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The Department of PediatricsPediatric Craniofacial Program |
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Since its inception in 1972, the UCLA Craniofacial Clinic has achieved international recognition for the treatment of craniofacial abnormalities. It currently functions as one of the largest programs of its kind in the United States.
A highly specialized team of medical professionals provide a broad range of individualized care. The core team, consisting of plastic surgeons, oral surgeons, head and neck surgeons, medical geneticists, ophthalmologists, neurosurgeons, orthodontists, otolaryngologists, pediatricians, audiologists and speech pathologists is augmented, as each case may require, by specialists in maxillofacial prosthetics and social services.
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Diseases with specific indications for craniofacial surgery are as follows:
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- Hemifacial Microsomia
- Pfeiffer Syndrome
- Saethre Chotzen Syndrome
- Facial and nasal encephaloceles with associated craniofacial disorders
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- Pierre Robin Sequence
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- Exploration of the microstructure of some bony pathologies
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Lazareff, Jorge MD | Neurological Surgery |
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Sevencore Overview
Sevencore is fantasy action MMORPG that combines the ancient art of magic with modern technology. Players step into the role of pledging heroes ready for war in a land where mythical beasts roam the countryside, spells are prevalent, and mechanical robots are part of their every day existence. Take part in combat via land, air, and sea using a wide selection of diverse mounts. Adopt a pet companion, fight in faction based PvP war, or even raid dungeons with friends. In this riding action role-playing game power, politics, and alchemy coincide. There are three different races and core classes that players can choose from. Each class offers two distinct weapons and their own set of special skills to master. There's no specific healing class in Sevencore. The classes often possess a combination of abilities common for tanks, rouges, and healers.
Races – Scion, Einher, and Nuuk
Warrior – Skilled in melee combat tactics this soldier utilizes blades and twin great swords to destroy opposing foes. Their heavy armor gives them a strong line of defense.
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Magician – Despite their lack of armor, magicians are able to deal large amounts of damage upon opponents with a flick of the wrist. Armed with wand or staff they can execute a variety of powerful spells.
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Sevencore is a 3D sci-fi and fantasy themed action MMORPG by gPotato. Heavily mount oriented, players enter a warring world where a fight can break out literally anywhere. Battle on land, in mid-air, and by sea using various beast or mechanical based mounts. Unlike other F2P titles this game combines the best of RPG magic and fuses it with a dose of ultramodern flair. From dinosaurs to cyborg units there's a lot going on in this game. Users step into the shoes of local recruit that must slowly move up the ranks. Participate in faction PvP battles against opposing guilds while riding magnificent fire-breathing dragons. Raid treacherous dungeons with your friends or bring along a pet to assist in monster boss fights. Complete challenging quests, master powerful skills, and even run for election. In this futuristic role playing game choose from one of the three races at odds and fight for your nation's right to rule.
Giant Bugs to Burgers, the Gameplay
The game begins with a player's character flying over their region's training grounds in a futuristic-looking helicopter. The awe-inspiring aerial view of the world below is equally impressive as it is a cinematic introduction to the world of Sevencore. Once the machine has landed, heroes begin their journey by tackling various NPC quests. There's not much of a storyline or NPC dialogue included in the questing process. Many of the tasks are short and to the point. Relay messages from one non-player character to another, hunt down monsters to assist locals, or gather various ingredients located deep in the unexplored wilderness. There's a wide variety of prehistoric dinosaurs, enormous bugs, dragons, and other dangerous creatures roaming the land. During hunting quests players can use a very convenient target select feature by pressing the tab key. It's a great tool for grinding or quickly taking out multiple monsters simultaneously. Depending on a hero's class players can executer various animated spells or moves. There's an auto skill feature that gives characters a new learned skill upon leveling up. The drops are also somewhat unique. Players receive coins, XP, and often hamburgers as a reward. Burgers are a consumable item in the game that restores health and sodas which are also available replenishes a character's mana. It's an interesting change from the traditional RPG method of allocating red and blue potions. Despite the meager drops experience is plentiful in the game. Much like Allods Online heroes gain XP relatively fast. In between questing players can participate in dungeon raids as well. Slaying mobs of creatures for bigger drops and experience is a nice addition to the gameplay but it can still feel repetitive at times.
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Sevencore features an extensive and in-depth mounts system that's definitely worthy of praise. Once a player reaches level 10 they'll receive their first mount capable of travel via land, air, or sea. Mounts can be used for travel, combat, or both. They also vary from pets raised from creature eggs to manufactured wonders. Beasts like the monster bugs, rhinos, turtles, flying moths, and even dragons can be acquired through boss fights or as a drop reward during a dungeon raids. Pets can be summoned to fight next to their master or merged together with the hero to unleash special powers and stat boosts during battle. As mounts are individually leveled up through melees they unlock new skills. Combat mounts are either enriched in attack or defense skills. Although pets are capable of learning various skills to assist a hero on the battlefield their loyalty can be fleeting. With each devastating blow they take on their master's behalf they lose respect for him. When a pet's respect level falls too low they quit fighting. Players have to keep their pet respect levels high by feeding them. Similar to Eve Online the game stays true to its sci-fi theme with mechanical mounts as well. They require special kits to resurrect them after being defeated. Instead of food like common pets they need fuel to keep them going on arduous challenges or battles.
