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Now, when I say "good", I don't think they are going to be as good as the Rays or Nationals. But, they will be better than average.
With Farrel back, you have to think that is going to help some. Particularly with Lester who not long ago was one of the premier lefties in the game. He is in his prime now, and there is zero reason to think that he shouldn't be able to get back to his old self. Or at least close, which would be fine with me. He had 4 very good years, and only 1 bad one. Plus, he has something to prove. Why shouldn't we expect him back to the way he was?
Buchholz is said to have the best stuff on the team. He has shown this many times as well. Again, with Farrel being back to help him some with his disciplne, if he can stay healthy, no reason to think he shouldn't be decent as well.
True, they don't have an ace on their team, but they have 2 solid #2 guys.
After that really comes their strong points with the pitching. Depth. They have like 9 guys very capable of filling out a back part of the rotation.
Dempster (although not a real fan of him). Lackey (had several good years with the Angels, so he has proven he can do it. Was probably hurt his real bad season. Now healthy, and also something to prove. He also has that mentality to WANT to prove people wrong.
Morales - who I think if given a fair shot (not sure he will get that) can easily take the #3 spot. He showed flashes of dominance last year. Now with Farrell here ......
Then they have Doubrant, Aceves, maybe even Tawaza. Those 3 also have the stuff to easily be a #4 or #5 guy. Remember, a #4 or #5 guy doesn't have to be great, Only decent. Which those 3 are.
True, not everyone is going to answer the call we are hoping for. There will be some dissapointments and injuries too. But, that is 8 guys for 5 spots. But, I am not finished.
Then we have 4 guys who are on the verge of being available in our minor league system with Barnes, De la Rosa, Webster, and Wright. All 4 of these guys have earned high praise and should be available by mid summer if needed. This is after the 8 guys already on our roster.
Finally, we have an awesome pen to where our starters won't have to perform lights out anyways. Just get to the 6th inning or so.
Like I said, not all things are going to work out. But, with the amount of available talent that the team has avaialbe to them, a great pen, and Farrell being back. They should have any problems.


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When I first arrived in Des Moines, I lived about 2 miles from my work in a suburb. When I arrived, I intended to either walk or take a bus to work, since I had no money for a car. I started doing this for a while, but felt severely out of place, since no one -- and I mean NO ONE -- uses the sidewalks in this suburb. For me, 2 miles was definitely doable, but somehow culturally taboo.
What I observed was that most people didn't walk because they had no idea of what a walkable distance was. Their automobile use prevented them from understanding what distances require a car and what distance can be done by bike/walking.
Years later, I run into quite a few people who say they would like to walk (bike or whatever...) to work but...
Of course, there are many reasons for this. However, sadly, most people don't do enough walking to even fathom what a walkable/bikeable distance is.
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ACC Regular Season Champion and top-seeded Miami will open play Friday at noon against the Boston College-Georgia Tech winner. Virginia faces the NC State-Virginia Tech winner at 2 p.m. Duke meets the Maryland-Wake Forest winner at 7 p.m., while North Carolina will face the Florida State-Clemson winner at 9 p.m.
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Satellite Executive of the Year 2011: The Nominees Are…
Businesses throughout the satellite industry performed admirably in the tough economic conditions of 2011. Many executives worked to push their company higher, and the following six stood out to be nominees for one of the industry's most prestigious individual awards.
Jean–Yves Le Gall, Chairman, CEO, Arianespace
Launch industry veteran Arianespace, under the direction of chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, has always relied on trust — the consistency of its success — to foster confidence in its workhorse Ariane 5 launcher.
Arianespace had a positive year financially. The operator is expected to reach sales of around $1.3 billion and will likely finish 2011 back into black, a key achievement amongst all of the announcements of new contracts.
In 2011, Le Gall led a coordinated and successful effort to expand its portfolio beyond Ariane 5. In October, Arianespace completed the first launch of its own modified Soyuz from the European Spaceport in French Guiana — the culmination of a decade-long development and planning phase.
Arianespace and its partners added a new digital control system that incorporates both a digital computer and inertial measurement unit, which aims to improve the rocket's navigation accuracy and control capability. The Soyuz' first stage is composed of four RD-107A engine boosters that are liquid oxygen- and kerosene-powered — the same propellants used on each of the Soyuz' three main stages.
Le Gall's team believed that the market would continue to develop as new technology became available and in response, focused efforts on keeping pace with a variety of launchers. The Soyuz and Vega gave the company more exposure to customers with smaller satellites and its two successful Soyuz launches in 2011 only helped to promote that primary strength of trust and reliability.
Beyond the new, Arianespace continued to enjoy success through Ariane 5's completed missions and new customer contracts. The September launch of the Arabsat-5C and SES-2 satellites, which includes the Air Force's CHIRP hosted payload on SES-2, was Arianespace's 46th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight. Arianespace's 2011 launch contract tally includes new service and multi-launch deals with O3b, NewSat, DirecTV Latin America, Optus, Hispasat, Telenor, ABS, Arsat (Argentina), SES and GlobalStar.
Le Gall's company's performance not only brings evolution to its own business, but to the entire launch sector.
Amiram Levinberg, Chairman, Gilat Satellite Networks
Amiram Levinberg, who is now Gilat's chairman but was CEO for all of 2011, led the company to another strong year punctuated by a number of impressive contract wins, good financial performance and a positioning of the business to take advantage of potentially lucrative segments such as satellite communications in Latin America, as well as the U.S. government and defense business.
The company had a healthy increase in revenues for the first nine months of 2011 compared with 2010, growing from just under $167 million in 2010 to more than $245 million in 2011. Strong performance in its core VSAT business was the key behind this increase, despite the acquisitions of Raysat and Wavestream, which also brought extra revenues into the equation. Net profits were down, but this was mainly due to a one-off settlement fee, rather than any dip in the company's performance.
Gilat signed several key contracts in 2011, including an extension with the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications for rural telecoms projects, a new contract to provide broadband services in rural Peru and one to provide turnkey VSAT network and operations for NBN Co's interim satellite service in Australia. Its SkyEdge range of VSAT products remain some of the most popular of its kind and is one of the main reasons that the company posted such strong revenue increases in 2011.The company also reached a significant milestone when it announced in September that it had shipped more than one million VSATs.
Due to Israeli corporate regulations, Levinberg can no longer combine the CEO and chairman roles, and thus at the start of this year, he became chairman and Erez Antebi became CEO.
The company is now looking to expand into segments such as milsatcom and government. While milsatcom budgets, particularly in the United States, are being cut, the demand for bandwidth is not going away and Gilat could be a key beneficiary in the long-term. While its performance in the VSAT business remains strong, one of the future barometers will be its ability to monetize areas such as milsatcom and Ka-band.
Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium Communications
CEO Matt Desch has led Iridium to grow in areas that it was not expected to, driven by technological innovation in an ever-increasingly competitive sector. In September, Iridium saved up a month's worth of new mobile satellite products and services announcements and packaged them into Iridium Force — an initiative that involved the opening of its core Iridium technology licensing, the launch of a new handset and the expansion of capabilities under its existing portfolio. The Iridium Force strategy includes allowing connectivity to Wi-Fi enabled devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, as well as for applications beyond the reach of terrestrial networks. Desch's plans to invest in developing open and embedded technology allowed collaboration with a broader set of solution partners in new markets. Elements of this plan included the Iridium Extreme rugged satellite handset; the Iridium Core 9523 voice and data module; and the rollout of Iridium AxcessPoint. This product has already generated a variety of new business for the MSS operator. AxcessPoint also was recently released as an Apple iPhone/iPad app.
The company also performed solidly from a financial perspective. In the first nine months of 2011, the operator generated close to $290 million in revenues, an increase of just under $30 million compared with the same stage last year. Its net profits were also up reaching more than $31 million, more than double the figure of the previous year.
