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new video i made just looking for some feedback!
new video i made just looking for some feedback!
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Considering the guy registered on this forum just to plug his new:(read 3 month old), shitty video? I think it's perfect feedback.
It would be totally different if a poster with say 100 posts or so wanted to show the community his or her attempt at making a video.
aggeroff thanks for taking the time to watch and tell me what you think. most of what i was doing was trying to match the tempo of the fight with the music with the speeding up, slowing down, and the one instance of reversing the video track i did(still a bit new to this). i was also aiming at matching the subs in the scenes i chose with the lyrics.
approx01 while i would have been happy to hear WHY you thought it sucked you appear to be to ignorant(see TOOL) to be able to do this. of course i made an account here their seems to be a fairly active community and seeing as iv never had a video to seek feed back about iv never needed to have an account for such. try to keep up.
Wow, where to start. First of all what's the point of the video? What message are you trying to tell the people watching the video? All I see are a bunch of random scenes stitched together. I'm assuming you like the song and wanted to just put some action to it. You need to pick your message before your song otherwise you'll be sending mixed messages ON TOP of your already garbled presentation.
1. Remove the subs. It's a faux pas unless you consciously want text to be there e.g.
2. For such a fast song you need way more scene switching and things going on.
3. It's been done thousand times before. It lacks originality and effort.
4. The lyrics and video scenes do not connect. If you want to say something or paint a message, you need to focus on the song structure and pick scenes thereafter, e.g. my AMV that also needs major polishing, especially scene switching but the point is mostly to show that I am capable of telling a story:
I want to add that despite that I think my AMV is kind of average (as I said, it still needs major polishing), I use some very powerful tools to create a connection between lyrics and video, which includes sync timing, lip syncing, flashes, scene changes, tempo shifts and scenes that represent the words spoken (eye, showing eye) to create a connection betwen lyrics and video and paint an overall message. Also notice how I show scenes relevant to the shifts in the song e.g. the sun of the sun (hah, it's not but a waterbubble but creativity can led you to such things) and drag out the scenery to reflect that we're now moving into the climax of the song etc. You need to study and work with these things far more than you do, not just speed up and down scenes a bit.
It took me days to finish my AMV, and that's the amount of time and effort you must put into it as well.
I want to add that when you sync it's not just that scenes must be sped up, but that events occuring in these scenes must sync with events in the music. It's perfect to put a scene transition on a very obvious beat for example. Study how studios create OPs in particular (Bleach is a good example actually) and how events in the OP match the events of the music. I think Velonica (OP 9) for Bleach is a good example but so is Change (OP 10).
The better you get the more complicated stuff you can add with layers, like having one scene match one beat and another a different one.
This is another one of my very much unfinished and apparently forever to be unfinished projects but you get the gist of what I've been doing and what I'm trying to do:
Some video editors work with one portion of the song at a time and finish that, others like me, work all over the place. How you work depends on you but make sure you have a clear idea of what you want to do.
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Now that's a reply from Leat right there, and I agree with everything he said. I just got to say Leat, I don't think anyone, EVER, could find a more fitting song than Papercut to match the events in the AMV. Fits perfectly with Ichigo's inner battle, nicely done!
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The agency has been critical of how companies have marketed toning shoes. In September, Reebok International Ltd. agreed to pay $25 million after FTC accused the company of making false advertising claims about its version of the shoes.
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Mae Royal was born November 10, 1913, in Denmark, South Carolina, daughter of Eugene LeNoir and Carrie Mae Meyers. She attended Providence Presby-terian Church, Mount Pleasant, SC. Death had a momentary victory as she passed from this world into the heavenly realms in the presence of the Eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Never again will Mae Royal know discouragement or sorrow or weakness. She is safe. She is home. All her hopes and expectations are present realities beyond all she could dream or imagine. "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him." For her, life is just beginning.
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I like to spend my Labor Day chowing down on fish sandwiches. After a summer of light grilled fish dinners, the cooler weather puts me in the mood for breaded fish, topped with cheese on a lightly toasted bun. Tarter sauce on the side, please. In a way, this slightly heavier sandwich symbolizes the beginning of the fall food season. As the days get shorter I am more apt to make cozier, warm meals that stick to my ribs. I like to serve this with a side salad and perhaps some late season corn. Or, sometimes it's great just as it is.
Tilapia Fish Sandwich
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12 oz. skinless tilapia fillets (6 oz. each)
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2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 c. bread crumbs
Olive Oil for the pan
2 soft sandwich buns
2 slices cheddar cheese
1. First, place the eggs, flour and breadcrumbs in separate shallow containers and line them up next to each other. Working with one fillet at a time, dredge the fillet in the flour, making sure each side is coated. Then, dip in the egg until the entire fillet is wet. Transfer to the breadcrumbs and lightly press the fillet into them on each side to make sure they are completely coated. Repeat with second fillet.
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Nigella Lawson, handsome, clever, rich, who seems to unite some of the best blessings of existence, is not the sort of woman we expect to get hit by her husband. Yet, here we are, gawking at photos that apparently show Charles Saatchi with his hands around our heroine's throat, and her chilling terror.
How fortunate for him that it took place in a posh restaurant, where everyone was too polite to intervene.
We don't believe middle-class men are violent to their partners, or that successful women suffer it. Surely, domestic violence is the grubby problem of the poorly educated? We suspect the typical victim is a meek mouse of a woman who somehow brought those cigarette burns on herself by being irritating.
"I've met a lot of women who've survived domestic violence," says Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid. "All different types of people, but I've never met a little mousey woman."
Anyone can be a victim. A quarter of women have suffered domestic violence, and being an extrovert, boasting a brilliant career is, outrageously, no immunity.
Class or status are irrelevant, but we persist in our naivety. It's a defence mechanism; we're desperate to find a cast-iron reason that distances us from the miserable fate suffered by someone unnervingly similar to our comfortable little selves. We cannot tolerate the thought we are not safe.
We cling to our rose-coloured view, wilfully disregarding the truth that our blindness makes us guilty of cowardly neglect. It is difficult to acknowledge the truth, because then we are obliged to take the inconvenient, awkward, possibly frightening step of doing something about it.
We supposedly "decent types" find cruelty hard to comprehend, so we search for a sensible cause to explain it away. Or at least to explain it. Is it a man's inadequacy, which he viciously takes out on someone physically weaker than himself, who in some way, perhaps by their mental and moral superiority, inspires their envy and resentment? Charles Saatchi doesn't quite fit this profile.
"Before I started this job," says Ms Neate, "I'd be more inclined to think domestic violence was perpetrated by sad, weak men. Now I think it can be all kinds of people, and the only common factor I can latch on to is the cultural backdrop. If you are inclined to be abusive, you don't have to look far in popular culture to find justification. We might not have as many mother-in-law jokes, but we've got a lot more naked and provocatively posed women up and down the street."