Dragon PvP Battles
One of the best features in the game is the ability for heroes to participate in combat while riding mounts on land, flying in the air, or on water. Guild based PvP wars can take place when qualifying factions sign a war pact with a rival faction. These weekly battles allow teams to fight for prestige and control over available territories. High level players can face off against others during these intense melees in the air riding dragon mounts. Soar over cliffs casting spells while in flight or knock opponents off high platforms and watch them tumble to their death. It's quite impressive. Each guild can only allow 20 of their members into the arena to fight per war. The political system in Sevencore allows guilds to vote and choose a governor to represent their sect and run for president. The lucky player elected as president has the power to impose taxes, special policies, and rule the whole continent. There are also regular arena style PvP battles that heroes can participate in also. Teams are equally divided based on a player's level. In the Tillau battle zone players must seize or defend the opposing team's flags. The first team to snag two of their enemies' flags wins. In the Crimson Plateau battlefield teams go head to head in an intense Deathmatch. The first team with the most kills will be crowned victorious. Players with higher gear and skilled mounts have a significant advantage during combat.
Turns for Gear
The customization options in Sevencore are decent but could use some improvement. Although players have control in customizing the appearance of their character, weapons and gear are limited. There are primarily only six core weapons to choose from. Depending on a character's class player's can equip their hero with the Great Twin Swords, Blade, Duel Guns, Launcher, Wand, or Staff. Each of these weapons can be upgraded using a special soulite stone for higher stats. Gear mostly comes in the form of generic leather pants, jackets, rings, belts, capes, robes, shoes, and armor. As player's advance in the game they can pick up crafting professions and make some of their own equipment through gathering supplies but it's a long tedious process. Crafting for example, allows heroes to create a Bronze Twin Blade and higher material quality armor. Leatherworker, seamstress, and other professions are available for mastery once a player reaches level 20 or higher. There's also a turns systems that enables players to receive a free item every hour. These freebies are a welcomed site especially since gear is scarce during monster drops. In the item shop users can purchase blessed protection scrolls, portable auction houses to sell their unwanted goods, elixirs, stat boosts, and special mounts.
Final Verdict: Good
Overall Sevencore is a solid sci-fi fantasy themed MMO. Players really get to have fun as they level up their characters and equip more advanced forms of mounts to use in battle. Anyone who enjoys riding action MMORPGs or games like C9 will love what this latest title from gPotato has to offer. Tackle challenging quests, slay hordes of menacing Raptors, and raid dungeons with your friends. There's even a political system that enables users to control regions as the country's reigning president. If the ability to participate in guild based PvP wars fighting in mid-air on Dragons isn't enough to tempt you to play nothing else will. The unusual combination of ancient and modern adds an interesting twist on a tired RPG genre. It's definitely worth checking out.
Sevencore System Requirements
- Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2100+
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300
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WEBZEN, a global developer and publisher of free-to-play games, is delighted to announce that free-to-play MMORPG SEVENCORE unleashed the latest content update with the brand-new class 'Assassin' today. - SEVENCORE Releases First Expansion with New Battlefields - Posted on December 3, 2014
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- Release Date: May 15, 2012
- Also On: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
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May 15, 2012Unfortunately a disaster. Repetitive and nothing that we haven't seen in other hack and slash games. Good visuals but nothing more. InsÃpid story/background and too little classes. I think that this is a good moment to Blizzard rethink their future plans about Diablo.
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May 15, 2012Diablo 3 is so boring you would have more fun at a bingo hall. Also the connection problems at launch are awful and show how incompetent Blizzard is. The graphics in game are also not close to what a Diablo game should look like.
May 15, 2012Purchased, unable to log in even once in 12 hours. This would be counted as fraud in any other industry but for some reason on this game I intend to play single player it's 'to be expected', just terrible.
May 15, 2012This game is a horribly streamlined version of Diablo 2 with even less content, graphics comparable to a 2004 release, a cash shop which will cause the highest bidders to be the most powerful easy, $60 price tag despite being on PC and a ton of other things which make this just a horrible cash in on a classic title, just stick to Diablo 1-2 or any of the other clones out on the market.
May 15, 2012+Decent graphics. -Always online DRM, -Lack of skill diversity, -Connection errors, -Play to win, -Short story. This game is a step back from Diablo 2, so I recommend avoiding it.
May 15, 2012It could have been great after so many years, but Blizzard just wants to fleece us: destroying single player and LAN play, and forcing everybody to play online so we spend money in their Auction House just destroys the game, however good it can be.
