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The final Mick Cronin Radio show took place last night at The Montgomery Inn on 700WLW. Dan Hoard and Mick took stock in the season and spent some time looking forward. It was, as you would expect, a fantastic listen.
You can do so right here.
For today's Breakfast, I wanted to touch on a few of the comments Mick made while chatting with Dan. Again, you'll want to listen to this, especially the first segment where Mick gives a state of the program address.
--- I mentioned last week in my story on SK and Cash chasing one final run, that we may never know the true extent of Cashmere Wright's injuries this season but without another scouting report to worry about Cronin offered deeper insight into the injury that altered the season.
He pointed out that the injury to his good knee specifically took away his ability to not just drive, but more importantly, jump stop in the lane. This was a major point of emphasis in Cash's offseason in an effort to be more consistent finishing around the rim. So often early in his career he would miss layups by flying toward the basket off one foot instead of going in under more control off two.
Well, when he sprained his knee, the dramatically improved aspect of his game went out the window.
"He really worked hard at it and what was making him much more of an effective offensive player," Cronin said. "Now it was 'I have to get through the year, I can't explode, I can't land with force on that knee.' That hurt him, that hurt us."
Obviously, that allowed defenses who noticed his lack of explosion to swarm Sean Kilpatrick among other consequences. Going back and bemoaning the injury does no good now, but that's all part of why it's so difficult to win year in and year out in college basketball. One twist of the knee can dramatically alter the shape of a season. That turned out to be the case here.
Here is the comparison of his 2-point and 3-point shot percentages before and after the injury:
Time frame: 2-point shots /// 3-point shots
Pre-injury (19 games): 46-91 (51%) /// 46-104 (44%)
Post-injury (15 games): 21-62 (34%) /// 27-97 (28%)
No groundbreaking stats here, but it continues to put into perspective how the season changed. Even when Cash began making 3-pointers late in the year he looked much more like the old Cash, but the lack of penetration in the lane was the major difference.
Before the injury, he took an average of 4.8 shots inside the arc and 5.5 shots outside it per game. After the injury, he took an average of 4.1 shots inside the arc and 6.5 shots outside it. That's one less shot driving and one more shot settling from 3 per game. It all adds up.
--- The question of SK and a decision about his senior year came up. Mick seemed to feel that won't be much of an option for Kilpatrick. What will happen is the league submits a list of prospective early entries to the NBA people and they shoot back the reality for being drafted.
Obviously, Cronin knows a long list of connected folks and talks with them often about his players.
"I'm friends with a lot of NBA people and it really hasn't been presented," Cronin said. "All I would do is submit paperwork for any good underclassmen you have. I love SK and I would advise him on what I think is best. Any player would be his decision and I would support his decision."
He went on to mention supporting Lance Stephenson's decision, whether he agreed with it or not. He's all about backing his players and trying to help them make the most informed decision as possible.
"It's his life," Cronin said. "At the end of the day all you can do is advise people and go from there. I don't want to say he would have no chance at doing it but I think it will be a stretch for him."
For what it is worth, here is a sample of some who have ranked draft prospects for this season. None have him within shouting distance of the top 60.
Jeff Goodman at CBSSports ranks him as the 97th overall prospect
Chad Ford at ESPN doesn't list Kilpatrick in his top 100
Aran Smith at NBADraft.net places him at 80 on the big board with an NBA comparison to Jodie Meeks
--- Mick talked about moving forward the need for Justin Jackson to gain weight and strength. His future won't be as an athletic wing player. He has too many ball-handling limitations for that. He'll need him to bulk up and be able to bang inside in addition to his athleticism blocking shots.
"His energy is great and we all know we need it," Cronin said. "He's got to average more points and more rebounds and he's got to get stronger. He's got to put weight on ... To play after college he'll have to be more of a physical presence, not just energizing presence. Hard to do that when guy matching up against has 20 pounds on you."
The biggest area where Jackson showed improvement this year was in his defensive rebounding.
Here's his defensive rebounding percentage over his first three years. This season he ranked in the top 200 in the country in pulling down the other team's misses:
Freshman: 15.8%
Sophomore: 12.5%
Junior: 20.4%
On the flip side, his offensive rebounding percentage has stayed essentially the same:
Freshman: 7.9%
Sophomore: 10.1%
Junior: 9.5%
Cronin is looking for more offensively from his sparkplug. That will most likely come on the offensive glass and be more efficient finishing. Size and power will help that. He took a dramatic drop in his field goal percentage despite being targeted more on offense this past year. His freshman and sophomore seasons he hit 52 percent of his shots. This year it dropped to 41 percent. That's a significant dip.
He'll certainly be needed for more than his 3.8 points per game given this year.
I think he was the most affected by the loss of Yancy Gates, not seeing as many open looks the big man helped create through his passing and attention paid.
--- For those clamoring for interior scoring, help is on the way. While we can't comment here on committed, but unsigned recruits, we can talk about Jamaree Strickland (6-9, 240 pounds). Mick did so last night and said this:
"He has great hands," he said. "He's a guy that can score. Defensively he'll be more of a position guy. He's like, 'Coach I got to get there right away I got to block shots like rest of guys.' I told him, don't worry about that, you are coming here to score."
--- While we are at it, this isn't breaking but Summit's Kevin Johnson, who will join UC next season, was named AP Division III Player of the Year in Ohio.
--- Troy Caupain finished one assist shy of a triple-double (15 points, 13 rebounds, 9 assists) in a 804 All-Star game in Richmond, Va.
--- Plenty more to come over this offseason on the formation of the 2013-14 Bearcats going forward. Keep it locked here as we delve deeper into all the topics.
--- In the meantime, here's a highlight compilation from the early portion of the season put together a few months ago.


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patio pavers or concrete patio in the great frozen northeast
What are the advantages or not of using one over the other ? We are concerned about the concrete cracking over time but are concerned the pavers will break the budget along with a retaining wall and firepit.
Concrete will always crack somewhere, but it cam be minimzed to where you normally can not see it.
Pavers are superior in a cold climate because it is a "flexible surface" - an engineering term that means it can move with the soil and return and the pavers will not crack, but a concrete slab is a "rigid surface" that can be expected to crack when the subgrade moves, so you have to control where it cracks.
Considering material cost, pavers are more costly, but for a DIY project, you can do it yourself and at your pace. Both materials require a base, even for a patio. You have to do the concrete pour all at once with some help. Pavers can be done intermittently until the surface is sanded and evened out to complete the job.
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HELP: Any recommendations on barettes?
Just looking for something simple that holds a toddler girl's hair in pigtails well and isn't damaging, if that's at all possible. Clips typically slip out easily, while elastic scrungies need to be wrapped too tightly to hold hair together. My 2 year old toddler girl, who has very, very short frizzy ringlets, could use something in her hair so that she will look more like a girl than a boy AND possibly wear protective styles at the same time in hope of growing her hair longer and healthier.
It's been a struggle....REAL STRUGGLE to this point and her hair seems like it hasn't grown since last summer. But of course, she didn't really have any hair on her head until last summer since she was born bald.
I'm getting desperate for an answer. Even though her hair is short, I can put two tiny pigtails in her hair. BUT, I would like to be able to do it without hurting her by trying to tighten those scrunci wraparound elastics (ex: http://www.shopwiki.com/detail/d=Scu...atin_Elastics/). And like I said, clips slip out too easily, especially if they are plastic (and, forget the metal ones since I know they are damaging). Is there any hope at all?
i use these: http://www.walgreensespanol.com/stor...&id=prod849691
and like the packaging says, they dont tangle or pull out her hair at all. and if you need to, you can even stretch them out a bit. i love them.
and if those still arent what youre looking for, a trick i used when my daughter's hair was way shorter would be to take the hair youre going to put in a ponytail twist it once (kind of like youre going to make a bun) before i put on a hair clip. that way it made the hair a bit thicker so that the barrette wouldnt slip out.
