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Graduate Diploma of Coaching and Counselling
Course summary for current students
|2016 course information
|Award granted
|Graduate Diploma of Coaching and Counselling
Two years part-time (2 units per Trimester 1 and 2)
|Deakin course code
For continuing students only
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Professional recognition
- Career opportunities
- Fees and charges
- Course rules
- Course structure
Course overview
Deakin's Graduate Diploma of Coaching and Counselling extends the knowledge acquired throughout the graduate certificate program to provide advanced level learning and skill acquisition. Throughout the course you will develop flexible high-level independent judgement, as well as professional planning and implementation skills appropriate for working professionally in a coaching and counselling role.
You will also acquire a personalised range of business and marketing tools relevant to a start-up business venture which is particularly relevant for those wishing to establish a business as a professional coach or pursue further qualifications as a counsellor.
The graduate diploma also offers a practical placement unit in the final year of the program which provides an opportunity to develop practical skills in a supported environment and confidently apply your knowledge and skills in a professional setting.
Professional recognition
The Graduate Diploma of Coaching and Counselling is accredited with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) allowing graduate students to apply for level 2 membership with this body.
Note: This course is currently accredited as at the date of publishing. The eligibility of students for membership of the accrediting body is subject to meeting the requirements of the ACA. Deakin University makes no representation that students will meet those requirements.
Career opportunities
This course provides sufficient generic skills and professional practice applicable to any career where working with individuals and groups for behaviour change is a focus.
For students who have a recognised undergraduate major sequence in psychology, this course offers an alternative career pathway from the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) approved honours and graduate diploma courses.
Students who have completed H577 Graduate Certificate of Coaching and Counselling can articulate into this course.
Fees and charges
All Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP), fee paying undergraduate and pre-2016 commencing students
Your course tuition fees are calculated based on the units you study. Please refer to the Pre 2016 Unit Fee Cost in the Unit Search.
2016 commencing International and full fee paying postgraduate domestic students
Your course tuition fees are calculated based on the course you study. The following rates apply:
|Commonwealth Supported Place (indicative)*
|Domestic Fee Paying
|International Fee Paying
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The rates shown are based on 1 Equivalent Full Time Study Load (EFTSL) or 8 credit points. If your study load for the year is less than or more than 1 EFTSL your fees will be adjusted accordingly. Each unit you study has an EFTSL value. You can multiple the course price by the EFSTL value of all units you are enrolled in to determine the unit price.
* The Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) course rates shown are indicative course fees. CSP fees are indicative because they are calculated based on your unit selection. They should be used as a guide only. The 2016 CSP course fees may change if the Commonwealth Government's proposed fee deregulation and reforms legislation is passed.
Course rules
The Graduate Diploma of Coaching and Counselling consists of 8 credit points of compulsory study.
Course structure
Core units
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|Problems, Pathology and Potential
|Applied Models in Coaching and Counselling 1 - Individuals
|Applied Models in Coaching and Counselling 2 - Groups
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Throughout the year, First Baptist hosts a variety of events and outreach activities. All of these events are planned to share Christ and provide fun opportunities for the entire community! You can get all the details on
our latest event highlighted above or learn about weekly opportunities on the calendar page.
Operation Christmas Child National Collection Week- November 16-23, 2015
Operation Christmas Child is an international project of Samaritan's Purse that sends gift filled shoeboxes to children all over the world! This is the national collection week where millions of shoeboxes are collected nationwide and thousands here in southwestern Indiana. Learn about First Baptist's involvement with OCC HERE.
Living Nativity- December 4-5, 2015 (6:00-8:00 pm)
You and your family can experience the beauty of the very first Christmas when Jesus was born! Live actors, animals and sets come together to share this beautiful story. We invite you to drive or walk through and start a new Christmas traditon!
Chili Cook-Off- February 2016
Sponsored by the Seekers Sunday School Class where all proceeds go to fund mission projects. Each year over 20 different chili entries compete to win the judge's Silver Ladel Award or Popular Choice Award.
RiverCity Faithfest- September 2016-Date TBA
Join us for our 6th annual FREE Christian music festival that seeks to share the message of Jesus with the world! Each year we welcome some of the best artists in Christian music as well as local and regional artists as well. Also, you have the opportunity to get involved with local, national, and international organizations that serve as the hands and feet of Christ. Learn more and see photos at rivercityfaithfest.com.

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Transforming Journalism as Democracy Emerges: 'Ten Years into Democracy, Many Journalists Are Struggling to Redefine Their Relationship to Government.'
Green, Pippa, Nieman Reports
A few months before this spring's South African elections, a young radio reporter with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) went to Upington, a remote town sandwiched between the Kgalagadi desert and the Orange River in the Northern Cape. She went there to interview Evelina de Bruin, an elderly woman who'd received a brick house from the government through its housing program.
In the 1980's, de Bruin had been internationally famous as one of the oldest people sentenced to death in South Africa, accused in the "common purpose" murder of a black policeman at the height of the apartheid era violence. Poor and illiterate, she happened to be in the area at the time this policeman was murdered, and for that she was sentenced to death, along with her husband and 12 others. Three years later, their death sentences were commuted, and eventually the "Upington 14," as they were known, were freed from jail.
Now de Bruin was getting her first house. It would be the first place she'd ever lived with running water indoors and electricity. Our reporter interviewed her about this and about the huge changes in her life since her lonely, bewildering spell on death row more than a decade ago. When her story was submitted to one of our radio current affairs' programs, our reporter received a sharply worded note from the show's producer: "You must wake up! Its election time. Everybody's getting houses."
The comment struck me as inappropriately political. Was it the job of radio reporters to focus more extensive coverage on the local government official tasked with handing out the new house, built as part of the South African government's ambitious public housing program? Even more striking to me was this producer's failure to recognize the great human story behind the far more obvious government angle. Here was an elderly domestic worker who was nearly executed by the apartheid government and living in the same township that was the scene of the tumult that led to her trial, being handed the keys to a tiny brick house.
Transforming the SABC
Such editorial decision-making is part of the challenge of operating South Africa's biggest news medium, the public broadcaster's radio news service. It evokes the very similar challenges confronting many South African news organizations and journalists today: the need to search for narratives to portray and explain the enormity of change during the first decade of democracy without being a mouthpiece of the government.
At Radio News and Current Affairs, a division of SABC that I have headed for the past two years, our scope is vast. We broadcast news and current affairs in 11 official languages and in two languages of the indigenous San communities in the Northern Cape. We broadcast some 35 hours of current affairs each day on 13 public broadcast radio stations and about 240 bulletins daily for 16 radio stations. We also manage 10 newsrooms across the country. Our reach is significant both in terms of our reporters dotting every corner of the country and in our vast audience of 15 to 18 million listeners. The biggest newspaper in South Africa, by contrast, has a readership of about three million.
Apart from keeping this ship going, our greatest challenge is to construct a culture of journalism that can break decisively with the broadcaster's past when it was the voice of the state. Efforts to establish high journalistic standards for the SABC remain at the heart of an internal political debate. Allister Sparks is an accomplished South African journalist who wrote in his book, "Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa," that "transforming the SABC has been one of the most challenging and frustrating tasks in the new South Africa. For 45 years this giant broadcasting monopoly dominated the airwaves as an explicit and unashamed propaganda machine [of the apartheid state]."
