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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Painting with a broad basketball brush, it's pretty much accepted that talent usually trumps all of the other stuff. Teamwork . . . spirit . . . desire. They matter to some degree, certainly. But talent generally rules.
The movie, "Hoosiers," speaks otherwise, sure. And the Butler Bulldogs do come to mind, as well. But those are exceptions, and there are exceptions to all rules.
Fact is, we know all about talent in this town. Put Carmelo Anthony on the 2002-'03 Syracuse University roster and you have a national championship team; take him off and you might have a club bound for the NIT.
The point? There are still folks among us -- and I'm sort of leaning that way, myself -- who are begrudging the Miami Heat its talent lode of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
Now, we should worry (I think) about the top-to-bottom fate of the NBA if the current system that allows star players to collect in chosen locales remains intact. We should care (I think) about the future of such outfits as, oh, the Milwaukee Bucks, Sacramento Kings, Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers . . . and so on and so forth.
Because given the choice (and the money that comes with that choice), it's only natural that wealthy young men -- yearning to maximize their opportunities both on and off the court -- would be more inclined to gaze upon towns other than, say, Portland . . . lovely as Portland truly is.
Which brings us back to the Heat, which continues to be hammered in the court of public opinion because it was cobbled together, basically, by the cobblees.
Indeed, James, Wade and Bosh built this Miami mini-colossus that has taken a 1-0 lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the best-of-seven NBA Finals. And they are still hearing the hisses. And it's kind of weird.
When Red Auerbach worked his magic for the Boston Celtics by drafting Larry Bird (then only an Indiana State junior) a year early, by stealing Robert Parish from Golden State and by choosing Kevin McHale in another draft, he was considered a kind of wizard.
When the Lakers suited up the Chamberlain/West/Baylor and Abdul-Jabbar/Johnson/Worthy trios, Los Angeles management was hailed as being fairly savvy.
And yet, the James/Wade/Bosh group -- collected not by guys in neckties, but by guys in sneakers . . . that is, by James, Wade and Bosh -- has been savaged since last summer.
Me? I do believe the basketball world would be better served if the Mavericks could somehow knock off the Heat and win the NBA title (although that is no way to bet, especially now that Dirk Nowitzki has a torn tendon on a finger in his left hand). I, like so many others, do bemoan this idea that if you're good enough in that league, you can become your own general manager. I am part of that antsy fan base that thinks the inmates are running the asylum.
But . . . hmmm.
Working within the rules (even if it was with a twisted spirit, even if it was generally graceless, even if it was obnoxious), James, Wade and Bosh conspired, and successfully, to accomplish the goal of every organization: They acquired big-time talent, and that big-time talent is putting them on the verge of a championship.
So many of us swallow hard. And the wonder is . . . why?
(Bud Poliquin's on-line commentaries, columns and "To The Point" observations appear virtually every day on syracuse.com. His work can also be regularly found on the pages of The Post-Standard newspaper. Additionally, he can be heard Mondays through Fridays (10 a.m.-12 noon), on the "Bud & the Manchild" sports-talk radio show on The Score 1260-AM. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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Wild's Kuemper Didn't Travel To Chicago, Bryzgalov To Start
Minnesota?s goaltending saga continued on Friday, as head coach Mike Yeo said that Darcy Kuemper ? who started the Wild?s Game 7 win over Colorado ? didn?t travel with the team to Chicago due to an upper-body injury, and that Josh Harding, who took today?s morning skate, is an ?extreme long-shot? to play in this series.
That means ? barring a brazen decision to put 30-year-old journeyman John Curry in goal ? Ilya Bryzgalov is your Game 1 starter tonight at the United Center.
The Kuemper development isn?t a huge surprise. He was hooked from Wednesday?s 5-4 OT win against the Avs with less than nine minutes remaining in regulation, after appearing to have re-aggravated his concussion issues (maybe not the right terminology there, but I digress) on a collision with Matt Duchene.
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Poll: More Americans plan to work while on vacation
Workers say they want to keep bosses happy
A new survey shows that more Americans are planning to work while on summer vacation.
The Harris Interactive survey found that 61 percent of Americans said they planned to work during summer vacation, compared to 52 percent last year.
Experts said economic pressures are forcing workers to stay more connected while on vacation. Economists said workers want to keep their bosses happy, so they're making themselves available by phone, email or conferencing software.
The survey also showed that 34 percent plan to work on vacation, but they're not happy about it. About 22 percent said they wouldn't work during vacation, while 2 percent said they would quit if they had to work on vacation.
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The Kentucky Wildcats will play a handful of games in the Bahamas next week, but Big Blue Nation may have a hard time recognizing its team. Thanks to Nike, the team will have a completely new look for its Big Blue Bahamas exhibition tour.
Kentucky usually goes with a pretty traditional look. However, the new uniforms have a modern look to them.


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I wonder what is the long term plan of Muskegon County. How are we going to pay for the long term sustainability for all the programs? Will we have to raise taxes, increase fees or both?
What about the new programs, more buses and the 'new' jail? What about the medical programs, cleaning up blight, maintaining our buildings, the parks and infrastructure our forefathers left us?
For all those problems I believe Mark Molitor would be an asset to the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners. Molitor has already been talking about our lack of a long term plan and wants to start working on it from day one -- something this county has not done in a long time.
I have been saying we need to have sustainability and we can no longer do projects because they are 'feel good' projects. Molitor will make sure that District 2 will be well represented on the county board.
Please make Mark Molitor your choice for Muskegon County District 2.
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The mission of Renaissance Beverage Importers, LLC is to provide a service (s) to wine, spirit and other beverage manufacturers, where they can successfully introduce and grow their brand throughout the U.S., Caribbean and Duty Free markets.


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The 2012 season has not shaped up the way Ivan Nova or the New York Yankees had hoped. While it is still early in June, there is time for the young pitcher to turn things around.
2011 was the first full season for the 25-year old hurler, and after going 16 -4 with a 3.70 ERA, expectations for Nova were set very high.
To date, the results have been disappointing.
Entering Wednesday's start against the Tampa Bay Rays, Nova holds a 5.60 ERA and a 1.58 WHIP. Those are hardly the kind of statistics the club was looking for from the pitcher who finished fourth in Rookie of the Year voting last season.
What are the keys to turning his campaign around?
This article will examine 10 factors to Ivan Nova regaining his winning form.


