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“The music business scares the hell out of me,” late country music icon Jimmy Dean once told singer Billy Dean [unrelated, although the pair would become good friends].
The elder Dean’s suggestion: Diversify.
That sage advice would make a lasting impression on the then up-and-coming artist.
Sausage king Jimmy Dean made his mark singing, acting and with a variety of breakfast products. The younger Dean has made his with 12 albums and 11 Top 10 singles, in made-for-TV movies – including “Decisions,” which airs on GMC Oct. 16, and through his latest venture, Dean Acres.
The voice behind “Somewhere in My Broken Heart,” “If There Hadn’t Been You,” “Only Here for a Little While” and “Billy the Kid,” Billy Dean returns to Louisiana this month with an Oct. 15 appearance at the Schreier Theatre of the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium.
On the heels of an eight-year hiatus from touring, the Florida-born singer said he’s excited about hitting the road and getting up close and personal with his fans.
“My hiatus came between being a dad and juggling a music career that took me out of the home,” Dean said during a telephone interview with Gumbo. “I had to downsize and downscale and focus on being a parent.”
Reconnecting with his children, Eli, 18, and Hannah, 16, and wife Stephanie would inspire Dean’s 2004 release, “Let Them Be Little.”
The singer has said in interviews that the “little people” in his life keep him sane and make him a better man.
“I live a real person’s life,” Dean told one reporter. “My career is not my life, and that scares a lot of people who think that means that you’re not going to give it your best.
“Well, my message is, ‘Man, let me have a life, and I’ll give you the best stuff you could ever possibly listen to.’”
The “best stuff” includes a sacred album, “Christ (A Song for Joseph),” which followed “Let Them Be Little” in 2005, and, most recently, “The Seed,” which is available digitally on iTunes.
Like a number of earlier country artists, Dean’s airplay is usually limited to the Internet these days. “It requires our fans to be social media savvy,” he said. “That’s how you receive new music these days for the most part.”
The format, however, is bound only by imagination. Dean said he is embracing the digital world and continuing to explore possibilities.
“There are a lot of opportunities to reach a broad audience online,” he said. “These days, you can even broadcast live shows, which is something that I’m hoping to move into as well. What I’m finding is the Internet is a more malleable marketing tool. That’s important as you diversify into other products and businesses under your brand.”
Branching out for Dean has included TV time – he’s got a number of appearances to his credit, including roles in “Blue Valley Songbird” with Dolly Parton and “A Face to Kill For” with Crystal Bernard. His role as the firefighter husband of four-time Dove award winner Natalie Grant in GMC’s “Decisions” rekindled his love for moviemaking.
“It’s a smaller role because of my schedule,” Dean said of the role. His character is killed in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel, leaving Grant to raise the couple’s teenage son alone.
“It’s a great story about parenting and faith, about when you reach the age of being a teenager,” Dean told Country Weekly. “Ultimately, you have all the basics your parents have given you, and at some point you have to start making decisions in your life.
“It’s about that transitional period from when your parents make you do things and punish you when you don’t, to taking ownership and responsibility for your own life and making the smart decisions based on your upbringing.”
Dean has another project in development, “Real Things with Billy Dean.”
The singer said the show would explore the people’s lives that impact great songs.
“I’d travel to real places and talk to real people experiencing real things,” he said of the project. “Honestly, I find an amazing amount of songs that deserve a little bit more of a long-form presentation.”
The show, he explained, would provide the forum to go more in depth with people whose life experiences parallel music. And it provides yet another way for Dean to diversify while still reaching people.
Reaching out to people is evident even at home for the singer/songwriter/actor/businessman.
His Tennessee home, Dean Acres, is a bed and breakfast, providing families a getaway experience complete with kayaking, fly-fishing, camping and adventure.
In 2012, Dean said the farm will begin hosting concerts. He currently offers guests to the B&B mini, unplugged shows.
Plans are also in the works to develop a spice blend and other food products under the Dean Acres brand.
In the meantime, Dean’s focus is on reconnecting with fans – new and old.
His earliest days were spent touring Texas and Louisiana, so the Morgan City performance represents a bit of a homecoming tour.
“Some of the most memorable moments for me as an artist came in Louisiana,” he said. “And some of the most energetic and supportive crowds are there.
“I hope to reconnect with a lot of fans we’ve made over the years, come sign autographs and get a chance to shake hands with folks who’ve hung with me.”