When South Africa's political leaders negotiated the transition from apartheid to democracy in the early 1990's, the first and most urgent task was to reform the state broadcast media into a public broadcaster. …


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Skye Allmang holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Boston University, an M.P.P. from Brandeis University, and an M.S.W. from UCLA. Prior to coming to UCLA, she worked for several years as a project coordinator at a youth job-training program in Santa Barbara County. She currently works as a Graduate Student Researcher for the University Consortium for Children & Families (UCCF) at UCLA, providing research support for a project involving the evaluation of training for child welfare workers. Her scholarly research focuses on the evaluation of workforce development programs.
Noel Barragan received her Masters' of Public Health from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola Marymount University. She has worked for the Los Angeles Department of Public Health for the last 3 years as an evaluator and program manager. Noel's work has focused on obesity prevention and improving access to clinical preventive services among high risk, low-income populations.
Joanna Barreras is a fourth year doctoral student in the Social Welfare program in the Luskin School of Public Affairs. In recognition of exemplary scholarship and her commitment to improving the well-being of Latinos, Joanna has been awarded numerous fellowships and most notably the Eugene V. Cota Robles four-year fellowship. To fund her research on social justice and policy issues around mental health service utilization affecting the Latino community, she has been a recipient of the UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs Monica Salinas Latino Fellowship and the Social Justice Initiative Fellowship. Such awards have allowed her to collaborate with community mental health clinics serving a large Latino population. As a striving scholar, Joanna has presented her work in several conferences such as the Society of Social Work Research Annual Conference, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America Annual Conference, the Latino Health Equity Conference, and the Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health. She continues to excel in contributing to the knowledge base through her research with hope to exert needed change around policies and practices focusing on the betterment of one of the largest fastest growing minorities in our nation—Latinos. Joanna received her MSW in Social Work at California State University, Los Angeles in 2012 and her BA in Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach in 2010. Her previous research experiences focused on health care utilization among Mexicans in California and mental health issues in low-income and minority communities. Her current research interests include physical and mental health disparities affecting Latinos, access and utilization of mental health care services, immigrant issues, and multicultural issues in research and practice.
Stephanie Benson graduated from UCLA with a BA in International Development Studies. After graduating she spent six years in the Sultanate of Oman working with projects focused on the cultural preservation of endangered craft industries and communities. She later returned to Hawai'i to work with an organization that provides housing and employment opportunities to populations with severe and persistent mental illness. Stephanie recently completed her MSW at the University of Michigan (with a concentration in Social Policy and Evaluation) where she was involved in multiple research projects investigating food insecurity, community engagement and youth empowerment in Detroit, and a review of state Community Mental Health Centers to identify factors that impede or sustain evidence-based practices. Her current research interests include poverty alleviation policy, welfare reform, community development, children and family programs, and policy evaluation.
Courtney Bleecher Demko holds a BA in Political Science from Davidson College and an MSW from UCLA. Courtney currently serves as the Director for UCLA's Center for Policy Research on Aging. Her research interests include healthy aging, Alzheimer's disease and intergenerational aspects of aging. Courtney interned at the Alzheimer's Association where she worked with older adults living with early-stage dementia and their caregivers. She also served as a clinical health services intern at the Downtown Women's Center where she provided individual and group therapy to homeless women living on Skid Row.
Donte Boyd received his B.A. in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, and his MSW from Washington University in Saint Louis. While attending Washington University, he also worked as a health counselor at Saint Louis City Health Department for two years. He provided pre- and post-testing for HIV rapid tests as well as all other STD tests. After graduating with his MSW, he worked as a Ryan White medical case manager in Saint Louis, Missouri. In doing so, he conducted psychosocial assessments and provided referrals for housing assistance and anti-viral medications. His experiences as a health counselor and case manager helped shape his research interest around HIV prevention in African-American youth.
Miya Chang received her BA in
Sociology from CATHOLIC University of DAEGU (formerly Hyosung Women's
University) and her MA in sociology from EWHA Womans University in Korea.
She earned a M.Div. (Master of Divinity) at San Francisco Theological Seminary
(SFTS) and graduated from the MSW program at California State University, Los
Angeles. Her research interests include elder mistreatment, mental health
among older Asian Americans, mental health service utilization, development of
culturally component intervention modalities, and evidence-based mental Health
practice. Her current research focuses on experience of elder mistreatment
among Asian Americans and provides culturally competent services.
Mindy Chen holds an AB cum laude from Harvard University and an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania. Mindy's research focuses on social movements and civil society organizations. Currently, she uses mixed methods to study the dynamics and strategic interactions among community stakeholders, nonprofits, funders and political contexts in the mobilization of resources to improve conditions for low-wage immigrant workers across the U.S. Prior to entering the PhD program, she also worked as a lead labor/community organizer for over seven years in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Christabel Cheung received a BJ from the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Journalism and an MSW from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to pursuing her PhD at UCLA, Christabel served as lecturer/field consultant at UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses, and supervised graduate students in social work field placements within government and community-based agencies. As a social services practitioner, Christabel last served as executive director of San Francisco Village, a nonprofit organization within the national village movement for aging in place. Previous to San Francisco Village, her earlier associations include nonprofit management roles at the American Society on Aging, the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, Self-Help for the Elderly, and San Francisco's Department of Aging & Adult Services (an Area Agency on Aging), as well as clinical social work roles at San Francisco General Hospital and Presentation Adult Day Health. Christabel's doctoral research is focused on health care and disparities in survivorship from adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer.
Susanna Curry received her BA from Earlham College and her MSW from UCLA. She is a current doctoral student in the Department of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research has primarily focused on the relationship between child welfare system involvement and homelessness/housing instability across the life course. She is interested in understanding how prevention efforts can be better targeted to support the transition to adulthood among youth who are unstably housed, live in resource-poor neighborhoods, or have little family support. Susanna's research interests stem from a range of direct practice, policy and evaluation experience in government and non-profit settings in child welfare, education, and homeless services.
Marquitta S. Dorsey is a third year Phd student. After 15 years of practice experience working with underserved populations such as foster care youth, homeless youth, at-risk youth and adolescent girls, Marquitta is interested in investigating the association between adolescent births and biological father involvement during pre-adolescent years.
Ryan Dougherty received a BS in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2014. Throughout his undergraduate career, Ryan coordinated research examining identity, stigma, self-disclosure, and the diversity of experiences among people with disabilities. Invested in utilizing research for social justice, Ryan launched a peer-led community intervention project aimed at eliminating mental health stigma among college students in a large student-housing cooperative. Concurrently, he assisted in research in both experimental psychopathology and pharmacogenomics to examine the cognitive and emotional mechanisms of psychotic disorders, as well as the side effects associated with atypical antipsychotics. These experiences combined have inspired Ryan to integrate clinical and social approaches to examine how cultural contexts and institutions shape professional attitudes towards psychotropic drugs, experiences on the psychosis-spectrum, and approaches to mental health treatment among practitioners and clienteles.
