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In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, Nick Miller, left, and his sister Kendall Miller, center, from San Francisco, wear leotards in the colors of the United States national flag as they walk with a friend through Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, Nick Miller, left, and his sister Kendall Miller, center, from San Francisco, wear leotards in the colors of the United States national flag as they walk with a friend through Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Sunday, July 29, 2012 photo, a couple wearing a British flag walk near to the river as other visitors arrive at the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 photo, British fans wearing leotards in the colors of the flag pose for other spectators to take pictures of them in front of the Orbit Tower in Olympic Park at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
In this Monday, July 30, 2012 photo, a fan wearing leggings marked with the stripes of Great Britain's flag rests on the grass at the rowing venue in Eton Dorney, near Windsor, England, at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this Friday, Aug. 3, 2012 photo, a fan replete with representations of Great Britain's flag watches the competition at the rowing venue in Eton Dorney, near Windsor, England, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Patriotism and the games have always gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn, seen all over London and especially at Olympic Park and other spots where the games are being played. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
LONDON (AP) ? There was no mystery as to which team Varun Pemmaraju was supporting: His American flag was tied around his neck, the Stars and Stripes floating like a cape behind him.
"I was going for the Superman, Captain America-look," said the beaming 19-year-old computer science and chemical engineering student from San Jose, California, as he stood a stone's throw from Olympic Stadium. "I thought America was a little under-represented."
Patriotism and the Olympic games have long gone together, but gone are the days when one just waved a flag. Now flags are worn.
The fashion flags can be found at Olympic Park and around London as shift dresses and smocks, pants and shorts, hats and shoes, even dangly earrings and bracelets. There's apparently no garment ? nor nail polish ? that can't be fashioned into something akin to a national banner.
Although the sponsorship police at the International Olympic Committee can stop merchants from using the five Olympic rings, there's no trademark police on flags.
Besides, capitalizing on a good fashion idea is not new. In recent years, "fast fashion" has transformed the retail industry, as mainstream companies seize the hottest ideas from the catwalk, copy them as quickly as possible and move them onto the shop floors. Some manufacturers have gotten so fast they can produce wearable creations from factory to store in the same season in which they were created by top designers at Chanel, Ralph Lauren or Dior.
None of these flag fashions are going to give Burberry a run for their money ? they are not made to last.
Jayne Ody got her raincoat, which was covered in Union Jacks, from Primark, a British store that specializes in cheap, cheerful fashion. And it was a bargain, at 8 pounds ($13).
Her friend Ann Wanklyn was wearing two Welsh flags ? emblazoned with a dragon ? that had been sewn together into a simple shift dress. But Wanklyn is not about to claim she's a fashion princess ? Olympic Park is a sporty crowd.
"You won't see anyone here walking around in heels, I can tell you that," Wanklyn said.
Turns out those flags can be handy in this unpredictable British weather. Someone seems to have a concession of selling a plastic variety that doubles as a raincoat. The British flag, as one might expect, seems to be very popular, but so is the tricolor of France and the triangle-cornered ones of the Czech Republic.
And then there are the Dutch. Who needs a flag when your nation is basically a color ? blinding orange? There are orange jackets, overalls, shoes but you almost never see the Dutch flag itself.
The orange also comes in the form of tiny hats ? a bargain at 1 pound ($1.56) each ? as worn by three Wagenaar sisters. Sabine Wagenaar, 24, simply laughed when asked about her fashion choice.
"It's a nice little hat," she said giggling. "It's girlie."
Then there are those just trying to buck their athletes up. Hugh Barton, 11, from Brisbane, Australia, was sad that the Aussie swimmers weren't at their best this year. He wore a flag around his neck and held one in his hand for maximum patriotism.
"Australia needs moral support," he said.
Before the games, American athletes were briefed on how to hold the flag should they be lucky enough to win. The U.S. Olympic Committee pointed out a picture of swimmer Missy Franklin displaying the flag properly after winning gold ? right hand on stars, left hand on stripes.
Americans have rules outlining the proper way to show respect to the flag and athletes, as ambassadors and representatives of their country, are expected to respect that and do it right. Under federal law, the flag is not dipped to any person or thing, for example.
"The (USOC) take the ambassador program very seriously," said Bill Mallon, a historian. "They try to avoid the ugly American image by doing proper things at the games and teaching (athletes) the right things to do."
But fans at Olympic Park were wearing the Stars and Stripes were doing so in joy and exuberance ? honoring the flag in their own little way.
"It's a way of celebrating all the things that your country is about," said Pemmaraju, the University of California student said. "I know America is not a perfect country ... but it's got me where I am. I'm proud to be an American."
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By Lois Knapton
Director, Special Education
Derby Public Schools
After months living in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa, I am headed home to Derby.
? As the? 747-400, double-decker airplane attempts lift off, I am filled with mixed emotions.?
