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What will they think of next? I came across the Ample Star Massaging Bicycle Seat by accident in the penny booth section of Asia's largest computer fair, Computex. It's akin to those massagers sold in department stores that are not there to soothe aching muscles so much as facilitate orgasm for females who don't want to have a sex store come up on the credit card statement. The major difference is that this one also serves as a giant flashing taillight, broadcasting your favorite dance rhythms to fellow road users.
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Google Glass and the Experience of Experience
UX as a design and research paradigm is subject to numerous understandings, definitions, and applications. This multiplicity in approaches and interpretations of the term has been more or less accepted, yet the essence of experience, the experiential component of UX is psychology.
Experience can be defined as thought and the ways that people mentally represent and make sense of phenomena. Often, the focus in UX research is conscious experience—technological encounters and interactions that we actively recall from the past, which subsequently inform and influence our interactions in the present and future. By explicitly including experience as a design goal in human-technology interaction, we have opened Pandora's Box.
No longer are designers, engineers, and, more critically, corporations simply interested in knowing what works and what doesn't. Rather, we have unleashed the greater philosophical mysteries of the mind into the realm of design practice. Some attempts to explain the unexplainable can be seen in the work of René Decartes and Charles Sanders Peirce. In particular, this article uses Charles Sanders Peirce's theories of logic to demonstrate how experience operates through sign systems and interpretation.
In this article, experience is described as interpretation, and semiotics are applied to analyze the new wearable augmented reality product, Google Glass. Various readings of Google Glass are offered, and a prediction is generated which implies that through drawing on the traditional syntax of spectacles (eye glasses) a greater user group will be reached including not just technology leaders or adventurers, but also technology laggards.
Experience takes place before, during, and after technology usage, and by making new devices more familiar to the target market, there is increased likelihood that user experience will be positive.
Age-Old Experience
For centuries philosophers have been trying to explain conscious experience and the workings of the mind. Most notably, mathematician René Descartes drew attention to the constructed nature of thought. While Descartes is notorious for being one of the forefathers of mind-body dualism (Rozemond 2002), what is often forgotten are his insights into the subjective nature of experience. That firstly, we all think and experience independently, and secondly, that what is perceived and consequently experienced is the result of the way our minds process information (Descartes 2008).
UX is the communication of minds through the language or sign systems of design
Experience is generated through perception (information gathering), selection, composition, and editing that occurs in the mind. To emphasise this characteristic Descartes contrasted the physical (the body and real world elements) with the metaphysical (the mind and thought).
Peircing the Mind
In a somewhat similar vein, another mathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, also sought to explain the workings of the mind and of logic. Peirce rejected the greatly positivist views of his time (b. 1839), particularly regarding psychology, and argued that thought, logic, and experience in general were the products of connectivity. Experiences, he surmised, are constructed by continuous connectivity to previous experiences and memories, and the overlaying of these with particular feelings: emotions (Peirce 2009).
Peirce took care in distinguishing his theories from Descartes' by introducing a third element: betweenness. What Peirce suggested was a phenomenological link between the physical and metaphysical, or physical and psychical worlds, which is where his theorisation of sign systems began.
Peirce's theory of logic states that there is always some connection between thought and the real world. His simple sign theory presents the sign or symbol (signifying element), the object (that to which the signifying element refers), and the interpretant (thought, mental representation, or the interpretation of the sign). This simple model of the sign system can be exemplified on a basic level in terms of the phrase "Google Glass," which is a textual symbol comprising a relation to the object through arbitrary agreement.
Through the Looking Glass
Google, has developed a product for everyday, personal augmented reality (AR) experience, and has endowed it with the name "Google"—the company name—"Glass," a name which refers to a previously agreed upon English term describing both glass as a substance, and glass as an object.
Subsequently, the actual object being referred to is a pair of what appear to be glasses minus the lenses. Instead of the lenses, the frames feature a small rectangular glass and miniscule computer in the top right-hand corner of the frame. The interpretant, or interpretation of the phrase "Google Glass" can be anything: this is both Descartes' and Peirce's point.
While Descartes argues that the thought or interpretation can be literally anything as we have no way of knowing the real relationship between the physical and metaphysical, Peirce argues that the metaphysical is influenced by the physical, and namely past experience. In other words, in light of Peirce's insight into continuous affectibility, memories of past phenomena and encounters always influence what is encountered now and in the future.
So, when encountering the phrase "Google Glass", someone who is familiar with the product may, for example, envision (or mentally construct) the augmented reality tool housed in a pair of lense-less glasses.
Mental representation of Google Glass by someone familiar with the product
Someone who is not familiar with the exact product but is familiar with the company may mentally represent the Google logo and then either: a) add "es" to the word glasses, constructing the representation of an actual pair of glasses; or b) imagine the logo and a version of a glass. Our interpretations are based on mental information content that we already possess.
Hypothetical mental representation of someone familiar with Google and "glass" but not with the exact product
On a more abstract yet ever-present level, the object is not simply a material product. Instead, the object becomes the actions, functions, operations, and values that are referred to by both the name and the product itself. Thus, the product—the pair of lense-less glasses with a data camera and AR glass screen—also refers to other objects such as information, connectivity, documentation, communication etc. This, in turn, alludes to societal values, ubiquity, mobility, compactness, efficiency, and, again, information. Based on the user's position (societal, cultural, historical etc.), personality, and prior experiences, the interpretant may comprise reference to any number of these "object factors," in addition to being attributed new meaningful components and emotional associations.