Shannon Dunlap is a third year doctoral student in the Department of Social Welfare and is also a Gender Studies Concentrator. Shannon graduated from University of Southern California school of Social Work in 2005. Prior to starting her doctoral studies in 2013, Shannon worked in the fields of child and family mental health, child and adolescent psychiatric emergency services, youth LGBT health, and youth HIV. Shannon is interested in health and mental health disparities among transgender youth. She is particularly interested in the intersection of gender-based adversity and family support. During her first year, she was the research coordinator on two HIV health and prevention focused studies headed by Dr. Ian Holloway. Additionally, she coordinated an R21 study examining sexual minority stress among LGB adolescents, under the direction of Dr. Jeremy Goldbach of USC. Shannon also volunteered as a research assistant on Dr. Ilan Meyer's TransPop study. Currently, Shannon is working with Dr. Ian Holloway on several studies involving health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults. Shannon has co-authored several articles and one chapter within the fields of HIV and LGBT health and has submitted her first lead author paper. Currently, Shannon is working on developing her dissertation proposal focused on transgender youth and their parents.
Megan Ebor obtained her BA in Sociology with a minor in gerontology as well as her MSW with a concentration in aging from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on racial/ethnic minority older adults and sexual-health, namely HIV/AIDS among older adult women of color. Ebor has taken a nontraditional approach in social work education and translational research utilizing social documentation as a means for HIV education, prevention and intervention. She plans to expand on her current HIV research while in the PhD program, exploring sexual health education within the field of social work and the usage/availability of culturally sensitive sexual history assessment tools within the scope of social work practice for the older adult population.
Leah Rose Hanzlicek graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. She served as a child welfare caseworker for several years in Oregon, where she also became active in the Service Employees International Union. She completed her M.S.W. at the University of Michigan, and while in Ann Arbor she assisted with a longitudinal study of child welfare worker recruitment and retention. Since coming to UCLA she has been involved in outcomes research for young adults with former juvenile justice involvement, in addition to designing and implementing an evaluation of a community-based mentoring program for foster care and juvenile justice youth. Her research interests include the conceptualization of mental health for adolescents in the child welfare system, transitions to adulthood for young people emancipating out of the child welfare system, and qualitative research methods.
Nikki Hozack graduated from the University of Portland with my MSW in 2010. Her background includes 10 years of combined experience working in psychiatric and medical research at various universities including the University of California San Diego, Stanford University and Oregon Science and Health University. Her general study interests lie in psychosocial interventions and programs for those diagnosed with serious mental illness, especially those intended to improve quality of life and strengthen the path to clinical and personal recovery. While at UCLA, her goal is to study the effects of privilege, including class, race, and access to informal community resources on factors related to clinical and personal recovery from serious mental illness.
Sid Jordan received a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the University of Victoria. Sid's research interests focus broadly on access disparities, violence prevention and intervention, policing, incarceration, and the politics of criminal justice reform. Prior to starting the PhD program, Sid led a federally funded capacity building project to address barriers to services for LGBTQ survivors of violence and improve organizational practice in Washington State. Sid has worked for more than 15 years as a community and cultural organizer on projects focused on racial, gender, and economic justice.
Charles H. Lea III received his Bachelors in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Masters in Social Work at the University of Michigan. Prior to attending UCLA, Charles served as a Policy Analyst at Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) in Oakland, CA, where he conducted research and evaluation studies focused on prisoner reentry, school reform, and workforce and youth development. Before joining SPR, Charles worked as a case manager serving adjudicated youth, and held positions as an HIV/AIDS health educator and mental health assistant. Charles' professional and personal experiences have thus influenced his interest in juvenile justice, education, reentry, and race and racial equity. More specifically, he is interested in contextual and individual influences on crime involvement and criminal desistance among boys and young men of color, particularly African Americans, and the protective mechanisms and processes that fosters resilience and facilitates positive development. The overarching aims of his research is to develop knowledge and build theory that informs structural and behavioral interventions and policies and practices that improve the outcomes, opportunities, and well-being of vulnerable and racial/ethnic communities and individuals.
Gi Lee received a BA in Psychology from University of California at Riverside and an MSW from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). Before entering the PhD program at UCLA, she worked as a geriatric social worker. She also worked as the program coordinator for the Bridges to the Doctoral Program at CSULA, a collaborative program between the University of Michigan and CSULA that helps graduate social work and nursing students from underrepresented populations prepare for PhD programs. Gi's present research interests are in the areas of coercion, treatment, and conceptualization of mental illness as well as cultural psychiatry.
Melody Liao received a BA in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include a focus on better understanding possible educational and vocational pathways whereby at-risk youth might be helped to reach their full potential. Melody has worked as a graduate student researcher on a comparative study of juvenile justice systems in different countries that investigated best practices in youth sentencing. She has interned at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center working with youth exiting juvenile hall on their transition needs. She has collaborated on a project with 2nd Call—a non-profit based in Compton that provides re-entry services—to develop participant selection and evaluation procedures for its incarceration-based life-skills and job readiness program. Currently, Melody is the 2015-2016 Luskin Leadership Fellow for The California Endowment where she is evaluating a leadership retreat program for young women across California.
Kristina Lovato-Hermann, MSW is a graduate of Saint Mary's College (BA, Sociology/Anthropology) and San Francisco State University (Master of Social Work). Her research primarily focuses on immigrant families with a specific expertise in Latino immigrant youth. Her written work explores the themes of transnational migration, gender, immigration policy, child welfare involvement, family separation and reunification. Kristina's dissertation examines how immigrant families cope with the unique stressors associated with living at risk of deportation and how schools, and social service systems respond to the needs of these families. She has worked on research projects where she gained skills in conducting survey-based data collection, process evaluation, literature review, data analysis, developed and disseminated publications, and implemented a technology-based intervention, the DCFS Needs Portal; a web-based tool designed to link child welfare involved clients to community services in Los Angeles County. Kristina has 8 years of experience as a social work clinician in the San Francisco Bay Area in which she served as a public child welfare worker, therapist, and bilingual school-based mental health clinician. Immediately prior to entering academia, Kristina served as the Project Coordinator for the Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program and as a lecturer in the School of Social Work at San Francisco State University.
Laurie C. Maldonado is a doctoral student in Social Welfare at UCLA and is a predoctoral scholar at LIS (Luxembourg Income Study). She is the recipient of the PhD grant awarded by the Fonds National Recherche of Luxembourg, which supports her research on the wellbeing of single-parent families and the ways in which these families are affected by social policy in the United States and across countries. Laurie co-authored, with Tim Casey, "Worst Off: Single-Parent Families in the United States: A Cross-National Comparison of Single-Parenthood in the U.S. and Sixteen Other High-Income Countries" which received an impressive amount of media attention in the U.S., including, among others, coverage in The Nation (Greg Kaufmann, blog), by Bill Moyers, in the New York Times (Nancy Folbre, blog), by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, in Forbes (Bryce Covert, blog), on the radio station WBAI (an Esther Armah interview), and on the television Al Jazeera International English (Kimberly Halkett Inside Story). Laurie holds an M.S.W. and practiced social work with single-parent families. She has taught social welfare policy to M.S.W. students at Silberman School of Social Work Hunter College.
Lia W Marshall has 10 years of research administration experience in immunology, heart disease and oncology where she developed an expertise in managing NIH grants, FDA new drug applications as well as clinical trial administration. As a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT) she also worked in both assisted living facilities for older adults and the Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU) at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She held internships at the Alzheimer's Association in the Department of Professional Training and trained helping professionals in the therapeutic care of those with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. She has earned multiple scholarships and awards including the Partners in Care Foundation Gerontology Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC), the University of Michigan Social Work/Nursing Bridges to the Doctoral Program the UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program scholarship (GSRM), the The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Careers in Aging Week Award and Best Poster in Behavioral & Social Sciences category at the 2015 UCLA Research Conference on Aging. Lia received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.S.W. from California State University Los Angeles. The academic and professional career she established as well as research expertise in healthcare and residential facilities for older adults led to her research interests in health and well-being of older adult populations. As a University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) doctoral student she seeks to address chronic disease prevention and management as well as open space and transportation needs within the older adult population.
