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"Ladies and gentleman, please find your seats! You are here to witness the telling of one tragic tale! I hope that you have brought something to wipe those tears away!"
The sound of slicing flesh rang throughout the room, followed by the sound of a collapse. An outline of a black shadow stood upon the curtains of the stage. It appeared to be the shadow of a man. A moment later, it seemed to be smiling.
"Thank you, that's enough. Please, I said enough clapping!" he chuckled as the room stood silent.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I am called Lasas."
The man then stepped out from behind the curtains. Yellow eyes glimmered from his face and the spotlight glared off his shiny head. A crimson cloak hung off of his tall figure, his left arm curled around a wooden staff. He beamed at the sight of the audience.
"Did you come here and expect to see one of the greatest of the tragic performances?" the man yelled. "Well, fortunately, I am here to tell you that there has been a slight change in plans!" His freakish smile curved even further.
"I now offer a much more extravagant tale! Allow me to delight you with the comedic tale that I call my life! Trust me when I say that you will never have seen so much strife!" he chortled as he began to slowly pace around the stage.
"Imagine the most magnificent of castles your mind can picture. Now see, there, into its throne room and imagine a jester as he attempts to jump through a ring of fire. Upon the throne sits a certain king......"
With a pause, Lasas banged his staff upon the stage. The glare of red flames reflected off the whites of all the eyes in the room, except for Lasas who smirked at the sight of the dazed audience.
Soon, all the colors of the theater room disappeared and were replaced by an endless white. Yet, a moment after the white appeared, a new image appeared. The sight of a stone throne room came into view.
Upon the throne sat a king, clad in armor. A helmet laid next to his throne, and in the middle of the room there stood a ring of fire with a man standing next to the ring – it was the very same man that had been standing upon the stage.
"Prepare now, your majesty! I will attempt to do a back flip through this circle of fire!" shouted Lasas.
"Please. Hurry with your attempt clown," the King groaned. "I haven't got all day. These are supposed to be my relaxing hours...yet I have to deal with this Lasas fool"
"Watch now, your majesty!" he replied loudly.
Lasas took two steps forward and sprang backwards into the air. With three mid-air flips he landed upon the other side of the fire.
"How was that, my liege?" he smiled at the king.
"That was worthless you fool. Why do I let you waste my time with your foolish attempts to be entertaining?" he screamed at Lasas. "You know what? I know a way you can be MUCH more entertaining! Guards, time for some fun!"
"Wait a second, your royal highness, I can be more entertaining..." Lasas sputtered.
"Get ready. Mr. Lasas is about to have a fun time!" the king said in a voice mocking Lasas. Two men ran into the throne room and threw Lasas onto the ground.
The two guards held a struggling Lasas to the ground as the King stood up from his throne and he unsheathed his sword from his belt.
"You know...This is what I call high-court entertainment!" he chuckled as stepped in front of a struggling Lasas.
"Don't do this!! I can be more entertaining, I promise!" Lasas screamed.
"Don't worry. I promise this will hurt a lot, and you will be more entertaining," the king laughed. "You won't break any promises, that I can assure you."
The king shoved his sword into the middle of Lasas's chest and pushed the sword down to his lower chest. Removing the sword, he then stuck his hands into the middle of the cut and pushed open his ribs as Lasas screamed in pain. At the sight of his beating heart, Lasas screamed even louder. Soon, Lasas's screams were replaced by his empty eyes, which stared up at the king.
"Guards, be careful now, we don't want this birdie to fly away, do we?" the king chuckled.
The scene turned to a dark black and shifted into a dark cavern. The cavern was so large, that the top could not even be seen. Two men clad in dark robes sat in front of a fire close to the middle of the cavern.
"What do we do, Alsa? Vanth has been killed. Our creed has always stated that there must always be three in the Sealed Kingdom. Vanth's death cannot go in vain. We must seek revenge upon on our enemy," one of the men asked aloud.
"Akvan. Do not worry about them. We cannot control the actions of the other things. I feel we must awaken our master, he must be aware of what has happened over the last one-thousand years."
"No, Alsa, we cannot do that. He has not regained his strength yet! If we awaken him now...how long would that further delay his healing? We cannot do that."
"Perhaps...if just for a moment...no, you are correct. I shall look once more into the fire to see if there is even one worthy candidate."
Alsa stood up and his green eyes stared directly into the fire. They were looking, searching for someone, just to find the one right person.
