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Smith Says Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Disclaimer: Do not read this while eating, or sipping a Bloody Mary.Hello nosebleed, my old friend.Guess what? Nosebleeds are scary. One minute you're surfing mentalfloss.com and giggling like a loon, and the next minute Widdle walks in to offe
Smith Says Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Wouldn't life be easier if everyone just walked around with a big sign listing things they love, things they hate and things they don't give one whoop about?Anybody? No?So it IS just me. Here's the deal: Everyone has opinions and I&
Living spaces By Julie R. Smith Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Tiny houses are the rage now—and by tiny I mean shoebox-sized. Cramped is cool, according to sites like Tinyhouseblog.com and Tinyhouseplans.com. A blog, ourweehouse.com, offers tips and info from a couple living in a 130 square-foot house. Ca
Smith Says Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Most of you know I'm a news junkie. That's because A) I made my living in the news for years and B) It'd be embarrassing if everyone knew the world was ending except me.So. The latest topic that caught my eye was an MSNBC article a
A rose by any other name Julie R. Smith Tuesday, February 26, 2013 After 15 years, a girl in Iceland has legally won the right to her own name. Her mother named her "Blaer," which means "light breeze." Government officials rejected it, because Iceland is really funny about baby names. Parents must adhere to grammar
Smith Says Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Who says rural life is boring? There's never a dull moment in the country.My beloved rooster, Roy, went missing two weeks ago and I've been in a terrible funk. I thought I found him in a pen a half-mile away, and yes, I was creeping on other people's
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Smith Says Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Many of you have asked about Chanticleer, the rowdy rooster who showed up one day at the Ponderosa. (That's what Widdle calls the homeplace.)He's fine, but he's no longer Chanticleer. During my boring, English-major explanation abo
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In the late 1990s, Cumberland County schools started the Schools of Choice program to let students study topics that best fit their interests, even if it meant transferring to schools outside their assigned districts.
From focusing on foreign languages to science to business, students could attend elementary schools where the curriculum is taught schoolwide or high school academies - programs within the school.
As the Choice program enters its 17th year - applications are being accepted now for the next academic year - it continues to evolve to meet the needs of students and changing times. Officials have revamped several programs and recently started offering transportation to at least one program to increase enrollment. Parents and students typically provide their own transportation to the schools.
"We were responding to the needs of our students and the needs of our community," said Allison Violette, associate superintendent for curriculum. "As our program has grown and evolved over the years, the curriculum has done so as well."
The application deadline is Friday. Selection for the programs is based on space, availability and special needs.
This year, 1,534 high school, 1,469 middle school and 1,596 elementary school students are attending Choice schools outside their assigned districts.
At a recent Secondary School Choice Fair, parents had an opportunity to learn more about middle and high school programs. They gathered around information booths to find out about language immersion, science, arts, global studies and information technology programs, among others.
Perry and Tracey Broyles were looking for a program that would provide their son, Tyler, the foundation he needs to become a veterinarian.
"We are looking at two different scenarios - a large-school environment and a small-school environment. We are trying to see what will be a better fit for high school," Tracey Broyles said. "The more you can do to expand their horizons and prepare them, the better."
Choice programs are reviewed each year for relevance of the material and need, Violette said.
"We are always looking at how we can strengthen and make our programs more relevant and engaging for students so that what they are learning in an engineering academy or a biomedical academy is the most current and relevant curriculum," Violette said.
For example, the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies at Douglas Byrd High School became the Academy of Green Technology in 2011. The Ford Partnership focused on engineering, business and corporate citizenship.
The Academy of Green Technology was revamped last year to focus on the future needs of the Go Green initiative. The new curriculum encourages students to develop and research alternative fuel and energy sources.
Howard Health and Life Sciences School on Camden Road will add two electives next year that focus on careers, Violette said. Howard also offers the Career and College Promise Program, which allows eligible high school students to begin earning college credit at a community college at no cost. Students can take undergraduate courses in their junior and senior years.
At Westover High School, the Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Health Sciences and Technology have implemented Project Lead the Way, a rigorous and innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum that provides hands-on learning.
On a recent Friday at Westover's Academy of Health Sciences and Technology, students Linh Huynh and Rumbiszai Kachuna were at a lab station molding clay to look like parts of the human ear. They glanced briefly at an image of an ear on a laptop computer as a reference.
The juniors say the experience is similar to that of a college freshman.
"The academy gives me the chance to see if this is something I want to do as a career," Huynh said. "It is preparing me for college."
Changes have been made to boost enrollment. This year, the Cumberland County Schools Fire Academy, based at E.E. Smith High School, began offering transportation. Enrollment in the academy, a partnership with the Fayetteville Fire Department, grew from five to more than 20 students.
Transportation is not provided countywide to Choice programs because of limited money, Violette said.
At the Choice fair, Jarmecka Covington said she hopes her 11-year-old son will be accepted into the Choice program at Seventy-First Classical Middle School. Selection is based on a lottery system, a policy that Covington has concerns about.
"It is fair, but I just wish that they look at the student's overall progress the previous years," she said. "There is a possibility that he may not get in because of the lottery system. He has earned his grades and worked hard for his grades."
The lottery system is used at schools where applicants exceed the number of available slots, Violette said.
Still, Covington is hopeful.
"I think it is a wonderful opportunity for parents to be able to have the decision to choose a school they feel meets the need of their child," she said.
Pine Forest High School Principal Jane Fields spent nine years as director of the Academy of Finance at Douglas Byrd High School, one of the first academies in the county.
"I got to see first hand the benefit of the internship experiences, the college course work, the small learning environment, and how it all benefited the student," she said. "They graduated high school ahead of the curve."
The Choice programs have strengthened the school system over the years by being more inclusive when it comes to students' interests, Violette said.
"I think it makes us competitive," she said. "Parents have the opportunity to choose various programs that center around the student's interests or strengths and can get that in a public school setting."
