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Traders flock to the grain markets as planting begins in the spring, drawn by the historical price movement typically seen this time of year.
Opportunity is at its greatest as farmers are deciding what they can plant and the markets are trying to discover a fair price for grain prices as the data rolls in from the USDA and other outside sources. There are a lot of factors and variables that come into play through this process and things can change very quickly, adding to volatility and by extension to potential speculative opportunities.
In this article I am going to focus on the corn market. I will discuss what factors drive corn through the growing season. Also, I will detail what numbers traders need to focus on, as these factors will be the fundamental forces that drive the corn trade.
Although the percentages have changed over the years, the United States is still the world's top producer in corn. Given the dominant share of corn is produced in the United States, local factors will come into play as traders are trying to determine the forward prices in the corn market.
United States (39 percent of world production)
Planting: Corn crops are planted beginning in April and last into June.
Harvest: Corn is mainly harvested in October and is finished by the end of November.
China (21 percent of world production)
Planting: Corn is planted in mid-March through early June.
Harvest: August through October.
In early April most of the corn seed goes into the ground in the Midwest. For most areas the thaw has given way to fertile soil ready for seeding. Ground moisture is a good thing as it is necessary for the growth of the seed. However, too much moisture can be problematic as it can create difficulties for the seed to take root, further delaying the planting. The window of opportunity for producing a big summer yield begins to wind down in late April to mid-May. It can be planted later, but that will normally contribute to a crop with a smaller yield.
Weather in the Midwest is often the foremost driver of prices during the summer months for corn. Extreme heat in the Midwest can cause the most damage for corn, as we saw in 2012 as prices reached all-time highs. The main states for watching the weather on these crops are Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Indiana. It normally takes heat in the high-90s for several days in a row to cause damage. There is a greater chance for crop damage if the soil is already dry going into a heat wave.
Rain is normally beneficial for crops, but it can also cause damage. Rain can cause problems for farmers by disrupting the planting or harvest process, but damage can also be done during the summer in the form of excessive rains. The rains usually have to be well above the average levels for weeks to cause deterioration in crops. Floods tend to cause the most damage, but they are often not widespread enough to have a significant impact.
The grain markets are usually on edge during the summer months and violent rallies can occur at any time. A simple change in a weather forecast can ignite a 15-20 cent rally in corn. Rallies can also fizzle in a hurry, so it is important to protect profits. The main report to watch on crops is the USDA Weekly Crop Progress report. It is released every Monday and it provides an updated estimate on the condition of the overall crops. The markets will often rally if the USDA lowers their crop ratings as that translates into lower yields and thus less supply. Also, the USDA releases a monthly Crop Production report that will give a global look at production for the year. This can create very large swings in the market.
Markets tend to trade on momentum during the summer. Crops are much heartier today than they were 30 years ago, so they can withstand more adverse weather. The grains will often hit a high for the year during the summer off some type of weather scare. Once the weather scare abates, the markets can head lower in a hurry. The summer can provide many trading opportunities in the corn market, but a trader often has to be nimble and not greedy. Remember that buying ahead of the summer months and hoping for a weather scare is usually just considered gambling. A typical year has some minor weather scares during the summer that cause short-lived rallies. Every five to ten years, there seems to be a major weather disaster that causes a lasting rally in the grain markets.
All of these factors will help guide you through this year's crop cycle. Like all markets, technical factors will also contribute to market action, so try to combine your newfound knowledge of where we are in the cycle along with the technical factors of the market and make this year a profitable year in the corn market.
[Editor's note: If you have any questions about trading the grains, please leave them for our author below.]


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Can Anyone Actually Fight Like That? A Small Piece of Avengers Academy #31
- Posted by Johanna on July 2, 2012 at 9:03 am
- Category: Superhero Reviews
I reached the final page of Avengers Academy #31, a title I like reading, and saw the team gearing for battle against the Phoenix Force-led X-Men. That page looks like this. (Click for bigger.)
It's a fairly typical "we're going to fight you!" superhero team pose, drawn by Timothy Green II, inked by Jeff Huet. However, the way the White Tiger was standing struck me as remarkably silly. Look, here's a closeup:
First, it doesn't appear that she's actually putting any weight on her feet, especially that one extending off the page. Weirder, though, is how she's pulled her arms back. No one prepares for a punch by forcing their elbow behind their back. That pushes your fist out to the side, not drawn back to hit. The other arm's just kind of hanging there in space, as though she's showing you she has a bicep. This is a "I've got boobies!" pose, not an "I'm going to kick your ass" stance.