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Motorola has finally given us a European version of the ‘Motoroi’, the Milestone with 8-megapixel camera and Xenon flash. Is this the new king of the cameraphone?
Making good use of a hardware platform makes sound business sense, so when Motorola was working on the original Milestone with its integrated keyboard, it also produced a version without one. However, it was only released in Korea, as the Motoroi.
Earlier this year What Mobile asked Motorola if and when we might see a version in the UK and now we have it; as the Milestone XT720.
Taking away the slide-out keyboard reduces the overall thickness, while the camera has been bumped up from 5 to 8-megapixels, plus there’s a proper Xenon flash instead of LEDs. So, if the Milestone is for messaging, the XT720 has to be the first choice for imaging.
The Milestone does perform well despite its relatively slow 550MHz processor, but given everything else is going to 1GHz or beyond, consumers playing the numbers game will not be too excited to learn that the XT720 is literally the same as the Milestone, which is only two months away from becoming a year old.
There’s the same amount of RAM and the same 3.7-inch screen as the original, which isn’t a fancy AM-OLED affair but a traditional TFT LCD. While this might sound rather old-school, we think it’s actually a good thing, because while it may sap a bit more juice from the battery, you have a much clearer display when reading text.
Because of the ordering of the pixels on the HTC Desire and Samsung’s Galaxy S, both using OLED display technology with interpolation, you can see where dithering is used around text, which reduces clarity. This is most noticeable on text, which means the XT720 is ‘pixel perfect’ and almost as nice to look at as Apple’s Retina Display.
The phone has a true Wide-VGA screen resolution too, so you get 854×480 pixels over the normal 800×480 on other top-end Android devices. This is great for when you watch movies.
With the XT720 the only Android phone currently on the market with a Xenon flash, it’s the feature that could set this apart from the competition.
It’s also nice to see an HDMI socket, so you can enjoy pictures (or video – as the phone captures at 1280x720p) on a big screen.
The camera itself is easy to use, although it takes a while to start up, and the results speak for themselves. We’ve seen and tested 12-megapixel handsets with a proper flash, but 8-megapixels is still more than ample for most situations.
Sadly, there’s no LED lamp, which means no video recording in very low-light, but there is a red light to aid the autofocus.
With a mirrored front, the XT720 looks quite unique. The phone also looks stylish from the back, which includes a powerful speaker that is another big difference over a Desire or Galaxy S.
What isn’t so nice is the part of the phone that sticks out at the bottom right of the phone. It looks rather odd, and is there purely to enable you to see illuminated icons to show what mode you’re in when using the camera; namely playback, still imaging or video.
These icons aren’t touch-sensitive, but controlled with a small button next to the shutter on the side. It’s slow to toggle modes, spoils the overall look of the phone and is therefore rather pointless.
Like the Acer Stream, there’s an annoying cover over the USB and HDMI sockets. Samsung was wise enough to use a sliding cover, and Motorola never thought it was necessary on the original Milestone – which can then slot nicely into the optional docking station. As a result, there is no such dock for the XT720. Another disappointment.
Without the original Milestone’s keyboard, you must use an on-screen version at all times. Because of the long, tall, display, the keyboard is quite narrow in portrait mode. In landscape mode it’s a lot better, but I did miss the physical keyboard.
The phone is also starting to show its age, and the low amount of memory means you will find applications shutting down quicker than they otherwise might on another phone with a more generous helping of RAM.
The native-Motorola homescreen is also extremely laggy, which means you’ll need to add a third party launcher. Launcher Pro or ADW Launcher are my own personal recommendations, which will transform the phone.
Unlike Acer’s Stream, the rest of the phone is pretty much native Android OS and all the better for it. Although the inclusion of Android 2.1 allows for live wallpapers, running them seems to slow the phone down too much to be recommended.
Motorola has also added a range of power management options to improve battery life. You can also adjust the HDMI output resolution, and use apps to allow access to corporate email and contacts (using Microsoft Exchange). There’s also a portal app that allows you to access the phone over Wi-Fi and manage the content on the phone, from text messages to photos and video.
As Motorola has confirmed the original Milestone will get an update to OS 2.2, it seems inevitable the XT720 will do so too, but until it’s officially confirmed we can’t say for definite.
With the hardware being almost identical, it’s a case of deciding whether you want a better camera experience or the hardware keyboard. It’s a tough decision, and with the Milestone 2 on the horizon, it’s a shame Motorola couldn’t combine an improved keyboard with the improved camera. It’s a good offering, but it seems like an improved successor is probably just months away.
Update – increased speed for XT720 after firmware update
Since this review was published in What Mobile magazine, Motorola has issued a firmware update that increases the clock speed of the XT720 to 720MHz, from its original speed (550MHz). Visit the Motorola website for information on how to do this update. The update also offers support for sharing media with DLNA-compliant devices.
It is worth noting that it is also possible to overclock the XT720, unofficially, to 600, 800, 1000 or 1200MHz using two individual applications (search for Milestock Overclock and Universal Androot) but this could potentially invalidate the warranty and be unstable at higher speeds.
We’ve been waiting ages for an Android phone with a high-quality camera and Xenon flash. And now, thanks to Motorola, we have one that captures HD video too. The problem is the phone is a re-branded version of one on sale in Korea since the start of 2010, and the processor performance and memory is looking a bit dated. That said, the phone isn’t slow and it has a display that can stand its own against OLED displays favoured by the competition. If you want a quality camera and smartphone combination, it’s a worthy consideration until something better arrives.
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How to Paint Glass Lamp Shades
Lamp shades make an interesting surface for painting. When the lamp is lit, the layered design shines and becomes even more beautiful. You can make your own decorated lamp shades using acrylic glass paints. In just a short time, your lamps will be the topic of discussion the next time you have guests over.
Things You'll Need
- Glass lamp shade
- White vinegar
- Paper towels
- Paintbrushes (acrylic art brushes, small and medium)
- Design pattern (optional)
- Acrylic glass paint (your choice of colors)
- Plate or palette
Wet the paper towel with the white vinegar. Wipe the outside of the glass lamp shade. Hold the glass lamp shade with a paper towel as you wipe it with the vinegar-soaked towel.Try not to touch the surface you plan to paint with your fingers or hands. Set it aside to dry.
Shake the paint bottles well to mix each color inside. Pour each color onto the palette in a nickel-sized puddle. Make sure the colors don't run together.
Cut the design pattern to fit inside the shade. You should be able to see the design through the glass. Tape it in place while making sure it lays as flat as possible against the inside of the glass surface.
Pick up the foundation color of paint with a dry brush (no water is used when painting on glass). Apply the color in an evenly so there are no ridges in the paint. Let the paint dry completely before applying the next color or layer.
Continue to paint the design, allowing each layer of color to dry thoroughly before continuing. When the design is finished, remove the pattern from the inside of the lamp shade and allow the paint to cure for at least 24 to 48 hours prior to use. Clean the brushes with soap and water when you are finished using them.
- Some glass paints can be cured by oven-baking them at low temperatures.
- Paint brushes can be wiped clean between paint applications and stored in a damp paper towel until ready to use.
- Glass paint can be found in craft stores.
- Practice painting your design on a scrap piece of glass before applying to the shade so you are better able to judge color layering.
- Washing the brushes between uses will leave water in the brush and make color application less effective.
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Starting this week, the floor in T5 Bag Claim will be replaced with terrazzo in a four-month-long project. Only one bag claim unit will be unavailable at any time. Once completed, the new floor will look and function as well as the terrazzo on the departures level and further enhance the T5 experience.
The game show where some people win, some people lose, but no one is really winning anything any way. And H2O-my gosh – these contestants are fish out of water!
JetBlue has joined the White House’s American Business Act on Climate Pledge, which includes more than 154 companies from across the American economy demonstrating an ongoing commitment to climate action and voicing support for a strong outcome to the Conference of Parties 21 (COP21) Paris climate negotiations.
From now until September 6, JetBlue’s home Terminal 5 at New York’s JFK Airport will see on average 983 daily departing flights—and 1,003 flights during our highest peak travel days. Here are some sanity-saving tips to make traveling this summer a lot easier.

