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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Local Wrestling Coach Heads to World Championships
JACKSON CO., Mo. ? Summer break is in full swing.? While that means no more pencils and no more books for Blue Springs High teacher Mike Hagerty, it also means a lot more work for him.
?We want to win,? said Hagerty.? ?I?m not about training for second place.?
While Hagerty is spending the early part of his summer training young athletes at Baker University, he?s coaching the FILA USA Junior World wrestling team later this summer.? His team will be made up of the top high school and college wrestlers in the country.
?When we go across the ocean and we meet some of these people from foreign lands, we?re not talking about wars,? he said.? ?We?re not talking about the problems of the world.? We?re talking about something very common to all of us and that?s being an athlete and first and foremost, being a wrestler.? That?s what?s exciting.?
Also exciting ? many of the wrestlers competing in the 2012 Olympics this summer in London competed on the Junior World team first.
?It?s a tremendous honor,? Hagerty said.? ?But, there?s some challenges with hit because I?m not their normal high school coach or their normal club coach.? So, a lot of it is trying to build the confidence in the athletes in that short amount of time so they trust the coaching staff, they trust each other as teammates, so they can go over there and as a team win a World Championship.?
Hagerty will head to Colorado for ten days in August where he?ll teach the Junior World team advanced offense and defense techniques.? Then from September 4-9, he and the FILA Junior World Team will Pattaya,Thailand to compete against the some of the best wrestlers in the world.? And while they?ll return stateside with new memories and experiences, Hagerty hopes they also return with something they can all proudly display ? a Gold Medal.
Source: http://bluesprings.fox4kc.com/news/news/90078-local-wrestling-coach-heads-world-championships
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Internet Marketing For Writers & Businesses: Social Media Day - Are ...
Are YOU Ready to get your
Social Media Swag on?
Social Media Day is Saturday, June 30th!
So, what is Social Media Day? Two years ago, Mashable (the CNN of Social Media News) declared June 30th Social Media Day!
Hundreds of cities and even countries across the globe have joined in the celebration by having educational events, meetups and tweetups!
And we have planned a special Social Media & Video Creation Laptop Workshop for: Authors/Speakers, Entrepreneurs, Ministry Leaders, Coaches and Non-Profit Professionals
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Saturday, June 30th
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Farmington Hills Community Library
2737 West 12 Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
Would You Like to Learn How to Market Your Book, Grow Your Business or Brand Your Ministry Easily Using Low-Cost or No-Cost Social Media and Video Marketing?
If so this is for you. Learn hands-on Social Media Marketing & how it can help Your Business.
During this 3 hour interactive workshop you will:
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Why the Web will gut paid e-books and apps, and why free can pay ...
Selling digital content at any price above zero is not sustainable: the Web is cheaper for readers, cheaper for writers and publishers, and far more discoverable and shareable than the squabbling hermit kingdoms of e-books and apps.? For both authors and publishers, the best strategy is to distribute for free and find another way to pay the bills. (Part 2 of 2.)
Back in 2008, I attended the Frankfurt Book Fair, our little Wikitravel Press stand in Hall 4.2 just around the corner from the main area for technical talks.? And whenever there was something about e-books on, suddenly the hall would fill with sweaty publishing execs in cheap, crumpled suits, craning their heads and hoping against hope to hear and believe the message of joy: ?Printed books may die, but paid digital content will save you!? Just keep calm, carry on, and sell your books as e-books and apps instead!?
For a publisher, this vision of beauty is an immensely seductive proposition: keep your business model, keep your pipeline, keep your editorial process.? Sell a slightly-tarted up version of your print-ready book, turned into an ePub or .mobi or iOS app or whatever flavor of the day your snake-oil CMS merchants tell you need, and as a bonus get rid of all that tedious faffing about with print runs, distribution and unsold stock.? And now, 5 years later, it all seems to be coming together!? What could possibly go wrong?
Only one thing: for the vast majority of publishers, paid content is as real as green-haired fairy princesses, because the Web will gut the business model for paid apps and e-books.? There are three reasons for this.
First and foremost, you can?t beat the Web on price.? The price of a printed book has been established through decades of trial and error: it accurately reflects the cost of creating and distributing the physical book, the price the market will pay, the level of competition with other printed book publishers and the margin the publisher needs to survive.? The current price of e-books and apps, on the other hand, is entirely disconnected from the actual cost of creating and distributing each additional copy, which is essentially zero. If the same content, or at least substitutable content, is available on a website for free ? and the Internet being what it is, the answer is usually ?yes? ? there will be relentless price pressure to drive those prices down to match.? Forget $9.99 e-books or even $0.99 e-books: the price point to beat is $0.00.