Matthew Mizel received his BA from Stanford University in psychology with honors and his MSW from UCLA. As a doctoral student at UCLA, he has conducted research on re-entry interventions and criminal desistance. Matthew worked as a summer associate at the RAND Corporation in 2015 where he engaged in research on the school-to-prison pipeline. As an undergraduate, he wrote his thesis for Claude M. Steele, Ph.D., and Joshua Aronson, Ph.D., conducting an experiment that used an intervention to counteract the suppression of academic performance by stereotype threat. Matthew began teaching creative writing to incarcerated youth in 2003 through the non-profit InsideOut Writers and has taught over 1,000 classes since then. He also mentors young people after their release from incarceration through the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC). With ARC, he has engaged in policy education on sentencing with the California legislature. Matthew has worked in South Africa providing guidance to government on policy and programs to address crime, incarceration, and re-entry. Prior to enrolling in the UCLA doctoral program, Matthew worked in the film business and was the Co-Producer of Step Up 2: The Streets and the Associate Producer of A Walk to Remember.
Laura Montero received her MSW from the University of Michigan with a concentration in social policy and evaluation. While at UCLA, Laura intends to examine how a criminal record restricts the economic, academic, and social engagement of system-involved youth in America, and to explore the ways in which promising policy alternatives are promoting more compassionate, socially inclusive, and constructive forms of rehabilitation. Currently, Laura is working with Dr. Laura Abrams on an evaluation of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Foster Youth Strategic Initiative, as well as a cross-national project, which seeks to investigate the historical development and implementation of policies and practices related to reducing peak age offending.
Jordan Morris received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and her Ed.M. in school psychology & education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University. Broadly, her research interests focus on the use of storytelling and technology to enhance the social identity of ethnic minorities. Her dissertation investigates the impact of narrative technology on the identity development of youth offenders in a restorative conferencing program in Brooklyn, NY. Currently, Jordan is working in collaboration with the Improvement by Design Lab (IBD) in the UCLA Graduate School of Education. Here, her work focuses on how schools integrate technology into their classroom to improve teaching & learning, and the effectiveness of e-portfolio platforms on student learning and faculty teaching in university settings.
Amelia Mueller-Williams has an interdisciplinary background and approach to scholarship, integrating Anthropology, Biology, Social Work, and Public Health. Her Bachelor's degree is from Macalester College in St. Paul where she majored in Biology and Anthropology. She has an MSW and a Master's in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Generally, Amelia's research interests focus on mental and physical health equity among marginalized populations with a special emphasis on American Indians. She served previously as a Research Associate/Grants Manager and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work where she worked on federally funded research projects, including youth suicide prevention, System of Care Wraparound, and Cultural and Linguistic Competency/Cultural Humility, in Detroit, MI and on Midwest Indian Reservations.
Sara Pilgreen is currently in her fourth year of the doctoral program at UCLA – Luskin, School of Public Affairs in the Department of Social Welfare. Previously Ms. Pilgreen graduated magna cum laude with dual Bachelor degrees in Communication and Psychology from the University of Hawaii-Hilo in 2004. She then served in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Vanuatu as an English teacher while working on adolescent reproductive health issues, gender and development relations, and clean water initiatives. At this time Ms. Pilgreen became aware of the gap between what international aid organizations (NGOs) and outside governments promised and what she witnessed in this arena. This experience inspired her to pursue higher education in the areas of nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, and civil society. Before entering the combined MSW/PhD program at UCLA Luskin, Ms. Pilgreen completed her MA at Teachers College – Columbia University in 2011, focusing on macro practices and urban poverty. In 2013, Ms. Pilgreen completed her MSW at UCLA after internships in Long Beach and Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently she is a graduate student researcher for the Center for Civil Society at UCLA Luskin, studying nonprofits in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty in Los Angeles with a focus on grassroots entrepreneurship under the supervision of Professor "Zeke" Hasenfeld.
Ashleigh Nicole Scinta received her MSW from the University of Houston in the spring of 2012. She concentrated in Macro Social Work Practice and completed a certificate in Trabajo Social (Social Work Practice with Latinos). During her MSW program she was an intern at Communities in Schools- Houston, the Ethnic Minority Services department at the SK HKS Lady MacLehose Centre in Hong Kong, and the Community Education department at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. Ashleigh received her B.A. in History and Minor in Sociology from the University of Houston in the spring of 2010. Since 2006, she has volunteered extensively with non-profit agencies that provide services to survivors of intimate partner violence and child sexual abuse as well as adolescent males in the juvenile justice system. Ashleigh's research interests include culturally responsive prevention and intervention for intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, and reproductive health. Additionally, she is interested in the development of empowerment programs and fatherhood initiatives for young men of color.
Meredith Gamson Smiedt was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and attending the University of Southern California for her undergraduate and MSW degrees. Recently, Meredith has served as the Executive Director at the Center for Policing Equity at UCLA, working with researchers and law enforcement examining issues of racial and gender equity. Her research interests are in juvenile justice and the school to prison pipeline.
Neha Srivastava graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Waterloo and received an MA in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from NYU. She is interested in mental health care that is sustainable and sensitive to the needs of diverse cultural contexts, particularly that of India, where she is from. Her past work has focused on interventions for survivors of domestic violence, South Asian immigrant women, and women affected with HIV in rural India. At present, Neha is involved in a clinical research study, providing a short-term CBT intervention to adults with psychiatric diagnoses. Prior to starting at UCLA, she worked as a Domestic Violence Advocate at Sakhi for South Asian Women and interned at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Christina Tam received her double Bachelor's in Psychology and Criminology from UC Irvine in 2008 and her MSW from UCLA in 2011. Christina's undergraduate research focused on gender differences in the effects of parental incarceration on children, which fostered her current interests in the criminal justice system. During her MSW studies, Christina was involved in the non-profit sector serving formerly incarcerated women. She was later engaged in public service at the Los Angeles Mayor's Office as a Michael S. Dukakis Fellow and with the Human Services Division at the City of Santa Monica. Christina currently works with Western Youth Services to provide case management and workshops for at-risk youth to increase their abilities to successfully navigate the transition to adulthood. Although Christina primarily identifies as a quantitative researcher, she also has experience with qualitative data collection and analyses—specifically with formerly incarcerated youth to understand their circumstances following their reentry into the community. Christina's prior work experiences led her to her current dissertation topic, which focuses on examining the disproportionate rate of entry into the juvenile justice system among Southeast Asian youth. Christina's dissertation research adopts an ecological approach by considering the environments in which these youth live. More specifically, this research disaggregates Los Angeles County administrative data by ethnicity to investigate the neighborhood characteristics that may or may not be related to these youths' contact with the juvenile justice system. In sum, Christina's goal is to contribute to informing a person-in-environment approach for underserved youth from racial/ethnic minority families.