The Process of UX
Along these lines, UX can be understood as a semiotic process. In other words, UX is the communication of minds through the language or sign systems of design (Pinker 2005). Yet, as many communication theorists will mention (Ogden and Richards 1923; Krippendorff and Butter 1984) the process of communication is always arbitrary in nature. For instance, before encountering Google Glass live, users from a lower socio-economic background may associate the gadget with unattainability due to its cost. Likewise, in terms of accessibility the design may generate a two-fold effect among users traditionally considered late adopters or laggards.
The very nature of the device as a cutting edge tool for everyday AR experience may alienate users who perceive the highly personal and predictive nature of the design as being invasive and complicated. Yet, the employment of the widely recognizable and traditionally inspired form found in the glasses frames themselves—coupled with the name Google Glass—may encourage traditional laggards to embrace the technology. Thus, the device may symbolize a new extension to traditional technology.
How to View UX
When viewing UX as a sign, designers can make concrete decisions about who they are going to appeal to, how they are going to appeal to that audience, and what stylistic language to draw upon in order to attract particular target users.
Google Glass is used here as an example of high-tech and complex technology, which I predict will succeed on the mass market among all types of users from technology leaders to laggards, simply because of the use of traditional syntax, making a direct reference to users' past (low-tech) experiences and apparent analogue simplicity.
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Love that you're keen on the relevance of semiotics to UX. We definitely could use more of that. Much of what we work with at the presentation layer, not to mention to communicate UX/IxD, relies on signs, gestures, and other figures of representation and communication.
But I'd take it further. I think UX as semiotics is one layer only of the system only.
Signs are embedded in action systems, and so we need theories of agency.
Mediation (electronic), too, adds complexity insofar as signs and sign systems are subject to new rules — they can proliferate freely, are objects unto themselves, and oftentimes initiate actions/operations. Some are signs understood in the context of their own vernacular (interfaces for various tools/products etc); some are signs unpacked as social gestures (likes, thumbs up, retweets).
And our course signs are taken up in what you might call languages or practices of interaction — and so their meaning resides not in signs themselves but in social practices that use them.
So I'd say that while we should all read up on Saussure, we should read up on our Goffman too. Peirce is great, but I'd add in Habermas and Austin — and in fact speech act theory has a lot to offer in its ability to cover both individual expression and codification of meanings as performance/action.
Hi Adrian,
I couldn't agree with you more, absolutely! Semiotics is innately intertwined in all our interactions, sensory perception, emotions, judgments, psychological and physiological reactions. This touches upon what I have discussed in my doctoral dissertation.
Thanks so much for the comment, you really shed light on the importance and immensity of the subject!
Would love to see your diss. We (UX) touch on a lot of this and frequently, but nobody's yet formulated an action theory that leverages the work done in proximate fields of sociology/psych/media theory etc. Most of UX is practice/practitioner methodology. So, pretty pragmatic. Theoretical insights are brought in anecdotally but rarely with full-throated theoretical architecture. Which is a pity because we reach for and respect knowledge traditions, but soldier on in taste and speculation. UX is caught between aesthetics and humanities, sometimes exercising taste and other times leaning on pragmatism. Designers score higher on the former; developers on the latter. We're meant to bridge the two but we throw our books into the concrete mixer and the result is usually a picket fence not safe to straddle.
Hi Adrian,
Thanks again for that, and once again, I know what you mean, that's why I ended up delving heavily into philosophy. Here's a link to my thesis: https://jyx.jyu.fi/dspace/handle/123456789/42206
And, bridging the gap between praxis and practice is the driving interest of my life as a 'grown up'. ;-D
All the best,


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think young blood.
I agree. He was bad news.
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J/Young Blood = Bug too. Fucking has to be, or else they both somehow developed the EXACT same posting habits and style.
J, can you post on that name anymore? It was banned at one point, but not any more.
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I always wondered how to have a conversation with yourself.. Like all the aliases on here that talk to themselves..
And here I was, thinking that this new 'Young blood' character was fitting in so well. I was actually surprised and impressed with how he seemed to instantly fit in... in that he was always posting weird pictures and insulting everyone, while making it clear that he was not to be insulted... I kept thinking wow... this guy was really meant for this board. What a good newbie, I thought to myself.
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your name is Marco? we should make a thread as to what peoples names actually are.
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For a newbie, which are the best ones to start with?
Four Roses seems to make a bewildering variety of bourbons.
For a newbie, which are the best ones to start with?
I recommend the standard yellow label Four Roses, 80 proof.
I think the K and V yeasts are the most typical bourbon flavors, the "safest" place to start with recipes maybe. Either mashbill is good, so OBSV, OBSK, OESV, and OESK would be my recommendations. The Q and F yeasts are very distinct and different from mainstream bourbon flavors IMO.
What can I add? It's all been covered.
Start with them all and when you are done revisit them again.
btw, the Single Barrel is way way way better than the rest. (imho)
All distillers make a bewildering variety of bourbons. 4R just happens to call all of theirs 4R. I suggest starting with the yellow lable and working your way up. The Limited Editions are rather pricey for someone new to bourbon. Get your feet wet before diving from the 3 meter board into the deep end of the pool.