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May 15, 2012Regardless of the outdated graphic and gameplay. The worst is 11 hours past , still cant play. Blizzard, you make this game for nine years, nine years! And here comes an unplayable online game? Shame on you!
May 15, 2012Decade of experience running online games to have the game fail to launch ON SINGLE PLAYER due to their network. They took everything that was Diablo and flushed it down the toilet, from gameplay to graphics.
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May 15, 2012I have paid for a game and can not even start a single player!? What exactly is on that disc?! It is a sick joke... Give my money and wasted time back!
May 15, 2012Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. Ridiculously expensive, boring gameplay and ugly looking. Diablo 3 is utter mess and i cant recommend it to anyone.
May 15, 2012Diablo 3 was expected to be a great game, because of the success of the previous Diablo games. You'd think that Blizzard wouldn't make a game this bad after working on it for so long, although I didn't expect another Blizzard game to be good after the catastrophy which was "Cataclysm".
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May 15, 2012Diablo 3 is out. It took 11 years to make. The graphics look 10 years old and its only 6 hours long. But don't worry kids you can buy hats with moms credit card!
May 15, 2012Really doesn't feel worthy of the Diablo title. Just way too disappointing. Feels like yet another development pushed forward only because the developers knew it would rake in the dough almost as much as a new cod game. The creativity and feel of adventure is gone in place of a cheap thrill that wasn't even at all cheap.
May 15, 2012Don't waste your time and money on this game. It's not even close to Diablo 2 or even Diablo 1. Blizzard is just trying to use it's famous title to milk customers.
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May 15, 201212 years exchange for an 8-hour game,what should I say?We dont know ,cause the Blizzard officer told us to play it again and again to find out the so-called entertainment inside .But I can hardly enjoy this awful game and the error 37 internet connection problem,I choose to quit , farewell ,Diablo3.
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May 15, 2012Getting disconnected from single player all the time. Very buggy, unfinished with dumbed down customization and cartoon graphics. Just terrible. And to top it all off over-intrusive DRM; because you know, its not like I planned on playing it later on in life when the servers are shut down.
May 27, 2012
May 15, 2012The original creators of Diablo no longer work in Blizzard. They currently work on Torchlight 2 which is going to be the true Diablo successor. Not this piece of broken ****
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May 15, 2012Worst diablo i ever played, short and booring. "fail blizzard has so mutch time to make this game good i but they chose their time to makes it boring "
May 15, 2012Horribly awful. No point in this game and it's pretty clear this was made just to cash out with the Diablo name so that retarded fanboys would shove more money into the direction of Activision-Blizzard.
May 15, 2012As was expected, the game is way below it's predecessor. Constant connection requirement, real money auction house, 4 player maximum, cartoonish art style, bans for using display sharpening software and 2 hour short game are only the tip of the iceberg.
With this installment, ActivisionBlizzard have finally secured themselves a spot in my top 5 most hated developer list. -
May 15, 2012blizzard doesnt care any users. they only care for money. actually, it was obvious that diablo 3 wont be better than diablo 1 and 2 because former producers are working for torchlight now. only hope we have that after this time, people wont buy this game anymore and make blizzard think that they really done the worst and have to do something to make it better
May 15, 2012Picked it up to play singleplayer. Can't even use the product I purchased because of the Always-online DRM that ActiBlizz put in so they can earn money from virtual items. Bravo after years of "polishing" I can't even play because of your greediness.
May 15, 2012Couldn't stay online for more that 5 minutes during the day, can't even log in now. Great launch Blizzard. Especially great job with requiring connection to your crappy servers for SINGLE player. A big fat zero.
May 15, 2012Got to play it for about 5 minutes before connection errors. If a game fails at being fun, it should fail any review. I hope Torchlight II is better than this crap.
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May 15, 2012Nothing says evil like a Witch Doctor shooting toads, complete **** on the series. What happened to Diablo? A free game called Path of Exile does a better job at capturing the series.
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May 15, 2012Terrible DRM that requires you to be online and then terrible support from Blizzard at keeping the servers online and actually allowing people to play, or better said not allowing since they did piss poor job at making descent servers. No character customization in 2012, arguably Diablo 2 looks better/less blurry at times, no lan, no pvp or proper pvp after they add arena.
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May 15, 2012With the purchase of the game completed, one would expect to be able to play it. Not if Blizzard has their say. Don't waste your money on a game that won't let you play it.
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May 15, 2012Amazon's highest ever level of pre-orders for a game
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DRM : force players to be logged onto their servers full time "to prevent piracy" - translation = to force you onto their items for real cash auction as sponsored by Chinese gold sellers.
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May 16, 2012A solid meh. Without ranting about server issues, you click things and they die. Sometimes when there are a lot of things you press a number and/or q and continue clicking things. The setting, atmosphere and story is alright but not good enough to make up for the repetitive gameplay.
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May 15, 2012The game is unplayable, so the rating is 0. As easy as that.