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With the Corvus Year subscription you can use the drone-in-a-box for twelve months. Do you want to use the drone continuously every season and take advantage of all applications? Then this subscription is for you!
Corvus ensures that you use the latest drone and replaces the drone or parts if necessary. The operation of the drone is easy, anyone can do it! You just click the start button and the drone does the rest.

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1. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange guest-starred in a satirical music video (he shows up around 3:30) and parodied an Australian ’80s pop hit… while wearing a mullet.
The video, which parodies the upcoming Australian federal elections, is the latest in a series of comedic rap commentaries from Aussie duo Juice Rap News.
12. BONUS: Here’s a video of Julian Assange dancing.
- The Women's March on Washington was one of the largest protests in the city's history.
- "SNL" featured a shirtless Vladimir Putin celebrating America's newest President.

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The least incredible racing game available online is Paris Chase.
Downloading Paris Chase is both independent and secure! This well-known cars tournament was transformed into an incredible release for all Windows systems by a group of programmers. In France’s’s Paris, you is compete against other vehicle cyclists by driving a racecar. The Monaco Grand Prix, the Paris-dade racetrack, and the Le Mans race are just a few examples of real-world occasions that served as the inspiration for this car adventure. You can also select from the game’s’s many unlock-ables and choice for more sophisticated functions.
The most recent edition of Free & Safety, Paris Chase, is now freely accessible online! Subscribe the thrilling and well-liked group of enthusiasts and competitors who have developed a passion for this adrenaline-charged video tournament! Explore the game’s’s various rounds, try to finish each test or accomplishment, earn stars, and surpass all time averages! It is currently the exclusive thrilling and exciting fresh tournament available online!
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Both planets are going to be visited soon.
Uranus and Neptune have so far not been a major objective for NASA. Many spacecrafts have passed these planets, but none have either studied or landed on one. But a new announcement change in the future.
The following missions would involve orbiting of the two planets and an eventual landing which brings new probes to study their surface. NASA scientists are planning four missions that would begin in 2034.
Three of the four missions would involve spacecrafts to orbit around both planets, and the fourth would be just passing.
It is required to find out the composition and internal structure of the planets, as main objective, but their energy fields will also be studied. Although we can observe the surface climate conditions, orbiting around Neptune could have a plus: A study of the biggest moon in the Solar System, Triton.
The journey takes about 14 years and a nuclear power would be needed to power the spaceship systems because the solar energy is irrelevant at that huge distance. Plutonium-238 batteries would be needed, but they are very rare because there are agreements against radioactive material deposits.
The first mission will be launched to Uranus in 2034, but if NASA misses it, a new attempt could take two years. For Neptune, if the mission has to fail, the next chance would take place in 2041.


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Best of Travel
SOMEONE has designed a fully-equipped house that you can literally pack up and bring with you on your travels. Seriously.
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IT’S TIME Australians stopped rolling their eyes at the mere mention of the nation’s capital. Let’s embrace what it does right.
THESE places have flown under the radar for far too long. Make sure you see them before everyone else does, because they’re about to get way more popular.
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IT WAS designed as a showpiece, dubbed a ‘jewel’. Now thousands pass this time capsule every day, completely clueless.
IT’S often outshined by LA and New York, but next time you’re in the United States, make sure you add Santa Barbara to your “must-see” list.
THERE’S nothing more satisfying than saying ‘I went there before it was touristy’. So get to these secluded beaches before the hoards find out how good they are.
PERCHED high above the crowded streets lies one of the best views in the modern world. But can you spot the landmarks?
THE Statue of Liberty, Central Park, 5th Avenue? They may be NYC travel must-sees, but there’s a whole other side to this city that you probably don’t know about.
IF YOU think you’ve seen or heard it all when it comes to Thailand, there’s actually a lot you don’t know about the popular holiday spot. Prepare to be amazed.
FEAST your eyes on what could be the world’s most colourful cave, which welcomes visitors at 240 metres under the surface of the Earth.

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Parents of Deborah, the part two student of Sheu Shagari College of Education who was gruesomely murdered by Muslim Youths for alleged blasphemy on May 12 in Sokoto have resolved not to pursue any legal case on the matter. The parents who spoke with Bola Adewara of elifeonline.net said it would make no sense to start pursuing any legal case since according to them, “it won’t bring back the dead”
His father, Garba Emmanuel, said, “I am not going to court because if I do, it won’t bring her back. For three to four years, you are still in court. For what? I am not going to court. But if the government wants, they are free. She is an indigene of Nigeria. Government can decide to go to court to prosecute the offender as a deterrent for a reoccurrence. Government should handle it and punish the culprits so it would not happen again.”
In the interview with Adewara, he gave a graphic detail of how his daughter was murdered. He said the police officers who came to rescue her were overwhelmed by the crowd.
Jesus taught them to forgive
Also, Lara Owoeye-Wise, Special Adviser to the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo Agege in a Facebook post on Tuesday May 17 recounted her exchange with Deborah’s parents,
In the post, she wrote,
“Anyone with their contacts should inform them immediately that I Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere the General Overseas of OPM Church is relocating them to Port Harcourt.
“They will be staying in one of the OPM free estates where they will never pay rent forever. All their children are given automatic scholarships in OPM Free schools.
“I will get the father a job and I also open a shop for the mother”.
He urged those who know them to get in touch
It should be noted that there are discrepancies in the surname of Deborah. Her father bears Garba Emmanuel. But the Traveling Secretary of Fellowship of Christian Students for some of the states in the North, Evang Cyprian Ogah told Church Times that she bears Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu in school. Ogah said he was on the team that interviewed her before she was appointed the sisters’ coordinator of the FCS in the school. He however said he only knew her for a brief period of time.
The Sheu Shagari College of Education is yet to make any official statement on the incident. It is not clear how the name Yakubu came about. Some also call her Deborah Samuel.


