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Ten Surprisingly Sugary Foods

By Tina McCarthy, DivineCaroline

My New Year’s resolution? When the clock struck midnight, I vowed to cut my sugar intake by eliminating sweet treats like cookies, chocolate, and soda from my diet.

On the first day of 2010, I ate strawberry yogurt for breakfast, snacked on a granola bar before lunch, sipped on vitamin water, and enjoyed a savory serving of pasta for dinner. At the end of the day, I was feeling pretty good about my fresh start. That is, until I read the labels. As it turns out, I had consumed almost 100 grams of sugar (more than twice the recommended daily amount) in this so-called attempt at eating healthier.

This whole debacle prompted me to do some research on sugar-packed snacks that masquerade as health foods. Here are the most deceiving culprits:

1. Breakfast Bars
Sure, they may have less sugar than a glazed doughnut, but breakfast bars aren’t nearly as healthy as you may think. Nature Valley’s Vanilla Yogurt Granola Bars and Nutri-Grain’s Cereal Bars cram 13 grams of sugar into a single serving. Being organic doesn’t make Health Valley’s Cereal Bars any better; they’ll even get you one gram closer to your daily sugar limit.

2. Vitamin Water
A bottle of vitamin water fuels your body with much more than just a dose of nutrients. That burst of energy you feel upon taking the last sip is just a sugar high in disguise. A 20-ounce bottle of Glaceau’s Vitamin Water or Snapple’s Antioxidant Water contains more than 30 grams of sugar. Take some vitamins and drink a glass of water, instead.

3. Cereal
Every time you walk down the cereal aisle, you say “no” to Tony the Tiger and refuse to go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. But even cereals that trade in a colorful mascot for wholesome claims can pack one sugary punch. Take Kellog’s Smart Start Strong Heart cereal. Despite its misleading name, one cup contains a whopping 14 grams of sugar.

4. Spaghetti Sauce
Just because you don’t taste the sweetness doesn’t mean there isn’t sugar lurking somewhere beneath the maters. Believe it or not, there are 14 grams of sugar in a half-cup of Newman’s Own Tomato and Basil Sauce and Bertolli’s Vineyard Marinara. Mama Mia!

5. Bran Muffins
You choke down every last bite of a bland bran muffin with your morning coffee and pat yourself on the back for making your fiber quota. Whoa there! Don’t be so quick to equate lack of flavor with nutritional value. There are over 20 grams of sugar in a bran muffin from Starbucks, and those from your local grocer probably aren’t very far behind.

6. Dried Fruit
Fruit is already naturally sweet, so why would dried fruit contain an excess of added sugar? Don’t turn to logic when debating what snacks to buy; just stick to the facts. There are 26 grams of sugar in a single serving of Ocean Spray’s Craisins and 30 grams of sugar in the same amount of Sun-Maid’s Natural California Raisins.

7. Juice
Tip of the day: although labels like “all natural” and “100 percent juice” sound healthy, it would be a wise choice to just ignore them. Despite the wholesome promise of such statements stamped on the carton in big, bold print, a serving of Langer’s Apple Juice contains 26 grams of sugar and the same amount of Minute Maid Orange Juice follows close behind with 24 grams of sugar. You are better off just eating the fruit and sipping water.

8. Flavored Yogurt
Yogurt is hailed as one of the healthiest foods you can eat. It’s known to boost your metabolism and even improve your immunity. On the other hand, it can also push you over the limit for your daily sugar intake. Just to put it in perspective, a 6-ounce container of Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt is crammed with 27 grams of sugar. Your best bet? Stick to plain yogurt and add slices of fruit for flavor.

9. Instant Oatmeal
There’s just not enough time in the morning to make it from scratch, it’s so convenient to have each serving prepackaged, it’s much more flavorful than plain oatmeal…yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve heard (and used) every excuse in the book. But these justifications still don’t change that fact that a serving of Quaker’s Flavored Instant Oatmeal can contain as much as 14 grams of sugar. If you must do instant, hunt for the natural, low sugar options.

10. Bottled Iced Tea
There are 26 grams of sugar in 8-ounces of Coca-Cola, while the same amount of Snapple Lemon Iced Tea contains 24 grams of sugar. Enough said.

It’s easy to overlook the high amount of sugar in seemingly healthy foods, but a quick visit to Sugar Stacks is sure to set you straight. This eye-opening site feature images of food and beverages with sugar cubes stacked next to them to represent the amount of sugar in each item. For more information, check out Sugar Shockers on WebMD.

Originally published at EcoSalon.com

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William C25 days ago

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Jeanne R5 months ago

Thank you for sharing.

loverel Vinton-Gordon

What can I say, ladies & gents...? other than "it's time to get back to basics and start enjoying your own cooking with "real food" because the other stuff comes at a price. That's not to say never touch the stuff, just be aware of what they are offering and make educated decisions on the basis of what you find.

"Moderation" is ultimately the key here,....that way you can still have your "cake and eat it" albeit smaller portions....:-)

Just remember we are what we eat so choose well..

Nikhil D
Nikhil Dutta3 years ago

Spaghetti is the only one that surprised me. As for the rest, I like to make my own juices and tea with no added sugar.

Lynda Whitney
L W3 years ago

I have learned to be safe, I look for the "unsweetened" label on most of what I buy if packaged, when you start looking, there is a lot of sugar hidden in most everything, darn !

Duane B.
.3 years ago

Thank you for sharing.

Perla Serrano Matesanz
Laszlo Kovacs4 years ago

I haven't heard about instant oatmeal... At least I haven't seen it in Europe... it is so crazy... the normal oatmeal takes 3-5 minutes to get totally edible and it is so delicious, why the hell to spoil it with sugar? I have to mention that I love it with cocoa. Now I live in Spain where they do not have cocoa without sugar (only one which is quite expensive). I can imagine it is the same in the US. In Estern Europe we have natural cocoa which I love.

Sisilie B.
Sisilie B5 years ago

The spaghetti sauce came as a unwelcome surprise to me!

Janice R.
Janice R5 years ago

A warning about "plain" yogurt - some brands carry a "plain sweetened" version, which, to my chagrin, I discovered by accidently purchasing it. I buy plain to mix with the overly sweetened flavoured versions, so this really annoyed me. In fact, I think I'll write the company (Danone) right now. It also annoys me that the convenient tubes for kids have sooooo much sugar. Let's get them hooked young, right? (I've already written yoplait about that.)

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Heilsam H5 years ago

I am from Germany and visited Usa last year. It took me a long time to find soy milk without added sugar. Though I must admit this isn't that easy over here in Germany it's still a lot easier than in Usa.

And, my bad, I visited Starbucks (yea, they're overpriced and overrated and over here) this spring, for the first and the last time ever.
I ordered a cappuccino with soy milk, and I asked "is your soy milk sweetened?" Guy says "no", I pay an enormous price, take a sip: bleah! Of course it was sweetened.


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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has gone back to its old scheme of allowing graduates and post-graduates join the CA course without appearing for the Common Proficiency Test (CPT)- Entrance exam. The change has been brought into effect from 1st of August, 2012.

Regarding this the Chairman of the Coimbatore branch of SIRC-ICAI (Southern India Regional Council) said that "It will be a great opportunity for graduates and post-graduates who opt to pursue the CA programme. Clearing that CPT entrance exam was compulsory only till 31st July, 2012. But, now the qualifying candidate can register and complete the course within three and half years subject on passing all the exams and completing the training programme in the first attempt".

However, this scheme will enable Graduates/ Post graduates to register for the Integrated Professional Competence Courses directly. After registering for the opted course, candidates will have to undergo three years of training under a practicing Charted Accountant.

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When it comes to getting a job, the smallest thing can trip you up. For 30 years, Dr. Paul Powers has asked thousands of successful job hunters a few basic but important questions:

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Paul is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States. The population was 998 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Burley, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area. The first settlers in the area came because of the construction of the Minidoka Dam. Early setters wanted to get ahead of the rush for the coming homesteading. Later the railroad provided additional business for the town. The town was officially incorporated in 1907. Paul is located in the Magic Valley region of Idaho. The plains of the Snake River Basin stretch for many miles in all directions, with a few hills and mountains visible in the distance. A rich farmland surrounds the city and agriculture dominates its way of life. It lies at the intersection of State Highways 25 and 27, and a short distance north of Interstate 84.... (from wikipedia)

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Audi R8: more powerful V8 and V10 coming in 2012

Published: 25 July 2011

The R8 supercar has been a big success story for Audi, but it’s not resting on its laurels. A facelift is coming and we hear in summer 2012, it’ll get a range of stronger engines.

