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Without spoiling beyond what is revealed in the game's first hour, Lightning, one of the heroines of the last game, is seen in a nether region at end of time. This game's protagonist, Noel Kreiss, comes from 700 years in the future and has arrived at the time period where XIII ended. He is also the last remaining human from his time and is desperately looking for a way to alter that fate and change the future. In attempting to do so, he has partnered with Lightning's younger sister, Serah, one of the non-playable supporting characters from the previous game. They set forth on an intensive time-travelling journey where the next stop can be anywhere from 5 years to 400 years into the future. Serah is especially motivated to reunite with her sister but it she also gains additional motivation in wanting to help Noel due to the bond that they soon develop.
If learning the new 'paradigm' battle system in FFXIII was a foreign exercise that had a long learning curve, you might feel more motivated to get more mileage out of it in XIII-2. If you did manage to play at least 20 hours in XIII, then getting into the first wave of combat with Serah and Noel will be very familiar. The battle systems in FFXIII & XIII-2 are a variation of Square's patented Active Time Battles with a little bit of inspiration from the semi-automated aspects of the battles from Final Fantasy XII. The party's leader is still the only true "playable" character and each party member operates based on a specific role. For tough battles, the user is expected to change the characters' roles to suit the evolving combat situation.
The most notable difference between the two games' battle systems centers around the third party member. That third slot is saved for the monsters you capture in the game and each monster can only level up in one pre-assigned role. You can have up to three monsters in each paradigm deck and since you are limited to six paradigms per deck, you'll have to choose your monsters wisely based on their role. To save time on reorganizing paradigms, the game allows for multiple decks that you can customize; you just can't switch decks in mid-battle.
RPGs that present a captured-monster-as-party-member feature to their game has had to try extra hard to impress me. While I enjoy the Persona games, their playable monsters weren't the selling points. So it's to Final Fantasy XIII-2 credit that this is the very first JRPG where I actually enjoy every aspect of the monster collecting. There's the anticipation of potentially capturing a creature, then there's the process of feeding them items through the Crystarium leveling system. Their stats are just simple to understand so there's little experimentation needed in the battlefield. What you do have to watch out for is how their level progression changes their stats compared to other creatures in the same species and those with the same roles. As examples, some monsters peak at higher levels, while others reach their cap early. I ended up leveling a number of monsters without ever putting them in the field. The motivation there is due to a feature where your preferred party monsters are able to take on attributes of other well-levelled monsters by infusing them. It's essentially cannibalism but 'infusion' is a more marketable term. It puts an interesting perspective in games where one can develop emotional attachments to these creatures. The feline-like Albino Lobo stayed as my Ravager 'tank' for the majority of the game and I clearly favored him over many of the other monsters, some of which ended up getting infused with the Lobo.
If one of XIII-2's goals was to address fan criticisms from the XIII, it has done so in a number of ways, and successfully so. Unlike the last game, random encounters are back, but now with the possibility of fleeing before the battle starts. The previous game's linearity is gone while also adding a variation of the classic town level design. One convenient feature that was carried over was the ability to hear and converse with insignificant NPCs without pressing a button and this is an especially helpful feature with all the population centers in the game. There aren't towns in the classic JRPG sense. Each area doesn't have a selection of shops to visit. FFXIII-2 instead works off a one-stop shop system for each town. Moreover, the shop is run by a time-travelling half-human, half-chocobo named Chocolina. Her lively exuberance and feather appearance is indicative of the light-hearted side of XIII-2, something the last game was in short supply. In contrast to XIII's disappointingly non-interactive Nautilus Park, the having a casino in XIII-2 also made for a welcome deviation from the main story.
Of all the things that show how Final Fantasy XIII-2 doesn't take itself as seriously as XIII is the ever-present Mog, a moogle who transforms into Serah's battle weapon. Its plush doll inspired cuteness and its mostly baby talk demeanor makes him the game's most endearing feature (with Serah's doe-eyed camera close-ups during the cutscenes in close second). If that weren't enough, you can actually throw Mog not unlike a football, and that includes watching him squirm in terror as you prepare and aim your throw. There's actually a practical reason for throwing Mog; there are many areas in each level that hold items but are inaccessible on foot to Serah and Noel. With the right aim and arc, Mog can get to those areas and retrieve the items.
You actually do not get this ability right from the beginning and is one of the many ways that the game motivates the player to backtrack to previously visited timelines. The game flow and the level design most resembles Kingdom Hearts, only instead of travelling to various Disney-themed levels, you traverse different time periods in the XIII universe. There are over 30 of these spots, including alternate locations in the same time period, each one affected by different time anomalies. And like many of the levels in Kingdom Hearts, the majority of the areas in this game are designed to have both a non-hostile portion, and a larger portion to battle enemies.
Presentation-wise, Final Fantasy XIII-2 has proportionately more real-time cutscenes than prerendered ones which subtly helps maintain the game's positive flow. The menus are slightly less slick than the ones in FFXIII but they're still pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate. And compared asymmetrical fashion disaster of Tidus' outfit in Final Fantasy X, character designer Tetsuya Nomura appears to show relative restraint with his designs of Noel and Serah. I was particularly impressed with the art design of many of the futuristic environments; whether populated with enemies or NPCs, these areas play with my imagination on what a rebooted Phantasy Star game could look like.
On paper, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a much a departure from the rest of the Final Fantasy series as much as XIII was, yet so many right things fall into place, it's hard to see these changes as a bad thing. The newer game greatly benefits from having pretty much the same battle system and therefore has a very short learning curve, assuming you've played XIII. Moreover, many of the levels' initial goals only take about 30 minutes to an hour to complete. When also considering the game's fast paced battles and the time travelling narrative, I had to wonder when was the last time I was this addicted to an RPG, let alone a Japanese one. I often fell into that "One more round!" cycle of addiction that fighting and shooter game fans fall into, where I would tack on anywhere from 15 to 150 unplanned minutes to my play session. Instead of "One more round!", it was "One more new time period!". XIII-2 may not be a Final Fantasy game in the traditional sense, yet with all the game's Chocobos, random encounters, Mog, and the roles crystals play, it had more than enough of the series' characteristics to keep me further engrossed.


