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Team building
Team building is the use of different types of team interventions that are aimed at enhancing social relations and clarifying team members' roles, as well as solving task and interpersonal problems that affect team functioning.[1]
Team building was originally a group process intervention aimed at improving interpersonal relations and social interactions but over time has developed to include achieving results, meeting goals and accomplishing tasks.[2] It refers to the activities in which teams can engage to change its context, composition or team competencies to improve performance. It is distinct from team training, which is also a team-development intervention that is designed to improve team functioning and effectiveness.
Team building differs from team training in a number of ways. Team building is not necessarily formal or systematic in nature, does not target skill-based competencies and is typically done in settings that are not in the actual environment where the team works on the task.
Team building generally sits within the theory and practice of organizational development, but can also be applied to sports teams, school groups, armies, flight crews and other contexts. There have been many issues in past literature about the conceptual definition of team building. However, now there is consensus and conceptual clarity about what team building constitutes exactly. Its four components are:
- Goal setting: aligning around goals
- Interpersonal-relationship management: building effective working relationships
- Role clarification: reducing team members' role ambiguity
- Problem solving: finding solutions to team problems
These team-development interventions have proven to have positive effects on cognitive, affective, process and performance team outcomes. Team building has seen the strongest effect on affective and process outcomes. According to Klein et al. (2009), team building is one of the most widely used group development interventions in organizations today. Of all organizational interventions, team-development interventions were found to have the largest effects on financial measures of organizational performance.[3] Recent meta-analyses show that team development activities, including team building and team training, improve both a team's objective performance and supervisory subjective ratings on performance.[4]
The four approaches[edit]
The following are a summary of the four approaches as described by Salas and his team:[5]
- Goal setting: this intervention emphasizes setting objectives and developing individual and team goals. Team members become involved in action planning to identify ways to achieve goals. It is designed to strengthen team member motivation to achieve team goals and objectives. By identifying specific outcome levels, teams can determine what future resources are needed. Individual characteristics (e.g. team member motivation) can also be altered by use of this intervention. Many organizations insist on teams negotiating a team charter between the team and responsible managers (and union leaders) to empower the team to accomplish things on behalf of the organization. Successful goal settings help the teams to work towards the same outcomes and make them more task and action oriented.
- Role clarification: this intervention emphasizes increasing communication among team members regarding their respective roles within the team. Team members improve their understanding of their own and others' respective roles and duties within the team. This intervention defines the team as comprising a set of overlapping roles. These overlapping roles are characterized as the behaviors that are expected of each individual team member. It can be used to improve team and individual characteristics (i.e. by reducing role ambiguity) and work structure by negotiating, defining, and adjusting team member roles. It includes an understanding of the talent that exists on the team, and how best to use it, allows members to understand why clear roles are important. The members should also realize that they are interdependent and the failure of one team member leads to the failure of the entire team.
- Problem solving: this intervention emphasizes identifying major task-related problems within the team. Team members become involved in action planning, implementing solutions to problems identified and to evaluate those solutions. They practice setting goals, developing interpersonal relations, clarifying team roles, and working to improve organizational characteristics through problem-solving tasks. This can have the added benefit of enhancing critical-thinking skills. If teams are good in problem-solving skills, they are less likely to need external interventions to solve their problems.[15]
- Interpersonal relations management: this intervention emphasizes increasing teamwork skills (i.e. mutual supportiveness, communication, and sharing of feelings). Team members develop trust in one another and confidence in the team. This is based on the assumption that teams with fewer interpersonal conflicts function more effectively than teams with greater numbers of interpersonal conflicts. It requires the use of a facilitator to develop mutual trust and open communication between team members. As team members achieve higher levels of trust, cooperation and team characteristics can be changes as well.