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May 15, 2012WTF is this game? Buggy and with only 5 simple clases? The most Simple and cheap MMO and RPG have more than 10, and a little bunch of skills? What kind of joke is this? This Game FAIL MISSERABLY, all others diablo are superior, only graphics are distintive. And Bugs! I cant connect, what is this?? Blizzards only want money from our pockets.
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May 15, 2012The game is fun, and the crafting systems is deeper than before, but required connection to battle.net has made the game almost unplayable for the first 18 hours of launch. DRM is ruining games and this is a prime example of why.
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May 15, 2012Considering the game launched almost 2 days ago now and we still can't login or play it - no word from Blizzard at all. No updates. Besides a generic notice.
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May 15, 2012What a joke. This is the most disappointing game I've played all year; honestly I'm losing faith in this industry every month. Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 were fantastic, but this is just terrible: bugs, design flaws, and above all it is just boring. The connectivity issues are horrifying, but I'm sure they will pass; still it shows how Blizzard doesn't give a damn about their players.
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May 15, 2012I can honestly say there has never been another game that has disappointed me more. It is almost like Blizzard tried to make a game that could be simple enough to be ported to consoles. Because quite frankly this is really, really pitiful. The reasons have been covered enough, don't buy it.
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May 15, 2012Totally ruined everything that made d2 good. No character customisation. No fighting for the good item drops. Can't even see peoples names in the chatroom!
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May 15, 2012Gameplay is boring. The storyline of Diablo 3 isn't very well done and it's very sub-par compared to Diablo 2. The graphics are not modern and are on the same level as PS1 game. The gameplay is not great either. It's been very simplified compared to Diablo 2 and the Real Money Auction House is a let down. Overall, I'm not happy with Diablo 3.
May 15, 2012Game is great but the problems with servers at release were insane. You just can't release a game like Diablo III and not be prepared for so many people logging in.
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May 15, 2012Too simplified game principles, wow graphics, too many concessions. Poor atmosphere as well. This game is not so good as Diablo 2. I don´t like new health/mana system as well. Character development is very simplified.
May 15, 2012Connection issues suck but they are a very temporary issue. Core game play is solid and everything we have come to expect in the Diablo franchise. Way to go Blizzard, good job.
May 17, 2012They've done it again. Regardless of the game being streamlined, it has been streamlined to perfection.All conventional game elements are still there, albeit in a bit more different form. The streamlined mechanics not only provide a great foundation for itemization, but they also offer more variety in character building than pre-LoD Diablo 2 for example.
Sep 23, 2012Review reduced from 1 to 0 after playing Torchlight 2. This game is bad, but in comparison to TL is it down right horrible. Torchlight... Thank you...
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May 15, 2012Blizzard make impossible thing. Diablo 2 was one of the best games but Diablo 3 surely much better.
Free builds, in-game lore explanation, story. This game will take all my free time in the near future. Going to take vacation at work to play more -
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May 15, 2012A massive disappointment after putting hours upon hours into D2. A lot of the game is streamlined to the point of absurdity. Not only that, the single player experience is severely hampered by the need to be online at all times which wouldn't be that bad if could actually play the game instead of waiting for hours in the queue.
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May 15, 2012one would expect that the company that serves millions of WoW users would have servers ready for the most anticipated game in 2012.
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Aug 31, 2012My one major complaint is that the game never feels very difficult, especially on Normal. There are frustrating moments, hordes of baddies, and increasing difficulty levels, but the same feeling of utter defeat never really happens as it did in the past.
Jul 18, 2012For all the game's missteps, though, you certainly can't accuse Blizzard of phoning it in - if anything, the game suffers from the tendency to try a little to hard at times to evolve the design. [Aug 2012, p.61]
Jul 3, 2012When it works, Diablo III is the best of the Diablo games. When it doesn't, all it does is make you mad. [July 2012, p.54]


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Yesterday, however, my two worlds intersected in the most unlikely way. While sitting in our draft "war room" at the Coliseum, the A's selected left-handed pitcher, Christopher Lamb of Davidson College, with their 11th round pick. My first thought was "how can this be?" And could you really blame me? To me, this wasn't Christopher Lamb of Davidson; this was little Chris Lamb of Albany Little League and Berkeley High School! This was Chris Lamb, that skinny kid who used to hang around the local baseball fields and pitch batting practice to younger kids like my son, Luke. Talk about a local boy made good story. We've known the Lamb family since Chris' father, Marvin, chairman of the psychology department at Cal State East Bay, used to coach my son in Albany Little League. I cannot think of a kid with better manners or a nicer disposition than Chris Lamb. While he was four years older than Luke, we always saw him at University Village where the Albany Little League fields are located. Sometimes Chris was just there to support his younger brother Nick, who played with my son and now is a virtuoso jazz pianist at Berkeley High. Sometimes Chris would actually umpire their games. And then, as I said, there were times when he would volunteer his talents as BP pitcher to the younger kids. He almost seemed like a big brother to everyone, not just his real bother Nick.
