Cal State Northridge (SID): Athlon Sports Magazine Picks CSUN For Second Place in the Big West

September 30, 2013

Bob Vazquez, Assistant Athletic Director, Strategic Communications

Northridge, Calif. ? The first of several pre-season collegiate basketball magazines has hit the newsstands.

Cal State Northridge basketball is looking good if you believe the pre-season prognosticators.

The Matadors, with three key returnees and an influx of talented newcomers, is predicted to finish in second place in the Big West Conference.

UC Irvine is favored to win the conference followed by CSUN, UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State, Cal Poly, Hawai'i, UC Davis, Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside.

"No Big West team can match the offseason buzz created by the Matadors, who hired former NBA star Reggie Theus as head coach" said Athlon Sports Magazine. "Theus, who guided New Mexico State to an NCAA bid in 2007, will bring the up-tempo style he learned playing under Jerry Tarkanian at UNLV. He also spent two seasons as head coach of the Sacramento Kings."

Cal State Northridge men's basketball is off-and-running in 2013-14. Fourteen players, including eight newcomers, are practicing at the newly renovated Matadome in anticipation of their first regular season game on Nov. 8 against Hope International. The Matadors will enjoy a 14-game home season that includes eight conference games. ?

Theus, who is only the fifth head coach in the 55-year history of Matador basketball, will be beginning his second stint as a head coach on the collegiate level. For two seasons (2005-06, 2006-07), Theus directed New Mexico State basketball program to a 41-23 record that included a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2006-07 with a 25-9 mark.

Matador Memo ?
In the past several years, the Big West Conference has received only one-bid into the NCAA Tournament ? The winner of the Big West Conference Tournament winner is granted the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament ? The winner of the Big West regular season is guaranteed a spot in the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) ? Twice in school history CSUN has been a participant in the NCAA Tournament ? That took place during the 2000-01 season and also during the 2008-09 campaign ? The pairings for the Central Michigan Invitational Tournament on Nov. 21-23 have been announced ? On Nov. 21, CSUN will face Montana State at 4:30 pm (et) ? Then on Nov. 22, the Matadors will play Austin Peay again at 4:30 pm (et) ? On Nov. 23, CSUN will face Central Michigan University at 7:30 pm (et) ? All games will be played at McGuirk Arena, a 5,300 seat facility that opened in 2010.

"Our objective is to make a student-athlete successful not only at CSUN but in life. This is the start of their journey. We want to make the Northridge community, the university, the student body, and the faculty and staff be proud of the product we put out on the basketball court." ? CSUN head coach Reggie Theus

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Source: http://www.bbstate.com/news/721492

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Autonomous Education: Home Education and Socialisation

It's a common concern of non-home educators and new home educators. It's one I've written about before. How social is a home educated child's life?

Well, given that some children are more sociable than others, that some people live in larger communities than others, that some children have a greater number of interests than others, that some parents are more social than others, that some local communities are more social than others, that some regions and years are more temperate than others, that some children have more siblings than others, that some children are older than others, that some children are more bookish or physical than others, that some areas are safer than others, that some community organisations are more supportive of home education than others... hmm, you can see the problem can't you? It's a bit like asking the unanswerable "How long is a piece of string?"

Then there's the issue of transference...

How many people questioning the social lives of home educated children have socialisation issues of their own? Are they invested in promoting a particular approach to socialisation, perhaps consciously, perhaps sub-consciously? Do the questioners have an ego-invested identity that requires a particular style of child socialisation to occur to justify their professional role and/or source of income? Were the questioners poorly socialised during their own childhood? How well informed are the questioners on the psychology of childhood development (and the inconclusiveness of much of the research)? Are the questioners open to hearing and exploring opinions and evidence contrary to their beliefs?

I'll stop there.

There are so many issues, personal to an individual, that influence their understanding and experience of the world - not least of which is one's own, perhaps largely unquestioned, childhood experiences. Consequently, when someone questions the socialisation of my home educated daughter, I wonder...