The 5.2-litre V10 will be tuned to a punchier 533bhp – up from 518bhp  – and our sources in Munich suggest a seven-speed dual clutch S-tronic gearbox will be launched for the first time. So far, only a delicious old-school Ferrari open-gate manual 'box has been available, or a clunky robotised R-tronic auto.

Audi plans changes to the 2012 R8 V8 too

The entry-level Audi R8 will be revised heavily in 2012 as well: CAR has learned that its 4.2-litre V8 will be upgraded to the same spec as the Audi RS5's: it'll therefore muster a more useful 444bhp, up from 424bhp.

Ingolstadt types confirm there will be GT and GT Spyder variants again.

Audi R8 vs Lamborghini Gallardo: the facelifts

Although the R8 will be mildly facelifted, we suspect it'll be a very subtle model year change to the physical design of the car. Noodling with headlamp designs, millimetric changes to the LED spacing, that sort of thing.

Over at Sant'Agata, we hear there is no further facelift planned for the Lambo Gallardo, the R8's cousin. More special editions will be forthcoming, but Lambo fans will have to wait a further three years for the successor to the Gallardo.

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To recognize Michael Walzer's contributions to the ethical and political philosophy of the twentieth century, a conference titled Justice, Culture and Tradition will take place June 2-4, 2008 at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, New Jersey.

The academic committee of the conference includes Yitzhak Benbaji (Bar-Ilan University, Shalom Hartman Institute), Amy Gutmann (the University of Pennsylvania) and Avishai Margalit (IAS).

The Conference will consider the following questions:

How should liberalism treat cultures, cultural diversity and cultural identities?

How should the just society distribute resources and the goods social life produces?

When is waging war justified? What is the meaning of national self-defense and how is it related to self-defense in the domestic realm?

Is an international system constituted from fully sovereign states justified, or should the international society be federalized?

The political philosophy of the 20th century intensely explored the themes raised by these questions; however, a conception of the inter-relations among the issues they raise is still under-developed. A penetrating discussion of Walzer's philosophy will allow us to fill this gap.

Michael Walzer will attend and comment on the papers presented.

The conference is organized by Professor Yitzhak Benbaji of Bar-Ilan University and Shalom Hartman Institute.

For more information, the conference agenda, abstracts of papers, and to register attendance, please see below.

All sessions are free and open to the public, and seating is on a first come, first served basis.

The conference coordinator is Danielle Candy.

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Olsen's Outdoor Power either will have to install a private well or seek annexation of its planned Carroll-area business into the city limits to obtain municipal water service.

Carroll City Council members Monday voted 5-0 (with Councilman Clay Haley absent) to reject a request for city water service to Olsen's. The long-standing Atlantic business that sells outdoor vehicles, equipment and other items has announced plans to open a Carroll location this summer.

Olsen's Outdoor Power, based in Atlantic and in business since 1985, is eyeing an early-July opening for 16,000-square-foot store at 19072 Kittyhawk Ave., south of U.S. 30 (across the highway from Quandt Auto Salvage).

Mayor Adam Schweers said the prospects of city water service is one lure the Farner Government Building has to encourage annexation of tax-producing properties.

"From a good neighbor's standpoint, I think we've done everything we can to welcome them in," Schweers said.

A city watermain is at the corner of the property, said Public Works Director Randy Krauel.

City officials said water service is provided to eight locations outside of the corporate limits. The Carroll County Recycling Center is the only property outside of the city limits to receive municipal water-service extension in the past 30 years.


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1st Aug 2005, 19:48

I have a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, and I love it I have 76,000 miles on it and have had no major repairs. Maybe you should file a complaint with Jeep or try to envoke the lemon law. My Jeep is a V8 with the 4x4. I don't know if that matters or not.

16th Dec 2005, 10:33

Our 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee had the same problem with brake rotors warping. It was taken to the dealer after 10,000 miles and they turned the rotors. It happened again after 30,000 miles. Again they turned the rotors. Now at 50,000 it happened again. I found out that there was a Technical Service Bulletin that came out telling them to replace the calipers, rotors and pads because of a design flaw in the calipers causing rotor warpage. I contacted the customer service at Chrysler and they were very rude, stating that there were too many miles on the vehicle now and they wouldn't even consider performing the service that was supposed to have been done before. Stay away from Chrysler.

29th Jan 2006, 12:58

We had 4 Grand Cherokees, and they all had brake rotor problems. All of them (94, 96, 97, and 99) were replaced once under warranty. Several of them had multiple replacements out of warranty. Just last year, an independent shop showed me new replacement rotors by MoPar that were about twice as thick as the pathetic original parts. Having a complete replacement with all the goodies was $1,400. Then, in the fall, the transmission case (cast aluminum) developed a leak that was caused by defective casting. Replacing the case was $1,900, and the Jeep dealer wouldn't do a repair. They would only replace the entire transmission for $3,600. Unbelievable, especially since the car only has 32k miles. It is finally being traded in this week. Never again will a Jeep be in my garage.

29th Jan 2006, 21:11

Never have understood how the more luxurious Grand Cherokee has all of these problems, yet the base model Cherokee was considered virtually indestructible. And then they quit making the regular Cherokee. Go figure.

19th Nov 2006, 13:38

I have a tail / brake light problem on my 99 Gr Cherokee as well. The only thing I know so far is that it's not the bulb - I replaced it and it's still not working. The contacts look OK, too, no corrosion or anything. I've had to have faulty wiring fixed before for $500 after a simple short circuit. So I have a suspicion the cables might be shot here, too. Any ideas? Thanks!

20th Nov 2006, 14:01

UPDATE on the 99 WJ brake light problem - I took it to a mechanic and he said it's a short in the cable connecting to the brake pedal. 50 bucks to fix it in the shop. Sigh.

29th Nov 2006, 17:57

2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, 50K miles.

Heater is malfunctioning... dealer estimate between $800-1100. There is a technical service bulletin for replacement on this part.. but financial responsibility lies with owner. Cannot confirm that part is "better" than currently used or if this is a problem that will need to be addressed again in 30,000 miles. They acknowledge the problem exists. Also... ball joint on passenger side is shot. All dealers I contacted claim they have had no issues with the Cherokee, but I find it hard to believe since they've had a recall for ball joints on the Liberty. If heat or A/C is important on a consistent basis perhaps Jeep isn't the best choice or spend the considerable amount of money for an extended warranty. Either way they make you pay for their faulty performance/parts, often more than once.

4th Dec 2006, 09:26

My '99 Jeep GC has over 160K miles with few problems. I've turned front rotors twice and just replaced them; not unreasonable for this many miles. Had a leaky AC evaporator, but a $25 can of sealant cured that. (At 160K, why replace the evaporator?) It runs and looks as good as it did with 50K miles on it. Routine maintenance and early diagnosis of potential problems will save you a bundle, but find a reputable, local service tech instead of paying the long buck to a Jeep dealer.

5th Dec 2006, 15:32

I have a 99 model and right now with about 120k miles. I have a problem at my transfer case because I have no 4x4 transmission and no strange noise come from transmission. Front wheels are not pushing and working at all. Is that possible? Someone can help me?

14th Dec 2006, 17:19

The front diff is not pulling cause of TC lack of fluid of maintenance. Mine is working perfecly, even with front drive shaft removal for summertime. Watch for rear output shaft leakage.

16th Dec 2006, 22:53

Daimler revised the front driveshaft in 1999 in favor of CV joint for easier maintenance. Tough older double cardan design require more attention, they do not transfer noise as much (from the front TC output bearing). A retrofit from 1993 or an upgrade to 2002 design will solve the problem. And avoid dealer tendency to change trans, TC and axles...

