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SCHOOLS & KIDSA fight at JLS today?
One of the kids in the neighborhood said he saw "a big fight" at JLS this afternoon around 4pm. He said he saw a big group...Original post made by Parent on Apr. 17, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOCondoleezza Rice personally conveyed approval to waterboard detainee in 2002
Rice played a greater role than she admitted last fall in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, according...Original post made by Dr. Ferragamo on Apr. 23, 2009
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SCHOOLS & KIDSChildren and trees unite on Earth Day
Students at Nixon Elementary School in Palo Alto teamed with volunteers from Canopy to plant a tree at the Nixon campus in...Original post made on Apr. 23, 2009
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SCHOOLS & KIDSBoy struck by car at Oregon intersection
A 7-year-old boy was hit by a car while biking across the Oregon Expressway and Louis Road intersection in Palo Alto, Sunday...Original post made on Apr. 17, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOIn 2009, what we thought we knew is upside down
The title of this post paraphrases an article by Victor Davis Hanson in today's SJ Mercury. I strongly recommend reading...Original post made by Perspective on Apr. 23, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOEarth Day Idea: Save the Humans
Excellent essay by David Harsanyi in the Denver Post today: http://www.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_12193559 -------- Get...Original post made by Jarred on Apr. 22, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTONewsom declares governor run in Palo Alto -- and cyberspace
Trailed by TV cameras, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made one of his first gubernatorial campaign stops at Facebook headquarters...Original post made on Apr. 21, 2009
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SCHOOLS & KIDSnew Stanford study says CA high school graduation test discriminates against girls
According to this Stanford study, high school graduation rates for girls (of all races) has dropped much more than rates...Original post made by Sarah on Apr. 22, 2009
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSSchool programs unaffected by burglary
The loss of two Macintosh computers and 14 digital cameras from Gunn High School in a weekend theft will not detract from...Original post made on Apr. 23, 2009
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSAttempted TV purchase at Fry's leads to jail
A man juggling several identities was arrested at Fry's Electronics Monday after trying to purchase two big-screen TVs using...Original post made on Apr. 21, 2009
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AROUND TOWNWanted: Disaster First Responders
The Palo Alto Fire Department's Office of Emergency Services still has room in its five-week Community Emergency Response...Original post made by Paul on Apr. 22, 2009
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSAltercation at Pizza My Heart leads to arrest
A Redwood City man was arrested for assaulting a police officer early Saturday morning outside the Pizza My Heart restaurant...Original post made on Apr. 20, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESStanford gets county nod to expand campus
Stanford University's plans to build new academic buildings and houses on its campus received a major boost Tuesday afternoon:...Original post made on Apr. 8, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOWhat should be done about piracy, going forward?
I want to start this thread, in order to allow those who are willing to state an opinion, proactively, to do so. I think...Original post made by Gary on Apr. 14, 2009
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The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Program gives a peek into private gardens Read the full story here http://www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news/show_story.php?id=12069...Original post made on Apr. 22, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOSenator Dianne Feinstein's husband's firm cashes in on foreclosure crisis
Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a gov't agency that had just awarded her husband's...Original post made by Dr. Ferragamo on Apr. 22, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESPolice hunting for 19-year-old shooting suspect
Palo Alto police have launched a manhunt 19-year-old suspect in today's shooting incident at an apartment complex at 574...Original post made on Mar. 18, 2009
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AROUND TOWNBird-like electric car to make Palo Alto debut
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PALO ALTO ISSUESResidents alarmed by burglar-system fine
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Today's guest post is written by Brian Carter.
I bet you've heard plenty about the importance of conversation in social media.
We've all heard companies must engage their customers online. We've probably said it ourselves.
But is conversation the most important thing in social media?
What's The Value of Conversation?
Few will question the value of conversation. It extends customer service and makes PR more personal. But does conversation improve the bottom line?
Case studies suggest social companies do better than their non-social competitors.
If we've proven conversational companies are more profitable, is it because conversation made them more visible?
There are more reliable ways to reach the masses.
You could advertise on Facebook for $0.25 per thousand views, and you wouldn't be subject to that notoriously unreliable viral phenomenon.
Did companies who got social first simply get media (and its associated benefits) because they were first?
Can late-adopters get the same benefits?
Will we always have to do something novel to get noticed?
Do social prospects buy more because we talked to them?
Or was it because they already liked our brand more anyway, and that's why they talked to us?
Have you really tracked how many of your new customers heard about you because you got their attention first from a social media platform?
What Are We Talking About, Anyway?
Business card cartoonist Hugh McLeod wrote a post about social objects years ago. Let me paraphrase: People need something to talk about. Let's give them something to talk about.
In day-to-day life, we talk about art, TV shows, movies, fashion accessories, and sports games – all creations or performances. Businesses use blog posts, whitepapers, and infographics to create conversation or get a lead form filled out.
That's content marketing. It's not the same as conversation. Conversations without any content are less likely to go anywhere. Your executive suite cares where conversations go- they want them to go toward the bottom line.
