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Skip to comments.Patton: Red State Governors Should Be Careful What They Wish For
Posted on 03/22/2013 9:01:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Recently, Republican Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Terry Branstad of Iowa appealed to those wanting to flee liberal California. Move your business to our state, they implore. Well welcome you with open arms here. They should be careful what they wish for.
When my wife and I used to vacation in Colorado in the 1970s, I started noticing bumper stickers that read Dont Californicate Colorado. The initial movement that spawned that sentiment was a way for Colorado residents to express their disapproval of how Southern California had exploded with seemingly unlimited development. However, since that time, Californicate has taken on a whole new meaning.
In September 2011, a frustrated but perceptive blogger at the libertarian website Western Hero summed up the feelings of many in Colorado thusly: We used to be a good mix of libertarian liberals and conservatives with a live and let live attitude. Not anymore. Were now getting stupider, and this is being powered by the mass influx of east coast and west coast liberals into the liberal loon town of Denver. You can see evidence of this in online forums. Enlightened progressives sing Obamas praises and remark what an east coast feel Denver has, and they are right. It is now easily the least Colorado part of the state. Reminds me of the old saying: Half the people of Colorado live in Denver, and the rest of us are glad they do!
They may live in Denver, but their ideology has spread like a cancer to every area of the state, mainly because liberals always think they know better how to run everyone elses life, and they are more than happy to do so.
Former Denver Mayor and now Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is no exception. Hickenlooper is now parroting Barack Obama while wringing his hands about gun violence and repeating the line, If it saves just one life, we have to do something!
Unfortunately, Colorado is not alone in its drift to the left. According to a 2012 Gallup Poll, one of the ten most liberal states in the country is now New Hampshire. Thats right. The Live Free or Die! state. So what happened? Massachusetts happened, thats what. Residents of the Bay State, including business owners fleeing from crushing taxes and regulations, moved to New Hampshire. All was fine for a while. New Hampshire was happy to have the business, and they welcomed their new neighbors.
Then, inevitably, election seasons began to roll around, and those self-transplants from Massachusetts began to vote for the same sort of meddling liberal politicians who had enslaved them and their businesses back home. And so, in 2012, New Hampshire helped re-elect Barack Obama and gained the dubious distinction of becoming one of the top ten most liberal states in the country.
Finally, consider California itself. The Golden State, which once gave us Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (the last Republican presidential candidate to carry it), has become the land of Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Jerry Brown. And the invasion of illegal aliens has all but ensured that it will take a miracle for the GOP ever to carry the state again.
In the case of Texas, it is one of the last holdouts for freedom, as evidenced by the 2012 election of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. It is fiscally and socially conservative, with no state income tax and with perhaps as many guns in private hands as in the rest of the nation combined.
Iowa is more of a mixed bag. In fact, the voters are almost schizophrenic in their voting patterns. Branstad was returned to office in 2010 after 12 years of Democratic governors, but the state went for Obama in 2008 and 2012. Like Minnesota to its north, the Hawkeye State elects a conservative like Chuck Grassley to the U.S. Senate one cycle and a liberal like Tom Harkin the next. Yet, when the Iowa Supreme Court arbitrarily legalized same sex marriage a few years ago, the voters mobilized to throw half the court off the bench.
In any case, both Perry and Branstad should be very careful what they wish for. Like New Hampshire, they just might get it.
OFA is targeting Texas big time, and also a part of why amnesty has a huge push.
If Texas no longer is a lock for the GOP, then it's game over.
All the more reasons Texas should adhere to being a Republic, even if they have to print their own money and make abolish the democratic party as well.
They can come from kalifornia but their liberal stance stops at the boarder.
Seriously, if they don't Texas will become infected with the same cancer as Colorado.
liberals are like a cancer. Once they have invaded a healthy area of the country and sucked the life out of it, they move on to another healthy area of the country. The next logical area for them to invade is Texas.
Well, that's really it. It isn't so much about transplanted ideologies as it is the intended effect of public education in all 50 states. Once the Left takes aim at a state, they find it relatively easy to subvert its historical culture and move it Left - the average voter is utterly ignorant of history and civics and can be easily persuaded to support liberal candidates when promised free stuff.
Howard County Maryland TSR,
I been here since 1980s back when it was conservative and now its ruined,
Totally Balkan-ized
Promote Civility
exactly the left have TX and AZ, FL in their sights, and they know if they get them then we will be ran by a radical socialist regime.
Sems TX and Perry know this and are saying to conservatives get the hell out of your liberal northern and CA cess pits and get here and keep us red.
Imagine if two million conservatives from the north moved south and east, then as long as we keep VA, FL, CO, TX, NC, OH then it;s game over for them too.
Course most conservatives won;t do that and will remain paying taxes to their socialist states and say family, work house is the reason.
For the record, my wife did move south, she left family, work, house and I left mine too
For the record, my wife did move south, she left family, work, house and I left mine too
We did, too! Work, house, and family!
Today's Balkans have a more homogeneous society than the US has.
I live in Maryland on the East Coast and that is exactly what I see here and why the Dems here have total control. No common thread against them.
My county was still R even 10 years ago. Massive immigration (massive development housing them here) of many cultures with the liberalization of America has turned into a unopposed progressive Mecca.
Thirty years ago some of us were saying "Gain a restaurant, lose a nation".
Texas basically already is a blue state. Nothing would improve our government more than their radical left wing Senator being removed. He is packing our government with Chaffee/Specter/Crist Republicans and eliminating conservatives. No current senator has damaged our country more than him. I don't agree with the Bushes on much, but he was right when he said Texas would be a blue state in 2016.
All anyone needs to so is look at Brooklyn and Hipsters.
Go to www.Diehipster.com
Unfortunately this man threw in the towel. But skip thr humor and look at what they did to the place and HOW they did it.
That mentality is the core of liberalism and how it usurps entire areas.
No joke. check it out.
Easily cancelled by a stupid congress with the amnesty bill, if not that then an EO will do.
Another good example is the once deep red state of North Carolina is turning a shade of blue. Won't be long and it will be history for the GOP. And Texas is well on its way.
Forget Mexico. Put the border fence around California.
Then you have Alaska that continues to attract conservatives from all over; the Repubs have a lock on politics up here. I really believe the reason is people move to Ak for the outdoor lifestyle (hunting, fishing, rural freedom loving types).
there and the Potamac river.
They;re like locusts who ruin one area and then move on mass to other nice areas only to ruin those new states again.
good for you, shame others don;t do it instead of giving their money to the socialist states and then thinking their votes account for anything.
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Assumption senior Andrea Bates of Holden and her soccer teammates were coming onto the Multi-Sport Stadium field for practice one afternoon last week while her twin brother, Mike Bates, and his football teammates were walking off it.