?I remember how excited I was to be going to serve in Africa, but this time, the excitement is not the same.
Although? I am looking forward to seeing all my friends, family, and colleagues, back in the U.S., at the same time, I know it will be an emotional struggle to re-integrate into a society that is so opposite to what I have been living in for the last three months.
? I am already missing the many intimate friendships I made with the Kenyans.?
?Although I lived in a "normal' house at night with all the amenities, including "house help," during the day I worked deep in the slums of the Mathare Valley... and words and pictures simply cannot describe it.
They lead such a simple, yet so difficult life, solely based on survival and lead by their deep faith.?? In this survival mode, there is no room for "American" thinking... Americans are loud. Many are materialistic, egocentric, self-centered, fast-paced and on their own "mission" to make "me" feel as comfortable as "I" need.??
This outlook on life is completely the opposite of how I have been living for the last 2.5 months. My anxiety toward re-integration is real.?
As I did my first load of laundry on U.S. soil, my mind kept flashing back to the many women, hand washing their clothes and bathing their? children in a small bin filled with? water they had lugged on their head for miles.?
?Driving home from the airport, we passed a 32-foot, fifth-wheel trailer being pulled by a Ford 350;? a house on wheels used for vacationing, probably for two people. That house could fit 12 families in Kenya.?
It is amazing what we can do without. We are all human beings...how can our experience of life be so opposite yet so much the same? |
| Knapton training teachers in Kenya |
As an educational leader, I knew my leadership skills would be put to the test..and I passed with flying colors.??
This was a big challenge and I learned so much from these people. I was successful in developing procedures and forms describing referral and assessment for students with special needs. Then I held 23 teacher, parent, and student trainings to inform all stakeholders of the new system.? The remainder of my time was dedicated to job embedded professional? development of their first special needs educator.?
In Kenya, some teachers actually have been studying special needs in college but the K-12 school systems do not yet know how to use these teachers.
I was truly implementing a cutting edge system...and it is evolving. The new resource room was being painted as my plane lifted off.
I learned that leadership matters.? At any level, the leader? truly is the key to success.? A good leader is rarely seen. A servant leader stays in the pack with all their colleagues, as the pack moves toward their vision and aspirations.??
At times, the leader needs to put forth a new idea, get stakeholder buy in and move the system forward. That is what I was able to do in a third world country; and I was successful.?
Another lesson I learned was sustainability is key. A good leader puts columns in place to sustain the implemented changes.??I learned that no matter what I did do, I am not indispensable.? Any job I have, I know I can be replaced. When a leader thinks they are indispensable, that is when they will start to crumble.? Leaders should never believe they are indispensable.? We are all replaceable.? However, some leaders are more successful than others; I will always give 110 percent at my job.
? Clearly, excellent leaders have earned their status by producing successful outcomes.
I thank all of you for your continued support while I was away. And I thank you for continuing to read my weekly column. If you pass me on the street, stop and say hello. I would be happy to share my experiences in more detail.
? Now to start a new adventure, another school year in Derby. I am sure it will not be without its challenges, but I am also sure of another thing, I am a different person.
?I am confident in my leadership abilities, I have softened my views on what I "need" versus what I "want"; my outlook on life has changed dramatically.
?????????????Here I come Derby.
Labels: Africa, Derby, Kenya, Lois Knapton, special education, special needs
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American swimming great Michael Phelps Monday defended Chinese prodigy Ye Shiwen and said it was "sad" that her Olympic performances had been greeted with scepticism.
Phelps, who retired in London with a record haul of 22 medals, including 18 gold, said 16-year-old Ye had simply worked hard to achieve her two Olympic titles, one set in world-record time.
"It's kind of sad that people have a great swim and that's the first thing they say," Phelps said in an interview with CNN.
"People who work hard -- it shows. There are people who just jump to that conclusion sometimes, and it's not right."
Ye's 400m individual medley world record, whose final lap was quicker than US winner Ryan Lochte in the men's final, was described as "impossible" by American coach John Leonard, and also questioned by British media.
Ye flatly denied doping, and her team-mate Sun Yang was also angered by the speculation.
"It is all down to training and hard work that we have results," he said. "Chinese are not weaker than those in other countries."
Phelps added that he had been pleased to see Ye swim. "Being able to watch her was pretty amazing," he said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/phelps-calls-ye-speculation-sad-200319456.html
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Indian Sikhs, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voiced shock and anger Monday at the killing of worshippers at a Sikh shrine in the US, with some suggesting Muslims may have been the intended target.
"I am deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the shooting incident that has resulted in the loss of precious lives," said Singh, himself a Sikh.
"That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful," Singh told reporters in New Delhi.
In Sunday's attack, a gunman shot worshippers at a suburban Sikh temple in Wisconsin, in the mid-western United States, killing at least six people before he was shot dead by police.