Years ago, on a train, I was physically intimidated by a couple of older men. One lunged at me, growling like an Alsatian. All the potential heroes in the carriage hid behind their newspapers or looked away. In those brief moments of fright, I realised how helpless I was, and that provocation isn't necessary.
Perhaps the sight of Nigella Lawson, frozen in fear, as her husband apparently chokes her, will end the curiously pervasive myth that domestic violence is just a teeny bit linked to the victim's behaviour.
Domestic violence is about exerting control, inspiring fear, and the insidious progression of that. As Ms Neate says: "The early warning signs of control are not necessarily physical, and can build up gradually – like controlling someone's mobile phone, or how often they see their family or go out."
We keep gnawing at the idea that the victim is somehow culpable. After all, Nigella has spoken of her mother's cruelty towards her as a child, and the idea that someone mentally abused by a parent has latent insecurities is hardly surprising.
Yet, we must take care, for again we teeter close to the suggestion that some women seek abuse. One glance at those photos of Nigella, with her lover's hands around her throat, and we can safely consign that theory to the dustbin of denial. No victim lets it happen – but perhaps we do.
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U posted a pic of dr. Char n pence. U related?
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I would be pleased if you would go to my Bio and visit my parents' memorials by clicking on their links.
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Thanks for the transfer, and all your great work.
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Do you have any idea why they do not have headstones? Have they just disappeared since the 1920's? Does the Block 2, Lot 114, Space 2 and Space 4 indicate that they are buried in single graves?
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Hi! I saw that you have family connections to the Crenshaw family. My GG grandfather was John Robert Crenshaw (1850-1933) Born in California and died in Jackson County, AR. I was wondering if you have ever run into that line of the Crenshaw family?
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Kelly--thank you for adding the obituary for James to his memorial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Thanks Kelly, but in regard to your request to hold all Mt. Hope suggestions because you said you were moving, I have held them until after July 5. The GOAL here, on Find A Grave is to enhance all memorials by including the Biographies and I have NOT sent you more than 20 additions in one week. If you wish to be contentious and not comply with the GOALS of Find A Grave then so-be-it. Otherwise my blessings are sent to you in hopes to encourage others to also participate in the GOOD of Find A Grave.
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Why are you not posting the BIO I gave you for these people? It takes me about 2 hours to transcribe each one from the History of Jasper county and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston. I would certeinly appreciate you adding the BIO to each memorial that I have posted and will post in the future. I live in Jasper county and know most of the people that are included in the Livingston history. My wife worked for the Coglizers al well as our son.
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There's been no word of a ceremony, but Whitney Houston's daughter posted a photo on Twitter and Instagram of what appears to be the couple showing off their wedding rings.
"@nickdgordon #HappilyMarried SO#Inlove if you didn't get it the first time that is," wrote Brown, 20.
The couple got engaged last summer, but their relationship has always been controversial. Brown's late mother raised Gordon like a son, but Brown says she never adopted him and that the singer, who died in 2012, would approve of their love.
"I'm tired of hearing people say, 'Eww your [sic] engaged to your brother' or if Whitney was still alive would we be together or would she approve of this?" Brown said last summer. "Let me clear up something, we aren't even real brother and sister, nor is he my adoptive brother. My mom never adopted him."
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To have everything in the world handed to you, despite neither deserving nor earning any of it and then throwing it away, all while ruining other's lives. Becoming a running joke and existing solely as a caution to others not to emulate you. To rise to mediocrity and pseudo-celebrity status, only to fall back into the depths of obscurity long before your fifteen minutes have expired. In short: to blow it.
Kevin Federlines ENTIRE LIFE is popozao. You have been warned.
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|Vick says he understands the public outrage that stems from his family owning a dog. (US Presswire)
Michael Vick owns a dog, and some of you are mad. Some of you are more than mad. Irate is a word that applies. Appalled works. Disgusted.
You love dogs, which is why you feel that way.
It's also why you should know better.
That dog is going to work its magic on Vick. That's what I believe. By the time that dog is done with him, Michael Vick will be more devastated than ever about what he did -- the life he lived, the person he was -- back when he was funding a dog-fighting ring. That's what I hope, but it's also what I believe.
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Dogs are special. You know that. A person that would knowingly raise dogs to fight, to tear each other apart just so the real animals -- the ones outside the cage -- can wager a few bucks? A person who would do that is a criminal, and Michael Vick was that. He went to prison for it, as you recall. He lost almost everything but his athletic ability. Very few mourned for him, because he got what he deserved.
But since then he has done everything right, and I mean everything. This isn't a story about his football career, so don't tell me that he hasn't done everything right -- the fumbles, the interceptions, etc. This is a story about something more precious than football. It's a story about a human being, and a dog, and redemption. And before we learned last week that he owned a dog, Michael Vick had done everything right.
He said the right things, which was easy enough to do. He spoke for the right causes, which was also easy enough. But this? Owning a dog?
Man, this is going to be hard.
That dog is going to weasel its way into his heart. Probably already has. Vick says he got the dog for his kids, because "it is important to make sure my children develop a healthy relationship with animals." But you know how dogs are. They don't care which member of the family "owns" them. They're going to jump on your lap or lick your face, whoever you are, because that's how they are.
And it's going to be hot coals on Michael Vick's soul.
I helped fight these beautiful animals? I hurt them? I killed them?
It's going to be emotional torture for Vick, but it will be more than that. It will be healing. That dog's going to make him a better person, and when someone as influential as Michael Vick is a better person, the effects ripple outward.
They started years ago, really. Vick has filmed public-service announcements for the Humane Society, turning his back completely on his dog-fighting past and the people in it. That's no small accomplishment for a man of Michael Vick's background, but he does it in spots like this one, which starts with Vick saying, "You know who I am. You know why I'm here."
Michael Vick, the most notorious dog-fighter of our lifetime, will do more to stop the spread of that evil than an army of Humane Society or SPCA volunteers. There is value in that, just as surely as there was horror in the life he used to lead. Is it a fair trade, all the dogs he helped kill in exchange for the ones he has since helped protect? I don't know. I only raise the point to say I don't want to go there, that it's too awful a mathematical equation to consider.
But as you can tell, I'm on board with this version of Michael Vick. That one, the one who went to prison? I despised that one. As I wrote in 2008, "Let God forgive Vick. Me, I'll hate the man forever."
Four years ago, if you'd told me that Michael Vick would own a dog in 2012, I'd have been sick. But that was a different Vick, and that was a different me. People change, you know?
Lots of you, people who felt as I did about Vick in 2008, you haven't changed. And listen, not only do you have that right -- but you're not alone. As recently as March, deluged by complaints about its relationship with Vick, the Humane Society put out this thoughtful Q-and-A to defend Vick, and itself.
Because in March 2012, people were still livid with Vick for the life he had lived years earlier. Hey, Vick gets it. When word leaked last week that he owned a dog, Vick addressed the outrage in a statement:
"I understand the strong emotions by some people about our family's decision to care for a pet," he said. "Our pet is well cared for and loved as a member of our family. This is an opportunity to break the cycle."
