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Colorado theater gunman charged with 24 counts of murder
[Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET]
Prosecutors on Monday charged James Holmes with two dozen counts of first-degree murder and more than 100 other violent offenses related to the recent deadly rampage at a Colorado movie theater.
Holmes, who appeared in court with the same cartoonish orange-red hair he had at the time of the shooting, said only one word during Monday's hearing.
"Yes," he answered when asked by the judge if he waived his right to a preliminary hearing within 35 days.
Police say Holmes, 24, blasted his way through a packed movie house during a premiere showing of Batman "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora.
Twelve victims died in the attack, 58 others were wounded. The melee is among the worst mass shootings in modern-day American history. Prosecutors filed a total of 142 criminal charges against him, including 116 counts of attempted murder. The 24 murder counts reflect dual charges (premeditated and without remorse) by the prosecutors.
In the lengthy list of charges, the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office accuses Holmes of, "evidencing an attitude of universal malice manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life."
During Monday's hearing, Judge William Sylvester carefully explained to Holmes that the charges carry a minimum sentence of life in prison and a maximum of death. The district attorney near Denver has not announced if she will seek the death penalty against the alleged gunman.
Half of the 110-seat courtroom was filled with victims or their families. One survivor entered the courtroom in a wheelchair with a bandage on her left leg. Blood from a wound could be seen through the bandage. Some stared intently at Holmes, who sat at the defense table to the right of his two attorneys, throughout the 50-minute hearing. Others focused on Judge Sylvester and attorneys as they discussed procedural issues and hearing dates.
Ashley Moser lost her 6-year-old daughter in the attack and was also paralyzed in the shooting. Her aunt, MaryEllen Hensen, was in court on Monday and said the suspect looked more alert in today's hearing. In his first court appearance, Holmes was described by many as being dazed and groggy.
"When we'd seen him before, he looked kind of spaced out or out of touch," Hensen said. "He looked very alert today and very lucid."
Still, she said, "he had an expression and persona of evilness to him."
Some in the court's gallery wore sunglasses. One woman cried openly. Three people, including a woman with a bandaged arm, wore Batman T-shirts.
"It saddens our family that there is a man that has so much hate and evil in his heart," the family of Gordon Cowden said in a statement after Monday's hearing. "We feel confident that our judicial system, as will God and the public, see to it that this evil man receives the punishment he deserves and our hope and prayers are that one day, he will face God with remorse and tremendous sorrow for his actions."
Cowden, 51, had taken his two teenagers to see the midnight premiere. His children escaped the shooting spree without injury.
"Gordon was a man, working with their mom, to raise four children, to build a solid foundation for each; teaching them to love life, love themselves, love others and to love God," his family said. "And though this evil man has caused our family so much hurt and pain he cannot, nor can anyone ever take away or ever permanently damage this foundation of love for each other, for others, for life and for God."
Hensen, who lost a great niece, said she fears sending Holmes to death row will prolong the time it takes for victims to heal.
"As far as the death penalty goes, I am a Christian and I do believe he should just be probably locked away and live with what he did every day of his life," she said.
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Holmes was clad in tactical gear and possessed four guns and a stockpile of ammo when he surrendered to officers behind the cinema shortly after the July 20 shooting spree. He did not resist arrest, but investigators have since described the former neuroscience doctoral student as uncooperative.
Victims arrive at Monday?s hearing for suspected theater shooter James Holmes. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
Police say Holmes legally purchased the guns in May and June but allegedly began stockpiling ammo and other gear four months ago.
"This is not a whodunit. ... The only possible defense is insanity," Craig Silverman, a former chief deputy district attorney in Denver, told the Associated Press.
At Monday's hearing, attorneys also discussed a package the former grad student allegedly sent to his psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Denver.
Authorities seized the package July 23, three days after the shooting, after finding it in the mail room of the medical campus where Holmes studied. Several media outlets reported that it contained a notebook with descriptions of an attack, but Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers said in court papers that the parcel hadn't been opened by the time the "inaccurate" news reports appeared.
On Friday, court papers revealed that Holmes was seeing a psychiatrist at the university. But they did not say how long he was seeing Dr. Lynne Fenton and if it was for a mental illness or another problem.
The University of Colorado's website identified Fenton as the medical director of the school's Student Mental Health Services. An online resume listed schizophrenia as one of her research interests and stated that she sees 10 to 15 graduate students a week for medication and psychotherapy, as well as 5 to 10 patients in her general practice as a psychiatrist, the Associated Press reported.
Under Colorado law, defendants are not legally liable for their acts if their minds are so "diseased" that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong. However, the law warns that "care should be taken not to confuse such mental disease or defect with moral obliquity, mental depravity, or passion growing out of anger, revenge, hatred, or other motives, and kindred evil conditions."
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Experts say there are two levels of insanity defenses. Holmes' public defenders could argue he is not mentally competent to stand trial, like Jared Loughner, who killed six people when he shot Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011. Loughner has pleaded not guilty to charges in the shooting. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and is undergoing treatment at a Missouri prison facility in a bid to make him mentally fit to stand trial.
If Holmes' attorneys cannot convince the court that he is mentally incompetent, and he is convicted, they can try to stave off a possible death penalty by arguing he is mentally ill.
