to belong to Resident Evil. Flying around in zero-G in those massive, open areas, and getting turned around until you don't know which was is up is some of the best gameplay I've ever experienced. And the lighting, environments, and sounds are all incredibly ominous and creepy.
Very few games can scare the hell out of me anymore, and this is one game franchise that can. Play in the dark, at night, with the sound turned way up, and have 911 on speed dial for your inevitable heart attack.
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That is a simply awesome trailer! I can't wait to see what the developers have in store for us in Dead Space 3. In fact, the anticipation's gotten me so psyched up that I added the first 2 games in my Blockbuster @Home queue so I could play through them again before getting to the new one. Being an employee of DISH, I do my best to make sure that I've thoroughly tried all the different services and products we release. That's why when DISH came out with Blockbuster @Home, I was eager to give it a go. It really worked out well since I used to buy all the games I wanted to play, and at sixty bucks a pop they did a lot of harm to my bank account. That changed completely as soon as I started renting them from Blockbuster @Home instead of buying them at sixty bucks a piece. With its flat-monthly cost, I was amazed at how much it freed up in my budget.
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This hot fudge sauce is excellent served over ice cream--can be served warmed or cold but wamr is better. It can be used on any dessert such as on pound cake--with a dab of whipped cream on top.
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Serves: 20
Yields: 1 pint
Total Time: 15 min
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 2 min
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- 1 can(s) evaporated milk, any brand will work fine
- 2 cup(s) sugar
- 9 tablespoon(s) cocoa powder
- 1/4 pound(s) butter, no substitue for butter
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla, pure vanilla, not imitation
- Melt butter and add cocoa to the butter. Heat milk and sugar, boil one minute. Add butter/cocoa mixture to milk and sugar, then add salt & vanilla. Beat with electric beater to a smooth consistency.
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Arizona leads 1-0 (as of 4/6)
Game 1: Friday, April 6 | ||
San Francisco | 4 | Final |
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Game 2: Saturday, April 7 | ||
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Giants 4
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Diamondbacks 5
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7:00 PM ET, April 6, 2012
Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
PHOENIX -- Tim Lincecum loses to Arizona and Ian Kennedy beats San Francisco.
Those facts persisted through all of last season and carried over to the reigning NL West champion Diamondbacks' 5-4 season-opening victory over the Giants on Friday night.Chris Young and Paul Goldschmidt hit first-inning home runs, then Ryan Roberts' two-run double broke a sixth-inning tie as Arizona defeated Lincecum (0-1) for the fourth time in a row."I left a floating changeup up there in the middle of the plate and a fastball that wasn't executed well," Lincecum said. "With the exception of that first inning, I settled down pretty well and did all right, but all right isn't good enough on Opening Day."Kennedy (1-0) allowed three runs on nine hits in 6 2/3 innings to beat the Giants for the fourth straight decision.Lincecum had said this week that this could be a "statement" game between two teams that expect to contend for the division title. With 161 games to play, it probably says no more than that Arizona is 1-0 and San Francisco 0-1. But the way it was accomplished reminded a lot of the capacity Chase Field crowd of last year's surprising worst-to-first run by the Diamondbacks."It's good to see everybody pick up where they left off," Roberts said. "It's been a long spring but to come out today and have everybody have success up and down the lineup is nice."Pablo Sandoval's RBI double with two outs in the ninth pulled the Giants within a run, but J.J. Putz got Buster Posey on a grounder to earn the save.Melky Cabrera hit a two-run homer in his first game for San Francisco after coming over in a trade with Kansas City.Posey, the 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, singled twice. The young star catcher also walked in his first game back after the brutal left leg injury sustained in a home-plate collision last May 25 with Florida's Scott Cousins."Buster looked fine," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He is not showing any ill effects of what happened, so that is behind us."Kennedy had just three strikeouts and two walks."I wasn't real happy with my command," he said. "It wasn't the greatest. I'm just really happy how I battled all the way through against a good team."After watching the Diamondbacks celebrate their division crown with a clinching victory over San Francisco last Sept. 23 at Chase Field, the Giants waited through a pregame ceremony while Arizona unveiled a big letter "A" sign designating the title.Then the Diamondbacks got to Lincecum in a hurry.Willie Bloomquist led off with a single and Young, who hit .400 this spring with five home runs, hit a 2-2 pitch into the left-field seats. Young hadn't batted No. 2 in the order all season, but that's where he saw his name when he