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By Sarah Linn, SanLuisObispo.com, Oct 29, 2009

The Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will showcase their traditional arts at the Cohan Center

San Luis Obispo, CA (USA) -- Five decades after fleeing their homeland, one group is dedicated to keeping Tibetan culture alive. The Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery bring their touring show, “Mystical Arts of Tibet,” to the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo next week.

< The Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery keep Tibetan culture alive through sacred music and dance.

“We believe that the very life force of our nation is its culture and its ritual traditions,” said Tsepak Rigzin, assistant program director at Drepung Loseling Monastery Inc.

“When we bring this to the outside, not only are we able to offer better awareness and understanding of Tibet, its people and its culture,” he said. “It also offers an opportunity to continue preserving it.”

An educational purpose

Established in 1416, the Drepung Loseling Monastery was once one of the largest monastic universities in Tibet. At its height, the Buddhist monastery in the hills north of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, housed about 10,000 monks.

When political persecution forced Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to flee in 1959, about 250 monks from the monastery escaped with him, Rigzin said. They found refuge in the small town of Mundgod in southern India.

Today, about 3,000 monks call the rebuilt Drepung Loseling

Monastery home, Rigzin said. The monastery also has about 25 members based in Atlanta, Ga.

According to Rigzin, the monastery’s purpose in North America is clear: to educate Western students, scholars and the general public about Tibetan Buddhist traditions, and to help preserve Tibetan culture.

Monks have been touring under the auspices of “Mystical Arts of Tibet” since the late 1980s, he said.

Their Nov. 5 concert, “Sacred Music, Sacred Dance,” features the ancient art of polyphonic throat singing and chanting. Monks use their mouths and throats to produce multiple pitches simultaneously, creating a sound that is haunting, holy and deeply primal.

“It has its own ambience and carries its own special blessings and energy,” Rigkin said.

In Tibetan religious practice, he said, chanting and singing is seen as a form of meditation. Practitioners may be offering devotions, seeking enlightenment or reflecting on the teachings of great saints and masters.

Carefully choreographed dances accompany the music, offering healing for the environment and the community.

“In this music and in this dancing, we’re able to see a reflection of Buddhist principles,” Rigzin said.

Many works

Over the years, the Drepung Loseling monks have appeared on the soundtrack of “Seven Years in Tibet” and performed Phillip Glass’ Academy Award-nominated score for “Kundun” in concert.

They’ve also shared the stage with the likes of Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow and the Beastie Boys, performed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and appeared at a Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C.

Two of the monks’ albums, “Sacred Tibetan Temple Music” and “Sacred Music/Sacred Dance,” have topped U.S. New Age music charts.

“It’s considered a special privilege to be chosen for that group,” said Rigzin, adding that joining the Mystical Arts of Tibet tour requires extensive training and spiritual study.

Each touring group features about 10 performers

who range in age from their 20s to their early 40s. Because performances tend to be physically taxing, Rigzin said, they require strong, energetic participants.

In addition to musical ability, the Drepung Loseling monks must also possess artistic skills.

During their four-day residency, the monks will create a sacred Tibetan sand mandala at McPhee University Union. The ritual seeks to re-consecrate the Earth and its inhabitants.

After an opening ceremony held at noon Tuesday, the monks will draw an outline on a wooden platform. They’ll then fill in geometric shapes and sacred symbols by pouring colored sands through metal funnels, like water.

“It is an ancient art that belongs to the old world of humanity,” Rigzin explained.

The monks will also host a community sand-painting project, providing sand, tools and instruction.

The sand paintings will be destroyed on Nov. 6 as part of a closing ceremony symbolizing the impermanence of life.

Positive experience

Although audience members tend to approach Tibetan art and culture on different levels, Rigzin said, most people find “Mystical Arts of Tibet” a positive experience.

“They always say it’s very inspirational and very touching in a special sense,” he said. “It’s very good … for them to know more about Tibet and to see and experience monks in person.”

For the Drepung Loseling monks, he added, practicing sacred rituals in a secular setting is a way of reaching out to the world.

“(Tibetan culture) can inspire. It can connect others with healing energy,” Rigzin said.

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Back in February, I made an attempt to project current estimates of excess Iraqi deaths since the march 2003 invasion on the basis of the estimates arrived at on the basis of the survey carried out by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and al Mustansariya University School of Medicine team of Burnham et al between May and July 2006 and published in The lancet last October.

The Johns Hopkins survey report in October that estimated the number of excess deaths in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion at about 655,000 was conducted in May-July last year. Iraqis have obviously continued dying since then, and at an accelerating pace, from all reports.

Deploying a slightly suspect methodology, I have averaged the estimate, along with the upper and lower limits of the 95% confidence interval that the Lancet paper reported, to arrive at new estimates. On this basis, the probable number of excess Iraqi deaths as of this month stands at 769,583. Projecting from the July figures, we would be 95% certain that the true number lies in the range between 461,750 and 1,107,597. And counting. Since the numbers dying is on the increase, this is almost certainly an underestimation and the probability that at least 450,000 have died is therefore very high. Clearly there’s no point in even asking why these numbers don’t see the light of day in the mainstream press – only American deaths count.

So, of the estimated pre invasion population of 27 million, the occupation troops have already killed at least 450,000, and perhaps as many as 1.1 million – that would be over 4% of the population, and counting…

The approach I adopted was to calculate a monthly average for the first 40 months since the invasion covered by the Burnham et al study and assume that the average monthly rate of excess deaths for the year to July 2006 persisted. I also calculated on the basis of the average over the forty months, which yielded an unrealistically low projection, and on the basis that the monthly death rate post July 2007 increased by as much over the June 2005-June 2006 rate as the June 2005-June 2006 rate had increased over the average monthly rate May 2004-May 2005, which yielded projections that looked unrealistically high.