Conversation Isn't Enough
Talk is cheap. Conversation is ephemeral, substanceless, too easy, not as valuable. Quantity conversation doesn't make up for lack of quality content. And yes, content is harder to do than conversation.
You have to create value with content. This is why books are valued. This is why people love infographics- they look valuable and usually they are valuable. It's not easy to do, because it's hard to create value out of nothing.
Quality content creates better conversations. If your search and social popularity aren't great, you may not have enough content, or your content may not be good enough for people to care about.
If They Aren't Talking To You, You're Invisible
I hope you paid attention to Facebook marketing in 2010 and 2011, because even being generous to Twitter in estimating its active user base, Facebook reaches at least four times as many people. You probably heard about EdgeRank, the algorithm Facebook uses to filter what posts people see in their newsfeed.
Do you know only three percent of fans ever return to your business's facebook page after liking it?
Are you aware your Facebook page fans, if they aren't liking and commenting on your posts, will stop seeing your posts?
Did you know the average Facebook page reaches just 17 percent of its fans?
The average page's posts are not being seen by 83 percent of their fans.
Mediocre engagement leads to horrible visibility.
We must get more likes and comments on our Facebook posts if we want more of our fans to see them. We already wanted more retweets and clicks so we could demonstrate an impressive number of visits to websites from social media.
Now we need to go figure out what content is most engaging and viral, figure out why that content works, and then reproduce that success. We need to use tools such as Infinigraph to discover what content is working best for us and our competitors.
Then we need to monitor which content creates the most leads and sales for the company, because controversy doesn't necessarily create sales. Oh shoot- this social media thing has to be connected to direct marketing and sales? Is it PR or is it marketing? I'm not sure there's a line anymore. Everyone needs to learn new skills.
Start Caring About Which Content Is Most Engaging and Viral
Google's "Search Plus Your World" makes all search results more social. You're more likely to see search results for things your friends have shared or created. One of the biggest effects this will have in the next couple years is to move more of the search experts away from link building and more toward content creation.
These guys live on analytics. They get off on turning a 250 percent ROI campaign into a 700 percent ROI campaign. They'll bring their nerdy analytics focus to the task and make sure the content they share gets lots of tweets, likes, plus-ones, shares, and comments. In other words, if you don't get quantitative about your content, these geeks are going to beat the pants off you.
Brian Carter is the author of the bestselling books The Like Economy: How Businesses Make Money With Facebook and Facebook Marketing: Leveraging Facebook's Features For Your Marketing Campaigns (3rd edition).
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35 Comments on "Is Content More Important than Conversation?"
@ginidietrich @briancarter the Content In the Conversation driven by activ responsive listening, it's not Either/Or but And not pre-recorded
Good stuff to think about. Content should create conversation. But then conversation becomes content.
Though I've found most of EdgeRank's data to be horribly low, mostly because of the terms they use when defining engagement.
@KenMueller You mean likes, comments, shares, clicks? What else would you want to see included in EdgeRank?
@ginidietrich I spread rumors an innuendos about you all the time. FYI.
@Steveology Funny. I just wrote your phone number in the women's restroom at the hot new club in the Loop
@ginidietrich Thanks for passing on my number. I was wondering where I was getting all those calls from. 🙂
@yourgreatlifetv Where have you been?!?
@ginidietrich Hello Friend, I've been here 🙂 how are you? sending you a big hug. -Bern
@yourgreatlifetv I miss yoU!
@ginidietrich I miss you too my friend let's catch up soon 🙂 sweet dreams -Bern
All you are online is content. Creating content is hard enough and then you have to drive people to that content by becoming an influencer and expert in that area. Then people will start to engage with you. So I would say content is more important than the conversation because you can't have a conversation around nothing.
I worst though is when I comment on an article, facebook page or even @reply someone and don't hear back from them. I feel like I'm yelling at a screen…
@Trace_Cohen@reply I am always listening, Trace… And joking aside, I completely agree. You cannot have a conversation around sub-par content.
@Trace_Cohen I had a visual of you yelling at your computer screen and it made me LOL!
@ginidietrich Hah I have sometimes when I read something and think WTF is this person thinking? In this case, I always find it odd when the writer doesn't comment on comments… such a waste and discourages me from ever commenting again. But Brian did reply, so I will be back!
@Trace_Cohen@reply I am here for you, Trace
@BrianCarter Thanks! I would actually love your thoughts on something I'm working on that is completely centered around content that creates conversation.
@lamiki @briancarter @Spinsucks – wouldn't the most important thing be content -> conversion? btw. I love abracadabra. as a side note.
@ProfessorKScrog Thanks for the RT! Thought it was a great post.
@jsperber @philbaumann slightly circular = ovoid? swirly?
@briancarter @PhilBaumann ha – I'd go with ovoid. Perhaps Apollonian.