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Brenda A. Tully graduated with a BA in Speech Communication from the University of St. Thomas. She earned her MSW in from Fordham University in New York City. Brenda's career focuses on work with children and families, primarily young people transitioning to adulthood. She worked for Good Shepherd Services in NYC, where she was involved in the launching of several programs, including the transfer schools model, which was subsequently awarded funding by the Gates Foundation for replication, and the Chelsea Foyer, a transitional supportive housing program for young people aging out of foster care. The latter program is designated an Emerging Approach to addressing homelessness among former foster youth by the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. More recently, Brenda worked in the fields of supervised visitation and child sexual abuse prevention, also in NYC. In doing so, she played an integral role in a study funded by the NIH on children's knowledge gain and retention following exposure to a child sexual abuse prevention workshop; she co-authored an article published in the American Journal of Public Health on the study findings entitled "Knowledge Gains Following a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program among Urban Students: A Cluster-Randomized Evaluation." Despite the latter, Brenda's research interests are focused on the intersection of young adults aging out of foster care and their transition to housing.
Rachel Wells received a dual MSW and MUP from the University of Michigan. After completing her master's program, she worked at a Detroit public health non-profit creating and implementing home repair programs for low-income families and was involved with grassroots community organizations in Detroit. These experiences led to her doctoral research interests in the role of nonprofits in neighborhoods and in poverty policy, particularly how policies and organizational structures affect program implementation and the resulting experiences of low-income clients.
Lauren Willner received her undergraduate degree in Feminist Studies and Photojournalism at New York University in 2004. After completing her bachelor's degree Lauren spent two years in Washington State as an Americorps volunteer working as a service learning coordinator and a program coordinator on a community-based, interfaith domestic violence initiative. She has worked at a number of nonprofits doing program development and administration, and received her MSW with a concentration in Non-Profit Leadership and Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. Lauren is an organizational scholar who conducts research on nonprofit organizations. She uses Critical Race Theory to explore questions relating to the structures and functions of social justice/social change nonprofits, and she is particularly interested how the use of for-profit business models impacts the missions and goals of organizations whose work is centered on social change. She is also interested in social work pedagogy, particularly how social work students are educated to understand issues of institutional and structural racism and oppression, and issues of social justice.


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Wellll let's hear the wisdom of DJ Insizion...
The wisdom: Our ROOKIE Qb who has never called an offensive play has just thrown for over 400 yrds his first 2 starts n you are calling for a new OC? I am guessing that you would like to have Jeff Davidson back?
Welcome to 2011. We are NOT three yards and a cloud of dust anymore.The run game to work needs either:
A) Keep at it until you wear the other team out.
B) Throw it until they sell out against the pass.
If you like 30 handoffs and big run yardage that's fine but your margin for error is slim. You use screens and flares now to slow down pass rush. Let's face it-how many on here would have given us ANY chance if you knew beforehand we would have 4 turnovers??? In Foxball I would have been painting the living room after falling behind by 10. At least now we have a chance.
maybe if the team executed when he DOES call running plays, he'd be more inclined to run them more frequently throughout the game.
continuing to run when we are unable to is something i'm sure people would bitch about. "duh, we couldn't run so why did they keep trying? throw the damn ball!!"
srsly, what is wrong with some of you people?
continuing to run when we are unable to is something i'm sure people would bitch about. "duh, we couldn't run so why did they keep trying? throw the damn ball!!"
srsly, what is wrong with some of you people?
John Fox, is that you?
We don't need another coordinator. He's made a rookie throw for over 800 yards in his first two games which has never happened. We have to get better in the redone. I noticed this last week also against Arizone. We have to be able to run the ball inside of the 10 yard line. We can't expect to pass everytime we're that close because the defense has the advantage with the shorter field to defend. I believe that if you at least show run, do some play actions then we should improve. We were inside the 10 yard line at least 3 times against Green Bay and only came away with 6 PTs. This can not happen. I believe that if we can improve in the redzone then we are totally CAPABLE of being a PLAYOFF TEAM THIS YEAR. We just dominated(yes we did) the best team in the NFL but since we can't capitalize on mistakes, take advantage of our opportunities and not to mention being sloppy with the football we lost a very winnable game that no one gave us a chance to win
Will they flip a coin....meaning Chud and his "assistant"......to see which play to run?
John Fox, is that you?
i dont know how you extrapolate what i said to get THAT...but ok.
i dont know how you extrapolated what i said to get THAT...but ok.
It is a verb
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It is a verb
you're right. what i meant to say was: "i don't know how you extrapolated that from what i said... but OK"
How dumb can one person be? GB and Arizona stacked the box all game. Why do you think Cam is throwing so much? This isn't rocket science, this is basic football 101. If the opposing defense is playing heavily against the run, then you are gonna have to throw the ball to beat it.
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Intel and Nokia Join Forces to Make Linux OS
Intel and Nokia today revealed a new operating system that the two plan to put on smartphones, netbooks and tablets.
Last year Nokia and Intel announced that they would collaborate on several projects; but at the time, neither offered much information on what those projects might be. Today we've got a little insight into what the Nokia-Intel partnership is all about: Software.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the two companies announced a Linux-based operating system called MeeGo. MeeGo is actually just a mash-up of Nokia's Maemo OS and Intel's Moblin. Nokia and Intel have said the open source OS will run on both smartphones and netbooks, with support for ARM architecture and Intel's line of Atom CPUs.
At the moment, there are very few details available but it will be interesting to see how this goes. The OS will more than likely have a better chance on smartphones than netbooks. Microsoft is still dominating the netbook OS market because it has the advantage of familiarity. Still, we can't say much until we see it in action. Watch this space.
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Who will win the Oscars?
Sunday's Academy Awards will celebrate an outstanding, diverse year at the cinema
With its bountiful and diverse crop of praiseworthy films, 2012 proved itself to be a year worthy of celebration. Hollywood is preparing to do just that Sunday night when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hands out its 85th annual awards.
Just looking over the list of nine Best Picture nominees, with its staggering range of genres, budgets, talent and subject matter, it's easy to see what made last year so memorable.
"85th annual Academy Awards"
When: 5:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: ABC
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In traditional Oscar fashion, we have a historical and important epic ("Lincoln") and a sweeping adaptation of a hit Broadway musical ("Les Misérables"). Then there's the rock solid Hollywood thriller ("Argo") and a technical triumph that pushes filmmaking into new frontiers of artistic possibilities ("Life of Pi"). And then there are the edgy envelope pushers ("Django Unchained," "Zero Dark Thirty"), as well as a neurotic ensemble comedy ("Silver Linings Playbook") to lighten the mood around a serious issue. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, are the independent outsiders ("Amour," "Beasts of the Southern Wild"), which remind us that powerful storytelling isn't limited to hefty budgets and marquee stars.
As fine as they all are (in varying degrees, of course), one winner must be declared. Here are my predictions for who will claim the top prizes on Hollywood's biggest night (winner in bold).
"Beasts of the
Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Misérables"
"Life of Pi"
"Silver Linings
"Zero Dark Thirty"
With "Zero Dark Thirty" tainted by political controversy and "Life of Pi" likely to see most of its Oscar gold in the technical categories, it looks like the race is coming down to "Lincoln" and "Argo." I'm predicting "Lincoln" will get its Oscar love in the director and acting categories, giving "Argo" a window for glory here. Director Ben Affleck's thriller is the exemplar of terrific Hollywood filmmaking, a fact that academy members will no doubt appreciate. Plus, they're probably (and justifiably) feeling guilty for leaving Affleck off the best-director list.
