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Thank you to the north country communities, family and friends who supported our Great Strides Walk and cystic fibrosis research in the past.
Almost 100 percent of the research done to find a cure for cystic fibrosis is funded from individual fundraising and the annual Great Strides Walks across the country.
Because of this individual support, a drug, Kalydeco was approved by the FDA last year and has made a big difference for people with the D551 mutation, which is about 5 percent of those with cystic fibrosis. This year two new drugs, VX809 and VX661 are in the trial stage. These new drugs offer great hope.
Kalydeco, VX809B and VX661 all are aimed at the underlying causes of CF, whereas current medications are aimed at reducing the symptoms.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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OXFORD -- The Oxford College women's soccer team will bring its frustrating and injury-plagued season to a close Saturday when the Lady Eagles host Gordon College at Bivings Field.
Oxford coach Gregory Moss-Brown said that Sunday's game at South Carolina-Lancaster was canceled due to the rampant injury-and-illness bug that has seemingly affected every player, not to mention coaches and staff.
"Ironically, it was when we played Lancaster the first time that our goalkeeper (Willa Brooks) suffered a broken clavicle," Moss-Brown said. "That and other injuries left us a little too short to play, so we had to cancel the Lancaster game.
"It's just been one of those years -- it's been one thing after another. Kalysea Lovan had a pinched nerve in her back, and one of our captains, Anna Bausum, wound up with a torn ACL. Strained muscles, soreness -- you name it, we've had it. And more than anything else, we had a flu bug go through the team that pretty much got to everybody, including one of our coaches. It's been nuts."
Oxford (2-8-1) last took the field on Sept. 28 against Georgia Military College in a 6-0 loss that Moss-Brown said was much closer than the final score indicated.
"We were down 2-0 at the half against Georgia Military and the girls were playing out of their minds," he said. "But we just didn't have the strength and endurance to stay with them in the second half. We only had two substitutes. ... Georgia Military was probably the fittest team we've played. They were very impressive and I felt we matched them all the way through."
Now completing his second year as the Lady Eagles' coach, Moss-Brown admitted it has been an exasperating fall campaign, although he's been pleased with his players' willingness to continue to compete.
"We really haven't been able to be at full strength at any time this season," he said. "And losing Willa was probably the last blow. She was doing so well and all of a sudden that came along. The way I look it, you remain positive. You're always going to have things thrown at you that may be not so positive but you deal with it.
"It's always about the approach. We've gone into every game with a positive outlook. I don't know, many other players and coaches might have folded by now, but it's the strength and force of your personality that allow you to push through. The last game is an example of that -- the score doesn't really tell the story and how these girls battled and fought with Georgia Military."
In Saturday's 5 p.m. game against Gordon College, Oxford will pay tribute to its sophomores -- including Bausum, Brooks, Stephanie Stutts and Allison Gilland -- as it seeks to end the season on a winning note. Gordon College (2-10) has lost six of its last seven games and one of its only victories this season came on Sept. 9 when the Lady Highlanders defeated Oxford 2-0 in Barnesville.
"It should be an interesting game, to say the least" Moss-Brown said. "The girls will be fired up and we'll celebrate Sophomore Night. It should be quite a good match."
For more information on the Oxford College women's soccer team, visit www.oxford.emory.edu/athletics.
More like this story
- Oxford soccer team captures first win ( September 2, 2011 )
- Oxford goalie has volleyball background ( September 6, 2011 )
- Oxford Lady Eagles eager for their first win ( August 30, 2011 )
- Oxford Eagles start season ranked No. 1 ( September 27, 2011 )
- Rockdale's Gilland leading Oxford on soccer field ( September 13, 2011 )

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Harold, from Crummy, Lisnaskea is spending his second successive year as judge, having decided on the Charolais entries last year.
He says it is an honour to be asked back for a second time having been involved with the breed for 25 years.
Perth Bull Sales start to-day(Sunday) at United Auction's premises in Stirling when the inspections of entries take place.
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CANTON - Responding to concerns about large first-grade class sizes, reading teachers at Banford Elementary School have been assigned to spend an extra 40 minutes each day working in the schools first grade classrooms.
Several parents have voiced concerns about the first-grade class size increasing from an average of 17 students last year to 26 this year.
Banford Principal Joseph D. McDonough said each of the four first grade teachers will team up with a reading teacher for 40 minutes a day which is in addition to the 40 minutes allocated to each class for students who need remedial reading help.
Jon Rosales and his wife, Matilda Larsen, 63 Buck St., said their son, Jacob, has already been impacted by having 25 children in his first grade class.
Children in large classes are likely to be more off task and have less contact with the teacher, the couple said in a letter to the school board. The habit of being off task particularly troubles us. If this habit becomes entrenched at a young age, it may continue throughout our sons life. Jacob has already mentioned to us several times that his class is too loud, and he cant concentrate on his work.
The couple cited studies showing that students who were in small classes in early grades do better academically in future grades compared to counterparts who started their education in larger classes.
The couple said they were willing to give up their Basic Star property tax reduction to that the money could go to the school budget. They also planned to volunteer to help out in the classroom.
Ms. Larsen encouraged school board members and Superintendent William A. Gregory to spend time in the first-grade classroom so they could understand the challenge of teaching 26 young children.
Mr. McDonough said he believes teaming up first-grade teachers with reading teachers will be effective. Three of the classes have 26 students while one class has 25.
Even though the class size is larger they will still get individual attention in small groups, Mr. McDonough said. I think it will evolve as the year goes on and the teams get closer. I think we have a solid direction.
Parent volunteers and tutors from St. Lawrence University may be able to assist with math and other subjects.
Mindy M. Backus, an elementary reading teacher at Gouverneur Central, said she wants assurance that the district will consider reducing classroom sizes in the future so that the existing first-grade class doesnt end up with large class sizes each year.
This really needs to be fixed for next year, Mrs. Backus said.
Ann Marie G. Halstead, another mother of a first grader, said she was concerned about both students and teachers. She also submitted a letter to the school board.
I believe we should set up both our students and our educators to be successful. In an already challenging and stressful climate with potentially low morale, lets show our amazing faculty that we support them, that were willing to make it possible for them to do their good work, she wrote.
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- Friday, February 25, 2005
Spinning Around: The Architectural Uncanny
Date + TimeFriday, February 25, 2005
11:00 a.m. - noon
LocationKoret Visitor Education Center
In conjunction with the new installation of The Art of Design, Alfred discusses media works such as Marco Brambilla's Cyclorama that question technological efficiency and its psychosocial effects by presenting spaces emblematic of our everyday experience of the built environment. The program concludes with a gallery tour.
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Class of '86 – Cadillac Eldorado and Seville
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We could have easily lumped the Cadillac Eldorado and Seville in with the Oldsmobile Toronado in the Class of 1986; since the late 1960s, both the Eldorado and Toronado rode the same E-body front-wheel-drive platform, and both cars were subject to the same downsizing and chassis changes for the 1986 model year. Yet doing so would overlook a number of significant differences between the two as well as a tough lesson for the wreath-and-crest marque.