In February 2011, Orbital Sciences entered into an agreement with Iridium Communications to reserve 20 percent of the hosted payload capacity on the operator's Iridium Next satellite constellation. In July, Iridium announced that Desch was appointed to serve on the U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). Desch now advises and provides recommendations to President Barack Obama and other government leaders on the security of the nation's telecommunications systems.
There's no denying that Desch has charted a considerable change of course for Iridium since its unstable days back in the early portion of the previous decade. Many satellite industry watchers saw the 2010 Iridium Next Coface financing deal as the catalyst that solidified its comeback. Desch's latest initiatives could drive an industry evolution.
Daniel Friedmann, President, CEO, MacDonald Dettwiller and Associates (MDA)
Under president and CEO Daniel Friedmann's guidance, MDA has become an investment bank analyst favorite, consistently beating analysts' forecasts and estimates. The company is on track to have a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 15 percent between 2007 and 2011, which shows it consistently delivers financially.
In the first nine months of 2011, the company posted revenues of C$582.9 million ($569.55 million), more than a C$100 million ($97.71 million) increase from 2010, and virtually doubled its profits in the same timeframe. It also completed a C$500 million (C$488.55 million) share buyback, returning excess cash to shareholders.
The company sold its property information business in early 2011 in order to refocus its efforts on the satellite side and international market. It was sold at a high price, showcasing Friedmann's ability not only to position the business but also make the most of the assets that were at his disposal.
The company's range of deal making in 2011 was impressive. In September, the company won a major contract with the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to provide radar information. In August, it won a new monitoring deal with major Mexican oil company Pemex, covering the Gulf of Mexico using RADARSAT data. The company also signed a follow-up deal with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for UAV capabilities in 2011, a key target area for the company going forward. MDA is definitely looking for more international business and the ADF deal could be a sign of things to come.
The company, which has grown to become a flagship entity in the Canadian space sector, has performed strongly in 2011. Its numbers and deal making point the way to an exciting future under Friedmann.
Paul Brown-Kenyon, CEO, Measat Satellite Systems
Measat Satellite Systems is building an ever-stronger presence in Asia and beyond. Under the stewardship of CEO, Paul Brown-Kenyon, the operator has built an enviable position serving the video markets in Asia. The company now carries more than 20 HD channels in Asia, and has built one of the most impressive video neighborhoods in the region, where pay-TV is growing in a consistently strong way. It also now has between 80 percent and 90 percent utilization of its C-band capacity on its Measat 3/3A satellites. The Ku-band capacity on these satellites is fully taken up.
What is interesting about the Measat story is Brown-Kenyon's ability to take Measat beyond its home market of Malaysia and build a position in other strong regional markets such as India and Indonesia — these are not the easiest markets to enter into from a regulatory perspective. It further boosted its position in the region in 2011 by signing a deal with Centrin TV, a new DTH provider targeting the pay-TV market in Indonesia. The company now serves six DTH platforms in the region and is one of the first operators to bring 3-D TV to Asia. A broadband play may also start to develop for the company. In May, it signed a deal with Thaicom to become the National Service Operator (NSO) for Malaysian payload of the Ipstar service.
Measat's financial performance has also shown consistent growth, a trend that continued in 2011 with the company likely to post another healthy increase in overall revenues and EBITDA. Net profits will likely remain the same as 2010.
However, while its strong position in the video markets in Asia is undoubtedly the company's greatest strength, Brown-Kenyon is also steering the company towards other markets. One of Measat's most interesting deals has been with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan to jointly develop the 46 degrees East Orbital slot. Two satellites, Measat's AfricaSat-1 and Azerbaijan's Azersat satellite are slated to be launched later this year. This is one of the most innovative deals that the operator has participated in.
Due to Brown-Kenyon's initiative, the company is building towards an impressive future, continually expanding beyond home territory.
Mark_Dankberg.jpegMark Dankberg, Chairman, CEO, ViaSat
ViaSat and chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg's four-year-long effort to send the company's high-throughput, all Ka-band satellite ViaSat-1 into orbit came to a conclusion when it finally launched last year. This one event will impact the future of satellite as a whole for years to come.
Telesat will use the capacity of ViaSat-1 to support Canadian rural broadband provider Barrett Xplore's delivery of future bandwidth-rich Internet applications. ViaSat-1 also will make a Ka-band impact on the in-flight market. ViaSat now will see its services adopted by several of its airline partners including JetBlue subsidiary LiveTV, which signed a letter of intent with Continental Airlines in March to provide ViaSat Ka-band airborne connectivity and Internet access. The agreement, finalized in April, included an order valued at more than $30 million for Ka-band airborne terminals and services to outfit the JetBlue fleet of more than 170 aircraft. With many airlines looking to ramp up their activity here, ViaSat could be well placed to secure a number of new airline partners in 2012 and beyond.
ViaSat-1 also has the potential to reach military markets. In November, ViaSat conducted a military demonstration to unveil its new mobile broadband system using an ultra-small aperture 12-inch Ka-band tracking antenna. The demonstration was attended by representatives from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marines and Special Forces communities that witnessed a variety of applications, including full-motion HD video running concurrently over a secure, encrypted mobile satellite network.
Financially, for the first nine months of 2011, Viasat derived revenues of over $634 million, an increase of more than $30 million compared to the same stage last year. Net profits remained roughly the same. New contract awards during the nine months were significantly higher than the same stage last year with Viasat gaining close to another $100 million in orders.Behind these efforts, Dankberg has effectively ensured that his company will fully leverage the benefits of its new offerings, while maintaining a balanced focus on the growth of his company's existing contracts. In September, ViaSat was awarded a group of contracts from Boeing to develop a ground-based, beam-forming system for the Mexican Satellite System (Mexsat) totalling approximately $40 million. ViaSat also continues to receive Low Volume Terminal (MIDS-LVT) orders for the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) and BFT-2 terminal developments with the U.S. Army to build off its significant Blue Force Tracking victory last year.
Interestingly, in 2011, the company also expanded the coverage of its Yonder high-speed Internet service over Brazil and the surrounding region. The StarOne C1 satellite is providing the bandwidth and a ViaSat regional teleport was installed and commissioned in Rio de Janeiro.
It is the innovation of Dankberg, as well as strong overall performance that has anchored ViaSat's financial stability in an unstable economy.


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Hi all,
thanks to the great tutorials on this forum I was able to create my first map and it already looks like something. I am nearing completion but now I am stuck with the following problem: My citymap encompasses woods and lakes and I just dont get an idea how to apply a texture or something similar to them to differentiate them from each other an solid ground. Maybe someone from the forums has an idea what I could do and in wich tutorial it is explained. All other suggestions are also appreciated I am brand new to the mapping and graphics trade.
My map attached:
Well this is a tough one. You have quite a complex city layout there and it is also big. The biggest issue in my mind is the monochrome nature of the map because it makes it hard to separate the individual elements. It can be confusing as to what is what. For example it can be hard to tell the rivers apart from the roads and the lakes apart from the trees.
In this respect, it could really benefit from some colour.
one of the cards reads "go and do the dishes". good advice really imo. to concrete the non-operational/non-accomplishing mode of operation/accomplishing for you
I really like this map. I don't know if you're looking for any mapping advice, but one thing I notice is that the entire city is walled, with just a single wall. A lot of medieval cities would have several walls surrounding the original city, then the first expansion, and so on. Sometimes, parts of walls would be pulled down to accommodate certain types of housing in certain areas. The city seems very organic, rather than pre-planned, which is a feature of medieval cities. Overall it looks great, but I agree with Larb - color, and maybe some basic textures. There are some great textures available in the resources area of this forum, and a couple great free texture sites (like cgtextures.com) where you can make your own. Looks good so far - you've done a good job putting together a good map. Congrats on this being your first!
