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Billed as "the computer anyone can make," the US$99 Kano kit supplies a Raspberry Pi computer board with the various accouterments (save for a display) required to make it into a complete computer. The Kano programming language uses graphic code blocks to implement a simple but powerful language reminiscent of BASIC. Read More
The skills involved in programming are in many ways a lesson in life. Coding requires both logical and creative thinking which in turn leads to a greater ability to solve problems. Technology is shaping our world and our future and understanding computers and coding is an integral part of that future. Tynker, a California based education company aims to teach your kids programming using a visual platform and is targeting 8-14 year olds with a 16 week course that promises both fun and learning. Read More
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Parkour is all about hurling yourself quickly and efficiently past whatever obstacles are in your path while maintaining as much momentum as possible. It's a challenge for humans, so how would robots fare? In an effort to push the boundaries of robotic agility, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania decided to find out by teaching their RHex robot some Parkour moves. Read More
If, like me, you've always found ping pong a little lacking in flashing lights, Pingtime, an augmented reality project created for the 2013 Rokolectiv Festival in Bucharest, may just take your fancy. Conceived by Sergiu Doroftei, the arts project augments an ordinary table tennis table with projections and sounds by equipping the paddles with sensors and using an infrared camera to track the ball. Read More
They say that one of the most effective ways of teaching someone a skill is to turn it into a game. Well, that's just what a team at the University of California, San Diego have done with their CodeSpells video game – it teaches its players how to use the Java programming language. Read More
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When it comes to the diminutive robot kits you find at hobby stores, most have what can only be described as a primitive sense of balance. If, however, you happen to be an expert roboticist like Dr. Guero (aka Masahiko Yamaguchi), then it's surprising how much can be squeezed out of these pet projects with the right programming. His latest trick is to have his robot balance on a pair of nail-like stilts, which you can see it do after the break. Read More
After a handful of days of furtive suggestion, spring made its presence felt in London today, where the second Technology Frontiers conference got underway. The Economist-organized event sees leading technologists and cultural figures take to the podium to beclue and/or befuddle some 250 ideas-thirsty businesspersons. Among them was Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton, who proved to be one of the day's most lucid speakers. He went into some detail as to the inception of the Raspberry Pi and the need for more computer programmers. Read More
Philip M. Parker, a marketing professor at INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration), has written and patented a system that uses an algorithm to automatically compile data into book form. Between his works and those of his research group (ICON Group International), he has over 900,000 books currently for sale on Amazon. More than a smart search engine, his system only requires a few minutes or a few hours to scan the databases relevant to any given topic and organize that data into a technical report. Next stop? Romance novels. Read More
Slingshot controller made just for Angry Birds
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani intelligence officials say suspected U.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house near the Afghan border, killing seven alleged militants.
The officials say the strike came early Tuesday morning in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area. The suspected militants killed were mostly affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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Intel gives up on TV set-top boxesPUBLISHED: 22 Jan 2014 10:59:48 | UPDATED: 23 Jan 2014 07:31:38PUBLISHED: 22 Jan 2014 PRINT EDITION: 23 Jan 2014
Reports have suggested that Verizon paid Intel less than $US200 million for the division it sprouted to develop a set-top box for televisions. Photo: Bloomberg
Intel's effort to battle TiVo and other Silicon Valley companies for control of American living rooms ended on Tuesday, when the chipmaker announced it is selling a division sprouted to develop a set-top box for televisions to cable operator Verizon.
The companies did not announce an acquisition price for Intel Media, though Bloomberg News reported that Verizon paid less than $US200 million ($226 million), based on two anonymous sources.
The division launched in 2011 to focus on offering an a-la-carte option for television content, with live shows and previously screened content easily accessible through one, internet-based component. After reportedly striking out in efforts to line up deals with content providers, however, Intel will turn the project over to a traditional cable company that already has those connections.
"The critical factor in gaining efficient access to content is based on your ability to scale quickly in subscribers and end users, which is why selling these assets to Verizon makes perfect sense, with its millions of FiOS network and wireless customers," Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in Tuesday's announcement.
Reports about the service, eventually dubbed OnCue, first surfaced in March 2012 in The Wall Street Journal, but they were just a rumour until Erik Huggers, the head of Intel Media, announced at the AllThingsDigital conference last February that the company intended to debut its product in 2013.
Mr Huggers said at the time that Intel was seeking to offer "a bundle that can be curated by the consumer", with the set-top box likely containing a camera that would recognise users and gestures; Intel acquired Israeli gesture-recognition company Omek Interactive in July, a move thought to be related to the Intel Media effort.
Mr Krzanich, who took over the company in May from previous CEO Paul Otellini, has not seemed enthusiastic about the project, though, telling Reuters in November, "We're being cautious."
"We're experts in silicon, we're experts in mobility, in driving Moore's law," Mr Krzanich said then, "but we are not experts in the content industry and we're being careful."