The downsizing of the two-door Eldorado and four-door Seville took center-stage for Cadillac this year. Like the Toronado, they lost six inches of wheelbase, though the Cadillacs shed a little less overall length (16.6 inches for the Seville, 16.3 inches for the Eldorado) and weight (317 pounds for the Seville, 332 pounds for the Eldorado) than the Oldsmobile in their switch from body-on-frame to unibody chassis. Unlike the Toronado, the Eldorado and Seville continued to use a V-8 rather than switch to a V-6: Cadillac engineers simply took the 4.1L V-8 and turned it sideways to bolt to a four-speed overdrive automatic transaxle. Such adaptability was built in to the aluminum-block, iron-head overhead-valve 4.1L (also known as the HT-4100 and by its RPO code LT8) from the start, though under less-than-ideal circumstances. Cadillac initially intended the HT-4100 to power only its new generation of transverse front-wheel-drive cars as early as 1983, but when snags within GM delayed that program at about the same time the cries of death to the designer of the V-8-6-4 started pouring in, Cadillac engineers adapted the 4.1L to fit traditional rear-wheel-drive chassis, simultaneously avoiding the temporary shelving of the HT-4100 and replacing the V-8-6-4. The HT-4100 debuted in 1982 with throttle-body electronic fuel injection and just 125hp. By 1986, with a slightly higher compression ratio, it was up to 130hp, but the HT-4100 suffered nearly as poor a reputation as its predecessor. Customers complained of poor acceleration, overheating issues, rod bearing problems and intake manifold gasket failures, among many other issues. Cadillac was apparently slow to respond to customer complaints. Not counting the special 1987 multi-port fuel-injected Allante engine, more power didn't arrive until 1988 with the 4.5L version (HT-4500) and then 1991 with the 4.9L version (HT-4900). The reliability problems seem to have persisted in part until Cadillac replaced the HT-4900 with the Northstar V-8s in the mid-1990s.
Aside from the V-8, the Seville and Eldorado both boasted a driver information center in the dashboard that displayed engine readouts and current fuel economy as well as all the luxury appointments associated with a Cadillac, including an optional (for $2,850) Motorola cell phone housed in the center console. Both, however, drew criticism for looking far too much like each other and like other GM front-wheel-drive cars. This proved very problematic for a marque selling, essentially, a more expensive version of the same product, especially when the less expensive versions advertised more power and didn't have reliability concerns weighing them down. As a result, sales for the Seville and Eldorado combined tanked from more than 116,000 in 1985 to 40,440 in 1986 and 36,353 in 1987. The arrival of the HT-4500 and a minor refresh of the styling in 1988 helped, but not by much. Both the Seville and Eldorado would continue until replaced with larger versions in 1992.
As we've found out more than once, though, a car's reputation when new or nearly new doesn't always hold over the decades. Sometimes reliability and perception problems don't seem like that big of a deal in hindsight. What say you – are the 1986 Eldorado and Seville worthy of the Cadillac crest? Would they make good collectible cars? Or should they be left to wither in the back row of the local used car lot?


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The Most Hated Holiday Songs
'Tis the season to be jolly. Holiday music has begun and while most of us enjoy listening to Christmas carols, there are some that makes us groan every time we hear them. The Global Grind has come up with the Top 10 Most Hated Holiday Songs after surveying 200 women aged 30-49, who said they love hearing Christmas songs on the radio. Just not these Christmas songs.
1. Singing Dogs 'Jingle Bells'
2. Beach Boys 'The Man With All the Toys'
3. Spike Jones 'All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth'
4. Barbara Streisand 'Jingle Bells'
5. Elmo & Patsy 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer'
6. Carman 'O Holy Night'
7. Seymour Swine & Squeelers 'Blue Christmas'
Polly's Picks
Since I fall into the age category, I'd have to agree with the women surveyed. Although I'd have 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' higher on my hate list and I'd add '12 Days of Christmas.' I can't tell you how much I despise that song, unless its the '12 Pains of Christmas.' That version is hilarious. The guy with the lights is my favorite.
For the complete Top 10 list of Most Hated Holiday Songs, visit Global Grind.
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Visit the new Music Guild Costume Shop for all your dress-up needs.
Quad City Music Guild maintains an extensive collection of costumes and accessories from every time and fashion period imaginable. These items are managed by a dedicated team of volunteer caretakers at the Music Guild Costume Shop - at the back of the Prospect Park Auditorium.
Items from our costume inventory are available for rent to other theatrical groups and arts organizations in the area for a small donation.
Quad City Music Guild Costume Shop
1584-34th Avenue, Moline, IL
Hours are Wednesdays 9am-12 noon,
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Lance Bass Starts New Boy Band Called "Heart 2 Heart"
October 14, 2011 2:01 PM
At first I thought this was a joke, but I guess it's legit. Former "boy bander", Lance Bass, has created a boy band of his own. If you want a good laugh, check out the debut video of "Facebook Official" by Heart 2 Heart!
Crappy song, choreography, matching outfits, insane hair… Yep, all the boy band cliches are there!
Can a REAL boy band show these guys how it's done…


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Everything in our Holiday and Autism Play Guide has been mom and kid tested. We love having fun with cool products and you can rely that our recommendations are honest and something I would buy myself (if I already haven't). Thanks for visiting our guide!
Puzzles are recommended by professionals for children diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. Puzzles are error free because each piece can only fit into one place.
The easiest puzzles to start with are puzzles with big pieces and handles where the pieces easily fit. You can even add pictures on the puzzle piece to make it more visual.
Remember to choose puzzles that are compatible with your child's motor skills so they don't become frustrated and encourage their skills.
If you have a printer, you can find amazing resources on the internet. I am very thankful for all of the amazing ideas and free resources these websites supply for free for kids activities. As a daycare provider, I have used the puzzles and other activities and the kids like them just as much. If you can laminate them, they will last longer. Here are just a couple of websites I use below. I also recommend searching KIDS ACTIVITIES on Pinterest. I love that website!
Example of a printable puzzle. Start few peices then you can add more and try other ideas, like popsicle puzzles.
KIDSPARKZ – Frog four piece puzzle pdf download
1PLUS1PLUS1EQUALS1.NET -Two Piece Color Puzzles (Best website!)
OVERTHEBIGMOON.COM – A to Z Puzzles
Cost around $12 and up
I own Melissa and Doug Puzzles. I like them because they are durable and colorful with fun objects. I recommend them and they have frequent sales online at Amazon or School Supply websites.
Now for something unique and lovely. Artifact puzzles are for older children or a child with great puzzle skills. My son wasn't able to put it together by himself (he is eight), but he enjoyed helping.
I was impressed with the quality and beauty of the puzzle. These puzzles are a bit more expensive but you get your money's worth, because each piece is handcrafted. This would make a wonderful gift for a child who loves puzzles and building.
Based in Seattle, Artifact Puzzles uses clever designs and vibrant artwork to craft laser-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles that will last. These unique puzzles offer a challenge which upon completion inspires a much deeper satisfaction than any video game ever can. Along with the stunning graphics provided by the rich selection of artwork and the designers' craftsmanship, the puzzle pieces themselves are extremely unique and interesting. These puzzles promote spatial relation development, art appreciation, creativity, and team-working skills. (from the website)
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On the Honda Dream front end I am using on the 441 since the axle & wheel travel one a pivot arm at the bottom of fork, the brake stay bolting to the fork housing, and the brake plate in wheel have movement between the two. So the brake stay arm needs to be rubber bushing'ed on the ends, and ideally travel in the same arch as the axle pivot arm. And switch sides from the original Honda set up.
