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Professors Susan Hart Bell and Karyn McKenzie (Chair);
Associate Professors Jay Castaneda, Regan Lookadoo, Jennifer Price and Rebecca Singer
Contact the Department
Psychology Department
Georgetown College
400 East College Street
Georgetown, KY 40324
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and cognitive processes, with application to many human concerns. Students with a liberal arts education should develop an understanding of themselves and others that allows them to function effectively in diverse situations, interpersonally and intellectually. The Psychology Department offers a strong curriculum aimed at providing its students with a comprehensive conceptual base from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis is placed on critical reading and thinking, and understanding the historical and theoretical framework of psychology and the methodology used in research. Students majoring in psychology are afforded an opportunity to be involved in research as well as to participate in local educational and mental health agencies. Many psychology majors continue their education in graduate school and the department actively participates in their preparation for this goal. Should a student choose not to attend graduate school, the study of psychology successfully prepares graduates for a variety of career options. The department sponsors two student organizations, Psi Chi which is the international Psychology honor society and Psi Alpha Omega, which is open to all students who have an interest in the discipline.
The Psychology Department has identified specific learning outcomes for our students. After completing the requirements for a psychology major, students should be able to:
demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology;
master practical understanding of basic statistical procedures using calculations and gain an introductory knowledge of the SPSS computer software program;
master the design and implementation of a student-led research project;
engage in critical thinking about psychology as a science and the ethical issues that arise in psychological research;
demonstrate information and technological literacy as applied to scientific literature and use of APA format;
demonstrate effective writing skills and oral communication skills.
Successful completion of these learning outcomes will be assessed by various assignments in the required components of our psychology curriculum.
(B.A. degree) Thirty-three hours required. Thirty-three semester hours in Psychology including PSY 111, 211, 311, and 411. Required electives (choose six hours from each group): Group I: PSY 313, PSY 315, PSY 323, PSY 328, PSY 333, PSY 425, PSY 433. Group II: PSY 242, PSY 260, PSY 340, PSY 343, PSY 355. Choose nine additional hours from any Psychology course work.
Eighteen semester hours required, including PSY 111.
Note: Students seeking certification in teaching should consult with the department chair. Also, students can only count two developmental courses (PSY 240, 242, 340) toward the PSY major or minor.
111. General Psychology. (3 hours) Introduction to psychology as a science, using the scientific approach to study many areas of behavior such as motivation, emotion, perception, thinking, learning, abnormal, personality, and social. This course satisfies an Area of Inquiry requirement for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Fall and Spring
163. Life above Zero: An Introduction to Positive Psychology. (3 hours) This course is designed to introduce students to the field of psychology with an emphasis on positive psychology, which is the scientific study of happiness and the good life. This course will educate students on research methodology by examining topics like happiness, optimism, and character strengths. In addition, the course will infuse opportunities for self-examination and reflection by incorporating self report assessments and applied exercises. This course will be offered only as a Foundations 112 course. This course satisfies an Area of Inquiry requirement for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Spring
211. Statistics for the Social Sciences. (3 hours) Study of both descriptive and inferential statistics with emphasis on their use in psychological research. This course carries an Applied Quantitative Flag. Pre-requisite: PSY 111.
Fall and Spring
240. Lifespan Development. (3 hours) Study of human developmental processes from prenatal stages through later adulthood with an examination of the biological, psychological, social, and contextual factors influencing behavior across the lifespan. Registration for this class requires the permission of the instructor.
Odd Falls
242. Adolescence and Adulthood. (3 hours) This course is designed as an overview of adolescent and adult development. Readings and class activities cover issues from adolescence through adulthood, examining research in physical, cognitive, personality, and social development. A particular emphasis of this course is an integration of biological, psychological, social, and cultural contributions to human development. This course satisfies an Area of Inquiry requirement for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Spring
260. Social Psychology. (3 hours) Study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Topics to be covered include the self, conformity, obedience, gender, attitudes, prejudice, liking & love, aggression, helping, and group behavior. This course satisfies an Area of Inquiry requirement for Social and Behavioral Sciences. This course carries a Cultural Awareness at Home flag.
Fall and Spring
311. Experimental Psychology. (3 hours) Design and interpretation of psychological experiments; advanced study in selected areas of experimental psychology. Prerequisite: PSY 211. Fall
313. Psychology of Motivation. (3 hours) The study of biological, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of what motivates people in their thoughts and actions. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Fall
315. Health Psychology. (3 hours) The study of the biological, psychological, and social dimensions involved in health and illness, with emphasis on immune functions, stress, drugs, alcohol, cardiovascular disease, diet, and sexually-transmitted disease. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Spring
323. Sensation and Perception. (3 hours) The study of sensory systems and the higher-order cognitive processes involved with interpreting sensory information. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Odd Springs
328. Learning. (3 hours) This course is an introductory level survey of the major classic and contemporary psychological theories and research in learning. Learning will be examined from biological, psychological and sociocultural perspectives. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Fall
333. Cognitive Psychology. (3 hours) The study of attention, memory, thinking, concept formation, language, intelligence, and emotions. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Fall
337. Psychology of Women. (3 hours) This course will provide an overview of classical and contemporary psychological research pertaining to women. It will explore biological and cultural similarities and differences within topics such as behavior, language, emotion, motivation, mental health, and development. The course will include a special focus on women of different ethnic backgrounds. This course carries a Cultural Awareness at Hom flag. Prerequisite: PSY 111.
Fall and Even Springs
340. Child Development. (3 hours) This course provides an overview of growth and development from conception through middle childhood including ten total hours of observation (i.e. one hour per week) in an early childhood center. Special emphasis is placed on the cultural contexts of child development. This course carries a Cultural Awareness at Home flag. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Fall
343. Personality. (3 hours) This course is an introductory level survey of the major classic and contemporary psychological theories and research in personality. We will cover major theories including psychoanalysis, humanistic, cognitive, social learning, and biological perspectives. Various traits and their importance in predicting health, achievement, and adjustment will also be covered. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Spring
350. Relationships. (3 hours) Application of psychological methods and principles to intimate relationships. Topics to be covered include attraction, dating, friendship, love, passion, commitment, marriage, jealousy, conflict, and divorce. Prerequisites: PSY 111 or 260 and at least one additional psychology course. Spring
355. Abnormal Psychology. (3 hours) Study of classification, assessment, and causes of psychological disorders, reviewing contemporary issues in the study and treatment of psychopathology. This course carries a Cultural Awareness at Home flag. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Fall
360. Field Work in Applied Psychology. (3 hours) This course is designed to provide advanced psychology students with the opportunity to work in applied field placements in the community. The course is also designed to provide a foundation for professional and career development for entry level positions in human service fields as well as preparation for graduate school. Students will be given the opportunity to learn in diverse ways (e.g., exposure to special topics, issues relevant to the placement, different supervisory styles, etc.) through practical experience and guidance from the instructor and site supervisor. Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. Fall
363. Positive Psychology. (3 hours) The focus of this course is the science of positive subjective experiences, positive traits, and positive institutions. This course will present psychological perspectives and research findings on topics such as happiness, life satisfaction, optimism, as well as character strengths and virtues. The course will also encourage self-exploration of students' own strengths and virtues and investigate empirically-based strategies for enhancing one's life. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Even Falls
365. Industrial/Organizational Psychology. (3 hours) Application of psychological methods and principles to organizational settings. Topics to be covered include motivation, psychological testing, job satisfaction, training, leadership, employee selection, stress, and performance appraisal. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Spring
367. Dying, Grieving, and Coping. (3 hours) This course examines the concept of death and our psychological responses to death. This subject is explored across cultures and through history from many viewpoints. The class also has many outside speakers to address multiple views on death and dying. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Even Falls
373. Multicultural Psychology. (3 hours) This course is designed to introduce students to the critical and comparative study of cultural effects on human psychology. Readings and class activities will cover multicultural perspectives on issues such as cognitions, development, intelligence, emotions and social inter-action. This course satisfies an Area of Inquiry requirement for Social and Behavioral Sciences. This course carries a Cultural Awareness at Home flag.