arrived at the park on Friday. Manager Kirk Gibson doesn't reveal his lineup to his team until the day of the game."I wouldn't be surprised to be hitting second one day, to be hitting fifth the next day and leading off the other day," Young said. "As long as you show up ready to go, it really won't catch you off guard."Lincecum struck out Justin Upton and Miguel Montero, but Goldschmidt's towering home run to left on a 3-1 pitch made it 3-0. It was Goldschmidt's third home run in 10 at-bats against the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner."I don't know," Goldschmidt said. "I was able to get a good hitter's count 3-1 today and get a fastball to hit. As with any pitcher, you try to get a good pitch to hit. It's only been a few ABs, so hopefully they'll be a lot more to come."San Francisco got close in the fifth when Angel Pagan led off with a double, and Cabrera's line drive to right bounced off the top of the fence in right and over for a home run.The Giants tied it at 3 in the sixth after singles by Aubrey Huff and Brandon Belt. Ryan Theriot advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt, and Huff scored on Brandon Crawford's groundout.But Arizona regained the lead its next time up. Upton doubled and advanced to third on a deep fly out by Montero. Goldschmidt walked and Jason Kubel reached when Posey couldn't handle his spinning hit in front of the plate. With the bases loaded, Roberts lined a double into the left-field corner for a 5-3 lead, ending Lincecum's evening.Game notes
Young hit his second career Opening Day HR. The first was in 2008. ... Giants RHP Ryan Vogelsong threw three innings in a rehab start in the opener for Triple-A Fresno on Thursday night, allowing no runs on three hits in four innings, striking out six and walking three. ... The Giants and Diamondbacks met in a season opener for the first time. ... San Francisco 1B prospect Angel Villalona's option to Class A San Jose was canceled because of his continuing visa problems in the Dominican Republic. The Giants say Villalona was placed on the Major League Baseball restricted list pending further developments. ... The attendance of 49,130 was the third-largest opening day crowd at Chase Field and fourth largest for any game there.
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Sat 4/7 | @ARI 5, SF 4 | Recap |
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Wed 9/26 | @SF 6, ARI 0 | Recap |
Thu 9/27 | @SF 7, ARI 3 | Recap |
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Scoring Summary
1st | C Young homered to left (384 feet), W Bloomquist scored. | 0 | 2 | |
1st | P Goldschmidt homered to left (419 feet). | 0 | 3 | |
5th | M Cabrera homered to right (370 feet), A Pagan scored. | 2 | 3 | |
6th | B Crawford grounded out to shortstop, A Huff scored, B Belt to third. | 3 | 3 | |
6th | R Roberts doubled to deep left, J Upton and P Goldschmidt scored, J Kubel to third. | 3 | 5 | |
9th | P Sandoval doubled to deep left center, M Cabrera scored. | 4 | 5 | |
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Game Information
Stadium | Chase Field, Phoenix, AZ |
Attendance | 49,130 (101% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:53 |
Weather | 80 degrees, partly cloudy |
Wind | 8 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Jim Joyce, First Base - Jim Reynolds, Second Base - Mike Dimuro, Third Base - James Hoye |


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With CityCenter, its new megaproject featuring buildings by Norman Foster, Helmut Jahn, and other marquee names, MGM Mirage proposes a Las Vegas that's more urban, less ersatz.
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"There must be an elevator closer to the room," sighs a woman from Nebraska, pulling a suitcase down a hallway at the Aria Hotel. Like a real city, CityCenter, the new Las Vegas resort that includes Aria and three other hotels, forces people to walk—except that, at CityCenter, most of that walking takes place indoors. After all, Aria, with more than 4,000 guest rooms, has hallways that are 300 yards long.
Even in a city built on poker and slot machines, CityCenter, which opened in December, is an extraordinarily big gamble. Its owner, MGM Mirage, is betting that people will flock to a resort that offers contemporary architecture by the likes of Daniel Libeskind and Helmut Jahn instead of the kitsch of the Venetian, with its camera-ready gondoliers, or Paris, with its ersatz Eiffel Tower. Yet it's not at all certain that people from Houston will want to spend time in a complex that, when all is said and done, resembles downtown Houston.
If CityCenter fails—and its future is anything but clear—that will be seen as proof that Americans don't like modern architecture. Which could impact what gets built, far beyond the Las Vegas Strip, for decades.
The gambler who made that bet—the bet that could affect not only his career, but yours—is Jim Murren, the 48-year-old chairman of MGM Mirage. Murren launched the project in 2004, hosting weekly meetings with prominent architects, mostly listening, he said, and absorbing their collective wisdom.
That part was nothing new for Murren, who studied art history and urban planning at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and planned to go to graduate school for architecture. In his senior year, he applied for a fellowship that would have taken him to Europe. When he didn't get it, he opted for a job on Wall Street, where he became so successful that his earlier ambition faded.