Using the same method and projecting out to this month, I arrive at an estimate of 1,015,195, including non ‘violent’ deaths.

A recent Information Clearing House linked me to the Just Foreign Policy site, where they have developed a new counter. The way it works is to update Burnham’s estimate of some 601,000 excess deaths specifically from violent causes over the period between the US invasion in March 2003 and the survey in May-July 2006 on the basis of increases in the Iraq Body Count counter. IBC provides minimum and maximum counts due to the range of numbers reported in the media they rely on. The new counter divides the average of the current minimum and maximum by the average of the two figures for July 2006 and multiply it by 601,000 to arrive at an approximation of the probable current death toll from violent causes.

JFP are quite explicit in acknowledging that this method is likely to under estimate the actual number of deaths because IBC relies on media reports. As the situation for reporters in Iraq has become more and more dangerous, the proportion of deaths reported in the media inevitably declines. They are also aware of the incompatibility between the IBC claim only to report the deaths of non combatants and Burnham’s principled approach to not attempting to distinguish combatants from non combatants.

A point that Eli Stephens has made and I believe I’ve mentioned before is that when the media report an incident that kills 5 and injures 30, that’s the end of the story. There is never a follow up story reporting on the 23 who subsequently died of their injuries. That is one source of the gross understatement of Iraqi deaths that IBC continues to defend.

JFP are also explicit that what their counter is trying to enumerate is the number killed specifically as a result of the US invasion and occupation since 2003. That means above and beyond the already elevated mortality from the previous US (aka UN) military adventure in Mesopotamia and the subsequent campaign of boycott and bombing.

I note with some pleasure that Tom Feeley at ICH has finally started presenting a more accurate description of the nature of the projection, ‘Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,004,219’. As I’ve mentioned before, until 18 June, ICH announced, ‘Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 + +’. There are two problems with this formulation. The survey on which the estimate is based explicitly made no pretense of distinguishing combatant from civilian deaths. And the breadth of the 95% confidence interval means that there is a small possibility that the actual number killed could have been as ‘few’ as 392,979 at the time of the survey, so it is not appropriate to describe the midpoint estimate as ‘at least’.

Anyway, I think the JFP methodology is sound and the projection it generates is not far off my 1,015,195 projection, perhaps a little less than the discrepancies regarding violent and non combatant deaths would suggest. So I’ve installed the code and will display the JFP counter here unless someone shows me why the reasoning is faulty.

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Tip 49 - Reluctant Reader? Get Wired for Sound!

As winter approaches with its short gray days – if your child loves nothing better than to curl up with a good book, you do not need to read this post. But, if your child would rather hit balls than hit the books or rather Wii than read, then this blog post is for you.  Many children are what I call, reluctant readers. Some children like stories (on television or movies) but not if they have to read them. There may be several reasons a child is a reluctant reader. In some cases the child  may read too slowly to enjoy a book or story read alone, so they prefer watching it played out.  It’s not that this child can’t read, it’s just too difficult to be something the child will do for pleasure. Other children are more action oriented. They like to do things not listen about other people doing things. These children may have been reluctant listeners when they were younger..
Now, for the good news! Research shows that the first step to reading well and enjoying a book is enjoying a good story. We forget that humans have been listening to stories for centuries; reading though, is relatively new. When Columbus discovered America in 1492, only a very few people knew how to read. Until the printing press was invented in 1440, the vast number of humans had no access to printed text.  Even In the U.S.  reading is relatively new. Children were not required to go to school in all the states until less than a hundred years ago. And even then, children in school were not always taught “to read” the way we think of it today. In many rural classrooms reading centered around memorizing passages from the Bible and reading basic words helpful for buying and selling goods , crops, and livestock. Children were not required to “sound words out” or read to learn

So to get your reluctant reader to become an avid reader – get your child wired for sound by listening to stories as often as possible (and using any means possible).

ToddlersThe Nursery Rhyme Effect -It is worth repeating one of my blog posts from several months ago, that the best way to build a listening and language skills in a toddler is through nursery rhymes.  Repeat nursery rhymes routinely during dressing time, bath time, playtime or car rides to the day care center. You don’t have to actually sit down and read them to an active toddler, just add nursery rhymes you remember from your childhood to routine activities you do with your toddler each day.

Pre-schoolersEstablish Story time -Make story time a part of every bedtime routine. You can take turns having dad and mom or even an older brother or sister read a short story before bed every evening. It is a great way to quiet your child down for a nap or bed and provide an opportunity for intimate “quality time” each day.

Primary school yearsRead to and with your child each day - What you read together does not matter. So, go to the Library and let your child choose a book or two each week. Or, ask your child’s teacher to recommend books. But make certain you and your child read together for at least 20 – 30 minutes a day.

Elementary and Middle School years – Audio Books are fine - If you have a reluctant reader provide a routine time and place for listening to audio books. You can purchase them, download them to an iPod, or borrow from the library. Choose books you know your child will enjoy, like “Harry Potter” books, or books about celebrities or sports stars. Or let your child choose books for himself. If an older child is not reading for pleasure it is more important that she like books than listen to books you like. But try to set aside at least one-half hour a day when your child listens to an audio book. Certainly, this should occur before T.V., video game play, or other types of entertainment.

And  for all ages, when you are purchasing gifts for a reluctant reader during this holiday season, consider one or two new audio books before video games. Your child might not thank you at the time but she will in a few years.