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In 1964, Beat literature icon Ken Kesey gathered his friends and favorite musicians in a bus and drove east from California to New York. That trip became legendary in American counter-culture — and the subject of journalist Tom Wolfe's 1968 "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" — and is now the basis for a new documentary from directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood. The 107-minute film is largely composed of 16 mm footage shot by passengers on the "Further" bus, and the documentary, "Magic Trip," pieces together that footage into a credible narrative.
Kesey, who died in 2001, was the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion." His social circle included Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady.
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- "While random moments stick (such as the group inventing the process of tie-dying), countless others are just lazy, cruddy looking travelogue snapshots of nudity, getting high, and stumbling and bumbling about. At its best, 'Magic Trip' evokes the freewheeling, idealistic, psychedelic vibe of an era's origins; at worst, it's a film in which people narrate their own druggie home movies." [Nick Schager, Slant Magazine]
- "Directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood have edited that footage into a record of the fabled Merry Pranksters odyssey. It's like seeing the birth of the '60s, with great moments (including Neal Cassady doing speed-freak monologues). But 'Magic Trip' was also a feast of "communality" that now looks like a goofy narcissistic ramble." [Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly]
- "Ken Kesey's 1964 drug-fueled bus ride across America with his band of Merry Pranksters is the stuff of counterculture legend…the filmmakers have gathered the next best thing—footage shot during the road trip by the Pranksters themselves—but in spite of this honey-toned self-documentation and some trippy visuals from the Imaginary Forces studio, Magic Trip is about as fun as being the only sober person at a party." [Alison Willmore, A.V. Club]
- "'Magic Trip' is somewhat smugly over packaged in its assumption that Kesey invented the '60s although, as presaged by 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' the writer mightily contributed to the counterculture's libertarian ideology ('doing your own thing' seems to be his coinage…What it lacks, perhaps unavoidably, is a sense of the cosmic Now; the movie recovers, without exactly illuminating, a 'long, strange trip' that seems all the stranger as it recedes into the past." [J. Hoberman, Village Voice]


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Three Steps to Finding a New 'You' in Retirement
What's the best way to forge a new identity after leaving the workforce?
BUD HEBELER: Retirement is a time to try some new things, explore new fields and pursue activities that we couldn't while working.
Number one on the list has to be physical activity. People who exercise and stretch generally have much better health and live longer than the couch potatoes. Further they almost always have fewer medical problems and therefore lower out-of-pocket medical costs. They'll feel better and enjoy retirement more. And they won't have to continue to buy new clothes for that ever-expanding waistline.
Number two on the list should be some activities to keep mentally active. I understand that people who pursue mentally challenging things are less likely to have dementia. Consider doing puzzles, playing card games, generating computer programs (my own favorite), book clubs, creative art, and, for some people, even balancing the checkbook. Except possibly for the last example, these kinds of things can be fun and good for social relations.
Number three on the list is to make some societal contribution. This should be more than just donating money to charities. It requires some real personal participation. It might be helping to distribute food at a food bank, volunteering for work in a charitable organization, teaching younger people, volunteering to comfort patients, or working in a developing country to build a potable water supply, a school house, or whatever. The possibilities for societal contributions are endless and ever increasing.
One part of the new identity is going from a saving mode to a controlled spending mode. The savings accumulated while working are fragile in retirement, and if drawn down too quickly will make the elderly years uncomfortable or worse. Success means learning how to budget, preserve an emergency fund and investing prudently.
Henry "Bud" Hebeler was president of the aerospace division of Boeing Co. He has served on the board of MIT's Sloan School and currently focuses on the dissemination of free, sound financial planning on www.analyzenow.com.
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"You are burnt beyond recognition," he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. (1.11)
It's quite clear that Mr. Pontellier views his wife as a piece of property rather than as an equal partner or individual.
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A few days later a box arrived for Mrs. Pontellier from New Orleans. It was from her husband. It was filled with friandises, with luscious and toothsome bits--the finest of fruits, pates, a rare bottle or two, delicious syrups, and bonbons in abundance.
Mrs. Pontellier was always very generous with the contents of such a box; she was quite used to receiving them when away from home. The pates and fruit were brought to the dining-room; the bonbons were passed around. And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world. Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better. (3.18-19)
Mostly everyone considers Mr. Pontellier a wonderful husband, so it's difficult for Edna to trust her own feelings about the situation.
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The Pontelliers possessed a very charming home on Esplanade Street in New Orleans. It was a large, double cottage, with a broad front veranda, whose round, fluted columns supported the sloping roof. The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green. In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana. Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type. The softest carpets and rugs covered the floors; rich and tasteful draperies hung at doors and windows. There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls. The cut glass, the silver, the heavy damask which daily appeared upon the table were the envy of many women whose husbands were less generous than Mr. Pontellier. (17.1)
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There was also a lot of noise until after 1am from the opposite caravan. We had asked them to keep it down as we had a baby but they just laughed at us, we called all evening to the site contact but didn't get any response until 1am and then the maintenance guy went over and told them. They did quieten after that.
The site isn't in a scenic area, quite industrial, however once inside we did not see anytime other than trees although if you were in a caravan next to the road you would see a factory and hear a lot of road noise.
The hot tub was lovely and we were lucky that you could get to it via our French doors however some you have to go out your side door, go round the back of your caravan where there was a free standing hot tub. I wouldn't have like leaving our baby in the caravan on his own while we were outside the caravan with no door or window to keep an eye on him.