"I hope the American authorities would investigate who is behind this dastardly attack on innocent devotees and that they will ensure that such ghastly events do not take place," Singh said.
By religious tradition, Sikh Indians wear turbans to cover their uncut hair and sport long beards.
In the United States, they have often been confused with Muslims and targeted by anti-Islam activists, particularly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Leading Sikh politicians in India said the temple shooting in Wisconsin may have followed a similar pattern.
"I think it is a case of mistaken identity. Sikhs are often mistaken to be from the Middle East," Manpreet Singh Badal, founder-president of the People's Party of Punjab, told AFP.
"This is an opportunity, although a very sad one, to raise awareness among Americans about the Sikh culture and identity," he said.
At Sikhdom's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, the atmosphere was tense and sombre as shocked devotees went to offer their prayers, amid the daily influx of tourists.
"This attack on Sikhs in the US is shameful. People come to the gurudwara (temple) to find peace. It is a holy place," said Kulwinder Singh, 50.
"Sitting in India we are helpless," said Nita Singh, 45. "The US government must take steps to see such incidents never occur in the future."
Separately, Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said he "condemned this incident and every right-thinking person has to condemn this".
He told reporters in New Delhi that India would "like to assure the Sikh community the government of India would do everything within its powers to ensure their (US) places of worship are going to be protected".
Asked whether the shooting was a result of a "gun culture in the United States," Krishna replied New Delhi was "certainly not going to interfere in the internal affairs of United States".
At the same time, he added, Americans "will have to certainly take a comprehensive look at the this kind of (gun culture) tendency, which certainly is not going to bring credit to the United States".
In Indian Kashmir, which has a large Sikh community, protesters blocked a national highway and brandished banners calling for stronger US gun laws.
In Delhi, several dozen Sikhs demonstrated outside the US embassy and chanted slogans denouncing "hate crimes".
"Sikhs contribute a lot to America, they are an important part of America," said Manjit Singh, president of a Delhi-based Sikh party.
"This is a racially motivated case and the (US) government needs to educate people about different communities so it doesn't happen again."
US ambassador Nancy Powell visited New Delhi's largest Sikh temple to show solidarity with the grieving community over what she described as "this ghastly act of violence".
"We hope that families find comfort in the fact that so many around the world share their grief," she told reporters.
In Amritsar, Giani Gurbachan Singh, head priest at the Akal Takht, Sikhdom's highest seat of religious and temporal authority, urged all Sikhs in the United States to "remain vigilant".
"This is a security lapse on the part of US government wherein Sikhs have become the victims of violence," Singh said, adding that a "chain of prayers" would be held in Sikh temples across India, including the Golden Temple.
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By Ariel Nishli, Aug 05, 2012 in Filmmaker Q&A's, Pop Culture
There?s a fine line between curiosity and paranoia. Curiosity, after all, did kill that cat. How deep should one continue to dig once powerful opposing forces begin to surface? Ask John Beck Hofmann, director of photography for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he?ll most likely point out the lesser-known rejoinder to the old maxim about our feline friend, that ?satisfaction brought him back.?
Curiosity has been a significant part of Mr. Hofmann?s life over the last few years, that is to say the Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on the red planet?s surface at 10:31 PM PST on Sunday, August 5th. Curiosity will be doing its own digging, literally, for any proof that life may have existed outside of Earth. Hofmann?s latest film project, a video dubbed 7 Minutes of Terror detailing Curiosity?s mind-boggling landing, has sparked a frenzy of interest in our scaled back government space program?s watershed mission.
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As for paranoia, it serves as rocket fuel for Mr. Hofmann?s socioeconomic and political concerns as well as his artistic endeavors, all of which blend together in his gripping conspiracy thriller series Tyranny. KoldCast TV airs the Show that attempts to answer difficult questions about where Internet companies? perpetual mining of personal data will leave us, how large brand conscious corporations exploit individuals for the sake of profits, and why an economic collapse could trigger a new world order. The one asking these questions is Daniel, an artist who undergoes an experimental brain scan. He wakes up to find himself privy to some disturbing information about a dystopian future bleak enough to make big brother resemble a loyal friend.
Daniel and his creator have a lot in common. Aside from being an adept filmmaker, Mr. Hofmann possesses another curious talent ? he?s able to predict the future. Tyranny was written over a decade ago, yet its first season chillingly plays like a newsreel from 2008 to the present. A centerpiece of the show?s upcoming second season is Daniel?s foray into the bowels of a secret society comprised of a select group of rich, powerful men intent on controlling the lives of many through technology and economic prowess.
Click to play Episode 1 of Tyranny, ?The Beginning of the End?
Hofmann?s life has a funny, if not ominous way of imitating his art. His 7 Minutes of Terror video, now viral, was recently watched during a private gathering of The Bohemian Club, a secret society notorious for bringing together university presidents, future American presidents, military commanders, and media moguls on weekend retreats to discuss matters of national interest. Among those at the viewing was Henry Kissinger, according to a source close to Hofmann who was present at the event.