Thanks for the recommendation subbrock. How do you put them in your toddler's hair? The biggest trouble I have with my daughter is pulling her hair together to make a pigtail, not so much keeping it in one. The pulling effect is what makes her cry and cry.
If all else fails, I will definitely try to twist all her hair together, like you recommended, and use a regular plastic clip. That is, IF I can get her to hold still while I do it without any fuss or crying. No doubt it hurts or pinches her....
i think part of it is that shes used to me doing her hair--at 3 months old she had enough hair to put in a ponytail and she'll be 2 in a few months.
but ultimately, im just really gentle. i try not to pull her hair too much. if her hair is super tangle-y i'll detangle it first (that usually makes her start whining) then give her a minute to "recover" and then i'll finish up the job. distraction works wonders as well. i'll let her watch noggin if im going to do something that takes me a while (i.e. pigtails) and she couldnt care less.
Ahh...I see. One of the most difficult things to deal with in a baby being born bald is the price mom and baby have to pay once baby finally gets hair (for a girl, that is). When a significant amount of hair comes in between the ages of 1.5 to 2 years old, they are adjusting to just having something on their head that mom wants to "mess" with.
Gentle is the approach, I know...but so, so hard with an active toddler who won't hold still.
Ahh...I can't wait...can't wait...can't WAIT....till mine gets more hair. I loved my bald baby when she was real little and would have loved her with out w/out hair, but I guess I wasn't prepared for the challenge ahead when those first hairs sprout on her head.
Well, I'll keep trying....
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Faculty and Staff have the opportunity to work with students closely and often notice when something is not quite right. Faculty, coaches, administrators and staff can sometimes help students with personal problems, but sometimes it is best to refer the student to a professional counselor. Here is some information that will help in that decision, or you can call the Counseling Center at 4368 for a consult.
What you may notice if a student is experiencing the early to middle stages of emotional distress:
- Marked decline in attendance and/or academic performance, tardiness, or missed tests/assignments.
- Change in interpersonal behavior – increase in aggressive or disruptive actions, or withdrawal from class, group, or peer activities.
- Mood swings, hyperactivity, noticeable changes in appearance, poor hygiene, reoccurring illness, evidence of crying, alcohol on the breath, apathy, or lower tolerance for frustration.
- Increased use of excuses or continually confused/forgetful about assignments.
- Constant references to working, partying, or non-academic activities.
- Problems with concentration, memory, test taking, or ability to learn.
- Less able to adapt and/or find solutions to problems – thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are described in negative terms (can't, won't, don't, never, should/would/could have).
- Frequent references to problems with academic, family, health, social, financial, relationship, legal, or employment situations.
- Decrease or marked increase in the level and quality of communication with peers or faculty.
Possible interventions for the above stages:
- Choose a way to intervene with the student that is most comfortable for you – request he/she see you after class, or write a note requesting the student schedule a time to meet with you during office hours. You may choose to limit the focus of the meeting to academic/classroom issues or provide the opportunity to discuss personal issues. Treat the student with respect and do not make an issue of the student's behavior in the open classroom.
- Speak to the student in a private setting; explain your reasons for concern ("I've noticed you have been coming late to class and you have one assignment overdue. I'm concerned about how you are handling your responsibility."). Listen attentively. A few minutes of attention can help clarify what is going on with the student. It also provides an opportunity to give encouragement and provide options on how to resolve the issues the student is facing.
- Listen for and reflect thoughts and feelings ("It sounds like you are having a really tough time getting over the breakup with your girlfriend"), and ask how the student thinks he may deal with the issue ("Have you thought about talking to someone about how you are feeling?" or "What do you think you can do to deal with the situation?"). Resist telling the student what to do. Provide options and allow the student to choose for him/herself. Suggest he/she check out the Counseling Center web site for resource information directed to college related concerns or schedule a time to meet with a counselor.
- Avoid judgments and assumptions. Give the student the opportunity to explain the situation and come up with possible solutions. Attempt to come to an understanding about what the student will do next to improve the situation.
- Follow up. Let the student know you notice an improvement or that you still have concerns because the behavior has not changed in a positive direction.
- Suggest the student access College resources to seek solutions to the problem (Learning Commons, Counseling Center, Dean of Students).
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- Confused or disturbing communication patterns (incoherent speech, expressing grandiose beliefs, disorganized or rambling communications).
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- Contact the Counseling Center by phone or, if appropriate, escort the student to the Counseling Center.
- If the student is threatening or despondent, call the Campus Safety and Security Office at 3357.
- If the student insists on leaving, allow him/her to do so and contact Counseling Center or Campus Safety and Security Office.
Refer a student when you are faced with one or more of the following. Whenever possible inform the student of the reasons for the referral.
- The problem is not going away, is getting more serious, or you are feeling less comfortable handling the situation on your own.
- The student is unresponsive to, or resists, your efforts to intervene. The student is unwilling or unable to change.
- The student requests information you are unable to provide.
- Your schedule, stress level, or willingness to help interfere with your ability to provide an adequate intervention.
- You may be unable to be objective because of previous dealings with, or knowledge about, the student.
It is not unusual for students to resist the idea of seeking counseling. If the student chooses not to seek help, he/she cannot be forced. It is best to continue to show concern and encourage the student to seek help from family, friends, Resident Advisor, clergy, or someone he/she trusts who is in a position to help. If you are not sure what to do, consider calling a counselor at the Counseling Center for a consultation.
If a student is willing to seek counseling, you can help in the referral process by:
- Letting the student call from your office to schedule a counseling appointment.
- Informing the student you will have a counselor contact him/her.
- Suggesting the student check out the Counseling Center web site for online screenings and other self help and referral information.
- Giving the student the phone number and location of the Counseling Center and encouraging him/her to schedule an appointment at his/her convenience.
If a student is willing to seek counseling, though wishes to do so off-campus, you can refer him/her to the Community Resources page of the Counseling Center web site or encourage the student to speak with a counselor who can help facilitate the off campus referral.
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Meet The Minors Mets: Outfielder Jared King
I used to be a straight up read the basic stats kinda guy. It's easy to get caught up in the batting average, on base percentage and strikeout's and drool at big time hitters in the lower minors, where college players tend to feast on younger, less advanced pitchers.
With the introduction of Sabermetrics, there's a lot more to look at to determine the value of a player. One that I'm trying to wrap my brain around lately is BABIP, or Batting Average of Balls In Play. To put it simply, think of a BABIP of .300 as a baseline average. Most players should be around that number. If it's higher for a hitter, that means he's getting some serious luck on the pitches he's hitting or he's playing against inferior players. Lower than .300 and he's getting some bad luck on balls hit or the pitchers throwing against him are way better than his level of competition at that point.
So, let's meet Jared King, outfielder drafted in the 5th round of the 2013 MLB Draft out of Kansas State. First off, he was actually projected to go in the 2nd round, so it's a nice pick up for the Mets on potential alone. Secondly, he's not a real big power guy. He's a hitter, first and foremost. Decent defense in centerfield, ok speed on the base paths.
The reason I wanted to write about him? I like goofy statistics, like the fact the he's now on this 3rd level of the minors in one season. That's kind of odd to see. He stayed in extended spring training for the Mets and opened on the Gulf Coast League Mets, which is actually one league lower than where he started last year in Brooklyn. He spent all of 3 games in the GCL before being promoted to the South Atlantic League, where he hit for .231.
That doesn't sound that great. But let's take a deeper look at his stats. He struck out 10% of his at bats, but walked over 17%. He had 21 rbi's in 31 games. He also had a BABIP (ooooooh, here comes the science!) of .250. When you see the RBI #'s, his K/BB ratio and the BABIP, you start to realize he might just have some bad luck on his pitches hit. THAT'S why he was eligible for promotion, I would think.