If God made anything better than bourbon he must have kept it for Hisself.
i would only add to the suggestions about specific types of FR, that you should also have an understanding of what FR is about. to me, the SB is an incredible balancing act of flavors. really complex stuff that sometimes can take a bit into the bottle to fully appreciate. it doesnt necessarily hit you over the head with a one dimensional flavor profile like a lot of other bourbons out there. i think being able to appreciate that delicate balance of rye spice and sweetness takes a certain drinker with a certain taste. while many people on this site rave about FR (i mean complain about how utterly terrible it is), when i introduce it to new or non-bourbon drinkers, many people dont like it so much because of its subtlety. so, just as a heads up in case you go in to try your first bottle and are not immediately blown away


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I was just wondering where Hayden Smith had gone to. Did I miss his cut from the team? After last week's punt block you'd think the jets would have wanted a rugby type player in there. How hard is it to tell him to stand there and don't let anyone through?
Its to bad Hayden didnt stick. I was really hoping he would plus we really need a big TE who can catch and block. Maybe this year we finally draft one...
A knock on Mike Evans is that he doesn't have blazing speed, and that was the reason I didn't want Keenan Allen or Alshon Jeffery and look how that worked out. Seems like there are guys who are just good at playing receiver and there are a few of them to be had in the first round, including Marquis Lee who isn't an athletic freak but is just a very good WR.
I want this team to draft a legit WR so bad it hurts
I wouldn't mind the Jets going WR at all in the 1st round but I prefer Lee. I'm all about getting Geno some weapons (WR, OL, TE) this offseason and letting him develop in year 2. Of all my sports teams I think the Jets are the closest to playing for a chip. Sad as that is.
@jaygo I like everything about this plan. I would potentially draft an upside QB with one of the 3rd rounders. Of course free agency can change things up, ya know if we sign ahem cough cough knock on wood someone like Jimmy Graham.
@jaygo Watkins is one of the few players I actually have seen quite a bit of. Long story short: this guy that I hate is a Clemson fan, so I watched the games to accurately trash talk that team (and I'm an old FSU fan, so that added bonus was fun).
I like him. I think if the team were to bring Holmes back on a discount, have Watkins, Hill and Kerley they would have a pretty explosive top-4. Two guys who are great route runners, two guys who are highly explosive if they get into open space...I kind of like the idea the more I think about it.
@marshrandy For all his talk, I'm constantly impressed at how much a better pure pass-catcher he is than any other tight end on the roster, and even some receivers. When the ball gets to his hands, it pretty much just sticks in there, nice and smooth. Even some of Geno's hotter throws—no double-clutching, no bobbling, just simply catching. It's kind of remarkable, and gives you a sense at just how talent-poor this offense is.
And I don't necessarily mean that as a knock on the other guys or their effort—just, when healthy, Winslow can be an top-notch talent. And there's not enough guys like him on the roster.
@marshrandy That's been going on since his Miami days.
And if they use anyone besides TJ Ward to cover him, he's probably right.
@juunit He's not overly fast, I think that gives people the impression he's not very athletic.
I dunno Brendan; I am not sold on Hill going forward. While I hope he succeeds (and the coaches said he was a multi year plan); I don't think he has that "intangible" a player his size needs. I keep going back to when Rex said at his presser this year that he has "the courage"...which usually means that his courage has been questioned.
@r_in_ct It's not really that remarkable, that's what's supposed to happen! It's more remarkable to me that he's the only one that CAN consistently make clean catches.
@r_in_ct He attacks the ball, and with a receiving roster full of chest-catchers, seeing that is a shock to the system.


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That's too bad. Was enjoying the preview for this film right up until the cheapest and most annoying character appeared and then spoke.
More crap from the ever increasingly inconsistent Disney animation.
Here is a long clip from the next Walt Disney Animation Studio film called Frozen. Hold on to your hats, it features a talking snowman.
Synopsis: Frozen directed by Chris Buck ("Tarzan") and Jennifer Lee("Wreck-It Ralph"- screenplay by), and produced by Peter Del Vecho ("Winnie the Pooh," "The Princess and the Frog"), shared never-before-seen film footage, introduced by "Frozen" stars Kristen Bell, voice of Anna, and Josh Gad, voice of Olaf. Fans were also treated to a show-stopping live performance of the film's powerful new song "Let It Go," sung by Broadway's Tony® Award-winner Idina Menzel, who provides the voice of Elsa in the film.
In "Frozen," fearless optimist Anna (voice of Bell) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Gad) in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa (voice of Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. In theaters Nov. 27, 2013.
That's too bad. Was enjoying the preview for this film right up until the cheapest and most annoying character appeared and then spoke.
More crap from the ever increasingly inconsistent Disney animation.
Muenster...I think this movie is for kids...and based on what I've seen here, I expect they will enjoy it.
Kids watch movies without pre-conceived notions, axes to grind, issues or baggage.
If kids will watch Sponge Bob and other crudely put together animation, then why bother with otherwise high quality detailed animation?
Axes to grind, issues, and baggage have nothing to do with a badly animated, poorly conceived incongruent snowman character.
I remember looking at the artwork and story boards for this film some time ago. The attention to detail and the story would have made for an adventure the whole family would have enjoyed. Instead Disney has decided to pander to the stupidest person in the room.
Snow White was release in 1937 and to this day is an example on how Great animation and Story telling should be.
Saddly enough this days disney is just after mindless franchising with mediocre story lines and characters. Then, you add some high definition images and special effects and they call it a Wrap!
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I don't think Rachael being boring is somthing to do with her posture or lines. It's due to her lack in charactor and expression as well as her speed. Caroline has one of the best posture but look boring to me.