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Download Greenland and Wild Labrador Detailed Itinerary Day 1: Kangerlussuaq (Sondre Stromfjord)Arriving from Toronto, we will board the Sea Adventurer via Zodiac and prepare to steam out of one of the longest fjords in the world with 168km of superb scenery! Although the fjord crosses the Arctic Circle, the waters here do not freeze, making this part of Greenland a year-round centre for fishing and hunting. Day 2: Evighedsfjorden & KangaamiutToday we arrive at Evighedsfjorden, known as the Eternity Fjord. As we cruise along this meandering fjord, we find ourselves surrounded by the highest mountains in West Greenland - reaching heights of over 2,000 meters! We'll seek out the seals and whales who reside in the area, and scan the bird cliffs. Kangaamiut, is a small fishing community in the municipality of Qeqqata. During our visit to this colourful town, we'll be hosted by a local family and enjoy a presentation in the church before and optional hike. Day 3: NuukWelcome to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland! Nuuk, meaning 'the headland' and is situated at the mouth of a gigantic fjord system. Established as the very first Greenlandic town in 1728, Nuuk has a history that dates back over 4,200 years. Today, Nuuk is the world's smallest capital city with a population of only 15,000. Here we have a chance to spot Humpback whales in the fjord, reindeer roaming the land and birds soaring in the sky. The town itself is home to Greenland's University, a cathedral dating back to 1849 and Greenland's National Museum. We will visit some of the city's most important sites, before free time to explore on your own. Day 4: At SeaWe will cross Davis Strait with a full day of fun, lectures and time on deck looking for marine life. Day 5: Kangiqsualujjuaq (George River)In the shelter of a commanding granite rock outcrop we find the easternmost community of Kangiqsualujjuaq, or George River. Twenty-five kilometers upstream from Ungava Bay, the ebb and flow of the tides define the summer lives of the people and fauna of this area. Arctic flora thrives in the protected valley. The calving grounds of the George River herd, the largest ungulate population in the world estimated at several hundreds of thousands of head is nearby. After our welcome back to Canada, we will have the freedom to explore the community, meet with locals and strike out of town for a hike on the tundra. Days 6 - 8: Torngat Mountains National ParkFrom the Inuktitut word Torngait, meaning 'place of spirits', the Torngat Mountains have been home to Inuit and their predecessors for thousands of years, with archaeological evidence reaching back almost 7,000 years. The fjords here reach well back into the depths of the Torngats as we are overshadowed by cliffs rising straight up from the sea, peaking at 1,700 m, the highest point of land in Labrador. The Torngat Mountains claim some of the oldest rocks on the planet and provide some of the best exposure of geological history. The rocky landscape is a challenge to life, and the species that make their home here are a resilient bunch with fascinating survival adaptations. We hope to see a number of species during our time in Northern Labrador. Our intention is to make expeditionary stops in the northern reaches of Labrador, including the Eclipse Bay, Nackvak Fiord and Saglek Bay. Day 9: HebronLong-abandoned Hebron was once one of the most northerly communities on the north Labrador coast. A Moravian Mission station was constructed here from 1829 to 1831 but the main buildings - the church, the mission house and the store - were not inhabited until 1837. The Moravian Mission has had a very strong influence on the history of northern Labrador. Originally known as the Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church traces its roots to 15th century central Europe, in what is now the Czech Republic. In 1751, a group of merchants attached to the Moravian congregation in London decided to outfit a trading and missionary voyage to the Labrador coast in order to convert the Inuit. In a highly controversial move, the station was abandoned in 1959, forcing the relocation of the Inuit who resided there. In 2005, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams apologized to people affected by the relocations. In August of 2009, the provincial government unveiled a monument at the site of Hebron with an inscribed apology for the site closure. Day 10: MakkovikWith a population of just over 400, Makkovik's main industry is fishing for snow crab. The population is mainly composed of residents of mixed Norwegian and Inuit heritage. Settled by Torsten Kverna Andersen and his wife Mary Ann Thomas who set up a trading post there in 1860, the population gradually increased over the next three decades as European settlers and Inuit established roots in the community, though this territory since time immemorial was used by Inuit. Colonization was assured in 1896 when the Moravian Church established a mission station and residential school there. Both the mission and school were destroyed by a fire in 1948 but the economy was instilled in the 1950s by two notable events. First was the forceful resettlement to Makkovik of 150 Inuit residents of the northern communities of Nutak and Hebron. Second was the establishment nearby of a radar warning station by the United States government. Day 11: CartwrightCartwright is a community located on the eastern side of the entrance to Sandwich Bay, along the southern coast of Labrador in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was incorporated in 1956. Cartwright has been a settled community since 1775 when Captain George Cartwright, for whom the place is named, settled there, establishing a fish and fur trading business. Eleven years later he left Labrador, maintaining a business interest there until it was sold to Hunt and Henley in 1815. It was again sold in 1873 to the Hudson's Bay Company and has remained under company ownership ever since. Since 2002, Cartwright has been connected by road (a section of the Trans-Labrador Highway) with Blanc Sablon, Quebec where there is a car ferry to Newfoundland. Since December 2009 the remaining link between Cartwright and Goose Bay, Labrador has been completed and open to the public. Day 12: L'Anse aux Meadows and ConcheOn our visit to the Great Northern Peninsula, we call in at one of the world?s most important archaeological sites, North America's only authenticated Viking settlement, L?Anse aux Meadows. It is widely regarded as one of the most important archaeological sites globally. Day 13: Terra Nova National ParkTerra Nova National Park of Canada is a place where long fingers of the North Atlantic Ocean touch the island boreal forest of Eastern Newfoundland. Rocky headlands provide shelter from the awesome power of the open ocean. The landscape of the park varies from the rugged cliffs and sheltered inlets of the coastal region to the rolling forested hills, bogs and ponds of the inland. Cultural history abounds in the remnants of sawmills and past human cultures. Day 14: St. John's, NewfoundlandWe finish in St. John's, Newfoundland's historic, vibrant capital. Picturesque and welcoming, it has been continuously fished since 1498, allowing it to boast the designation of North America's oldest European settlement. We will leave the Sea Adventurer here. |
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Annual spoof takes aim at pretty much everyone
There are many unsolved mysteries in the cosmos. There are unknown secrets of Tulsa. One of them is just how old the Tulsa Gridiron show is.
Director Rebecca Ungerman has her estimate:
"This is the first annual, 80th annual Tulsa Gridiron," she laughed. "Nobody's really sure, and we took a few years off. It's been going on basically 80 years, but this could be the 78th or 82nd. And next year may be the second annual, 80th annual Tulsa Gridiron." While that knowledge may forever remain undiscovered, everything else about the show seems to be working well.
For the uninitiated, Tulsa Gridiron's annual show is a musical revue spoof of Tulsa politics, as well as state and national goings-on, pop culture, and current events. And the writers' collective motto seems to be that nothing is sacred. This year, they'll skewer Mayor Bartlett with a sendup of him, fresh off a viewing of Lincoln, dreaming of freeing the police and fire workers. And don't think that the recent TU scandals will be overlooked.
