Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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Monday, October 29, 2012

Murder, Motherhood, and the Media: Reflections on a Feeding Frenzy

In the wake of a double homicide, knee-jerk opinion blames mothers and completely erases fathers.

It is, in journalistic terms, a good story. Lucia and Leo Krim, ages six and two, stabbed to death, possibly by their nanny, their bodies discovered by their horrified, grief-stricken mother Marina. In human terms, it?s a horrible tragedy, but that?s a different metric. In journalistic terms, you?ve got a rich New York setting, the bloody stabbing deaths of two innocent children, and the prime suspect is their nanny, who appears to have tried to stab herself to death as well. That?s a Law & Order episode waiting to happen, it?s that juicy a story. It?s the kind of story that turns the real deaths of two real kids into a symbolic passion play that lets everyone act out their worst instincts.

There?s something about the deaths of children that turns people into jerks. Probably because it?s the worst tragedy a parent can imagine, so when they hear about it, the Just World fallacy goes into overdrive. Nobody wants to believe that pointless, arbitrary tragedy can just hit them for no reason, so when we hear of just such a tragedy, we start inventing reasons why that couldn?t happen to us, reasons that usually involve the victim of the tragedy somehow deserving it. There is no upper limit on how cruel these rationalizations can become; the more unpredictable the tragedy, the more appalling the reason must be why the victim had it coming. Thus we have SF Gate writer Amy Graff having to actually ask her readership not to do that:

Moms are often quick to judge one another and comments criticizing Krim?s decision to hire a nanny are already popping up in the online world. We all often want to think that we?re giving our kids the best situation and others aren?t making equally good decisions. ?I found the best nanny after interviewing 20!? ?I would never use a nanny and would only ever watch my children myself!? ?I only allow my mom to watch my children!?

That?s bad enough, but of course we can count on Fox News to make it even worse:

The murder of two young children, allegedly at the hands of their beloved nanny, has sent a chill through working mothers already conflicted over the often agonizing decision to leave their children in the care of others while they work to put food on the family table.

In keeping with Fox?s hard-right social agenda, this piece pushes the idea of working mothers as somehow abdicating their natural role as full-time caregivers, and heavily implies that there may be dire consequences for this dereliction of duty, sidling up to the edge of saying that Marina Krim kinda sorta deserved to have her children brutally murdered.

Anyone notice what?s missing from all this hand-wringing and tongue-clucking so far? Kevin Krim. Yes, the two kids had a father, not that anyone seems to care. And somehow he?s not getting any shit for being away on a business trip when his children were murdered. Nobody?s writing concern-troll articles about the terrible choices of fathers who choose to work outside the home rather than spending all their time with their kids. Nobody?s asking about the wider implications of this story for working fathers, because ?working father? isn?t even a phrase in public discourse. All the ugly, horrible, victim-blaming just-world bullshit going around is aimed squarely at Marina Krim, because the kind of lizard-brain thinking that justifies that behavior also doesn?t even consider fathers to be real parents.

Kevin and Marina Krim are going to have to rebuild their lives together, along with their surviving child. They?re going to have to find a way to cope with this tragedy, this inexcusable loss, and his pain and grief will be no less than hers. Let us, for our part, participate neither in the heartless cruelty of criticizing supposedly inadequate motherhood, nor the thoughtless and widespread cruelty of utterly devaluing fatherhood.

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Source: http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/murder-motherhood-and-the-media-reflections-on-a-feeding-frenzy/

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

stock market news: Sure Fire Badminton Drills, Sports & Recreation ...

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Hospice Care ? Quality Care at the End of Life ? communicating ...

In an appropriate follow-up to yesterday?s post, Jan Klingberg takes us into the realities of hospice care. Hospice care is often misunderstood and I?m grateful to Jan for giving us first hand information about this important service.?

Kristine?s husband, Gerry, returned home from the hospital with end-stage cancer after his doctor bluntly told him to get his affairs in order. The family panicked. How would they manage? Especially with twin preschoolers at home.

During many years as a communications and fundraising professional for a hospice program in Illinois, I have seen firsthand the challenges of life-threatening illness?for the patient and family alike. When treatment becomes futile at best, hope for a cure disappears and hopelessness can set in.

But what if instead of being hooked up to machines in the hospital or going it alone at home, your loved one could be cared for in a program that would reawaken hope?a hope for comfort, peace and dignity ?

  • Encircle you and your loved one with care and support tailored to your needs,
  • Arrange for the delivery of a hospital bed, supplies and medication,
  • Visit your loved one regularly to provide medical care and other treatment to ease pain and discomfort,
  • Be at the other end of the phone 24 hours a day, and
  • Support you when your loved one is dying and for months afterward.

