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Caltech professors Frances Arnold, David Baltimore, Carver Mead, and Axel Scherer have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Election as an NAI fellow is an honor bestowed upon academic innovators and inventors who have "demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions and innovations that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society." Fellows are named inventors on U.S. patents and were each nominated by their peers for their contributions to innovation.
According to its website, the NAI "was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society."
Frances Arnold is the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center at Caltech. Her group has pioneered methods of "directed evolution" to engineer new proteins in the lab. The method is now widely used to create catalysts for use in industrial processes, including the production of fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. The Arnold group also uses the results of laboratory evolution experiments to elucidate principles of biological design. Arnold is a coinventor on more than 40 U.S. patents. She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 and received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2013.
David Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, and President Emeritus of Caltech. His research group focuses on two major areas: investigation of the development and functioning of the mammalian immune system, and translational studies of the viral transfer of genes into immune cells to increase their ability to fight disease and resist cancer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
Carver Mead (BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60) is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, in computation and neural systems. Mead has significantly advanced the technology of integrated circuits by developing a method called very-large-scale integration (VSLI) that allows engineers to combine thousands of transistors onto a single microchip, thus exponentially expanding computer processing power. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002.
Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, and the director of the Caltech Global Health Initiative. Holding more than 100 patents in the area of nanofabrication and device design, Scherer has most recently developed ways to integrate optics, electronics, and fluidics into sensor systems. Much of his work is currently focused on systems for medical diagnosis and health monitoring through molecular pathology and wireless implants. Over the past decades, technology from his group has been commercialized through several start-up ventures in telecommunications and health care devices.
Arnold, Baltimore, Mead, and Scherer will join Vice Provost Morteza Gharib, the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering, and Robert H. Grubbs, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, as Caltech's Fellows of the NAI. They will be inducted during the fourth annual conference of the National Academy of Inventors, which will be held at Caltech on March 20, 2015.
When you first walk into Bruce Hay's genetics class, it looks like any other 21st-century college lecture hall: the professor, backed by his PowerPoint slides, faces a room full of students with iPads. However, as Hay delivers a lecture about the mechanisms that inhibit gene expression, a rectangular yellow bubble suddenly pops up on the screen below his lecture slide. It's from a student, asking a question about RNA interference. Soon another bubble pops up, this one with a link to a video that explains how microRNAs can affect the color pattern of flower petals. Other bubbles branch off from each other, and hands rise into the air.
Suddenly, you realize you're in the classroom of the future.
Those pop-up bubbles are a key component of a new interactive lecture format made possible by an app developed by two Caltech alums and brought to campus by Caltech's Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach (CTLO). The iPad app—produced by Su-Kam Intelligent Education Systems, or SKIES, named after cofounders Julius Su (BS '98, BS '99, PhD '07) and Victor Kam (PhD '08)—is now being used in several classes on campus.
"It's been known for a long time that lecturing—just a professor teaching and the students passively listening—is not an optimal way for students to learn. You always want to have students doing some thinking, some processing, and some recall during the lecture," says Su, who is a CTLO program manager in addition to being one of the cofounders of SKIES.
With this in mind, Su and his colleagues at CTLO have been experimenting with ways to change the traditional Caltech classroom. The SKIES app is based on one such approach—active learning, which gets students participating in a variety of ways, and is supported by a great deal of evidence indicating its effectiveness.
The wiki-like app facilitates this kind of active learning by allowing students to directly interact with lecture materials both inside and outside the classroom. The app compiles and connects notes, links, videos, and other materials—contributed by students, teaching assistants, and the professor—into a branching tree of collective knowledge stemming from an initial seed of slides or other multimedia material.
This concept of students and teachers interacting to create knowledge together is what drew Professor of Biology Bruce Hay to become one of the first users of the SKIES app in 2012.
"The big struggle that I have—and that lots of people have—is just getting students to ask questions; getting people to turn the class into more of a discussion rather than just the lecturer speaking," Hay says. "I knew that Julius and Victor were developing this prototype, and I thought, I've been teaching this same course for 15 years now and maybe this would be a good idea, to just try something new that might make it a little more interactive."