According to Sanborn and Haszczo (2007), the effectiveness of team building differs substantially from one organization to another.[6] The most effective team building efforts occur when members of the team are highly interdependent in performing the task, highly knowledgeable and experienced in the task to be accomplished, and when organizational leadership actively establishes and supports the team. Effective team building must also incorporate an awareness of the ultimate objective of the task. They must work to develop goals, roles and procedures to achieve it successfully. In addition to task-oriented team building efforts, team-building efforts must also be relationship oriented. To ensure effectiveness, team building should work towards the establishment of policies and procedures and working with the environment, including support systems. Caveats to team building effectiveness is that team building as an intervention is designed to work when the members of the team are actually involved in solving the problem and when they are already intact as a team (i.e. they worked with each other before) to be able to problem solve. The members of the team must have the willingness and ability to speak up about their needs.
Effects on performance[edit]
Team building is a specific team development intervention that has been scientifically proven to positively affect team effectiveness, when exerted with its intended purpose.[7] Team building is aimed at specific needs, and thus has been proven to have specific outcomes on teams. Based on the research conducted by Klein et al. (2009), goal setting and role clarification were shown to have strongest impact on cognitive, affective, process and performance outcomes. However, they had the most powerful impact on affective and process outcomes. This implies that team building can help benefit teams experiencing issues with negative affect, such as lack of cohesion or trust. It could also improve teams suffering from process issues, such as lack of clarification in roles. Although the four approaches were useful in enhancing team functioning, goal setting and role clarification have proven to be the most impactful. This is because, drawing upon theory, providing teams with clearly set and challenging goals enhances motivation to work harder to be more effective and reduces conflict.[8] Role clarification helps to set individual purposes, goals and motivation. Finally, larger team sizes (those with 10 or more members) appeared to benefit the most from team building interventions. That is because larger teams generally have a greater reservoir of cognitive resources and capabilities than smaller teams.[9] The following table provides the main results of the effect of team building strategies on cognitive, affective, process, and performance team outcomes:[10]
Challenges to team building[edit]
Dyer recognized three challenges that team builders will face in the future with regard to effective team building.[11] They are:
- The lack of teamwork skills in tomorrow's workforce: one of the challenges facing leaders of organizations is to find employees who have the ability to work effectively in a team environment. Most of the organizations rely on educational institutions to train their students with the skills. Dyer believed that students are rather encouraged to work individually for a higher grade and succeed without having to collaborate with one another. This creates an emphasis in self-interest- rather than an orientation to collaborate with others - than can work against the kinds of behavior needed for successful teamwork. According to a research study conducted by Salas, team training proved to have a positive effect on cognitive, affective, process and performance outcomes.[12] That is, across a wide variety of settings, tasks, and team types, team training efforts were successful.
- The increasing need for teams to work together in virtual workplaces and across organizational boundaries: according to Dyer, organizations will find it increasingly important for individuals to work together who are not in the same physical space. Such teams will prove to be a challenge as they are unable to build concrete relationships within the team members. A study conducted by Oertig and Buergi to compare face-to-face communication and virtual project teams indicated that face-to-face communication is very important in building an effective working environment for the team.[13] Face-to-face contact was a key to developing trust and this was initiated by a formal team building sessions with a facilitator to "agree to the relationship" and define the rules as to how the teams are going to work. Informal contact was also mentioned, e.g. sitting down over lunch to break barriers. Team building training will need to be suited according to virtual teams who are working in geographically distant places.
- Globalization and teamwork: the globalization of industry also will make team more challenging in the future. Teams of the future will be compared more and more of team members who have dissimilar languages, cultures, values and approaches to solving the problems. This challenge will need to be addressed by arranging more one on one meeting that have proven to be successful in some organizations.[14] This challenge will be enhanced when combined in virtual workplaces when teams do not have the opportunity to have face to face communications. Training of understanding and communication across team members can address this issue.
Application of team building[edit]
Intervention in schools[edit]
Diana and Joseph, in their paper on team building tools for students, describe how instructors can motivate students to develop teamwork skills and provide a guideline on how to achieve it.[15] Typically professors assign a team to work on a project and the only advice they give is - best of luck. Diana and Joseph argue that this is not enough and professors should intervene more and help the students build a team that they can work effectively with. Professors should establish the importance of teamwork by providing specific examples of job situations that would require teamwork skills and how helpful this skill will be in their professional career. If students are able to understand the importance of teamwork skills and how they would benefit from it, they will be willing to contribute more to learn these skills. The following are guidelines provided to instructors for successful team building interventions:
- Defining the task: the first approach to an effective team building is that the instructor defines the goals and tasks required to be completed by the end of the project and a clear set of objectives to achieve. The most important instruction given at this step is clear timelines and deadlines for progress reports. This will ensure that the students are on track with their project and what is expected from them is clearly communicated in the beginning.