Sam Kamin, a law professor at the University of Denver, said there is "pronounced" evidence that the attack was premeditated, which would seem to make an insanity defense difficult. "But," he told the Associated Press, "the things that we don't know are what this case is going to hinge on, and that's his mental state."
(The Associated Press and Yahoo! staffer Tim Skillern in Centennial, Colo., contributed to this report.)
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Loads on again for the kids this week -let's hope it also stays dry! Here's our roundup of the best!
Monday 30 July?
Monday kicks off Wild Bird Week at the RAF Museum. Suitable for children of all ages, the museum will hold daily three falconry displays at 11.30am, 1.30pm, and 3.30pm showcasing a different set of birds each day.
Alyth Synagogue Playgroup, NW11 - Relaxed drop in session for children from birth - 2.5 years old. Everyone welcome (including non-members). Lots of toys, refreshments for you and your little one, great company and a little sing-a-long too. Cost: ?3 per child, ?1 per sibling. All profits go to charity. Monthly VIP Guest Speakers at no extra charge. 9.30-11.30.
NCT Harrow are running their Bumps and Babies drop in all through the summer too at North Harrow Methodist Church, 2pm.
Al's Little Singers, a great music group for little people is running at The Clissold Arms, N2 at 9.30am and10.30am.
Diddi Dance is running as part of Busy Rascals great summer programme - dancing games and exercises to funky pop songs in Willesden Green. Walking until 4 years old. 9.45am. Contact Gina at Diddi Dance on 07426009179.
Hartbeeps is running three sessions in August in Elstree. This is a really fun class for babies from 10 weeks to crawling. Email natasha@hartbeeps.com for more information.
Edgware Library has a Story Lab art extravaganza session running from 11- 12 am. Tickets are required for the event as places are limited.
Hendon Library is holding the ultimate scrapheap challenge from 2- 3pm, also as part of Story Lab. Tickets are required for the event as places are limited.
Barnfield Children's Centre has Jungle Story Explorers- A jungle themed activity with stories, rhymes and creative activities. This activity is delivered by Barnet Libraries and is aimed at children under five and their parents and carers. Edgware. Free.
Tuesday 31 July
Highgate Woods has The Story Telling Tree, 10.30- 12.30 (free). Story telling for children in natural surroundings; meet at the Information Hut; 020 8444 6129. (Please check times!)
Little Angel Theatre, Islington has a puppet making day for 5-11s, 10 am - 4pm. Cost ?35.
The NCT CUFOS Playgroup meets every Tuesday at 3pm-4.30pm. We welcome mums-to-be, babies, toddlers and children up to school age. ?1.50 per family. Expect weekly arts and crafts, baby area, outside play, lots of toys, storytelling and singing.CUFOS, The Old Railway Station, Top of The Avenue, N10 2QE
Mini Mozart are running classes in Highgate for babies and toddlers (up to 4s welcome). These are great classes that have professional musicians playing live for the children as well as fun, bubbles and more. Classes can be booked individually and are running weekly all summer. Tuesdays at Pond Square Chapel, N6 6BA. Toddler Classes at 9:30, Babies & Toddlers (great for siblings!) at 10:15 and Babies at 11:10. Sibling discounts available.All bookings and more information can be made at www.minimozart.com
Stoke Newington Library has Creative Bookmaking between 11am and 12 noon.? Start your very own adventure with this great bookmaking activity (all materials provided). Free. Age: 3-6 years.
Safari Pete's Live Animal Show - Let Safari Pete take you on a journey where you?ll meet all sorts of wild but wonderful animals, get to stroke them and find out how they live in the wild. 2.30-3.30pm, West? Library, N1 Free.? For children 3-8 years.
Crafty Tots is holding summer holiday art classes for children up to 12. Come along and join in with 10 different activities, 5 for younger children and 5 for the older ones! A great opportunity if you have siblings of different ages that all want to be creative!0:30-11:30am or 1-2pm
Wednesday 1 August?
Wednesday 1 August is Playday 2012, a national celebration of play.? In Barnet,? the event is being organised by Fair Play Barnet , and will be running from 10am until 4pm in Hendon at St Joseph's Pastoral Centre.St Joseph's Grove, Hendon, Barnet NW4 4TY . The play rangers are on a mission to get every child to have six hours of fun on the 1st August. That's an impressive challenge.In Islington, Playday 2012 takes place 10 am to 4pm Paradise Park, Mackenzie Road, N7 8SE Activities include natural play, gardening, arts and crafts, den building, sports, team games, sensory elements and
much more!
Summer Games at the Museum of Childhood take place daily from 1- 31 August. Test your endurance, try for a personal best, or have a go at traditional outdoor games.
The Royal Academy is holding a Summer Exhibition Family Workshop comprising an interactive exhibition tour and practical hands-on session between 11am and 1pm. For children aged 5+. Pre-booking is recommended. Cost ?10 adults/?4 children.?
Wallace Collection has Summer Art School for 10+. Booking essential.?
Museum of Childhood has HP Playing With Colour Day - a fun, educational and free day out for all the family. HP is giving kids the opportunity to get hands on with colour, looking at the ways in which colours blend together, using water pistols to test your target skills on the range and face painting.
Keats House, Hampstead has a Teddy Bear's Picnic. Favourite songs, poems and stories. Bring your teddy! Under 5s. Free.3pm.