Figured it all out. I Put the new mount in various places with suspension and axle and brake plate in place to test suspension travel with the brake stay travel. The old sheet metal mount on other side will be removed.
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Sarah Wiener Wins Gulfstream Park/XpressBet Contest
Sarah Wiener Wins Gulfstream Park/XpressBet Contest
Sarah Wiener of Clearwater, Fla. used her final $5 win/place wager of Gulfstream Park's $400 Handicapping Contest to sweep past the field and catapult herself to Las Vegas for the DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) on Jan. 27-28.
In the middle of the pack heading into the Sunday finale at Gulfstream, Wiener placed her final contest wager on 24-1 longshot Gambaru who rallied up the rail to win beneath jockey Jose Ferrer.
The score helped Wiener best her 94 competitors and secure the $7,600 first prize as well as the trip to Vegas and seat in the NHC.
Michael Berry, Sarah's husband Brett Wiener, and Karen Mercado completed the top four in the contest which sends the top three finishers to Vegas. Since Brett Wiener has already qualified for the NHC, Mercado's fourth-place finish was good enough to send her westbound.
The $400 Gulfstream Park/XpressBet Handicapping Contest was a two-day event held on Dec. 10-11 featuring 95 of the country's best handicappers. Players had to make exactly 10 $5 win/place bets both days on races from Gulfstream Park, Aqueduct and Parx.
Below are the official Top 10 results:
Finish Name Contest Earnings Prize Money
1st Sarah Wiener $336 $7,600
2nd Mike Berry $301.50 $3,420
3rd Brett Wiener $297.75 $1,900
4th Karen Mercado $281 $1,330
5th Ricky Zimmer $251 $950
6th Ray Ansenault $249 $380
7th Ross Gallo $246.50 $380
8th Sarah Wiener $239 $380
9th Richard Dahlgren $230.50 $380
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been asking around and stuff and i want to know if doing boards and lockouts for a big raw bench is useful, i will never use equipment, i arch slightly. Off the chest isnt a problem for me but i have weak midpoint up, crappy tri's, i would think just doing the lockout and holding the heavy weight is a shock to the system.
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This Tuesday, the door will swing open for nearly 200,000 Idahoans to get health insurance, many for the first time and many with pre-existing conditions. Good news, right? You'd never know it from Idaho's politicians and press.
Read the front page story in Thursday's paper and you might think obtaining health insurance through the Idaho exchange is like a collective root canal: unfortunate but, alas, necessary. Everyone interviewed in the story seemed duty-bound to say they were against the Affordable Care Act. But, of course, they also said they will act in their best economic interest, meaning they will likely buy insurance at an affordable cost. Reluctantly, you understand.
I don't get it: What's wrong with a family of four or more getting health insurance for a net cost of $250 a month? What's not to like about a net $100 a month to insure a single payer under 30? A minimum wage worker in Idaho (and we've got a gazillion of them) will be able to get insurance for as little as $25 a month, says the chairman of the Health Care Exchange Board, Stephen Weeg of Pocatello. Why shouldn't we celebrate this unprecedented opportunity? Because it's politically incorrect, that's why.
If you need health insurance and get it, remember not to smile.
You could offend delicate sensibilities.
Excessive celebration doesn't mean a 15-yard penalty. It means you could get ostracized. Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans are frantically attempting to "defund Obamacare" before too many Americans find out it's a good deal.
Is it complicated and a little hard to understand? Certainly. The Affordable Care Act was a perfect expression of our cockamamie political system at work, a dog's breakfast of every lobbyist getting something.
Is it coming at us in a rush? Surely, but then our Legislature waited until the last possible minute to act.
Will it work? A 19-member committee of Idahoans and a bunch of insurance companies has done everything possible to pull it off in a few months. There's no way it can be rolled out perfectly, but give it two years and then decide.
You might be tempted to say the drumbeat of negativity about this competitive, privately based, state-administered system (first proposed by Republicans 20 years ago) is just politics as usual and no great harm in the end. But there's a real danger the demonizing will discourage many from getting what they need or even investigating.
The saving grace may, in the end, be state-level administration. Idaho's rates may be no better than those in 26 states using a federally administered plan, but the source matters. It's reassuring and more politically palatable in Idaho. Moreover, it's consistent with our Constitution, which sees merit in different solutions in different states, a federalized health delivery system.
So, starting Tuesday, if there's a good deal in all this for you or someone you know, sign up. Just be careful who you tell.
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The Internet is evolving, and its next phase – the Internet of Everything – brings together people, process, data and things to create opportunities that benefit people, communities, and the environment. Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020, making cybersecurity more vital than ever before. Cisco is engaged in several efforts to prepare young people for careers in the field.
First, Cisco has partnered with CyberPatriot, the national youth cyber education program. Bernie Skoch, CyberPatriot National Commissioner, emphasizes the need for cybersecurity training as breaches and threats become more common on the Internet.
"There are 15,000 attacks per second in the United States by people who would do ill to our systems," Skoch said. "We have a dire need for cybersecurity professionals in the United States, but we frankly aren't drawing enough young men and young women to be the designers, to be the planners, to be the operators of these very technical systems."
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It was a day to recognize Cesar Chavez, but some Pasadena residents marched for two African-American teenagers who were recently shot and killed.
Saturday's peace walk brought out more than 100 students and adults to Villa Parke Community Center to commemorate Chavez, the civil rights leader who fought for the rights of farm workers and migrants. Some wore stickers reading "I am Trayvon Martin," referring to the unarmed 16-year-old killed by a Florida security guard in February. Others held bright yellow signs demanding justice for Kendrec McDade, 19, an unarmed robbery suspect killed by Pasadena police officers March 24.
"It's common practice for local law enforcement, here in L.A. and across the country, to respond with violence anytime there's an incident involving black or brown people," said Victor Quintero, a 24-year-old Los Angeles resident. "Violent crimes in our community disproportionally affect us."
Quintero, who held a sign calling the police officers who shot McDade "guilty," said he was unsatisfied with the community meeting that Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez held Saturday morning.
"Sanchez said at the meeting that there was no imminent threat when they were called to the scene, yet their first response was to fire at McDade," he said. "I believe that's really the response of law enforcement when there's colored youth involved."
Sanchez participated in the walk, along with Pasadena city council members Chris Holden and Jacque Robinson.
Holden called the recent incident a "tragedy," but said the walk was a positive step toward pulling the community together.
It was a chance "to hear each other's concerns and to understand where we can make a difference, individually, for a change," he said. "And to know that there's a way to be successful at accomplishing change in a peaceful way."
Throughout the walk, which started at the community center on East Villa Street and ended at Robinson Park on Fair Oaks Avenue, people shouted 'Sí, se puede,' a term Chavez coined meaning "Yes, we can."
Mary Torregrossa said she came from Baldwin Park to walk for peace in Pasadena. She recognized Martin's case, but said there are others also deserve public attention.
"God bless Travyon Martin and his family, but we here in Pasadena know people who have been shot," said Torregrossa, 55. "Everyone now knows about things that happen. It can't get swept under the rug so easily."