- Create a psychological contract: at this step, the instructor provides the team with a set of rules to specify their role in the team and the consequences of not following the teamwork norms. For example, what would happen if the team does not submit their work or if one team member does not contribute to the team effectively? The important goals achieved in this step are assignment of responsibilities, establishment of deadlines, ensuring contribution by all group members and documentation of group norms and conduct. This will help the team in conflict management as they will know what will be the consequences of lagging behind at a given point and help in management of interpersonal relationships.
- Establishing team member roles: the instructor should stress the importance of a balance between task and relationship roles by clarifying different roles. Task roles are essentially information that will help the team to perform the task at hand and relationship roles are social interaction between each team member. Establishment of roles will help the students in distribution of labor and to focus on work that they are good at. They will also know who is to be held accountable for different tasks and who can fix them as they arise
- Meeting with team members: the instructor should attend some of the team meetings and observe the discussion taking place. They should not necessary lead the discussions but surprise the students by attending the meetings without prior notice. Instructor can get a first-hand experience on what is actually happening in the team and give constructive feedback on how to improve certain aspects of the situation and move on. While the instructor is attending the meetings, he should reinforce the rules of teamwork skills as the students will be more familiar with these. Diana and Joseph recognize a list of seven basic rules that must be communicated to the teams: "know your team members, communicate accurately and unambiguously, accept and support one another, check for understanding, share ideas and understanding, check for agreement and resolve conflicts constructively and quickly".
- Conflict management: the next steps are to create a problem solving mechanism in the groups so they can manage any problem that arises within. The instructor should emphasize on the importance of conflict management as and when they arise so it does not harm the overall dynamics of the team. Diana and Joseph provide a decision making score wherein students can see at what stage they are and resolve the issue. For example, students may be at a 0-1 score of "no decision" where none of the members are able to reach to a common consensus to a score of 10 where needs of all members are explored and all are satisfied with the material presented. The middle stages are situations when some dominant team-members are happy while others are not.
- Individual accountability: finally, groups should keep a track of their team meetings and activities in a log so the non-performers are held accountable and get what they deserve. This also includes a list of different roles and parts of the projects that was completed by each member so the instructor can see who contributed to which part. If individuals know that they will be held accountable for not performing in the project, this process will keep them motivated and reduce any sort of social loafing within a team.
Team building in organizations[edit]
At the organizational level, team building is a philosophy of job design in which employees are viewed as members of interdependent teams instead of as individual workers.[16] According to the authors of the encyclopedia of industrial and organizational psychology, "team building [in organizational level] will be ongoing rather than a one-shot session and will be composed of training and discussion specific to that team." [17]
Interventions in sports[edit]
The concept of team building was introduced in sports in the 1990s[when?]. A study was conducted in 2010 by Rovio and other researchers to analyze the effects of teambuilding on sports teams.[18] The results indicated that team building has a positive impact on the functioning of teams as it contributes towards group cohesion. The key concepts of team building identified in organizations were applied to sports teams as well. Sport researchers lay a significant amount of emphasis on group cohesion, which was used to define team building in the late 1980s.
According to Yukelson, "In sports, teams are made up of a collection of interdependent individuals, coordinated and orchestrated into various task efficient roles for the purpose of achieving goals and objectives that are deemed important for that particular team".[19] The purpose of teambuilding in sports is to develop those behavior and skills that will lead to effective team functioning. One of the fundamental strategies for building a team is to develop a sense of team identity among the team members. This can be done by instilling a sense of "we" in the team. Team members cannot work in isolation and are independent of each other.