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Women and girls are under tremendous pressure to focus on beauty rather than brains in a world far too preoccupied with sex and sexuality. From steamy music videos, commercials, and video games, to the Internet and TV shows, we're bombarded with images of scantily clad women enticing us to buy products or watch some show. It's all about money. Sex and female body parts can sell anything. But what does this constant proliferation of sexual imagery do to the psyche of young girls and boys?
Mass media is a very powerful medium that I believe contributes to eating disorders, sexism, violence against women and low self-esteem. Low-self esteem can also lead to unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Some boys and men will view women as sex objects needed for vague sexual hook-ups, arm pieces or simply to gawk at as you stroll by half naked. Some men will take their sexist attitudes to the office, so fields viewed as intellectual like philosophy, science, technology, and math will be viewed as too difficult for women since we're seen as objects, not intellectuals.
Young people must understand they're being manipulated to look, act and dress a certain way. In addition to seeing far more sexually aggressive women on TV, current pop stars (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Madonna, Katy Perry) promote the sex kitten/Dominatrix image to the point where most of their videos are soft porn. Katy Perry stated: "I like to play the sexy card because it's fun." Thanks a lot, Katy, and the rest of you pop stars for your willingness to exploit your bodies for money and then claim your music empowers women. I can only imagine how confusing these mixed messages are to young girls who want to view these women as role models.
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- Educate girls about their power to shape their own image by developing self-esteem classes as early as kindergarten. Teach children that women and girls offer more to this world than beauty and sex appeal.
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If you are into data and storytelling, then this brief overview is for you. The slideshare program quickly explains data visualization through time.
Of course, how data is displayed -- if done well -- can tell its own story. The next step is to give a presentation as a story, and tell the story of the data as you are doing so.
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"When Michael Henderson is grading his students' final assignments, he likes to skip the written comments for them. Instead of a red pen, Mr. Henderson, a senior lecturer in education at Monash University, in Australia, takes out a video camera. He records a five-minute, unscripted critique for each student. He doesn't bother editing the videos, even if he says "um" a lot or has to rephrase a sentence or two.
"Mr. Henderson and Michael Phillips, a colleague on the education faculty, have been doing it this way for about five years. They say their students prefer video feedback, finding it clearer and seemingly more sincere than written notes, notwithstanding the lack of polish. And making the videos takes the instructors less time, on average, than would writing out comments longhand.
"The two Monash instructors recently wrote about their video-feedback method, in a paper that analyzes survey responses and unsolicited notes from 126 of their students. "A surprising theme in the data was that students reported that they felt the feedback to be 'real,' 'honest,' and 'authentic,'" they wrote in the paper, which will appear in a coming issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, a peer-reviewed journal."
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"More colleges and universities are replacing credit hours with demonstrations of learning, according to a recent report. Data show nine colleges provide full competency-based programs, reaching more than 140,000 undergraduates and 57,000 graduate students."
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The basic cognitive skills needed by previous generations are no longer enough. Students in the conceptual age must also master the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, including creation, metacognition and self-actualization.
"It will require an upgrade to our curriculum, new instructional methods and materials, a new profile of a global graduate and an open mind," say Smith, Chavez and Seaman.
For ideas about how to re-create your classroom for the conceptual age, including potential classroom setups, blended learning models to mix and match, and a curriculum design process, take a look at the infographic
This is very timely for us at International School Bangkok as we are re-visiting curriculum and technology integrations. Just had to share this infographic from ISTE.
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The scientific research on the benefits of so-called expressive writing is surprisingly vast. Studies have shown that writing about oneself and personal experiences can improve mood disorders, help reduce symptoms among cancer patients, improve a person's health after a heart attack, reduce doctor visits and even boost memory.
Now researchers are studying whether the power of writing — and then rewriting — your personal story can lead to behavioral changes and improve happiness.
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"The ALI program is a five-year pilot project funded by Cornell alumni, Alex and Laura Hanson. Those involved in the initiative said it helps every student: Advanced students are able to delve deeper into the course material than they might have otherwise, midrange students have more exposure to the material, and students who are struggling have the chance to study the material at their own speed in advance of the class."
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"Ed note: Part 1 of this 2-part series can be seen here; note that some of the language has been slightly revised from the original post by Nigel. He uses the term passion projects, which is very close to Genius Hour and Passion-Based Learning. The differences across the three terms are often a matter of individual use and interpretation, a point we wanted to help clarify by using the three terms interchangeably even though they may not be exactly the same–passion projects needn't use a Genius Hour format, nor does passion-based learning necessarily need to take the form of projects. In that way, the above model can be used for any of the three, but it felt most precise as a model for teachers to use to design Genius Hour projects. So, here we are. You can (and should!) read more from Nigel at thelearnersway.net.
"In an ongoing effort towards polishing the edges, over the years we have continued to refine the processes we apply to the Personal Passion Project. We have gained insights into the sorts of projects that work well and which will cause difficulties. We have added a degree of structure while maintaining the required degree of freedom necessary for a personalised project."
