California Assembly Bill 1750 was signed by Governor Jerry Brown today to enact the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, a significant new measure clarifying that the use of rainwater captured from rooftops does not require a water right permit from the State Water Resources Control Board.
This much-needed liberalization of the law further permits holders of a C27 licence (landscape contractors) to prime contract for the construction of such systems when they are used exclusively for irrigation or as supply for a fountain, waterfall, pond, or other water feature.
Designed together with targeted overflow into bioswales and vernal detainment pools, rainwater management systems recharge local aquifers and liberate the gardener from the city garden hose.
An increasing amount of California's water is predicted to fall not as snow in the mountains, but as rain in other areas of the state. This will affect the local hydrologic cycle profoundly; much of that rainwater will no longer be held in existing reservoirs, which are located to capture snowmelt.
Snowmelt is also predicted to occur progresively early in the year, so reservoirs operated for flood control must release water early in the season to protect against later storms, thereby reducing the amount of early-season snowmelt that can be saved.
Expanding opportunities for rainwater capture to augment water supply will require efforts at all levels, from individual landowners to state and local agencies and watershed managers.
Here at Madroño, we hope to serve ever more clients choosing to improve their landscapes so elementally.


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Berlinale to host Shooting Star's inaugural public forum
By Zachary Boren2013-02-01T22:25:00+00:00
European Film Promotion (EFP) is set to host a public forum, open to anyone interested in building a career as a performer in the film industry, at this month's Berlin International Film Festival.
EFP's Shooting Star initiative has featured at every Berlinale in the 15 years, but this public forum is the organisation's first.
The initiative traditionally introduces 10 of Europe's best young actors to film industry at large. This public forum - entitled 'The Actor's Role: How to Become Valuable in the Film Industry - will be held during the first weekend [Feb 9-10] of the festival. It will focus on actor visibility, and consider the development and longevity of a career in film.
The public forum will be moderated by Loretta Stern, and will feature a panel of industry experts: Joseph Middleton (head of casting for Paramount Studios), UK casting director Debbie McWilliams, US casting director Lina Todd, manager DK Anne Lindberg, and US agent Jack Whigham.
Shooting Stars is financially supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the participating EFP members and additional partners.
Charades acquires Japanese Encounters title 'Small Slow But Steady' (exclusive)
The boxing dreams drama is fifth fiction feature by Japanese director Shô Miyake who was last in Berlin in 2019.
Wild Bunch boards Berlinale Competition title 'Before, Now & Then' (exclusive)
1960s-set drama is Indonesia director's fourth feature after well-received Oscar submission Yuni.

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You are reading: ""Bauhaus Is Still Putting Us on the Right Track""
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"Bauhaus Is Still Putting Us on the Right Track"
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt on the Opening Festival
The grand Bauhaus Year 2019 will be inaugurated with a large-scale opening festival in Berlin. For one week, international artists from the fields of dance, theater and music will be devoting their attention to contemporary topics within the context of the Bauhaus's performative inquiries. Bettina Wagner-Bergelt, the festival's curator, discusses this multifaceted celebration of a bauhaus now.
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About Bettina
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt (Munich) is artistic director of the opening festival of 100 years of bauhaus. Until 2017 she was head of dramaturgy and deputy director at the Bayerisches Staatsballett, and she has curated various festivals and exhibitions.
Concerts, installations, theater, dance, discourse, workshops and a club: The nine-day festival under the artistic direction of Bettina Wagner-Bergelt offers new encounters with the Bauhaus stage in a variety of formats. It aims to bridge the gap between the outstanding historical credentials of the Bauhaus and today's avant-garde and the traces and impulses that the Bauhaus has carried into contemporary art. We talked to her about modern Bauhauslers and the (ostensible) contradiction between sensuality and rationality.
Ms. Wagner-Bergelt, what criteria are used to select the contributors to an opening festival for 100 years of bauhaus?
The unbelievable artistic potency, the open-endedness of the teaching concept, the pleasure in collectively researching and experimenting with material and form, the international opening of the school and everyone's hopes for attaining new impulses and conquering new horizons in this way, the mutual respect, and the conviction that art and design can change the world for the better: That was a very daring and radical concept. I'm interested in this radical attitude towards art as a communicative and interactive act, towards the creation of art intended to exert an influence within society, towards a coexistence that is to become more humane through
art and our occupation with it. The questions of the Bauhaus – what is a body, how does it define itself, how historically determined is it, how does it operate on the stage – are obviously also relevant for today's protagonists. I therefore invited artists (established artists as well as many young newcomers) who are dedicating their attention to themes or performative forms in which I recognize fundamental lines of inquiry and positions of Bauhaus artists – works that emanate the spirit of this freedom, experimenta- tion, togetherness, openness and democracy and simultaneously display this formal will. My aim is that the festival will become an intelligent and stimulating journey among artistic working methods and performances, that aesthetic process will become visible, that exciting results can be seen, but that fragments, rudimentary concepts and experimental arrangements will also be accepted. People should become aware that the di erent techniques developed by members of the Bauhaus – and also their approach – have not become antiquated, but instead put us on the right track, precisely in the present political situation.
Do you have a few names for us of people who triggered this recognition in you?
I think Bob Wilson has realized a lot of this in his magnificent theatrical work, without making explicit reference to the Bauhaus as far as I know. Or take Richard Siegal: In his work Ballet of Difference, he programmatically realizes an intercultural approach in which the way of working in a group, the nonhierarchical interaction of its members, make the curiosity and respect of the political utopia of egalitarian choreographic research a reality. A deep humanity. Take the pianist Michael Wollny: Jazz is a musical genre in which the Bauhaus ensemble itself engaged withwonderful dilettantism, but which is also defined by the principle of improvisation, in which what has been learned is combined in new ways. The more creative the musician, the more fantastic the compositions that emerge in the moment of making music, whether alone or additionally spurred on through the impulses of other players.
There is, of course, the cliché of the rational and predominantly unemotional Bauhaus. Now you're opening the Bauhaus year with a celebration of sensuality. Is this contradiction intentional?
Of course, looking at the architecture or the Bauhaus Stairway by Schlemmer, it's possible to initially think of coolness, but he was interested in the essence of the human in the form. And there were festivals and celebrations, the pleasure found in discovering, exploring together. Schlemmer must have had a sense of humor, and sensuality, when he appeared in the wonderful, boldly colorful, indeed, sensual costumes of the Triadic Ballet. After all, what drove him was investing the stylized universal form with a soul through human beings.
The Bauhaus stage formed, so to speak, the physical center of the Dessau Bauhaus. What role does the site of your festival, the Akademie der Künste building on Hanseatenweg, play in terms of a space?
The architecture of the academy is very important. I love this place, be- cause it's special and many-faceted and makes it possible for visitors to wander from one exhibition gallery to the next, from audio theater to an installation to a concert, from one space to the next and then onto the stage or into the club. It is an intimate space. The best thing would be to come every day and immerse oneself in this organism.
How do you connect your work with the other areas of activity that played a role at the Bauhaus, such as architecture, design or visual art?
Today, many artists work with every means available to them. Just like it happened at the Bauhaus. There is no longer any boundary between the art forms and not between art and scholarship either. In concrete terms: There are three thematic exhibition galleries. A three-part installation will take place in one of them: a virtual part, an audio production and an exhibition of materials – the figurines by Oskar Schlemmer dressed inside out, so to speak, thus granting visitors a look inside their inner life for the first time. There is also a gallery of installations and one of games. And here, there will also be formats in which the audience can participate: Signalraum, for example. Here the musicians/performers/researchers work with "one-of-a-kind" pieces, using instruments built by themselves to try out new performative forms in interaction with their audience. Or the blind dates: Which aesthetic experiences are we actually having? Are they changing our lives and, if yes, how? The answers will in turn become the material for a performance.
The Bauhaus stage was not just a venue for performances, but also a regular workshop. Does this ambiguity play a role during the opening festival?
There is no stage workshop, because today performance works a great deal with technology, electronics and projection and less with constructed sets or props. However, in Signalraum/Best Practice, for example, the workshop character is a theme. There we meet artists who personally build everything they use.This format creates itself, so to speak, during the performance – through the artists and the audience.
What stage does education need?
Very, very little "Bologna" and lots of Bauhaus! With all its passion, courage and adventurousness and this open-ended thinking. After all, learning means asking: What does the world cost and how do we really get it right?
Bettina, thank you for the interview!
This article was originally published in the third issue of the "bauhaus now" magazine.
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The Creation of Art as Collaboration
The Potsdamer Tanztage are one of the outstanding international dance festivals in Germany. With "Dancing Future. 100 Years BAUHAUS" it explores the Bauhaus' influence on modern dance and the performative arts of our time from 14th to 26th May. We spoke to the choreographers Lia Rodrigues and Anne Collod about their works, which they will be presenting in Brandenburg: two interviews, two positions.
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Understand the Bauhaus!
"It's striking! You have to hear us – you'll be thinking of us."
From the rhythmical noise of the Bauhaus band to the inspiring art of the fugue, to the performances of contemporary composers: Life at the Bauhaus was always accompanied by background music, though it was not even on the curriculum.
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Chorizo Shanks, Big 'Ol Dentist and Andrew Preps Your Bits and Gives Out Booze are just a few of the comedy improv groups set to tickle your funny bones this Saturday at the 2017 Jamaica Plain Improv Festival. Those groups are among more than 150 performers who will be bringing hilariousness for 13 hours straight!
"The JP Improv Festival is DIY comedy at its best. Fast, experimental, and centered around one of Boston's most innovative comedy theaters, The Riot, JPIF is 12+ hours of some of the best comedy you'll see. Plus some sets will feature people dressed as Bruce Springsteen," said comedian Conor Allen.
Some other groups include Dismantled, who are described as "spoofs, goofs and deeper truths"; Improvised History, who are described as "historically funny, hysterically inaccurate"; and Slap-Prov, whose comedy ends "a scene with a slap."
The long form improv comedy marathon is being hosted by Naffy Improv and The Riot Theater at the Riot Theater (146 South St.) starting at noon and ending at 1 am.
Click here for a full list of all scheduled performers.
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Passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at her home surrounded by her family and companion, Ralph Ness. Glema was born on June 24, 1940 in McCombs Kentucky. She was the daughter of Lula (Hite) and Ballard Collins. She married Gerald W. Burke on September 3, 1960 and they were married for 42 years, until his death in May of 2002. Predeceased by her spouse, Gerald W. Burke; her sisters, Connie Stallsmith and Yvonne Bevins; her brother, Charles Collins and her parents Lula and Ballard.
Surviving are her children, Sandra (Paul) Labuda of Acme, PA, David (Andrea) Burke of Fishers, IN, Carrie Williams of Greensburg, PA. Eight grandchildren who she adored; Alyssa, Michael, Lindsey, Zach, Hannah, Jacob, Olivia, and Nicholas. Companion and best friend Ralph Ness of Shillington, PA. Sisters, Arizona Eyster of Vienna OH, and Jeanne McCurdy of Littleton, CO. As well as, many nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.
Glema retired from the University of Pittsburgh - University Center for International Studies. She loved her job and all of the international travel it entailed.
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We are currently working to restructure our annual fundraisers. Our yearly "I Ran for Dan" 5k and DCCF Golf tournament will not be taking place this September. Stay tuned for what's to come and thank you for your support!
The DCCF invites you to participate in the 16th Annual Daniel Cardillo Memorial Golf Tournament on Friday, September 9, 2016 at the Nonesuch River Golf Club in Scarborough, Maine.
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The Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) is a co-operative operation between two police forces in the West Midlands of England. Officers from the two forces involved – Staffordshire Police, and West Midlands Police – provide a dedicated policing service on several hundred miles of the motorway network in the Staffordshire and West Midlands police areas. Previously the group also included West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police.