Our hospice program became Kristine and Gerry?s lifeline that made their last weeks together bearable. A team of professionals and volunteers surrounded the family with a multitude of services and strong support. Medical care addressed Gerry?s pain; counselors helped Kristine journey through her despair over losing her husband; social workers helped the extended family work through some tough issues; volunteers ran errands and shared babysitting shifts; experts in children?s grief worked with the twins and coached Kristine. And even when Gerry?s pain soared out of control at home, he was able to spend a few nights at our specialized hospice inpatient unit where 24-hour nursing care helped stabilize him.

Were the family?s last weeks together easy? Of course not. But they were transformed into a manageable journey that allowed Gerry to die comfortably at home, his wife and kids at his side. He was reassured to know that after his death, Kristine and the twins would be carried through their grief rather than being left alone with their terrible loss.

In the years prior to my retirement last fall, I became aware of many stories similar to Kristine and Gerry?s. The overwhelming emotion of family members after the death of their loved one was gratitude?for providing support and restoring hope. And I don?t believe I ever heard anyone say, ?We called hospice too soon.? If anything, many were disappointed that they had waited too long before engaging a care system that could surround them and their loved one with what they needed to live life to the fullest in the time that remained.

Hospice has been a lifeline to thousands of people around the world for decades. The modern hospice concept actually got its start in the late 1960s in England where specialized care for the dying showed dramatic improvement in symptom control. This new unique blend of medical, emotional, spiritual and psychosocial care?palliative care?comprehensively treats the person rather than solely the medical condition.

Then amid the phenomenal medical advances of the 1970s, dedicated healthcare professionals and community volunteers in the U.S. saw the need stateside for an interdisciplinary and compassionate approach to end-of-life care. From the first U.S. hospice program in 1974 to the current 5,000+ programs nationwide, hospice professionals have relieved pain and suffering day after day, year after year. My own family?mom, dad, aunt?were cared for by hospice programs in other states. Though they operate slightly differently from the one I worked for, they have the same core belief that drives the care they provide?everyone has the right to live with dignity until the last moment.

A long-time friend?a control freak who lived alone and had every loose end tied up?said when she became one of our patients and entrusted her care to my colleagues, ?It is such a relief knowing that I don?t have to manage alone anymore. These people know what they are doing ? they?re the pros.?

When a loved one has a life-threatening illness and the prognosis becomes months and not years ? when the goal for care becomes comfort and symptom management ? why not choose the hospice experts who promote quality of life until the very end of life?

AUTHOR?S NOTES:

  • The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has a wealth of information about hospice care and can help you find a program near you.
  • The NHPCO service, Caring Connections, offers resources for advance care planning, caregiving and living with a serious illness.
  • A high percentage of hospice programs are certified by Medicare. This means that they have core services provided by a hospice team (physicians, nurses, nurse?s aides, social workers, grief counselors, chaplains and volunteers) and can receive reimbursement for the care of a patient who has Medicare Part A. Many private insurance companies and state Medicaid programs have modeled their payment systems after the Medicare Hospice Benefit, so the costs of care are covered for most patients who are eligible for hospice.

Source: http://communicatingacrossboundariesblog.com/2012/10/24/hospice-care-quality-care-at-the-end-of-life/

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Zynga cuts 5 percent of work force, shutters 13 games

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc has laid off 5 percent of its full-time workforce and shut its Boston office, launching a sweeping overhaul that may also see the struggling "FarmVille" creator close its Japanese and British offices.

The company, which is trying to arrest a steep decline in earnings as users gradually migrate onto mobile devices or rival games, plans to "sunset" 13 unspecified older titles, Chief Executive Mark Pincus said in a staff memo on Tuesday.

The company provided Reuters with a copy of the message to employees, which came a day before the struggling game-maker was due to report third-quarter earnings.

Pincus added that Zynga would significantly pull back its investment in "The Ville" game - a major recent initiative - and scale back on its Austin, Texas studio as it sought to cut costs. He also said the company is "proposing" the closure of its Japanese and British offices.

"This is the most painful part of an overall cost reduction plan that also includes significant cuts in spending on data hosting, advertising and outside services, primarily contractors," Pincus said in his memo.

Rumors of the layoffs in Austin and Boston had spread on gaming blogs and over social networks during the day, and the company's shares closed down more than 5 percent, at $2.20. But they bounced back 4.5 percent to $2.30 in after-hours trade, following news of the cost-cutting initiatives.