The evidence?  Andreas Schleicher reported research from 2009 on 15 year olds in 18 industrialized countries around the world that was conducted as part of the International Student Assessment (PISA). The study not only evaluated student performance but also asked parents questions about how they raised their children. A major finding was that adolescents whose parents often read to them during the first year of primary school had significantly higher scores on PISA than students whose parents read to them infrequently.

Only a few generations ago, your reluctant reader might have grown into a very successful athlete, farmer, or merchant without any pressure as a student or adult to read prolifically.  But today success in adulthood depends on success in school and that depends on reading proficiency. Rather than forcing a reluctant reader to read, try building a love of listening to stories first.

Tip  49    Research indicates that you can build your child’s love of “story telling” and “story listening” and by doing so you can turn a reluctant reader into an avid reader. But, if you think your child might be more than reluctant, might actually have a reading problem, please get professional help. A little targeted intervention by a language or reading specialist can nip little problems in the bud.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Tip 48 - Coaching Your Winning Teen

Yes, you read this right. This tip is about your teen, not a team. The good news is that your teen is coachable. Skeptical?   Brain science has revealed that there are two critical periods in brain development –  the first is from birth to about five years of age. The second critical period?  You guessed it, the teenage years.
What do I mean about a critical period?  It means your child’s brain is especially malleable.  For most parents of a teen that is a disconcerting thought, since your teen may seem to have rejected all parental influence. I understand. I recall a Saturday evening years ago when my oldest child Heather pulled her sweatshirt hood down over her face for an entire night because she was embarrassed she might be seen at a bowling alley with her parents and siblings. What she apparently didn’t realize is that there was little chance her teenage friends would have been there, and if they were, they would have been equally mortified at the prospect of being seen bowling with their family on a weekend evening.
But here is the message: your parenting is very important to your teen- you just need to be a different parent than you were a few years ago. Below are some suggestions:
1.       Diaries and journals build creative expression and enhance literacy – Encourage your teen to express himself in writing.  Written language skills are essential to success in college and most careers.  One way to provide opportunities for your teen to develop writing skills is to encourage journaling.  A journal is a private log of thoughts, experiences, and concerns that promotes both writing and problem solving.  Because no one is grading it, a teen will often write for hours – just the act of writing builds writing skills But a key component is “privacy’, since your teen is more likely to use the log often and write more if he feels his private thoughts are secure.
2.       Create opportunities for dialogue – Her space, her topic. A teen’s world is busy so there won’t be many times to engage your teen in long conversation. But if you want to know what your teen is up to, you need to get a conversation going. When a time opens up, capitalize on it. You might be in the car on the way to a sports event or driving your teen to a party. Or, you might find your teen alone in his room on a weekday evening. When you catch a moment like this use it to talk – but let your teen choose or elaborate on the topic. Try open-ended questions and avoid any topic that might seem like you have an agenda. The idea is to get your teen talking freely. Conversation starters might be:
“I haven’t seen ________ for awhile. Are you guys still friends?”
“I was thinking about taking your brother (sister) to a movie. What have you seen that you liked? What’s it about?”
“What do you think I should get ______ for his birthday (the holidays)” Why would that be a cool gift?
“We’re thinking about a trip this summer, where would you like to go”?
3.       Don’t be afraid to maintain control Teens reject control but at the same time crave it. Your teen is experiencing a natural pull against authority. Nature is pushing your teen to become an adult and to separate from you, the parent. However, the irony is that your teen is not really ready to be independent. Research suggests that the frontal lobe, (the part of the brain that prepares for the future and delays gratification) is not yet mature and is extraordinarily vulnerable to effects of addiction and peer influence. Until your teen is an adult, you need to be his frontal lobe,  Provide your teen with goals:
a.        rewards for good grades,
b.      special events  for good school attendance or sports achievements
c.       maintain daily routines  like homework schedules and limits on cell phone use
d.      make a habit of assuring homework is finished before playing video games or watching T.V.
4.       Watch for addictive behaviors – Research suggests that teen years are the most are vulnerable to addiction of all kinds – substances, risk-taking activities, even video games. The plasticity of the teen brain means that it is more vulnerable to addiction than other age groups.  This can be a good thing if your teen is spending most of her time practicing sports or a musical instrument.  But , if you see your teen’s grades dropping or participation in social activities decreasing, these might be warning signs. Speak with a counselor at school or a trusted teacher and seek professional guidance. Teen addiction can be stopped easily if caught right away.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Tip 47 Want a happy kid? The power of "No!"

I believe parenting may be more difficult now than it was for other generations, especially in our modern world of "instant" everything.  You and I had to wait.... for a meal to cook, for a special toy  on our birthday or trip to the zoo, for our favorite T.V. show, for our favorite song to play on the radio, for a phone call from someone special.

Today, even in the the most remote areas of our country, children have instant access to the Internet and on-demand television programs. Music is always accessible on an iPod & new games at the touch of a phone or tablet App. Your child can call, text, or Tweet anyone at anytime.  This instant gratification makes it hard to parent -- the older the child, the more difficult, because there are very few times and places where parents consistently have the opportunity to set limits and restrict access.

Yet research shows that ability to delay gratification leads to:
  • adult achievement,
  • ability to control overeating,
  • resistance to drug or achohol abuse, and
  • vocational success.
How can you help your child develop the ability to delay gratification?  Say, "no", set limits and stick to them.