Intel built up the team behind Mr Huggers to roughly 350 employees, and those workers will be offered employment with Verizon to stay in Santa Clara under the management of the current team, the companies said in Tuesday's news release.
"The OnCue platform and team will help Verizon bring next-generation video services to audiences who increasingly expect to view content when, where and how they want it," Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said.
Several Silicon Valley companies have sought to disrupt the traditional cable industry in the ways content is delivered to consumers, with TiVo's digital-video-recorder technology eventually being accepted by the industry and Netflix's streaming service still considered a rival. Apple has offered its Apple TV set-top dongle for many years, with rumours of a full TV set or more involved offering around almost as long, and Google has moved from its smart-TV effort to Chromecast, which allows users to beam streaming services directly to a television.
Intel stock dropped 1 per cent to $US25.59 in Tuesday's session on Wall Street. The world's largest semiconductor company announced last week that revenues declined in 2013 from 2012's total and predicted little to no revenue gains in 2014.
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Dubbed Project Nim, the experiment was the brainchild of Herbert S. Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia University. His goal was to teach a chimpanzee American Sign Language in order to refute Noam Chomsky's assertion that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim Chimpsky, the baby chimp at the center of this ambitious, potentially groundbreaking study, was "adopted" by one of Dr. Terrace's graduate students and brought home to live with her and her large family.
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Aaron Gwin vince a Mountain Creek – Pro GRT 2
Seconda tappa del Pro GRT 2012 ieri a Mountain Creek. Grande risultato per il team Trek World Racing che conquista il gradino più alto del podio con Aaron Gwin ed il secondo posto con Justin Leov. Terzo posto per Phil Kmetz. Piccolo infortunio per Neko Mulally durante le prove che gli è costato la partenza per la finale. Fortunatamente si tratta di una distorsione che probabilmente non comprometterà la partecipazione del rider alla prossima tappa di world cup in Val di Sole in programma fra due settimane. In basso il comiunicato ufficiale Trek World Racing.
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Last weekend and this coming weekend sees back to back rounds of the Pro GRT on the East Coast of the USA, which all three DH riders from Trek World Racing are supporting. Yesterday saw the riders at Mountain Creek, at Vernon, New Jersey, home of the former US Open, and now the new Mountain Creek Bike Park which Aaron Gwin had the honor of officially opening on Saturday.
The event still carries a great prize purse and the fans are always vocal and big in number. Aaron qualified fastest on Saturday with a 2m 13secs, but Neko Mulally was a non-starter after injuring his ankle in a training incident. Perhaps best characterized as a serious sprain, the injury means that Neko was best to opt out of racing until he can put his weight back on the foot, most likely next week. Here's what he said:
"I stuffed my foot into the ground and twisted my ankle pretty bad. My foot slipped off the front of my pedal and planted onto the ground and then my pedal hit the back of my calf and caused my ankle to hyper-extend. I plan to keep the weight off it and the doctor says it should feel better in a few days. The goal is to be 100% ready for Val di Sole (Italy, World Cup #2), and I'm going to be as smart as I can to make sure that happens. It sucks, I didn't even crash, I just slipped a pedal following Justin. I didn't even lose speed but I just couldn't put weight on it when I got it back on the pedal."
The remaining two riders took to the final and in the super-hot conditions, staying well hydrated was key to getting a great run in. Aaron bettered his qualifier by 3 seconds to take the win in 2m 10secs, and now leads the series. Justin Leov took second with a 2m 14secs, making it a great 1-2 for the team.
Aaron said: "It was a fun weekend here in Vernon. I rode well today and I felt good. It's all building towards Italy and each time I race I feel better and better."
Justin said: "My run was good, after having a 'near season ender' in seeding yesterday, today was all about just having a solid top to bottom run and I achieved that. I will continue to build next week and should be on key for Italy."
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Navigating the Hillary Clinton event at UW on Wednesday
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be signing copies of her new book Hard Choices this Wednesday, June 18th, at the University Bookstore. We anticipate hundreds of people showing up - here's what you need to know to get in, get signed, and get out!
1. She is only signing copies of Hard Choices that have been bought that day, June 18th, from the University Bookstore (in person, no online orders). No other memorabilia will be allowed in for signing, and no one without a book gets through.
2. Copies of Hard Choices bought at the Bookstore will come with an event entry wristband, which is your ticket into the signing at 5 p.m. There are limited copies available, aka a limited amount of wristbands available. The Bookstore opens at 9 a.m. - get there early to ensure you can buy a copy ($38.33 with tax) and get yourself a wristband.
3. No matter how much your Mom wants you to pick up a copy and get it signed for her, you can't! One book per person, one signature per book. In fact, you can't bring anything else in with you - all bags will be checked.
4. Parking is going to be even more awful than usual, so we highly suggest either getting dropped off or taking a bus. If you're going to park in their lot, there's a flat fee of $25 for three hours or more. They're provided a map of all possible parking locations.
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.......... she is not the person to lead this country .. but then again neither was Obumer or Bush ...