Akiko Suzuki, for example, does not have so nice posture or lines as mao (or Caroline), in my opinion, but she is much more exciting to watch, I think Akiko is the most expressive among all current Japanese top lady skaters. I wish her all the best in Cup of China. Go Akiko~!
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Yeah, well, Rachael's posture doesn't help... But Caroline is boring. Watching her live at TEB; she does execute some stunning moves (the pearl spin, charlottes...); but she's so forgettable. What makes her boring is I think her lack of speed; her 'I don't bother with facial expressions' attitude, her weird technique on the lutz and the axel and the fact that she barely manages a smile for the audience after a performance; it makes her look too robotic. Then I think I prefer Rachael's artistry that looks a little unnatural but at least is executed with enthusiasm.
Rachael's posture needs work. Get her to do ballet exercises to gain awareness in her upper body. Her spins are ugly to me (at least worst than her teammates Alissa and Carline). Zhang too, is very boring, she needs speed.. And yes, you're absolutely right, it's her lack of expression too that's making her boring. It's clearly obvious Rachael is no phenom, she's no Kwan or Asada or Baiul...i guess for her the main thing is consistency. She is more consistent than Czisny. I suggest Flatt go work with a mime artist off-ice.
I see from looking at this thread that most are agreed that Oda will come out on top, with Lysacek second and a variety of skaters fighting for bronze. That's an OK result as the idea isn't to peak during the GP series anyway. Whatever the outcome, he'll take what he learns back home and keep on polishing the programs with an eye to Vancouver. Everything along the way is a testing ground toward peaking there, as it is for all the others as well.
As for me, I think it's a bit premature to give the nod to Oda though his FS was delightfully charming and very much suited him.
We haven't even seen Evan skate yet. It's entirely likely imo that he'll be bringing fire and passion to the ice in equal proportions to Oda's lightness and fun.
OTOH Oda has the benefit of one competition behind him already and the accompanying feedback. So could go either way.
Oda talks about adding a quad. Can he deliver? Evan says he may put one in - he may not, depends on how consistent they are in training.
If both bring their A-games to the ice, the rest is out of their control. Hopefully they will and the judges will be "real"! In any event, the fans are in for a treat!
All things bearing equal - with impartial judging - ( I can dream, can't I?) - I give the nod to Evan if only because he's proven over time to be stronger mentally, though that is NOT the only reason. I feel his skating is every bit as strong as Oda's just very different.
That said, here are mine.
See this where I have to disagree. I think the issue here is that Oda is a stronger skater technically than Evan. I mean Evan is never going to get the GOE on his jumps that Oda gets on his. And Evan's 3axel is downgradable.As for me, I think it's a bit premature to give the nod to Oda though his FS was delightfully charming and very much suited him.
We haven't even seen Evan skate yet. It's entirely likely imo that he'll be bringing fire and passion to the ice in equal proportions to Oda's lightness and fun.
The issue has been Oda's mental mistakes although he doesnt normally make this mistake at GP events :lol: and the fact that his programs last year where not well liked. So Evan got a LOT higher PCS. This year though the judges love Oda's long program and as such I dont' see Evan getting a really huge PCS advantage. Maybe some PCS advantage but not really as big as he wants got.
So the only issue is mental and I think Oda is getting a handle on it. He's always skated fairly well anyways. It's just the counting isseus. And I thought jumpwise he got better as the season progressed. Oda looks really comfortable with his program this year. And I don't think he needs a quad to beat Evan. The only question is how much do the judges like Oda's short. Was he just lowballed two weeks ago for being in the second group?
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What you say indicates you don't think Evan will have made any improvements on his GOEs and there I tend to disagree with you. They have been slowly and steadily climbing recently and he had to pay special attention to increasing them for Worlds when he wasn't able to even attempt a quad. I think it paid off and they will continue to get better and better now that he has focused on them.
I think his downgrade issues last season had more to do with the changes TAT made in his technique that hadn't yet settled into muscle memory. I expect that will also change. After all the ups and downs of his last year's season we KNOW he's gotten even stronger mentally. He had to in order to overcome what could have been devastating to his confidence. Instead, he rose above them, and turned them into positives to become even stronger.
So what we have is two strong and talented skaters, one of whom has already shown his programs to the world - and the judges - and one who has yet to do so. It's too soon to say what the judges will think of Evan's - they haven't even seen them yet. How can we know how they will be received?
I still say it's too soon to crown either one for CoC champ. Let's hope they both skate well and then see what happens. For many - judges included - it boils down to different strokes for different folks. Their strokes are different on the ice - ours are different off of it! I can appreciate both while preferring Evan's. I think you can/do too.
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Evan really got more GOE at the end of last season, and he deserved it too, I think. If you compare earlier performances, where basically every jump looked scratchy and squeezed out - most of his jumps, except for the 3A, looked really good at Worlds, he even got speed out of the jump, which is what I often missed in earlier years.
Plus, have you seen that sitspin? Should get at least +2 GOE each time he does it.
1. Oda
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I'm not saying Evan isn't going to get any GOE at all. Or anything like that. And Oda is hardly a bad spinner. :lol: But quality wise Evan's jumps will never be at the level of Oda's. There's frankly no comparision between the two. Oda may be in terms of quality one of the best jumpers this sport has seen. His landings are absolutely incredible.Medusa Evan really got more GOE at the end of last season, and he deserved it too, I think. If you compare earlier performances, where basically every jump looked scratchy and squeezed out - most of his jumps, except for the 3A, looked really good at Worlds, he even got speed out of the jump, which is what I often missed in earlier years.