• what sort of child were they?
• what sort of upbringing did they have?
• do they have children of their own?
• how deeply they know those children (hint: if the child regularly lies to them, frequently doesn't want to spend time with them or hasn't recently talked about their passions with them, then their knowledge of the child is superficial)
• how do they treat their own children's needs for appropriate socialisation?
• how do they self-justify the choices they make in relation to those children?
• have they socialised with more than a handful of home educating families?
• and, most importantly, what do they already believe about the socialisation of home educated children?

"We need and want a variety of relationships throughout our life. Although this primary need is biologically determined by genes that promote survival of the species, the precise nature of the relationships we seek is heavily influenced by our previous experience. For example, attachment research has conclusively demonstrated the effect of a parent's attitude to attachment on the infant's subsequent behaviour with him or her (Fonagy et al, 1991), and a child's secure or insecure experience in infancy is highly predictive of the quality of later relationships with people other than the parents (Sroufe, 1983).

So in new situations we have expectations that are partly determined by our realistic perceptions, thoughts and feelings about the present, and partly by associated experiences we have had in the past (Hughes, 1999). Most people can usually evaluate the expectation against the reality of the present and adjust expectations accordingly. However, in some circumstances, such as when we are highly anxious, this appears to be more difficult, and we may cling defensively to our preconceptions. In addition, some people have habitual difficulty in adjusting their inner world to match their perceptions in the present. This is characteristic of some more rigid kinds of personality, including people with borderline personality features, where the person often has difficulty in distinguishing what is expected from the internal model and what is perceived in the external world (Kernberg, 1994).

We tend to see what we expect to see (Abercrombie, 1989). Not only that, but we may behave towards other people as though they are the people we expect them to be. In the process, we give subtle non-explicit messages about what part they are playing, and the other people are covertly invited to adopt the role or behaviour that is expected (Sandler, 1976; Ryle, 1998). We project an existing mental model on to the present, and may then behave in a way that is appropriate for the internal model, but that may be inappropriate to the reality of the present external world."

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Journal

Source: http://www.autonomouseducation.com/2013/09/home-education-and-socialisation.html

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EA exec claims Apple paid EA ?truckload of money? to delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android; Apple flatly denies

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?Except in China, Plants vs Zombies 2 has only launched on iOS, and there is a very good reason for it: Apple reportedly paid for it,? Patrick Klepek reports for Giant Bomb. ?This detail was revealed during an internal town hall meeting held earlier today for publisher Electronic Arts. ?Apple gave us a truckload of money to delay the Android version [of Plants vs Zombies 2],? said Frank Gibeau, head of EA Labels.?

?Apple is denying the substance of the comments made by Gibeau,? Klepek reports. ?A company spokesperson described Giant Bomb?s story as ?not true? and said no money was exchanged.?

Klepek reports, ?When these deals are made in the games industry, it?s often a co-marketing deal, not a briefcase full of cash. It?s possible Gibeau meant this but chose his words poorly. When asked whether Apple and EA had brokered an agreement regarding iOS exclusivity, the company would not disclose any details on its relationships.?

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High-Skill Immigration Reform Likely Dead In 2013

After much speech and pomp, it appears that general immigration reform is dead in 2013, ending with it the chance of positive change to how we handle high-skill immigration. It didn’t have to end this way, but here we are and we need to face the current reality. The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent reported yesterday that in the House, the so-called Gang of Seven will likely not bring forward a bill that could be passed in the lower chamber. That, and the fact that the Senate’s comprehensive bill was deceased upon hello in the House means that options for functional immigration reform this year are now essentially zero. High-skill immigration reform was lashed to larger immigration reform in the Senate, marking its fate in time with other pieces of what is generally referred to as ‘comprehensive’ reform. As that effort has failed, so too has high-skill immigration reform faltered. Sargent goes on to House Republicans could “roll out a series of piecemeal bills.” Theoretically, one of those smaller pieces of legislation could deal with high-skill immigration. However, if there is sufficient political will in the House for a push on the single issue isn’t clear. And it is also not plain how such a single bill could wind its way through the Senate, which has already passed its own immigration law. In a somewhat depressing conclusion, Sargent states that “it remains very possible that House Republican leaders will simply let reform die.” Next year is an election year, and the threat of primary challenges on the right remain real. Immigration is an exceptionally difficult issue for Republicans, given fierce base support for draconian legislation, and changing demographics that squeeze its leadership. For now, however, it appears that the threat of ‘being primaried’ remains a larger fear for House Republicans than long-term changes to the makeup of the American populace that do not, on projection, bode well for their party. Unless something miraculous shakes loose, immigration reform looks dead for the year. And as such, we won’t see a rise in H1-B visas and the like. It didn’t have to end this way, but here we are and we need to face the current reality. For more on how we came to this somewhat?dispiriting?conclusion of a multi-year push to better our immigration laws, head here. Top Image Credit:?ttarasiuk