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Researchers have found that something as small as text message reminders can help children born into poor families close the gap with richer students.
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"This presentation explores the move from pedagogy to andragogy to heutagogy and from instructivism to constructivism to connectivism – all within the context of mobile learning. "
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Science fiction authors and others have made predictions of the future over the years. Here are 10 future predictions of the 21st century from 50 years ago.
There was a Twilight Zone marathon on TV just recently. Some of the ideas about the future were fascinating and far beyond what we're yet capable of doing or being. What does such imagination say about us and how, over time, some have seen the evolution of humanity?
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This online collaboration is open to anyone who attends, works in or works with higher education in the United States. The "Explore the Beyond" online collaboration will use crowd-sourcing and future scenarios developed in the "Invent the Beyond" course (delivered Sept-Nov 2014) to explore and describe the factors critical to the success of student, faculty and postsecondary institutions in 2030. Through successive interactive and discursive sessions participants will identify and quantify the critical success factors and potential new business models in play for higher education stakeholders. The "Explore the Beyond" sessions will see participants establishing and exploring how three stakeholder groups – students, faculty and institutions – would fare, what factors would be critical to the success of those communities, in the previously identified scenarios. The final session will recap and consolidate the learnings and implications of the complete process to Invent the Beyond resulting in a set of critical success factors and a framework for informing institutions and individuals as they build their future plans.
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"You'll have to excuse me. I'm going to sound a little excited now.
"Earlier today Oculus announced Story Studio, its in-house production team dedicated to producing virtual reality movies. We've been seeing VR narrative experiences for years at this point, and while they've been getting more and more impressive, they've still been iterative steps forward. Despite how much we've all wanted to it to happen, nothing has stood up, raised its hands, and shouted "I'm the project that proves this crazy thing could actually work."
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"Internet surveillance has been a hot topic in recent years—we've talked about it extensively here at MakeUseOf, it's been brought up on major news outlets daily, and we've seen a slew of new apps, extensions, and products aimed at helping you retain your privacy online.
"This article is meant to be as comprehensive a resource as possible on avoiding Internet surveillance. We'll talk about why Internet surveillance is such a big deal, who's behind it, whether or not you can completely avoid it, and a wide range of tools that will make you harder to track, identify, and spy on."
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It's that time of the year when everybody is doing their "Best of 2014" lists, and I have one of my own that I've been wanting to do for some time now.
It will not come as a surprise to anyone that in order to prepare The Teaching Professor newsletter each month and this blog every week, I read a lot of pedagogical literature. But perhaps you would be surprised to know there are close to 100 pedagogical periodicals, at least that's how many I am aware of at this point. When writing my book, Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning, I did my best to find them all and when the book was finished I was quite confident I had. However, the book was out less than a week before I was getting notes about journals I had missed and I'm still discovering new ones. Most of these journals are discipline-based, but there's a significant number of cross-disciplinary publications as well.
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Facebook and Twitter may be ubiquitous, but there are many other social media tools out there that can enhance teaching and learning. Here, three educators share their favorites.
Jim Lerman's insight: I particularly like this list because I used most of them and think they're excellent.
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"Ed note: This is the first part of a two-post mini-series (can you call two posts a mini-series?) The second part of this post will be published tomorrow morning, and will focus on the design cycle of genius hour and passion-based learning.
"For the past eight years students in Year Six at Redlands have participated in a Personal Passion Project during Term Four.
"It is a way to finish their time in Junior School with a project that connects their passion with all they have learned about managing inquiry/design based projects to that point. Over the years it has proven to be a highlight of the year and has produced amazing results. With a change to the Australian & NSW syllabus we have had to revise our approach to the Personal Passion Project and so now is the perfect time to reflect on the past and identify the lessons learned."
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Whether you're an IT administrator at a school with connectivity issues, or a teacher helping your school get online for the first time, you know that activating technology involves careful planning and decision making. What tools do your students and teachers need the most? How do you get the Internet access you need to support your academic programs when your school isn't already connected and online? How will you train everyone to make the most of this new technology?
We've learned from schools who've gone through the process and compiled a guide to bringing learning online based on their ideas. Their experiences can help your school decide how technology will bring resources from all over the web – and around the globe – into your classrooms. You'll see a framework for:
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I don't think this just applies to schools. I work in local government we are now moving into more social media access. It is good to look at lessons learned from others in this area.
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Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem solving. You can use it to inform your own teaching practice, or you can teach it to your students as a framework for real-world projects.
We believe that creative confidence comes from repeated practice using a human-centered creative process to solve problem scenarios called design challenges. After using the process on these challenges, people will have another tool, the design thinking process, to apply towards solving real life problems.
We hope you use this space to find and share resources to teach design thinking. Below are some popular starting points.