In the three years Hay has used the app in his genetics class, he says the app has done just what he'd hoped it would: provided an alternative channel by which students can participate. During class, Hay says students often add cards to his lecture slides as a form of public note-taking; for example, in one lecture, a student added a card to a particular slide, saying, "Professor Hay says this would be an excellent exam question." After class is over, he says, students often post cards with questions about the day's materials; these can then be addressed by Hay or the class's teaching assistants, either directly in class or through another branch of cards in the app.
Hay says that the app lets him monitor what students are contributing—and it allows him to promote and highlight information he considers particularly helpful and relevant to understanding the lecture material. Conversely, the app also allows students to rate how well they understand his lecture slides, as well as the cards added by TAs and other students.
"After class, I take a look at the reviews to see how well the students understood what we talked about in class that day," Hay says. "If I see that a slide is rated green [the app's version of a thumb's up], I can assume that it was pretty straightforward and understandable. But if the students have rated it red, I can add extra material to the slide, like additional text or figures. Then, in the next class, I can go back and say, 'It looks like this part was a little bit difficult. Let's just go back and review it again before we go on to the new stuff.'"
Although these continuous double checks require a bit more effort on the part of the professor and the students, they seem to be paying off: Hay says the average grades in his class went up by almost a full grade point after his first year using the app. The improvement was so noticeable, he says, "it was actually almost frightening. That was probably the biggest indication this was making a difference in terms of learning, instead of just making it fun for me and them."
Hay says the added content from students in the SKIES app over the past three years has enabled his course "tree" to grow and improve each term. "I'm not just repeating all the same slides every year. Many of the slides stay the same, but now I add new things, based on what the students found helpful in terms of explanations, quiz questions, and examples. So everyone is involved in making the course better," he notes.
After hearing about some of the app's early successes, other instructors across campus began using SKIES in their courses. This includes Bill Goddard, Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics, who has used SKIES to teach lectures and manage group projects in his computational and theoretical chemistry classes; Jeff Mendez, lecturer in chemistry, who has used SKIES to teach the lecture portion of his freshman solar chemistry lab; and Yaser Abu-Mostafa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who has used SKIES to promote and manage discussions in the in-class portion of his well-regarded Learning From Data MOOC, which has attracted over 200,000 students within and outside Caltech since its inception.
The app is also being used by many Caltech outreach programs, such as the Summer Research Connection, the Community Science Academy, and Harry Gray's Solar Army, to broaden the impact of university initiatives at the K–12 level; and is being used to teach several classes at Pasadena City College, as well as in several local middle schools and high schools.
SKIES is currently only available on iPad and iPhone, and as the app's popularity has grown, support from the Provost's Innovation in Education Fund and the Bechtel Foundation fund has allowed CTLO to expand the use of SKIES on campus through the purchase of more iPads. In the future, Su hopes that the app's reach will grow even further, both on iPads and eventually by expanding the app to work on other operating systems.
Aside from those few comments on the hardware limitations, Su says the feedback he and his colleagues at the CTLO have received from professors and students who have been using SKIES has been overwhelmingly positive.
"CTLO is continually providing Caltech faculty and TAs with evidence about what helps students learn more effectively. Active and collaborative approaches tend to work well," he says. "This app is just one way to foster more active and collaborative learning, but I think we can already see that it's providing new ways for professors to make classes even more lively and engaging for students at Caltech."
With the advanced capabilities of today's computer technologies, researchers can now collect vast amounts of information with unprecedented speed. However, gathering information is only one half of a scientific discovery, as the data also need to be analyzed and interpreted. A new center on campus aims to hasten such data-driven discoveries by making expertise and advanced computational tools available to Caltech researchers in many disciplines within the sciences and the humanities.
The new Center for Data-Driven Discovery (CD3), which became operational this fall, is a hub for researchers to apply advanced data exploration and analysis tools to their work in fields such as biology, environmental science, physics, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, and the humanities.
