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On July 1, 2013 Governor Jerry Brown signed historic legislation aimed at making higher education more affordable. Starting in the 2014-15 academic year, the Middle Class Scholarship (MCS) program would apply to undergraduate students with family incomes up to $150,000 and who attend a University of California campus.
Read more from the California Student Aid Commission.
Dear UCSB Family,
As we quickly approach the summer months, many of you are making vacation plans, lining up jobs and internships, taking summer classes or in some cases, all of the above. As I do every year at this time, I would like to remind you to make sure your financial aid affairs are in order before you depart for the summer.
What does this mean for you as a financial aid applicant? It means you should pay very close attention to email notices sent to student U-Mail accounts from the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships. You should also be checking My Aid Status on a regular basis to make sure your financial aid file is up-to-date. Missing key deadlines will result in a loss of financial aid eligibility for UCSB Grants, Work-Study, and Perkins Loan for the 2017-2018 academic year.
If you are selected for verification, your documents will be due no later than June 16, 2017. Please do not delay the process of submitting any and all requested documents. If you are having difficulty collecting your documents, feel free to contact our office right away at (805) 893-2432.
New for the 2017-2018 academic year, our office has partnered with CampusLogic, a cloud-based technology company that supports electronic forms submission and makes the process easier, more efficient and mobile!
Once financial aid awards are released (starting in July), it is imperative that you review your awards carefully. If you will be using student and/or parent loans to help cover your expenses, you should apply for them as soon as they are offered to ensure the funds are available prior to the September 15th payment deadline.
On behalf of the entire Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships staff, I would like to thank you for adhering to these deadlines. By avoiding a late summer rush of document submissions, we will be able to better serve the UCSB community and you will have more time to ensure your fees and expenses are paid prior to the start of fall quarter.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Michael M. Miller, Ed.D.
Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services
University of California, Santa Barbara
The interest rates on new federal education loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2014 are based on the May 7, 2014 10-Year Treasury Auction Yield, which is 2.61%, according to the U.S. Treasury Department's press release.
This represents a 0.80% increase in the interest rates as compared with current rates.
The new interest rates are as follows:
This corresponds to an increase in the monthly loan payments on a 10-year term of about $4 for every $10,000 borrowed, or about $46 to $49 a year. Total costs will increase by $460 to $492 over the 10-year repayment term of the loans.
June 2 - June 13
We will remain open normal business hours:
M-F 9am - Noon, 1pm -4pm
June 17
The front desk will be closed from 9am - Noon. Phones will remain open during normal business hours.
June 18 - June 20
The front desk will be closed all day. Phones will remain open during normal business hours.
June 23 - September
The front desk will be closed on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 9am - noon. Phones will remain open during normal business hours
As of July 1, 2013, a first-time student loan borrower is no longer eligible for Direct Subsidized Loans after he or she exceeds 150% of the published length necessary to graduate in an undergrad degree program. For example, students in a four-year program will only be eligible for Direct Subsidized Loans for the equivalent of six years (aggregate loan amount limits still apply). However, students may continue to receive Direct Unsubsidized Loans after losing the Subsidized eligibility.
In addition, a borrower reaching the 150% limit becomes ineligible for the interest subsidy benefits on all Subsidized Loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2013. Repayment does not begin, but the interest will start accruing on those Subsidized loans. Any and all periods of Subsidized Loan borrowing will count against the 150% time limit. For more information, please see the announcement (PDF) released by the Department of Education.
"Like" us on our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter for a chance to win a $250 Scholarship for Summer Session 2014. One Facebook or Twitter follower will be chosen randomly and will receive a $250 Scholarship for Summer Session 2014.
"Like" us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
If you do not have a Facebook or Twitter account, you can sign up at http://www.facebook.com orhttp://www.twitter.com.
One Facebook or Twitter follower will be chosen randomly and will receive a $250 Scholarship for Summer Session 2014.
Entrants must "Like" UCSB Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship on Facebook and/or follow @UCSBFinAid on Twitter by Friday, August 29, 2014.
The winner must be enrolled in Summer Session 2014.
The winner must complete a minimum of 6 units in Summer Session 2014.
The winner must have a Summer Financial Aid Application on file.
The winner will have the scholarship applied only to Summer Session 2014.
The winner must have financial need as determined for federal need-based aid programs. Federal rules for resolving overawards apply.
The winner will be notified via Facebook message or Twitter message. The winner must respond within 72 hours of contact or he/she forfeits the scholarship. If the scholarship is not claimed within the time limit, an alternate winner will be selected at random.
Facebook and Twitter Disclaimer:
This scholarship is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook and Twitter.
Beginning January 30th, 2011 you will be able to select the IRS Data Retrieval option on your FAFSA. We strongly recommend that parents and students select this option during the initial filing or when subsequent corrections are made to a 2011-2012 FAFSA application. This option will streamline and expedite the processing of your financial aid application with the UCSB Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.
In order to successfully use the IRS Data Retrieval option, you must have a federal tax return filed with the IRS, have a valid Social Security number, a Federal Aid Personal Identification Number (PIN), and have an unchanged marital status since December 31, 2010. For parents without a Federal Aid PIN, you will be prompted to apply for one during the FAFSA application process. The PIN will also help you (student or parent) electronically sign the FAFSA.
If on the FAFSA you listed your tax filing status as "Will File" because you had not yet filed a return, please remember to change this status to "Already File," update all relevant income fields to your FAFSA, and select the IRS Data Retrieval option once you have actually submitted a federal tax return to the IRS.
According to the IRS:
Persons unable to use the IRS Data Retrieval option include the following IRS tax filing statuses:
When either a parent or student selects the IRS Data Retrieval option, the FAFSA Central Processing System (CPS) will conduct a data match with the IRS. As the federal income tax filer, you will be redirected to a secure IRS website, where you will permit the IRS to transfer income data to the CPS. Data that is successfully matched will be marked on the FAFSA with the following notation, "Transferred from the IRS." It's as simple as that.
A successful match between CPS and the IRS will allow us to forego the need for certain federal income tax return documents, so long as income data fields are not subsequently altered on your FAFSA. This process avoids reporting errors and processing delays that can otherwise occur when the option is not selected. Please note that you may still be required to supply other income information as part of general verification process.
We hope that both parents and student elect to use this streamlining process for the 2011-2012 application cycle. The IRS Data Retrieval tool will make reporting easier and accurate for FAFSA filers, as well as allowing us to redirect our administrative focus to better serve your needs and enhance your application experience.
When students receive additional funding from sources outside of what is offered in their initial Financial Aid award letter, your Financial Aid award is reevaluated and may change. The following presentation explains this process:
The confidentiality of student Financial Aid information is protected in accordance with the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 and UC Santa Barbara Policy and Procedure "Student Education Records – Disclosure of Information" issued March 2004 (available from the UCSB Registrar).
Providing access to student Financial Aid records or information contained in these records to unauthorized persons is also prohibited. Your student's information cannot be disclosed to third parties (parent, spouse, sibling, friend, landlord, associate, etc.) without their express written consent.
If your student wishes to grant access to you or another third party, he/she must complete the Student Consent to Release UCSB Financial Aid Information to a Designated Third Party form. This form must be completed each academic year.
This form is available in the Forms.
Beginning November 3, 2014, OFAS will be hosting regular office hours at the EOP Office on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1-4PM. Students will be able to drop-in to discuss financial aid matters with a professional staff member.
Location: Student Resource Building – EOP Suite # 2232 Dates: Mondays and Tuesdays Time: 1-4PM
In order to remain eligible to receive your full Cal Grant and/or Pell Grant award, you must be enrolled in a minimum of 12 units at census date every quarter. Work-Study eligibility can also be affected if enrolled units are below amounts as listed below. Census date occurs one day after the last day to add classes on GOLD. If you are enrolled in less than 12 units on the census date, your Cal Grant and/or Pell Grant will be reduced or prorated accordingly after the census date has passed, which may result in a charge on your BARC account.
