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Purchase tickets ($75 and $70) by phoning the North Central College Box Office at (630) 637-7469. |
Participate: Last week I received a Facebook invitation regarding "Caravan to the Capitol - Restore Illinois Education Funding." |
Curious, I stopped by the group's rally Friday afternoon at Nancy Young Elementary School in Indian Prairie Unit District 204 where I met organizers Lori Price and Sherry Tatar, both taking photos of 29 participants of all ages with signs. They intend to use the photos in a video to express their opinions to lawmakers ... |
For more information about the Springfield trip, call Price at (630) 450-6041. |
Prepare: Weather permitting, the annual Riverwalk Spring Spruce Up is slated from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 17. Volunteers can simply show up near the Dandelion Fountain at Webster Street and Jackson Avenue to help prepare our natural treasure for the upcoming seasons. |
Parade: Alert! The 2010 Memorial Day Parade Monday, May 31, will proceed on a new route as it advances east along West Jackson from Ewing to find its way to Central Park. At Washington Street, the patriotic parade will head north to Benton where it will turn east toward Court Street. Veterans from the Judd Kendall VFW ... |
Please help spread the word now to parade-watchers. |
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ... |
Read: When I wrote my first Daily Herald column in May 1999, I pontificated about the newspaper I penned in my youth called the Rolling Oaks News, a carbon-copied page that I peddled door-to-door for a penny. I was probably 10 when my dad taught me my First Amendment rights, including freedom of the press. |
Perhaps you'll agree that one word that begins with "re" provides the way to gain knowledge repeatedly. Thanks for reading. |
Lawrence Alionar "Larry" Basconis, 66, of Hauula, a retired Koa Coffee Shop dishwasher, died in Aloha Nursing & Rehab Centre. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by sisters Leonora Bernardo, Irene B. Chee and Saring Fujii. Private services. |
A Shenzhen-based electronic parts maker has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that a mandatory certification program from the Cupertino, California-based technology giant is a form of "unfair competition" in the data cable market. |
Pisen, known for its tech product accessories such as data cables, power plugs, and power banks, said on its official Weibo account that the Beijing Intellectual Property Court has already accepted the lawsuit. |
The Shenzhen firm is demanding that Apple stop its "unfair" trade practices and is seeking 1 yuan as nominal compensation for economic losses. |
Pisen said Apple's MFi mandatory certification does not make products safer, but it has damaged fair competition in China's electronic components market, according to a statement. |
Apple's MFi program, short for "made for iPod/iPhone/iPad," is a profitable business for the US tech giant which charges high fees to certify that third party electronic accessories will work with its products. |
Damages to Apple products arising from the use of uncertified cables are not covered by the US company's after-sale policies. |
In its filing to the court, Pisen said Apple has repeatedly filed complaints to e-commerce platforms in China claiming that Pisen infringed Apple design patents obtained in Europe, which resulted in the removal of Pisen products from these platforms. |
Apple has rejected Pisen's application for MFi certification "many times" without providing reasons, according to Pisen, which claims that Apple is utilizing its dominant position in the market to disrupt fair competition. |
"Apple is one of the greatest companies in the world. But great companies should not do things that are harmful to the interests of consumers," Pisen's Chairman Zhao Guocheng said in a statement. |
Apple is not the only company that adopts certification programs for third-party firms or authorized brands, but it is normal practice in the tech industry, said Zhao Ziming, a Beijing-based industry analyst. |
"It is common for mid-and-small Chinese accessories makers not to join the MFi program as the cost for certification is very high, but it is rarely seen for big companies like Pisen which has frequently applied but has failed to obtain certification," Zhao told the South China Morning Post, adding that he was puzzled a... |
Pisen, reportedly the second-largest data cable maker in China, is a popular brand on the mainland because of its low price compared with certified products sold via Apple's official channels. |
On its Tmall online shop, a Pisen standard data cable for Apple products is priced at 24 yuan ($3.60), inclusive of postage, with sales of more than 60,000 units in August alone. The company said it offers a refund for any reason within 30 days of purchase, and a free replacement within a year if there are product qual... |
Most data cables made by Chinese manufacturers with Apple's MFi certification are priced at 40 yuan or above. |
On the official online Apple Store, the price of a standard data cable for the iPhone starts from 149 yuan, while a MFi certified Belkin data cable costs 228 yuan. |
Apple said it has not responded to the lawsuit filed by Pisen. |
Boston Police reports on Friday night were that the injuries were “life threatening,” and the latest as of this writing on Friday morning is the still-unidentified woman remains hospitalized. |