"It's good to see them be realistic, but the real question is not a matter of profitability, it's ?can you get revenue going the right direction?'" said Ben Schachter, a senior analyst at Macquarie Securities. "The Street doesn't want to see cost-cutting for what was supposed to be a growth company."

Pincus, who grew the company behind such ageing Facebook hits as "CityVille" "and Mafia Wars", will face employees at a quarterly gathering next week at the company's San Francisco headquarters.

Employees say morale is in steep decline, with Zynga forced this month to slash its 2012 results outlook for the second time.

Zynga went public to much fanfare in December at $10 a share but has since lost over three-quarters of its market value. It has been hit by delays in its game pipeline as older titles fade, while it has struggled to come up with new hits for mobile devices.

With its top line shrinking, Pincus told employees in an earlier memo just this month that he was disappointed by the results but urged his staff not to lose sight of the bigger picture.

(Reporting By Gerry Shih; Editing by Leslie Adler and Tim Dobbyn)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zynga-cuts-5-percent-force-shutters-13-games-223350908--finance.html

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Razer's gaming tablet drops by the FCC, leaves handles at home

Razer's gaming tablet drops by the FCC, leaves handles at home

Looking for a gaming tablet you can really grab? Don't look at the latest FCC filings then -- Federal regulators appear to have snagged some exclusive hands-on time with Razer's upcoming Project Fiona, and its trademark handlebars are nowhere in sight. The nunchuck-esque controllers we saw at CES didn't make it in the FCC's label location outline (seen above), but an attached accessory list makes note of a Razer-branded controller, powered by a 2800mAh battery, hinting that this prototype's gamepads might well be independent or detachable. The same document lists a 5600mAh battery for the tablet itself, as well as a model number: RZ09-0093.

The Federal documents show a heavily redesigned device, falling in line with Razer's recent community campaign: CEO Min-Liang Tan has been asking fans to help design Project Fiona on his Facebook page. Over the past several weeks, the community has weighed in on accessories, price, CPU / GPU configurations and more. This FCC prototype may not be the final design, but if nothing else, it's proof that the device is evolving. Check out the Government's inside scoop for yourself at the source link below.

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Ryan to deliver speech on helping middle class

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is set to deliver a speech in Ohio outlining how Mitt Romney would help middle-class families.

Aides say Ryan will tell voters Wednesday that the country cannot afford four more years of President Barack Obama. They say the Wisconsin congressman specifically plans to reach out to low-income people and tell them that Romney would be better for them than the president.

Ryan also will tell voters that Romney will keep social safety nets in place for those who need them, and offer parents more choices to educate their children.

The speech is set for Wednesday afternoon at Cleveland State University in politically important Ohio.

Both campaigns are fighting hard to win the state on Nov. 6.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Microsoft: Feeling The Windows Pane

Disclosure: I am short MSFT. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. (More...)

Pondering Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 8 launch, I'm reminded of a scene in the movie Big. In this scene, Tom Hanks, a 10-year old in a grown-up body attends a toy maker's marketing meeting. The Ivy-league MBAs are showing off a set of robot toys that turn into buildings. "I don't get it" says Tom. A pompous MBA replies: "Well, if you had read your industry breakdown, you would see that our success in the action figure area has climbed from 27 percent to 45 percent in the last two years." "I still don't get it" replies Tom, "what's so fun about playing with a building? That's not any fun!"

Microsoft needed Tom Hanks when it designed Windows 8. Microsoft and its advocates have gushed about how Windows 8 will "seamlessly" unite desktop, tablet, and phone with a common look and feel. So no matter what device you turn on, you'll confront the same screen of inscrutable little tiles. The marketing people are really jazzed about this: "a unified experience across all platforms!!"

I don't get it.

I use my desktop PCs and my handheld devices for very different activities. I use the handheld devices to ponderously read email and web articles and play an occasional chess game. They need big, simple controls for my clumsy sausage fingers. I use the PCs to run multiple trading platforms and arbitrage programs on four 30-inch monitors, executing dozens of commands a minute with tiny mouse flicks. I couldn't do this stuff with a touch screen if I were Bruce Lee re-incarnated. Although it may send a tingle up the legs of marketers, giving my handheld and desktop devices the same interface makes no more sense than slapping the same dashboard on a Ferrari and a bicycle.

"But you can always switch Windows 8 back to the old interface on your PC" say the marketers. Right. So I should rush out to buy Windows 8 and risk all the bugs and security problems that come with a new Microsoft release, just so I can emulate the operating system that I already own?

"But using the same interface on all the devices lowers the learning curve." the marketers add. Let's see: it took my computer-illiterate parents approximately 5 minutes to learn how to use an IPhone. So, either the learning curve saving is miniscule, or Microsoft has some very serious usability problems with the Surface and Windows Phone.