Second, the Web allows drastically lower overheads for connecting authors to readers.? Building e-books and getting them distributed, much less building mobile applications and getting them into the famously developer-hostile iTunes store, are arcane arts limited to expensive professionals wearing propeller beanies.? Any monkey with a keyboard, on the other hand, can hammer out and publish a blog or forum post, and while the vast majority of them deservedly sink without a trace, a truly original or insightful idea will go viral on its own merits.
Third, apps (eg. iTunes) and e-books (eg. Kindle Store) are walled gardens, and history tells us that walled gardens always lose.? Minitel, Compuserve, America Online etc all restricted the users to officially approved islands of inaccessibility cut off from the rest of the Net, and despite an initial run of success due to clean, well-integrated interfaces and lots of industry players taking advantage of easy ways to bill users, none could compete in the long run with the sheer breadth of content and what Technology Review?s Jason Pontin recently dubbed the ?linky-ness? of the Web.? Probably the simplest way to visualize just how crippling these walls are is to simply search for (say) *Paris* with your favorite search engine, and see how many links to apps and e-books you get back: you?ll find the answer is zero.
The forces outlined here are clear and inescapable, and they mean that it will gradually become harder and harder to profit simply by selling copies.? And once there are no copies to sell, and no bookstores to sell them to, the last justifications of a traditional publisher?s existence ? sales, distribution and chasing up invoices ? disappear, with editing, design and marketing becoming optional add-ons instead of mandatory parts of the package.
The solution?? Join the light side of the force, throw away your precious business model, and become a website yourself.
Now, it?s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that just because the vast majority of websites are free to access, they must also be free to produce, and hence it must be a losing proposition to pipe content that has been paid for into a free website.? This is, of course, a fallacy: the incremental cost of serving an additional reader via the Web may be virtually zero, but keeping any website of significance up and running is an expensive proposition. TripAdvisor, famed purveyors of travel information they notionally didn?t pay a cent for, had operating expenses of $338.5 million last year, a large chunk of which went into paying people to fish out the most egregious chunks of spam from their firehose of contributions.? In the dead trees publishing world, this is called ?editing?, and while TripAdvisor?s focus is very much on quantity over quality, others may choose the opposite.
Authors in this new world will thus have a choice.? One option is to exchange risk for the certainty of a fixed but low paycheck and write work-for-hire for a website that monetises itself with any of the existing business models out there for the Web: advertising, transactions (brokerage), associated merchandising, etc.? In the world of reference publishing, including travel, work-for-hire is already the norm and these authors will see little difference ? assuming, of course, that the companies they work for survive the transition, which is by no means a given.
The more exciting but financially dangerous choice is to strike out on their own.? If your main goal is to share your writing or ideas with the world, the digital world is your oyster: start blogging and promoting, and worry about money later.? If Karl Marx was publishing The Communist Manifesto today, would he make it a website or a $0.99 e-book?
If you already have a significant following and would like to turn it into a career, simply asking your fans for money may work, but the guaranteed advance revenue of Kickstarter-style crowd funding seems more appealing; Seth Godin recently just pulled in $130,000 in a few hours.? Cory Doctorow famously gives away copies of all his e-books and makes it back in increased print sales, a format which, much as we like it to diss it, will be around for a while, especially in the deluxe hardcover editions that fans love and authors earn well from.
Now here?s the catch: both these authors could easily charge for what they write, since some of their fans would pay to unlock the gate and pass through the digital wall to read their next book.? But they choose not to, since every book they lock away represents one less opportunity for a new fan to find them.
And if you are publishing your first novel, you would be a fool to barricade yourself in a digital fortress and hope that some greater fool is willing to take a punt on paying you even 99 cents, when there is an ever-increasing plethora of free alternatives.? Achieving fame as an aspiring novelist has always been a long shot, why sabotage your already meager odds for the 34 cents that are left over after Amazon takes its 65% cut?? As Cory says:
There has never been a time when more people were reading more words by more authors. The Internet is a literary world of written words. What a fine thing that is for writers.
Did you miss Part 1?? Check out Eat yourself or be eaten: a tale of two travel publishers.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
B.o.B, Taylor Swift Salute Everyman In 'Both Of Us' Video
Pair examine everyday life in Nashville in new Jake Nava-directed video.
By Jocelyn Vena
B.o.B in his video for "Both of Us"
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If you've ever wondered what would happen if B.o.B and Taylor Swift hung out together in Nashville and hired video director Jake Nava to film it, well, wonder no more.
The twosome are committing their song collaboration to celluloid in the just-released clip for the rapper's track "Both of Us," which features the country-pop superstar on the hook.
But if you thought the video would pay homage to the glittering honky-tonks of Nashville, think again. This video instead sheds light on the grittier sides of the country music capital, following the lyrics of the track, which center on adversity and strife. Bobby Ray and Taylor are rarely seen in the same shot, as southern Americana is the twosome's most prominent co-star.