I’ve probably told this story before … the night that the Red Sox sellout streak ended in 2013, I found a ridiculously cheap pair of tickets eight rows off the field in that general area, if not the same section. Close to the screen, but not protected by it. I could not shake the idea that should something come flying ... |
A foul liner may reach speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, leaving onlookers with barely a second to react, said Gil Fried, a sports management professor at Connecticut’s University of New Haven who has testified as an expert witness in lawsuits against teams. |
Brett Lawrie, whose bat is the one that shattered, chose to focus more on Fenway’s small protective screen afterward than his maple bat. Maple vs. ash was a hot topic a couple years ago, with the former preferred by many hitters despite being far more prone to exploding into shards when it breaks. (That doesn’t appear ... |
I’ve said it plenty, including after the incident earlier this year where a woman was struck with a ball in Pittsburgh despite protective netting … it’s amazing to me it doesn’t happen more. |
Yeah, the Red Sox won, but history is history. |
It’s been 20 years since Greg A. Harris, the former Red Sox reliever who was with Montreal at the time, became the only other player to throw from both sides in an inning. However, as the S.F. Chronicle story notes, “Expos managerFelipe Alou used Harris, then 39 and at the end of his career, to make history. A’s manage... |
Also out of the lineup was Pablo Sandoval, who’s just 8-for-65 in his last 20 games and committed two errors both Sunday and Thursday. |
Might also have something to do with the wider strike zone that Farrell thinks he’s seeing. Would have to think they’ll be analytical studies on that before too long, though a cursory look at Fangraphs’ PITCHf/x data shows more pitches in the zone: 46.1 percent, versus 44.9 percent the whole of last season. That doesn’... |
Hard to argue the points of either … Abraham’s attitude chatter sets off some alarm bells, but it’s hard to ignore Ramirez is the worst defensive player at any position by a pretty healthy margin and doesn’t appear particularly concerned about it. |
Despite that, looked like a whole different team on Friday night as compared to Thursday afternoon. A group that needs to start offering reasons to hope (and to watch, honestly) did just that. |
The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a warning to all citizens about the threat of being detained or arrested in foreign countries at the request of US special services. |
“American special services are continuing their de facto hunt for Russians all over the world,” reads the statement published on the ministry’s website on Friday. The Russian diplomats also gave several examples of such arbitrary detentions of Russian citizens that took place in Spain, Latvia, Canada and Greece. |
“Sometimes these were actual abductions of our compatriots. This is what happened with Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was kidnapped in Liberia in 2010 and secretly taken to the United States in violation of Liberian and international laws. This also happened in 2014 with Roman Seleznyov, who was literally abducted in the M... |
The ministry also warned that after being handed over to the US justice system, Russian citizens often encounter extremely biased attitudes. |
The diplomats then urged all Russian citizens who plan to travel abroad to thoroughly calculate all the risks, especially in cases when they suspect that US law enforcement bodies could have some claims against them. |
The Foreign Ministry has been issuing similar warnings on a regular basis since 2013, after the detention of Russian citizens in third countries at the request of United States became more frequent. Two of the most resonant cases – involving transport company-owner Viktor Bout and aircraft pilot Yaroshenko –resulted in... |
Whether it is a new stadium being built with taxpayer contributions or a new casino that is looking to use public land rent-free, development projects that receive public subsidies should produce real benefits for the public. |
That sounds like a pretty reasonable proposition. And yet this concept is now under attack in Michigan, where state legislators are considering a bill that bans community benefits agreements (CBAs), contracts that require businesses to meet agreed-upon community improvement goals in exchange for tax breaks or other pub... |
Republican legislators in Lansing first proposed the law in December. The bill passed in Michigan’s House Committee after a brief debate, but it did not come for a vote before the end of the last legislative session. However, despite opposition from small business owners’ groups such as the Michigan Black Chamber of Co... |
Michigan is not alone. The move by state conservatives to head off CBAs is part of a wider trend. However, the Michigan law is unique in that it is the first such legislation to ban CBAs. While CBAs are a relatively new concept in urban development, over the past two decades they have become an important tool for local... |
If approved, Michigan’s law could take us back to the days when development deals were brokered in backrooms and public money was handed out with little more than a wink and a nod. It would also set a dangerous precedent for other states. |
Dubbed the Local Government Employer Mandate Prohibition Act, the bill would bar measures such as setting “minimum wage, benefit or leave requirements.” It would also outlaw any employment requirements tied to receipt of tax breaks, grants or other economic development incentives. The measure would have a drastic effec... |