Plus, have you seen that sitspin? Should get at least +2 GOE each time he does it.
Now the thing is Evan has for most of his career been a much better competitor than Oda has, and that might factor in. I can see maybe Evan doing a quad and Oda not doing so. (But I'm not so sure) But in terms of technical ability, Oda IS the stronger skater. He has better basics and better jumps. The only area where Evan perhaps surpasses is when it comes to command of the ice (so to speak). And well that can be explained just by height.
As for the 3axel, it wasn't just Tarasova's choregraphy. Evan has had his downgraded in the past season and he had it downgraded at WTT and Four Continents too. He might have gotten lucky at worlds.
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Like it or not, Evan will get high GOE because he is the reigning World champion. Oda was 7th at 2009 Worlds.
merrybai, I think the very fact that we've seen Oda nail his program is the reason people are thinking he'll be the winner. We don't know what Lysacek's going to do. Plus, Oda seems to do better than Lysacek on the Grand Prix circuit (one gold for Lysacek, three/four for Oda (4th being TEB this year), and this is despite Lysacek having a two season advantage).


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I've lost track of how many times I've rewatched this teaser. So much is going on in every shot that I have to hit the pause button every two or three seconds. Pure genius.
Goosebumps....been watching you for 50 years old friend. Absolutely excellent trailer!!
Okay...I still can not wait...but something just occurred to me. Keep in mind, that I am a very new fan of The Doctor. I have yet to see any of the "original" episodes, but I've seen all of the 2005 series till now...so here's a question for all of the long time fans...
Matt Smith is the 11th incarnation of The Doctor, and apparently John Hurt is a 12th incarnation, but is not allowed The Doctor title. The Doctor is at least 900 years old currently. In the episodes with The Master, we saw that without benefit of regeneration, Time Lords can and do age much the same that humans do - when The Master aged David Tennant an additional 900 years, he looked like a mash up of Dobby and Smeagol for crying out loud.
I guess my question is, why don't any incarnations of The Doctor seem to age? Am I overthinking it, or is my logic just all wibbly wobbly?
Peter Capaldi id the 12th Doctor, John Hurt is the 'lost' Doctor, which could mean he is the 'original' incarnation and that Hartnell was simply the first regeneration and not actually the first Doctor...
@Sarcastic Caveman... yeah that whole gollum/dobby thing was just bad writing... They just thought it would look cool without really thinking it through...
The John Hurt incarnation is, apparently the one who fought the Time War (and wiped out the Time Lords in the process), and isn't called The Doctor because of his actions. If you look at his outfit, it even looks like a blend of the clothes 8 and 9 wore.
In The Impossible Astronaut, we see two versions of The Eleventh Doctor, about 200 years apart in age yet they look identical. Since TIA shows aging in real time while the aging done by the laser screwdriver was artificial, it can be explained that either the settings or the technology behind the screwdriver was wrong and aged The Doctor way more than 100 (later 1,000) years.
My thinking is...its the Human Doctor from Bad Wolf. Thats why David Tennant and Billie Piper are in it. He's the Doctor..and has all his memories...but he ages.


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Ashley Ezell with American Aero Services climbs out from under the base of the Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 rocket during assembling at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett on Monday.
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The inner workings of the Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 rocket are shown at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection.
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Ashley Ezell with American Aero Services positions a laser to help mark where rigging should go before assembling the Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 rocket at the Flying Heritage Collection.
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Aviation restoration gig specialists work to position the fuselage of the Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 rocket, one of only 16 left in the world, at Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field in Everett on Monday. Fully assembled, the V-2 is nearly 46-feet tall and is nearly 12 feet wide. American Aero Services restored and rebuilt the rocket for display.
One of those missiles is now in Everett.
The restored rocket was brought to the Flying Heritage Collection museum at Paine Field in three sections on Monday, and crews worked all day to have the rocket reassembled and ready for display today.
The rocket stands 46 feet high, its nose nearly scraping the hangar's 50-foot ceiling.
Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen added the rocket to his collection of World War II-era aircraft and weapons in 2003, and its restoration was recently completed, military aviation curator Cory Graff said.
The rocket is one of only 16 left in the world, according to the website V2rocket.com.
Of those remaining, five others are in the United States, but none is in the Northwest, according to V2rocket.com. A replica is on display at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore., according to the website.
The V-2 was the first long-range ballistic missile to be used in combat. The rockets killed more than 8,000 people in the last year of the war, mostly in England and Belgium, according to some estimates.
"It's definitely an iconic piece of machinery. It fits very well into our technology theme," Graff said. "It's great to have that as an example of a milestone of World War II aviation and technology."
Development of the rockets began in the 1930s under the direction of famous German scientist Wernher von Braun and others. Many of them were made in Nordhausen in what would become East Germany.
The plant was located underground in a former gypsum mine, Graff said. It was part of the Mittelwerk-Mittelbau-Camp Dora complex of factories, storage depots and prison camps, according to V2rocket.com. The rockets were made using slave labor from the camps.
The V-2s weren't deployed until the last year of the war. Estimates vary, but the Nazis are believed to have fired as many as 5,000 at England, with about 1,100 estimated to have reached their targets.
"They weren't super accurate," Graff said.
In England, the rockets killed more than 2,700 people and wounded more than 6,000, according to a report, "The V-2 at War," by Gregory P. Kennedy.