The radio control room is based at Quinton working with National Highways,
and central vehicle depot is located adjacent to the M6 at Perry Barr in Birmingham where Thornbridge Avenue passes under the motorway. The depot has direct access onto both the northbound and southbound carriageways of the motorway allowing police vehicles to respond faster to incidents.

In June 2008, police forces in North West England established the North West Motorway Police Group covering the motorways in their respective areas following the success of the CMPG.

History
The CMPG was first formed in 1990, when West Mercia Constabulary, now known as West Mercia Police and West Midlands Police formed a partnership to police approximately  of motorway in Birmingham, the West Midlands and North Worcestershire. Staffordshire Police and Warwickshire Police joined the partnership in 2001, bringing the motorway sections in those counties within the Group's area of responsibility, while West Mercia increased its input.

Warwickshire withdrew from the CMPG in April 2007 and West Mercia announced their intention to withdraw in July 2017, partly due to the Strategic Alliance they have with Warwickshire.
West Mercia Police withdrew from CMPG in April 2018.

See also
 Road Policing Unit

References

External links
 Official Website

Motorway police units of the United Kingdom
1990 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1990

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Amazon refreshes lineup of low-cost tablets, new kids model
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is offering a thinner and lighter version of its cheapest, 7-inch tablet, while shaving $10 off the price of an 8-inch model. Amazon's bare-bones Fire tablet is now called the Fire 7. It also promises about an extra hour of battery, or eight hours total, and a display with...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is offering a thinner and lighter version of its cheapest, 7-inch tablet, while shaving $10 off the price of an 8-inch model.
Amazon's bare-bones Fire tablet is now called the Fire 7. It also promises about an extra hour of battery, or eight hours total, and a display with higher contrast and sharper text. The price remains at $50.
The Fire HD 8 model is now $80, rather than $90. Features are largely the same as before.
Amazon has found a niche in the tablet market with lower-cost models, while Apple, Samsung and Microsoft chase professionals with higher-end devices.
Both models come with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant built-in, allowing users to control lights and household appliances, ask for the news or jokes and check the weather.
Amazon is also selling a kids version of the 8-inch tablet, for $130. It comes with a hardened case for kids and free replacements for two years. Before, a kids version was available only for the 7-inch model, for $100.
Amazon will start taking orders Wednesday. It will start shipping the new tablets on June 7.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States offers a number of tools to assist all U.S. manufacturers, and works to ensure that these opportunities are readily available to businesses owned by minorities and women. Watch video to learn more.