Full-time award (12 units): $4080 per quarter (nothing billed back)
3/4-time award (9-11 units): $3060 per quarter ($1020 reduction)
1/2-time award (6-8 units): $2040 per quarter ($2040 reduction)
If you receive the Cal Grant Stipend, this may also be reduced based on units.
Full-time (12 units): Nothing billed back
3/4-time (9-11 units): Reduction depends on award amount
1/2-time (6-8 units): Reduction depends on award amount
Full-time (12 units): no adjustment
3/4-time (9-11 units): no adjustment
1/2-time (6-8 units): no adjustment
Less than 1/2-time (5 or less units): award is terminated for the quarter
Our office will only check your enrollment at the census date of every quarter, so a student may make changes to their enrollment during the first 3 weeks without penalty (add or drop classes, crash classes, etc.). If you are adding classes with approval codes or with special professor approval, be sure these are completed by the census date to maintain your grant eligibility.
Students must also meet published campus academic standards. Additional information regarding those standards can be found in the General Catalog.
While it's no secret that student loan debt is on the rise across the nation, a University of California degree remains one of the best investments you can make in your future. With that in mind, the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships would like to share the following Five Facts about University of California Affordability:
Over 50% of all CA resident undergraduates receive grants and scholarships ("gift aid") that cover 100% of their systemwide tuition and fees.
UC continues to enroll a much higher percentage of low-income Pell Grant recipients than comparable universities. Last year, 39% of UC students received Pell Grants. In contrast, the estimated percentage at other AAU public institutions was less than 25%, and less than 20% at AAU private institutions.
Nearly half of UC's 2010-11 graduating class had no student loan debt. The 51% who did borrow had average debt of about $17,700, well below the national average of about $25,000.
UC students' average debt can be repaid with monthly payments of about $200 – less than 6% of their estimated average starting salary – based on a standard 10-year payment plan. Income-based payment plans are available for students with unusually high debt or low income.
After taking grants and scholarships into account, the average net tuition paid by all UC students was about $4,400 in 2010-11 – lower than at many comparable public research universities.
The California Dream Application is now available at California Dream Act website. Students made eligible for Financial Aid based on the California Dream Act must complete this application in order to be considered for Financial Aid.
Read our FAQ below and visit University of California - California Dream Act for more information.
The California Dream Act became law through the passage of two assembly bills, AB 130 and AB 131. Collectively, these bills are known as the California Dream Act. They allow certain, qualified nonresident students, including those who are undocumented to apply for Cal Grants, and institutional grants and scholarships awarded by California public colleges and universities. These new laws took effect on January 1, 2013 with respect to UC institutional aid and will take effect Fall term of the 2013-14 school year with respect to Cal Grants.
No. The California Dream Act affects only students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under a previous Assembly Bill, AB 540. To qualify, students must have attended a California high school for at least three years and graduated from a California high school. In addition, undocumented students must attest that they have filed an application to legalize their immigration status, or will file an application as soon as they are eligible to do so.
At UCSB, AB 540 determinations are made as part of the Statement of Legal Residence process in the Office of the Registrar. Only the campus Residence Deputy can make decisions related to AB 540 eligibility. Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships staff will not be able to assist you in making these determinations
Eligible students will apply for Financial Aid using the California Dream Application, administered by the California Student Aid Commission. The application is now available at California Dream Act website. Students should also review the California Student Aid Commission's site to determine if you are required to submit a Cal Grant Grade Point Average (GPA) Verification Form.
Documented students, who are eligible for Financial Aid, should file the FAFSA at the FAFSA website.
UC believes that students who attended and graduated from high school in California, but are not legal residents, should have access to higher education. These students are highly motivated to succeed despite the obstacles they face. Through their hard work and perseverance, they have met the academic standards required to attend UC. Their accomplishments should not be disregarded or their future jeopardized because of their immigration status. By allowing AB 540 students to apply for and receive Financial Aid from the State and UC, these bills help place these students on a more equal footing with other needy students and would enhance their access to college.
UC estimates that about 800 undergraduates who will qualify Cal Grant entitlement awards worth about $7 million. Among these students who are newly-eligible for Cal Grants, UC estimates that about 300 are undocumented and 500 are documented. UC estimates that about 440 undocumented undergraduates will qualify for roughly $4.3 million in UC grants and scholarships. These are rough estimates only, however, because UC does not currently collect information about the income or other financial resources of undocumented students.
Cal Grants received by undocumented students will not reduce the number or amount of Cal Grant awards available for other students. For UC grants and scholarships, the impact on other students will be negligible because undocumented students represent a tiny fraction of the student body. (UC estimates that fewer than one-half of one percent of its students are undocumented.)
UC's financial aid programs are primarily funded from tuition revenue. UC sets aside about 30 percent of undergraduate tuition revenue for Financial Aid. Undocumented students pay into this pool but have been prevented from receiving any assistance from it. Under the California Dream Act, eligible undocumented students with financial need can apply for aid.
The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships will be closed during winter break from December 22, 2014 through January 2, 2015.
Our phones will be open December 29, 30, and January 2 from 9AM – 12PM and 1PM - 4PM.
Our office will resume normal business hours Monday, January 5, 2015.
Winter refunds are generated by the BARC Billing Office and will start being released seven days before the start of winter classes for students with accounts in paid status.
Students on Financial Aid Probation will experience a delay in receiving Winter 2015 financial aid. Our office is required to confirm your fall grades before winter aid is released. All students on financial aid probation have been placed on a short-term fee extension status with the BARC billing office to prevent being dropped from classes or from receiving late fees. The short-term fee extensions will expire on January 15, 2015.
Students on Financial Aid Probation will experience a delay in receiving Winter 2015 financial aid. Our office is required to confirm your fall grades before winter aid is released. All students on financial aid probation have been placed on a short-term fee extension status with the BARC billing office to prevent being dropped from classes or from receiving late fees. The short-term fee extensions will expire on January 15, 2015. Financial Aid will not be released until fall grades are confirmed, so we recommend that you plan accordingly for paying expenses such as rent, food and personal items. Our office anticipates reviewing grades the week of December 29, 2014.
To meet the condition of financial aid probation, undergraduate students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 and pass a minimum of 12 units per quarter. Graduate students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and pass a minimum of 8 units per quarter.
If you complete the minimum unit and GPA requirement, your winter aid will be released the week of December 29, 2014. If you fail to complete the required number of units or maintain the minimum cumulative GPA during fall quarter, you will be placed back on financial aid suspension for winter quarter and will be notified by email.
Students placed on suspension may gain future financial aid eligibility, subject to availability of funds if they meet the following criteria:
Note: This will only make students eligible for future financial aid once reinstated; this is not retroactive.
Please note that financial aid probation status is for financial aid purposes only and is separate from academic probation policies for academic standing with the University.
Para tener derecho a los programas de asistencia financiera a nivel federal, estatal y universitario, es obligatorio rellenar y entregar la Solicitud Gratuita de Ayuda Federal para Estudiantes (FAFSA) cada año. Para cumplir con este requisito y aprender más de los programas disponibles, vaya usted a uno de los siguientes enlaces: En español: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/es_ES/, En inglés: http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/.
Además, no se olvide que el código de la Universidad de California en Santa Barbara (UCSB) es 001320. Es necesario incluir este código cuando uno entrega el FAFSAsm para que la solicitud sea enviada a la Oficina de Asistencia Financiera y Becas de UCSB, después de ser controlada por el Departamento de Educación de EE.UU. Al mismo tiempo, para tener derecho a recibir becas universitarias y estatales en California, es necesario entregar la Solicitud (FAFSAsm) antes del 2 de marzo cada año. (Por ejemplo, para recibir asistencia financiera para la universidad empezando en septiembre de 2015 – el año escolar 2015-2016-, hay que entregar la Solicitud entre el primero (1ero) de enero 2015 y el 2 de marzo 2015.) Conjuntamente, algunos individuos de familias inmigrantes a California que cumplen con los requisitos pueden también solicitar asistencia financiera estatal por el California Dream Act. Para más información y la solicitud del Dream Act, vaya al siguiente enlace: http://www.csac.ca.gov/dream_act.asp.