An experiment was carried out by Senécal, Loughead and Bloom to determine whether the team building intervention program stressing on the importance of goal setting increased cohesion in a sports team.[20] A total of 86 high school basketball players were studied as participants under either of the two conditions - season long goal setting intervention program and a control program. In the intervention program, participants were asked to individually assign targets for the team and negotiate with other team members to finalize a goal score for the team. The coach reminded them throughout the season about this goal by different approaches such as pasting a copy of it in their locker rooms. Under the control condition, their study concluded that the coach would occasionally encourage them to cheer for other team members and support each other. The research concluded that at the beginning of the study, all the participants had the same level of cohesion for the team but the team with the season long goal setting intervention program performed better in their games. It was found that the level of team cohesion did not increase in the team as a result of ceiling effect with the intervention program but the level decreased significantly for the control group. This must have happened, as they were not focused on their goals as the team with the intervention program did and occasional social events such as outings and dinners did not help in increasing the cohesion level. Therefore, team building intervention program in teams proved to be successful and showed significant improvement in the level of cohesion which positively impacted the performance.
Following are the core components to consider in building a successful sports team:
- Shared vision and unity of purpose: the beginning of any team building should start with the coach communicating the goals and objectives to the team. By doing so, roles are defined and group norms for productivity get outlines. The coach should motivate them to work effectively together to reach the goals.
- Collaborative and synergistic teamwork: the team members should know what is expected from them by providing them with a clear understanding of their role in the team. Mission statements have proved to be successful in encouraging everyone in the team to support each in achieving the goals together.
- Individual and mutual accountability: the team members should be trained that the team comes first. Everyone should be accountable for any individual action or the actions of the team as a whole.
- A positive team culture and cohesive group atmosphere: according to Martens, "team culture refers to the psychosocial leadership within the team, team motives, team identity, team sport and collective efficacy".[21] The coach should build a positive team culture that allows for the smooth functioning of the team. This can be done by selecting team players after careful judgment of how much they value dedication, commitment and the willingness to work hard to achieve the team's goal to win, not to achieve any personal goal. A coach usually delivers a speech in the locker room before the game which has proved to be motivating for a football team in 2014[weasel words].[22] The coach mentions what is it like to be a part of the team and reminds them of successful players in the past and how beating the particular team will give the team the respect and success they need.
- Team identity: a successful team building endeavour is to instill a sense of pride in group membership such that team members are proud to be a part of the team. Team identity can be created by motivating team members to be committed to team goals and have pride in the performance by working together as one single unit.
- Open and honest communication processes: an open and honest communication process should be encouraged within a team so that the lack of unity does not affect them during a game. The main components of communication such as trust, honesty, mutual sharing and understanding should be emphasized. The team members should be encouraged and given the chance to speak during debriefing sessions can help build these components of communication.
- Peer helping and social support: finally, teammates should be encouraged to help each other during games and before and after a game too. They should support each other if they lose a game or motivate each other if they win the game. Sport teams should function as a family wherein players are not just focused on their own individual goals but rather are concerned about the well being of the entire family.
See also[edit]
- Group development
- Industrial and organizational psychology
- Leadership development
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Personal development
- Team management
- Teamwork
- Team effectiveness
- Workplace politics
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Even with the near 70 degree temps the snow wasn't too bad and the slush was fun to ride but not much snow is left. I doubt Abasin could last another week with these temps (at least the lower half). I was looking around for a car in the lower parking lot with a keg but the only guy I saw was a lone skier with a mini keg sitting by himself. Figured it wasn't anyone from here |
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That slush and ice sure as hell fooled me. I did my first pond skim on Lake Reveal and ended up on the middle part. I unstrapped and attempted to walk through the slush, it was waist deep. It took my feet about 5 hours to warm back up. Holy shit that water was cold. Imagine if Lake Dillon was also filled with ice cubes. It would be colder than that.
Sunday was very busy and the pond was absolutely hilarious with some awesome fails. Going over the pond on Leenaway was so entertaining. I saw some people fall before they even got to the water. While crowded, it was one of the best closing days in my 8 years. All the typical Basin antics where in full swing They should never close before Lake Reveal shows it's self. |
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Is there anything still open? My wife just got deployed to the area to handle fire claims (hour south of Denver she says). I don't think I'll go with ... unless there is some really fun riding to be had! If not I'll stay home.