The clip opens with B.o.B hanging out in his modest home, while Swift is chilling out in the most un-Taylor Swift spot in music video history, a pool hall. There are shots of tatted locals, cowboy-boot-wearing young women, shirtless youths playing in sprinklers, teens kissing, a mobile home, and a dog that leaves Taylor awestruck with his high-flying antics.
The video isn't glamorous, but it leaves viewers appreciating the little things in life. It's not about money, it's about understanding that sometimes a romp through a sprinkler or a good game of billiards is enough to take you away from the mundane moments of everyday life.
As the video closes out, viewers are left with a sort of fantasy, with B.o.B and Swift re-imagined as the everyman and everywoman living simple lives in rural Tennessee, much like the folks in the video.
It's like B.o.B says in the song: "Hey, but if it's all for one and one for all/ Then maybe one day we all could ball/ Do it one time for the underdogs/ From Bobby Ray to all of y'all." Swift shares in the sentiment when she answers on the chorus, "I wish I was strong enough to lift not one but both of us/ Someday I will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us."
The track is off B.o.B's album Strange Clouds. Swift and the MC shot the clip in Music City, USA in mid-June, weeks prior to the official release.
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How Parents Can Help Their Minors Achieve Major Success in the ...
So you have a musically talented child or teenager? Chances are, one day, they will develop aspirations of being the next?(fill in the blank). While their talent may ignite attention from peers, friends and family members, parents should try to look at their child?s talent objectively.?It?s not easy to do. In fact, for many parents, it?s?impossible?to do. Their lack of objectivity breeds delusion which ends up hurting them and their child in the long run.This article can help you prevent that and provide you with a system of checks and balances that will enable you to offer logical guidance and direction to your child by using the following tips.
LET THEM EXPLORE.?You watched them explore and learn how to navigate when they were babies, now you should let them do the same as a child with musical interests. If they want to be a drummer, buy them a drum set. If they want to be a guitarist, buy them a guitar. If they want to be a singer, buy them a karaoke machine. You get the point. By providing your child with the instruments they need, you will help them to strengthen their interests and to illustrate their seriousness.
INSTILL DISCIPLINE.?Contrary to popular belief, discipline is the key to succeeding in the arts, not talent. Sure there are minors who are child prodigies, but in the music industry, the person who has the discipline to religiously practice their craft is the person who outshines those who do not ? or have not ? every time. If you can instill discipline early on, you will?greatlyincrease your child?s chances of success. Part of having discipline is initiative. After you?ve supplied your child with their instrument of choice, how much time does he/she spend with it? How quickly did he/she become competent in playing it? Discipline ? or lack thereof ? will be the determining factor.
SUPPORT THEM.?You should be there ? front and center ? lending your support for every performance your child has. Not only does your encouragement mean a great deal to him/her, but it also gives you the opportunity to witness the impact that your child?s talent has on people with an unbiased opinion. You can help them improve by offering a delicate mixture of praiseand?constructive feedback.
HAVE THEM COMPETE.?Competition is what separates those who should be doing music as a hobby, and those who are most qualified to pursue it as a profession. Coincidentally, that gap is significantly narrowed with discipline, or widened by it. Competition also allows children to measure their talent against those of their talented peers and gives them a serious ego boost if they win; and incentive to get better.?American Idol?is essentially a talent show. The now defunct?Star Search?was also a talent show which was renowned for being used as a springboard for precocious music talents such as Usher, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Beyonce. Believe it or not, they?all?lost but found motivation to work harder to increase their chances of winning the next time around?and they all did ? in other ways.
BE A PROTECTIVE PARENT.?If your child has what we industry professionals call,?undeniable?talent, someone will approach them with a business opportunity; whether it?s to perform or record. In rare instances it may be a contract. When such situations arise, don?t pretend that you know the business (if you don?t). Do acknowledge that you are a protective and concerned parent and that any such offers made or extended to them will be evaluated by an attorney or knowledgeable consultant. Handling business on this fundamental level will safeguard your child in ways that you can?t even imagine.
INVEST IN YOUR CHILD.?Most parents invest in their children prematurely (and no, buying instruments is not an investment ? that?s a purchase). Paying for lessons of any kind is an investment. It constitutes a larger long term payment that can yield greater dividends?down the road. Like most investments, some can?t afford them, which is why it?s advisable to have your child clear the?progress,?discipline, and perhaps even the?competition?hurdles discussed in this article?before?you invest your hard earned money. As challenging as it may be, your decision to invest in your child?s fledgling music career should be one that?s driven by benchmarks, not emotions. In the absence of such benchmarks, I suggest (if they are teenagers) encouraging minors to invest in themselves, and having the parents make an equal investment to measure their seriousness and and having the parents make an equal investment to measure their seriousness and hold them accountable in the process.