"We never get a chance to talk then because we're both so busy," Andrea said, "but we'll say hi."
Andrea is a captain of the soccer team, Mike a football captain. Andrea leads the Greyhounds in goals and points, Mike tops his team in tackles.
"I wouldn't say we're competitive with each other," Andrea said. "We're just very different people and we get along so well. We're happy for each other when someone gets an accolade or our teams win a game. We're very supportive of each other."
Mike was no doubt happy to see that Andrea was named the Assumption Female Athlete of the Week after she scored a pair of goals in a 1-0-1 week for the Greyhounds.
At 3-0-2, Assumption is off to a strong start under new coach Kevin Meek. Meek, who took over in July, spent the last four years at Elms, where he guided the Blazers to an NCAA Tournament berth in 2011.
"He's been pretty hard on us, but I think that's what we needed to win," Andrea said. "He got us going finish-wise and team bonding-wise and I think we've become a lot closer as a team because of him and it's helped us win."
The Greyhounds struggled to a 4-10-3 mark last season. Andrea wants to be part of a turnaround this season.
"I know Coach expects a lot from me as a senior and also as a captain this year," Andrea said, "but it's nothing I can't handle."
Andrea, who was a T&G Super Team selection as a senior at Wachusett Regional and led the Mountaineers to two Central Mass. Division 1 finals, has played in every game of her Assumption career. With six goals and four assists, she led the team in scoring last year. The 5-9 forward continues to be the Greyhounds' top offensive threat this year. She ranks eighth in the Northeast-10 Conference in scoring.
"I have more responsibility on offense," she said. "I'm more attack-minded I guess."
Andrea, an organizational communication major, has been named to the Assumption student-athlete honor roll multiple times. She's been instrumental in the women's soccer team's involvement with Team IMPACT, a non-profit chartered to improve the quality of life for children facing life-threatening illnesses.
Mike followed older brother Keith, a former Hounds football player, to Assumption, and Andrea kind of did, too. She was familiar with the school from coming to Keith's games, so when she was recruited to play soccer at AC, it was an easy decision. The fact that Assumption is 10 minutes from the Bates home helped, too.
"I'm a huge homebody," Andrea said.
Having two Assumption teams to cheer for keeps parents Michael and Patricia busy. And everyone happy.
"I love having my parents around," Andrea said. "They're a huge help to both our teams."
HC women's hoops schedule
The Holy Cross women's basketball team opens the season Nov. 8 against Dartmouth at the Hart Center, and the Crusaders have three teams that qualified for last year's NCAA Tournament on their 2013-14 schedule.
Among HC's non-conference home opponents are Bryant (Nov. 23), UMass (Nov. 26), Northeastern (Dec. 4), Fordham (Dec. 7) and Quinnipiac (Dec. 18), which will be the annual Worcester Public Schools "Get Fit with the Crusaders" game, starting at 11:30 a.m.
Holy Cross travels to Boston College Dec. 21 and will play in the Cyclone Classic hosted by Iowa State Dec. 28-29.
The Crusaders open their Patriot League schedule Jan. 2 at home against new PL foe Boston University.
"We play a lot of our non-conference games in the friendly confines of the Hart Center," Holy Cross coach Bill Gibbons said. "The Cyclone Classic will be a tremendous challenge in a great atmosphere, with their attendance perennially in the top five nationally. All of these games should prepare us for a tough, competitive Patriot League, which has many returning all-conference players and also two excellent programs (BU, Loyola) joining the league."
The Crusaders are coming off back-to-back appearances in the Patriot League Tournament title game.
Crusaders' Neville retiring
Bob Neville, who served as director of the Hart Center from 2005-11 and was the Holy Cross director of athletic facilities since 2011, announced his retirement, effective Sept. 30.
Neville was a member of the HC athletic department staff since 1997, and he coached the softball team from 1998-2005. While guiding the 1998 team to regular-season and tournament titles, Neville was named Patriot League Coach of the Year. He also garnered the honor in 2001.
Nic Ryan, who served as assistant director of athletic facilities since 2011, has been promoted to director of athletic facilities and event management.
Jessica Liebner, who last year served as manager of events and promotions, has been promoted to assistant director of athletic facilities and marketing.
Run to benefit WSU service trips
Run (or Walk) for a Scholar, a 5K race that will benefit students traveling to Nicaragua and Costa Rica for international service learning this winter, will kick off Family Weekend at Worcester State.
The race begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Registration opens at 7 a.m. in the lobby of the Ghosh Science and Technology Building.
The registration fee is $20, which includes a t-shirt and prizes for the top finishers, and all proceeds will support a service learning trip for Worcester State nursing students to Managua, Nicaragua, and the Worcester State women's basketball team's trip to Costa Rica to play the National Team of Costa Rica in December and provide community service. The basketball team will conduct two youth clinics and volunteer for the non-profit agency Young Life, which serves middle and high school students.
For more information, visit www.worcester.edu/familyweekend.
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Encouraging injury news for Blackhawks' Toews, Seabrook
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said following Thursday's practice that Jonathan Toews and Brent Seabrook, who were injured during the Hawks' 3-2 defeat to the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night, "both presented well today. They progressed really well overnight so it's encouraging in those regards" and both could play Saturday night when the Hawks take on the Nashville Predators at the United Center.
Toews was leveled by a big check from Vancouver's Willie Mitchell at center ice and didn't return. Seabrook also left during the third with an upper body injury. Toews and Seabrook weren't on the ice during Thursday's practice. Also sitting out were Andrew Ladd, Dave Bolland and Duncan Keith. Quennville said they were "getting a maintenance day."
Here is Steve Rosenbloom's take on the hit.
Marian Hossa skated on the United Center ice before practice and Quenneville said the injured winger "was passing the puck and sliding it and shooting it and handling (it). He's progressing well and hopefully he'll continue to make this kind of progress."
For an off-day glimpse of the Hawks' Patrick Kane, the winger will be featured as one of two guest "patients" in the "Dr. Lou" segment of the College Football Halftime show on ESPN tonight. Kane will ask a question to former Hall of Fame coach and current ESPN analyst Lou Holtz. During the segment, Holtz takes questions from two celebrity/athlete guests per week. It will air between 8:15 and 8:45.


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There was a time when Louis Colaiannia gave up playing the piano. The decision to quit came shortly after a large, drunk and clearly unhappy patron of the arts tried to heave one on top of him.
This was twenty years ago, in the decade of wide lapels and Earth shoes, have-a-nice-days and boogie nights. Barely out of his teens, Colaiannia was in his lounge-lizard phase, tickling the ivories at country clubs, restaurants and Holiday Inns. He'd grind out the standard cocktail fare: "Feelings." "Yesterday." The inevitable "Piano Man." Sometimes he'd sing a little.