The Caltech center will also complement the resources available at JPL's Center for Data Science and Technology, says director of CD3 and professor of astronomy George Djorgovski.
"Bringing together the research, technical expertise, and respective disciplines of the two centers to form this joint initiative creates a wonderful synergy that will allow us opportunities to explore and innovate new capabilities in data-driven science for many of our sponsors," adds Daniel Crichton, director of the Center for Data Science and Technology at JPL.
At the core of the Caltech center are staff members who specialize in both computational methodology and various domains of science, such as biology, chemistry, and physics. Faculty-led research groups from each of Caltech's six divisions and JPL will be able to collaborate with center staff to find new ways to get the most from their research data. Resources at CD3 will range from data storage and cataloguing that meet the highest "housekeeping" standards, to custom data-analysis methods that combine statistics with machine learning—the development of algorithms that can "learn" from data. The staff will also help develop new research projects that could benefit from large amounts of existing data.
"The volume, quality, and complexity of data are growing such that the tools that we used to use—on our desktops or even on serious computing machines—10 years ago are no longer adequate. These are not problems that can be solved by just buying a bigger computer or better software; we need to actually invent new methods that allow us to make discoveries from these data sets," says Djorgovski.
Rather than turning to off-the-shelf data-analysis methods, Caltech researchers can now collaborate with CD3 staff to develop new customized computational methods and tools that are specialized for their unique goals. For example, astronomers like Djorgovski can use data-driven computing in the development of new ways to quickly scan large digital sky surveys for rare or interesting targets, such as distant quasars or new kinds of supernova explosions—targets that can be examined more closely with telescopes, such as those at the W. M. Keck Observatory, he says.
Mary Kennedy, the Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology and a coleader of CD3, says that the center will serve as a bridge between the laboratory-science and computer-science communities at Caltech. In addition to matching up Caltech faculty members with the expertise they will need to analyze their data, the center will also minimize the gap between those communities by providing educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
"Scientific development has moved so quickly that the education of most experimental scientists has not included the techniques one needs to synthesize or mine large data sets efficiently," Kennedy says. "Another way to say this is that 'domain' sciences—biology, engineering, astronomy, geology, chemistry, sociology, etc.—have developed in isolation from theoretical computer science and mathematics aimed at analysis of high-dimensional data. The goal of the new center is to provide a link between the two."
Work in Kennedy's laboratory focuses on understanding what takes place at the molecular level in the brain when neuronal synapses are altered to store information during learning. She says that methods and tools developed at the new center will assist her group in creating computer simulations that can help them understand how synapses are regulated by enzymes during learning.
"The ability to simulate molecular mechanisms in detail and then test predictions of the simulations with experiments will revolutionize our understanding of highly interconnected control mechanisms in cells," she says. "To some, this seems like science fiction, but it won't stay fictional for long. Caltech needs to lead in these endeavors."
Assistant Professor of Biology Mitchell Guttman says that the center will also be an asset to groups like his that are trying to make sense out of big sets of genomic data. "Biology is becoming a big-data science—genome sequences are available at an unprecedented pace. Whereas it took more than $1 billion to sequence the first genome, it now costs less than $1,000," he says. "Making sense of all this data is a challenge, but it is the future of biomedical research."
In his own work, Guttman studies the genetic code of lncRNAs, a new class of gene that he discovered, largely through computational methods like those available at the new center. "I am excited about the new CD3 center because it represents an opportunity to leverage the best ideas and approaches across disciplines to solve a major challenge in our own research," he says.
But the most valuable findings from the center could be those that stem not from a single project, but from the multidisciplinary collaborations that CD3 will enable, Djorgovski says. "To me, the most interesting outcome is to have successful methodology transfers between different fields—for example, to see if a solution developed in astronomy can be used in biology," he says.