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Eighth full-page illustration for Dickens's Little Dorrit in the James R. Osgood (Boston), 1871, Diamond Edition.
Frederick Dorrit," the eighth full-page illustration, facing page 137 of the Diamond Edition, by Sol Eytinge, Jr., in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit (Boston: James R. Osgood [formerly, Ticknor and Fields], 1871).
The eighth illustration, like seventh, presents the study of a single, alienated character, in this case the broken-down clarinet-player Frederick Dorrit, brother of William ("Father of the Marshalsea") and uncle of Edward ("Tip"), Amy, and Fanny. This last niece is a dancer at the small theatre where Frederick is employed. Decidedly a minor character in this expansive novel, William serves primarily to connect the Dorrit clan to Arthur Clennam's father Gilbert through the mysterious codicil that memorialises the gentle musician's tutoring Arthur's birth-mother in her singing. Dickens also uses Frederick to reveal his brother William's short-comings, particularly his aristocratic haughtiness and utterly impractical nature. At the opening of chapter 19 of Book One, "Poverty," the novelist contrasts the aristocratic and condescending William with his unprepossessing sibling: "His brother Frederick of the dim eye, palsied hand, bent form, and groping mind, submissively shuffled at his side, accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost" (123). A musician earning a modest living, Frederick is constantly criticised by his brother for failing to uphold the family honour. In his study of Frederick, Eytinge shows him practising his art rather than walking by his brother's side in the "College-yard" of the Marshalsea prison. The American illustrator conveys his subject's gentle and melancholic nature, the description accompanied by this illustration of Frederick playing musical accompaniment for a stage play, as suggested by the stage and footlights above him and his music stand. The reader's understanding of the wizened musician in Chapter 20, "Moving in Society," is likely to have been conditioned by this earlier, ironic passage narrated by the patronising William himself:
His brother Frederick was much broken, no doubt, and it might be more comfortable to himself (the Father of the Marshalsea) to know that he was safe within the walls. Still, it must be remembered that to support an existence there during many years, required a certain combination of qualities &mdaash; he did not say high qualities, but qualities — moral qualities. Now, had his brother Frederick that peculiar union of qualities? Gentlemen, he was a most excellent man, a most gentle, tender, and estimable man, with the simplicity of a child; but would he, though unsuited for most other places, do for that place? No; he said confidently, no! And, he said, Heaven forbid that Frederick should be there in any other character than in his present voluntary character! Gentlemen, whoever came to that College, to remain there a length of time, must have strength of character to go through a good deal and to come out of a good deal. Was his beloved brother Frederick that man? No. They saw him, even as it was, crushed. Misfortune crushed him. He had not power of recoil enough, not elasticity enough, to be a long time in such a place, and yet preserve his self-respect and feel conscious that he was a gentleman. Frederick had not (if he might use the expression) Power enough to see in any delicate little attentions and — and — Testimonials that he might under such circumstances receive, the goodness of human nature, the fine spirit animating the Collegians as a community, and at the same time no degradation to himself, and no depreciation of his claims as a gentleman. Gentlemen, God bless you! [Book One, Chapter 19, "The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations," page 130]
Played convincingly by veteran Irish actor and former Royal Shakespeare Company member Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) in the 1987 adaptation, directed and written by Christine Edzard and starring then fifty-year-old Derek Jacobi as Arthur Clennam, "the most ambitious cinematic adaptation of any Dickens novel" (Davis 217) had to run some 360 minutes to manage the complex plot and include the host of Dickensian originals, some twenty-three in all, headed by the "Father of British Cinema and Theatre," Alec Guinness (1914-2000), seventy-four at the time the film was made. In the more recent BBC One television adaptation (2008), Frederick Dorrit as played by James Fleet of Three Weddings and a Funeral (1994) fame has rougher edges, but his subtle characterisation benefits from Fleet's familiarity with similar characters from the Dickens canon:
He is one of a panoply of weak men in Dickens that people find charming — think of Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby. Their hearts have often been broken in the past, and that has turned them into these men who can't fight their own corner. [BBC One interview with James Fleet]
After the scene in the Marshalsea, Dickens shows Frederick in his native element, the orchestra pit of the little theatre:
The old man looked as if the remote high gallery windows, with their little strip of sky, might have been the point of his better fortunes, from which he had descended, until he had gradually sunk down below there to the bottom. He had been in that place six nights a week for many years, but had never been observed to raise his eyes above his music-book, and was confidently believed to have never seen a play. There were legends in the place that he did not so much as know the popular heroes and heroines by sight, and that the low comedian had 'mugged' at him in his richest manner fifty nights for a wager, and he had shown no trace of consciousness. The carpenters had a joke to the effect that he was dead without being aware of it; and the frequenters of the pit supposed him to pass his whole life, night and day, and Sunday and all, in the orchestra. They had tried him a few times with pinches of snuff offered over the rails, and he had always responded to this attention with a momentary waking up of manner that had the pale phantom of a gentleman in it: beyond this he never, on any occasion, had any other part in what was going on than the part written out for the clarionet; in private life, where there was no part for the clarionet, he had no part at all. Some said he was poor, some said he was a wealthy miser; but he said nothing, never lifted up his bowed head, never varied his shuffling gait by getting his springless foot from the ground. Though expecting now to be summoned by his niece, he did not hear her until she had spoken to him three or four times; nor was he at all surprised by the presence of two nieces instead of one, but merely said in his tremulous voice, "I am coming, I am coming!" and crept forth by some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell. [Book One, Chapter 20, "Moving in Society," p. 136-137]
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit, il. Sol Eytinge, Junior. The Diamond Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871.
Davis, Paul. "Little Dorrit." Charles Dickens A to Z; The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998. Pp. 209-217.
Fleet, James. "Interview." Little Dorrit, a major BBC One Dickens adaptation. London: BBC One. Accessed 25 April 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/10_october/13/dorrit7.shtml
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LightHouse News, Programs
The Access Technology department at LightHouse is here to facilitate the use of accessible technology among people of all ages and levels of expertise, as well as groups and companies seeking education or consulting.
We welcome those with changing vision or visual impairment to come explore ways to make their phone, computer or other devices easier and more comfortable to use. We're here to help you find new technology tools to stay productive at work, or keep in touch with friends and family.
Whether you're just getting started with access technology, or you need to update your skills to keep pace with the latest and greatest tools and apps, LightHouse is here to help.
We have a variety of resources to educate and introduce you to different technology, and the ways you can use them. Our staff will take the time to learn about you, your needs and interests and the technologies you may have used in the past.
With an instructor, you can explore whether magnification, speech, Braille or a combination of these tools will best suit your needs.
You can meet one-on-one with an access technology instructor, and work on skills that will help you achieve your personal and professional goals. We also have group workshops to build skills and connect with the LightHouse community.
Corporate Accessibility Consulting
We invite companies updating their technology, or seeking an accessibility evaluation to make an appointment with the Access Tech department. Contact us about your company's specific needs, and we can discuss how to help.
Here are a few of the services we offer:
Design consulting —We can help you plan and design a product that is accessible from the ground up.
Functional accessibility review — We utilize our expert access technologists to assess your website or app from an accessibility perspective.
User testing sessions — We organize our blind and visually impaired user testers of all backgrounds and levels of vision to provide feedback on your product or service.
Press for our consulting services:
TechCrunch: LightHouse Access Tech Director Erin Lauridsen interview on 'Bullish'
The Verge: Soundscape, our new design consulting project with Microsoft
CNN: Erin Lauridsen on Google's AI Technology
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Access Technology Specialist
POSITION: Access Technology Specialist
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The Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually impaired is seeking an access technology specialist in our Access Technology department. The AT department trains 300 students each year on the use of screen readers and magnification software, and partners with dozens of companies to ensure apps, websites, and products are accessible to blind and visually impaired users.
The Access Technology Specialist is responsible for providing technology assessments and training to blind and visually impaired students both one on one and in group workshops. Specialists work with each student to define learning goals, present material in a clear and comprehensive manner, and document instruction in the Lighthouse database. Specialists stay current on the latest access technology, and the accessibility of mainstream apps, in order to provide high quality assessments to students. Specialists work on Lighthouse consulting projects in the areas of accessible design and user research.
This position may be for you if:
You keep pace with the latest in mainstream and access technology.
You're interested in the interactions between people and the technologies they use.
You enjoy spending significant parts of your workday interacting with students
You enjoy explaining technical concepts to others.
In depth knowledge of the following operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, iOS, and Android.
Advanced user of screenreading and magnification software for desktop and mobile operating systems.
In depth knowledge of non visual techniques for information access including:
Efficiently navigating websites,
Using apps and software to access printed material.
Using GPS apps for navigation.
Demonstrated ability to create lesson plans,
Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive technology assessments
High level of emotional intelligence to relate to students at all levels of adjustment to blindness,
Demonstrated ability to convey technical knowledge in a clear and approachable manner,
ability to learn new technologies from documentation and tutorials.
Prefered qualifications:
Knowledge of web accessibility standards.
Profficiency in the UEB Braille code.
Fluency in a second language in addition to English.
Education: Bachelors degree in education, Rehabilitation Teaching, Computer Science, or comparable degree/experience.
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Conduct comprehensive assistive technology assessments
Work with students to define schedules, goals and objectives for technology training,
Deliver one on one technology training to blind and visually impaired students on a variety of technologies, at Lighthouse, at work sites, and in students' homes
Design and deliver group workshops on current technology topics,
Keep accurate and timely records of student progress in the Lighthouse database,
Provide accessibility feedback on products and websites as part of Lighthouse access technology consulting projects,
This position is located at the LightHouse's new headquarters at 1155 Market St. in San Francisco, CA.
Must be able to sit at a desk and perform computer-intensive work for long periods of time; operate standard office equipment; move 10lbs independently.
Send your resume and cover letter to hr@lighthouse-sf.org
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Microsoft Soundscape is a new way to navigate
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"What is overwhelming about being a blind traveler? It's not always what people think." LightHouse Director of Access Technology Erin Lauridsen is passionate about this point: "Obstacle avoidance is not the problem, we have a dog, a cane and our blindness skills for that, The gap is knowing where things are and being able to decide what's of interest."
In her daily work, Lauridsen often has to shake her head at technology that misses the mark, but today is different. Today, Microsoft unveils a new free app designed not just for blind people – but by blind people.
In the video below, Erin Lauridsen explains the design thinking behind Microsoft's new app. Click here to download Soundscape from the US App Store.