"I got really burned out on it," Colaiannia says. "A lot of drunks. A lot of smoke. People wanted to tell me their whole life story, and I really didn't want to hear it."
One night at the Hiwan Country Club in Evergreen, a customer slipped a dollar in the kitty and asked Colaiannia to play "Brian's Song." He complied. "Then he comes back," Colaiannia recalls, "and says, 'That was incredible. That was so beautiful. The best I've ever heard. Can you play it again?' So I play it again. He comes back and requests it again.
"So I play it a third time. He walks up and says, 'That's the worst I ever heard. You suck!' He takes the piano and tries to push it over me. He pins me against the wall and starts throwing punches at me. I was training in martial arts at the time, so I could take care of it until people pulled him off me. But I decided I didn't need this anymore."
Colaiannia has since reconsidered. He has, in fact, drifted out of the music business several times only to return again and again, with the tenacity of a cyborg. He's been a keyboardist in local rock bands, a studio journeyman, a noodler of new-age ambience for a meditation tape. In recent years he's taken on the duties of composer, producer, distributor and promoter, issuing two CDs of his own work, lush stuff that blends pop strains with his classical training. And next month he plans to make history--or, at least, the Guinness Book of World Records--by playing the piano for 24 hours straight at Park Meadows Mall.
Although troubled by repetitive-motion injuries in his wrists so severe that he had to give up his dental practice a few years ago, Colaiannia has already played up to twelve-hour sessions on the piano, with only short breaks to answer the call of nature. To date, no one has cranked out a fully documented, authenticated 24-hour performance, but it's hardly a feat on the scale of, say, climbing Mount Everest. Colaiannia admits that the marathon is basically a gimmick, a way of raising money for children's charities in the former Soviet Union. "If I have to do this stuff to get people interested, I'll do it," he says.
It's the kind of gimmick you might expect from a fast-talking DJ, not a serious artist who's scheduled to perform his first symphony with the Khabarovsk Philharmonic Orchestra in eastern Russia this fall. But then, Colaiannia has never been one to cop an attitude about his music; his entire career has been marked by a resourceful fluidity, an ability to dodge labels and dead ends and reinvent himself in ways that allow him to develop his work on his own terms.
Lots of people know Louis Colaiannia, in one incarnation or another. They know him as an entrepreneur who runs a wellness center, a home health-care service, a dental staffing operation and other businesses out of an office in Arvada and his home in Evergreen. He's been nationally ranked as an intermediate competitor in karate and as a two-time Denver winner on the Amateur Bowlers Tour. Some people know him as their massage therapist. Until his retirement three years ago, quite a few people knew him as their dentist, Dr. Lou.
But after his marathon performance in a shopping mall next month, Colaiannia hopes to be known for something else: his persistence as a composer and musician. Despite drunk attacks and other setbacks, Dr. Lou has come to play. And play. And play.
When Louis Colaiannia was five years old, his parents encouraged him to choose a musical instrument to play. Neither his mother, Rose, nor his father, Louis Sr., who ran a machine shop for a gun-scope manufacturer, was musically inclined. Neither one had graduated from high school. But it was understood that Louis, an only child, would have opportunities that the west Denver couple had never had in their own youth.
Louis knew what he wanted. He had seen a dapper man on television play a white grand piano bedecked with a candelabra. The man was full of flash, the music packed with schmaltz. "I saw Liberace and thought he was pretty cool," Colaiannia recalls.
His parents dutifully bought him a piano from the Onofrio Piano Company. His first teacher, Delome Kerstner, remembers Louis as something of a prodigy. "I would classify him as one of the best I had," says Kerstner. "I could give him music that was considered difficult for someone his age and he could master it."
Colaiannia says that Kerstner--who now lives in Ohio and is eagerly awaiting a Colaiannia concert in Columbus next month--made him appreciate that there was more to playing the piano than just scales.
"She always made it interesting," he says. "I was having trouble with this one Rachmaninoff piece. I just couldn't get it. She said, 'If you play it properly, you'll hear water in the background.' I thought she was this crazy old lady. I played it and played it, and I didn't hear anything. Then I started to hear it. She was right. That's when I realized you could create emotion through music."
Colaiannia took lessons from Kerstner for seven years. When she moved away, he studied with Kathleen Joiner, then the pianist for the Denver Symphony Orchestra. But he soon had a falling out with Joiner over his refusal to give up playing basketball; Joiner didn't want him to risk injuring his hands. He had a shot at a traditional career as a concert pianist, but Colaiannia wasn't prepared to invest the kind of single-minded devotion to classical music that would lead him to a conservatory.
"I thought if I did that, I would end up teaching piano in a basement somewhere to a bunch of kids who didn't want to learn it anyway," Colaiannia says now. "I wanted more out of life. I knew if I was ever going to do music, it would be my music. And if nobody in the world liked it, so what?"
With his parents solidly in his corner, Colaiannia went on to earn a basketball scholarship to the University of Colorado. He never quite abandoned the piano--he played ragtime at the venerable Red Slipper club, accompanied silent movies at the Hungry Farmer, then slipped into the soft hell of the cocktail-lounge circuit--but most of his energy was poured into pre-med classes. Colaiannia had an idea that he might make a pretty fair heart surgeon. After three years he had most of the requirements for medical school completed but was still a few credits short of an undergraduate degree. A counselor suggested that he apply to dental school, just for the practice. Much to Colaiannia's surprise, he was accepted. Curiouser still, he decided to check it out.
"I thought that if I turned them down, I probably wouldn't get into medical school," he says, "so I went ahead and accepted the position."
Dentistry paid the bills, but Colaiannia was soon bored with the routine. He turned to buying and selling practices, then became the director of a dental-insurance company. His musical career had dwindled to occasional stints with fleeting rock bands. Once in a while he got to rub shoulders with celebrity--a studio session with Alice Cooper, performances at private parties for the likes of David Niven and Sid Caesar; even a backstage meeting in his youth with his idol, Liberace, who advised him that family was very important--but as the years wore on, it seemed that Colaiannia was not destined to shake up the music world after all. To most of the people he met, he was Dr. Lou.
Two events several years apart helped turn things around for Colaiannia. In 1988 an acquaintance asked him if he could provide the background music for an instruction tape in meditation that was being prepared by a Boulder company. "Up until then, I'd been trying to write songs that someone would play in a piano bar some day, with lyrics and everything," Colaiannia says. "I'd never done anything that might be considered new age."
The company paid him a hundred dollars for his piano ramblings. The tape was so successful that another version, featuring just the music, was quickly released and sold thousands of copies. Colaiannia never saw another dime from the venture, but his emerging rep as a new-age composer secured him a concert at Chautauqua in Boulder, sponsored by radio station KHIH-FM/95.7. That in turn led to several offers from Narada and other record labels. Unfortunately, the timing was all wrong. Colaiannia was a divorced single parent; his son, Louis III, was only five years old. The labels expected him to perform as many as 300 concerts a year. Colaiannia figured touring was out of the question until his son was older.