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Yep, everything is closed. Colorado skipped spring this year. We went from winter to full on summer in a matter of about a week. So much for all that late season snow and rain delaying fire season.
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who else got their ticket for copper this saturday, bout to cry we get a park like that back that we get to ride for a full day, not just hike a super small blotch of snow like last year, although that was fun as shit.
speaking of did any of you guys do last year summer copper public sessions. did that shit almost every week, was a blast |
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As with many of you I'm here because I love the water and am planing a life long dream,very soon I hope. I have been down sizing for a few years now and love it. Currently live in a Rv full time but my goal is to get rid of that as well and live aboard my 23 ft Irwin and work my way up and down the ICW. I know a 23 ft??? might not be big enough for some but I'm a minimalist so should be fine. I truly be leave less is more!!! The boat is a tad bit unique as it's not a sailor anymore I have converted it to a river cruiser. I know the true sailors hate when a sailboat gets defaced and I totally respect that but I truly love a sailboat just don't know what to do with one when the sail is up, so please don't hate me for that....LOL. The input and post on this site are awesome and is very apparent it's from people with the same passion I have so i welcome any and all of your advise. Thanks and sail on..... |
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Welcome aboard! So are you plannig on redoing the Irwin , & if so how? Will you sail her or use the iron jib? Comming from a RV has got to be an advantage,your used to tight!....Dale
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Good morning pokenites....
It's pretty cold here in snowy Colorado, so I was brewing up a pot of coffee with cinnamon in the grounds...
It makes me wonder...
How do all of YOU make your coffee in the morning :)
I drink mine black, usually. But I add Irish cream and a little dark chocolate when I have it iced.
It really depends on the coffee, and my mood. I'll usually do milk and sugar, but occasionally just sugar, and more occasionally than that black. I used to drink black coffee all the time, but it really ate at my stomach.
All I drink is Frappichinos. I can't stand coffee straight-up, far too bitter. >.<
Always black, no sugar. I can't stand sweet coffee.
Apart from Frappuccinos. I love those things.
Light and sweet.
I'm not the biggest fan of sweet things, and I'm lactose intolerant so I can only stand minute amounts of milk xD
Well, if I don't drink coffee with regularity, but when I do, all I put in is a little brown sugar. Gives it a little molasses flavor as well as regular sugar sweetness.
I don't drink coffee, but I do like coffee-flavored ice cream!
Black, it's more potent that way.
Unless I'm drinking it voluntarily (i.e, not out of necessity ^^'), in which case I like it with milk, but no sugar.
At home, I usually drink the instant stuff with milk (preferably soy). Though I enjoy a good cappuccino when I'm out and about.
Whether it is instant or ground, I first prepare the house coffee...
..then stuff loads of syrup/sugar in it. I love to have my coffee sweet. Plus, I usually include milk.
Sometimes, I also add some chocolate XDD
...I've never tried coffee... So, I take it invisibly, I guess.
I just have a bit of milk, thats all XD
It varies, depending on the type of bean, or whether it's a flavoured variety, where I get it from (home or a cafe), what my mood is...
We usually use bean coffee at home. Our machine grinds right before it brews, so it's incredibly fresh tasting. I either use a flavoured creamer or half and half and some artificial sweetener. I really like cinnamon in my coffee, so I'll either mix it into the process or add a little afterwards, but that isn't as good because it just floats on top. XD Cinnamon sticks might work better...hmm...
Instant, black. For some reason I prefer instant coffee over regular, ground coffee. I guess it's because I'm so used to it?
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So the Ears Up?????? forum has terrified me.
Is it really this common for adult GSDs to have ears that never stand?