The bottom line is that Microsoft has come up with something that insiders (particularly marketing people) think is really cool, but doesn't actually do anything that real users need or want. This is the backside of the "eat your own dogfood" culture that Microsoft has developed. Insiders project the desires of a small group of technically-oriented people in Redmond, equipped with the most advanced hardware and lots of time to sort out bugs, onto the rest of the world. You can do that if you have monopoly power. But Microsoft has entered an era where it no longer has that power.

Investors "don't get it" either

Since my previous SeekingAlpha articles on Microsoft, the market has punished the stock dramatically, with a 10% plunge. I'd love to take credit for this move, but know that I can't. I just think that other analysts and investors have come to the same realization that I did: Microsoft is losing out to slim devices on the front-end and Unix-based cloud providers on the back-end. This was confirmed by last quarter's earnings. Fewer PCs are being sold and more of the ones that are sold are going to server farms, where Unix is the operating system of choice. There is no indication Windows 8 will change this, since it doesn't really offer anything new that retail or enterprise customers need or want.

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The biggest competition for Windows 8

In the earlier articles, I discussed how slim devices have supplanted Windows machines in many arenas. I neglected to discuss what may be the single biggest threat to Windows 8: Windows XP. I always make a point of examining the computer systems in businesses I visit. One observation stands out: Windows XP continues to be very widely used. Whether it's a hospital, an insurance company, or a bank, much of the work employees do is on simple web browser front-ends on XP machines. The web browser is, of course, talking to a cloud or corporate server application that's doing all the heavy-lifting. The application that processes my insurance claim, or my mortgage, and the one that brings up my x-rays -- it's all front-ended by a web browser. These employees barely need XP or an operating system at all; all they need is the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned WYSE terminal. How will companies benefit by shifting these employees to Windows 8? Ponder that. It will cost money to upgrade. And more money to train the employees on the new OS. Then there will be the inevitable bugs and the security problems that could endanger the entire enterprise. And in the end, the employees will be using the same web-browser interface they were using before. Does this sound like a compelling case for Windows 8? Maybe in 18 months when Microsoft stops supporting XP. But there may be better solutions by then.

Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/940511-microsoft-feeling-the-windows-pane?source=feed

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TV Broadcasting ? Changing the Face of Communication ...


Internet and Technology | Computers and Technology | * Written by Brainwork | Monday, 22 October 2012 03:40 | Word Count: 433

Never have we realized the fact that how difficult it would have been to see or hear live or recorded videos of the events happening in distant places without the availability of TV broadcasting. For example, through this brilliant service, we can enjoy a live cricket match happening miles away from our homes. This service comes to us through several satellite providers available in the world satellite service market. These companies provide high quality, custom-made network solutions like voice termination, IP over satellite, broadcasting services, hub and hosting services. This service provides much important information in our daily life.

The satellite service providers offer wide broadcast services to many countries. Several companies offer their services of TV and radio channels across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. These services are generally offered to enterprises, carrier, and wholesale customers. It is through these amazing services provided by the service providers that we could see clear video and audio. It is a fact that it has become a part of our life, without which we may face lot of problems. Many companies offer various satellite systems like the hotbird, which are a group of satellites. There are latest antennas that serve an important function in carrying out transmission of the satellite service.

These satellites have a transmission path across Middle East, Europe North America, which is located 13?E above the Equator. Many of the service providers have trained technicians, who perform their duties with lot of skills and expertise. In recent times, digital transmission has replaced analog signals. Compared to the analog signals, the digital signals offer much better picture and sound quality direct to home. A specific frequency is released by every television station that communicates to a particular channel number and then these signals are received by the analog television through their antennas.

Although the emergence of internet has been immense, with more and more people glued to it, but the popularity of TV Broadcasting has not faded away. The service providers keep on updating their techniques so as to meet all the requirements. The advanced technology has improved the services, which has helped communication in a great way across the globe. There are many satellite service providers, available in the world satellite market that offers great services at a good cost. These service providers have their own website through one can see the services offered by them and can get their contact numbers too from their own website.

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Poker: Rare Cacao Beans Resurface In ... - Gambling News Source

Deadwood, South Dakota doesn?t typically spring to mind as a mecca for chocolate.

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Related Poker News:

Interesting gambling information:

  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
  • By the 1370s, playing cards had reached Europe in a form that is recognizable today, with a pack consisting of 52 cards with suits of swords, polo-sticks, cups and coins.
  • Gambling is Often Legalized to Promote Economic Development of Depressed Areas. That was an important motivation in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, and many of the other locales for casinos.
  • People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Foreign policy could move needle in final presidential debate (CNN)

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Understanding That You'll Never Be Perfect | World of Psychology

Understanding That You'll Never Be PerfectI?ve been gradually learning something about myself:

I want to be perfect.