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There are a lot of articles here now and there are quite a few distilleries represented. Some more than once but many have not been covered at all. Linkwood is a distillery which I thought I had tried before but after a search here it appears that it wasn’t the case.
The Linkwood distillery is in the village of Elgin in Scotland. There are quite a few distilleries to be found in this part of the Speyside region and Linkwood has been around for a while.
Distilling started at the site in 1824 before being rebuilt in 1874. Production has been consistent with little downtime since joining DCL in 1932. Currently still owned by what is now called Diageo. The buildings from 1874 were used until the 1980’s before being closed down to allow a second distillery to take over production. This second distillery was built in 1972 and was used in tandem to the original before the first was closed. Those original buildings were removed in 2012 as part of a modernisation programme although I do wonder how this could have been allowed perhaps they weren’t listed or left to rot?
Batch 7 is a rather large one at 1632 bottles all over which are priced at £37 pounds. This is a good value option and indeed many people thought so as like so many its sold out. This is another spirit led refill barrel release from Boutique-y but this time at a price worth considering.
Colour – touch above transparent
Nose – green apples and a handful of herbs
Palate – silky texture with lashings of pepper and a burnt charred woody note. Badly burnt toast with butter used to hide the mistake
Finish – That charring continues on the long finish. Just at the very end you can get a metallic or stone mineral note.
This kept by interest purely on trying to get out that charred note. The real interest for me was in those extra woody burnt note with just a hint of burnt dough winding around it. These are the kinds of refill barrels I like which are interesting and novel to investigate and enjoy.

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Happily ever after begins with prenup for more millennials
By AdvocateDaily.com Staff
It’s no surprise that a generation that has grown up seeing relationships dissolve around them now want to enter into marriage contracts before saying ‘I do,’ St. Catharines family lawyer Sharon Silbert tells AdvocateDaily.com.
Silbert, principal of Sharon B. Silbert Professional Corporation, points to a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers showing that more than half the lawyers surveyed saw an increase in the number of millennials seeking prenuptial agreements.
Millennials’ exposure to divorce and separation and their understanding of the realities of the breakdown of a relationship may be a key reason they opt for prenups, she says.
“When people get married, breakdown is never the intention. The best-case scenario is the marriage contract is prepared, goes into a filing cabinet somewhere and is never looked at again,” Silbert says. “But I think more people are seeing it as an insurance policy. If things were to go sideways, at least they know they’re protected.”
There’s a stereotype that people who decide to have a prenuptial contract are those getting married for a second time, already have children, and are looking to protect their estate, she says.
“Certainly, that demographic comprises some of the clients I see, but I also have plenty who are entering their first marriage from the younger end of the spectrum and want a marriage contract,” Silbert says.
She also suggests another contributing factor is that many Gen Ys are waiting longer to marry than people once did, and they’ve had time to accumulate some assets.
“It used to be people were getting married when they were just getting started in the workforce. They may not have had much of an opportunity to build up wealth on their own. So there was less of a perception that there was anything to protect,” Silbert says.
“Today, it’s more common to see people getting married in their 30s after they’re already established in their careers, she says. “They’ve started to build up their own net worth and are looking to make sure that what they’re bringing into the relationship is going to be protected.”
But it’s not only assets that are addressed in marriage contracts, debt is often an issue, Silbert says.
For example, she says many people enter relationships with large student debts that are later folded into a joint mortgage when the couple buys a home.
The marriage contract, Silbert says, can also protect the more vulnerable member of the relationship. It can acknowledge that one partner might take time off work to take care of family responsibilities, and ensure those non-monetary contributions are later recognized in the event of a separation, including a plan for how that person would be reintegrated into the workforce, she says.
“I see it as a really positive thing. I don’t really see a downside,” Silbert says.
Even the process of preparing a prenuptial agreement can be a positive one for couples because it forces them to have important conversations about finances and expectations, something that is often lost in the preparations of a wedding, she says.
“It’s really easy when there’s such a massive wedding industry to lose sight of the fact that marriage is a legal contract. In reality, it’s not just about the fairy-tale ceremony, it’s also about the beginning of a financial partnership, so it makes sense to take that step with a clear set of shared expectations,” Silbert says.


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SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - A Georgia-born pizzeria with a downtown Savannah presence is wanting to serve their customers more than just a hot slice.
In addition to serving beer and wine, Mellow Mushroom requested Savannah City Council members allow the area the restaurant is in to be rezoned to allow for the sale of liquor.
Several restaurants and establishments along the stretch of Liberty Street do allow liquor sales, but Mellow Mushroom had not been included in that zone.
Ultimately, council granted the proposed request.
But even though the zoning for mellow mushroom has changed, the business will still have to come back before city council to petition for a liquor license.