Jared was promoted to the Florida State League and the St. Lucie Mets 6 games ago. He's hitting .304, with 7 hits and 2 RBI's. His BABIP is a closer to normal .294, so this type of production is more representative of what he can expect from Jared as a player.
I don't think we'll see him higher than St. Lucie this year, and there might start to be a logjam of outfielders in the system ahead of him. The Mets first round pick from this year, Michael Conforto, is starting in Brooklyn but he's a better outfield prospect than anyone in the system not named Brandon Nimmo. He'll bypass all other OF's eventually and quickly. I'm not sure if he's an everyday player, but he's OBVIOUSLY the type of player that Sandy Alderson loves. Smart approach at the plate, likes to find the perfect pitch to hit.
If he keeps this up, he'll probably start next year near us in Double A Binghamton, with a mid-season promotion to Las Vegas possible once the last of the Minaya players(Kirk, den Dekker, Puello, etc) start to move out of the farm system. Can I see him on the bench starting in 2016? If he keeps this up, without a doubt. Think Daniel Murphy, but with a glove in the outfield. Lots of singles but a pretty good amount of RBI's.


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Significant Changes In The Unified Rules Of MMA
Wow this is great news! Now all we need is judges that know the difference between a triangle that almost finishes a fight and an instrument :)
Seriously though they needed this, TDs were given too much weight, this way when theres a wrestler just surviving sub attempts, even if they arent that close but simply constant the guy on the bottom would win
This brings me back to pettis va guida, i still think that was a BS decision! I dont see how surviving a dangerous guard (key word: SURVIVING) means you won the round, if you are simply defending sub attempts then you arent being in control or effective in striking or grappling, effective grappling and agression should have been scored in favor of pettis....
But lets not beat a dead horse lol
Yeah not excited at all. Doesn't matter what they change, unless the judges actually know wtf they are watching it doesn't matter what they change.
Have you heard the Joe Rogan story about he was talking to a judge and this guy told him he was working a fight and the fighter was working for a kimura and the judge(who he didn't name, but I guess works a lot of fights) next to him turned and said "what is he doing right now?" That kind of ignorance isn't going to be changed with criteria changes.
There's nothing wrong with the rules now, the problem is a bunch of people who wanna see finishes getting pissy because someone can't sweep or reverse a guy like Jon Fitch and have to insult wrestling.
The only rule I want changed is that garbage Stand Up rule, that's the coward's refugee for strikers. If you can't get Jon Fitch or Ben Askren off of you, tough shit. Should have worked on that sprawl.
Also now TDD doesn't count. How is that better? Now you can literally steal a round with a single take down after you've tried 20 times already. I get it's about trying to create more offense but come on now.
These "changes" do nothing.
Still i think a fighter should always be looking to finish or do damage, this is also valid for strikers that simply strike just enough to be ahead on the score card and then just use "footwork" to avoid the fight
But i agree there should be no stand ups...:also i think its good you dont get points to defend, the objective is to be offensive, you should only defend to get a chance to be offensive, makes sense
Yup. All I took from it is that even more weight will be given to wrestling. Question for everyone:
Fighter A & B start the first round.
After around a minute of feel out with no significant strikes landed fighter A starts to find his range and lands a couple good jabs and say 2 straight counters.
Realizing that he is losing on the feet, fighter B shoots in for a TD around 2:00 in and is stuffed.
Fighter A starts getting more aggressive and lands a multi punch combo. Fighter B tries to circle out but is caught with power shot and is staggered.
Fighter B goes in for a TD at 2:30 in and gets it.
Fighter B stays in guard landing say 10-15 arm punches.
There are a few sub attempts with fighter A trying to get a high guard but nothing close and fighter B finishes the round on top staying heavy and avoiding any sweeps, completely controlling the position.
Who wins that round?
I would think Fighter A based on the 2:30 minutes of standing control and landing the only significant strikes on the feet. However, I think a majority of judges would give it to B. How would you score and what do you think an average MMA judge would score it.
No groin strikes, biting, scratching, poking with fingers, headbutting and grabbing fence/shorts.
That should be all.
These changes don't mean a lot due to the incompetence of many judges, only bad part of this article for me is the part that says 10-10 rounds should rarely be scored.
10-10 rounds should be encouraged, I guarantee that all the rubbish judges who can't be assed just pick a name out of a hat when they need to score a close round, that is why we see such strange scoring at the end of close fights. If you find it hard to score and you found no dominant periods in the round, score it 10-10 and forget it.
Then of course you'll have title fights scored 50-50, that's where the sudden death round comes in, another necessary addition IMO.
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The Board of Appeal today approved a 129-unit, six-story apartment building at Brighton Avenue and Linden Street after developers said they would rent no more than a third of the units to students - and not allow students to occupy any unit at a density greater than one student per bedroom. Read more.
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Allston apartments win approval after developer takes steps to prevent it from becoming part of the GAP student ghetto
A fire in the basement of Buk Kyung 2 at the corner of Brighton and Harvard avenues around 8:50 p.m. emptied the restaurant and brought Boston firefighters rushing to the scene. Read more.
Shortly before 9 p.m., Caitlin reports, the Brighton Music Hall on Brighton Avenue lost power - and ushered everybody out. She repaired to Tavern in the Square across the street where, just a few minutes later, the fire alarms began ringing.
Around 12:30 a.m. at Brighton Avenue and Cambridge Street. The suspect was described as white, with dark, curly hair, wearing a black shirt and blue jeans. He had a bicycle with him and a black backpack.
The Hamilton Co. last night showed off plans for 114 apartment in three buildings - one of them an existing Victorian house - around its Brighton Avenue offices.
At a meeting of the Brighton Allston Improvement Association, Hamilton architect David Hacin said the company would tear down the existing AutoZone building at 45-55 Brighton Ave. and use existing parking lots for two new residential buildings with underground parking as part of its proposed Packard Crossing project. Read more.
The Zoning Board on Tuesday rejected plans for a 130-unit apartment building at the corner of Brighton Avenue and Linden Street that would have been aimed at keeping young professionals in the neighborhood. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Bravo Pizza, 160 Brighton Ave., has exited stage left and won't be coming back for an encore.
OK, it wasn't that much of a storm, but, boy, did it have some big flakes, as Meagan discovered on Brighton Avenue in Allston.
Stanley Stacos reports the incident happened on Brighton Avenue near Harvard Avenue. The shooting victim made his way into Patron's for care; the stabbing victim showed up not long after at a local hospital.
Hillary took in a late-afternoon concert on the shores of Jamaica Pond today.
Crit, meanwhile, watched a guy play electric guitar - while riding a skateboard down Brighton Avenue in Allston: Read more.
A Boston health inspector reported today that S & I To Go, 168 Brighton Ave., passed an inspection after being shut last week for a variety of health issues.
UPDATE, 10/5: Inspection passed, gets OK to re-open.
A city health inspector yesterday shut S & I to Go, 168 Brighton Ave., for violations that included cockroaches in the restaurant's supply of sugar and evidence that rodents had gotten into its rice. Read more.
Police shut the roads around the intersection of Harvard and Brighton avenues this morning after police found two suspicious packages a block apart. One person was arrested; emergency responders began leaving shortly after 2 p.m.
A Cambridge developer this week submitted detailed plans to the BRA for replacing an existing car-rental place, small office building and large house at 89 Brighton Ave. with a 138-unit apartment building with 69 spaces for cars - and 142 for bicycles.
In his filing, Noah Maslan of Eden Properties says the building will be aimed at the growing number of small household who would rather ride a bike, rent a car or take a car service than deal with owning their own car in the city. Read more.
On Brighton Avenue, near Harvard, around 3 a.m., in an apparent drive-by, Stanley Staco reports.
