SoundCloud ?Unmutes? Twitter - Player Now Expands Inside Tweets [UPDATED]

Soundcloud_logo(UPDATED)?Twitter now allows?SoundCloud's?HTML5 widget to be played inside of tweets containing a SoundCloud URL. This means that Twitter users can play SoundCloud tracks right inside of a tweet, allowing anyone to follow SoundCloud profiles directly within the new expanded Tweet.

UPDATE: According to SoundCloud, it is a "soft rollout" by Twitter and that it will be available to all users shortly

Twitter has been rolling out more of these interactive experiences (expanded tweets) as of late among a diverse and growing group of new partners like the The Wall Street Journal, Breaking News, TIME, and of course SoundCloud. These experiences deliver rich content inside Tweets containing a link to those partner websites (you?ve probably already expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or view photos from Instagram).

Other expanded tweet partners include Lifetime, TMZ, WWE, Daily Motion, Lytro, BuzzFeed, MSNBC, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and der Spiegel Online.

With this new addition of expanded tweets among a wide pool of partners, Twitter is positioning itself to be that much more of an alternative to blogs and even destination websites by delivering full content experiences directly into their users' feeds.

Hisham Dahud?is a Senior Analyst for Hypebot.com. Additionally, he is the head of Business Development for?Fame House,?LLC?and an?independent musician. Follow him on Twitter:?@HishamDahud

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If you are keen on pursuing a career as a graphic designer, print, package or publication designer or an environmental designer, then a course on graphic design in a design school that recognizes the importance of these creations on the culture of the people are the wisest choice.

Graphic designing is the process in visual communication that combines of words, images and the ideas to implement it to audience. The graphic designer is the specialist in solving the problem which is associated with the Visual Communication. A well experienced designer is having skills in drawing, layout, typography, lettering, diagramming and photography.

The graphic designers used to develop layout and presentation designs of newspaper, magazines, corporate reports, journals and other publications. They also create the promotional displays, marketing brochures for services and products, packaging design distinctive logo for business and products. Due to the tremendous growth in the media industry there are excellent employment options, therefore there is huge craze for opting the graphic designing in India.

Eligibility for Graphic Design courses in India:

Due to the increasing demand of graphic designers, there are many people are opting career in this creative field. To start a career as graphic designer one needs to complete the course in graphic designing. BFA (Bachelor in Fine Arts) is one such course for three years duration. The candidate who is applying for the course should be 10+2 or equivalent. There is 1 year Diploma in Visual Communication. There is also 2 years and 1 year program for the candidates who are above the age of 18 years with 10+2 education. The candidates who are applying for the course in graphic designing should have the creative bent in the mind.

It is known to be one of the most lucrative careers in India. For becoming the successful graphic designer the student selects the career in graphic designing. This designing industry offers the job in profiles such as graphic designers, design management professionals, creative directors, art workers and many more. Graphic designers are having wide scope in the field of creative media such as electronic media, packaging, film and animation, advertising agencies, marketing firms, design studios, educational institutes, printers and typesetters, exhibits and displays, audio-visual media, publishers, manufacturers and department stores.

Institutes offering Graphic Design Courses in India:

There are number of institutes offering the courses in India and they are as under:

* National Institute of Design in Gujarat

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* Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Karnataka

* Department of Design, Guwahati Indian Institute of Technology in Assam

* Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur

* Symbiosis Institute of Design in Pune

* WLCI School of Advertising and Graphic Design

The choices of design schools for a career in graphical design are numerous. But, the selection made by a potential professional has to be based on several factors if he is to come out with flying colors in the highly competitive world. The curriculum has to be well-rounded to incorporate various aspects of graphic designing bringing out unique creations through the merging of the right materials with the technical proficiency. Graphic art direction is dependent on the capacity of the art director to collaborate with the different creative contributors like writers, suppliers, illustrators and others to result in compelling creations. A comprehensive course extended by a design school covers every aspect of the creative development process that motivates the students to launch creations that possess depth and symbolism to create maximum impact on the target audience.

