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Thanks to two new bills, there is financial relief at last
Whether you're racking up tuition fees now or still paying student loans after graduation, you know one thing is for sure: College is expensive. To make matters worse, the spending doesn't end at a semester of classes -- there's books that need to be purchased as well, and they're worth more than a little bit of pocket change.
But if you're going to school in California, a bit of relief has finally come your way in the form of two bills: SB 1052 and SB 1053.
Both bills, which were crafted by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), will allow California college students to download up to 50 core textbooks for free in
the form of e-books
. The e-books are for lower-division courses and are for classes at the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges.
More specifically, SB 1052 allows for the development of the e-books and the creation of the California Open Education Resources Council for e-book approvals. SB 1053 has developed the California Digital Open Source Library to store the new e-books.
"Many students are paying more than $1,000 every year on their textbooks, sometimes having to choose between buying the books they need or paying for food and other living expenses," said Steinberg.
The new e-book bills were signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday. They are expected to go into effect starting in the 2013-14 school year.
Digital textbooks are certainly becoming the new way of learning in institutions around the globe. This new form of educational offerings was further boosted by Apple earlier this year, who released
iBooks 2 and iBooks Author
that allow for the creation of digital textbooks and makes them available for purchase on the iPad.
"We can't expect users to use common sense. That would eliminate the need for all sorts of legislation, committees, oversight and lawyers." -- Christopher Jennings
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Being a horror fan is tough work — especially these days, when watching gore films can be such a pain. Thanks to the relative popularity the Saw and Hostel series, torture porn seems to be everywhere these days.
But that doesn't mean the best splatter movies are the ones now screening in multiplexes. Movie history is filled with cinematic nastygrams — some surprisingly smart, others just plain not-for-the-squeamish — that didn't get enough love. To find out which of them brings the most pain, Wired got picks from Fangoria editor in chief Chris Alexander and marketing director Rebekah McKendry.
"People are always doing terrible things to other people on and off screen in these 10 classic – and in some cases overlooked – movies," the pair said in an e-mail with their list. "[They] reflect mankind's darkest side, lit well and with lots of actors pretending to be in agony."
Check out Fangoria's picks for the best torture flicks in the gallery above, which includes trailers (and, in one case, an entire film) for you to watch.
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Rebekah McKendry: "This Hammer [Collection] flick features a torture-loving Dracula wielding a whip. Played by Hammer staple Christopher Lee, this Dracula loves pain just as much as blood."
Chris Alexander: "While not the best Hammer Drac, this was indeed the one that announced the 'new' Hammer of the 1970s – cold, bloody and full of cruelty. Sadistic fun for the whole family."
The Loved Ones (2009)
Rebekah McKendry: "This Australian flick is about a girl who literally kidnaps a prom date and proceeds to torture him all night. It's brutal and surprisingly also very smart and hilarious."
Chris Alexander: "Part Carrie, part People Under the Stairs, part 'What the fuck did I just watch?' A demented masterpiece with tons of leering, over the top – and distinctly Aussie – violent behavior."
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Rebekah McKendry: "Another comedic torture film! This one comes from Belgium and is a mockumentary about a group of filmmakers following a rather charming serial killer on his murder spree. As the murders become more brutal, the camera crew becomes more and more involved in them. A disturbing and darkly comedic look at the human psyche."
Chris Alexander: "This film is a real landmark, the first of the '90s-and-beyond, postmodern horror films, and certainly the best."
Guinea Pig (1985)
Rebekah McKendry: "The film is about a group of 'scientists' who kidnap and torture a woman to experiment with different forms of pain. The plot is ridiculously basic, but who needs complexity when you have needles, knives and worms?"
Chris Alexander: "Skinny Puppy used parts of this revolting 'film' in one of their shows, and its power to shock remains undiminished. Slow, horrible torture porn at its basest and most dangerous. Once thought to be a snuff picture by some, or so the legend goes. More Guinea Pig films followed but this one is the grossest."
Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
Rebekah McKendry: "A midget and his assistant torture kidnapped women for theater-goers who don't realize the show is real. This notorious Grand Guignol-like pic features endless torture atrocities splayed on an artfully lit stage and bathed in hypercolor blood that looks quite a bit like poster paint."
Chris Alexander: "Ugh. Cheap as all get out, Joel M. Reed's notorious nasty is sickening and skuzzy. And we love it, especially the vulgar bit where a girl's brains are slurped through a straw. Yuck!"
Tattoo (1981)
Rebekah McKendry: "Tattooist Bruce Dern is holding model Maude Adams captive, and his torture devices are far worse than just a bad tramp stamp."
Chris Alexander: "Dern is a woefully underrated actor and I love him in this bizarre movie, a kind of post-Taxi Driver art-house horror film. Weirdest sex scene ever and much ink-based torment on the delicious Adams' parts."
The Devils (1971)
Rebekah McKendry: "Directed by the hallucinatory Ken Russell, The Devils is a fantastic mix of religion, naughty nuns and torture. This movie has been endlessly banned. Depending on which version you acquire, you may be privy to the often 'edited out for taste' femur masturbation scene. Wait.... Can I say 'femur masturbation' on Wired?" [Eds. Note: Guess so!]
Chris Alexander: "Forget femur frigging – a scene that may or may not exist, actually – it's the Rape of Christ sequence that makes this one so reviled by some. Shame that. Besides all the agony inflicted on poor Oliver Reed, and the arch psychosexual mania, this masterpiece is actually pro-spirituality. A gorgeous film about bad people."
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
Rebekah McKendry: "The blind Knights Templar torture and even rape their way through the Spanish countryside. This one still packs a hell of a gooey decaying punch!"
Chris Alexander: "A chilling and ridiculous bit of Spanish sleaze, Amando de Ossorio packed mucho nastiness into this, the first of four Blind Dead pictures. The scene where the still-living Templars torture a bare-breasted maiden while on horseback wielding swords is hard to watch."
Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
Rebekah McKendry: "Arizona vampires have their butler drain girls of blood and then serve it to them as iced cocktails. I'm still floored that this movie is only rated PG."
Chris Alexander: "Director Al Adamson met his end murdered and buried in his floorboards, which is where many critics wish this D movie ended up. But man is it a grease-ball, cheesy treat, with John Carradine collecting a paycheck and Mr. and Mrs. Dracula draining screaming starlets of their red stuff while gently torturing them."
Watch the whole film above.
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Rebekah McKendry: "From the demented mind of Takashi Miike (the same sick dude who brought us Audition), comes Ichi, a mentally confused psycho who is now hell-bent on revenge. This is one brutal flick … and at times, it's kind of a comedy too."
Chris Alexander: "Any film that spells its title card out in splattered semen is OK by me."
Blowback: What's Your Favorite Torture Flick?
Have you seen any of the nightmarish cinematic spectacles listed in our gallery? Got your own favorite mutilation movie? Shriek your personal opinions on the best (and worst) torture porn of all time in the comments below.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.