I dig that. I think content is how you get into the conversation that already exists. No need to manufacture a new one. Listen. Find pain. Create a pill for the pain in the form of content. Insert pill into conversation. Listen to how the content curves the conversation towards you (or not). Rinse. Listen. Repeat.
@Tinu I like that 🙂 Only exception I can think of is problems we have that people have yet to really voice. Rare, but possible.
@BrianCarter I can think of another – problems people have that they don't talk about. Not in the embarrassing sense of "could this be more than a bladder infection". More in the "I have a guy I order my jet engine parts from" sense.Not that I've ever, EVER ordered jet engine parts.
I went over to "the" book review to copy and paste something from it for my comment. But I just couldn't do it. That guy is a tool and nothing about it makes my comment more funny.
I agree with @Trace_Cohen . You can't have a conversation without compelling content. Take us for instance. NO ONE was talking about us three years ago. Then we started creating content people want and suddenly we're playing in the same ballpark as the big agencies. There would still be no conversation without the content.
@ginidietrich @Trace_Cohen Thanks for not quoting the tool. SpinSucks definitely does not suck.
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Conversation can become content. It doesn't necessarily have to begin with a video, infographic, photo, blog post, etc. It can just be a conversation. That can then fuel someone to create a piece of content. Also I think all this thinking about content creation creates a never ending loop crappiness. Just look at all those infographics out there. How many can you honestly say are valuable?
@AnnTran_ @infinigraph @SpinSucks @ChaseMcMichael may be conversation creates a real content? #smw12
@idale @DonoWhite definalty ! need to have a reason for a fan to come back. Not a case of "build it and they will come"
@Liron_Segev precisely. @donowhite
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Leonard Eickman
November 29, 1916 - March 21, 2006
Leonard Eickman, age 89, of Fonda, died Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge.
Funeral Services were held on Monday, March 27, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church in Fonda, with Father Thomas Hart as celebrant at the Mass of Christian Burial. Burial was in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Fonda under the direction of the Mahaney Funeral Home in Fonda.
Friends called on Sunday, March 26, at the Mahaney Funeral Home in Fonda, where a parish vigil service was also held that evening.
Leonard Joseph Eickman was born to Anton and Mary (Richter) Eickman of Halbur, Iowa on November 29, 1916. He grew up on the family farm and attended St. Augustine School in Halbur, where he graduated from the 8th grade in 1931.
In 1935, the family moved to a farm four miles east of Fonda. Leonard worked on the farm and also worked out shelling corn, trucking, and working on the Dahlin's potato farms.
In 1946, they moved into Fonda. Leonard worked at the Quaker Oats elevator, and later at Thompson's Machine Shop. After his retirement he drove a school bus for the Fonda Community Schools. He was a member of the Fonda Volunteer Fire Department for 20 years.
Leonard's favorite hobby was fishing and for many years a trip to the Lake of the Woods in Canada was an annual summer event.
He was well-known for his good nature and sense of humor. He was the family historian, amazing everyone with his ability to recall details.
Leonard is survived by two sisters: Rose Eickman of Fonda and Sister Maristella Eickman of Cincinnati, Ohio. Also surviving are his nieces and nephews: David Rohlk of Cherokee, Iowa; Patricia (Ken) Yeggy of Iowa City, Iowa; Kathleen (Mark) Weishaar of Malvern, Pennsylvania; Janet (Mike) Healy of Marshall, Minnesota; Sally (Jack) Sauter of Rancho Mirage, California; Jim (Cathy) Eickman of Mountain Home, Arkansas; and twelve great-nieces and great-nephews.
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Marjorie M. Johnson, the daughter of Melvin and Elsie (Stokes) Johnson was born June 19, 1927 in Curlew, Iowa. On August 1, 1946 she was united in marriage with Keith Cross at the Methodist Church in Mallard. The couple lived in rural Mallard until 1957. Then spent years in Estherville and Storm Lake before moving to Mallard in 1966. Marjorie worked at various cafe's during her life. She also worked at Berkley and Company in Emmetsburg.
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Jaws is a fictional assassin in the James Bond media franchise with stainless steel teeth. He first appeared in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and made a subsequent appearance in 1979's Moonraker. The character was played by the late actor Richard Kiel.
An obvious reference to the 1975 horror/thriller film of the same name, Jaws gets his name both from his enormous size and strong metal teeth that could bite through virtually anything. During filming, Kiel would only wear the metal teeth for a few minutes because they hurt his mouth.
Film biography
Jaws first appeared in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me as a henchman to the villain, Karl Stromberg. He would later appear in the sequel Moonraker as a henchman to the villain Hugo Drax. However, in this second appearance, his character was changed from that of a ruthless and unstoppable killing machine to more of a comedy figure. He eventually turns against Drax and helps Bond to defeat him, and also gains a girlfriend.