Allston Village Main Streets is turning 89 Brighton Ave. into a new, if not permanent, community space that will include a two-floor indoor skatepark, a DIY bicycle-repair shop and a vintage market. Read more.
Fire investigators are at 79 Brighton Ave. to try to determine what sent the apparently vacant building up in flames early this morning.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded around 6:05 a.m. to heavy fire already showing from the three-story brick building.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday granted a beer-and-wine license to Totto Ramen, 169 Brighton Ave.
Because Totto Ramen, the first Boston outlet of a New York City noodle chain, is in a city Main Street district, it won one of several new licenses authorized by the state legislature this year to encourage restaurant entrepreneurs in neighborhoods away from downtown and the waterfront. Unlike older licenses, this one cannot be sold outside of Allston.
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6 Conferences for Self-Made Entrepreneurs to Visit in 2012
Posted on May 23, 2012
Being a successful self-made entrepreneur is nothing to sneeze at, placing you on a list of driven individuals with unique insight into the inner workings of business. An entrepreneurial spirit doesn't come without risks, however, and today's goldmine can quickly become tomorrow's forgotten product, bringing down both spirits and finances in one fell swoop.
With the understanding that being a successful self-made business person requires constant learning, improvement and innovation on your part, consider attending one of these six conferences for self-made-entrepreneurs in 2012 in order to stay ahead of your business' curve:
1. 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Polytechnic Institute of Santarem in Portugal will play host this year to the 7th annual European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, offering lessons and discussion on economic and organizational value creation in an effort to help you to improve your business' profitability. From low-key home office professionals to researchers and academics well-versed in the complicated workings of the economy, great minds will converge in this capital of Gothic architecture, sharing insight and offering inspiration to all.
When & Where: Santarem, Portugal is the setting for the 7th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, set to be held from September 21-22, 2012.
2. Small Business Expo 2012 L.A.
Come to sunny Los Angeles, California on November 8, 2012 to attend the Small Business Expo, an event aimed at helping small business owners and self-made entrepreneurs to make better business decisions in their quest for profits. Consisting of a general conference, trade show and networking events, this expo offers all attendees the chance to participate in workshops and discussions while learning about the latest products and services in their niche, building a long new list of worthy contacts all the while!
When & Where: The Small Business Expo conference will be held in beautiful Los Angeles, California on November 8, 2012. The official venue is not arranged yet, so feel free to book your hotel here
3. World Conference of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Set for September 13-15, 2012 in Tampere, Finland, the World Conference of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs aims to share success stories and tactics in order to inspire excellence in leadership and business vision in its attendees. Invited speakers will offer insight on all facets of being successful in business, helping young people in the prime of their entrepreneurial spirit maintain the focus needed to take their endeavors to the next level!
When & Where: Interested in becoming a leader of tomorrow? The World Conference of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs will be held from September 13-15, 2012 in Tampere, Finland.
4. StartUp Riot
Bring your latest business idea to StartUp Riot in Seattle this August, joining other entrepreneurs in presenting their startups in order to garner feedback and answer questions, potentially even attracting an investor or two! This very unique event focuses solely on the presentations offered by entrepreneurs just like you, offering real value to not only the presenters but also the attendees as creative juices and entrepreneurial spirit collide to create an atmosphere of pure inspiration for any self-made person in business!
When & Where: Give your startup a boost at StartUp Riot in Seattle, Washington on August 8, 2012.
5. International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Following great success with its first event, the International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship returns for a second year, this time to be hosted in Singapore, in order to bring entrepreneurs new and old insight on innovation, marketing and the mechanisms that lie behind a successful supply chain design. As the methods of creating value morph and grow with time in our turbulent economic landscape, ICIE aims to keep all attendees ahead of the curve in order to maintain and extend profitability under any circumstances.
When & Where: The unique city-state of Singapore is set to play host to the ICIE conference on July 23, 2012.
6. GROW Conference 2012
Beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia will be the backdrop for the GROW Conference 2012 event taking place August 22-24, 2012. Focusing on the effect of the social web on entrepreneurial ventures and startups, GROW will work to teach participants to stay competitive by continually evolving their marketing strategies in order to get the word out about their endeavors quickly and easily. Workshops, speeches, discussion panels and more will fill this three day event with exceptional learning opportunities for entrepreneurs of all stripes and in all niches, allowing every attendee to leave with renewed vigor, fresh inspiration and an advanced toolset to tackle the everyday challenges that come with being a leader in business.
When & Where: Enjoy Vancouver, British Columbia's near-tropic climate from August 22-24, 2012 while attending the GROW Conference.
2 Replies to "6 Conferences for Self-Made Entrepreneurs to Visit in 2012"
Erik B.
May 23, 2012 (11:56 pm)
Thanks for the information! I'm currently working for a startup and this is a very valuable resource for us.
May 28, 2012 (9:38 am)
Attending events and talks soothes the mind and refreshes our knowledge. Setting workable
goals motivates us to do our best and strive hard in whatever we do.


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So i just bought the 335i yesterday and i was wondering if anyone knew why my windows wont go up. it doesn't sound like there is any power going to the windows its self i checked the fuses to see if there was voltage in them and there was. i need some quick advice its winter time and its really cold.
OK, do you mean 533i and not 335i? I would guess that you did the most common mistake with the e28. There is a black button at right knee level. This is the relay/fuse for the windows. push it in and your windows will work.
I just mis-typed it i have my moments.. and i will give that a try thank you!
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Did you see this? Leah Libresco's last post on the atheist portal; she has converted to the Christian faith and is now in RCIA. For several years, a lot of my friends have been telling me I had an inconsistent and unsustainable philosophy. "A virtue ethicist atheist whose transhumanism seems to be rooted in dualism? [Read More…]
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Margaret Mowczko is on the executive committee of a newly-formed CBE chapter in Sydney (Australia). She writes on the subject of biblical equality for her website Newlife. * * * * * Some Christians believe that being a leader is a man's role, and that it is unfeminine for women to be in leadership. These [Read More…]


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97 F150 rear shocks for front of my 95 YJ
Like all jeeps with a leaf spring suspension you will have a bumpy ride. My front shocks are toast and I heard rear shocks from a 97 F150 will work? Mine are leaking pretty bad.
If anyone has links or can direct me in the right direction.
I already set my shackle bolts to 40 ft lbs and removed the sway bar, that helped a lot.
by the way the Jeep has 5" of total suspension lift
with 5" of lift you will max out the ford shock when you flex, they will work on a road jeep or mild off road, they are about perfect for 3 1/2- 4" lift. I run the ford shocks front and rear with 2 1/2" lift, mine would bottom out if I didn't have extended bump stops. if you do decide to try them the ones you want are for the 4 wheel drive truck. 1997 f150 rear on front. 1974 f250 rear on rear.
Thanks for the info. After some research I left the sway bar out and kept in the factory track bar with a relocation bracket and replaced the front shocks with a set of skyjacker 5-6" lift mono tubes. Wow what a difference, the ride is so much better.
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Obama failed to give thanks to God in his online Thanksgiving address. He thanked God in his written address. He thanked God last year. He closes speeches, as every president ever has, with "May God bless the United States of America". None of this matters though to Fox News, who obsessed over his Bush like omission (Bush also failed to mention God in his final Thanksgiving address). The failure was offensive enough that one paper wrote his comments are "just what we would expect from a Mar … [Read more...]
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Gratitude: The 'on ramp' to a better story & better world
God knows there are plenty of problems and challenges, both around us in our own homes. It's easy focus there, fighting our battles, or looking on in despair, anger, or cynicism as others, who are supposed to be fighting battles for us, don't. The super committee isn't so super after all. A nuclear Iran and a sluggish economy threaten; An Arab spring appears to be settling in for a long Arab winter of discontent; A Euro whose future is uncertain creates anxiety. And all the while, back in ou … [Read more...]