"Wait...Akvan. Look here."
Akvan stood up and stared into the fire and he blinked at the sight.
"That man. The jester. He's perfect. Alsa, I will go to him now, before it is too late."
The scene shifted from the dark cavern back to the endless white. Akvan stood somewhere in the white and soon Lasas materialized next to him.
"You. What is your name clown?" Akvan asked.
"Lasas. Am I dead?" Lasas answered.
"No, not yet. You have still have a chance to live, that is if you will help us."
"What do I need to do?" Lasas replied.
"You will be allowed to live on the condition, that you join us within the Sealed Kingdom. That is, if you perform for us, a certain task. To prove that you are worthy of our cause."
"Tell me what is that I have to do. My life may not have been anything special, but it was my own life and unjustly taken from me," Lasas answered in a dark tone.
"Return to your life and kill the mockery of a king who attempted to end your life. Do this in the most fitting manner you should see fit, clown," Akvan responded. "Do this act and we will bring you to live within the Sealed Kingdomm, where we will continue to observe the world."
"I have never even once killed a fly...my life and my goals have always been to entertain people. How can you expect me to just snap and kill the king?" Lasas asked.
"It does not matter. Because you will do your job, jester," Akvan said. "You will join us within the Sealed Kingdom whether or not you wish to be a part of it. You can join as my subordinate or become a slave of our kingdom." With the raise of a finger, a staff appeared in Akvan's right hand.
"I am dead, and you choose to raise me against my own choice. Further, you intend to use me in this place called the Sealed Kingdom? Who or what are you and who gave you the right?" Lasas retorted with anger.
"You are a fool, clown. There are forces in this world that you cannot even begin to fathom. Those whom you call make-believe Gods do exist, and there are forces even greater than them," Akvan fumed. "My master could destroy you without even looking at you, with nothing more than a single thought. You will join us whether or not you are willing to."
Akvan then turned and hit Lasas in the middle of his chest with the staff. Black lightening surrounded Lasas's body and he screamed as it began to envelop him. Several seconds later, the black cloud dissipated around Lasas and Akvan was gone. Lasas was smiling and the staff that Akvan was holding was in his hands.
The scene then shifted from the white back to the throne room with its ring of fire still burning.
Lasas's cold body still laid on the floor, but something slowly began to change. His heart began to beat, slowly, tick-by-tick. His ribs snapped back into place and he stood up in a jolt. He curled the staff around his left arm. A smile appeared upon his face.
"Well, hello my liege. Its nothing, but delightful to see you so soon again," Lasas cackled.
"What? What trick is this? You are supposed to be nothing more than a dead bird! This entertainment is priceless. I must make you my permanent entertainer," the King snickered at Lasas. "Guards! At once!"
The guards then charged into the room and with the wave of a staff, they were thrown into the ring of fire. Lasas then pointed the staff at them.
"Explode," he said. The two guards exploded into a bloody mess, and Lasas smiled again.
"What kind of trick is this?" the King sputtered out. He unsheathed his sword.
"You know, your royal highness, my liege, whatever your bloody name is, I wouldn't be too reckless if I were you," Lasas grinned.
The king then swung his sword at the sight of Lasas and his staff. In response, Lasas lazily moved one finger at the King. The sword which was swinging towards Lasas, stopped in the middle of its motion and swung back. It stabbed the king directly in the chest, and impaled him into the ground.
"Don't worry. I'm sure someone will find you soon! Once they do, you will be dead, my liege. But like I said don't worry, because you'll be alive for now!" Lasas laughed and then hit his staff onto the ground. He faded into the air around him, only leaving blood and an impaled king.
The scene then returned back to the theater.
"Wasn't that just a delightful story? One that seemed so real? One YOU may never forget?" Lasas shouted at the audience, his smile still upon his face.
The audience stood up in their seats and began to applaud the story Lasas had shown them. Cheers rang out throughout the theater.
"More! More!" the audience yelled.
"Thank you! Thank you! Now its time for my final act!" Lasas yelled. His smile had vanished.
He hit the staff once more upon the stage. The applause and cheers came to a sudden stop. Every single one of the audience members had fallen back into their seats. Blood could be seen dripping down from each and every one of their closed eyes.
"Don't worry. There will be another story soon. I promise." Lasas smiled. He then vanished just as he had in the throne room.