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It's 9am and there is no one on the beach. I'm about to set out by foot, bus, train and tube to the Battersea Arts Centre on Lavender Hill and I have leapt into the sea spontaneously for a last-minute dip. I have been swimming in this sea all summer long and can hardly bear to part with this feeling of fluidity, this physical immersion in the wild elemental world. The swells are long and slow and I am floating, gazing up at the sky and clouds. The sea town bobbing in front of me.
What's the word, I ask the morning, that I should take to the conference?
Open, the day replies mildly, as the horizon stretches in all directions and the clouds move with the wind ever westwards.
Afterwards I cycle down the sleepy high street, towards the farmer's market, where Brian has four kinds of home-grown chilli waiting for our next Happy Mondays Community Kitchen meal – a Mexican fiesta. I sing as I go up the hill:
Porque cantando se alegran cielito lindo los corazones
Because, sweet sky, singing gladdens the heart.
KEY ONE: Finding the key
Vilcabamba, Ecuador, 1992. She was Night and I was Dawn. I was deliberating. We were enacting a drama, induced by the cactus, known as San Pedro, the keeper of keys.
"You can have it like this," she said and wrapped me in a big black cloak. "Or you can have it like this" and she opened the cloak and there in front of me were the shiny faces of my friends, laughing. It felt as though that decision was the simplest and the most profound thing I could make in my life. It felt as if it could turn the destiny of the whole planet around.
"I'll have it like this," I declared.
"Bring it on," she said.
Battersea, London, 2012 He is feeling and I am thinking. We are enacting a drama in a workshop on creating happy and healthy human cultures. Sophie Banks is asking us to express the extremes of opposite states and then to let them go.
"What did you experience?" he asked me afterwards. They are the same, I replied. I looked at you and I saw me. Thinking and feeling make the same shape. They are either closed down, or they are open.
The opposites are not feeling or thinking, or male or female, or action and reflection, but the state in which we operate. When we rush around the room, heads down, closed, defensive, self-obsessed, we live in a restrictive world where time is running out; when we slow down, get in pace with our hearts and the natural rhythms of the earth, looking at each other, related, connected, open, we find ourselves in another world. We are open to possibility, we are open to change.
That was a small key moment at the Transition Network UK confererence 2012 on Lavender Hill. And it gnawed at my heart all weekend, like a little mouse.
KEY TWO: set and setting
During this last fortnight the Social Reporting crew has been covering the Conference in all its aspects. We decided to preview, report and reflect on the areas that we were involved in and some of those that surprised us. During the break on Saturday morning, we met at the media hub and decided which workshops we were going to attend, so we could report back on as many as possible. As well as Sophy's workshop I put my hand up for When Transition Says No, facilitated by Ben Brangwyn, which featured the real-life stories of Transition Heathrow and their squatted community (Grow Heathrow), Transition Town Totnes with the local No to Costa Coffee campagin and Transition Cowbridge with anti-fracking activisim in Wales. In between I'm looking after the Transition Free Press stall, running an editorial session at Open Space, talking with all the people I now know in the movement and on the lookout for this year's surprise theme.
Two years ago at Seale Hayne it was the Stoneleigh Lecture which rocked the halls and woke everyone up to the economic crisis; last year in Liverpool it was the tale about los indignados, told to us by Transition Barcelona, which presaged the global Occupy movement a couple of months later. Here in Battersea I'm missing the kickback time and outdoor spaces afforded by both those residential events. This year the main conference is almost a day shorter, and we do not breakfast or have supper together. I'm aware however that it has a different set and setting, where instead of feeling like an outsider, I feel completely at home.
We not in not an agricultural college or an ex-Catholic seminary teaching college on a campus, but an arts centre on a high street in my home city, that once housed official Council offices. It's not an academic but an ex-civic space that now resounds with music and dance. We're singing and dancing too on land that was once lavender fields. We're singing with Ines, we're watching a caberet, put on by poets, journalists and film makers and we're dancing wildly to the band. We're writing a poem together and laughing. I've written the first line:
By the composting toilet I sat down and wept
key three: layers
I'm looking for the story in amongst the noticeboards and conversations, the shafts of sunlight filtering through the coloured glass roof. The title of the conference however is not about narrative, a fluid and linear sequence in time. It's about a vertical shape contructed in space. We are building resilience in extraordinary times – a resilience, I'm discovering, that is constructed in layers. Strips of meaning laid on top of one another.
In Sophy's workshop we begin with a traditional milling exercise: walking around the room slowly and deliberately, looking each other in the eye, then fast as if we were late for a meeting. Eyes down, locked into ourselves, pushing everyone out of the way. Then she outlines a Native American teaching about coming from upright or deteriorating mind. This is a teaching from the Six Nations confederacy, which gives us a blueprint of how to shift from a warmongering mindset to one of inter-tribal co-operation. Layer three comes from psychological work with trauma, where it's recognised that in extreme circumstances human beings split into two parts – an outer part that deals with survival (gotta do, gotta get on) and an Other inner part, which holds the traumatic experience and all the feelings it engendered.
The first part is always in control, and the second lurks underfoot, threatening to upset the apple cart at all turns. In order to avoid re-experiencing the initial trauma the controller projects all the dark and dangerous stuff onto other people. That's the black sheep in our families, our disloyal friend, whole sections of society in the down-there place, those "difficult" people in our Transition initiatives.
Me and you.
Layer four is our challenge: how do we move from Dominator Culture towards Partnership Culture? How do we take the good things from our deeply felt experiences and our smart, outgoing, pioneering selves, and join those fragments together?
KEY FOUR: the TALKING Shop
The Sunday High Street group process, devised by artist Ruth Ben-Tovim, starts with a word we write on a small blackboard in a chalk circle we have drawn around ourselves. What makes us joyful (communication and the earth)? This opens out to a storytelling with our immediate neighbour (about a white lion who find his home in the Arctic, about a community meal cooked for fifty people each month), followed by a discussion with eight people in our neighbourhood, about mapping our street (leafy, friendly, sharing and interconnected), then finding partnerships in the Transition Town Anywhere, based on eight categories (communications), setting up a business in our High Street of Dreams.
Teen and I teamed up in the Communications corner. We were the first shop to open (No 19), and Teen was one of the torch bearers who ran down the High Street to declare it open. The Talking Shop was a media hub and literary cafe downstairs, wth an office for the Transition Free Press upstairs.
"We'll be too busy to do food," advised Teen as my plans for the cafe extended wildly. As it happened however we found ourselves next to a Community Kitchen and we soon knocked a door through our adjoining walls, so we could share custom. Sorted swiftly, with a minimal shop front, Teen went out to have a cigarette and I went to the media hub to send my menu notes for Monday's Mexican fiesta. When I returned the High Street was in full swing and I walked around the cardboard town, talking to people, asking questions, listening to their set-up tales. For a moment it was like being a kid again at the seaside, building sandcastles and spaceships that take you all the way into the future.
"Would you like an ale?" asked a familiar voice.
"Do you have cider?" I asked. "I can't drink beer."
"Oh, yes," Rob replied, and handed me a cup. I laughed as I peered inside and found it was empty. For moment I thought it was real. I had forgotten the joy of imaginary games. It's not often you get the chance to let go and be in play with 300 people. I loved the inventive things everyone was doing with all that newspaper and bamboo sticks, all those joyful exchanges of which I was a part. But inside I was troubled too.
"Gisse job," I said to Fiona from REConomy, standing next door at the Town's Job Centre.
"This is for people with skills," she explained.
"Communications is a skill," I replied. "We're setting up a media hub and a local newspaper."
"You need to go to the Bank," she said.
I went back to mind the shop. Communications is a skill, but in the imaginary and the real job centre there is no paid work for communicators. There were only two of us in the room who were doing the job. We were skilled journalists, social reporters, and already had a national Transition paper for sale. "Comms" in the conference was represented by the workshop on Spiral Dynamics given by Nick Osborne, but there was no formal focus on our relationship with the media, or indeed becoming the media. Even though the mainstream and alternative press have a key role in shaping the mindset of the collective there was no place for those of us telling the story of our extraordinary times.
This post has taken a long time to be published. Partly because my fellow reporters have already written so clearly and comprehensively about the event. But partly because something happened there I didn't really want to look at. I wanted to write how wonderful the conference was. Because it was. There was a high octane buzz and an ace feeling afterwards that we were a network of people throughout the world, working towards a future that had nobility, meaning and heart. But there was this other feeling I found as I stood at The Talking Shop I couldn't ignore – a feeling of redundancy.
I am not a builder. I am a storyteller who makes meaning in time. I go where the story takes me. I go where I am welcomed and where I am valued. It's not an individual decision, it's a group decision. In my Transition initiatives I organise community blogs, press releases, newsletters, bulletins, speakers and sometimes am that speaker myself. I am the one who asks awkward questions in meetings, keeps a record, relates the bigger picture – from the Network to climate change – that frames all our small local moves. For the past five years I have written hundreds of blogs in praise of everything I see and experience in this extraordinary movement. I have found the words – all the words, the bitter, the joyful and the true. I have given them freely. In one initiative, I am ignored and excluded, in the other I am welcomed. Communications is understood as vital to our resilience and has helped keep us together where the other has fallen apart. It's not because I am a wonderful and important individual, it's because I'm working with a crew that knows the work of communications is vital if we want to create a partnership culture. Communication is what brings those fragmented parts of ourselves and our world back together. A key that opens the door.
Because, sweet sky, singing gladdens the heart.
Because, dear readers, I sat down by the rivers of Babylon and wept.
Pictures: words and people from the project In Your Own Skin, showcased at the Cabaret and being crowd-funded this month (Katheryne Trenshaw),; mosiac bee on the floor of the Battersea Arts Centre (Laura Whitehead); writing up a blog at the media hub (LW); communications board at the High Street group process (LW); our sunflower-shaped neighbourhood (Mark Watson); Martin from Asda with the pre-processed carboard (Ruth Ben-Tovim); newly minted Bristol Pounds, our Transition Free Press front story, launched on 19 September.