Tickled, but by no means surprised at yet another example of reality unfolding one step behind his work, John Beck Hofmann sat down with The Sixth Wall to talk about the future, or at least what?s left of it.
Ariel Nishli, Editor-in-Chief of T6W, on the Set of Tyranny with John Beck Hofmann
THE SIXTH WALL (T6W): So John, are you as paranoid in real life as Daniel is in Tyranny?
JOHN BECK HOFMANN (JBH): I used to be. I used to be overly untrusting of every official statement, whether it was from the government or a corporation. This started when I was working for an ad agency, named of all things, ?No Comment.? That was in 1994. I kind of sucked at it because I was a bad liar so they fired me. I told all our clients the truth.
T6W: The truth about why their products weren?t that great?
JBH: Like how much things cost to make. I got so mad for being fired that I essentially said, ?I hate advertising!? I picked up an Adbusters magazine, which fueled my angst towards corporations.
T6W: Was the reason you were let go ever communicated to you?
JBH: The president of the company, this French guy, didn?t know what to say. He goes, ?John it?s like this. It?s like peeing. I show you how to pee and you pee. It?s that simple.? That was my firing speech.
T6W: When did you start getting interested in government conspiracies?
JBH: I researched US history around then. The Kennedy assassination, the real reason for the Iraq war (the first one), what we had done in Iran back in 1953 when the CIA ousted the Shah.
T6W: Was this purely an intellectual pursuit or was there anger behind it that made you feel personally wronged?
JBH: Actually, my girlfriend at the time was working in public relations. We broke up in 1997. I didn?t have any money at the time and that alone made me feel tired of people in big business with a lot of money. I wanted to be the underground rebel character. I did not intend to play a role in Tyranny when I started writing it.
John Beck Hofmann as Daniel McCarthy in Tyranny
T6W: It seems like you were on a crash course to fight the power structure, and yet you were working at NASA this whole time?
JBH: I?ve been at NASA for 21 years. I only took the job at the ad agency when we lost our spacecraft, the Mars Observer, the day before it was to arrive on Mars in 1993.
T6W: And NASA is trying again with the Curiosity rover, set to land on Mars on August 5th. Are they publicizing this mission more than they traditionally have with past missions?
JBH: This is the biggest media campaign we?ve ever had. We have a video game in Xbox where you can land the rover yourself using your body to move it into position. There are all kinds of campaigns they?ve come up with.
T6W: Such as 7 Minutes of Terror,
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T6W: Are they planning on bringing anything back?
JBH: No. We had a sample collection mission that got cancelled. Next will be a manned Mars mission, by somebody else probably. Little do they know they won?t be coming home.
T6W: And why?s that?
JBH: It?s totally impossible with today?s technology. I know there are a lot people that say it can be done. But do you know how hard it is to blast off from Earth in a spaceship? Even though Mars has a third of the gravity that Earth does, it has such little atmosphere. It?s kind of like how a helicopter performs at high altitude.? You just can?t get any further unless you have rockets.
T6W: Is it an issue with the atmosphere on Mars, the problem described in 7 Minutes of Terror?
JBH: I?m actually not exactly sure since I?m not a rocket scientist. I have heard it said it would be easy if Mars had no atmosphere or if it had more atmosphere, but it has just enough to make it really, really difficult.
T6W: Between the high technology and futurism you?re a part of at NASA, has your work on the missions to Mars bled into Tyranny at all?
JBH: One of the cool little trivia tidbits about NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where I work in relation to Tyranny is that two of the scientists are in the show. There are two doctors. One that first examines all the wires attached to my head, Steve Collins, works on the rover mission. He has worked on all the rover missions. You will see him in mission control. All that lab gear in Tyranny ? he made that. He?s the one that said ?Waveforms, that?s all thoughts are my friend.?
T6W: What is all that equipment designed for?
JBH: Well in the fictional world it?s supposed to be building patterns based on everything I do, think about, and look at? kind of like Facebook. We don?t even have to wear these things anymore. Facebook and Google are taking care of that because people so badly want to tell the world all the things they like.
Daniel Undergoes the Experiment in Tyranny
T6W: And the next moment you?ll see an advertisement based on that ?like.?
JBH: This is my paranoia. It is very difficult to live in this world and not be part of the technological breakthrough, but this stuff is really learning us? knowing us better than we know ourselves.
T6W: It?s getting more accurate at predicting our behavior.
JBH: Eventually it will predict our behavior. This is what Tyranny is about at its core. The first season is really just about where it begins, but seasons two and three will show where it?s going and the technology that comes as a result. I was writing this back in 1999! There was no iPhone, no iPod, no YouTube, no Facebook. I came up with this device called the ?IV? that people would wear on their arm. It was always hooked into them and it learned everything about them. It had their phone, their camera, their computer, it monitored their house and everything was in the palm of their hands.