She has found herself among naive minds of the progressive order. Trained for decades in our so called institutions of higher indoctrination. Perhaps i should go i need fire starter, a bit expensive but should burn well with all the hot air coming from its pages.
By the way i graduating from there but weeded out the BS from learning. Suppose every good progressive needs a saint.
The Hillary Clinton Event: Also known as 'A Gathering of Commies'. I, uh... won't be attending.
Will someone who attends PLEASE ask her why she  ALWAYS SITS at every event in the past many months!! i wonder if she does have some lingering health issues that cause her to have vertigo or some such malady? I am assuming that she will begin her schtick by saying something like, "I'll just cozy up in this nice chair with my [coffee] and we'll have a personal chat :)"....
Please let me know! I've been curious about this for months now. No one asks the question.
It should be followed by a book burning for those who are so inclined.
By the way, are there tax dollars paying for this visit? As a former first lady, does she have a security force or are we at least off the hook for this one?
I will navigate the event by staying as far away as possible - 5 mile radius minimum.
One more reason to stay out of the city!
Hillary is having a real rough time of it. She's not ready for prime time and is deathly afraid to answer questions about her role as our Sec'y of State, much less her roles as Senator or First Lady. After all, when all is said and done, "What difference does it make!"
Is she gonna talk in some faux Northwest accent to show she's down with The Little People?
I wish those on the Left would stop giving her a hard time about her nine-figure wealth.
Boy...she wants it bad.Â
To start so early at running she must have some real negative internals she needs to turn around, goodness.
She runs a great risk of blunder exposure by such a long act.....Â
You can't navigate anywhere when a major politician is around, everywhere you go you run the risk of stepping in Bulls*it.
Seattle Refined - it will be easy to navigate around the UW this Thursday (title) if the event is on Wednesday (body)!
A chance to meet the next Queen of the United States, after King Obama leaves she is a shoe in.
Why doesn't she travel with Monika????
Actually, I think I would rather have Monikas' autograph......
@Waylander Better than the gathering of idiots you're going too.
@ShellyS Ask Dr. Karl Rove who seems to think he knows so much about her health.
@Diogenes we *should be* only paying for her security. since she's not in office at the moment, she deserves no $ for her book tour. she'll be interviewed tomorrow 3:45 our time by brit bair and greta. may be interesting.
@workingman Just admit it you have issues with women in power.
@workingman She has zero accomplishments. Of course, that didn't stop Obama from getting elected twice.
@King Leer No she won't talk to you like your mom does.
@King Leer Very unfair she has already stated how she struggled from poverty trying to acquire more homes.
@raydawg She is not running yet and not sure what makes you think your some expert anyway.
@raydawg one can only hope
@SomeFunnStuff THANK YOU!!
@SomeFunnStuff Never mind navigating around the UW, the difficult task will be navigating around her hippopotamus size thighs.
By the way, has anyone noticed how old she looks? And that the election is more than two years away? She'll be 68. Just as a comparison, Margaret Thatcher was 54 when she became prime minister.
@barkleydog Better that than another Bush and more unnecessary wars!
@EASTSIDE 1 So funny I forgot to laugh!
@Evergreen @workingman Zero accomplishments?  More like you have zero brain cells.  She traveled the world smoothing over the ruffled feathers Bush left witrh almost every country but the UK.  She helped deescalate the america hating that was the result of Bush and his war mongering cowboy world leadership or lack of.
That is an accomplishment in and of itself.
@Evergreen @workingman Dog and pony shows are the venue for the progressive crowds and besides she looks so presidential. If one looks closely one can see the beads of sweat extruding from her brow  for the lust of power.
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The Fourth of July Fireworks return to the Dam over Lake Oroville. It begins at dark. For more information visit us on our facebook page Lake Oroville Fireworks.
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This is a free event to the public. In Honor of our nation's veteran's half of the Upper Overlook Parking Lot will be reserved for Veteran's. The Native Sons of the Golden West, John Bidwell Parlor # 21 will be on hand to assist the veteran's. Please bring your appropriate ID for a reserved parking space. Please remember that this is an extremely high fire danger year so please be careful. There are NO FIREWORKS ALLOWED in any area including 'Safe and Sane'. There is no BBQ, cooking or grilling allowed except in designated areas. Traffic on top of the Dam will become one-way (going in) at
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On this week of The Bachelorette, it's finally time for the hometown dates! These are the four dates that had Ali in a tizzy all during last week's episodes and who can blame her? Like in real life — which this show rarely ever is — meeting the family can make or break the romantic connections.
RobertoAli travels to Tampa to visit Roberto and she's pretty much so smitten over him that all he has to do is stand there and be charming. So, of course, he goes and puts on a baseball uniform (complete with tight shorts) to play baseball with Ali. She dons one of his old jerseys to practice hitting and fielding and they seem to have a blast on the diamond. Throughout the date, they are very comfortable and easygoing with each other. The two sit on the mound for a breather and Roberto gives Ali one of his old baseball cards from when he played for her hometown team. "Roberto, you're smoking hot," she squeals with delight.