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Had a lovely stay at the woodland view lodge in May for the weekend, couldn't fault the park or the staff, only a few slight problems with the lodge itself, the dishwasher didn't work, and the table and chairs on the decking were old and rusty and didn't seem sturdy enough to sit on, also there was only one handle on the cover to the hot tub which made it difficult to take off and cover back up when not using, other than that I would definitely visit again.
Confirmed guest, 2016-05-22
The lodge was very big and modern, would be ideal for a family for a quiet weekend away. I found the lodge quite cold because the heating only stayed on for two hours but once I'd sat in front of the fire with a nice glass of wine it was fine. The bedroom was to my taste and the bed was comfy but the mattress moved a but through the night. The hot tub was absolutely amazing, slways warm and clean, it was cleaned before we got there and was ready for us as soon as we got there. The only downside was that you could tell other people had been in the lodge before us, for example the sofas were a but worn as they had marks on them and were a little flat, the tea towel was dirty and had stains all over but luckily we took our own. Apart from the few little bits, the lodge was very homely and would stay on the site again.
Confirmed guest, 2016-03-01
Overall it was a lovely lodge,although there was 1 hob that didn't work and another that didn't work properly.
Confirmed guest, 2016-02-29
It was great. Only thing I would change is I like to sit with my partner to watch tv but I understand the space is limited so sofas are compact
Confirmed guest, 2016-02-22
If the park was in a better location and with improved beds and bedding it would be fantastic. We had a lovely weekend but were left a bit disappointed overall
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Beautiful, clean and comfortable lodges with amazing staff that will help you with anything. We went for my husbands 40th, hot tub was amazing and plan to go again to take the children. Not a lot on site but don't have to go far to find supermarkets or restaurants.
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Lodge was lovely clean had everything we needed. Hot tub took over a day to reach temperature though
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Only fault open hot tub.
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Stayed for 3 nights and absolutely loved it. Better than expectations upon arrival, very clean and everything working sufficiently. Spent most of the time in the hot tub! Would recommend it to anyone :)
Me and my boyfriend needed a well deserved break away from working full time and to become closer, and I honestly think this holiday was perfect. We arrived and were suprised to see we had a hottub in the floor decking and a spare room and two bathrooms! I couldn't believe it. We had all the equipment we needed for cooking and we had such a lovely few days :) my only criticism is the location- as we did have to find something to do and all we could think about was shopping ! So we went to Derby centre and to bourton. However we loved every minute of our stay and wished we could have stayed longer. All of the staff were friendly and helpful and it was lovely :) thanks again.
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The lodge we stayed in was quite and relaxing, we have stayed at the park before in a lodge on up from the one we stayed in, we found this lodge to be of better quality and layout with the hot tub.
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Experts say harsh winter weather and a change in temperatures can be hair's No. 1 enemy. Here's why -- and what to do.
Winterizing Your Hair Care
Static Cling and Other Hair Styling Snafus
As anyone who's ever tried to pull socks out of a clothes dryer can tell you, static electricity can be a powerful force. But sticky socks are the least of your problems when compared with what static can do to your hair.
The remedy is the same one you use on your laundry: a fabric softening dryer sheet like Bounce!
"Just rub it lightly on your hair and it will remove the static," says Chavez.
Slightly more conventional is using a natural boar bristle hairbrush with a wooden handle, which Harris says can also reduce static.
When it comes to styling winter hair, a few quick product switches may be all you need to combat most problems. For Harris, it starts with substituting a hair cream for your usual styling gel.
"Styling creams now trump the gel market because they add moisture to the hair, make it more pliable, and give it better elasticity so it's less likely to break -- all extremely important in winter," he says.
In fact, when choosing any winter hair styling products including holding sprays, Harris says avoid high alcohol content, which can be drying to hair. Likewise he says avoid putting fragrance directly on your hair since its alcohol content can also cause your tresses to look and feel dry and brittle.
Most importantly, limit your time under a blow dryer -- good advice all year round but essential in winter, he says. To do that and still effectively style your hair Harris says use a towel to gently blot about 20% of the moisture content out of our hair, then hit it with the heat, stopping the moment your hair is dry.
To cut down on the proverbial "hat hair," experts say pull longer locks into a pony tail high on your head, or push short hair straight back, before putting on the hat. Pushing hair against the way your style should fall, says Chavez, will help it spring out with bounce once the hat is removed.
To ensure that it does, he also suggests carrying a travel sized dry-hair texturizer that adds instant body.
Harris says if you styled your hair with a cream product, adding just a few drops of water to your hands and rubbing them through your hair can refresh the style.


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Some of my best article ideas come from forums. Talking the other day to some people, I mentioned how the GTX 480, while a great card, poses a PhysX related issue if you're using a high resolution monitor; something like a 30" with 2560 x 1600 support. The frame rate drop under games that utilize PhysX at its native resolution is so aggressive that a 30 FPS dip in performance means a game becomes unplayable.
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Canna is an exquisite jewel of an island, the westernmost of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Canna now belongs to the National Trust for Scotland, and is run as a farm and conservation area.
With less than 20 permanent residents, there is a zero crime rating on Canna; although a policeman visits twice a year - to maintain gun licenses!
Canna was previously owned by the famous Gaelic scholar John Lorne Campbell, who lived in historic Canna House with his American wife, Margaret Fay Shaw. John also bequeathed an extensive Gaelic archive, of great importance to the nation.
A few years ago, MaeVona creator, Maeve Gillies, was lucky enough to visit Canna with her family, when Margaret Fay Shaw was still very much alive, at the age of almost 100!
Maeve remembers this trip of a lifetime:
"Canna is like nowhere else on earth; a magical place, where the power of nature shapes your life.
You arrive and depart only when the sea lets you; you sleep under the beams of a tiny house on the shore rocked by howling winds; you dream in art-forms, and wake up filled with inspiration. Climbing to the top of Compass Hill, you are blown into a star-shape, trying to stay upright, surrounded by incredible sea-cliffs and crashing gale-force waves.