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Center for Continuing Education
Edison State College, Ft. Myers, Florida
Glass Fusing Studio Workshop
This Semester we will offer three 5 weekly sessions of glass fusing classes at the Edison State College in Ft. Myers.
1. January 18/2013 to February 15/2013
2. February 22/2013 to March 22/2013
2. February 22/2013 to March 22/2013
3. March 29th – May 3, 2013 (no class on April 5th)
Class will meet from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm in Building L - Room 120 on the main Campus. The Price for the 5 week courses is $145 - and if you sign up for the full semester of 15 week course it is $390.
New students will be required to purchase a beginners kit $90 on the first day of class. This is the link to the sign up form. http://www.edison.edu/lee/ce/ce_reg_form.doc
Glass Fusing also called kiln‐formed glass offers an outlet for creativity; for those who are artistically blessed as well as those who are artistically challenged. You will be able to create anything from functional to expressive from Jewelry to Sculpture, from Table Ware you are only limited by your imagination.
This is a studio style class that allows for beginners to experienced students. The procedures and
techniques that will be taught in this class will include compatibility & testing, basic fusing techniques,annealing, and slumping. The class will be a hands‐on experience using these methods to create original pieces. Mold making, pattern bars, combing and casting will be some of the techniques explored. The advanced kiln forming techniques take fusing to another level.
Instructor: Petra Kaiser is a full time glass artist/instructor and author for over
15 years. Locally she is known for her classes at Big Arts on Sanibel and her 'Fuse It
Studio' classes. Internationally she is known for her books "Introduction to Glass
Fusing", "Fuse It" and now the latest one, "Glass Forming with the Mold Block
System" as well as teaching workshops at conferences and studios worldwide. Her
formal education as an instructor in Germany has proven to be very helpful in
structuring and teaching the glass fusing classes. Petra is fascinated by the endless
possibilities kiln formed glass is offering and she keeps inventing even more.
This is the link to the sign up form. http://www.edison.edu/lee/ce/ce_reg_form.doc


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To some analysts, Rick Santorum's campaign for president seems to have entered the zombie phase: not dead, but not fully alive either.
After sweeping Tuesday's Wisconsin, Maryland, and District of Columbia primaries, Mitt Romney has tightened his grip on the Republican nomination, and a rising chorus of GOP leaders is suggesting that Santorum quit in order to avoid further damage to the party's chances this fall.
Yet Santorum declared he was staying in the race, at least through the April 24 Pennsylvania primary, determined to litigate his case against Romney as a false conservative who offers a poor contrast to President Obama.


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An atheist group is suing to keep a steel cross found in the wreckage of New York City's ground zero from going on display.
The 17-foot-tall beam is set to be displayed in a new ground zero museum. The group American Atheists said displaying the beam would be unconstitutional.
Lawyers from the American Center for Law and Justice criticized the attack on the cross as "absurd."
"The atheists say they are suffering both physical and emotional damages from the existence of the cross. That's right. The mere existence of this memorial has brought on headaches, indigestion, even mental pain," ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow said in a statement.
Just as ludicrous, the ACLU said, was the atheist group's suggestion to erect a 17-foot "A" to promote their non-beliefs at the site.
Meanwhile the 9/11 museum stands by their decision to display the cross, saying its job is not to provide equal time for all faiths but to tell the story of 9/11.
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Just as in the film "Groundhog Day," my day starts the same way every day.
Frankly, Wall Street analysts and their price targets must always be taken with a grain of salt. Hidden agendas (such as the desire to help out their investment banking peers) can cloud their thinking. So it's wise to glean their top ideas, and then perform your own level of advanced research.
In fact, I've done just that. I looked at a dozen analyst stock picks that had nearly 100% upside potential and then tossed out most of them as they had too many risks or unforeseen headwinds that the analysts seem to be ignoring.
Here are three stocks that are favored by analysts, all of which have stood up under an additional layer of scrutiny.
|1. Gordmans Stores (Nasdaq: GMAN)
This department store operator went public in late 2010 and delivered decent financial results for a couple of years but is now being hit by the sharp slowdown in retail spending.
Gordmans earned $1.30 a share in fiscal 2012, but since then earnings per share (EPS) have slid to a recent $0.41. Analysts expect even lower profits for the current fiscal year. As a result, shares have been in a nearly two-year downdraft.
The steady slide has its roots in a series of poor merchandising selections for this retailer, which is known for sharply discounted prices on slightly out-of-favor goods. Gordmans' board has done what any retailer in this position should do: They've brought in more savvy merchandisers who aim to fill the stores with a much more compelling line of goods. (A search for a new CEO is underway as well.)
Analysts at Cannacord/Genuity think "a new merchandising team will build better misses' and men's assortments, and this will drive improving results." But that's not the main reason they think this stock will double to their $10 target price. Instead, it's the fact that share of Gordmans trade at unfathomably low valuations. "Shares trade at 0.2x FY14E EV/sales (ratio of enterprise value to expected 2014 sales), which we believe is a going-out-of-business valuation."
But Gordmans isn't going out of business. This retailer is expected to report results next week, and should report solid cash balances as too-high inventories have since been converted into cash. Simply moving this stock up to a 0.4 times enterprise value-to-sales ratio would still leave this stock as one of the lowest-valued in retail.
|2. MediWound (Nasdaq: MDWD)
It's been a lousy stretch for biotech and medtech companies, especially those that had the bad timing to conduct an IPO in the midst of a recent massive sell-off. This developer of leading-edge wound care dressings initially saw its shares move up to $19, but now trade for around $11. Yet analysts think MediWound has solid growth prospects.
MediWound's lead product is NexoBrid, a gel enzyme that "may usher in a new paradigm for the treatment of third-degree burns," predict analysts at BMO Capital. This gel allows for a much cleaner preparation of the wound -- without much blood loss -- before skin grafts can be applied. Already approved for sale in Europe, the gel is in Phase III trials in the U.S.
BMO's analysts predict peak annual sales for NexoBrid of around $275 million, and in tandem with other products in the development pipeline, total sales could top $400 million annually. To be sure, profitability is a few years away, so BMO's analysts looked out to 2020 sales and profit levels, discounted back to the current time, to derive their $20 price target, which represents 80% upside.
Credit Suisse's Brice Nudell has a more modest $18 price target. While BMO mostly focuses on the short-term opportunities for NexoBrod, Nudell is even more intrigued by MediWound's EscharEX, which is earlier in the clinical trial process and wouldn't hit the market until later this decade, if approved. He notes that Santyl, the current product used in burn care, generates $270 million in annual sales, and "EscharEx appears to be more effective than Santyl in burn," he adds.
|3. Brightcove (Nasdaq: BCOV)
Web video remains a fast-growing category, with video streaming volumes continuing to rise at more than 20% each year. Brightcove provides all the tools needed for companies to host and stream videos.
This company garnered a considerable amount of buzz a few years ago, and after its early 2012 IPO, shares eventually moved up into the $20s. These days, thanks to slowing growth, shares languish in the single digits.
Yet first-quarter results now suggest that investors have grown too pessimistic. First-quarter sales grew 26% from a year ago, to $31 million, and the company added 61 new customers, the strongest quarterly showing in its history. Pacific Crest Securities' conclusion: "Growth is returning to Brightcove."
And these analysts now think shares are too cheap, trading at just twice 2015 sales. They figure that growth investors will return and bid shares back up to a 3 times sales multiple, "which is still a major discount to peers." That equates to a $16 price target, implying 90% upside.
Risks to Consider: These target prices assume these companies will deliver the catalysts expected of them, so it pays to track their progress each quarter to be sure the investment thesis is still intact.
Action to Take --> These stocks have stumbled badly in 2014, but each has the makings for a solid rebound. Investors have been burned so it may take some time to repair broken bonds of trust, but as long as these companies can prove that future results will be brighter, then these vastly oversold stocks will rotate right back into favor.