In fact, not much escapes the scathing eye on Tulsa that is "The First Annual 80th Annual Tulsa Gridiron: Vision Trouble, or Help! We've Fallen Off the Fiscal Cliff and We Can't Get Up."
"This is the show that pokes fun at everybody," Ungerman said. "Both sides of the aisle politically, state, local, national, and pop culture. We make fun of Barack, we make fun of Mitt, we make fun of Dewey, we make fun of Blake."
Perhaps one of the more enjoyable things about that for Ungerman and her cast of 30 is that many of the people at whom they're taking shots are seated in front of them as it's happening.
"We really get everybody in our audience," Ungerman said. "The politicians want to come and see what we're saying about them. Most of them enjoy laughing at themselves, but they all want to see what we're saying."
Mayor Bartlett plans to attend, and Ungerman said that former mayors Kathy Taylor and Bill LaFortune will be in attendance, as well.
"It's anybody who has a sense of humor," she said of the makeup of the Gridiron audience, whether they are officeholders or not. "We care about being equally offensive to the right and the left, even though we're accused of being a leftist, communist show. But we have people on the writing team who are very firmly of both sides of the aisle."
How possibly offensive does it get? Ungerman spent fully one third of an interview spouting off lyrics from the parodied songs in "The First Annual 80th Annual Tulsa Gridiron: Vision Trouble, or Help! We've Fallen Off the Fiscal Cliff and We Can't Get Up," but her favorite was thrown into the mix early.
"We're doing some flashback numbers this year, and we're doing the first thing I wrote that I think of as a weird and random piece," she explained. "It's about the illegitimate child of Strom Thurmond. So when I wrote that, I got to rhyme 'bastard mulatto' with 'firm vibrato.' It's one of my favorite lines I've ever written. And where else are you going to do that, right?"
Ungerman and company lean on a solid band in order to sing their ditties, and she is quick to praise the musicians.
"Terry Cooper is the music director," she said. "We have the most amazing band every year, no matter who's in it. The band came together for the first time a few nights ago, and it was freaking amazing. There was not one minute in that first band rehearsal where we had to say 'Stop,' which blew me away."
Despite her love for the band, Ungerman saves her most lavish praise for the writers and cast.
"Our head writer is Randy Krehbiel of the Tulsa World," she said. "He's so funny. He knows everything about politics, and he knows nothing about pop culture. He doesn't know from a Kardashian. I know everything about pop culture and nothing about politics, so we're a good team."
Regarding her cast of 30 (who are actors, lawyers, reds, blues, and everything in between), Ungerman hesitates to speak about individuals for fear of missing someone.
"This cast is amazing. I feel like I'm not singling out anybody, but just because there are so many of them. People should just come to the show," she said.
She does mention the MC for the evening, former television meteorologist Julie Chin.
"She's our pocket interlocutor," she said, "and she even gets in on the singing action, too."
And this is new territory for Chin.
"I have not done this before," she said. "Rebecca got in touch with me and asked me to be the MC. I've seen it before, but I'd never been in it. Then she went and wrote a number for me."
As for whether anyone knew she could sing, Chin is modest.
"I'm not sure you'd really consider it singing," she said, although Ungerman most certainly does. "We used to sing at commercial breaks at the news. Maybe people who sit next to me at church. But I haven't sung on a stage since high school. I did all that theatre stuff then. But I'm really not that good of a singer."
When she breaks into her number spoofing the spokesperson work she does these days, we'll know the answer, it would seem.
One fun thing about Gridiron is that, for years, it's had a family-affair feel to it. This year is no different, as brother-sister team Carson and Caitlin Cash join forces as part of the sprawling crew.
"This is my second year," Caitlin said. "I got in it through Carson, who got into it through my aunt and uncle, who have done it for years."
Her brother beat her to the show by one year, pulled in by the same relatives.
"My aunt and uncle were in it, and they saw what I did in high school and said I should come join it, so I did," Carson said. "I love just being as funny as I can and being in as many songs as I can."
While neither Cash has a writing credit for a Gridiron yet, they are making their marks by the characters they play.
"Last year, I said, 'I can do a Kim Kardashian,'" Caitlin said. "So that's how I got that part." This year, she'll play a drunken Amanda Bynes, among others.
Carson, on the other hand, has played Justin Bieber for three straight years.
"Now they look for crazy stuff Bieber does throughout the year so they can write for it," he said. "I'm also Pauly D from Jersey Shore, and I'm a couple of local politicians. And I'm Prince Harry."
With all this in the air -- the huge cast, the band, the writing of 30 songs, the balancing act between funny and offensive -- Ungerman keeps one thing in mind.
"It's spoofery, and spoofery is an art form that we don't get to do very often," she said. And she's right. It's easy to mean-spiritedly mock someone. But parody is another thing entirely.
"The First Annual 80th Annual Tulsa Gridiron: Vision Trouble, or Help! We've Fallen Off the Fiscal Cliff and We Can't Get Up" plays this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25 and 26 at 8pm in the Liddy Doenges Theater downtown at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available through tulsapac.com or by phone at 918-596-7111.
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Toronto Maple Leafs announced on Tuesday that goaltender James Reimer will be out at least one week after suffering a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee.
Reimer was injured during the second period of Monday's 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers, dropping to his knees in the crease after being caught up in a scramble near the goalmouth. He departed the game at the four-minute mark of the period and did not return.
The 24-year-old Manitoba native has gone 6-3-0 with a 2.31 goals-against average and one shutout in 10 appearances this season.
Ben Scrivens, who stepped in and made 32 saves in Monday's victory, will be elevated from backup status until Reimer's return.
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Meant as a companion piece to an essay, Silence, in the magazine, haven, these tracks take the listener on an auditory exploration of Bald Head Island, from the three-mile ferry ride to the creaking stairs in North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse to the crash of waves on the beach to the swish of a canoe paddle in the creek and finally to the easy squeak of a porch swing at sunset.
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Style and Technique (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
Like many of Poe's tales, this one is written in a complex idiom that smacks of archaism—and did so even at the moment of his writing. The language tends to be somewhat stilted, and the insertion here of foreign phrases (mostly, although not exclusively, French) puts the situation and the characters at some distance from the average reader. Poe is careful to set the tale in a distant and alien locale, the ambience of which is minutely evoked, with precise references to quarters of Paris, to articles of clothing and furniture, and to the whole unfamiliar business of court intrigue. The net results of these distancing effects are to render the tale more exotic and to make the preternatural powers of observation and ratiocination exhibited by Dupin appear plausible in the context. To the extent that the world of the story is clearly not one familiar to any of Poe's readers, contemporary with the tale or subsequent, it can be argued that the extraordinary events of the plot seem less fantastic. In such a world, such characters may be said to make sense.