We view financial aid as an investment that requires a partnership between our office, students and parents. It requires open communication and collaboration from the point of filing the first application to loan repayment after graduation.
Financial Aid Matters Guide
A Guide for Students and Parents
We developed this resource in hopes of providing you the information you should know about your student's financial responsibilities, including:
UCSB Grant Awarding Policy
UCSB Grant is made available by the University of California and is awarded to undergraduate applicants considered on-time and determined to have sufficient financial need. This policy is designed to award students as fairly as possible with limited funding and guided by the goal of maintaining the affordability of the University.
On-time Status
Students who file a FAFSA or DREAM Act application after the California March 2 priority filing deadline and/or submit requested information after deadlines specified by the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships cannot be guaranteed consideration for the UCSB Grant. Students who have failed to meet a deadline will be awarded on a first come, first served basis, subject to the availability of funding.
Students with extenuating circumstances that prevented them from meeting financial aid deadlines may submit an On-time Status Appeal. All appeals are subject to the availability of funding and may only be considered the first time an applicant fails to meet a deadline.
Please note that the following are generally not considered extenuating circumstances or situations beyond a student's control that would warrant an appeal for on-time status:
On November 19, 2015, the University of California Regents approved that new nonresident undergraduates will be ineligible for UC need-based financial aid. Due to this policy, we are unable to review appeals for additional grant funding. It is important to note that the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships will help nonresident students receive all federal financial aid – such as Pell Grants or federal student loans – for which they qualify.
Here are some tips to help reduce the overall Cost of Attendance:
Remember to contact our office with any questions you have concerning your Financial Aid Award Letter.
FAFSA's IRS Data Retrieval Tool (IRSDRT) is currently unavailable. IRSDRT will become available again at the start of the 2018-2019 FAFSA season that will begin in October 2017.
This outage occurred after California's March 2nd priority deadline for the 2017-2018 FAFSA. You still have time to file the 2017-2018 FAFSA if you missed the priority deadline. Instead of using the Data Retrieval Tool, you can manually input your 2015 tax information from your federal tax return. Remember, 2015 tax information is being used on the 2017-2018 FAFSA due to the prior-prior year FAFSA changes.
Q: Why is the IRSDRT unavailable? A: To protect sensitive tax payer data.
Please see the Federal Student Aid Announcement for more information.
Q: I already used the IRSDRT. How will this impact me? A: This outage will not impact you.
Please do not adjust any information transferred to your FAFSA by the IRS.
Q: I did not use the IRSDRT. How will this impact me? A: You will need to fill out your 2017-2018 FAFSA using information from your 2015 IRS 1040, 1040A, or 1040EZ.
The FAFSA provides line-by-line instructions based on your tax return type. If selected for verification, your campus will request a tax return transcript.
Q: How do I request a tax return transcript? A: Transcripts can be requested online, over the phone, through fax, or through mail. Full instructions can be found here.
Q: How long does it take to receive the tax return transcript? A: Tax filers who create an account with the IRS can receive their transcript immediately by PDF.
Tax filers who request by mail will receive their transcript within 5-10 calendar days. Most tax filers can request a transcript within 2-3 weeks of filing online or 4-6 weeks of filing by mail.
Q: What tax year information do I use on the 2017-2018 FAFSA? A: 2015. The 2016 tax year will be used on the 2018-2019 FAFSA.


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Who's Afraid of a War of Inheritance?
Although Yasser Arafat had been ill for more than a week, and people have spoken for years of the day after his demise, the sudden turn for the worse in his condition took his movement by surprise.
In the words of one of its members, Fatah people hesitate to speak of an heir, even when it appears that Arafat is dying.
Until Thursday, no formal meetings were held by the cabinet or any Palestine Liberation Organization or Fatah institution. But even before it was decided to send him to Paris, there were spontaneous consultations about the next steps and how to fill the leadership vacuum, temporarily.
Contrary to Israeli expectations and predictions of an inheritance war that might escalate into a bloody battle, senior Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials said Thursday that this would not happen.
No inheritance war is expected, said a senior Fatah member, because the inheritance is not that attractive. "What does this inheritance offer, after all? Ruling a frustrated, impoverished, hopeless nation that suffers daily military attacks?" he asked.
In addition, no one in the Palestinian political system has enough power to declare himself a leader, he added. "Nobody has such high personal ambitions that would drive him to take power against the others' wishes," he said.
The name of Abu Mazen (former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas) was brought up in every consultation, as the man who could fill the vacuum. His official role definition will be decided according to one of the following three scenarios - Arafat recovers, Arafat remains ill indefinitely but officially retains his powers or Arafat dies.
Three inheritances are at stake - the PLO leadership, the PA leadership and the Fatah leadership. "It's really one football team. Some may be playing and others sitting on the bench, but basically it's all the same people," said the senior Fatah man. Their sense of responsibility has prompted them, he said, to seek out the man who will be accepted by several rival groups in the Fatah and could act in a collective framework.
Abu Mazen is first in the hierarchy, according to the regulations of the PA and the PLO. The PLO delegates authority to the PA, and is therefore above it. Abu Mazen is the secretary of the PLO's executive committee, and so has more authority than Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala). Thus, fixing Abu Mazen's place at the top of the PLO hierarchy is an almost automatic move. His natural tendency to act in a collective body neutralizes the possibility of competition with Abu Ala, and paves the way to forming a collective leadership.
In the Fatah things are different: Abu Mazen resigned from his duties in Fatah institutions after its central committee turned its back on him as prime minister. Officially, the central committee can convene and elect an interim head. However, the Fatah's grass-roots activists made it clear in unofficial consultations Thursday that they want to see Abu Mazen return and assume authority as head of the movement. Until Arafat's condition is cleared up and/or elections are held, Abu Mazen will assume all Arafat's duties, they said, except for what they called the negative aspects. "It's hard for us to see Abu Mazen sign checks for medical treatments for this person or another, or for studies overseas for some senior official's daughter," one said.
The PA's institutions and ministries will continue to function and function even better, one official said. Arafat hardly interfered in their activity "but when he did, it had a negative effect because he tried to restrict people or promote others for irrelevant reasons."
The vacuum is felt more at the political decision-making level, rather than the administrative one. After years in which Arafat's political decision was not to decide, the solution will probably be forming a leadership that would act until the elections "collegially and consensually as a group."
"If there is fear of bloodshed, it is from clashes between militant groups," a Ramallah official said. "A collective leadership would take that into consideration," he said. He expressed the hope that "Israel does not try to interfere and disrupt things, and fulfill its prediction of a bloody struggle."
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Maybe no hack?
Perhaps some kind of internal Fox 'to do' list accidentally being tweeted?
A Twitter account maintained by Fox News has been hacked to post fake "Obama assassinated" stories. The @foxnewspolitics account was seized to post a succession of bogus updates (example below) on the false story that Obama was shot and killed while supposedly campaigning at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa. The obviously …
Perhaps some kind of internal Fox 'to do' list accidentally being tweeted?
....or did you see it on Fox?
Surely after n-failed logins, the account gets locked and needs re-activating? (where n < 5)
Here's how tey COULD do it:
If n<5:
Try four times. Wait for the user to login (=post to Twitter), thus resetting the counter. Try four times. Repeat.
OR IF the user don't login, wait an hour (counter is reset after an hour according to http://support.twitter.com/entries/63510-i-m-locked-out-after-too-many-login-attempts) before trying four times again.
But, more likely, they've used a social hack or someone re-used the same password on other sites.
That's a pretty shabby showing for the leading voice of conservative America.
Or maybe conservative America's not quite smart enough to work out how to get on the Intertwit.