T6W: Do you think people are giving away their personal information too readily to companies requesting email addresses, access to Facebook accounts and the like?
JBH: I think that there is a healthy paranoia that we should all be exercising and we don?t. It is going to be too late.
T6W: Too late in what sense?
JBH: We are a very trusting people for some reason, which is amazing given the amount of bad things we?ve done, are capable of doing, and have seen other people do. Being American, we think we?re immune. What if the Nazis ran Facebook? What if a cult ran Facebook? We would all think, ?Oh my god I cannot give them my data.? But for some reason we trust these unknown people with our information. Try calling Facebook. Try even finding the number, which will take you a long time in itself. When you do find the number, you will never get a person on the phone and never be able to leave a message.
Daniel in the French Quarter
T6W: How ironic for a company that is recording human history and connecting people.
JBH: It?s kind of Kafka-esque or what you would expect in a Woody Allen story. This is the most powerful network and it has control over everyone?s lives. You can?t live without it. These are your friends. This is your Rolodex. This is how you communicate!
T6W: Facebook is also becoming our personal branding tool. If I go to John Beck Hofmann?s Facebook page, I?ll get a feel for what you are all about, or at least what you want me to think you?re all about.
JBH: I don?t think we?re friends? It?s weird. People are looking at themselves in kind of a corporate way ? I wouldn?t be surprised if sometime in the future people become trademarked and incorporated as an entity. I am John Beck Hofmann, incorporated. This is my face, this is my identity, and if you use my name or my face you are using the corporate logo. I don?t know why movie stars don?t do that.
T6W: Kim Kardashian gets paid $10,000 per tweet.
JBH: Well that?s shocking for a host of reasons. All the things that are in Tyranny are still ahead of what is currently happening in the world. It?s just not as shocking as it once was though. One of the things that the future world of Tyranny holds is a big economic collapse. No news there.
T6W: How does Daniel interact with this dismal future?
JBH: In the story, Daniel and his underground group have devices that spoof the world?s grid sensors. The grid reads and records everything. They go out and take grid readings, making sure they know the exact patterns so they can have some kind of freedom to walk in public. Their IDs are replaced so as soon as they walk pass a camera it will distort their picture. Things like that which give them a little freedom temporarily. There is always a glitch in the system somewhere.
T6W: They play the angles to exploit the grid?
JBH: They do, but towards the end of the story there are new security measures that they were unaware of and can?t get around. They start to think, ?If we are ever going to make our move, now is the time.? It starts to feel like this is almost the perfect storm and maybe they are being set up to move. Maybe they were being watched all this time and just didn?t know.
T6W: And who?s doing the watching?
JBH: There is this ?Committee of 600,? and not much is known about them but Daniel is starting to figure out whom its members are. The committee has secret meetings in their underground headquarters in Prague, where they start to think they have to do something about Daniel. That is the tension that will climax at the series? end, and that climax is actually what Daniel?s trying to remember in episode one, where we see him talking to that strange doctor in the lab coat, struggling to remember what happened.
Daniel on a Bridge in Prague
T6W: Were you inspired by any Orwellian, big brother conspiracy movies?
JBH: Yes! Actually in episode two, Daniel is reading 1984 on the subway. You can barely see it. The book and movie Twelve Monkeys are both huge influences.
T6W: You said you used to be paranoid. Have you exercised your demons through Tyranny or are you not letting your guard down just yet?
JBH: I?m less paranoid, but very prudent in who I am going to believe in. I don?t trust anybody in the professional world, or anybody that has any kind of power. Let?s just say I am highly suspicious.
Filmmaker John Beck Hofmann on the Set of Tyranny
Ariel Nishli is the Editor-in-Chief of The Sixth Wall. He?s got a big apple in his heart but moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. After graduating from Vanderbilt University in 2007, he worked in the motion picture literary department at ICM, then moved on to feature film development at Parkes MacDonald Productions. Ariel?s wardrobe has steadily devolved from designer suits to worn out slippers, as he now focuses on screenwriting and journalism when he?s not obsessing over this magazine.
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With a funeral ceremony called antam sanskar. Antam means ?final? in Punjabi, the language of Sikh religious texts, while sanskar is a term referring to any rite or ritual. Before the ceremony, the body is washed with water and adorned with the five articles of faith that initiated Sikhs are supposed to carry or wear at all times in life: kesh (uncut hair, which is covered by a turban), kanga (a wooden comb), kachhera (an undergarment resembling a pair of shorts), kara (an iron bracelet), and kirpan (a short sword).