It shouldn't surprise me that this was considered a reasonable drawing, given the usual state of superhero comic art, even that used in books with a really good balanced and diverse cast of characters. I think I was struck by the pose because it was the last thing I saw in the book as my eyes tracked down the final page of the story.
6 Responses to "Can Anyone Actually Fight Like That? A Small Piece of Avengers Academy #31"
- Jason Says:
July 2, 2012 at 11:54 AMApparently it's contagious, because Hazmat is standing the same way.
- Julia Says:
July 2, 2012 at 3:39 PMThe art this whole issue was wonky. There's an earlier scene with White Tiger jumping into the panel to talk with X-23, and she looks like she's on a trampoline posing for a pin-up calendar.
And then Emma showed up…
- JD Says:
July 3, 2012 at 6:04 AMWasn't the same artist also responsible for Psylocke's infamous jumping pose in that one issue of Generation Hope ?
- Alistair Robb Says:
July 3, 2012 at 9:51 AMThis is because most Marvel "artists", this one not excluded, went to the Rob Liefeld school of (crap) art.
- Steve B. Says:
July 5, 2012 at 12:30 PMMaybe she just woke up from a nap and is having a nice refreshing stretch
- Irrevenoid Says:
February 7, 2014 at 9:00 PMSmeh. No, she's not drawing back for a punch – she's also not actually *fighting* yet. The guy in the yellow top and goggles similarly has his arms back, as does red-skull guy and khaki-shirt lad. It's a pre-combat 'we're puffing out our chests to look tough' pose, not a mid-combat one. And yeah, it's stylised.
*VERY* harsh comparing this art to Liefeld's. Liefeld repeatedly gets basic anatomical proportion wrong – waists the size of wrists, mouths with hundreds of teeth, two legs with one knee, etc. etc. You may question whether a character would pull that particular pose, but the figures all look anatomically possible.

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Loyola's most famous alum wears his Newhart on his sleeveBy Mike Downey, Special to CNN Updated 1407 GMT (2207 HKT) March 22, 2013 5 photosThe 1963 Loyola Ramblers: NCAA champions – Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of Loyola University Chicago winning the 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The tournament involved 25 schools over the course of 29 games and ended March 23. The Loyola Ramblers won the national title with a 60-58 victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats. Here, the 1963 team is pictured with its trophy.Hide Caption 1 of 5 5 photosThe 1963 Loyola Ramblers: NCAA champions – Loyola's Vic Rouse scored the game-winning basket in overtime.Hide Caption 2 of 5 5 photosThe 1963 Loyola Ramblers: NCAA champions – Loyola coach George Ireland (right) had four black players in his starting lineup during an era when college basketball was still predominantly white. Hide Caption 3 of 5 5 photosThe 1963 Loyola Ramblers: NCAA champions – Chicago Mayor Richard Daley posed with the team upon its return home from the national championship game.Hide Caption 4 of 5 5 photosThe 1963 Loyola Ramblers: NCAA champions – Loyola University Chicago's 1963 Men's Division I basketball teamHide Caption 5 of 5Story highlightsSaturday marks 50 years since Loyola University Chicago won the 1963 NCAA championship Surviving teammates would like to see the Ramblers in the Basketball Hall of FameNo Illinois university has won the NCAA men's crown sinceLoyola alum Bob Newhart: I pray Loyola doesn't try to deny that I went to school thereI give Bob Newhart a call because I have a hunch he will have something funny to say. I am right.The subject: Loyola of Chicago and the 50th anniversary (this Saturday) of its winning 1963's national championship of college basketball.The man on the phone: A proud Loyola grad, maybe the school's most well-known: a comedian, actor and star like few others in this great big TV Land of ours.Hi, Bob."You know, my first memory of Loyola basketball actually goes back to 1949," says the 83-year-old Newhart, who is still second to none in knowing how to begin a monologue. "Loyola's team came home from winning a big tournament game that we weren't supposed to win. 'Giant killers!' they were called. We were all naturally proud of our team. 