Or maybe Fox isn't the leading voice of conservative America? It certainly isn't the only one, last I checked.
Fox New's main demographic is grumpy old people who think that nothing good has happened to America since 1960 (except for Ronald Reagan of course).
And you know how good old people are with technology.
Maybe it wasn't a hack.
They used sad, death and Obama on the same page of a Fox news website
...it will blow the mind of conspiracy theorists.
Meanwhile at Fox, the parties started almost immediately.
Sounds more like someone at Fox just posted their wet dream.
If it had been a hack I expect it would be more like...
Sarah Palin died after choking on a weiner.
More like: Sarah Palin dies in freak accident. Linda Lovelace impression blamed.
If it were a hack it would have been more positive.
That's not their official twitter account. Someone has just created a twitter account, themed it to match and built up followers. Then you guys have written articles on it. lmao and its not even April 1st
Fox News Politics is one of the Twitter accounts associated with the industry-leading cable news network.
Its Twitter account carries the "verified" tick icon, indicating that the feed belongs to the organisation it claims to be.
Wrong. It is an official Fox twitter account, they have several and this one has a "verified" icon. Guess the fail belongs to you.
Nice to see El Reg doing its bit to cement the reputation of LulzSec by acknowledging there is a "LulzSec wannabe" demograpahic out there.
Unexpected, but good on you all the same.
I set up a twitter account on my Blackberry, with a reasonable complex password on Saturday morning. By Saturday afternoon, my account was spamming tweets without my knowledge advertising "make $$$$'s" websites. Clearly something not right with the security model here.
Making death threats against POTUS is a Federal offense. Now the Secret Service techies will be on their case and unlike the FBI those lads know their arse from their elbow.
However, 'imagining the death' of the american president isn't. Unlike of our sovereign, under the Treason Act 1351...
During the last days in office of the previous President, GWB or GBH or GHB or something, The Onion frequently reported his death in a freak accident.
Can someone tell me what twitter is? Every time I hear the name I just think of compromised/compromising publicly available private information and run a mile.
I don't think I could even bring myself to Google it.
On 14th April I stayed at the Miyako hotel in Los Angeles. I connected to WiFi (hotel had an open network) and accessed twitter. Didn't post anything, but my cookie was apparently transferred in any case. A few minutes later a tweet went out from my Twitter feed with a malicious URL in it.
Even simpler to do with the new automated android tool :( So I now have a VPN I use when on the road (SSHtunnel) , and have set Twitter to https by default. No harm done (thank goodness), and it was a great wake-up call for me. They could really have sniffed some good login credentials from me, had their bot been looking more efficiently...
Dear Dr.
I do hope you are not a proctologist.


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Ohio running back Alden Hill has four visits remaining and then he hopes to make a decision.
The 6-foot-2, 220-pound back from Alliance (Ohio) Marlington has been busy this summer, hitting the road and checking out some of the schools that have been recruiting him.
A while back Hill camped at Michigan and Michigan State. Those both went well.
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"Michigan ended up offering me coming out of the camp over the next few days. Michigan State said they've offered some guys at running back but they were definitely impressed. I think they're looking at some local guys first," he noted.
He then visited Boston College and UConn.
"UConn is my leader right now," he said, echoing recent thoughts. "Their facilities are top notch. They're some of the best I've seen and I've been around all of them.
"I like that they run the ball. That's a running back's school. They'll pound the ball 25-30 times a game. That's what you need to be successful at the next level -- someone that will utilize your position. Their running game is important to them and they'll do that first. Plus most of their coaches have NFL experience."
Up next for Hill? Visits to Tennessee and Vanderbilt next week.
"After those two visits I'm going to Iowa, hopefully for an official," he said. "I'm also going up to Notre Dame sometime in August. They've said they just want to sit down and talk to me but I think they're going to offer."


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Normally, when a child shows any sign of physical illness, be it a stomach ache, a scratchy throat or runny nose, parents think nothing of taking that child to a doctor.
But when a child exhibits signs of mental instability, parents often find themselves in denial and don't seek treatment as quickly as they should.
That was one way psychologist George Damous described the way people react to mental illness. But rather than burying their heads in the sand, parents who see any sign of extreme anger or potential mental instability need to get their children into treatment. And the sooner, the better.
"The point is that it's the same thing," Damous said. "It's a problem, an illness going on in your child and we have to head it off as early as possible. They're doing their child a favor by going to one of these professionals."
Damous spoke Feb. 6 in Charleston as part of A Summit on West Virginia Safe Schools, sponsored by the U.S. Attorney's Office. He and other experts said getting appropriate treatment for children could lead to a decrease in school violence. Damous pointed out most instances of mental illness in a child starts off slowly. Perhaps the child will make fun of a classmate or hit someone out of anger. If not caught early, the violence may progress into animal cruelty or threatening others with a weapon—perhaps a stick or a pencil.
"We usually see a history, a pattern, of these behaviors," he said.
Signs of a mental illness shouldn't be confused with bullying, however. In today's schools, bullying isn't ignored or dismissed as it was in generations past. Rather, schools are quick to address situations between classmates in an effort to improve school climate, said Don Chapman with the West Virginia Department of Education's Office of Healthy Schools.
"Things have turned a corner in bullying," he said.
The turning tide is partly because teachers, counselors, school administrators and prevention resource officers are now working to connect with students. Chris Schimmel, a former school guidance counselor and current professor in West Virginia University's College of Education and Human Services, said researchers at WVU are looking into how violence in schools has been averted. A big part of that, Schimmel said, is connectivity.
Schimmel offered several examples of what researchers have discovered. At one high school in Harrison County, teachers wrote the name of each student on an index card. Teachers then were given stickers and if the teacher knew something personal about a student – where they worked after school, something about their family, their goals for after high school — the teacher placed a sticker on that student's card. This was an exercise to show teachers how some students may fall through the cracks.
"At the end of that activity, there were still a significant number of names without dots," Schimmel said. "Those are the students I'm worried about."
As a result of the exercise, the school began a silent mentoring program where teachers could connect with those students and learn more about them personally and connect them to the school environment.
And that kind of connectivity could have averted an incident in Wood County. Deputy Scott Jefferson with the Wood County Sheriff's Department is a prevention resource officer at Williamstown High School. He said one student alerted him to a potential threat she discovered during a Facebook chat with a male classmate. Using that information, Jefferson was able to alert law enforcement who took the male student into custody and school went on as normal.
"This was all from the efforts of the young lady who contacted me," Jefferson said. "She felt comfortable to contact me."
Schimmel said she wants to see all students feel that kind of connectivity to their prevention resource office, teacher, counselor or administrator.
But despite the schools' best efforts, sometimes students do fall through the cracks. That's partly because of the stigma associated with mental illnesses, explained Jackie Payne, director of the Department of Health and Human Resource's Division of Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities.
"It's a huge issue," she said.
"I think we have to continue to educate and do mental health promotion," she added. "One of the first things we have to do is be careful of the language we use. If we in the field aren't using people-first language and recognizing that an individual is not defined by his or her disability … I don't want to be identified as a schizophrenic. I'm an individual with schizophrenia. Those simple things can make a huge difference in stigma. Mental health is a positive term just like physical health is a positive term."
Payne said her department is working to increase the services offered to mental health patients in the 16-25 age range. That population is a higher risk, she said, because they don't always transition from adolescence into adulthood seamlessly.
"Often our kids transitioning into adulthood aren't quite equipped … to successfully live on their own," she said.
"It is a high-risk population. It's a population ending up in our correctional facilities, state facilities or homeless," she added.
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Colin Edwin may currently be on a break from his regular gig as the bassist for iconic progressive metal band Porcupine Tree, but he's been far from idle. Entertainmenttell.com recently spoke with Edwin about his current projects, including his new CD collaboration with guitarist Jon Durant, Burnt Belief.
(Note: An edited-for-space version of this interview appeared in the Spring 2013 College issue of Tell Magazine. The following is the complete interview.)