Silence was all that could be heard in the theater. One of the audience members had stood up and began to walk up the aisles to exit the theater. A necklace of leaves swayed upon his neck and the glare of his golden eyes reflected off upon pools of crimson blood.
"Tempora mutantur. Times are changing, Lasas," he muttered. He then vanished just as Lasas had.
Silence returned to the quiet theater room.
In illis tempus
Introductions V: Lasas by tuiskulumiWatch
©2013-2015 tuiskulumi
Say hello to my character Lasas. He's been in two of the Introductions tales so far and a couple of other works, so I felt like it was time to give him a proper "intro" so-to-speak. He's such a fun character to write about, kind of reminds me of the joker or some murderous clown. Its the delightful part, really.
Any questions, please feel free to ask. Please note that this series is a work-in-progress and I'm writing it as I go. It doesn't have a specific direction I want go, as I am mainly using it to express my ideas and create a sort-of universe.
Any comments regarding any errors within the story are appreciated as I am still learning to write this kind of story.
Thank you as always for reading these stories!!
Next time, I will introduce the character known as Duncan.
UPDATE: I changed a few small things up based off some of the feedback I have received on the story. Lasas seemed way too willing to join the Sealed Kingdom. Also, someone's eyes can't smirk! Thanks for the help!!
P.S. Be warned there is blood in this story!!
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"The detail provided in this piece, Introductions V: Lasas by tuiskulumi, was amazing, is amazing. He did such a wonderful job of keeping me hooked on the story line with the overall details, character development (in such a short time), and imagery. " ( Suggested by ieatrosepetals and Featured by HugQueen )
"The detail provided in this piece, Introductions V: Lasas by tuiskulumi, was amazing, is amazing. He did such a wonderful job of keeping me hooked on the story line with the overall details, character development (in such a short time), and imagery. " ( Suggested by ieatrosepetals and Featured by HugQueen )
it's like Cicero if he'd just quiet down and someone gave him magic. O_O BRAVO.
You know I actually played Skyrim after I wrote this and I really couldn't help but notice those similarities. Except, I would give him a different voice! Thank you!
I had a much deeper sinister voice in mind when I was reading the parts where Lasas was talking.
Your welcome! Your doing a great job
Your welcome! Your doing a great job
He's very sinister that is for sure. I hear a very pronounced accent, not quite modern English...but that kind of Victorian English type of accent. I don't know! Maybe I'll make a narration of the story. That would be interesting.
I like your name by the way, where did you come up with it?
I like your name by the way, where did you come up with it?
Oooh, that fits much more then my thought. I would love to listen to it on a narraction!
Oh thank you Potat is because I like potatoes and Stache is because I like mustachesXD I randomly came up with it because I was thinking about stuff I liked, but didn't like my last username
Oh thank you Potat is because I like potatoes and Stache is because I like mustachesXD I randomly came up with it because I was thinking about stuff I liked, but didn't like my last username
I wonder if I could come up with a decent sounding voice narration of it. I don't know! I would be doing it myself...which is probably the best.
I really like it. The words flow together really nicely. Mustaches are nice too!
I really like it. The words flow together really nicely. Mustaches are nice too!
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Spooky...got me hooked till the end.
That was my goal! Thank you!!
Um...why did he wanna kill everyone?
He killed everyone because they cheered for his story. He was not there to provide entertainment. He is also a sadistic, malevolent being who is borderline insane. A few lives to him are nothing.
What a gripping and interesting story!
I am very impressed by the quality, power and sense of rythm in your writing. This one piece is the kind of masterpiece stories I don't often stumble upon. I totally enjoyed it and your brilliant writing makes it easy for the reader to trip instantly and enter the world, scene, gods and characters you chose to depict.
Congrats on your DD by the way
Congrats on your DD by the way
I spent days writing the opening scene to this story, until I had it perfectly. Thank you so much for your comment, it means so much to me. I don't think I that I am that great of a writer, but this is one of the few stories that I'm really proud of.
I'm going to write more about this world in the coming weeks. I don't know where its going but it will be a fun journey.
Thank you again.
I'm going to write more about this world in the coming weeks. I don't know where its going but it will be a fun journey.
Thank you again.
Congratulations for the DD
That was fascinating. Once I read the first lines, I couldn't help but keep on reading... It gave me the creeps, though x) But I really loved it, even if I'm usually not fond of this kind of story...
The DD is so much well deserved !!
The DD is so much well deserved !!
If it gave you the creeps then I say mission accomplished! Thank you so much!