And the fact that I?m not causes me suffering.

All of the major world religions teach this lesson upfront: you?re not perfect, and the sooner you accept that fact, the less agony you?ll put yourself through trying to prove otherwise.

In his book, Living Wabi Sabi, Taro Gold writes:

Those who inspire us most do not achieve perfection through greatness: They achieve greatness through imperfection. All of the world?s best-loved truth-seekers and religious figures, including Jesus and Buddha, led obviously less-than-perfect lives and were the first to let us know that they, too, were not perfect people?

Did you know that numerous imperfections, failures, and mistakes led to the discovery of DNA, penicillin, aspirin, X-rays, Teflon, Velcro, nylon, cornflakes, Coca-Cola, and chocolate-chip cookies? In our own lives, it?s not the parties and vacations but the mind-opening trials of heart and soul that lead us to our greatest personal discoveries.

This is good news for people who are depressed. Because rarely do we get a vacation from the hard work of preserving sanity, and, well, I?m thinking the parties at therapy and within the hospital psych units are a tad different than the ones Taro had in mind. Most days involve trudging, ever so diligently, up the hill of recovery that usually feels like a mountain.

I guess that?s what I?ve been doing the last few weeks: trudging.

I want to be perfect.

I want to erect boundaries one time, and have them stay there, like boulders, for the rest of my life ? uncompromised in times of stress and uncertainty. But that?s not life. Which presents one dilemma after another, just to make sure you don?t stop using all the problem-solving techniques you learned in therapy.

I want to be perfect.

I don?t want to have to discern between a ?conviction? ? like being a more attentive mom, and dealing with tantrums better than overpowering the screaming by blasting Mozart in my ears ? and a ?condemnation? ? telling myself I am a bad, bad mom who isn?t capable of keeping good boundaries. I don?t want to have to learn the same damn lesson over and over and over again.

And yet, ironically, that?s where the wonder and amazement are. Mornings like today, when my imperfections are as obvious as the rain outside, is when I discover what I?m made of. Anna Quindlen writes in Being Perfect:

What?s really hard and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. More difficult because there is no zeitgeist to read, no template to follow, no mask to wear. Terrifying, actually, because it requires you to set aside what your friends expect, what your family and your co-workers demand, what your acquaintances require, to set aide the messages this culture sends, through its advertising, its entertainment, its disdain, and its disapproval, about how you should behave?

Begin with the most frightening of all things, a clean slate. And then look, every day, at the choices you are making, and when you ask yourself why you are making them, find this answer: Because they are what I want, or wish for. Because they reflect who I am.

This is the hard work of life in the world, to acknowledge within yourself the introvert, the clown, the artist, the homebody, the goofball, the thinker. Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun by your own heart.

I am not perfect.

I?m as close to perfection as Antarctica is to Brazil.

But that means I get to start over each day, to figure out a new system that can function with new rules, another game plan that will assist me in getting my boundaries right again. And if that configuration doesn?t work, I?ll wake up and try yet again.

Therese J. Borchard is the author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes and The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit. Write to her at comment@thereseborchard.com or follow her on Twitter @thereseborchard.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Pope names 7 new saints, seeks to revive faith

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The Bug Chicks: Two hip Portland entomologists' love affair with ...

Kristie Reddick stands in front of a semicircle of 4-year-olds, her long body contorted into the human version of a praying mantis.

"Crisscross applesauce, hands in your lap," her partner in bugs, Jessica Honaker, tells the kids, who quiet down, put their bottoms on the floor and get ready for their first look at a 3-week-old, almost transparent insect. As Honaker takes the small, plastic box around, she tells them to pay attention to the bent legs that give the insects their name.

"Say 'raptorial,'" Reddick directs the preschoolers -- a word they've likely never heard.

"You don't have to talk down to people," she says later, "not even to 4-year-olds. They can recite the names of dinosaurs, which are really hard. If you raise the bar, people will meet it."

As the kids repeat "raptorial," she explains, "I'm a praying mantis. I'm looking around and see something flying around. I reach out and grab it with my front legs."

"That's scary," squeaks one of the kids, who recovers quickly to ask, "What's next?"