Most of the other rockets were directed at Belgium and the Netherlands, where approximately 5,400 people were killed, 22,000 wounded and 90,000 homes destroyed, according to Kennedy's report.
The rocket flew at supersonic speed, Graff said. "You couldn't hear it coming."
The Nazis abandoned the Nordhausen plant at the end of the war. American, English and Russian troops confiscated many, but not all, of the weapons and materials inside.
At some point, the Soviet Union sealed off the underground plant. In the late 1980s, workers at a neighboring gypsum mine inadvertently dug into one of the Mittelwerk tunnels, where some rockets and components remained, Graff said.
The V-2 bought by Allen was intact on the inside but its shell had deteriorated, Graff said. The rocket was taken to American Aero Services in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. to get a new "skin."
The rocket has three distinct parts. The base, or tail, contains the firing and propulsion mechanisms. The fuselage holds two fuel tanks. The rockets ran on a mixture of liquid oxygen and ethyl alcohol, Graff said.
The nose cone, only about 4 feet high, could hold a ton of TNT, he said.
To display the V-2 at the Flying Heritage Collection, crews cut a shallow pit into the floor at the rear of the museum's main hangar. It wasn't easy, Graff said, because the floor was originally part of the taxiways at the south end of Paine Field, with concrete about 13 inches thick, he said.
A circular area about 12 feet across and 1½ feet deep was created specifically for the rocket. A thin strip of the outer shell, from top to bottom, was left off to display some of the insides of the rocket.
The V-2 was driven across the country from Florida in two trucks, arriving Monday morning.
In 2008, when Allen's museum moved from its previous location at the Arlington Airport to Paine Field, one of the artifacts -- a German V-1 rocket that resembles a small plane -- was disassembled and trucked down I-5, uncovered, with its parts out there for all to see. The V-2 was covered on its trip across the country, Graff said.
On Monday, crews first had to move several planes out of the hangar to make room for trucks carrying the rocket. They then used remotely controlled chain hoists attached to the ceiling to lift the tail and lower it into the pit. Four large screws were implanted into the floor of the pit, to which the tail's wings would be attached.
The plan was then to lift the fuselage up and place it on top of the tail, capped by the nose cone. Crews were still working early Monday evening.
On Tuesday, the rocket is scheduled to take its place as one of 30 items on display in two hangars at 3407 109th St. SW -- a former Alaska Airlines repair hangar and a brand new building next to it that opened in April.
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Congrats on finally getting debug tools Linux!
Seriously, I had to support GCC once, and I will never touch that POS again. How do you people live with tools like that?
Phoronix: LLVM/Clang 3.3 Should Be Close To Building Linux Kernel
Developing are reaching a point where the mainline LLVM/Clang compiler in an "out of the box" configuration can compile the mainline Linux kernel with only a few patches against the kernel's source tree. This summer's release of LLVM/Clang 3.3 should be a big milestone...
Congrats on finally getting debug tools Linux!
Seriously, I had to support GCC once, and I will never touch that POS again. How do you people live with tools like that?
I would call LLVM/Clang complete ONLY when it compiles the Linux kernel without the need for any patches to the kernel code as well as the resulting finished binary behaving the same way as the gcc-compiled kernel binaries without unexplained crashes or bugs. The kernel should be written portably so ALL compilers can compile it cleanly and any gcc-isms should be refactored.
Ahh, that makes sense...removing the gcc-isms and replacing them with code more in line with the standards is a good thing and that alone should help reduce bugs. Most of those gcc-isms are mainly workarounds for some gcc bugs common in older gcc's so rewriting those sections of code portably should help clean that up.
Or they were extensions requested by kernel devs to have more control over the resulting code, which is a good thing. Haven't looked at the patches to see whether any such code is removed or if it's only portability changes.
The VLAIS (Variable Length Arrays In Structs) makes the code a lot more readable and understandable, which likely reduces the number of bugs. The kernel devs have already objected to removing them for LLVM. It isn't clear what the final solution will be, because it doesn't sound like LLVM is interested in supporting them, either.


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This really is the last chapter in the saga of the brave little USB stick. (Multi-part background here.)
To helpful friends writing in to say that it is time to give the poor thing a rest, leave it on the shelf in its treasure box, don't risk shorting out the whole laptop, and for God's sake use some of the other USB memory devices sitting around the house, I say: Thanks! Got it! Already put this plan into effect!
But before it goes away for good, this final USB achievement to note. Yesterday, one day out of its WD-40 bath, the USB stick would properly store and list files, but apparently had something wrong enough with it that it could not pass the integrity test for Windows Vista's "Ready Boost" function.
Today, it passes that test. Proof in the Vista screen shot below. The ReadyBoost cache is the next to last file listed, 4GBs in size. I won't say "USB Stick, heal thyself!," but something happened.
And as soon as that shot was taken, the plucky device was "Safely Removed" from its slot and placed in its satin-lined box, where it watches over the rest of the tech establishment. Talk about going out on top.


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Phoronix: SprezzOS: "Most Robust, Beautiful & Performant Linux"
Developers behind a new Linux distribution set to be released in the coming days claim that their SprezzOS operating system is "the most robust, beautiful, and high-performance Linux ever to be distributed." Here's some details on this new Linux distribution...
They're having a laugh...
doubt that it will ever be near the parformance of arch linux :P
What a complete joke. Surely meant as such.
Developers are usually not good at psychology and design, neverless this is quite ambitious.