"Well, here's to us." (Jaws first and final line to girlfriend Dolly)
In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws battled a shark and won, had an entire construction scaffold collapse on top of him, drove a car off a cliff into someone's roof, and fell off a moving train and survived. Furthermore, in Moonraker, Jaws survives a fall from an airplane without a parachute in the opening credits; later in the movie, he survives a high-speed crash of a tramway car in Rio de Janeiro and a fall from a Brazilian waterfall (shot at Iguassu Falls). After every accident, a signature move by Jaws is to get up, dust himself off, and walk away.
In addition to having steel teeth, Jaws was also 7 feet, 2 inches (2.18 m) tall for 315 pounds (142 kgs). He is also extremely strong, which forced Bond to be especially inventive while fighting him. In combat, Bond found himself caught in an unbreakable death grip by Jaws, who was about to fatally bite him; Bond only escaped by using a broken electric lamp to send an electric shock through the assassin's teeth to stun him. Jaws also has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly completely unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again.
In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives a battle underwater with a shark and the destruction of Stromberg's lair. Most notably, in Moonraker he survives falling several thousand feet without a parachute (granted, he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze net), a crash through a building on top of a runaway cable car, and falling off a waterfall, as well as the destruction of most of Drax's space station. He has fantastic skills in unarmed combat, combining his steel teeth, his tremendous strength with several highly complex martial arts moves. Along with Baron Samedi, Oddjob and Tee Hee, Jaws is perhaps the most iconic James Bond henchman in the franchise, and one of several characters who have creative appearances, deaths, fighting styles and relationships with other characters. He is exceedingly sadistic and psychopathic, smiling when he kills people and fights James Bond. He has almost reckless in his efforts to overpower his enemies and doesn't take in his surroundings, notably what could be used to defeat him.
Jaws' jaws are his weakness as well as his signature weapon. They are highly susceptible to magnetism, electricity and heat. They are also incredibly durable, able to withstand a bullet, an explosion and several direct punches. This also renders him unable to communicate with others.
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Most of the background information on Jaws comes from Christopher Wood's novelisation of the film The Spy Who Loved Me, called James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me so as to differentiate from Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. In Wood's novel, Jaws's real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki and he was born in Kraków, Poland. Krycsiwiki was arrested by the secret police for his part in the "1972 bread riots". While imprisoned the police "beat him with hollow steel clubs encased in thick leather" until they thought he was dead leaving his jaw broken beyond repair. Krycsiwiki later escaped and stowed aboard one of Stromberg's vessels. Eventually he was caught; however, instead of turning him in Stromberg hired a prestigious doctor to create an artificial jaw. After 14 operations Krycsiwiki's jaw was restored using steel components that created two rows of terrifying razor-sharp teeth. The result of the artificial jaw left Jaws a mute.
Since none of the above is actually mentioned in either movie, this is not necessarily considered canon. Wood contradicts his own continuity when one compares his scripts and his novelisations; in the novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me Wood specifically states that Jaws is a mute. Yet, in the film, Moonraker, he speaks, although in the novelisation James Bond and Moonraker, Jaws remains a mute. For the films, it is possible Jaws might have somehow regained the ability to speak between the two adventures, but there is nothing on screen or in literary form to suggest how this might have occurred.
One thing to also note is that Jaws was originally supposed to have been killed in the finale of James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, when Jaws encounters Stromberg's shark. The scene in the novelisation is ambiguous in that the blood mentioned could have been interpreted as either Jaws' or the shark's. Jaws at the time was technically attached to a magnet and dipped into the tank, unlike the film in which Bond releases Jaws from the magnet into the tank.
- "Now both hands were tearing at the magnet, and Jaws twisted furiously like a fish on the hook. As Bond watched in fascinated horror, a relentless triangle streaked up behind the stricken giant. A huge gray force launched itself through the wild water, and two rows of white teeth closed around the threshing flesh."
- ― Christopher Wood.
It has been stated that in the initial script, the film concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark; however, after a rough test screening including Lewis Gilbert's grandson, Jaws was so well liked that the scene was changed to have Jaws live. Jaws was later brought back in the film Moonraker and Christopher Wood's follow up novelisation of Moonraker, entitled James Bond and Moonraker.
Video-game appearances
Jaws, likely being the most popular of the henchmen and characters in the James Bond franchise, has appeared in three video games since his last cinematic appearance in Moonraker. His first appearance was in the 1993 Sega Megadrive game The Duel, where he appears multiple times, and also as the final opponent of the game. His second appearance would be in 1997, in the Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye (video game), in which Jaws — for unknown reasons — is working for Drax Corporation once again in a bonus level. In 2002, he appeared in Nightfire, but only as a multiplayer character.
In 2004, Jaws appeared again in the video game Everything or Nothing, working for the game's villain, Nikolai Diavolo. Richard Kiel is credited, because his face and body was used to create the 3D game model. He recorded no dialogue for the game (only grunts). Jaws makes an appearance in the Goldeneye remake in the multiplayer as a playable character in the splitscreen mode, and on Classic Conflict mode online. He has appeared in game 007 Legends .