WLCI Design School is one of the best institute for graphic designing & advertising programs. WLCI College offers advertising courses, courses in visual communication, diploma in graphic design.

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Private Prison For Juveniles In Mississippi Plagued By Violence, Despite Federal Settlement

After years of widespread violence and sexual abuse at Mississippi's for-profit prison for juvenile offenders, state officials and civil rights groups signed a federal court decree in March aimed at overhauling a facility described by a federal judge as "a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts."

U.S. Justice Department investigators found that both state officials and the GEO Group Inc., the nation's second-largest operator of private prisons, had essentially ignored the safety of youth prisoners, denying them basic health care and employing guards with known gang affiliations. Sexual misconduct between staff and inmates at the Walnut Grove youth prison was "among the worst we have seen in any facility anywhere in the nation," the Justice Department's investigation concluded.

Yet two months after a federal court settlement, violence and poor staffing have persisted, including a fight that resulted in a young man being stabbed in the eye, according to recent court transcripts. In response, a top Mississippi state prison official recently testified that the state has no authority to force the GEO Group to improve security at the chronically understaffed facility, raising questions about the lines of authority for corrections policy in Mississippi.

"All we can do is make a request," said Emmitt Sparkman, deputy commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, in federal court testimony two weeks ago. He added that the GEO Group was "under no obligation" to increase staffing under the terms of its contract with the state.

Though a federal judge found that state officials "repeatedly failed to monitor the contracts with GEO," Mississippi plans to replace GEO with Management & Training Corp., a private company responsible for one of the most tragic prison breaks in recent memory.

The GEO Group, which has donated more than $56,000 to Mississippi elected officials over the past decade, did not respond to questions about its contracts in the state. A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections declined to make officials available for comment. GEO Group has operated Walnut Grove since 2010, after acquiring the prison in a merger with another prison corporation, Cornell Companies Inc.

In July 2010, three convicted murderers escaped from a prison run by Management & Training Corp. in Kingman, Ariz., after cutting a hole through the fence.

Subsequent investigations by the Arizona Department of Corrections found that perimeter alarms at the Kingman prison had long been dysfunctional. Guards had become "conditioned" to constant false alarms, and the company hadn't performed maintenance on the system for more than a year, according to a state report first obtained by the Arizona Republic.

More than two hours went by before Management & Training alerted the local sheriff's office. One of the inmates was arrested in Colorado two days later. It took more than two weeks for authorities to apprehend the other two escapees, following a nationwide manhunt. Two of the inmates were later charged in connection with the carjacking and murders of a husband and wife from Oklahoma who were driving through New Mexico.

Even five months after the escapes, the Arizona Department of Corrections sent Management & Training a letter about the company's slow progress in training its staff for emergencies, such as escapes or riots. The department director, Charles Ryan, wrote, "I retain serious concerns about myriad chronic operational deficiencies, as well as discrepancies between what you report as having been accomplished compared with what my staff is observing."

Among many problems noted in the letter, Ryan pointed out "a pattern of unacceptable inmate behavior," where large groups of inmates refused to listen to correctional officers and chased them away on several occasions.

Management & Training spokesman Issa Arnita said the company has worked with the state of Arizona to make the proper upgrades since the incident. "We took responsibility for what happened there, and that was a couple of years ago," Arnita said. "We've moved forward. That's the important thing."

Those who have worked on the Walnut Grove case in Mississippi have questioned why the state is choosing to outsource management to a private contractor again, given the state's past problems with oversight.

"Our position is that the state has substituted one bad actor for another," said Jody Owens, a managing attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center who leads juvenile justice efforts in Mississippi. "The results are almost guaranteed to be the same, where they are putting the lives of people in their custody at risk. Private prisons have an inherent profit motive to not run facilities in a matter that's safe for the people there, and to shortcut staff and medical and mental health services whenever possible."