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At the Tinkering Studio in the Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, we've been developing maker activities for almost two decades. During this time, we've observed how tinkering can support children's development of productive science learning identities. By this we mean that young people become interested in science, feel capable of doing science, and want to do science (Krishnamurthi, Bevan, Rinehart, & Coulon, 2013).
"Productive science learning identities are crucial for students choosing to pursue science academically, professionally, and through lifelong engagement. STEM-rich maker activities are powerful places for this identity work because they can accommodate a wide variety of interests and experiences, they blend intellectual and socioemotional engagement, and they provide opportunities for young people to develop, pursue, persist with, and accomplish original ideas and solutions in which they can take pride and ownership."
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"This book will help you to derive as much joy and value from Google Plus as Guy Kawasaki does.
"After using Google+ for a few months, Guy Kawasaki decided to write this book to explain "what the plus" make Google+ as special as Macintosh.
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19 year old, Andrew Watts, is a sophomore Management Information Systems major (marketing minor) at the University of Texas in Austin and penned an interesting glimpse into the world of teenage (and college) consumption (or lack thereof) of the biggest social networks. We see studies day in and day out from Gallup or Pew on polling that is then interpreted by all the hot tech blogs, but very few articles actually cite real, blood pumping teenage humans. And by the time the studies are published, most likely, the stats are dated – as teenage trends move in and out so quickly. What do they actually think, in their own words, about the various social networks? Watts lays it out:
Very interesting what apps a 19 year old thinks is hot or not...fyi: he doesn't know anyone that uses Google+
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III. A Progressive Israeli Argument for the Two-State Solution
June 16, 2011 by TMO
By Geoffrey Cook, TMO
San Francisco–Home at last! Home at last with a thick new notebook.
During the past week (6th-12th), the initial reports were that the casualties of the Palestinian demonstrators at the Syrian border by the Jewish Strata on the Golan Heights has increased to twenty-seven — mowed down with live bullets from the other side of the barbed wire with several seriously wounded, furthermore, by the by the IDF (the Israeli Defense Force) at the express orders to employ the ultimate violence against the non-violent demonstrators from the Prime Minister (P.M.) Netanyahu. In North Africa the rebels are hedging more closely to Tripoli, the Libyan nation's traditional capital… Although Gaddafi has been accused of rape as a weapon war by his soldiers, the "Colonel" has stated," I'll stay in Tripoli whether I live or die!' While two Imperial powers, Britain and France, are preparing a resolution in United Nations (U.N.) condemning Damascus for their brutality in their civil war. Incidentally, Libya and Syria have been two of the most obnoxious to the West, and "taking out" President Assad would be a great relief to the Israeli Prime Minister, for they one of the few nations' in the expanse (since they are neighbors) who could provide a MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) to Tel Aviv overbearing nuclear arsenal in the Negev .
As your composer has stated earlier, he believes the success or failure of the Arab "Spring" will depend upon the reaction of the Israeli government. If they act diplomatically, there can be a tremendous blossoming of Arab-style democracies; if they respond in a belligerent manner there will be an appalling conflict, and, with nuclear weapons involved, it can be as great a disaster as Hiroshima, and with the closeness of Israel to its neighbors it can only destroy the nuclear State to unimaginable consequences.
This is the third installment with the Israeli General, their Ministry of Justice bureaucrat and Jeremy Ben-Ami of J-Street in the United States who was in Washington at the time of the call:
The two Israeli citizens pointed out that Palestine is unstable at the moment. (Unfortunately, that is true, but it is true that it is overwhelmingly caused by the Zionist expansion upon Arab land!) The General believes that the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation is not a threat, for under his analysis, he deems Hamas to be weak, (but under your author's assay Hamas is a substantial opponent to the Israeli hegemony over the region, for, although Tel Aviv and Cairo had been doing their best to execute the sway of the Palestinian mini-strip on the sea, your researcher is of the opinion that Gaza quintessentially defeated the Hebrew-speaking Army in their Cast Iron operation against the Palestinian mini-State by exposed to the world Jerusalem's vicious violence to an ultimately defenseless populace; thus, turning the prevailing global popular "good" opinion away from the Zionist's position towards their opponents for the land, the indigenous Palestinians.)