Break it, Michael Vick. Break it into so many pieces, your children's children will be mortified to learn that Grandpa Mike once ran a dog-fighting ring.
Meantime, the mortification will be yours. Every time that dog does its dog magic.


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Dr. John Moder, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
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Jeffrey R. Andrade
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Washington, D.C. 20006
On behalf of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), champions for the higher education success of the nation's youngest and largest ethnic population, I am pleased to respond to the Department's request for recommendations regarding the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
The reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) during the 108th Congress presents a powerful opportunity for the nation to address the higher education needs of Hispanics. HACU's HEA recommendations are structured to address the challenge of increasing the knowledge and skills of a population that currently suffers disproportionately low high school and college completion rates. The end product of the current HEA reauthorization process will be critical to the future ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) to provide a quality and affordable higher education for Hispanics and other population groups that attend HSIs.
Hispanics are poised to fuel the surge in college-age population growth across the United States. This is a population that makes up a significant percentage of our workforce and will dramatically increase its share of the future labor force, taxpayer and leadership ranks. Currently, Hispanics make up one of every three new workers entering the workforce; by 2025, however, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that one of every two new workers will be Hispanic. Clearly, the nation's economic strength and security will be at risk unless Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) can be given the necessary support to educate the increasing Hispanic segment of the population with leadership and professional skills. Furthermore, these skills are critical to fill the void of the nation's professional workforce as the current professional work force enters into the largest retirement period in history.
As the only nationally recognized voice for HSIs, HACU is advocating that comprehensive new amendments and increased funding levels be incorporated into a reauthorized HEA to best serve the needs of those colleges and universities serving the largest concentrations of Hispanic higher education students.
Originally the HEA did not address the needs of HSIs until 1992, and Congress did not appropriate any funding specifically targeted for HSIs until fiscal year 1995. In 1998, Congress expanded the scope of HSIs under Title V in recognition of their growing national importance. However, HSIs continue to receive only a fraction of federal funds on average per student compared to all other degree-granting institutions.
Capacity building of HSIs remains the cornerstone of HACU's strategy to:
- Expand access for Hispanics in higher education,
- Ensure accountability in the use of resources and educational outcomes,
- Promote educational excellence and success,
- Assist low-income families and students to meet the increasing cost of college attendance,
- Improve the delivery of student and institutional aid programs, and
- Promote pre-collegiate preparation among Hispanics, the fastest-growing and largest ethnic population in the nation.
Although generally viewed as a primary function of Title V of the HEA, HSI-capacity building is a holistic process aided by enhancements to various titles of the HEA.
HACU's policy priorities were developed in part from the suggestions and recommendations that emerged through various forums, which proactively engaged the leadership of HSIs. In preparation of the policy priorities, substantial research has been conducted to augment the information already collected and this research has also been included in HACU's HEA policy document.
We are thankful for the opportunity to share our HEA recommendations that address Hispanic higher education and pre-collegiate needs.
HSIs graduate more than half of all Hispanic teachers serving in K-12 education. These institutions represent a vital national resource for improving teacher education and for education outreach into minority communities. Under funding inhibits HSIs from effective recruitment, retention and graduation of sufficient Hispanic teachers to meet the needs of school districts at a time when the Hispanic school-age population is swelling. Professional diversity in K-12 education is essential to address the educational needs of the Hispanic population, who comprise approximately 25% of the student population but less than 5% of the K-12 teachers.
HACU recommends:
Language and authorized funding for HSIs under Title II to enhance and expand infrastructure and curriculum support, faculty development, collaboration and community outreach opportunities to HSIs for teacher education and teacher quality initiatives.
Over the past 20 years, the proportion of annual college-attendance costs, including all related expenses, at a public 4-year institution supported by Pell grants has declined from 80 to 42 percent. This trend is especially detrimental to low-income families, particularly to Hispanics, who make up one-fourth of all U.S. citizens living in poverty. Doubling the current authorization maximum (currently $5,100) by the year 2010 would restore the lost purchasing power of the Pell Grant to cover nearly 75 percent of the average public four-year college cost of attendance, based on moderate tuition increased projections.
HACU recommends:
Substantial increases in the percentage of direct federal grant monies, versus loans, to college students to restore the Pell Grant to a level closer to the original 80/20 formula.
Restructuring the Stafford Loan Program with a major focus on decreasing the maximum interest from the current level to below 4 percent and establishing a loan forgiveness for areas of national need and areas in which there exists an under representation of Hispanics, such as engineering, mathematics, nursing and science.
Creation of a state challenge-grant program to match new federal aid dollars.
TRIO & GEAR UP Programs
TRIO and GEAR-UP programs provide disadvantaged pre-collegiate and college students with academic, career and post secondary preparation. A sizeable number of HSIs do not have in operation any TRIO programs. A legacy provision within TRIO funding creates a funding advantage over new institutions seeking funding.
HACU recommends:
TRIO and GEAR-UP monies be increased to support new programs.
HSIs and other minority-serving institutions currently without TRIO programs be eligible to utilize the legacy provision in grant competitions.
College Assistant Migrant Program
Hispanics are disproportionately represented as migrant and seasonal farm workers with high K-12 dropout and the lowest college attendance rates. Only 42 colleges and university operate CAMP programs. Increasing federal support by 50% ($10 million to $50 million) during the next 5 years will permit a larger number of eligible migrant young men and women to attend college.
A significant number of undocumented Hispanic immigrants who have achieved academic success are unable to attend college for financial reasons. Residency status would permit academically eligible undocumented youth to enroll in college, obtain degrees and become productive and tax-paying members of American society.
HACU recommends:
Increased support for CAMP programs to allow more Hispanic migrant youth to achieve a high school and college education.
Legislation addressing financial aid eligibility for undocumented immigrants.
Title V of the Higher Education Act targets funding to HSIs to reduce severe under funding compared to other degree-granting institutions. These funds are primarily targeted for infrastructure enhancement, curriculum development and community outreach.
Current Title V funding legislation prevents HSIs holding grants from immediately competing for a second grant at the completion of the initial funding cycle. A two-year wait out period between Title V grants inhibits continued growth, development and successful outreach directed towards our targeted population.
U.S. Department of Education data demonstrates the number of HSIs will increase by at least 50 percent in the next three to five years as a result of rapid Hispanic population growth. Community colleges have also not been very successful in securing Title V grants. For Title V to effectively reach out to community colleges and to meet the needs of an increasing number of HSI institutions will require substantial funding increases during the 108th Congress and beyond.
HACU recommends:
Substantial increases to provide higher funding authorization levels to HSIs through Title V and the elimination of the two-year wait out period for HSIs between grant completion and new application cycles.
Streamlining the HSI definition and providing support for institutions that do not meet the current definition, but have large numbers of Hispanic students and are committed to partnering with HSIs for greater Hispanic higher education success.