'Loyola the Giant Killer.'"Then it turned out that players from the team we beat (Kentucky) got caught shaving points. They were crooked. So I guess that giant we killed wasn't quite as gigantic as we thought.''Mike DowneyFunny now. Not so much back then, but funny now.Happily, a funnier thing happened on March 23, 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers shocked the two-time defending champion Cincinnati Bearcats and the whole college basketball world by winning the NCAA tournament.Bleacher Report: Last-Minute Bracket Advice That team:Won by the wacky score of 111-42 over Tennessee Tech in the tournament's opening game, to this day, the largest margin of victory in the NCAA Division I men's tournament's history.Next defeated a Mississippi State team that had to sneak OUT of the state of Mississippi just to play the game, certain parties down South objecting to their all-white boys occupying the same court as a Chicago team with non-white young men on it.Next bounced the Big Ten boys from Illinois by 15 points.Next decked the Duke team in the Final Four by 19 points.And then, down by 15 points in the second half, came back to conquer Cincinnati in overtime 60-58 on a last-second shot.What a story. Just WatchedCisco lets workers enjoy March MadnessreplayMore Videos ...Cisco lets workers enjoy March Madness 01:59PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedNate Silver predicts March MadnessreplayMore Videos ...Nate Silver predicts March Madness 03:36PLAY VIDEO"We win! We win!" roared the Ramblers' radio voice, Red Rush, on the air.The NCAA title game had also been on national TV for the first time, but Chicago's WGN delayed it to air a live telecast of a high school championship game instead. "So throughout the city," Chicago historian and author John R. Schmidt recalled recently for WBEZ 91.5 FM, "many crafty radio listeners used their knowledge of Loyola's amazing comeback to clean up on barroom bets."I tell Newhart this."Ah, now THAT's the Loyola I know!" he says mirthfully.No joke, though, Bob: Loyola (29-2) was king of college ball.Not another university from the state of Illinois has won the NCAA men's crown since. UCLA took 10 of the next 12. The football-free Jesuit institution from the Near North Side of Chicago went back into relative anonymity in big-time athletics, an onlooker as the likes of Indiana and Duke and (yes) Kentucky became lords of the rings.Loyola hasn't even been in the NCAA tournament field since 1985.Bleacher Report: 25 Greatest Moments in March Madness HistoryI recently enjoyed phone conversations with three of Loyola's surviving 1963 players -- Les Hunter, Jerry Harkness and John Egan -- while doing a story for History Channel's magazine. Each is pleased by this burst of golden anniversary limelight, although it sure would be a nicer honor if the Naismith basketball museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, would heed a proclamation made by lawmakers in Springfield, Illinois, that the Ramblers should be enshrined in the game's Hall of Fame.Because guys of a certain age can tell you: This was one amazing team."I remember pulling for them because Cincy was a basketball power back then and this little school from Chicago beat them," said Bill Frieder, 71, who later would coach Michigan and Arizona State. "I think everyone was stunned."Stunned by the WAY this school won, not just the fact that it did win.It used just five players. No other Rambler set foot on a court in that NCAA title game except Hunter, Harkness, Egan, Ron Miller and the man whose last-instant putback of a Hunter miss gave Loyola the championship, Vic Rouse.Coach George Ireland did have a couple of other valuable guys for a while, but Pablo Robertson (who became a Harlem Globetrotter after college) and Billy Smith flunked their midterms in early February and were ruled ineligible."We played five guys a lot, and we had our tongues hanging out a lot," Egan, 70, a Chicago attorney, told me. He didn't mean the way Michael Jordan's tongue would later hang out. This was sheer exhaustion, not a facial tic.The coach ran the Ramblers ragged, pressing opponents from one end of the gym to the other, no matter how many tongues hung.Loyola scored 100 points or more in its first six games. Topped the 100 mark 11 times in all. Lit up Western Michigan for 123.One of the season's first foes was North Dakota, coached by Bill Fitch, who would later take the Boston Celtics to the 1981 NBA championship. An under-used member of Loyola's team who is still with us, Rich Rochelle, did an interview not long ago in which he remembered the way Ron Miller guarded the visiting team's top player so relentlessly, Miller even followed the kid during a timeout to the North Dakota bench. Substitutions with a big lead? Sympathy for the losing side? Nah."Ireland had no mercy," Rochelle recalled.The coach had a bleeding ulcer and a curt manner at times, which didn't endear him to his own guys. But he's the one who got them there. His contacts in New York City landed him Harkness, Miller and Robertson. He turned to Nashville to recruit high school teammates Hunter and Rouse. He added the feisty Irish local boy Egan to the stew. He started four black players when such a thing wasn't being done.Mississippi State's players didn't cotton to racial bias any more than the Chicago school's did. They and their coach defied Dixie politicians by catching a plane to Michigan for a regional game in East Lansing. Hands were shaken, black and white, and a splendidly played game ended 61-51 in Loyola's favor.Eight days and two victories later, Loyola found itself in Louisville, Kentucky, making history.Championships