He would, he decided, concentrate on composing rather than performing. But he kept his work to himself, right up to the death of his father in 1994. Colaiannia was devastated.
"My father and I were extremely close," he says. "Best friends. Dad was the person who always said I could do whatever I decided to do. He would even come to the concerts when I was in a heavy-metal band. He hated the music, but he would come. When he died, I was the executive director of an insurance company, and it looked like that was all I was going to be."
The loss of Louis Sr. sparked something in Colaiannia. He began building a theme around the notes D-A-D, a piece that developed with a certain classical rigor but oozed new-age romanticism. "That was my personal space to go and grieve," Colaiannia says. "I could think about my dad and it was okay. I never wanted anybody to hear that song."
Yet as is often the way with such things, Colaiannia ended up playing "Tears for Dad" for a few admirers, then a few more. People told him he ought to record it. In 1996 he made it the lead track on a self-issued CD of his solo piano work, Corners of the Soul. (Titles aren't Colaiannia's strong point; he tends to favor thoroughly unhip and teeth-gritting phrases such as "Love's Own Way," "Forest Splendor" and "Dancing Snowflakes.") Now past forty, he figured any shot at commercial success was long gone, but at least he could distribute a few copies to his friends. But then a woman at the Media Play store in Littleton got ahold of a copy and asked him to perform at the store, and then the regional office put in an order, and Barnes & Noble followed suit, and people started playing "Tears for Dad" at their fathers' funerals and raving about it on the Internet. Colaiannia's private grieving space had become his signature song.
The response was particularly gratifying because of a momentous decision Colaiannia was facing concerning his hands. Although he'd kept up his dental practice only sporadically, years of close work in people's mouths had left him with chronic wrist pain from carpal tunnel syndrome. "I wasn't paying enough attention to my posture," Colaiannia says now. "If I would condense an amalgam or scale teeth, I was done for the day. I couldn't even grasp the handpiece."
Surgery might relieve some of the pressure on the median nerve, doctors told him, but it could also affect his dexterity playing the piano, which had never bothered his wrists. Confronted with a choice between early retirement from dentistry or jeopardizing his work as a musician, Colaiannia didn't hesitate. There were plenty of other ways to make a living.
"I'd been trying to get out of dentistry since I was a sophomore in dental school," he says. "Now I'm just trying to make enough money so I can pursue the music and not get my fingers wet anymore."
Now that his son is older and his career is taking off, Colaiannia has performed in dozens of venues for all sorts of people. He's played for sit-down crowds at the old Vogue Theater and the Denver Botanic Gardens, for the strolling hordes at the People's Fair and the Cherry Creeks Arts Festival, for passersby at shopping malls and bookstores in several states. No one has tried to bury him under his piano.
His music may be hard to categorize--CD stores can't seem to decide if it belongs in the classical, jazz, new-age or "contemporary" bins--but it has attracted a following in unlikely places. Colaiannia says that Salt Lake City loves him. Following in the footsteps of Liberace, he's currently in discussion with the entertainment moguls at the Belaggio Hotel in Las Vegas about late-summer dates in that toddling town. An Israeli television news program has contacted him about doing a segment on the piano-playing dentist.
And there are classically trained musicians in Kiev and Khabarovsk--a small, isolated city in far eastern Russia--who are hot for his program. The Russian connection arose out of Colaiannia's involvement with the Denver-based Joy of Music Marathon, which brings together musicians to perform simultaneous concerts in different countries to promote world peace and various music-oriented charities; that led to musicians in Khabarovsk performing Colaiannia's music and an invitation to debut his first symphony there this fall. In a short essay, Russian musicologist Elena Soloviova describes Colaiannia's work as "simple, harmonious and elevated" and "extraordinarily democratic," and suggests that it may be "the music of the third millennium."
Colaiannia says that he's been consciously attempting to develop his music in a more classical direction while keeping it accessible (and, for the most part, short--few of his pieces exceed a commercially viable five minutes). He added orchestration to his second CD, Sailing on a Dream, to bring out its richer harmonies. While his work shuns the dissonance and formalism of modern highbrow music, you can detect traces of his classical schooling in the melodies: echoes of a Chopin polonaise in one piece, of a Ravel toccata in another, the ghost of Rachmaninoff humming in the wings. The shameless emotionalism of it all seems to fall somewhere between the romantic tradition and the syrupy stylings of John Tesh, but Colaiannia resists talking about his "influences" and technique.
"I try to convey emotion," he says. "I don't want people to analyze it. I get a lot of mail, and people just open their hearts. They tell me terrible stories about being molested in childhood, how something in my music reminded them of that and helped them to heal. If they want to call it new age or classical, I don't care, as long as they feel something from it."
Next month Colaiannia plans to bathe the Park Meadows Mall with healing vibes for 24 hours, pausing only for a brief coffee break every hour or two. The marathon will begin on the evening of August 13, move inside the Sam Goody store after the rest of the mall closes and continue until the evening of August 14. Shoppers will have a chance to hear the entire Colaiannia oeuvre over and over, including the world premiere of a solo piano version of his 45-minute symphony Journey of the Soul. They'll also be encouraged to sign a banner the pianist will be taking to Khabarovsk in October and to make donations that will help fund medical care, music scholarships and other causes in the region.
"The situation in eastern Russia is horrible," Colaiannia says. "There are people making eight dollars a month. There's a tuberculosis clinic that really needs a fax machine. I have no desire to set a world record, but I do have a huge desire to help children, and this is a way I can get people interested."
The physical demands of performing in public for a night and a day don't worry Colaiannia. Years of playing malls and bookstores, not to mention the rigors of his early Holiday Inn gigs, have toughened him for the ordeal ahead. He doesn't even consider it an ordeal, having played the same Sam Goody store on a regular basis in recent years. "The first time I did it they told me to stay as long as I wanted," he says. "Twelve hours later they shut the mall down, and I had to leave."
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Endurance, in Dr. Lou's case, comes down to a matter of passion, discipline--and adaptability. Years ago, in a high school basketball game, he stole the ball, broke away and made a right-handed layup from the left side of the basket. Everyone cheered except Louis Sr., who was livid. After the match, he told his son he should have used his left hand.
"That was a morning game," Colaiannia recalls. "We got home and went out to the backyard. He'd bounce me the ball, and I did lefthanded layups all afternoon. The only time I stopped was to eat and to go to the bathroom. We turned the lights on in the evening and went on and on. When I was recruited by CU, one of the things they noticed was that I could shoot left-handed as well as right-handed."