FIND A BUSINESS ALLY.?There?s a thin line between being a?concerned?parent and being a?stage?parent. Stage moms (and dads) are notorious for being a pain in the rear because of their controlling ways and obvious distrust. Professionals don?t like dealing with them and executives have little patience for them. And yes, you can jeopardize your child?s career with such antics. Understand that if your child does end up in a situation that requires professional attention you are the one who will execute his/her business dealings, interactions, and negotiations.
This is why it?s so common for parents to confuse their?legal?obligations with their?professional?occupation; bypassing the experience of qualified managers or failing to enlist the services of a competent attorney as a result. Sure some parents?do?make a career of handling their child?s business affairs (Jessica & Ashlee Simpson?s dad, Beyonce?s father, and Chris Brown?s mom, to name a few), but it?s generally a good idea to find a business ally (manager, attorney, consultant) who can help you achieve, or manage your minor?s music success?before?you need them.
Gian Fiero is a seasoned educator, speaker and consultant with a focus on business development and music/entertainment industry operations. His affiliations include SBA (business advisor); San Francisco State University (adjunct professor); National Association Of Record Industry Professionals (associate director); CLA (speaker); West Coast Songwriters (industry judge); and The Muse?s Muse (senior music reviewer and producer of the Muse?s Muse Awards).
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Sen. Rand Paul proposes 'fetal personhood' amendment to flood ...
By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 17:46 EDT
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) expressed his frustration on Tuesday at Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who offered an anti-abortion amendment to legislation that would renew the flood insurance program.
?I?m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment ? listen to this one ? wants to offer an amendment on when life begins,? Reid said on the Senate floor. ?I think some of this stuff is just ? I have been very patient working with my Republican colleagues in allowing relevant amendments on issues, and sometimes we even do non-relevant amendments. But really, on flood insurance??
Reid did not mention the Republican senator in question, but Politico identified Paul as the author of the amendment, which would state that life begins at the moment of conception. The amendment seeks to completely prohibit abortion.
?I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance,? Reid said. ?I can be condemned by outside sources ? my friends can say, ?Let them have a vote on it.? There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We?ll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won?t do it. We?ll have an extension.?
Watch video, uploaded to YouTube on June 26, below:
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Eric W. Dolan has served as an editor for Raw Story since August 2010, and is based out of San Diego, California. He grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and received a Bachelor of Science from Bradley University. Eric is also the publisher and editor of PsyPost. You can follow him on Twitter @ewdolan.?
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
PM: 123 rescued from capsizing off Australian isle
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2009 swine flu outbreak was 15 times deadlier: study
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The swine flu pandemic of 2009 killed an estimated 284,500 people, some 15 times the number confirmed by laboratory tests at the time, according to a new study by an international group of scientists.
The study, published on Tuesday in the London-based journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, said the toll might have been even higher - as many as 579,000 people.
The original count, compiled by the World Health Organization, put the number at 18,500.
Those were only the deaths confirmed by lab testing, which the WHO itself warned was a gross underestimate because the deaths of people without access to the health system go uncounted, and because the virus is not always detectable after a victim dies.
The new study also shows the pandemic's impact varied widely by region, with 51 percent of swine flu deaths occurring in Africa and southeast Asia, which account for only 38 percent of the world's population.
"This pandemic really did take an enormous toll," said Dr. Fatimah Dawood of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who led the study. "Our results also suggest how best to deploy resources. If a vaccine were to become available, we need to make sure it reached the areas where the death toll is likely to be highest."
Swine flu, caused by the H1N1 influenza virus, infected its first known victim in central Mexico in March 2009. By April it had reached California, infecting a 10-year-old, and then quickly spread around the world, triggering fears and even panic.
The CDC warned Americans not to travel to Mexico if they could avoid it. Egypt ordered the slaughter of all the country's pigs in a misguided attempt to contain the virus, which was in fact spread from person to person.
The fears reflected the unusual nature of the virus, which contained bits and pieces of bird, swine and human flu viruses, a combination never before detected.
Scientists were unsure how transmissible or deadly this mongrel flu would be, but early signs were ominous: the World Health Organization declared swine flu a pandemic in June 2009, when labs had identified cases in 74 countries.
Such lab-based identification is the gold standard, but every expert acknowledges that it misses more cases than it catches.
One reason is that "some people who contract flu do not have access to health care," said CDC's Dawood, so their illness and even death goes unnoticed by authorities. Another reason is that the virus is not always detectable by the time a victim dies.
LACK OF DATA LOWBALLS FATALITIES
To get around these obstacles, epidemiologists resort to statistical models. They typically take the number of deaths from pneumonia and complications of underlying cardiovascular disease - both caused by influenza - during non-flu periods, count the number during a pandemic, and attribute the excess to the flu.
Unfortunately, "vital statistics data are non-existent or sparse in many lower-resource countries," said Dawood, making this approach infeasible.
Dawood and her colleagues - from Vietnam, Kenya, New Zealand, Denmark and five other countries - tried a different method.