In a 40-minute presentation at Learning Tree Preschool in Beaverton, 18 children learn from The Bug Chicks that insect poop is called frass, ladybugs don't taste very good, and spiders stick their fangs into crickets and turn their insides into a milkshake. Most of the kids reach out for Worf, a shiny, hard-shelled Madagascar hissing cockroach as big as their chubby hands. But it's the tarantulas that really get their attention, especially a little blue one named Cookie Monster, who sometimes sprays her pee onto the kids.

"They love that," says Honaker, 32, the brunette half of The Bug Chicks, two young entomologists who use humor to teach. Ever since they became partners in 2007, the duo have been on a mission.

"People don't know that much about bugs," says 34-year-old Reddick. "They think they know a lot about bugs, and what they think they know is scary. That's why we do what we do. You've got people out there fighting for the whales, people are out there fighting for the polar bears -- someone's got to be out there fighting for the bugs."

At the top of The Bug Chicks' website, it says, "Find your inner bugdork. It wants to come out and play." Reddick's and Honaker's dorkdom comes out in everything they do -- whether filming videos, teaching children, educators and park rangers or finishing each other's thoughts. They just can't help being funny.

Reddick grew up in Virginia dancing and performing, talents that are at the heart of The Bug Chicks' educational comedy. Everyone assumed -- including her -- that she'd continue to perform in some form or another. She earned a bachelor of fine arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and by 21 was cast in a bit part in a movie with Bruce Willis, with her own trailer and driver.

"I was living the dream, but I couldn't figure out why I wasn't happy," she says. "I felt like I was going to auditions to be someone else instead of to be me. It felt odd."

More and more, Reddick thought about Africa, the place she'd dreamed of since she was a child, when she hid under the covers with a flashlight studying the animal fact cards in a green National Geographic chest.

"I was an animal freak," she says. "My mind was utterly fixated on animals."

Her acting career came to an abrupt end when she fell off a horse and broke her arm, but instead of devastation, she felt like she'd been given a get-out-of-jail-free card. She lay in her childhood bed, her mother feeding her Percocet, watching a marathon of "The Crocodile Hunter." Once healed, Reddick took a $6-an-hour job at the Philadelphia Zoo, an experience that persuaded her to go back to school for a second degree. She enrolled late at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. Two classes were still open: chemistry or entomology.

"I was like, 'What's entomology?'" she says. "Oh, insects. OK."

The course, by professor Tim Yoho, an old-school teacher who used an overhead projector, taught Reddick to love insects, but she couldn't stop thinking about Africa. So, she signed on for a program through Boston University to study large animals in Kenya in 2003. But "while everyone else was looking at elephants, I was looking at dung beetles."

Realization dawned; it was insects, not large animals, that she wanted to explore. Then, a yell in the dark crystallized her decision.

"I was in my little hut and heard a scream late at night," Reddick says. "It was a boy scream, which means it's something cool. I grab my net and run out, and it's my friend Harry (a fellow student). He's come out of the bathroom, and he's got a towel around his waist."

"'It's the biggest thing, you've got to see it.'

"'Don't worry, Harry. I've got my net.' I walked in and see this thing that looked like it had 10 legs. I thought, 'What arthropod has 10 legs? Oh, my God, I've discovered a new class.'

"It had big jaws and legs. I go to put my net over it, and it sees me and runs like lightning up the side of the bathroom and stops at eye level, rears back on its hind legs and opens its jaws and it makes this hissing sound at me.

"That was it. That is my moment of true love, love at first sight."

"It was like she'd found a unicorn," Honaker says.

Reddick's obsession with bugs intensified after that first meeting with a solifuge, or camel spider. She enrolled at Texas A&M University to work on her graduate degree, determined to return to Africa.

Honaker found her bug bliss at Marshall University in West Virginia, where she focused on physical therapy because she loved hockey. As a child, she preferred scary books to insects, but changed her mind after taking a course on invertebrates from professor Jim Joy. He inspired her to pursue a graduate degree at Texas A&M. When she got there in 2004, she met Marvin Harris, a professor who would become her mentor, and asked to work in his lab. He took her on to dissect mosquito larvae, which didn't thrill her. Eventually she moved on to aphids, specifically blackmargined aphids, one of her favorite insects.

"Be honest, you think they're adorable," Reddick says with a nudge.

"OK, they are cute," Honaker admits. "They're like little squishy bags of happiness. They're adorable and I love them."

The two bug freaks met in an insect photography course in 2005 at Texas A&M.

"We had the same camera, drove the same truck," Honaker says.

"It was fate," Reddick says, picking up the thought. "I believe in -- and this is going to sound so corny because we're scientists, but I don't care -- that when you throw it out there, things happen in your life that are meant to be. I met Jess and she was the person I needed to meet."