Colaiannia gave up competitive karate a few years ago because it made his hands feel gummy. After he developed the carpal tunnel problem in his wrists, he fretted that he might have to give up bowling, too; instead, he learned how to bowl with his left hand whenever the right was bothering him. Although he surrenders a few pins in the process, he still plans to compete in the amateur nationals in Las Vegas next spring. Sports are his first love, an older claim than even the piano.
These days, though, he does his best work with both hands.


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Artist Location: Danville, California
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey is pressing the Egyptian government to release a Turkish journalist who was detained after police stormed a mosque in Cairo and swept up hundreds of supporters of the country's ousted president who had sought refuge there.
Turkish officials said Monday they hoped that Metin Turan, a correspondent with state-run TRT television and radio, would be released soon. TRT spokesman Servet Sayma says Turan was covering the standoff Saturday at the mosque when he was detained along with the protesters. Sayma said Egypt has held him for two days despite being presented with his press credentials.
The incident comes amid growing tensions between the two countries. Turkey has strongly criticized Egypt's military-backed government since the July 3 military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi.


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Art Collections Online
Trees from a House Roof: Autumn
HITCHENS, Ivon (1893 - 1979)
(We are not able to provide an image for this item at this time. This is either due to copyright restrictions, or because the item is awaiting digitisation. We apologise for any inconvenience.)
Date: 1947
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 43.0 x 109.2 cm
Acquired: 1963; Bequest; Margaret Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 2168
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
In 1946 the artist explained 'in landscape I find a square-shaped painting usually unsatisfactory because the natural flow of the horizontals is checked. Therefore I often use a long shape'. This representational landscape utilises this format to evoke movement along the curving path from the left, across the foreground and into the distance at the right. It was purchased by Margaret Davies in 1950.


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Jets come through with big win over Hurricanes
Winnipeg, MB – Dustin Byfuglien scored the game-winner 1:23 into overtime as the Winnipeg Jets edged the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-3, on Thursday at MTS Centre.
Byfuglien initially trailed a 2-on-1 opportunity with Andrew Ladd and it paid off, as Ladd's shot deflected off Carolina netminder Justin Peters left pad and Byfuglien easily put the disc home for the win.
Blake Wheeler had a goal and two assists for the Jets, who extended their season-best winning streak to five games. Zach Bogosian scored a goal and had one assist, while Paul Postma also lit the lamp in the victory, which kept Winnipeg tied with the New York Rangers for the eighth and final playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Jets also moved within two points of first-place Washington in the Southeast Division after the Capitals lost to Ottawa on Thursday.
"I guess you feel the pressure a little bit, but as professionals, you're just playing another game," said Bogosian. "I think you've got to get the two points and that's what we've done the last little bit here. But as far as how intense the games are and how close they've been, I guess that can roll over to somewhat of a playoff series."
Ladd supplied three assists for Winnipeg and now has four goals and 11 points during the team's winning streak. Ondrej Pavelec posted 24 saves on 27 shots in the victory.
Tuomo Ruutu scored twice, Alexander Semin added another goal and Jordan Staal had two assists for the Hurricanes, who have lost two straight. The team was also eliminated from playoff contention with the loss.
Peters allowed all four Winnipeg goals on 31 shots in the setback.
"Well you know I've been saying it for a while, the way our guys have been playing we haven't got the breaks or the results that we honestly really deserve in our performance in the last, you know, three four weeks," said Carolina head coach Kirk Muller. "And so it���s unfortunate because I'm really proud of the guys the way they've been battling, playing hard, playing well, and you now when it does change they're going to get rewarded and it'll pay off somewhere along the line."
Bogosian's tally came at the 12:13 mark in the first as he poked a loose puck in front of the net through Peters' legs to make it 1-0.
In the second period, Postma scored a power-play goal 8:27 in with a wrister. Wheeler, though, set him up with a great pass through some traffic to make it 2-0 in favor of the Jets.
Ruutu put the visitors on the board shortly after as he skated to the slot put a wrister past Pavelec.
Wheeler made it 3-1 8:40 into the third period. He skated behind two defensemen and Bryan Little hit him with a near-perfect pass before wristing a shot glove-side for the tally.
Ruutu scored on a deflection goal just under four minutes later and Semin tied the contest at 3-3 with 1:12 remaining. With an extra attacker after pulling Peters, Semin waited in front of the net and grabbed Jiri Tlusty's rebound from the point to send the contest to overtime.
Game Notes
The Jets' last five-game home winning streak spanned Dec. 1 - 13, 2011 ... Little played in his 400th career NHL game ... Winnipeg last made the playoffs in 2007 when the team was based in Atlanta ... Carolina was without Jeff Skinner due to a rough hit he took in Tuesday's 3-2 loss to Ottawa ... The 'Canes have dropped five straight road tilts.


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House Dem presses repeal of military force law, links end to combat forces out of Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Congress need to rethink the broad authority for the use of military force in the war on terror, a law written when many U.S. troops now on the battlefield were on playgrounds, a House Democrat who wants the law repealed said Monday.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence committee, plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday to repeal the law, known as the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, by the end of 2014. He linked the timing to when U.S. combat forces will be out of Afghanistan.
"There's a growing bipartisan consensus that the AUMF is outdated and increasingly puts us on a precarious legal footing," Schiff said in an interview. "There's a lot less consensus for what should come after."
Schiff, who may try to add his bill to the sweeping defense policy bill that the House considers this week, said he hopes the administration and Congress spends the next 18 months coming up with an alternative to the law that has given the president extensive power, including the authority to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes.
"A lot of troops that we have on the battlefield now were on playgrounds when the AUMF was written. So it's time," he said.
Days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress enacted the Authorization for the Use of Military Force.
The law gave President George W. Bush the authority to launch the invasion of Afghanistan and target al-Qaida, saying the commander in chief has the authority to attack "nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
Emerging threats beyond the borders of Afghanistan and the president's use of drone strikes have raised questions about the relevance of a law passed nearly 12 years later.
Schiff is not alone in pressing for a reevaluation of the law. Several senators, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn., met privately several weeks ago to discuss revising the law.
In a national security speech last month, President Barack Obama said he wanted to work with Congress on revising the law "to determine how we can continue to fight terrorists without keeping America on a perpetual war-time footing."


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by Rockman » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:16 amUltimate Spider-man continues to improve each week.
I still have my issues with it, but I think it could grow to become a good show.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:06 amUltimate Spider-Man was pretty cool this morning, using the Iron Spider-Man was very enjoyable. Iron Man being on the show was awesome! Living Laser is such a cheesy villain but they actually were able to make him seem like a real threat on the show.