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In a year that has already set a number of all-time high temperatures, the city is again bracing for record heat today, as temperatures will approach 90 degrees.
Today's forecasted high of 88, is more than 25 degrees higher than the average high time of year; last year's high temperature was 55.
The highest temperature of the year is also the highest resident have dealt with since August of last year.
The record high for this date was set ten years ago, when temperatures hit 92 on the thermometer.
Warm temperatures and sunny skies are sure to send many residents outside today, but with the high heat comes high pollen counts. Pollen.com has the pollen level at 11.8 out of a possible 12 today.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has also issued a warning for an increased risk of brush fires for the city due to the combination of dry conditions, heat and wind.
The temperature is forecasted to drop to 78 tomorrow, with highs later in the week more in line with seasonal temperatures.


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SAN LEANDRO — Police arrested four people and recovered two semi-automatic handguns this weekend.
Guns were recovered during three different crimes Saturday and Sunday, police said. In addition to the handguns, a replica of a pellet gun was recovered by officers.
At 12:49 a.m. Sunday, an officer made a traffic stop of a Honda Accord on Washington Avenue near Parrott Street. Two men were inside of the car and during the stop, the passenger got out and ran while holding something in his waistband, police said.
Police found the man in a nearby driveway, where he tried to toss a semi-automatic handgun under a car.
Police arrested Francisco Patino, 22, of San Pablo, and recovered the loaded gun, which was reported stolen out of Placer County. The driver of the vehicle was identified and released at the scene, police said.
At 6:52 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a McDonald's restaurant at 1287 Washington Ave., on a report of an armed robbery. Two men went into the men's bathroom and threatened to shoot a man in the restroom, police said.
The suspects stole the man's wallet and ran away on foot. Officers broadcast the two suspect's descriptions and a short time later they were stopped in the 1800 block of E. 14th Street and arrested. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy and Yonase Hailermariam, 22, on suspicion of armed robbery.
Police recovered the wallet and a pellet pistol that looked like a semi-automatic handgun from one of the men, police said.
Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, an officer saw a vehicle being driven recklessly in the 600 block of E. 14th Street and caught up to the car on International Boulevard at 98th Avenue in Oakland. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of reckless driving. During a search of the vehicle, police found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the car. The 22-year-old suspect's name was not released.
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Hi,I have an English Tutorial website which contains sound files for visitors hear the correct pronunciation of words.Dictionary.com have audio pronunciation as well, and when you click their little speaker icon, playback is instant without any obstacles like:
"Internet Explorer has blocked an Active X ...bla bla bla" or a superfluous dialog opens requesting user to verify intention to download... bla bla bla.All of this will scare potential customers away.
I inspected the speaker graphic element on www.dictionary.com and Firebug showed me the following code:
<embed id="speaker" width="17" align="texttop" height="15" flashvars="soundUrl=http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/dictionary/audio/luna/T04/T0442100.mp3" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" salign="t" menu="false" loop="false" quality="high" src="http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/d/g/speaker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
So, it appears that the answer is to just insert a Flash rollover triggering the mp3 right?
Given that over 90% of users have flash installed, I'm hoping that it would be a safe bet that flash is the way to go.
Any help appreciated.
There are various options here, including using the new <audio> element in HTML, which works best with a Flash fallback for older browsers that don't support <audio>. As an example, check out [audioJS and [URL="http://www.jplayer.org/"]jPlayer](http://kolber.github.com/audiojs/).
Out of interest, what format was you audio file in? (That is, what was the fie extension—such as .mp3 etc.)
Thanks ralph,
Audio file is mp3.
Hm, I'm not a Windows user, so I can't say much about that error message, but certainly you don't want it. Is this happening for the site that's online, or is this just happening to a test page on your own computer? It's not uncommon for this to happen if you are running the page locally, but should be OK when the page is online.
Also, what code are you currently using on your page? (That is, how is the audio file linked to the page?)
I'm just using the object tag
<object data="audio/14-01-13/fossilFuel.mp3"></object>
The site is live at a subdomain on my server and I've just tested it and got those annoying messages I mentioned.I tried www.dictionary.com and got instant playback - no hassles!
O well, I recommend trying something like audio.js, to which I linked above.
If you can convert it into wav file then its more easy for you by using it.<embed src="bgsound.wav" hidden="true" autostart="true" loop="1">Play Sound
Flash is the way to go even if many says otherwise.
Comments like that are pointless unless you back them up with some kind of reasoning or evidence. Flash does not work on many devices, and even where it does, it requires third party plugins. How is that better than using native browser options—even if not perfect at this stage?