And then, like a lot of people who study architecture but don't ever practice, he found a way back to his first love, in his case building more in five years than most architects can create in a lifetime. CityCenter cost MGM Mirage and its partner, Dubai World, some $8.5 billion, making it the largest privately funded construction project in the history of the United States.
Murren could have gone for a modernist theme park—perhaps with one hotel based on Mies van der Rohe's Lake Shore Drive apartments, another based on Le Corbusier's Unites d'Habitations, and maybe a restaurant shaped like Fallingwater. But that would have been as fake as Luxor, the glass pyramid just down the Strip from CityCenter, which represents the "old approach" that Murren hopes to bury.
Murren lived in Manhattan for many years and believes in the importance of downtowns, as well as the value of modernist architecture. And he doesn't just talk the talk. After moving with his family to Las Vegas, he commissioned a pre-fab house by the California architects Marmol Radziner that was trucked to the Nevada desert. In his yard is a Skyspace by James Turrell, one of his favorite artists.
And yet his choices at CityCenter, which covers 67 acres and contains some 18 million square feet, were tame. True, he hired Daniel Libeskind to design the centerpiece shopping mall, called Crystals. The building is cutting-edge—but only in the most literal sense. And Murren hedged his bets by bringing in David Rockwell to put a happy face on the building's interiors. Now there are curvy, rustic looking accoutrements, including a two-story indoor pavilion that looks like a wicker basket, competing with Libeskind's angular architecture.
For the high-rise buildings at CityCenter, Murren's team narrowed a list of nearly 100 architects to five: Rafael Viñoly Architects, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Foster + Partners, Murphy/Jahn, and Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). But those firms weren't permitted to design the interiors of their buildings. They wanted to, according to Sven Van Assche, vice president of design for MGM Mirage, but, he says, "when I looked at their portfolios, they didn't have the eye we needed."
Instead, the company brought in more than 45 interior design firms. They include a few established brands: Bentel and Bentel Architects for the vast café in Aria; Karim Rashid for the Silk Road restaurant in the Vdara hotel; and Adam Tihany for the interiors of the Mandarin Oriental hotel.
But all of that makes CityCenter a rather odd advertisement for contemporary architecture, since the architecture is, with just a few exceptions, only skin-deep. It is, however, an advertisement for collaboration. Each section of CityCenter had an architect of record: HKS for Aria, Leo A Daly for Vdara, and Adamson Associates for the Mandarin, Veer, Crystals, and Harmon structures. Those firms, in turn, reported to Gensler, which served as executive architect for the entire project.
How did the multi-tiered collaboration work? The design architects were responsible for massing and curtain walls; the architects of record did most of the construction documents; and Gensler coordinated their efforts. "We were the glue that held the project together," says J.F. Finn, Gensler's principal in charge of CityCenter. In addition to serving as a kind of owner's rep, his firm got involved in design decisions during the construction phase, says Finn. But Gensler's main role, he says, was as a "cat herder."
With all those cats to herd, there were countless meetings and presentations. For MGM, the main players were Van Assche; Bill Smith, president of the MGM Mirage Design Group; and Bobby Baldwin, president and CEO of CityCenter and chief design and construction officer for MGM Mirage. Murren attended meetings when he could and was even known to sketch ideas.
During a freewheeling conversation in January in his office inside the Bellagio Hotel, Murren seemed surprised to learn that architecture isn't a lucrative profession; after all, he said, he had paid his architects "very handsomely" for their work. (And when a man who has made as much as $8.5 million a year says handsomely, he means it.) So what did his star architects deliver?
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After a no-doors helicopter tour through the famed vortex and the gorgeous, red rock formations of Sedona, a "birthday wine tasting" (as it was my birthday on this day) with a live band was awaiting us. As far as my girl knew at this time, the complementary wine tasting and live band was "provided" by the helicopter tour company as a birthday special, exclusively for those who book helicopter tours with them for special occasions.
My girl was tricked into thinking the band at the wine tasting only played country music (the ONLY genre of music that she refuses to listen to).
Unitl, they started playing songs specific to my girl and I, which then led up to myself performing B.O.B's "Lovelier than you" with the band and a proposal speech to follow.
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Olson and Kutner's work also suggests a positive and paradoxical dimension of playing video games with violence in them: helping kids to grapple with life's scariest experiences.
Olson reports that many kids in their focus groups said they liked playing violent video games because they knew the fighting wasn't happening in real life. In fact, many of the kids reported being much more scared by TV news. "They told us, The news is real, and that makes me scared.'" In contrast, they could control the violence in video games. "There are things you can try out in a game that you can't do in real life," says Olson. "Some of the boys in our focus groups really liked the fact that you could choose to be a good guy or a bad guy. They can ask, What kind of person would I end up being?'"