Arnita, the Management & Training spokesman, argued that violent incidents happen in any prison, public or private.

"It's the nature of the business," Arnita said. "It's a correctional facility. You'll sometimes have inmates who will do their very darndest to cause problems, and so you try to deal with it the best way you can."

Management & Training will take over the troubled Walnut Grove facility on July 2, and two other GEO facilities by mid-August. Under the federal court settlement, youth at Walnut Grove who are 17 or under, plus some high-risk 18- and 19-year-olds, must be moved to a separate state-run facility by the end of the year.

Arnita said the company will be bringing in a new management team, including wardens and deputy wardens. He said the company anticipates retaining many of the correctional officers now working for GEO Group.

It's unclear whether the new contract for Walnut Grove and other Mississippi state prisons will have specific staffing requirements. According to a court transcript, documentation from Walnut Grove showed that "only on rare occasions are all housing zones in the pods fully staffed."

Sparkman, the deputy corrections commissioner in Mississippi, testified last month in federal court that the department's current contracts don't require certain levels of staffing. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, who has been overseeing the Walnut Grove case, asked Sparkman what incentives the GEO Group had to ensure that inmates are properly supervised.

"It's just standard terms of the agreement that they're to provide a safe facility," Sparkman testified. "Specific staffing requirements -- no, sir, there's not any in the agreement that we have right now."

He went on to testify that the department intended to include staffing requirements and financial penalties in the new contract. A spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Tara Booth, declined to respond to any questions until the final contract with Management & Training has been signed.

Owens, the Southern Poverty Law Center attorney, said Mississippi must take a harder line on oversight for anything to change with a new private operator.

"The state takes the position that their hands are tied, that it's under the control of the private prison provider, and that's just not true," Owens said. "You can't just have an agreement with somebody and say, 'OK, well, they're not doing what they're supposed to do.' If somebody doesn't pay their rent, you kick them out."

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Kids' Lack of Sleep: Nothing New About Blaming It on Modern Life ...

Feb. 13, 2012 ? It is a common complaint of our modern age that kids and teens don?t get enough sleep.

Video games, TV, social media, and other trappings of our increasingly tech-centric lives are often blamed, but a new study shows that long before Facebook or PlayStation 3, kids were sleeping less than experts said they should.

When researchers in Australia reviewed sleep recommendations and actual sleep times among children over the past century, they found that kids consistently slept about 37 minutes less than recommended at the time.

Each time, new technological marvels ? be it the light bulb in the early 1900s, TV in the 1950s, or computer gaming systems and social networking today ? were blamed for declining sleep times.

?The message that children don?t get enough sleep has been the same for over 100 years,? says researcher Tim S. Olds, PhD, of the University of South Australia.

Sleep Recommendations Not Scientific

Olds says health policymakers have been making recommendations about how much sleep children should get each night for more than a century, with very little scientific evidence to back the recommendations up.

That is because studying optimal sleep times during childhood is very difficult.

Getting too little sleep has been linked to an increased risk for obesity, poor school performance, behavioral problems, and substance abuse.

But like adults, individual children and teens appear to have different sleep needs, Olds says.

When they explored sleep recommendations over the last century, Olds and colleague Lisa Anne Matricciani found 32 sets of age-specific sleep recommendations since the late 1800s and about 200 studies examining actual sleep times among children and teens.

On average, age-specific sleep recommendations declined by about 0.71 minutes per year between 1897 and 2009, and this paralleled a similar decline in sleep times.

Actual sleep times were consistently 37 minutes less than recommended over the observation period.

The study appears online today and in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics.

?The rationale for sleep recommendations was also strikingly consistent for more than 100 years: Children were overtaxed by the stimulation of modern living, although that stimulation was embodied in whatever the technological avatar of the time was,? the researchers write.