Entertainmenttell.com: I'm really enjoying the record. So I wanted to chat with you about that. It struck me as very … the word ambient comes to mind, it reminds me of the space where Robert Fripp and Tony Levin do, the quieter King Crimson stuff. Is that the kind of feel you were going for?
Colin Edwin: Yeah, well, I think Jon has an approach on the guitar that isn't dissimilar to people like David Torn and Robert Fripp where he's approaching the guitar from a slightly less conventional angle. He's more concerned with texture and things like that, rather than conventional soloing. We headed in that area quite naturally and Jon was doing his own thing with that before I met him; he's done quite a few albums on his own, so it's the common ground that we have together, it's that sort of way of playing. And I think that, with all of the things that I've done, there's been a thread of that, an interest in ambient music and textural music, in everything I've done with Porcupine Tree and other people as well.
Entertainmenttell.com: How did your collaboration with Jon Durant come about?
Edwin: I met Jon while I was touring in America with Porcupine Tree. We just met after a couple of concerts and had a chat and we got along quite well. Jon wrote to me last year and said, "I'm planning to do an album, do you want to come and play on it?" I was well up for that because he'd given me a couple of his CDs and I'd enjoyed them. So I ended up going to Boston and we went to a studio in New Hampshire and it was all done live in the studio with a couple of other musicians, a guy called Jerry Leake who's on Burnt Belief, on percussion, and a violinist called Karen Lynn. And it was bizarre because we hadn't met before, we hadn't all been in the same room. I'd never worked with Jon before, and I was thinking "Jon lives in Boston. It's full of musicians. Why's he asking me?" But actually it went really, really well and we ended up, a lot of the stuff on Dance of the Shadow Planets, which is the album we did together, ended up being first or second take. So it was very, very successful. And then Jon wrote to me again earlier this year and said "I'm planning another album," but he didn't' really have anything planned in a big way, so I suggested that I do some sort of audio manipulation with his ambient guitar soundscape-type things. And inevitably that meant that I was becoming—rather than just being the bass player—I was becoming a collaborator, because I was making structures out of what he sent me. But he was very enthusiastic about the sketches I sent him and everything grew out of that. It was a natural development for me. I have to say it felt very straightforward going and playing with Jon. It wasn't a difficult thing to do. I found my space on his previous album very, very easily, you know.
Entertainmenttell.com: It seemed like a very seamless collaboration. As I understand it, you actually did a lot of this over the Internet from your respective studios. Is that correct?
Edwin: That's correct, yeah.
Entertainmenttell.com: So how did that actually work? Were you sending files back and forth? What was the process there?
Edwin: Yeah, pretty much. A couple of the tunes maybe I had developed on my own and I got Jon involved, and a couple of the other ones, Jon had developed and I just more or less played to them. But most of the album, it was a process of, he would send me some of his guitar cloudscapes and I would feed them through an Audio Slicer, which is a device that basically chops up the audio, but you can set the length of the slice and the attack of the slice so you can have a different tempo, it can have a different feel, you can have a very slow thing, you can have a fast attack. So I would sit and feed the cloudscapes to the Audio Slicer and then I would basically sit and listen to it and try and get ideas for things to play with what I'd done. So I might have a drum loop idea or a bass line idea. And when I had something solid, I'd sketch it out and then send it back to Jon, and then Jon would come and maybe develop a theme or he'd suggest a few things. We'd start discussing the idea and if we both felt that it had something going on, we'd end up working on it individually and sending it back and forth to each other. It flowed pretty fast. We found our space together quite easily with that.
Entertainmenttell.com: It's amazing—you think about 20–30 years ago, this kind of thing was inconceivable. You'd have to be together in the same room, right?
Edwin: Well, yeah, but I would say that I think probably the experience of doing Jon's previous album, the experience that we had together, it meant that, I guess, we'd already made the connection. So it's a funny thing, musical chemistry. I could feel that obviously the idea was going to be something that he would respond to. But you never know until you do it. But in a way, it's certainly something that couldn't have happened without today's technology.
Entertainmenttell.com: So how was Burnt Belief actually put together? Was it pretty much you working at your place and him working at his?
Edwin: Yeah, it was pretty much the polar opposite of the previous album, the total opposite way of working. So I guess if we do another one, we'd actually like to be in the same room together.
Entertainmenttell.com: It really does sound seamless.
Edwin: I guess it's fair to say that I've been involved in some things where I have been in the same room with people and it hasn't felt that good. So it's probably a product of the way that we work together, the reason it works.
Entertainmenttell.com: So I understand that there's a concept—a theme—behind Burnt Belief? Could you elaborate on that?
Edwin: Yeah, it's an interest that Jon and I share. It's a difficult thing to articulate. There's this sort of madness that people accept, if you like. When you think about everyday reality, and a lot of the beliefs that people have—we all have them … it's an observation that a lot of what we accept as reality is actually quite bizarre. And a lot of people have quite bizarre beliefs. It was a point of discussion, when I did Jon's first album with him, in the time driving between New Hampshire and Boston—it's quite a long way, and we'd end up chatting and that's one of the things that fascinated both of us. And it happened that as we were working on Burnt Belief, I was reading a book called When Prophecy Fails. It's a fascinating book—it was written in the 1950s and its about a UFO cult, a group of people who were following a suburban housewife who had gathered these followers around. They were all set to supposedly ascend in a UFO to some other planet to escape a catastrophe that was going to hit earth. But there were people that had followed this woman, had given up jobs, left their houses, left their apartments, and of course it didn't happen. So it's all about this idea that people have beliefs that are then destroyed. But for some people, they go on being even more set in their beliefs. They think it has something to do with them—they didn't say the right prayer, or they didn't sacrifice the right thing or something. But what was knocking around last year was this idea that the Mayan calendar was going to end. So we thought it was a thematic thing that we were discussing and talking about, and it made sense to conceptualize the music about that. Because it makes an important point to me, that there are plenty of examples throughout history—I'm always fascinated by Eastern Europe. In my lifetime, there's been the fall of the Berlin wall and there must have been people in East Germany who totally believed in the communist system. And suddenly it disappeared. And this is relevant today as it was 300 years ago. People have wacky beliefs, people have crazy ideas, and they're proved wrong and they still believe them, or they still look back on things and think, "No, I was right." And it's a question I'd to pose to a lot of people. So we thought, "We're going to hang the whole album around that." And it made an interesting point of discussion from the publicity angle as well, because I didn't believe for a second that the world was going to end on Dec. the 21st.
Entertainmenttell.com: A lot of people did!
Edwin: Evidently, yeah. Over here, there was news about people gathering in France, there was a mountain that was going to explode and a UFO was going to come out. Crazy stuff. (laughs) People can believe anything I think, sometimes. It's post-apocalyptic in a way, the album. I never thought that if the world was going to end, it was going to be like a Metallica album. (laughs) For me, it's probably closer to what we've done. That's a very abstract idea. That's for the listener to decide.
Entertainmenttell.com: So would you say that the music represents what would happen after the world actually ending?
Edwin: Well, yeah, yeah … I mean, I'm very wary to give an explicit meaning to things, because one of the things I've learned about art is that it has more power if people can project their own thing onto it. And yet, I think if you say to somebody, "This is about this," you can point the way and they can almost project their own thing. They will anyway. So it's meant as a discussion point for me, and maybe a starting point for somebody, rather than a big "It's about this and you must think this." For me, that's not the way to go about it.
Entertainmenttell.com: It's not Tommy. It's not an opera.
Edwin: No. (Laughs) Of course, there's no lyrical content … it's very difficult to make it like that. But I think it would probably be an ideal soundtrack for that kind of environment, the post-apocalypse, the end of things, transitions and things like that.
Entertainmenttell.com: I think it would make some very good film music. Have you gotten any interest in possibly using your music as a soundtrack?
Edwin: Well. not so far, but some of Jon's previous stuff has ended up with NASA. That's appropriate I think, for its spacey feel. But who knows? Maybe they'll pick up on this one.