In 2006, Reddick combined a stipend, fellowship and student loan for a second trip to Africa, this time on her own to search for her beloved camel spiders. (She found 21.) But she was far from done with Africa. In less than six months, Honaker accompanied her on a six-month trip, once again to search out solifuge arachnids.

When they returned, their professional relationship began. But the name for the company didn't come to them until 2009, when Reddick was working for the Texas A&M education department as a teacher's assistant. A professor suggested the two make a training video and call themselves The Bug Ladies.

"Both Jess and I said 'eeew,' that sounds gross and old, like an octogenarian cruise," Reddick says. "We immediately both said, 'How about The Bug Chicks?'"

It was a match made in dorkdom.

"I won't lie," Reddick says. "We're dorks. But dorky is in."

In more than two dozen videos they've made for the entomology department at Texas A&M, the U.S. Forest Service and their website, the two definitely bring their bug dork out. They've dressed up as insects, buried themselves in sand up to their necks, made a yucca plant out of tulips and tried not to shiver while pretending the Oregon Dunes on a 30-degree day was a desert. In one of the most memorable videos, the pair renamed a barbershop quartet "The Fly Guys" and talked them into putting on sparkly glasses and crowns and singing a song Reddick and Honaker wrote called "Don't Be a Hater, I'm a Pollinator."

With all that to do, what about downtime? The Bug Chicks take a long pause. Well, Reddick says, we've gone kayaking a couple of times. And there was a whitewater rafting trip. Nothing else came to mind.

But now's not the time in their career to slow down, Reddick says, as Honaker nods. They've got workshops and classes to teach, a blog to write and website to keep current, money to raise for the Tanzania project and marketing to do. They've just started filming a self-produced Web series called "Spineless" that they hope will be picked up by National Geographic Channel.

Creativity and the passion to teach brought the two women together. But someone has to take care of paperwork and organization.

"I've never even had a lemonade stand," says Honaker, who nevertheless has become the company's business director.

The duo, who moved to Portland last year sight unseen because of the city's reputation for quirky creativity and sustainability, have settled into a pattern that works. Reddick is the idea person; Honaker is the one who takes the ideas and makes them happen.

"It's really become apparent that it's symbiosis and that we need each other," Reddick says.

"It's obvious we have great rapport on camera," Honaker continues.

"And you can tell we're having fun," Reddick finishes.

The result, the pair hope, is to be female role models for girls, to be the first women on TV to talk about bugs. The Bug Chicks are happy to take on the challenge.

"When you grow up, you don't have to choose between smart and pretty," Reddick says. "You don't have to choose between being a girl and being a scientist or mathematician. It's not exclusive."

But The Bug Chicks are certainly not a girl's club. Brendan Morris, 22, a former student of Reddick's now doing graduate work at the University of Illinois, could not get the smile out of his voice as he waxed on about them.

"The most important thing I learned," Morris says, "is when Kristie fell in love with spiders in Africa and her advisers kept telling her 'no.'"

She refused to listen to professors who considered her too young and inexperienced and didn't take her seriously. She later told Morris, "'When you're following a dream and someone tells you no, you're talking to the wrong person.' That defined my whole life. I give that advice to everyone. It's clich?, but you could put it on a poster with Mount Everest."

Maybe it will be one day. Portland businessman Stanley W. Fields predicts big things for the two entomologists.

"I can see them on National Geographic Channel or Animal Planet," says the guy who introduced the women to Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimps. "I just think they have unadulterated raw talent. The two of them together are very special; they're a team. They're destined for bigger things."

Maybe more so now that they've connected with Goodall, who has asked them to join her nonprofit Roots & Shoots program, which teaches children around the world about conservation. Honaker and Reddick are trying to raise $100,000 so they can build a library in Tanzania that will serve 60 Roots & Shoots schools and create a manual to instruct teachers and students about arthropod conservation. The hope is that their efforts will become a pilot project for other schools in the worldwide program.

Without Fields, who happened upon The Bug Chicks' r?sum? a year ago online, the introduction to Goodall wouldn't have happened. He calls himself "a connector," and in this case it was true. He contacted them and said he could arrange an hour with Jane Goodall at a friend's house before a talk in Salem.

"We've never met this guy," says Honaker, admitting they thought twice about responding. "But we could meet Jane Goodall."

"Or be brutally murdered," Reddick says. "I called my husband, told him where we were going, called Jessica and said, 'Get home. Get your stun gun.'"

The partners picked up Fields, one sitting in the front seat, one in the back, looking at each other in the mirror, telegraphing, "What are we doing?" The car pulled up, Goodall came out, and The Bug Chicks were floored.