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380. Psychology and the Law. (3 hours) Application of psychological methods and principles to the legal system. Topics to be covered include eyewitness testimony, confessions, the insanity defense, poly-graphs, jury selection, profiling, serial killers, and victims. Prerequisite: PSY 111 or 260. Fall
411. Senior Capstone in Psychology. (3 hours) This course is designed to guide Senior Psychology majors as they examine enduring issues in Psychology from the earliest beginnings in the history of psychology to contemporary research and application. Class readings, assignments, and discussions will synthesize material from previous psychology course work and facilitate the development of each student's conceptual framework to guide his/her career or graduate school decision-making. The class will culminate in the application of the theoretical principles and empirical research findings to a Senior poster project which must be orally defended before departmental faculty. Prerequisites: Senior standing, major in department, PSY 311. Spring
413. Appraisal and Assessment. (3 hours) Study of the appraisal and assessment techniques used in clinical settings. Topics covered include effective interviewing strategies, test theory, test development, and administration of tests involving intelligence, achievement, adaptive functions, neuropsychology, clinical symptoms, personality, and vocation/interest. Emphasis will be placed on ethical standards in interviewing and testing. Prerequisite: PSY 111. Odd Springs
415. Counseling Skills. (3 hours) Study of current approaches used in counselling and psychotherapy. Topics covered include basic counseling and psycho-therapy skills, various theoretical models of psychological intervention, and a review of the most current, empirically supported treatment approaches. Emphasis will be placed on ethical standards as they apply to psychotherapy. Prerequisite: PSY 355. Spring
417. Developmental Psychopathology. (3 hours) This course is an examination of the most recent research in disorders of childhood. This class is designed as a seminar examining diagnostic categories and critical issues of child psychopathology and identifying empirically effective interventions. Readings and class materials cover diagnostic categories, causal theories of childhood disorders and a survey of the intervention literature. Prerequisite: PSY 242 or 340. Odd Springs
419. School Psychology. (3 hours) This course is designed to introduce students to the field of School Psychology from its influential place in the history of psychology to contemporary "best practices". Readings and assignments will direct the student to examine the roles school psychologists play in the school system as a whole, including: individual assessment and intervention with young children; individual, class-wide and system-wide consultation for learning and behavioral issues; and program development in the areas of crisis prevention and intervention. Prerequisite: PSY 242 or 340. Even Springs
425. Brain and Behavior. (3 hours) The study of the interaction of the brain and behavior from physiological, genetic and evolutionary perspectives. The course will include current research and examine the disease/disorder continuum as well as effects of psychotropic substances on behavior. Prerequisites: PSY 111 and BIO 100 or BIO 111. Odd Springs
433. Animal Cognition. (3 hours) This course will cover a range of issues involving animal consciousness, animal intelligence, and evolution of mind. We will look at what is known about intelligence in other animals, how intelligence is revealed in social and problem solving behavior, and the ways in which animal cognitive abilities are adaptive. Even Springs and As needed
440. Independent Study. (1-3 hours) Emphasis on independent research. Prerequisite: Consent of professor. As needed
460. Undergraduate Research. (3 hours) Implementation of psychological research processes using topics chosen by individuals or small groups of students in consultation with the professor of the course. Tutorial teaching will replace classroom teaching for most of the semester. Research methods will involve computer and/or paper and pencil techniques. Prerequisites: PSY 311 and consent of instructor. As needed
470. Special Topics in Psychology. (3 hours) The study of special areas of psychology deemed of value to Psychology majors and minors. As needed


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The graphic designer accused of causing a man's death by punching him on a train has told a jury of his regret over the incident.
Warsame Warsame, 24, died last March two days after an altercation on a train between Surbiton and Wimbledon.
Rhys Stacey Parchment, 25, a former boxer who won three amateur bouts as a teenager, said he pushed the younger man and punched him once in the head, after he tried to steal his phone.
Mr Warsame was found unconscious on a different train an hour later, and died in hospital from a bleed on the brain on March 4.
Mr Stacey Parchment told Blackfriars Crown Court: "I feel sorry for Warsame and Warsame's family. I regret what happened.
"If I could go back, and I wish I could, I would hope to find a different way out of the situation. I was genuinely scared of the man that was before me."
Giving evidence, he told defence barrister John Coffey QC: "The first encounter with Mr Warsame was he came from behind me as I was playing on my phone.
"As he walked past he tried to grab the phone with what I think was his left hand.
"I was kind of in a bit of shock. He didn't stop. He sort of went past and then turned around, and said the words, 'Wagwan, blud?'"
Mr Stacey Parchment said he then stood up and took off the bag he was wearing, with his football kit inside.
He added: "He made a very fast jerking movement as if he was going to punch me. I reacted and I pushed my hand out.
"It was instinctive and a reaction. I wouldn't say it was hard. It made contact.
"He then lunged to throw a punch. I threw a punch."
Witnesses told the trial last week they heard the 'wagwan' greeting but did not see Mr Warsame try to steal the phone.
Mr Stacey Parchment said Mr Warsame was mumbling unintelligibly, and that he felt threatened by him.
Prosecutors say Mr Stacey Parchment threw two punches, with Zoe Johnson QC questioning whether he was genuinely afraid of the smaller Mr Warsame, described this week as being 5 ft 4ins tall.
Mr Stacey Parchment said: "I was on a train and I was scared. I reacted. Boxing was six years ago. I wasn't prepared."
The trial continues.

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Rasmus on pace to return Thursday
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Colby Rasmus is expected to return to the Blue Jays' lineup Thursday afternoon against the Orioles.
Rasmus has been out with a sore right shoulder since Feb. 27 but now appears to be on the verge of getting back into the lineup.
The 26-year-old went through a full day of workouts Wednesday at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium in Dunedin, Fla., while his teammates made the trip to Lakeland for an afternoon affair against the Tigers.
"Hopefully he'll get a full workout today and everything goes well, then he'll go tomorrow," manager John Gibbons said from Lakeland. "But he should be fine."
Rasmus did in fact get the workouts in as he went through batting practice and light fielding drills. The injury was never considered serious, but his return will still be an encouraging sign for a player who has appeared in just three games this spring.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The boxy "Car of Tomorrow," which debuted in 2007, has been shelved in favor of the new "Generation Six" car.
After years of complaints that COT specifications made all the cars look the same, with no brand identity, NASCAR and the original equipment manufacturers participating in Sprint Cup worked to create the Gen-6.
"The car looks great; it looks like a racecar to me," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. "I can get excited about that. I can get behind that.
"The cars that you see in the garage, you will stand there and see Fords, Toyotas and Chevrolets driving. It's great because everything looks different. Everything is instantly recognizable."
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While strengthening brand identity was the driving force behind the Gen-6, NASCAR and the OEMs hope some of the changes lead to easier passing and more side-by-side racing.
The car is 150 pounds lighter—minus 80 pounds on the right and 70 on the left—and the minimum weight for drivers has been reduced from 200 to 180 pounds.
While the wheelbase remains at 110 inches, the length of the car was reduced by 6.3 inches—from 198.5 inches to 192.2. The width also was increased by three inches—from 74 inches to 77. There were no significant changes to the height (54.2 inches) or ground clearance (3.5 inches).
"The potential is there for it to create much better racing," Cup champion Brad Keselowski said. "There are boxes that are opening up with the car. The most significant is the car is lighter and has better weight distribution.
"That should allow Goodyear to build a better tire that is less prone to failure and permits side-by-side racing because of its grip-to-aero-balance that the car generates."
As the teams put more test miles on the Gen-6, NASCAR will likely make more minor changes in an effort to improve competition on the track.
"We're just working on the smaller things — splitter sizes, underbody stuff, spoiler sizes and things that we can do to help the car run better in traffic," NASCAR VP of competition Robin Pemberton said late last year and NASCAR and the teams were still developing and testing the car.
Another significant development with the Gen-6 is the attempt to do away with "crabbing" — where the rear of the car is skewed to the right.
Crabbing was achieved by altering several rear suspension components and it improved handling by increasing downforce and sideforce.
"Everybody did it to some degree," Germain Racing crew chief Bootie Barker said. "Instead of having moveable bushings, you don't have those anymore, you're limited on your truck-arm split and you cannot run a rear sway bar (except at the road courses). Elements that went into crabbing have been taken away.
"We're either going to have to find some other way to do it or just not do it."