The narrative itself is so constructed as to reinforce the sense of mystery that pervades this world, as the position of the narrator remains entirely obscure from beginning to end. He never reveals anything substantive about himself, and one might surmise that he is merely a formal device for getting the story told, a means for introducing the real protagonist, Dupin, and for giving the latter an...
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The Purloined Letter (Magill Book Reviews)
As he did in "THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE" and "THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET," Dupin outshines the police in solving a seemingly insoluble crime.
Unlike the other two tales, which involve gruesome murders of women, "THE PURLOINED LETTER" presents only petty thievery and deception as the crime. The tale's mock heroic tone is suggested even by the title's description of the missing letter not as "stolen" but as "purloined."
The Prefect of the Parisian police, Monsieur G-----, actually knows the identity of the thief, the Minister D-----, but the letter itself must be found in order to protect the honor of a lady being blackmailed. Despite an exhaustive search of the culprit's apartment over a three-month period, the Prefect has not found the document and appeals to Dupin for assistance in the matter.
As in "THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE," Dupin's strategy is to match wits with the culprit. Dupin and the Minister D----- are, in many respects, alike. Both are poets and mathematicians who tend to think in a similar fashion, both find the letter in plain sight, and, significantly, both use the letter for personal gain. The Minister uses it for political advantage, while in the end Dupin extracts a large reward from the Prefect.
Dupin claims the reward by handing the letter in question to the Prefect after a search of the Minister's apartment that involves some deception and trickery. Dupin...
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Historical Context
The Mass-Market Publishing Industry in America
In the mid-1820s, Poe was one of many writers on the East Coast submitting his works to the growing mass-market publishing industry. Better transportation and improvements in paper production and printing technologies led to the establishment of several newspapers, magazines, and book publishers, and writers and editors clamored to be a part of it.
Copyright Issues for American Authors
In these early years of publishing, American authors were unprotected by any strict copyright legislation, something for which writers like Poe lobbied heavily. Because writers could not protect their works from being plagiarized or reprinted without their permission, they realized that the value of their works would drop after the first printing. As a result, many authors guarded their unpublished works closely, so that they could negotiate higher payments for the initial publication. Poe mocked this trend in his story, "The Purloined Letter," where the narrator notes that it is the "possession, and not any employment of the letter, which bestows the power." Says Terence Whalen, in his essay, "The American Publishing Industry," "Regardless of what it may have meant to the queen, the stolen letter retains its power only so long as its contents remain secret." Whalen further notes that with this treatment of the letter, Poe "develops the tendencies of the capitalist publishing...
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Literary Style
Detective Story
Many critics agree that with tales of ratiocination like "The Purloined Letter," Poe earned the title of father of the modern detective story. Three of C. Auguste Dupin's characteristics in particular—his mysterious nature, his civilian position, and his deductive reasoning—influenced the detectives found in both literature and film.
When Poe introduces Dupin, he provides very little information about his background. He and the narrator sit in the dark, smoking their pipes. When the Prefect visits him to talk about the case, Dupin purposely does not light the lamp, saying that "if it is any point requiring reflection.... we shall examine it to better purpose in the dark." This idea, of the mysterious, silent detective sitting and smoking in the dark while listening to his clients' cases, is one of the hallmarks of future "private-eye" stories.
Like these private eyes, Dupin is also a civilian. Although he is outside of the law, the Prefect still comes to talk with Dupin any time he has "some official business" that gives him "a great deal of trouble." In this case, as in many other detective stories, the Prefect gives Dupin privileged information, such as when he is describing the importance of the letter: "I may venture so far as to say that the paper gives its holder a certain power in a certain quarter where such power is immensely valuable." Although the Prefect tries to keep this information...
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Compare and Contrast
1840s: Samuel Morse, American portrait painter, invents Morse Code, a code of dots and spaces that the United States government uses to keep messages secret from its political enemies.
Today: The United States constructs increasingly more sophisticated methods of keeping messages secret, and employs mathematicians to try to break the codes of other countries.
Early 1840s: Frenchman Louis Daguerre, a scene-painter, invents the daguerreotype, a method that uses a lens and light, along with a chemical reaction, to capture exact images. The first daguerreotypes are used mainly for landscapes—including the first photograph of Paris—and portraits.
Today: Photography comes in many types, including digital, and it is used in many educational, artistic, medical, and scientific applications. Photographs are also used as evidence in many police investigations and criminal trials.
Early 1840s: In the absence of any strictly enforced copyright laws, American authors guard their writings to increase the value of their works on first publication, since they are often reproduced by magazines without the author's permission.
Today: With the advent of the Internet and online publishing, it is easier than ever to gain free access to many copyrighted works. As a result, legal cases and debates involving intellectual...
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Topics for Further Study
Research the methods that modern-day criminal psychologists use to create a psychological profile. Using these methods, choose one of history's greatest criminals and write a profile about him or her in the modern style.
Research the methods of investigation used by the French police in the 1830s and 1840s, and write a three-page paper describing how their investigative methods do or do not correspond with the types of methods described by Poe in "The Purloined Letter.''
Although Poe was an American, he chose to place his story in France. Research the political, historical, and social climates of both France and America in the 1830s and 1840s, and pose a theory about why Poe may have chosen to set his story in France. Then, write a plot summary for a different version of the story, which takes place in America at the same time.
Compare C. Auguste Dupin to Sam Spade, the famous detective protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. Write a scene where the two men meet in a modern-day setting. How would they react to contemporary issues and ways of thinking?
In the story, the French police use a microscope as an investigative tool. Research the history of the microscope. Besides police investigations, find five other ways that microscopes have been used in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
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Media Adaptations
"The Purloined Letter'" was adapted into an audiocassette version in 1986 by Spoken Arts.
''The Purloined Letter'' was adapted into a full-cast audiocassette production in Edgar Allan Poe's Stories & Tales II, published by Monterey Soundworks in 2000. The audio collection also includes Poe's "The Black Cat," "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
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What Do I Read Next?
Poe's detective stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin influenced many later mystery writers, most notably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose Sherlock Holmes eventually eclipsed Poe's Dupin. The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All Four Novels and 56 Short Stories, published by Bantam Classic and Loveswept in 1998, demonstrates Doyle's mastery of the genre.