Personality & Abilities
Jaws regularly doesn't use firearms, unless attacking from a distance, preferring to use his physical strength and his metal teeth as his weapons. He seems to enjoy tearing out the jugulars of his victims after scaring them half to death. He effectively uses fear as a tactic to make his foes do mistakes, but Jaws also attacks in haste at times thus striking down objects that he shouldn't have struck.
The henchman speaks very rarely although he is fully capable of doing so. Trying to get a bantering dialogue going with him in combat situations is useless. Plus, the likes of Bond will be too busy spending HPs just to survive to try banter. When taking order from his employer Jaws usually just nods and gets going. His intents are usually apparent from his body language. While not too intelligent, he is actually somewhat smarter than people usually give him credit for, and will perform some trickery. There is, at times, a certain slyness about him and his methods - he does use covers and disguises - and underestimating would be a severe mistake. At the same time he exhibits some of the behavior of a child. He has an odd personality and mentality, indeed.
While Jaws mostly does missions solo, he is not above teaming up with other henchmen or even opponents if justified. The death of such temporary compadres doesn't become him the least, always being mission-oriented. He seems to find it amusing that Bond has survived him so many times, and usually greets him with a grin upon meeting him again. He always does what his employers tell him to do (unless they try to have him killed); if that happens he will look after his own interests and ally with former enemies, because as a professional he bears no ill will towards them. Neither will he be part of anything that could lead to the destruction of mankind or the Earth.
This is also an exceptionally strong and tough man. For being such a large man he is very quiet and stealthy, capable of surprising or evading the most perceptive of opponents. His famous bite attack, using his titanium teeth, is strong enough to easily cut through metal chains or men's jugulars. He has something of a knack for finding his targets in very big cities without trouble, probably by using his criminal colleague.
Behind the scenes
Although Ian Fleming had requested that no elements from his original book The Spy Who Loved Me be used in the film series, the novel's antagonists would provide the basis for the characters of Jaws and Sandor. The novel features two thugs named Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morent. Horror is described as having steel-capped teeth, while Sluggsy had a clear bald head.
While Jaws was in two James Bond movies, he actually only had one short line of dialogue. In Moonraker, towards the end of the film, he turns to his girlfriend Dolly and says "Well, here's to us".
Richard Kiel passed away 3 days prior to his 75th birthday.
- Jaws was the second henchman to switch sides in the entire series. The first would be Ladislav Kutze. He's also the only other Bond villain apart from Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Mr. White to appear in more than one film.
- Bond punched Jaws in the mouth in The Spy Who Loved Me but it seems that he totally forgot about it in Moonraker when he did it again and both times it did not affect Jaws.
- In the final credits sequence of the 1999 film Inspector Gadget, Dr. Claw's assistant is shown attending a "Minion Recovery Group". Richard Kiel is one of the participants (along with Oddjob and Nick Nack) and is billed in the credits as 'Famous Guy with Metal Teeth'.
- Jaws also appears to be immune to being kicked in the crotch; when Bond tried it, Jaws didn't react. Instead we hear a clanging sound and Bond appears to have hurt his foot.
- Richard Kiel played a very similar character — complete with strange teeth — in the 1976 comedy Silver Streak.
- A similar character to Jaws appears in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. King Bulbin is extremely powerful, wielding one of the most powerful enemy weapons in the game, not flinching when Link damages him with his sword, surviving two falls off a bridge and taking a lot of damage from Link. He doesn't speak until his final fight with Link, after which he switches sides.
- In the animated TV series, Darkwing Duck, Steelbeak, a rooster was inspired by Jaws. His beak, like Jaws' teeth are coated in stainless metal that can tear through anything.


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The weird and wacky move was put together for Innocence en Danger, an international nonprofit organization, devoted to the combat of sexual abuse of children.
Though the original campaign was initially intended for print advertising, the effort has caused such a stir (in a good way) that it has gone viral on social media sites such as Twitter. It is also featured on Facebook.
According to Jamie Standen, creative director at Rosapark, the idea behind the creative idea was to show the disturbing reality that could lie behind the fun emoji in a child's chatbox. As the tagline on the ads question/ warn: "who's really chatting online with your child?"
"When a predator makes contact with a child online, they will first try to gain the child's trust. They might even try and pass themselves off as another child, and they will do this by speaking the same online language. As we know, emoji are a major part of our online language," he says.
Given the emoji campaign's good intentions, perhaps any negative comment on these eerie images should be kept to oneself? I know that the top tounge-out wifebeater-wearer image is enough to put me off of using emoticons for a while!
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Federico II University of Naples, Italy
My main research interest is Visual Analytics (VA), which has beed defined as "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces" [Thomas and Cook, 2005]. I aim at designing, developing, and validating novel VA techniques to help people analyse complex real-world problems and make sense of big data, by intertwining the immense computing power of machines and the non-replicable perceptual and cognitive capabilities of humans.
In particular, I am interested in VA of large, multivariate, time-oriented, relational data in diverse application domains, such as, for example, social science and medical informatics.