Talk moves towards the family date later in the evening and Ali says she's nervous because she doesn't know anything about his family. Roberto says his mom is passive, but his dad, an ex-Army ranger, is pretty tough (insert big, flashing warning sign here). Later that night, Ali goes to Roberto's house to meet the family, including his dad, mom, sister, brother and sister-in-law. Ali seems to make a very good impression, but Roberto says he's most nervous about his dad. Roberto Sr. says he knows his son is a "big price" and knows that Ali will be happy with him, but wants to know he will be happy with Ali. Aka, why is this crazy reality TV chick good enough for my son?
Ali sits down with Roberto Sr. and tells him of her ambitions to own her own business and become successful. Dad immediately starts questioning her about her commitment to her personal life as well and how she plans to balance family and work. He explains that he knows Roberto is looking for his success too, and that may take them in different directions. However, his dad eventually gives his approval about Ali and the night ends up with some happy dancing.
Chris L.Come on, Chris L., don't let me down now! I have high expectations for this date after Chris L. gave Ali that very special bracelet last week. Chris L. welcomes Ali to Cape Cod, Mass. at the beach he grew up on and with his dog (all together now: awww). Like I've said before, Chris L. is the most normal, so his relationship with Ali hasn't moved as fast as the others. She says she thinks they've just moved out of the friend zone and is excited, and slightly nervous, to see what's next.
They head to his house and immediately his late mother comes up. Ali is moved by all the pictures of her around the home and seems warmed by the fact that they are keeping her memory alive. Being around pictures of Chris' mom and possessions also makes Ali feel closer to him than she's ever felt before and she seems primed to meet the family.
Soon, Ali meets Chris L.'s dad, two brothers, and two sisters-in-law and Ali brings the family wine from their wine tasting in Portugal. As Ali knocks back a few glasses of wine with the family, she realizes his family knows him better than anyone and is excited to get to know Chris L. better through his dad. Chris L.'s dad says Ali and Chris L. have a great commonality — the fact that they both left their jobs to take care of sick loved ones. (Chris L. with his mom and Ali with her grandmother.) Aw, reminds me of Ali's hometown visit with Jake on The Bachelor when she showed him her grandmother's house — so cute! Meanwhile, the sisters-in-law are worried about the competition at this point in the game although they seem to have a genuine relationship.
Later, Chris L.'s dad asks what he would say to his mom about Ali and he says his mom was so intuitive and she would just know they were in love. His dad says no matter what, his mom is up there orchestrating what's happening (another aww moment). At the end of the date, Ali gives two big hugs to his dad and he later says Ali could easily be his future daughter-in-law. The last thing Chris L. shows Ali is a tower by his house and the two share a steamy make-out session.
KirkAli next heads to Green Bay, Wisc. to visit Kirk. One issue is that his mom and dad are divorced and don't speak to each other. Ali sympathizes since her parents are divorced, but also says she's a little interested to see how this unusual dynamic has affected him. Ali visits Kirk's dad house first and — in the absolute creepiest way possible — immediately asks Ali if she wants to go down to his basement. His dad is a taxidermist and Ali is very clearly freaked out by the many, many dead animals. Beyond just animal bodies, Kirk's dad has a freezer full of dead body parts.
Another big problem with Kirk is he has very little experience with long-term relationships, so this is the first girl Kirk's dad has met. Ali asks Kirk's dad if he is really ready to be in a relationship, but Kirk's dad seems to approve of her right away and says his son is definitely ready for the right girl. Kirk and his dad talk about making sure they are on the same page, as the reason Kirk's parents got divorced was simply because they tied the knot too young and they grew apart.
Next up is a visit with Kirk's mom, grandmother and sister. Kirk's sister asks what stood out about Kirk and Ali says he's funny and quirky, citing the scrapbook he gave her early on. In a deep talk outside with his sister a bit later, Kirk says he was formerly only concerned about himself in relationships, but now he's ready to give and receive. Ali sits down with Kirk's mom and she opens up about his illness in college and talks about how she respects her son so much and feels she's finally ready to let him after taking care of him. Kirk later sits down with his mom and she seems to approve of Ali right away just like his dad did. Ali and Kirk seem to have an OK hometown visit, but nothing extraordinary. Plus, it's clear she still has major concerns about his lack of previous long-term relationships.
FrankThe last hometown visit is with Frank in the Windy City. The two kick things off with one of Chicago's famous boat tours. During the tour, the two take goofy pictures, but Ali also brings up that she may be meeting her future-in-laws very soon and Frank seems a little hesitant. He says his parents have some tough questions for her because of the situation, but doesn't seem too worried. Suddenly, Frank's own concerns about the situation come up and he just keeps going on and on about how important this is becoming. He basically says he still only has so much faith that Ali will choose him at each step of the way, but she tells him to just focus on whether she's right for him. Whoever told Frank to be on this show is a big, fat idiot, because he's always complaining about how they don't get to spend enough time together, how he has to share her, how he doesn't have complete faith in her, etc. Not everyone is up for this demanding dating process, and Frank is sure as heck not one of them. Frank says he's not completely sure if Ali is the one or not, and is dying to know what his family thinks about her. Ali is starting to get worried about Frank's concerns too and his lack of trust in their relationship and hopes his family's approval will solidify what the two of them have. I dunno, then what will Frank complain about?