Basking next to a roaring log fire in Canna House, I marvel at Margaret, as she tells of arriving in Canna from New York, and falling in love with the people and the place. This incredible woman: almost 100, still dancing, still telling stories, playing piano, and twinkling with mischief like a 12 year old girl. When I grow up, I want to be like her!"


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Predisposing Factors
Predisposing factors are those things that set a person up so that, if conditions are just right, they will stutter. Many predisposing factors could also be consider risk factors, some of which are discussed in the section on incidence and prevalence of stuttering.
In the 1930s Robert West presented the idea that people who stutter have an organic predisposition to stutter. They inherit this predisposition in the form of an organic deficit which he called "dysphemia." In West's view, stuttering constituted an outward symptom of this inner dysphemia. How much dysphemia a person inherited depended on how many stuttering relatives they had. Inheriting dysphemia, in and of itself, was not enough to cause stuttering. West believed that the stuttering was precipitated by external factors such as speaking pressure, illness, or trauma. Advancements in scientific research have uncovered mounting evidence to support Robert West's original theory. Many modern views of stuttering have elements that hearken back to West's ideas of heredity, organic predisposition, and environmental factors.
Regarding the organic predisposition, we have had long standing evidence that stuttering runs in families and may be genetically inherited. Recent research on family pedigrees of people who stutter suggest that stuttering is inherited in two parts, possibly on two separate genes. First a person may inherit a predisposition to stutter. With this predisposition the child will stutter at some point in childhood of conditions are right. Second the person independently may inherit tendency to persist in stuttering or to recover. Some families have a greater number of people who recover from their stuttering while others have a greater number of people who persist. If a family history leans toward recovery, then chances are greater that a child who begins to stutter will outgrow the stuttering at some point. If the family history leans toward persisting, then the child has a greater likelihood of persisting, as well.
Precipitating Factors
Precipitating factors are often viewed as trigger factors, or conditions that set the predisposition into motion. Some of the theories in this category attempt to explain what the inherited stuttering genes control. Two current notions that try to explain what may trigger stuttering are called the Breakdown Hypotheses and the Demands-Capacities Model.
Breakdown Hypotheses
The Breakdown Hypotheses suggest that something is wrong with the physical make up of the person who stutters. These weaknesses can be attributed to genetic factors or could be acquired through accidents or surgery. Such breakdowns can happen in two domains: the cerebral dominance of the brain for controlling speech and language and the auditory feedback loop.
According to the Cerebral Dominance Theory, the language processing center is normally located in the left hemisphere of the brain. Therefore, the left side of the brain is the dominant side used for processing speech. In the person who stutters however, one of three things could be happening: the hemispheres of the brain are struggling to gain dominance of the speech center, the speech center is located in the right hemisphere which is inadequate for processing language, or the pathways for speech start in the left hemisphere and take a jog through the right hemisphere, rather than staying on the left side of the brain.
Recent research using new techniques for imaging the brain give a clearer picture of what happens in the brain when a person stutters. These imaging techniques show that people who stutter have greater amounts of activity in the right hemisphere when they talk compared to non-stuttering people. Since the left hemisphere is more efficient at processing speech and language, activity in the right hemisphere suggests that the brain uses inefficient pathways for talking. This inefficiency shows up as hesitations, repetitions, blocks and other behaviors that we associate with stuttering. In addition, the right hemisphere seems to be the relay station for emotions such as anxiety, fear, and excitement. The emotional and speech circuits may intersect and interfere with each other. Evidence from other brain research suggests that when two right hemisphere or two left hemisphere tasks get carried out at the same time, they will inhibit each other. This may be the physical phenomenon behind the proverbial expression that a person can't walk and chew gum at the same time. When applied to talking, the person who stutters may have inefficient pathways that go into the right hemisphere and intersect with some of the emotional pathways. This could explain why stuttering seems to make its first appearances when a child is excited or anxious. It could also explain why people who stutter often experience heightened fear and anxiety during moments of stuttering.
Children who recover from stuttering may have brains that reorganize the speech pathways, allowing them to develop more efficient routes for talking. People who persist in stuttering may not be able to reorganize their brains, causing them to continue in life with inefficient pathways for talking. In addition, some research on adults stutterers who have successfully completed therapy shows that these adults use more of the left sides of their brains when talking. Therefore, therapy may inadvertently help a person reorganize the pathways for speech in the brain.
The Auditory Feedback Theory suggests that the person who stutters has a breakdown in their hearing mechanism which allows them to hear their own speech a few milliseconds later than normal. The speaker's concentration and timing of their speech is thrown off because they are being bombarded by an echo of what they just spoke moments before. This delay causes the speaker to be dysfluent. The low incidence among the deaf sparked the original ideas that lead to research on the auditory feedback loop. If deaf people are less likely to stutter than hearing people, the cause for stuttering may lie somewhere in the hearing mechanism.
Evidence for this theory comes from research that alters the auditory feedback signal in one of two ways: by covering it up (using a masking noise) so the person can't hear it, or by altering the timing of the feedback so that the induced delay cancels out the original delay that the person may have. Both lines of research have suggested that masking or altering the timing of the auditory feedback helps the stutterer speak more fluently, at least temporarily. When the masking noise is removed or when the feedback is returned to its normal timing, the stuttering returns. Not all people who stutter have improved fluency under conditions of masking or delayed auditory feedback, however, indicating that this theory does not adequately explain the cause of stuttering in everybody.
Demands-Capacities Model
The Demands-Capacities model provides a simple and handy way to explain how stuttering might begin and develop in young children. It has the potential to encompass genetic predisposition, the sex ratio, personality variables, environmental factors, spontaneous recovery, and persistence.