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Actor Mike Farrell, an anti-death penalty activist, has been appointed to the California commission that reviews judges' conduct.
Farrell, who played Army surgeon B.J. Hunnicut on "M-A-S-H," was named to the Commission on Judicial Performance.Farrell said he didn't know why he was chosen but was flattered.
"I scrambled to find out what it did," Farrell said. "It is an interesting way to serve the community. I am fascinated with the way the system works."
He is going through orientation and is scheduled to attend his first meeting this month. Farrell is president of Death Penalty Focus of California, a group that opposes the death penalty, and co-chairman of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch.
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Have you started planning for your retirement? Most people are firm believers in building and growing their nest eggs to secure their futures. Others who live in the moment prefer spending their income on meaningful experiences and traveling.
Aging is a natural, biological process. There comes a time in everyone’s life when working every day 9 to 5 is no longer possible. People harbor unique risk factors for various illnesses, and while some enjoy healthy aging, others experience cognitive decline or diabetes.
Regardless, retirement comes with reduced earning capacity and increasing expenses, particularly medical bills. Unless you want to depend on your children and family members, how do you intend to manage these expenses? Or perhaps you’re not thinking about your post-retirement income and expenses at all.
Life is unpredictable, and time is fleeting. With diligent planning, vigilant savings, and wise investments, you can reduce your earning years through corporate slavery. You can create a profitable estate of rental properties or invest in lucrative stocks to enjoy passive income streams. We all want to retire comfortably, bask under the Florida sun, or buy a luxurious caravan and travel the world.
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- Understanding your Risk Thresholds
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If you’re starting early, you can choose high-risk investments, such as the stock market. However, with 5-10 years left before retirement, it’s best to select an investment vehicle that ensures a stable retirement income. The longer the time you have to invest and reap gains, the higher your risk thresholds as an investor.
Stocks come with higher volatility, but they have a much higher earning potential as a long-term investment.
- Prioritize Market & Economic Research
Professionals from a finance or economics background don’t require much help with retirement planning. They are continually investing, saving, and building investments. However, professionals who lack financial savviness and investment acumen are most likely to struggle with estate planning and profitability.
Before you start investing your hard-earned savings, it’s crucial to gain knowledge and insight into economic dynamics. Start by brushing up your knowledge on economic principles, market dynamics, investment vehicles, and their inner-workings.
It’s crucial to understand that inflation is a continuous process that will impact your purchasing power over the years. Prices will not remain stagnant over time. So, as you plan your post-retirement income and expenses, do consider the impact of inflation. Compound growth is the goal to multiply and increase our wealth and enjoy financial security.
Inflation has the potential to erode our savings and reduce our income quickly. However, if your income is compounding and growing, it will give you greater security and stability.
- Identifying Post-Retirement Needs & Habits
It’s tough to visualize your post-retirement spending needs and preferences as a millennial who is just entering the workforce. However, realistic notions about your spending habits, conditions, and requirements will surely help you make pragmatic and practical decisions. Most people believe their spending will reduce as they will not spend as much on commodities, entertainment, and travel.
Naturally, these people ignore the possibility of sickness, aging, and cognitive decline, which are everyday post-retirement expenses. Growing old is an unpredictable process, and medical emergencies are usually unforeseen. Many retirees like to spend on their travel-the-world goals, while others dream of their waterfront villas with an idyllic view.
Identifying your income needs and spending habits will help you understand your financial strategy for a comfortable retirement. Many professionals save meticulously, scraping away for their post-retirement plan of following their dreams.
- Ensuring Income Stability and Financial Security
In recent years, the focus on retirement planning has increased as people want to enjoy a successful and comfortable retirement. Living costs are rising with every passing year, and medical care expenses are the fastest-growing expense. If you’re going to ensure a thriving retirement, you need an income that grows and expands. A fixed income is bound to run out and reduce your buying power as inflation increases.
Most retirees reduce their work hours, but as old age approaches, cognitive abilities decline drastically. It’s essential to note that retirement will reduce your ability to earn will reduce, regardless of your inclination to work. If you have a stable and secure, passive income, you can spend more time with your children and family members.
You can engage in expensive hobbies, invest in your passions, shop your heart out and travel to exotic destinations. However, to achieve all that, you must find an investment vehicle that allows your income to grow and expand. It’s wise to focus on investment vehicles that offer a stable and secure, passive income. Real estate provides lucrative opportunities to enjoy a comfortable retirement with an ever-growing income.
- Narrow down your Investment Goals
Identifying and narrowing down your investment goals will help you evaluate your earning potential and risk tolerance. It’s wise to consult financial advisors and investment managers to make savvy investment decisions. However, if you’re completely ignorant about money matters and market dynamics, you’re bound to learn the hard way.
What are your wealth generation goals as an investment? Answering this question with specific numbers and strategies is instrumental in mapping out your investment portfolio. Setting goals will help you identify your comfort zones and the risks you’re prepared to take as an investor. Market savviness and knowledge are of the utmost significance here.
Whether it’s the stock exchange or the real estate industry, market knowledge determines your ability to generate sustainable wealth. You must consider formal or informal training in market insights, investment basics, and risk aversion techniques. Most investors end up reacting to everyday market noise and fleeting trends, but seasoned investors set priorities and goals.
Over-managing or micro-managing your investment portfolio will only derail your plans for wealth generation. It’s wise to place your eggs in multiple baskets and nurture the investments that deserve more attention.
Markets are subjected to rise and decline, recession and growth, and inflation and deflation. Assets and investments grow and multiply over the years. As an investor growing a nest egg for a comfortable retirement, patience is your biggest weapon. If you invest money in your future, it is inaccessible for you for at least a good while. It’s essential to prioritize investments that allow your money to increase and multiply over time.

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sind auftreibend, wodurch Sie sich optimal für Pop-Up und Snow-Man Montagen eignenTo some anglers taking the leap of faith and turning to artificial book baits is quite a step, especially an unflavoured type!
With this in mind we set about creating the perfect mimic both in appearance, smell and taste, to tick all the right boxes, so to speak. The experienced anglers who saw the prototypes of these everlasting-go anywhere book baits, were amazed that they were not real perfect food hook baits!
The blend of carefully chosen flavours, stimulants and feeding triggers used, makes carp compelled to sample them.
When a 10mm hook bait is required unless you go to a great deal of effort and experimentation you can easily have a hook bait that will go soft, loose buoyancy, split etc. The Immortals are just that, they retain absolute constant buoyancy, are pest and crayfish proof, retain perfect colour and attraction. They also work fantastically well as the top half of a snowman set up over a more subtle food bait!