I had no idea this breed needed so much help to get their ears up, or the fact that there's a very real possibility they'll never come up at all. Now I'm concerned because our 3 month old who is just starting to teethe still has floppy ears that haven't even shown a hint of wanting to stand since we got her. I really don't want her to have to put up with any taping/gluing so I plan to let things just run their course. But now I freak when I see her sleeping on her back with her ears smashed against the floor (which I used to laugh at, now I panic) or when people pet her head thinking her ear progression is constantly being set back. I think I need to stop reading this particular forum. |
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I think most GSD puppies ears go up on their own without any help. When my boy came home, he had one up and one down, then both went down for a period of time, then back up...this went on until he was about 6 months then they were at full attention. I didn't mess with them but didn't restrict petting or play.
It's important to know if the parents had soft ears or any past off spring. Soft ears that never stand (not due to an injury) I beleive is genetic. Some pups will need some extra help with taping...but it seems once they hit 8 months plus and the ears are still down that ship has sailed to fix them....in most cases. I suggest giving safe things for the puppy to chew on (supervised) to help build those muscles. Also when they are teething the ears could drop. |
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Your pup is WAAAAYYYYYY to early to even think about it! Ky's flopped all over the place and stood up on there own around 5.5 - 6 months old.
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Post a picture! 12 week old pups rarely have perfect ears, during teething they tend to go all wonky anyway. I'm of the "don't mess with the ears" school of thought. Ear carriage is mostly genetic, so if they're going to stand, they will, and if they're not, they won't. But I do understand that everyone wants their GSD to have pointy ears, so some people tape/glue supports in the ear.
I tried it once, with my first dog. She was sold to me as a purebred GSD, but I think she was mixed with Lab. By 5 months her ears were not standing, so I glued foam curlers in her ears to help support them. I think I only made them fall down more. |
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Snoozing... And the one and only time an ear has stood. But her head was tilted back slightly so gravity did most of the work, and it went right back down once she slumped over. But when did Ky's ears start showing signs of standing? As seen above the only time Gertie's ears have even shown a hint of it were in that one image and that was just a freak instance. I just thought by now we'd see at least some progress. They haven't moved at all yet. |
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I don't know if there's a difference with the LC and SC (I can't see pics at work, so don't know what your puppy looks like LOL)
Ky's didn't even start to go up until about 4.5 months old - one would go up, then the other, etc. If you look at my avatar, she's 4.5 months old in that pic!
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Can someone suggest a good beginner character?
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Are you looking to win against the computer or just wanna get good at the game in general? Jin's always been my favorite starter for a Tekken game, since his moves are pretty well balanced. He's predictable, but his movelist is easy to learn, and his ten-hitters aren't very complicated timing-wise. I think pretty much anyone introduced in Tekken 3 is generally solid to start with, for the most part, which includes Brian and Xiaoyu. Hwoarang's an exception, but only slightly since while he has four different directions and a couple of short-term stances he's still pretty easy to find some bread-and-butters with. I don't know, it's hard not to find someone to play with that's fun and relatively uncomplicated. Even the Mishimas as a whole are okay to play around with at first, though they're generally relegated to higher-tier players, as far as I can tell. You can tell a bad Mishima player from a good one pretty quickly. Maybe it's best to focus less on which character to play and just nab the first person whose movelist and look you dig, then look around for some sample combos from others online (don't bother too much with the sample combos they give you in-game) and master those. Once you got that down, everything else falls into place reasonably well. I'm not particularly seasoned in Tekken, but those tips always helped me in the past, and this game doesn't seem to be terribly different. I fully acknowledge that this information might be pretty misleading, but it's an open enough game where you can't mess up too much in your initial selection of character. --- An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications. | |
Forest Law IMO. Easy/high damage juggles, simple but effective full crouch mixup, several counters, pretty good synergy with much of the cast and shares many moves with his father so you're almost learning two characters. --- http://img.imgcake.com/BabyfaceKira/ZlVJ9pngej.png | |