Entertainmenttell.com: Sounds like a good plan. Now, is there any possibility of you doing live shows with Jon?
Edwin: We certainly hope so. It's something we would really like to do, and we're thinking of it. We're discussing it quite a bit at the moment and the idea would be to expand it to a trio so we have a live drummer or percussionist and the two of us. In fact, Jon and I are working together on another project that hopefully might see Jon coming to Europe this summer. If that works out, we may make the most of the opportunity and do some gigs around that.
Entertainmenttell.com: There's a lot of percussion on this album; you certainly would benefit from having a live percussionist.
Edwin: Yeah, I think it would be interesting perhaps to have live drums because live drums are more exciting than electronic drums. I love the idea that we're using electronic beats but I was very, very glad that we had Jerry Leake, because he humanized a lot of what went on. I didn't want to make a fully electronic thing. I've got a slight OCD tendency, so I love programming. But at the same time, it feels a bit one-dimensional if you don't take it somewhere, so Jerry really added a bit of depth to the stuff, having his percussion along with it.
Entertainmenttell.com: It's good having that human feel.
Edwin: Yes, it makes such a difference, it really does. I find electronic stuff is almost too perfect, so you tend to switch off, unless the switching off is part of the music, but generally it's always better to have a human (laughs). It sounds ridiculous as I said that.
Entertainmenttell.com: No, not at all … especially not considering that you play with one of the best drummers in the world, Gavin Harrison, in Porcupine Tree.
Edwin: Yes. I have to say I'm spoiled there.
Entertainmenttell.com: What other projects have you been working on lately?
Edwin: I have a few things. With Jon, I've been working with a band from the Ukraine—it's actually a couple of female vocalists. I went to Kiev about a year ago to do a concert with a duo I have called Ex-Whiteheads, which is myself and a flute and saxophone player called Jeff Lee, and we've made about six albums together. Jeff and I did a concert in Kiev and I got introduced to this music, Ukrainian folk music, which is something I've really had no idea about. But, I've been fascinated by the music because it has really interesting harmonies going on and it's rhythmically quite interesting, but at the same time it's very accessible. It's hard to describe. I'm not really a great listener of folk music from Eastern Europe, although I have to say some of it's quite interesting. But I've ended up doing a collaboration with them—and I'm hoping that's going to see the light of day pretty soon, and that will hopefully get Jon over to Europe as well. So that's taking up a bit of my time. I've also, last year, done an album with a band called Metallic Taste of Blood.
Entertainmenttell.com: Great name!
Edwin: I really love the name because it fits the music really well, and it was suggested by the drummer who's a Hungarian guy called Balázs Pándi. He's a very interesting character. He plays a lot of free, improvised noise stuff and he plays a lot of grindcore stuff, he's very, very eclectic in what he listens to and what does as well. He said the album is unsettling music in a way, there's a dark ambient thread going through it. It's instrumental again, so having something that described it was quite tough, but we had this idea that the metallic taste of blood is unsettling but at the same time it's satisfying. So we tried to do that. I have to say, the music is hard to categorize—we've got elements of dub, elements of jazz, elements of rock music of course. I'm quite pleased with the album, because I think we've managed to find our own sonic space. So I'm very happy with that. We're doing our first gig this year in Poland, we just confirmed a festival in Poland and I'm really looking forward to that.
Entertainmenttell.com: Any chance you'll do anything in the states?
Edwin: Well I hope so, yeah, yeah. It's a tricky one to get over, because harder than you might realize. There are a lot of things that have to come into place—there's the work permits and everything else. We're looking to do a lot more gigs. We've just hooked up with an agent, so I hope we can make it happen.
Entertainmenttell.com: Good! The name is very compelling, and I'm sure the music is as well.
Edwin: Yeah! If you want to check it out, we have a Soundcloud page and a web site (metallictasteofblood.com) and it's all up there, and the album is now on Rare Noise. I'm going to put in a word for Rare Noise, a really interesting label. They do a lot of interesting stuff, and I'm going to be working with one of their others signees next week in fact, a bass player called Lorenzo Feliciati, and we're doing a bass duo together in London. It's going to be cool.
Entertainmenttell.com: You are keeping very busy lately.
Edwin: I like to keep myself busy. I like to think creativity is like a muscle, and the more you use it, the easier it gets—the easier it gets to come up with things, the easier it gets to do things.
Entertainmenttell.com: I have to ask: What's the current status of Porcupine Tree?
Edwin: Porcupine Tree is not doing anything for the time being, so we're on a sort-of hiatus really, that's all I can tell you. There's no timetable to do anything else just yet, and of course, the live album has only just come out late last year, so there's nothing on paper, there's no plans at the moment. I'm sure at some point we'll get back together.
Entertainmenttell.com: Do you think it will be a different style when Steven (Wilson) comes back to it?
Edwin: Well, I wouldn't like to speculate, but I think it's necessary to develop and there's always been a development in the sound. I think there are two kinds of bands, really—there's a band like AC/DC that can make the same album over and over again. There's nothing wrong with that. That's them, that's what they do. You want to go and see that kind of music, then you go and see AC/DC. I mean, that's their thing. And then there are other bands that change over time. So I like to think of Porcupine Tree as being the latter, and I think it's been the case that we've changed a lot over the years from early psychedelic stuff and elements of metal and then moving on. I'm perhaps a bit too close to judge it, but that's always been a part of the band, really—we're all curious people. We like to try different things. That's part of it, really.
Entertainmenttell.com: I'm assuming you've heard Steven Wilson's new work, The Raven That Refused to Sing. I was wondering what you thought of it?
Edwin: Yeah, well, it's not a surprise for me that's he's done that, because it's very, very prog-influenced. It's a good album, for sure, yeah.
Entertainmenttell.com: Tell Magazine is primarily about technology. So when I talk to musicians like yourself, I like asking, what kind of tech are you using—gadgets, cell phones, computers, that kind of thing?
Edwin: I'm a devotee of Apple, I guess … most musicians I know of are, so very rarely a day goes by that I don't do something with the iPad or my laptop. For my main music setup, I use a MacPro, which I've had for a few years, which is very stable, very reliable and still has a lot of processing power. They haven't updated the MacPro for a while, have they? But I'm a big Logic (recording software) user. I love Logic. I really, really think the iPad is a fascinating thing. There are so many amazing apps for music—there's a thing called ThumbJam; it's a musical instrument app, but the sounds are really good, and it's very expressive. You can tilt the iPad and you get the same sort of effect you get with bending a string on the guitar. You can do all that kind of stuff. It's really good with the touchscreen, the way they've actually utilized it properly. There's a thing where you can slow down audio so if you want to hear what's going on in the track you can slow it right down and put loop points in; that's really, really useful for working out bass lines or hearing things that I haven't listened to for a while. … It's very good for working out funny time signatures in Ukrainian folk music (laughs). I can slow it down and hear it properly—things like that. Of course, I'm an iPod user as well, especially when I'm traveling. That's a great, great thing to have.
Entertainmenttell.com: Do you find you're using some apps as compositional tools?
Edwin: Yes, I've got a couple of things that are like audio manglers. With Burnt Belief I used a Boss slicer pedal, but there are other apps I used. You can put a piece of audio in and you can play with it and maybe get some interesting textures and interesting sounds. There's a Korg app where you've got a Kaoss pad on that. So it's good sometimes if you want to do something creative and you want to have a kind of random input, it's quite nice. I've got an app called Chordbot where you can put in a chord sequence, so that's quite handy because mainly playing bass, I don't really play chords in the same way as a guitarist. I play a bit of guitar, but I have to confess I'm more of a noise guitar player, so I like making noise with feedback. But I can put Chordbox on and just play with the sounds of different chords. You can make a sequence and have it arpeggiate, and then you often get some really interesting ideas from that, even if you end up ignoring what you've made and it takes you somewhere else. But it's great to have that option. I couldn't hire a piano player to come sit in my studio and just play chord sequences over and over again. But it's great for that kind of thing.