Pop Up Tales are running sessions at new children's bookshop Pickled Pepper Books, N8 for babies and toddlers - Enjoy your favourite children's stories brought to life with puppets, music and bubbles.9.45-10.15.
Babymonsters presents Groovy Tots for children 0-4? ?11.00 am ? 11.45am Child ?6, Siblings ?4 at Skylight Centre N5.
Tiny Tempo classes are running throughout the summer - Wednesdays 10am and 11am at Clissold House, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington.
Hackney Central Library is hosting Mr Creepy Crawly. Real animal encounters: see, hear and touch a whole range of live creepy crawlies. Free. Age: 5+ years.
Stamford Hill Library is hosting Story Lab Adventures with Squiggle the Storyteller from 2-3.30pm. Travel back 2,000 years to Olympia, site of the ancient Olympics. Enjoy puppets, singing, music-making and much more with Squiggle the storyteller. Free. Age: 2 -10 years.
A Teddy Bear's picnic is taking place at Keat's House. All your favourite songs, poems and stories in the Keats House Garden. Don't forget to bring your favourite teddy bear! Suitable for children 5 and under. Every Wednesday throughout the summer holidays.
Thursday 2 August??
Baby Monsters and Sea Legs Puppet Theatre are holding a Little Bo Peep Puppet Show 10.45 am ? 11.45amAdult ?7.50/ Child ?6.50 St Mary?s Church N1.
Barnet NCT Bumps and Babies group is meeting every week at 11am at the Arts Depot, North Finchley. There is a small soft play for older children and the cafe serves drinks and light snacks.
Tiny Tempo classes are running throughout the summer - Thursdays 11am at Clissold House, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington
Hartbeeps, great music sessions for little ones are running over the summer at 10am for walking to 4 years and 11am for sitting to walking at CUFOS in Muswell Hill.
Shoreditch Library is holding Story Lab adventures with Squiggle the Storyteller, from 2-3.30pm. Travel back 2,000 years to Olympia, site of the ancient Olympics. Enjoy puppets, singing, music-making and much more with Squiggle the storyteller. Free. Age: 2 -10 years
Create your own Olympic Torch at South Library, N1 from 10.00 - 11.30. For children 5- 12 years. Free. Contact South Library 020 7527 7860
Friday 3 August??
Going for Gold is a sporty day hosted by the Museum of Childhood.? There are a number of free activities on offer:
- Silly Sports Star Training (suitable for all ages)? (12.00-16.00)- Mini sporting hopefuls are invited to join our Silly Sports Star Training Camp. Crawl through tunnels, duck through hula hoops, balance bean bags, and weave through cones. Little champs can also make a winner?s medal to take home at Art Smarts from 14.00-16.00.
-? Little Kickers Football Skills and Drills (11.00, 11.30, 12.00, 12.30, 13.00, 13.30, 14.00, 14.30)
15-minute footballing skills sessions for under 7s, led by a friendly Little Kickers coach and mascot Lenny the Lion.
- Dance workshops (14.00-14.30) (age 4-7) and (15.00-15.30) (age 7+) Bust a groove with an energetic dance workshop led by Adrenalin Dance. Spaces limited, early booking advised.
- Yoga for children, 10.30-11.00 (age 3-5), 11.15-11.45 (age 6-8), 12.00-12.30 (age 3-5) Join in yoga workshops for children age 3-8. A chance to practice balance, strengthen muscles and use simple relaxation techniques. Spaces limited, early booking advised.?
The Royal Academy is holding a Summer Exhibition Family Workshop comprising an interactive exhibition tour and practical hands-on session between 11am and 1pm. For children aged 5+. Pre-booking is recommended. Cost ?10 adults/?4 children.
Movers and Shakers is running at Baskervilles Tea Shop in Palmers Green - for 0-3s at 10.30am. Everyone taking part has the chance to sing, play a musical instrument, be amazed by the parachute and get lost in a world of bubbles!
Al's Little Singers, a great music group for little people is running at The Clissold Arms, N2 at10.30am.
Busy Rascals also have a Sing and Sign in Willesden Green throughout the summer for 6 - 16 months. For more details click here.
Have a great week and do tell us if we missed anything fun.
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The cast of Modern Family has finally reached a salary agreement and will resume production on the hit ABC show. Word on the street is the lawsuit has been dropped and things will soon be back to normal for the all those involved. As you may or may not have been aware Ed O?Neill, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Sofia Vergara, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson were looking to get a salary hike before the show started production on season four. Earlier this week things got pretty intense when the above named stars filed a lawsuit to void their original seven-year contract deal. If that wasn?t bad enough for a very short time the crew was even refusing to show up for a table read. The later however was resolved and in a good faith move, Ed, Julie, Ty, Sofia, Eric and Jesse did sit down at a table read on Thursday. Deadline is reporting that new deats of the deal reached included a salary increase for all plus syndication rights. According to the site the above names except Ed O?Neill were originally earning about $50,000 per episode, O?Neill was earning about $100,000 per episode. As for the new [...]
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Onslaught looms as Assad forces pound Aleppo rebels
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's artillery pounded rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on Friday in preparation for an onslaught on Syria's biggest city where the United States has said it fears a "massacre" may be imminent.