They started with hard data, such as numbers from health workers going door to door in rural villages and asking about flu-like symptoms and testing nasal and throat swab samples, to estimate the proportion of a country's population infected with 2009 H1N1. Such data were available from 13 countries - wealthy, such as Denmark, and poor, like Vietnam.
Then the scientists estimated the fraction of patients who died in each country. They started with solid data on death rates from respiratory illnesses in five wealthy nations.
Since someone with, say, pneumonia has a lower chance of dying if treated in a top hospital in Hong Kong than at a rural clinic in Vietnam, the scientists applied a "multiplier" to the raw data from poor countries.
That is, they assumed that more people with flu-caused pneumonia died in developing nations than developed ones.
These estimates and assumptions can introduce errors, critics note. Newly released mortality data from Mexico, for instance, show that H1N1 killed even more people than the new study estimates, said Lone Simonsen of George Washington University School of Public Health, co-author of a commentary on the study. Estimates of deaths from Japan and Singapore, in contrast, may be too high.
Overall, however, the under- and over-estimates probably even out, said Simonsen, making the global estimate - of 15 times more deaths than those confirmed at the time - about right.
The results paint a picture of a flu virus that did not treat all victims equally.
It killed two to three times as many of its victims in Africa as elsewhere. Overall, the virus infected children most (4 percent to 33 percent), adults moderately (0 to 22 percent of those 18 to 64) and the elderly hardly at all (0 to 4 percent).
Even though the elderly were more likely to die once infected, so few caught the virus that 80 percent of swine flu deaths were of people younger than 65.
In contrast, the elderly account for roughly 80 percent to 90 percent of deaths from seasonal influenza outbreaks. They were probably spared the worst of 2009 H1N1 because the virus resembled one that had circulated before 1957, meaning people alive then had developed some antibodies to it.
The relative youth of the victims meant that H1N1 stole more than three times as many years of life than typical seasonal flu: 9.7 million years of life lost compared to 2.8 million if it had targeted the elderly as seasonal flu does.
H1N1 had begun petering out by November 2009, and the WHO declared the epidemic at an end the following August.
(Reporting by Sharon Begley; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Xavier Briand)
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Ematic unwraps 9.7-inch eGlide Pro X tablet, widens its Android 4.0 horizons in a literal sense
Ematic has a tendency to release a lot of tablets, so what's one more? In the case of the eGlide Pro X, quite a bit. The newly shipping model uses a 9.7-inch, 4:3 ratio display that will be quite familiar to some, but which is still quite rare in the narrower, 16:10-happy world of Android 4.0. It's thankfully more than just superficials that get the boost. We'd say that the Pro X is just that slightly more pro than its XL Pro ancestor through a faster 1.2GHz processor and a doubled 8GB of built-in storage. A microSD slot, HDMI, Kobo's book app, and Ematic's own Google-replacing software all show their familiar faces. The $220 price currently makes this latest of eGlides a good bargain, but we have a hunch you might want to wait until Google I/O -- you never know what you might get.
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Giving Kids With ADHD Medication At A ... - Yeshiva World News
Experts are suggesting putting kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on drugs early in order to improve their academic performance, especially in math.
How early? Some say as it could benefit kids as young as six.
According to research published in a recent issue of Pediatrics, giving younger kids with ADHD stimulant medications can improve their grades and test scores.
A study of 12,000 students out of Iceland concluded that getting kids with ADHD started on drugs like Ritalin and Adderoll earlier were less likely to see their grades fall between the fourth and seventh grades.
Interestingly, Iceland has a national database that records all outpatient prescriptions, helping researchers to see which kids were prescribed medications to treat ADHD and at what age they began drug treatment, according to WebMD.
Girls with ADHD who were treated at a young age, showed a more marked improvement than their male counterparts.
?Performance of kids with ADHD tends to decline over time, especially if medication is delayed,? said Helga Zoega, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Translational Epidemiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and lead author of the study told ABC News. ?Starting medication earlier may halt this decline.?
A majority of kids are diagnosed with ADHD by age 7, she said.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently broadened its age guidelines for ADHD to children as young as four years-old.
The Acedemy recommends treating children ages four to five with behavior therapy before resorting to drug treatment.
?Most families come to medication as a last resort,? Ruth Hughes, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Children and Adults with Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or CHADD told Bloomberg News in October.
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Thai Buddhist Film Festival Seeks To Spark Faith
BANGKOK ? Religion can be a tough sell nowadays, so instead of waiting for disciples to make their way to temple, some promoters brought 36 films with Buddhist themes to the heart of modern Thailand earlier this month.
The International Buddhism Film Festival was an effort by the government and private religious groups to popularize Buddhism among the younger generations.