Investigative methods have advanced considerably since the mid-nineteenth century. Greg Fallis' s Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Writer's Guide to Investigators and Investigation Techniques, published in 1998 by Writer's Digest Books, details the modern techniques that police use when conducting investigations, as well as the personal traits needed to become a successful investigator today.
In more recent detective fiction, female private investigators have joined the field. One of the most notable is by Sue Grafton, whose alphabet series of mysteries—featuring the gutsy female private investigator, Kinsey Millhone—are some of the most popular. The series starts with A is for Alibi, published in 1987 by Crime Line. In this novel, Millhone is hired by a woman who has served time in prison for murdering her husband but who wants Millhone to find the real killer.
Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, originally published in 1930 and reprinted by Vintage books...
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Asselineau, Roger, ''Edgar Allan Poe,'' in American Writers, Vol. 3, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974, pp. 409-32.
Buranelli, Vincent, "Chapter 3: Return to Reality," in Edgar Allan Poe, in Twayne's United States Authors Series Online, G. K. Hall & Co., 1999.
Buranelli, Vincent, ''Chapter 4: Fiction Themes,'' in Edgar Allan Poe, in Twayne's United States Authors Series Online, G. K. Hall & Co., 1999.
Carlson, Eric W., ''Edgar Allan Poe,'' in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 74: American Short-Story Writers Before 1880, edited by Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant, Gale Research, 1988, pp. 303-22.
Colton, George, ''Poe's Tales,'' in the American Review, Vol. II, No. III, September 1845, pp. 306-309.
Graham, Kenneth, Introduction, in Selected Tales, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. vii-xxii.
Kennedy, J. Gerald, ''Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849: A Brief Biography,'' in A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 26.
Marlowe, Stephen, Introduction, in The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Signet Classic, 1998, p. xii.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, "Edgar Allan Poe,'' in Scribner's...
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Bibliography (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
Burluck, Michael L. Grim Phantasms: Fear in Poe's Short Fiction. New York: Garland, 1993.
Hoffman, Daniel. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Hutchisson, James M. Poe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Irwin, John T. The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytical Detective Story. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Kennedy, J. Gerald. A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
Peeples, Scott. Edgar Allan Poe Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1998.
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
Sova, Dawn B. Edgar Allan Poe, A to Z. New York: Facts On File, 2001.
Whalen, Terence. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...
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Wikipedia has been one of the success stories of the internet, growing rapidly to become the de facto reference site for many people.
There are more than 4.4m pages in the English language edition alone, and it is still growing at the rate of 771 new pages every day.
How can its impact benefit digital marketers?
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Google just can't stop fidddling with its search results. When it's not making major algorithm changes, there's the numerous tweaks to presentation of results.
But are these changes benefitting end users? Or should it just stop messing about so much?
The answer seems to be a bit of both. Google does have to keep people using its search engoine, and providing the best user experience is how it can do that.
On the other hand, blurring the line between ads and organic results is not good UX, but about increasing revenues...
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It's been another eventful year in search, mainly thanks to Google, and the role of the SEO has changed, even in this short time.
We've had Penguin 2.0, the under the radar Hummingbird update, as well as the removal of the last remaining keyword referral data.
I've been asking folks in the industry about their thoughts on SEO in 2013, and the most significant events over the past 12 months....
by Graham Charlton 16 December 2013 11:54am 10 comments
While Hummingbird has been much discussed, not many people understand it yet, or appreciate its benefits because it isn't an obvious feature of Google search. If you want to try it, go to Google on your smartphone and click on the microphone to activate a voice search.
For a bit of fun, say 'Tottenham Hotspur'. Google will search for the greatest team in the world (guest opinion - Ed), and then read out an up to date fact, perhaps the latest result and information about the next match.
Next, click the microphone again and ask a related question, such as 'how old are they?' Google will then show you the Wikipedia information about the club. Ask another question, such as 'where do they play?' and Google will show you information about White Hart Lane.
So, that is Hummingbird in a nutshell - a clever way of linking queries so that, instead of starting each search from scratch, Google can show you more pertinent information related to your previous search.
by Michelle Hill 13 December 2013 10:08am 21 comments
Google is seemingly involved in a never-ending battle to fight spam and underhand SEO tactics affecting its search results.
In 2013 we've had several updates and warnings, Hummingbird being the most obvious, but what will Google target next?
I have a few ideas on this, and I've also asked SEOs for their views on the areas where Google is likely to focus...
by Graham Charlton 12 December 2013 14:32pm 7 comments
In 2012, 36% of advertising spend in the UK was on digital. This is up from 19% in 2007.
This statistic comes from OFCOM's 2013 International Communications Market Report, revealed today.
The UK also spends a higher share of its advertising budget on digital than the rest of the world.
by Christopher Ratcliff 12 December 2013 13:52pm 1 comment
2013 has seen plenty of changes to paid search, mainly driven by Google. For a brand in a competitive market like insurance, little tweaks here and there matter.
Changes include the addition of Google's own comparison products to the SERPs, meaning less visibility for organic results, enhanced campaigns, and changes to the style of PPC ads.
I've been asking Heledd Jones, head of search marketing at Confused.com (and an Econsultancy guest blogger), about the challenges presented by these changes, and her thoughts on how PPC will evolve in the next year.
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Over the last four months, Google has been ramping up its publicity of a more aggressive target for mobile site performance: sub one second page load times.
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I fully expect to see this industry focus switch to mobile-specific commentary through 2014.
Let's take a look at the evidence, and the SEO opportunity...
by Chris Liversidge 10 December 2013 09:57am 30 comments
A paid search algorithm update by Google has led to an improvement in the performance of PPC adverts that include an ad extension.
But overall the new AdWords Ad Rank update actually caused a slight decline in ad performance.
The update, which was announced back in October, altered the way that Google determines the order of paid search ads by adding in a third variable alongside the maximum bid and quality score.
This new variable is the expected impact of ad extensions and formats, and it has apparently had a notable impact on PPC results. So in effect, the use of ad extensions and formats can now influence ad position in the SERP.
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The results of the study are summarised below, but firstly here's a run through of the ad extensions that Google takes into account.
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Even after seven years of YouTube's existence, brands still aren't making much of a dent in the 'YouTube 5,000', an elite group of channels with at least 43m views each.