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Single mothers in financial need have several free scholarships available to them. Some are sponsored by the us government, some by state authorities, some by non-profit charities, and some are sponsored by corporations and commercial corporations. According to who the sponsor is, there are different ways to utilize for scholarships for women. That said, not totally all grants are individual. That?s to say, some grants are made to companies (both professional and otherwise) to give free or subsidized services to women and mothers.Many grants are directly related to education, i.e. scholarships for new senior school students to wait school. All national scholarships of the sort can be used through the FAFSA site. The total amount of money given depends on the wealth of the applicant?s family. This is of greatest benefit to single mothers with college age young ones. There are also private scholarships for girls only just like the Google Anita Borg Scholarship for female undergraduates in pc science.Besides this, there are also scholarships for adults going to college for the first time. An example could be the Pell grant which commonly provides around $4000 to each successful applicant. This, also, is based on the applicant?s financial need. So a working mother with two young kids would generally receive more money when compared to a single young man with number dependents. The Pell grant is government-sponsored and can be found on FAFSA?s site.You can also find pseudo-government scholarships along with private scholarships limited to women. A typical example of the former is the grant sponsored by the Brookhaven National Laboratory for women returning to university to review science, math or engineering. It gives $2000 to the successful candidate. A typical example of the latter may be the non-profit PEO?s Program for Continuing Education.Apart from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Google, you can find quite a quantity of different companies offering money to get more women to examine science and science related topics. The Computing Research Association includes a specific offer for women and minority undergraduates engaged in research projects. The L?Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program allows as much as $60,000 to recently graduated girls boffins for their post-doctoral research.Not all educational support programs are for science. The Education Foundation For Women In Accounting provides scholarships at all levels to women. Money is given by the Selected Professions Fellowships to women and minorities learning for postgraduate degrees in areas usually dominated 2000 white men. This consists of architecture on top of maths, computer and engineering science.There will also be college awards for children from single mother homes. Some just take the form of scholarships, but many can be found in the form of free or subsidized text books and paid off or waived school costs. Of course, not education is engaged by all such funds. Additionally, there are subsidized or inexpensive daycare. Some of those could be offered by the some by businesses, government, and some by private non-profit organizations such as the YWCA. Together with that, it?s also possible to get subsidized housing. Some of these would be dormitories and low-rent apartments, some would be minimal or zero-interest loans and mortgages, some may even be true subsidies.Many single mother households reside in poverty. They have trouble putting food on the table, their kids have trouble investing in an over their heads and they have trouble sending their kids to college. Such people must apply for scholarships for girls to simply help the families cope.
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SUNDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) -- For anyone raising teenagers, the idea of helping them feel grateful for everyday things may seem like a long shot; just getting them to mumble a "thank you" every now and then can be a monumental accomplishment.
But a new study suggests that helping teens learn to count their blessings can actually play an important role in positive mental health. As gratitude increases, so do life satisfaction, happiness, positive attitudes, hope and even academic performance.
Giacomo Bono, study author and a professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, said it seems there's not much time these days for teens to pause and consider their appreciation of their friendships, activities they enjoy or even the food on the table.
But among those kids who say they feel grateful for a variety of things in their lives, Bono found an association with critical life skills such as cooperation, a sense of purpose, creativity and persistence.
"Gratefulness allows us to understand what matters most to us and translate that to a broader goal," said Bono. He is expected to present his research Sunday at the American Psychological Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
The study involved 700 students living in New York, aged 10 to 14. The participants were white (67 percent), Asian American (11 percent), black (10 percent) and Hispanic (1.4 percent), and about 11 percent were other ethnicities or did not identify their race. The researchers took into account for socioeconomic factors and parental educational attainment, but not for religious beliefs.
The study authors defined grateful teens as having a disposition and moods that enabled them to respond positively to the good people and things in their lives, Bono said.
Students completed questionnaires in school at the beginning of the study and then four years later. Bono compared the results from the least grateful to the most grateful. He found those who were among the most grateful gained 15 percent more of a sense of meaning in their lives, became 15 percent more satisfied with their lives overall and became 17 percent more happy and hopeful about their lives. That group also had a 13 percent drop in negative emotions and a 15 percent decrease in symptoms of depression.
Bono said there's a strong link between having a sense of satisfaction with life and feeling grateful. "People who are grateful are more optimistic and hopeful, feeling they have the resources to be successful in their future," said Bono.
An expert involved in working with teens said it makes sense that gratitude would increase a teenager's sense of purpose in life. "I help kids become more aware of what they're grateful for, not just in treating depression, but in materialistic, busy, media-driven lives," said Alec Miller, chief of child and adolescent psychology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
Interestingly, socioeconomic status doesn't appear to be linked to gratefulness. "You don't have to be rich to feel grateful," said Bono. "We've found poor kids are very appreciative when other people help them out."