With the new racecars looking more like their production car counterpart, the OEMs were anxious to do away with crabbing.
"None of us want to see our cars going down the straightaways already at 3-4 degrees of yaw," said Andy Graves, Toyota Racing Development VP of chassis engineering. "It doesn't look right; it doesn't look good. All of the teams were working within the rules to do that—and there's a huge performance gain by doing that—so NASCAR is taking steps to eliminate it.
"They have added some extra downforce on the cars, which helps the drivers and the teams not miss the performance they gained from crabbing.
"At the end of the day, for all of us to see our cars go straight on the straightaways, it's going to be better for the sport."
After testing the Gen-6 car, Earnhardt agreed that doing away with crabbing was a good move.
"I don't miss any of that stuff," he said. "It did make the cars go faster, but they were a little bit more of a challenge to drive. The sensations that you got going off in the corner crooked weren't a lot of fun.
"I kind of like going in the corner with the car going straight, like it's supposed to."


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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — More than 20 scientists from around the world shared their research and discussed the impact berries have on disease prevention during the Berry Health Benefits Symposium June 27-29.
In all, 175 health and wellness practitioners, food industry professionals, educators, members of the scientific community and consumers attended the fourth biennial symposium that included discussions on topics like cancer prevention, metabolism, gut and heart health, brain aging and compositional chemistry and biological effects.
The symposium was sponsored by all of the major U.S. berry organizations, said Cat McKenzie, marketing director for the Corvallis-based Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission and symposium administrator and conference coordinator.
"One of the things about the berry symposium that is important is that all of these groups have joined together to put this on," she said.
This year's event kicked off with a new day-long series of discussions designed for the layperson titled "What Berry Health Means for You." Four sessions covered basic berry health terminology, health trends, marketing and food labeling.
The symposium is presented every two years by the National Berry Crops Initiative, which is a nationwide organization created to develop a strategic plan for the continued growth and sustainability of berry crop production in the U.S.


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An early morning attack inside a Vallejo home early Saturday left a woman dead, a young child badly injured and a parolee in custody, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said.
Vallejo police got a call about an assault in the 2000 block of Marin Street just before 2 a.m., Capt. Jim O'Connell said in a press release.
Officers who arrived on the scene found "multiple people within the residence had been assaulted. A 5-year-old child and his 40-year-old mother had been violently attacked," he said.
Out of concern for the nature of the current stage of the investigation, O'Connell said he could provide no clarification at this time about the number of individuals inside the residence at the time of the attack.
The young boy was taken to a Bay Area trauma center where he was stable and is expected to survive. His mother, however, died en route to the trauma center, O'Connell said.
Police developed information about the identity of the suspect in this attack, which was broadcast to officers in the field at about 8:40 a.m., he said.
"A Vallejo Police Officer observed (that individual) on the street in East Vallejo and took him into custody without incident," O'Connell said. "Officers were able to confirm that the suspect was known to the victim."
Vallejo resident Darryl Wakefield, 43, was arrested in connection with this attack, Police said. Wakefield, who has "an extensive violent criminal history, is on California Department of Corrections parole for a burglary conviction, O'Connell said. He will be booked into the Solano County Jail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, O'Connell said.
The identity of the victim is being withheld until notification of the next of kin.
This is Vallejo's 10th homicide of the year, including one involving a police officer.
Citizens can provide information to the Vallejo Police Department at 800-488-9383.
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Graduation festivities began Friday afternoon on the Lewis Hall lawn with the annual awards ceremony and presentation of walking sticks. The John W. Davis Prize for Law, awarded to the graduate with the highest cumulative grade point average, was awarded to Erica Blayre Haggard of Carrollton, Texas. Three students graduated summa cum laude, 18 graduated magna cum laude, and 19 graduated cum laude. 12 students were named to Order of the Coif, an honorary scholastic society that encourages excellence in legal education. A list of honors and awards appears below.
In addition to achievements in the classroom, the Class of 2010 distinguished itself with its pro bono service to the law and the community, such as researching the quality of legal services available to Virginia's poor. In all, the class completed 6,240 hours of service during this academic year. 17 students were recognized for completing 100 hours or more of service.
The commencement ceremony began at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday with an opening invocation by Robert Maynard, step-father of graduating student Marti McCaleb. After the official welcome from President Ken Ruscio and remarks from Dean Rodney A. Smolla, the candidates were awarded their degrees.
Carolyn B. Lamm, an international arbitration, litigation, and trade lawyer from Washington, D.C., who has been ABA president since 2009, delivered this year's commencement address under a bright blue sky on the University's historic Front Campus.
In her remarks, Lamm told the graduates that they must always be principled and true to themselves and that "it is not just the rule of law that we are called upon to strengthen but the rule of just law."
"Never has the role of lawyer been more important than it is today. All persons are entitled to the benefit of the rule of law and adjudication of their rights," Lamm said. "Our American legal profession has a proud history of standing up to right wrongs, no matter how unpopular the cause, and to ensure that the defense of the unpopular is as vigorous as defense of mainstream."
She singled out the new Arizona law on immigration, saying that "we see all too much evidence of denying those whom certain segments of society may hate the benefit of law in the name of national security, immigration enforcement and control, or otherwise.
"We must condemn such laws and seek to have the courts declare them unconstitutional and take a Constitutional approach to immigration control," she said. "Denial of legal rights and due process to any may evolve to denial of legal rights to many. We cannot tolerate this."
Afterwards, third-year class officers Joe Mercer and Eric Morris presented Ms. Lamm with her very own walking stick, traditionally given to students at the awards ceremony preceding graduation. The walking stick, or cane, originated in the 1920's as a way to distinguish third-year law students on campus. At that time, only two years of law school were required, and the walking stick served as a way to reward and honor those students who stayed for a third year.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story said the complaint said Dr. Patricia McKeon declined to interview O' Brien's children despite CNA's instruction. CNA told her not interview O' Brien's children after she insisted, she said.
Janice O'Brien might have dementia, but she still thinks she knows when she has been had.
A Southern California law firm filed a complaint in Monterey County Superior Court alleging O'Brien, a well-known 91-year-old Pebble Beach resident, has been the victim of an "unfair and unlawful scheme" to deny her health coverage that she paid for.
O'Brien's Chicago insurance company, CNA Insurance, ignored the advice of three doctors — including its own — in processing claims for O'Brien's medical bills, the complaint says.
CNA Insurance spokeswoman Jennifer Martinez-Roth said Tuesday the company hadn't been served with the complaint yet, but after reading a copy provided by The Herald, she rejected its findings.
"We do disagree with her assertions and we will defend ourselves against this lawsuit," she said.
Attorney Samuel Bruchey of the Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley law firm said O'Brien's family was referred to his firm — known for suing insurance companies — by a Monterey lawyer.
Bruchey said O'Brien's case was "egregious" because people such as her buy long-term care policies to not be a burden on their families when they get older.
"These insurance companies put all of these ridiculous hurdles they need to overcome just to get the benefits the insurance company promised from the start," he said.
O'Brien is a well-known activist in the area, especially on land-use and environmental issues. She is a past president of the League of Women Voters of the Monterey Peninsula and ran for seats on the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District. One of her seven children, Pete O'Brien, is a former Major League Baseball player for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners.
In 1996, Janice O'Brien purchased long-term care insurance from CNA. She paid all of her premiums on time, according to the complaint, and still pays $4,998 a year.
In July 2011, she was admitted to a hospital with weakness and hyponatremia, the complaint says, which led her doctor and family to determine she should not live alone.
The family hired caregivers to go to her home to assist in daily activities. They submitted claims to CNA based on the criteria for O'Brien's policy on home care providers, the complaint says.
Dr. David Straface, O'Brien's Monterey physician, also provided evidence she required supervision because of hypertension, hyponatremia and cognitive impairment, the complaint says.
The insurance company told the family she would need to be evaluated by the company's own nurse in October 2011, according to the complaint.
The nurse said O'Brien did not need assistance and had normal cognitive functioning, the complaint says. CNA rejected all of O'Brien's claims.
O'Brien's family spent the next several months appealing the decision while her condition worsened.
She continued to see Straface, who treated her for "increased bouts of dizziness," diagnosed her with mild dementia and noted she probably had early Alzheimer's disease, the complaint says.