Ali goes to meet Frank's dad, mom, sister and brother-in-law and Frank's parents seem pretty great right off the bat. His parents have a great sense of humor and ask very open and honest questions about their relationship (but questions that aren't too nosy). Frank's mom takes Ali outside and compliments Ali for settling in so quickly. Frank's sister is keen to Frank's doubts, but Ali tells her it's because they both really believe this could be it. Frank's dad especially seems smitten with Ali, even though they don't spend any alone time together, and in the end, Frank walks away very sure of their relationship and (almost) ready to get down on one knee at the end of this whole thing.
The Rose CeremonyAli travels back to Los Angeles to talk with Chris Harrison about her trips. She, again, gushes about Roberto and says she thought Roberto was the dream guy she wanted, but didn't think she deserved. She says meeting Chris. L's family was the biggest surprise for her and she fell for him in a different way. However, she worries it still may be too late (oh, come on!). Ali says she's worried about whether Kirk is the guy she needs, but she's no longer as concerned about his dating history (or lack thereof). Ali also voices her concerns about Frank and his insecurities, but it's clear she's still crazy about him and his family has subsided as many of his fears as possible. Finally, Ali says she feels stronger about a few of the guys now then she did about Jake during her hometown visit, but she's scared.
At the rose ceremony, Ali begins to cry and says that this has nothing to do with their families and that she doesn't want to do this. Her relationship with each guy grew, and she's obviously still a little torn about who is going home and if she is making the right move. The first person she gives a rose to is: Robert. Then, Chris L., followed by Frank. When Ali gives the final rose to Frank, she starts crying on his shoulder and mouths "I'm sorry" to Kirk. Kirk and Ali walk outside and she tells him she thinks the world of him, but doesn't think they're perfect for each other. Kirk seems blind-sided, saying she's the first girl he really tried with and says in his voice-over that he's never been heartbroken before. Can't say I didn't see this coming after their only OK hometown visit, but I truly and sincerely hope Ali didn't screw him up royally for all future relationships, especially since she didn't say anything on the bench when Kirk talked about opening up to her.
After Kirk departs, Ali announces to Roberto, Chris L. and Frank that they are headed for Tahiti!
So what did you think of the hometown visits? Is Ali a little infatuated with Roberto? Why is Frank so consumed with worry? Is Chris L. too normal to win The Bachelorette? And finally, are you sad Kirk was sent packing? Share your thoughts below.
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The bad news comes in two parts: First, the fact that products like this can slip through the cracks of our pesticide control system is downright frightening. And second, industry lawyers are busily weakening one of the few tools EPA officials have to quickly pull pesticide products from the market when they're found to be harmful. Really guys?
As parents, we have plenty on our minds as we settle into a new school year — new teachers, carpools, sibling rivalry — the list goes on. We really shouldn't have to add this: apples and peaches we're packing in our kids' lunchbags may expose them to chlorpyrifos, a pesticide known to lower IQs and increase risk of ADHD. I'm sorry, what??
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BOURBONNAIS — Bears linebackers coach Reggie Herring can sense the impatience, if not the doubt, Bears fans have about Shea McClellin's transition to linebacker.
''Shea's shown enough out there that I believe he has linebacker instincts. I think he's going to be fine,'' Herring said Monday. ''He's committed. He works hard. And there are times when he moves better than all of [the other linebackers] — change of direction, instincts, breaking on the ball.
''It's a process. Y'all be patient. We'll know after the first [or] second game where we're at with him. But right now, he's right on schedule. He needs more plays, more games, more at-bats, and I really believe he'll be a solid player for us. That's my prediction.''
In his first professional game at linebacker, McClellin played 29 snaps and had two tackles in the Bears' 34-28 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in their preseason opener Friday.
But the Bears aren't about to quibble over numbers or even performance.
''It's too early. Just too early,'' Herring said. ''One game won't make or break you. It's the overall body of work. We had to get Shea's feet wet, see how he responded playing linebacker for the first time in three years.
''For the most part, he blended in. He's got to put himself in better position to make some tackles. But those are things that come with experience — adjusting on angles. His effort's been great, and he's had a great camp overall.''
McClellin was typically low-key in assessing his first game at linebacker.
''I felt good,'' he said. ''I felt comfortable. It was a start. I've got to work on some things. For the most part, [it was] good. Just got to build from here and continue to get better.''
The Bears are hopeful that McClellin's instincts at linebacker will take over.