Miller agreed. "I see Medicaid kids and children from wealthy homes in Westchester County, and I don't see any greater or lesser sense of gratitude from one group or another. It's fairly low in both groups," he said. "Unfortunately, our society isn't focused much on gratefulness; it's become out of vogue to talk about it," said Miller. "But I give these researchers credit for reviving interest in the topic."
Miller said he often asks kids what they're grateful for. When they can't identify anything much at all, he sees it as a danger sign of increased risk of severe depression and suicide. But developing a sense of gratitude in kids can help prevent the gradual erosion of self-esteem and build their sense of purpose and ability, he noted.
How can parents help instill a sense of gratitude in their children? Bono suggested parents start paying attention to their own sense of gratefulness and model it. "Talk about what you're grateful for, and ask your kids what they appreciate," he said. He also advised mentioning people who have helped in their lives: a teacher who stayed after class, a coach who made a difference. "Talking about gratitude helps guide us all to the things that matter most," he noted.
Because this research was presented at a meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The research was funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
More information
Learn more about gratitude from the Greater Good Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Your invention is evolving and you know you have something with great marketing potential. Who have you been talking to about your idea? Have you discussed it in the pub, at work or with neighbours? Others may have their eye on your product ? and be keen to copy or steal it.
If this happens before you have taken out a patent, then it may be too late for you to apply for UK Intellectual Property rights. Many people get carried away with their invention and dreaming big ? and forget, don?t know or understand about its protection.
The best person to explain is an Intellectual Property Lawyer. Your innovation is Intellectual Property and if it meets certain criteria, it needs legal protection.
A patent protects new inventions and covers how something works and what it does. It also protects how the various combinations of elements do this, what materials or components they consist of and how they are made. An Intellectual Property Lawyer will help you to gain the legal right to prevent anyone else from using, manufacturing, selling or importing your invention without your permission.
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Five days after oil marketers called off their strikes following Federal Government?s promise to pay them subsidy arrears for imported fuel, they have yet to receive the Sovereign Debt Notes from the Debt Management Office for the payment.
The Chairman, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association, Chief Dapo Abiodun, told our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday that although many of them had got payment advice from the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency for the debt notes, ?none of us has seen anything yet.?
?The information we are getting is that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stopped it,? he added.
The Federal Government had last week Thursday directed the DMO to pay the marketers all verified subsidy claims in a bid to avert scarcity of petroleum products that could have resulted from the strike by the marketers to protest the non-payment.
The Minister of Finance said the claims would be paid as soon as the PPPRA provided the supporting Sovereign Debt Notes.
She, however, did not give the total amount to be paid to the marketers.
The oil marketers, operating under the aegis of DAPPMA, and Jetty and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners of Nigeria, as well as the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, had embarked on the strike last week. The strike was called off on Saturday after a meeting with the PPPRA.
Abiodun told our correspondent that after Federal Government?s promise to pay the subsidy arrears, most oil marketers had gone ahead to pay the PPPRA?s charges and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund charges, which were conditions that must be met before the Sovereign Debt Notes were issued.
?Many of us have paid additional charges, but we have yet to see the Debt Notes. We are still wondering what is going on. Our situation has not changed. We are still the way we are.?
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(NEWTON, MA) Restaurant Sciences, a provider of restaurant industry information and analytics, has released Foursquare statistics from its Restaurant Internet Marketing Study (RIMS). According to the study, Foursquare is gaining widespread acceptance among restaurants and their patrons, and outpacing Yelp?s popularity in key areas. Among the findings:
?Foursquare has quickly become a dominant social media application for restaurants across the country,? said Chuck Ellis, President of Restaurant Sciences. ?The widespread acceptance makes Foursquare a viable contender to Yelp, especially as Foursquare enhances its offerings to provide restaurant reviews and recommendations.?
In March 2012, the Restaurant Sciences team reviewed and surveyed more than 2500 restaurants from across the continental US to gain insight into how restaurants are connecting with patrons online. RIMS looks at each restaurant?s website, mobile website, Facebook profile and social media channels such as Foursquare, Twitter, Yelp, Google Places and Bing Local.
RIMS segments results by geography and/or by industry segment (FSR, QSR, Bar), chain versus independent, or urban versus non-urban.
Restaurant Sciences provides information and analytics to the restaurant industry and provides tools needed to make restaurants more successful. Their offerings for restaurant management teams include mobile websites, an online menu platform and data-driven knowledge (applied restaurant science). Restaurant Sciences provides granular information including visitation and item level (both food and drink) data and analysis. For more information, visit www.restaurantsciences.com.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gates of Somalia's constituent assembly on Wednesday, killing themselves but with no other reported deaths, police said.
"Two men wearing suicide bomb vests tried to attack the venue, but they were stopped at the gates, blowing themselves up," said police official Abdullahi Mohamed.