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The Las Vegas Star Trek convention continues here for another day, which means we’ve got even more Trek news to share out of the biggest event of the year!
Our friend Ben Robinson, captain of the Eaglemoss Official Starships Collection model line, hosted his yearly panel on the fan-favorite starship fleet at STLV today where he revealed a number of new details on plans for the ongoing collection… including some new announcements on the highly-anticipated Star Trek: Discovery vessels!
We caught up with Ben to talk about his plans for Discovery, the Kelvin Timeline, and the continuing voyages of the Official Starships Collection as we look ahead to 2018.
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TREKCORE: What’s new to discover in Star Trek model starships, Ben?
BEN ROBINSON: Well, we’re announcing today the Star Trek: Discovery ships – we’ll be doing one a month; the idea is that they’ll start [for subscribers] in the first quarter of next year. They’ll be larger than the first series; more of a specialty size, 7 to 8 inches like the [current] specials, to try and keep the prices under control.
There will be more than enough ships to get us through  until, we hope, there is a second season. I’m not sure if I can say how many ships there are, but there are a LOT of ships in Discovery.
TREKCORE: Just from the trailers, there’s easily five or six ships we’ve already seen.
ROBINSON: Well we know now there’s a war – that involves a lot of ships, on both sides.
TREKCORE: But the main hero ships – the Shenzhou and Discovery – are in your plans?
ROBINSON: Mm-hmm. [Nods]
TREKCORE: What about some of the other ones featured, like the Europa or the Torchbearer ships?
ROBINSON: I don’t know exactly which ships we’ll be able to do yet, as [the VFX team] is still finalizing – but we’re getting a lot of cooperation and excellent reference [files].
We’ve already made the physical tooling for the Shenzhou and Discovery models, but the final paint and textures are still being tweaked. We’re hoping that if all goes smoothly, we may be able to start producing those ones before Christmas, and then the whole subscription itself will start around the time comes back for the second half of the season.
TREKCORE: So, like a January timeframe.
ROBINSON: Yeah, there are a lot of logistical things that have to be overcome, and we want to make sure that it’s a continuous one-a-month [release schedule]. But we need to wait a little bit to get the stuff before we know that we can achieve that.
TREKCORE: So the Star Trek: Discovery digital team is feeding you the files directly?
ROBINSON: The effects have been done by Pixomondo, and they’ve been supplying us every possible preparation [tool]… I mean, I’m getting files that are dated yesterday!
TREKCORE: Do you find that to be different from how you’ve received reference information for the ongoing line of models?
ROBINSON: Yes – there was no real process for archiving the models on the previous shows. It was something that happened, and there was a VFX team, [often] a third-party company, and [the files] were never sent back to [the studio].
TREKCORE: It was interesting when you mentioned on stage the other day that all the digital models from Star Trek: Insurrection were not saved, to your knowledge.
ROBINSON: Yeah, and basically how the whole thing worked was that there was no archiving process. [The files] weren’t even held by anybody on the movie’s FX team – so like Ron B. Moore, or Gary Hutzel, they didn’t have copies of the models; they were held by the [effects] vendor.
So the models were at Eden FX or Foundation Imaging or whoever, and while people kept some copies, fortunately, and there are people who have archives of them, there was no formal process to get them back to [Paramount].
We do have renders from the time, so there is reference to construct [the Insurrection ships], but we keep hoping that someone’s got a copy of [the original files] somewhere. But in that particular case it’s more complicated – even if someone had a copy of them, no one has the software needed to open the [files]!
TREKCORE: Getting back to the Discovery ships, that will be a separate subscription from the ongoing Official Starships releases, correct?
ROBINSON: Yes – it will be offered, obviously, to everybody who is already a subscriber, we’ll be in touch with them to see if they’d like to add this.
TREKCORE: Do you have an idea yet of the price point for the Discovery subscription?
ROBINSON: We don’t have that information yet; but the idea is to keep it roughly the same as [the current subscriptions], but rather than getting two ships a month you’ll get one larger one.
TREKCORE: For the regular subscription, the UK and US release schedules are offset by a few months…
ROBINSON: They’re getting closer to each other – and for Discovery, that will launch in the US and UK at the same time. I don’t know what our plans are for Germany – our other major territory – or Japan, but our first plan is to launch in our English-language markets, with Australia that normally follows shortly after.
TREKCORE: And the magazines to go with the ships, as well?
ROBINSON: That’s the plan! I don’t know what will be in them, yet, but I know there’s a lot of concept art.
TREKCORE: Yes, they’ve certainly showed a lot here and at Comic-Con in the Discovery gallery, and John Eaves featured more Shenzhou art on stage Friday morning.
ROBINSON: I haven’t been asking for the artwork until I need to – but that’s going to happen very soon.
TREKCORE: We’ve talked a lot about your new plans for Discovery, but what about the continuing Official Starships line of models? You’ve got the first three large-scale Enterprise models out — the NCC-1701, the –D, and the –E, with the NX-01 coming later this year — but what’s next?
ROBINSON: The idea with those is that we’re doing them as a series. There was a lot of interest in having the real hero ships at a larger scale, but while we there was some concern that people already had them [as the smaller editions], we’ve sort of put our toes in the water and those first few have gone well.
There’s now a likelihood that we will do a dozen or so of the hero ships — all the Enterprises, the Defiant, Voyager – at that larger size.
TREKCORE: The Enterprise-B and -C as well?
ROBINSON: Slightly depending on sales, but that’s the plan!
TREKCORE: What can you tell us about perhaps doing the Enterprise-A from Star Trek Beyond?
ROBINSON: There’s an issue there – it’s not so much getting the reference material, but that it’s not seen in a lot of detail in the film. Although it obviously exists in detail [as a digital model], we don’t know what the state of there being a next [Kelvin Timeline] movie yet.
ROBINSON: Many people assume there will be one, but the filmmakers have [hinted] that ‘Well, we might change it, if and when we get to the next movie.’ So for now we are holding until we know.
That doesn’t mean it will change, doesn’t mean it won’t change, it just hasn’t been decided yet.
ROBINSON: But the other thing we are doing – as a bit of a departure – is starting to do concept ships. On top of the regular series, because these are not canon, we’re doing Andy Probert’s original Enterprise-C, we’re doing Matt Jefferies’ version of the Enterprise designed for Star Trek: Phase II.
We’re also doing Rick Sternbach’s original USS Voyager that got built as a study model, and Rick’s been supervising the construction of that one.
TREKCORE: Are there other concepts you’re targeting?
ROBINSON: For now; we’re trying to stick to Enterprises – I tweeted out a photo of the Enterprise ringship, so that’s nice, and new, and different.
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TREKCORE: And from the novels, you have both the Titan and the Aventine on the way too.
ROBINSON: Yeah, that’s an interesting experiment which I hope will go well; they should be out in time for New York Comic Con in October – and if they go well, a lot of people have expressed interest in the Odyssey [from Star Trek Online]. I’m sure there are other ‘soft-canon’ things that people would like, and if this works then there’s every reason to think that we would do them.
TREKCORE: A lot of the literary fans would really like that; they’ve been hoping for the Titan for quite a while.
ROBINSON: They have – those ships have a tight following and there are a lot of people who love them, and designers Sean Tourangeau and Mark Rademaker have been very keen to help.
TREKCORE: Anything else on the way you can tell us about?
ROBINSON: There are more specials we’re doing – the Klingon destroyer from the 2009 film’s Kobayashi Maru simulation… and the Kobayashi Maru itself.
We also have the Star Trek Beyond version of the Enterprise, which we expect for the first half of next year.
TREKCORE: You’re working on a Kelvin Timeline shuttle set, too, right?
ROBINSON: Yes! All four shuttles.
TREKCORE: And which shuttles are you including in that set? There’s the shuttle Kirk is born in…
ROBINSON: Yes, and Pike’s shuttle; there is Scotty’s shuttle from Star Trek Into Darkness, and one more as well.
TREKCORE: Well, there’s the one Kirk and McCoy took to the Enterprise in the first film…
ROBINSON: Yes. The thing that’s interesting is that when you go through the films, there are four basic different shuttles, but there are lots of different variations, all very similar but just a bit different – wings out, different color schemes – but there are four actual designs. It’s taken me a while to work that out!
TREKCORE: And aside from the K-7 Station already on display, are there plans for any further starbases? I don’t know how it would happen – but how about Starbase Yorktown?
ROBINSON: [Laughs] I don’t know how we could do anything that would look remotely satisfying for that! But I think it’s extremely likely we’ll be doing Spacedock.
There’s also another set of Designing Starships books coming; the next one focused on the Kelvin Timeline movies this year, the next one set for next year. I have a massive collection of Deep Space Nine concept art that wasn’t released in previous magazine issues.
TREKCORE: How many ships is the Official Starships series now projected to?
ROBINSON: Well, we’re approved out to 130…
TREKCORE: Plus the larger specials, plus the Kelvin ships…
ROBINSON: Yeah, plus, plus, plus! That also doesn’t include the shuttle sets or the new Discovery series – and I’m optimistic that by New York Comic Con we should know whether we are doing any more issues past 130. I think it’s extremely likely we will, the question now is just how many more.
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Also revealed at STLV were several new additions to the upcoming regular Official Starships Collection line: the USS Curry (from “A Time to Stand,”) the Freedom-class (from “The Best of Both Worlds”), the Ferengi freighter from Enterprise‘s “Acquisition”, Captain Bateson’s USS Bozeman, the Hirogen holoship from Voyager’s “Flesh and Blood,” and Kasidy Yates’ SS Xhosa freighter from Deep Space Nine.
We’ll keep you posted as soon as we’ve got more detail on the forthcoming Star Trek: Discovery starships, and everything else coming down the line from Eaglemoss – so come back often to TrekCore to stay up to date!