"It's like prescribing medicine to children, you have to add a little sweetener there," said Somchai Seanglai, the permanent secretary of Thailand's Culture Ministry. "City dwellers or our young people are not used to the traditional way of practicing Buddhism, so we insert Buddhist dharma into art and culture that people love to consume." Dharma refers to the Buddha's teachings on the meaning of existence.
Initiated by the California-based Buddhism Film Foundation, the movie festival came to Bangkok for the first time this year since its debut in Los Angeles in 2003, and pulled in 3,700 visitors.
"Now many youngsters think of Buddhism as a religion for old people, so the film festival is trying to engage Buddhism with the contemporary world," said Santi Opaspakornkij, executive director of the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives, an education center dedicated to promoting Buddhism through new channels in Thailand.
About 90 percent of Thailand's population is Buddhist, but many view the religion simply as a rough guide to social do's and don'ts, with vague notions encouraging good behavior.
"I don't go to temples very often," said Napasamon Jeeramaneemai, a third-year architecture student at Bangkok's Thammasat University attending the festival. "Buddhism for me is just a better way to resolve bad situations. Sometimes when you blame them on 'karma,' it's easier to accept them." Buddhists believe "Karma" rules a person's destiny depending on their deeds throughout their existence, which can span many lifetimes.
To make sure the films would cause no major offense, the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives sought support from three leading Thai monks in the forefront of popularizing Buddhism, including the popular young preacher, Phra Maha Vudhijaya Vajiramedhi, who posts his teachings on his Twitter account for more than 500,000 followers.
The films included "Crazy Wisdom," a documentary released in 2011 by American filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas. It portrays Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a controversial Tibetan monk who preached to thousands of students when he lived in the West but whose lifestyle was in defiance of many of Buddhism's ethical principles.
But many people considered his unconventional style a challenging but effective way of presenting Buddhist concepts.
"I personally don't agree with the way Trungpa Rinpoche teaches," Nittaya Weera, a freelance writer on telecommunication, commented on "Crazy Wisdom." "But I understand the real essence of Buddhism is in the belief itself. The way to get there doesn't really matter."
"Crazy Wisdom" turned out to be the most popular films. Other crowd-pleasers included "Abraxas," a Japanese film about a married punk rocker turned Buddhist, and "Karma," a lighthearted Nepali film about two Tibetan nuns on a journey to get repayment of a loan.
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Jury reaches verdict in Pa. priest-abuse trial
Monsignor William Lynn walks to the Criminal Justice Center, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Philadelphia. Lynn is the first Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. ever charged with child endangerment, for allegedly keeping co-defendants former priest Edward V. Avery and the Rev. James J. Brennan, and other accused predators, in ministry. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Monsignor William Lynn walks to the Criminal Justice Center, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Philadelphia. Lynn is the first Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. ever charged with child endangerment, for allegedly keeping co-defendants former priest Edward V. Avery and the Rev. James J. Brennan, and other accused predators, in ministry. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A jury reached a verdict in a groundbreaking priest-abuse trial and was poised to announce it Friday afternoon.
Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official charged for allegedly helping an archdiocese cover up abuse claims. He faces about 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy and two counts of child endangerment.
Lynn is on leave from the Philadelphia archdiocese, where he served as secretary for clergy from 1992 to 2004.
Defense lawyers said Lynn alone tried to document abuse complaints, get priests into treatment and alert the cardinal to the growing crisis. Church documents show therapists had called one accused priest a ticking "time bomb" and "powder keg."
Lynn testified that the cardinal was the ultimate authority on what happened to the priests.
Prosecutors argued that Lynn could have called police or quit the job if efforts to help victims were being stymied.
They said the evidence showed a pattern at the archdiocese of lying about why priests were removed, sending them to "company doctors" at church-run therapy centers and failing to warn new parishes where they were later transferred.
Friday was the 13th day of deliberations in the case.
Seven men and five women sat on the jury, along with eight alternates. Many have ties to Catholic schools or parishes, but said they could judge the case fairly. There are about 1.5 million Catholics in the five-county archdiocese.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
Impressive rout for Germany
Man of the Match:?Sami Khedira?has had to take another step forward in this tournament. Whereas his introduction to the national team saw him as more of a midfield stopper, he?s now Germany?s main shuttler, often serving as the fifth man in attack. Today, that role producing a crucial goal ? a volley from 14 yards out responding to a shock Greek equalizer. It was payoff for an hour?s worth of running that saw Khedira make up the space in a more fluid Germany attack. It also becomes the standout moment in what has been a strong competition for the 25-year-old.
NBC Sports: Germany beats Greece 4-2 to reach semifinals
Packaged for takeaway:
- Germany head coach Joachim L?w surprised us by making three changes to the team that went 3-0-0 in group stage. Miroslav Kl?se was back in the team, pushing Mario G?mez to the bench,?Marco Reus came in for Thomas M?ller on the right, while Andr? Schurrle took Lukas Podolski?s spot on the left.