"Security forces stopped their ambitions of attacking...they were shot and then they detonated their vests," Interior Minister Abisamad Moalim told reporters, adding that one security guard was wounded in the blast.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which follows a string of explosions including roadside bombs and grenades that have rocked the Somali capital.
However, Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents have vowed to topple the weak Western-backed government, and have claimed responsibility for previous similar such attacks.
The special assembly, which convened for the first time last week, is tasked with voting on a new constitution for war-torn Somalia, as the graft-riddled government approaches the end of its mandate later this month.
Billed as the key to lifting anarchic Somalia out of two decades of civil war, the end of the transitional government comes as regional forces have wrested a series of key strongholds from the hardline Shebab.
The 825-member National Constituent Assembly (NCA) -- chosen by traditional elders in a UN-backed process -- were expected to vote on Wednesday on a provisional constitution, before final ratification by a national referendum.
The complicated process is seen as a key step as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) ends its mandate on August 20, after eight years of infighting and minimal political progress.
Somalia has been without a stable central government since the ouster of former president Siad Barre in 1991.
Mogadishu has seen a series of such attacks since the Shebab abandoned fixed positions there last year and switched to guerrilla tactics against the government, propped up by a 17,000-strong African Union force.
The Shebab face increasing pressure from pro-government forces and regional armies, having lost a series of key towns and strategic bases in recent months. However, experts warn they are far from defeated and remain a major threat.
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The children's book "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!),? by talk show host Stephen Colbert is seen at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his book. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
The children's book "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!),? by talk show host Stephen Colbert is seen at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his book. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
A display of the manuscript of James Joyce's "Ulysses", left, compared to the talk show host Stephen Colbert's manuscript from "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!), ?at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his children?s book. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
A display of sketches, manuscript, pens, beer bottles and a book is seen from talk show host Stephen Colbert at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his children?s book ?I Am A Pole (And So Can You!).? (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
An exhibit is seen that displays sketches, manuscript, pens, beer bottles and books from talk show host Stephen Colbert at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his children?s book ?I Am A Pole (And So Can You!).? (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
A preliminary sketch is seen from the children's book "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!),? by talk show host Stephen Colbert at the Rosenbach Museum & Library Monday, July 30, 2012, in Philadelphia. A new exhibit pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with items Colbert used to create his book. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? Talk show host Stephen Colbert's foray into children's books has landed him alongside some exalted literary company.
A playful new exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum & Library pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with, um, perhaps less valuable items used by Colbert to write "I Am A Pole (And So Can You!)."
Colbert's pens, beer bottles and lunch remnants are certainly not the usual fare for the Rosenbach, the Philadelphia institution that houses the only complete manuscript of Joyce's "Ulysses."
But museum officials say the display reinforces their mission to engage and inspire visitors with collections that include papers from Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker and Miguel de Cervantes.
"If I can do that by having Stephen Colbert make a joke about 'Ulysses,' why not?" said Rosenbach director Derick Dreher.
The story began in January after Colbert, host of the satirical "Colbert Report" on Comedy Central, aired an interview with Sendak, best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are."
Colbert brought along a draft of his own story about a metal pole searching for its identity. Should it be a totem pole? Ski pole? Pole vault? The epic journey ends with ? spoiler alert! ? the main character becoming a flag pole.
"The sad thing is, I like it," Sendak said with a laugh after hearing an excerpt.
That blurb is now featured on the book's cover. Sendak, however, died in May ? coincidentally, on the same day "I Am A Pole" was published.
Sometime after the interview, Dreher said, a producer for Colbert visited the Rosenbach, which is also the repository for more than 10,000 pieces of Sendak's work. A serendipitous encounter with a curator led to the idea for "Maurice Sendak and Stephen Colbert: Interviews, Objects . and Poles!"
The exhibit, on view through Nov. 11, includes Colbert book drafts, sketches by illustrator Paul Hildebrand, two Bud Light Lime bottles, a crumpled paper bag, a turkey sandwich receipt and a rhyming dictionary.
It also contains drawings of poles made by Colbert and Sendak during their interview, as well as illustrated poles from Rosenbach copies of "Moby Dick" and "Don Quixote." And, of course, part of the "Ulysses" manuscript is featured.
While noting Joyce probably would not be happy to see his acclaimed novel in the company of "I Am A Pole," Dreher made some tongue-in-cheek observations of similarities between the two books: Both are odysseys of self-discovery, and each makes references to shaving.
Colbert could not be reached for comment for this story. But he highlighted his new connection to "Ulysses" in a July segment called "Who's Honoring Me Now."
"So congratulations, America, because now my manuscript ... is officially enshrined in its rightful place, side-by-side with the former greatest book of all time," Colbert quipped.
The next day, Dreher said, Colbert devotees descended on the Rosenbach, which is located in a pair of brick townhouses in the tony Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.
"It's been great fun for us," Dreher said. "Colbert has such rabid fans, and I mean that as a compliment."
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