were not in Loyola's DNA. It did get to that National Invitation Tournament title game at Madison Square Garden in 1949. But the wins over City College of New York and Kentucky lost their luster when point-shaving accusations were confirmed against both losing teams.Bleacher Report: Power Ranking Cinderellas with Bracket-Busting PotentialNewhart, class of '52, didn't go there for basketball."No, but I think at that time they enforced a 5-foot-9 or over limit," he fibs.When a chance came for his college to become as famous in sports as he had just become in show biz, Newhart said he didn't pay attention because "I was still worrying they'd find me out and make me go back to being an accountant."He was for real and Loyola was as well.Oh, the Cincinnati kids did go up by 45-30, but the Ramblers wouldn't fold. Harkness, a legit All-America player, and Hunter, one of the most unfairly underrated college players of all time, led the way. In overtime, tied at 58, Harkness expected to shoot, but said, "I just didn't feel it." He passed to Hunter, who let it fly but missed. Rouse rebounded it and laid it in at the horn.Fifty years later, not everybody's still around.The buzzer-beating hero, Rouse, died in 1999. The cagey coach, Ireland, went two years later. The rah-rah radio guy, Rush -- "He eyes it, he tries it, he buys it!" -- was silenced eternally in 2009.Several players do remain, basking in the glory of their school's one shining moment.As do other alumni."It's a great, great school," said Newhart sincerely, and not just because the Newhart Family Theater on campus now bears his name. "You know, my sister taught there, and she became a nun. And the new pope is a Jesuit, and I'm a Jesuit-educated guy, so I'll be praying that he knows what he's doing. Just like I'll also pray that Loyola doesn't try to deny that I ever went to school there."No chance of that, Bob.Just as no one can deny that Loyola of Chicago was once the star of the show.Opinion on the newsHow AirAsia flight compares to Air France 447 crashPilot Bill Palmer says the AirAsia flight had similarities to Air France 447, which also encountered bad weatherDon't turn your back on these childrenPoverty isn't the only reason why so many parents are paying to have their child smuggled into the United States, says Carole GeithnerIran's hypocrisy in condemning U.S. racism Michael Rubin says it's a farce that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted tweets criticizing U.S. policeThe smart thing that makes you stupidRon Friedman says your smartphone may be making you behave stupidly; resolve to resist distractions in 2015Is AI a threat to humanity?Artificial intelligence does not need to be malevolent to be catastrophically dangerous to humanity, writes Greg Scoblete.Welcome to the troll ageThe ability to manipulate media and technology has increasingly become a critical strategic resource, says Jeff Yang.More from opinionAre drugs stifling women?What will happen if the bees disappear?Thanks, Ben Carson, but prison doesn't make people 'come out' gayPowered by Livefyre
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The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is a theoretical future German empire, following the First Reich (The Holy Roman Empire, 962–1806), the Second Reich (Imperial Germany, 1871–1918), and the Third Reich (Nazi Germany, 1933–1945).
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"Klemperer's best and most enduring book, apart from his diary, was LTI (short for lingua tertii imperii, "the language of the Third Reich"). So obvious were the parallels between Nazi and Communist propaganda and jargon that Klemperer had great difficulty with the publication of this subversive masterpiece. He started secretly collecting examples of "LTQ", the lingua quartii imperii ("language of the Fourth Reich") and his diaries record, with mounting cynicism, the cult of the personality that surrounded Stalin and the East German "Staliniculus", Walter Ulbricht." [4]
Jim Marrs[edit]
In his 2008 book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America, Jim Marrs argues that some surviving members of Germany's Third Reich, along with sympathizers in the United States and elsewhere, given safe haven by organizations such as ODESSA and Die Spinne, have been working behind the scenes since the end of World War II to enact at least some of the principles of Nazism (e.g. militarism, fascism, conquest, widespread spying on citizens, use of corporations and propaganda to control national interests and ideas) into culture, government, and business worldwide, but primarily in the United States. He cites the influence of Nazis brought into the United States at the end of World War II, such as Nazi scientists brought in under Operation Paperclip to help advance aerospace in the U.S., and the acquisition and creation of conglomerates by Nazis and their sympathizers after the war, in both Europe and the United States.