17th Dec 2006, 09:07

I was looking for similar "Jeep" problems and lucked into this site. I have a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited and I have replaced my drivers side brake light twice in the last six months and it is out again. The odd part is that it works when the taillights aren't on... but not when they at night when they are. My 10 disk CD player quit working about a year ago. I have also had rotor issues, but all fell under my extended warranty. I've seen a couple of fixes on the tail light question and wanted to say thanks!

21st Dec 2006, 01:00

The heater on my 01 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ltd is blowing cold air on the passenger side. Went to a well known Jeep dealer, they said the blend doors need replacement, but its going to cost me $1300!!! since the whole dash assembly needs to come out.

Seems like this is a common problem with these models. It really sucks that some one would have to dish out so much money to fix a relatively minor problem.

I am planning to take the car to another shop to get a second opinion.

Last year the window on the driver side door stopped rolling, I had to replace the entire assembly; cost me ~$400.

I love the way the car drives... but my recent expensive trips to the servicing shops are making me think twice on how long I want to hold on to it.

20th Mar 2007, 11:45

1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo Limited V8 - - Wow! I am so surprised to read these comments! Yes, the Infinity Speakers do go.. especially the front ones.. I had mine disconnected and changed the balance to only the rear speakers... easy fix. And, Yes, the Rotors warp... check out your ABS pump/motor if it happens a lot... but I must say I purchased my 1999 Grand Cherokee Limited V8 for $11,300 in 2002 with a full Wynn's warranty with only 72,000 miles on it. Nothing wrong at all, well.. I didn't get the CD changer, no biggie... It now (2007) has only 104,000 miles and I haven't put any dough into it...brakes, oil changes, battery, only major repair was the ABS pump/motor...part was pricey, mechanic is friend! It came with brand new tires, I just changed those recently... the major problem is finding parts! I needed a donut (spare), a back window, a rear window, miscellaneous things.. I found ONE 1999 Limited at the only 'junkyard' and it was stripped pretty much, but I STILL need rear tail lights both sides... and the donut... vandalism is my only problem. Yes Ex-Husbands can be so nice to deal with.. not all..just mine... at any rate, PLEASE if you know where I can get the tail lights (Brand new they cost $175 a Piece!!!) well to say the least.. If you do not want hassles with vehicles DO NOT BUY LIMITED EDITIONS OF ANY KIND.. I always do, and this is what happens - LOL... kindly reply, much appreciated! dgaffney1060@charter.net (Worcester, MA)


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Go to My Cartoon "My Projects > Cartoon Forum 2017 > Submit a new project"

DEADLINE to submit your project: 10 May 2017

Which project to submit?

- An animation project in development intended primarily for television (TV series or TV special), but can also be developed for the new platforms
- of a minimum running time of 26 min (in total)
- min. 50% of animation
- European
- Please check the regulations to be sure your project is eligible.

Submit your project

1. Prepare all the required elements as listed on this page (synopsis, images, project file, letter, etc) or in the toolbox English - French
2. Go to My Cartoon (tab on top right of the page) and login or create an account
3. Click on My Projects > Submit a new project
- Each step will be saved when you click on "Next", so no need to fill it all in at once
- You can go back to your form anytime to finalise it by clicking on "My Cartoon(your name will be displayed if you are logged in)
- You will receive a summary by email once it is completed

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1. Synopsis

Short description of the story, to be published in the official catalogue and on our website
- In English
- Max. 700 characters including spaces

2. Project File (PDF)

Prepare a file to present your project in the best way, adding the elements that best describe it in order to convince the Selection Committee.

In case of selection, you will be able to choose whether you want to make this PDF available for the buyers or not (CARTOON will not send all Project Files to the buyers, like previously, but there will be a link to your Project File in the catalogue if you want to).

You will find below some suggestions of elements to put in the file, but you are free to re-arrange them.

  • Summary page with the title, producers and co-producers, format, audience, a representative still…
  • The concept of the project
  • The synopsis
  • Several attractive stills of the project
  • The treatment / storylines (extensive description of the story)
  • A description of the characters
  • A note of intent of the producer
  • A description of the state of progress
  • A copy of the transfer of rights option letter

- 1 single PDF
- Try not to exceed 25 pages
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- Max 35 MB. If your file is larger than 10 MB, thank to send it by Wetransfer via

Note: we no longer ask for the full storyboard, the European cooperation letters or the points table.

3. Letter of interest

Each project must be accompanied by a written statement of interest from a broadcaster, a video editor, a distributor or a new platform representative, attesting to their support of the project. In the online form you will need to provide:

- Name of the sponsor company
- Name of contact person
- PDF of the letter of interest

4. Images

Prepare 3 nice stills of the project for a double page in the e-catalogue, for our website, for the press and for the giant screens at Cartoon Forum (Digital exhibition).

WARNING: please be aware that you won't be able to change the pictures once the project has been submitted.

Download an example of the e-catalogue or have a preview of how the projects will be published on the website (the layout of the catalogue will change, but it gives you an idea).

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- 650x650 px, 72 DPI, RGB, jpg, max 1 MB

- Thumbnail for our website & Agenda

  • 1 horizontal still

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- For the pop-up of your project on our website
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- For the press

  • 1 vertical still

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- WITH the title of your project on it

- For a full page in the e-catalogue
- For the press

STEP 2: Go to My Cartoon

Click on My Cartoon (tab on the top right of the page) and login or create an account. This will allow you to come back anytime to your form, so don't forget your log in and password.

Step 3: Click on My projects and fill in the form

- In My Projects, click on Submit a new project and fill in the form. You can navigate through the pages, save for later or go to the next page.
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- Fill in all the fields (be careful with digit-only fields and valid email addresses), and upload your PDFs and images
- At the end of the form, you will have a summary that you can review
- When you are ready, click on Submit (the button will appear ONLY if all the required fields are correctly filled out)
- WARNING: once it is submitted, you won't be able to modify the data, so make sure to review them before submitting!

If your project is selected: a trailer will needed by 16 August 2017

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10 MAY  Deadline for project submission
24 MAY  Selection of the projects
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GKids acquires 13 Ghibli films; Miyazaki in Lego

In an odd new twist for the Studio Ghibli film library, Daily Variety is reporting that U.S. distributor GKids (The Secret of Kells) has acquired the U.S. theatrical and non-theatrical rights to thirteen Ghibli films – including Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away. Disney will retain the home video rights. Gkids is planning to distribute a series of Miyazaki film festivals to theatres nationwide.

Disney must have felt they no longer needed the theatrical rights. It’ll interesting to see how GKids will fare with these films – that company is certainly emerging as a leader in distributing worthy international animated features.

Meanwhile, I just caught up with these incredible Lego sculptures by Iain Heath. Heath’s tribute to the master animator Hayao Miyazaki was unveiled last year at Seattle’s BrickCon where it received the “Big in Japan – Best Overall” award. Check out his entire Miyazakitopia on Flickr. These two (below) are my favorites:

  • This is very exciting news.

    I’m sure gKids’ experience with Kells gave them the impetus and courage to pull off a deal like this.

    They’ve been quite good about getting films out into independent cinemas and for releasing stuff that haven’t been shown theatrically for a while.

    I think this will be a great development for animation in general.

    PS. the lego is cool too :)

  • Mike

    Glad to hear a few Studio Ghibli films will be given “new life” in theaters. I really feel like Disney isn’t doing enough with the Ghibli library in North America.

    By the end of this year, 7 Ghibli films will have been released on Blu-ray in Japan: Ponyo, NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Whisper of the Heart, Howl’s Moving Castle (11/16), and Tales from Earthsea (11/16).

    I understand there is always a bit of a delay before the Disney edition in North America to prevent reverse importing, but the releases over here are slow as molasses! We’ve only seen Ponyo and NausicaÃ¤ in the US, and there is still no word from Disney as to a release date for anything else.

    I hope they haven’t given up on the Ghibli films…

  • Grant Beaudette

    Not sure what this means for Ghibli’s future, but if nothing else it’ll be great to see Princess Mononoke get some actual attention from a US distributor.

  • Thank God!

    While Disney is to be thanked for bringing what they have over, it’s not hard to draw the conclusion that they pretty much signed their deal to stop anyone else from doing so. They only seem to try theatrical releases when they feel like it and the home video releases have been lackluster at best. It astonishes me that Ghibli has a huge catalogue of documentary and short feature material but the best DVD bonuses that Disney could bother themselves with are storyboards.