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HE CAME HERE TO FLORIDA TO ENJOY RETIREMENT, BUT NOW HE'S FIGHTING CANCER. 67-YEAR-OLD RUSS DUNN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AFTER HE HAD A LIVER TRANSPLANT AT THE MAYO CLINIC. DOCTORS SAY THE NEW LIVER CAUSED HIS CANCER. ACCORDING TO AT LEAST ONE INDEPENDENT EXPERT AND OTHER MEDICAL SOURCES, THIS PROBABLY COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. KRISTIN COSBY EXPLAINS. RUSS DUNN MOVED TO FLORIDA TO ENJOY THE BEACH. INSTEAD, HE'S SPENDING MOST OF HIS TIME INDOORS. THE 67-YEAR-OLD HAS CANCER AND UNDERGOES REGULAR CHEMOTHERAPY. IT'S A HARD ASSISTANCE KNOWING THAT WE ALL HAVE A FINITE END BUT MINE HAS COME UP PRETTY RAPIDLY. DUNN SAYS IT'S HOW HE DEVELOPED CANCER THAT'S MOST FRUSTRATING. TWO YEARS AGO, DUNN HAD A DELIVER TRANSPLANT AT THE MAYO CLINIC IN JACKSONVILLE. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I'D LIVE TO SEE MY GRANDKIDS. I MEAN, I WAS THRILLED. IT WAS A HARD OPERATION. IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT. BUT I WAS THRILLED BECAUSE I HAD A NEW LEASE ON LIFE. I WAS OPTIMISTIC AS COULD BE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, AND WHEN I HEARD I HAD CANCER, I WAS DEVASTATED. ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATED. TEN MONTHS AFTER THE TRANSPLANT, DOCTORS DIAGNOSED DUNN WITH CANCER. HE SHOWED US THE PAPERWORK AT MAYO CLINIC THAT SHOWS THE TRANSPLANTED LIVER IS THE SOURCE OF THE CANCER. WE ASKED HOW THIS COULD HAPPEN. MAYO CLINIC ISSUED THIS STATEMENT. A SPOKESPERSON FOR LIFE QUEST TOLD US ALL OF ITS ORGANS ARE RUN THROUGH A SERIES OF TESTS AND THE INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH THE TRANSPLANT HOSPITAL. TRANSMITTING A DISEASE THROUGH ORGAN DONATION IS NOT COMMON BUT HAPPENS. ALEXANDER WHO LIVES IN MARYLAND, CONFIRMED WHAT LIFE QUEST SAID IS TRUE. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO SCREEN FOR EVERY POSSIBLE RISK ASSOCIATED WITH RECEIVING A TRANSPLANT. DUNN WANTS A NEW LIVER. BUT DOCTORS ARE TELLING HIM HE'S NOT A CANDIDATE. SO FOR NOW, HE'LL KEEP FIGHTING HIS CANCER. I'M A DEAD MAN WALKING. ACCORDING TO THAT ORGAN PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST I SPOKE WITH, THE DOCTORS AT MAYO CLINIC ARE TREATING THE CANCER THE CORRECT WAY. HE SAYS THE DOCTOR NEEDS TO

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Early childhood education is good for mothers, too | Family Inequality

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Economist James Heckman had a good New York Times column the other day about the economic benefits of universal early childhood education. Despite the documented benefits of this intervention for poor kids, however, ...

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Desperation in Mexico resort as storm toll rises

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
Associated Press

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - Desperation mounted Wednesday in the cut-off resort of Acapulco, where residents looted a store and thousands of exhausted, despondent tourists waited to be ferried out by air. The death toll in massive flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 57.