Graduate education
Graduate education functions as the gateway to the professorate for the nation's postsecondary education system and the senior leadership in the public and private sectors of higher education and K-12 education. Few HSIs have the infrastructure or capacity to support and nurture graduate educational opportunities.
A federal HEA directive coupled with adequate resources would provide HSIs with the capacity and ability to enhance the expansion and quality of graduate programs for the growing number of Hispanics in college who wish to continue their advanced education at an HSI. Graduate programs in HSIs would contribute to the professional workforce needed for the continued role of the United States as the world leader in education, research, and economic development.
HACU recommends:
Support for creating and authorizing funds for a new part, graduate education, under Title V of the HEA.
Language forgiving the accumulated federal loan debt of graduates who choose to work (teaching, counseling, and other related areas) in HSIs.
Technology resources and institutional capacity undergird the ability of higher education institutions to provide a quality and future-focused education for undergraduate and graduate students. Many HSIs do not have the resources to equip their classrooms and laboratories with the most up-to-date technology to enhance their teaching, research, and learning capacity in scientific areas of greatest national need and strategic importance.
HACU recommends:
New legislative language and authorization levels for resources that HSIs need to expand their technology infrastructure, connectivity to the Internet, and applications for teaching and learning. This would include support for the development of science and technology parks at HSIs.
Because of the inherently multicultural makeup of their student enrollment, HSIs are at the forefront of numerous initiatives and programs promoting international education. Yet, they remain exceedingly under-funded compared to other degree-granting institutions, hampering efforts to best equip their students for the rapidly changing global economy.
HACU recommends:
New language and authorization levels for HSIs under Title VI to expand and enhance international education programs via infrastructure and curriculum support, faculty development, cross national collaboration, and outreach.
HSIs today provide education opportunity for over 50% of all Hispanics enrolled in post secondary education. These numbers are expected to increase significantly during the first decade of the 21st century, driven in larger part by Hispanic youth whose numbers are expanding at a faster rate than any other segment of the U.S. population. By the year 2015 college enrollment by Hispanics is expected to grow by 73% in comparison to 5% for Whites and 23% for African Americans.
As other immigrant groups have done in the past, the Hispanic community is beginning to reach out in greater numbers to access postsecondary education. HSIs, as well as other colleges and universities, must begin preparing for this new wave of high school graduates with a high motivation to achieve a college education but with limited resources to assist them toward this goal. HEA will continue to be the important linchpin in the federal effort to provide leadership and resources to the nation's higher education system. These HEA recommendations represent some of the most critical education issues that affect the potential for Hispanics to succeed in achieving a college education.
The members of HACU's Governing Board, the presidents of HSIs, and HACU's president and staff are all available to meet with you and the appropriate individuals within the U.S. Department of Education to elaborate in greater depth on any or all of these recommendations.
John Moder
Vice President/COO
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU)


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It happens all the time to Alec Baldwin. In a sleek Manhattan restaurant he is talking earnestly about politics, but all his female listener can do is stare. The sun-streaked hair, those intense blue eyes, that round, romantic jaw. "I've never had much of a problem meeting women," he says later, with a straight face. "They like me for my personality." Sure they do, Alec. And the Easter Bunny drives a Porsche.
Whether he is playing a sexy TV evangelist on Knots Landing or the straight-arrow hero in Dress Gray, a two-part miniseries that airs this week on NBC, Baldwin, 27, is simply the kind of man who drives women to distraction. Just ask Lisa Hartman, his Knots co-star. When newcomer Baldwin auditioned in 1984 for the role of Joshua Rush, her unholy preacher-husband, Lisa "was very taken with him." Driving away from the studio parking lot that day, "I couldn't resist staring back at Alec through my rearview mirror," she says. "While I was looking back, I smashed into the car in front of me."
Baldwin says, "I don't get acting jobs because of my looks." He may be right. In Dress Gray, based on the 1979 best-selling novel by Lucian K. Truscott IV, he portrays Ry Slaight, a military academy cadet who investigates the cover-up of a homosexual murder. The part required more than a searing set of baby blues. Recalls producer-director Glenn Jordan of the auditions: "I thought if I heard that scene one more time, I'd scream, but when Alec read it, it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. It's unusual for someone to be as good-looking and as talented as he is."
Throughout his life success has followed Baldwin like charms on a bracelet. He began filming Dress Gray a mere two weeks after plunging ignobly to his death last December on Knots Landing while trying to murder Hart-man. "I knew from the beginning I was going to die," says Baldwin, who was given a going-away party to show his death was nothing personal.
After Knots, where he enjoyed "sucking the lips off" Hartman, Dress Gray was an abrupt about-face. Filming with the virtually all-male cast was like junior boot camp. On location at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, Baldwin ate in the mess hall and practiced marching with real cadets. "Every time you turned around there was a cadet saying, 'Excuse me, sir, but you would never wear your tie like that, sir,' " he recalls.
Born in Massapequa, Long Island, Baldwin was the second of six children. His father taught government in high school. Three years ago Baldwin was shaken when his dad, Alec, died at age 55 of cancer. "He was a really hardworking guy, but there were a lot of things he didn't get to do with his life," says Baldwin. "That fuels me on to do what I want."
He once thought he wanted to attend law school and then enter politics. But in 1979, after three years of study in political science at George Washington University in D.C., he took a friend's suggestion and decided to try acting. Almost as a lark, he transferred to New York University to study politics—and acting. Before he could finish school, he was cast as a villain in the daytime soap The Doctors. After two and a half years, he left the show and moved to L.A., where he promptly won a starring role in TV's short-lived Cutter to Houston. That helped him land on Knots in 1984.
Baldwin, a liberal Democrat, still toys with the idea of running for office someday. His celebrity won't hurt. He recently manned the volunteer phones for California State Assemblyman Tom Hayden, hubby of Jane Fonda, but Baldwin's cover was soon blown. "The women there whispered, 'It's Joshua on Knots Landing,' " he remembers. Hayden, at first unaware of Baldwin's star status, wound up inviting the actor to his and Fonda's star-studded January dinner for South African Bishop Desmond Tutu.
In the near future Baldwin would prefer to find his constituents at the box office instead of at the polls. He has been offered the romantic lead in Forever Lulu, a comedy-thriller starring Deborah Harry and Hanna Schygulla. All he needs now is a permanent love interest of his own. He has been dating actress Holly (Days of Our Lives) Gagnier for a year, but right now their relationship is on hold. She works in L.A.; he's a Hollywood hater who has returned to New York. "I don't know what's going to happen with us," he says. He shares his new two-bedroom duplex on the Upper West Side with brother Stephen, 19, an aspiring actor on whom he keeps a fatherly eye. (Another brother, Billy, 22, recently signed to model Calvin Klein clothes.)