In October the Detroit City Council passed an ordinance that requires future development projects in the city to include CBAs. Previously, land grants to developers did not come with provisions to ensure decent jobs or other benefits for the community. Elected officials in Detroit have often been left with little to sh... |
Developers often make attractive promises when asking for public support, but they should not be given a free pass to do business on the basis of vague promises without any real commitments. |
As the experience of municipalities such as Atlanta; Los Angeles; Denver; Austin, Texas; Oakland, California; and New Haven, Connecticut, demonstrate, CBAs offer a better path. For example, in June 2012, the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy in Oakland won an agreement that requires stable, high-paying employ... |
These measures remain popular at the grass-roots level. As a result, conservatives have been unable to stop local minimum-wage laws and CBAs from passing. So they have turned to state governments to eliminate these democratic policies. Most state legislatures are stacked with representatives from districts not covered ... |
Given the gridlock in Washington, local governments have stepped in to devise innovative ways to ensure minimum wages, create affordable housing and provide development assistance for impoverished neighborhoods. Michigan’s anti-CBA bill is part of the raft of nationwide attempts in statehouses to restrain the powers of... |
While Republicans are spearheading this charge, Democrats are not afraid of limiting local democracy either. For instance, in June the Democratic-majority Rhode Island legislature passed a law preventing cities from setting their own minimum wages. |
The move in Michigan to extend state-level pre-emption to include CBAs sets a bad precedent for the country. Ultimately, these agreements are about accountability. There is no reason for any developer to expect public subsidies without committing to concrete, measurable benefits for our communities. Developers often ma... |
Helicopter parenting is increasingly correlated with college-age depression and anxiety. |
Recent studies suggests that kids with overinvolved parents and rigidly structured childhoods suffer psychological blowback in college. |
What helicopter parenting hath wrought. |
Excerpted from How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims, out now from Henry Holt and Co. |
Those whom Deresiewicz calls “excellent sheep” I call the “existentially impotent.” From 2006 to 2008, I served on Stanford University’s mental health task force, which examined the problem of student depression and proposed ways to teach faculty, staff, and students to better understand, notice, and respond to mental ... |
One kid’s father threatened to divorce her mother if the daughter didn’t major in economics. It took this student seven years to finish instead of the usual four, and along the way the father micromanaged his daughter’s every move, including requiring her to study off campus at her uncle’s every weekend. At her father’... |
In a 2013 survey of college counseling center directors, 95 percent said the number of students with significant psychological problems is a growing concern on their campus, 70 percent said that the number of students on their campus with severe psychological problems has increased in the past year, and they reported t... |
The 153 schools surveyed included campuses in all 50 states, small liberal arts colleges and large research universities, religious institutions and nonreligious, from the small to medium-sized to the very the large. The mental health crisis is not a Yale (or Stanford or Harvard) problem; these poor mental health outco... |
As parents, our intentions are sound—more than sound: We love our kids fiercely and want only the very best for them. Yet, having succumbed to a combination of safety fears, a college admissions arms race, and perhaps our own needy ego, our sense of what is “best” for our kids is completely out of whack. We don’t want ... |
You’re right to be thinking Yes, but do we know whether overparenting causes this rise in mental health problems? The answer is that we don’t have studies proving causation, but a number of recent studies show correlation. |
In 2010, psychology professor Neil Montgomery of Keene State College in New Hampshire surveyed 300 college freshmen nationwide and found that students with helicopter parents were less open to new ideas and actions and more vulnerable, anxious, and self-conscious. “[S]tudents who were given responsibility and not const... |
A 2012 study of 438 college students reported in the Journal of Adolescence found “initial evidence for this form of intrusive parenting being linked to problematic development in emerging adulthood … by limiting opportunities for emerging adults to practice and develop important skills needed for becoming self-reliant... |
The data emerging about the mental health of our kids only confirms the harm done by asking so little of them when it comes to life skills yet so much of them when it comes to adhering to the academic plans we’ve made for them. |
When parents have tended to do the stuff of life for kids—the waking up, the transporting, the reminding about deadlines and obligations, the bill-paying, the question-asking, the decision-making, the responsibility-taking, the talking to strangers, and the confronting of authorities, kids may be in for quite a shock w... |