What do the latin terms mean in this prose?
Having said that, this introduction was very well written. Damn it was well written. I'm impressed by the character development you've poured in Lasas. I like the immediate and sudden twist that happened - I wasn't expecting that at all, and it was a surprise worth having. All in all, a job very well done, and a good introduction series thus far.
Tempora mutantur is basically a way of saying that the times are changing. I used this to indicate that a great time of change is coming, one that is unique, but much like those own times in our history.
The other: In illis tempus, means kind of a "in time" kind of thing. Similar to the other one, it is indicating something to do with time. Note, that the part of this story that took place within the theater was set in close to where the present story will begin. Also, this introductions series is just the introduction to what will be my main story. I think this will happen in time.
Lasas is my mostly developed character, mainly because it isn't easy for me to write "in character" so-to-speak. I am re-writing/editing the previous Introductions stories in order to give each character more substance. Thanks for reading!
Wow, Lasas is a very interesting character (love the name too...did you make it up? It's very clever and fits his personality.) I loved how things get dark and twisted when his performance wasn't "entertaining enough". I love, LOVE these kinds of characters!
Lasas or Lares was the word for a guardian spirit in the Etruscan mythology. They would guard everything from tombs to the homes, and I originally intended him to be nothing more than a guardian type of spirit.
His character is just something I love to write with, because its so fun to write in this kind of "murderous humor" sort of thing.
I am glad you like him. Though, I should note that he found his performance to be TOO entertaining and murdered the audience because of that.
So death is something that can be experienced more than once. That makes it interesting.


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Everyone wanted in on this list and it's no surprise. Playing catch with Dad, riding bikes all around town, and breaking neighborhood windows– the memories came flooding back. That's because this week's list is:
The Top 5: Baseball Movies
Jonathan Gardner
1. Bull Durham – Free of the hokey Americana of most baseball films, Bull Durham is a droll and unglamorous look at the fringier side of minor league baseball.
2. The Sandlot – I hope I'm not overrating this just because I liked it so much when I was younger, but The Sandlot is very funny and more about baseball fans than baseball itself.
3. Eastbound and Down Season 1 – Not technically a movie, but I'm counting it since the six episodes play like one long, profane, twisted journey through the psyche of Kenny Powers.
4. The Bad News Bears – The Walter Matthau version, of course. And a total classic.
5. Field of Dreams – Yes its a cliche, but a heartmeltingly effective one.
Brennan Lowery
1. The Sandlot – An all-time classic with stellar re-watch value. The chase scene with the dog through the town, which takes them through a wedding party, several restaurants, and I believe a giant playground, rivals that of any other movie chase scene. And yes, I am including Speed in that debate.
2. Rookie of the Year – A super close second. When Henry strikes out the 'roided up slugger with his mom's patented softball pitch at the end, the tears were flowing. And you have to love classic exchanges like:
"Hey, kid! How'd you like to play for the Chicago Cubs?"
"Great! But I gotta ask my mom first."
3. Angels in the Outfield – Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd? If this movie doesn't spell instant classic remake then I don't know what does. The dramatic struggle of faith for most of the characters is a powerful reminder that, in some way or another, every professional athlete is somehow cheating at all times.
4. Baseketball – Hey, you know what? It's my list. And don't even pretend like you and your friends didn't do the rhythmic "giving-the-bird-then-cutting-finger-off" to each other every day for like 3 years. You didn't? Well, it's my list.
5. A League of Their Own – Tom Hanks plays a killer drunk in this one, Madonna before she was absolutely crazy, Rosie O'Donnell as, well, her usual annoying and terrible self, and you have an instant winner. The Kit/Dottie collision at the plate was like watching the missiles finally break through the shields on Independence Day, and this movie would have only been better if Bill Pullman had started the championship game with this mankind speech.
Tom Geiger
1. Major League – I love everything about this movie.
2. Bull Durham – Funny AND poignant.
3. A League of Their Own – Includes arguably my favorite Tom Hanks
scene of all time.
4. Field of Dreams – I always thought it was overrated but still a solid flick.
5. The Sandlot.
Evan Hill
1. The Sandlot – We used to play a game growing up that involved running away from my friend's dog. I learned all of my moves from Benny the Jet.
2. Major League – The closest Charlie Sheen will ever come to having a heart, and he plays a character named "Wild Thing."
3. Little Big League – Thanks to this movie, I make fantasy line-ups for every team, in the hopes of being called on to manage.