Opposition sources said the shelling, which follows intensive ground and air bombardment, was an attempt to drive fighters inside Aleppo from their strongholds and to stop their comrades outside the city from resupplying them.
"They are shelling at random to instill a state of terror," said Anwar Abu Ahed, a rebel commander outside the city.
The battle for Aleppo, a major power centre that is home to 2.5 million people, is being seen as a potential turning point in the 16-month uprising against Assad that could give one side an edge in a conflict where both the rebels and the government have struggled to gain the upper hand.
A rebel commander said insurgents had attacked a convoy of Syrian army tanks heading towards the city, as the government continued to redeploy forces from other parts of the country to bolster its forces there.
The fate of Syria itself - an ethnically fragmented nation of 22 million people - is likely to determine the future of the wider region for years to come amid fears that its own sectarian tensions could spill across borders.
The U.S. State Department said credible reports of tank columns moving on Aleppo, along with air strikes by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, represented a serious escalation of Assad's efforts to crush his opponents.
"This is the concern: that we will see a massacre in Aleppo, and that's what the regime appears to be lining up for," Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said.
Turkey, a former ally of Assad and now one of his fiercest critics, cheered on the rebels in Aleppo.
"In Aleppo itself the regime is preparing for an attack with its tanks and helicopters ... my hope is that they'll get the necessary answer from the real sons of Syria," Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks broadcast on Turkish TV channels.
As the remaining residents of Aleppo braced themselves for more bloodshed, General Robert Mood, the outgoing head of the U.N. monitoring mission, told Reuters he thought Assad's days in power were numbered.
"In my opinion it is only a matter of time before a regime that is using such heavy military power and disproportional violence against the civilian population is going to fall," the Norwegian general, who left Damascus on July 19, said.
Navay Pillay, the United Nations human rights chief, said a pattern had emerged as Assad's forces resorted to shelling, tank fire and door-to-door searches.
"All this, taken along with the reported build-up of forces in and around Aleppo, bodes ill for the people of that city," she said in statement.
MORTAR ROUNDS
Government troops stationed on the outskirts of the city unleashed barrages of heavy-caliber mortar rounds on its western districts, while Russian-built MI-25 helicopter gunships struck in the east, opposition activists inside the city said.
The heavy fighting follows an audacious bomb attack on July 18 that killed four of Assad's closest lieutenants in Damascus, a development that led some analysts to speculate that the government's grip was slipping.
In the first reported casualty on Friday, a man of about 60 wearing a traditional white prayer outfit was killed near a park in Aleppo, while fighting spread across several neighborhoods.
A dawn bombardment killed five people who had been sheltering in a vegetable market. Video footage posted by opposition activists showed people gathering up the victims' body parts in plastic bags.
On Thursday, thirty-four people were killed in and around Aleppo, according to opposition activists, in an uprising that has cost the lives of 18,000 people across the country.
"The rebels have so far been nimble, and civilians have mostly been the victims of the bombardment," said activist Abu Mohammad al-Halabi, speaking by phone from the city.
Majed al-Nour, another activist, said rebels had attacked a security outpost in the neighborhood of Bustan al-Joz, which is close to Aleppo's city centre, on Thursday.
"The rebels are present in the east and west of the city, and have a foothold in areas of the centre. The regime forces control the entrances of Aleppo and the main thoroughfares and commercial streets and are bombarding the residential districts that fell into rebel hands," he said.
Nour said tens of thousands of people had fled Aleppo to nearby northern rural regions close to Turkey.
HELICOPTERS OVER DAMASCUS
In Damascus on Friday, four helicopters flew over southern areas of the capital, firing heavy machine guns into the districts of Hajar al-Aswad and Tadamon as well as into the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, a resident said.
"I can see two above me right now, heading towards Hajar al-Aswad," she said by telephone, the pounding of guns audible in the background. The helicopters were flying low and appeared to be targeting specific buildings.
Opposition sources said Syrian troops and armor entered Hajr al-Aswad on Friday, pursuing a counter-attack against rebel fighters that began last week.
With U.N. Security Council resolutions for sanctions against Syria vetoed by Russia and China for a third time last week, the United States has said it is stepping up assistance to Syria's fractured opposition, though it remains limited to non-lethal supplies such as communications gear and medical equipment.
Reuters has learned that the White House has crafted a presidential directive, called a "finding," that would authorize greater covert assistance for the rebels, but stop short of arming them.
It is unclear whether President Barack Obama has signed the document, a highly classified authorization for covert activity.
A Syrian parliamentarian from the northern province of Aleppo said on Friday she had fled to Turkey, becoming the first member of the rubber-stamp assembly elected in May - which is dominated by Assad's Baath Party - to defect.
"I have crossed to Turkey and defected from this tyrannical regime," Ikhlas al-Badawi told Sky News Arabia.
Meanwhile, a source close to the mediation effort told Reuters on Friday that international mediator Kofi Annan was still trying to forge a political solution to the Syria crisis despite being made a scapegoat for the failure of the two sides to agree.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Syrian government assault on Aleppo was an "utterly unacceptable escalation" of the conflict.
