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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Creative Arts Emmys: 'Game of Thrones' Scores 6 Awards
The Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which honors all the categories not featured during the regular Primetime Emmys broadcast (Sunday, Sept. 23), were held Sunday afternoon -- and HBO's Game of Thrones received the most love.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Will Chicago teachers approve proposed contract?
Kids may be back in school on Monday if the Chicago Teachers Union is able to reach an agreement about salary increases, teacher evaluations and rehiring policy for laid off teachers. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
By Phil Rogers, Alexandra Clark and Mary Ann Ahern, NBCChicago.com
Updated at 5:45 p.m. ET: CHICAGO -- As Chicago teachers union delegates met Sunday to go over the details of the proposed contract hammered out late Saturday night, some worried the union would not approve the deal.
A faction of the union sees it as a "back room deal" that does not have unified support. While Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and her team are ready to present the details this afternoon, already there is a vocal faction promising to vote no.???
A source close to the union says late into Saturday night, Lewis' caucus shouted obscenities at her and the other leaders - "You sold out" and "Rahm's getting everything they wanted, what the hell did we get?"???
Lewis, who is exhausted from a tense week, indicated that she's done negotiating and asked "Will my own caucus defy me?"
At the heart of those who oppose this new deal - they feel the negotiating team did not fight for paraprofessionals and special education teachers and students.
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Compounding the delegates anger is today at sundown is the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah and many of the Jewish delegates feel pressured to vote? even though? they shouted at Lewis there is "no way to vote on something we haven't seen."?
On the other hand, union members could vote to accept the new contract, ending the city?s week-long teacher strike -- the first one in 25 years -- opening school doors for 350,000 students as early as Monday. But delegates could ask for 24 hours to talk to individual members in their schools before making a decision on what to do next.
?We are a democratic body and therefore we want to ensure all of our members have had the chance to weigh-in on what we were able to win,? said CTU President Karen Lewis. ?We believe this is a good contract, however, no contract will solve all of the inequities in our District."
Delegates are not the ones who will sign off on the new contract, union leadership explained. That responsibility remains with the union rank and file.
Negotiators started the day with a vow to remain at the table all day, to hammer out final details in an agreement which could open classroom doors again on Monday.
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"Hopefully we can do it," said CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey said on Saturday before heading into talks to end the week-long teacher strike. "But like I said, the devil's in the details in the contracts, and we want it in writing."
The talks, which began at 9 a.m. Saturday, took most of the day and were still going on 12 hours later. Both sides are working out the details to a "tentative" contract that could suspend the strike and put students back in class.
Once the language of the contract is decided, it will go to the union's House of Delegates for approval. Both sides have expressed a desire to have the contract ready for approval by Sunday.
Even though an agreement is still being negotiated, Sharkey thinks the strike itself was a victory for his members.
"Educators in the city of Chicago feel like they've had their voices heard for the first time in a very long time," he said. "Frankly we're tired of the political establishment taking credit for every gain the schools make, when we're the ones who do all the work."
Earlier in the day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel had no words about the possibility of an agreement and refused all questions pertaining to the strike as he worked the crowd at the Mexican Independence Parade.
Around the same time in Union Park, an estimated 2,500 teachers and supporters gathered for a "Solidarity Rally."
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Lewis was one of the 20 speakers who took to the stage during the rally and applauded the teachers for standing their ground while reminding them the work was not over.
"We are still on strike," Lewis told the crowd decked out in red. "We have a framework; we do not have an agreement."
On Friday, leaders on both sides of Chicago's teacher strike said they have a "framework" in place to end the stalemate that's embroiled the city and kept students out of classes for a full week.
Chicago's first teacher strike in 25 years could end Sunday if the union's House of Delegates approves that action. The delegates are not the ones who will sign off on the new contract, however, union leadership explained. That responsibility remains with the union rank and file.
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Behavior issues are a bigger headache for children with migraines, research reveals
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2012) ? Kids who get migraine headaches are much more likely than other children to also have behavioral difficulties, including social and attention issues, and anxiety and depression. The more frequent the headaches, the greater the effect, according to research out now in the journal Cephalagia, published by SAGE.