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Two people died when Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed on a runway at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
The National Transportation Safety Board took the following photos as part of its investigation into Saturday's Asiana Airlines plane crash.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 one day after its fatal crash at San Francisco International Airport
Photo taken after an Asiana Airlines plane crashed Saturday on a runway at San Francisco International Airport.
The detached tail of the Asiana Airlines plane can be seen at the end of runway 28L at SFO.
This picture of Asiana Airline flight 214 was taken just before it crashed at San Francisco International.
Smoke cleared after the crash at San Francisco International Airport.
An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday.
One engine appeared to have broken away. Pieces of the tail were strewn about the runway.
Passengers were forced to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety.
Rachael Kagan, a spokeswoman for San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, said that 10 passengers had been taken to the hospital - two children and eight adults, all in critical condition.
Television footage showed the top of the fuselage was burned away and the entire tail was gone.
The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another.
Boeing's website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.
Doug Yakel, a spokesman for the airport, said he did not yet know how many passengers were aboard the flight
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Tesla to break ground in 2 statesUPDATED 6:49 PM MDT Apr 30, 2014
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WHETHER THAT IS STILL ON THE TABLE. NEW DETAILS ON TESLA'S SEARCH FOR A LOCATION TO BUILD ITS BATTERY FACTORY. PUBLISHED REPORTS SAY THE CAR MANUFACTURER WILL BREAK GROUND IN TWO STATES. KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MEGAN CRUZ SPOKE TO GOVERNOR SUSANA MARTINEZ, WHO SAYS NEW MEXICO HAS A SHOT AT THE FINAL TWO. THERE'S REPORTS SUGGESTING THE PLAYING FIELD FOR TESLA'S BATTERY FACTORY IS ABOUT TO GO FROM FOUR STATES TO AT LEAST TWO. GOVERNOR SUSANA MARTINEZ SAYS NEW MEXICO IS IN THE RUNNING. They are considering new mexico - we are one of those states that they're considering, but the site selector won't give us a whole lot more than that. ACCORDING TO BLOOMBERG NEWS, TESLA WILL CHOOSE AT LEAST TWO SITES IN TWO DIFFERENT STATES. THE COMPANY'S C-E-O SAYS CREWS WILL DO EVERYTHING SHORT OF BREAKING GROUND. WHICHEVER SITYE HAS LESS SETBACKS WILL BE THE FACTORY'S FINAL LOCATION. We may not build it and see if they come, but we'll give them our word on anything we negotiated and we will follow through with that word because we want them here in NM. TIMING IS OF THE ESSENCE. THE CAR MANUFACTURER WANTS TO LAUNCH A LINE OF AFFORDABLE CARS IN THREE YEARS. IT'LL NEED THE BATTERY PLANT TO DO THAT. Whether it's infrastructure or roadways or anything that may help the plant be accessible... What can we do to make sure they're up and running as fast as possible. THE GOVERNOR DOES NOT KNOW WHEN TESLA WILL CHOOSE THE TWO SITES. IN ALBUQUERQUE, MEGAN CRUZ, KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. THE PLANT WILL ABOUT COST 5-BILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD... AND WILL EMPLOY 65-HUNDRED PEOPLE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO
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Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden
October 7, 2011
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: The principals of the schools obey the instructions of Mullahs to rusticate the Ahmadi students
The government has still not taken any action against the cases of rustication of twenty-three Ahmadi students from Punjab Medical College, and particularly against the rustication of Hina Akram, a third year Ahmadi Muslim student at the National Textile University, Faisalabad, Punjab province. Please see the AHRC statement; http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-129-2011
In the far-flung areas of Pakistan, students from the Ahmadi community have to face such practices by local religious groups, influential in the school, which force Ahmadi students to hide their identity or to migrate to urban centers where Ahmadis face fewer persecutions. The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), under the guidance of extremist religious leaders, has been allegedly assigned the task to "clean" the educational institutions, including universities and professional colleges in particular, of Ahmadi students. The staff of the educational institutions is being forced to provide details of the students.
After the rustication of 15 Ahmadi female students and 8 male students from the Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan, the Mullahs and extremist groups in Pakistan have ferociously accelerated their campaign against the Ahmadi students.
The AHRC has recently received information that on September 22, a public meeting was held in Dharanwali, a settlement near Hafizabad, Punjab, which was addressed by mischief monger Mullahs whipping up hatred against Ahmadis. Using heart piercing slanderous filthy language against the followers of Ahmadis and its leadership, they announce that they will never allow the burial of any Ahmadiyy Muslim in their cemetery and they will never let any Ahmadi child study in their schools.
Quickly after the inflaming provocation, ten Ahmadi students and a teacher were expelled from the local schools of Faisalabad district, Punjab.
The following students were rusticated from two different schools of being Ahmedis;
1. Shajar Ahmad – son of Amjad Zaid Ahmad, student Class 9,
2. Faraaz Ahmad – son of ijaz Ahmad, student Class 12,
3. Shabih Nasr – daughter of Nasr Ahmad, student Class 10,
4. Tanseelah Khalil – daughter of Khalil Ahmad, studying for B.A Degree,
5. Tanzeela Khalil – daughter of Khalil Ahmad, student Class 12,
6. Nabeela Kahilil – daughter of Khalil Ahmad, student, Class 12,
7. Iqbal Ahmad – son of Munir Ahmad, student, Class 6,
8. Sadia Munir – daughter of Munir Ahmad, student Class 10
9. Maham Jameel – daughter of Jameel Ahmad, student Grade 1,
10. Manahil Jameel – daughter of Jameel Ahmad, student prep class.
They were all expelled from Chenab Public school (Principal Muhammad Yasser Arafat), and Muslim Public school, Dharanwali (Principal Yasser Abbas).
Moreover, an Ahmadiyya teacher Rafiya tul Bari, daughter of Amjad Zaid Ahmad, teaching in Chenab Public school, Dharanwali, was also expelled for being an Ahmadiyya Muslim.
This alarming situation for the fundamental right to education of Ahmadiyy Muslims in Pakistan continues to accelerate and the international community must take resolute action to pursue the Government of Pakistan to honour its commitments to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Harare Declaration to which Pakistan is a signatory.
It is observed that in the recent days a strong wave against the different sects has swept through Punjab province which has provided shelters to the banned Islamic militant groups who are openly organising their public meetings and collecting funds on the streets. The banned religious groups gathered so much power through the ministers of provincial governments that they are now out of control. The rule of law which protects the religious freedom is under the total control of the Mullahs, the religious bigot, in the Punjab government.
The AHRC urges the government of Pakistan to repeal all the laws and ordinances denying Ahmadis their civic and fundamental rights and propping up the Mullahs and extremist groups to continue the murders of Ahmadis and the destruction of their means to livelihood.
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation that monitors human rights in Asia, documents violations and advocates for justice and institutional reform to ensure the protection and promotion of these rights. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
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Zero Dark Thirty poster: Kathryn Bigelow's mystery movie about the story everyone (sort of) knows
The Zero Dark Thirty poster has just come out. Plot details about the upcoming Kathryn Bigelow-directed feature, however, have been scarce – or downright nonexistent. (Zero Dark Thirty poster: Columbia Pictures.)
Zero Dark Thirty: Echoes of The Hurt Locker
Zero Dark Thirty is Kathryn Bigelow's first movie since becoming the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar – for The Hurt Locker— two and a half years ago. (She received her statuette from the hands of never-nominated director Barbra Streisand.) Though not exactly a war movie à la The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty treads similar territory, as it follows American military personnel on a Mission in a Muslim country (Pakistan instead of Iraq). The Mission in question is the capture – and possibly the killing – of Most Wanted Man Osama bin Laden, who ended up quite dead indeed.
Now, is the world any safer? Hardly. But more importantly, will Bigelow's thriller be a methodical reconstruction of events (however fictitious) in the style of Fred Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal or a flag-waver along the lines of Operation Thunderbolt? And will Zero Dark Thirty earn Bigelow a second Oscar nod? Who the hell knows? (Though highly acclaimed upon its release, a few voices criticized The Hurt Locker for making the Iraqis as generic as, say, movie extras. Robert Scheer at Truthdig: "It is imperial hubris turned into an art form in which the Iraqi people appear as numbed bystanders when they are not deranged extras. It is a perverse tribute to the film's accuracy in portraying the insanity of the U.S. invasion—while ignoring its root causes—that the Iraqis are at no point treated as though they are important.")
Zero Dark Thirty release date
Zero Dark Thirty opens on Dec. 19, in time for awards-season consideration. Written by Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker collaborator and fellow Oscar winner Mark Boal, the "hunt for Osama bin Laden" thriller features this year's Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Duplass, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, Frank Grillo, Édgar Ramírez, Stephen Dillane, and James Gandolfini.
Also worth mentioning is that just this past week, the John Stockwell-directed Seal Team 6: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, starring Twilight's Cam Gigandet, became the National Geographic Channel most-watched program of 2012.