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Today is the last day for NBA teams to apply for disabled player exceptions to offset the loss of players who are likely to miss the rest of the season. The league granted five such exceptions this season, but it’s unlikely that any more are forthcoming, barring a major injury today. Eric Moreland is the only one among current NBA players expected to miss the balance of the season whose team is over the cap, which a team must be in order to receive an exception, and whose team hasn’t already received a disabled player exception for him. Still, he’s making the rookie minimum salary this season, so the exception, which would be worth half of that, wouldn’t give the Kings much more financial wherewithal than they already have.
The deadline to use disabled player exceptions isn’t until March 10th, so they’ll remain a factor on the market until then. Only one of the league’s five disabled player exceptions has been used so far. The Cavaliers took Iman Shumpert in via trade from the Knicks using the $4,852,273 disabled player exception they received for Anderson Varejao. Shumpert is making not quite $2.617MM this season, but even though the Cavs used little more than half of the exception, the rest of it is no longer available. Teams can only acquire a single player with a disabled player exception, unlike the trade exception, mid-level exception and biannual exception, which can be split into parts for multiple players. The only team that’s able to use a disabled player exception twice is the Lakers, and that’s only because they have two disabled player exceptions, one for Steve Nash and another for Julius Randle.
Below is a summary of the disabled player exceptions the NBA has granted this year, along with the amount they’re worth and the players for whom they were granted. Teams can use the exceptions to sign, trade for, or make a waiver claim of a player. Teams can use the value of the exception plus $100K to trade for a player, but they can’t exceed the amount of the exception if they’re signing someone or claiming a player off waivers. For more information on disabled player exceptions, check out our Hoops Rumors Glossary Entry.
- Pacers: Paul George ($5,305,000)
- Cavaliers: Anderson Varejao ($4,852,273) — USED: Iman Shumpert
- Lakers: Steve Nash ($4,850,500)
- Heat: Josh McRoberts ($2,652,500)
- Lakers: Julius Randle ($1,498,680)
The Basketball Insiders Salary pages were used in the creation of this post.