(Additional reporting by Tabassum Zakaria, Matt Spetalnick and Andrew Quinn in Washington; Writing by Giles Elgood; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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Sprint CEO outs the Motorola Photon Q during earnings call
Sprint has yet to officially announce the Motorola Photon Q, which we first showed you from a leak in our forums earlier this summer, and which has already made it through the FCC. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse this morning during the company's second-quarter earnings call said the phone is coming "very soon." It'll sport 4G LTE data and also serve as a GSM world phone outside the United States, in addition to having the five-row QWERTY keyboard you see above.
Unknown is whether it'll launch with Ice Cream Sandwich, as seen in the test device above, or whether it'll get a bump to Jelly Bean before release. We'd bet on the former, with an upgrade to the latter.
We'd expect an official announcement is in the works now, too.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Interview with Thomas Levenson
Guest post by Richa Malhotra, a science journalist originally from Agra, now residing in London. She did a Masters in?Biotechnology and discovered that her?interest?lies in science journalism. She seized the opportunity to intern with?Current Science, a?fortnightly?published from India.
What skills should one have to be a science writer? What is the art and craft of science writing? What are the stumbling blocks to be overcome? What does it take to make it big? These are questions great science writers may have answered on their own. But what if an aspiring science writer could learn from more experienced practitioners?
Thomas Levenson is a Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. He is the author of Ice Time: Climate, Science and Life on Earth; Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science; Einstein in Berlin; and Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World?s Greatest Scientist. He has also produced? documentary films that have been broadcast internationally, and he writes more ephemeral pieces on occasion.? He likes doing all of these things, but if forced to do only one for the rest of his years of creative endeavor, he says that he would choose to write books ? but he adds that he would be sad if he had to give up the rest of the many things he does. He doesn?t like being asked about top five or top ten things about writing (I am telling from experience!). I interviewed him ahead of the UK Conference of Science Journalists in London and had so much to learn from him that I wanted the conversation to go on and on. The conversation lasted one hour and here?s the outcome.
How did you get started on science writing?
After I left university I began travelling and I got to East Asia. I went to the Philippines and started working as a local stringer for the Reuters News Service. I realized that I didn?t know anything about the Philippines. All I knew was what I had read in the newspapers back in the United States. I didn?t speak Filipino and didn?t know the country in detail. But then my bureau chief asked me to cover an international conference on coral reef biology. Covering that conference? it dawned on me that scientists knew specific things ? actual facts.? E.g. if they wanted to know what?s the reef?s productivity they measured it. If there was dynamite fishing going on they could quantify its effects. I realized that if I started with scientific facts about anything and then looked at how people behaved around that knowledge, I could learn things not just in science, which was itself wonderful, but about culture, society or economics as well.? If I wanted to write about those things I had a solid ground of facts where I could start from.? It was this combination of a reliable method of making knowledge and the ability to use the results of that method to test all kinds of other questions about how people live together in history and in our present times that I found really fascinating.
Did you ever feel like quitting science writing?
No. I always get to learn; I get paid to ask questions about cool stuff. I also think that the rest of the journalism has a great deal to learn from science writing.? I don?t believe that being a science writer closes off all other kinds of journalism. If I want to write about politics, I can use knowledge, for example about the state of actual science about climate change to make some detailed points. If there is a certain body of knowledge and a good reason to hold it (which is true of climate change) and people don?t want to act on that knowledge, things like why they don?t want to act on that knowledge, what other considerations are impinging, and why politicians might be doing something, then you may in the end it be writing political journalism but it starts with basics in science reporting.
You are the head of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT (except for the year starting July 2012). Could you share the key features of a science writing program?
We are very much a practice-driven program. We don?t emphasize the theory of journalism. We demand a lot of writing; students are writing and rewriting all the time. Our course ranges from doing very short, daily news pieces (reporting on what a scientist did in his lab), with as much context and interpretation as one could do in 500 words produced with a short turnaround, to a 10,000 word thesis. The thesis is a work of contemporary science reporting and writing ? it?s not a theory thesis. It is not book-length but it comes in at the length of a short e-book (e.g. Kindle Single, TED books). Byliner Originals and Atavist are the websites that are publishing this kind of work.
We also require our students to learn the basics of making interpretive narrative stories in video and audio, what?s usually called documentary. But like all media genres, documentary is? changing as technology and distribution methods are changing. We ask our students to spread their wings across a wide range of possibilities to bring out information and ideas about science to the public. We are small and the faculty?student ratio is very much in the student?s favor. Perhaps our most important attribute is that we are at MIT, a leading research institution. The students have lots of sources of stories and ideas right there.
What is your response to those who say writing cannot be taught in classrooms?
I think when people say you cannot teach writing, what?s in their minds is that you cannot teach somebody to be Jane Austen (fill in your favorite author). But there is an awful lot about what even great fiction writers do that can be taught. Part of what we teach in science writing is how to handle a specialized beat.
You have the same issue in, say, sports journalism; both are specialized beats but have different bodies of technical, beat-specific information.? Bluntly, the science stuff is harder. There is a lot of specialized information you need to know to write knowledgeably about cricket or baseball, but it is harder to write about physics. The specialized knowledge requires more effort to learn.
But for any beat or genre, you can teach a lot about the difference between a story and a topic, how to organize your material so that you will capture the reader?s interests, how to think about a sentence, how to think about a paragraph, how to go from smaller stories (500-word news piece) to longer (1000, 1500, 3000 words) pieces, what you have to think about in terms of structure?These are things people have thought about for a long time, and have got lots of specific and valuable information to impart.