''He's working at it,'' defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said. ''We see him do it in practice. He looks very instinctive in practice, and we saw him make sudden movements and quick decisions in the game. He's already doing that to a certain extent. We just have to work to get better.''
While many eyes are on McClellin, the Bears were looking at other things.
''It was good to see Lance [Briggs] step up [and] be physical on some tackles because of the shoulder situation,'' Herring said, referring to the injury that forced Briggs to miss seven games last season. ''We weren't sure about that, and he wasn't sure.''
Herring said he has been encouraged by the progress of rookies Christian Jones and DeDe Franklin and third-year pro Jerry Franklin.
''We've got some young guys who have shown us they want to be part of this team — Khaseem Greene being one that really sticks out,'' Herring said. ''Khaseem is doing some really good things to show he is committed to being a good football player, and he's showing improvement every day.''


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Again I think we benefited from visiting off season, a few tourists wandered up and down...was that an English accent? Yes! We spent a good few minutes chatting to some people from Scunthorpe who were staying in Albuquerque on holiday for 2 weeks. Mike is an architect at home and he and Malc bemoaned the bureaucracy of planning regulations at home as we told them about the earth ships further north. Here we are, tourists ourselves but extolling the virtues of this great country and offering advice on where to go and what to see!
As we stood in Mad- rid's main street the clouds of desert dust billowed by covering everything with minute particles, giving it all including us that kind of 'used' look! Could we live here...maybe not.
We carried on through San Antonio and Cedar Crest, to Tijiras, but Madrid remained the highlight, not for the English company, but for its quirkiness.
If you want to know more about the history of the towns on this trail there is a web site...isn't there always! www.turquoisetrail.org but I think our piccies are better!
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Alien (Ridley Scott, USA, 1979) March 23, 2009Posted by Daniel Stephens in : 1970s, Film reviews, Artfully Deranged, Feminism, Genre, Audience , 6 comments
Dir. Ridley Scott; Written by Dan O'Bannon; starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto
My introduction to Ridley Scott's space opus came sometime after being bowled over by James Cameron's sequel. I guess it must have been around 1990, before David Fincher released the third instalment of the Alien saga. My ignorance of Scott's sci-fi horror had to do with the fact I wasn't born when it was first released in 1979, and partly because my mother had withheld the video from her impressionable son's eyes; possibly fearing permanent psychological damage. This fear didn't last long, since my determination to witness the Alien's first cinematic adventure far outweighed her parental guidance. Coupled with the fact Alien was one of my Mum's favourite movies, it wasn't long before I was another devoted fan of Alien, Ripley, and the space-horror franchise. And, for the sake of not undermining my mother, I can safely say there was no psychological damage causedat least, that's what my shrink tells me.
My first impression of Alien was one that appears the going trend. Quite honestly, it was one of the most frightening experiences of my movie watching life. Director Ridley Scott concocts a claustrophobic, uncompromising cinematic experience that bottles up all that is good about the haunted house movie and delivers it with teeth sharp enough to cut through the screen and take your arms and legs off. From the minute the opening credit sequence starts (bringing you out of your home comforts - that include a reassuring open fire and a locked door - into the unending expanse of outer space), the hieroglyphic letters appearing slowly and methodically onscreen offering no sense of hope, you're left exposed, alone, vulnerable.
Alien was developed in the mid-1970s, the brainchild of film school graduate Dan O'Bannon. O'Bannon had worked with John Carpenter on what would become simultaneously the most successful student film and the worst professional film ever released theatrically - Dark Star. The film, a precursor to O'Bannon's Alien, saw a group of astronauts bidding to stay alive aboard a spacecraft housing a rather nasty but ultimately timid looking alien creature. After O'Bannon left film school and saw his next project fall flat on its face, he turned to friend and producer Ronald Shusett for help. Together, they fleshed out O'Bannon's concept and started shopping it… [MORE]
Alien in the monstrous grasp of womankind April 3, 2007Posted by Daniel Stephens in : Artfully Deranged, Feminism , add a comment
A critical study closely examining Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) as a re-evaluation of feminist culture in cinema
Looking at feminist writer Laura Mulvey's analysis of the classical Hollywood film it is interesting how Alien (Scott, 1979) defies her claims about scopophilia, in that the film both subverts her ideas about voyeuristic visual pleasure and narcissistic visual pleasure. (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg. 353) Mulvey claims that scopophilia (the desire to see) is a fundamental drive according to Freud and that it is sexual in nature. Therefore film uses this in two ways – one is that of voyeurism, both of character, figure and situation, and the second is that of narcissism within the story and the image. She sees scopophilia as a structure that functions on an axis of activity and passivity and that this is gendered. From a voyeuristic point of view, her analysis of classical Hollywood film established 'the male character as active and powerful: he is the agent around whom the dramatic action unfolds and the look gets organised. The female character is passive and powerless: she is the object of desire for the male character.' (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg. 353) This appears to be reversed in Alien as the active and powerful character who defeats the alien and outlives all, including the men, is female. Furthermore, the dramatic action unfolds around her, and the male characters are presented as weak – Captain Dallas makes mistakes, he breaks quarantine laws and cannot protect his team, eventually dying; and robot Ash, whose look and appearance is that of a man, malfunctions and fails his duties. From a narcissistic point of view, Mulvey argues that the audience is forced to see the male character as the powerful, idealised one over the female because she cites Lacan's concepts of ego formation as the driving force. Lacan claimed that a child derives pleasure from a perfect mirror image of itself and forms its 'ego' based on that idealised image. Mulvey therefore says, the 'representation of the more perfect, more complete, more powerful ideal ego of the male hero stands in stark opposition to the distorted image of the passive and powerless female character.' (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg. 354)
In Alien the roles are clearly reversed, as Ripley is the strong female character who makes active judgements and survives what is trying to kill her. The male character's activity is largely passive – most die quickly, others wait for her command. It is Ripley who makes the plan to defeat the alien which works, while the 'powerless' male Captain makes bad judgements as his unsure plan fails and he is killed. So the idealised image, based on Lacan's theory, is with the female and not the male. This therefore suggests that contrary to classical Hollywood cinema (Mulvey's main focus was pre-1960), modern horror films, such as Alien, offer both visual and narcissistic pleasure based primarily on the female character rather than the male character.