German influence in the European Union[edit]
During the ongoing Eurozone Crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been accused of having pushed for Germany to have a greater say in the domestic governance of the eurozone's 18 members, as part of a deal which saw Germany provide a significant part of the Euro Bailout program. Among other measures meant to reduce the likelihood of another Euro Crises, she has called for real European power over countries' budgets. In Poland, Former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has suggested in a book that "Germany wants to annex part of Poland".[5]
British journalist Simon Heffer wrote in 2011 "Where Hitler failed by military means to conquer Europe, modern Germans are succeeding through trade and financial discipline. Welcome to the Fourth Reich."[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ Schmidt, Michael The New Reich—Violent Extremism in Germany and Beyond 1993
- ^ These writings of Myatt included the 14 pamphlets in his Thormynd Press National-Socialist Series, most of which were republished by Liberty Bell Publications (Reedy, Virginia) in the 1990's, and essays such as Towards Destiny: Creating a New National-Socialist Reich [archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20040712101315/http://www.geocities.com/myattns/newreich.html] and a constitution for the 'fourth Reich' [archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20041208070520/http://www.geocities.com/myattns/cons_reich.html]
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and The Politics of Identity New York: 2002--N.Y. University Press, See Chapters 4 and 11 for extensive information about the proposed "Western Imperium"
- ^ Johnson, Daniel (28 September 2003). "A new life and a new tyranny - Daniel Johnson reviews The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59 ed by Martin Chalmers". The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ Spiegel Online: "Polish Opposition Leader: Kaczynski Warns of Germany's 'Imperial' Ambitions", 5 October 2011
- ^ Heffer, Simon (17 August 2011). "Rise of the Fourth Reich, how Germany is using the financial crisis to conquer Europe". Daily Mail. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- Infield, Glenn. Secrets of the SS (Stein and Day, New York, 1981) ISBN 0-8128-2790-2
- Schultz, Sigrid. Germany Will Try It Again (Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1944)
- Tetens, T.H. The New Germany and the Old Nazis (Random House, New York, 1961) LCN 61-7240
- Wechsberg, Joseph. The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs (Mc Graw Hill, New York, 1967) LCN 67-13204
- Marrs, Jim (2008). The Rise of the Fourth Reich. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 9780061245589.


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While rummaging around my desk the other day, I came across that slip of paper and it made me chuckle. Nostradamus couldn't have foretold the future any better. Since taking office as a Dade County commissioner, Bruce Kaplan has proven himself about as upright as a Kissimmee trailer park. This past December I wrote a story chronicling some of Kaplan's misadventures -- from his sleazy campaign against Conchy Bretos to allegations that he was part of a ring trying to smuggle computers into Peru without paying necessary tariffs to his work promoting phone-sex franchises throughout Latin America.
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Last week I obtained copies of several sworn statements given to prosecutors as part of their ongoing criminal investigation of Kaplan. These documents show that Kaplan's alleged efforts to mislead his mortgage company were far more nefarious than fudging a few numbers or telling a couple of little white lies to lending company officials. According to the testimony, Kaplan engaged in a systematic campaign of deceit worthy of Humberto Hernandez.
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A 20 point vertical drop on the S&P 500 from the market start before it recovered back and closed 6 points lower. Another big whip saw day which must have shaken a lot of investors. Looking at the wave counts, the move down from 141 is a clear five wave impulsive move. I did not expect this as the earlier expectation was for the market to head higher as it seemed that Minute wave [x] had completed. I had anticipated a small leg down and what we got was a big one.
This move needs an updated labelling. I believe that it is a large flat that has formed and I have updated the count with a Subminuette w-x-y to complete Minute [x]. If this count is correct, we should see the market heading higher from here as it embarks on Minute [z]. Note that the S&P 500 recovered strongly from the red support line. But, it would need to put in another strong up wave in the next session to confirm that the bulls are in charge once again.
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We are very happy to announce that Awaken is now ready for download on the site. Please visit the Download page and click the link to download the game.
We hope you all enjoy the game as much as we did making the game. Thank you all for your continued patience.
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Download delayed
We would like to apologize as the game has not yet been posted online. We are working hard to put in some minor tweaks and fixes to the game. Expect the game to be available for download next week (April 22-26). Once again, we would like to thank you all for your patience.
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Event: Awaken Official Launch Party
Location: the Generator at one - 1 Saint Paul Street #10 St. Catharines, ON L2R 7L2
Time: April 17th 5 P.M to 7 P.M
Come celebrate the official launch of Awaken, the winner of Best Game at the 2013 Level Up Showcase.
Join us at the Generator at one to play the game and chat with the development team. Refreshments will be provided free of charge.
Awaken Wins Best Game at Level Up Showcase 2013!
Student-developed video game heads to industry showcase
Kev Greene has a tough time playing the computer game Awaken for fun.
As the game's designer, it's hardly escape to delve into to the adventure game. Instead, it's just another opportunity to find flaws and fix bugs that, admittedly, only he would notice.
"I notice so many little things now," the fourth year interactive arts and science (IASC) student said. "It's nit-picking. Tiny things players won't see we want to make sure they look proper and the game plays well."
Awaken at Level Up Showcase!