For children aged 5 -18 years - Parents  can work together to set limits:

1. TV AND VIDEO LIMITS Remember, television and videos should be viewed as entertainment, a reward for getting work or chores finished. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends two hours a day.
2. NEW GAME AND TOY LIMITS Limiting new video games, iPod apps and toys to gifts for birthdays or as rewards for exceptional achievements helps children learn patience and the joy that comes from giving and receiving.
3. CANDY AND SNACK LIMITS Limiting sweet, fatty or salty snacks to one dessert a day or to special occasions helps children control cravings for high caloric foods and improves eating of nutritious foods.
4. EARN SPECIAL PRIVILEDGES  Opportunities to earn points can include: helping to prepare dinner or set the table; keeping a neat room with made bed for a specified time period; babysitting for a younger sibling for several evenings; helping mow the lawn, feed the pets, take out the trash, etc.
5. SET AND LIMIT AN ALLOWANCE Set a weekly allowance for necessary purchases with a savings target (10%). Help your child budget by putting some of the allowance (and monetary gifts from relatives) in a bank or savings account. Set a savings goal aligned for a special purchase like a new game console, a special pair of shoes, a trip to an amusement park- and allow your child to spend when they reach the goal or set a new bigger goal for a bigger purchase.

As your sons or daughters enter adulthood, the limits you set and stick to when they are young will enable the young adult to be patient, understand the value of earning rewards, and not be disappointed when he or she cannot "have it all".   Adult happiness depends not on instant gratification but the reward that comes from working, waiting and saving. Hours and hours of boring homework builds ability to do well on tests; boring practice builds athletes and musicians. Saving builds the capacity to afford a car, a home, and purchase necessities.

Tip 47 Help your child learn to delay gratification for a happier childhood and adulthood by setting limits, sticking to them and saying "No!"

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Tip 46 Leaders of Tomorrow: Imagine this!

I have written before about how parents can inspire leadership skills in their children. As Steve Jobs is being memorialized these past few weeks, his passing inspires thought about which of his many strengths propelled him and his visionary Apple products to supersede the competition. He was certainly not a pleaser; known for his irascible style. I think the Apple motto, "think different" is probably the key to understanding his success as an innovator. He trusted his intuition and creativity. He was able to ‘read’ our minds and figure out what the average person wants, not what we need. Translate, "if I had an extra $500 how would I spend it?"

Most of us don't necessarily strive to have a Steve Jobs as our son or daughter, although we wouldn't mind.  But we do want to cultivate that type of individualism and insight in our children because individuals with those qualities end up leaders in business and professions? How does a parent foster those skills? Answer, encourage imagination and awareness. Steve Jobs had a keen sense of what people want, if not a need to be liked.  He listened to those around him and pushed them to reach for the stars. He also trusted both his intuitions and his creative drive.

So how might you cultivate this kind of genius in your children?

     Cultivate the natural problem solver - age 4-8 Try to find time each week to play with toys like blocks, strings, pieces of cardboard and movable objects like cars or balls; things that children can use to create but don't do anything on their own. Then give your child a problem to solve. Some suggestions are below:
a.    How could you build a bridge over a lake? If this piece of paper is a lake how can we use our blocks and this cardboard so this car can go over the lake without falling in?
b.    Can you figure out what we could build that would make this car go so fast on it’s own that it would start at this side of the room and end up at the other side of the room? (hint…use the blocks to build a down ramp so that the car will build speed as it goes down and continue a far distance.) How high will the ramp need to be to get the car to the other side of the room? How smooth will it have to be? How can you use blocks to do that?
c.    Water play (floating makes for a good problem solving task) – Show your child how some objects sink (pennies, stones) and some objects float on water (an empty vitamin bottle with the cap on). Ask your child to find some things that she thinks will sink then find things that will float. Hand your child a bottle without a lid and ask him if he thinks it will float? Ask he why it won’t but the lidded bottle did? Help him figure out what makes something float.

  Imaginative play - Age 8 -15 -creativity starts with the ability to let imagination flourish – on the next blustery or rainy Saturday encourage your child to “dream the impossible dream.”  Some suggestions are below:

-- Design the vehicle of the future. Will it fly or move on the ground? How would it work? What would make it special? What kind of materials would it have to be made of?
- Draw (design) the house you would like to live in when you grow up. How many rooms will it have? What will you do in each room? What kind of furniture will each room have?
Let’s try to write a very scary story together. Who will the characters be? How old will they be? What will be the setting? What time of year will it be? Will there be a house or a building in the story? What will it be like?
 - What kind of world would you make if you were the "boss" of the world?
What kind of video games would you make so that math would be easier?"

Imagination and creativity open the way to helping your child achieve the Apple Motto -  "think different." If you add the ability to solve problems never encountered before you will build the primary traits of leaders. Cultivate those skills in your children and watch them soar.


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Panasonic launches new compact 1-Chip DLP Projectors

The PT-DW730ES and PT-DX800ES Delivers Exceptional Picture Quality, High Reliable Operation and System Flexibility (Wiesbaden)

Panasonic Europe today announced the addition of two new 1-Chip DLP™ projectors with new lamp drive system for increased brightness and a new Eco Filter for less maintenance. Part of the best selling D6000 Series, the PT-DW730ES and PT-DX800ES are compact in size and ideal for use in higher education, museums, government control applications and installs that require 24/7 hour operation.

To achieve exceptional picture quality, The PT-DW730ES features 7,000 lumens of brightness with 1,280 x 800 pixels WXGA resolution and the PT-DX800ES?features 8,000 lumens of brightness with a 1,024 x 768 XGA resolution. Both models come with Detail Clarity Processor, which enhances picture details within each frame to produce natural and sharp looking images. In addition the exclusive System Daylight View™ 2 feature that produces clear, well defined colors even in brightly-lit rooms, such as galleries, museums and education environments which can be exposed to varying levels of light.

The newly designed Eco filter is featured in each model providing a maximum of 12,000 hours replacement cycle, greatly reducing maintenance cost and management. Both models are cooled by a high efficient liquid cooling system, which enables operation in temperature between 0-45 degrees Celsius.