    Unfortunately home video is still in Disney’s hands, but let’s hope that changes soon. We need a distributor who is going to take the studio seriously.

    • Chris Sobieniak

      If only for films like “Only Yesterday” to see the light again, but I was told not to hold my breath.

  • Many thanks! I’m really excited to be working with the films, and we’re obviously reverential fans of the studio.

    We’re making brand new prints of dubbed and subtitled versions for just about everything, so the traveling retrospectives should be some of the best these films have looked in years.

    • Nick

      Hooray, new prints!

  • snip2364

    If DISNEY isn’t taking them seriously, what other studio would ever think to do better?! This worries me.

    • Disney’s treatment of the Studio Ghibli library isn’t anything to worry about. It’s critical to understand an important fact about the movie business. The conglomerates who own the studios are not in the movie business, they’re in the toy business.

      Disney does not have merchandising rights to the Ghibli films. And Miyazaki-san has no intentions of giving such rights to them. And that, very simply, is why Disney does not devote more attention and resources to these films. It’s not in their business interests to promote one of their rivals. In Japan, the relationship is far more fertile, but that’s because Ghibli has absolute control over their DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

      Truth be told, we’re very lucky that most of Ghibli’s movies are available on DVD at all. If you’re a true Ghibli Freak, then you need to embrace importing. In addition to the feature films that will never be released here – Omohide Poro Poro, Umi ga Kikoeru – there are a number of documentaries like Isao Takahata’s 1987 film, The Story of Yanagawa Waterways , and the 2003 documentary Yasuo Otsuka’s Joy in Motion. And there are a number of “pre-Ghibli” films like Gauche the Cellist, Jarinko Chie, and Panda Kopanda.

      So, yeah, Disney could be far more prolific with home video releases here in the States (especially the Blu-Rays), but that’s not very likely, and with online retailers and the internet, you can find these movies with ease. So you’re going to have to track down these movies on yer own.

      I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what GKids has in store for the Ghibli films. The promise of subtitled and (English) dubbed versions is especially promising.

      • Chris Sobieniak

        Whether or not a theater would OK these films to be shown here is still up in the air for me.

        Still pretty sad about there being no merchandising rights though, not that having Totoro plushies at Target would be great but it’s a start.

  • The ‘Spirited Away’ lego characters are also
    SO much fun!

    Brought a smile to ma’ face, thanks! :)

  • Andrew Kieswetter

    The Lego figures are great! Does GKids have the rights to

  • Grainock

    Please…please get these out on Bluray Disney!


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Barry County E-911 now offers website

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Barry County E-911 now has an official website. Community members are encouraged to visit the site, which is located at

"It lists information about us and provides the public with many options with how to contact us," said Mike Phillips, Barry County E-911 director. "We are currently in the process of building it out and have been adding new features to it on a weekly basis.

"This has helped dispatch with receiving photos and other information via email that some outside agencies would not provide before in the past," added Phillips.

Previously, Barry County E-911 staff members utilized hotmail or yahoo email addresses. Many agencies throughout the state were hesitant to send information to the unofficial email addresses.

With the creation of the official website, which is administered by, staff members have official Barry County E-911 email addresses. For instance, Phillips can now be contacted at

"The website also shows how many calls we have processed and call volume on a quarterly basis," said Phillips. "We are hoping in the future to add a map for the citizens of the website and to have an employee section where employees can access leave forms, incident reports and other documents."

The Barry County E-911 website homepage features the agency's mission statement, address, office hours and telephone numbers.

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Where to ride a motorcycle

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There's almost nothing more thrilling that riding a motorcycle, particularly when you are on the open road. Feeling the wind against your skin and seeing the sights around you is exhilarating. Choosing where to ride a motorcycle depends on your skill level, interests and location. Once you figure out where to ride, you're sure to have a wonderful experience.

Safety First

First and foremost when figuring where to ride your bike, you must take your safety into consideration. Roads that are too windy may be difficult for a novice rider to maneuver. Additionally, roads that have little to no shoulders can be extremely dangerous, particularly in hazardous conditions, such as rain.

Ask other riders for their opinions on safe roads in the area. You could also map out the road in a vehicle other than a bike to see if you think you can handle it on a bike.

Of course, you should always wear proper safety equipment, as well. It's a good idea to always wear a helmet, particularly if your state laws require it. Additionally, wearing high-quality motorcycle jackets can prevent your arms from getting hurt from road debris or in the unlikely event you fall off of your bike. Wearing boots, pants and gloves made of thick material is also recommended to keep your body safe.

Choosing where to ride can depend on the type of terrain you're interested in, as well as the landscape. Some states, such as Maryland, have scenic routes that feature different types of lighthouses, and other routes feature mountains, lush vegetation and even beaches.

If you're riding in Washington, you're in luck, as you can pretty much see any landscape you want while riding. Washington offers mountains, water, national forests and even has island routes. If you're a fan of the outdoors, Washington likely has what you want to see.

If watching the desert while you ride is your desire, give Arizona a try. Watching a desert sunset is truly breathtaking and can make riding your bike a real treat. Along with the gorgeous cacti and sand, you can also look at the amazing gorges and canyons this great state has to offer. You can see mountains and astonishing bridges while traveling here.

You can also choose your course depending on your terrain preference and comfort level. In other words, you'll want to take hills, twists and other road features into consideration before you travel on these routes.

For instance, those who like rolling and hilly topography may want to venture out to Missouri. Rolling hills and curves are typically present in the roads of this state. You can also see vast country sides, as well as farms and railroads. Many of the courses also offer beautiful hilltop views.

If you like flat and hilly terrain, North Carolina is a state to visit. In the west, you'll find mountain ranges that you can navigate through. Working towards the center, you'll notice the ground becomes more flat, which could be better for beginners. However, many of the North Carolina's roads are without shoulders, which could be dangerous for those who aren't experienced.

No matter where you decide to ride, you should always make sure your bike is in top condition. Checking your fluid levels, as well as brakes and tires, before you go can possibly prevent you from getting into an accident during your memorable journey. Do take extra bike parts with you if your ride will take you into remote areas where a garage might be hours away. After choosing where to ride a motorcycle, get ready for an experience you won't soon forget.

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 1,270 properties in some 100 countries and over 180,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences under the renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Tribute Portfolio™, Four Points® by Sheraton, Aloft®, Element®, along with an expanded partnership with Design Hotels™. The Company also boasts one of the industry’s leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG®).

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A flagship hotel for the brand in Dubai, the new W Dubai - Sheikh Zayed Road will provides a cutting-edge lifestyle experience, comprising 355 luxurious guest rooms including 60 suites, six 'WOW Suites' and one 'Extreme WOW Suite' - the first of its kind in the world. The 27-storey hotel also offers eight contemporary dining venues, W Lounge (W's take on the traditional lobby), WET pool deck, SWEAT fitness centre, a signature spa and stylish meeting and event spaces.

Job Description

Purpose of Role:
-Responsible for cleaning guest rooms and surrounding areas in a courteous, safe and efficient manner and in accordance with the hotel’s policies and procedures, ensuring that a high level of service is maintained. Ensuring the use of hotel equipment is within guidelines and proper maintenance is conducted.

75% of Time Spent:
-Clean assigned guest rooms according to ABC standards established by the hotel. It involves, but not limited to, making the bed, dusting the room and furniture, replenishing guest room and bath supplies, cleaning the bathroom, vacuuming the carpet.
-While cleaning the room, verify that all is in proper condition and order of functioning and report to Style Team Leader any items that need repair.
-To extend and provide excellent service to all guests.
-To attend to guest requests immediately.
-To report defects, unusual guest behaviour, sickness and any damage found in guestroom.
-To report and hand over lost and found articles to Style Office or Stylist Talent Coach
-To maintain cleanliness of trolleys and ensure that adequate supplies are maintained.
-To maintain the cleanliness and tidiness of guest corridors, lift landing and lift doors are up to standard.
-To tidy up the vacant rooms and make sure it is ready for guest arrival.
-To keep pantries clean and hygienic at all the times.
-Follow Hotel standard HID’s and implement Go Green Program and Make a Green Choice Program.