- Kes
I tried to find a way to take a RPG Citymap Generator map and transform it into something more pleasing to the eye. One major point for me was, that I did not wanted to draw/ layout/compose anything myself- because I am not really good at this stuff. Basicly I am searching for a way to create maps fast.
I tried to differenciate the roads from the waterways by shadowing and lightning. I wanted to do black and white map, since it will likely be only printed in black and white. The next time I am going to try some other techniques for differentiation using textures and other effects I did not know about when I started.
I will use color later, when I am more experienced with Gimp.
Kestrelgrey, your advice on the walls is completely right. I think there is an option in the Generator to include further walls. If not I will take this into account when doing my next map. It might be to late to change it in the current incarnation- since I destroyed to much in the process to go back (still learning GIMP). You are also right about the lack of planned areas. In this case it works well, since the city is supposed to be rather chaotic. But i will take it into account next time.
Thanks for all your advice! It was not in vain, I just took to many wrong turns that now hinder me to incorporate changes. Again- still learning the software. It will all be incorporated into the next version. I already have some promising ideas...
Here is the current status:
You are a city mapper after my own heart, IdiotDogBrain! Simple and fast! Here are some suggesttions when using RPG city creator which I have found useful when taking the image into photoshop (will work for Gimp) for further work:
1. I think you are exporting the buildings with the 'only outlines' box checked. Uncheck the box and you won't get the building outlines overlapping each other as you have now, instead they will look like one big building.
2. Check out Ramah's Tree thing application if you want to do forests (do a search and you will find it) or just use a simple round brush with some scatter to get the trees (the RPG city creator trees are pretty awful).
3. Note that the exported bitmap from RPG CC has no antialiasing which means that you can use the magic wand to vey quickly move streets, buildings etc to their own layers. You can then antialias the curves after that if you want.
4. Don't forget that you can change the colours for the different elements on export.
I really like the woodcut effect you have going there!
Last edited by ravells; 04-11-2012 at 08:14 AM.
Seeing that this is entirely done with RPG Citymap Generator and you're still learning GIMP, this is pretty impressive. If you still want to keep this gray-scale (if using shades of gray work), you could use white, black, and then 3 shades of gray - high, mid, and low to differentiate different elements. Streets could be mid gray, buildings could be dark gray, rivers could be light gray, and you could use black for outlines. A few more shades for the forest and possibly shadows, and you'd have a good gray-scale map that's easy to read. Textures can be helpful too, but with such a large city, and only using gray-scale, textures could also overwhelm or confuse the elements. I don't know where the tutorial is now (saved it, forgot where I found it on the forum) but a great city tutorial by Ravi, "A Guide to the Creation and Depiction of Fantasy Cities" has a fantasic section on positive and negative space, using just BW/gray-scale. Overall, though, this map is good. You're doing an excellent job both with the map and GIMP!
- Kes
It looks good - I have little experience with city generator personally, so I can't really consider myself qualified: but is there a way to get some anti-aliasing going on the map?
Hi Ravells,
thank you for four advice!
Playing with the outlines option is a very good idea, it really helps the final map. Unfortunately its to late to do it for my current map- since I did not know nor searched the save city function in City Creator I only have the city as a picture. One of the more epic failures in my workflow...
I checked out the tree thing. It looks very promising but I still have to check if I can incorporate the wood carving effect with it. I will keep you updated!
I think using the magic wand is THE time saver in the whole approach. Changing color before exporting the file is key to success. How do you export your images from the program? I just did a 2600x2600 pic, that turned out to be to graini for some effects, antialiasing in special. I will do a greater pic size next time, even though I have to find out how to reasamble the picture sinc I will need to export in in different parts.
The woodcut effect is based on a tutorial from this forum.
@kestrelgrey: I will search for that tutorial. Sounds promising! Working with shades of grey is a nice idea- I am going to try this out next time. I tried it on this map to but lighning certain layers did not worked very well after the woodcut effect was applied, since it lights out the effect as well.
Does anybody know a way to take a layer and lightening darker areas more then areas that are already in a very light tone?
As mentioned to ravells the city creator only allows for very small resolutions- 3200x3200 is the most you can get. On smaller resolutions Antialiasing wont do much good. Or am I doing something wrong? What resolution would you guys use on a map of the shown scale?
Anyway, I tried to work with some color. At first I was not very pleased, but then I tried the overlay option on the colored layers and the result looks promising:
Many thanks for all the positive feedback, really made me working on this more than I planned and it helped making the map better.


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Police are looking for the suspect responsible for a robbery that occurred Feb. 10 at the Citizens Bank located inside of the Acme, 2084 Naamans Road, Wilmington.
Investigators say the suspect approached the teller and presented a demand note for money. They say the teller turned over an undisclosed amount of money, and the suspect ran away.
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Our mission is inspired by this quote from visionary and architect Buckminster Fuller:
"Make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
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New Fellow Initiative
The U.S. Department of State's Office of eDiplomacy will host a Learn Do Share fellow from Columbia University to explore open gov and improving UX in government . Read More
The Future of Public Media
Learn Do Share and the Digital Storytelling Lab @Columbia partner with PBS to explore new forms and functions of storytelling. Through a series of collaborative design sessions a diverse group will gather in multiple cities across the country in an effort to imagine the future of public media.
Narrative Medicine Digital Storytelling Lab
The Digital Storytelling Lab @Columbia utilizes the Learn Do Share OS to create collaborative spaces that tackle complex challenges using storytelling, game mechanics and design thinking. This past fall the Digital Storytelling lab partnered with the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia, Penguin Books and author, comedian and actor Stephen Fry to explore how storytelling can aid communication between patients and caregivers. The results of the lab are currently being complied and will be released as a report later this spring.
Building a Mesh Network
Learn Do Share partners with the Village of Arts & Humanities to build a Mesh Network in Philadelphia. The Mesh Network is being informed and designed by the residents of the community and represents the first time that broadband will be available in the neighborhood.
Dropout Cyclery / Mobile Makerspace in LA
Learn Do Share LA 2013 / 2014 gave birth to and helped to incubate a bike shop and roving makerspace that teaches youth design, engineering, math and entrepreneurship. The project started as a concept written on a napkin during one our labs by a 17 year old highschool dropout and has grown into a series of programs that are dropping into Charter Schools, libraries and neighborhoods across LA.
2016 Events
February 11th, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup PARIS
February 19th, 2016
Global Think & Do Session on Gender Bias in Storytelling, NYC
February 23rd, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup NYC @ Lincoln Center
March 18th, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup ROME
March 19th, 2016
Global Think & Do Session on Gender Bias in Storytelling, NYC
March 28th, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup NYC @ Lincoln Center
April 8th, 2016
UX Exponential, WASHINGTON D.C. (LEARN DO SHARE + US STATE DEPT develop first of its kind UX event and program to bridge silos in the State Department)
April 9th, 10th & 11th, 2016
April 26th, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup NYC @ Lincoln Center
April 28th, 2016
Global Think & Do Session on Gender Bias in Storytelling, SYDNEY
May 31st, 2016
LEARN DO SHARE Meetup NYC @ Lincoln Center
June 4th, 2016
Global Think & Do Session on Gender Bias in Storytelling, LA
June 10th, 2016
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LEARN DO SHARE Gothenburg
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LEARN DO SHARE Miami
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Civic Innovation Lab Launches in LA
We're excited to announce the launch of Civic Innovation Lab Los Angeles. A partnership between Learn Do Share, Hub LA & the City of LA. For more info visit civicinnovationlab.la
- Our Learn Do Share methodology and framework, which we like to call an OS (operating system) is being adapted by Universities, organizations and makerspaces as a tool to help tackle wicked problems by harnessing storytelling, play, design thinking and collaboration. Over the last five years, we've collaborated with Jorgen van der Sloot and FreedomLab to design and prototype a social innovation lab to explore solutions for complex problems. The Learn Do Share lab runs at our events as well as having been staged for Columbia University, the UN, the City of Los Angeles, UNICEF, and the Danish Government.