Maybe it is better when its "less is more",.. but may be I am wrong..
Anyway, I am looking for the release.. although I doubt using Debian as base is a good thing. The problem is that it updates just to frequently and the base is huge.
For forks this results in breaks unless response is apt, and causes problematic of finding a trusty mirror if switching to semi-rolling (like LMDE).
Still, Debian is huge, and forks are usually small, so unless they concentrate only on small part, they risk breaking or doing wrong with a lot of stuff in the process.
I hope for the best.
I could barely decode that video by how fast that system was running
You guys are all jealous cause your Linux is not this sexy.


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I end up offering TV time as a reward but he complains so much while practicing, tracks time by calling out every 2 minutes, and practices without respecting the piano or the music (bangs it out). He then gets the TV time but I am so angry and exhausted from dealing with his attitude that even though he gets the reward, he knows I am still mad. So, basically, how do we motivate our kids to learn and develop their talents for their own sake, instead of ours?
First of all, why are you making him take piano? Do you feel he'll gain something from it? Is he naturally good at it, so you want to foster that in him? Are you trying to make him learn it, because that's what you feel society expects? Are you doing it because it's something you enjoy and want to pass that on to him? Additionally, why are you being his teacher? It seems to me that he doesn't like playing piano, or at the very least, he doesn't like you giving him lessons. If he genuinely likes playing piano. If he likes playing piano, but doesn't like you teaching him (ie - he'll play it on his own, or showed an interest in it previously), then hire a teacher. The student-teacher dynamic is different from a parent-child or spousal relationship, and is and can be often more demanding than the latter two (for example, my basketball coach could yell at me and it wouldn't bother me, but if my parents were to do that, I'd react very differently). If you play piano, and especially if you're good at it, he may also be intimidated by you, and see your skill as big shoes he's expected to fill. If so, then his behavior is his way of channelling and communicating that fear. He may be more motivated simply because it's not his mom teaching him. Additionally, he's starting to get to that age where mom and dad aren't the center of his world, and getting into the age where he wants to assert his independence. He may be feeling like you're smothering him by being his piano teacher. Having someone else take on that role may give him the sense of freedom he's looking for. Another way you can help motivate him is to find shows or competitions that he could participate in. Let him pick the music and instill in him the importance of practicing so that he does a good job. This will give him a sense of purpose to the learning, and a goal to work for, instead of just aimlessly learning a skill. You can foster his talents in other ways, without being his teacher. Buy him a keyboard, both for the portability, and for the variety. Get him music books with music from his favorite movies, shows, or artists (if you can't afford to hire a teacher, this is probably the next best thing, because it gives him something he can relate to and be proud of; very few 8 year olds can really understand/appreciate the classical greats, and even if your son can, his friends probably won't). Maybe see if you can arrange a meeting with his favorite local musician (or a local musician in general). If he doesn't like playing piano. If he doesn't like playing piano, then it would be a good idea to consider your motivations for trying to force him to learn it. Forcing a child to learn piano when they have no interest is, in my opinion, no different than forcing a child to play sports when they have no interest - it's often done because it's what's expected ("boys don't dance/play piano/cheerlead, they play {insert sport here}"), and not because that's what the child wants to do. Forcing your child to do something like that solely because it's what you believe they "ought" to be doing will do little more than foster a disdain, or even downright loathing, of both you and the activity in question. What does he actually like to do? What does he want to try? If you want to foster his talents, then foster his talents, and what he's interested in, not what you think he "should" be doing. If he's interested in something, it will be significantly easier to motivate him (and if you still have trouble motivating him for the "daily grind" aspect of his chosen activity, most of the above "if he likes it" tips can be modified to suit). Learning piano teaches discipline, patience, and a respect for art, yes, but so can learning a different instrument, or pottery, or painting, or theater. Things like sports and martial arts can't teach respect for "the arts," but they can teach discipline, respect for others, and respect for their fields, among other valuable lessons. Edit based on comment - Since he does say he likes piano, I would work on rewarding him for actual practice. No more rewarding him for going through the motions and being a bear. Additionally, I'd say go with some of the ideas in the "if he likes it" section (keeping the rest for others' sake) for what you can do to foster him (recitals, competitions, supplemental instruments, etc). I would also still take a look at what songs he's playing, and work with him and his teacher to find songs that he'd like to learn. To an 8 year old, being able to play the latest Kelly Clarkson song, or whatever 8 year olds listen to these days (egads, I feel old saying that!), is going to be far more interesting than being able to play Fur Elise. This may be a little more pricey, due to copyright matters, but your teacher might know ways of getting discounts. Perhaps it's just a time of day that doesn't work well, and he'd be more apt to practice at a different time of day (studies have shown that people's productivity levels go up and down throughout the day in sync with various biological rhythms; and it's been my experience that artists tend to be more finicky about such things, so if he's naturally artistic, then this might be an issue). Try changing the time of his practice. Can you change the practice location? It may also be simply because he's at home, or in the living room, that makes him not want to practice. Having a place set aside specifically for the activity (out of the house, if possible) can help get into the mental state for practicing, increasing focus. Also, get him involved in the above changes. Work with him to find a time and place to practice, have him pick out the music to work on, etc. Simply being involved in the decision making process can be a huge motivator, and only following top down orders tends to be a big demotivator (the same goes for adults!). |