Before the walk Victor Griego, president of Diverse Strategies for Organization, gave at a keynote speech about Chavez's mission. He said there is a false perception that blacks and Latinos do not get along. If Chavez were alive today, he said, the activist would recognize the deaths of both McDade and Martin.
"What would Cesar Chavez do? Cesar would be wearing a hoodie," he said. "Cesar would be leading the march for Trayvon Martin."
The commemoration and walk were sponsored by El Centrol de Accion Social in Pasadena.
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What did they do about it? Well, it can be presumed that they maintained their campaign on the Chechnya and took their frustrations out on a few separatists – but Russia is not stopping there. They are building terrorist-proof public lavatories just to be safe. The outer walls of the new lavatories will be built from ultra-strong fibrous concrete; the interior fittings will be steel and reinforced plastic – and if you spend to long inside (more than 30 minutes) an alarm sounds and the door opens automatically (admittedly that could be bad if you have holed up for protection from a brain-hungry zombie horde).
The toilets will be unisex and the temperature inside will never drop below 16-C. I'm not quite sure what the whole suicide bomber – public toilet link is, but I am guessing that they probably use public toilets to prepare their attacks and that getting setup takes more than thirty minutes. Or perhaps they have figured out some way of remotely detonating them while they are safely inside.
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I think before any person calls another person ugly, they need to take a long look in their own mirror.
Originally posted 2011-05-20 11:08:12.
So… this appeared on my radar last night:
In a couple of weeks my mother turns 65.She takes yoga and Zumba every chance she gets and if you sneeze more than twice around her, she'll cook you a pot of collard greens. My mother believes her collard greens can fix just about anything.
She has a fiery personality that can rub people the wrong way. But those who know her don't mind, because it was that same fire that helped her overcome poverty, beat cancer and protect her five cubs.
My mother is a black woman.
And she is beautiful.
So to the editors of Psychology Today who thought it was a good idea to post a blog item calling black women ugly, I suggest you watch your back… my mother's cubs are looking for you.
And we are not happy.
Satoshi Kanazawa's post, "Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?" appeared Sunday and quickly circulated around the blogosphere. It drew a great deal of criticism, which I suspect led to the post being pulled, though you can still find it elsewhere on the Web.
While it's not quite as bad as Golfweek magazine putting a noose on its cover in relationship to a story about Tiger Woods, it is still rather disturbing that Psychology Today's editors needed public outcry to clue them in that the post was offensive and irresponsible.
It's challenging enough to see popular culture publications such as People and Maxim struggle to include black women in their annual most-beautiful listings, but at least their editors don't try to justify their choices under the guise of science.
"Because they have existed much longer in human evolutionary history, Africans have more mutations in their genomes than other races," Kanazawa's post read. "And the mutation loads significantly decrease physical attractiveness."
I do not dispute Kanazawa's credentials as an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, but I do wonder why he even approached the topic.
I question a methodology that asks random people to judge the attractiveness of other random people without taking into account the influence of background and culture. Without taking into account a Westernized standard of beauty that has not only haunted some black women into buying cream to bleach their skin but prompted some Asian-Americans to undergo surgery to make their eyes more European looking.
That's not to say white skin or round eyes are necessarily unattractive. Rather, a system that declares one set of physical attributes as the standard to which a multiethnic society must adhere is destructive.
And racist.
And yet as much as I detest Kanazawa's post, I do recognize it as just another chapter in the ongoing assault on black women in our culture.
He says they're ugly.
The statistics say 42% have never been married.
Some rappers say, well, we know what they say… and apparently we don't mind, because they keep topping the charts.
If you comb through Donald Bogle's book "Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films," you'll find a long celluloid history of black women being portrayed as anything but beautiful. Their sass is a constant source of comedic relief, but rarely are they seen as complete human beings, to be romanced or capable of being vulnerable.
Nowadays the most popular black female characters in film are not even played by black women. Tyler Perry's "Madea" and Martin Lawrence's "Big Momma" characters are unflattering caricatures of figureheads who for generations on top of generations held the black community together.
Funny, maybe.
Fair, definitely not.
His write-up continues on the CNN website, and is worth you clicking over to check it out, if for no other reason than to make sure he and his post get credit for bringing CNN that kind of traffic. Maybe they'll see it's worth posting uplifting commentary about Black women. Giant hugs go out to Granderson for using his platform to get this message out (and if only he could manage to also moderate those comments, but I digress.)
I've no desire to get into a "woe is me" parade, here, but the perception of Black women is affected by a lot of things… all of which make it difficult for us to exist the way we want in our day to day lives. We are always assumed to be the "lowest common denominator" (do we automatically assume every white woman is a single parent, poor, and moves her head and neck around like crazy whenever she's upset?), always assumed to be promiscuous, and must always be "strong like bull." We can't be who we are – or work toward being who we aspire to be – without being told that there are reasons to focus elsewhere. We can't even walk down the street in peace, in most cases.
It's difficult to be us, but we still do it. And according to that faux-study – the only thing that was interesting to me about the entire "study" – we still think highly of ourselves despite it all.
I saw someone comment on the study and state that "we" – meaning Black women – are the only ones who continue to consume media that denigrates us. I disagree. We're denigrated as women – something we share with all women, and that plight shouldn't be minimized – and then we're devalued as Blacks, something we share with all minorities, regardless of race. And we all still consume this media because many of us still feel like we have no other choice. I've always felt like the problem isn't, so to speak, the consumption of media. The problem is what we do with what we've consumed.
Something awesome happened the other day. We all consumed, so to speak, the horrific post by Kanazawa, and what did we do with that? We complained. We wrote letters. We tweeted (twote?) about it and called it to the attention of others. We e-mailed our contacts. We shared with our peers – Black, white, Latina/o and otherwise – what foolishness was passing for science, and we built up among our collectives a very strong stance that we wouldn't tolerate this from outlets to whom we extend credibility. If Psychology Today were going to maintain its credibility and respect, it would need to address this matter.
Needless to say, all that tweeting, facebooking, emailing and whatever else (carrier pigeon?) we were doing got the attention of the right people. Sent to me this morning by @YoungFlynMommy:
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa stooped to new levels of awfulness in his post claiming "black women are significantly less physically attractive than women of other races." His racist remarks could cost him his job at the London School of Economics.According to the Guardian, many LSE students lodged complaints after Kanazawa's offensive post made the rounds. Said Sherelle Davids of the LSE students' union, "Kanazawa deliberately manipulates findings that justify racist ideology. As a black woman I feel his conclusions are a direct attack on black women everywhere who are not included in social ideas of beauty." And Amena Amer, the union's incoming education officer, said,
We support free speech and academic freedom, but Kanazawa's research fuels hate against ethnic and religious minorities promoted by neo-Nazi groups. Not only does he use the LSE's credentials to legitimise his 'research' but this jeopardises the academic credibility of the LSE.
The union has voted unanimously that Kanazawa should be fired. Now the school has launched an internal investigation that will evaluate his claims and decide whether to punish him. They've already issued a public statement saying he doesn't speak for the LSE: "The views expressed by this academic are his own and do not in any way represent those of the LSE as an institution."