“We’ve taken the best of our D6000 series and put it into a compact projector that is suitable for bright environments without comprising on picture quality,” said Yoshitaka Inuzuka, European Technical & Marketing, Panasonic. “We’ve standardized our lamps so customers who have invested in D6000 or DZ570 projectors already can significantly reduce additional inventory costs by using the same lamp across the board.”

The new projectors feature Edge Blending Functionality and Multi-Screen Support System suitable for projections onto wide screens or to create seamless images across multiple surfaces. Both models can be purchased with or without standard lens. However, the PT-DW730ELS/PT-DX800ELS projectors come with a choice of six different optional lenses.

The 1-Chip DLP projectors will be on display at InfoComm 2011 and available in Europe from August 2011.


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Bitcoin prices began dropping rapidly Thursday following the People’s Bank of China’s announcement that it was barring the digital currency from all of China’s financial institutions. Individuals can still use Bitcoin, albeit at their own “risk.”

While Bitcoin was trading at a high of $1,240 prior to the statement, it quickly sank to a low of $870, a 30 percent drop.

Bitcoin’s price has always been volatile. In November, the currency made news when it reached what was then an all-time high of $305.


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I love, love, love old places like historic Marietta where we shot these photos last week. Although I have a great fondness indoor photography, my heart really belongs to these great location shoots. After I came home from the shoot, I told my husband how much I was in my element.

Today, though, I was on the other side of the camera. A good friend and fellow photographer Stacey took my family's photos, and it was a good reminder how it feels to be the subject. The shoot itself was awesome, but beforehand, I had major trepidation about our clothes, even though I know very well how to put together attire for a shoot. Then there was the hair, the makeup, and worrying that the location I had chosen wouldn't work out. Well, it all came together, just like last week's shoot did. But after today, I have a new appreciation for my clients! It's definitely worth it though. When you're all done, you have amazing family portraits like these!

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I showed a friend this picture as I was editing today, and she said, "Somebody finally got their girl." They sure did! I remember how excited mom and grandma (both close friends) were for another female in the family.

For this shoot, we did an indoor setup with a background and a photo light I recently got from my dad (thanks Dad!). Their mom specifically wanted all the kids on her couch. Love it! The texture overlay you see around the edges of the portrait was a request by the oldest son, and both his mom and I thought it was a good idea. I think it really enhances the look of an otherwise flat background. Well, I've got more pictures to edit . . . enjoy the sneak peek!

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Fall is just about the best season here in Georgia -- it usually lasts quite a few weeks and the colors from the trees are amazing. We are just starting to see reds and oranges (with an abundance of yellow), so now is a great time to snap pictures of your kiddo. Here are a few hints on how I got these great autumn photos.

My little boy loves to "explore" trails and sidewalks around our place. Our deal is that he gets to explore and I get to take photos, plus he'll agree to pose for some of them too. I took these shots around 5:00 p.m. after a drizzly day with overcast skies. Overcast = soft even light for outdoor shots. Perfect.

The first and second image show how tricky trees can be -- you want to capture the fall foliage, but you don't want a branch or tree trunk coming out of your subject's head. I squatted down to take the first shot so I could get the tops of the trees behind his head. The second shot was just positioning. I had to place my boy in a certain spot so that I could get a full body shot with the trees and without head-branches.

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The BEA is out with its monthly Personal Income and Outlays report. Here are the headline numbers as reported by Calculated Risk:

Personal income increased $38.1 billion, or 0.3 percent … Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $69.1 billion, or 0.7 percent.

Real PCE — PCE adjusted to remove price changes – increased 0.3 percent in February, in contrast to a decrease of less than 0.1 percent in January.

The astute readers of this blog don’t need to be reminded that what matters is the growth in real PCE, not the nominal numbers, and that growth rate is to say the least less than robust. We will have to wait and see what March brings us but it appears pretty certain that we can expect PCE growth far below the 4% recorded in the 4th quarter.

There’s a lot of spin out there playing these numbers as something quite positive for the economy. Joe Weisenthal waxes enthusiastic and Dan Indiviglio tries to bury the effect of higher gas and food prices. Don’t buy into it, this was a very modest uptick PCE.

The economy isn’t going in the toilet — yet. By the same token growth is still anemic and I will continue to stick my neck out and say that if gas prices spike up much more, we could see it hitting stall speed.

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the hands-on applied study of robotics built using Lego Mindstorms/Tetrix/VEX Educational Robotics components and/or other open source components, divided into many specialized fields that cover their cyber-physical interactive system, sub systems including power, Touch, Light, Color, Rotational, and ultrosonic sensors, control using a micro-controller such as Mindstorms or Arduino, and application programming using either Java or RobotC or EasyC programming software. Students work on grade and skill appropriate projects and choose their choice of programming language.
"An A level student at Mathobotix Labs, Julie is studying buildologie-III to explore STEM educational and career pathways. She is programming her robot using Java programming language so that she can prepare for her AP Computer Science"
Objectives: Introduce real world programming skills. Perform programming-centric robotic projects. Students will learn to design, build and program robots with one or more of the following sensors: Ultrasonic, Touch, Sound, Light/Color, and Infrared, Gyro, etc. Students choose programming oriented robotic projects. They will build autonomous robots with transport and simple robotic arm mechanisms and functionality and understaning 3 degrees of mechanical freedom, and optionally integrate basic vision sub-system.
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Additional Notes: Year-Round Open Enrollment. Class Participation is Once a week for 100 minutes. Optional free open lab available depending the project. 3 month course fee: $620. Lab/Material fee $60 applies. Mathobotix lab will provide project specific materials and components. One mentor for every 2 students. 2 make-up classes allowed. No-prorating for missed classes. Fees, discounts, and promotional offers are subject to change without prior notice. This lab helps you prepare for AP Computer Science using a hands-on approach. If you learn to program your robot using Java it gives you the necessary hands-on experience to tackle the test! Review Class FAQ for more information.