If you have a challenge that you feel would benefit from an open collaborative design space we'd love to hear from you. We design, facilitate and help to drive impact before, during and long after the lab has ended.
- Our Fieldbooks capture design and storytelling experiments at our live events. It's a narrative exploration into ethos, socio-economic context and open collaboration. The result are a rather unusual look-do-and-think-books that explore the methods we used, pitfalls we encountered and lessons we learned when we try all kinds of games and methods to trigger social innovation. Click on images to download [7-20 MB].
- We are constantly developing new formats and methods to help groups collaborate in a fun and productive environment. Some shorter manuals are found in our books, and here are longer, more detailed ones that explain how to run different short-form open design challenges. These are all early prototypes, which we are still developing further, so we'd be excited to read your feedback if you try them.
- A tweet of 140 characters sent out to a community of creatives marked the starting point of a storyworld that engaged two classrooms in Montreal and LA for a 10-day period in October 2011. The students and 50+ collaborators from eight countries helped shaping both story and project. Initiators Lance Weiler and Janine Saunders were interested in experimenting and rapid prototyping, so their team created a lose framework that allowed participants to step in and create both the project and the story itself. The goal was to apply storytelling as a purposeful means to improve education. This case study outlines the build of the story with a special emphasis on collaboration. It's part of my PhD research and aims to share process and show how 21st century storyworlds can be a tool for experiential learning through creativity. Enter: Lyka. [click here to download the pdf]
A short survey made by Anthea Foyer and Siobhan O'Flynn is available on the TMC resource kit website.
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Just how Miami Beach will survive amidst projected sea level rise is one of the thorniest issues affecting the island city. Last week, 30 teens from across South Florida brainstormed solutions as part of Learn Do Share, a multimedia workshop series that was part of the transmedia conference FilmGate Interactive.
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This small but long town has a rich historic past. From favourite hunting seat in the 11C, it became the chief burgh of the important earldom of Strathearn. The town was destroyed in 1715. Not far to the northwest is Tullibardine Chapel, a beautiful red sandstone church surrounded by gnarled trees. It is a good example of late-Gothic Scots architecture, with rusticated stonework, armorial embellishments and crow-stepped gables. Nearby is the exclusive Gleneagles Hotel.


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"Evil does exist in the world. War is sometimes necessary."
-President Barack Obama upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10.
"This is the harshest sentence against house-church believers in nearly a decade."
-China Aid president Bob Fu, after 36-year-old Uyghur house-church leader Alimujiang Yimiti was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Chinese officials for "suspicion of instigating separatism and providing national secrets or intelligence to overseas organizations or individuals."
"Funny, he wants to put the burden on me to stand up and be a man, but what kind of man attacks a man in a neck brace?"
-Youth league soccer coach Chris Hester, who got into a fight with former Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss. Hester, who had neck surgery two weeks prior to the incident, coached a team of 10- to 11-year-olds that lost to the team of Pickering's son. Accounts of what happened differ, but both men face misdemeanor assault charges.
"'Dawood?' one guard shouted, saying my name in Arabic. 'Dawood?' 'I'm O.K.,' I replied in Pashto. 'I'm O.K.'"
-New York Times reporter David Rohde, recalling an exchange with his Taliban guards when two deafening explosions, which turned out to be missiles fired by a U.S. drone, struck the village where he was held captive. Rohde escaped in June seven months after his kidnapping, and the information he has provided about Taliban and al-Qaeda fear of drone attack in part spurred the Obama administration to step up the program.
"First and foremost I'd like to thank God. I am so blessed and without Him I wouldn't have been able to accomplish this."
-Alabama running back Mark Ingram in an emotional acceptance speech after winning the Heisman Trophy, the first ever for Alabama.
"The most important and spectacular of its kind in this century."
-Li Ding, director of the Bureau of Basic Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the solar eclipse that began in China July 22 and lasted more than two hours-what scientists estimate was the longest total solar eclipse in 2,000 years.
-Director of Bryan (Texas) Planned Parenthood clinic Abby Johnson, describing what she saw during the dilation and evacuation abortion of a 13-week-old unborn baby. "I saw a full profile of the baby from head to foot," she told WORLD, and in an instant it was gone. Johnson had worked eight years for Planned Parenthood but had never seen an abortion via ultrasound. She resigned Oct. 6: "I just thought, 'I can't do this anymore.'"
"A crime is a crime."
-Actress Emma Thompson, who removed her name from a petition signed by Hollywood stars calling for the release of director Roman Polanski. Outspoken against sex trafficking, Thompson agreed to end her public support of Polanski after she was confronted by Exeter University student Caitlin Hayward-Tapp, 19. Polanski, 76, was arrested in September in Switzerland for the 1977 rape of a 13-year-old in Los Angeles and in December was consigned to house arrest at his home in Zurich.
"It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at . . . I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."
-Wieslaw Maslowski, research associate professor in the Department of Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School, responding to a statement by former Vice President Al Gore at the UN summit on climate change. Gore said that "fresh" estimates by Maslowski indicated "that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."
"Significant icing on the windshield"
-Voice recording from the cockpit of Continental Connection Flight 3407, which crashed Feb. 12 en route from Newark to Buffalo, killing all 50 people on board. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since 2006.
Your tax $$$
An analysis on Dec. 11 by USA Today shows that at least one sector of the job market has been thriving during the past 18 months-the one your tax dollars pay for.
The paper analyzed the 2 million federal workers tracked by the database of the Office of Personnel Management, which excludes the White House, Congress, the postal service, intelligence agencies, and uniformed military personnel. Its findings: 19 percent of federal workers make more than $100,000 per year (before overtime and bonuses), compared to 14 percent when the recession began. The average federal worker's pay is now $71,206, much higher than the average private sector worker's pay of $40,331. "There's no way to justify this to the American people," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told the paper. "It's ridiculous."
New Jersey
The New Jersey state Senate indefinitely postponed a vote to allow same-sex marriage, originally slated for Dec. 10, when a preliminary count revealed there were not enough votes for it to pass. Supporters will push the bill in the General Assembly where it is supposed to have more support, although traditional marriage advocates say the vote will be tight there, too. Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council (NJFPC), said he believes that constituents' calls helped strike the "tremendous blow" to the hopes of gay marriage advocates. State lawmakers reported that the ratio of calls received was 4-to-1 against the bill. Gay marriage proponents are trying to push the legislation through before Jan. 19, when Republican Chris Christie (who has promised to veto the bill) becomes governor.
The church that 2009 American Idol winner Kris Allen attends has been named the fastest-growing church in America, based on an annual report by Outreach magazine and LifeWay Research on the 100 fastest-growing U.S. churches.
Top 5 Fastest-Growing U.S. Churches
(attendance growth by number and percentage)
1. New Life Church, Conway, Ark.; pastor Rick Bezet
2. Calvary Temple Worship Center, Modesto, Calif.; pastor Glen Berteau
3. Cornerstone Church of San Diego, National City, Calif.; pastor Sergio De La Mora
4. Elevation Church, Charlotte, N.C.; pastor Steven Furtick
5. Faith Church of St. Louis, Fenton, Mo.; pastor David Crank
Top 5 Largest U.S. Churches
1. Lakewood Church, Houston, Texas; pastor Joel Osteen, 43,500 attendees
2. LifeChurch.tv, Edmond, Okla.; pastor Craig Groeschel 26,776 attendees
3. Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, Ill.; pastor Bill Hybels, 23,400 attendees
4. North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, Ga.; pastor Andy Stanley, 23,377 attendees
5. Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas; pastor Ed Young Sr., 22,723 attendees
Googling it
Those who most know what most Americans were thinking about in 2009 are the data miners at Google.