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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - The grandparents of a 6-year-old boy who has autism believe a substitute teacher knows how their grandson was badly injured while he was at school last week.
"He ran to me and got in my lap, clung to me tighter than he ever has. I was angry, I was upset, I was horrified," said Debra Oleksak.
A grandmother held back tears when talking about Jackson Cecil, who left Bright Horizon School in Pompano Beach with cuts, bruises, and welts.PHOTOS: Boy's injuries
"He was pretty well bruised, pretty well beaten," said Michael Oleksak.
Michael and Debra Oleksak called police since Cecil can't tell them what happened because he's autistic and has trouble talking.
"This child can't tell you what happened or speak for himself and nobody knows," said Debra Oleksak.
School officials first said Cecil injured himself while riding the bus, but surveillance video showed he hadn't. A substitute teacher escorted Cecil from the bus to his classroom, and when he arrived, a teacher's aid noticed his injuries and called his parents, according to the grandparents.
"When he got off the bus, there was a close-up, he turned and faced the camera and you could see plainly there were no scratches, bruises," said Michael Oleksak.
The couple suspects it was during that time frame, from the bus to his class, when a substitute teacher picked him up that he somehow got hurt.
The Broward School District released a statement, saying, "Our school police is working collaboratively with BSO and local agencies regarding the allegations."
The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating this as a possible child abuse case. Jackson started at a new school Wednesday.
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It's a sad day in soapdom. Eileen Herlie, a mainstay on All My Children since 1976, passed away Wednesday, October 8, 2008 of complications from pneumonia. Herlie played the character of Myrtle Fargate since 1976. The character became a second mother to Susan Lucci's Erica Kane, and to just about everyone in Pine Valley, most recently being the strong shoulder for Thorsten Kaye's Zach. To everyone in the soap opera town, she offered her love, advice and wisdom. Many a female character purchased their wardrobe at Myrtle's Dress Shop, and many a Pine Valley newcomer stayed for a time at Myrtle's Boarding House.
Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Herlie worked for several years in the Scottish National Theatre and in the English theater in the company of Tyrone Guthrie. Among her first hit plays on the London stage was Jean Cocteau's "The Eagle Has Two Heads."
On Broadway, she starred as Queen Gertrude opposite Richard Burton's "Hamlet," and played the same role in the film with Sir Laurence Olivier. She also starred on Broadway with Ruth Gordon in "The Matchmaker," with Jackie Gleason and Walter Pidgeon in "Take Me Along," with Ray Bolger in "All American," and as Queen Mary in "Crown Matrimonial." Herlie's other film credits include "Freud" with Montgomery Clift and Sidney Lumet's "The Seagull" with Simone Signoret.
''I'm sure Eileen is lighting up the skies in heaven with her flaming red hair and lovely Scottish accent,'' Susan Lucci, who's also currently a contestant on Dancing With the Stars, told Entertainment Weekly. ''The earth's loss is heaven's gain.''
''Eileen was much loved by everyone at All My Children, because she gave so much of herself everyday,'' Eden Riegel, who has played AMC's Bianca since 2000, also shared with Entertainment Weekly. ''She lit up the whole studio, corny as it sounds. No one was ever more alive than she.''
According to the magazine, "in saying goodbye, the AMC cast and crew shared stories about Herlie, as well as a champagne toast to celebrate her life. 'I think she really would have enjoyed [that],' Riegel says. ''She loved a good cocktail, loved having an attractive young man around to flirt with, loved getting her hair and makeup done, loved to act, and gave it all she had right up to the end'''
Herlie was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award for her role in Take Me Along on Broadway in 1960, and was nominated four times for a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category (1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986).
Born Eileen Herlihy, Herlie guest starred as Myrtle Fargate on two other ABC daytime dramas, "Loving" and "One Life to Live." Although Herlie married twice (first to Witold Kuncewicz and then to Philip Barrett), she had no children. She is survived by her brother, Alfred Herlihy, and her nieces and nephews.
In case you didn't know, "All My Children" celebrated its 38th Anniversary on January 5, 2008. The program has successfully maintained its popularity and continues to be one of daytime's most compelling dramas. "All My Children" took home the 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series, the third time the show received this top honor, having also garnered the award in 1994 and 1992. In 2004 the show also received its third consecutive Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing, its third Writers Guild Award and its fourth GLAAD Media Award in March 2007.
Created by Agnes Nixon, "All My Children" premiered on the ABC Television Network on January 5, 1970, as a half-hour show; seven years later it expanded to an hour. Julie Hanan Carruthers is executive producer, Charles Pratt, Jr. is head writer and consulting producer with Casey Childs, Conal O'Brien, Angela Tessinari and Steven Williford directing. "All My Children" is produced in New York and airs MONDAY-FRIDAY (1:00-2:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
Our hearts go out to the cast and crew of All My Children and to Herlie's brother, Alfred Herlihy, and her nieces and nephews, as they deal with the loss of a daytime legend. I know that I speak for everyone at Soapdom.com in saying that she will be missed on All My Children. May she rest in peace.
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Alemtuzumab in the treatment of steroid refractory acute graft-versus-host disease
Transplant patients take immunosuppressive medications for several years after undergoing transplantation. Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) is a common complication after allogeneic transplant that can have negative effects on the skin, liver, and gastrointestinal tract. The most common treatment for both preventing and treating a GVHD flare is steroids, but long-term use of steroids has its own complications, and in some cases, the GVHD can stop responding to them. In this study, patients received steroids and methotrexate for GVHD prevention, while alemtuzumab was given to treat GVHD flare ups.
The study enrolled patients who experienced GVHD as follows: 8 patients classified as grade II; 5 patients with grade III, and 2 patients with grade IV. About half the patients developed the GVHD within the first 100 days after transplant. Patients were treated with alemtuzumab 10mg, given subcutaneously on days 1-5. This was in addition to the steroids and methotrexate they were taking for prophylaxis.
Complete resolution of GVHD was seen in 23% of patients, partial response was seen in 62%, and no response was seen in 15%. This study showed that alemtuzumab can be used safely and effectively for treatment of GVHD, while also opening the door for more research into incorporating the drug earlier in the course of GVHD.
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Just curious here. I have a moderately long middle finger and my index finger is about 3/4 of an inch shorter if I hold all my hand out flat with fingers together. Sidearm definitely comes easier to me and all my early success was with sidearm.
People almost always have longer middle fingers, but I'm wondering if people with a higher index to middle finger ratio are more naturally prone to backhands, while people with higher middle to index finger ratios are more natural sidearm throwers.
If my hypothesis were to have merit, then Arsenio Hall would be a beastly natural backhander.


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Retired Col. Stephen Dinauer, the former commanding officer of CU-Boulder's Naval ROTC program and now interim director of the Presidents Leadership Class, or PLC, believes that leadership transpires when people understand each other.
"Leadership," Dinauer said, "is a people business."
Coming from an extensive military background, Dinauer brings a wealth of experience in both leadership titles and exposure to environments where ethical reasoning is a handy skill set to have. Dinauer has dedicated 27 years to his military career with the U.S. Marine Corps, completed two combat tours, acted as commanding officer and director of public safety at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and he's been at CU since 2010.
Dinauer is pleased to continue working with young adults who are keenly interested in acquiring these leadership skills. In his words, "There are few things more rewarding than helping young adults grow both intellectually and in their own sense of 'self.'"
PLC was formed in 1972 to recruit Colorado's top students and provide the state with a stream of graduates schooled in what it means to be effective leaders. Once accepted into PLC, students are granted scholarships and complete a course curriculum that incorporates values like critical thinking, academic discipline ethics, creative problem solving and thoughtful implementation. PLC courses supplement what students choose as their major.
"PLC is unique because we appeal to high-achieving students… whatever their future professions might be," explained Dinauer. "We don't reside in a particular school, so our student population covers the range of academic disciplines, and that's a real strength."
Prior to PLC, Dinauer instructed the course "Leadership and Ethics" for the Naval ROTC program. He has presented lectures for the Leeds School of Business, the PLC and several seminars on behalf of CU's Honor Code. When PLC asked Dinauer to instruct a course for the program, he postponed his plans to retire after three years with ROTC. Subsequently, the program sought a candidate for interim director.
Dinauer says he's "extremely humbled by the opportunity to join the PLC team and work with some great students who all have the potential to make a real difference in the future of Colorado and the world."
One vision he has is to make PLC more defined as a four year program, so juniors and seniors are encouraged to stay actively engaged after taking required courses during their freshman and sophomore years. Another goal is to align PLC's program with CU's new Minor in Leadership Studies.
Peter Lawson, a PLC junior, an integrative physiology major and class advisor for the freshman lecture that Dinauer instructs, said Dinauer is consistent in being sure to get results out of students and their education. Lawson feels fortunate to be working with him this semester.
"He has a lot of great visions for the program," said Lawson. "And he really values the students at every year throughout the program." Lawson spent this past summer studying public healthcare in Brazil, where he discovered a thing or two about cultural immersion and the business of people. He admires Dinauer's accomplished leadership background and values the tradition of mentorship that the PLC has to offer.
Breanna Williams, a PLC freshman and business major, appreciates the approach that Dinauer takes in his teaching as well. All PLC freshmen take "Individual Leadership and Ethics" as a course requirement.
"Colonel Dinauer tells us that the way people see you is how you will be remembered," said Williams. "He's very intelligent, and if he doesn't understand you, he knows how to ask the right questions to really engage with each student one on one."
From Dinauer's point of view, the skill to lead others is one that develops through social and cultural interactions. He calls leadership a people business because, as he describes it, "you have to understand the context."
"In order to be a leader in the broadest sense, you have to be a critical thinker," says Dinauer. "That skill, or that approach, will help you regardless of what you do."