4. Rookie of the Year – Another movie that reminds me of my childhood. And remember when that doctor says "funky butt loving"? I do.
5. Angels in the Outfield – Just when I thought I had nothing left for this category, I realized I had an angel with me.
Brett Kettyle
1. Major League – "You may run like Hayes, but you hit like S#!t."
2. Bull Durham – "You just got lesson number one: Don't think; it can only hurt the ballclub."
3. Field of Dreams – "Is this heaven?" "It's Iowa."
4. The Sandlot – "Heroes get remembered but legends never die."
5. The Bad News Bears – "Hey Yankees… you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!"
Dan Sweatt
1. Bull Durham – If only for the gloriousness that is Kevin Costner's monologue… good night
2. The Sandlot – They did what we all wanted to: french lifeguards and listen to James Earl Jones speak in person
3. Field Of Dreams – YOU TOLD ME YOUR FINGER WAS A GUN!
4. A League Of Their Own – In addition to my favorite comedic turn for Tom Hanks, this movie also boasts the only Jon Lovitz role that makes me consider the thought that he was worth to this planet
5. 61* – The film no one remembers. Is it strange that the only filmmaker to credibly grasp the stresses of Major League Baseball weights approximately the same as my right calf? Kudos, Mr. Crystal.
Michael Ferrera
1. Bull Durham – It's legitimately funny and doesn't coast on the inexorable link between the America's emotional core and the sport of baseball, or whatever bullshit Mike Lupica writes.
2. The Sandlot – Did shit like this actually happen with Baby Boomers? Were there daily or weekly games of pick-up baseball in abandoned building lots? Or did it happen once, but it's a very fun memory, so they assume it happened all the time? Shit like this certainly never happened when I grew up. My friends and I had a home run derby once on our old Little League field when I was 16. Will I write a movie when I'm 54 about all those amazing summers filled with home run derbies?
3. A League of Their Own – My cousins and I used to watch this every Christmas Eve when I was a little kid. So this movie makes me think of Santa.
4. Rookie of the Year – Right up until the point when he pitches softball style. Daniel Stern getting caught in the space between the conjoining hotel rooms was the funniest thing I saw in 1993.
5. Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch– Because I didn't want Field of Dreams making my Top 5. Fuck you, Field of Dreams.
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Born: 1950-05-01
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Height: 6′ 0″ / 183cm
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John Diehl was a veteran character actor in over 100 movies and television shows. He is perhaps best-known as the character of Larry Zito on the popular 1980s television series Miami Vice. While filming a Miami Vice episode related to boxing, Diehl got the "boxing bug" and decided to become a pro boxer. He trained at the 5th Street Gym on South Beach, Florida. His pro debut was attended by the entire cast of Miami Vice, including principle actors Don Johnson and Phillip Micheal Thomas.
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I'm growing two sweet potatoes in my raised bed but as it get lots of sun am just leaving them to it. A couple of years ago I planted one in a terracotta pot with flowers as decoration and to my amazement found tubers when I emptied it out in autumn. So I would suggest perhaps painting the tub black would be sufficient and give it some blood, fish and bone fertilizer. Keep it in a sunny spot and water well but don't drown it. Good luck!
Can only answer the one about the sweetcorn. I would say underwatering, that compost looks very dry to me.
Definitely, every day! Even big things like rakes. OH has painted the top of the spade and fork handles a bright yellow so I can find them more easily!
Lettuces, chinese cabbage, basil, rocket, chives, (very small) potatoes, red currants and today garlic with lovely cloves. My first garlic and I'm tickled pink!
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Are you sure it was only sugar, fidget?
Nigel, google "majoram in the kitchen", you'll get lots of ideas.
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1.) wanting action in a sexual way, careless of the giver
2.) wanting sum sum
2.) wanting sum sum
1.) he was so thirsty, he hit danielle up
автор: das ignant 16 января 2004
Desperately wanting affirmation.
Ben is so thirsty, he has texted me almost every day since we hung out.
автор: i really dont care 1 июня 2014
(THIR-sty). adj. To possess a great desire for the opposite sex, in a very obvious manner
1. Damn, these dudes are thirsty
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2. These hoes be dressin so thirsty
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автор: William J. Wonka 8 октября 2006
Term is usually used to describe a female.