I have been reviewing for several journals (IEEE Transactions on Visualisation and Computer Graphics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Computer Graphics Forum) and conferences (CHI, EuroVA, EuroVis, InfoVis, IVAPP, PacificVis, SIGGRAPH, SouthCHI, VAST).
MobiGuide (MG) will develop a patient guidance system that integrates hospital and monitoring data into a Personal Health Record (PHR) accessible by patients and care providers and provide personalized secure clinical-guideline-based guidance also outside clinical environments. MG's ubiquity will be achieved by having a Decision Support System (DSS) at the back end, and on the front end by utilizing Body Area Network (BAN) technology and developing a coordinated light-weight DSS that can operate independently. Personalization will be achieved by considering patient preferences and context. Retrospective data analysis will be used to assess compliance and to indicate care pathways shown to be beneficial for certain patient context.
MG will be validated on pre-selected clinical domains with intensive vs. sparse monitoring to demonstrate the generality of the design and assess functionality, feasibility, and impact. MG addresses EU priorities: increasing patient safety, ubiquituous secure access to health care, patient empowerment, developing a common platform for healthcare services, and competitiveness of Europe.
The time is right for MG in view of Europe's vast interest in national PHRs and patient empowerment. MG will leverage this momentum to create a solution that goes beyond local proprietary and stand-alone EMR, DSS, and BAN.
The EXPAND project addresses highly topical challenges of visual analytics methods in the patent data domain. Aiming on a genuinely dynamical framework for visual analysis and knowledge crystallization, radically new concepts and methods have to be developed to unlock the potential of patent network data, which is characterized by its continuous and event based nature, its richness of attributes and its large scale.
While these objectives are ranging high on a scientific and technological research agenda, a user-centred design and evaluation approach will ensure the practical utility and usability of the intended methods and concepts, which will be bundled and evaluated in form of a research prototype.
The advancement and future implementation of the prototype into the business partners IT service portfolio will guarantee the exploitation of results as well as the strengthening of economic advantage in the strategic business intelligence market.
Due to the proliferating capabilities to generate and collect vast amounts of data and information we face the challenge that users and analysts get lost in irrelevant, or otherwise inappropriately processed or presented information. This phenomenon, commonly known as information deluge, overwhelms traditional methods of data analysis such as spreadsheets, ad-hoc queries, or simple visualizations. At the same time, intelligent usage of increasingly available data offers great opportunities to promote technological progress and business success. On this score, Visual Analytics is an emerging research discipline developing methods and technology that make the best possible use of huge information loads in a wide variety of applications. The basic idea is to appropriately combine the strengths of both, computers' and humans' information processing capabilities. To make complex information structures more comprehensible, facilitate new insights, and enable knowledge discovery, methods of visualization, intelligent data analysis, and mining form a symbiosis with the human user via interactive visual interfaces.
The goals of the Centre of Visual Analytics Science and Technology (CVAST) are twofold. The first goal is the integration of the outstanding capabilities of humans in terms of visual information exploration with the enormous processing power of computers to form a powerful knowledge discovery environment. The second goal is to scientifically assess the usability and utility of such discovery environments while bridging the gap between theory and practice for selected application scenarios.
Application scenarios that involve temporal properties are in the focus of our scientific interest. Time - in contrast to other quantitative data dimensions that are usually "flat" - has an inherent structure and distinct characteristics (calendar aspect, natural and social aspects, etc.) which increase its complexity dramatically and demand specialized Visual Analytics methods in order to support proper analysis and visualization. Our expected results will be Innovative, user-oriented, and task-specific Visual Analytics methods and tools with an assessment of their usability and utility. These methods will be used intertwinedly and iteratively to ease the explorative information discovery processes.
Collaboration is the way work gets done in organisations. Therefore networks of different types, functions and compositions have become an inevitable precondition of organisational performance in the modern corporate world. However, these networks are not static, but changing over time. Organisational analysts such as consultants, enterprise analysts, and strategic and human resource managers are seeking for appropriate tools and methods supporting the information discovery processes of these dynamic networks and the underlying data. In particular, interactive visual and analytic methods to explore the dynamic properties of underlying structures are required to provide empirically grounded decision support for organisational analysts.
To meet these demands the proposed project "Visual Enterprise Network Analytics" (VIENA) takes on the method of Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) whose potential for applied use in enterprises is well known. To unlock this potential also to non-domain experts two associated fields of research are leveraged: namely Visual Analytics and Usability Engineering. A constant focus on usability will assure the development of a user-centred software prototype and an intuitive GUI, while the Visual Analytics components will allow the radically new interactive exploration of dynamic network data sets and the retrieval of relevant information. VIENA facilitates the (semi-)automatic analysis of teams and organisations over different periods of time.
The heterogeneous dynamical data and information sets which get structured, semantically annotated, and visualised by DNA methods get additionally processed using innovative Visual Analytics methods. The aimed integration of selected research prototypes into the industrial partner's business software environment will allow real-user testing and assessments from the application and utility point of view.