Avengers EMH was pretty damn good today too. Seeing the Kree show up on Earth, I thought for a second Skrull Cap was going to tip his hand when he attacked the Kree so quickly, that really took Iron Man by surprise. Ms Marvel was awesome as was seeing the SWORD crew! The show while good, it just seems that this season hasn't really hit it's stride yet. There are so many things on the table that are coming up that it kinda seems like they are treading water just waiting for the "next big thing" to happen.
by Zechs » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:44 pmWait until the Wolverine episode in Ultimate Spider-Man (episode nine). You'll be crying with laughter. First episode I really enjoyed of the show.
by Greg » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:27 pmLOVED Ms. Marvel on Avengers. Never read much of her in the books to get into her, but this episode made me dig her a lot. Just like last season with Mockingbird. Loved seeing SWORD and Agent Brand.
by KingPagla » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:52 pm
Always loved Carol, which is one of the reasons why I never liked Rogue.
Good ep, but like T was getting at, all this build up this season kinda leaves me unsatisfied each week.
And USM was very bleh.
I just don't like the setup with Spidey and the others involved with Shield. Don't like the teen Power Man and Iron Fist. And I hate all the attempts at humor. The fourth wall breaking, the imaginary stuff, and even the in story jokes are just not funny.
And I wonder if this is the Iron Man we're gonna get in the new Marvel made Avengers show.
by Greg » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:05 pmI enjoyed USM.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:53 pm
Exactly even though I have been enjoying this season, I have not enjoyed nearly as much as I did the first season. Each episode seems like it ends right when the good stuff is about to happen, then instead of the good stuff happening in the next episode it just starts building again. I know, well I hope that, in the end the payoff is going to be so good that I don't even think about this anymore.
by Strict31 » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:31 pmMs. Marvel.
Voiced by Jennifer Hale.
Two of my favorite things with vaginas, merged into one thing with a vagina.
by misac » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:33 pmMs. Marvel was cool, obviously, but I really liked Brand too. I wish she'd kicked Gyrich's ass though.
Even though the Kree were involved, I didn't expect Ronan, and I marked out huge when he came out.
I liked Cap going off the handle like that and ruining any chance to settle stuff peacefully. I hope Marvel does end up becoming a super hero and uses his super hero suit, I hate the Ultimate one.
I liked the glimpse of Kang when the imprisoned the Kree soldiers.
by misac » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:34 pm
That's girl Shepard right?
by Strict31 » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:27 pm
Indeed. I remember being pleasantly surprised to hear Hale voice Coral Danvers when the character was first introduced, but she's just about the perfect V.O. actress for the role.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:31 amReally strong episode of Avengers, loving Jennifer Hale as Ms. Marvel.
by sdsichero » Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:58 am
I'm not loving USM but I don't hate it either. I did laugh at the super deformed and Super Hero Squad dimensions. I also find it humorous how they portray the "adult" superheroes. Fury is ill tempered and Stark is a total jerk. It's how kids in their position might view the adults.
by Strict31 » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:09 am
This is how most adults will view them as well, because Fury is ill-tempered and Stark is a jerk.
by sdsichero » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:28 am
True enough.
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Even if said bully is far more dangerous than me, I wait for an opportunity to strike.
I remember getting into a few fights in high school because I was the quiet one that never stood up for myself. I'd just let anger build up, then I'd go mental on someone and not stop until I was fighting a group of kids instead of just one. After about the third time I went off, people stopped talking to me altogether, and even one of my teachers asked me not to kill him if I ever decided to come in with an automatic weapon. (I never thought of doing anything like that, which upset me quite a bit that I came off as that sort of person)
Even today that still happens. Some guy in Cleveland kept hounding me over stupid crap and I ended up going after him. I drug a couple guys who are a good foot taller than me and 50lb heavier about 50 feet trying to hit that guy in the face. (2am outside of a bar)
Letting people know you won't take their crap VERBALLY is a very important skill. If you know you'll back it up physically, don't be afraid to defend yourself verbally so you don't have to run and hope to avoid being arrested when you fly off the handle.
Sometimes but just a friendly bully. Not a big idea but there's a real bully. Then yes, I'ma kick his ass. I don't let other bullys me around. I know how to fight or even kill someone. Haha.
Never mind now
I never let anyone to bully me. anyone who'll bully will see what they should see XDD
I meant, I fight back. I won't tolerate them, haha.
Errare humanum est
Bullies was just another thing I had to live with, when I was younger. Some of the people, who used to bully me, even resorting in stupid things like taking my pencil or eraser. Daily annoyances like yelling at me or pushing me was also a daily routine of my younger life. I can't believe a human being can be so pathetic, that they can laugh over something like that. Unfortunately for them, I started ignored everything as hard as i could. If they became too cocky, I could easily say my favorite line to them: "Small brains, small pleasures".
Now, if someone tries to bully me, I would happily make them suffer. No matter if it's a boy or a girl!
My fantasies keep me going
Tairuke wrote:
why allow someone to bully u?
is it that u are scared?
or dont know how to defend yourself?
or afraid if u defend yourself you will get in trouble by elders....
i personally will smack someone if they try to bully me around..i always have this attitude..if u are surrounded by people who want to bully you, and they all want to beat you up.. you take down one person who is from that group and you really beat that person good no matter what happening around you
i never experience bulling..but i know some people who did
so be free to discuss...
Ha, it's easy to say that when you've never been bullied.
I've been bullied, but it never was that bad, since they subsided very fast, or they suddenly became nice. Probably since I'm a pretty boring target, and I'm pretty nice I guess
No, not coming back.
I think some victims of bullies are psychologically damaged in time by the experience, like they start believing its their fault when it really is NOT. But thats what happens, you just need to stomp them down from the beginning, show you're not an easy target and that you don't give a shit, laugh it off. Probably the main reason why I never got bullied was because I am highly aggressive to people like that, and I'll just tell you to go fuck yourself straight away if you upset me. Stand up for yourself! Be the better person though and don't go further than you need to. There are SO many idiots out there yet to meet and they just wont be prepared for ya
I'm a skinny pale kid with glasses, people tried to bully me all the time at school. I'd always follow the same pattern when it hapened.
Start out following my mums advice, ignore them, tell a teacher, etc, which always did... nothing. If anything it made it worse half the time. Then I'd follow my dads advice.
My dads advice tended to stop bullying but get me into crap. Mostly because my dads advice was to kick the living crap out of them, even if i was a skinny pale kid with glasses I knew how to fight, and they never really expected it. I was a dab hand with choke holds too.
Bullying stopped with me in secondary school though. The people dumb enough to carry on trying to bully me went to a different school, and I quickly built up a reputation of not feeling pain somehow. I think one of my classmates was pissing about, turned and I caught a full fist in the face, but where i'd been so used to getting whacked I just laughed it off.
One thing I learnt from school was that teachers are useless, and to take things into my own hands. I know people disagree and say "oh you shouldn't" my response to them is "were you ever bullied? no? Then shut the hell up" or something more polite than that.