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5 Commercials That Prove TV Advertisers Have Given Up
The Cosmopolitan -- Just Right Amount of Wrong
While not a full campaign yet, the people behind the new Cosmopolitan Hotel commercial should know that they're already off to a rocky start. The basic theme, as far as I understand it, is a 60-second reminder of why no one ever wants to spend more than three days in Las Vegas.
Everything from the massive stairway to the glimpses inside individual rooms is all eerily similar to watching Shelley Duvall stumble through the last 30 minutes of The Shining. Everyone is wearing a costume, old women are aggressively sexual and starving female models next to heaping piles of food opt instead to lick empty plates. As strange as it all may seem, I'm on board with the idea so far. Then the baby animals flood out of the elevators like blood.
This place is haunted.
The tagline is, "Just the right amount of wrong" but I struggle to see which aspect here is supposed to qualify as the "right" part. Swarms of baby animals in a hotel, from a completely practical standpoint, sounds awful. I am not a crusader for animal rights but seeing all those helpless tiny animals among drunken stilettos fills me with anxiety. Who is taking care of those kittens? What happens if someone rolls over those chicks on the bed? Who is going to clean up all that shit?
Now, there will always be people who insist that if a commercial gets stuck in your brain, for whatever reason, then its job is done. But I heartily disagree. In fact, that's ridiculous. If that were the only point of advertising then every commercial would be 30 seconds of the product name on the screen with the sound of a woman having an absurdly long orgasm. A commercial should give you some hint of what the product does and if the Cosmopolitan is filled with either tiny animals or women who are willing to abandon those tiny animals in the busy streets of Las Vegas with a "stay the fuck out" sneer on their faces, then I am not interested in visiting.
Capital One -- Visigoths
Of all the commercials on this list, the Capital One Visigoths are, without a doubt, the most mishandled, laziest attempt at advertising currently on television, and with HeadOn! commercials still running frequently, that accusation doesn't come lightly.
In order to understand how egregious these ads are, you have to remember their origins. For anyone unfamiliar, Capital One introduced the Visigoths in their commercials over six years ago as representations of high-interest rates on most credit cards.
These commercials were simple, funny and well-executed. But somewhere along the way, Capital One forgot how analogies worked and inadvertently destroyed their whole premise as clumsily as possible. Suddenly the Visigoths were no longer high-interest rates but Capital One customers. They wandered around modern times getting caught up in cultural misunderstandings and celebrating their rewards points.
In an unprecedented moment of arrogance, Capital One insulted whatever commercial audience was left by assuming no one was smart enough to notice they completely erased the context for using Visigoths in the first place. What's more, no one involved in this massive campaign bothered to check what a Visigoth was. (Hint: It's not a Viking.) They made them English instead of Germanic despite how endlessly hilarious a German accent might've been. So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards. Even if the commercials offered more historically accurate representations, they would still be equating their entire clientele to fat, bearded men who pillage cities and, every so often, do some raping. Nice work, Capital One.
For more evidence that advertisers gave up (a long time ago), check out 5 Retro Commercials Companies Would Like You to Forget. Or check out Soren's take on YouTube erotica, in The 8 Most Misguided Attempts at 'Sexy' Videos on YouTube.