Mulvey also argues that in Classical Hollywood narrative the concept of the 'woman' is an idea which is fundamentally ambiguous in that 'it combines attraction and seduction with the evocation of castration anxiety'. (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg 354) This idea, based firmly in Freudian theory, sees the female character being a source of much deeper fears for the male due to her appearance reminding him of the lack of a penis, hence castration anxiety. She argues that this is solved both in the narrative and in what she terms 'fetishism'. In the narrative Mulvey cites Hitchcock's films as prime examples, notably Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) and Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940) where the woman is punished for creating the fear of castration for the male, and her guilt is either sealed through that punishment or there occurs a salvation. Two typical endings would include death (punishment) or marriage to the main male protagonist (salvation). Alien defies this as the woman is not punished or saved, as she saves herself without male assistance. Her salvation is brought about by her own doing, and it could be argued that both elements of the film that could have brought her death are asexual, or as Barbara Creed would claim, they are the 'monstrous feminine'. The alien is unspecific in gender by appearance, and Ripley must fight a computer going by the name of 'mother', that suggests she is actually battling another female. Mulvey goes onto argue that through 'fetishism' the woman deflects attention away from castration anxiety by changing 'from a dangerous figure into a reassuring object of flawless beauty.' (Mulvey, 9175/1989, pg 354)
Yet both female characters in Alien are presented as dishevelled and tired throughout. Their astronaut's uniforms don't display their female figure, and their lack of make-up positions them further from what Mulvey says is 'flawless beauty'. Therefore Alien acts almost as a pro-feminist film because it defies many of the very characteristics that Mulvey claims make classic Hollywood cinema anti-'woman'. Yet, even more so, because castration anxiety is not lost in the film, and as Barbara Creed investigates, it is a major part of the film's underlying context. Ripley survives and defeats the alien therefore 'woman' is not punished or saved, and the 'fear' of castration is still apparent and never solved. If this Freudian theory of male fear is not solved, then the film takes on an appearance of empowering females within the context of the film, as the female is left with all the power and the dramatic action is entirely centred on her. Barbara Creed supports this in that she discusses how Ripley undresses at the end of the film. 'Ripley's body is pleasurable and reassuring to look at. She signifies the 'acceptable' form and shape of woman.' (Creed, 1993, pg. 23) This appears to reaffirm her sexuality but instead of being detrimental to her character's gender, it would appear, based on the relevance of narcissistic visual pleasure, that this is actually a celebration of the strong female role, and an underlying of that fact.
Counter-argument against Mulvey's thesis may ultimately come about because she doesn't account for the female 'gaze' and only relates to the male 'gaze'. Yet her argument against critics that made this point about her makes for an interesting interpretation of why Ripley's role, served usually by male actors, is pleasurable to the female viewer, and perhaps an answer why the strong female character must take on a level of masculinity to express her power. Returning to Freud, Mulvey says that according to the pre-oedipal and phallic fantasy stage of development which affects boys and girls in the same way, and is essentially masculine, means women must shed this active part of masculinity within themselves to achieve 'proper' femininity. Ripley's show of male-like dominance, power and masculinity is pleasurable for women because 'female spectators negotiate the masculinisation of the spectatorial position in Hollywood cinema, because it signifies for them a pleasurable rediscovery of a lost aspect of their sexual identity.' (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg. 355) Therefore from Mulvey's analysis we can argue that Ripley can indeed take on a level of masculinity while simply celebrating her own femininity - a 'lost aspect of [her own] sexual identity', and not a woman who is 'restless in her transvestite clothes' (Mulvey, 1975/1989, pg 355), because Ripley reaffirms her own sexuality when she removes her clothes at the end of the film.