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Luke 19:10 offers an interesting perspective on the word "occupy" because this is where Jesus tells the parable of the talents. A master hands over some money to various servants and tells them to "occupy" (King James) until he returns. Then, of course, some do that well, and bring the master a return on his investment, and others, not so much."Occupy": to fill or take up space. The word can mean many things I suppose, and there's a sense to which the occupy movement is giving us a li … [Read more...]
Chronos Peace University….
By now, many of us have heard of Dave Ramsey, and Financial Peace University. It's a great program, as I share in this video. The essence of Ramsey's plan, though, is ridiculously simple: don't spend what you don't have. It all makes sense, of course, and yet there's something in us that makes us believe, sometimes, that life will better if we buy this or that - and suddenly we find ourselves harried and stressed because we've over-reached.Fine. Meanwhile, there's another problem many of … [Read more...]
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I got the chance to attend the Nantucket Conference this past weekend as a young entrepreneur. Over three days, I heard countless stories of success through failure, and I'm convinced that the best entrepreneurs are the ones who heard, "No, your idea sucks," and kept on going.
Not just any conference
The Nantucket Conference is a concentrated gathering of some of the smartest, most influential people in the northeast tech startup community. The event is sometimes criticized for its selectivity and price tag, but these same restrictions create an intimate, obliging environment that you won't find at large events.
As an invited young entrepreneur, you get to see investors and high-profile entrepreneurs in their natural environment. And surprisingly, they actually get along quite well.
Overcoming the naysayers
Almost every one of the speakers had some story of an investor who told them, "no." In Slava Rubin's case, he had 95 storied investors, some of whom were in attendance that weekend. Each of them, from Neil Blumenthal to Gail Goodman, were written off by some of the most experienced people in the industry, then set out to prove them wrong.
As an attending entrepreneur, you get a first-hand lesson in hearing "no" in at least one of its many forms. It was inspiring to partake in this tenuous culture of give-and-take while simultaneously bearing witness to the great companies it's created. I think it's one of the few times one could feel good about being told no.
The reality is that, in the early days, every startup will hear more "no" more often than "yes." In a panel titled, "Avoidable Mistakes," Dulcie Madden shared that amid these challenges, founders need to present a "copacetic calm" to their team, board, investors, etc. Everyone's startup is a mess, and embracing that fact without freaking out is just how things are done.
How to survive the crazy
Mentors are invaluable. A couple of the conversations I had at the conference completely reframed some of the problems I've been struggling with. Anyone can give advice, but only certain people can provide perspective.
Find a peer group. Madden and Goodman hinted at this in their talks. You need a peer group of people who understands what it's like to smile while everything you've built is burning down. You can only bottle that up for so long before it drives you mad.
Good people are out there. Find them. There are smart, talented people who will go out of their way to help you, the Nantucket Conference just had a high concentration of them. People like David Chang, Andy Miller and Karl Büttner are actively trying to donate their time and energy to Boston entrepreneurs through different initiatives, and there are many more people like them.
Three of my biggest champions over the weekend were Brent Grinna, Karl Büttner and Simeon Simeonov. Despite knowing almost nothing about me, each of them went out on a limb to introduce me to others. Brent even pitched my startup, Appcues, to Joe Caruso!
This weekend revealed a strong undercurrent of camaraderie building within Boston (and New York). As these startup ecosystems mature, more entrepreneurs will (hopefully) reach back to help the next generation, creating the same virtuous culture that's commonplace on the west coast.
For northeast entrepreneurs, overcoming "no" is as important as convincing future entrepreneurs, "Yes, you can do it, too."


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The date of my first heart attack is not noted in my diary — nor is much else in late October 1994. It came early in the day: I had walked the dogs and had a shower and was sitting in a white towelling dressing gown sipping coffee and attempting to write, but feeling slightly out-of-sorts in a way that could be attributed to jet lag, for I had returned from Pakistan only the previous day. Out-of-sorts turned to nausea and I took to my bed; there, to nausea, a dull, constricting pain in my chest and a different pain in my left arm were added; I was alarmed enough to telephone my doctor. At just after nine he was already seeing other patients and [his surgery said he] would call back between noon and one. "I might be dead by then," I said, "I think I'm having a heart attack." Allowed to disturb him, his response to my symptoms was that I was indeed having a heart attack, that he would both call an ambulance and come himself, "and if the ambulance gets there first, go with it".
Alone in the house, I thought it sensible to open the front door while I still could, but when I got out of bed my feet were dead and my legs gave way. On hands and knees I crawled to the door, opened it an inch or two and retreated to the hall, closing the glass inner doors behind me; I then lay exhausted on the floor where I could at once be seen. One thought excluded all others, even anxiety and hope; it was that no one should die while experiencing such pain, for it was of a quality that obliterated all composure and the quiet business of the commendation of the soul. Many years have passed since I abandoned the beliefs and observances of Christianity, and yet I cherish the notion of dying easily and with my wits about me, hands folded as in a medieval effigy, my dogs about me on my bed, farewells done, sins remembered and confessed, affairs in order, and the ritual comfort of prayers murmured in Latin as in the fading light my consciousness departs. [My dogs] Mop and Titian surged about me in silence until the ambulance men arrived and then put on such a show of raised hackles, growling and snarling that they would not come in. "Call off your dogs," they shouted through the glass, but by then a stricture had developed in my throat and I could not speak. My dogs, I thought, are putting on such a brave defence not realising that they may be killing me. A passing policeman solved the problem; recognising that Mop was the leading dog, he took off his tunic and, holding it wide open, wrapped it around her head and shoulders and, pushing against her thrust, tossed her backwards down the stairs to the kitchen; when Titian meekly followed, he shut the door on them.
I remember nothing else until we reached the hospital, the then spanking new Chelsea and Westminster with its absurd collection of contemporary art. There I had the clearest vision, not of the conventional tunnels and lights of the near-death experience, but of my brain leaving its skull; it hovered just out of reach of my right hand and then slowly drifted away towards a door. "For God's sake, bring back my brain," I shouted — at least I think I did — and again lost consciousness.
For a long week I lay in bed attached to instruments. People brought food but left it out of reach and, eating nothing but some peas that I could just touch with my fingertips, I lost half a stone in weight. The curatrix of the hospital's pointless paintings (sick or well, no one stops to look at them, but to decry them is politically incorrect), one of the art world's signatories to the notorious letter demanding my dismissal from the Standard [on January 5, 1994, 35 members of the art world wrote to the newspaper demanding Sewell be dismissed for assorted offences ranging from "homophobia" to "class hypocrisy"] earned a shoddy shilling or two informing the gossip columnists. I wanted only to sleep but friends came, with the best intentions, to sap my energy. When the cardiologists decided that they needed only to open the arteries with a balloon (an angioplasty) rather than to operate — a procedure they could not offer for some weeks and for which I might wait at home — I was released. A nurse I had not seen before came with instructions not to eat red meat, chocolate or oysters, not to drink coffee, not to have sex. "What precisely do you mean by not to have sex?" "Well, you know …" she replied. "No, I don't — sex comes in many guises. Am I allowed to masturbate?" To this she made the sort of whimper-cum-splutter that a maiden aunt might make and scuttled off puffing with affront.
I left the hospital in the clothes in which I had arrived — underpants and the white dressing gown, unshod, unshaven and with not a penny in my pocket. The first three taxi drivers would have nothing to do with me but the fourth recognised me as a writer for the Standard, took me home, saw me through the door and would not take payment. I went to bed and very warily, almost enquiringly, I masturbated. Why should this puerile and much mocked activity seem so important to a man in his sixties? I do not know: I know only that it was an indication that, in spite of the heart attack, my body was not in other aspects malfunctioning, that I was still a man and had not become a vegetable. Why is it not to be mentioned in polite society, unless by a stand-up comic whose audience will, at the mere mention of it, fall about with laughter? As a subject of serious discussion it is taboo; is this because it is far more common among adult men than we admit or suppose? As all my married friends confess to it but keep it from their supposedly disapproving wives, it is still a secret pleasure in which they must not be too absorbed for fear of the wife at the bathroom door with her, "Darling, what are you doing in there?" Wives can demand privacy without rousing suspicion, but men cannot. Is masturbation the real reason for the garden shed?