We are very happy and pleased to announce that we will be participating in this year's Level Up Showcase in Toronto! Level Up is first event of its kind that showcases student projects from colleges and universities all across Ontario, Canada. Some of the event's sponsors include NBC Universal, Microsoft, AMD, Zynga, Rockstar Energy Drink and many more. Level Up takes place in Toronto at the Design Exchange on April 3, 2013.
This is the first time Brock University is participating in the showcase and we are honoured to be included.
Awaken Beta Testing Details
We will be doing our first Beta Test of Awaken this Friday March 15, 2013 at Brock University. The testing will go from 11am to 4pm, and will take place in Thistle 269B Lab, across from the Tim Hortons. If you are in the area, stop by and be the first to playtest the game!
Awaken Game Designer Featured in Short Documentary
Tesseractive Games' own Kev Greene, who is the Game Designer of 'Awaken', was recently featured in a short documentary created by Andrew George, one of the 3D environment artists working on 'Awaken'. The documentary talks to Kev about life in the Interactive Arts and Science program at Brock University, and documents the team's trip showing 'Awaken' to Niagara Region high schools.
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In the adult organism, cell migration is required for physiological processes such as angiogenesis and immune surveillance, as well as pathological events such as tumor metastasis. The adaptor protein and Src substrate Tks5 is necessary for cancer cell migration through extracellular matrix in vitro and tumorigenicity in vivo. However, a role for Tks5 during embryonic development, where cell migration is essential, has not been examined. We used morpholinos to reduce Tks5 expression in zebrafish embryos, and observed developmental defects, most prominently in neural crest-derived tissues such as craniofacial structures and pigmentation. The Tks5 morphant phenotype was rescued by expression of mammalian Tks5, but not by a variant of Tks5 in which the Src phosphorylation sites have been mutated. We further evaluated the role of Tks5 in neural crest cells and neural crest-derived tissues and found that loss of Tks5 impaired their ventral migration. Inhibition of Src family kinases also led to abnormal ventral patterning of neural crest cells and their derivatives. We confirmed that these effects were likely to be cell autonomous by shRNA-mediated knockdown of Tks5 in a murine neural crest stem cell line. Tks5 was required for neural crest cell migration in vitro, and both Src and Tks5 were required for the formation of actin-rich structures with similarity to podosomes. Additionally, we observed that neural crest cells formed Src-Tks5-dependent cell protrusions in 3-D culture conditions and in vivo. These results reveal an important and novel role for the Src-Tks5 pathway in neural crest cell migration during embryonic development. Furthermore, our data suggests that this pathway regulates neural crest cell migration through the generation of actin-rich pro-migratory structures, implying that similar mechanisms are used to control cell migration during embryogenesis and cancer metastasis.
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Mother Goose Story Time is for children ages 6 months up to 4 years old. Children will learn nursery rhymes, sing songs, and do finger play. Older siblings may come along, and no reservations are required!
Join some of the Friends for sewing and quilting in the Copernicus Room on the first floor. Every skill level is welcome. A new technique will be discussed at each meeting. Bring your ideas.
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Fool's BoltA fool's bolt is soon shot (Henry V., iii. 7). Simpletons cannot wait for the fit and proper time, but waste their resources in random endeavours; a fool and his money are soon parted. The allusion is to the British bowmen in battle; the good soldier shot with a purpose, but the foolish soldier at random. (See Prov. xxix. 11.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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Apple's rejection of applications that access the iPhone or iPad unique identification number, UDID, will only drive adoption of alternative measures. There are plenty around – not that they are as strong and absolute as the UDID, but they are, in many circumstances, 'almost as good.'
These identifiers include other hardware IDs like the MAC address or even more appealing, 'clientless' device identification now pervasive in the desktop and laptop world, and used extensively in fraud detection. Also known as 'PC fingerprinting', an application on the server grabs whatever it can in terms of unique characteristics from the device accessing the server without loading anything on that device.
Far from perfect, fingerprinting a device has worked very well in the desktop/laptop world and should evolve to the same state in the mobile world over time. It has been effective in catching fraudsters since the bad guys can't delete endpoint tags such as cookies in this scenario.
From a privacy protection standpoint, the Apple policy should go further to preclude all the workarounds. Otherwise, you have to wonder what their bottom line motivation and thinking is.
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What's the SCARIEST part about an "Awkward Conversation?"
If you're the awkward one, you're flushing your chances of making lasting friendships, forming valuable business partnerships, and persuading prospects to buy what you sell, down the toilet.
And you won't even know it happened.
Awkward people are oblivious. Everyone knows it but them.