Some Kids Need More Sleep, Some Need Less

According to the National Sleep Foundation, school-aged children who are 12 and under need at least 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night, while teenagers need eight-and-a-half to nine-and-a-half hours of sleep.

Olds says parents should not be too concerned if their children or teens get a little more or a little less sleep each night, as long as they seem to be functioning well at home and school.

Pediatric sleep specialist William Kohler, MD, agrees.

Kohler is medical director of the Florida Sleep Institute at Florida Hospital in Tampa.

?A child who is alert and doing well in school with no behavioral issues is probably getting enough sleep,? he says.

But he adds that when there are issues, poor sleep quantity or quality should be one of the first suspects.

?We may not have good standards for understanding how much sleep an individual child needs, but there is plenty of good evidence that getting too little sleep or having poor-quality sleep leads to a wide range of health and behavioral problems,? he tells WebMD.

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Microsoft iPad-killer Windows 8 tablet: Soon say several sources. Sweet!

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is rumored to be launching its own tablet Monday. Although there's some disagreement about its intended use and the platform it runs: Windows 8? Windows Embedded? Windows Phone??But naturally, in IT Blogwatch, bloggers blog the phrase 'iPad killer.'
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Sharon Waxman & Alexander C. Kaufman tag-team the rumor reporting:

Microsoft...has scheduled a secretive event for Monday...in Los Angeles, where it will make a "major" announcement. ... [An] individual with knowledge of the company said that Microsoft would introduce a...tablet at the event...put[ting] the company in direct competition with giant rival Apple.
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Rumors have surfaced that Microsoft's new tablet will run on Windows RT. ... Previously, Microsoft-enabled tablets have been made by hardware manufacturers such as Samsung and Hewlett-Packard.??? M0RE

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Ina Fried is in a spin: [You're fired -Ed.]

After signaling...that it would attack the market only through...partners, Microsoft has decided to enter the tablet business more directly...[our] sources have also heard in recent weeks.
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Microsoft...depends on an ecosystem of PC makers like Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo to make...Windows-based machines. ... It is unclear how Microsoft intends to differentiate its work...and just how [OEMs] will respond.? ... They could focus more energy around Android, but Google is also in the hardware business.??? M0RE

But Mary Jo Foley ain't so sure:

If these rumors are true, I?m wondering whether [it] might be more of a rival to the Amazon Kindle Fire than the iPad.
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Microsoft brass have continued to hint...[of] some kind of a Metro-centric reader. ...? [It] might be a Windows Embedded or...Windows Phone OS device...remember: The settlement/contract between B&N and Microsoft mentioned Windows Phone. A lot.
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In other words, it?s going to be a consumption-first device, not a creation one. ... And maybe even made for Microsoft by Nokia.??? M0RE

Speaking of Nokia, Preston Gralla adds 2+2 and calculates a strategy:

Nokia said that it lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter, with sales falling a precipitous 29 percent [and] that it expected even worse to come, largely as a result of its...deal with Microsoft.
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Given the sea of red ink, I don't think it's likely that Nokia will survive on its own. ... Late last year Microsoft considered buying the company, but...backed off. But things have changed since then...[which is] quite an irony: The relationship may have driven [shares] down...so much that Microsoft can scoop it up at a bargain price.??? M0RE.

Meanwhile, whatever it is, Harry McCracken is looking forward to it:

Microsoft isn?t new to the hardware game: ... It?s created everything from mice to the ill-fated Zune to a robotic version of Barney.
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[It?s] not hard to see why Microsoft might want to do this, even though the company runs the risk of ticking off other hardware manufacturers. ... If third-party manufacturers [continue] larding it up with useless utilities, pushy security software and unwanted demoware...the iPad will continue to stand alone.
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But if a Microsoft tablet manages to make for a worthy alternative...either because it?s in the same ballpark or because it goes off in another direction?this could be fun.??? M0RE

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Weight Loss Weirdness: Social Jet Lag and Gummy Owls - Kiefit.com

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