Theoretically brands have a much greater advantage than your average YouTuber as they have more money to produce content, however according to Touchstorm's latest study, The Touchstorm Video Index, only 74 of the YouTube 5,000 channels are from brands.
In November 2013 I took a look at YouTube strategy for brands. I revealed some surprises from the research, and recommended some guidance on how brands can improve their YouTube reach.
Yesterday I talked to the SVP of marketing and production at Touchstorm, Sean Womack, about the topic, and he offered the following advice for brands.
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A layman's tour of some of Ann Arbor's public art
Defining art isn't easy and I'm not going to try, but if there's one entity more qualified than government to determine what is good public art, it's me. A Canadian with no formal art schooling beyond elementary school who doesn't know a Paul Cezanne from a Paul McCartney, who had a "Reservoir Dogs" and a "Scarface" poster on his wall in college.
Don't read this as an attack on public arts funding or public arts millages. I like art and stuff. A dollar a month for some metal trees in the park is well worth the tithe. Rather, this is an everyman's guide to Ann Arbor's public art - free, functional and expensive. Voters rejected a recent public-art millage with 56 percent against and a month later the city partially suspended the Percent for Art Program but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy what's already out there.
Join me, won't you?
Courtesy of City of Ann Arbor
West Park Metal Tree Sculptures
A pair of metal tree sculptures, local artist Traven Pelletier, were added to West Park during renovations in 2010. Located near the bandshell, the trees are pretty striking and blend into the space pretty well. Thumbs up from this art snob.
Fairy Garden Village
I'm not a fan of Ann Arbor's fairy doors, probably because I don't have kids, I hate pennies and I don't believe in forest sorcery. But the Fairy Garden Village, at Fourth Avenue and William Street, is an entire display of fairy things, featuring lights, municipal buildings and blue shiny rocks. There's a church, a warning sign for non-fairies, one of those terrible University of Michigan branded gnomes (it's a FAIRY GARDEN, interloper!) and price tags cling to a lot of the Christmas items dotting the display. The more I look at this thing, the less I like it.
The Kerrytown Arch
Thanks to the Michigan Council for the Arts and Ann Arbor Tomorrow, people who hang out in the wonderful outdoor patio area near the People's Food Coop in Kerrytown can enjoy the black metal monstrosity that is the Kerrytown Arch. Strategically placed for little kids to bark their shins on, this hollow, rickety beast was welded together and placed on this spot in 1977 for who knows what purpose. Resembling a child's handiwork after 40 minutes with a paper straw wrapper in a Red Robin watching her parents natter on while picking at their Avo-Cabo Salads, look closely for the artist's signature welded into the base of the piece—about as tasteful as a frat symbol branded onto the bicep of a middle linebacker at Texas A&M.
Muehlig Funeral Home WhirleyWhatzit
A few years ago I was driving past the Muehlig Funeral Home when a spinning monstrosity on the roof caught my eye. Closer inspection revealed an Art Fair wind spinny thing with as many colors as Joseph's dreamcoat, with a rotating pinwheel and some horseshoe looking things sprouting out of the back. Very out of place. But hey, it's eye-catching.
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Dreiseitl Water Sculpture Outside City Hall
Get ready, AnnArbor.com commenters—here's the grandaddy of Ann Arbor public art. The Dreiseitl water sculpture debuted in the fall of 2011 at the cost of about $750,000. It didn't work properly for a year. The bronze sculpture is lit from below by three lights (two white, one red) on the street side along with 22 blue LED bulbs facing Huron. On the City Hall side, five blue LED bulbs near the base of the sculpture shine down on a concrete decline with circular and teardrop shaped designs where water presumably washes down during the seven months when its warm enough to do so. The lights blink in varying patterns but the overall effect is difficult to see driving on a four-lane thoroughfare at 30 mph, which is how most people who don't work in the area see the sculpture.
With two super uncomfortable benches nearby and nearly zero regular-person foot traffic, what's the point of this major art installation being installed at this location, other than the fact that it's City Hall? And a water sculpture as the main art project for a cold-weather town? Come on, people, you had to know that the overall effect was going to be somewhat lost by all the snow, ice and, oh yeah, lack of water. The sculpture seems a lot smaller than I'm sure it is because the courthouse is so massive and impressive and Huron is so wide open. Maybe staring down at the sculpture from the fifth floor makes it look cool, but I haven't been awarded the key to the city (yet!).
Ann Arbor's Whirlydoodles
Part art, part science, Tim Jones' Whirlydoodles are all over the city, spinning in the wind to create bursts of light and 63 negative comments per AnnArbor.com article. I don't understand art or science, so I incorrectly assumed that the energy they produced powered something other than the LED lights on the blades, like maybe Ann Arbor's secret subway system or a nearby Illuminati clubhouse. Nope. The wind just powers these art thingies. Either way, they're an interesting conversation piece for people on a first date (you like wind? I like wind too!), a great way to distract drivers, and a fabulous way to concuss idiot bats and birds. Art with a purpose!
Angell Elementary and Community High School Mural
Facing the Kerrytown Farmer's Market is a panoramic co-production of Angell and Community, featuring the city of Ann Arbor painted in great detail. Stretching from the Big House to the University of Michigan Hospital, this piece depicts Ann Arbor landmarks like the Fleetwood, State Theatre (showing "Rocky Horror," so Community of them!), Pinball Pete's, the Blind Pig (isn't that a bar, kids?), an I-94 sign and more. The mural is pretty much what you'd expect from a collaboration between an elementary school, an alternative high school and paints, but it's fun to pick out the little things in the mural. Pay close attention to the fresh take on the Michigan Survival Flight helicopter, what the vendors are selling at the Farmers Market, and the ghost of Bo Schembechler.
It's All Been Done Before
Brother, are you ever right. Near the corner of Catherine and Ingalls on a retaining wall next to the sidewalk is a series of faded stencils titled "It's All Been Done Before." Featuring famous works of art from "The Scream" to the Mona Lisa and "American Gothic," the stencils the length of the wall and though added to by intrepid follow-up artists (mostly mustaches) and faded to nothing in some spots, it's still a pretty neat thing to stumble upon on a sunny afternoon.
The Rock
The gigantic boulder on Washtenaw and Hill was birthed from the earth and moved to its current location to commemorate George Washington's 200th birthday. Today, everyone from sorority sisters to proposing grooms slather the rock with paint to commemorate events great and small. I love the Rock and its ever-changing messages, but I find the surrounding sidewalks just as interesting for their splashes of color and evolving hieroglyphics.