Amer is correct that Kanazawa's comments are an embarrassment to her school. Even if his views are his own, as long as they continue to employ him, they're implicitly vouching for his merit as a scholar. And unless they're prepared to say that his bar graphs about black women's supposed ugliness are actually good science, it's time for them to let him go. [source]
So no… the problem isn't consuming the media. The problem is choosing to do nothing about it. We did something about it… and not only did we send a message to Kanazawa that his poor standards are a problem; not only did we send a message to evolutionary psychologists everywhere that a social construct – like beauty – cannot be explained through genetics; not only did we send a message to racists everywhere that their imperceptive attempts to sneak in racist "studies" will always be sniffed out and justice will be metted out for it; not only did we all speak out against such foolishness together?
There was an outpouring of reminders that there is love and support for Black women out there. We just have to be more judicious in surrounding ourselves with it.
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I think before any person calls another person ugly, they need to take a long look in their own mirror.
I was afraid to read that post circulating…and I still don't want to. I'm the type whos heart wil burst through there chest at something so ignorant. We as black can't win. The media painted us as Undatable, not worry or marriage, and so much other BS in the past few years, then to have this man write this! Blacks are the only one with mutations? First off mutations as in what? I'm a nursing major so i'm just trying to figure that out? Humans in general are full of different genes that make them beautiful period! I can't even finish my rant, because I'm getting angry at this mans ignorance.
I've read it, and believe me, you're not missing anything. Even a layperson like me (with a healthy amount os scepticism) could poke holes in his research design. If you do sociological research in your course of study, you might find it interesting as an example of how not to conduct research.
There have been lots of rebuttals (eg. on Psychology Today) to this guy's "study"… which are more interesting to read.
I'm glad that there is an internal investigation into Kanazawa.
That said, what I appreciated best is a large point of the response was the protest that he basically took his opinion and tried to make it scientific (which was my biggest issue). There will always be racists, always be those who don't find black women attractive, so that wasn't my issue with the OP.
It was the critical thinking aspect of the protest that was key, since I think part of racist (or at minimum prejudiced) assumptions of blacks, black women in particular, is that we primarily react out of emotion (as in, we're upset ONLY because the OP was racist). But no, we're intelligent enough to knock down specious arguments as well.
Well, whatever. This guy has issues, and it could be a variety of them; he has issues with women, he might be struggling with his sexuality, he's obviously racist (he apparently has a history of written inflammatory stuff about Muslims, women, etc.) and like most people these days, he's just trying to get his 15 minutes of fame by raising everyone's hackles. But he is clearly mental, and the LSE and PT might suffer a few hits to their credibility for associating with this fool.
But let's face it, this is black people we're talking about here. No one really "cares". We all know that if he had directed this BS toward Jewish women, then it would be on! He would have been FIRED, no questions or explanations needed. LSE would have done what the House of Dior did to John Galliano when he got drunk at a Paris restaurant and went off on a couple of Jewish women, spewing Anti-semtic vitrol and like everything else, it went viral. They had no choice but to disassociate themselves from that fool, for fear of losing their wealthy Jewish clients. There was no "discussion" about 'his future at Dior" or words to that effect, or questions about his employment. Galliano was Dior and HUGE in the fashion world, so they could have done some damage control spin and sent him off to counseling and re-hab. Nope! They threw him under the bus and kicked his butt out the door! Just like that. Why?
Because the Jewish community is powerful, wealthy and highly influential. They are a proud community that sticks together when they are being attacked, not matter what. (I've had quite a few Jewish boyfriends to know this firsthand) If this idiot at LSE had directed his inaccurate and totally racist junk toward Jews, then LSE would have been faced with losing their funding from patrons and benefactors, the PT editor's job would have been on the line for publishing that mess without having properly vetted for fact; this guy would be GONE! Heads would be rolling or at least hanging by a thread. We all know this.
I wonder how many black intellectuals where among those who have complained? How many black MALE intellectuals have come to our defense? Have we heard from NAACP and other organizations yet?
I wonder….
@candiew, I'm bound to agree with you on the guy dealing with psychological issues, being mental and wanting to raise everyone's hackles. I've read some of the other stuff he's written, and I get the distinct impression that somewhere in that irresponsible drivel is a cry for help. What I honestly don't understand is why they keep giving him a forum to say his piece, even when he sounds like some seriously insecure kid pretending at being a researcher.
Looks like some others are asking the same question. Check out this post on ScienceBlogs.com about Kanazawa's "study." http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/i_guess_even_psychology_today.php.
I love the categories: "bad science" and "kooks."
I'm an Asian female and I know what you mean. When Miley got that pic taken of her making those eyes, people said things like Get over it. When Rosie O'Donnell made "asian noises" her apology was something like "I'm sorry I reminded Asians of being made fun of in the playground"
Its usually just not taken nearly as seriously.
Funnily enough, Karl Lagerfeld totally dissed Galliano after that…after he had yellowface on his own campaign-faux Asian eyes and accent and all, and said that he was just "celebrating" yellowface in movies.
@candiew I COMPLETELY agree with you!!!!!
"We're denigrated as women – something we share with all women, and that plight shouldn't be minimized – and then we're devalued as Blacks, something we share with all minorities, regardless of race. And we all still consume this media because many of us still feel like we have no other choice. I've always felt like the problem isn't, so to speak, the consumption of media. The problem is what we do with what we've consumed."
This right here. Taking in a steady diet of what the "mainstream media" puts out can drive a person totally crazy. Pushing back against this type of nonsense is much more constructive than internalizing it and being consumed by anger and frustration.
There have been other surveys like this one according to which Chinese and Japanese men are at the bottom of the male physical attractiveness level. I think we shouldn't react to such statements at all since beauty is a subjective concept and people's opinions about it are different too.
Totally agree with Erika. This was a let's-see-if-I-can-tweak-the-science-to-fit-my-racist-opinion. This is what the Nazis were doing, running around measuring peoples heads and stuff in the 1930s and 40s. Eugenics.
I just read this follow up blog that basically sh!ts on Kanazawa's methods and findings: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/201105/black-women-are-not-rated-less-attractive-our-independent-analysis-the-a
I myself wondered how there was even a large enough sample of Native American women to have them ranked so highly attractive. Asian men were also ranked more attractive then other men– yet they also have difficulty finding wives…
I just saw a link to this on a friend's Facebook.
As a woman it is appreciated that that it was the outrage of black women that resolved this particular incident.
As a white woman it bothers me that I knew nothing of this craziness until seeing it from a black woman.
If this was something that happened within pop culture I believe it would've been common knowledge, sadly it would've also been dealt with publicly with a whole lot of name calling and teenage behavior. Since this happened in the "educated" world (who validates much of what is seen in popculture) and was dealt with by educated women who were supposed to be victimized by the incident smh this did not make the news
Thank you, Ladies and the Gentlemen who understood and stood up for their mothers, sisters and wives
People attack what they feel is a threat. Black Women have become the new target of white angst; it is pure propaganda perpetrated and fueled by media and heavily endorsed by racisit. What is aweful is that in this post Civil Rights Society, Blacks have become victims of the very evil they fought against.
Thanks for monitoring the website. I continue to love your concise commentary.
A bit of a side tangent but I'm truly sick of the Black women are single propaganda. It's just FALSE. They are picking a specific age group of Black women. According to CENSUS DATA in their lifetime most Black women will get married (88% I believe) just much later in life compared to women. Yes this percentage is lower than other races, but it is not the majority of BM as these "news" specials claim.