10% of Time Spent:
-Organize and stock cleaning carts and organize linen closets on floors assigned.
-To report suspicious loiter on guest corridors.
-To deliver and collect guest laundry when necessary.
-Responsible for supplies at the pantry, ensure the quantity are correct as the standard set up.
-To perform other duties as assigned by Style Talent Coach.
-Keep up to date of hotel products and services knowledge in order to answer guest questions and requests.
-Answer all guest questions / request in a friendly and caring manner, take appropriate actions or if needed, refer the matter to the relevant persons to handle.

5% of Time Spent:
-Complete, and in a timely manner, any assigned paperwork.
-Hand over to Style Talent Coach before leaving.

-High School education preferred

-No prior experience required. Prior hospitality experience desired

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-W Look: appear confident, well-groomed and dressed in a smart casual manner
-W Personality: warm, welcoming, smiling and pleasant
-Never say no attitude
-Exceed customer expectations
-Communicate with others
-Demonstrate team spirit and cooperation
-Act with professionalism & integrity
-Verbal and listening skills
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-Take ownership
-Learn, develop and adapt to change
-Work independently
-Manage Time
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Delivering results:
-Commit to quality
-Follow policies and procedures
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People Live Everywhere EP

nonagonWe like it when bands reach out to us direct. No PR company spamming out releases, just straight up, direct contact to say ‘listen to this fucking record, we are putting it out ourselves’. Most bands by choice have to take this route thesedays. With major labels no longer taking risks or even knowing about how scenes develop because their A&R departments are still looking at Myspace for new artists, your average band is forced to get off it’s backside and do the right thing. Do it yourself people and knock on that door.

With Chicago being 3948.26 miles from where our office is in West London, 3-piece punks, Nonagon probably thought we were an American mag but knowing we grew up on Washington Hardcore releases and that we do have a knack of listening to everything that hits our contact page, Nonagon came to the right place this week for a review.

Made up of Tony Aimone (whose previous bands include The Blue Meanies and Taylor), Robert Gomez (Der Lugomen/Martian Law) and John Hastie (Jumpknuckle), Nonagon’s brand new EP kicks off with a crunching bassline, smashing guitars and shouty vocals remiscent of J.Robbins from Jawbox in a fight with the musicians of Bluetip. Thankfully there are no trumpets anywhere near this opening track Vikings, a-la Blue Meanies- only a look back to the good old days of the 90’s when Dischord were on fire with every release they put out. Second track Fresnal Lens offers off-beat drum prowess that slughtly touches on what Tanner were knocking out on ‘Ill Gotten Gains’ all those years back, followed by the spikyness of The Swifts which is where Nonagon’s punk spirit really lets itself loose from the chains. The tempo and winding basslines are stripped back for instrumental number Fadeout before the EP comes to a close just how this People Live Everywhere EP started, with crashing blocks of guitar and a healthy dose of frustration with a meandering crunch close to that of Barkmarket.

If you love the days of Fugazi, Girls Against Boys, Jawbox and The Holy Rollers, then this EP recorded by Justin Foley of The Austerity Program might just be a catalyst to make you get off your fat arse and re-live some of your favourite bands. Stream it in that player below and support these punks and buy the EP for just $5 from nonagonchicago.bandcamp.com

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We are a family of vinters who not only love wine but love making it. We started in the early 80’s and haven’t stopped making wine since.

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Link here to visit our fine wine list, including wonderful Zines and Cabs. We’d love to share our wines with you. It’s our pleasure.

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Welcome – Wine Tasting in Cambria

Cayucos Cellars is truly the quintessential small family winery. Owned and operated solely by our small family of five, we have no employees or minions to rely upon but ourselves. Each of us may be found in the tasting room from time to time, pouring wine, interacting with those from far and wide, and always enjoying a good chat.

All of the wines produced by Cayucos Cellars are fermented using only the inherent abilities of wild yeast, and are aged for three to six years in neutral oak barrels before bottling. With a production of between five hundred and eight hundred cases of premium wine annually, we are able to indulge an incredible attention to detail in each and every bottle. Our winery, located in an old dairy barn in the coastal hills above Cayucos, hides on a working ranch, thus we felt it prudent to place the tasting room in town to prevent anyone being flattened by a tractor.

Stop on by our tasting room and you will be greeted by none other than winemaker Stuart, his wife Laura, sons Clay, Ross, or daughter Paige. Feel free to explore our website to learn more about whom we are, the wonderful wines we make, and why we celebrate wild yeast.

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Cayucos Cellars – Our Tasting Room

The best way to experience our wines is to visit us at our tasting room in Cayucos, the classic surf town on California’s central coast. We’re open everyday but Tuesday in the winter, and everyday in the summer.

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Two years after a dam breach caused a mudslide that destroyed several homes near Oliver, B.C., property owners have received compensation for their losses.

Five homes were destroyed, as well as several vineyards and orchards, when the dam on Testalinden reservoir failed, causing a slide that pulled down heavy mud, trees and boulders.

"It was big, horrible. It sounded like a plane. We didn't know what was happening, we just had to run because we didn't know how big it was or what it was. That was the thing — the unknown. We didn't know what it was, or why," said homeowner Hardeep Khela.

The impact knocked houses from their foundations and covered farmland in metres of cement-like mud, leaving some homeless and others without their livelihoods.

Khela's family lost 13 acres of cherry, peach and apple orchards.

"Our house is just a few feet from the mudslide, so we didn't know if our house will be there when we go back," said Khela. "I took my kids and my husband's elderly parents from the house. I just drove away."

Now, after two years negotiating with lawyers, insurance companies and the provincial government, nine of the original 11 claims have been settled and the two remaining claims are close to reaching resolution, according to the Ministry of Justice.

It was a relief, said Khela, as people now have the money they need to rebuild their homes and their livelihoods.

"Just to get the land back where it was, how it was before the slide, that will take I don't know how many years. Because it's not the topsoil that's needed to grow trees and plants. You don't see any grass on the mudslide area."

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Cheers greeted Olympic athletes who arrived at the Calgary airport to a large crowd of fans.

Approximately 30 Canadian athletes landed in the city's airport on Tuesday, where a large crowd waited to celebrate their achievements, even offering up a red-and-white "Welcome Home" cake.

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A red-and-white "Welcome Home" cake was made for the dozens of Olympic athletes arriving at the Calgary airport Tuesday. (Bryan Labby/CBC)

Among the arriving athletes were Calgary's Gilmore Junio and silver medal winner Denny Morrison.

Junio gave up his spot in the 1000-metre speed skating final for Morrison, who had fallen during the qualifying trials and failed to make the team. Morrison went on to win a silver medal in that event.

The teammates stood side-by-side Tuesday while interviewers asked them about the attention surrounding Junio's decision.

"When it kind of blew up and people started messaging me and Denny, it was pretty incredible and definitely appreciated," Junio said.

“This guy is one of the greatest guys in the world," added Morrison. "He does things like this all the time.… It’s neat that he is finally getting attention for being such a great guy.”

Athletes arrived Monday night

Several athletes also arrived in Calgary Monday night to shouts and applause, including gold medal bobsled racer Kaillie Humphries.

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Kaillie Humphries arrived at the Calgary Airport Monday night to cheering fans and family members. (CBC)

Humphries says she is currently focusing on enjoying the win and will decide in the next few months whether to go for a third gold in 2018.

"It seems like a big task and I know it's going to be even bigger to defend. I definitely am not going to go in unless I know that I'm putting every ounce of everything I have back into it, because that's what it takes," she said.

"Being able to be home now, being able to share the gold medal with the city and the country, and really just being in a comfortable environment. It feels really amazing."

Calgary is the hometown of 28 athletes who travelled to Sochi for the Winter Olympics, while even more call the surrounding towns of Banff, Canmore, Airdrie and Cochrane home.

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A German television show has posted online a document it claims is the full text of the Canada-EU trade deal, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The 521-page document dated Aug. 5 was posted online Wednesday by the show Tagesschau.

The Harper government said earlier this month that negotiators had concluded a text of the free-trade deal with the European Union.