When the widening of my arteries took place it was not quite the calm and insignificant procedure promised — "You will feel nothing," they said, "just watch the screen above you and see it all." The Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem echoed through the operating theatre — not the most comforting of music in these circumstances — and I subsided into a private twilight gloom; but then I felt something deeply unpleasant and the violent shaking of surgical shock began, with nurses and my cardiologist leaning heavily on me to prevent me from falling from the table. Only when the anaesthetist deepened my twilight to unconsciousness could they continue. The heart is reached by way of an artery in the groin and the incision must clot closed when all is done; I emerged from my drowsing to find the most handsome of young doctors — head boy and captain of the first XV rolled into one — pressing hard on the small wound and shut my eyes again to prevent any reaction, not quite as successfully as I had hoped. "You're enjoying this," he said with a grin.
The angioplasty did not last and within a year I had another heart attack. Had a friend from Bath not been in the house to hear the thump of my collapse, I might well have died; it was eight in the morning and as the nearest ambulance was trapped in traffic, he lugged me out to his car and drove me to the hospital. I was only faintly aware of things as the doctors did what was necessary, but quite clearly heard a young man ask, "Why are we doing all this? This man is sixty-five and whatever we do he won't have much quality of life when he recovers. Why don't we let him go?" "Mr Sewell may be inert and not responding," said an older voice, "but he's not dead yet and I suspect that he can hear. What you've just said will not encourage him." I saw that young doctor some months later and reminded him. Now that I am eighty I am grateful that his superior bade him continue whatever it was that he was doing to me.
The surgical response was, eventually, a quadruple bypass; at some point I was enough awake to feel frozen with cold and with an almighty effort summoned the words to ask why — or so I thought — but heard no answer and lapsed back into comfortable unconsciousness. The impression of that chill remained with me and later I asked again, "Why was I so cold?" "Because you were; you were in a bath of ice; we were lowering your temperature. Were you conscious? We thought we heard you mumble something."
Everything hurt. My ribcage had been ripped open and stitched together with titanium wire; every muscle, tendon and ligament along the spine had been uprooted, stretched or crunched; every pulse in my skull and neck was beating loud as the drummer in Led Zeppelin, the noise intolerable, the metal structure of the very bed on which I lay seeming to reverberate in time with them. In the recovery room I would have welcomed death to end such torments, but I had things to do — such absurdly unnecessary things as seeing a painting at Sotheby's and going to the opera. It was these that drove me to recover.
I did both. The opera was Sophia Larson's debut in Turandot at the ENO. I had not heard her before, nor have I heard her since — a mystery, for I found her the most dramatically convincing singer in the role, her fine rich soprano perfectly suited to a production that, for the first time in my experience, made sense of an improbable and rather silly plot; her natural body language too lent it conviction. The later of my two small ambitions, and far the less stressful, I have no doubt that it contributed to my recovery; not for one moment did I sense the discomforts of the Coliseum's seats. Discharged on the fifth day after the bypass, on the seventh I tottered on a stick into Sotheby's to see, perhaps for the last time, Orazio Gentileschi's Finding of Moses, to be sold on December 6, 1995, lot 61A, a masterpiece irrecoverable if bought by a foreign museum. Painted by Orazio while at the court of Charles I and hung in the Queen's House, Greenwich, it encapsulates a sublime moment in the history of British art and patronage, and I believe its distinctly unclassical landscape to have been inspired by the Thames. I gorged on every brushstroke. As I turned away, "My God, you look ill," said an Italian dealer I had known for thirty years, a friend of Claudio. To my "Oh, I've just had a heart bypass," his response was, "That was a mistake — it was not your heart that needed to be bypassed, but your tongue." I wished I had that sort of command of any language but could only murmur the insulting: "Vaffanculo."
On my way home, over-confident, I stopped at the V&A on some foolish errand now forgotten and, on leaving, was stopped by a guard and accused of shop lifting my substantial and glossy catalogue of the Gentileschi sale. I refused to accompany him — "You've made an accusation in public. You will apologise in public. Fetch the manager of the bookshop." This he could not do without leaving me, so took my arm. I furiously forbade him. And then the manager appeared, took one look at the catalogue and apologised. I was shaking and thought I might faint when I tottered down the steps to the street but, unsummoned, a taxi driver stopped and took me home — it was another reason to respect the intelligence and responsibility of London cabbies, and not the last. Years later, when somehow the leads of my first pacemaker broke and I had a blackout in Pimlico Road, it was again a taxi driver who picked me up, literally carrying me, and took me to the Evening Standard; the Brompton Hospital would have been a better destination, but he had assumed me to be drunk after too good a lunch.
Blackouts were frequent after the bypass, sometimes with just enough warning to find myself a tree in Kensington Gardens or a sheltering gatepost, and I learned not to stand on the kerbs of pavements or on a platform's edge. I became a guinea pig for Dr Richard Sutton's tilt-table, an instrument of torture to which one was tied prone and then, deeply relaxed, tilted into the vertical to induce a faint, the nauseating consequence of a drop in blood pressure. There were, too, all the usual effects of swollen ankles, fingers drained of blood and other circulatory problems, and there were days when my blood pressure was so low that I dared not leave the safety of the house. The bypass quite certainly saved my life, but it also changed it — I could no longer ski or play tennis, the regular annual breaks in the pattern of my life, never again could I scramble about in mountains or walk twenty miles every day for a week, and I found myself breathless — with anxiety, I suppose — when driving even short distances, yet I had been a driver who enjoyed the skill, planning and endurance involved in covering eight hundred miles in a long day. My life changed radically from irregularly active to regularly so sedentary that even walking the dogs any serious distance was out of the question. The point was rammed home to me when, on a trip to Venice with friends from the V&A, we went to Possagno to see Canova's museum and I could not walk up the long slow slope to the great church above the village, but sat at the bottom and miserably watched my companions meander into the unattainable distance half a kilometre away.
For a while I became something of a zealot about matters of the heart. We should all, I preached, know enough to recognise the warning signs, foolishly believing that had this been my case I might not have had the attacks nor needed the disabling surgery — for that is what it was, disabling. Now I am not so sure that I would have believed the preliminary messages from my body, nor am I sure that I would have acted on them — one must have the heart attack to know how much it hurts.
A slow change I would have borne more easily and without the anger and resentment. I had always been reliably fit, my stamina exceptional, but the sudden removal of my toys, as it were, occasioned nagging rancour that I could no longer do what I had done so easily. At the same time, to others I became more indulgent and less critical, not towards the art and artists of my work, but to the failings of more ordinary people, and I no longer particularly cared if things went wrong. I became, I think, an oddly softer, kinder and more generous-minded man after the heart attacks — except where television is concerned.
The second volume of Brian Sewell's autobiography, Outsider II, will be published by Quartet Books on November 1, price £25
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By drforbes
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In this day and age of throwing something together and selling it for a high mark up seems to be par of the course but with this particular product you have fine, piano black finish, a great subwoofer, great tweeters and excellent mid-range speakers. It's very easy to set up-just 1 wire as the subwoofer is wireless. I did have some problems at first and it's important to know this. If you have a smart HDTV, make sure your software is up to date. Just download the update on a flash and plug the flash into the back of your TV. Viola-terrific sound for the price!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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I bought it mostly for my ipod, but I use it all the time with my TV. It goes loud enough for my small space, but not too loud. The sound is very, very clear, much better than my TV speakers. The bluetooth connection is so convenient, I really love that. It has enough connections to hook up my whole network to it. The only thing missing would be a co-axial input so I could hook my cable box directly in to it. I was very pleased that the courrier called me and arranged a delivery time. I am not an audiophile, I don't know that much about sound systems but I am a techie, and this works very well for me.