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We got the best student paper award at the MMSYS 2016 conference for our work:

  • G. Cofano, L. De Cicco, T. Zinner, A. Nguyen-Ngoc, P. Tran-Gia, and S. Mascolo
    Design and Experimental Evaluation of Network-assisted Strategies for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming
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  • S. Holmer, H. Lundin, G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
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Faculty award Google Faculty Award 2014 for designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.

  • Principal investigator: S. Mascolo
  • Title:Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)
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Cisco Award 2013 Funded by "Cisco University Research Program" managed by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.This proposal aims at designing a robust, efficient and scalable control system for adaptive (live) video streaming over the best-effort Internet.

  • Principal investigator: S. Mascolo
  • Title : Architecture for Robust and Efficient Control of Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming over HTTP.

2013 March

In this paper, we present a model of the automatic video stream-switching employed by Akamai along with a description of the client-side communication and control protocol. From the control architecture point of view, the automatic adaptation is achieved by means of two interacting control loops having the controllers at the client and the actuators at the server: one loop is the buffer controller, which aims at steering the client playout buffer to a target length by regulating the server sending rate; the other one implements the stream-switching controller and aims at selecting the video level. A detailed validation of the proposed model has been carried out through experimental measurements in an emulated scenario (IEEE explore link).

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    An Adaptive Video Streaming Control System: Modeling, Validation, and Performance Evaluation
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      Here's a controversial statement: All men, regardless of age, occupation or lifestyle, deserve great underwear. That is, underwear that both feels and looks better than just “good, I guess”.

      That means underwear that 1) fits, 2) doesn't have holes in it, 3) is less than five years old, and 4) doesn't induce cringing when your pants come off.

      Beyond being a practical necessity, slipping on a decent pair of underpants in the morning is one of the most important parts of starting a new day. Think of a good, clean, well-fitting, sexy (yes, sexy) pair of underwear as a psychological advantage.

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      Trending News: It's Time For More Insane Sorority Recruitment Videos

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      Because which of us hasn’t wanted to see the inside of a sorority house?

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      College Weekly’s YouTube channel is giving an insight into the lives of fraternities and sororities, including a Trending Houses tour around Florida State’s Delta Gamma sorority’s insanely palatial home.

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      Let’s face: it the best chance most of us have of getting inside the Florida State University’s Delta Gamma sorority house is on YouTube, so we might as well make the most of College Weekly’s Trending Houses tour.

      FSU’s Delta Gamma is widely reported to be the "hottest" sorority in the US and their house has to be seen to be believed.

      In the video, which is basically college Cribs, Olivia and Phoenix take us on a guided tour of a living room big enough to fit five normal apartments with its ‘pillow pit’ and huge kitchen / dining room, plus they even take us upstairs to the bedrooms (lucky us!).

      The Trending Houses series is an amazing insight into the crazy lives of frats and sororities and shows some pretty awesome houses. FSU’s Delta Gamma may have the most luxurious mansion, although FSU’s Phi Delta Theta frat house isn’t exactly bad with its huge courtyard complete with basketball court and its alumni lounge/game room.

      Of course, getting into a high-profile sorority is no small achievement, as shown by Ole Miss’ Alpha Phi bid day 2016 video...

      ... and the University of Georgia’s Sigma Kappa’s recruitment day clips.

      The queues of desperate would-be sisters are just like American Idol, with only the luckiest getting accepted.

      The University of Miami’s Delta Gamma chapter released a recruitment video with suspiciously good production values earlier in the year that is four and a bit minutes of glamorized cheesiness, but at least there are lots of bikinis on show.

      You’ll also need seriously wealthy parents to pay the dues needed to live in one of these sorority mansions, as if the soaring cost of tuition fees isn’t bad enough, so those of us without family legacies may have to settle for living vicariously.

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Stephen C. Pehle,*Fn1 v. Ronald David Dufour

September 28, 2012

This is an action brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., with pendent claims under the California Labor Code.*fn2 The matter was tried before the Court on September 13, 2011 and December 5, 6, and 8, 2011.*fn3 Plaintiff was represented by Matthew J. Gauger and Russell Naymark; defendants were represented by Leonard Hart Nibbrig. The court's Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law pursuant to Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are set forth below.

The primary issue in this case is whether plaintiff, who was an electrician employed by defendants from February 2005 through June 2006, was engaged in compensable work under the FLSA and/or the California Labor Code when he spent time transporting tools, materials, and co-workers to various job sites. Plaintiff claims that this was working time under the FLSA and California law and was not compensated because it was defendants' policy not to pay for any work time except work on the job sites themselves. Additionally, plaintiff claims that this policy led to defendants not keeping proper records of working time for compensation purposes.

Defendants claim that they paid plaintiff all of the wages plaintiff himself reported, including shop time, travel time between job sites, overtime, vacation pay, and paid holidays, and that the time for which he now seeks compensation constitutes commute time that need not be compensated. Defendants also contend that they kept adequate records, and that the record does not support individual liability for Ronald DuFour.

Plaintiff alleges violations of (1) the FLSA, 29 U.S.C. § 207(a); (2) Wage Order 16-2001 and California Labor Code sections 203, 204.3, 510, and 1810 et seq.; and (3) California Labor Code section 226. Plaintiff seeks compensation for all unpaid hours worked, including overtime pay where applicable, and liquidated damages under both the FLSA and the California Labor Code. Plaintiff also seeks penalties for failure to keep accurate paycheck stubs pursuant to California Labor Code section 226(a).