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Sprouts Musical Theatre continues to be Charleston's best-kept secret as the only professional theatre company for audiences of children and families. This is not a group of children performing, but rather hand-picked, highly renowned professional adult actors in the Lowcountry that perform adaptations of original classic tales. Sprouts musicals have been translated into six languages and each production is highly acclaimed with signature ballads and sing-a-longs, audience participation, uproarious chase scenes – and always a happy ending.
The unique setting of absolutely no separation between the audience and the stage, along with a bulk of the audience snuggled on large carpets in the front provide the most super-fun live musical theatre experience for ages 3 to 93.
Showtimes for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" are Friday, May 30 at 7 p.m., Saturday, May 31 at 1 p.m., Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m., Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 7 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and Sunday, June 8 at 3 p.m. The performance is just under one hour.
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All business: CSH grad reports on global economy as news anchor on Bloomberg TV
Updated 12:13 pm, Friday, April 29, 2011
By Barbara Perry Bind
Margaret Brennan's role as an anchor on Bloomberg Television has taken her from Switzerland to Saudi Arabia to Tahrir Square in Egypt on the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power. Her show, "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan," covers the world of news viewed through the prism of the global economy.
Brennan, who spent her formative high school years attending Convent of the Sacred Heart, got her start in TV working with former Greenwich resident and financial news legend Louis Rukeyser. She went on to work as a general assignment reporter at CNBC and contributed to MSNBC and NBC's "Today Show" and "Nightly News" before landing at Bloomberg.
The Citizen interviewed Brennan about her life as as an on-air journalist, her approach to reporting the news, what led her down her career path and some of the more challenging and exciting interviews she has conducted.
You graduated from CSH -- what is your connection to Greenwich?
Some of my favorite childhood memories with my mother are of the two of us driving my father to the train station on Greenwich Avenue for his morning commute to the city. My mom softened the early morning wakeup and her own impending departure by taking me to Versailles on the Avenue for a brioche. At the time, my mom was the curator for the art collection at U.S. Tobacco in Greenwich. That meant I spent a good amount of time in town. I learned to swim at the Greenwich Y!
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Years later, I had my own daily commute to Convent of the Sacred Heart for high school. My family lived in Danbury, but I made the daily 45-minute commute to Sacred Heart's campus on King Street. My parents had fallen in love with Sacred Heart and its close-knit community. Making the drive didn't seem like a big deal at the time, and I can say that their decision to send me to CSH was one of the biggest formative events in my academic career. My parents moved out of the area 10 years ago, but they're looking for a house in the area right now.
What led you to become a journalist?
I always wanted to be a diplomat or work in public policy in some fashion. I didn't think that I'd be a journalist -- and certainly not one working in the business news space. At CSH, I was a Model U.N. geek and loved my politics and history courses. At the University of Virginia, I double majored in foreign affairs and Middle Eastern studies with a minor in Arabic language. I studied abroad in Jordan and loved having more of a first-hand experience than an academic or analytical one. My mom suggested that I try news, and I ended up with a summer internship at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. I loved working at a busy news desk. It felt like a nerve center for the reporters spread out all around the globe. I also realized that TV is the medium through which viewers are most likely to travel and learn about the world. I ended up in business news after being hired to work with a foreign correspondent turned financial anchor named Louis Rukeyser. That was my first paid TV job. He was one of the first people who showed me how to `connect the dots' between the financial world and social/political one.
As the anchor of Bloomberg TV's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan," what is your approach to the news?
Finance is the first globalized industry. The economic crisis showed us how intertwined the world's financial hubs and banking systems are. That interconnectedness is just one part of the change that is coming to the rest of the business and social world. The economic gravity shift toward the emerging markets is bringing drastic changes to virtually everything. I try to embrace that internationalized sensibility in reporting and also in communicating with my audience.
I always try to remember that our viewers are watching my program simultaneously in the U.S., Europe, the Mideast, Africa, South America and Asia. Bloomberg TV has such a wide footprint around the world -- I get viewer e-mails from everywhere from South America to the Emirates.
I also like to find the narratives within the numbers and analysis. An earnings report from a company isn't just about profits and losses. Take a look at Wal-Mart's financial reports, and you can see just how many more Americans are buying their groceries with food stamps. Read a steel company's report and you can get a sense of the cities being built in China and Brazil. Watch J.P. Morgan or Bank of America's earnings for a sense of how those banks are still struggling with what to do with the Americans who are still unable to afford their homes. You can find these news nuggets that give you a sense of where the world is going.
Describe a typical day on the job.
Live TV is not predictable -- that's the fun and dangerous part of it. My team and I broadcast our program live on air from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. I think of my day in two parts. The first part is a push to get myself ready for the live show. I wake up around 5:15 a.m. First thing, I walk and feed my puppy (a puggle named Maddy.). I also check Twitter, which I use like a newswire. I get to the office around 6:15 or 6.30 a.m. and read up on all of the news that has broken overnight. By 9: 57 a.m., I'm on set and ready for the show. During the next two hours, my team and I are constantly in contact, as the stories that we're reporting on during the show often change.
The scripts and plans go out the window once news breaks. That's when the fun starts. After we get off air, my team meets and we plan the next show. Then I work on projects, reports, talk to sources and work ahead. I try to end my time in the office by 4 p.m. and take the next show's research "homework" with me.
You have interviewed Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum of Dubai, among others. Who have been some of your most exciting and challenging interviews?
Most challenging: The fast-paced nature of breaking news is always challenging. For example, I had an hour and-a-half notice when I went to Cairo during the midst of some of the country's worst days of turmoil. Finding the right balance can be difficult, too. When I interviewed Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, it was his first in-depth, sit-down TV interview since the company's mine disaster in West Virginia that killed 30 people. It was important to ask about the human side of the story, as well as the numbers.
Most exciting: I interviewed Egyptian activist and former Google executive Wael Ghonim in Cairo just 3 days after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Ghonim had been imprisoned for 12 days by the Mubarak regime and mistreated for the work he and his friends did to leverage the social and TV networks against the regime.
Our interview came right after Ghonim and his colleagues had finished meeting with the military leadership who took over the country. The country was under martial law, and that required us to be indoors by midnight. We broke curfew in order to complete the interview. We'd been working nonstop for four days by that point and wanted to finish our story. On the way back to our feed point, the military police pulled us over and threatened to confiscate our tapes. Ultimately, they cut us a break and by 4 a.m. we were able to get our work sent to HQ. A day later, I was back in the anchor chair in N.Y. It was a whirlwind!
On a completely different note: I was excited to recently interview J. Crew's CEO Mickey Drexler. He's a retail industry legend, and I had been chasing him for 4-plus years.
You were the only American journalist who anchored from Tahrir Square in Cairo when Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Describe that experience. Have you ever reported from other dangerous or war-torn locations? If so, how were you able to put aside your fears and `get on with the job?'
My assignment in Cairo was one of the first times that Bloomberg Television sent to an anchor into an area of conflict. Typically our locally based Bloomberg News bureaus handle the reporting. Since we've got 2,000 reporters all over the world, which is very unusual for a news organization these days, the local print reporters take the lead.
However, I've done special broadcasts from various international locations including Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Dublin and London. I've also done special reports from World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the Gulf Coast of the U.S. during the BP oil spill.
What do you find most exciting about your job?
Here's what gets me excited about my job: I truly believe that the economy -- distribution and availability of resources -- is the first place that social and political change happens. I really enjoy connecting the dots and watching those narratives play out. Revolutions often start at the kitchen table. Sky-high food costs, lack of jobs and little opportunity were the issues that drove protestors to the streets in Cairo to force political change. Ultimately, the success of that social and political change will be determined by providing the economic opportunities that the Mubarak regime did not. I try to bring that level of relevance to the show.
What piece of advice would you offer to students -- including those at Convent of the Sacred Heart -- who would like to become news anchors?
You should love learning. The great storytellers I admire are those who tell you the important stories but find ways to get the viewer engaged in some fashion. They tend to know the topics quite well and constantly inundate themselves with information. Stamina is also one of the most important characteristics. That means trying to constantly find ways to accomplish goals despite setbacks, challenges, naysayers or fatigue itself.


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The first page of the article sounded Primal and then they just missed the mark.
Nice to see main stream media starting to move this way though.
I think they came very close especially considering their target audience is hard core endurance cyclers. You are talking a community that has been pounded with the 70% carb, 20% fat, 10% protein, sports drink, sports bars, pasta, rice, toast, etc. Many have been led to believe that you absolutely can not train with out sports" foods"
The main non primal arguments (eat breakfast, eat every 3-4 hours) may have more validity in the endurance cycling world than someone following a PBF style program.
Friel is paleo...So the lack of saturated fat recommendation is to be expected, but the 50% fat, although low for many PB'ers is probably about right for an endurance athlete. The difference will come in protein/carb split, which may be different if you are talking about a elite cyclist who may never had metabolic syndrome and a weekend warrior. Unfortunately all of the endurance sports magazines take advice that may be spot on for an elite and extrapolate it to the rest of us.
Part of the problem with the article is they had multiple sources, so in one section they say 50% carb and in another they say 50% fat.
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Starting tomorrow through June 26th, The Blank Theatre Company in Los Angeles will present its 19th annual Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival at the Stella Adler Theatre. The festival will feature 12 plays written by teenaged playwrights and participating soap stars will include Billy Miller (AMC's Ex- Richie ;Y&R's Billy), Melissa Claire Egan (AMC's Ex-Annie).
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Jersey City plans to promote about a dozen police officers to detective today, an action city officials say is their response to crime and quality-of-life concerns raised recently by numerous residents and City Council members.
The detectives, who city officials said will not receive a bump in pay for a year, will remain in uniform, but will have the added ability of conducting criminal investigations and taking statements, according to Mayor Jerramiah Healy.
The promotions - dubbed "appointments" by the city - will "accelerate the criminal justice process," preventing crimes from taking place, Healy said.
Ward E Councilman Steve Fulop, a 2013 mayoral hopeful and frequent administration critic, blasted the move as "political patronage." Taking police officers off the beat after residents have complained of rising crime "speaks volumes," Fulop said.
"With Healy it is say one thing and do another," he said. "Three indisputable facts are: uniform police can take complaints, detectives are known political promotions, and the budget allocates zero dollars to what Healy is saying. The facts are what they are."
Fulop on Monday criticized Healy's proposed $469 million 2012 city budget for not allocating money to hire additional police officers, a proposal touted in the mayor's State of the City last week.
Healy responded to Fulop's complaints in kind.
"Once again, Mr. Fulop is speaking on a topic for which he has no knowledge," Healy said. "As I said in my State of the City address, we are working to put more of a police presence on our streets and this is one of the mechanisms we are utilizing to do that."