Lauridsen is one of the design minds behind Soundscape, a new Microsoft product which aims to empower blind people to not just get where they're going, but to explore and learn their environment actively.
Read more on the Microsoft Accessibility Blog
Hired last year to start LightHouse's Access Technology department in San Francisco, Lauridsen has built up a research and design consulting shop that leverages the blind experience to help mainstream companies optimize their products. One day it may be face recognition; another day, it's designing a more intuitive interface or an advancement in ergonomics. In all cases, though, designing with the blind in mind yields a more competitive product.
Last fall Microsoft approached Lauridsen's team with a product built upon an ambitious concept: a navigation app not based on turn-by-turn directions, but on dynamic, proximity-based landmarks and 3D audio beacons.
For Lauridsen, an app that promoted spatial engagement instead of rigid instructions and prescribed routes was a breath of fresh air. "The idea of having spatial and directional information floating on top, and taking some of that process load off of the traveler, that was intriguing," she says. The next step was to find out if this technology would work in practice.
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Microsoft brought the idea to a small group at a meeting of LightHouse Labs, Lauridsen's monthly blind-tech meetup at LightHouse's Market Street headquarters. Each month, Labs provides a venue for companies and individuals in the blindness and accessibility sphere to explore product-market fit, compare notes on emerging tech and express passionate, at times controversial opinions. It was agreed that the next phase of research and design was to get Soundscape into the pockets of real users, to turn the app from a good idea into an invaluable tool.
Today, Soundscape launches in the US and UK app stores on iOS for iPhones, and with it Microsoft has introduced a new 3D audio experience crafted specifically for exploration.
Soundscape, Lauridsen says, offers freedom for blind users: "It takes out the assumption that you're following a proscribed route, fills in the information access gap, and allows for discovery and exploration. It's not oversimplified or over complicated, as so much tech 'for' us often is."
Featuring an unobtrusive, roaming narrator reading the names of businesses, intersections, and points of interest in stereo, Soundscape is much more like browsing a neighborhood than any audio navigator that has come before. The Around Me and Ahead of Me features allow for more focused "looking around," and audible beacons can be set to guide users gently toward a destination with intuitive auditory cues.
For Lauridsen and her department, this early stage design work is equally as important in making products both elegant and useful. "Our network at LightHouse is considerable – we have blind engineers, blind architects, blind coders – and what we like to build is 'of' those people, not 'for' them."
Over the winter, Lauridsen's team began putting the app through its paces, quite literally, with a score of blind user testers taking the app up and down Market Street and through the neighborhoods of San Francisco. Taking their feedback and synthesizing it, and delivering it in a series of intense meetings with Microsoft's developers, Soundscape began to feel ready.
"Inventors often want to design things for us to be safer; I get that, but that's design from a fear point of view. Microsoft designed this product out of an enthusiasm for learning, exploring, and finding joy in your environment. That's the kind of technology that we like to see."
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Meet Our New Access Technology Director, Erin Lauridsen
05/16/2017 LightHouse Staff
Building off the great work our tech trainers have been doing for years, we're excited this month to announce the creation of a dedicated Access Technology Department at LightHouse, under the direction of our new team member, Erin Lauridsen.
"The launch of this department is a recognition of how central technology is to our lives as blind people," says Lauridsen. "It really does affect every aspect of our lives—from cooking to voting to dating to moving around the streets. If technology comes into every part of that, we have to train blind people to really be savvy tech users and be able adapt to constant changes."
Lauridsen feels the digital age is leveling the playing field for people who are blind or have low vision. With screen readers like VoiceOver, new and improved document scanners and apps that provide new services entirely, she thinks we have moved far beyond barriers posed by the inaccessible books and paper printouts of yesteryear.
Lauridsen grew up in rural Oregon, on the cusp of the technological boom. She remembers the leap she took in 7th grade, when she went from having a Perkins brailler and a paid staffer who transcribed all of her work to getting a Citizen Notebook Printer and a Braille 'n Speak – and nothing was the same.
"For the first time I could turn in my own homework," she says. "I had to learn all that technology mostly on my own because there weren't other blind people around me. There weren't teachers who knew it because a lot of it was very new. I got a computer with a screen reader and the internet in the late '90s. That was my first connection in a significant way to other blind people."
So while technology provides a practical set of tools for everyday living, it can also be a starting point for widening personal horizons and reaching out and learning from a community of blind people all over the world. At its heart, Lauridsen feels, it's about agency.
"If you give people access to technology they can access information, make their own choices and live their lives in better ways," says Lauridsen.
But for the AT Department, it's not just about the end user. The department also plays a key role in Silicon Valley as an accessibility gatekeeper — by bringing in major tech companies like Google, Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Pinterest and Facebook for user testing and meetups, as well as working in-house with accessibility apps like Actiview and Be My Eyes through our budding startup accelerator programs.
As the head of the Access Tech department, Lauridsen will represent LightHouse in guiding the accessibility features for mainstream platforms and more specialized devices or "assistive technology," as well as teaching our students how to use all of the above.
You can now schedule free weekday or weekend AT Training on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. or Saturdays between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The beauty of these trainings it that they're one-on-one, so if the tech talk intimidates you, you can start slow. We have staff that can meet you where you're at — maybe ease in with typing and go as far as learning how to building your own website with a screen reader. To sign up, contact Access Technology Coordinator Shen Kuan at skuan@lighthouse-sf.org or (415) 694-7312.
We are assembling a list of people interested in being part of UX testing. These opportunities respect testers' time and knowledge with compensation. Opportunities vary on skill level, technology preference and personal interest.
Communicate with Erin Lauridsen directly at elauridsen@lighthouse-sf.org or 415-694-7368 to get involved.
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The TRADITION of the MOTHER: The Aryan & Non-Aryan in the Near East & Europe 300 B.C. – 1000 A.D (PDF)
Categories: Downloads, History
In this amazing compilation of in-depth essays, author William White examines the roles and effects of the Aryan and non-Aryan upon the cultures of the Near East and Europe. White calls upon his vast knowledge of ancient cultures to rewrite the history of this tumultuous era and present us with a finely-woven tapestry, uncolored by political correctness. Beginning with an explanation of how our myths and history have been so intertwined as to leave us asking where the line can be drawn, he moves onto examinations of the religious and cultural interplay between various disparate peoples.
Analyses cover:
The spiritual difference between Odin, god of the ancient Europeans, and Yahweh, god of the Semites
The diffusion of the Aryan in antiquity
The cultures of the Near East and Egypt
Bible dating and the racial schema of Genesis
A history of the term Hebrew
The errors of Josephus
The tradition of the Mother Goddess cults
The Trojan period
The mysterious Etruscan people and the influence of the Semite
The Egyptian culture and its battle with the Semites
The Hurrians
Yahweh unmasked
The Indo-European Holy Cow
The real King Minos
Demeter and Hera
Sumerian culture
The Great Mother's consorts
The Great Mother in India and Egypt
The role of Baal
Akhenaten's reformations and how he lost Palestine
Geitr, the goat god, and what he really was
The god of the witches
Yahweh and Satan
Britain and Arthur
The Norman invasion
Thor's conquest of the Midgard Serpent
The storm god
The parting of the waters
Plus Bill's experiences battling the Police State, and much more.
William A White is the former Commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party and, as the Lhasa Apso-headed Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center sees it, "the most wildly obnoxious neo-Nazi in the United States."
Author of Centuries of Revolution (TBR Books, 2012) and Tradition of the Mother (Poisoned Pen Press, 2013), White is one of the country's best-recognized proponents of National Socialist and Radical Traditionalism. In addition to his two full-length books, he has also contributed to Mimir: The Northern European Tradition (Numen Books, 2012) and Aritokratia (Numen Books: 2013), as well as being a former contributor to the American Free Press newspaper, the Barnes Review magazine, and a variety of smaller publications and websites.
Former publisher of Overthrow.com and National Socialist Magazine, White may be the most prosecuted man in America, having been the subject of seven federal prosecutions since 2008, all designed, in the words of one judge, to make him "shut up." In 2008, White's website and magazine were seized after he was falsely accused by former radio celebrity and "deep cover" federal informant Harold Turner of plotting to "assassinate" President Barack Obama "with a truck bomb". After several attempts to prosecute him fell apart, White was eventually sentenced to 33 months in prison — still on appeal — for "aggravated cussing" at a federal juror involved in the prosecution of Matthew Hale and at a group of tenants involved in a phony racial shake down of their landlord. He fled the country in 2012, leaving behind the manuscript of Tradition of the Mother, and was arrested later that year in Mexico after a battle with Mexican police.
Now completing ten months imprisonment for violating a court-ordered ban on international travel, part of a larger three-year ban on his publishing within the United States, White has been researching and completing two upcoming works, the first Serpent's Blood, focusing on the relationship between occultism, Judaism and the European nobility, and the second, Schools of Satan, focusing on Harvard and Yale University, their relationship to international Judaism, and their negative influence on American government and foreign policy.
BLACKBALLED by HISTORY: True Tales of Some of History's Most Demonized Characters
The CENTURIES of REVOLUTION: Democracy • Communism • Zionism PDF
The LOST COLONIES of ANCIENT AMERICA
From the Introduction: "Recovering From Cultural Amnesia"
"Much of how we reconstruct the past is based on how we perceive it."—President of the World Explorers Club, David Hatcher Childress
This book is intended to acquaint readers with the monumental dramas of human achievement and tragedy that played out across our land many hundreds, even thousands of years ago. These grand events are generally unknown, because humanity's last 25 generations have been schooled to believe that Christopher Columbus was the first and only discoverer of the New World. For them, American history began in 1492, and nothing of equivalent significance supposedly took place here before then.
Such ignorance is understandable, when we learn that the ancient Old World colonizers who repeatedly landed on our shores arrived with their own, very specific agendas. They sought to monopolize American resources of high-grade copper, precious gems, powerful narcotics, agricultural products, or many other native riches, just as modern corporations guard against one another's industrial espionage. Navigational directions were state secrets, and rumors of boiling seas filled with monsters or sailing off the edge of the earth were deliberately spread to discourage competition. Transatlantic voyages were covert operations undertaken only the most capable maritime kingdoms, each jealous of the other's success.
But their trade secrets were lost with the catastrophic close of the Bronze Age, around 1200 BC, when its thorough and widespread collapse ushered in a dark age that virtually wiped clean all memory of contact with the Americas. Two millennia of transoceanic accomplishments were reduced to legends, until first the Phoenicians, followed by Latin and the Keltic, sailors found some old sea-lanes back to the Opposite Continent. With the late 5th Century fall of the Roman World, another, deeper dark age ensued to yet again cast its shadow over all previous knowledge of the New World. Scandinavian Vikings made an exception, of course, but like their Bronze Age forerunners, their voyages were mostly described in sagas, the stuff of which myth was made.
It was against this backdrop of cultural amnesia that Christopher Columbus challenged the Atlantic Ocean.
Frank Joseph is the editor in chief of Ancient American magazine and the author of Atlantis and 2012, The Destruction of Atlantis, The Lost Civilization of Lemuria, Survivors of Atlantis, and The Lost Treasure of King Juba. He lives in Minnesota.