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The sweeping chalked message appears and is wiped clean with the spin of the dial on the right side of the card. It notes 'Printed in England' on the back. It's in excellent condition. What appears to be a mark on the back is just my shadow in the photo.
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Three months from now, the class of 2013 will walk across the stage to collect their diplomas and immediately have a panic attack when they realize it's time to look for that first job out of college. First, let me give you a piece of advice – you have the rest of your life to work, take the summer and explore the world if you have that luxury. That's something I wish I had done (I started my first job the day after graduation).
For those of you that need to get a job – you know, like yesterday – I thought it would be helpful to share my perspective on the skills I believe most employers are looking for in a PR hire. The reality is, if you're a recent grad and don't have these skills, you'll have a harder time finding that first job. If you're an undergraduate, learn from this post – so you'll be in a better place 2, 3 or 4 years from now. [Read more…]


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Observational Study Of A Protease Inhibitor (PI) Containing Regimen In Subjects With PI Mutations Selected During Prior Treatment With GW433908 (Fosamprenavir)
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This study will assess the efficacy of subsequent protease inhibitor (PI)-containing therapy in subjects who have acquired HIV-1 protease mutations whilst receiving a GW433908 (fosamprenavir)-containing regimen.
|Infection, Human Immunodeficiency Virus I HIV Infection
|Drug: No intervention; Observational study
|Phase 3
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|A 24 Week Phase IIIb/IV Single Arm Open Label Observational Study to Explore the Efficacy of Protease Inhibitors Given in Combination With Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors to HIV-1 Infected Subjects With Protease Mutations Selected During Therapy With GW433908 Containing Antiretroviral Therapy
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
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- Prior participation in study APV30005 AND one of the following studies: APV30001, APV30002, AZL30006, APV30003.
- Must be failing virologically (>1000 copies at two consecutive time-points) and have a screening genotype with evidence of at least one new APV-associated protease mutation: V32I (+/- I47V), I50V, I54L/M, I84V acquired since commencing treatment with GW433908.
Exclusion criteria:
- Have 2 or more of the primary resistance mutations D30N, G48V, V82A/F/T/S and L90M.
- Have a medical need for use of an non-nucleoside reductase transferase inhibitor (NNRTI).
- Have an acute CDC Class C event requiring therapeutic intervention.
- Are pregnant or lactating.
- Have any other condition which in the opinion of the investigator would preclude their participation.
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text: Butterbaugh named to fourth-period honor rollHUDSON Wooster native Annaliese Butterbaugh, who is attending Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, was named to the fourth-period honor roll. She has maintained honor roll status for the entire academic year. She plays on the women's lacrosse and field hockey teams.Book discussion slated at Dalton LibraryDALTON Young adults in grades 6-8 are invited to attend the book discussion of "No More Dead Dogs" by Gordon Korman at the Dalton Library on July 20 at 6 p.m.Participants may take a snack. Beverages will be provided. Registration is under way.To register, visit the Dalton Library at (330) 828-8486.


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North Platte is now in Union Pacifics Train Town USA Registry as part of the railroads year-long 150th anniversary celebration.
North Plattes historical connection with Union Pacific will be featured at www.up150.com.
We are proud to recognize North Platte as we commemorate our railroads sesquicentennial celebration and growing up together, said Brenda Mainwaring, Union Pacific director of Public Affairs for Nebraska and Iowa Union Pacific has been part of the countrys fabric throughout the railroad's 150-year history. That bond between us and the nearly 7,300 communities we serve continues to strengthen.
Our shared heritage with North Platte is a source of pride as we remember our past while serving and connecting our nation for years to come.
From North Plattes creation, it became a Train Town and was first platted as a railroad town by Union Pacific Railroads Chief Engineer, Grenville Dodge.
Dodge chose the location because water was readily available, and it was about the right distance from Grand Island. The first train arrived in North Platte in 1866. Dodge constructed major rail shops and winter quarters for its crews.
William Buffalo Bill Cody located Scouts Rest Ranch at North Platte because it allowed him to move his Wild West Show by train or by wagon across the United States relatively quickly.
During World War II, the North Platte Canteen, supported by thousands of residents, served baked goods and refreshments to more than 6 million service members during a 10-minute stop as they were convoyed across the United States.
After 105 years, passenger service was discontinued in 1971.
North Platte became a division point where trains are sorted, railroad crews are exchanged, and maintenance or repairs are performed on equipment.
Union Pacifics Bailey Yard is the largest railroad classification yard in the world. Named in honor of former Union Pacific President Edd H. Bailey, the massive yard covers 2,850 acres and is eight miles long.
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Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act 150 years ago, on July 1, 1862, creating the original Union Pacific.
One of Americas iconic companies, Union Pacific Railroad today is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), linking 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail and providing freight solutions and logistics expertise to the global supply chain.
From 2000-2011, Union Pacific spent more than $31 billion on its network and operations, making needed investments in Americas infrastructure and enhancing its ability to provide safe, reliable, fuel-efficient and environmentally responsible freight transportation, the company said.
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Shaolintrained wrote:If I'm not mistaken, some people are trying to support a "Stand and Deliver" rule that would illegalize a run-up before an upshot. If there's anyone out there that knows more about this consideration, please shed some more light. Personally, I think it's a bad idea.
I'm surprised that anyone hasn't heard about this one for a while it was as hot as the morality of not calling numbers on found discs. The argument is that when you take a run up on a second shot that almost noone actually hits the line extending back from the marker. Next time you are playing in a group watch their feet on the run up. See how many actually have their front foot touching the line.
A. When the disc is released, a player must:
(1) Have at least one supporting point that is in contact with the playing surface on the line
of play and within 30 centimeters directly behind the marker disc (except as specified in
803.04 E); and,
(2) have no supporting point contact with the marker disc or any object closer to the hole
than the rear edge of the marker disc; and,
(3) have all of his or her supporting points in-bounds.
The idea isn't to create a rule requiring "stand and deliver" but that if you enforce the rules already in place it will make the "stand and deliver" policy effectively a rule.
My opinion is that this goes against the spirit of the game. I don't believe it was the intention of the rules to prhibit a run up on the second shot and just because you can interpret the rules that way doesn't mean we should play that way. I don't know anyone that doesn't take a run up if needed.


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A FUNDRAISING event in memory of a county soldier who died while walking back to camp is to be held next month.
Kurt Etheridge died aged just 21 when he was in collision with a lorry on the A1(M) near Darlington shortly after 3am in April 2012.
His family is next month set to raise funds in his memory for the Rifles' charity – Care For Casualties – which supports severely wounded rifleman and their families.
Kurt, who was a student at Kingstone High School, had completed his phase-one basic training in the Rifles and had a further 10wks of phase-two training to complete – due to pass out on August 17.
It was April 22 that he was killed in the tragic road traffic collision, and an inquest into Kurt's death later returned a verdict of accidental death.
Family and friends will be remembering their hero while raising funds for the charity that supports families like their own at a black-tie event next weekend.
The event takes place at the Three Counties Hotel in Hereford on Saturday June 7 at 6pm.
There will be a hot buffet dinner, an auction hosted by former Welsh Rugby player Iestyn Thomas and a raffle on the evening.
There are limited tickets available for the event but they can be bought for £20 by calling Kurt's dad Mark on 01981 540298.
Raffle tickets can also be bought for the evening by calling Mark, with all funds raised to be donated to the charity.
Kurt's family wish to thank all those who have donated prizes for the raffle and auction for the overwhelming support they have received.