While Baldwin enjoys being a sex symbol ("Women come up to me at parties and tell me they like my butt"), he has a crush of his own. She is actress Julie Harris, 60, who played his mother on Knots. Harris has been a cultural mentor to Baldwin, giving him books and sending him to art museums. "What makes Alec so attractive is that he's always absorbed in whatever he's doing," says Harris. "He's not at all full of himself." Baldwin, in turn, rhapsodizes, "I'd like for Julie to be my roommate, I'd like to read the paper every morning with her and say, 'What do you think about this, Julie?' "
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When I first saw this gallery I was, like, no way, this just can't be happening. What you will see on the free short vids comprising it is a quiet corner of the city park with a bunch of guys seated all around some monument and… Jeez, the one that's standing in front of them is a real fairy tale babe. A young curvy blond with nice-sized boobs and round booty that are perfectly visible even before she starts flashing as she green gown she wearing is perfectly transparent – and she ain't got no underwear behind it! Think she can't go any more uncovered? Well, you are wrong – see it right now!


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New year full of all-new recipes
This wasn't part of the plan for 2013. The egg drop soup, hand-cut fries and lemon-butter-garlic tilapia just sort of ... happened.
I came from a world of freeze-it-then-heat-it. I wasn't even aware of the fact that I was making fresher, more quality dishes in my tiny closet-sized kitchen until I found myself adding a splash of lime to a corn-and-black-bean salsa.
I don't think I've ever owned lime juice before in my life.
It has all of the hallmarks of a perfectly intentional New Year's resolution -- except I didn't resolve to do anything. I think it has more to do with the tons of snow that hit us more than a week ago. What else is there to do in a whiteout except sit inside listening to the distant rumble of large plow trucks while watching "Kitchen Nightmares" and scrolling through recipe galleries on Allrecipes. com?
Suddenly the idea of cooking fresh and simple meals seemed enjoyable as well as possible. Imagine: Egg drop soup whenever I want and without the cost of delivery. Battered and baked cod without the grease. A near-perfect knockoff of Taco Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme.
And thanks to a world of recipes with no more than eight ingredients, I'm actually likely to do this kind of stuff.
Out of all the things that could happen after watching "Kitchen Nightmares" -- including the urge to swear more and fear of opening the refrigerator -- this isn't such a bad result. In fact, it's been an extremely yummy one.
Hopefully I don't jinx myself by noticing it.
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Dozens of employees at New Jersey City University had their identities stolen and federal tax returns filed in their names after a security breach allowed access to their personal information., school and employee union officials confirmed.
Nancy Gomez, branch president of CWA Local 1031, which represents about 250 staff members at the university, said she was "pissed off" when union members discovered the scam.
"We count on that money for vacation," said Gomez, a secretarial assistant at the university. "And for you to make plans and then find out that you have no money, it's kind of upsetting."
Prof. William Calathes, president of AFT Local 1839, which represents nearly 1,000 full- and part-time faculty at the university, said between 15 and 20 members of his union suspect they have been victims of identity theft through the school.
Members of the AFT Local 1839 brought up the issue at an April 21 union meeting. The union immediately called on the university to conduct a full investigation.
"I was shocked and hurt because our union members have suffered a loss," said Calathes, a criminal justice professor at the university. "And I felt relatively powerless in order to assist them."
Some union members of the AFT have reached out to the IRS and federal agencies, Calathes said.
Ellen Wayman-Gordon, a
spokeswoman for the university, confirmed that employees have brought the issue to the
university's attention. The university issued a notice on March 26
warning faculty and staff about the security breach.
Wayman-Gordon also said that "no direct connection to the university had been identified."
Federal authorities did not return calls for comment regarding the stolen tax returns and
refund checks.
In addition to reaching out to federal officials, the university is currently conducting its own "internal review" to investigate how more than three dozen employees' personal information could have been stolen, Wayman-Gordon said."The university is engaged in an internal review and has had contact with the IRS about the employee reports," Wayman-Gordon said.
"The IRS is looking into the reported incidents. In the event the university learns that there is a direct connection between the university and the fraudulent activity, the university will give that information full consideration and take action as required."
However, Gomez said the university's response to the security breach has been anemic and criticized officials for not taking swifter steps to warn faculty and staff.
"It upsets me when I don't know if (the university) knew about this and they took (too) long to report it to the community," Gomez said. "I don't know why they didn't respond right away."
Calathes hesitated to blame the university before any investigation into the matter is completed.
"There's no way of knowing if it was the university's fault or not," Calathes said. "But from the union's perspective, it was important ... to put the administration on notice that we expected the university to conduct a full investigation to get to the bottom of it and indicate what procedures they would put in place if they felt that new procedures had to be put into place to protect checks and identities."
For now, the unions and those whose identities were stolen are stuck waiting to learn from the university just how so many people's personal information was leaked.
"There is not a union remedy," Calathes said. "We are waiting for [university] administration to look into this. We [the union members] have no way of knowing what happened."


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Conference play is getting underway across the college basketball landscape, meaning that it's time for Naismith Award candidates to stop fattening their stats against East Nowhere State. With some players' numbers dipping and others' soaring—along with their teams' performances—there have been some important changes since our last look at the Naismith favorites.
One new face among this edition's front-runners started the year as one of the country's most-hyped players. UCLA freshman Shabazz Muhammad is starting to live up to his billing, as he showed by lighting up then-No. 7 Missouri in an upset win at Pauley Pavilion.
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Having a baby is hard work...doesn't she deserve a nutritious all-natural meal from Whole Foods Market? Whole Foods offers our moms a free dinner from their Midtown location (650 Ponce de Leon Avenue). Certificates are given to families after delivery.
Emory University Hospital Midtown proudly offers a variety of freshly-brewed Starbucks coffees and specialty drinks in addition to select pastries and desserts.
Oh Baby! Fitness offers our pregnant moms yoga and fitness classes in our Maternity Center. All instructors are specially certified to teach prenatal fitness courses, so exercise is fun and safe.


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No one's buying Surface RT tablets, so Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) fire sale is intensifying.
The software giant slashed prices of its poor-selling tablets running its scaled-back Windows RT operating system by as much as 30% on Sunday. The $499 model that packs 32 GB of memory (though just roughly half of that is available for use) is now $349, and the more functional 64-gigabye model is going from $599 to $449.
The price cut isn't a surprise. In fact, last month I predicted that a July price cut was in the works. The June promotion where Microsoft was offering a free keyboard cover had to be a prelude to a bigger price cut.
Microsoft made a brutal mistake in trying to match Apple's iconic iPad on price when it introduced the Surface RT late last year. Despite a snazzy marketing campaign and the novelty of magnetically clickable keyboard covers, why would anyone take a gamble on the unproven Windows RT ecosystem when Apple's iOS has broad developer support and a market-defining tablet that just flat out works?
When industry tracker IDC reported that just 200,000 of the nearly 50 million tablets shipped during the first three months of the year were Windows RT devices, the game was over. You don't bounce back from gnawing on just 0.4% of any market.