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Ang Lee, "Life of Pi"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Abraham Lincoln may be the iconic Great American President, so it's fitting that "Lincoln" was directed by a man many consider today's Great American Director, Steven Spielberg. Even if Affleck were in this race, I still think Spielberg would be the front-runner, although "Life of Pi's" Ang Lee has a shot for expertly adapting what many deemed an unfilmable book.
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Misérables"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"
This is one of those categories where the phrase "It's an honor just to be nominated" is the best everyone but Daniel Day-Lewis should hope for. His portrayal of a weary but determined President Lincoln is one for the ages.
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver
Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"
This is the one category where my heart and gut get to make the pick. A logical assessment points to Jennifer Lawrence as the winner for "Silver Linings Playbook," or maybe even "Zero Dark Thirty's" Jessica Chastain, but I'm holding out for "Amour's" Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest-ever nominee in the best-actress category, who will also turn 86 on Oscar night. Academy members are clearly in love with "Amour," giving it five nominations, including best picture, but this is the only major category where voters have an opportunity to reward it with an Oscar. Plus, Lawrence and Chastain will undoubtedly get a few more chances in the coming years.


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For Worst Performance by a Car: The Envelope, Please . . .
By KEITH MARTIN
Published: April 2, 2000
IF you thought all the lists of the best this or that of the last 100 or 1,000 years had been compiled, think again. While the Car of the Century has been selected (the Ford Model T, anointed by an international panel of experts), what about the flip side: of the tens of thousands of automobile models produced since the 1880's, which were bad enough to warrant special recognition?
The hosts of ''Car Talk'' on National Public Radio, Tom and Ray Magliozzi -- also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers -- invited listeners to vote for the ''worst cars of the millenium,'' vehicles that were, in their words, ''just stupid, in every possible way.'' The results were announced this weekend on their radio show.
Votes were compiled on the show's Web site, www.cartalk.com. In an interview last week, the brothers discussed the survey, the losers-cum-winners and the selection process. As sharp-tongued on the phone as on their show, they spoke rapidly and interchangeably; much of the time, it was impossible to determine which Magliozzi was talking. They described the chosen cars in the same salty language one might hear in a repair shop where the owner of, say, a Chevy Vega was getting another bit of bad news. Indeed, they characterized some listeners as long-suffering victims bent on revenge.
''This isn't a scientific survey,'' said Ray (or was it Tom?). ''The voters are a self-selecting group of wackos, most of whom are really aggravated by a bad experience with one of the cars, and this is their chance to get even.'' In fact, all the finalists were built within the last 35 years, the indignities they caused still fresh in former owners' minds.
Last week, Hilary Swank won an Oscar for playing a woman who lived as a man. The winner of this competition was a metallic object with rubber tires that impersonated a car: the Yugo. ''This was a cheap piece of junk, and built to stay that way,'' one of the brothers said. ''The Yugo was just a dated Fiat 128 built on worn-out equipment that Fiat sold to the Yugoslavs.'' The factory was destroyed by Allied bombs during the Kosovo conflict, sparing potential Yugo owners of future headaches.
While the Yugo was the voters' choice, the Magliozzis would have divided the top spot among three finalists: the Renault Dau phine, the Chevrolet Chevette and a twin entry, the Dodge Aspen and Plymouth Volare. ''At least the Yugo buyers knew they were getting junk,'' Tom said. ''The three cars we thought were the worst actually pretended to be real transportation.''
The Chevette, for instance, ''was a stupid design, and, just to increase the insult to the customer, General Motors kept selling them for a long time -- 12 years,'' one brother said. The other added, ''Unfortunately, the engines were pretty good, which kept the cars on the road that much longer.''
They were no kinder to the Volare and Aspen, which hold a place in history as the most-recalled autos ever. The Magliozzis called them ''cars that rusted even when they were rust-proofed,'' that stalled in wet weather and stumbled under acceleration.
The Dauphine, from France, ''was designed to go about 30 miles an hour, from one end of the village to the other'' -- not for long trips like, say, crossing Rhode Island.
Tom and Ray acknowledged that two finalists, the Vega and the Ford Pinto, were among the first American attempts to make small cars at a time of rising gas prices and surging Japanese imports. The Pinto was sound, they said, aside from its tendency to burst into flames when hit in the rear. It wouldn't have made their own list.
But the Vega, in their view, was terrible in every way. ''General Motors is the largest car corporation in the world,'' Ray (or Tom?) said. ''And the best that it could come up with was this car with an engine that melted and a body that rusted so badly that the cars sometimes broke in half.''
Asked about the Volkswagen Bus, one Magliozzi said it was a sentimental favorite of many people because it reminded them of the 60's. ''It was like having your own little apartment on wheels that you could sneak into and smoke dope,'' he said. Unfortunately, the rear-mounted, air-cooled engines overheated to the point of destruction. The far-forward seats essentially forced one's legs to serve as an auxiliary front bumper.
The only ''luxury'' car on the list was the Cadillac Cimarron. ''Buyers felt cheated,'' Tom said. ''One fellow told me he had wanted his whole life to have a Cadillac, bought a Cimarron and discovered he owned a Chevy Cavalier with a Cadillac badge on its nose.''
They see a common thread among the 10 cars: none took advantage of technology available when they were built. ''A 1972 Chevrolet Impala was a good car when it was built, and it's still a good car today,'' Ray said. ''But a Vega, built at the same time, was a piece of junk when it was new.''
Car shoppers should note that a few of most of these models are still out there in the back rows of the nation's used-car lots, at prices that might seem ridiculously low.
Can you say, ''Caveat emptor''?