Marco Arruda, director of the Glia Institute in S?o Paulo, Brazil, together with Marcelo Bigal of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York studied 1,856 Brazilian children aged 5 to 11. The authors say that this is the first large, community based study of its kind to look at how children's behavioural and emotional symptoms correlate with migraine and tension-type headaches (TTH), and to incorporate data on headache frequency.
Children with or suffering from migraine had a much greater overall likelihood of abnormal behavioral scores than controls, especially in somatic, anxiety-depressive, social, attention, and internalizing domains. Children with TTH were affected in the same domains as migraine sufferers, but to a lesser degree.
The study used internationally validated headache questionnaires as well as the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) to assess emotional symptoms. The researchers trained school teachers in how to walk parents through questionnaires step by step.
For children with either migraine (23%) or TTH (29%), more frequent headaches correlated with increasingly abnormal scores on the behavior scale. The types of behavior most often seen were those characterized as internalizing -- behaviors directed towards the self. While less than a fifth of controls (19% of sample) have issues with internalizing behaviors, over half of migraine sufferers were affected. Externalizing behaviors, such as becoming more aggressive or breaking rules, were no more likely among the children with frequent attacks of headache than among the controls. The researchers suggested the CBCL may be underpowered to investigate the correlation between attention/hyperactivity and headaches in detail.
"As previously reported by others, we found that migraine was associated with social problems," said Arruda. "The 'social' domain identifies difficulties in social engagement as well as infantilized behavior for the age and this may be associated with important impact on the personal and social life."
"Providers should be aware of this possibility in children with migraines, in order to properly address the problem," he added.
Previous research has pointed to children with migraine being more likely than their peers to have other physical or psychological issues, including anxiety, depression, and attention and hyperactivity problems. But until now, few studies have examined the contrasts between TTH in children. Including headache frequency was also a missing part of the puzzle, the authors say.
Children often suffer from headaches, with migraine prevalence ranging from just over three percent to over one fifth of children as they progress from early childhood through to adolescence.
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- Marco A Arruda and Marcelo E Bigal. Behavioral and emotional symptoms and primary headaches in children: A population-based study. Cephalalgia, 2012; DOI: 10.1177/0333102412454226
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Why am I vegan? In not very many words | Only a Northern Song
Tonight I was asked why did I become vegan? The answer I came up with is pretty good I think, and worth sharing with the internet.?
I?m vegan because I agree with the goal ? animal liberation, although I remain skeptical about the tactic. Skepticism about the tactic of ?being vegan? to achieve the goal of liberating animals was the reason I was not vegan before I became vegan, and if I?m honest, I?m really no more convinced of the effectiveness of the tactic today. But this is beside the point, what is it about the?goal that appeals to me, that feels right, that elicits my conviction?
I value?experience. I think life is worth living because ?worth? is something experienced, and I think that we can know something about what makes life worth living. And, here comes the motivation for animal liberation: the things that differentiate humans from non-human animals don?t play a terribly large role in making life worth living.
It might be retorted that we can?t know anything about animal experience because we can?t speak to animals. This was a serious argument for Descartes, but it?s not a serious argument today when the neuroscience can actually tell us quite a bit about the emotional lives of animals. We know animals are not mere machines, we know they are?animals, as we are?animals.?We know that mammals have a lot of the same emotions as humans, because they share the brain components that are dedicated to these motivational structures. We know that even lobsters share the same basic motivational centre as humans ? the Amygdala. But cows or dogs or cats, they are almost the same as us. Of course what differentiates us from cows and dogs and cats is important for human inter-subjective interaction, which is largely based on language, but as every animal lover knows it is absolutely possible to have relationships with animals and that?s because relationships, especially personal relationships,
Now think about a dairy cow. Lots of vegetarians think it?s ok to drink milk and eat cheese because you aren?t eating the animal. It?s easy to respond that all dairy cows are in fact slaughtered and eaten, but that?s not the retort I want to offer here. Dairy cows have their calfs stolen from them at birth, and they experience extreme trauma in reaction to this. They wait, for example, by the gate where their calf was taken away crying for days or weeks. It?s easy to see the similarity to a young mother having her baby taken away by force ? this happened plenty in the 20th century thanks to institutions like the United Church forcing pregnant rape victims to give up their babies. Now, this might be a bit offensive but i think it?s a worthwhile comparison ? do we really think that the experience of the mother having her child taken away from her is so different than the experience of the cow? Do we think that what is abhorent about stealing a human mother?s baby has to do with the things that make the human ?mother different from the non-human animal mother, to do with her capacity for complex language and rationality? Or, do we think it?s horrible because the motivations to hold onto one?s child run much deeper than modern evolutionary trappings like reason and language, and run on older systems ? emotional systems, systems we share with cows. I hope no one reads this and thinks I?m calling human mothers ?cows?, but then again, the fact we find that an insult is a trapping of our speciesist attitude ? cows are valuable animals, they experience meaningful lives which can be more or less?conducive?to their flourishing.