Microsoft has moved to actively promote education market discounts. It's practically given them away to developers and offered healthy bounties for popular app makers to support Windows RT. However, it was never going to convince consumers that the Surface RT was as valuable as an iPad, and things only got worse when the even more expensive Surface Pro systems that run the real Windows 8 were introduced a few months later.
Things could've been so different if Microsoft had priced the Surface RT aggressively from the start. Maybe it would've taken off this holiday season, setting itself apart as a thrifty iPad alternative. However, Microsoft stuck to a high price, likely in an effort to not scare away any hardware makers from supporting Windows RT.
In the end, Microsoft was treated to the same result. Nobody wants to make what nobody wants to buy. It remains to be seen if this is a legitimate price cut or its Microsoft is trying to clear out cobweb-collecting inventory ahead of a rumored new Surface RT model. Either way, it's selling cheaper tumbleweed in this tablet platform ghost town.
Microsoft just better hope that it doesn't get the pricing wrong this time around, too.
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A 38-year-old Niagara Street man has been charged with forcibly raping a woman in his apartment on Feb. 12, Buffalo police announced Tuesday.
Shawn Harrington was charged with first-degree rape, third-degree sexual abuse and third-degree rape following an investigation by Detectives Deborah Buyers and Nichole Jones. A woman complained that Harrington forcibly raped her sometime before 4:30 a.m., Feb. 12. She said he pinned her down with his body and struck her face several times.


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|by Ben Brockhaus-Hall, Cobalt SEO Specialist
More and more businesses are incorporating SEO into their marketing budgets every day and car dealerships are a big part of this emerging trend. In this new world where people Google everything before they buy, it is more important than ever to adapt with new strategies that set your dealership apart from the competition.
The million dollar question is: how do you do this?
There are only so many mentions of your brand and hometown you can put on your website. There are only so many backlinks you can get to your site. Let's face it, Google and Bing have gotten smarter and continue to do so.
To everyone's surprise, Google overhauled their entire algorithm for ranking websites this past September with Hummingbird. The gist of Hummingbird is that it is focused on semantic search. In other words, the goal is to provide users with high quality content specific to the intent of their search.
How to Keep Your Dealership Ahead of the Competition
As we adapt to the changes, one of the best ways to address this algorithm change is by adding structured data to your website. In March, I wrote about the Knowledge Graph and how to beef that up for your brand. But when it comes to structured data, the Knowledge Graph is just the tip of the iceberg.
So what exactly is structured data? Structured data is a way of marking up a website to tell search engines such as Google and Bing more accurately what your website is about and what to list you for in search results.
For example, if you are a coffee shop selling coffee directly to customers, it is unlikely that you are going to rank for just "coffee." Typing in coffee would pull up results on what coffee is as a commodity.
Search engines want to know if you are a coffee shop, a coffee review site, a coffee roaster, or a wiki site about coffee so they can please customers by showing them exactly what they are looking for. Structured data is a way to tell Google exactly what your website is all about and what you offer to your customers.
By implementing structured data on your website, you can greatly improve how your business shows up in search engine results pages (SERPs). In short, it is a huge part of the present and will be an even bigger part of the future of Internet search. The most important form of structured data that is widely recognized by the top search engines is Schema.org markup data. Essentially, Schemais a series of markup tags that can be incorporated into your website's code to improve Google's ability to extract what the content of your page or website is about.
Why should you care about Schema? For starters, it will allow Google to create "rich snippets" under your search results, which are designed to give users a better idea of what is on the page. Examples of rich snippets include review stars, videos, images, and more.
Schema can potentially help you rank for important keywords. According to a recent study bySearchmetrics, less than one percent of websites have implemented Schema markup on their website, yet pages that are marked up rank on average four positions higher than pages without Schema markup.
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In the past, all you would see was the title and description. Now, all of these important details are the result of marking up the webpage with Schema and structured data.
While not as many rich snippets are yet showing up for automobile dealers, it's likely they will in the future. But as it stands now, you can see in the example below that review stars and a video capture are showing up in the SERPs.
All of this means that the responsibilities of your Search Engine Specialist have changed. The goal has become not just to rank "1st" for important keywords, but now it is to dominate the SERPs by taking up as much space and showing as much information about your site as possible. Searchers are a lot more likely to click-through a search listing with rich snippets than a basic search listing, despite how far down or up the SERP it is.
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|Ben Brockhaus-Hall is a Search Engine Optimization Specialist with Cobalt. In the past, he has worked as a marketing copywriter and journalist. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling the world, cooking, gardening, discovering new music, playing basketball and paying entirely too much attention to sports in general. His first car was a 2001 Toyota Corolla. Currently, his Honda is on its last legs and he's looking at all options for his next car. Electric perhaps?
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Hey Tim, thanks for the comment. I completely agree, it can be difficult to markup your site. As suggested in the article, it's always best to consult an SEO specialist if a dealer is interested in marking up their site.
You can fool robots. LOL! Let's face it Manny, there is a HUGE portion of SEO that is gray hat.
Agreed, the more you can tell Google about your products, the better off you are and that's nothing to do with spam.
Alexander Lau Your're one of the best!
Gotta jet back to work.
Have a great close out!
You and I know Google is not going to tell us how to dominate the search engines organically:)
It's important to keep up with them and like them, but we never jump on their bandwagon.
Heck, if they had their way, you wouldn't be able to add keywords to your sites:)
Nothing will ever replace real quality human content and real humans sharing it.
I'll not argue with that method, Manny Luna! :-) Frequency and consistency, really do matter.
Bingo Alexander Lau "publishing content according to a smart strategy"
I was talking in terms of automated software some website providers are going around pitching to dealers. All they're doing is spamming the search engines and hurting the themselves.
"Slow and steady really does win the race"
Semantic Markup
If you currently support Schema.org or Open Graph metatags, or if you can't set up an oEmbed endpoint but can easily modify your product page templates to include price and availability metatags.
If your 3rd party inventory feed source is smart enough to apply dynamic data to the markup, you're much better off, and actually it might take care of the latency factor, in terms of pages that sit live, but should be taken off site. Just a thought...
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Rachael Ray is starting her week a bit quieter than usual, after a particularly fun-filled weekend at Austin's South By Southwest music gathering, SXSW.
Ray was at the music bar Maggie Mae's, where she cooked self-proclaimed "delicious" Mexican food, including ancho chicken soft tacos and smoky chipotle and black bean chilaquiles. The party, called Rose's Mojito and Rachael Ray's Feedback: The B-Side, got people jumping with great food and music to match.
So, why all quiet on the southwestern front?
Ray, 40, had hung out near the stage for the performance of her husband John Cusimano's band, the Cringe, and was really excited when another of her favorites, the New York Dolls, showed up to perform. As Ray told PEOPLE, "I can't talk. I was cheering on the band – all the talking today, it's got me completely hoarse!"