Photo: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of ''Car Talk,'' looking for a few really bad cars. (Richard Howard) Chart: ''The 10 Least Wanted'' These are the finalists for ''worst cars of the millennium,'' ranked by the number of votes they received at www.cartalk.com, with their U.S. model years and a sampling of the comments posted by voters. 1. YUGO Yugoslav Sold in United States, 1986-91 ''I once test-drove a Yugo, during which the radio fell out, the gearshift knob came off in my hand and I saw daylight through the strip around the windshield.'' ''At least it had heated rear windows -- so your hands would stay warm while you pushed.'' 2. CHEVROLET VEGA American, 1971-77 ''As near as I could tell, the car was built from compressed rust.'' ''My Chevy Vega actually broke in half going over railroad tracks. The whole rear end came around slightly to the front, sort of like a dog wagging its tail.'' 3. FORD PINTO American, 1971-80 ''Remember that great Pinto bumper sticker, 'Hit me and we blow up together.'?'' ''Dad had an orange Pinto the year that car thieves hit our street. Although a dozen cars were stolen in one night, ours was there the next morning, on a strangely empty block.'' 4. AMERICAN MOTORS GREMLIN American, 1970-78 ''The car had all the quality and safety of a cheap garden tractor.'' ''It was entirely possible to read a Russian novel during the pause between stepping on the gas and feeling any semblance of forward motion.'' 5. CHEVROLET CHEVETTE American, 1976-87 ''An engine surrounded by four pieces of drywall.'' ''If I got on the Interstate without being run over, the car would creep toward 55. About an hour later, I'd reach it. Then the shaking would begin.'' 6. RENAULT LE CAR French, 1977-83 ''Our car couldn't climb a hill fully loaded, so the passengers had to get out and walk up.'' ''It would put you in mortal danger if you had an accident with anything larger than a croissant.'' 7. PLYMOUTH VOLARE and DODGE ASPEN American, 1976-80 ''After the floorboards rusted out in the rear, they would fill up with water and freeze. I ended up putting soda crates on the floor in the back to keep people from falling under the car.'' ''The stalling problem was so bad that I had to take a clockwise route to work, so I could make all right turns and not risk stalling on a left turn in front of oncoming traffic.'' 8. CADILLAC CIMARRON American, 1982-88 ''When we traded it in, my wife was upset because we didn't keep it long enough for her to buy a gun and shoot it.'' ''G.M. thought it could take a Chevy Cavalier, slap some Cadillac stuff on it, add an extra $5,000 and sell a bundle. Tragically, they pulled it off for a while.'' 9. RENAULT DAUPHINE French, 1957-66 ''Truly unencumbered by the engineering process.'' ''From a historical perspective, it's a shame that the French spent their Marshall Plan dollars on automaking.'' 10. VOLKSWAGEN BUS German, 1950-79 ''There was no heat -- unless, that is, the auxiliary gas heater caught fire.'' ''The bus had no heat, blew over in the wind and used the driver's legs as its first line of defense in an accident.'' Other Finalists FIAT X1/9 Italian, 1974-82 (sold 1983-89 as Bertone X1/9) ''It ran fine -- that is, unless it was too wet, too cold, too hot or too dark outside.'' VOLKSWAGEN THING German, 1973-75 ''Mine broke down on the way home from the dealership. I had a standing service appintment every Saturday morning at the VW dealer, and about half the time I had to have it towed in.'' DAIHATSU CHARADE Japanese, 1988-92 ''It was as if Daihatsu took aluminum foil and shaped it into a car.'' (Illustrations from the brochure collection of Steve Hayes) Chart: ''Auto Engineers' Top Picks'' Readers of Automotive Engineering Inter-national selected the cars that, in their view, were the best-enginered models of each decade of the century. Results are posted at the Web site of the Society of Automotive Engineers, www.sae.org. The '99 Corvette and Mercedes S500 tied for first overall. 1900-09: 1908 Ford Model T 1910-19: 1910 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 1920's: 1924 Chrysler Six 1930's: 1930 Cadillac V-16 1940's: 1949 Volkswagen Beetle 1950's: 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL 1960's: 1964 Porsche 911 1970's: 1974 Honda Civic CVCC 1980's: 1984 Plymouth Voyager 1990's: 1999 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, Mercedes-Benz S500 (tie)


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A chorus of Handel's "Alleluia" rang out Saturday as Silvio Berlusconi resigned as Italian premier, ending a tumultuous 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis.
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How to Become Famous on MovieStarPlanet
Six Parts:Watching and making movies and artbooksInteracting with other playersUndertaking missionsPurchasing itemsPlaying gamesPetting animalsCommunity Q&A
Become famous on MovieStarPlanet by setting up a plan to win with kindness, being supportive of others and using your smarts to gather starcoins and gain interest from other players. This article suggests a variety of things that you can do in combination to increase the chances of becoming well known on MSP––just be aware that it won't happen overnight but with persistence, it will likely happen over time.
Part 1
Watching and making movies and artbooks
1Make movies. Making movies and watching movies is the most obvious of all methods. If your movie is short, you get 10 Starcoins ( currency ) but if your movie is longer, you get 25 Starcoins. Add VIPs and use their animations. Make sure they have animations.
- Get people to watch your movies!
- Make friends and share your movies with them.
- Watch short movies. You get 10 Starcoins everytime without having to watch something super long.
- Make a series. People will be more interested in watching a series.
2Make short movies. Short movies are a five scene movie that you can make quickly for fame, and starcoins!
3View lots of artbooks. If you love artbooks, you get StarCoins and you give people fame. If you comment by saying "cool movie" or "awesome artbook" a lot, you'll have a great reputation of being nice and friendly.
Part 2
Interacting with other players
1Be nice to people and make friends. If you want to be popular and famous, you have to be known by people, and the best way to do this is make friends and be nice! If you're mean people won't want to befriend you and you'll be known in a not-so-kind way. Be nice and compliment people, give them autographs, and so forth.
- Have a good attitude. If you're always grumpy and negative, no one will want to be your friend and you'll be disliked. Write nice comments on friends walls, or support other people's work. Then people will want to give back to you and you will have a good reputation.
2Go to chatrooms. If you go there often and chat, you'll make some friends. Find something interesting to chat about and people will respond.
3Go to forums. You can click on some, read them and comment. Make sure they're nice and positive or if it's negative, you'll be disliked. You can make your own by clicking the plus button. Only level 6 or VIPs can post forums.
4Friend high leveled MovieStars. If you give them a lot of autos, help them get fame, and say lots of nice things to them, they might want to add you and they might say nice things about you to get you known.
5If you're level 6 and have a lot of StarCoins (currency) then buy people gifts from their wishlist. If you're a VIP, give people greets or diamond rides. You can only give 1 auto per hour if you don't have VIP.
6Ask your friends for favors. If you have a very close friend, they would do anything for you. Ask them to out them in their movies and artbooks or to autograph you.
Part 3
Undertaking missions
Part 4
Purchasing items
1Go shopping. If you have a lot of StarCoins (currency) you can buy a lot of fashionable clothes or items. Shop for outfits that go together, rather than mixing and matching.
- Buy good animations and clothes. You can make better looks and movies with clothes and animations. Be unique and creative. Don't let people judge your looks!
Part 5
Playing games
1Play games for coins and fame. If you play a game like Dress Up you can spin the Starcoin wheel if you win. You also get up to 500 fame whether you win or not, but it depends what place you get.
Part 6
Petting animals
1Pet animals for points. There are many varieties of Boonies and Bonsters. If you pet then you get Starcoins! The most well-known method is to go to high scores and select pets, then click the owner name and go to their room. They have tons of animals to pet. It may take a while to get Starcoins from this method but everyday you can re-pet an animal.
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Which one is the best thing?
- Watch short movies so you can get money to get fashionable clothing.
- Log on often so you can try out these tips often.
- Be unique and different, you might be known for something different, not like being a high level or being a forumer.
- Make sure your status has good things like hearts. Here's a copy and paste one: ❤ .
- Always, always, always love your friends looks, movies, artbooks, and statuses when they make them.
- Name your movies with titles that are sure to catch people's attention. Use good grammar, and ensure that the movie has a good plot. Random movies tend to get bad reviews.
- Be nice to others and have a positive attitude. No one likes it when you're grumpy and mean.
- Get membership. It is pretty expensive, but there are going to be many great features if you get VIP membership. You can get fame easier, you get diamonds which is a special currency that can be used to buy various upgrades and some that can get you fame, you can autograph people every 2 minutes which is useful for getting friends and more popular because everybody likes to get autos. You also get many Starcoins.
- Don't spread rumors. If you do people will not want to add you, because they will think you are a bratty gossip queen.
- Be kind- don't swear. Use your common sense!
- Don't be mean. Don't be scary or threaten people that you will hack them/steal their account. You will be known, but in a bad way. People will report you for saying mean things.
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AWS Loft Talks: We've launched our AWS Loft Talks series, a once-per-month event where 3-6 technology leaders will give 10-15 minute lightning talks, sharing best practices, thought leadership, and industry insights on the latest happenings in tech. These talks will be followed by a Q&A and networking session (along with cold drinks and snacks of course)!
AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series: Join developers, AWS engineers and other cloud ninjas for one of many Hack Days from the AWS Pop-up Loft Hack Series. We'll supply the coffee, pizza, root beer and other essentials.