Dr. Alejandro Centurion, a Carmel neurologist, also treated O'Brien. He said she could not prepare meals and needed assistance with almost all aspects of daily life.
In November 2012, the complaint says, CNA paid its own independent medical examiner, Dr. Patricia McKeon, to evaluate O'Brien. McKeon is a Pacific Grove clinical psychologist specializing in dementia, traumatic brain injury and memory disorders, according to her website, Drtrishmckeon.com.
McKeon seemingly backed up O'Brien's doctors' claims, stating she scored "well below average" in functional cognitive skills tests and that her condition was "very much consistent with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease," according to the complaint.
She said O'Brien needed 24-hour supervision.
The complaints says CNA instructed McKeon not to interview O' Brien's children, despite her objection.
Despite McKeon's assessment, CNA has still not made a single payment on O'Brien's claims, according to the complaint.
"CNA's refusal to pay benefits has forced Janice to deplete savings and burn through her fixed income," the complaint says. "This too has caused considerable emotional distress."
The complaint, which asks for a jury trial, seeks damages, plus interest, and an unspecified amount of money for emotional distress and other damages.
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Okay, this was kicked off by a deviation in this thread, where jaguarz asked this:
At some point, a suggestion was made:
A CSS Framework is a sort of set of pre-written CSS instructions (a library) that developers can use to "plug in" and start whipping out sites at a faster pace. It may come with things like a CSS reset (what is a "CSS reset"? [Let me Google that for you), "default" containers that are commonly used (setups like a centered main container with one or two sidebars, main content and a footer for example), and chunks of seemingly random code whose purpose is to have the developer start out fairly cross-browser (depending on the setup this may be something like a separate IE stylesheet where [url=http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html]Haslayout](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=CSS+reset) is triggered on many elements, or clearing classes in anticipation of floats, etc).
Frameworks are getting very popular and I'm often mixing them up with CMS' (like Drupal which is both a framework in the usual sense and also a Content Management System) which often have a lot of characteristics of CSS frameworks (esp since they are based on templating systems) and something called "OOCSS".
No, that's not a joke. Object-oriented CSS. Yes, CSS is NOT a programming language. Yes, CSS does not actually have objects, object classes, or object inheritance... but there are people who like the idea of "code reuse" as you have with Object Oriented programming (make objects (chunks of code or data) with certain properties and use variations of them all over the place instead of writing new, specific bits of code for everything). CSS does have inheritance and the Cascade; however the point of OOCSS is to make these reusable bits of CSS code "location independent". I'm of two minds about that: I use location to reduce my code often, trying to let the defaults and container settings trickle through as much as possible. But this may simply be the Wrong Way with something like a template where users can move boxes around anywhere on the page.
To me, the result is messy, bloated HTML. Both with regular HTML template frameworks like Drupal and actual CSS frameworks, you get a lot of nonsensical-sounding class names, classitis, divitis, and 15 containers for a single line of text. Okay I'm exaggerating, 5 containers for a logo.

(that's from a Joomla page used by a guy with a nice little site who does not write HTML or CSS himself... it is not a page using any particular CSS framework, but is a template which, regarding CSS, does share a lot of characteristics with css frameworks).
I really would hide my head in shame if any site of mine had that. I don't care that it might be faster to get a site in the air (and I'm lucky I don't have clients or bosses that insist on such things... and I realise not everyone has that luxury); that's just... disgusting. Ew! Ew! Kill it with fire!
The Web Standards Evangelical Movement has been working hard for the last decade trying to get the web... semantic. Not only meaning from HTML tags themselves (with 91 elements, a bunch of them totally not relevant to 90% of web pages, this often means there isn't quite the right element for the data you're marking up) but also with id and class names. This is partially for developers, to help them remember the meanings.
 or  means a lot less than
 or .
However, this is seen by many as a sort of "dream" or HTML Utopia that, while nice to try for and certainly a goal for developers, in the real world, when both robots (templates) and non-technical users (clients who ordered a website from you, blogs, visitor comments, ...all of which often easily make carefully crafted code invalid quickly) are manipulating web pages, is simple Not Practical.
When developing a template, for which you have no idea what the end users will determine which content goes in what box, it's damn near impossible to know what's going in span-14, but for your users you're going to give it a style they can choose based on how they want the page to look like.
I thought the comments on Jeff Croft's article here were terribly interesting (as with many bloggities, the comments are often more valuable than the article alone). What kind of a class name could you possibly come up with for a blue box who always sits on the lower-right-hand side? You have no clue what it will hold, you only know its presentation.
The question for me isn't whether people should use CSS frameworks. I personally don't, but I don't make websites as complicated as Drupal. My largest CSS file so far is 38kb and a total of 2038 lines (non-optimised, so whitespace included). I have the freedom to hand-code and I like to think I'm pretty fast at it. But my side also has control over the content. The boss, or visitors, simply aren't allowed to add  tags.There are professionals in the front-end who care about semantics and valid code and do use frameworks. In fact, css frameworks are mostly built by these people.
The question for me is, is a framework something css/web NEWBIES should start out with? Or even look at? Esp. newbies are are coming from the back end, or programming in general? (these would be the people who have the most trouble with CSS, in my opinion).
Stubbornella (Nicole Sullivan-Haas) says this:
Current methods for writing CSS require expert level ability just to get started. To become a CSS expert, you need to spend couple years coding away in your basement by yourself before you are remotely useful. [ bold is hers; particular article is linked in her name above ]This is partially the argument for the need for "OOCSS" (and frameworks as well)... that someone has to spend all this time learning CSS... I'd argue it's pretty much the same in any programming language as well, and I believe if you DIDN'T spend years coding away in your basement before offering your code to the world, you don't know what to do when something breaks, because instead of leaning French you learned the phrasebook via Babelfish. I don't want more people running around in my profession who can say "the cheese is old and moldy, where is the bathroom" but don't know how to say "the bathroom is old and moldy".
Are newbies unnecessarily re-inventing the wheel when writing out their float clears and triggering Haslayout the first gazillion times? When some pre-written code they can just add will do it for them and they can concentrate on other things? This same question holds for Javascript libraries, really. At what point is someone able to say "This is not a black box doing my job, but a tool that simply makes my job faster"? My opinion is, if you want to learn the language, then learn it first, before engaging in things like libraries and frameworks.
Second, when we're trying shove web semantics down newbies' throats, is introducing them to class="block clear-block block-clear clear-clear-block-clear-block" going backwards? Or is it the future as sites become simply too user-interactive (the users/visitors, not the web devs, are manipulating and adding the content of the sites)?
Are we encouraging bloat when presenting frameworks to newbies? I continue to see newbies and not-so-newbies using the Meyer CSS reset, or older versions of the reset, or the very similar Yahoo reset. Removing padding etc from deprecated elements, removing borders from elements who never have them to begin with, and the two that really bother me... removing outline from focussed elements with a cute little note afterwards telling people not to forget to add it back in (guess what? Just about everyone forgets) and the little note I keep seeing about how cellpadding or cellspacing is still necessary to add to tables in HTML. This might be from an older reset but I see it in brand-new pages. And if you don't have any tables on the site? Yeah, one line of code isn't going to break anyone's modem or server, but why keep bloat? No, why introduce it in the first place?
Should visitors be downloading a stylesheet for resets, a main stylesheet, a typography stylesheet, an IE stylesheet (or three), and whatever else, just to visit a page? What about One GET Request To Rule Them All? (not that any framework would stop you from goobering all those separate styles together into one file, but sites seem to have several stylesheets because they started out that way)
Okay, rambling over, here are some links I ran into back when I first heard of these things, lawlz:
Basic intro, quick list of pros and cons, and then a seemingly exhaustive list of frameworks... really I've only heard of Blueprint, YUI, 960grid and the OOCSS...http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/04/29/definitive-list-of-css-frameworks-pick-your-style/
Semantics and OOCSS? Or, CSS "macros"? Lord knows, among our wishlists for ponies and other css goodies, some of us have wanted variables.
Yeah, I called them abominations, mostly because I can. I do believe they are useful, valuable tools for many developers, and we all know visitors never look at a site's underwear (only web devs do that). But I don't want my code to look like that, be organised like that, and I don't want newbies' codes to smell like that, but I have the freedom to avoid framesets and not all newbies intend to learn CSS or front-end web development, but instead are just trying to get a decent page in the air for the boss.