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The Origins of the First Powered, Man-carrying Airplane
The Wright brothers' "Flyer'' of 1903 was not just a lucky effort by two bicycle mechanics from Dayton but the outcome of an intensive program of research, engineering and testing
by F. E. C. Culick
EARLY GLIDER was designed by Otto Lilienthal, who is seen here flying it over a brickyard on the outskirts of Berlin in 1894 Lilienthal was the first pilot of what would now be called a hang glider. He was killed in 1896 when one of his gliders lost lift and went into a sudden dive.
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By the time the brothers began experimenting seriously they had acquainted themselves thoroughly with the aeronautical literature. They understood the prevailing views that longitudinal stability required a Penaud tail, that lateral stability should be achieved by having a dihedral angle in the wings and that steering could be accomplished with a vertical tail or rudder. Yet they eventually rejected all three notions, producing designs that were quite different from the basic one conceived by Cayley and generally accepted by their contemporaries. Their first powered airplane, the 1903 Flyer, had a forward horizontal surface, the tips of the wings drooped with negative dihedral and the vertical tail moved only when the wings were flexed to turn the aircraft. The reasons for the configuration adopted by the Wright brothers tell the story of their research and engineering.
Probably the single most important motivation in the Wrights' program was that they themselves were resolved to learn to fly. That determination influenced virtually all their decisions. Since they were to be pilots, they had to give careful consideration to stability, control and safety. They were not inclined to build a machine, hope it would work and hire somebody else to do the testing. Moreover, they were clearly not going to be satisfied just with gliding straight ahead.
Lilienthal's death and a similar accident in England convinced Wilbur at the outset that to be safe an airplane should have the horizontal stabilizing surface in front of the main wing (a system that came to be called the canard configuration). No one at the time understood stalling (the loss of lift), and the Wrights had no scientific basis for determining the relative merits of aft and forward surfaces. While they were experimenting, the theoretical conditions for stability were being developed by others, but not until after 1903 was it widely known that an airplane can be made longitudinally stable with either an aft or a forward horizontal surface. The forward surface, which was the most unusual feature of the early Wright aircraft, had for the brothers the advantage that the pilot could see it, thereby gaining a measure of safety by being able to respond quickly if something went wrong with it in flight.
Unlike his predecessors, Wilbur did not assume that the problem of lateral stability had been solved by Cayley's invention of dihedral. "My observations of the flight of buzzards," Wilbur wrote to Chanute, "lead me to believe that they regain their lateral balance, when partly overturned by a gust of wind, by a torsion of the tips of the wings." Having made this fundamental observation, Wilbur then had to solve the problem of inventing a comparable method of control for a man-carrying aircraft.
He eventually realized the idea as wing warping, which was the predecessor of the ailerons that fulfill the function in modern aircraft. With wing warping the Wrights were able not only to stabilize the airplane in a straight path but also to turn it. And that is how they advanced far ahead of their competitors. By employing a movable horizontal surface and wing warping the Wright brothers fused the tasks of stability and control, thereby making their most important contribution to the development of the modern airplane.
Several months after Wilbur had corresponded with the Smithsonian Institution, he built a biplane kite with a five-foot wingspan. Kites as they are now known (particularly box kites) had been developed quite recently. Wilbur followed the latest construction practices but the basic structural design of his kite was the Pratt truss, which he had heard about from Chanute. He removed the fore-and-aft bracing wires in order to have the wings free to slide with respect to each other, thereby producing the wing warping. The only rigid parts of the structure were the connections between the control surface and the uprights to which it was attached. The four control cords were arranged so that the operator could exercise both longitudinal and lateral control of the kite, independently or simultaneously.


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Hitting It High and Low
One thing is a certainty if you suck at golf, and that is that you WILL find yourself in trouble on many holes throughout your round. So it is important to understand the mechanics of hitting a variety of different shots so you don't have to keep chipping out sideways all the time.
Let's first talk about hitting it low. Hitting an intentional low shot can be helpful in many situations, like when you have wind in your face, or you need to stay under an obstacle like a branch of a tree.
To pull off this shot you need to make a few simple adjustments. Take an extra club and choke down about an inch or so. You're basically making a 7 iron into an 8 iron by choking down, and the 7 has less loft. The shaft length dictates the distance more so than the loft. So you're going to hit it about 8 iron distance but a 7 iron trajectory? Make sense?
Other Useful Tips To Keep It Down:
1. Move ball back in your stance about an inch or so. Don't overdo this or you may create MORE backspin and the ball may climb into the wind rather than ride under it.
2. Move hands a little further ahead of the ball from you normal address. This decreases loft a bit more as well.
3. Don't make the mistake of swinging harder because you're choking down. You have MORE club. If you swing harder you are likely to balloon the shot into the air, just what you don't want. Think SMOOTH. (not easy, but smooth)
Practice these at the range at least 4 or 5 swings every time you go.
OK, here you are again, off the fairway and behind a tree. Only this time you're twenty yards behind it and if you can get the ball up really fast you may still have a shot at the green!
The nature of this shot implies that the normal club you would take to reach the green won't clear the tree. So you have to somehow hit your usual distance but get it higher, faster.
Here's how: Pick the club that you know you could reach the green with if the tree wasn't there. If the tree is WAY too high for that club then forget it and chip out or try bending the shot around the tree. However if you only need 20% or so more height than normal you may have a shot.
The key here is to get the maximum amount of loft and arc out of this club. So grip it all the way near the end.(maximum arc) Play the ball off your left heel, hands even with or slightly behind the ball.(maximum loft) Since a fade fly's higher than a draw, if there's room on the left then open up your stance a bit and play for a fade.
Take the club back low to the ground. Don't rush the downswing, but you will need to give it a little more "umph" than usual. You're trying to hit a 7 iron your usual distance but 20% higher. More height usually means less distance unless you hit it harder. So don't candy-ass this one. With the open stance and maximum loft of the club face the ball should climb fast and high with a long fade. It sounds tricky but is really not so bad. It's actually easier to hit it high than to keep it low for most players. These shots can be great round savers and do wonders for your confidence. However they can also cost you big if used recklessly.
So practice all these different shots every time you go to the range! You'll suck a lot less than the guy dripping with sweat from hitting his driver for the last hour. Think of it as the "practice range", not the "Driving range"!