As noted in the August 29, 2011 final pretrial order, Dckt. No. 74, the following facts are not in dispute:

1. Defendants Ronald David DuFour and DuFour Enterprises Inc. dba DuFour Electric & Construction, a California corporation (hereinafter collectively referred to as "defendants"), were the employers of plaintiff Pehle, who was an employee engaged in electrical work.

2. From on or about February 2005 and continuing through June 2006, plaintiff was employed by defendants as an electrician. Defendants paid plaintiff on an hourly basis.

3. This case concerns plaintiff's claims for uncompensated time spent during workdays with respect to: a) starting the day at defendants' shop or yard to retrieve the truck which defendants required to be stored at the shop, but also required to be present at the work site; b) hauling material in the truck to the work site; c) picking up crew members between the shop and the work site; d) caring for defendants' truck and equipment; e) picking up supplies at a third party supply house; and f) transporting tools and materials between specific jobs once the workday begins.

4. Plaintiff and other employees reported to either the job site or the company yard each day.

5. Electricians employed by defendants were organized in "crews" of two to four workers.

6. Plaintiff reported either to the yard maintained by defendants or individual job sites. Reporting times could be 5:00 a.m. or before.

7. On some workdays, plaintiff would pick up other electricians at a pre-designated spot after reporting to a job.

8. Plaintiff traveled to job sites in a company truck.

9. Plaintiff loaded and unloaded supplies from defendants' trucks and picked up supplies for defendants.

10. Defendants' records consist of time cards kept by individual workers. 11. There was no separate clock in or clock out system in place at the yard or individual job sites.

12. Plaintiff was responsible for keeping complete and accurate records of the time he worked.

13. DuFour Enterprises maintained documents that show the time of day that defendants began crediting plaintiff for compensable time each day based on the time cards submitted by plaintiff.

14. Plaintiff reported to the yard on a daily basis. On rare occasions he reported directly to the job.

15. When plaintiff reported to the yard, he was required to do so by defendants. 16. When plaintiff would pick up other electricians at pre-designated spots on the way to the yard or to a job, he was authorized to do so by defendants.

17. When electricians such as plaintiff traveled to the job site in defendants' trucks, they were never paid for this travel or work because it was defendants' policy and practice to pay them only when they were actually at the job site.

18. When plaintiff traveled back to designated points to drop off some of the crew, plaintiff continued on to defendants' yard at the end of the day. He performed various indispensable tasks on the trip back to the yard and at the yard, such as retrieving parts and supplies, purchasing fuel, performing minor maintenance on the truck, storing equipment at the yard and securing the yard.

19. Plaintiff performed the above-described work off the clock on most working days.

Ronald DuFour is the sole owner of DuFour Enterprises, Inc. Tr. 112.*fn4 He is also the sole officer of DuFour Enterprises, Inc.; he retains with his brother, Randy DuFour, the power to hire and fire employees; he personally hired and supervised plaintiff; he set plaintiff's rate of pay and signed plaintiff's paychecks; he made the decision not to pay plaintiff for travel time between the shop and the job sites; he oversaw the maintenance of plaintiff's employment records; he controls the spending of DuFour Enterprises, Inc.; he determines how to comply with labor standards; he decides what jobs to bid on and how much to bid for a particular job; and he has loaned money to DuFour Enterprises, Inc. and vice versa. Tr. 113-17.

While employed by defendants, plaintiff completed his own timesheets on a daily basis at defendants' direction. Tr. 11-13, 70. When plaintiff was first hired, Mr. DuFour instructed plaintiff to account on his timesheets only for time spent at job sites or between job sites, since the company did not pay for travel time before arriving at the first job site of the day or after leaving the last job site of the day. Tr. 22. As a result, except on the rare occasions when plaintiff expressly claimed his "shop" time on his timesheets,*fn5 plaintiff did not record and was not paid for any time at defendants' shop, travel time going to the first job of the day, or travel time returning from the last job of the day. Tr. 16, 22, 32, 40, 426. Plaintiff's self-reported work hours were never deducted by ...

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Chuck Samuelson began his culinary career at 13 as a dishwasher at The Sweet Shoppe Café in his hometown of Wolf Point, Montana. He dropped out of high school and worked his way up from fry cook to line cook, sous-chef to executive chef, and eventually San Diego restaurateur. He sold his beloved Bird Rock Café in La Jolla in 2004 and went on to head up food services for the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido.

Throughout his career, Samuelson had been concerned about issues of food justice. “It seemed to me that we could do a better job of providing hunger relief than through food banks,” he says. “The fundamental problem behind hunger is poverty and lack of economic opportunity. There’s no better industry than hospitality to give people a hand up.”

In 2014, with two employees and a budget of $200,000, Samuelson launched Kitchens for Good. Today, the nonprofit has a $2 million budget and a staff of 40. CAM+E asked Samuelson about the organization’s mission and operations.

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We’re a social enterprise that runs a catering and events company. We do 500 corporate and social events a year. Many of our events are held at our event space, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, where we can accommodate up to 1,000 people in our Celebration Hall, smaller groups in breakout rooms, and up to 3,000 people in our outdoor venues, which include an amphitheater. We also cater events off-site throughout Southern California.

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UPDATE 1-Osisko sues in attempt to foil Goldcorp's hostile bid

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TORONTO Jan 29 (Reuters) - Osisko Mining said on Wednesday it has sued Goldcorp Inc in an attempt to foil the gold miner's C$2.6 billion ($2.33 billion) hostile bid, alleging that its suitor misused confidential information.