1. Loves blow jobs.
2. Very eager to please a member of the opposite sex.
3. Gold digger
4. Sneaky
5. Mouth Slut
1. Loves blow jobs.
2. Very eager to please a member of the opposite sex.
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Her fiance walked in on her on her knees with another dude. She was thirsty! Gargling it like Listerine.
автор: ConQuesha 21 ноября 2013
When a girl is so obsessed with what another girls does and she won't leave her alone. What the other girl does doesn't even concern her, and it's not even a big deal but the thirsty girl just won't leave her alone.
If a girl works at a restaurant and has to wear lingerie for a themed week, the thirsty girl is so jealous that she can't dress like that and make money so she bashes her for no reason
автор: Thatonebtch 7 ноября 2013
Appealing females out on the town and up for a one night stand
The bar was full of fanny, loads of thirsties everywhere.
автор: Tom Morrison 26 июня 2006
people who constantly dont have anything(money,food,weed,)and always show up expecting to share or be included in whatever happens to be going on at the time. weather its a cookout, or a session.. no one likes the thirsties, yet we all know several im sure
here comes slim with those dirty ass shorts on again! everytime were about to blaze, or eat! damn i cant stand these thirsties!!
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College of Human Ecology
Department of Human Development
Currently, with Wendy Williams, I am in the throes of a major project examining sex differences in cognitive performance, which has culminated this year in several new peer-reviewed articles (e.g., American Scientist) and chapters. We also created the Cornell Institute for Women in Science (CIWS) web page, and gave a large number of media interviews.
I continue to develop my bio-ecological theory of intelligence,and I continue to publish articles dealing with cognitive development (e.g., memory development). And Wendy Williams and I have three large-scale national analyses of academic mentorship, hiring, and authorship issues that are currently under review. My reseaarch on children and the law also continues full-throttle, with a number of new experiments on children's false confessions (with graduate student, Amelia Hritz) and children's cryptoplagiarism (with former graduate student, Zoe Klemfuss and colleague Kamala London).
I am the author of ~ 400-450 articles, books, commentaries, reviews, and chapters—many in the premier journals of the field. According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited over 20,000 times and my h-index is 59, with 37 publicatiosn each cited in excess of 100 times. I have given hundreds of invited addresses and keynote speeches around the world (Harvard, Cambridge University, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of Rome, University of Oslo, Max Plank Institutes in both Munich and Berlin). I have served on the Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation for seven years (the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences), and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Board of Behavioral and Sensory Sciences for six years. My major honors and scientific awards include:
I have appeared frequently in the national and international media, including: ABC's 20/20 (twice), NBC's Dateline (twice), ABC's Nightline, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's Primetime Live (twice), PBS's Frontline (twice), CBS's 48 Hours, PBS's McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, BBC (three times), CBC's Fifth Estate, and numerous magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal (twice), The New York Times (four times), The New Yorker (three times), The Washington Post (three times), Time Magazine (twice), Newsweek (twice), The London Times, and Reader's Digest. I am past president of the Society for General Psychology, and I currently serve on 9 editorial boards, including Scientific American Mind; I am a senior advisor to several journals.
My co-instructors and I have recently received development grants from both eh Provost's Fund for MOOC development ($20,000) and from Google, Inc.($50,000) to transform HD 2580--Six Pretty Good Books--into an online course. We have been filming and editing for the coming year and anticipate this curse being ready for online viewers in August, 2015.
Advisees can arrange apponntments TBA by emailing me: email@example.com
As far as mentoring, I invite a large number of HD majors to participate in my lab. I mentor thse students, not only in the contet of my lab but in advising them on post-Cornell transitions, such as wiritng letters for fellowships and grad schools. In the Fall, 2014 I offered a lab course as an overload to enable any HD major who needed more credits to graduate with a concentration is HD-Law.