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Nasir Jamshed Pleads Guilty in Bribery Offences
LONDON: Former Pakistan cricketer Nasir Jamshed will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty in a British court to conspiring to bribe other players to spot-fix a Twenty20 match.
The 30-year-old was banned for 10 years in August 2018 by an anti-corruption tribunal for his part in a spot-fixing scandal that engulfed the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in 2017 and was charged with bribery offences last December.
He was arrested along with British nationals Yousaf Anwar and Mohammed Ijaz, who both pleaded guilty to bribery offences last week.
Jamshed, an opening batsman who represented Pakistan 68 times across all three formats, changed his plea during his trial at Manchester Crown Court, the BBC reported.
The conspiracy was uncovered via a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation using an undercover police officer.
The NCA investigation first exposed an attempt to fix a game in the Bangladesh Premier League in 2016 and then a successful fix in the PSL in 2017, where opening batsmen agreed not to score from the first two balls, the prosecution told the court.
Pak-China 2nd Free Trade Agreement To Come into Effect from Jan 1
Test Cricket Returns as Pak-Sri Lanka to Face off Tomorrow


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HOW TO: Follow London Fashion Week Online
By Lauren Indvik 2011-09-16 17:17:43 UTC
London Fashion Week kicked off Friday, and like their counterparts in New York, designers and the press are leveraging the web to showcase their work to virtual audiences far larger than those present at shows.
Of the 68 catwalk shows and 37 presentations to take place over the next six days, 32 of them will live stream the unveiling of their Spring/Summer 2012 collections. See the schedule below and tune in on the live stream page. Still more will be uploading backstage footage via their Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram accounts.
Meanwhile, members of the fashion press will be churning out 140-character reviews and mobile snapshots live from the shows, while posting longer, slideshow-accompanied reviews on their respective news sites.
For those of you who won't be in London this week, we've gathered together the best resources for following London Fashion Week online below.
Live video of the runway shows will be streamed here. For a comprehensive schedule, see below.
Friday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m. BT / 4 a.m. ET
Friday, Sept. 16, 11 a.m. BT / 6 a.m. ET
Friday, Sept. 16, 1 p.m. BT / 8 a.m. ET
Friday, Sept. 16, 3 p.m. BT / 10 a.m. ET
Friday, Sept. 16, 5 p.m. BT / 12 p.m. ET
Ann-Sofie Back Atelje / BACK
Friday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m. BT / 2 p.m. ET
Friday, Sept. 16, 8:30 p.m. BT / 3:30 p.m. ET
Saturday, Sept. 17, 9 a.m. BT / 4 a.m. ET
Saturday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m. BT / 6 a.m. ET
Saturday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m. BT / 8 a.m. ET
Saturday, Sept. 17, 3 p.m. BT / 10 a.m. ET
Saturday, Sept. 17, 5 p.m. BT / 2 p.m. ET
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2 p.m. BT / 9 a.m. ET
Sunday, Sept. 18, 3 p.m. BT / 10 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 9 a.m. BT / 4 a.m. ET
Michael van deer Ham
Monday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. BT / 6 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 1 p.m. BT / 8 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 4 p.m. BT / 11 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 5:30 p.m. BT / 2:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 9 a.m. BT / 4 a.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 12 p.m. BT / 7 a.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2 p.m. BT / 9 a.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. BT / 11 a.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 5 p.m. BT / 2 p.m. ET
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m. BT / 1:30 p.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 9:45 a.m. BT / 4:45 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 10:30 a.m. BT / 5:30 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 12:30 p.m. BT / 7:30 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 2:30 p.m. BT / 9:30 a.m. ET
Monday, Sept. 19, 4:30 p.m. BT / 11:30 a.m. ET
If you prefer live tweets to live video, we have a few favorites we recommend you follow.
@Londonfashionwk
Up-to-the-minute updates from the official London Fashion Week Twitter account.
@HilaryAlexander
Play-by-play tweets from The Telegraph's fashion director.
@TheLFWDaily
Front row and backstage coverage from The Daily.
@womensweardaily
Commentary and photos from U.S. fashion trade publication Women's Wear Daily.
@burberry
Christopher Bailey, chief creative officer of Burberry, is taking over the brand's Twitter handle for the week.
@BinkleyOnStyle
Twitpic-accompanied commentary from the shows by Wall Street Journal style columnist Christina Binkley.
Copious amounts of backstage beauty tips and photos from Teen Vogue's Eva Chen.
Fashion News Sites
For those of you who prefer more editorially heavy coverage, here our top five picks for fashion news throughout the week.
Some of the most intelligent collection reviews during Fashion Week, accompanied by comprehensive slideshows and videos from the runway. If you're more interested in behind-the-scenes stories, see Style.com's People + Parties section.
Interviews, reviews and trend stories from one of the leading fashion sections in the U.K.
Reviews and highlights from the collections.
On the Runway
The New York Times' style blog contains short updates from on and around the runway, often accompanied by slideshows.
Heard on the Runway
Editorial coverage and slideshows from The Wall Street Journal.
Images courtesy of guardian.co.uk
Topics: Fashion, How To, lfw, london fashion week, Media, Social Media