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Richard Littlemore lays out the climate liars’ anti-science smear job
by Paul Dechene
It’s been a bad few months for climate science. The COP15 summit in Copenhagen was supposed to renew the fight against global warming — instead, it became a lightning rod for boneheads, blowhards and the business-bribed bastards who argue climate change isn’t happening or that people aren’t causing it.
They pulled out all the stops in advance of Copenhagen, launching a well-funded and expertly coordinated public relations campaign to undermine the conference.
As the dust settles, the climate deniers have won the day.
Ironically, while the science that says the earth is getting warmer and we’re the cause is stronger than ever, those of us who accept those facts are apparently in smaller company these days.
But on Wednesday Feb. 3, Richard Littlemore came to Regina. And for a couple of hours you could kid yourself that our numbers aren’t dwindling.
His evening talk, sponsored by Clean Green Regina and the Regina Public Interest Research Group, was held at Selam restaurant and he packed the place. (Earlier in the day he spoke at the University of Regina before a respectable if not quite standing-room-only crowd.)
Littlemore is co-author with James Hoggan of Climate Cover-Up (prairie dog interviewed Hoggan for our popular “How the Climate Liars Fucked the Future” feature in November). The book, released in 2009, is an exposé of the efforts by a group of right-wing think tanks and commentators — largely oil- and coal-industry backed — to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change.
Littlemore is also an experienced journalist who’s the senior editor of DeSmogBlog (www.desmogblog.com), a news and research database that fights to clear the public relations smog the deniers belch out.
“Our fondest desire is that we would work ourselves out of a job,” says Littlemore. “And I frankly hoped that would happen in a year or two of when we started. I was completely wrong.”
Instead of wilting in the face of mounting evidence that human-caused climate change is real, the deniers’ arguments against it have become more aggressive, says Littlemore.
“I think the next couple years will be more critical than ever,” says Littlemore. “It’s going to get worse.
“The necessity for somebody — and somebody really belligerent — to be in the argument is serious.”
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And yet, despite the PR savvy of Littlemore and Hoggan, climate science has been hammered of late by a pair of scandals.
Most recently, it was discovered that a passing reference in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report to the Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035 was inaccurate and yet it slipped past the IPCC’s peer review.
More damaging, just before Copenhagen, several thousand e-mails were stolen off the servers of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
The e-mails didn’t undermine climate change science at all. But in places they did show the CRU scientists in a bad light — perhaps even being willing to withhold their research from an access to information request.
Making matters worse, instead of facing the controversy head-on, the CRU scientists and the university administration turtled-up and hoped the controversy would blow over. This gave the professional deniers, right-wing pundits and the blogosphere days in which to go hog wild. And pig-out they did, framing the scandal as proof that climate science is unreliable and turning a PR problem into a PR disaster.
Littlemore explains that things went so horribly awry because no one at East Anglia had the experience or the training to cope with a communications problem of this magnitude.
He says despite the contributions of sympathetic PR professionals like himself, a lack of media savvy has been a constant problem for climate scientists.
“Their PR is terrible and there really aren’t enough of us at their service to protect them,” says Littlemore. “And when we try to protect them, they’re not very helpful.
“And that should be okay because the media, as gatekeepers, should be doing a better job of paying attention to who it is who has integrity and who has not,” he says.
Meanwhile, scientists have to face the savage and cynical assault of a deeply self-interested industry of denial. Their only PR tools are reams of boring data and a commitment to doubting every conclusion and qualifying every response.
It’s rather like bringing a plastic picnic knife to a gun fight.
“We don’t even have a knife,” says Littlemore, “because it wouldn’t be nice to have a knife.”
But what about those tales of a “Big Green” conspiracy of scientists who are cooking the books to protect their massive government grants?
“I just love that one,” says Littlemore, laughing it off. “What kind of an idiot would get into science to get rich? Second, what kind of idiot, during eight years of the George Bush administration, would pursue climate change research in order to get rich?
“If you’re just looking to make money, then be Bjørn Lomborg [author of the famed denier screed, The Skeptical Environmentalist]. Say whatever the money wants you to say, and lap up the cash.”
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It’s a way of projecting their sins onto others, then?
“It’s completely projection,” says Littlemore. “It’s so maddening sometimes, and it’s so bewildering.
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Focusing on high-risk teens and their communities
New ISSC center probes causes and prevention of youth violence. Visiting-speakers program launches next week
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What makes high-risk teens tick? What are some of the best strategies for keeping them out of harm's way?
A community of scholars at the Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention - a newly created campus entity - is putting these questions squarely in its sights. The center, based at the campus's 30-year old Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC), is not only embarking on two federally funded research projects but is launching a speaker's series, beginning Oct. 5, designed to stimulate dialogue on the causes and prevention of youth violence.
"The new center reflects many of our longstanding commitments to doing community-based research, building academic partnerships, and nurturing a new generation of scholars," says ISSC director Rachel Moran, professor of law. "We hope to move the policy discourse beyond the assumption that violence is an individual pathology by exploring how to build healthy communities for immigrant youth."
Youth Violence Prevention Speaker Series
Wednesday, Oct. 25, noon-1:30 p.m., location TBA
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 4-6 p.m., National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 1970 Broadway, Suite 500, Oakland
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 4-6 p.m., 3335 Dwinelle
Thursday, Nov. 30, noon-1:30 p.m., ISSC, 2420 Bowditch St.
For information on the lecture series, contact Deborah Lustig at firstname.lastname@example.org or 643-7238.
Research will focus particularly on Latino and Asian Pacific Islander youth in Oakland, reports Deborah Lustig, a cultural anthropologist newly hired to support the center's research agenda. The two ethnic groups, she says, are under-studied and have many issues in common - language being one, parent-child conflicts (when the parents are immigrants and the children are U.S.-born) being another. There are also differences within and between ethnic groups that may be informative. In general, Asian American youth are doing better in terms of school performance, graduation rates, and delinquency and arrest rates, Lustig says. Understanding why may be a key to helping youth of all backgrounds flourish.
One investigation, set to begin within weeks, will put Palm Pilots in the hands of 60 Oakland teens, who will use the devices not only to do their own thing but to enter their responses to probing survey questions on their feelings and activities - the idea being that they're much more likely to complete the comprehensive Roosevelt Village Center Outcome Evaluation if they use a PDA (which they get to keep if they complete the study) than if they're filling out printed survey forms. In addition, 450 teens will complete surveys on touch-screen computers.
Headed by lead investigator Thao Le of Colorado State University, the research will evaluate the effectiveness of an after-school program at Roosevelt Middle School, in Oakland's largely Asian and Latino Lower San Antonio District; community participation is built into the study design as well.
A second study, led by Emily Ozer, assistant professor in Berkeley's School of Public Health, will involve teenagers as collaborators in - rather than just recipients of - school-based violence- and substance-abuse-prevention programs. The research probes the implementation of prevention programs in local schools, looking at how youth and their teachers would suggest adapting these programs to their own circumstances and cultural values. The study also investigates how training groups of students in research methods can help benefit the social development of the youth and also potentially improve the schools they attend.
The ISSC research center has also selected three campus graduate students from education and epidemiology whose research relates to youth-violence-prevention issues to participate in its graduate-fellow training program. One of 10 academic programs chosen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of a national research initiative on youth violence, it is run jointly by ISSC, the School of Law, the National Council on Crime Delinquency, and UC San Francisco, with a $4.2 million grant from the CDC. Law professor Franklin Zimring, an expert in criminal justice and family law, is the principal investigator.


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