I serve on several national and international scientific advisory boards, and I currently sit on 11 editorial boards of journals, co-direct a NIH-funded institute at Cornell CIWS), and supervise a group of 6 graduate students and am a minor member of 3 others. I review for many journals and granting agencies
I currently serve on the following 11 editorial boards:
1. Scientific American Mind
2. Applied Cognitive Psychology
3. Applied Developmental Psychology
4. Perspectives in Child Development
5. International Journal of Intelligence
6. Archives of Sceintific Psychology
7. Developmental Review
8. Psychology, Public Policy & Law
9. Psychological Science int he Public Interest
10. JEP: Applied
11. Psychological Bulletin
My research activities involve three lines of inquiry, two of which generated new publications during 2014. These three lines are: 1) children & the law (suggestibility, competence to testify, deception, coerced confessions), 2) women and science (sex discrimination in hiring, mentoring, stereotypes), and 3) intellectual development (cross-cultural influences, schooling, intelligence, cognitive sex differences, and achievement gaps). In my women-in-science research with Wendy Williams, we finished five new experimental studies (four of them are part of our PNAS report) and one new survey during 2014 and we have a major new publication in the APS journal PSPI (Ceici, Ginther, Kahn, WIlliams, 2014),This publication of 67 pages of journal! so it is really closer to a monograph, with several hudnred new analyses we ran. In addition, I conducted multiple experiments on children's testimonial competence (with my lab group). And I finished an amicus brief with R.D. Friedman that is based on (but goes beyond) an article that we wrote for the Univ of Chicago Law Review (In Press). Our amicus was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.
I have two lines of extension activity -- children and the law and women in science.
During 2014 Wendy Williamd and I have made three new research videos that were posted this year on YouTube. Our first 12 videos have > 20,000 downloads so far. Together, these videos and the accompannying curricula we wrote form the basis of an evidence-based outreach program on encouraging females and minorites to focus on scientific careers. So, this past year I devoted 100% of my extension effort to producing curriculum/videos for our "women in science" institute, as were funded by NIH to work on this.
My other extension acitivity was co-writing an amicus for United States Supreme Court, submitted Jan. 12, 2015. This document is heavily based on my own emprical research but couched in terms of the Court's current case.
Wendy Williams and I maintain our institute's web page:
Cornell Institute for Women in Science
I also created a web page for my lab:
And two web pages for my undergrad courses
I continue co-direct the NIH center: Cornell Institute for Women in Science (CIWS). I lead a large lab (chair or co-chair 5 graduate students and numerous undergraduate research assistants), and I currently serve on eleven editorial boards. I also chaired Grad Admissions during 2014 and continue to chair it during 2015. and served on the executive Committee, and I continue to serve on the Vice Provost's Commission on University Courses, plus serve on the Bronfenbrenner Conference Committee..
Ceci, S. J., Ginther, D. K., Kahn, S., & Williams, W.M. (2014). Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. DOI:10.1177/1529100614541236
Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W.M. (2010). The mathematics of sex: How biology and society conspite to limit talented women and girls. NY: Oxford University Press.
Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W.M. (2010). Sex Differences in Math-Intensive Fields. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(5), 275-279.
American Scientist, 100, 138-145.
Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W.M. (2011). Understanding Current Causes of Women's Underrepresentation in Science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, doi:10.1073/pnas.1103900108 . (TWIP: This Week in PNAS; cover story article)
Klemfuss, J. Z. & Ceci, S. J. (2012). Legal and psychological on children's competence to testify in court. Developmental Review, 32, 268-286.
Ceci, S. J., Williams, W.M., & Barnett, S.M. (2009). Women's underrepresentation in science: Sociocultural and biological considerations. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 218-261.
Ceci, S.J., Papierno, P.B., & Kulkofsky, S.C. (2007). Representational constraints on children's suggestibility. Psychological Science, 18, 503-509.
Ceci, S.J., Fitneva, S. A., & Williams, W. M. (2010). Representational Constraints on the Development of Memory and Metacognition: A Developmental-Representational-Theory. Psychological Review, 117, 464-495.
Ceci, S. J. & Bruck, M. (2006). Children's Suggestibility: Characteristics and Mechanisms. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 34, 247-281.
Kanaya, T., Ceci, S. J. Scullin, M. (2005). Age differences within secular IQ trends: An individual growth modeling approach. Intelligence, 33, 613-621.
Principe, G., Kanaya, T., Ceci, S. J., & Singh, M. (2006). Believing is seeing: How rumors can engender false memories in Preschoolers. Psychological Science, 17, 243-248.
Ceci, S. J., Ginther, D., Kahn, S., & Williams, W. M. (in press). Women in science: exlaining the gap. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Ceci, S. J., Kahan, D. M. & Broman, D. (2010). The WEIRD Are Even Weirder Than You Think: Diversifying contexts is as important as diversifying samples. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Ceci, S.J., Williams, W. M., & Mueller-Johnson, K. (2006). Is tenure justified? An experimental
study of faculty beliefs about tenure, promotion, and academic freedom . Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 29, 1-39.