I?m willing to stand on this idea: that what makes life worth living is primarily our emotional engagement in our social world, in our projects, in relationships, and although the sophistication of these engagements might be very much increased by our capacity for language, it is not their sophistication but their gravity and significance that makes them worthwhile. And if it?s only the cognitive-linguistic aspect that we don?t share with other?mammals, then we don?t have any reason to think that their lives are not worthwhile. And if their lives are worthwhile, then our decision to act as if their lives are not worthwhile, speciesism, is not morally different from racism, or any other exclusionary moral ideology which prescribes as valuable only members of one arbitrarily defined group and permits the devaluing, and in this case, wholesale slaughter, of another.
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HP "Bender" shows up in benchmarks log, running Android 4.0.4
Well, what do we have here then? Right after HP CEO, Meg Whitman, came out saying the company needed to provide a smartphone, we see mention of one. First though, we need to say this. The information comes from a set of benchmark logs, and we know these things can be faked. Now, that's out of the way, let's take a look at what we've got.
As Derek Kessler points out over at webOS Nation, the likelihood of a future HP smartphone running webOS would be unlikely -- "less likely than getting CrackBerry Kevin staying off of BlackBerry devices for longer than a day." Given the long standing relationship between HP and Microsoft, the first assumptions were that this could have a Windows Phone 8 connection. Well, maybe not.
Showing up in a GLBenchmark log is a device codenamed 'Bender,' made by HP and running Android 4.0.4 and packing some interesting specs. Powering the Bender is said to be a dual-core Snapdragon S4, and the display resolution is a rather odd 1366x720. For a device with a HD display, this 17:9 aspect ration does seem strangely tall. It at least would indicate a screen size above 4 inches, so no Android powered HP Veer then.
There's every reason to be skeptical about the existence of such a device, and there could be any number of reasons for what we're seeing. Including it all being a big fake. However, let's not forget that the HP Touchpad was supposed to run Android before the acquisition of Palm. So, it's possible for sure, especially if HP has already considered Android in the past.
It's a big old heap of rumor at this point, and we'll have to stand by and wait to see if anything does ever come of it. In the meantime, be sure to head on over to webOS Nation for their take.
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WVU football: JMU coach is big believer in Geno Smith
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- During the Colonial Athletic Conference coaches teleconference Monday, James Madison Coach Mickey Matthews called West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith a "great player" before reminding listeners that he isn't "the first guy to say that."
Matthews also isn't the only one declaring the Mountaineers' senior signal caller this: a Heisman Trophy candidate.
The 58-year-old Matthews, who has coached JMU since 1999 and won an Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) national title in 2004, initially went a step further with his assessment of Smith.
"You are competing against the guy who is probably going to win the Heisman Trophy," Matthews said, before backtracking slightly. "I don't know if he's going to win it, but he'll certainly get invited to New York."
There's no shortage of websites that have Smith near the top of their way-too-early Heisman lists. Yahoo! Sports, ESPN.com and CBSSports.com/Heismanpundit all have Smith No. 2 after two weeks.
Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley, whom I voted third on my 2011 Heisman ballot behind eventual winner Robert Griffin III (Baylor) and runner-up Andrew Luck (Stanford), is considered the early favorite.
That means little. Here's why:
StiffArmTrophy, another website that tracks voters' supposedly private ballots throughout the season, had Boise State's Kellen Moore in the top spot at this time last year.