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I expected great sounds from this Sound Bar but I was very disappointed. Apart from a higher volume, there is nothing out of the ordinary with this system. You can barely notice any difference. Definately not worth the money. To be honest, I didn't shop around and listen to this or other Sound Bars...my first mistake. Too much trouble to send back otherwise I would. Stay away from it.
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Jason has issues.
He'll never drop his machete long enough to sit on a therapist's couch or anything. But if he did, Jason would spend his sessions talking about how his horrible deformities shaped his childhood. About how the counselors at Camp Crystal Lake ignored and abused him. About how his own mother was decapitated right before his eyes. He'd lament the fact that he had to raise himself—eating and sleeping and setting up creepy shrines to his dead mother on Crystal Lake's deserted campground.
And he'd be told by his therapist that what he really needs is some love, some encouragement ... and a little prison time so he can cool down a bit. Perhaps a really, really good counselor could funnel Jason's inborn zeal into a more socially acceptable skill—like accounting, perhaps.
Because really, Jason's current career track is a dead end. Well, more for others than for him, I guess. If the world has learned anything from the previous 11 Friday the 13th movies, it's that Jason is more resilient than a post-nuclear cockroach. But few teens who wander into Jason's machete range survive the experience.
The 12th chapter in the Friday the 13th saga—a franchise reboot titled, somewhat unimaginatively, Friday the 13th—is more of the same: Teens wander into Camp Crystal Lake. Teens have sex, take drugs and behave badly. Jason picks teens off, one by one. Friday the 13th moviegoers don't ask whether someone will die: That's a given. Rather, it's a question of when, with what and how many liters of blood will be spilled in the process.
Positive Elements
As were its predecessors, Friday the 13th is, when you get right down to it, a really, really, really twisted morality tale. Here's the moral: Behave, or Jason will kill you.
Bad characters—teens who drink, take drugs or engage in untoward sexual activity—die. Those who don't—well, some of them die, too. But they live a wee bit longer. And a few might even make it to the closing credits.
Whitney is probably the film's most obvious "nice" character���a pretty teen who, when not camping at Crystal Lake, cares for her dying mother. When she goes missing, her brother Clay starts scouring the area looking for her—also a nice thing to do. And then there's Jenna, who feels bad for Clay and tries to help him.
OK, so none of these high schoolers would qualify for a Nobel Peace Prize ... but we'll take what we can get here.
Spiritual Content
Jason keeps his mother's mummified skull in a little shrine-like alcove and surrounds the whole thing with candles.
Sexual Content
"If there were not blood at all in the movie (there is tons) it would get a hard-R rating just for nudity and sexual situations alone," Brad Fuller, a Friday the 13th producer, wrote on his Platinum Dunes blog.
Topping the list is a tryst between Trent, the film's designated rich jerk, and Bree, one of the designated sexpots. Trent's girlfriend, Jenna, is off with Clay looking for his sister, so he takes advantage of the situation—and Bree—in a locked bedroom, where they engage in graphic sex. (There's a lot of movement and moaning; audiences see Bree's breasts and backside.) Trent crudely compliments critical parts of Bree's body all the while.
Two other teens reveal their breasts before falling victim to Jason: One strips off her bra to entice her boyfriend into a round of sex inside a tent. (Again, a lot of graphic movement makes it onto the screen.) Another goes waterskiing topless.
Among other tawdry things, a guy asks a mannequin whether she (the mannequin) remembers when she took his virginity. Another fellow buys condoms and references masturbation. A guy prepares to masturbate while looking at a clothes catalog. The camera scans a pornographic magazine as someone appears to lick sections of a foldout. Several folks make crude and obscene comments to each other, including the sexualized suggestion of someone being willing to drink someone else's urine. Obscene gestures are made. Women dance provocatively. Men ogle.
Violent Content
Audiences witness the movie's first beheading before they've finished turning off their cell phones. The victim: Jason's mom, who carved a bloody path through Crystal Lake counselors in the original film. We see the head's bloody stump and hear the woman's disembodied voice tell Jason, "Kill for mother."
He does just that.
In 90 minutes, the hockey-masked killer guts 13 victims in (according to Fuller) "new and original ways that will satisfy even the most hard-core gore hound."
Victim 1) Attacked while relieving himself. We later see his bloody body propped against a tree—and his ear hanging in a nearby marijuana plant.
Victim 2) Burned alive while hanging upside down in a sleeping bag. Eventually the body falls out of the bag, scorched and still smoldering.
Victim 3) Caught in a bear trap. He nearly escapes, but Jason plants the machete in the middle of his head.
Victim 4) Stabbed with the machete several times through the floorboards of a dilapidated cabin—eventually pulled by Jason into a gaping hole, still screaming, never to return.
Victim 5) Decapitated so that blood squirts out of neck. Jason later carries the headless body around the woods like a sack of sugar.
Victim 6) Shot through the head with an arrow.
Victim 7) Hit on head with speeding boat, then cut through the top of the head with the machete.
Victim 8) Skewered through neck and chin with a really sharp pointed instrument. Blood gushes.
Victim 9) Thwacked in the back with a double-sided ax. He's still alive, so Jason finishes the job by pushing the ax all the way through his chest.
Victim 10) Impaled by a set of antelope antlers. Shot several times by clueless boyfriend.
Victim 11) Stabbed through the eye with what looks to be a fireplace poker.
Victim 12) Pinned through the chest to the back of a pickup with a machete.
Victim 13) Stabbed through the back and chest with a machete. (How many of those things does Jason own, anyway?)
And we haven't even talked about the concluding scene yet, in which characters—who may or may not make it through the climax—are punched, kicked, stabbed, hung, thrown through bus windows, tossed into lakes and partially fed through wood chippers.
Crude or Profane Language
A teen wears a T-shirt that reads (partly censored), "F--- Christmas." And audiences hear the f-word (completely uncensored) more than 70 times. The s-word is said about 40 times. There are at least 10 misuses of God's name (one linked with "d--n") and five abuses of Jesus' name.
Drug and Alcohol Content
Jason's first batch of victims are on the hunt for a marijuana patch—which they find and subsequently die beside. Characters smoke from a huge, purple bong (nicknamed Lucille); puff on what could be cigarettes or joints; drink vast quantities of beer and liquor (including some from a used sneaker); play a few drinking games; and talk quite a bit about how drunk/high they are. There are consequences, of course: Jason hates nothing more than wasted teenagers.
Other Negative Elements
Teens urinate onscreen, make really crude references to critical anatomical parts and functions, and pick on brothers who are searching for their sisters.
Every now and then, someone will ask me—with a slightly worried, somewhat pitying look—"How do you sit through movies like, say, Friday the 13th?"
Here's one of my secrets: Rather than focusing on the brutality and the carnage and the really horrendous images onscreen, I begin to imagine the director had a deeper point to make behind it all—as if the shrieking, bleeding people onscreen are merely symbols for something entirely different. For instance, I imagine that Jason is a symbol of the economic recession, and the teens represent the struggling auto industry. Or perhaps Jason is Rosie O'Donnell and the teens are manifestations of her short-lived variety show. Or even that Jason is my brilliant, kindhearted but sharp-penned editor, and the teens are synonymous with the stories I submit to him.
Because, really, without resorting to such games, I have a hard time making it through 90 minutes of this sort of sordid mayhem. I know some people find this form of entertainment fun—I heard the audience chuckle several times during the screening—but I just don't quite get it. This is a film that fetishizes brutality and aggrandizes murder. It treats victims like so much squealing cordwood, their deaths as carnival novelties. It's not fun.