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Anderjak posted... Are you looking to win against the computer or just wanna get good at the game in general? Well, I really wanna get good at the game learning good juggles, blocking mix-ups and stuff. Although, my main problem in older Tekken games is that I can't do anything outside of a pattern\flowchart. It feels like I'm too predictable. Anyways, thanks guys for the answers. --- "Women are throwing themselves at Adol left and right. Real bromance is hard to find. That's why Adol's sad." -Martze | |
The best beginner character is somebody with a fighting style that you like. Otherwise you'll lose interest and never learn the moves. According to replies, half the characters are listed; and if it goes on for another 2 days, the rest will show up. | |
Forest Law is pretty easy to pick up and win with. Played Kazuya and Lee for quite some time, many years actually, and had like 60% of wins. Practiced Law for 30 minutes and still sitting at 90%. | |
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Played Kazuya and Lee for quite some time, many years actually, and had like 60% of wins. Practiced Law for 30 minutes and still sitting at 90%. After years of playing it should be somewhat easy to pick up a new character. Plus, if you're talking online matches; get 50 fights in with law and then come back with that 90% win rate. Point being, I could pick up just about any character, fight beginners and go 9-1. | |
juker79 posted... Played Kazuya and Lee for quite some time, many years actually, and had like 60% of wins. Practiced Law for 30 minutes and still sitting at 90%. Yeah, I guess... Just saying he's pretty easy to pick up even for beginners, since it's easier to win with him on low/intermediate level than most characters. And you don't really have to use lame tactics to do so and actually learn something (like spamming Kazuya's u/f+4,4,4,4), like some ppl suggested here. |
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-------- Original Message -------- 8/12/2004 4:28:36 PM DENVER (Dow Jones)--U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary J.B. Penn Thursday reiterated his estimate that the Japanese market for U.S. products will be at least partially reopened this summer. Penn explained that some of the products at higher risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, may not be included. He thought an agreement for lower-risk products probably could be reached this summer. On Dec. 23, 2003, the Japanese markets, among others, were closed to U.S. beef after a case of mad-cow disease was discovered in Washington state. In 2003, the U.S. exported $1.7 billion worth of beef products to Japan, its No. 1 beef market, he said. In an interview with reporters at the annual summer meeting of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Penn said a third working-group among U.S. and Japanese officials was completed in April in Denver. The Japanese delegation was quite large and included members of the Japanese press. The Japanese delegation was treated to tours of U.S. packing plants, laboratories and feedlots in addition to direct talks about the science of BSE, Penn said. It was after this meeting that the working group said there was little or nothing to be gained by testing younger animals for BSE, That Japanese working group reported to its policy makers who then will work out possible policy changes, Penn said. There are ideas in the U.S. that the Japanese Food Safety Commission plans to meet this month on the issue and that Penn will travel to Japan for further discussions with the Food Safety Commission by the end of the month. Penn, however, disavowed any knowledge of such plans. He might go to Tokyo for high-level discussions, but no date has been set, he said. Penn maintained his emphasis that any agreement with Japan on trade resumption must be based on sound science. In his message to NCBA's Joint International Markets Committee meeting, he said the U.S. should be a in this area. An agreement with Japan on BSE and trade could set a for agreements around the world. One of the issues that needs to be resolved, Penn told reporters, is that of an agreeable cut-off age for testing. 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The state agency in charge of helping low-income residents get housing says it is shutting down its waiting list for housing vouchers in Anchorage because the list has grown too long.
The agency doesn't want to give people false hopes that they could receive rental assistance.
"The demand for assisted housing has simply outgrown the supply," said Jim Gurke, public housing director for Alaska Housing Finance Corp. The sluggish economy in recent years has probably contributed to the problem, he said.
Low-income residents are eligible for vouchers that cap the amount of rent they have to pay at 30 percent of their income. Federal funds administered by AHFC are used to pay landlords the balance.
But the list of those waiting for vouchers has grown annually and has now reached 4,587, said Gurke. It's at a point where it would take more than three years for the last applicant to reach the top of the list, he said.
"With the current number of applicants, it is no longer possible to estimate when voucher assistance might be available."
That's frustrated many on the waiting list, he said. They say things like, "I'm in a desperate situation, can you help me?" Gurke said.
Some families are in shelters, some living with other families, and some are in situations where they have to pay a big share of their income for rent.
Preferences for people in certain situations -- victims of domestic violence, the homeless, or those who spend more than half their income on rent, for example -- mean that some in more dire straits often move up the list faster.