The basic premise of the Demands-Capacities model suggests that children have developing capacities for speaking fluently. Two year old children would have less capacity for fluent speech than five year old children. At the same time that a child's capacities for fluent speech grow and develop so do the demands for fluency develop. Five year old children have greater demands placed on them for fluent verbal communication than do two year old children. Most of the time the capacities and demands for fluent speech stay in balance. Sometimes the demands will exceed a child's capacities, resulting in a period of dysfluency. When the demands chronically outweigh the child's capacities for fluency, conditions are ripe for the development of stuttering in the child. If the demands are cut back temporarily, giving the capacities a chance to catch up, the child may recover from stuttering.
Capacities for fluent speech seem to be largely internal and would include things like neurological development and muscular coordination. Additional capacities might include the ability to move muscles rapidly, like the movements required for talking; the ability to react rapidly to stimuli, including giving information quickly when asked; and the ability to plan and carry out a sequence of movements, like those required to say a long message. Finally, word finding skills may enhance a child's fluency. As children learn more and more words, they need to store these words in their brains and then get quick, easy access to them when they need them. The ability to retrieve words quickly and efficiently will help a person's fluency. Difficulty retrieving words will lead to more dysfluencies.
Demands for fluent speech can be internal or external. Internal demands might include the fast growing language skills of the child. As the child's vocabulary grows, s/he has more words from which to choose, placing higher demands on the word retrieval skills. As the child's expressive language skills develop, the child wants to express more complex ideas in longer and more complex sentences. As pragmatic skills develop, the child needs to learn how to take turns, how to say appropriate things rather than saying what ever pops into her/his mind, and how to take more responsibility for initiating and keeping a conversation going. All of these these linguistic skills can tax fluency by requiring the child to express her/himself quickly, appropriately, grammatically, and thoroughly.
External demands also come into play. These can include the linguistic behaviors of others, such as rate of talking and pace of turn-taking in a conversation. They can also come in the form of expectations for clear articulation, accurate grammar, and quick relaying of information on the part of the child. General life-style expectations can also become demands for fluency. A generally fast paced life style, where everything must be done quickly because the family has so much to do and so many places to go in a day, can lead to a general increase in tension and anxiety in a child who doesn't have the neurological or physical capacities for quick reactions and movements. This anxiety and expectation for quickness can spill over into the talking domain.
When the demands for fluency chronically outweigh the child's capacities for fluent speech, the child might react to these situations by trying harder to get her/his words out faster. The child might force the words out and struggle on them, push them out with more air pressure, or tense the speech muscles, making them stiff. Ironically all of these behaviors that the child does in an attempt to get her/his words out faster end up making the speech muscles slower and less coordinated and making the words come out slower. Parents may react to these episodes of tense and uncoordinated speech with alarm or disapproval, making the child want to try even harder to talk quickly and smoothly.
The Demands-Capacities model suggests that these episodes of tension and struggle with talking happen during the time when children are learning to talk semi-automatically: they are having to think less about how to talk and can think more about what they want to say. The patterns of tension and struggle that the child uses and the emotional reactions to the struggle can become habituated as the child's pattern of talking. If this habituation happens, the child will stutter. If, however, the demands for fluent speech are lessened during this phase, giving the child's capacities a chance to catch up to the demands, the period of tension and struggle may be temporary and the child may recover, going on to develop normal fluency.
Perpetuating Factors
Once stuttering begins in young children, what keeps it going? Four current ideas attempt to explain what perpetuates stuttering: Breakdown Hypotheses, Anticipatory Struggle Hypothesis, Doubt, and the Interaction of Environment and Temperament.
Breakdown Hypotheses
The breakdown hypotheses suggest that, whatever broke down in the first place, remains broken. The brain pathways for talking still involve more of the right side of the brain than is normal, or the auditory feedback system is still amiss.
Anticipatory Struggle Hypothesis
The anticipatory struggle hypothesis suggests that, once children develop the habit of talking in a tense, forceful, and difficult way, they begin to anticipate such difficulty and develop fears around their talking and struggle. The stuttering is maintained by fearfully anticipating such difficulty and trying to avoid it. The anticipatory struggle hypothesis has an element of self-fulfilling prophesy in it: the person expects to have difficulty talking and then does. Once the individual senses that struggle and difficulty are imminent, s/he does things to try to minimize or avoid the difficulty and reduce the fear, such as repeating a word many times until the next word comes out fluently or blinking rapidly in time with the repetition to "help" the word come out. These strategies often make the stuttering more conspicuous and heighten the fear and avoidance. If the person stops being afraid of the stuttering, s/he would not need to avoid it, and would eventually stop stuttering. Some clinical evidence supports this notion. Many people who stutter find that when they stop avoiding their stuttering and begin stuttering openly, their stuttering diminishes in severity and frequency, although it does not go away completely. The notion of stopping the fear and avoidance lies behind the therapy strategy of voluntary stuttering. When people stutters on purpose and with control, they can diminish the fear associated with stuttering.
The notion of doubt provides an interesting and effective way to describe how children who stutter develop a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, and doubt, which reinforce their original doubt in their abilities to speak and reinforce their stuttering.
A history of difficulty, struggle, negative reactions from others, and frustration at not getting a message out quickly and smoothly, plant the first seeds of doubt in a child's mind. The child doubts her/his ability to talk quickly, smoothly, and easily like everybody else talks. Doubt leads to over regulation as the child tries to control her/his speech muscles to make them work right. Speech is an automatic behavior most of the time and the speech muscles function best without us exerting conscious, direct control over them. When we exert deliberate control over the speech muscles, as with over regulation, we interfere with their normal abilities to function properly.
The over regulation and interference with a normally automatic behavior causes tensing and fragmenting of the behavior. The behaviors are slow, stiff and jerky rather than quick, smooth and fluid. The tensing and fragmenting show up as repetitions and prolongations, the early core behaviors of stuttering. The child does not like the tensing and fragmenting in her/his speech and so tries to avoid them. Children develop different ways to avoid the core behaviors of stuttering. They will use fillers (um, uh), silent pauses, talk around a word they think they may stutter on, or not finish a sentence because they don't want to stutter on a word. When avoidance doesn't work and the child experiences tensing and fragmenting, the child will try to escape the discomfort and the penalty of that situation as quickly as possible. Some escape behaviors include jerking the head, tapping a finger or a foot, and blinking the eyes. Escape devices can be quite powerful to the child who stutters because they relieve some of the physical tension and discomfort that the child experiences during these intense moments of stuttering.