Entertainmenttell.com: You mentioned that you're working in Logic on your MacPro. Is that how you did your stuff on Burnt Belief?
Edwin: Yes. I do a lot of remote sessions as well, so pretty much all of the time I'm using Logic. Very occasionally I use Reason (recording software) just because I've got a workflow with Logic and I like to disrupt it just to see if I come up with something different. People say Reason is very, very easy to use, but I don't know, maybe my brain works differently from everybody else—I find it a bit confusing. So sometimes, I'll purposely pull up Reason—and of course now you can do overdubs quite easily—I'll pull it up just to fiddle with it. In fact, "Semazen" (off Burnt Belief) came out of me fiddling around with Reason—initially, anyway.
Entertainmenttell.com: That's a good track. Colin, what kind of basses are you currently using?
Edwin: Ah, well, I've amassed a bit of a collection, I have to say. With Burnt Belief, I used a Spector fretless, a USA Spector fretless, quite a lot on that album. It's an instrument they gave me last year, and I know that I've been playing a Wal fretless for many years, and I think they tried quite hard to spec it a bit close to a Wal, because P.J. who works at Spector, he kept saying to me, "I'm going to make you a really nice fretless, you're going to love it," and they lent me a couple before, which I have to say were great instruments. But there's just that little thing that you want sometimes that I didn't quite feel and I've been playing their fretless basses for years. But this one turned up, and I was very, very happy with it—it's a very expressive instrument, and I wrote to him and said, "Thanks very much, you've actually managed to get me away from my Wal for a little while." (laughs) But it's a great bass and I've actually been using it a lot. I also use a double bass on Burnt Belief, on the last track, "Arcing Towards Morning." So I like sometimes to have the organic feel of an instrument that you don't plug in, it's nice to have that. But the double bass is a very unforgiving instrument. You get blisters if you don't play it every day, basically. So it's a full time job to do, and sometimes I have to spend a few days just playing it to get back to where I was.
Entertainmenttell.com: I would imagine so. Did you play double bass growing up?
Edwin: I started playing electric bass, but there was a time when I did take the double bass very seriously, and I did do a lot of practice and a lot of practice with the bow. But it just so happened that I wasn't really getting a lot of work playing the double bass, and I was getting asked to play electric bass a lot more. So I've kept the phrases—a double bass player is called a "doubler"—but I'm more of a dabbler (laughs) instead of a doubler. There was a time for maybe for four or five years where I took it very seriously. I practiced with the bow every day, which is really hard work, a very big commitment. I've never really been able to do it regularly enough to be happy with calling myself a proper double bass player. But it's definitely informed a lot of my playing, because it has a quality to the sound that shapes the way you play it, or it certainly has for me, anyway. There's a thing with it where you can play one note rather than playing four. It's a very expressive instrument with fewer notes. So a lot of electric bass players treat the bass guitar more like a guitar, whereas I definitely think more like a double bass player, I guess, especially … I love the fretless, and that's the closest thing you can get on a bass guitar to playing double bass.


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Brian has a very relaxed yet informative teaching style and offers lots of individual, hands-on coaching. His latest book 'Mastering Street Photography', is published by Ammonite Press and is a comprehensive street photography manual. The book is the perfect accompaniment to the workshop and you will be offered the opportunity to purchase a signed copy when you check-out. If you don't book a workshop place, you can still buy a copy HERE.


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Egyptian police arrested four people who made a video of themselves and their friends dancing the Harlem Shake in front of the Pyramids.
The video, which has already been viewed by nearly 60,000 people, briefly shows one of them riding a camel in his underwear, said the Daily News.
The Harlem Shake is the latest dance craze to go viral on Youtube, with people around the world creating wacky videos dancing to the song.
The trap and bass song was composed by American DJ Baauer last May and has gained immense popularity after Australian students posted a video of themselves dancing to the tune.
Their video has been viewed over 16 million times.
In Egypt, police said that the students violated country's strict indecency laws.
"The four pharmaceutical students shocked residents of a middle class Cairo neighborhood when they removed most of their clothes and videotaped themselves performing the pelvis-thrusting dance," said an Egyptian police officer, reported AFP.


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Another weekend night at one of America's coolest jazz clubs, the Green Mill in Chicago, this time with one of the finest, most underrated American jazz singer, Ms. Sheila Jordan. Ms. Jordan (b. 1928) was a contemporary of Charlie Parker, and was briefly married to one of Parker's pianists, Duke Jordan. Until about 20 years ago, a day job kept her from pursuing singing full-time -- before then, Jordan sang with George Russell, Carla Bley and Roswell Rudd, and in the early 1960s recorded her debut for Blue Note (one of that label's few vocal albums). Jordan has a diminutive, gentle, translucent, slightly breathy voice that curls around words the way a saxophone or flugelhorn might; for the uninitiated, points of reference include Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, Anita O'Day, and Rickie Lee Jones. She improvises with words -- making up coherent lyrics on the spot with a mix of whimsy and just-plain-folks charm -- but she doesn't use her voice "as" an instrument. Rather, Jordan "just" sings, but applies an instrumentalist's techniques to the words: elongating, deepening, twisting, and interpreting them.
Ably accompanied by the trio of Bradley Williams (piano), Dan Delorenzo (bass) and Michael Schlick (drums), Shelia Jordan held the clientele of the Green Mill in (to coin a cliché) in the palm of her hand. Part amiable earth-mother, part seen-it-all hipster, all masterful singer, one who can take the hoariest standards and make them sound like they were written for her. High points on this Friday night (of her two-night stand) included a wondrous medley of a Native American chant (Ms. SJ is part Cherokee) and the Beatles' "Blackbird," and a shimmering, wistful tribute to Miles Davis that practically put you in the club digging his mid-50s Quintet. The trio was both subtly unobtrusive and elegantly swinging -- most notable was Williams, who played chords thick as fudge, and as tasty, too.
There were a couple of nice surprises on this night -- vocalist Jay Clayton (who, apart from her own career, has sung with Jane Ira Bloom and minimalist composer Steve Reich) joined Jordan onstage for some wonderful scat-singing duets. Usually, I'm somewhat allergic to scat-singing -- I'm a lyric-man -- and sometimes when like-instrument musicians pair/square-off, it can lead to a round of tedious can-you-top-that showboating. But these ladies combined their amazing techniques (Clayton seems more at home with "working syllables" than Jordan) with a palpable feeling of camaraderie and mutual affection -- they sang together and played off of each other, and it was rousing for all concerned (audience too). Later, Chicago-based pianist Patricia Barber joined Ms. SJ on stage for an improvised, autographical blues -- Barber's full-sounding pianism was a dandy contrast to Jordan's sly, lean stream-of-consciousness raps.
Anyone who's read my reviews/rants knows I'm no big fan of most jazz singers. But, Jordan takes the old-school approach (Great American Songbook, scatting, torch-y ballad style, etc.) and infuses it with an amiable audaciousness (befitting one who was down with the avant-garde in the 60s & 70s) and a daring but earthy improviser's approach that still respects the Song being Sung. Her latest album Little Song (HighNote), recorded with longtime collaborator Steve Kuhn (piano) and guest trumpeter Tom Harrell, is a most excellent late-nite chill-out album. As the lady is in her mid-70s, catch her if you can, and, to paraphrase the late Champion Jack Dupree, give her the flowers while she's living.


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Finally, after rumors, casting updates and twisted teasers, we're starting to see what the new season of American Horror Story is all about. With the series set to tell a whole new story in its second season, there are new characters to get to know and a new setting to explore. We saw a new trailer last week, which gave us a look at Jessica Lange's character and some of the scary happenings at the titled Asylum. The latest trailer introduces us to Adam Levine and Jenna Dewan's characters.