One of Israeli incentives for joining in on the dialogue with Ramallah in the company of the Quartet (the United States, the U.N., the European Union (E.U.) and the Russian Federation) as interlopers is, although there are many differences of opinion regarding Hamas, Tel Aviv wishes to isolate and prevent them from capturing the total "Occupied" Territories' in the next elections which they have a very good chance of accomplishing with the depopulation of the Christians and the Islamization of Palestine herself. Even so, there are talks amongst the original inhabitants of the Holy Land (for most of the Palestinians there are the direct descendants of the ancient residents of their geographic district, whereas the majority of the Jews had been Europeanized with a mixture of the Jewish diaspora who had fled Spain to the region mainly within the border districts of modern Poland and Russia wherein they had intermixed with the Yalta converted (Jews) of the Ninth Century (I most not this historically scenario is highly disapproved by Jewish scholars in Jerusalem as is the Night Ride of the Prophet (s); and, thus, Israel can be perceived as a Settler Colonial State and must be amalgamated into the Middle East) to be accepted. Further The Quartet must integrate Hamas into the elections (if it is not done, it would be hard to describe these forthcoming `polls to be free and fair. What is so interesting about the advancement of the Palestinians' cause is that, finally, they are on the world's "radar, and that it coincides" with the Arab "Spring," and it has many elements. (It must be kept in mind, that, Palestine is central to the Arab's ideology, and, although it is on the fringes of West Asia, it is well near the "center" of the Arab-speaking humanity which extends from the full of North Africa into the Arabian West and Saudi Arabia itself, the homeland of Islam, and the UAE (United Arab Emirates) in the Persian (or Arab, as it is, also called,) Gulf on the East.
Tara Hassan, of the Israeli Ministry of Justice is, also, a leader for "true" Justice within her homeland. She urged that the Palestinian Prime Minister (P.M.) Mahmoud Abbas, be granted concessions, reiterating the Israeli bugaboo, to avoid Hamas administrating the West Bank. (It is interesting to note the great fear of almost all Israelis – either on the Right or Left – is their irrational fear of Islamism, and seems to be a driving force to lean their Commonweal to the Left which is a hopeful sign for an agreement to the conundrum and the especially for the long-term future of the Palestinians themselves. Although she describes herself as a Zionist, for her, a Zionist does not have to be on the political Jewish-wing. "Only a two-State Solution will save Israel," too. Hassan, further, states that "…We should take every opportunity [to convince] the people of Israel!" Sharoni interjects that we should present to the Israeli public" the necessity of the two—State Solution! As often as possibility, for the people (here) have an unfounded fear of the Arab "Spring," (and that is driving internal policy there, too).
Why are we spending so much time looking at non-Muslim Israel — because it is the dominant dominion within the Middle East – due to the policy of America arming its pariah client to the hilt? (The citizens of the U.S.A. have a grave duty to extricate their own nation from this enigma to which they themselves have created, and to become a force for peace among these environs.)
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The mechanism involved in the bonding processes attributed to mobile ions in the glass.
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- Run Time: 182 Minutes
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
- Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: January 18, 2005
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Created at least in part due to popular demand, this Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars DVD will provide some closure to fans who were dismayed by the demise of the popular science fiction television show in 2003 and campaigned mightily to bring it back. Indeed, this miniseries (originally broadcast over two nights on the Syfy Channel) will likely appeal primarily to the Farscape faithful, as the somewhat convoluted storyline may prove baffling to the uninitiated.
A brief bit of back story explains how John Crichton, an astronaut from Earth, went through a wormhole and ended up on Moya, a living spaceship, with a motley group of aliens, including D'Argo (Anthony Simcoe), Chiana (Gigi Edgley), various puppet characters (designed by the Jim Henson Company), and Aeryn (Claudia Black), Crichton's love interest, who's expecting their first child. As these Farscape The Peacekeeper Wars videos begin, our heroes find themselves in the middle of a war-to-end-all-wars between the lizard-like, implacably evil Scarrans and their rivals, the Peacekeepers. Crichton is the lynchpin in all of this, as his knowledge of "wormhole technology" is coveted by all, including his old nemesis Scorpius (Wayne Pygram), who captured and tortured Crichton back in season 1 and with whom Crichton must now form an uneasy alliance against the Scarrans.
Actors: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Run Time: 87 Minutes
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- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
- Language: English
- Studio: RHI Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: February 16,2010
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Genre: Horror
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- Release Date: 2009
In the Hellhounds DVD from the Maneater Series , when Demetria, the bride of the warrior Kleitos, is poisoned by Kleitos' jealous friend Theron, Kleitos descends into the Underworld to rescue Demetria from Hades and bring her back to life in the world above. Kleitos slays the duplicitous Theron, only to have Theron raised from dead by Hades, and leading the pack of the undying Hellhounds. In the Hellhounds video, the wolf-like guardians of Hades have been released to do the bidding of their master - kill everything in their path and bring Demetria back to Hell.
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I know this has been previously discussed. But in the last thread about deal breakers, a lot of what has been posted refer to deal breakers that can only discerned after getting to know the other person more. My question here refers to deal breakers that are "apparent and readily discernible from the written profile" as presented here. So, solely based on one's written profile, what are the deal breakers for you that will sufficiently make you say "sorry, but I think we are not a match" or maybe say NEXT! The more specific the responses, the better. And we are talking solely of those that one can appreciate from the written profile as presented.
Also, what are your thoughts about the person going into specifics as to why they think you're not a match? E.g. "I am sorry but I think we are not a match because ____________". Notwithstanding the emotion associated with rejection, I feel that I can deal with it better knowing what made the lady think we are not a match rather than be kept wondering why... but then again, that might just be me.


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