All of these phenomena lead the child back to doubting her/his ability to talk quickly, smoothly, and easily. With renewed doubt in her/his abilities to communicate, the child cycles through the pattern of over regulating, tensing, fragmenting, avoiding, and escaping, again and again.
Interaction of Temperament and Environment
The interaction of temperament and environment are actually pieces of a broader explanation of stuttering referred to as the multifactorial theory. The multifactorial theory suggests that heredity, brain development, personality, learned behavior, and environmental factors all converge to cause and perpetuate stuttering. The elements of temperament and environmental influences fit well with ideas of how stuttering is maintained once it begins.
Long standing clinical evidence suggests that a child's temperament might play a role in the development of stuttering. Many a parent has commented that their child who stutters is more sensitive than their other children; sensitive to change, to other people's reactions, to environmental stressors, and to their own speech mistakes and failures. Research in child development suggests that some children inherit a temperament that makes them react more to unfamiliar, threatening, or challenging situations. These kids may have a lower threshold of tolerance for such things and this lower threshold of tolerance shows up as increased physical tension in the speech muscles when talking in unfamiliar or threatening situations. Children who inherit inefficient neurological circuits (pathways that go into the right side of the brain) and a sensitive temperament may react to their early dysfluencies with increased muscular tension, leading to more dysfluencies, more severe dysfluencies, and more distress.
Environmental factors can contribute to the perpetuation of stuttering in at least two ways. Parents' and family members' reactions to a child's dysfluencies can help or hinder the brains attempts to reorganize the speech pathways. When family members speak at a slower rate, present fewer demands for fluency, and minimize their reactions to stuttering behaviors, these adjustments may give the child's brain a chance reorganize the speech pathways. Likewise, temperament is influenced by interactions with family members. Through interactions with parents, grandparents, siblings, and others, children learn strategies and skills for handling and expressing their emotions. If family members show minimal reaction to a child's stuttering behaviors and encourage the child to accept those moments of disfluency, then the child may learn to minimize her/his own reactions to stuttering.
We are far from solving the mystery of what causes stuttering. We have many pieces of the puzzle available to us right now but may not know what some of those pieces mean. Here is one possible way to organize the pieces thus far. Children may inherit stuttering on one gene and a tendency to persist or recover from stuttering on another gene. One gene may control the organization of pathways in the brain. In the early developmental years, the brain lays down its pathways based on our experiences. If a child misses talking for 7 years, s/he will not have those pathways developed in the brain and will have difficulty learning to talk when older because the brain will be less plastic and have a harder time making new pathways. With stuttering, the child may begin with pathways that use both hemispheres and that aren't very efficient for talking. The child's talking may be full of repetitions, pauses, hesitations, and prolongations as a result of these inefficient pathways.
The tendency to persist in stuttering may be related to temperament and controlled by another gene. Because of a sensitive or reactive temperament, a child might feel more threatened by early dysfluencies and react to them with more tension. Temperament may also be located on the right side of the brain, opening up the potential for the speech pathways and the emotional reaction pathways to intersect and interfere with each other. The repeated experiences of reacting to dysfluencies with increased tension and anxiety may entrench those pathways, making it more difficult for the brain to find an alternate route that is more efficient for talking.
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U.S. Release Date: 21 February 2014
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U.S. Release Date: 14 March 2014
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Casts: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson
U.S. Release Date: 4 April 2014
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Director: Michael Bay
Casts: Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz
U.S. Release Date: 27 June 2014
MUPPETS MOST WANTED <DreamWorks>
Director: Michael Bay
Casts: Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz
U.S. Release Date: 27 June 2014
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I live in moreno valley, ca in riverside county. I got into hunting about a year or so ago. I want to start coyote hunting. I am less than 15 minutes from Lake perris and san jacinto wildlife area and they are covered in coyotes. Both places allow shotgun hunting which is right up my alley, however they do not allow coyote hunting. I have asked a few people where else I can go but nobody will give me a straight answer. I know it is hard to find a good spot and keep it so I respect the fact that a lot of people wont pinpoint me where to go in fears of overcrowding their spots. All I am looking for is a general area to start. I normally hunt alone so I wont crowd your favorite spots. I just want a general idea or location to start with and I'll figure out the rest. I tried the BLM maps and hit joshua tree area but there were a ton of Private Property signs in areas that were marked as BLM on the maps. Not sure who is right. Trying to have fun and stay out of trouble. Please help.
why no coyote hunting in those areas...is it bird only...i know people who hunt deer with shotguns...
San Jacinto may allow coyote hunting next year, we've asked the manager Scott and he's been trying to get it allowed there.
Stop and talk to the ranchers and farmer's to see if you can get permission to thin the coyotes there. There's plenty of NF land in the foothills around San Jacinto and over San bernardino that you can try. Head up north of 29 palms a bit toward Essex and the Mojave if you can.
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By whose authority do they do not allow coyote hunting? Sounds like BS to me. Only the DFG can impose such a restriction and they have not.
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Jesses says that coyote hunting is not allowed.
And I have found out from my experience that different agencies have specific rules and regulations for the lands they administer. For example, military bases regulate the species hunted, and method of take, as do many other state wildlife areas, just like the San Jacinto Wildlife Area does.
It looks like you can only hunt quail, pheasants and waterfowl at the SJWA, and it's a shotgun only area. And during waterfowl season a hunter is only allowed to possess 25 shot shells while in the field.
Here's the link;
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I've also hunted rabbit in the SJWA area. I called them up beforehand just to make sure, and they confirmed that it was fine. They also enforced the 25 shotgun shell rule, however.