But maybe everybody does what I do to survive this stuff. Do hard-core gore hounds, as Brad Fuller so eloquently put it, really hate these images as much as I do, but they're hooked on comparing Jason to a swarm of biblical locusts and his victims to the ancient Egyptians' crops? Are they consciously distancing themselves from brutality by deliberately desensitizing themselves to it? I wish no one would go to these films. But they do. So I hope—no, I pray—that, if fans really got what was happening onscreen, they'd not find it fun at all.
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Jared Padalecki as Clay; Danielle Panabaker as Jenna; Amanda Righetti as Whitney; Travis Van Winkle as Trent; Derek Mears as Jason Voorhees
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New Zealand's newest secondary school runs all its computers on open source software. WAYNE ERB reports
hen it comes to software, Albany Senior High School deputy principal Mark Osborne turns to students for expert advice. In fact, students do a lot more than just advise. One of them even has a copy of the school's server operating system installed on a machine in his bedroom.
This may not be the usual way to solve technical problems but Albany does not use the usual software. The new school in Auckland made the bold move of running its computer system almost entirely on open source software, possibly the first large New Zealand school to do so.
Open source means programmes are developed and distributed for free and can be modified by users, in contrast to the proprietary software that dominates the market. That means expert users, even teenage ones, can look for problems and make improvements.
Mark Osborne says the successful setup was daunting to begin with due to limited precedents. Warrington Primary School in Otago has shifted to open source software but he has not heard of any secondary school that has made the complete switch.
"We don't know anyone in New Zealand that has done this on the scale that we have embarked on. We're looking at eventually having 1300 students here and 400-plus computers."
You might suspect the motivation for this was financial – and Mark estimates the school will save $200,000 per year by having no software licences to pay – but the dollars were secondary to the teaching and learning implications he and other foundation staff could foresee.
During establishment the school created its vision and values and these included being an open and transparent learning community that freely exchanged information.
"We were looking at the pedagogy to support that but we thought all the other systems need to support that too. We kept coming back to open source software because it allowed people to freely collaborate."
And that's why the Year 11 student mentioned earlier has a copy of the server software at home. The school would have to pay thousands of dollars for extra licences if students had specialist software on family computers – in other words it wouldn't happen to the same degree, says Mark.
Instead, all the open source applications are available at no extra charge to students and anyone else with whom they or the school might choose to collaborate. The student and other computer enthusiasts are fine-tuning the school's network after-hours and during class time allocated for student-led projects. Mark also grabs advice from the young man and his peers during encounters in the corridor.
"This kid is an expert – he knows far more about it than I do."
Other students have access to cutting edge software such as a 3D modelling tool that makes Lord of the Rings-style animations.
Mark acknowledges that as a new school Albany did not have to cope with existing systems while adopting open source software. But he hopes other schools can follow its lead and he has been carefully documenting the process.
Early on, the school tendered for and hired a company to provide technical support. Mark says there are only a few operators with knowledge of both open source and educational settings.
Last year, well before opening for students, teachers trialled the software on their laptops. The main challenge was simply familiarising themselves with menu changes and the like, he says.
Mark believes the school will save money by extending the life-time of its computers, as open source software runs well on older hardware. It uses less disk space and processing power because the number of programmers making contributions leads to a more efficient design, he says.
Open source software also has a reputation for being more stable, having fewer bugs and less susceptibility to viruses.
The system at Albany Senior High will be adaptable, as required by the school vision. Already, the group of student computer enthusiasts has surveyed staff and found a need for video-sharing software. They are working on a solution, says Mark.
"We went to open source software because of the ethos, not because it was free. We didn't want to lock anyone out of the learning process."
What Albany runs
The operating system is Ubuntu, a popular version of Linux, itself one of the best-known examples of open source software.
The school uses Open Office which can read and edit files from the familiar commercial applications. Computers are loaded with video editing software, CAD programmes, web design tools, composition software, project management programmes and more, all downloaded at no cost from the internet. Mark says there is little that is not available.
However, email and document management tools are provided by Google. They are freeware but not open source.
The school intranet uses Moodle, a learning management system used in over 50,000 locations globally including a fair number of New Zealand schools.
Two further pieces of open source software were developed in New Zealand. Albany students and teachers have electronic portfolios made with Mahara, a system collaboratively made by several tertiary institutions and launched in 2006.
The school library catalogue uses Koha, first developed for Horowhenua libraries and now in use internationally. Mark says the school has paid a programmer to add additional features like a book rating tool for students to express their opinion.
"Then we will gift that back to the Koha community. The more people like us who contribute to it, the better it will be."
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More information on Mahara e-portfolios: www.myportfolio.school.nz
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AKRON, Ohio – After one week off from competition, the Akron tennis team prepares for a busy weekend, starting on Saturday with a doubleheader versus IUPUI (10 a.m. ET) and Wright State (2 p.m.) at its indoor home of LaTuchie Tennis Center in nearby Stow. On Sunday, the Zips (2-0) travel to Morgantown, W.Va., to face off against West Virginia in a noon contest.
Both home matches can be followed via live statistics.
Saturday's action marks the start of a home-heavy February for the defending Mid-American Conference squad, which is scheduled to play seven of its 11 matches this month in Akron.
UA, which last month was picked to capture both the 2012 regular-season title and league tournament championship in the conference's preseason poll, opened the year by defeating Oakland 7-0 on Jan. 21 and Michigan State 5-2 one day later.
Akron is in control of an 18-6 all-time record versus Wright State (0-3) and is tied 4-all in the all-time series with IUPUI (1-5). The Zips claimed the previous meeting with WSU 7-0 in Akron on Feb. 15, 2009, and have defeated IUPUI three-straight times, with the most recent being by a count of 7-0 on March 6, 2010 in Akron.
The Zips play host to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) at LaTuchie Tennis Center on Feb. 11 at 4 p.m. ET, then compete at Cleveland State at 11 a.m. on Feb. 12 and host Youngstown State on that same day at 5 p.m.


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Contrary to the belief that the end of cold war and beginning of globalisation would bring a peace dividend that will wipe away poverty and usher in an era of peace and prosperity for all, thousands of people are still struggling for survival and livelihood.
Following the launch of the Millennium Development Goals and their review at the UN Millennium summit, many developing countries are yet to achieve their targets. This is further complicated by the rise of new conflicts n Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
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Impartiality is a key factor in humanitarian assistance. In a situation where ethnic differences are the root-cause of a conflict, such as Myanmar and Congo, or where human rights and governance are publicly questioned on streets, as was evident in the Arab Spring, it is absolutely essential for aid agencies and advocacy organisations to strictly follow the principles of humanity, neutrality and impartiality irrespective of the beneficiaries' faith, gender, ethnic or geographical origin or political affiliation.
Impartiality is a fundamental component of the accountability framework of humanitarian NGOs. In providing assistance in conflict situations, charities, especially faith-based charities, must ensure that they are not influenced by any consideration other than need. This may place these charities in conflict with their supporters who may expect preferential treatment based on common faith.
In the case of Muslim charities, their Islamic ethos supports the humanitarian principle that aid should be distributed on need basis.
Another key factor that poses a challenge to the work of the charities is their inability to generate media interest in potential disasters which do not make headlines. There are always telltale signs ahead of a disaster, such as the slow onset of famine in the Sahel region in Africa. However, no one pays attention to these signs with the result that aid agencies are unable to raise sufficient awareness to prevent a disaster.
Worldwide recession has also affected the funding of charities. They struggle to get government grants for running stabilisation and poverty alleviation programs. Whatever humanitarian aid is provided is not enough to meet the needs. Often funds that should be given to charities are taken by UN agencies to fund their own inter-governmental programs.
Amal Imad is Information & Public Affairs Assistant, Muslim Aid