Olson's son Michael says he and his friends do not play games just because of violent content. Instead, they are looking for a compelling storyline, intriguing characters, and interesting choices. "A good game to me makes you feel like a method actor," he says. "It just draws you into the story and draws you into a character."
These insights resonate with research into children's pretend play. In studies of kids with imaginary friends, University of Oregon psychologist Marjorie Taylor has found that kids often create pretend characters who do sinister, nasty, and even violent things. (See Taylor's essay on page 28 of this issue.) "Like adults who think things through before they act, this gives children an opportunity to play it through before they encounter the situation in real life," says Taylor. "If something is bothering you, you can control it or manipulate it in the world of pretending. That's a way of developing emotional mastery."
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner offered a similar conclusion in his 2001 opinion blocking an Indianapolis ordinance that would have regulated video-game arcades. "Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low," he wrote. "It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it."
That doesn't mean that anything goes. Olson says many precautionary steps can be taken to mitigate the harm that violent video games might cause. "I would definitely want to show realistic consequences," she says, when asked how she would design one of these games. "There are a number of games with storylines that show the consequences of violence: Kids are getting orphaned or people are suffering." She says the violence should never be depicted as funny, or the perpetrators as attractive, and the players should be rewarded for mercy and moral choices—as they are in the game SWAT, for example.
But to help kids make the right choices about video games, parents and other adults first need to understand what kids are playing. Olson and Kutner urge parents and researchers alike to learn more about these games, and even play them with kids. This will help both groups develop a more nuanced understanding of gaming and be able to tell the good games from the bad ones.
"It's a great thing developmentally for the child to teach the parent something," says Olson. "A lot of kids said they'd love for their parents to play games with them."
Jeremy Adam Smith is the managing editor of Greater Good and author of Twenty-First-Century Dad, forthcoming in 2009 from Beacon Press.
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Since activity here has been below low... maybe a few Oasies™ may find inspiration in this TED lecture:
I think she really hits the nail on the head with regard to the Duality of human nature and the myriad of people who don't identify with being 'Straight'. Unfortunately, humans do have a annoying tendency to 'box' themselves into categories, without allowing room for change.
Everyone changes with education and experience, it's inevitable. There are still far too many people who go through life with blinder's on. In time, hopefully that will also change. Tillett's efforts are an important step in that direction.


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Our cottage home has rooms decorated with period items; 1930s styles in the Deco Room, Victorian in the guest room, even using the colorations of the fixtures and tile in the main bath used in the late 1920s. And where do we find examples of these styles to emulate? I purchase magazines for the advertising from the early 40s back to the teens, with some as old as the late 1890s.
Some names may be easy for anyone to find – Look, Life, Ladies' Home Journal are common and can be found in most antique malls, often well under $10.00 for 1930s and newer. (You can expect higher prices for older examples with Coke Christmas ads.) Other great names include Deliniator, Modern Priscilla, Country Gentleman, Home & Garden, House Beautiful and The Farm Journal.
This weekend, while traveling into Minnesota and stopping all over the state at antique stores and malls, I found Ken.
Ken, you ask? Well, I never heard of it and no one else at the mall had either. It's a controversial, political, large format magazine with full page photo spreads, published every two weeks on Thursdays. I bought 5 copies from the first year of publication in 1938. With stories and articles, it does have some big name advertisers. The articles railed against the Nazi Germany, politicians, war, corruption, fraud and supported liberal and the black causes.
This magazine featured Big Name Hollywood types in the news in full-page photo layouts. They included Katharine Hepburn, Mae West. Bette Davis, Mrs. Rudolph Valentino, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Sullivan, Claudette Colbert, entertainers Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and featuring articles from many writers including Ernest Hemingway, Park Cummings, William Schofield and tons of others, (all copies I have include an article by Hemingway.)
Politicians with photo layouts included Presidents FDR (Roosevelt), Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Harding and everyone who was anyone in Germany at this time.
While I did not find the type of ads or pictures of home décor one expects to find in old magazines, these Kens are a fascinating look at the political world leading up to the American entry into World War II, with the warnings that we could not escape being drawn into a conflict.
My next article will discuss a poignant article called "Are You Red, White Or Blue" and an accompanying quiz that was taken by the original owner. The purpose of this Quiz was to determine the political leanings of the reader, from conservative to radical. It seems so appropriate at this juncture in our political process and harken back to the TV networks red-blue maps of the last few presidential elections.
So my search for odd titled old magazines will now include Ken, not for the home decorating but for the history lessons I may learn. If you know of any titles of pre-WWII magazines I should be on the look-out for, please share them with us.


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