Thanks for the help guys, and to correct myself I have spoken to scott also and he has let me hunt coyote a few times but it is hit and miss. I know for sure they don't want me out there now that birds are coming into season, however I was looking for something more consistent. Thanks.
Have you looking into the Cleveland National Forest? Being that you are close, and it has Deer areas, it would seem to be available for Coyotes. I am going to call on them next week about Turkeys, but will check on Coyotes.
so you wanna hunt yotes in so cal. thers plenty around so i wont be secretive with the spots. I keep killin em but they dont go away. there is some land off redlands blvd that borders the nature preserve that is still blm. you could go up by devore off of 138 which has a lot of nat forest land. keep in mind that anything northwest of the 15 and 10 interchange is lead free becuse of some condor i have never seen in 15 years of hunting up there. you could talk to the owners of four winds and see if you could work out somethin. also when san sevaine road opens off the 15 and sierra there is a whole crap load of coyotes in the low lands before you get up to the high country.
I have some great advise for all the coyote hunters that want to ask for spots to hunt, because inevitably someone always names off one of their spots that also happens to be a spot I hunt. Learn the FIREARMS LAWS for a specific area, then do some driving around in that area, that's the real secret. If you find yourself in an area that allows for rifles as long as you have an absence of occupied structures for 300 yards then look for that spot! Everyone is always crowding to the nearest area that looks like something off of Randy Anderson's videos but the truth is that coyotes are more easily called in the spots that don't look perfect. Everyone wants a 500 yard panoramic for every stand, but a 25 yard alley in the middle of thick brush will probably get you a dog more often.
Also, once someone names a spot, the spot is no longer good for more than another day. Someone always ends up messing it up with the beer drinking and target shooting that follows the one half a$$ stand they did... If it is obvious, it's already shot to hell.
Good Luck!
I'm sneaky enough to not need camo.
During deer season a couple weeks back I sat up against a boulder on a grassy hillside overlooking a canyon in CNF and a yote walked right by, 40 yards away. I wanted to pop him but was afraid of spooking the invisible mulies I was after. I've often thought of heading up there with a distress call and maybe a decoy. There's coyote scat all over CNF, that's for sure. They eat well up there.
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I saw a huge Yote cross the road in front of me today just before the turn off to wildwood canyon rd off of Oak Glen.
Try this map, after the map loads, use the scroll wheel to zoom into the area of interest, and then wait for the map to load again. The closer the zoom, the more street name will appear. The brown/tan colored land represents BLM land. Read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page. It looks like theres some land close to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Santa Rosa Mine Road</st1:address></st1:Street> over near Perris, looks like <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">El Nido Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street> has is the ticket. I would call BLM and ask them if that land has access, ask them if you can hunt birds or something like that, then ask about coyotes.
I was scouting around up highway 38 on the first fire road to the left just past mill creek ranger station a bit, and as you go up the road, there is another gate that goes off to the left up to a fire lookout or something like that.. anyways, the ridge to the SE of that gate is just loaded with scat. And there was tons of deer hair in it. The ridge drops down on the other side, and i wonder if it would be a good place to put a caller.
There are tons of areas. I agree you should hunt the thick brush and chapparel with a shotgun or a rifle with a VERY low power scope. Look for the small openings and shooting lanes. Keep the gun up and be ready. I use a 1.5-5x20 and on 1.5 x you can keep both eyes open which helps. I just got a shotgun for predators it should be sweet. brush really holds your sound down. You can begin to call and have one burst out just 20 feet from you that you had no clue was there.
There are coyote all over. The closer to houses and people the more dogs you finds. Also if you find the rabbits you find the dogs. Having a shotgun with lead free will open up a whole bunch more options to hunt too.
Just work the NF and desert areas. dont' give up.
a 4x4 really helps get you out there.
Oh and don't crap your shorts when the cougar or bear shows up to your stand in the heavy cover. Its bound to happen if you spend enough time calling the chapparel and NF around here. CNF in particular is loaded with cats.
Watch Coming to the call part 3 "calling in the thick stuff"
Shoot me a p.m. and ill share a spot in between both of our houses. Sorry so late but these eggsuckers killed all the quail, the cats, and the cottontails that used to thrive in my area. mangy flea bitten mutts.
Anyone know a good place for coyote hunting? I have been to San Felipe WA in the Cleveland National Forest, also Camp Cady Wa and Afton Canyon up past Barstow, nothing each time. Got a few 22 LR's and I'm trying to ease my boys into hunting, beginning with small game. Planning to scout D11 zone this weekend near the five interstate and 138. Any help would be great. Thx!
I suggest that you hit the washes and run up some jacks. I have videos that show how to do it posted on my youtube channel. Almost any wash will hold jackrabbits. The jackrabbits that are in the washes that are farther out that have not been hunted much and will hold them in place longer than the washes that have been hunted. You will also find quail and cottontails spots hunting jacks like that.
And you have to be an expert or very luck to stop a coyote with a 22 LR round. I use a 22-250 or 12 gage shotgun with #4 buck shot (Remington Express 3" Magnums), I have stopped them with the 17hmr but most run away never to be found.
You can see my favorite coyote rifle in this short 3 minute target shooting video at this link, you can also find my how to rabbit hunting videos on my channel:
This is the link to the Geocommunicator Site, it depicts BLM land but, but you should always cross check the information against a USGS paper quadrangle map:
This is the only link that I know about that depicts the shooting areas in Riverside County, and thanks goes to Ed8756 at Cal Guns for this Map:
This is the link for the San Bernardino County Recreational Shooting Map:
You can order the SBC paper map at this link:
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Worldreader.org's CEO David Risher is passionate about encouraging reading. After a "road to Damascus" moment in an orphanage in Ecuador with a locked library, he decided with his co-founder that Kindle e-readers would be an effective way of relighting the reading habit in developing country schools. He chose Ghana to try out this idea and this week he talks to Russell Southwood about progress so far.