Anyway I'd like this thread to be a collection of yea's, nay's, and examples of when you guys have used or considered CSS frameworks, OOCSS, and the like. What one did you use and why?
Personally, I really don't like the idea of them at all, and have avoided them so far... I don't like the idea of having to have my code conform to whatever standards a framework might require - and I would hate it if my code ended up like the example you pasted above!
I don't know much about them in terms of making CSS easier to learn - we all managed without them before these kinds of framework existed so it can't be too hard to learn about it!
I do think CSS needs to evolve a bit though and add certain 'programmatic' elements to it, such as variables/constants, nested selectors perhaps, and regular expression selectors - which would allow back-references to be inserted into the properties/values of that rule. I know there are some third party apps that do things like this already (nested selectors etc) - but the trouble comes when trying to use generated stylesheets in conjunction with something like Firebug - all the line numbers get messed up and it's quite hard to debug!
I have, for some sites, developed my own CSS 'framework' for want of a better word - just some pre-defined class names to help the site owner (who is technically minded and knows HTML etc but just needed some help with the site build) lay boxes and images out on the site, with a simple grid system.
I had to build 5 templates for a site last week based on the 960css framework at a clients specific request. I'd already discussed why I didn't like using frameworks but was of course prepared to do what the client wanted as ultimately they pay the bills (and thought it would be fun anyway).
The reasons they had for using the framework was so that the team could follow a documented structure and understand how things were placed and how to change and add elements and columns in a consistent manner. Whether this does in fact helps them remains to be seen as they are working with it now and I will let you know what the outcome is.
From my point of view the initial construction using the framework may be of interest to you. Obviously this was my first stab at using it so there would obviously be a learning curve to take into account.
Bearing that in mind the first template took me 3 days to complete when normally I would complete it in a day. Some of that time would be in learning how to use the structure and investigating the proper techniques needed but most of my delay was in trying to place content that lay outside the grid.
Although the client specifically designed the site based on the grid template dimensions they did not take into account shadows and erroneous overlapping elements. Therefore 50% of the elements could not fit into the grid as the shadows lay outside the grid and I had to create another grid outside of the grid so that I could add shadows to the grid elements.
There were very few tutorials available and the ones I found were pretty simple and showed nothing more than a few square elements floated across. There were no real in-depth tutorials or if there were I didn't find them.
In places where the design matched the grid then work progressed quote smoothly but because everything is floated every section needed to be cleared with div style="clear:both" in the html which is messy. IE gets very cranky if you don't have a hard clearer where multiple floats are concerned and indeed if you have uneven height columns you have to have a 100% wide clearer to make sure everything starts on the next row.
I soon got used to the structure and adding alpha and omega classes and adding up grid_16 and grid_8 so that it fits into grid_24. However, after a while I had real problems locating the elements in the page I wanted to work with.
The page was a very long page with multiple elements like a newspaper and simply searching through the html became a nightmare because there loads of grid_8 elements and they were nested within other grid_elements. Therefore I had to go back and add extra classes to the grid elements so that I knew what they were for. This of course is introducing redundancy as one class would have sufficed from the start.
In the end I only used about half a dozen different grid elements so that means that 90% of the grid code is redundant and kept in place just in case someone wants to add another sized grid later.
When I had finished I tried to think what use the grid had been and what job was it doing that could save time. In effect all it does is makes you use elements of a set width or a width divisible by the framework you are using and then floats them across the screen for you. Something you would normally do in your sleep.
For beginners it may be useful in that it handles clearing and the double margin bug and makes sure that things actually fit. We often see in the forums broken layouts because an author simply can't add up correctly and the grid should help avoid this.
The defaults and resets obviously give beginners an even start also but most experienced coders have their own set of defaults anyway.
My conclusions are that if the design is made to fit the grid then beginners or intermediate could use the grid quite successfully but as soon as something unexpected crops up (or the design deviates from the grid) they would be lost and find it difficult to resolve.
For my own part I still can't think of a reason to use it as it's not doing anything that I can't set up in ten seconds anyway. It may be useful for wire framing a project quickly but how long does it really take to code three floats across the width of an element.
There may as yet be unseen benefits form the clients perspective though and these may outweigh my reservations but only time will tell.
Interesting to see your thoughts on it Paul... I always saw CSS frameworks as unnecessary, and basically a result of trying to apply something that is useful in programming (eg PHP frameworks) to something that works differently, and doesn't need one.
Maybe it's just something in my brain or whatever, but I like CSS frameworks. I find them easy to understand and easy to use. I also don't have a problem then refactoring the code to remove any extra unused stuff.
So many CSS expert types don't really have an understanding of the visual or typographic grid. Yeah, great that you can make floats do their thang. Pity your website looks like it was slapped together by an East German architect.
It would be remiss of me not to point out Kevin's talk on this topic. I've seen it a couple of times and it's pretty good.
Some time ago I posted this uri for others to watch:http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2009/03/23/object-oriented-css-video-on-ydn/
I'm currently working in a blueprint css environment, and from this experience I can say it 'constrains' designers to unify their process (no edge cases).
Essentially, frameworks adhere to a unified out of the box pattern.
Thanks for the link, Raena. It answered some of my questions. Still, though, I will steer clear of CSS frameworks. CSS is one of the few things I can understand (more or less) and write myself (along with HTML)—as opposed to things like jQuery and the PHP behind CSMs etc. The last thing I want to do is have someone write the CSS for me.
As Alex said, though, it does make sense to develop one's own frameworks for repeated use. Maybe my views don't count, as I mainly do simple layouts, but even something like a 960-type grid I'd rather code myself, from the ground up.
My two razoos worth, anyway.
Was that quote was directed at me?
I think this might be true. I absolutely do NOT think in grids (now I'm also absolutely NOT an artsy-fartsy person but frankly I don't see those people as thinking in grids either... they are weird artsy-fartsy people because they don't think in boxes!) and I like that I can take (not create) ANY design and just build it in CSS. If I had to wrangle a framework... I'd prolly go hire some 12-year-old whiz to do it for me, because I don't see the point of the extra work. I'd die dealing with
 every 7 lines. Oh wait, I have: Magento. Terrible! I hated every minute of wrestling that alligator.
Raena, does my site look like it was slapped together by Komrade Heilmann? Yesh I can makez teh floatz does their thang. As a non-designer, it looks like a bunch of boxes. But I still doesn't use a grid system. It would not help.
*edit: I have to say, it's very good that you added that link, Raena, because it links also to other CSS framework articles that I did not know existed (I never bothered to do a search! Didn't occur to me). So valuable to others in that way as well (I don't have Flash so I can't watch the video unless I go turn on Windows).
Your site looks clean, not Communist. : )
I was wondering who the "you" referred to, but then realized it was a generic you.
No, my graphic designer colleague judges everything by eye, definitely.
[ot]Stomme poes: Me, I want to know what the * after some names mean.
Hmm, I've never even noticed that.[/ot]
I'm more of a geriatric "you"
Hmmm, you're not suffering grand natal depression, are you Paul?
blush Sorry.
But if your website looks like East German architecture, feel free to take it on
I was ready to take the hit (I can mark it up but I can't tell red from green)
I've never used a CSS framework. I am still not sure whether or not they are a good idea on principle. The idea behind it is good, without question. It's the way these things are written that bothers me and all that unused code... I don't know. One could argue that CMSes aren't any better or that most of us use no more than 20% of an application's functionality anyway.
Non-bloated, efficient, smart, and reusable CSS...I don't think this has to be from the realm of Utopia. Baby steps.
Yeah. I can't even claim to use 10% of my brain, either. Sigh. :-/
The main problem with frameworks is very easy to remedy, you have all your most used source code in a huge library that's well indexed, then you copy and paste all the components you want to make use of in each design. That way everything is agile, well documented and you don't have bloat issues as you only plug stuff in as you need them. Most developers re-use stuff all the time, it's just 3rd party dependency I have issues with (we don't need a cut-n-paste era again)
Whenever I have gotten a request from a client for frameworks because they want to easily modify, I find that simply commenting the code clearly and telling what does what does what they want.