In fact, one such crossover method has already been identified, says Matthew Graham, a computational scientist at the center. "One of the challenges in data-rich science is dealing with very heterogeneous data—data of different types from different instruments," says Graham. "Using the experience and the methods we developed in astronomy for the Virtual Observatory, I worked with biologists to develop a smart data-management system for a collection of expression and gene-integration data for genetic lines in zebrafish. We are now starting a project along similar methodology transfer lines with Professor Barbara Wold's group on RNA genomics."
And, through the discovery of more tools and methods like these, "the center could really develop new projects that bridge the boundaries between different traditional fields through new collaborations," Djorgovski says.
On Saturday, October 18, hundreds of undergraduate students will share the results of their projects during SURF Seminar Day. The event, which is open to the public, is an opportunity for students to discuss and explain their research to individuals with a wide-range of expertise and interests.
This summer, several undergraduate students at Caltech had the opportunity to help optimize a promising technique that can make tissues and organs—even entire organisms—transparent for study. As part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, these students worked in the lab of Assistant Professor of Biology Viviana Gradinaru, where researchers are developing such so-called clearing techniques that make it possible to peer straight through normally opaque tissues rather than seeing them only as thinly sectioned slices that have been pieced back together.
Gradinaru's group recently published a paper in the journal Cell describing a new approach to tissue clearing. The method they have created builds on a technique called CLARITY that Gradinaru helped develop while she was a research associate at Stanford. CLARITY allowed researchers to, for the first time, create a transparent whole-brain specimen that could then be imaged with its structural and genetic information intact.
CLARITY was specifically developed for studying the brain. But the new approach developed in Gradinaru's lab, which the team has dubbed PARS (perfusion-assisted agent release in situ), can also clear other organs, such as the kidney, as well as tissue samples, such as tumor biopsies. It can even be applied to entire organisms.
Like CLARITY, PARS involves removing the light-scattering lipids in the tissue to make samples transparent without losing the structural integrity that lipids typically provide. First the sample is infused with acrylamide monomers that are then polymerized into a hydrogel that provides structural support. Next, this tissue–hydrogel hybrid is immersed in a detergent that removes the lipids. Then the sample can be stained, often with antibodies that specifically mark cells of interest, and then immersed in RIMS (refractive index matching solution) for imaging using various optical techniques such as confocal or lightsheet microscopy.
Over the summer, Sam Wie, a junior biology major at Caltech, spent 10 weeks in the Gradinaru lab working to find a polymer that would perform better than acrylamide, which has been used in the CLARITY hydrogel. "One of the limitations of CLARITY is that when you put the hydrogel tissue into the detergent, the higher solute concentration in the tissue causes liquid to rush into the cell. That causes the sample to swell, which could potentially damage the structure of the tissue," Wie explains. "So I tried different polymers to try to limit that swelling."
Wie was able to identify a polymer that produces, over a similar amount of time, about one-sixth of the swelling in the tissue.
"The SURF experience has been very rewarding," Wie says. "I've learned a lot of new techniques, and it's really exciting to be part of, and to try to improve, CLARITY, a method that will probably change the way that we image tissues from now on."
At another bench in Gradinaru's lab, sophomore bioengineering major Andy Kim spent the summer focusing on a different aspect of the PARS technique. While antibodies have been the most common markers used to tag cells of interest within cleared tissues, they are too large for some studies—for example, those that aim to image deeper parts of the brain, requiring them to cross the blood–brain barrier. Kim's project involved identifying smaller proteins, such as nanobodies, which target and bind to specific parts of proteins in tissues.
"While PARS is a huge improvement over CLARITY, using antibodies to stain is very expensive," Kim says. "However, some of these nanobodies can be produced easily, so if we can get them to work, it would not only help image the interior of the brain, it would also be a lot less costly."
During his SURF, Kim worked with others in the lab to identify about 30 of these smaller candidate binding proteins and tested them on PARS-cleared samples.
While Wie and Kim worked on improving the PARS technique itself, Donghun Ryu, a third SURFer in Gradinaru's lab, investigated different methods for imaging the cleared samples. Ryu is a senior electrical engineering and computer science major at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in the Republic of Korea.