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To confirm the putative hypersensitivity of the pupil to a weak mydriatic in persons with Alzheimer dementia.
Twenty patients with Alzheimer dementia and 20 control subjects were examined. Automated binocular infrared pupillography was performed in the dark after instillation of 0.01% tropicamide or placebo. Ocular penetration of eye drops was assessed simultaneously using 2% fluorescein sodium as a tracer.
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Twenty patients and 20 cognitively normal control subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
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Percent change in the diameter of the pupil following topical ocular instillation of a diluted concentration of the mydriatic drug tropicamide and penetration of topically applied fluorescein into the aqueous humor.
No statistically significant difference was found between patients with Alzheimer disease and control subjects in either the mydriatic response of the pupil or in the rate of penetration of topically applied fluorescein.
No evidence of pupillary hypersensitivity to an anticholinergic mydriatic drug was found in patients with Alzheimer disease or any evidence that this putative hypersensitivity could be used as an early, simple diagnostic test for Alzheimer disease.
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One of two teenage brothers charged in the killing of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated manslaughter and took "sole responsibility" for her death, Camden County Prosecutor Warren Faulk said at a news conference.
Justin Robinson, 16, of Clayton, faces a sentence of 17 years, 85 percent of which must be served before he is eligible for parole.
"Autumn's death was senseless, and it shook the community to its core," Faulk said Wednesday. "There will never be punishment commensurate with her brutal killing. The best we can do is achieve some measure of justice."
The plea came after Robinson was voluntarily waived from juvenile to adult court by a Gloucester County judge. Justin's brother, 17-year-old Dante, is also charged in Autumn's death. Faulk said he could not comment on that case because of restrictions placed on juvenile proceedings.


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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Sweet news...but a sour aftertaste
We had great news this week about "Bob"s outreach unit (the artist formerly known as My Son will now be renamed Bob due to his intense, and often useful, attachment to the animated Know-It-All workaholic who has difficulty expressing his true feelings for the passive aggressive Wendy...hey, could the Real Bob be on the spectrum???)
Our little unit has been allocated 450,000 yoyos to develop the service!!! Up until now, the boys have been shifted about to whatever room wasn't being used that year...not exactly banishing them to the broom cupboard, but not exactly meeting their needs either.
The principal has been very vocal in his intent to get the boys included fully within the infrastructure of the actual school...many attempts were made to fob him off with prefabs which he was assured would only be "temporary" (like the "temporary" prefabs that were built 30 years ago in my old primary school and were only replaced 2 years ago).
Thankfully he stood his ground, and when he was met with refusal he just went to that person's manager...to cut a long story short he was a complete pain to the DofE and they probably gave him the money just to make him go away. The plan is to give the boys a purpose built unit within the school which will facilitate integration with their mainstream peers.
So far so fantastic.
We are thrilled for Bob and his pals (I'll refrain from calling them Scoop or Muck, but I am so tempted).
In the great scheme of things, accessing services and education has been remarkably easy for us, which gives us great cause for celebration...but I have an awareness of the many kids for whom Outreach is just not suitable, whose parents fret and fund-raise, and sometimes divorce, from September to September, terrified that their ABA school will not exist next year.
It seems that the kids who need ABA are deemed by the DofE as some shadowy sub-culture who refuse to fit their "one-size-fits-all" model of education.
The DofE punishes those naughty, uncooperative kids by drip feeding funding, torturing their parents with cliff-hanger insecurities...and sometimes by closing schools. Bad autistic children! That'll show you!
So my son's Outreach Unit has been rubber stamped as The Model by the DofE, and I am eternally (and selfishly) grateful that Bob will benefit from their ideals...but it leaves a sour taste in my mouth that while the ink is drying on the 450,000 euro cheque, that many other autie kids are relegated to limbo, and are being punished for having needs greater than Bob's.
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It is a bittersweet pill to take Jeanie but Bob and his pals will benefit greatly from this funding and better it went to his school than to no school at all. It is hard that our government seems to be more concerned at throwing life rafts to "bankers" (insert w if you prefer) and leaves our children to suffer. I have every admiration to the hoards of long suffering parents who have to battle and fight for what little the dept will drip feed them.
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Bob and the guys are as deserving as any other unit, however if you could bottle that Principal ....;)ReplyDelete
I was blessed with thick skin and a hard neck and I needed both to get the youngest cramp ABA at 3, he is now 10 and mainstreamed for the past 2 years, coping well, learning and socialising somewhat.
Why they cannot understand the importance of early intervention is beyond me, it will save them millions .....if they would only listen to the parents once in a while.
Happy Days to Bob, scoop etc. :))
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That's great news Jean. And about time too!ReplyDelete
If the D of E are ok with Autistic kids being traipsed around from room to room to receive an education (that the D of E deem appropriate)then they really are out of touch with the very basics of Autism. Fear of change. Bad D of E!
I'm glad Bob & co finally got sorted out. I fit wasn't for their Principal ( and no doubt you parents in the fighting corner!) they'd probably be left traipsing around.