When we teach structure you can begin with Aristotle who wrote about structure long ago. The architecture of a well-made story is something that you can absolutely teach. Can you teach people to be imaginative in their idea of what a story is? Can you teach style, marvelous use of language and narrative skills? The answer is, in part yes you can teach all of these things.
What skills make a good science writer?
A science writer must have the ability to understand enough about the science, to know its significance and a grasp of the field. Science, as practiced, is an enormously, demandingly-narrowly focused effort. What you have to know is how to learn a field deeply enough so that you can? get past ?a scientist said? something and therefore it?s true and interesting.?
Even if you are a science writer who prefers to cover a single area within science, like astronomy or neuroscience, you really need to have a sense of how the culture of the discipline you are most interested in works, what it takes to come up to something that?s important rather than simply interesting, how labs work in that field (or if it?s a real calculation or model-based field, how does that process work, how researchers there conceive of models). You need to understand the norms and habits of the daily life of the field. If you are a general science journalist covering more than one field, or if you are a magpie like me, going after the shiny bits, then you have to have an appreciation that cultures differ from discipline to discipline. You need to spend some time as you come into a new area understanding again about how all that works.
You need to have a strong sense of story. You have to know how the story you want to tell fits into a larger research narrative ? what scientists are trying to find out on a larger scale as they pursue each individual experiment. You need to have a gift for translating. It is important to be able to understand the science but also understand how to express the ideas of the science in ways that inform the reader (not baffle them!), but making sure you don?t do damage to the science. You have to be accurate even if not fully detailed.
Science writers should never think of themselves as dumbing down the science. They are interpreting the science and the results, and expressing it in a language that does justice to both sets of stakeholders ? the science makers and the science readers. But you need to have this dual narrative sense; how something that you are covering fits into the larger narrative of science and how that same result fits into the narrative of your audience.
Do you think science writers, particularly those with a science background, are cheerleaders?
Sometimes, yes.? You have to be careful about that.? Many of us go into science writing because we want to bring the good news to people, to let the public know about all the wonderful knowledge and useful inventions science genuinely does produce.? But it?s important to remember that? science is itself a many- billion-dollar enterprise, employing thousands or millions of people worldwide every year. It?s a profession with ethical norms and values that I believe are higher than average. But there?s a distribution and there will always be people over the left side of the distribution who won?t be behaving right. There are many players, corporations, institutions, and governances whose efforts may need to be investigated. Science is both big business and a highly competitive profession. There will be a behavior within the profession that isn?t about science per se but the behaviors of scientists. You need to keep an eye on that.
At the same time, science is knowledge of great human benefit.? Because of the way we pay? for it, that knowledge rightfully belongs to the public.? The job of a science journalist is in part to simply take that knowledge out of the area of professional communication and science meetings, and make that available to the people. In that sense it is cheerleading. Some science writers are also advocates for investment in science institutions and prioritizing science knowledge over other kinds of knowledge or argument in public debate, and in that sense you can see what science writers do as an explicit form of? cheerleading. But the important thing that the scientists, science writers and public have to remember is that scientific knowledge, is always conditional; more research can lead to different answers than the ones we report today. So even when you are cheerleading you have to remember you may not be right.
How do you deal with writer?s block?
If you are a writer and you stop writing, there can be lots of different reasons for the halt, and the remedies will be different, depending on what?s going on. If it?s something in your (personal) life, then obviously the problem you have is external to the writing and has to be solved on its own terms. But if it really feels like it?s internal to the writing, the most common reason you stop and can?t start again is that you have got something in the piece wrong in a couple of fairly common ways. One is you have been writing and writing but you aren?t really sure of what you are saying ? what it is you actually want to communicate, what the central idea of your piece may be. That?s when you have to stop and read what you?ve written, and ask yourself the simple question:? what am I trying to say here.? Sometimes it?s just that straightforward: you pause, and you think a bit, and you try to remember what was interesting to you about the pitch in the first place.? That?s when you may find you need to do more reporting, by the way.? Sometimes, that?s really the problem ? you thought you knew what you were writing about, but? you don?t know quite enough yet to get the story down ? or the story shifted in the reporting and you need to go get some stuff that shed light on the new angle.? Whatever:? the point is you can solve a lot of problems just by trying to talk yourself through your story.
The other common source of writer?s block comes when you are writing a story you want to write but you have got the structure of it wrong. When you think of structure it?s like working away through a maze. It is like you built this beautiful structure but you realize that the staircase to the third floor is missing.? That happens to me more frequently than I?d like. When it does, I find myself trying to step back from the words themselves, the sentences and the paragraphs, and really think about the architecture of the piece ? I outline all the time, and I try to think of the design of the story at that point more than any of its specifics.
So to put all? that into a nutshell: when you aren?t writing because of a problem in the writing, in my experience the two most common causes are a mismatch between what you think you are writing and what you actually got in terms of the material ? and then even if you do have the right material and the right story, you can write it with an organization that doesn?t work and you need to then rework it.
Is there something you?d like to convey to young science writers out there?
The great thing about science journalism is they pay you to be curious, they pay you to find out stuff, they pay you to play with some of the most beautiful intellectual work that?s ever been done. So enjoy it and if you don?t enjoy it, find something else to do. There?s no reason to get up every day and hate to go to work.