Media keeps trying to tell us it's because we're too independent. We care too much about our careers. I think this is a response to the studies showing Black women are the most rapidly upward community in the US when it comes to education and corporate world. White media wants to put a stop to this without looking like it's doing so.
What's the real issue(s) then? More Black men are killed and imprisoned (both justly and injustly) than other races. We are also outnumbered at birth if I'm not mistaken. Compile that with the fact that bachelor culture is more encouraged in the Black community. It is not uncommon for Black men to have a girlfriend for 15 years. Add in the praise for being "ride or die" (aka coddling BM no matter how awful they are) and you've got a recipe for the destruction of family values.
THIS is what we need to solve, not start underachieving to assuage Black men or white people's egos.
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When this article appeared in Psychology Today, my first thought was "I wish that the sister who broke Kanazawa's heart would go get her boy, sit him down and explain that someone out there MIGHT love him someday — and if he is very, very lucky, she MIGHT be another beautiful black woman."
I notice that, as usual, the general trend is to attack Kanazawa (the messenger) and avoid the real culprit: CNN. Why do black women constantly react to the garbage that these media sources are spewing out instead of simply boycotting them? The subjectivity of beauty is not the issue here, nor is Kanazawa's mindset. The 'Powers that Be' at CNN decided that this nonsense would be published knowing that it would be offensive. "Deb", on 5/20/11, hit the nail on the head: "And we all still consume this media because many of us still feel like we have no other choice." Really? Have none of you ever heard of Reuters? None of the reactions that I have read so far on this site and others have suggested boycott. That is, boycotting the news sources and their sponsors (and letting the sponsors know that you're boycotting them). This is why it continues; no one's losing money over it. Reading all of these rebuttals offered to garbage is very disturbing. You are behaving like the powerless creatures that they assume you are!
From an evolutionary standpoint, black women are genetically better off than most groups. They are genetically dominant and biologically men want women who look like they will produce healthy offspring. Therefore, having a bigger body mass ( to successfully deliver a child) is more beneficial and bigger breast (more milk to feed the offspring). Also, men want a women who seem fertile. That's why youth is so important to men and men tend to be older in the relationship (Black women age well). This means that black women are in a biologically and evolutionary better position than most women. But why is our beauty constantly under fire? It's is how our beauty is socialized in the world. The mass media constantly attack us and even reinforces negatively images. If you're looking through a magazine, you'd be lucky to find one black girl if it isn't JET, or black magazines. A black women's only issue to me is obesity. Our group has the one of the highest obesity rate. I am not talking about a little fat. I am talking dangerously overweight. Black people only represent 10-13 percent of the US population. sometimes, stereotype is all non-blacks have to go on. Precious, Olivia from scandal. We are perceived as unattractive and unwanted. olivia is in a interracial affair with a married white man (The Jezebel). Black men and hip hop artist are socialized into dating white women. Apparently, in the NBA (or NFL. I forgot), they encourage men to not date women with twist in their hair (Pretty much black women). Apparently, it encourages "bad self-image". There has also been incidents of black men eventually having extramarital affairs with black one their wives got old (that doesn't take long LOL). My point is that if he wanted to speak from an evolutionary stand point, black women (and men are better evolutionary partners) He said blacks have more testosterone than most groups. That means nothing. Blacks have more muscle mass (as I stated) Testosterone is a hormone and studies show it is not so much linked to violence than competition. (It makes you more competitive) End Point: That study is trash and its just trying to devalue black women even further. Black girls. just keep doing your thing you are the most envied race of women their is out there. They want our lip, ours butts, our breasts, and skin. I'm pretty sure, eventually, they'll want everything; noses, hair, etc., Anyways, NEXT!


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Emiko Davies is a fabulous 30-something lady with a passion for good food, great wine, history and photography, and she is married to a Tuscan sommelier. Plus she has lived in Tuscany for 7 years in her recent history. Perhaps you will understand why we thought she was a perfect partner for our autumn lifestyle experience entitled The Art of Eating Well.
Emiko, as might be predictable, will be ensuring that Villa Campestri olive oil plays a leading role in this six day event. The course also manages to involve a whole host of different lifestyle experiences, not just the food one! You will be fully immersed in local culture and history, visit Florence and discover food markets and quirky food shops, visit local villages, understand something about the art of photography to immortalise your carefully produced dishes forever, meet new people, spend time with Emiko and discover the delights of Villa Campestri and the Tuscan countryside in autumn – a beautiful time of year.
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sms with Russian symbols
My task to send sms messages in a cyrillic alphabet.
javax.comm.SerialPort allows to work only with databits_8.
Give me, please, advice.
How can I send sms with russian symbols .
why do you have to use the serial port? The WMA API is designed for sending SMS from a Java ME phone.
My task is to send sms messages from java application.
I connect gsm modem or phone to usb port, create messages from
database and send it to sms list. I can send translit messages ..,
but could not understand, how can I switch to national locking shift table.
Do you know ?
Send the text as UTF-16 via the serial communications protocol to the phone. This send russian characters as two 8 bytes. When you have received the data on the phone, you should use the JSR-120/JSR-205 API to send the message.
I downloaded WTK25, installed it and run the sample code
String addr = "sms://+381234567";
MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open (addr) ;
TextMessage msg = (TextMessage)conn.newMessage (MessageConnection.TEXT_MESSAGE) ;
msg.setPayloadText ("Hello World!") ;
conn.send (msg) ;
and received an error
after MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open (addr) ;
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.sun.midp.Configuration.getProperty0(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;
at com.sun.midp.Configuration.getProperty0(Native Method)
at com.sun.midp.Configuration.getProperty(Configuration.java:34)
at com.sun.midp.io.InternalConnector.
at javax.microedition.io.Connector.open(Connector.java:158)
at javax.microedition.io.Connector.open(Connector.java:138)
at javax.microedition.io.Connector.open(Connector.java:120)
at sendsms.main(sendsms.java:16)
What is wrong ?
PS: ( Johan. I installed SonyEricsson mobile into usb port. )
it seems that the emulator fails to load some native dll. Probably an internal error in the WTK emulator.
To test a MIDlet that sends SMS, you need to start two emulator instances. You also need to set the telephone number on both emulators. The default numbers are: +5550000 and +5550001 respectively.
If you need to send from a device, you need to use on-device-debug found in Sony Ericsson development kit. This way you could start the phone via the USB cable and send an actual SMS from the phone.


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At what age would you let your child walk alone to a friend's house?
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My girlfriend wants to try backpacking for the first time. I've only done 5-7 nighters myself so I am not aware of good short ones. I am located in So Cal and have 4 days to work with. I'm looking for a place to do an easy trail, 2-3 nights out, up to about 5-6 miles a day in an area that isn't too hot for this time of the year.I would appreciate any suggestions.
Edited by BPMonkey on 08/21/2010 17:16:29 MDT.
Altitude seems like the way to go here. I only know the PCT up there, but I'd probably hop on the PCT just southeast of Big Bear and walk south. There's a guy in Big Bear with a Unimog that gives hikers rides to and from the trail. There are saddles and campgrounds you could camp in, and you might even be able to hitch a ride from those campgrounds if y'all want to bail early. I think I still have his number if you want it. If you start at the right place you're pretty much guaranteed to see at least one bear.