Being a parent, who happens to be a piano teacher, who happens to also teach my 2 daughters piano..... I would find out why he doesn't want to practice. Is there something he'd rather be doing at that time? Have him help you come up with a time that works for him. One of my students practices before breakfast-seems early to me-but, it's what works out best for her and her family. Other of my students practice right after school-and some are homeschooled and practice during their normal school activities. If he enjoys playing piano and his lessons-finding out why practicing is so tedious would be a good start. Does he have siblings that are watching tv at that time? Maybe say noone gets to watch tv until x time... in the meantime, everyone take care of homework/practice/chores, etc. How long has he been taking lessons? My youngest, who just began this year, isn't all that interested in practicing-so, I let her practice when the mood strikes her, for the most part. Some of my students take lessons every other week, because they aren't able to practice enough in 1 week. Would he feel less pressure if you did something like that? If you aren't happy with how he is practicing, then send him back and tell him no tv (or whatever) until he practices the way his teacher wants him to-and with the right attitude. If he's not willing to comply, I've also had students (a little older than 8) who were told they would pay for the lessons if they didn't practice right. Sure, both of these cause a fight-I've been there.. but, in the end, they know what is expected of them and that Mom/Dad isn't going to accept less than their best-because that's really all we want. Have you asked him to rate his practice on a scale of 1-5 or 1-10 on whether he put his best into it? Maybe if his and yours averages to (7+ or 4+) X then he gets tv-if not, then no tv? Give him some control of the situation and help him to see that he is IN control of the situation. It isn't you-but him who controls whether or not he gets his reward. Personally, in my house, if it's not with the right attitude, then it doesn't count-and my kids know that.. doesn't make them happy all of the time, but they do know where the bar is. Hope this helps! |
The following things motivate my 8-year old boy to practice the piano (Not in any particular order):
I am thinking about the same way I motivate myself : have him play songs he likes. Disney ballads (like "A Whole New World" or "Prince Ali") are really easy to play, and lots of fun. |
I motivated my daughter to practice clarinet by playing with her. We got some duets and played together. Even now (20 years later) when she comes home we'll go in the cellar and do those duets again, loving every minute. I suppose this is a bit tricky with a piano, but... there are tunes for four hands, right? And maybe he could accompany you (or his mates) singing some popular song? |
As a music teacher, I give the following hints: 1: Make sure that your Ideas about what and how he/she should practice are in line with your teachers. 2: if the child is younger than 8, he/she may just not be old enough to be deeply engaged. Ease up, until about 8 years old. 3: If you push too hard (how much that is is decided by the child, sorry) the child will resist, even if he/she likes practice. 4: I told my parents that the real key is the habit of practice. Your job is just to get the child to sit at the piano and start. Not to monitor how long(or short). If the instrument and the lessons are engaging, the child will practice enough. The child's job is to practice the material that is being assigned in the lessons to the teachers satisfaction. You can not really decide that for the teacher.
6: I say, Have fun with your child every once and a while. (bang on the keys with him and have fun) 7: If you practice what he/she teaches you, he/she will become jealous of your time on the piano and want to/ ask to play. 8: sometimes a child will not take to it. It is not the end of the world. I wanted to play guitar and piano lessons seemed too rigid. Maybe a new teacher with a different style, Or a different instrument is called for instead. |


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Like the God story, I have to tell it the same way every time or else I am corrected. I'm raising a backseat storyteller.
I tell the girls about how the Jews escaped, bringing bread dough on their backs that would bake in the hot sun into matzah. I tell them about how they ran through the sea but God kept them dry by moving the water away. I tell how they moved in to the desert and lived there a long time, so they could learn what it felt like to be free. I said once, "and that's the end of the story." But E asked what happened to them so I said they were given the Torah while they lived in the desert, and after a long time they got to go live in Israel.
But first, of course, we always have to talk about how the slaves got away from Pharaoh. I tell the girls about the ten plagues and all the icky punishments that happened to the Egyptians when Pharaoh wouldn't let the Jews leave, but first we always have to talk about the nice, shy man named Moses who was sent by God to talk to Pharaoh about setting his slaves free. E doesn't always like talking to people she doesn't know well so I told her about how Moses didn't want to talk to Pharaoh. He asked God to send his brother, instead. But God looked at Moses and said, "nope, it's you, buddy. This is your job."
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And then, of course, we always talk about how ewwy it would be if you really found frogs in your bed and frogs on your head.
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MAF704 - Treasury and Risk Management
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Year | 2015 unit information |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online) |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | B Li |
Prerequisite: | MAA786 or MAF702 or MPF753 or MPT753 |
Corequisite: | Nil For M778 students: MPF753 |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Contact hours: | Campus: 1 x 3 hour seminar per week Cloud (Online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin |
In this unit, students are provided with an overview of the treasury management function and the organisational structure of the treasury management function. Students also learn about risk, risk management models and foreign exchange-spot and forward markets-exchange rate determination; measuring foreign exchange risk; foreign exchange risk management - vanilla options, exotic options, futures; weather risk management; operational risk; review of interest rates and pricing of securities; measuring interest rate risk, duration and convexity models; interest rate risk management. The unit will also examine options, futures, swaps, forward rate agreements; credit derivatives and treasury performance.
Test - Cloud (Online) x 2, (each 10%) 20%
Written Assignment (group/2-4 students) 2000 words 20%
Examination 2 hours 60%
Hurdle requirement: achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the examination.
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Student Contribution Rate* | Student Contribution Rate** | Fee rate - Domestic Students | Fee rate - International students |
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