Top 10 Headline News searches:
1. swine flu
2. inauguration
3. rush limbaugh
4. rod blagojevich
5. henry louis gates
6. h1b
7. california budget
8. al franken
9. sonia sotomayor
10. mark sanford
Fastest rising Google searches:
1. twitter
2. michael jackson
3. facebook
4. hulu
5. hi5
6. glee
7. paranormal activity
8. natasha richardson
9. farrah fawcett
10. lady gaga
Fastest falling Google searches:
1. john mccain
2. olympics
3. heath ledger
4. barack obama
5. sarah palin
6. circuit city
7. ron paul
8. iron man
9. spore
10. wii fit
Man knows not his time
He died Dec. 15 in quiet decline surrounded by family in wealthy Newport Beach, Calif., but at the height of his career evangelist Oral Roberts, 91, mounted global healing crusades and was the most well-known of prime-time television evangelists. "I was trying to play golf with Oral Roberts the other day," comedian Bob Hope used to joke, "but the holes kept healing up."
If it had not been for Roberts, "the entire charismatic movement might not have occurred," said pastor Jack Hayford, president of the International Foursquare Gospel, in a statement. But the soaring highs of an often controversial ministry based on faith healing and prosperity gospel teaching-which got its start when Roberts himself was miraculously healed of tuberculosis at age 17-were accompanied by dramatic and at times scandalous lows. In 1987 Roberts warned supporters that God would "call Oral Roberts home" unless they sent $8 million to his strapped ministry. He later claimed he raised over $9 million, but two years later closed his expansive City of Faith Medical Center anyway. In 2007 his son Richard, who had taken over Oral Roberts University (ORU) and its extended ministries from the elder Roberts, stepped down from ORU over allegations that he and his family had misused millions in ministry funds. That led to formal separation of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association from ORU and an overhaul of school management at the behest of Hobby Lobby founder and ORU supporter Mart Green.
Fort Hood
Army officials have not said whether they will seek the death penalty in the court martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan, the gunman behind the Fort Hood killings. They have said that doctors will evaluate Hasan by mid-January to determine his competency to stand trial as well as his mental state at the time of the shooting. Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting on the Texas Army post. He remains hospitalized in San Antonio, recovering from gunshot wounds that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
American individuals gave more than corporations or foundations to charity this year-$226 billion out of a total $300 billion in U.S. charitable contributions. And when calculated as a percentage of income, the neediest appear to be the most charitable, according to a survey by Mint.com.
Thirty-five percent of giving is to religious institutions. The largest by revenue: Lutheran Services in America.


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Daimonos's Hall of Fame
Because I'm bad at making lists (especially Top 100's, ect.), every now and then I'm gonna throw up an entry for an album that has some kind of significance to me. They're not in any order. I'm just going to post them as I think of them. I may try to rank them in the future, though. Don't be surprised if I don't keep this updated .
And the first induction for Daimonos's Hall of Fame...
#1. BEHEMOTH - Evangelion.
1. Daimonos
2. Shemhamforash
3. Ov Fire and the Void
4. Transmigrating Beyond Realms ov Amenti
5. He Who Breeds Pestilence
6. The Seed ov I
7. Alas, Lord Is Upon Me
8. Defiling Mortality of Black God
9. Lucifer
Tonight, I randomly decided to play this album on my iPod. It was the first time I'd really paid attention to it for awhile, and I remembered how fucking awesome it is. Then I realized that the album I bought the album exactly two years ago when it was released in the US. It was my Number One Album of 2009, and it might be my favorite Behemoth album.
To me, this is album Behemoth has been building up to for the last ten years or so, the perfection of the Behemoth sound, if you will. The riffs are all monumental, the drums are attacking, and Nergal sounds like a warlord, charging a fierce, dark, blackened, death metal army into battle. The album opens up with one of my favorite Behemoth songs, "Daimonos". This song captures Behemoth doing what they do best, and is a fine representation of the band, as well as a great introduction to the album. It sets the tone. Other favorites would be "Ov Fire and the Void", "Transmigrating Beyond Realms ov Amenti", and "The Seed ov I". But I really can't pick favorites, because I love the whole damn album.
Transmigrating Beyond Realms ov Amenti
I've lost track of just about everything.
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It's my #1 Behemoth album as well. Behemoth is my favorite band. I'd describe the sound as a more epic and refined Apostasy. I'd love to get a tattoo of some version of that album cover someday.
1/9 Municipal Waste/Repulsion/Terrorizer LA/Ghoul
I agree; it's definitely my favorite Behemoth album. And Daimonos might be my favorite Behemoth song. I really wish they would play it live. It's got the perfect energy to open a show, unlike Ov Fire and the Void.
I also completely agree with the statement that this is the album that behemoth has been building up for the last 10 years. It's a perfection of honing in their sound, style, and writing abilities. Definitely my number 1 of 2009. No question.
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#2. OZZY OSBOURNE - Ozzmosis
1. Perry Mason
2. I Just Want You
3. Ghost Behind My Eyes
4. Thunder Underground
5. See You on the Other Side
6. Tomorrow
7. Denial
8. My Little Man
9. My Jekyll Doesn't Hide
10. Old L.A. Tonight
Bonus Tracks:
11. The Whole World's Fallin' Down
12. Aimee
This definitely isn't a favorite to many people, but this is a very special album to me. I generally consider this to be the first album I bought, and it changed my life. For whatever reason, I wanted an Ozzy CD, because I had heard songs such as "NIB", "Crazy Train", "Mama, I'm Coming Home", and "Iron Man". I got this in a Walmart, at the age of nine. After I bought this and listened to it, my hunger for Ozzy, Sabbath, and HEAVY FUCKING METAL grew over several years. My life is almost completely dedicated to music, and Ozzy Osbourne is to blame for that. To this day, I still have a huge soft spot for all of his music. Hell, I even love Scream.
On to the music. The album really isn't bad, or at least not nearly as bad as anybody makes it out to be. This was Ozzy's first album after coming out of 'retirement' in the early 90's, and his goal was to make a more focused, mature album, as at this point he was a half dead old man in his 40's. He didn't want to be the fang wearing, bat killing madman that he'd been portrayed as for the last 15 years anymore. I think he achieved his goal. The songs aren't as 'metal' as they had been in the past, and the lyrics seem to me about more personal matters than before. The album starts off with rocker "Perry Mason", before switching into the lighter territory with "I Just Want You". Although it's a 'softer' song, it's still heavy as anything he's done. That's another thing. This is Ozzy's heaviest album, save the ballads. Songs like "Thunder Underground", "Tomorrow", and "My Jekyll Doesn't Hide" feature some of the crunchiest guitars Ozzy's ever had on an album. But at the same time this is also the softest album Ozzy's done. The album features many 'ballad' like songs, that aren't very heavy. Songs like "See You on the Other Side", which I consider to be one of Ozzy's finest moments, "My Little Man", which is a little bit cheesy, and closer "Old LA Tonight", which is also a fantastic song. I've known the bonus tracks as part of the album my whole life, so I'll include them. "Whole World's Fallin Down" is just a straight forward Ozzy rocker, with some pretty catchy parts, and "Aimee" is a ballad dedicated to the singer's daughter. Pretty good tracks.
If you like Ozzy but you don't really like this album, I guess I understand. But if some of you guys have never really heard it, I recommend checking it out. While it not might be my favorite Ozzy album, it definitely is the closest to my heart ()
I Just Want You
See You on the Other Side
My Jeykll Doesn't Hide
I've lost track of just about everything.
1/27 - Sleep
I never heard anything from Ozzmosis before (except "Perry Mason" like once). Listening to "My Jekyll Doesn't Hide" right now, and it's pretty fucking killer. It sounds like Sabbath more than what I'm used to with Ozzy solo, and I'm digging it.
Ozzmosis is probably the Ozzman's most underated album, I highly recommend checking out the rest of it!
I'm gonna try to throw another album up later tonight, as well.
I've lost track of just about everything.
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While we're redefining gender and marriage, why not redefine everything else?
Words have meanings. Meanings have consequences.