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Important Tips For Dental Health | articlereference.net
Great dental health should be important to maintain good overall health for anyone. Most of the people might not think about this but maintaining great dental health is extremely important. People do not tend to think that their teeth are that important, but it has been proven that poor dental health is linked to many diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, preterm birth, and low birth weight. Obviously, dental health goes beyond having a cosmetically appealing smile. There are some important tips that you could consider to see to it that your dental health is taken care of.
Proper brushing and flossing are imperative if you want to hold on to your teeth for the length of your life. Generally majority of the people are aware of the benefits of brushing their teeth, but did you know that brushing too hard can cause more harm than good? A person who brushes with too much vigor can actually push the gum line down and cause the sensitive layers of the tooth to become exposed. Similarly causing damage to the gum line through improper flossing can lead to infections that can spread to other parts of the body from the mouth.If you are a smoker or tobacco user and want great dental health you must quit smoking.
Those who use tobacco are likely to have problems with their teeth, gums, breath and overall health. Tobacco use leads to periodontal disease, gum recession, bone loss, bleeding gums, persistent bad breath, pus between the teeth, and gums and tooth loss. Loose or separating teeth and teeth that don?t fit together the way they used to are also indicators of smoking and periodontal disease. Even smoking less than half a pack a day will make you three times more susceptible to serious oral health related issues. Kicking the smoking habit is must, however in the long run quitting smoking can help you save your smile.
Balanced diet plays a crucial role in good dental health. Eating a balanced diet contributes to better gum health and better breath. Nutrients such as calcium can strengthen teeth and improve their prolonged existence. Avoiding foods that are too hard, acidic, or sugary will prevent the speeding up of tooth damage and bacteria production.Perhaps the most important great dental health tip is to make and keep regular dental check-up appointments. Your dentist can provide preventative care and specialized instructions for you. Make appointments with the dentist regularly. This will allow people to cater for individual needs. Only the doctor will determine personal needs.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Essentials of a Quality Web Hosting Service for Your Online Business
? Ways to Find The Best Web Hosting Plan For Your Business???
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One of the most innovative means that has definitely developed in the business sector is online business. It has become more and more profitable and has expanded in ways no one has predicted. Now, if establishing your very own online business is what you are taking interest in, then you should look into a few things before you start. Web hosting services for your online business is one of which.
Web hosting services are needed for your website to operate on the internet. It is safe to say that without it, you would not be able to start your online business at all. That is why it is really important for you to make sure that you have this very important aspect of your business covered properly. One of the major concerns that you need to deal with when it comes to these hosting services would be the actual price of getting them. That is why it is crucial that you are able to make sure that you pick a worthy company so that your investments would not be put to waste.
When you choose a web hosting company, there are several things that you need to consider and one of which is the reliability of the company. Checking for a web hosting company?s background is one way for you to make sure that the company you are planning to get is reliable. You also need to make sure that you avoid companies that have consistent downtime records. Even though these companies might offer web hosting services at a more affordable rate but they are not worth the investment when your online business suffers from frequent crashes and downtimes.
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PFT: Harbaugh says Reed will report to camp
APWith Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco entering the final year of his rookie contract, discussions will continue without any acrimony or threats of a holdout.
?All the conversations have been productive,? agent Joe Linta told Albert Breer of NFL Network.? ?We?ve gone back-and-forth on proposals.? And the biggest thing I can tell you is that Joe?s so focused on winning that all of this isn?t something he?s paying a lot of attention to, he?s got such a chip on his shoulder about winning now.? The most telling quote from Joe I can give you is that he told me, ?I?ve got a contract, and I?m gonna honor it.?? He?s part of a rare breed in this day and age.?
Before we begin preparing the paperwork to nominate Joseph of Audobon for canonization, let?s keep in mind that plenty of elite quarterbacks have played out their contracts.? Drew Brees has done it, twice.? Peyton Manning has done it, twice.
The point is that Flacco isn?t preoccupied with the situation, and that he?s not worried about it becoming a distraction.? As a result, a new deal can come at any time.
?Pat [Moriarty] can call me today, Halloween, Thanksgiving, whenever, and Joe gives me the leeway to talk whenever,? Linta said ? ?We?re not creating any artificial deadlines.? I do know once he?s on the field, his focus is there, but we can keep working.?
That?s a stark contrast to Brees, who eventually pulled the plug on talks during the 2011 regular season.
?The only distraction for Joe would be me calling him,? Linta said.? ?I?ve been doing this a long time, and I?ve rarely seen a guy so single-minded.?
It?s the right approach.? Because if Flacco has to enter the season without a new deal, each strong performance will give him more leverage.? And weak performances will swing the pendulum back to the Ravens.? If a new deal ultimately isn?t done, the Ravens will have to decide whether to offer him a one-year deal worth the average of the five highest-paid quarterbacks, or whether to let him hit the open market.
Playing well and winning will make the Ravens more likely to pay him now.? And it will make them more likely to use the franchise tag later, which for Flacco would result in a salary much higher than what he?d average on any new deal he could negotiate before then.