- With the changes, L?w implied Germany wasn?t going to try to break through Greece; rather, they were going to try to move through their opponents. All of Kl?se, Reus, and Schurrle are more mobile options than the players they replaced. There?s also an interchangeability to the trio that you don?t have with the team that started group stage. Early in the match, Mesut ?zil and Reus were constantly switching, with Schurrle coming into midfield from the left, opening the flank for Lahm.
- That lack of movement has been a concern for the Germans, a concern that has grown louder as the tournament?s progressed. As much as Friday?s lineup may have been a response to Greece?s tactics (as well as L?w implicitly acknowledging Greece as weak), it may have been an audition. If it was, Kl?se did fine (but we knew he was good), Reus was different though not necessarily better (or worse) than M?ller, while Schurrle was disappointing, putting only one of six shots on goal.
- The changes produced a number of first half chances, and Greece was a bit lucky to have only given up a first half opener to Philipp Lahm. The goal, however, was preventable, as Sotiris Ninis lazily let Lahm move toward the penalty area after challenging the German defender for a ?zil pass 30 yards from goal. Lahm moved in and past Ninis, let go of a shot from 23 yards out, and beat Michalis Sifakis into the right of goal.
- Greece made two changes at halftime (Ninis included) and came out with renewed determination. Surprisingly, it paid off, with a long pass from?Theofanis Gekas breaking Dimitrios Salpingidis into the counter. Salpingidis played a ball across to top of the six for Giorgos Samaras, who beat Jerome Boateng to put home an equalizer.
- Fernando Santos?s substitutes came back to hurt him on the next goal. Santos had taken out left back Giorgos Tzavellas, moved Vassilis Torossidis to from right to left, and dropped defensive midfielder Giannis Maniatis to right back. When Boateng?s cross came in, Maniatis waited for the ball to drop rather than attack it. That gave Khedira time to run onto a volley for the go-ahead goal.
- From there, the dam broke. Sifakis made a poor read on a set piece, allowing Kl?se an easy goal. Marco Reus added a fourth, blasting a rebound into an empty net. Although Greece added a ;ate penalty kick, the match was already out of reach.
- Some will see selecting Khedira over Mesut ?zil as a bit of a reach for Man of the Match. Ozil had another great game dictating Germany?s attack, but even though he had two assists, most of his work was ultimately marginalized by the actual goals. Lahm did the work on the first assist, while Sifakis?s error gifted him his second. ?zil deserved enormous credit for setting the tempo and providing for most of the chances Germany created. He was (as almost always) Germany?s most impressive talent, if (by circumstance) not necessarily the Man of the Match.
- Germany now moves on to face the winner of England-Italy where they?re likely to face another very defensive approach. Will L?w again choose a more mobile lineup? Or will G?mez, M?ller, and Podolski be restored to the team?
- Even with major changes, Germany looked like favorites. If their group stage starting XI isn?t restored, isn?t unclear the team will be worse off.
ProSoccerTalk is doing its best to keep you up to date on what?s going on in Poland and Ukraine.?Check out the site?s Euro 2012 page?and look at the site?s previews, predictions, and coverage of all the events defining UEFA?s championship.
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Can you name 18 iconic rockers in viral video?
By Kurt Schlosser
If you're craving a new music video from David Bowie or Bob Dylan or Elvis Presley or Kurt Cobain -- or all of them together and then some -- you'll want to check out this offering from Eytan and the Embassy.
The Brooklyn-based band's video for "Everything Changes" literally does just that with 18 costume changes in one unedited take.
According to Record Setter, it took the band and crew a full day of rehearsal and 30 takes the next day to successfully capture the final video.
As the lyrics of the song say, "If you're tired of being yourself, go on and be somebody else."
Over the course of the four-minute video,?wigs and glasses and shirts and jackets go on and off lead singer Eytan Oren. We tried our best to identify each of the iconic rockers portrayed. There's Buddy Holly? John Lennon (or is that Liam Gallagher?!) Jim Morrison! Bob Dylan! Someone in a white tux? Elton John! Elvis Presley! David Bowie! Billy Idol ... as Wendy O. Williams? Bruce Springsteen! A blonde we can't peg -- David Lee Roth? Stevie Nicks? Then there's Prince! Kurt Cobain! Billy Joe Armstrong! Weird Al! The Beastie Boys! Lady Gaga! And finally, Deadmau5 and his signature "mouse" head.
The band has also uploaded a cool look behind the scenes of the making of the video. "The idea was to try to pull off something that was pretty close to impossible so that it would be pretty fun to watch," Oren says.
Mission accomplished.
What did you think of the video? Can you ID all of the rockers? Let us know over on Facebook.
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Bailouts Can't Save Europe, Failures Must Go ... - Yahoo! Finance
If a think tank spent a full week brainstorming the best way to foment a culture welcoming of extreme nationalism and a dictatorial regime, they couldn't do much better than the euro zone. Economies built on debt inevitably fail with chaotic and often violent repercussions.