In this page I maintain an (almost) updated list of my publications, including downloadable preprints as well as links to definitive published versions on the websites of the respective publishers.
A list including supervised theses / academic works can be automatically generated from the publication database of the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien here.
A number of studies have investigated different ways of visualizing uncertainty. However, in the temporal dimension, it is still an open question how to best represent uncertainty, since the special characteristics of time require special visual encodings and may provoke different interpretations. Thus, we have conducted a comprehensive study comparing alternative visual encodings of intervals with uncertain start and end times: gradient plots, violin plots, accumulated probability plots, error bars, centered error bars, and ambiguation. Our results reveal significant differences in error rates and completion time for these different visualization types and different tasks. We recommend using ambiguation - using a lighter color value to represent uncertain regions - or error bars for judging durations and temporal bounds, and gradient plots - using fading color or transparency - for judging probability values.
The advanced visualization of electronic health records (EHRs), supporting a scalable analysis from single patients to cohorts, intertwining patient conditions with executed treatments, and handling the complexity of time-oriented data, is an open challenge of visual analytics for health care. We propose an approach that, according to the knowledge-assisted visualization paradigm, leverages the domain knowledge acquired by clinical experts and formalized into computer-interpretable guidelines, in order to improve the automated analysis, the visualization, and the interactive exploration of EHRs of patient cohorts. In this way, the analyst can get insights about the clinical history of multiple patients and assess the effectiveness of their health care treatments.
Patents, archived as large collections of semi-structured text documents, contain valuable information about historical trends and current states of R&D fields, as well as performances of single inventors and companies. Specific methods are needed to unlock this information and enable its insightful analysis by investors, executives, funding agencies, and policy makers. In this position paper, we propose an approach based on modelling patent repositories as multivariate temporal networks, and examining them by the means of specific visual analytics methods. We illustrate the potential of our approach by discussing two use-cases: the determination of emerging research fields in general and within companies, as well as the identification of inventors characterised by different temporal paths of productivity.
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Large multivariate time-oriented networks have been gaining an increasing relevance in different domains. In order to support Visual Analytics processes on this kind of data, appropriate storage and retrieval methods are needed that take into account the scale, dimensionality, and in particular the complex nature of time. We introduce TimeGraph, a data management framework consisting of a data model and two levels of abstraction. TimeGraph captures both the topology of networks and the inherent structure of time into a property graph data structure, and transparently handles them by graph-based operations. TimeGraph aims to be an expressive, easy-to-use and extensible framework, enabling data reduction by selection and aggregation over both the temporal and the topological properties of data, to foster interactive visualization and analysis.
In several application fields, the joint visualization of quantitative data and qualitative abstractions can help analysts make sense of complex time series data by associating precise numeric values with corresponding domain-specific interpretations, such as good, bad, high, low, normal. At the same time, the need to analyse large multivariate time-oriented datasets often calls for keeping visualizations as compact as possible. In this paper, we introduce Qualizon Graphs, a compact visualization that combines quantitative data and qualitative abstractions. It is based on the well known Horizon Graphs, but instead of a predefined number of equally sized bands, it uses as many bands as qualitative categories with corresponding different sizes. In this way, Qualizon Graphs increase the data density of visualized quantitative values and inherently integrate qualitative abstractions. A user study shows that Qualizon Graphs are as fast and accurate as Horizon Graphs for quantitative data, and are an alternative to state-of-the-art visualizations for both quantitative and qualitative data, enabling a trade-off between speed and accuracy.
The analysis of dynamic network data has become an increasingly relevant research issue, showing a high potential for applied use in organizations. To unlock its potential also for the target user group of non-domain experts, we introduce a software prototype, which provides different views on network dynamics, intertwining network analytical measures with options of visual exploration. To demonstrate, how this approach can provide new access to questions of knowledge management and accessibility, a case study of a university department will be discussed. By combining multi-relational data of communication networks with attribute data of individual knowledge domains, we show how essential knowledge and change management issues can be reframed from a social network perspective and further developed towards integrated applications in organizations.
Clinical guidelines provide recommendations in the form of applicable actions in a specific clinical context. Computer Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) aim to achieve guideline integration into clinical practice to increase health care quality. Analyzing the compliance with a CIG can facilitate the implementation and assist in the design of CIGs, but to help medical experts in the detection of patterns in the wealth of the data is a challenging task. We suggest an approach based on visual analytics, intertwining interactive visualization and automated data analysis i.e. analysis of compliance with a CIG. Our solution covers highlighting and abstraction for time-oriented patient parameters, and aggregation of repeatedly missing actions into intervals; in addition valid, invalid, and missing actions are represented visually. Furthermore, we discuss a case study showing how the applied techniques can assist in the detection of interesting patterns.