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Are Anthony Weiner and Bob Filner and their ilk politically redeemable? That's our Question of the Week as the nation ponders the latest installments of "Politicos Behaving Badly." Or is it "Old Boys Gone Wild"? Weiner resigned in disgrace from Congress a couple of years ago when it became public that he had been sending digital photos of his crotch to women around the country. But he came back to launch a campaign for mayor of New York -- which hit a bump last week when a woman revealed that he's been doing that same old thing again.
Filner, a former congressman and now mayor of San Diego, has been accused of sexual harassment by seven women, some of them prominent, and sued by one -- so far. He announced Friday that he would undergo two weeks of intensive therapy to learn how to be a better person. Filner, who admits treating women badly but denies guilt of sexual harassment, has resisted calls for his resignation by his own Democratic Party on both the national and county level and by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
What is it with these guys? Do they think being elected to office means they're so popular and powerful that they can do whatever they want?
Other politicians who have gotten into trouble over sexual matters in recent years include former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana. (Could there be something about having a surname that ends in "er" that makes politicians behave badly? Nah.)
Then there's former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who resigned after "hiking the Appalachian Trail," but then came back to win a seat in Congress. Clearly, his constituents thought he was redeemable.
What do you think? Are politicians who behave badly sexually still fit for office? Or should they resign and never resurface? Might we lose too many people who are capable of doing good things politically? Where do we draw the line?
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. Sears Holdings has opened its 100th Outlet store at 1321 East Golf Rd. in Schaumburg, Ill., in the former The Great Indoors location.
The outlet will feature some of the best names in appliances, tools, fitness equipment, mattress sets, lawn & garden, and more at discounts of up to 60% off, the company reported The Schaumburg outlet will also carry Sears apparel at 60% to 80% off the retail price.
"Sears is the leading retailer for washers, dryers and refrigerators in the country," said Jaime Brooks, VP and president Sears Outlet. "Our stores provide a great format for shoppers to buy nationally recognized brands that help improve home and family life at significantly reduced prices while still receiving the customer service, access to the same warranties and credit solutions offered at Sears' full-line stores."


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For Courtney Dixon, this year's Azalea Festival is a time for transformation.
For Courtney Dixon, this year's Azalea Festival is a time for transformation.
She'll go from serious-faced to sweetly smiling. She'll switch out her sword for a parasol. She'll exchange her muted brown and navy uniform for a bright blue floor-length gown.
Dixon will represent Ashley High School's Junior ROTC as a cadet ensign during Saturday's parade. But she'll also be attending the garden party and walking with the queen's entourage as one of this year's 134 Azalea belles.
When Dixon told her friends, many of whom are fellow ROTC members, about her turn as a belle, they couldn't even properly express their surprise.
"'No. You're just – no way,'" Dixon said, jokingly imitating their reactions. "They'd just stop and be like, 'No, you're lying.'"
Their shock may have stemmed from Dixon's devotion to the not-at-all frilly world of ROTC. She's been a member of Ashley High's unit since her freshman year, working up to become one of seven cadet officers in the program of about 90 students. After high school, she's planning to attend Florida Southern College and work toward becoming an officer in the Navy.
Dixon's family connections are what first got her involved in ROTC. Her cousin was a senior in Ashley High's ROTC unit when Dixon was a freshman, and he encouraged her to join. The two are close enough that Dixon refers to him as her brother, so she took his advice and fell in love with the organization.
Those same family ties brought her to the belles. Dixon's grandmother – a "true Southern belle," Dixon said – wanted her to carry on the family tradition: Dixon's mother was an Azalea belle, and her aunt was a Little belle.
There's little overlap between the duties of a cadet and a belle, but Dixon has found at least one that makes her proud to be a member of both groups: serving as a role model for younger children.
As an ROTC cadet, she often marches in parades with her units. Children salute her or hold their hands over their heart, stopping to ask if she's "the real military."
Dixon will get to experience that during this year's Azalea Festival Parade. But she'll also soak up the admiration in another form when she visits local elementary schools as one of the belles in the queen's entourage. Festival organizers have told Dixon how the students will fawn over the belles in their big dresses.
For Dixon, it's just another part of the transformation.
"I'll go from protector of country," she says, "to princess."
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The firm will recruit 45 specialist engineers and 40 manufacturing operatives, along with 18 graduates.
Lotus' recruitment drive follows a £100 million investment by owners DRB-HICOM, enabling the company to strengthen its engineering, productivity, efficiency and quality.
Both the engineering specialists and graduates will work on the development of new products within Lotus Engineering, one of the most renowned automotive engineering facilities in the world.
Lotus has created the new positions in response to increased global demand for its sport cars and an anticipated rise in interest in its engineering consultancy services. The firm is also focusing on growing into new global markets as currently around 90% of all Lotus vehicles are exported.
Lotus, which recently unveiled its latest model, the Exige S Roadster, employs more than 1,100 staff across the
Mark Pym, Group Head of Human Resources at Lotus, said: "Lotus' successes have always been built on our talented and dedicated workforce and as we embark on a period of strengthening, it's crucial that we grow our workforce to support this."
"It's a positive sign for both the
Lotus is accepting applications now. For more information and to apply, please visit www.lotuscars.com/about-us/jobs-careers. Please note that all applications will only be accepted through the website and that Lotus will not accept speculative CVs.