Ceci, S.J. & Papierno, P.B. (2005). The rhetoric and reality of gap-closing: When the "have-nots" gain, but the "haves" gain even more. American Psychologist, 60, 149-160.
Rindermann, H. & Ceci, S. J. (2009). Educational policy and country outcomes in international cognitive competence studies. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 4, 551-577.
Ceci, S. J., Williams, W. M., & Barnett, S. M. (2009). The underrepresentation of women in science: Sociocultural and biological considerations. Psychological Bulletin, 135, 172-210.
Neisser, U., U., Boodoo, G., Bouchard, T., Brody, N., Ceci, S. J., Halpern, D., Loehlin, J., Perloff, R., Sternberg, R. J., & Urbina, S. (1996). Intelligence: Knowns and unknowns. American Psychologist, 51, 1-25.
Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W.M. (2009, Feb. 12). Commentary: Should scientists study race, gender, and IQ? Nature, 457, 788-789.
Brainerd, C. J., Reyna, V. F., & Ceci, S. J. (2008). Developmental Reversals in False Memory: A Review of Data and Theory. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 334-375.
Brainerd, C., Reyna, V.F., Ceci, S.J., & Holliday, R.E. (2008). Developmental reversals in false memory: Reply to Ghetti (2008) and Howe (2008). Psychological Bulletin, 134, xxx-xxx.
London, K. & Ceci, S. J. (Eds.) (2012). Special Issue: Child Witness Research. Developmental Review, Volume 32, Issue 3, 161-306.
London, K. & Ceci, S. J. (Eds.) (2012). Special Issue: Child Witness Research. Developmental Review, Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 161-306.
Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W. M. (Eds.) (2007). Why aren't more women in science? Top researchers debate the evidence. Washington DC: APA Books.
Valla, J. & Ceci, S. J. (2011). Can Sex Differences in Science Be Tied to the Long Reach of Prenatal Hormones?: Brain Organization Theory, Digit Ratio (2D/4D), and Sex Differences in Preferences and Cognition. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 6, 134-146.
Bronfenbrenner, U. & Ceci, S. J. (1994). Nature-nurture in developmental perspective: A bioecological theory. Psychological Review, 101, 568-586.
Kanaya, T., Scullin, M. & Ceci, S. J. (2003). The Flynn Effect and U.S. Policies. The Impact of Rising IQ Scores on American Society Via Mental Retardation Diagnoses. American Psychologist, Vol. 58, No. 10, 778-790.
Valla, J., Williams, W., & Ceci, S. J. (2011). The accuracy of inferences about criminality based on facial appearance. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 5(1), 66-91.
Scullin, M. H. & Ceci, S. J. (2001). A suggestibility scale for children. Personality & Individual Differences, 30, 843-856.
Barnett, S. M. & Ceci, S. J. (2002). When and Where do we apply what we learn? A taxonomy for far transfer. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 128(4), 612-637.
Williams, W.M. & Ceci, S.J. (2012). when women scientists choose motherhood. American Scientist. 100, 138-145.
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How does she look whorish? That is ridiculous… fully clothed and yet you seem to think she is? that's crap
Care to elaborate on that Dick?
Second… and I hate fucking racists. And dicks.
How does she look whorish? That is ridiculous… fully clothed and yet you seem to think she is? that's crap… i think she looks beautiful and she is def. the classiest one out there
Okay, 4th, but I stick to my story.
how about everyone get over being first, second or whatever. it doesnt matter, you are all losers
Yeah, what she said!
I'd hit it
Sick, she has a camel toe.
Christina never got the memo that "less is more". And did she get a lip job? Girlfriend looks like Bubba from Forrest Gump.
@10 Taint nothin wrong with a cameltoe.
she hasn't looked like a real person since 1999
Nice, looks like a clown-whore.
A wise man once said in this forum website some true words to live by. I think those words are perfectly appropriate in this topic thread….
This post needs more cowbell!
They're ALL whores, and she looks as FINE as any of 'em.
Love the CT.
Tap that like Bojangles.
Hey… where is the Marilyn look!!
Wow.. She aint slutty at all. I would have thought Britney was more of a whore then X-tina
you assholes… christina aguilera is the best thing that's ever happened to this world. how dare you call her a whore. she's my favorite, and she should be yours too. she is the most beautiful person alive, with the sickest body, with the most beautiful voice, and yet you call her a whore? i don't believe this. this is unforgiveable.