Mexico was hit by the one-two punch of twin storms over the weekend, and the storm that soaked Acapulco on Sunday - Manuel -reformed into a tropical storm Wednesday as it swirled slowly off the Pacific coast on a path that that would take it over the resort of La Paz, on the Baja California peninsula, over the weekend.

With a tropical disturbance over the Yucatan Peninsula headed toward the same Gulf coast hit by Hurricane Ingrid, the country could face another double hit, just it struggles to restore services and evacuate those stranded by last weekend's flooding.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said 57 had been killed nationwide.

In Acapulco, gun-toting state police guarded the entrance to a partly flooded Costco store hours after people looted it on one of the city's main boulevards, carting off shopping carts full of food, clothing, and in some cases flat-screen TVs.

Hundreds of people waded through waist-high brown water in the store's parking lot on Wednesday, fishing out anything - cans of food or soda - that looters might have dropped. Others shouted for the now-shuttered store to be re-opened.

"If we can't work, we have to come and get something to eat," said 60-year-old fisherman Anastasio Barrera, as he stood with his wife outside the store. "The city government isn't doing anything for us, and neither is the state government."

With the twin roads from Acapulco to Mexico City closed down, at least 40,000 tourists saw a long holiday beach weekend degenerate into a desperate struggle to get weeping children, elderly parents and even a few damp, bedraggled dogs back home. Thousands of people, some sweating, profusely, waited in line Wednesday outside a shopping mall-convention center that was being used as a shelter and waiting area for flights out.

Two of Mexico's largest airlines were running about two flights an hour from Acapulco's still-flooded international airport, with priority for those with tickets, the elderly and families with young children.

Inside the shopping center, Omar Diaz, a 23-year-old window installer, waited with his wife, their 2-day-old baby and two other children on a foam mattress covered with a blanket. Their home was flooded and the few possessions they were able to save hung in plastic bags around their improvised bed.

His wife, Marisela Diaz, 24, gave birth to daughter Paula Jasmin shortly after Tropical Storm Manuel hit, but was asked to leave a local hospital "because there weren't enough beds," she said.

"We lost everything, our house, our bed, the fans, the refrigerator, the television," said Omar, but Marisela was just happy just to be safe with her newborn. "We're good here," she said.

Outside, those waiting in the enormous lines for an airplane ticket out weren't so lucky; they sweltered in the sun that had re-appeared after the storm.

Catalina Clave, 46, who works at the Mexico City stock exchange, sweated in the humid heat along with her husband and a group of friends who had been vacationing in Acapulco. Their excruciating wait had already stretched for two days.

"Forty-eight hours without electricity, no running water and now we can't get home," Clave said. "Now all I ask for is some shade and some information."

The government has promised to reopen the roads between Acapulco and Mexico City, but they were blocked by dozens of mudslides, rocks and collapsed tunnels, and the first provisional way out won't be ready for days, officials predict.

Some cash machines along Acapulco's coastal boulevard were low on bills, but most of the city's tourist zone appeared back to normal Wednesday, with roads clear, restaurants and hotels open and brightly lit and tourists strolling along the bay in an attempt to recover some of the leisure time lost to three days of incessant rains.

Gavin McLoughlin, 27, another teacher at Mexico City's Greengates School, said he went to Acapulco on a late-night bus Thursday with about 30 other teachers at the school, many of whom are in their 20s.

"We had no idea of the weather," the Englishman said. "We knew there was a hurricane on the other side but not this side."

City officials said about 23,000 homes, mostly on Acapulco's outskirts, were without electricity and water. Stores were nearly emptied by residents who rushed to stock up on basic goods. Landslides and flooding damaged an unknown number of homes.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Manuel was centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of the port city of Mazatlan, with winds of 40 mph (65 kph), and was on a slow path that would take it to the southern Baja California peninsula, over the weekend.

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Patient embraces personalized approach to lung cancer diagnosis

[unable to retrieve full-text content]As a woman in her mid-forties who didn?t smoke, Elizabeth Lacasia never expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer. But in 2006, after she developed a persistent and serious cough, a chest X-ray and CT scan revealed several tumors in her lower left lung. With the assistance of personalized medicine, her cancer is now in remission.

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