The final wording followed months of negotiation and disagreements over a wide range of issues that included investor protection from lawsuits as well as dairy quotas.

Trade Minister Ed Fast said last week that he was looking forward to a Canada-EU Summit in Ottawa next month, where the deal will be the centrepiece.

Fast said the agreement will "create jobs and economic opportunities for hard-working Canadians in every region of the country


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Obamacare marketplaces raise data security concerns

Minnesota insurance broker Jim Koester was looking for information about assisting with Obamacare implementation; instead, what landed in his inbox last month was a document filled with the names, Social Security numbers and other pieces of personal information belonging to his fellow Minnesotans.

In one of the first breaches of the new Obamacare online marketplaces, an employee of the Minnesota marketplace, called MNsure, accidentally emailed Koester a document containing personally identifying information for more than 2,400 insurance agents, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. MNsure was able to quickly undo the damage because Koester cooperated with them, but the incident left him unnerved.

"The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was," Koester told the newspaper. "What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It's scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?"

Online marketplaces like MNsure, called exchanges, are now running in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as part of the changes established under the Affordable Care Act. Open enrollment began on Tuesday, and as many as 7 million people are expected to sign up for private insurance plans on the exchanges in the next six months. Personal information for all of those customers will be routed from a federal datahub to the state-based exchanges, leaving people like Koester, and some health data experts, concerned about the program's security.

As more health-related data is digitized, "the privacy violations are going to be incalculable," Jim Pyles, an expert in health law who co-founded the law firm Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville, told CBSNews.com.

Health data breaches are far from just an Obamacare issue. Doctors, health administrators and their business associates already regularly handle personal information, like a patient's address, date of birth, Social Security number, prescription information and medical history.

Since 2009 -- when the Health and Human Services Department started requiring reporting on data breaches -- about 27 million people have been impacted by major breaches of unencrypted health data.

That doesn't mean the information is used to steal identities -- a thief may steal a laptop from a hospital administrator just for the machine, not the data on it. In fact, medical identity theft -- when a thief uses someone else's name or health insurance information to get health care, get prescription drugs or file insurance claims -- is a relatively small problem, based on complaints collected by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the agency in charge of consumer protection. Medical identity theft accounted for less than 1 percent of all complaints received by the FTC in 2012 -- just 199 cases in all.

Those, however, are just the reported cases. "Once that information's stolen electronically, the information can be copied infinitely and spread everywhere," Pyles said. "It's very, very difficult to stop fraud then."

And while medical identity theft is rarely reported, identity theft generally speaking is a major problem -- in 2012, identity theft accounted for 18 percent of the more than 2 million complaints that came into the FTC. Specifically, the FTC told a House Homeland Security subcommittee last month. The massive IT project, he said, has "literally no technical precedent."

That, of course, doesn't mean the project isn't worthwhile.

"The challenges in health care have changed. We used to store information in unlocked file cabinets in the back of somebody's office. Was that secure? No, it wasn't," Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, said in the Homeland Security subcommittee hearing. "Security and privacy of data is always a concern, but the thing that has changed is the increasingly interconnected nature of not just our health care system but our overall lives in general."

While security and privacy have always been a concern, files stolen from an unlocked file cabinet can only make it so far. The laws designed to protect personal information on health data systems haven't always kept up with the increasing flow of information.

Health information isn't just used by doctors, but also by analytics brokers sifting through data and repackaging it for the likes of pharmaceutical companies and health tech companies. The legal commercialization of this information is a booming industry that's creating even more opportunities for that information to be stolen.

"We're seeing massive breaches as more companies have more information and more copies," Pyles said. What's needed now, he continued, are simplified laws so that patients and practitioners can understand them and feel confident that their health information is protected.


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Healthcare education and medical training is critical for providing good patient care. Understanding expertise, learning, memory, cognitive skills (e.g., anatomists), and other cognitive issues can greatly benefit the use of e-learning and technology enhanced learning. For example, how best to use virtual patients, interactive videos and simulation depends on how effectively they work with the cognitive system. Making them effective gives not only value in terms of investment, but provides better outcomes in terms of patient care and safety.
The cognitive perspective provides the details of how to construct effective medical training (e.g., if, when & how fidelity is important, what examples are best to use, how to control for cognitive load, ways to maximize cognitive mechanisms, etc.; for details see A cognitive perspective on technology enhanced learning in medical training), and also innovative overall approaches to providing healthcare education. When the learning fits the cognitive architecture, then not only information is effectively acquired, but it is remembered in the long term, and most importantly, it is used in clinical practice and thus has an impact.
Cognitive Consultants International (CCI-HQ) provides research, workshops and consultancy to improve medical healthcare see, for example, Northwestern University Medical School and Montreal General Hospital). CCI-HQ's work is aimed at enhancing decision making, reducing error and providing cost effective and efficient medical training

Dr. Itiel Dror has received the 2014 ABP (Association for Business Psychology) Annual Award for 'Excellence in Training'.
Selected publications and presentations on these issues:

  • Dror, I. E., Schmidt, P., and O'Connor, L. (2011). A Cognitive Perspective on Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Training: Great Opportunities, Pitfalls and Challenges. Medical Teacher, 33 (4), 291-296.
  • Dror, I. E., Stevenage, S. V., & Ashworth, A. (2008). Helping the cognitive system learn: Exaggerating distinctiveness and uniqueness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22 (4), 573-584.
  • Park, C.S, Stojiljkovic, L., Lin, B.F., Milicic, B., & Dror, I. E. (2014). Training Induces Cognitive Bias: The Case of a Simulation-Based Emergency Airway Curriculum. Simulation in Healthcare, 9 (2), 85-93.
  • Dror, I.E. (2016). A Hierarchy of Expert Performance. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
  • Dror, I. E. (2012). The Paradoxical Nature of Expertise: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Keynote at International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) Annual Conference of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSiH). San Diego.
  • Dror, I. E. (2013). Patient safety. In J. A. Dent & R. M. Harden (Eds.), A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers (pp. 276-282). Elsevier.
  • Sung, M., Johnson, J.E. & Dror, I. E. (2009). Complexity as a guide to understanding decision bias: A contribution to the favorite-longshot bias debate. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22 (3), 318-337.
  • Dror, I. E. (2013). Cognitive Technology. In the 2013 Yearbook of Science & Technology (pp. 80-82). New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Fraser-Mackenzie, P.  & Dror, I. E. (2011). Dynamic reasoning and time pressure: Transition from analytical operations to experiential responses. Theory and Decision, 71 (2), 211-225.
  • Fernandez. R., Dror, I. E., Smith, C. (2011). Spatial abilities of expert clinical anatomists: Comparison of abilities between novices, intermediates, and experts in anatomy. Anatomical Sciences Education, 4 (1), 1-8.
  • Dror, I.E. (2012). Effective Use of Virtual Patient. Institute for Innovative Technology In Medical Education (iINTIME).
  • Dror, I. E. (ed.) (2011). Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). A novel approach to minimize error in the medical domain: Cognitive neuroscientific insights into training. Medical Teacher, 33 (1), 34-38.
  • Cherrett, T., Wills, G., Price, J., Maynard,S ., & Dror, I.E. (2009). Making training more cognitively effective: Making videos interactive. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (6), 1124-1134.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011).  Patient care and training: Minimizing errors in medical care that result in patient harm. Medical Teacher, 33 (5), 426-427.
  • Dror, I.E. (2009). Using cognitive technology to enhance learing. International Conference on Computer Supported Education. Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Fraser-Mackenzie, P. & Dror, I. E. (2009). Selective information sampling: Cognitive coherence in evaluation of a novel item. Judgment and Decision Making, 4 (4), 307-316.
  • Dror, I.E. (2012). Cognitively Effective Use of Technology in Healthcare Education. Keynote at NHS Masterclass Understanding the Principles of the Department of Health's Technology-enhanced Framework.
  • Dror, I.E. (2012). Expert Performance: A Paradox in Human Cognitive Processing. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  • Dror, I. E, Makany, T., & Kemp, J. (2011). Overcoming learning barriers through knowledge management. Dyslexia, 17, 38-47.
  • Stibel, J. M., Dror, I. E., & Ben-Zeev, T. (2009). Dissociating Choice and Judgment in Decision Making:  The Collapsing Choice Theory. Theory and Decision, 66 (2), 149-179.
  • Dror, I.E. & Charlton, D. (2006). Why experts make errors.  Journal of Forensic Identification, 56 (4), 600-616.
  • Dror, I. E., Busemeyer, J.R., & Basola, B. (1999). Decision making under time pressure: An independent test of sequential sampling models.  Memory and Cognition, 27 (4), 713-725.
  • Dror, I.E. (2012). How to Exploit the Emerging Cognitive Opportunities Arising from Medical Simulations. McGill University.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Enhancing Judgements and Improving Performance in Medical Care. The British Medical Association (BMA).
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Reducing Error in Medical Decision Making. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
  • Smith, W., Dror, I. E., & Mander, H. (2003). The effect of training specificity on performance in novel and related tasks. XX BPS Annual Cognitive Conference.
  • Dror, I. E., Langer, E.J., Houlette, M., & Ashworth, R.S.( 2001). Training and tasks demands that restrict and enhance performance. Psychonomic Abstracts, 6, 85.
  • Price, J., Wills, G., Dror, I. E., Cherrett, T. and Maynard, S. (2008). Risk assessment education: Utilizing interactive video for teaching health and safety. The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning. Santander, Spain.
  • Ashworth, A.R.S., & Dror, I. E. (2001). Object Identification as a Function of Discriminability and Learning Presentations: The Effect of Stimulus Similarity and Canonical Frame Alignment on Aircraft Identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6 (2),148-157.
  • Dror, I.E.  (2008). Technology’s role in learning: Possibilities and pitfalls. Rethinking the digital divide, the 15th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology. Leeds University, Leeds.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). The paradox of human expertise: Why experts get it wrong. In N. Kapur (Ed.) The Paradoxical Brain (pp. 177-188). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dror, I.E.  (2008). Designing e-learning? Don't leave your brain at home! Learning Technologies conference. London.
  • Peron, A. E., Dror, I. E., & Bucks, R.  (2005). The number of choice alternatives in a decision making task: Cursed by, or spoilt for choice?  9th European Congress of Psychology. Granada, Spain.
  • Makany, T., Kemp, J., & Dror, I. E. (2009). Optimising the use of note-taking as an external cognitive aid for increasing learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40 (4), 619-635.
  • Dror, I. E. (2008). Technology enhanced learning: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Pragmatics & Cognition, 16 (2), 215-223.
  • Dror, I. E., Ashworth, R. S., Schreiner, C.S., Robbins, R.D., & Snooks, S. F. (1997). The primacy effect on identification: Initial presentations during training establish long lasting representations. Psychonomic Abstracts, 2, 628. Philadelphia, PA.
  • Dror, I. E. (1996). Cognitive plasticity and its implications and applications to teaching. Lilly Conferences on College Teaching (West). UCLA Conference center, CA.
  • Cherrett, T.,Maynard, S., Wills, G., Price, J., and Dror, I. E. (2008). Utilising Interactive Video for Teaching Health and Safely. European Information Systems (EUNIS) 14th congress on Visions for use of IT. Aarhus, Denmark.
  • Dror, I.E.  (2007). What do the brain and e-learning have to do with one another? The E-learning Network Annual Meeting. London.
  • Baden, D., Dror, I. E., and Warwick-Evans, L.A. (2000). The dynamics within and between decisions. Psychonomic Abstracts, 4, 81.
  • Engelbrecht, P.C.,  Makany, T., Meadmore, K., Dudley, R. & Dror, I.E. (2007). It is not worth learning if it is not remembered: designing e-learning to increase memory. INTED 2007. Valencia, Spain.
  • Dascal, M. & Dror, I. E.  (2005). The impact of cognitive technologies: Towards a pragmatic approach. Pragmatics & Cognition, 13 (3), 451-457.
  • Rafaely, V., Dror, I. E., & Remington, R. E. (2006).  Information selectivity in decision making by young and older adults. International Journal of Psychology, 41 (2), 117-131.
  • Makany, T., Engelbrecht, P.C, Meadmore, K., Dudley, R, Redhead, S., and Dror, I. E. (2007). Giving the learners control of navigation: Cognitive gains and losses. INTED 2007. Valencia, Spain.
  • Dror, I.E. & Treves, R.  (2006). Using cognition to construct technology to enhance learning. Technology Enhanced Learning ESRC Meeting, Wolverhampton, UK.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Making HIT "Brain Friendly" - Optimizing Cognitive Technology and Distributed Cognition in Medicine and Healthcare. Keynote at the Greater China eHealth Forum. Hong Kong.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Medical Education: Do We Know What We Are Doing? Keynote at the Simulation and Training (SiTEL) Conference. Washington.
  • Rafaely, V., Dror, I. E., & Busemeyer, J. R. (1998). The susceptibility of young and old adults to positive and negative outcomes of recent decisions. Psychonomic Abstracts, 3, 41.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Brain friendly technology: What is it? And why we need it? In I. E. Dror, Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • Dror, I. E. & Harnad, S. (eds.) (2008). Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds. (258 pp.) John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Building Learning with the Brain In Mind. Learning technology Conference. London.
  • Dror, I. E. (2010). Training to Minimize Errors in Clinical Decision Making: The Challenges, Obstacles, and the Way Forward. Keynote at The annual conference of the Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH).
  • Dror, I.E.  (2007). Exploiting the opportunities and avoiding the pitfalls of games technology: The cognitive perspective. Using games technology and methodology to improve training & education - the opportunities and the issues, ETSA (European Training and Simulation Association) symposium. London.
  • Dror, I.E.  (2008). Learning to human cognition. National Conference of Applied Learning Technologies. Coventry, UK.
  • Dror, I.E. (2010). Training to Minimize Errors in Medical Decision Making: The Challenges, Obstacles, and the Way Forward.  Keynote at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Glasgow.
  • Dror, I. E. (2011). Patient care and training: Minimizing errors in medical care that result in patient harm, Medical Teacher, 33 (5), 426-427.

Medical Healthcare

Providing good and safe patient care requires highly skilled and dedicated medical staff. Correctly diagnosing and treating patients involves complex cognitive operations. These are often carried out under time pressure, distributed cognition, and within financial constraints. Cognitive issues (such as perception, interpretation, judgment, and decision making) underpin patient care and safety, therefore, a cognitive perspective can provide important insights and ways to effectively contribute to healthcare.

Understanding cognitive processes can improve quality of decisions, for example, how to manage risk, especially under time pressure when our ability to examine and compare choice alternatives is challenged. Under such conditions the decision making process is modified, and can result in ignoring some choice alternatives, selectively examining information, change of threshold for responding and more (for details, see time pressure). A cognitive approach also enables innovative strategies to reduce error, for example, how 'error recovery' training can be designed and implemented to construct most effective and salient mental representations (see, e.g., A novel approach to minimize error in the medical domain: Cognitive neuroscientific insights into training).


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Columbia College-Hancock Field is part of Columbia College's network of nationwide campuses. The first extended campus was founded in St. Louis in 1973 after an Army education services officer was interested in providing courses to Army recruiters in the area.

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HONOLULU -- In a game of ups and downs, the Indiana State University men's basketball team finished on a strong note.

Manny Arop scored a game-high 27 points and Indiana State beat th University of Mississippi 87-85 in overtime Saturday in a quarterfinal game of the Diamond Head Classic. Indiana State advances to meet the winner of No. 18 San Diego State and San Francisco in today's semifinals.

The Sycamores (6-3) fell behind early, rallied back to lead by as many as 11 points, only to allow Ole Miss to come back and force overtime. The Rebels' Derrick Millinghaus made a 3-pointer with 1 minute, 3 seconds left in regulation to tie it at 75.

"We were tough, we were grinding it out on offense and grinding it out on defense and that's what we had to do the whole game," said Jake Odum, who had 16 points, eight rebounds, and four assists for Indiana State. "We simplified some things in overtime and didn't necessarily run some certain set plays to get into a free flow motion, but we grinded on them and were patient in overtime."