What about cancer? Let's redefine cancer as anyone who says they have it. Then I could ask on Facebook for people to donate to my cancer treatment, check in to a hospital and lay in a bed while the donations roll in. Then when I decide I'm better, I can call myself a cancer survivor, and thank everyone for the donations I can now use to buy houses for myself and other self-identified cancer survivors.
That's offensive? Why? My body is the most personal thing I have, and if I say there's cancer in me, then by God it must be there. If I say it's gone, then I've survived the cancer.Read More »


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Win Some of the Top Gadgets from CES 2014
After four exhilarating days of cutting edge innovation, CES 2014 has drawn to a close for another year. A total of 3,200 exhibitors filled more than two million square feet of space in Las Vegas, and now you have the chance to win some of the exciting new products unveiled at CES.
Read on for more information about the gadgets up for grabs, as well as details of how to enter. Some of the fantastic prizes, courtesy of Veho, include:
As ever, there was no shortage of amazing new products on display over the course of the four days at CES 2014. BMW arrived in Vegas armed with their new self-driving car capable of drifting around bends and slaloming through cones without any driver intervention. There was also the EyeLock – a palm-sized device which plugs into your computer and uses a sensor to scan your eye before granting you access. Remembering passwords is so 2013.
Awards were also handed out across the various categories, with the much-coveted 'Best Startup' prize going to The Airtame. The small USB plug-in device enables you to wirelessly beam your PC or laptop across multiple screens.
Video game enthusiasts also had plenty to shout about, with the award for 'Best Emerging Technology' going to the 'Crystal Cove' virtual reality headset. Its cutting edge technology promises to take gaming to the next level, thanks to improved clarity and graphics.
It's no secret that technology forms a key part of modern day travel. Whether you're jetting off for a well-earned break in Las Vegas or heading to New York for business, gadgets help you stay connected and entertained whilst on the move.
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Here at Virgin Atlantic, we realise how important technology is to our passengers, which is why we're delighted to offer you the chance to win some of the amazing products unveiled at CES 2014. We've partnered with Veho, a leading lifestyle consumer electronics company that featured in our recent CES 2014 preview blog.
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Second Prizes
• Veho 360° M5 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker
• Veho PEBBLE™ Smartstick+ 280mAH Portable Battery Smartphone Charger
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• Veho SAEM™ S4 Wireless Bluetooth Receiver with Track Control
• Veho PEBBLE™ Explorer 8400mAh Portable Battery Tablet Charger
There will be a total of 5 winners – with 1st place receiving the ultimate travel bundle. So be as creative and unique as possible to be in with a chance of winning one of these great prizes. For full details please see our terms and conditions.
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CES 2014 Competition
A. Entry into this promotion (the "Promotion") is open to residents of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands aged 13 years or over, except for employees of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and agencies directly connected with creation of and administration of this Competition and their families.
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- Veho 360° M5 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker
- Veho PEBBLE™ Smartstick+ 280mAH Portable Battery Smartphone Charger
- Veho SAEM™ S4 Wireless Bluetooth Receiver with Track Control
- Veho PEBBLE™ Explorer 8400mAh Portable Battery Tablet Charger
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- Veho 360° M5 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker
- Veho PEBBLE™ Smartstick+ 280mAH Portable Battery Smartphone Charger
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- Veho SAEM™ S4 Wireless Bluetooth Receiver with Track Control
- Veho PEBBLE™ Explorer 8400mAh Portable Battery Tablet Charger
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If I could build my dream piece of technology to accompany me on my travels, it would have to be way of valuing the amount of fun (or lack of it) through recording my brain waves, counting endorphins, measuring blood temperature and all that scientific stuff! Then by liquidising this value into a drop of green gunk, I would put it on a plate and by using your everyday microwave, cook the green gunk at 650W for 76secs/800W FOR 52secs. The microwaves this will metamorth the gunk into a solid object which can take infintie forms. With these forms it can be used as souvenirs for family and friends, so they get unique organic sculptures for home!
i'm disabled and what i want more than anything is a crutch that transforms into a chair, but that's not bulky. a big ask, i know. i've tried shooting sticks etc but they're too heavy. also, i can't sit on the ground and get up again (i've had two new knees) and i'd love to be able to take something with me so that i could simply get down and up again
The Dream piece of equipment would be the dream sequencer which would allow a person to upload a vivid and personal experience into their mind which would play out like a tv show or a movie starring you. Similar to Total Recall but without all the one-liners (unless of course you'd like to experience the movie Total Recall from either the perspective of Arnie of Michael Ironside, or maybe just Sharon Stone). You'd be able to upgrade the dream machine to incorporate emotional response or even tingle / vibration for moments of action of even death. You would be concious of your own thought, yet programmed to speak out the actions of the character.
it would have to be able to run on solar power or similar so it would not need charging so often, if at all, could convert into differtent modes of transport if needed
If I had a fancy "Gizmo" for a time saver on holiday it would be an automatic sun-tan aplicator to save time and get an allover cover of protection.
It would have to be a Babel fish.
mini generator to run all my gizmo's on a tropical island , bliss.
i want to build a gadget with neck pillow with speaker! or maybe a neck pillow with head phone.
I'd design a smartwatch that could act as your passport, drivers licence and wallet for cashless payments. It would also be a smartphone whose GPS could be pre programmed with all your planned holiday destinations and also suggest a few when you are near them. It would also have all your travel documents stored on it so you would not need paper tickets.
It would be your ultimate travel companion.
I am a a student that is contstanly traveling from home to university. If I could cream a dream piece of technology it would be something like a smart wristband that would hold data, with a thin touch screen running around it. With a touch of a button it would connect to a portable screen, which would give me access to all my items, such as train/plane tickets, reports I had written, videos, web browsers etc. The screen on the band would act like a touch mouse, which you can use to connect to a screen. The band would hopefully connect to any screen, maybe even have a projecter in. It would be so much easer having that then having to lug back and forth laptop, papers etc!
It would have to be a universal translator . no more embarasing fumbling for the right words
If Icould build my dream piece of technology to accompany me on my travels is a electronic card include ID,passport,driving-licence,NI card and all of my bank card with high security digit code and installation only by my finger touch and voice.No more cash, travel documents or wallet.
A small solar power charger that would charge everything i own
It would be a piece of equipment in which I could insert my dirty clothes, and it would both clean and dry all of them within a small amount of time (perhaps 20 minutes), saving lots of time, money, hassle, and missing clothes during my travels!
A gps luggage tracker with built in call home function when found . I'm sick of losing my stuff!
An upgraded version of the Google glasses with built in image recognition so I could get relevant information on the sites I visit, as well as keep connected to the internet
A gadget to shrink all my luggage down to a minute size then restore back to normal again. No more worrying about how much to take, buying presents to bring back & dragging luggage between airport & hotel.
I would build a set of voice activated video sunglasses. They would record exactly what I was looking at and I'd just need to say a keyword like "action" to start them and "cut" to stop them. They'd be able to project the recorded images onto the lens of the glasses so i could watch what i'd recorded. They would also wirelessly send images back to my Ipad or my laptop so I could share them with other peple later.
My dream tech for travel would have to be unobtrusively part of me, like a throat microphone / ear piece implant with an eye implanted visual display / projector, so that it could be for private or public use. Maybe it would have to be signalled as 'on' by eye colour or some other visual / sonic clue?
I'd like easy access to communication, internet, the world's knowledge and culture, entertainment so that travel could be made in any direction with the capacity to orientate / explore reality instantly and more fully - you'd certainly never be wondering when the next bus will be!
I wouldn't want it all without mystery, maybe I'd set a 'mystery tour' button which would book you into an unknown direction of travel based on your personality / likes and dislikes leading to delightful surprises...?