Now you might think, "I don't have to worry about this… I'm not awkward…"
But there's is a spectrum of awkwardness.
On one end, you're the guy that everyone shuns. The guy people can't help but laugh about.
Dwight Schrute.
And on the other end, you're the guy everyone wants to talk to, work with, and help. The guy that seemingly has everything drop in his lap.
Jim Halpert.
Where do you fall on the Schrute – Halpert conversation spectrum?
Probably somewhere in the middle, right?
Sometimes you bomb a conversation. Other times you ACE it.
I know the feeling…
Right now, if I were to give myself a quick self-assessment, I'd say that I'm great in social (and sales) conversations.
I wasn't always great, though.
Back when I was starting college, before moving to school, I spoke to my would-be roommate on the phone…
…And that conversation went so badly that my would-be roommate figured out a way to transfer into a different dorm room.
Needless to say, a lot has changed for me over the past 10 years.
And it wasn't an accident.
More on that another time…
Now I'd like to do something fun…
I'd love for you to join me (and other Social Triggers community members), and share two separate stories in the blog comments.
For the first story, I want you to tell us about a time when you bombed a conversation. What happened?
(Dig deep. If you haven't bombed one recently, think about that one time you did, and share it. Kind of like I did with my college roommate story).
For the second story, I want you to tell us about a time when you ACED a conversation. What happened? How did it affect your business and life?
Leave a comment below.
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- Mark and give feedback on 100 assignments in an hour through peer-marking
- Using peer assessment in Chemical Engineering
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- Filming role-played mental health consultations for assessment
- 99 per cent of Dr Daven Armoogum's students have given his new feedback system the thumbs up. Here's why
- Do students use feedback or just look at the mark? Dr Pam Donovan set out to find the answer
- How a symposium can be used to assess students' work
- How a career in the Navy inspired Dr Paul Bartlett's latest assessment innovation
- E-learning
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"The greatest way to learn something is to teach it; you really get tested."
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Assessment and feedback in Philosophy of Science
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Philosophy of Science is an introductory course aiming to get students to think critically about science and begin to consider some of the subject's 'big questions'. In this video, the Department of Science and Technology Studies' Dr Chiara Ambrosio (and some of her students) discuss the modes of assessment in her course.
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Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced that Duane Gillette, 41, of Pompano Beach, Florida, was sentenced yesterday on charges of distribution of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(2) and (b)(1). United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Gillette to 20 years in prison.
Gillette pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography on August 29, 2011. Gillette had been charged in a three-count Indictment on July 26, 2011.
According to court documents, Gillette, who had previously been convicted of a state sex offense involving a minor, traded child pornography images with an individual in the United Kingdom multiple times in November 2010. During the course of the investigation, FBI agents conducted a search of a storage unit maintained by Gillette, where they located several hard drives and digital media. One of these hard drives contained more than 2,000 child pornography images and more than 400 child pornography videos. The images included depictions of prepubescent males and females (children as young as infants and toddlers) engaged in sexually explicit conduct; naked infants in sexually explicit settings; and bondage involving minors.
Mr. Ferrer commended the investigative efforts of the FBI. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elisa Castrolugo and Corey Steinberg.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Project Safe Childhood was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice and is led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/fls. Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at http://www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.


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Gang Members Sentenced to Lengthy Federal Prison Terms
Las Vegas, Nev. – Rolling 60s Crips gang members Darreal Biddle, aka "D-Locc", age 26, of North Las Vegas, and Floyd Strickland, aka "Lil'l" and "Telles", age 27, of Las Vegas, were sentenced today to 29 years and 22 years in prison, respectively, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. The two gang members pleaded guilty in May to Conspiracy to Engage in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) which included acts of robbery and the murders of four men. The gang operated drug houses and committed numerous acts of violence in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas from about 1990 until 2003.
Their terms of imprisonment will be followed by five years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system, and inmates must serve the majority of their sentence in the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
"These sentences mark the end of a five-year long investigation and prosecution of the Rolling 60s in the Las Vegas area," said U.S. Attorney Bogden. "We will continue to pursue and prosecute federally thugs who deal drugs, commit violent crimes and terrorize our community."
Darreal Biddle admitted that as a "Y.G." or "Young Gangsta" within the Rolling 60s, he committed three murders between 1997 and 2003. On December 21, 1997, Biddle knowingly and intentionally killed taxi cab driver Billy Rex Traver during a robbery on Cadillac Lane in North Las Vegas, and on September 26, 2001, he knowingly and intentionally killed Patrick Hawkins and Adrian Williams during a robbery at an apartment on Jackson Street that was being used for drug distribution. Three others, Myron Manghum, Kevin Fleming, and Demarco Parker were also prosecuted federally for the murders of Hawkins and Williams, and were convicted and sentenced to 14 years (Manghum, Fleming) and life imprisonment (Parker).