"If you start at the right place you're pretty much guaranteed to see at least one bear."For many beginners, that is a show-stopper right there.--B.G.--
Naw, this bear is cool. A live Grizzly. Might be some lions too, but I didn't see any when I went by.Okay, I'll stop holding out.http://www.predatorsinaction.com/Their facility is right next to the trail. I heard they have fewer animals right now because a bear attacked and killed its handler which of course led to financial troubles.
Edited by leaftye on 08/21/2010 18:01:26 MDT.
How about the place they used in the Gossamer Gear "Lighten Up" video? It was somewhere in Socal, and you rode a tram up.
How about the place they used in the Gossamer Gear "Lighten Up" video?That would be Mount San Jacinto State Park and/or perhaps the adjoining wilderness.I've not been there but the owner of a local independent gear shop gives a talk "Ten world class hikes on the PCT" and San Jacinto is one of the ten. Sounds like a winner.
Edited by jcolten on 08/21/2010 20:57:46 MDT.
San Jacinto is a great hike. It's high so not too hot and the tram ride gets you off to an impressive start. Great for introducing newbies to a cool experience.Here's another link
Edited by theronr on 08/22/2010 02:46:19 MDT.
Thank you all for your suggestions.San Jacinto looks like an excellent choice.I am also considering Cottonwood Lakes & Long Lake near Lone Pine or going to Charlotte Lake/Bullfrog lake via Kearsarge Pass from Onion Valley.Anyone have experience with these trips?Think either one of these might be difficult for a beginner?
Going over Kearsarge Pass from Onion Valley is a little rough on beginners, mostly due to the altitude.The East Side has a lot of trailheads that begin high, and then go steadily or steeply upward.Beginners might handle it OK if they started high and then hiked flat, or if they started lower and hiked gradually uphill.Rock Creek? The trails there are more moderate.--B.G.--
Dinkey Lakes come to mind. Easy trails, lakes to swim in, not too bad of a drive from Socal, enough altitude to be cooler but not too high (around 8-9,000 feet mostly).
San Gorgonio from Quaking Aspen trailhead.
+1 for San Jacinto via the tram.Just took my 7 and 8 year old up there for a 3 day first trip. They did 16 miles, bagged the peak and loved it. Well marked trails, alpine scenery, a tram, available rangers should the end of the world hit and views aplenty.
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- FilmFest 2015
- Participants / FilmFest Teams
- Films
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- Awards and Prizes
- Submission
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FilmFest 2015
1. Like last year, we have a list of control elements from which you must choose three to put in your movie.
- Here are the control elements:
- Backpack
- Cellphone
- Handshake
- A line with the word "Reach" in it.
- Famous movie quote
- Dancing (in some form)
- Glasses
2. Once all of the films have been submitted, a first round of judges will decide on the top 10 films and then those will be shown at the Paramount.
3. Each team will also be required to submit a FilmFest Team Registration Form, along with a deposit of $30, on January 23rd. The deposit will be returned to you once your film has been submitted.
4. Your production team must consist of at least three people. This does not include actors.
5. Your film must run ten minutes or less, with a seven second bumper containing your film's name, genre category, and running time.
6. Your film must be submitted by Sunday, March 15th 2015.
Participants / FilmFest Teams
1. FilmFest is open to all ACU students. Teams must be comprised of ACU students, but faculty and staff may participate given the following stipulations:
- Teams must be predominantly student populated
- A "student" is defined as someone enrolled in at least 12 hours at ACU
- Faculty or Staff team members may not perform in a role that relates to their professional area of focus and will not be considered for prizes or awards. (i.e. an English professor can not write a screenplay for submission.)
- ACU students with faculty or staff status will be considered as participants and not able to compete in FilmFest for prizes and awards
2. Non-ACU student, staff, or faculty may participate as actors or musicians, but will be considered as non-competitive roles.
3. Production teams may consist of up to 6 people* filling the following roles:
- Producer: The team leader responsible for managing the project and overseeing the scheduling, rule compliance, communication, location scouting, and legal responsibilities
- Director: Maintains the vision of the project, handling storyboarding, and directs the shooting and editing of the film. The Director also works with the Producer in casting and location scouting.
- Writer: Creates the story and script, including any needed revisions
- Production Designer: Responsible for all non-digital aspects of production, including set design, props, costume design, and non-digital special effects
- Technical Director: Handles the technical aspects including cinematography, video and audio editing, and digital composition and effects
- Sound Designer: Responsible for the audio quality of production including music, sound effects, foley work, and music composition.
- Students may fill multiple roles in individual productions.
4. By participating in FilmFest, Participants agree to all of the aforementioned terms and agreements and all those contained in the remainder of this document "FilmFest 2012: Rules & Guidelines."
1. Entrants must complete and sign the FilmFest entry application and pay the $40 entry before production may begin. The entry fee provides each registered production team member with a 2012 FilmFest t-shirt and one(1) ticket to Premiere Night.
2. All film treatments/scripts must be approved before production can begin.
3. All films must be between 3 - 6 minutes in length including titles and credits.
4. All participating entrants must be in production on mandatory production dates.
5. Films for the competition must be original work fully produced during the allotted production period. This will be gauged by the use of control elements(s).
6. Teams may not spend more than $400 on their production, not including travel expenses. Receipts will be turned in with the production manual.
7. Films must incorporate the mandatory control element(s) provided by FIlmFest.
8. Experimental films unable to accommodate the control will not be considered for prizes in the competition without first contacting a FilmFest chair on how to incorporate some type of control element. Written consent is then needed as an added measure of fairness.
9. Each film must have a 15 second information bumper (not included in the 3 – 5 minutes for your films) at the beginning to provide:
- Title
- Genre
- Run-time
10. All submitted films must be accompanied by a production notebook containing all location and talent releases, receipts and invoices associated to the production (not including travel expenditures), any documentation supporting the permissions, and the film treatment. While these are the minimal elements, other content may be included. Failure to submit a production notebook could result in disqualification from the competition portion.
11. Entrants must select a category into which to submit their films. The categories* are as follows:
- Drama
- Comedy
- Documentary/Informational
- Music Video
- Experimental
- Categories are subject to change without notice pending the amount of films submitted for individual categories
12. Films must adhere to MPAA PG rating specifications, and to all ACU policies and rules. Only approved PG and under ratings will be accepted.
13. All films must adhere to the policies of Abilene Christian University as stipulated in the ACU Student Guide. These include actions such as (but not limited to) cursing, tobacco and alcohol use, and sexually suggestive language or content. View full Student Guide
- With approval, the illusion of some actions can be created.
14. The approved treatment & final production must match within a reasonable degree of similarity for plot and theme. Any major deviation without prior approval may result in disqualification. Approval of deviations from an accepted film treatment should be submitted for re-approval.
15. Each film entry must have the appropriate forms and entry fee of $40.
16. All deadlines are final. No accommodations will be made. A missed deadline will result in disqualification.
1. All participants are responsible for securing equipment to be used on their own individual projects. Limited quantities of equipment will be available for use during the production phase through the ACU Learning Center.