I tried to do a framework for a friend (back when I first started CSS, I didn't feel good enough to ask for money) and it was a horrible experience to be honest. Now that I'm proficient with CSS I still am a bit hesitant to do a framework but if someone requests it I guess I'll give it a shot
Aaaaaah replicating code everywhere has potential for disaster unless you try and prevent someone from changing it. Otherwise you have fifteen different copies of the same thing.
I have a big fat girly love for Less CSS as it lets you use variables and such. So, for example, if I like the idea of one 'column' being 30 pixels, and I want to use that sort of construction, I can define these as variables and then blend them into a handmade CSS file. It's the bomb.


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Sweet and Sour Broccoli Salad
8 cups fresh broccoli, cut into small flowerets and stems chopped into small pieces
1/2 small red onion, cut into slices and then 1/4 inch dice (or use thinly sliced green onion if you're not a raw onion fan)
6-8 slices bacon, cooked very crisp, fat blotted off, and then crumbled
3/4 cup coarsely chopped pecans
1 cup grated cheddar cheese (I used Four Cheese Blend from Costco; I think this would be quite good without the cheese too.)
Dressing Ingredients:
1 cup mayo
3 T rice wine vinegar, white wine vinegar, or red wine vinegar
3 T Granulated Stevia + 1 T brown sugar (or use 1/4 cup of any sweetener you prefer)
2 tsp. Spike Seasoning (optional, but it does add a nice flavor here)
salt/pepper to taste
Chop broccoli flowerets and stems into small pieces; then wash in salad spinner and spin dry. (If the broccoli is even the tiniest bit limp, let broccoli sit in the salad spinner with cold water and ice for about 5 minutes to crisp it before you spin it dry.)
Cook the bacon until it's very crisp, then blot on both sides with paper towels to remove as much fat as possible. (I use Costco pre-cooked bacon and then crisp it in the microwave.) Crumble the bacon and chop onion into small pieces. Coarsely chop pecans.
Combine dressing ingredients with a wire whisk. Put the chopped broccoli in a large salad bowl. Add desired amount of dressing and stir to coat the broccoli. (You may not want all the dressing depending on how wet you prefer your salad. Extra dressing is great on cabbage.) Gently fold in chopped onion, pecans, and cheese. Salad can be refrigerated for a few hours before serving.
This will keep in the refrigerator for a few days, but you may want to add a tablespoon or two of extra dressing after it's been refrigerated.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This salad has mostly broccoli, which is a very low-glycemic and low-carb ingredient. However, I probably annoyed the low-carb diet police by adding a little brown sugar to the dressing! Personally I would still consider this to be pretty low in carbs and South Beach Diet friendly, but use all sweetener (and even reduced-fat mayo) if you prefer.
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The first win is always exhilarating. Coming up from behind with that out-of-nowhere knock out is one of the greatest feelings ever. The look of disappointment on the opponents face makes the victory all the sweeter. But this is only the first round; it's way too early to get cocky.
I'm not much of a competitive gamer. I have always preferred the comfort of my own bedroom to the loud crowd of an event hall. That doesn't always stop me from venturing out from my dark little "cave" to get my fix. Soul Calibur has always been my specialty, specifically Soul Calibur 3 and 4. I never played in anything big, usually just a small tournament with a group of friends with gloating rights for prizes. In 2010, I attended Anime Iowa in Coralville, IA with my college anime club. While there, I was able to partake in a Soul Calibur 4 tournament. I didn't win, but the rounds I did were some of the most heart racing fights I have ever had.
Playing video games for competition has been around for nearly as long as video games themselves. The first of which was the Space Invaders Competition held by Atari in 1980. Since then, competitive gaming has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon.
Soul Calibur barely scratches the surface of what can pass for a competitive game these days. Any type of game can be turned into tournament fodder. Ranging from the burning rubber of racing games like Go Speed and Mario Kart 64, to the heart-stopping shooters of Halo and Counter Strike, to fast-paced real-time-strategy games of DOTA and Star Craft 2. They come in many shapes and can be played nearly anywhere.
Just this last October, I had the opportunity to work with EPX Studios at the University of Iowa to put on a gaming competition. We had five simultaneous tournaments for Halo: Reach, Marvel Vs Capcom, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, League of Legends, and FIFA. We spent several months putting this thing together, had more set backs then what we thought was possible, and in the end we were able to pull together something we could be proud of. People showed up, the tournaments went smoothly, and nobody got hurt in the process. With the first EPX Arena completed, we wasted no time planning out the details for round two.
When I started working with EPX Studios, I was still a little wet behind the ears when it came to competitive gaming. I've been told about how big these tournaments can get and I know there are people who take these competitions seriously, but I was still lax on the details.
While working out the details for the tournament, I got to know this guy named Rayce Ebenson, an electronic engineer major. While talking with him I have come learn that he is the lead organizer for the University of Iowa's DOTA and Star Craft 2 teams, for which he plays.
Both Star Craft 2: Wings of liberty and DOTA are real-time-strategy games. Blizzard Entertainment released star Craft 2 on July 27, 2010 for Microsoft Windows and OS X. In the game, players command units of solders, weapons and vehicles to complete missions.
DOTA, or Defense of the Ancients, is a multiplayer online battle arena mod for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, which was released in 2002. In DOTA, players control groups of heroes, which are used to take out their opponent's Ancients, heavily guarded structures found in opposing corners of the map. At the beginning of each round, players start at level one and level up during the match, buying weapons and upgrades along the way. The game runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and Mac OS X. A stand-alone sequel for DOTA is currently in the works.
"We started up the Star Craft league two years ago and the DOTA league is new this year." Ebenson said in an Interview"
His Star Craft team plays in the Star Craft Collegiate League, where his team has gone 5-0 so far in their division. Ebenson says that they have had it pretty easy so far this season and expects to face some much more difficult opponents in the semi-finals. His team's goal is to do better then last year and to at least make it further then the semi-finals.
"Last year we placed second in our division in Star Craft, our division was like ten teams." Ebenson said," We made it to the play offs and got to the second round where we lost. That was like the top 32 teams in the nation, could have been top 64 I'm not sure."
Matches are played all online, no traveling required. Because Star Craft 2 isn't designed for team matches, games are played best of five. Each member of the team plays in a 1-vs-1 game with the team who has the most wins out of five as victor.
Those who make it through the first few rounds and finish first in their regional semi-finals go on to play in the championships, which was held in California. Last year, the team that came out on top won a cash prize of $20.000. This year, Ebenson says the cash prize will be $40,000.
On top of the collegiate league, his Star Craft team plays in the Star Craft LAN (local area network) tournaments. These competitions require players to travel to specific areas and allow any college teams to join, even if they haven't registered their team in Star Craft Collegiate League. Last year, Ebenson's team traveled to Minnesota for the Mid-Western LAN tournament.
DOTA, being a completely brand new league, is going to be a just-for-fun tournament this time around. As the game picks up steam and gathers sponsors, the DOTA league will also be able to support a cash prize


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Hello again folks in last weeks edition I looked at TNA going into major venues for PPV events and got many questions on how this would be done well this week I will gladly explain how things will become.
December 3rd 2012 Game Changer
President Andy Barton of TNA wrestling along with Dixie Carter, Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett is in a conference office at the TNA
The shows starts the same as last weeks permerie with the Miz and Micheal Cole standing in the ring welcoming you to WWE Main Event on Ion Television. Right away the Miz and Cole get to the matter at hand the main event Randy Orton vs The Big Show. We get another great video package highlighting Big Shows career followed by a per match interview from the Big Show. Next is a video highlighting Randy
With recent actives in TNA wrestling as of Late I would like to discuss how there Pay-Per-View schedule should look for the year of 2012 and beyond. You will notice that I have subtracted the Pay-Per-Views that generate the lowest buyrate in the year. TNA now have a revamped Pay-Per-View schedule with eight events per hear which is a way better schedule to work off of also I would like to address
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Giambattista Tiepolo was born on March 5, 1696 in Venice, the last of six children of sea-captain, Domenico Tiepolo and his wife, Orsetta. While the Tiepolo surname belongs to a patrician family, Giambattista's father did not claim noble lineage. The future artist was baptised in his parish church (S. Pietro di Castello) as Giovanni Battista, in honour of his godfather, a Venetian nobleman called Giovanni Battista Dorià. His father Domenico died a year after his birth, leaving Orsetta in difficult financial circumstances.