Still, Ray was able to whisper, "I'm having a blast! We totally love SXSW and all of the music." Cusimano concurred, saying, "We always have a good time here and have really enjoyed all of the people and the bands in Austin."
Though Ray has faced a voice problem in the past, don't expect her to remain silent for long. The 500th episode of the Rachael Ray Show will air April 1. Among the special guests, PEOPLE has learned, will be Matthew McConaughey.
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Rachael Ray Loses Voice – Jamming at Music Fest
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|Point of the Week
Stomach 36 good for increasing physical and mental stamina
Welcome to a special edition of Point of the Week, where we show you what acupuncture needles really look like when inserted into various trigger points along the body's energy pathways. Actually it is very hard to see the hair-thin stainless steel acupuncture needles themselves, but you can pretty easily see the handle which in this case is red. This point, known to acupuncturists as Stomach 36, is located three inches below the kneecap and one inch lateral (meaning toward the outer edge of the leg). It is excellent for increasing physical and mental stamina, especially if you have felt depleted for a long time. Interestingly, ST 36 can also be used to give your immune system a boost in case you're noticing difficulty fighting off pathogens. Pressing this point increases circulation within the energy pathways and can also be used preventively upon awakening each morning to avoid developing the symptoms.
Note: Remember these vignettes are not medical advice.
Step one: Locate the point Stomach 36 on your lower leg. The correct point will likely feel a little tender when using a firm touch.
Step two: Using your thumb or index finger, press and hold the pressure for 10 seconds. Repeat several times per hour, or until symptoms lessen.
Gigi Shames, LAc, Dipl.OM, is a licensed acupuncturist in Cotati.
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This is a post about our first trip to New York City together, mostly aimless wanderings and very tired feet. We took the bus for free, thanks to a megabus promotion, and we walked around all day with no real goals in mind. "Hey, that's on 30 Rock!" says Jory. Taken near the Rockefeller Center. Actually maybe it is the Rockefeller Center? Like I said, aimless wandering! Now, prepare for some blurry pictures, didn't want to have my hands out of my pockets for too long...
Hi Jory!
Behind me is the skating rink. While we were in this area we managed to visit the Nintendo World Store and the Lego World Store, haha. Mostly these visits were to keep warm, because it was freezing on this particular day in late January.
Dumb faces. I didn't take any pictures of the lunch we had, but it was AMAZING. We went to Katsuhama, a Japanese tonkatsu restaurant we got there early enough to beat the lunch crowd, because as soon as we sat down people started waiting in line to get in to this little place. I had chicken katsu and it was really good, Jory had whatever the special was! It was a whole meal with tonkatsu (pork) and soup and lots of little sides.
Dumber faces. This trip was kind if funny because we did a lot of Japanese things--we had Japanese food for lunch and dinner (Katsu, then Ramen), and we visited MUJI and Kunokuniya Bookstore. Those were the things I did plan, of course. Philadelphia is pretty devoid of (non sushi) Japanese things, so I got my fix in New York. Of course I didn't take pictures of any of these things.
We went to the New York Public Library, which was really quite amazing. They had this awesome exhibit at the time called Radioactive, which was artwork by students from Parsons and their teacher, Lauren Redniss about the lives of Pierre and Marie Curie, a subject matter I enjoy.
Some images of the exhibit.
My blurry face.
I loved that the included ephemera from the library in the exhibit.
Pneumatic tubes! The NYPL is so amazing!
This is my favourite part of old buildings.
Starting to get dark. We got there in the morning and our bus left at like 9 or 10 that night, it was so long to walk around for! We planned on relaxing in coffee shops and things, but every single one we passed was FULL. It was so annoying! And we couldn't sit outside because it was freezing. We eventually found that the two level Starbucks near the Empire State building had a few empty seats, just a few, so we did some reading there with our drinks while we waited for the bus.
Such a pretty city. Jory found New York similar to Toronto, and I agree they definitely have similar levels of liveliness. (made me proud of Toronto)
Very blurry, but the sight of Pentagram got me excited.
Our evening in Koreatown! We planned on getting some Korean Grill (which is huge in Toronto) but they did it differently at these places. It wasn't all you can eat, various iingredients, it was just priced by the plate. And we didn't really want a whole plate of one kind of meat for 30 dollars. That's no fun. We had ramen instead, at a non-ramen restaurant. It hit the spot, but next time I will look for something special.
We almost had dumplings, and I think we should have, this is definitely something I want to get next time. There was a place on this street that ONLY sold dumplings, and made them in the window!
At the Japanese restaurant, the food was okay, the place was cute, I tried to take a picture of us with also the tree right next to our table. We would have stayed here longer, but there was no alcohol yet or dessert, we didn't want to loiter...
It was a nice day, and I'm always excited to go back. I went one day recently for a meeting and later walked around SOHO by myself and then took the train home, it was really nice. (That day I ate lunch at Na Thai, and it was delicious)!
PS. I just put this post in a new category, travel, and I hope to fill it!
Thanks for sharing! Hoping to visit NYC soonish, so we should meet up!
Umm, of course! We can find a super restaurant to go to : )
Great post - it feels like I'm back there again :) Glad you had fun. Kx
ah i love ny koreatown ^_^ i always go to the same place, seoul garden. i love their soon tubu (spicy soft tofu soup) and my boyfriend loves that they offer a combo that includes kalbi. yum!


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The Five Monkeys
The Five Monkeys
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water. After awhile, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, if another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Again, replace a third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing the fourth and fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys that have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs.
Why not? Because that is the way it has always been.
Anybody have a reference for a study that shows this behaviour ?
The meme is rampant, according to Google. I didn't bother hunting through all the instances for a reference to a real experiment.
See also the short story "Chromium" in
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The Hidden Benefits of Having a Beak
When you utter the phrase "theropod dinosaur" most people's response would be "Tyrannosaurus rex" or "meat-eaters" or even perhaps slightly less succinctly "the ones with the big sharp pointy teeth". But not all theropods reinforced this stereotypical picture of the group, indeed several groups of theropods didn't even eat meat, but were herbivorous, consuming plants for sustenance instead of other animals! Even more peculiar, some of these plant eating theropods have partially or completely lost their teeth (known as edentulism) and also possessed beaks, a feature that we would traditionally associate with modern birds.
One such group of theropods is the therizinosaurs, a strange and enigmatic clade that lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous period. The morphology of these unusual animals has continued to perplex palaeontologists ever since the first therizinosaur was described in 1954 as a turtle-like lizard! Some researchers have previously interpreted them to be piscivorous (fish-eating), or insectivorous (insect-eating) but they are now generally regarded to be having been plant eaters. Traditional explanations for the evolution of the beaks have been as a response to weight-saving demands for the evolution of flight. But therizinosaurs were far too large to fly, so could there perhaps be another explanation for the presence of a beak in these animals?