If I could build a gadget for my travels, it would have to be a pair of sensored sunglasses that protect your eye's from UV but also, video record every visual aspect of your scenary whilst wearing them, pick up on clear audio sounds of the beach, bars the animals if any. It would have a section where you plug it into the laptop and include any 'smells' or tastes, and add them to each section of the video recording. You would be literally capturing memories, instead of postcards and pictures on facebook, friends and family could see, hear , almost like they was there. It would be a reminder of the holiday and when watching on video in a new dimension 3DH 'HD and 3D' combined.
I'd like a portable teleportation machine to beam me where ever I wished
It will be a earcuffin and it will be a phone, a clock, a credit card/debit card and a key of my house :D
I would love to invent two headsets that would be linked together to gather all relavant information from any holiday myself and my husband have had! We have had amazing holidays through virgin and when we reminisce and we do often!!! We never agree which hotel had that extra special breakfast or where we enjoyed lunch! And if i could i would throw in a device that could keep score to prove how often i am right!
I would have a gadget that tracks your route exactly, records thoughts feeling, travel diary, takes pictures and captures every precious moment whilst travelling. Needs in built maps for everywhere you go (all without costly data charges!)
A universal translator would be my perfect travel gadget. I struggle learning languages or if I'm being honest, too lazy to learn languages.
About the author: MaxineMaxine Sheppard
Maxine is the editor of the Virgin Atlantic blog. Travel and music are her joint first loves, and despite having written for Virgin for more years than she cares to remember she still loves nothing more than jumping on a plane in search of new sights and new sounds.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Officials with the Metropolitan Police Department say a woman was injured, and later died after her car struck a tree at 12th and Varnum streets in Northeast D.C.
Police say officers arrived at the scene at 7:58 a.m. Tuesday. The woman suffered serious injuries, according to police. The crash occurred near a hospital.
12th Street is closed from Allison to Upshur Streets. Police suggest drivers use 13th Street as an alternate route.


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The Autism Vaccine Fraud's High Cost to Society
The 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism has been utterly debunked. So 13 years later, how many lives have been lost and how much money has been wasted treating the preventable illnesses that fear-mongering led to? Here are some answers.


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Plug chops are a way to isolate each major throttle position's mixture setting, by isolating the jets which control the mixture in those throttle positions. With these types of carburetors, you can be lean in one throttle position, and be rich in another. This process allows you to tune each throttle range and the corresponding jets.The process is like this.Put a piece of tape or other indicator pointer on your throttle housing, like an arrow pointer.Put a piece of tape wrapped around your throttle grip. Then use a magic marker on the tape to mark the 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and Full throttle position, so that they correspond with the pointer when you are at these throttle positions.Use a new plug.Then, take the bike out and ride at one of these throttle positions for a few minutes so that the plug can get enough time to get its color. Hold it at that throttle position the whole time without changing it, so that it isolates that throttle position only. When you get to a safe place to pull over to check the plug, cut the engine and pull in the clutch, don't change the throttle position until the engine stops, and coast to a stop on the side of the road and check your plug for color.If the color is a medium tan, or something around that, it's pretty good for that throttle position, and you can try the next throttle position, etc.Throttle positions and their corresponding jets are:Idle = Pilot jet and bleed screw1/8 = Throttle slide cutaway1/4 = Needle jet mostly1/2 = Needle jet and jet needle combination(they actually overlap in function from 1/4-3/4)3/4 = Jet needle mostlyFull = Main jetDoing this will give good even throttle results with proper mixture settings all thru the whole throttle range, and should eliminate any hiccups, bogs, or flat spots in the entire throttle range, and prevent lean conditions from causing engine damage, and keep your fuel economy at its best.
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Finally, last night I had a chance to sketch it. Lots going on on Jupiter. Where to start?
Well, first, I keep seeing a brighter area in the northern temp regions. I cannot say whether it is an oval or really just some lighter contrast between very difficult to see darker features. I suspect the latter.
Also, I am darn sure I captured my first white oval this season in the south (and only second one, ever.) It would not hold steady for long, but I got two brief glimpses. That's just how tough they are in smaller apertures. If they can be seen, spending enough time should afford a very rare peek at one.
Also in the south, one white band stood out quite easily. But, there is a hodge-podge of much fainter albedo going-ons down there, as well. It has kind of attracted my attention, but cannot really make anything of it. The trailing portion of the STrZ was a bit more gray than the preceding portion.
Working back north, the SEB. Well, what can one say, it was streaked with lighter albedo, probably the trailing end of the GRS wake. And darker albedo was evident as well. It was quite pretty. Er, interesting...
In the EZ, well, a tangle of interacting festoon features seems to dominate the meridian. Curiously, the EQ belt did to appear to have a bit of a crook in it. It was rather faint across this CM.
The NEB rift began to show shortly after I began at 1030 local, or 1430UT, and ended at 1630UT. That barge like feature was coming round the trailing limb, so I decided to go ahead and sketch it on the meridian and place other features relative to it. This allowed time to really observe and sketch, but also took time to do so.
I found the rift to be quite amazing. Broad, nearly extending the width (height?) of the NEB. And it just kept coming, too. At 1630UT when I finished observing, it was still rolling around the limb.
In the north, that interesting oval was pretty evident most of the time. Just above it seemed to be some albedo just tiniest bit darker. Oh, and there was a clear separation in the NTB on the trailing limb.
Whew...2 hours can be tough, yet rewarding. Thanks for sharing.
23 Nov 2012, Sys I 248 II 286. Seeing Ant I-II. Trans < mag 4, gibbous moon. UO 10mm HD Ortho and 1.6x Barlow gave 170x, no filter.
Edit: Got rid of the green hue and added some limb shading (thanks, Jason.)


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Waco, TX (Sports Network) - All five starters scored in double figures for
Northwestern as the Wildcats held on for a 74-70 win on the road over the
Baylor Bears at the Ferrell Center,
Drew Crawford was the top scorer for Northwestern (7-2) with 19 points. Reggie
Hearn had a double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds, Dave Sobolewski netted
13 points, Jared Swopshire put in 12 and Alex Olah had 10 points to go with
six assists.
Pierre Jackson scored 18 points and dished out six assists and A.J. Walton
chipped in 11 points for Baylor (5-3).
Both teams shot well in the first half with Baylor hitting 13-of-24 shot
attempts while Northwestern put in 15-of-30 of its field goal attempts to earn
a 35-32 lead at intermission.
The Wildcats led by as many as 18 points in the second half but had that lead
trimmed to two in the final minute. However Crawford hit a pair of free throws
to put the game out of reach.
Baylor lost despite outscoring Northwestern 19-4 on points off turnovers. The
Wildcats had a sizable 37-24 edge on the boards.
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text: By LaDonna SwedbergSports Writer Maxwell was the site of the annual Wildcat battle as Wallace went to battle with Maxwell. It was the Wallace Wildcats that struck early and often and they never really slowed their pace. As the first quarter got underway, Josh Grauerholz made his presence known under the basket, if he wasn't getting an inside shot, Taylor Doell was lighting it up from downtown. Between the two of them, they put up 23 of Wallace's 25 first quarter points. John Marquardt put up seven points and Landon Swedberg six, to get in the scoring picture with Grauerholz and Doell in the second quarter. Wallace's very stingy defense along with their dominating offense came up with 45 first half points while holding Maxwell to just 14. The fast paced game slowed a bit in the second half but the number of Wallace Wildcats putting points on the board did not. Lane Scott was the first to get in the score book followed shortly by Grauerholz with yet another short jumper. Dillon Koop then added a trey and before the quarter ended, Shane Anders added a free throw and a short jumper as well. The final quarter was played out predominately by younger players who also played tough defense and found ways to score. Anders added to his point total then Collin Swedberg came up with a steal and a lay up. Tanner Clough put two points on the board off a rebounded put back which he followed up with two free throws. Jackson Porter then got in the score book with a jump shot and two free throws of his own. Wallace once again had a dominating performance in all areas of the game and they displayed another complete game of team effort. They defeated Maxwell by a score of 67–24. Leading the way for Wallace was Taylor Doell and Josh Grauerholz with 16 points each and Landon Swedberg with eight. John Marquardt was the leading rebounder with a total of eight grabs followed by Shane Anders with five. Next Action Wallace will be in action again on Thursday, Dec. 13 when the travel to Sutherland to take on the Sailors and then again on Tuesday, Dec.18 when they host the Medicine Valley Raiders.