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Rather than the usual 'crisis' agenda, we believe that every adolescent male, with the right reinforcement, validation, love and positive male role models has the potential to flourish and move toward their whole person potential.
We also take a more optimistic view and highlight the important role parents play in the positive development of their adolescent sons.
But before we explore some of these ideas, we'd like to highlight some common myths about adolescent males that can lead to reinforcement of negative adolescent stereotypes and what we call 'false solutions' to problems that don't exist.
Many well-meaning parents, teachers and coaches assume that adolescent males are simply young men, when they're not. Their brains aren't the same as men, their bodies aren't the same and their social skills and networks aren't the same (and play a very different role). Therefore we should not treat them like mini men, we should treat them like adolescents.
This is a powerful myth but it's simply not true. While there are hormonal changes during adolescence, it isn't the hormones that determine what goes on in an adolescent's life. It's mainly changes in the brain that determine what happens to our adolescents. Often adolescents do "crazy" things because their cerebral cortex development (and particularly their pre-frontal cortex) which is the brake to the emotional limbic region, has not fully developed or integrated. Therefore their desire to fit in, show off and take risks is often a result of this developmental mismatch (between their limbic region & association areas and their pre-frontal cortex).
This underlines the importance of understanding these brain changes so we can start to see some of these changes as "normal" and healthy development.
This powerful myth suggests that adolescence is a time that we need to endure not enjoy. And once our adolescent males finally "grow up" we can have mature, sensible, rational and enjoyable experiences with them. Yet this is far from the truth.
Despite what you might read in the mainstream press, young male health – physical, psychological and social is not in a state of universal crisis.
Mainstream media, in their desire to increase their site visits, their click-through rates and their likes, publish and post a tsunami of articles, reports and statistics about the alarming state of adolescent health. It's almost as if their intention is to create a state of fear for parents. But instead of being fearful, there are many reasons for parents to be optimistic. There are many signs and statistics that indicate young adolescent males are doing well.
One example is the significant reduction in adolescent alcohol, drug and tobacco use over the last 8 years. It should come as no surprise that parents have a played a key role in contributing to this significant health outcome.
Adolescent brains are best described as a "work in progress" because adolescent brains don't mature until the age of 24. Yes, that's 24.
As a consequence, it's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect an adolescent brain to function in the same way as an adult brain. It's also unrealistic to expect that all adolescent brains will develop at the same rate over this maturation period.
One thing is certain, the better you understand your adolescent son's brain, the better you'll be able to put their development and their behaviour in an appropriate context.
These "Brain Basics" provide some key information to get you started.
A mature brain operates as an integrated whole. The process of maturity is working toward this integration. There's a saying in neuroscience that "what fires together, wires together" so our goal as parents is to help adolescents "fire up" the thinking, planning, logic and moral decision-making parts of the brain so those neural roadmaps ignite and are capable of laying down the required neural networks.
Explaining to an adolescent how their brain functions and develops is not only good for their brain's development, but helps them understand why they think and feel the way they do. This has really positive effects on their self-awareness, their awareness of others and their relationships with others.
Adolescents intuitively know that they have to move away from their parents for survival. Because at some point, their parents won't be around. Therefore, the adolescent male response is to begin to become independent from their parents and form connections with their peers. This is as much about survival as it is about social relationships. The challenge for adolescent males is how to get the right level of autonomy with a brain (and social skills) that are still under development.
So rather than being seen as a problem, adolescents seeking to connect, spend time and develop relationships with their peer group is a positive sign of development. The role of parents is to provide support or a "scaffold" during this process and help their adolescent son make good choices about the peers they connect with.
When children are pre-pubescent their major focus is on security and attachment with their parents.
Adolescents are at a very different stage of their psychosocial development. Their big challenge is to begin to move away from their parents and so the focus is on developing and maintaining autonomy. This is mostly achieved through establishing and maintaining a peer group, developing a network of trusted friends and having ongoing interactions with that peer group that allows them to be a valued member of the group.
There are a number of common needs that adolescents have, some of which the platform is laid for in the early years and some of which are ongoing & emerging developmental needs.
In the early years, secure attachment happens when children feel safe, nurtured and loved.
Another key need of children and adolescents is for parents to recognise and respond to their child's emotions. World famous neuroscientist, Daniel Siegel, calls this process "attunement". This is being "in step with" and being able to appropriately respond to your child's emotions.
Over time when parents (and significant others) validate their thoughts, feelings and behaviours children respond by feeling that the relationship is positive, that they matter and by feeling good about themselves.
It goes without saying that it's a basic need for children and adolescents to feel loved and nurtured through kindness, affection, touch, attention and by being present. When we say I love someone, the question is – do we demonstrate the behaviours to the other person that give the ongoing messages that we do.
As adolescents grow and develop, it's important they hear stories from their parents about their adolescent years – about the reality of their experience. The concerns they had, the troubles they faced, the dreams and achievements that were all part of their Mum or Dad's story. This is an important part of the transition because it begins the process of seeing parents as people (as well as parents).
Critical in all these processes is providing the moral satellite navigation system for adolescents. This is so that adolescents have a framework of moral decision making which is being hardwired into their brain in preparation for adulthood.
Most of us learn to be parents, from our own parents. In some cases, we learn things we want to apply, and in other cases we learn the things we'll try to avoid. But it's very difficult to get useful information about parenting that takes into account brain development, psychosocial development, gender and balancing the dual needs of adolescents and parents.
From a brain and psychosocial development perspective, here are some important things that you can do to demonstrate to your adolescent son that they are valued, loved and supported.
Understand some brain basics and be able to explain it to your adolescent son. You won't need to be a neuroscientist, a psychologist or a Doctor, you just need to be interested enough to learn the basics.
Understand that the inevitable search for autonomy in seeking out and bonding with a peer group is a sign of healthy development not a risk we need to be concerned about.
In our next blog we discuss "Helping Adolescent Males Develop Emotional Competence and Resilience", we'll share some practical tips on the ways you can support your adolescent son to develop his emotional competence and resilience.
Steve Johnson is the CEO of the Wellbeing Science Institute. Steve is a registered psychologist and developed the world's first elite athlete wellbeing management program. He works extensively with adolescent males in sport and private practice. Steve is also the National Rugby League's (NRL) Wellbeing Advisor.