A study published this week in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) has explored just this question. The team, led by University of Bristol PhD student Stephan Lautenschlager, created a highly detailed biomechanical model of Erlikosaurus andrewsi, a therizinosaurid from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia and tested how the model would react when placed under various stresses and strains using an analytical technique known as finite element analysis (FEA). The study found that the beak actually had a function that had not been appreciated until now, namely, playing an important role in enhancing cranial stability by mitigating stress and strain during feeding. As Lautenschlager explains, "It has classically been assumed that beaks evolved to replace teeth and thus save weight, as a requirement for the evolution of flight. Our results, however, indicate that keratin beaks were in fact beneficial to enhance the stability of the skull during biting and feeding."
The study compared models of the E. andrewsi skull with and without the beak present and also simulated six different biting positions along the jaw and several different combinations of muscle interactions between the skull and the neck muscles. Co-author Dr Emily Rayfield, also from University of Bristol said "we were able to deduce very accurately how bite and muscle forces affected the skull of Erlikosaurus during the feeding process. This further allowed us to identify the importance of soft-tissue structures, such as the keratinous beak, which are normally not preserved in fossils."
Edentulism and beaks have also evolved in other several other tetrapod lineages (e.g. ceratopsians, turtles) and, like feathers, it appears that birds have exapted them rather than them evolving as response to gaining the ability to fly. Co-author Lawrence Witmer, from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine also said "Beaks evolved several times during the transitions from dinosaurs to modern birds, usually accompanied by the partial or complete loss of teeth and our study now shows that keratin-covered beaks represent a functional innovation during dinosaur evolution."
So there you have it, plant eating theropods with beaks. Go home evolution, you're drunk. Only joking, you're awesome. Keep up the good work.
Also, the paper is open access, so you can get a copy of the PDF by clicking on the link below.
Lautenschlager S, Witmer LM, Altangerel P, Rayfield EJ (2013) Edentulism, beaks and biomechanical innovations in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs. PNAS: 1310711110v1-201310711.


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Charter schools could be the next frontier for Michigan teacher's unions determined to keep organizing in the wake of recent right-to-work legislation signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Teachers and staff seeking to unionize several Detroit charters rallied in the pouring rain Thursday at a school on the city's southwest side to make their case for collective bargaining. The wet, umbrella-toting crowd, which totaled about 250 people, was a mix of parents, community supporters and school employees.
They gathered to publicize a request for a union election filed that day with the National Labor Relations Board. The campaign involves four campuses of the Cesar Chavez Academy, a charter which has been operating in Detroit for around 15 years. The academy's schools, named after the famous Latino labor leader, are run by the Leona Group, a charter operator that runs more than 60 schools in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
If the union drive succeeds employees would be represented by the Michigan Alliance of Charter Teachers & Staff, a group affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the AFL-CIO. Currently only one charter school in the state is organized under the AFT. It's the second attempt to formally unionize Cesar Chavez Academy in recent years. A 2006 effort to hold a union election through the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) fell flat — with MERC finding that the charter school workers didn't qualify as public employees and dismissing the petition.
Organizers with the current campaign say a clear majority of the academy's staff have signed on in favor of a union. Their employer, however, isn't quite as enthusiastic. A recent request for immediate union recognition was declined by the charter operator.
Leona Group spokesman Mike Atkins told the Huffington Post they had received the letter and explained their reasons for rejecting the offer.
"We think that the system, the process that's set up by the National Labor Relations Board for secret ballot elections giving every employee the opportunity to cast the ballot without anybody standing over their shoulder or pushing them in any particular direction is an important right," he said. "We thought it's gone really well for them, but if they think there are some issues that need collective bargaining that's perfectly all right to do so — and the election will indicate that."
Atkins expects a union election to held within 45 days of the NLRB request.
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The Halifax Chronicle-Herald's Willy Palov spoke to Pittsburgh Penguins captai Sidney Crosby's father, Troy, about his Game 7 jitters:
June 12, Halifax Chronicle-Herald: "No matter what happens, it's going to be a pretty emotional day," said Troy, who expected to be joined by his wife Trina and daughter Taylor in Detroit on Thursday evening. "It's been a tight series except for that one game in Detroit -- Game 5. But I think the team is pretty confident and they believe in themselves. They don't seem to get too high or too low. They just stick to their game and I think they're pretty confident in what they can do. They just seem really focused on what they have to do."
The Penguins forced a seventh game with a 2-1 win in Pittsburgh on Tuesday and now have a chance to erase the memory of last year's six-game loss to the Red Wings in the final.
It's a series that has captivated the attention of thousands of hockey fans in Nova Scotia, but for the father of the Cole Harbour superstar the outcome tonight clearly carries exponentially more significance. But as much as Troy readily admits he is feeling the stress of the moment, he reports that Sidney is remarkably calm given the circumstances.
"He doesn't really change that much. He knows what he has to do and what the team has to do," Troy said. "You can't get too wound up about it in a situation like that because then you get too nervous about it. I'm sure everyone's going to be a little nervous; they're going to be excited, even in Detroit. You can say all you want about experience but you're human and you're going to have some nerves. Everybody on both sides is going to have some nerves (today), I think."
The elder Crosby readily admits that he wants to see his son lift the Stanley Cup tonight:
"I've been dreaming about it for a long time," he said. "To get this close, it's kind of surreal, really. Hopefully in another 36 hours or so it will be a reality, I hope. We'll see what happens. We'll get all the good luck charms pulled out and hope for the best."
The CBC posted a very different take from Darren Helm's hometown of St. Andrews, Manitoba:
June 12, CBC: People in St. Andrews, north of Winnipeg, are preparing to cheer on local NHL hero Darren Helm and his Detroit Red Wings on Friday night in the Stanley Cup's decisive Game 7.
Hundreds are expected to gather at the local hockey arena to watch on big screens the winner-take-all championship game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"The pride is unreal. I mean there's signs up at Harry's Foods; there's signs up at the community club and the school; there's signs up, so everyone is just going hog wild on this," said Darren Zembik, the ice maker at the local arena. "They're quite ecstatic and excited about Darren Helm in the Stanley Cup finals. I mean, let's face it. It's Game 7. It's every kid's dream."
Helm, 22, has helped the Red Wings reach the Stanley Cup finals each of the past two years. Last season, Detroit won the NHL championship in six games against the Penguins.
This post-season, Helm has scored four goals, including the series winner against the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference final. Zembik hopes the party on Friday is only a prequel to another in a month or so. If the Red Wings win, Helm is expected to bring the Stanley Cup back to the community for another visit.
"Obviously, I'm going to have to talk to Darren, but I know for sure he'll want to have a big party and things are in the works right now," he said. "So let's keep our fingers crossed."


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The first Allison powered P-51's were good airplanes but lacked the high
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Highly detailed 1/48th scale plastic kit for static display.
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Accurately captures features of P-51B: wings, gear doors, canopy.
Multi-part canopy may be posed open or closed - Malcolm Hood
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2: 358th FS 355th FG Lt William Hovde "Ole II".
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