"I wanted to be her when I was a little girl," Reddick says. "I still want to be her. She's lovely. It speaks volumes about her that she let us sit in the living room, eating cupcakes and drinking tea."

A year after they met their idol, an email from the director of a program they took part in hit The Bug Chicks' inbox. She wrote to say that a teenager who thrived in a workshop taught by the two hip entomologists in August seems to be developing a passion for insects.

Someday, like Reddick and Honaker, he may find his inner bug dork.

"He wants to do this for his life, for his career," Honaker marvels.

As usual, Reddick finishes her thought, "If we did that for one kid, that's what makes a difference."
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'Paranormal Activity 4' wears out welcome

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By Justin Love, The Hollywood Reporter

REVIEW: Mockumentary filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman ("Catfish") know a thing or two about misdirecting an audience, as they proved again with 2011?s "Paranormal Activity 3." Together with returning screenwriter Christopher Landon, this time around they seem short on new ideas, however, relying more on the series? reputation for low-budget thrills to attract audiences. Regardless, by now Paramount?s franchise is a brand unto itself, and it?s unlikely that anything will stop the first few waves of fans boosting "Paranormal Activity 4" up the chart until at least through Halloween.

Quickly recapping with flashbacks and documentary-style introductory cards the conclusion of "Paranormal Activity 2," when in a prequel to 2007?s original film Katie (Katie Featherston) killed her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) and abducted her nephew Hunter (William Juan Prieto), the current version jumps ahead to 2011, relocating the action from California to Nevada and introducing an entirely new family. Teenager Alex (Kathryn Newton), her 6-year-old brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp) and their parents (Stephen Dunham and Alexondra Lee) live a typical middle-class suburban life, even if they think their neighbors across the street -- single mother Katie and her young son Robbie (Brady Allen) -- are a bit of an odd pair.

After Katie is unexpectedly and mysteriously admitted to the hospital for some unknown illness, Alex?s mom inexplicably offers to take Robbie in while his mother is recovering. Alex soon begins to notice strange events coincident with Robbie?s arrival, while the young visitor?s insinuations increasingly draw Wyatt away from her. Other family members also begin to clue into the strange goings-on, with mysterious sounds, shifting furniture and alarmingly animated household objects suggesting something is seriously amiss.

With the help of her boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively), Alex sets up the family?s home video cameras and laptops to record Robbie?s late-night wanderings and vaguely sinister activities around the house. As Alex becomes more convinced that some evil presence is seeking her out, the mysterious forces behind Robbie?s visit become more assertive, squarely threatening the family?s survival while inexorably tracking back to the earlier abduction of Hunter.

By now the basis of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise, concerning Katie?s possession by a demonic force that results in a series of malevolently haunted houses, is well-known to those who care to follow each new iteration. The fourth installment adds very little new information while playing out the inevitably unpleasant outcomes that await the characters, preferring to recycle plot elements from previous films.

Fairly mild in tone and riffing -- if not quite ripping -- off a collection of horror classics that includes "The Shining," "Rosemary?s Baby" and "Poltergeist," both the franchise?s premise and its execution nevertheless remain rudimentary, with the narrative and character backstories representing more of a sketch than a fully realized vision of the supernatural world that Katie inhabits.

Although Newton and Shively are likable enough in their roles as the sleuthing teens, the other performances remain perfunctory overall. Laptop webcams and camera phones are substituted for the earlier video-surveillance cams, but little has changed visually in the style of the filmmakers? alternation of static and frantic handheld shots, mixed with a surfeit of distracting closeups.

Asymmetrically framed scenes, staccato editing techniques and oppressive ambient sound (and the ominous lack of a score) are substituted for any real narrative development, leaving a plot essentially consisting of a series of setups followed by frightening payoffs. Weak attempts to introduce a smattering of satanic symbology are belatedly superfluous. It?s just such lack of creative investment that inevitably leads to further sequels, if a theatrical audience can actually be sustained going forward.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Super Sentai: United Defense of the Earth

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Hi Hi everyone! I just created a Super Sentai/ Power Rangers based roleplay and I'm looking for Roleplayers. Feel Free to drop by the RP and check it out. I really would like to get started soon so please apply if you're at all interested. ^_^

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The Earth finally found peace. However, an evil magician from space resurrected the forces of evil that were once defeated by the Super Sentai of the past. They aim to take over the Earth and began launching their assault on the now peaceful planet.

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Akared appeared and began to fight of the initial attack but he needs assistance.

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Akared sent out a call to arms to the Super sentai of days past. Who will answer the call and drive out the Dark legion of destruction (DLD).

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EU drugs agency has "no new concerns" about GSK's flu shot

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