I know for a fact if i ever have kids I WILL be teaching them some basic self defense, and I probably will go with the "tell your teacher" approach first, who knows they may actually have decent teachers. But i'll also be telling them if the teacher does nothing to smack them in the nose and take them down, then not let them back up. Far as i'm concerned the only way bullies will learn is with a solid beating.
I'm not saying kick them while they're down either though, if they aren't getting back up then back the hell off. I just mean if they started it make sure its finished before you walk away from it. I've had too many whacks to the back of the head because I let them get back up while I was walking away.
Hmm... This seems to have raised a rant. nvm.
Could we stop using the abbreviation CR APP. People may get the wrong idea.
i only got bullied once, that was just after i transfered to another school in fifth grade, the first 2 day i ways like just let it go you don't wanna get a bad name for myself but the third day i snapped and smashed his head into the school board and broke his nose .
the next day he came with his father and gave me one hell of a kick , the next day i also brought my father(and he is strong ) and we beat the crap out of both of them before school(fatherXfather kidXkid ofcourse) after that never had any trouble again .
bullies face the wrath of my water bottle
what's a girl gotta do to watch some yaoi in peace!
well... I could always stand up for myself... even I think with just one of my scary looks, I could scare them away!!! hahahah... but I dont do that often... I usually think that if I hurt them or anything, two wrongs don't make a right...
Bullies wouldn't do much but talk big. Unless they show some actions then it might depend on mood nor days really.
What this? I don't even. . .
I was never bullied. I'm not someone who'll just let people purposely hurt me, so if someone dares to bully me, I won't back down (I'm usually kind but I can be evil in more ways than one). When somebody tries to piss me off, I just ignore their existence first. But when they happen to make me snap, it wouldn't be a good sight. (just for the record, the last thing I'd do is physical violence)
One of the things I always tell my younger siblings and cousins: "Never start a fight, but if somebody bullies or quarrels you, never EVER back down. If you are on the right, then you don't have anything to worry about; don't let people hurt you for their own convenience."
I used to be bullied a lot in middle school....I was very shy and very sensetive that I couldn't stand up to them. It used to bother me so much for years.....It took me a long to fight for myself and learn not to give into them. I ignore what people say about me.
mystic17 wrote:
I was afraid of getting in trouble and most of the ones who bullied me were bigger or always had a group of people to protect them.
This is true. I had a few in junior high, and they hardly ever mess with you when they're alone unless they really think that low of you.
In high school, when there would be a fight, it was ALL ABOUT how many people you had with you. I would hear people saying that their 30 was fighting against their 14. Actual numbers. I always stayed away, but I saw one once or twice and it was as crazy as it sounds.
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Bhullar hopes to cash in at Thailand
Chonburi - Gaganjeet Bhullar, who hit the million-dollar mark in career earnings on the Asian Tour this year, hopes to ignite a late charge for the prestigious Order of Merit crown by winning the Thailand Golf Championship next week.
The talented Indian is currently fourth on the Order of Merit with earnings of $422,925, courtesy two victories but is some $220,000 behind leader Marcus Fraser of Australia. He hopes to narrow the lead at next week's $1 million Thailand Golf Championship, which is the penultimate Asian Tour event of the season.
Bhullar will be joined by countryman Anirban Lahiri, a two-time Asian Tour winner, local Thongchai Jaidee, a three-time Order of Merit champion, Jbe Kruger of South Africa, third on the Merit list, Thailand's Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand, who is second on the rankings, and reigning Asian Tour No.1 Juvic Pagunsan of the Philippines at the immaculate Amata Spring Country Club from Dec 6-9.
Bhullar's fighting spirit will be put the test against defending champion Lee Westwood of England, ranked sixth in the world, former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa, 2011 Masters Tournament winner Charl Schwartzel and reigning Masters champion Bubba Watson of the United States.
"I'm pleased with how my season has turned out. It has definitely given me lots of confidence knowing that I can play my best golf especially against some of the best players in the world," said Bhullar.
"We'll get to play against many of them at the Thailand Golf Championship and I guess it will come down to my fighting spirit again, especially when I put myself into contention."
The young Indian is currently the second youngest player at the age of 24, behind Korea's Noh Seung-yul to be ranked inside the top-40 on the Asian Tour's career earnings with a haul of $1,081,257.
It is no surprise that Thongchai leads the all-time money list with earnings of over $4.5 million, thanks largely to 13 Asian Tour victories.
Lahiri reckons he is in top form and believes he can contend at the Thailand Golf Championship and boost his Order of Merit rankings where he currently sits in 10th place.
"I'm playing some of my best golf at the moment and I'm feeling really confident with my game. I'm happy with it. I'm in a good position on the Order of Merit and it'll be interesting to see how it goes from here," said Lahiri, a two-time Asian Tour winner.
"Right now, I'm just happy that I'm in a good position and I want to consolidate that position. Hopefully I can keep playing solid. Thailand is always a beautiful country to visit and to go back and play at the Thailand Golf Championship is nice."


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ismail needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 286 designs submitted by 65 freelance designers.
Zye Labs
Zye Labs is a new Web & mobile Development company. Our core Values are
- Open
- Fun
- Value
- Innovation
- Young
Zye Labs is 1 Part Web & Mobile Development house & 1 Part Innovation Incubator.
Web & mobile Development
We focus on web & mobile development, and web applications for customers. In particular we focus on Web Architecture for enterprises and companies. Examples would include: Internal Mashups, API's (Connecting External Data with internal company data), Social Software etc.
Innovation Lab
We also incubate new innovate product ideas for web & mobile apps, we incubate and develop these ideas. Some examples are mashups, Markets & communities
Remember the most important word is: Innovation!
We are Young, the identity and logo should reflect this. We do things differently and it should reflect this as well.
The vision is for zyelabs to enable markets and communities via our products. In addition we do web development & mobile development for customers. We focus on implementing web technologies for companies to be used internally. Examples are Mashups, API's Social Networks, Streaming
Consumers - For ideas being incubated
The logo should translate well to both PRINT AND WEB!! (Very important!) and also should work well in Black & White
We need the logo to communicate the following:
Innovation, Youth, Fun
You will get extra points for pointing out how the logo communicates this.
The logo should also scale well to small buttons for the web, for example the buttons you see at the bottom of pages (Powered by ... Zye Labs / Developed by zye Labs) .
Feel Free to Choose what ever colours you wish, however extra points for mentioning what they mean. Also feel free to play with the Capitalization, Spacing etc of the items.
Also note: I will be getting other people to review the branding as well, therefore LAST MINUTE entries may work against you. The prize is guaranteed, therefore i will provide daily feedback and if your logo is good you will win it!