2. There are no limitations on the types of equipment (cameras, microphones, etc.) or technologies (editing software, special effects/compositing software, etc.) used during the production phase of FilmFest. However, participants are responsible for their own equipment selections. FilmFest will not be held responsible for any misuse of equipment, or missed deadlines due to the type of equipment or technologies used during the production phase of FilmFest.
3. Editing stations will be available in the ACU Learning Studio.
4. Entrants are personally responsible for all ACU equipment that is used during the contest. Should any equipment become damaged or lost under their care, entrant shall be held fully responsible for repair or replacement.
5. Contest resources are shared, so entrants should not do anything that would jeopardize the usefulness of the tools for other students (including, but not limited to, using too much space on a computer hard drive). Entrants acknowledge no guarantee that any material left on a FilmFest computer will remain untouched.
6. Props, scenery, actors, etc., are the responsibility of the entrants.
Awards and Prizes
1. Although people from outside of ACU can participate as actors in the films, they are not eligible as production team members and may not receive prizes.
2. Films will be judged for the quality of the film as individual work and for the performance of the roles within a FilmFest production team listed below. Judging criteria will be forwarded to Student Producers during the first week of production.
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
- Production Designer
- Technical Director
- Sound Designer
3. An individual may only receive one prize package.
4. Individuals may receive multiple awards when qualifying in multiple categories.
5. Awards will be granted in the following categories as appropriate:
- Best Producer
- Best Director
- Best Writer
- Best Technical Director
- Best Production Designer
- Best Sound Designer
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Original Music Composition
- Best Picture
- People's Choice
- Best Category - Awarding of category awards is dependent on the number of entries submitted for a genre.
6. All decisions of the judges and FilmFest organizers are final.
All completed films will be submitted as DV files or as instructed. Production notebooks and project files will need to be included as part of the submission. Films submitted with incomplete or missing production notebooks may be immediately disqualified from the competition portion of FilmFest.
Weekend Events
FilmFest 2012 will include the following events:
- FilmFest Chapels as scheduled
- Screening of all films at the Paramount
- Premiere Night Awards Show (including pre-show)
- After Show Judges / Participants Mixer
- Judges Symposium
Submission of a complete film entry in the ACU FilmFest grants ACU permission to show the work at the festival and have the work reproduced, either in whole or part, for educational or promotional purposes.
All entries using copyrighted material (sound or picture) must obtain proper clearances and permission to use the material. Documentation showing this clearance and permission must be submitted with the application. Examples of copyrighted material may include: popular music, stock footage and still photographs. It is the Filmmakers responsibility to obtain rights, clearances and permission. The ACU Film Festival & Exposition (FilmFest) assumes no responsibility for violation of copyright law.
The organizers of FilmFest discourage students from engaging in any activity or action involved in the production process deemed hazardous, or that exposes students to any unnecessary risk or potential harm. Students taking risks do so of their own accord and ACU, or the organizers of FilmFest cannot be held responsible for injuries or harm to property occurring during the course of participants' involvement in the event.
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In honor of this new beginning for me (starting university after a long school haitus!) I wanted to dedicate some posts this week to all things back-to-school!
First up: looking back at kindergarten! That magical year.
Perhaps the most magical of all magical years? I loved kindergarten!
Check out my natural sun-bleached highlights! I grew up in a beach town and nearly lived on the beach all summer, thus the cute blonde bits.
Memories from kindergarten:
- Getting to customize my journal with old patterned wallpaper.
- The 'stations' in our classroom: the sand table & the blue water table.
- The day the leprechaun visited us and left his footprints around.
- A class visit to my teachers snow-white inspired garden (so cool!).
-Bringing my stuffed elephant puppet pal 'Wrinkles' to school with me.
- Winning the 'best writer' award at the end of the year.
I definitly loved writing and documenting my thoughts on the daily even back then - I fondly & vividly remember being super-excietd about getting to cover our daily journals in a cute wallpaper of our choice. I was one of the only kids in class to start writing my own journal entries (after half the year of having the teacher write what my drawings were about), I think, too. It's super funny to look back on, now - backwards crazy writing & the silly pictures that went with it! and that I still love to do the same type of thing, so many years later.
What's your favorite kindergarten memory?


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Researchers at the Institute of Food Research have tested a new technique to ensure fresh produce is free of bacterial contamination.
Plasmas are a mix of highly energetic particles created when gases are excited by an energy source. They can be used to destroy bacteria but as new research shows, some can hide from its effects in the microscopic surface structures of different foods.
Eating fresh fruit and vegetables is promoted as part of a healthy lifestyle, and consumers are responding to this by eating more and in a greater variety. Ensuring fruit and vegetables are free from contamination by food poisoning bacteria is crucial, as they are often eaten raw, without cooking or processing that kills off bacteria.
A move away from current chlorine-based decontamination is driving the search for new, safe ways of ensuring fresh fruit and vegetables are free from bacterial contamination without reducing quality or flavour. One technique being investigated is cold atmospheric gas plasma technology.
Plasmas can effectively inactivate microorganisms, and as they don't involve extreme conditions such as high temperature they have been suggested for use in decontaminating food surfaces without affecting the structure. Dr Arthur Thompson has been investigating how well cold atmospheric plasmas (CAP) inactivate Salmonella under different conditions and on different fresh produce foods at the Institute of Food Research, which is strategically funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Publishing in the journal Food Microbiology, Dr Thompson found Salmonella could be effectively inactivated by plasmas, but the length of exposure varied greatly depending on the type of produce. Other variables, such as the ambient temperature of the produce or the growth phase of the Salmonella had no significant effect. Inactivation on food surfaces took longer than on an artificial membrane filter surface.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Breathing new life into an old idea, MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus and co-workers are developing innovative materials for controlling temperatures that could lead to substantial energy savings by allowing more efficient car engines, photovoltaic cells and electronic devices.
Novel thermoelectric materials have already resulted in a new consumer product: a simple, efficient way of cooling car seats in hot climates. The devices, similar to the more-familiar car seat heaters, provide comfort directly to the individual rather than cooling the entire car, saving on air conditioning and energy costs.
The research is based on the principle of thermoelectric cooling and heating, which was first discovered in the early 19th century and was advanced into some practical applications in the 1960s by MIT professor (and former president) Paul Gray, among others.
Dresselhaus and colleagues are now applying nanotechnology and other cutting-edge technologies to the field. Shell describe her work toward better thermoelectric materials in an invited talk on Monday, Nov. 26, at the annual meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston.
Thermoelectric devices are based on the fact that when certain materials are heated, they generate a significant electrical voltage. Conversely, when a voltage is applied to them, they become hotter on one side, and colder on the other. The process works with a variety of materials, and especially well with semiconductors the materials from which computer chips are made. But it always had one big drawback: it is very inefficient.
The fundamental problem in creating efficient thermoelectric materials is that they need to be very good at conducting electricity, but not heat. That way, one end of the apparatus can get hot while the other remains cold, instead of the material quickly equalizing the temperature. In most materials, electrical and thermal conductivity
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This short film was made to remind me that people, places, thoughts, fears and events tend to appear much larger and scarier than they are in my head.
Made for Stefan Sagmeister's 'Things I've learned in my life' project at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Huge thanks to Farah Assir.
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