Giambattista was initially a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini, but the influences from elder contemporaries such as Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta are stronger in his work. At 19 years of age, Tiepolo completed his first major commission, the Sacrifice of Isaac (now in the Accademia). He left Lazzarini studio in 1717, and was received into the Fraglia guild of painters.
In 1719, Tiepolo married Maria Cecilia Guardi, sister of two contemporary Venetian painters Francesco and Giovanni Antonio Guardi. Together, Tiepolo and his wife had nine children. Four daughters and three sons survived childhood. Two sons, Domenico and Lorenzo, painted with him as his assistants and achieved some independent recognition. His third son became a priest.
A patrician from the Friulan town of Udine, Dionisio Delfino, commissioned from the young Tiepolo the fresco decoration of the chapel and palace (1726-1728). It was an almost revolutionary accomplishment using novel pale tonalities and airy handling. Incorporating Sebastiano Riccis maniera paolesca, Tiepolo at once distanced himself from the chiaroscuro typical of the Baroque, but maintained the theatrical grandeur of Rubens. He is considered by many as prototype painter of the decorative Italian Rococo movement of the 18th century. Tiepolo's first masterpieces in Venice were a cycle of enormous canvases painted to decorate a large reception room of Ca' Dolfin, Venice (ca. 17261729), depicting ancient battles and triumph.
He was soon in high demand, which he matched with an astounding prolixity. He painted canvases for churches such as that of Verolanuova (1735-40), for the Scuola dei Carmini (1740-47), and the Scalzi 1743-44]]), a ceiling for the Palazzi Archinto and Casati-Dugnani in Milan (1731), the Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo (1732-33), a ceiling for the Gesuati (S.Maria del Rosario) in Venice of St. Dominic Instituting the Rosary (1737-39), Palazzo Clerici, Milan (1740), decorations for Villa Cordellini at Montecchio Maggiore (1743-44) and for the salon of the Palazzo Labia, now a television studio in Venice, showing the Story of Cleopatra (1745-50).
By 1750, Tiepolo's reputation was firmly established throughout Europe, and accompanied by his son Giandomenico, he traveled to Würzburg at the call of Prince Bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenklau in 1750, where he resided for three years and executed magnificent ceiling paintings in the New Residenz palace. His painting for the grand staircase is the largest ceiling fresco in the world at 7287 square feet (677 m²), and was completed in collaboration with his sons, Giandomenico and Lorenzo. His Allegory of the Planets and Continents depicts Apollo, embarking on his daily course; deities around him symbolize the planets; allegorical figures (on the cornice) represent the four continents, notably including America.
He then returned to Venice in 1753, where he was elected President of the Academy of Padua. The fame of his works led to many requests for commissions: for example, theatrical frescoes for churches; the Triumph of Faith for the Chiesa della Pietà; panel frescos for Ca' Rezzonico (which now also holds his ceiling fresco from the Palazzo Barbarigo); and paintings for patrician villas in the Venetian countryside, such as Villa Valmarana (Vicenza) and a large panegyric ceiling for the now nearly vacant Villa Pisani in Stra.
In 1761, Charles III commissioned from the painter a large ceiling fresco to decorate the throne room of the royal palace of Madrid. The panegyric theme is the Apotheosis of Spain. In Spain, he incurred the jealousy and the bitter opposition of Anton Raphael Mengs. Tiepolo died in Madrid on March 27, 1770.
After his death, the rise of stern Neoclassicism and the post-revolutionary decline of royal absolutism led to the slow decline of the Tiepolo style, but had failed to dent his impact on artistic progress. By 1772 Tiepolo was sufficiently famous to be documented as painter to Doge Giovanni Cornaro, in charge of the decoration of Palazzo Mocenigo a San Polo.
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Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:5. A hotch-potch of the teacher's personal opinions, labelled as "Modern" to make it look like he/she is not old-fashioned or narrow-minded and as "Theravāda" to give it an air of authority and orthodoxy.
Ben wrote:Greg,
The important thing is once you have found a teacher or approach that you have confidence in is to engage with the Dhamma and practice sila, samadhi, and panna.
kind regards,
At a vipassana teachers' meeting at Spirit Rock Center in September 1993, the thirty or so attending teachers were asked if they considered themselves teachers of Theravada Buddhism. Surprisingly, of this group only three clearly identified themselves with the tradition from which their practice came, that is, the ancient Theravada school of Buddhism that survives predominantly in Southeast Asia. At similar meetings at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, most of the attending vipassana teachers likewise did not consider themselves Theravada teachers. In September 1994, the dozen teachers directly involved-with teaching at Spirit Rock debated whether or not Spirit Rock should be considered a Theravada center. After the various reasons for and against such an identification were expressed (e.g., the benefits of being connected to a specific lineage versus the difficulties of relating to the life-denying, other-worldly and dua1istic aspects of the tradition), it became clear that the majority of the teachers did not want such a label, preferring to see the center as inspired by, but independent from, the Theravada tradition.
http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/ ... theravada/
Paribbajaka wrote:I think it's a disservice both to the Dhamma and to practitioners to crticize attempts at modernization as a "watering down" of the teaching or creating a "hodge podge" or similar sentiments.
Like every living religious tradition, Theravada must constantly adapt or die. This is the nature of the religion business, and every society, culture, and generation will adapt the religion to their own needs. This is nothing new. Thai monks give away lucky amulets and winning lottery numbers, things I'm fairly certain the historical Buddha would frown upon, but because it happens in Thailand and it's acceptable to the orthodox Theravada community. Meanwhile if, say, a western monk begins ordaining nuns again a schism erupts and people begin crying heresy. The Brahma Viharas are loving kindness, compassion, wisdom, equanimity, and empathic joy, yet people get hung up on who isn't wearing the right clothes and who isn't pointing their feet the right way and *gasp* who is doing a practice applicable to 21st century life instead of attempting and failing to do it the way they did 2,500 years ago. I'd say the whole loving each other and being happy thing may be a little more important than sticking rigidly to the way it's always been done when historical evidence again and again shows that our conception of the way it was always done is not as clear as had previously been thought
When the Lord Buddha saw Sigalaka worshipping the six directions, he didn't reprimand him or teach him pure Dhamma, he provded a Buddhist frame for Sigalaska to continue his practice. No "watering down", no "muddying", no fear that foreign practices would pollute his pure practice, but accomadating and adapting instead of excluding and isolating. Even in traditional Theravadin countries, animistic and shamanistic practices were integrated into the Dhamma instead of being thought of as impure influences.
Every religion must make a decision: does it want to remain the same or does it want to remain alive? Due to the wider access to knowledge through technology and modern society, people are no longer willing to accept answers based on authority or tradition (something else the spoke on I think). So no, modern Theravada is not an oxymoron, it's simply the tradition and its adherents evolving together as has been the case throughout the history of humanity. Sorry for the
Digity wrote:You make a good point. However, you can only go so far to adapt to new cultures. In the end, the core teachings must be preserved. My biggest issue with "modern" Buddhism is when it gets all "new-agey" about the teachings....or when teachers start picking and choosing from different forms of Buddhism and start constructing their own...they'll teach Theravada Buddhism, but also talk about "Buddha Nature", etc. Stuff like that tends to bother me. In the end, maybe it's a pure preference thing and everyone should just seek out those teachers who resonate with them the most.
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:5. A hotch-potch of the teacher's personal opinions, labelled as "Modern" to make it look like he/she is not old-fashioned or narrow-minded and as "Theravāda" to give it an air of authority and orthodoxy.