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Sunday Morning in Deep Waters
My favorite fountain in Ann Arbor is near the Burton Tower, called "Sunday Morning in Deep Waters," by sculptor Carl Milles. It should be called "Fat Guy and Fishes Be Spitting Water for Rich's Enjoyment," because this thing tickles me every single time (not literally). At the center of the piece is the mighty Triton, flanked by his sons and a bunch of jumping fish. Rumor has it if you drink the water you can eat for free at Real Seafood Co. for life.
Three Nudes
If you thought the statue of three nudes near Angelo's and the medical campus seems a little out of place, you'd have that opinion. The bronze statue of a family of three is called "Regeneration of Time," was designed by Louis Marinaro, and according to an old Michigan Daily article was acquired in 1996. It apparently deals with themes of love, time, knowledge and zzzzzz but you know what—I like my tasteful nudes. I say more power to "Regeneration of Time" and other artists daring enough to make artwork to support only-child households. I'm a product of one. Suckers.
The Michigan Theater Alley
What was once a vibrant, mostly planned home for cool murals and a wall of bubblegum is a little more hodgepodge after being whitewashed some years ago. As a home for the street art, you could do a lot worse than the Michigan Theater alley. It gets a bad rap for being host to hobos, criminals and famous dancing impersonators, but for those who aren't familiar with it, stumbling upon the alley as an out of towner is a cool experience. It's less about the individual art and more about the collective experience. The alley is dark even on the sunniest day of summer and you're never quite sure what you'll see next or how close you should get to the walls. Art is supposed to make you feel something and the alley definitely makes you feel something. Even if that thing is icky.
The Cube
The Cube "Endover" as it's formally known, is located next to the Michigan Union and is not only impressive in size but fun to spin. Legend has it that a sprite named Mary Sue Coleman who lives on the Michigan campus spins the cube to herald each morning. I hear you can catch her by the light of the moon or by smearing peanut butter on nearby trees which will attract her and stick to her wings.
Fire Department Memorial and Hydrants
On Fifth Avenue next to the Ann Arbor Fire Department headquarters you'll find a series of fire hydrants and a marble memorial to Ann Arbor's fallen firefighters. The hydrants each represent a different design, including "The Detroiter" and "Later Fluted Barrel", while the plain memorial bears the names of three firefighters and is topped with a black fireman's helmet. The memorial rests at the base of a giant flagpole that and the whole setup is solemn and pretty impressive. Stop by, check it out and peek in the windows to the fire department garage and check out the trucks.
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Personal Information Email Tel (650) 725-8292 Tel (650) 725-8314Alternate Contact Peggy Simons Administrative Assistant Email Tel Work 6507258292Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- General Pediatrics
- Minority and Immigrant Child Health
- Health Disparities
Academic Appointments
- Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
- Member, Child Health Research Institute
Administrative Appointments
- Chief, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics (1996 - present)
- Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs, Office of Student Affairs (1983 - present)
- Executive Board, Pan American Health Education Foundation (2006 - 2012)
- Executive Board, Hispanic Serving Health Professions School, Inc (2000 - 2012)
- Board Member, Stanford Medical Alumni Association (2004 - 2010)
Honors and Awards
- CDC's Health Equity Champion, CDC (2012)
- President's Award for Excellence through Diversity, Stanford University (June 2012)
- JE Wallace Sterling "Muleshoe" Lifetime Alumni Achievement Award, Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association (May 2012)
- Who's Who Worldwide, Who's Who (2012-2013)
- Visiting Diversity Professor, Harvard Medical School (October 2009)
- 100 Most Influencial Latinos in Silicon Valley, Mexican American Community Service Agency (June 2007)
Professional Education
Fellowship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1981) |
Residency: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1978) |
Internship: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1976) |
Residency: | Harvard School of Public Health MA (1979) |
Medical Education: | Stanford University School of Medicine CA (1975) |
M.P.H.: | Harvard University, Maternal and Child Health (1979) |
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- Gardner Packard Children's Health Center, Palo Alto
- Co-Chair Children's Agenda, Santa Clara County, International
- Ravenswood Family Health Center, East Palo Alto
- Directed Reading in Pediatrics
PEDS 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Early Clinical Experience
PEDS 280 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Research
PEDS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Medical Scholars Research
PEDS 370 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Directed Reading/Research
PEDS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
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My current research is focused on the issue of obesity among Latino children, with particular attention to children who live in immigrant families. With California having a large proportion of Latino children particularly of Mexican heritage, examining the factors that contribute to over-weight and obesity on both sides of the border is key in determining how to address the present epidemic of obesity among Latino children. The factors that contribute to this maybe a combination of SES and cultural changes. My research is directed at examining these factors, as well as understanding how the experiences in Mexico may contribute to the prevalence of overweight and obesity among the children of immigrant families.
- New American Children Supporting the Health and Well-being of Immigrant Populations JAMA PEDIATRICS 2013; 167 (1): 12-13
- Resident Cross-Cultural Training, Satisfaction, and Preparedness ACADEMIC PEDIATRICS 2013; 13 (1): 65-71
- Children with Special Health Care Needs: How Immigrant Status is Related to Health Care Access, Health Care Utilization, and Health Status MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JOURNAL 2010; 14 (4): 567-579
- Lessons learned from a community-academic partnership addressing adolescent pregnancy prevention in Filipino American families. Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action 2010; 4 (4): 305-313
- Health disparities and children in immigrant families: a research agenda. Pediatrics 2009; 124: S187-95
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Researchers say parents' TV habits are associated with how much kids watch. (Irfan Kahn / Los Angeles Times / July 15, 2013) |
Maybe it's time for "screen time" for parents, too.
To limit kids' television watching, the ubiquitous rule restricting the time they're allowed to spend in front of a TV or computer screen isn't as helpful as something more basic: how much time parents spend watching TV, scientists say in an article out Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
"Do as I say, not as I do" might be a foundation for Homer Simpson's style of parenting, but it's not so effective, the scientists say.
"Parent television viewing is a stronger predictor of child television viewing than traditional media 'access' and 'rules' variables regardless of child age," the scientists wrote. The parents' habits had a stronger relationship to their kids' habits than even having a TV in the child's bedroom, the researchers said -- something that is frequently criticized by people who advocate for less screen time for kids.
Every hour of parental viewing was associated with an additional 23 minutes of viewing by the child, said the researchers, who were from the University of Pennsylvania.