Defendant Strickland admitted that he was a "Y.G." or "Young Gangsta" who acted as a manager/supervisor and operated drug houses for the Rolling 60s Crips. On May 9, 2003, Strickland knowingly and intentionally shot Jessie McFadden in the parking lot of Mario's West Side Market at the corner of Martin Luther King and Lake Mead Boulevards in North Las Vegas for the purpose of retaliating against an enemy of the gang. McFadden died of the injury nine days later.
Biddle and Strickland were among 22 defendants originally charged in August 2003 with Participating in a RICO, drug distribution, maintaining drug houses, and numerous acts of violence, including five murders, arson, and robberies of grocery stores and a casino. Twenty-one defendants pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from four to 29 years. The last defendant, Calvin Moten, pleaded guilty yesterday, September 11, 2006, to Engaging in a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 11, 2006. Another 20 members of the Rolling 60s Crips were charged and convicted in related cases. Prison sentences in those cases ranged from two years to life imprisonment.
The investigation and prosecution of the members of the Rolling 60s Crips and their involvement in violent crime and drug trafficking in Clark County, Nevada, is the largest of its kind in the area, and has required the resources, coordination and cooperation of numerous federal, state and local agencies. The federal cases were investigated by the FBI's Violent Crime Squad, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Henderson Police Department, and the North Las Vegas Police Department, and are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen Bliss and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre.


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A friend once mentioned I have a bearing that, among other things, says: "Not to be f****ed with." I often joke I am not a big man but I do take up a lot of space. Keep in mind, puffing up your chest and mean mugging everyone within sight and hearing indicates you are a douche vice capable of handling yourself. When you are trying too hard it laughably shows.
I never actually considered how we verbally impact others until recently. Physical presence is often discussed but I don't think I've ever contemplated verbal presence before.
During my recent travels, foul weather in Chicago stranded me in Phoenix overnight. I called a hotel shuttle to pick me up. The driver arrived, but I didn't see him among the other vans and shuttles hustling about. He got out, maneuvered through the gaggle of people standing around and walked right up to me. I saw by his name tag I had just spoken to him on the phone.
"How did you know it was me?"
"Well, you looked like the voice I spoke to on the phone."
It was a compliment I think?
Semper Fidelis!
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Today's the day for the Google Play store to add music in several European countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The plans were announced last month, alongside the news that Google had finally inked a deal with Warner Music Group to add the label's catalogue to its downloads store.
European users will also get first dibs on the new scan-and-match features for Google's cloud music service, which is offering up to 20k songs worth of storage for free.
Alongside the launch, Google has updated its official Google Music app for Android devices – two of which, the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet, go on sale today. New features include better offline caching options, and the ability to create Instant Mixes from recently-played songs.


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Navarro Discount Pharmacy is positioning itself as a free information resource for customers as they assess new health insurance options now available via the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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MIAMI – Navarro Discount Pharmacy is positioning itself as a free information resource for customers as they assess new health insurance options now available via the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The South Florida drug chain said Wednesday that a variety of health care companies are available at all of its 33 stores to explain insurance options, costs and other key information.
In addition, Navarro is hosting free health screenings, such as glucose testing and blood pressure monitoring, to help customers identify potential health issues that may affect their decisions about health coverage.
"Our continuing goal is to provide options to our customers and assist them in any way we can to make informed decisions," Manuel Leon, vice president of Navarro subsidiary OTC Health Solutions, said in a statement. "As a community pharmacy, our customers already have strong relationships with our pharmacists, who are the logical choices to liaison with customers and insurance company representatives when health care questions arise."
The Hispanic-owned pharmacy chain added that some of the new health insurance programs offered by providers may also offer over-the-counter health product coverage to plan members. Through OTC Health Solutions, Navarro has between 500,000 and 600,000 members who now get OTC benefits through contracted insurance companies for products such as cough/cold medicines, incontinence supplies, vitamins and other health related items.
Navarro said it's also supporting a community health care education effort for Hispanics by sponsoring Univision's "Salud es Vida," which runs Oct. 5 to 6 at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Expo. The goal is to provide consumers with up-to-date information on the choices available to them under Florida's health insurance marketplace.
Attending the expo will be health insurance companies, community pharmacies, government officials, local radio and television talent, as well as health care providers. Attendees will receive free health care screenings, exercise demos and instructions on healthy cooking.