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The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role — standing in for all of the credit and debit cards crammed into wallets. Instead of swiping a plastic card at the checkout counter, consumers would merely wave their phones, the New York Times reports.
The explosion in cheap and free apps and social network games has devalued game development and could put the industry at risk.
The iPad 2, unveiled on Wednesday, offers several sleek improvements over its predecessor. But its most attractive feature is perhaps the same one its predecessor had: the price tag. The New York Times reports.
Please! As if anybody knows what the company really is worth or, more importantly, ultimately will be worth based on future revenues.
In a highly unusual move, Huawei Technologies, one of the most successful companies in China, has asked the U.S. government to investigate its background formally in the hopes of clearing the company's path to expand and make deals in United States. The NY Times reports.
The company has unveiled the Xperia Play at the ongoing Mobile World Congress. Due in March, the device will be available exclusively through Verizon in the U.S. and will lead the charge of cell phones capable of playing PlayStation titles.
When Hewlett-Packard executives announced their new mobile lineup of two webOS phones and a tablet on Wednesday, it reminded me of Apple. Apple 10 years ago, that is.
Mobile phone dead zones could be a thing of the past, if a new company called LightSquared lives up to its claims.
High consumer demand for broadband and mobile networks would offset any loss of margins for telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson caused, potentially, by AT&T's purchase of Deutsche Telekom T-Mobile USA, Ericsson's CEO Hans Vestberg told CNBC Wednesday.
CNBC's Jim Cramer moderates a panel on the wireless industry and where it goes from here, live from CTIA Wireless in Orlando, Florida. Panel members include Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint; Ralph de la Vega, AT&T CEO; and Dan Mead, Verizon CEO.
Despite the hype about mobile TV, until recently there hasn't been the widespread adoption of handsets capable of receiving it. 2011 may finally be year mobile TV takes off.
The mobile phone as a tool for shopping actually has the potential to bridge traditional retail and digital retail in a way that couldn't have been otherwise possible.
With consumer adoption of smartphones and tablets on the rise, demands on wireless data networks are escalating dramatically.
Smartphones and tablets will be the headliners at the 2011 CTIA Wireless show in Orlando, where the wireless industry convenes to chart its future the week of March 21. Here are three things to watch for during the week:
The iPad 2 is entering a much different world than its predecessor. And while Apple still holds a commanding market share position, it may be in for a much tougher fight this time around.
By buying T-Mobile, AT&T is creating a new advertising giant, which will send ripples throughout the ad industry. Here's why and what to expect.
As the CTIA Wireless conference gets under way, CNBC.com ran a screen searching for some of the largest percent gainers in the wireless industry in the past year.
Need maps, wait times for rides and restaurant tips for Disney World and other atractions? There's an app for that.
Telemedicine has attracted major investments from some of the nation's largest companies over the past year. And it has been endorsed by doctors and care takers who believe patients fare better at home.
Cell phones are usually used to communicate with people far away. This year, they'll get the ability to do the opposite: communicate with things that are close enough to touch.
Smartphones soon will be as ubiquitous as the PCs we now take for granted. This means that the related companies, and their shareholders, should see gains for many years to come.
As the economy revs back to life, factories are humming with all kinds of new products to make sure that when consumers are ready to start spending, there's cool stuff to buy!
What does the future hold for technology? If Cisco's "Chief Futurist" Dave Evans is correct, it will be the stuff of science fiction. Literally.
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The Curious Birth and Harmful Legacy of the Credit Hour
Time-based units were never intended to be a measure of student learning. In the early 1900s, Andrew Carnegie, troubled that professors made too little to save for retirement, created a free pension system, administered by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In order for colleges to participate in the program, they had to adopt a standard unit for admissions, which was based on a system used at the high-school level that measured time spent on a subject.
But colleges didn't stop there. Carnegie's pension system spurred them to convert their course offerings into time-based units to determine faculty workload thresholds to qualify for the free pensions. And so the credit hour, which has become the fundamental building block of courses and degree programs in higher education, was born. Unfortunately, it has also become the primary proxy for learning.
The Carnegie Foundation did not intend for this to happen. It made that quite clear in its 1906 annual report, when it specified that in the counting of units, "the fundamental criterion was the amount of time spent on a subject, not the results attained." Just last month, over 100 years later, Carnegie not only reiterated this point, but announced an effort to rethink its unit completely: "The Carnegie Foundation now believes it is time to consider how a revised unit, based on competency rather than time, could improve teaching and learning in high schools, colleges, and universities."
Theoretically, colleges supplement the credit-hour count with an objective measure of how much students have learned: grades. But it is hard to reconcile that measure with the research suggesting that nearly two-thirds of provosts and chief academic officers think grade inflation is a serious problem. In 1961, 15 percent of undergraduate course grades were A's; today more than 40 percent are A's.
Even more worrisome, the National Center for Education Statistics has found that nearly 70 percent of college graduates could not correctly perform basic tasks like comparing opposing editorials. And Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's recent work, Academically Adrift, found startlingly low gains in students' critical thinking, complex reasoning, and communication skills. Given these findings, it seems clear that the function of grades in meaningfully differentiating student learning has eroded.
It is not surprising, then, that employers are not particularly impressed with recent college graduates. Employers want what higher education says it provides: critical thinking, communication, teamwork, writing, and adaptive learning skills. Yet only about one-quarter of employers say that colleges and universities are doing a good job in preparing students effectively for the challenges of today's global economy.
Perhaps the strongest evidence of the credit hour's inadequacy can be found in the policies and choices of colleges themselves. If credit hours truly reflected a standardized unit of learning, they would be transferable across institutions. Nearly 60 percent of students in the United States attend two or more colleges, so the nontransfer of credits has huge implications. But colleges routinely reject credits earned at other colleges, underscoring their belief that credit hours are not a reliable measure of how much students have learned. If higher education doesn't trust its own credits, why should anyone else?
They probably shouldn't. While the stated mission of higher education may be about learning, the research findings on poor learning outcomes and rampant grade inflation, along with the difficulty of credit transfer, tell a different story. Is learning a priority at institutions with auditorium-size classrooms full of disengaged undergraduates being taught by poorly paid, overextended teaching assistants or adjuncts? Is learning (and teaching) a priority when publishing or raising grant dollars is the primary driver behind tenure?
Without broader agreement about learning outcomes, credits and the value of degrees will remain opaque. Measuring time is easy, but measuring learning is hard. However, that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done. Those in higher education must roll up their sleeves and commit to the hard work of figuring out together what it is they expect students to know and how best to meaningfully assess what they have learned.
This is already happening in some places, where colleges have been experimenting with the Degree Qualifications Profile and the Tuning process, both developed by the Lumina Foundation. The DQP is a framework for what students should know and be able to do with a degree, regardless of discipline. The DQP highlights five key areas (broad, integrative knowledge; applied learning; intellectual skills; specialized knowledge; and civic learning) that should be part of any degree program. Tuning is a faculty-driven process to articulate discipline-level learning. This is often less an exercise in creating minimum outcomes than articulating what is already in practice, allowing groups of experts to fine-"tune" their expectations and make them clear to students, other institutions, and employers.
While promising, these attempts to forge agreement on defining and assessing what students are learning are limited in scope. But federal policy can help catalyze such efforts by leveraging the government's authority to use financial aid—a huge incentive for institutions—to pay for learning. Today the multibillion-dollar federal financial-aid system runs on the credit hour. And it gets only what it pays for: time.
How will the federal government determine what students should be learning and how we should be measuring their success? It won't—and it shouldn't. What it can do is establish, with input from the field, broad guidelines to support a rich diversity of meaningful learning expectations. These guidelines should include clear, externally validated learning expectations and assessments. They should not be the same across the board, but everyone should at least know what students are expected to—and actually do—learn.
As higher education becomes increasingly necessary and expensive, measuring time rather than learning is a luxury that students, taxpayers, and the nation can no longer afford. While Carnegie's free money for pensions dried up long ago, the federal government is spending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to pay for time-based credits and degrees of dubious value.
Paying for what students learn and can do, rather than how or where they spend their time, would go a long way toward providing students and the nation with desperately needed, high-quality degrees and credentials.