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Ken Mehlman is Gay and I Don't Care
The guy who ran George W. Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee has realized after only 43 years that he likes dudes.
James Joyner · Thursday, August 26, 2010 · 38 comments
The big news overnight, judging from blogger reaction, is that former RNC chair Ken Mehlman has come out of the closet after 43 years.
Marc Ambinder ("Bush Campaign Chief and Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman: I'm Gay"):
Ken Mehlman, President Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay.
Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would arise about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.
"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," said Mehlman, now an executive vice-president with the New York City-based private equity firm, KKR. "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago."
Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman voiced support for civil unions and told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush "was no homophobe." He often wondered why gay voters never formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called "the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now."
Mehlman's leadership positions in the GOP came at a time when the party was stepping up its anti-gay activities — such as the distribution in West Virginia in 2006 of literature linking homosexuality to atheism, or the less-than-subtle, coded language in the party's platform ("Attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country…"). Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party consensus. He was aware that Karl Rove, President Bush's chief strategic adviser, had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans.
Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda.
"It's a legitimate question and one I understand," Mehlman said. "I can't change the fact that I wasn't in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that. It was very hard, personally." He asks of those who doubt his sincerity: "If they can't offer support, at least offer understanding."
NYT ("Former G.O.P. Leader Says He Is Gay"):
There had been speculation about his sexuality, but Mr. Mehlman had in the past denied that he was gay.
For the last few months, Mr. Mehlman has been quietly working as a strategist and fund-raiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which supports a legal challenge to Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage.
Mr. Mehlman was in Mr. Bush's inner circle in both presidential campaigns and ran his campaign in 2004, when the party courted Christian conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage. But Mr. Mehlman, in his work as chairman of the Republican National Committee and as head of Mr. Bush's campaign, tended to personally avoid social issues.
He was a leading figure in the Bush White House in pushing for the party to try to appeal to black and Hispanic voters.
"I and others worked very hard to expand the party to communities that had previously not been as amenable to the Republican message," Mr. Mehlman said. "Obviously, I look back and wish I was in the place I am today and been able to do that with the gay community."
Mr. Mehlman's announcement makes him apparently the most prominent Republican official to come out.
Considering that Ken Mehlman's name hasn't crossed my mind in quite some time, I find it hard to get too terribly excited about his turn-ons. But the revelation is just one more bit of evidence that: 1) there are a lot of very confused gays out there and 2) some of them are Republican.
Granting that being heterosexual is less complicated, given its wide cultural acceptance, I continue to be baffled by middle aged men "realizing" that they're gay. Either women turn you on or they don't. Most of us figure that out by junior high.
UPDATE: As the day wears on, it's becoming much murkier whether Mehlman is just now realizing he's gay or just now willing to admit it publicly. See, for example, Michael Calderone's "How Ken Mehlman's 'open secret' stayed hidden."
Ken Mehlman says he only recently concluded that he's gay. The media seems to have reached that conclusion years ago.
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz is one of several journalists to quickly follow up on Mehlman's announcement Wednesday by saying it's been an "open secret" in Washington for years. "This is no longer really a media climate that tolerates open secrets," wrote Politico's Ben Smith shortly after the news broke.
But just because everyone "knows" something doesn't mean they actually know it.
Jake Tapper, who covers the White House for ABC News, told The Upshot that "there's a significant difference between an open secret and a widely held suspicion."
The suspicion, rather than direct knowledge that Mehlman is gay, has been alive in elite media and political circles for more than a half decade.In 2005, Tapper penned a GQ profile of Mike Rogers, a gay activist willing to out political figures who support policies infringing upon gay rights. Rogers has long targeted Mehlman, the former head of the Republican National Committee who also ran President Bush's re-election campaign. (More on Mehlman's record of opposing gay rights here).
Back then, Mehlman wouldn't deny being gay when Rogers called him, according to the GQ article. But Steve Schmidt, a friend and former Bush official, insisted to Tapper that Mehlman wasn't gay. Later that year, "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert — a consummate insider, who likely heard similar rumors — pressed Mehlman on gay rights, and asked if he believed "homosexuality is a choice." Mehlman said he didn't know.
It wasn't until May 2006 that Mehlman first answered the question, telling the Daily News that he wasn't gay. Mehlman also joked that stories suggesting the opposite "did a number on my dating life for six months."
Still, not everyone was convinced. Comedian Bill Maher famously outed Mehlman on CNN's "Larry King Live" six months later.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 09:20
The irony James is that so many of them seem to participate in actively anti-gay organizations.
Perhaps this is an artifact of last century repression and will fade, but in the meantime, I think it's fair to say "are the Republican's messed up or what?"
Imagine, a national movement shaped by the identity issues of their members.
Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian says:
James, it takes an ENORMOUS amount of courage and self-assertion to be openly gay and THAT'S what it took Ken 43 years to summon up. As a Republican and conservative, until now, being openly gay would have destroyed his career. Now Ken sees his way clear to having the unified life — that is, the ability to be open about both your social life and career — that straight people take for granted.
Herb says:
Bill Maher called it years ago.
As to the "realizing," I don't buy it either. I think he's known since puberty, but for a number of reasons "struggled" with it. So why admit it now?
My guess: New boyfriend.
James Joyner says:
James, it takes an ENORMOUS amount of courage and self-assertion to be openly gay and THAT'S what it took Ken 43 years to summon up
I'm not questioning why it took so long for him to come out of the closet, merely his assertion that he didn't realize he was gay until recently. I don't think it works that way.
Michael Reynolds says:
This is unfair, James: I've finally realized I'm straight. (My wife claims to have guessed it long ago.)
tom p says:
not me, I'm a lesbian trapped in a mans body.
I think that perhaps the article is to blame for some confusion. I don't see any direct quotes from Mr. Mehlman himself stating that he only recently realized he was gay. The only relevant direct quote is, "It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life." I think what he's saying is that he only recently came to the right level of acceptance that he could come out of the closet, and Mr. Ambinder's interpretation is off.
Speaking from personal experience, I didn't consciously realize I was gay until I was about 30 or so. You can convince yourself of lots of things- I'm saving myself for marriage, I just haven't found the right girl, porn is bad and degrading to women so that's why it doesn't turn me on.
If he's coming out to the nation today, he didn't figure this out last week. But I'll give him some slack and assume he didn't know it in high school
On the other hand, why exactly he's announcing this now, don't know, don't really care.
Another direct quote: "Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda." So yes, he has known he was gay for a long time.
Ummmm – lots of guys convince themselves they're bi for years, marry, have children, etc. Not that there aren't real bisexuals, but some bisexuals really ARE gay men trying to dodge the bullet.
Oh come on. If you're a gay Republican and you're afraid to come out, it's because you believe the lefty stereotypes of Republicans. In which case, your Republican beliefs likely don't run much deeper than a pay stub.
It wouldn't surprise me if Mehlman feared more for his familial and personal relationships, and found the "GOP hates gays" canard served as a useful crutch.
I always liked what he did and said in his job as RNC chair, but blaming a political party for your own personal dysfunction is just the gutter. There's room in the GOP tent for gays. There's room in the GOP tent for gays who support gay marriage. There isn't room for people who blame the GOP for stuff like this.
I wave goodbye to him not because he's gay and supports gay marriage. I wave goodbye because he lacks principles and a spine.
I'm a GOPer who strongly supports exploring some form of drug legalization/decriminalization. I realize I'm in the minority in that view amongst GOPers and never have any luck convincing most other Republicans that they might be wrong and I might be right. Doesn't mean I want to flush the whole party down the tubes because of one single issue like conservative-minded folks who happen to be gay.
Vast Variety says:
When you spend most of your life listening to friends, family, and society in general lie to you by telling you that being gay is wrong, it's a sin, that it's some sort of lifestyle choice, and that your going to burn in hell for eternity it confuses a person to a point that they might not truly understand why it is that the guy who's butt they have been staring at for the last 20 minuets actually turns them on.
When I was in my mid 20's I was able to actually understand and accept who I really was.
Thanks, Cynthia, love your blog.
It took me 57 years to summon up the self-assertion to come out. Yeah, that's pretty sad, and yeah, I've always knew that women didn't 'turn me on' but there's overwhelming pressure out there to be 'normal' from gay-haters like Mr Joyner. Gays have never ruled the world, and Mr Joyner and others have until recently always thought they ought to rule our little corner of it, too.
"gay-haters like Mr Joyner"
You're full of shit.
"As I wrote last year from CPAC, when throngs of so-called conservatives lined up for Ann Coulter's autograph moments after she referred to John Edwards as a "faggot," "Somehow, I can't imagine Ronald Reagan being pleased." Yet, the modern Conservative Moment seems to be dominated by the shrill nonsense of Coulter and Jonah Goldberg[*] and Michael Savage and Neil Boortz. In short, the Conservative Movement is no longer particularly "conservative" at all."
JJ @ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the_conservative_minority_/
WJ says:
To Sean: That is a good post.
DonM says:
Who cares? Really! What kind of person do you have to be to have any concern about another's sexuality?
1. On the hunt : looking for a new boyfriend/girlfriend and hope to know who is in the pool…
2. Totalitarian; unable to leave any person private, in any manner at all…
Franklin says:
Dave- you clearly haven't read much of this blog. And just because somebody hasn't been through your experiences doesn't mean they hate you.
I knew someone who had to be told by OTHER people that he was gay. It finally cleared up most of the confusion he had been feeling for 25 years. It had simply never occurred to him that he himself might be gay. Strange but true.
Maybe this is a way to get rid of Steele. Bring back Mehlman and demonstrate the new, open, conservatism!
Oh, check his position on gay marriage first.
mantis says:
If you're a gay Republican and you're afraid to come out, it's because you believe the lefty stereotypes of Republicans.