The Logo Should be provided in
- High Res CMYK PSD
- High Res CMYK AI
- High Res PDF
- High Res PNG Transparent Background
- High Res PNG Black Background
- High Res PNG White Background
- PNG Black & White Logo
- Some elements of the logo should be able to be used for an ICON (For example a fav icon for a website)
- Please do not use STOCK photography
- 3D Is a NO NO (They do not translate well to print)
- Lighting Effects are a NO NO if they do not translate to print very well
- Please do not use other DESIGNS.. that you have submited elsewhere or copied from other sites...
More assistance with Design Direction:
What is the overall message you want to convey?
1. Innovation 2. Openess, 3. Fun, 4. Value 5. Youth
How do you want your company/organization to be perceived?
Innovative, and different
How do you want your Brand's image to reflect in people's minds?
Innovative, Young, Trustworthy
Do you want to be perceived as a generalist or specialist?
Some descriptive words?
Community Driven, Facilitators, Innovators, Developers, Consultancy
Design Style?
Vector / Illustration / Organic Vector Shape / Simple Clean Vector Shape / Unique Letters only
2-3 Colours (3 Maximum)
Bright or Pastels
No Gradients
Some Adjectives describing your company?
Bold, Friendly, Social
What type of personality will the Brand have. ?
A Business but friendly , fun, young & approachable
Identity Definition: Two opposing words will be listed below, and a score will be given on a scale of 1-10. A 1 will indicate the identity/logo should lean more towards the first word... a score closer to 10 will indicate more towards the second word. This will also indicate scale.
Conservative vs Charismatic: 8 (Charismatic)
Independent vs Associate: 2 (Indepenent)
Small Niche agency vs Large Consultancy: 5 (In between small niche & large consultancy)
Low Cost vs Premium: 8 (premium)
High Quality vs Value for money: 1 (High quality)
Fun vs Serious: 3 (fun)
Facilitators vs Mediators: 2 (facilitators)
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Officer fitness: Adopt one high standardEDITORIAL
December 05. 2012 12:08AM
Part-time Barnstead Police Officer Dave Scott is suing the state over what he says are discriminatory physical fitness standards for police officers. He has a point. Unfortunately, his lawsuit could make the standards fairer while endangering the public.
As the Concord Monitor reported, Scott, 54, ran 1.5 miles in 14 minutes and 44 seconds, a mere 11 seconds short of the required time for a man in his 50s. That failure was entirely his own fault, Scott confided to the Monitor.
"I'm ashamed to admit it. But I think it was like 10 chances. My fault. Shame on me. I didn't maintain the regimen. (But) every time I took that test, if I were using the female standards, I would have passed."
Indeed, women in their 50s can pass by completing the run in 17 minutes, 59 seconds. On every test (running, push-ups, sit-ups, bench press), women can pass with lower scores than men. And the standards drop as a would-be officer's age rises. An 18-29-year-old male has to do 33 push-ups (a paltry number), 40 sit-ups and bench press 106 percent of his body weight. A woman of the same age has to do 18 push-ups, 30 sit-ups and bench press 65 percent of her body weight. A man in his 40s has to do only 21 push-ups, 31 sit-ups and bench press 85 percent of his body weight.
These are standards designed to put diversity above public safety. That should never happen.
The whole point of having phyiscal fitness standards for police officers (and firefighters) is to ensure that they can meet the strenuous physical demands of the job. Lowering those standards based on sex and age is a disservice to the public - and to the officers.
If Scott's suit results in a single standard for all officers, what are the odds that the standard will be high? The current ones are hardly tough to begin with. Most likely, the state would come up with a single, lower standard. That would be worse. But public officials often do unwise things in the name of diversity.


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Here we need only note that positive and negative emotions act as behavioral reinforcements. The pain caused by biting your tongue teaches you to chew carefully and avoid tissue damage. Bad tastes and bad smells reinforce the aversion to ingesting unhealthy foods. The pleasure caused by engaging in sex encourages procreation. The enjoyment of playing with our children, encourages parental investment and nurturing. Positive emotions encourage us to seek out states that increase our adaptive fitness. Negative emotions encourage us to avoid maladaptive states.
Recall that an expected stimulus is more accurately perceived when it is predictable. Accurate predictions help an organism to prepare to sidestep dangers and take advantage of opportunities. Since accurate predictions are of real benefit to an organism, it would be reasonable for psychological rewards and punishments to arise in response solely to the accuracy of the expectation. Following a snow storm, for example, I might predict that I will slip and fall on the sidewalk. In the event that I actually fall, the outcome will feel unpleasant, but the experience will be mixed with a certain satisfaction at having correctly anticipated the outcome. This fourth type of expection-related emotion might be dubbed the prediction response .
Psychological evidence in support of a prediction response is found in the work of Mandler (1975). The response is considered so important in the extant literature on expectation, that it is commonly referred to as the primary affect related to emotion (Olson, Roese Zanna, 1996). [5] Confirmation of expected outcomes generally induces a positive emotional response even if the expected outcome is bad. It is as though brains know not to shoot the messenger: accurate expectations are to be valued (and rewarded) even when the news is not good. That is, a person might experience a positive prediction response and a negative outcome response at the same time.
In summary, we have distinguished four different types of expectation-related emotions. Each type serves a different biological function. The purpose of imaginative responses is to motivate an organism to behave in ways that may maximize future benefits. The purpose of the tension response is to tailor arousal and attention to match the level of uncertainty and importance of the outcome. The purpose of the outcome response is the often-noted goal of all emotions: to provide positive and negative reinforcements related to the biological value of different states. The purpose of the prediction response is to provide positive or negative reinforcements related to forming accurate expectations. All of these goals are biologically valuable.
Informally, we might characterize the "feeling" components to these responses by posing four questions:
As noted earlier, predicting a future event actually entails two predictions: the what and the when . The predictability of the what and when can be entirely independent. In musical rhythms, for example, listeners can form a strong expectation that some sound will happen at a particular moment, even though they have little inkling of what sound will occur. In other circumstances, the listener will have a good idea of what to expect, but will be left wondering when the sound will happen.
Demographic information, psychological questionnaires, baseline expectation for pain, and thermal pain sensitivity measures were collected prior to random assignment of the studied intervention.
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) was performed using the Medoc Neurosensory Analyzer (TSA- 2001, Ramat Yishai, Israel) with hand- held peltier- element- based stimulator. Participants first underwent a practice session in order to familiarize themselves with the pain testing protocol. Participants then underwent the full QST following a previously established protocol to measure c- fiber mediated pain [
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Immediately following the practice session, participants were asked to quantify the amount of pain they expected to feel during the QST in both their back and lower extremity using separate numeric rating scales (NRS). These ratings served as the baseline expectation for pain. Following initial QST, participants were randomly assigned to receive a positive, a negative, or a neutral expectation instructional set.
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