In fact, three of the top six finishers in the Heisman voting - Wisconsin's Montee Ball (fourth), LSU's Tyrann Mathieu (fifth) and Barkley (sixth) - weren't even in the website's top 10 through two weeks of games last season.
Griffin III was seventh after two weeks last season, and that was even after he had as many touchdowns (eight) as incompletions in Baylor's first two games. He started to make his move after Week 3 when he went 29-for-33 for 338 yards and five touchdowns against Rice.
The four Heisman winners before Griffin III came from the SEC, and since 2000 the winner of the top collegiate football honor have come from these schools: Florida State, Nebraska, Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Florida, Alabama and Auburn.
If a Baylor or West Virginia is going to break into that fraternity, it takes the kind of mind-boggling numbers Griffin III put up early in the season.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- During the Colonial Athletic Conference coaches teleconference Monday, James Madison Coach Mickey Matthews called West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith a "great player" before reminding listeners that he isn't "the first guy to say that."Matthews also isn't the only one declaring the Mountaineers' senior signal caller this: a Heisman Trophy candidate.
The 58-year-old Matthews, who has coached JMU since 1999 and won an Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) national title in 2004, initially went a step further with his assessment of Smith.
"You are competing against the guy who is probably going to win the Heisman Trophy," Matthews said, before backtracking slightly. "I don't know if he's going to win it, but he'll certainly get invited to New York."
There's no shortage of websites that have Smith near the top of their way-too-early Heisman lists. Yahoo! Sports, ESPN.com and CBSSports.com/Heismanpundit all have Smith No. 2 after two weeks.
Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley, whom I voted third on my 2011 Heisman ballot behind eventual winner Robert Griffin III (Baylor) and runner-up Andrew Luck (Stanford), is considered the early favorite.
That means little. Here's why:
StiffArmTrophy, another website that tracks voters' supposedly private ballots throughout the season, had Boise State's Kellen Moore in the top spot at this time last year.
In fact, three of the top six finishers in the Heisman voting - Wisconsin's Montee Ball (fourth), LSU's Tyrann Mathieu (fifth) and Barkley (sixth) - weren't even in the website's top 10 through two weeks of games last season.
Griffin III was seventh after two weeks last season, and that was even after he had as many touchdowns (eight) as incompletions in Baylor's first two games. He started to make his move after Week 3 when he went 29-for-33 for 338 yards and five touchdowns against Rice.
The four Heisman winners before Griffin III came from the SEC, and since 2000 the winner of the top collegiate football honor have come from these schools: Florida State, Nebraska, Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Florida, Alabama and Auburn.
If a Baylor or West Virginia is going to break into that fraternity, it takes the kind of mind-boggling numbers Griffin III put up early in the season.
After his team's 3-0 start, Griffin III had 13 touchdowns, 12 incomplete passes and zero interceptions.
Smith could be setting himself up for a similar start, although it seems like he already has the voters' collective attention. The 6-foot-3 quarterback went 32-for-36 for 323 yards and four touchdowns in the season-opening rout of Marshall.
There's that quirky statistic again. Smith had as many touchdown passes (four) as incompletions before heading to the bench with WVU comfortably ahead.
JMU, even at 2-0 and ranked fifth in the FCS, could give Smith the chance to put up monster numbers again this Saturday at FedEx Field, the home of the Washington Redskins and Griffin III, who was the No. 2 pick in the NFL Draft behind Luck. ?
"I think he's going to throw it," Matthews said of Smith. "I think when he gets bored getting so many yards passing (WVU Coach) Dana (Holgorsen) calls some runs so the running backs won't quit.
"He's going to throw it."
Matthews watched plenty of film in preparation for No. 9 WVU (1-0) - "Several times, unfortunately." - and Smith conjured up images of a quarterback Matthews had to plot to stop years ago as a defensive coordinator at Georgia.
"He's an Aaron Brooks clone," said Matthews, referring to the former University of Virginia quarterback who faced Georgia in the 1999 Peach Bowl. "He has a really great arm. He throws sideline patterns to the wide side of the field. That's a long throw on a football field, because you are throwing it over two-thirds of the field and throwing it deep.
"The biggest thing he does is play with a lot of confidence."
If Smith is perusing the Internet, he might get another confidence boost.
He has a lot of believers out there, including coaches on the opposite sideline.
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