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Police: Cal Ripken's mom abducted, now safe
FILE - This Oct. 6, 2001 file photo shows Cal Ripken escorting his mother, Vi, from the field, after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before Cal's final game, at Oriole Park in Baltimore. Police say Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother is safe after an armed man abducted her from her home northeast of Baltimore. Aberdeen police say 74-year-old Vi Ripken was kidnapped between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, by a man who forced her into her car. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
FILE - This Oct. 6, 2001 file photo shows Cal Ripken escorting his mother, Vi, from the field, after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before Cal's final game, at Oriole Park in Baltimore. Police say Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother is safe after an armed man abducted her from her home northeast of Baltimore. Aberdeen police say 74-year-old Vi Ripken was kidnapped between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, by a man who forced her into her car. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
FILE - This June 18, 2002 file photo shows Cal Ripken Jr., right, owner of the Aberdeen IronBirds, and his brother, Bill, walking off the field with their mother, Vi, after she threw out the ceremomial first pitch prior to the team's season-opening debut at the new Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Md. Police say Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother is safe after an armed man abducted her from her home northeast of Baltimore. Aberdeen police say 74-year-old Vi Ripken was kidnapped between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2012, by a man who forced her into her car. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)
ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) ? Cal Ripken Jr.'s 74-year-old mother was found with her hands bound in the back seat of her car Wednesday after being kidnapped at gunpoint a day earlier at her home outside Baltimore and driven around blindfolded by her abductor, police and neighbors said.
Investigators do not know the kidnapper's motive and there was no ransom demand for Vi Ripken's release, Aberdeen Police Chief Henry Trabert said at a news conference.
The gunman forced Ripken into her silver Lincoln Continental between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Tuesday, police said. She was found bound and unharmed but shaken about 6:15 a.m. Wednesday near her home in Aberdeen, about 30 miles northeast of Baltimore.
When asked if police believe the kidnapper knew who he was abducting, Trabert did not answer, saying investigators don't know the motive or if the suspect has any ties to the Ripken family.
A next-door neighbor said Vi Ripken told him her kidnapper didn't seem to know that her son was the Hall of Fame infielder nicknamed "Iron Man" for playing in 2,632 consecutive games during his 21-year career with the Baltimore.
Gus Kowalewski said he spoke with Vi Ripken later Wednesday morning. The 72-year-old retired autoworker said Ripken told him the gunman tied her hands and put a blindfold on her, but said he wouldn't hurt her.
"He lit cigarettes for her, they stopped for food," Kowalewski said. "He said, 'I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to take you back,' and that's what he did."
Kowalewski said Ripken told him the gunman originally planned to put tape over her eyes.
"But he didn't do that because she said 'please don't do that 'cause I'm claustrophobic,'" he said.
Instead, the gunman put some type of mask or blinders on her, and she could see somewhat out the sides, he said.
Ripken told her neighbor the gunman also didn't seem to know she was part of the Ripken family, who is well-known throughout the Baltimore area and to baseball fans all over.
"He said he just wanted money and her car," Kowalewski said.
Three years after voluntarily ended his Iron Man streak, Ripken Jr. retired in 2001. He and is the chairman and founder of Ripken Baseball Inc., which he runs along with his brother, Bill.
He owns three minor-league baseball teams, including the Single A IronBirds based at the Ripken Baseball complex in Aberdeen, a middle-class area of about 15,000 people. Kowalewski said Ripken told him the gunman asked her about items in the car related to the Ironbirds and did not seem to know about the team.
"This has been a very trying time for our family, but we are grateful and relieved that mom is back with us, safe and healthy," the Ripken family said in a statement. "We want to thank everyone for their tremendous support, especially all of the law enforcement agencies that worked so hard and quickly."
Investigators determined that Ripken was missing Tuesday night after talking to Baltimore County Police, who notified the media about her disappearance shortly before she was found. The county borders the one where Aberdeen is located.
Aberdeen authorities have asked Baltimore County Police not to release its 911 tapes because the investigation is continuing. Police also would not say whether Ripken's credit or ATM cards had been used.
Vi Ripken described her abductor as a tall, thin white man with glasses wearing camouflage clothing, but police had no other details. The FBI and Maryland State Police were also involved in the investigation.
Ripken's brother, Bill, played second base in the major leagues. The two were managed for a time on the Orioles by their father and Vi's husband, Cal Ripken Sr., who died in 1999.
The family said that it could not comment further due to the ongoing investigation.
After the gunman left, Ripken honked her car's horn until a neighbor found her, Kowalewski said. He said he was surprised the honking didn't wake him up. Someone reported a suspicious car to authorities and she was found, police said.
Vi Ripken is founding chairwoman of the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, which, according to its website, helps to build character for disadvantaged young people. Besides Cal and Bill, she has another son and a daughter.
The Ripken Baseball complex also is home to the annual Cal Ripken World Series for 11- and 12-year-olds. Cal Ripken Baseball is the name for the 5-to-12-year-old division of the Babe Ruth League.
Ripken's business empire also includes youth baseball camps and clinics, a minor-league stadium design firm, a merchandising arm and a charitable foundation. Ripken has no formal role with the Orioles but has spoken about his desire to return to the team.
Ripken works as a studio analyst for TBS during its postseason baseball coverage. He is a pitchman for brands including Energizer, Under Armour and Chevrolet.
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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker and Ben Nuckols contributed to this story from Washington.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Camping? You Better Bring Your Nexus 7 [VIDEO]
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