David Risher took his family off round the world on a year long vacation, visiting places in Asia and Latin America. He and his wife schooled their children while away using books on an Amazon Kindle e-reader. During one part of their trip, they visited an orphanage and found that what had once been a library was padlocked and no-one could find the key.
"The girls in the orphanage had lost interest in reading." These two things came together and he and his co-founder began to think about how they could give access to books to students using the Kindle e-reader device:"The technology is useful in the developing world where paper can't reach."
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The Kindle e-readers will have three roughly equal categories of material: classics like Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Nathanial Hawthorne for advanced years study (where the material is out of copyright); local books in English and vernacular languages that it has helped Ghanaian publishers digitise; and text books. Among the local books is one called The Shark about a student wrongly accused of having an affair with her teacher.
Content will be rolled out in three phases. Phase 1 will be pre-loaded books that come with the Kindle loaded on by Worldreader.org. Phase 2 will be materials that the teachers have added. And phase 3 is where it might get really interesting. Students will be given US$15-20 to buy any books they want:"If we give children a budget to rent or buy books, it will become demand-driven."
So how well can the Kindle survive the rough and tumble of the school environment?: "It is good but not great. School is where kids throw things around. We haven't lost any to this kind of damage yet. We partnered with M-Edge who make neoprene jackets for them and they've donated jackets that we hope will protect them." In the medium to long-term, he'd like to be able to influence their design to make them faster and more rugged.
The money to be able buy the US$250 readers has come from a range of different sources, largely private: from some ex-Microsoft employees in Seattle who wanted smart ways to invest their money socially and through "in-kind" donations. Amazon donated some initial readers and is offering discounts on the rest.
Worldreader.org chose the Kindle because it is more or less a single function machine and is therefore cheaper than its equivalent tablet devices like the iPad:"For the developing world, an iPad is overkill." Risher also believes that as a reader only it is less distracting for students. The 3G capability means that books can be delivered in relatively far-flung places as 3G networks expand. It has only limited Internet capability:"You can get it to cough up a Wikipedia article but its Internet functionality is very limited." Furthermore, the 1 hour recharge lasts in most instances two weeks but obviously makes access to electricity a must.
The mid-term ambition once the pilot has been evaluated is two-fold: firstly, to learn the lessons of the pilot and to continue to expand and secondly, to roll-out to more countries, some of which will be in Africa in the near term:"In choosing, there are many factors but two are really important. There are infrastructure factors: is there 3G coverage? But the real issue is we're trying to change human behaviour. So in the next geography we go to, it will be about the willingness of Government to embrace this."
Worlreader.org are not the first organisation to travel this road so it's worth reviewing some of the general issues raised when this kind of project comes into view:
* Africa's not a reading culture: Yes, Africa has a wonderful oral tradition of storytelling and should have for many years to come. But reading is a key skill from the most basic functional literacy (filling in a form) to accessing the new digital world (SMS and the Internet). Notwithstanding the continuing debates about the dumbing- down impact of global culture, there is a clear causal link between reading levels and the development of a society. And perhaps this may be as strong a causal link as the roll-out of broadband. There are issues of local language and the availability of local materials but these are more likely to be solved if there is a distribution system in place.
* It's a waste of money. Why don't they just spend more money on education (or something else that the person thinks is important)?: This is a classic development argument that is both self-defeating and unreal. Ten years ago, development experts were arguing that more water stand-pipes were needed, not the Internet. The truth is that the development community does not really get to make these choices. Middle class African parents will buy themselves or their kids iPads or Kindles and get ahead in the race to succeed. Private investors put in 3G networks that others will use. Classrooms that have no windows when the Kindles arrive will simply demonstrate uneven development and in the best of circumstances, inspire people to improve things more generally. They find money to build churches and mosques, so why not money to improve schools? However, this will only happen if the teachers, parents and children love the device that is introduced and prove it can work. And on things like the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the jury's still out.
* Africans can't afford it: At US$250, this puts it squarely out of the reach of all but the LSM9-12 categories. However, at US$100, which is where the price of Kindle-type devices is most likely headed, then it's easier to imagine a wider range of users wanting to buy it for their children. We've seen iPad knock-offs that Chinese manufacturers are claiming that they can bring in at under that price. All over Africa, there is a thirst for education amongst parents of a wide range of backgrounds and incomes, and if they are convinced that reading will help their children get ahead, then it will begin to succeed both inside the market (where parents buy them) and outside the market (where donors buy them).
* But it doesn't give them Internet access or full this or full that: The Kindle is uni-functional as against something like the OLPC, which is multi-functional. The strength of uni-functional is that it brings the price down and in concentrating on one thing allows the user to get quick access to that single function. You don't always have to be worrying about software glitches, incomprehension at operating systems and the delicacy of PC innards in a tropical climate. However, there a ladder of expectations across all technologies. If some of your friends start getting smartphones to access Facebook, you don't say to yourself, "well, I'll just sit this one out while they get on with it."
Too much African education is repetition and rote learning. The more students and their parents as knowledgeable, or even more knowledgeable, than teachers, the greater the opportunities of raising the level of expectation beyond learn and repeat-type lessons. Demand-driven education – both inside and outside the classroom – may well expand horizons faster than any Ministry of Education or curriculum can keep up with. The digital transition in broadcast has already seen education channels introduced in Kenya and Nigeria. Who knows, we may even get to a position where students understand how to analyse problems and then begin to solve them. And in that they'd certainly be ahead of most of the current elderly generation of African leaders. But hey, maybe I'm just an optimist.
It's worth repeating that Africa now has the bandwidth to make these kind of technology interventions that ten years were the embarrassing failures where things like PCs were sometimes not even unpacked from their boxes in schools. Now there is the bandwidth to deliver to the edges of the 3G network, so the question will be: will students love to use this device and will it make reading more widespread?
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