Walk-in anytime between 10AM and 6PM for a 1:1, 60-minute session with a member of the AWS technical team. No appointment is necessary, but they are available. Don't be shy, we're here to help with the AWS foundational questions and the highly technical ones tied to your specific use case. So, bring your questions about AWS architecture, cost optimization, services and features, and anything else AWS-related.
AWS Solution Architects, Product Managers, and Evangelists will deliver technical presentations covering some of the highest-rated and best-attended sessions from recent AWS events. Topics include Introduction to AWS, Big Data, Compute & Networking, Architecture, Mobile & Gaming, Databases, Operations, Security, and more.
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Attorney General Chris Koster said today that his office has reached a settlement with Carsafe, LLC that will restructure the way Carsafe sells vehicle service contracts and provide $10,000 in restitution. Carsafe, which previously did business as Dealer Preferred Warranties, will also pay $12,500 to the state. The consent judgment against Carsafe prohibits deceptive sales techniques in the sale of ... Read More »
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Attorney General Lawrence Wasden today warned Idahoans that lottery and sweepstakes scams have taken on a new format that sounds safe, but isn't, and can lead to continued financial losses. "These e-mail and telephone scams have been around for years, but now they've taken on a dangerous new twist involving prepaid cash cards," Attorney General Wasden said. "Prepaid cash cards ... Read More »
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Attorney General Mike DeWine recently sent letters to the state's public children services agencies offering help in meeting a new federal mandate requiring youth at least 16 years old and within the foster system to have their credit checked. The mandate also requires the clearance of any errors found on their credit report. "Unfortunately, foster youth can be especially vulnerable ... Read More »
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Tampa Bay Regional Operations Center, with the assistance of the Internal Revenue Service and the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, today arrested Demetrius Lewis, 37, of Tampa, for one count of organized fraud, five counts of Florida communications fraud and three counts of criminal use of personal information. Pursuant to an ongoing criminal investigation, FDLE ... Read More »
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – May 25, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today reminded consumers about a "phishing" scam purported to be from Credit Union West, a Glendale-based financial institution, requesting personal information. Over the last several months, the Attorney General's Office has seen an increase in calls regarding this particular scam. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile customers have received text messages stating ... Read More »
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – July 16, 2010) Attorney General Terry Goddard today warned consumers about credit and debit card "skimming" which has become increasingly prevalent in Arizona in recent months. Skimming involves the use of an inconspicuous electronic device that thieves can install on gas pumps or bank ATMs. Essentially, these small devices record your credit or debit card number off ... Read More »
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Arrests of Four Individuals in Northern California Real Estate Scheme
September 21, 2012 Contact: (415) 703-5837 SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced the arrest Thursday of four suspects who have been charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and elder abuse for operating a Ponzi scheme that bilked dozens of investors of over $ 2.3 million. The arrest declaration alleges that Gold Country Lenders, a real estate company in Grass ... Read More »
Attorney General McGraw Warns of Telephone Scam Targeting Travelers
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw is warning travelers to be on guard due to a scam making an increased appearance in the hospitality industry. Travelers are experiencing convincing calls from scammers attempting to obtain credit card information. This scam is targeting guests staying in hotel rooms. Individuals receive a telephone call from the thief who claims to be an ... Read More »
Detroit-Area Doctor Charged for Role in Alleged $40 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
According to a criminal complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Dr. Hicham Elhorr, 45, masterminded a $ 40 million scheme involving the submission of fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare for services that were medically unnecessary and/or never provided through House Calls Physicians (HCP), a physician home visiting service he owned and operated. Read the full story at ... Read More »
Bullshit Platinum Credit Card Selling Leads to Millions Paid in Fines to FTC
The operators of a Philadelphia-based telemarketing scheme will pay more than $7.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they peddled bogus "platinum" credit cards and illegally debited consumers' bank accounts. Under a settlement with the FTC, Blake Rubin, Chase Rubin, and Justin Diaczuk — the individuals allegedly behind the Platinum Trust Card and Express Platinum Card scam — ... Read More »
Alabama Defendants Sentenced in a Multi- Million Dollar Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
Three defendants involved in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme were sentenced today in the Middle District of Alabama, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Chiquanta Davis received a prison term of 66 months, Terrence Davis was sentenced to 18 months in jail and Laurekshia Blakely received a six month prison sentence. All three were ... Read More »
California Mass Joinder Attorney Anthony Kassas Fails to Show Up for His Own Trial
From the State Bar of California. A Diamond Bar, California attorney accused of a massive loan modification scam that victimized more than 50 distressed homeowners is facing disbarment by default. Anthony J. Kassas, 35, [Bar # 227647] was the subject of the most extensive disciplinary charging document in recent State Bar history – 285 counts of misconduct involving 56 clients, ... Read More »
Watch Out and Warn Others About Twitter Identity Theft on Tvivvter.com
I just received the following Twitter message. When I clicked on the link it took me to a page for a site that spoofs the Twitter site and asks you for your credentials. Entering your Twitter information here (http://tvivvter.com/log%20in/bh/?&session_timed_out) will lead to it being given over to a spoofer. As you can see, if you are not careful, you might ... Read More »
Mortgage Modification Scammers Rounded Up by Law Enforcement
This announcement by the folks at the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program should make anyone that feels like they've been screwed by a mortgage modification company, get a half smile. Federal agents this morning arrested 10 defendants who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.,-based business that allegedly offered bogus loan modification programs to ... Read More »


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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The White House is offering condolences to
storm-battered Bangladesh, along with substantial aid.
Press Secretary Dana Perino says the U.S. is providing an
initial donation of more than 2 million dollars. Two Navy
amphibious assault ships, the Essex and the Kearsarge, are being sent in to help. And 35 tons of emergency supplies are being flown in, including plastic sheeting, jerri-cans
and hygiene kits.
Perino says an 18-member Pentagon medical team was in Bangladesh
prior to the cyclone last Thursday and will be staying to help with
the emergency.
A statement says the U.S. is committed to helping the people of
Bangladesh recover and says President and Mrs. Bush offer
condolences, especially to those ``who have lost loved ones, homes
and livelihoods.''
Tropical Cyclone Sidr killed more than 2,200 people and chased
more than a million from their homes in southwestern Bangladesh.


text: In the past decade there has been both an increase in understanding of the conservation value of East Africa's high mountains, and an increase in efforts to actually conserve them. The desire to act seems to be there, but the ability to act is still hampered by a lack of money, a lack of administrative enforcement, and a lack of political will, especially at middle levels of government. It is no exaggeration to say that future economic development in East Africa will depend in no small part on the degree to which these critical mountain ecosystems are protected and understood. Research in these ecosystems, especially the forests, is sorely lacking ( 35). One bright light has been the hydrological and soils research in Mount Kenya's forests carried out by the Laikipia Research Programme ( 31, 32). If such quality research were expanded to broader ecological questions and to other mountains, it would go a long way toward filling our embarrassing lack of knowledge about the some of the most important ecosystems in East Africa.


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Chaplains Join the 'Faith-Friendly' Workplace
Chaplains Join the 'Faith-Friendly' Workplace
Workplace analysts report that a growing number of American companies are hiring chaplains to minister to their employees, offering counseling services and helping with family crises. Joyce Russell of Iowa Public Radio reports on a pork-processing plant that uses workplace chaplains.
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