We know that American Horror Story: Asylum will take place in an institution and feature all new characters (some played by cast members from the first season). But what's the bigger picture here? In Season 1, the focus of the show was on a family moving into a haunted house. Based on the trailer below, it seems two newlyweds come upon the asylum as part of some bizarre haunted-honeymoon tour.
So, it seems Levine's Leo and Dewan's Teresa are enjoying a romantic vacation touring old, creepy (haunted) buildings. Let's put aside the weird factor there. Some people prefer tropical locations for their honeymoon. Others go to Disney World. And maybe some are turned on by haunted places. Judging by the way Leo and Teresa go at it while in that building, I'd say they're firmly among the latter group. The legend of this asylum, based on what the bride reads, is that once people checked in to this particular institution, they never checked out. Something tells me they're still there!
We also get to see Sarah Paulson's character, a journalist (who appears to be part of the "past" part of the story) who's looking into the asylum in search of the real darkness lurking behind the squeaky-clean walls.
American Horror Story: Asylum premieres Wednesday, October 17 at 10:00 p.m. on FX. Watch the previously released trailer here.
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ENGLAND full-back Alex Goode chose to model his game on New Zealand's Leon MacDonald after accepting he will never be the next Jason Robinson.
Goode delivered his most assured international performance yet in Sunday's 12-6 RBS 6 Nations victory over Ireland in rain-swept Dublin, thriving in the difficult conditions.
The 24-year-old, a converted fly-half, has taken ownership of England's full-back jersey with his ability to act as a second receiver increasing his influence within the team.
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When making the positional switch he initially looked to Robinson for inspiration, until realising the highly regarded MacDonald, who won 56 caps for the All Blacks between 2000-08, was a better fit.
''When I was growing up I liked watching the likes of Christian Cullen and Jason Robinson because they were game-changers,'' he said.
''But Jason Robinson is a one-off, you don't just wake up and say 'I want to be like him'. He'd still probably beat me in a phone box now, because he's one of those guys.
''I played with him for Help the Heroes. Training with him was amazing, he was phenomenal during touch rugby even though he had not put on a pair of boots for 18 months. He was a great player.
''When I moved to full-back I studied a lot of full-backs. Leon McDonald became a big role model, someone I looked at who had similar attributes to myself.
''Eddie Jones (Saracens' former director of rugby and Australia coach) pushed that.
''We studied his game and what he brought to the party. He won things for Canterbury and New Zealand and I admired him.
''He always had a lot of time on the ball and seemed to make the right decisions.
''I was never going to be just like one player, but I would try to take a bit from this and a bit from that.''
Goode's game management, vision and kicking are important enough to England to compel coach Stuart Lancaster to select him ahead of Ben Foden and Mike Brown for the Six Nations, even though he had spent five weeks out with a shoulder injury.
''Roles change all the time. They key thing for the backline is to have a solid defence and help the number 10,'' Goode said.
''I see my game as helping out there as far as possible, whether that's helping kicking or organising the defence. That's what I'm there to do.
''But a full-back's role is to be a game-breaker and make problems for the opposition. It's still fundamentally about handling the high ball safely.
''You're not going to have just one kicker – everyone kicks these days – so it's also about organising the back three and looking out for everyone.''
Successive victories over New Zealand, Scotland and Ireland – each of them highly impressive in their individual way – have brought renewed optimism to English rugby.
But the ever-unpredictable French, who have lost to Italy and Wales, visit Twickenham on Saturday week and Goode understands the value of caution.
''It was great beating New Zealand but we need to take that self-belief and move forward. We're under no illusions about France,'' he said.
''They can do anything and have got world-class players. They have not become bad overnight.
''We're moving in the right direction and we keep building towards 2015, but not getting ahead of ourselves. The moment we get too big for ourselves we are in trouble.''
England full-back Alex Goode was speaking at the launch of the O2 Touch tour organised by the RFU and O2, proud Partner of England Rugby, to get more people involved in rugby www.rfu.com/O2Touch.


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I bought this tent to replace an aging Moss two person 4 season that I had inherited. I have the older version without the spreader for the vestibule, so my vestibule is smaller and rain can drip into the tent with the fly open. Not so with this new version, so I can rate the new one 5 stars! Great value, good weight, and all guyed out with aftermarket stakes this tent can take some serious weather! While there are lighter tents, larger tents and stronger tents, you can't go wrong with this one for an all-around performer.


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There are multiple nursing requirements that you must meet along the ladder to a successful nursing career. Knowing what the nursing requirements are for each degree on the ladder will help you to prepare to advance to the next step.
Licensed Practical Nurse Requirements (LPN)
Meeting the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) requirements begin with earning a high school diploma or equivalent. The next step is to complete a training program accredited by the State Board of Nursing. LPN training programs are offered through vocational schools, community colleges and some hospitals and can often be completed in about one year. You must pass the NCLEX-PN certificate exam to receive your license to practice nursing.
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A Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) requires 18 to 24 months of education beyond a BSN degree. Most programs require applicants hold a BSN, an RN license and meet minimum GPA and GRE scoring. Joint degree designations at the Masters level involve earning a Master of Science in Nursing in combination with a Masters degree in Public Health (MSN/MPH), or Business Administration (MSN/MBA), or health administration (MSN/MSHA).
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The American Nurses Credentialing Center offers specialized certifications that demonstrate expertise, beyond that of an RN, in a particular field. Candidates usually hold a Masters level designation and sit for the exam pertaining to their specialization area. Generalist, advanced practice and clinical specialist certifications are offered in nearly thirty areas.
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Quality abound for this stunning brand new home w/9 course ceiling, rounded corner, cherry cabinets kitchen, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, tray ceiling, center island opens up to great room features gas fireplace, wall of windows overlooking at views of Oneida Lake & harbor. Your 28' boat slip and dock are included. Heated radiant floors in garage & walkout basement. Two first-floor master bedroom suites w/spa like shower and double vanities. Maple flooring throughout. Spectacular views of Oneida Lake best for boaters, fisherman, all water activities. Great value-must see.
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- Year Built: 2012
- Status: Sold on 7/16/2013
- Fireplaces: 1
- Foreclosure: No
- Estimated Annual Taxes: $9,844
- School District: Chittenango
- Property ID: 102682659
- Beds: 4
- Total Rooms: 10
- Parking Type Description: Attached 2 cars
- Total Square Footage: 3,200 ($120.31 per sq. foot)
- Association Fee: $185
- Body of Water: Oneida Lake
- Style: Other
- Baths: 4 (Full: 3 3/4: 0 1/2: 1 Other: 0)
- Stories: 2
- New Construction: No
- Lot Size: 35 x 120
- County: Madison
- Subdivision: Habor Lights
Additional Exterior Features Cable Available, Deck, Dock
Additional Interior Features Circuit Breakers Some, Copper Plumbing Some
Attic Description Crawl Space
Basement Description Full, Walkout
Driveway Description Blacktop
Emergency Backup Systems Generator Panel Connection
Exterior Construction Composition, Stone, Vinyl
Floor Description Ceramic Some, Hardwood Some, Wall To Wall Carpet Some
Foundation Description Poured
Garage Description Attached
Heating Fuel Description Gas
Hvac Type Central Air, Forced Air
Kitchen Dining Description Center Island, Eat In, Granite
Kitchen Equip Appl Included Convection, Cooktop Gas, Dishwasher, Disposal, Oven Range Gas, Refrigerator
Listing Type Exclusive Right To Sell
Lot Information Green Area, Water View
On Waterfront Y/N Yes
Other Bedrooms 1st Floor - 2, Bedrooms 2nd Floor - 2, Fireplaces Gas - 1, Full Baths 1st Floor - 2, Full Baths 2nd Floor - 1, Half Baths 1st Floor - 1, Island - Na, School Tax - 6250, Town County Tax - 3594
Sewer Description Sewer Connected
Water Heater Fuel Gas
Water Resources Public Connected
Year Built Description Existing
Listed by Susan Li of Coldwell Banker Prime Properties 315-446-2910


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