Carol Clover in her work analysing 'slasher' films and her theories of the 'Final girl' can explain this masculinisation of the female lead character. She claims that male and female spectators identify bisexually and she separates out the differences between appearance (sex) and behaviour (gender). Examining narrative she states that the 'Final Girl: the one girl in the film who fights, resists and survives the killer-monster, [is the one who] acquires the gaze, and dominates the action, and is thus masculinised.' (Clover, 1992, pg. 357) In Alien, Ripley acquires the gaze by being the only one left alive, and dominates the action by defeating the alien. Clover argues that by openly playing on the difference between 'sex' and 'gender', that the 'theatricalisation of gender' feminises the audience because the woman is her own saviour making her the hero, at which point the male viewer gives up the last pretence of male identification. (Clover, 1992) Like the 'slasher' film, Alien's Ripley displays many of the narrative characteristics which Clover discusses, and Clover is adamant the modern horror film 'adjusts gender representations and identifications' (Clover, 1992. pg 378), something Hollywood wasn't doing pre-1960 according to Mulvey. What Clover appears to be arguing is that through the 'Final Girl' modern horror cinema is largely a feminist movement because 'the male gives up the last pretence of male identification'. Whilst gender roles can differ, the masculinisation of a character such as Ripley, only serves as a celebration of feminism, and instead of, as Mulvey claimed, women being 'passive and powerless', they are now being empowered at the expense of men.
Barbara Creed closely analysed Alien using Freud as a basis, and using one of her arguments regarding what she teems the 'archaic mother', it is possible to examine Alien's femininity from a totally different approach to that of Laura Mulvey and Carol Clover. Using Freud's notes on the 'primal fantasies', and his ideas that children either view their parents having sex or have fantasies about seeing them have sex, a child may perceive 'whether in reality or fantasy, the primal scene as a monstrous act it may fantasise animals or mythical creatures taking part.' (Creed, 1993. pg. 18) She uses this idea of 'sex' and the 'monstrous' and relates it to the film Alien. Instead of seeing female characters from their role within the narrative, or their appearance, Creed suggests that the very 'monster' and 'monstrous' within the film is feminine in nature, and this therefore totally disparages Mulvey's claims of the 'passive' female, because the film's very active 'power' comes from that which is rooted in femininity. She does this by investigating the 'archaic mother' – that which is 'the point of origin and of end', that which represents life and death. This 'mother' is inherently female. Creed calls the alien a 'parthenogenetic mother, the mother of primordial abyss' which relates to the fact of sexual reproduction without the need for fertilisation, and therefore without a male. In Freud's theory this would be a 'fear' for the male, and Creed argues that this therefore empowers femininity as it suggests the female is that which creates life and takes life away, without the necessity of the male. She cites several areas where Alien suggests this. In the opening sequence the camera travels through the long corridors of the ship which Creed relates to the inner workings of the female body, before settling on a chamber where the seven astronauts are awoken. Creed discusses this room as 'womb-like', and as the astronauts awake and come out of the sleeping pods, she relates this to giving birth and the computer, called 'mother' in the film, which brings them to 'life' represents that 'the father is completely absent, here the mother is sole parent and sole-life support.' (Creed, 1992. pg. 18) Another moment when the 'archaic mother' is represented is when the three astronauts investigate the alien spaceship. Here, Creed discusses the idea that they go through a door in the ship shaped like a 'vagina' and walk through a passage that could again represent the inner body of a woman. They then enter a large room full of eggs, which represents the womb. This underlying notion of the female body and reproductive organs continually signifies the 'archaic mother' and life and death. When Kane is 'raped' by the alien 'the primeval mother does not need the male as 'father', only as a host body, and the alien creature murderously gnaws its way through Kane's body' killing him. (Creed, 1992. pg.28) This is a representation of the 'parthenogenetic mother', the one that does not need the male or father. Creed's analysis empowers femininity by drawing on the ideas that modern horror films require an underlying context that belittles masculinity and male existence, and suggests that female representations seen by Mulvey were patriarchal defence mechanisms. 'The concept of the parthenogenetic, archaic mother adds another dimension to the maternal figure and presents us with a new way of understanding how patriarchal ideology works to deny the difference of 'woman' in her cinematic representation.' (Creed, 192. pg 20)
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Market test your labels in the free online browser game thatbrewerygame.com... One of the design criteria for this new brewing game was to give the small brewer a place to test market their label designs in the real world for a fairly small commitment.
Upload your label designs, play the game by brewing a virtual beer associated with the label, and then monitor virtual sales. You can also go to the online pub and simply ask people what they think about your brewery name and logo, style name, and custom label and see whether they are inspired to drink it. Tweak your marketing materials and try again until the beer just flows off the shelves! Then go do it for real knowing beforehand what does and doesn't work. Test 1 label for free, its only $9 per year to test more than one. We also have a 3 for 2 grand opening special going on now.
Best of all, its fun to see what label styles other people are using and its fun to just brew beer and play!