In recent years, the analysis of dynamic network data has become an increasingly prominent research issue. While several visual analytics techniques with the focus on the examination of temporal evolving networks have been proposed in recent years, their effectiveness and utility for end users need to be further analyzed. When dealing with techniques for dynamic network analysis, which integrate visual, computational, and interactive components, users become easily overwhelmed by the amount of information displayed-even in case of small sized networks. Therefore we evaluated visual analytics techniques for dynamic networks during their development, performing intermediate evaluations by means of mock-up and eye-tracking studies and a final evaluation of the running interactive prototype, tracing three pathways of development in detail: The first one focused on the maintenance of the user s mental map throughout changes of network structure over time, changes caused by user interactions, and changes of analytical perspectives. The second one addresses the avoidance of visual clutter, or at least its moderation. The third pathway of development follows the implications of unexpected user behaviour and multiple problem solving processes. Aside from presenting solutions based on the outcomes of our evaluation, we discuss open and upcoming problems and set out new research questions.
The visual exploration and analysis of time-oriented data in healthcare are important yet challenging tasks. This position paper presents six challenges for Visual Analytics in healthcare: (1) scale and complexity of time-oriented data, (2) intertwining patient condition with treatment processes, (3) scalable analysis from single patients to cohorts, (4) data quality and uncertainty, (5) interaction, user interfaces, and the role of users, and (6) evaluation. Furthermore, it portrays existing and future work by the authors tackling these challenges.
The visualization and analysis of dynamic social networks are challenging problems, demanding the simultaneous consideration of relational and temporal aspects. In order to follow the evolution of a network over time, we need to detect not only which nodes and which links change and when these changes occur, but also the impact they have on their neighbourhood and on the overall relational structure. Aiming to enhance the perception of structural changes at both the micro and the macro level, we introduce the change centrality metric. This novel metric, as well as a set of further metrics we derive from it, enable the pairwise comparison of subsequent states of an evolving network in a discrete-time domain. Demonstrating their exploitation to enrich visualizations, we show how these change metrics support the visual analysis of network dynamics.
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A well-designed visualization of dynamic networks has to support the analysis of both temporal and relational fea- tures at once. In particular to solve complex synoptic tasks, the users need to understand the topological structure of the network, its evolution over time, and possible interde- pendencies. In this paper, we introduce the application of the vertigo zoom interaction technique, derived from film- making, to information visualizations. When applied to a two-and-a-half-dimensional view, this interaction technique enables smooth transitions between the relational perspec- tive (node-link diagrams and scatter plots) and the time per- spective (trajectories and line charts), supporting a seamless visual analysis and preserving the user´s mental map.
Despite its well-known potential for applied use in organizations, social network analysis seems to fail relevant business analytical requirements in the areas of organizational change and software usability for non-expert users like managers and consultants. This position paper takes on this challenge by outlining a strategy of user-driven software development which aims to shift analytical procedures from the numerical to the visual realm. As network dynamics can be visualized using various methods, a comparative analysis of their respective strengths and weaknesses lays the basis for the suggested integration of additional visual methods into network exploration and interpretation procedures.
The visualization and analysis of dynamic networks have become increasingly important in several fields, for instance sociology or economics. The dynamic and multi-relational nature of this data poses the challenge of understanding both its topological structure and how it changes over time. In this paper we propose a visual analytics approach for analyzing dynamic networks that integrates: a dynamic layout with user-controlled trade-off between stability and consistency; three temporal views based on different combinations of node-link diagrams (layer superimposition, layer juxtaposition, and two-and-a-half dimensional view); the visualization of social network analysis metrics; and specific interaction techniques for tracking node trajectories and node connectivity over time. This integration of visual, interactive, and automatic methods supports the multifaceted analysis of dynamically changing networks.
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Top 3rd Person Shooter Games of All-Time
Gameranx takes a look at 30 of the best 3rd person shooter games of all time with titles that champion the genre's greatest qualities.
February 17, 2016 Update: This list has been updated with several upcoming games that promise to be the best the genre has ever seen. It includes titles for the PC, Xbox One and PS4. We've subsequently reordered this list to make more sense.
3rd person shooter games aren't as numerous as their first person counterparts, but they remain no less visceral despite the detachment from the character's point of view. If anything, the third person viewpoint lends more familiarity to the characters under your control—by giving you a tangible character with whom to relate.
In a third person shooter, you see your character from over the shoulder, directing their movement from a viewpoint outside of their own. The perspective allows players to have a full view of the character's surroundings and works particularly well for games in which stealth is a key element, and any game with climbing or platforming. It's a lot less disorienting to watch a character scale a wall from behind than it is to view something like that in first person, where all you can see is the wall directly in front of you.
With that in mind, let's take a look at some of the greatest games in the third person shooter genre of all time.
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Crackdown 3 promises to be everything the previous game in the series wasn't. It offers fully destructible environments and devastation on a level like no other game before it. Entire structures can come collapsing down in a way that we haven't seen since Red Faction Guerrilla, which is also further up on this list.


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expansive, rambling
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