Jarvis Summers made two free throws 15 seconds into overtime to give Ole Miss its first lead since it led 27-25 with about eight minutes left in the first half. But Indiana State went on a 10-2 run to reclaim the lead at 85-79 and withstood a late charge by Ole Miss (8-2), which will play in today's consolation round.

"It's a five-minute game. We do those in practice," Odum said of overtime. "We wanted to get out early on them, get a little lead and do what we wanted to do on offense and defense."

After a free throw by Summers, Marshall Henderson, who led the Rebels with 27 points, drained a long 3-pointer from about 28 feet to cut the Sycamores' lead to 85-83 with 16.8 seconds remaining.

Odum made two free throws with 11.1 seconds to play to make it a four-point lead for Indiana State. Henderson missed a long 3 on the Rebels' next possession, but Reginald Buckner grabbed the loose ball and scored to close it to 87-85.

Ole Miss had a chance to tie it or win after the Sycamores turned it over in the closing seconds, but Summers' desperation heave from near midcourt was no good.

Justin Gant, who played 41 minutes, had 12 points and 11 rebounds. R.J. Mahurin added 12 points and Dawon Cummings scored 10 for Indiana State.

"Coach said we just had to play, dig in, focus, stick to our defensive plan and keep executing and get good shots," Arop said. "Guard them, take away shots from Henderson. He's a great player. They're a great team and they do such a great job on the glass. We battled and they (ISU post players) held their own on the glass."

Buckner finished with 17 points with 10 rebounds and Murphy Holloway added 16 points and 13 rebounds.

Ole Miss built a 24-14 lead near the midway point of the first half off an 18-footer by Nick Williams, but Indiana State used a 23-3 run to pull ahead, 37-27, with 2:46 remaining in the first half. The Rebels went scoreless for a stretch of 6:21.

Indiana State, which made 5 of 9 on 3-pointers in the first half, finished 9 of 20 from behind the arc for the game. The Sycamores made 18 of 24 free throws, while the Rebels got to the line just 13 times and made seven.

Arop, a junior forward, was 9 of 15 from the field, including 4 of 5 on 3-pointers and 5 of 6 from the free-throw line. He had 16 points by halftime.

Henderson, who entered the game averaging 17.8 points, made 10 of his 23 field goals, including 7 of 16 3-pointers. He scored 16 of his points after halftime for the Rebels, who rallied from as many as 11 downs.

"We missed some assignments and they still scored a lot," Sycamores coach Greg Lansing said of Ole Miss. "That's a very good offensive team, a lot of good weapons. We just tried to make them score in a fashion they're not usually scoring."

The Rebels scored 24 points off 13 Indiana State turnovers and got 29 second-chance points to the Sycamores' 15. There were 11 ties and six lead changes in the game.

Indiana State led 44-33 at halftime.

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Message Text: PENTAX Imaging Company announced the PENTAX K10D digital SLR camera with 10.2 effective megapixels.

The camera also hosts advanced technologies including a PENTAX-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system and a weather-resistant body. Designed to deliver high-quality digital images and responsive operation for advanced photo enthusiasts, the K10D features an array of PENTAX innovations in image capture and camera functionality.

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-- A PENTAX-developed Shake Reduction (SR) system that effectively offers a 2.5 to 4 stop advantage for sharp images even under difficult shooting conditions, such as macro and telephoto photography or low light settings without a flash. The SR mechanism is designed to minimize camera shake by oscillating the CCD image sensor vertically and horizontally at high speed using magnetic force, while adjusting the speed of oscillation in proportion to the amount of camera shake detected by built-in sensors. As a result, the system does not require special anti-shake lenses and can be used with more than 24 million PENTAX lenses produced since 1964. (a)

-- A newly developed Pentax Real IMage Engine (PRIME) designed exclusively for PENTAX digital SLR cameras to produce well-balanced, true-to-life images. In order to meet the performance requirement in handling 10 megapixel data, PENTAX also incorporated a new high performance 22 bit A/D converter to quickly transfer images with accurate color tones and richer gradation from the CCD to the imaging engine.

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"Advanced photographers will not find another 10 megapixel digital SLR that offers features such as a weather-resistant body, shake reduction, and great ergonomics, at any price," said Ned Bunnell, director of marketing, PENTAX Imaging Company. "With the K10D introduction, PENTAX is now able to offer digital SLRs for two important users - the first time SLR customer who can buy the K100D and now the K10D for the more advanced users."

Along with the body, PENTAX announced a D-BG2 battery grip for exclusive use with the PENTAX K10D. This battery grip can be used in combination with the camera's rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to double the camera's battery life. With a vertical shutter-release button, preview lever, two control dials, AE-lock button and green button, the new battery grip makes vertical-position shooting simple and effortless. The grip features the same dust-proof, weather-resistant construction as the K10D camera body.

PENTAX also announced the smc PENTAX-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited lens, designed for exclusive use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras and featuring an ultra-thin pancake design and uni-focal, medium-telephoto optics. With a medium-telephoto perspective, this new lens is ideal for many applications including portraiture and landscape. The high-performance optics ensure outstanding image quality, and provide distinctive visual expression. Materials used for this lens are selected for optimum holding comfort and operability, and the new lens is designed to be extremely thin and lightweight, for go-anywhere portability for casual, day-to-day snapshot photography.

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As prefigured here a little while ago, there is a new peer-reviewed Irish legal journal, the Irish Journal of Legal Studies. The publication of Volume 1, Issue 1, 2010 has just been announced on the Continue Reading

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Tony Abbott is an Australian Liberal politician who was born on 4 November 1957, in London. His parents moved back to Australia in 1960, and settled in Chatswood. Tony Abbott went to the University of Sydney, where he graduated first with a Bachelor of Economics, later with a Bachelor of Laws, then with a Master of Arts. Whilst at university, Tony Abbott was heavily involved with the political scene and was an active member of student politics. Before entering politics he considered priesthood, even going as far as entering St Patrick’s Seminary, but eventually decided not to go ahead with the career choice.

In March 1994, Tony Abbott entered the Australian House of Representatives for the Warringah division. He started as Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 1996-1998, before progressing to the role of Minister for Employment Services, a role which he served in until 2001. That same year, Tony Abbott also handled the portfolio of Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Small Business, as well as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations.

Tony Abbott has faced several controversies throughout his career. He has always been known a conservative Catholic as well as a forceful debater. He has made it a priority to attempt to reduce the number of abortions performed annually, regarding the issue as a national tragedy on par with the low life expectancy of Aboriginals. He also caused a stir and attracted much criticism in 2007 after delaying the funding for cancer diagnostic equipment.

Also in 2007, Tony Abbott received much media attention after publicly swearing, not once but twice. Later that year, he ran for the position of Party Leader following the rejection of Peter Costello’s application. Tony Abbott later withdrew from the election as he did not have enough support. In December 2007, he was given the Shadow Portfolio of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

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Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise, 1, enjoy some mommy & me time in the water. There are rumors that Katie is pregnant, but I don’t know, take a look at the rest of the photos-she sure doesn’t look it! I love her hair too! Looks great!

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    I don’t think she looks pregnant. It will be interesting to find out if she really is. That bathing suit doesn’t look like it would be comfortable.

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Lourdes & Madonna's Closet Capers

Daughters love to raid their mothers’ closets. But what happens when your mom is Madonna— the original Material Girl?

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Lourdes Leon dishes about her mother’s closet hypocrisy.

“I’m not supposed to take things without asking, but she’s always taking things without asking,” Leon explains. “I mean, she gets mad at me when I take things without asking her, but… she has such amazing like clothes, so it’s like kind of annoying sometimes.”

So what’s Madonna “borrowing” from Lourdes?

“She wears my shoes a lot and she wears my accessories,” revealed the little fashionista.

In her mother’s defense, the girl does have style!

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    I can understand why Madonna feels that way and it’s not like she’s really borrowing her clothes anyway. Madonna just borrows flat shoes and accessories. Lourdes’ shoes are sometimes already beat up and the accessories are mostly not expensive, plus Madonna takes care of the stuff she borrows according to Lourdes. On the other hand, what Lourdes borrows from Madonna is expensive designer items of all kinds which she sometimes accidentally messes up according to Madonna. I hope she also doesn’t lose anything.

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    Her daughter looks very Cuban.

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