When seemingly perfectly healthy but overparented kids get to college and have trouble coping with the various new situations they might encounter—a roommate who has a different sense of “clean,” a professor who wants a revision to the paper but won’t say specifically what is “wrong,” a friend who isn’t being so friend... |
When our parenting behavior is motivated by our own egos. |
Levine said that when we parent this way we deprive our kids of the opportunity to be creative, to problem solve, to develop coping skills, to build resilience, to figure out what makes them happy, to figure out who they are. In short, it deprives them of the chance to be, well, human. Although we overinvolve ourselves... |
When children aren’t given the space to struggle through things on their own, they don’t learn to problem solve very well. They don’t learn to be confident in their own abilities, and it can affect their self-esteem. The other problem with never having to struggle is that you never experience failure and can develop an... |
Knowing what could unfold for our kids when they’re out of our sight can make us parents feel like we’re in straitjackets. What else are we supposed to do? If we’re not there for our kids when they are away from home and bewildered, confused, frightened, or hurting, then who will be? |
Here’s the point—and this is so much more important than I realized until rather recently when the data started coming in: The research shows that figuring out for themselves is a critical element to people’s mental health. Your kids have to be there for themselves. That’s a harder truth to swallow when your kid is in ... |
Excerpted from How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims, published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright © 2015 by Julie Lythcott- Haims. All rights reserved. |
The Rebel Heart Parents Want to Show Their Daughters the World. The Risks Are Worth It. |
Benjamin Hubert of experience design agency LAYER has designed a wireless lamp for London-based tech brand nolii. Called Rise, the lamp is the first product in the brand's first collection of wireless tech products, which will launch next year. It has integrated charging capability for up to two devices and can also be... |
Rise was launched this September at designjunction as part of London Design Festival 2018. nolii also launched its retail-ready inaugural collection of tech products—Collection 001—which was soft-launched at London Design Festival 2017 and also designed by LAYER. |
Rise is a small wireless LED lamp that can be moved to wherever light is needed – from the bedroom, bathroom or office to the garden. Powered by a battery in the base, which offers up to 12 hours of light, Rise also has the ability to charge one device wirelessly on the integrated induction charging pad that sits at th... |
The Rise app for tablets and smartphones allows users to remotely dim the lamp, or to program a "digital sunrise" in which the lamp acts as an alarm by slowly illuminating a room. With these features, Rise becomes a functional hub within the home that can easily alter the atmosphere or mood of any given environment. |
Rise is made of mouth blown, lightly frosted glass, with speckled, matte plastic details, and the design language is minimal and unobtrusive. A touch button on the base is used to turn the lamp on and off, and to adjust the brightness of the lamp. LED indicators on the lamp's base show the battery level when the lamp i... |
The VG900 equipped with the new XLR Adaptor kit. |
Because it uses fundamentally the same body as the rest of the VG series, the VG900 has the same physical E-mount. |
In order to use A-mount lenses that can take advantage of the entire sensor, you have to use the bundled LA-EA3 adapter. |
The HDMI and USB connectors sit under the grip. |
The top zoom switch can be used in conjunction with the new 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 or 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 E-mount power zoom lenses. |
As with its sibling models, the VG900 has some basic direct-access control under the LCD and is limited to a single SDXC card slot. |
This is one of the aspects in which the VG900 differs from the lower-end VG models -- a more shooter-friendly location and operation for the manual exposure controls. |
The VG900 uses the same Quad-Capsule Spatial Array microphone as the rest of the VG series. |
A detail of the XLR adapter kit. |
The controls look pretty standard. |
Iran has started military exercises in the Arabian gulf just days after six other nations, including the United States, held a series of exercises in the same area. |
The television station said that the military manoeuvres, named Great Prophet Two, would last until November 11 and include drills in the gulf and Sea of Oman, and would be a show of defensive strength. |
Safavi said the drills were not a threat to Iran’s neighbours. |
Iranian television footage of the missile launches showed the rockets leaving long vapour trails as they soared into the air above the desert near the holy city of Qom in central Iran. |
As they rose into the sky, Safavi, who gave the firing order, and other guardsman were heard shouting: “God is the Greatest”. |
The announcement came two days after US-led warships finished a two days of exercises in the gulf which were described by Iran as “adventurist”. |
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