It's all the lie-bruls fault! It has nothing to do with prominent Republican politicians and other conservative leaders telling us for years and years that homosexuals are abominations, that homosexuals don't deserve the same rights and privileges other citizens enjoy, that homosexuals are the same as pedophiles and zoophiles, how the presence of homosexuals causes God to send natural disasters our way, and on and on. No, it's those damned liberals fault!
Let's also ignore that when GOProud was allowed to sponsor CPAC, the conference was boycotted by several influential conservative groups, and even the conference organizers forbid the group from speaking at the event. Must be the liberals fault!
WJ Alden says:
Don't really give a crap about Mehlman's sexuality. I've known I was straight since I was 5, so I find it hard to believe than any guy couldn't know their sexuality by a pretty early age, but oh well.
What I do care about is that Mehlman seems to be a natural liberal, and during his tenure was partly responsible for pushing the GOP to the left on a whole range of issues, from a bigger spending government to amnesty. That's worked out so very well, for our party and for the country at large. We now have trillions more in federal debt, a trillion dollar structural deficit, the health care abomination, 12 million illegal immigrants and their children dragging down the economy, and two fresh new Marxist faces on the Supreme Court for the next 30 years or so. So for all I care he can take a long walk off a short cliff and fall straight down to hell.
Tano says:
Oh, I see – you are saying that a man who has spent much of his career in the Republican Party – including being the chairman of the party, knows less about that party and its personalities than you do. Thats pretty ridiculous.
You see to be one of those people, quite common on the right, who has a very narrow and restricted view of how you want the world to be, and assume that, since you want it to be a certain way – it is that way.
blaming a political party for your own personal dysfunction is just the gutter.
What dysfunction are you talking about? Why do you show such utter disrespect for the testimony that the man shares about what he has lived? Simply because you wish the message not to be true?
It seems that his problem with the GOP was not simply that they were anti-gay marriage, but that they were actively and cynically pushing homophobic buttons in order to gin up political support.
I don't see any lack of principles on his part, unless you count the fact that he silently went along with those GOP tactics.
wr says:
I see him as just another evil Republican, willing to do the bidding of an administration even as it was targetting Americans for things he knew weren't wrong, simply because that's where the money is. Now that the teat has dried up, he's free to come out. Just like Christie Todd Whitman, who enabled the worst polluters when she led the Bush administration EPA but chose not to because she knew where her bread was buttered. Once she was gone, she felt free to advocate for responsible environmental policy — but of course at that point it meant nothing at all.
Mehlman spent years working to harm people just like him. How nice that he feels free to unburden himself now, when there's no cost to him.
Mike Bergsma says:
Now I understand why we had the RNC try to get homosexual candidates to run fro Congress in South Texas.
BBC says:
Everyone's gay for 15 minutes.
floyd says:
James;
Perhaps this is just because it flies in the face of your false paradigm?
Maybe his DNA shifted or his hypothalamus shrunk?
Or maybe it's just a life style choice and not worthy of minority status?
As your headline reads… who cares?
Except possibly those with a political agenda.
Their paradigm is not likely to be any more "affected" anyway!{lol}
Afterall "Jimmy Cracked Corn" and nobody could care less,
well… maybe a few "wild birds" who couldn't muster any political support at all… not even from PETA.
G.A.Phillips says:
It took me till my early thirties to realize that I was a pervert and that it was not normal, free speech for porn rallies, Amatuer movies and all that, hell I used to be totally frustrated with uptight people who did not understand getting off hedonistically as a right and a purpose to exist.
But then I started to think, crap what a different place the world is when you think, your indoctrination seems to just fade away, and it becomes much harder to lie to yourself and others.
Someone like me who cares for you, cares how you feel, cares how your doing, and cares were you will end up are getting completely sick of your propaganda and hypocrisy focussed against us and everything we love and every one we also care about for trying to tell the truth as we see it, and as it appears, and as it was told.
And how could Joiner possibly hate "Gay" people? Was gonna make a joke about the Cowboys but im not gay so I can't.
***Everyone's gay for 15 minutes.***:) or half an hour give or take a few minutes depending on what your definition gay is……coulda been the drugs, coulda been the beer, could have been the atmosphere…. Is oral sex "gay sex" er, sexual relations if your not the one doing it? lol…….
Brummagem Joe says:
Neither do I care, but Mehlman after denying (er, does this involve telling porkies?) he was gay for years now fesses up. As if anyone didn't know. The integrity problem arises not from the porkies, but from the fact that for years he took the lead in a party that has urged and practised discrimination against gay men and women. So he's a hypocrite. And I have to agree with Jim, by the age of 15 latest you've usually figured out if girls are a turn on.
Really. At the risk of being portrayed as self hating heterosexual I think I can say I've never been gay for one minute let alone 15. Perhaps some scientific evidence to back up this extraordinary claim?
"for pushing the GOP to the left on a whole range of issues, from a bigger spending government to amnesty."
Really. Huge tax breaks for the wealthy, lax regulation of key sectors of the economy, starting a couple of wars are leftwing policies. Perhaps you should become a democrat.
AT90064 says:
The MSM reporting on this and, it seems, Mehlman's comments rest on the repugnant false premeise that Republicans, exclusively, are anti-gay. The DOMA and Don't Ask Don't Tell are Democrat policies. Prop. 8 in California passed with over 150% of the votes that McCain/Palin received. A poll conducted at the 2008 RNC in Minneapolis found that just over 50% of the attendees of the convention approved of gay marriage. Our Democrat president opposes gay-marriage in favor of gay cvil-unions. Any inference, let alone an outright statement, that Republicans are anti-gay is a lie. A significant number of Democrats oppose gay-marriage so, if opposition makes Republicans "anti-gay", it makes Democrats "anti-gay" as well. Furthermore, the Demcorats have had a liberal president and a super-majority in Congress for 18 months and they have not repealed DOMA or Don't Ask, Don't Tell. This of a kind with the tactic tofalsely call conservatives racists and it is just as big a lie. Republicans aren't "anti-gay" and there are plenty of people who vote Democrat who think homosexuality is an abomination.
No one cares that Mehlman is gay and it isn't even newsworthy because people speculated about his sexuality years ago when he ran the RNC. This is just another attempt to slander REpublicans with a non-story based on a false premise.
I had to stop being a Republican … when they showed me the secret handshake.
"Really. At the risk of being portrayed as self hating heterosexual I think I can say I've never been gay for one minute let alone 15. Perhaps some scientific evidence to back up this extraordinary claim? "
I think he was just riffing on Andy Warhol's " In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
Brian Knapp says:
<em>gay-haters like Mr Joyner</em>
How did you get there from James's post?
I've known I was straight since I was 5,
Judging by your anger level, it's a reasonably safe assumption that you have not had much luck with women in all that time…
Friday, 27 August 2010 at 19:24
@floyd
Anybody know wtf this means?
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Although you often claim a lack of reading comprehension , feigned or otherwise, I will explain for your elucidation….
Where there is no political agenda, there is a complete lack of concern.
Rob Rogers Fired For Drawing Too Many Anti-Trump Cartoons
Kenny Rogers, Country Legend, Dead at 81
New York Times Fascinated That Republicans Don't Care That Ken Mehlman Is Gay
Legal Fight Against Same-Sex Marriage Moves To The States
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"Discovery's Shark Week reached an important milestone this week: it hit an all-time ratings high, which the network partially attributes to an increase in female viewership" (The Verge). Many people consider Shark Week a highlight of summer. The week-long shark programming captivates the attention of all ages and the hours that no one seems to have.
Premiered in 1988. Going strong.
25 Year Anniversary is captured on DVD too!
Last year, my classmate and friend—Alex Montoya got me to think of "Shark Week in a new way" when he posted a photo of one of super athlete, former Notre Dame All American at wide received and pitcher Jeff Samardzija aka "The Shark." This image might scare defensive backs in the way a Great White or Mako frightens swimmers and surfers; hence the caption underneath it read "Shark Week!" That week, Samardzjia fans were treated to a different picture of the Shark in action everyday.
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Norman, a former professional golfer and entrepreneur is appropriately named. His moniker is a reference to his size, aggressive golf style and in reflection to the native coastal animal of his birthplace—Australia.
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"Greg Norman was labeled the "Great White Shark" by a newspaper reporter during the 1981 Masters Tournament, but he began exhibiting all the characteristics of that deep-sea creature long before that.
As a teenager, like today, Norman never did anything halfway. He was a regular on the rugby and Australian Rules football fields of Queensland and was regarded as an outstanding player. He was born Feb. 10, 1955, to Mervyn and Toini Norman. Merv was an engineer and Toini a homemaker and an accomplished golfer.
The young Norman, whose older sister Janis and parents still reside in Australia, spent his time swimming, fishing and playing contact sports with friends. But when as a 15-year-old he decided to give golf a try in 1970, he did it aggressively with the intent to succeed.
His interest in the game started with an unusual offer to his mother that he caddy for her during a regular mid-week game. Following the round, he asked if he could borrow her clubs and set out on his own.
What his mother could not have imagined was that the young boy who had never taken an interest in the game would become one of the greatest golfers the game has ever known.
Just two years removed from that first day at Virginia Golf Club in Brisbane, Australia, Norman was a scratch golfer, averaging par or better each time he played. For the next few years, he spent time working as an Australian PGA trainee, playing amateur and open tournaments throughout Australia before turning professional in 1976 -- just six years after caddying for his mother.
As someone who took up golf two years ago myself, I stand in wonder and awe at the sheer talent and ability to go from neophyte to near master is just two years time. Anyone who remembers Norman in his prime knows why golf fans were drawn to him. No need to chum the waters for this competitor, he was always lurking, waiting to lock and load. Often times, such aggressive play cost him, but it was fun to watch."
Steve Williams became the caddy he is thanks to The Shark
He could be personally endearing yet ruthless as well. Norman fired his caddie of seven years, Stevie Williams over the phone. "I didn't think that was the right way to do it. It was the first time I had been fired." Consequently, Williams vowed he would never become that close another golfer again. Those next golfers include Tiger Woods (who fired Williams in 2011) and now Adam Scott. But Norman also mentored Williams, perhaps in the same way that his mother Toini did. Williams said, "He knew I was young. He taught me the ropes. I would've never got to where I am today without starting with Greg Norman. He taught me a lot about the game and was a fantastic player to watch. He was so good it was like he was almost teaching me." (Q & A; A Caddie: Steve Williams)
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