Trevor Storrs, co-chairman of the Anchorage Coalition on Homelessness, said the lack of rental assistance "is just going to cause our homeless numbers to increase."
That will have a ripple effect, resulting in more crime, for example, he said.
Storrs said the coalition, a group with representatives of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government, understands why AHFC feels it should stop taking more names.
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Darrel Hess, homeless co-ordinator for the city, said AHFC's decision shows there's just not an adequate supply of affordable housing in Anchorage.
Gurke said turnover of the existing 2,420 vouchers in Anchorage has been slow, well below what it usually is. AHFC estimates those who get vouchers keep them for an average of 8 1/2 years.
Meanwhile, rents have risen over time, so that it costs more to fund each voucher. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Anchorage during the first quarter of 2010 was $1,127, including utilities, says a state Department of Labor report out this month.
Congress hasn't been appropriating enough money to add to the number of vouchers, said Gurke.
While Anchorage has never shut off its list in recent memory, waiting lists are currently closed in Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., Seattle, and Vancouver, Wash., Gurke said.
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Growth, spectroscopy and utilisation of novel low dimensional nanostructures: carbon nanotubes and quantum dots
Bourdakos, Konstantinos Nikolaos (2008) Growth, spectroscopy and utilisation of novel low dimensional nanostructures: carbon nanotubes and quantum dots. University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Doctoral Thesis , 224pp.
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The work presented in this thesis deals with two important low dimensional nanostructures:
carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and quantum dots (QDs). In the part of the work related to CNTs a novel method for growing CNTs without the need of metal catalyst is presented. The as produced CNTs were grown by means of chemical vapour deposition on Si-Ge islands and on Ge dots grown with the Stransky — Krastanow method on top of silicon substrates. Through rigorous characterisation products of the method were identified as single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with diameters of 1.6 and 2.1 nm. Acquired Raman spectra showed very low intensity or none D — band while the G' band was of high intensity indicating that the as produced CNTs may be of high quality. A by-product of this method is amorphous fibres which can be easily eliminated when exposed to HF vapour. As this method does not employ metal particles it is fully compatible with the front end silicon processing and therefore opens up the prospect of merging carbon nanotubes with silicon technology.
Furthermore CNTs were utilised as probes for atomic force microscopy (AFM). For the fabrication of the CNT probes two methods were applied successfully: the surface growth method and the pick up method. The latter was found to be substantially more efficient than the former and although not proper for mass production it is ideal for laboratory use as it can potentially generate thousands of CNT probes. The as fabricated CNT probes, had diameters in the range of 4 to 7 nm. Using CNT probes the surface of a mesoporous material with pore diameter of 7 to 12 nm and repeated distance of 15 to 18 nm was imaged, proving the high resolution that can be achieved with such probes and that AFM can be applied successfully to mesoporous materials. The latter has the potential to considerably expand the knowledge and the control of such materials to the nanoscale.
In the part of the work related to QDs a time resolved two colour pump photoluminescence (PL) technique was applied, with the aim to probe the coherent properties of the excitonic ground state of a single Stransky-Krastanow InGaAs QD. The method comprises of two pulses of different energy; a delayed blue pulse that pumps the GaAs barrier and an infrared (IR) pulse that pumps the excitonic ground state of the QD. The PL of the 1st excitonic excited state of the QD is used in order to probe the occupancy of the ground state. The detection is carried out at zero laser background and thus having a considerably higher signal to noise ratio than other pump and probe methods. A PL intensity variation and a red shift in the energy of the I excitonic excited state were observed, with both effects being dependant upon the intensity of the JR pulse but independent of the time delay and its energy. Further investigations showed that the IR excitation causes all PL and absorption lines of the QD to red shift, induces broadening of the absorption lines and increases the background absorption. Comparison with temperature dependent PL measurements showed that although heating might contribute to the above effects it cannot be the sole reason for their occurrence. Because of the above effects the time resolved two colour pump method cannot be applied as such for probing the coherence of QD ground excitonic state and needs to be modified further.
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Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology Q Science > QC Physics |
Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Physics and Astronomy > Quantum, Light and Matter |
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Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2009 |
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