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The participants were an average age of almost 39, with almost two children. Eighty-six percent were married or living with someone and most had jobs. The parents reported almost four hours of daily TV viewing, which didn't vary based on the kids' ages. Seventy percent had TVs in their bedrooms, and an average of three TVs in the home. They reported children's daily viewing at an average of three hours.
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Wii U has "capability issues" due to single processor,says VentureBeat's Takahashi
VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi has placed his hands on Wii U during E3, and found the console has capability issues due to its single processor having to drive multiple displays.
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Takahashi: Cloud success is "almost inevitable"
In an essay on why now's an exciting time to be involved in the games industry, VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi's stuck his leg in the sand on Cloud gaming – he reckons it's pretty much a done deal.
"OnLive doesn't have to kill the console makers to succeed," said the journo.
"It will become a wildly successful company if it can simply establish video games on demand as a viable channel. And even if OnLive itself doesn't make it, it is almost inevitable that game cloud computing will thrive."
OnLive "expects to launch a games on demand service in the fall that is very much like Xbox Live," Takahashi added.
"You will be able to play high-end games on low-end computers. That's unbelievable. Many people have reacted to this by saying it is impossible. But it is no more impossible than 2D-Boy creating The World of Goo and getting a bestseller out of it."
OnLive was announced at GDC this year to general disbelief that the service can work.
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Moore was not "pushed hard" on 360 failure issues, says Antonucci: full interview transcript
Mike Antonucci, the San Jose Mercury News journalist named by Peter Moore in his recent Guardian interview as "really pushing hard" on the issue of Xbox 360 failure rates, has contacted VG247 to set the record straight on the subject.
Antonucci, who's now moved on from the paper, conducted the interview in which Moore famously said that "things break" in relation to the RROD problem.
Antonucci told us this morning that both he and Dean Takahashi – author of The Xbox 360 Uncloaked – had mailed the Guardian to show that Moore hadn't been "pushed" in the interview, or that Antonucci had taken his remark out of context, saying that, "Perhaps the loss of context is a reference to other reporting that quoted my interview with him."
The note went ignored, apparently. You can read the full mail sent to the Guardian after the break, which includes a full transcript of the interview in question. We've bolded the section containing the quote.
Fri, Feb 08, 2008 | 08:34 GMT
Moves for Takahashi and Remo
According to this, longstanding San Jose Mercury News journalist Dean Takahashi and Shacknews editor-in-chief Chris Remo have announced plans to move on. Takahashi – author of Opening the Xbox and The Xbox 360 Uncloaked – is to devote his time to blogging on Venture Beat, a site related to Silicon Valley finance. Remo, Shacknews editorial head since 2005, hasn't confirmed what he's going to be up to next, but whatever it is, we wish him well.


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Dr. Albert B. Cleage and Miss Pearl D. Reed were married at noon Thursday...
My grandmother, Pearl Doris Reed, was born in Lebanon, Kentucky in 1886. She the youngest of the seven children of Anna Allen Reed. Pearl's father was Buford Averitt, a white physician. By 1888 Pearl's oldest brother, George, had moved to Indianapolis Indiana to work at Van Camps cannery. The rest of the family soon followed.
My grandfather Albert Buford Cleage, Sr was born in Louden, Tennessee in 1883. He was the youngest of the five children of Louis and Celia (Rice) Cleage. The family eventually moved to Athens Tennessee. In 1906 he graduated from Knoxville College and moved to Indianapolis to attend Purdue University College of Medicine. Three of his older siblings were already there. He moved in with his brother Jacob and his wife Gertrude. His brother Henry also lived in the house.
Albert and Pearl met at church. They both signed the petition to organize a United Presbyterian Church on April 30, 1907. Pearl sang in the church choir and also at community and church events. By the time I heard her sing she had a frail, old voice. I wish I could have heard her back in her prime. In 1907 Pearl was 21. Albert was 24.
The courtship lasted for three years. Pearl's mother was against the relationship because she thought Albert was "too dark". Of course this caused problems with them meeting and going anywhere together. Many letters were exchanged and they met at church functions. Their houses were about 2.3 miles apart. It was a straight trolley ride down N. Illinois in those days. Today that would be a 23 minute ride by bus. I imagine it took a bit longer by trolley in the early 1900s.
As Albert neared the end of his course of study, his thoughts turned to where he would practice and to their marriage. They set the date for October, 1910. He graduated in June and as an intern was appointed to the City Hospital. On September 2 he received his Physicians License and on September 29, 1910 Albert and Pearl applied for a marriage license. On October 2, 1910 they were married in a quiet ceremony at Pearl's house. The Indianapolis Star column "News of Colored Folk" contained this item,
"In the presence of relatives and immediate friends of the two families Dr. Albert B. Cleage, Intern at the City Dispensary and Miss Pearl D. Reed, 2730 Kenwood Avenue were married at noon Thursday. The Rev. D.F. White of the Witherspoon United Presbyterian Church officiated. Immediately after the ceremony Dr. and Mrs. Cleage left on their wedding tour, during which they will visit the Appalachian Exposition at Knoxville, Tenn., and points farther south." The points farther south would have been his family's home in Athens, Tennessee.
Another piece News of Colored Folk, dated Oct. 2, 1910 said, "The Witherspoon United Presbyterian Church and Sunday school gave a linen shower Friday evening in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Albert Cleage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Kelley 1917 Highland Place. Dr. and Mrs. Cleage have returned recently from their bridal trip to Knoxville, Tenn, and are at home at 913 Fayette street."
The add in the lower corner of the collage above has several pictures of women in traveling suits and big hats. The photograph of my grandmother over it shows her wearing a similar suit and hat, although not quite as flamboyant. Although this photograph was taken later in 1910 at a medical convention, I imagine this is the outfit she wore for her wedding tour. The little blue house is the one they came home to on Fayette street and the photo in the corner shows two women and my grandfather and my very happy looking grandmother at the medical convention later that year.
My grandparents ended up in Detroit where my grandfather practiced medicine and they raised their seven children. They were together 46 years, until my grandfather's death in 1956. There are 9 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren and 20 great great grandchildren. We've spread out over the United States and Canada.
This is a Sepia Saturday offering and an entry in the Fall Marriages Genealogy Carnival.
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A largely one-sided series is dead in terms of a result and injury concerns on both sides means that Australia and West Indies are likely to make at least one change for the fourth ODI in Sydney on Friday. Both Chris Gayle and George Bailey picked up injuries in Canberra and their respective team managements should opt for safety when drafting up their XIs.
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