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Hi, my dad was diagnosed with intrahepatic cc last year in march and had a total left lobectomy then after just six month he had a reccurence while he was on gemzar then the onc decided to change the regimen and told him to take xeloda but the progression of the sickness is still going but my dad is feeling ok he is in good shape the onc said to change again the regimen to folfox4 since 3 month ago but he wasn't very positive about the prognosis so he stopped chemotherapy and switch to alternative medicine ( another onc told me that he don't need to take the chemotherapy since the prognosis is poor let him live in peace he just have around 3 months to live!!) but I didn't told him that it was since 4 months from now and he is feeling very good he is a alkaline diet and we met a doctor who is a family friend he is working on the energy of the body he believe that he could take out the disease of his body but he said its need some time until today my dad is ok but today he decided to have a blood test to check his liver functions he had the gamma gt elevated to high to 265!! and we are waiting for the ca19-9 result for tomorrow I'm really worry about him coz the onc said he had just 3 month to live and he is still here with us and feeling ok no symptoms and a good appetite you couldn't even imagine he is sick does the gamma gt. elevated mean a bad sign I believe if he would be on chemotherapy his health would have deteriorated but he is still good


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A MOTORBIKE rider was seriously injured in a crash near Pickering on Sunday afternoon.
Police are now appealing for witnesses to help them piece together what happened at the collision at Saltersgate Bank on the A169 Pickering to Whitby road at around 1.40pm on Sunday.
It happened when a silver Kia Picanto, driving towards Whitby, was in a crash with a black Harley-Davidson motorbike, heading towards Pickering.
A 55-year-old woman from Strensall was seriously hurt and was taken to James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough, where she remains in a stable condition.
The road was closed for a short time following the collision.
Anyone who can help with the investigation is urged to contact Scarborough police on 101, select option 2 and ask for Paul Long, or to email email@example.com, quoting reference number 12140139897.


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Genus: Cinclus
Species: Cinclus mexicanus
Description: The American dipper is a medium-sized, gray songbird with white eyelids. It is almost always seen in or along rivers and streams and frequently bobs its body up and down.
Size: Seven inches from beak to tail.
Diet: The diet of the American dipper consists of insects and their larvae, fish eggs, and small fish. On rare occasions, these birds can dive up to twenty feet and walk along river bottoms in search of food! They can even move rocks along the bottom of a river to expose prey. To cope with such extreme conditions, they have a slow metabolism, lots of feathers, and the ability to carry extra oxygen in their blood. Other adaptations to an aquatic lifestyle are water-proofed feathers and the ability to close their nostrils with nasal flaps to prevent water inhalation.
Typical Lifespan: Approximately seven years in the wild.
Habitat: American dippers prefer rocky, unpolluted streams. Streams with cliffs, ledges, or bridges nearby are important nesting habitat. Mountainous streams often provide the necessary habitat, but American dippers can be found in altitudes ranging from sea level to over 12,000 feet!
Range: American dippers live year round in the western U.S. and into Canada and Alaska. They are also found in Mexico and Central America. They do not migrate south if their stream freezes over—instead, they move to larger bodies of water nearby.
Life History and Reproduction: Females decide whether or not to mate with a male based on his song. Nests are built in high places such as cliffs, boulders, or dams so that the eggs are protected from floods. Conditions are often very cold and wet when females lay their eggs, so mothers build an insulated nest made of two layers of moss, grass, leaves, and bark to insulate the eggs. Both adults take care of the young until they are ready to leave the nest, usually around 24 to 25 days after hatching.
Conservation Status: Stable. Water pollutants and development along rivers and streams reduces the amount of habitat available to American dippers.
Scientists continue to marvel at the American dipper, a species remarkably adapted for life near raging rivers


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The Rackspace Startup Program introduces Mailgun, an Email Service Provider (ESP) for developers which allow them to target on innovation elsewhere. The main focus is to make developers' lives easier and allow them to build applications more efficiently. Mailgun enables developers to tightly integrate email into their apps, giving real email mailboxes to their users, their web pages or any objects in their apps. Tight email integration enables functionality like private user mailboxes for photo uploads from cell phones, email-driven comments, discussion groups and more.
"We created Mailgun to solve our own problem; we were tired of building and maintaining email servers for web applications that we were building. After doing it several times, we thought it was painful enough to create a service out of it so that developers wouldn't have to worry about it anymore," explains Taylor Wakefield, Founder and COO of Mailgun. "As mentioned above, we had actually built kludge versions of Mailgun several times while building other applications."
Wakefield goes on to say "we decided to do it the right way and make it a standalone service in mid 2010 in New York. We moved out to the Bay Area of California in early 2011 to attend Y Combinator and afterwards we decided to stay out here." Why do Taylor and Team Mailgun do what they do? "There is a lot of innovation occurring right now and we want to contribute to that movement. We enjoy building things that help people build other things. We are always focused on making Mailgun easier to use and more powerful.
"We are about to roll out a new version of the API which will be more RESTful and will expose more of the functionality of Mailgun. There is still a lot of functionality that is waiting to be exposed through the API. Some of this functionality is centered on data and analytics," says Wakefield looking into the future of Mailgun. "We are fortunate enough to find ourselves in an iterative loop of listening to customers' feedback and building the things that we think will create the most value. It's a great place to be. Also, we plan to focus more on spreading the word about Mailgun and how awesome it is!"
Enabling developers to tightly integrate email into their apps is how the Mailgun startup was conceived. Listening to customers and building what the consensus wants is how Mailgun will scale and grow. Do you have what it takes to create a startup? If so, the Rackspace Startup Program is looking toward the future for the next generation of great entrepreneurs beginning with you. After all, we're a startup, too! For more information, questions or comments, visit the Rackspace Startup Program or send us an email.


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Register Online for Business Preparedness Summit
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
703-324-3187, TTY 711, Fax 703-324-2010
Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
July 3, 2007
Register Online for the July 20 Fairfax County Business Preparedness Summit
Fairfax County's business community is encouraged to register now for the Fairfax County Business Preparedness Summit to be held on Friday, July 20. The summit, for small and large business owners and operators in Fairfax County, will be held at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax.
On-site check in begins at 8 a.m. with a continental breakfast; the opening session begins at 8:30 a.m. The summit will end at approximately 12:30 p.m. Space is limited, and those interested in attending should register at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency/bizprep.htm.
For more information about the Fairfax County Business Preparedness Summit, contact the Office of Public Affairs at 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
The Program
Gerald E. Connolly, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, and Erin Streeter, acting director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Ready Campaign, will keynote the opening session. Bill Lecos, executive director of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, will provide a welcome on behalf of the business community.
A series of three workshops will highlight the morning, with each workshop offered three times so that attendees can participate in each session.
In one session, Teri Flyn, Fairfax County Risk Management Division, and Cullen Henderson, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management (OEM), will cover business preparedness and continuity of operations planning. David Molchany, deputy county executive, and John Hudson, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management, will address how special needs planning should be considered by businesses. And Ellen Kamilakis, also with OEM, will discuss the Fairfax County Citizen Corps programs and how they can work with area businesses.
Lucy Caldwell from the Virginia Department of Health; Merni Fitzgerald, director of the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs; and Brian Worthy, Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs, will cover risk communications and emergency messaging in the second workshop.
The third session features a tour of Fairfax County's alternate emergency operations center by Mike Ryan, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management, along with a presentation on the National Incident Management System from Brian Brendel, Fairfax County Office of Emergency Management. Also part of the presentation will be Sharon Smith, Fairfax County Police Department, and Rick Roatch, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department.
Exhibits and displays will be available throughout the day, including the Virginia Department of Emergency Management, Volunteer Fairfax and the American Red Cross. Each attendee will receive a notebook of business preparedness materials.
The program concludes with closing remarks by Chairman Connolly, along with a question-and-answer session.
Business representatives are encouraged to attend to learn how to better prepare their business for an emergency, as well as to learn how Fairfax County will operate during an emergency.
For more news and information, visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news.


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A Vallejo man was robbed at gunpoint Saturday afternoon after responding to an online advertisement, police said Sunday.
The man was meeting up with the suspect at about 11:15 p.m. to buy a smart phone, iPhone 5, posted on Craigslist.com, an advertising website, police said.
The two men agreed to meet in the area of Mini Drive and Corcoran Avenue, police added.
When the victim arrived at the scene, he was flagged down by the suspect, who he believed to be the seller.
The suspect entered the passenger seat of the vehicle, and took out a chrome-colored, semi-automatic gun and pointed it at the victim, police said.
The suspect demanded his personal belongings, and fled the scene with his wallet, cellphone and car keys, police said.
The victim was not injured, and described the suspect as a black man in his 30s, clean shaven, with short hair. He was about 6 foot, 2 inches, 250 pounds, and was wearing a gray zipped sweater, white T-shirt and dark jeans.