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A man and woman were arrested Monday after they were seen driving a stolen car at different times last week, police said.
The 1991 red Honda Prelude was stolen after the owner had loaned it on Jan. 29 to a friend, who was supposed to return it the next day. The friend drove the car to his cousin's house, where he met Arianna Tavares-Pszyk, who asked for a ride, police said.
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An all-points bulletin had been issued for Tavares-Pszyk, 24, of Haiku when police received a report that Kaleo Kubo had been seen driving a car that wasn't his on Saturday, police said. Police confirmed that the car Kubo had been driving was the same one that Tavares-Pszyk had driven off in, and his name was added to the all-points bulletin.
Kubo, 19, who gave no local address, was arrested at about 4 p.m. Monday in Wailuku after police received information on his whereabouts. A few hours later, at 8:20 p.m., Tavares-Pszyk turned herself in to police.
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State Insurance Commissioner Gordon Ito will discuss the Affordable Care Act at a Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce gathering Tuesday at the Maui Tropical Plantation.
Ito, who heads the state Insurance Division, was appointed to the post by Gov. Neil Abercrombie in 2011. He is a member of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and has conducted financial and regulatory seminars for insurance professionals in China, Korea and Eastern Europe.
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A 2014 directory of public officials in Hawaii has been updated and is available as a smartphone application or in printed formats, the Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs announced.
The Web-based application allows iOS and Android users to download the directory on their smartphones for easy, on-the-go use, the institute said. Last year, more than 4,000 cellphone users downloaded the mobile application.
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Russian Jew on board missing Malaysian Airlines plane
Nikolai Brodskii,from the Siberian city of Irkutsk, was among the 239 passengers on the flight that disappeared over the sea between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday.
Rabbi Aharon Wagner from Irkutsk is believed to have contacted Mr Brodskii's family after learning that he was on the plane.
Mr Brodskii, 43, was returning to Russia on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 after travelling to Bali, Indonesia, for a diving vacation.
The flight vanished without issuing a distress signal.
It is believed the plane had changed course and turned back towards Kuala Lumpur, from where it had taken off.
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Three civilians wounded in Arhab by Republican Guard
Alsahwah.net- Three civilians were wounded on
Wednesday in Arhab, 30 kilometers in the
north of the Capital Sana'a, as the Republican Guard commanded by son of the
former president Ali Abdullah Saleh shelled some villages.
Two civilians were killed in Arhab,
two houses were destroyed and two mosques were damaged as a result of
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NEW YORK - Travelers have no interest in lugging their luggage anymore.
They don't have to, according to experts.
A combination of consumer demand, design modifications and innovative materials has allowed manufacturers to switch gears to produce smaller, lighter and ergonomically friendly products, said Alan Krantzler, vice president of Tumi luggage brand's product management.
"The No. 1 trend in the industry right now is about lightweight," he said. "It's always been a consumer demand, but it has become increasingly important."
The driving factors, he said: an aging population who finds it difficult to pull around burdensome, easily tipped bags; airline fees, including some carriers that not only charge for heavy bags but any checked bag at all; and the desire for business-leisure crossover items.
"People want a carry-on that could be a weekend bag, a gym bag and be able to put a computer in it," said Krantzler, who also oversees merchandising. "People are looking to spend money smartly. They don't want to give up quality but want value."
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The polycarbonate plastic is, essentially, a much lighter version of those practically indestructible suitcases of a few generations ago. (Remember those American Tourister ads with a gorilla tossing one around?)
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It has potential to catch on in the U.S., Cardino said, but Americans also do seem to like their softer bags, knowing they can always shove in that extra sweater. Maybe they'll end up with a combination of pieces that are best suited to their lifestyles and travel destinations, he adds. "Many people don't buy luggage sets anymore. It's more like furniture shopping, a piece from here and a piece from there."
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Since the assignment was to create a movie related to teaching, I decided to make something that I could use in one of my classes. The video shows the war mobilization process that the United States went through at the beginning of World War II. The idea came from a power point presentation that I made to teach 11th grade U.S. History. I took the text from the power point and turned it into a script, then inserted the pictures I already had from the original presentation. When I changed the text to make it more narrative it left gaps in the images, so I supplemented the originals with a few extra photos and some war production posters. The idea is that this would be something a teacher could use to introduce a lesson on WWII war mobilization. It's not enough information to be a complete lesson on the topic for a high school history course, but it's exactly the right kind of format and presentation style to catch teenagers' attention at the beginning of a class.
This was the first time I'd ever made any kind of presentation or video in a format more advanced than power point, so it was definitely interesting. It took me forever to finish it, but now that I know how the program works, I think it will go much faster next time. Overall, I was really happy with how it turned out. The only main problem I have with the program is the limits on text. There were several times that I had to split sentences into two different slides and couldn't get the complete thought on the screen at once. I also wish there was a way to preview and edit the video without having to republish it every time, since that seemed to take awhile.


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Mitchell Park picnic area is a great place to pause for a bite and take in the bushland scenery of Cattai National Park - particularly after working up a sweat on one of the park's great walking tracks. Cattai Creek is a great spot for fishing, so you can try your hand at catching some lunch. Nearby the creek, ... Visit website for more info
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The Regional Ministerial Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (24-25 September 2001, Geneva) called for initiatives in the area of education. Specifically, the Ministers "agreed to improve education systems and the design of learning programmes on sustainable development to increase the general understanding of how to implement and promote sustainable development in practice."
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, South Africa, 2002) stressed the need to integrate sustainable development into education systems at all levels of education, from pre-school to higher education and non-formal education, in order to promote education as a key agent for change.
During the preparations for the fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" (Kiev, 2003), both Governments and non-governmental organizations expressed their interest in improving environmental education. As a result, the Working Group of Senior Officials, at its third session, established a drafting group to develop a UNECE Strategy for Environment and Education. Pursuant to this decision, the drafting group has prepared draft Statement on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and a background document on basic elements for the UNECE Strategy for ESD E F R
Recognizing that education is a fundamental tool for environmental protection and sustainable development and that environmental education has increasingly addressed a wide range of issues included in Agenda 21, the UNECE Environment Ministers endorsed the Statement on Education for Sustainable Development E F R by acclamation at their Conference in Kiev (21-23 May 2003). They invited all countries to integrate sustainable development into their education systems at all levels from pre-school to higher education and in non-formal as well as in informal education, in order to promote education as a key agent for change. They welcomed the proclamation by the United Nations General Assembly, at its fifty-seventh session (December 2002), of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development starting in 2005, and agreed to take the lead in promoting it regionally.
The Ministers also invited UNECE to develop a strategy for education for sustainable development in close cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Council of Europe and other relevant actors.
Pursuant to this decision, the Committee on Environmental Policy of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE CEP), at its tenth session (20-22 October 2003) discussed the proposal on the framework for work on education for sustainable development E F R and set up a Task Force on Education for Sustainable Development to develop the Strategy. Sweden and the Russian Federation volunteered to lead the process. This initiative was a substantial regional contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
The first meeting of the Task Force (19-20 February 2004) adopted its terms of reference and its work programme. It also provided comments on the draft strategy that had been prepared by the secretariat in consultation with the lead countries and set up a drafting group to help prepare the final draft of the document for the approval at its second meeting.
The drafting group met four times and has prepared a draft strategy taking into account comments provided by member States and stakeholders, including regional environmental centers, international and non-governmental organizations. The strategy was meant to serve as a flexible framework and its implementation could be adapted to each country's priorities, specific needs and circumstances. Therefore, the document reflected the main considerations expressed by stakeholders and member States and is based on a general consensus.
At its second meeting (15-16 July 2004) the Task Force amended and approved the draft Strategy and submitted it to the Committee on Environmental Policy at its eleventh session for consideration.
The Task Force also discussed the practical aspects of implementing the strategy in the region and the proposal on joint high-level meeting of Environment Ministries and Education Ministries or equivalent State bodies responsible for education in UNECE member States that might be convened to adopt the strategy. There was a general support for holding such a meeting. The Task Force also endorsed the proposed date, candidatures for officers and the agenda of the meeting.
The drafting group has also prepared two background documents for information: one on past and ongoing international processes on education for sustainable development (E F R) and another to clarify some terms used in the strategy (E F R).
The eleventh session of the Committee on Environmental Policy (13 - 15 October 2004) discussed the draft Strategy and other documents on education for sustainable development prepared by the Task Force.
The UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy thanked the Task Force for finalizing its work in developing a draft UNECE Strategy for ESD (E F R), which was supported by most countries. It also agreed to amend the first sentence of the paragraph 8 of the draft Strategy.
The Committee also discussed the note on the High-Level meeting of Education and Environment Ministries (E F R). Thus, it decided to convene a High-Level Meeting of Environment and Education Ministries (or other equivalent national body responsible for education) as a follow-up of the fifth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" (Kiev, 2003). The CEP decided to forward the draft UNECE Strategy and the proposal on Framework for its implementation (E F R) to the High-level meeting for final consideration.
Following this decision, In the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on 17-18 March 2005, at their high-level meeting, UNECE Ministers, vice-ministers and other representatives of Environment and Education Ministries adopted by acclamation a UNECE Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development - a practical instrument to promote sustainable development through education. They also adopted the Vilnius Framework for Implementation setting up a Steering Committee and an expert group on indicators in order to facilitate coordination and review of Strategy's implementation. Various stakeholders, including international organisations, business, non-governmental organisations, regional environmental centres and research institutions took part in the meeting and provided valuable contributions.


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