The lawsuit, which is a fairly common defensive measure used by companies facing hostile bids, comes barely two weeks after Vancouver-based Goldcorp launched its unsolicited takeover bid, aimed at gaining control of Osisko's huge Malartic gold mine in Quebec.

Osisko has already advised its shareholders to reject the bid.

"Osisko believes that the hostile bid is opportunistic and financially inadequate and threatens to deprive Osisko's shareholders of adequate consideration for their shares," the company said in a statement.

Goldcorp disclosed earlier in January that it chose to go ahead with the unsolicited bid after a long series of frustrated attempts to engage Osisko in talks about a deal.

In documents filed with securities regulators in Canada, Goldcorp gave details of a series of attempts, since 2008, to reach a friendly deal with Osisko. The company said Osisko's management has continually refused to either negotiate, or engage in meaningful dialogue.

In the documents, Goldcorp said it proceeded with its bid only after the expiration of the standstill provision within the 2012 confidentiality agreement it had signed with Osisko.

Montreal-based Osisko in the lawsuit filed in Quebec alleged that Goldcorp "misused confidential information" and otherwise acted in a manner not permitted by the confidentiality agreement between the parties.


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(Reuters) - A Canadian naval intelligence officer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to handing over secrets to Russia in a four-year espionage operation that involved access to a computer network shared with the United States and other allies, according to media reports.

The Canadian government, noting that proceedings were still subject to a publication ban, gave no details of the evidence against Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Paul Delisle. It confirmed that he had pleaded guilty to espionage.

But some Canadian media outlets published extensive details from previous proceedings in a Nova Scotia provincial court. Delisle worked at an intelligence facility at the naval dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with access to secret data from NATO.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said Delisle walked into the Russian Embassy in Ottawa in 2007, asked to meet someone from the GRU, Russia's military intelligence organization, and offered to sell it secrets.

The Globe and Mail newspaper said Delisle had "offered to betray his country for cash."

The two media outlets said Delisle earned about C$3,000 a month from his Russian spy masters by gathering information on a computer system known as Stone Ghost. It links information from the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Delisle would go to work armed with a thumb drive, download information from the system and deliver it to the Russians on a monthly basis, they said.

The CBC said Delisle wanted to end the relationship with the Russians in 2009, but chose not to after his handlers sent him a picture of his daughter walking to school. Shortly after, he was told to meet his GRU handler in Brazil where he was given $50,000 in debit cards and cash, it said.

The money reportedly raised suspicions among Canadian customs officers at the Halifax airport. They allowed him to re-enter Canada but tipped off the Canadian military about their concerns.   Continued...

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Demi Lovato will return as a judge on TV contest "The X Factor" for a second year, broadcaster Fox announced on Thursday, but there was no word on two more open positions on the celebrity panel.

The 20-year-old former Disney Channel star will be back in her seat when the show returns in the fall of 2013 along with creator Simon Cowell.

"I couldn't be happier that Demi wants to come back this year," Cowell said in a statement.

"She's a superstar in her own right and was a fantastic mentor last year. Even though she can be really, really annoying - I truly enjoyed working with her and so did the artists."

"X Factor" producers however have yet to announce replacements for departing judges Britney Spears and record producer Antonio "L.A." Reid, who quit at the end of the show's second season in December.

"There are going to be four judges," a source close to the show said on Thursday, but gave no details on who they might be or when the two new names would be announced.

Recent speculation on possible new judges for the U.S. version of the show have included singers Katy Perry, John Mayer, Pink and Ne-Yo.

Open auditions for singers hoping for a spot on the third season of "X Factor" are underway in cities across the United States. Auditions before the judges are expected to start in late May or early June.

Audiences for "X Factor" slumped in 2012, losing about three million viewers from its first season despite the hiring of Spears for a reported $15 million salary.   Continued...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than two hours a day spent watching television or playing computer games could put a child at greater risk for psychological problems regardless of their activity levels, according to a British study.

Researchers from the University of Bristol studied more than 1,000 children aged 10 and 11.

Over seven days, the children filled out a questionnaire reporting how much time they spent daily in front of a television or computer and answering questions describing their mental state -- including emotional, behavioral, and peer-related problems. Meanwhile, an accelerometer measured their physical activity.

The odds of significant psychological difficulties were about 60 percent higher for children spending longer than two hours a day in front of either screen compared with those exposed to less screen time, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.

For children with more than two hours of both types of screen time during the day, the odds more than doubled.

The researchers found these results held regardless of sex, age, stage of puberty, or level of educational or economic deprivation and also no matter how active the children were during the rest of the day. "We know that physical activity is good for both physical and mental health in children and there is some evidence that screen viewing is associated with negative behaviors," researcher Dr. Angie Page told Reuters Health.

"But it wasn't clear whether having high physical activity levels would 'compensate' for high levels of screen viewing in children."

The researchers found that psychological problems further increased if children fell short of an hour of moderate to rigorous daily exercise in addition to the increased screen time. However, physical activity did not appear to compensate for the psychological consequences of screen time.

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More on the "Average Homeboy"

So, by now I imagine most of you have seen the legendary "Average Homeboy" video. If not, here it is:

Thanks to DJDood's comment at Marathon Packs, you can also download an mp3 of "Average Homeboy" for your ipod. This is prime workout music, people.

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What you may not know is that the gent featured in that video is one D. Blaze. His full name is Denny Blaze, and my curiosity coupled with some time on Google revealed a lot about everyone's favorite white middle-class rapper (sorry Iceman).

Apparently he's just going by Blaze now, and he's made a new track available. Oh, hell yes.

Blaze - I'm a Star

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