80 years after the fall of the Weimar Republic, human nature remains the same. The instinctive reaction to pain is to find a cause or scapegoat to blame and, in extreme cases, to eradicate. The surprise isn't that Greek Neo-Nazis captured 7% of the popular vote in last Sunday's election, but rather that it took so long for extremism to get a foothold.
The situation in Europe is unraveling at a growing clip, but investing legend Jim Rogers says there's still a way to avoid the worst case scenario. "My solution would be to let the people who have failed, go bankrupt?declare bankruptcy," Rogers explains. "The banks lose money, but then you start over; that's the way capitalism is supposed to work."
Avoiding short-term pain through activities like propping up "zombie" companies to avoid the pain of failure has one drawback: it has never worked in the history of economics. Japan has been doing it for decades, and the Nikkei remains 80% off highs made in the '80s.
The trick to avoiding a societal uprising or decades of an undead economy is controlling the descent into failure. Rogers' spin on the ring-fence plan is an EZ-wide proactive sorting of the entities allowed to succeed and fail in order to minimize the collective impact. Call it a socialized free market approach.
For now, Germany has the clout and money to coordinate such an effort. "If you wait two years from now, five years from now, when no government has any credibility and nobody will give you anymore money, then it's finished... you better get yourself a rifle and a bunker and head to Asia."
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Pakistan's ruling party names new PM nominee
ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Pakistan's ruling party named a new candidate for prime minister Friday, the latest developments in political turmoil triggered by the ouster of the ex-premier by the Supreme Court.
The party also said early parliament elections would be held later this year. The announcement of the elections and of Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as premier-designate followed a week of turbulence that pitted the high court against the country's government in a high-stakes battle for power in this nuclear-armed country considered crucial to the U.S.'s war in Afghanistan.
Ashraf, who was the minister for information technology in the recently ousted government, was originally put forward as a backup candidate but then got the nod after the first choice was immediately hit with an arrest warrant Thursday on drug-related charges.
The parliament is scheduled to vote on Ashraf's candidacy later Friday evening. The ruling coalition has a majority so Ashraf is expected to be approved. The Pakistan People's Party is the largest party in the coalition.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister for failing to initiate a corruption probe of the president's affairs.
A senior PPP member, Khursheed Shah, said during a news conference Friday that the party had decided on Ashraf after consultations with their coalition partners, many of whom also attended the press conference.
"Raja Pervaiz Ashraf is our final nominee," he said.
Opposition members had been calling for new elections to be held immediately, but the PPP, fearing it would not do well, has been reluctant to do that. Shah did not give a date for the elections, but the earliest they could likely be held is late in the fall.
"This year will be the year of new elections, and we are going for the elections," he said.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
How NASA's Curiosity rover could 'discover' Teflon on Mars
Teflon from the drill on NASA's Curiosity rover could contaminate Martian soil, say scientists, creating misleading evidence of an ancient alien civilization that had developed nonstick cookware.
Artist?s concept depicts the NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a nuclear-powered mobile robot for investigating the Red Planet?s past or present ability to sustain microbial life.
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EnlargeAn unexpected contamination problem has cropped up for NASA's next Mars rover, but scientists are confident the huge robot will still be able to complete its mission after it lands on the Red Planet in August.
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NASA scientists discussed the contamination concern and a new Mars landing plan for the car-size?Curiosity rover?in a teleconference with reporters today (June 11). The contamination issue, they said, concerns the rover's drill.
When Curiosity ultimately bores into a Martian rock, small amounts of Teflon and other contaminants from the drill will likely seep into the sample, NASA officials said. These introduced materials may make it tougher for the Curiosity team to search for organic carbon ? the building blocks of life as we know it here on Earth ? on the Red Planet.
While researchers are still working to get a handle on the problem, they don't think it will significantly hinder the Curiosity rover or its $2.5 billion mission, which is officially known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
Right now, the overall sense on the mission team is that "it's not a serious problem, because we see so many potential ways to work around this that we could use," Curiosity lead scientist John Grotzinger, of Caltech in Pasadena, told reporters today. [Curiosity - The SUV of Mars Rovers]
Meanwhile, Grotzinger and his team also said today that they have trimmed down the landing zone for the Curiosity rover in order to bring it closer to its final target: a huge mountain inside Mars' giant Gale Crater.
Drill's leaky seals
Curiosity launched in late November and is due to touch down in?Gale Crater?on the night of Aug. 5. After it lands, it will embark on a roughly two-Earth-year mission to determine if the Gale Crater area is, or ever was, capable of?supporting microbial life.
The 1-ton rover will use?10 science instruments?to get at the question. One of those instruments, known as Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, is a chemistry laboratory stripped down to the size of a microwave oven.
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