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A respectable, but risky recovery.
May 19, 2010
Analysts with trade credit insurer Coface said it has raised its 2010 world growth forecast to 3 percent. Coface, which provides protection for businesses against financial failure by their customers, issued a report in April stating that the United States' A2 rating is under positive watch. Given the strong performance of the U.S. at the end of 2009, Coface analysts revised their forecast upward to 2.3 percent. They warned, however, that the nation still had much to do before reaching its "pre-crisis" A1 rating. Furthermore, said analysts, there is some apprehension of a U.S. business slowdown during the year "due to a weakening of the favorable effects of the budget stimulus." Meanwhile, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are benefiting from the recovery in Asia, as demand for raw materials is ramping up. All three nations have been given an AI rating by Coface.
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Tampa, Florida -- Stranded manatees on Bayshore, yes. Large sharks... not so much.
Photos have begun circulating on social media sites that claim to show a large shark swimming down a flooded Bayshore Boulevard.
A dead manatee and two juveniles have washed up near Tampa General Hospital, but if you thought there was something fishy about the shark image, you'd be right: the pictures are a hoax.
In fact, it isn't the first time this shark has fooled people. A variation of the shark picture first appeared last year, claiming to show a shark swimming down the street in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irene hit the island. The Snopes.com urban legends website deemed that picture a fake as well.
Earlier this month, another doctored flooding photo made the rounds online, this time showing a "sea monster" swimming in front of a Burger King.
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Just thought I would try to get opinions on this site about units 88 or 87 antelope in Wyoming. Looking at putting in for doe tags (thought I would join the crowd since it has become so popular the last few years).
Doesn't look like too much public land in 88 but is there enough for a good public land hunt?
Unit 87 in around Pinedale looks good but are antelope still around all of the gas/oil equipment south of Pinedale?
Any advice would be appreciated; not looking for exact locations just possibility of harvesting doe antelope.
Also looking at 89 but the draw is not 100% and my wife and I would love to harvest some tasty does next season.


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Hi Rafa. I'm back.
Kalil + I had such a great time in Florida celebrating my parent's 40th anniversary. It was an emotional trip for obvious reasons which always seems to put me in a pensive, introspective mood. I was able to spend time with family and friends I hadn't seen in a long time; it was fun to catch up on their lives and see how they've changed since the last time we spoke. If ever you feel like time is moving at the speed of light, it would be in those moments. Forever young we are not.
The weather couldn't have been better - sunny, 80's, moderate humidity - so we managed to sneak in some hitting with HEAD and Dunlop followed by quick dips in the pool. Now, it wouldn't be a true family gathering (or life) without some drama but all in all it was a beautiful time. A big thanks to those of you who left kind messages for my parents and me in the comments section and on Twitter and Facebook - they read them as well and were moved by your words.
If I'm being completely honest, though, it's always hard to plop my brown arse onto a chair, open up the computer and write something after being away for a bit. You could compare it somewhat to tennis in that you form a 'writing rhythm' when you are posting regularly, but once you stop, it takes a moment to get it back. So I took yesterday to catch up on the happenings and find my motivation. And I think I did.
What was the biggest piece of news to happen while I was away? Aside from all the Brett Favre cock talk (don't be fooled - some penises are not pretty, NSFW) here are the choices:
A) Rafael Nadal wins his seventh title of the year and 43rd of his career in Tokyo over Milli Vanilli (thanks natch)
B) Caroline Wozniacki boots Serena Williams from the WTA Penthouse and takes residence becoming the 20th top lady baller in WTA history at 20-years old
C) Novak Djokovic defends his title in Beijing besting David Ferrer grabbing his second title of the season
D) Wozzi downs Vera Zvonareva in Beijing for her sixth title of the year
E) The Wounded Tennis Association continues its work with Venus Williams, Dinara Safina, Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova ending their seasons and ReRe all but pulling the plug on hers
I guess I'd have to go with choice...uh...'B.' The way Wozzi earned the achievement - by leaping past an inactive and still-injured ReRe - may have been like tripping someone on crutches (no offense V) on your way to the head of the class but the Dane's season-long consistency earned her the keys and that's all that matters. I keep going back to something TENNIS' Steve Tignor wrote when it seemed likely Woz would usurp the top spot:
Yes, she would be the real No. 1, and she would deserve it. She would not be the best player in the world; that's still Serena, who won two majors this year. Being No. 1 is a different achievement. It might not sound glamorous, but it's an honor nonetheless: Wozniacki would be recognized as the best in the world at her job.Bulls-eye. But, fair or not, the sharks will be swarming and looking for her to legitimize the ranking by winning a major, or as Tigger so eloquently put it, by "mak[ing] something artificial into something real."
Now that's some tough love. Damn, it's good to be back.
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Hagel orders review of new medal
A new war medal designed to honor service members who exhibit extraordinary achievement away from the battlefield will be reviewed after an outcry from veterans and lawmakers who deemed its ranking too high.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday that he would examine the Distinguished Warfare Medal, which was to rank higher than a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Production has been halted of the new medal, which would be given to those who operate unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, or use other technology to help fight America's wars or protect the homeland.
Pentagon press secretary George Little said Hagel ordered another look in light of concerns by lawmakers and veterans groups over the fact that the new medal was ranked above medals for those who served on the front line in harm's way.
"He's heard their concerns, he's heard the concerns of others," Little said of Hagel.
Many critics are not opposed to the new medal, per se.
"I think it reflects the way warfare has evolved the last 10 years. Certainly, the guys operating those platforms are doing things that are important," said James Johnson, immediate past president of the San Diego Military Affairs Council. "I'm in favor of the award, but there's no way it should be classified above Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts."
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the new medal last month, making it the first new wartime award since the Bronze Star was created in 1944. In doing so, Panetta talked about the changing way in which wars are fought and even said the next Pearl Harbor could be a cyber attack.
But his message hasn't resonated with many veterans and those in Congress who cannot fathom equating the contributions of those on the front lines with those sitting in front of a computer.
Some have gone as far as to deride the new award the "Nintendo" or "Xbox" medal.
"The DWM is widely viewed as an award that undermines all other valor awards and the reverence for service members who face the dangers of direct combat," Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said in a statement. "It's a fact that those who are off the battlefield do not experience the same risks. Pretending they do devalues the courageous and selfless actions of others, who, during combat, do the unthinkable or show a willingness to sacrifice their own lives."
Should Hagel want to demote the stature of the medal, he may also need to reduce the criteria for the award, said Jack Harkins, chairman of the United Veterans Council of San Diego County. Harkins said the criteria, that the service member must have performed an "extraordinary achievement," is appropriate to its current place in the rankings.
"It's not going to someone with the most kills Monday through Friday," Harkins said. "This is going to someone with significant achievement toward winning a battle."
In ordering a new look at the medal, Hagel said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey would lead a review of how the medal is ranked among others, Little said. Hagel is going to work with Dempsey, the service secretaries and the service chiefs to review the ranking.
He wants Dempsey to report back in 30 days.
In addition to veterans' concerns, there is a practical side to the rankings for currently serving troops. There are grades of medals — commendation, merit, distinguished — that affect not only the name but promotions for those still in uniform. Each grade gives troops a certain number of points needed for promotions.
The Bronze Star is given for merit and, when carrying a V device, acknowledges valor in combat. The Purple Heart, which ranks below the Bronze Star, is awarded to service members wounded or killed in action.