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Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On
Keep the Lights On, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Starlet earn Spirit Award nominations
Check out the full list of nominees for the 28th annual Independent Spirit Awards. Film Society's New Directors/New Films alumni include Gimme the Loot (Best First Feature) and How to Survive a Plague (Best Documentary). Other nominated Film Society screenings include:
Fill the Void (NYFF '12): Best First Feature
Amour (NYFF '12): Best International Feature
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (NYFF '12): Best International Feature
Waiting Room (NYFF '12): Best Documentary
Mosquita y Mari (NewFest '12): John Cassavetes Award;
The Invisible War (Human Rights Watch Festival '12): Best Documentary
Starlet (Now playing!): Robert Altman Award and John Cassavetes Award;
Keep the Lights On: Best Feature, Ira Sachs for Best Director, Thure Lindhart for Best Male Lead, and Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias for Best Screenplay,
Rosemarie Dewitt: Best Supporting Female for Your Sister's Sister;
Matthew McConaughey: Best Male Lead for Killer Joe;
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Pravel for Leviathan (NYFF '12): Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Photo: Souvenirs and Inspirations
DeLia making Mary Pickford biopic
Billy Bates filmmaker Jennifer DeLia is making a Mary Pickford biopic titled The First, according to Indiewire. Beginning in childhood, DeLia will show Pickford's journey from her vaudeville days to her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks. The First will star Lily Rabe as Mary Pickford, Michael Pitt (Boardwalk Empire) as actor Owen Moore, and Ryan Simpkins (Revolutionary Road) as young Pickford.
"I didn't know that Pickford was the pioneer that she was and that she had the journey from childhood that she had," DeLia said. "I knew she was a silent screen legend and the first movie star. I didn't realize that she had helped make Hollywood culture as a fierce businesswoman."
Working with Fairbanks' great-grandson Dominick Fairbanks and Julie Pacino and co-writer Josh Fagin, DeLia's film is based on Eileen Whitfield's biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. "We're looking at letters and family memorabilia that have never been donated to collections or archives," DeLia said. "It's more complicated than a simple profile of America's Sweetheart. She was constantly ahead of the game."
The First does not yet have a release date.
Chasing Ice changes minds
Chasing Ice. She watches "Bill O'Reilly everyday," but after Chasing Ice she changed on her views on global warming and her human responsibility to the environment. Check out the full video at Indiewire.
Lenny Kravitz to play Marvin Gaye
Julien Temple's Marvin Gaye biopic, Sexual Healing, will star Lenny Kravitz, according to Total Film. Loosely based on Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye by Steve Turner, Sexual Healing will show Gaye's life in the 1980s when drug addiction and industry disagreements led to a fall in his career, and then Gaye's comeback with bestselling album Midnight Love. Production is set for early 2013.


text: Steelhammer: More squeal than squid By Rick Steelhammer January 19, 2013 Story Share A recent segment of a public radio program looked into an apparent urban myth involving an imitation seafood product you won't likely find at the neighborhood Piggly Wiggly. It's allegedly being replaced by a product that comes from a point just south of the appendage that pigs are known to wiggle. According to the "This American Life" segment, an imitation version of deep-fried calamari rings now making the culinary rounds reportedly comes not from squid tentacles as God and Lynne Rosetto Kasper intended, but from hog rectums. The segment treated the idea of turning a sow's rear into a silk purse seine of gourmet Italian seafood with skepticism and humor. No eyewitnesses to the alleged covert substitution could be found. No packages turned up bearing tiny inscriptions informing consumers that a D-list pork product was among the imitation calamari's ingredients, as required by law.As in other urban myths, it was more a matter of a friend hearing from a relative who knew someone in the food processing industry that imitation calamari was becoming more squeal than squid.It reminded me of my brief stint as crewman on a Maine lobster boat back in the late '70s, when a rumor began circulating that imitation scallops were made by using cookie cutters to punch circular chunks of meat out of the bat-like wings of skates, which sometimes ended up in lobster traps.That turned out to be a rural myth, like cow tipping, only a lot less fun and a bit more tasteless. The texture, grain and taste of the skate wing bore no resemblance to scallops.But had it turned out to be true that the main active ingredient in deep fried fake calamari was a pork product unfit for Spam, would I favor the real thing over its cheap imitation? In a pigs eye! Or something. I mean, deep-fried calamari is still squid, after all, not a side of fries. It's a bit more exotic and icky than the all-American fare I'm used to - like bologna, pork rinds, and cheese dog Hot Pockets. I suspect that breaded and deep-fried calamari rings and breaded and deep-fried pig rectums would both taste pretty much the same.Like chicken nuggets.***In the making a better tomorrow, tomorrow department, the Washington Post announced Friday that Stephen Colbert's sister, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, would file papers on Tuesday in South Carolina to run for the U.S. Congress seat recently vacated by Republican Tim Scott.Colbert-Busch, a Clemson University business development official and a Democrat, faces former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, listed by some detractors as R-Appalachian Trail, due to his purported location during a mysterious weeklong disappearance in 2009.Could be the Comedy Central truthiness guru shut down his $773,000 Super Pac a bit too early. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Former Charleston National employees gather for a reunion 4 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 5 Vietnam veteran builds prosthetics in war zones Steelhammer: Keeping tabs on tweets Previous Story Steelhammer: Gatorade gives in, a giant squid gets its closeup Next Story


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This week, your baby is 38.6cm long and weighs 1.15kg. Is your baby moving around a lot? Do you get kicked at all hours of the day, and in every place imaginable? Your baby is using those movements to gain strength and coordination for when she will emerge from your uterus. Her movements are becoming less reflexive and more determined as she grows. It won't be long, however, before she is too cramped to be able to move much at all. The kicks and pokes will become less pronounced and a little less frequent.
Read next week: Your Pregnancy Week 30
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While the trend toward higher milk production continues, the 1 percent increase seen across the United States in October probably won't be interpreted as bearish for the markets.
Dave Kurzawski, dairy analyst for FC Stone in Chicago, termed Tuesday's Milk Production report from the USDA as "neutral."
While production was up 1 percent across the entire U.S., a 1.2 percent increase was shown in the 23 major dairy states.
Kansas posted a hefty 6.1 percent increase in October compared to the same month a year earlier. California, the nation's No. 1 milk-producing state, was up 1 percent and Wisconsin, No. 2, was up 0.9 percent.
Production in the 23 major states averaged 1,806 pounds in October, 14 pounds above October 2012.
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With moderate milk prices unable to keep up with soaring feed prices, many dairy farmers in California have decided to throw in the towel.
"People are exiting this business in droves," Tulare County, Calif., dairy farmer and Western United Dairymen president Tom Barcellos told the Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register. "I would say catastrophic just about describes the situation."
Based on newspaper reports such as these, it would appear that the current situation in California is as bad, if not worse, than anywhere else in the nation.
The situation is so bleak that at least one dairy cooperative has launched a crisis hotline for dairy farmers and their families, according to The Fresno Bee. The hotline provides members with confidential counseling and support services to help those in the industry cope with life-altering changes.
"Dairymen are getting out of the business — sending their cows to slaughter as fast as they can," said Barcellos, owner of a dairy farm that goes back generations.
Riley Walter, a Fresno-area bankruptcy attorney, noted that the dramatic increase in bankruptcies among dairies is staggering. "This is just a bloodbath," he told John Lindt, publisher of the Sierra2thesea News Service, whose article appeared in the Visalia Times-Delta.
The year has tested even the most stable and weathered dairy producers. Last month, the USDA released July's preliminary milk-feed ratio, a rough measure of dairy profitability, at a staggering 1.29, marking the lowest ratio reported in the 27 years of records.
"There is not enough money from their milk check to pay the feed costs," California Dairies Inc. CEO Andre Mikhalevsky says.
Also, see "Dairy farmers say farm closures are continuing to rise" from the California Farm Bureau Federation.


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Rojas starts at third as LA awaits Uribe's return
KANSAS CITY -- With Juan Uribe scheduled for at least two more Minor League rehab games, the Dodgers needed to give backup Justin Turner a break at third base and started Miguel Rojas Monday night against the Royals.
Turner started three consecutive games at third base in San Diego after missing six starts with a strained calf muscle.
"Just protecting him," manager Don Mattingly said.
Uribe is not likely to be activated until the homestand opener Thursday night after missing six weeks with a hamstring strain. He played seven innings as the designated hitter for Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga on Monday and went 2-for-5 with a two-run double and a run scored. He's scheduled to play for Rancho Cucamonga again on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Carl Crawford ran on an anti-gravity running machine on Monday with only 50 percent of his body weight, which indicates he's virtually restarting his rehab from a sprained ankle. He has been on the disabled list since May 28.
Reliever Scott Elbert is slated to make his third rehab appearance Tuesday night for Rancho Cucamonga.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.