Last summer Ryu completed a SURF as part of the Caltech–GIST Summer Undergraduate Research Exchange Program in the lab of Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering, and medical engineering at Caltech. While completing that project, Ryu became interested in optogenetics, the use of light to control genes. Since optogenetics is one of Gradinaru's specialties, Yang suggested that he try a SURF in Gradinaru's lab.
This summer, Ryu was able to work with both Yang and Gradinaru, investigating a technique called Talbot microscopy to see whether it would be better for imaging thick, cleared tissues than more common techniques. Ryu was able to work on the optical system in Yang's lab while testing the samples cleared in Gradinaru's lab.
"It was a wonderful experience," Ryu says. "It was special to have the opportunity to work for two labs this summer. I remember one day when I had a meeting with both Professor Yang and Professor Gradinaru; it was really amazing to get to meet with two Caltech professors."
Gradinaru says that the SURF projects provided a learning opportunity not only for the participating students but also for her lab. "For example," she says, "Ryu strengthened the collaboration that we have with the Yang group for the BRAIN Initiative. And my lab members benefited from the chance to serve as mentors—to see what works and what can be improved when transferring scientific knowledge. These are very important skills in addition to the experimental know-how that they master."


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High Voltage Engineering: Fundamentals
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"We are trying to pitch it as a gun safety feature. Part of Georgia Tech is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and representatives of Georgia Tech were asked to come and meet Attorney General Eric Holder in the White House. President Obama in a speech recently mentioned smart gun technology, and this was a reference to what they are talking to us about," he added.
The majority of research and product development for the Triggersmart technology has been carried out in Athlone by two Georgia Tech staff.
"It's been an interesting project and different from other projects we've been involved in. I would like to see the major gun manufacturers implement this as an optional safety feature in their products," said Dowling.
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A MOTHER of one who punched her husband in the face before tipping a kettle of boiling water over his head has been jailed for three years.
The victim ended up in a coma in hospital and needed plastic surgery, Belfast Crown Court heard.
A prosecutor said the attack happened after 44-year-old Margaret Joanne Collins had been out with a female friend and returned home to find she had been locked out by her husband, Brian.
He eventually opened the door and a drunken argument broke out between them.
At one stage in the kitchen Collins repeatedly punched her husband about the face before "tipping a kettle of freshly boiled water" over his head, prosecutor Stephen McCourt said.
McCourt said although her friend got her to stop that assault, she punched her husband again in the head later.
The next afternoon an ambulance had to be called and Collins was rushed to hospital, where he lay in a coma for a number of days. He also received plastic surgery for injuries to his scalp.
Judge Kinney told Collins, of Hynford Street in Belfast, that her attack last March was serious and sustained, carried out in domestic circumstances against a then vulnerable victim.
Kinney accepted that Collins' marital relationship was volatile, violent and destructive, characterized by chronic drinking and domestic violence.
Reports indicated, said the judge, that Collins was anxious and vulnerable and would require support and supervision.
He added that while she did not pose a general danger to the public, she could represent a possible danger to her husband.
Defense QC Terence McDonald said what occurred had been an escalation of previous incidents.
He said it was a depressingly familiar story of a couple who both had alcohol problems, and when drinking their behavior became erratic, sometimes involving violence.
McDonald said Collins was agreeable when sober, but she had a certain naivety about her married relationship.
As part of her sentence, Kinney ordered that Collins serve an extended two-year period of supervised licensed parole upon her release from jail.
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FIFA14 Interview: "Art Imitates Life"
Get excited for Gen 4 FIFA14
by Arthur Kotsopoulos
©2013 Arthur Kotsopoulos
With FIFA14 already released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 and being limited with the hardware, FIFA14 on PS4 and the Xbox One needed something different. Something drastic to help it break away from the problems that has plagued the game for so long, sloppy AI, legacy problems and many others.
We had the chance to chat with Peter Trenouth Producer at EA Vancouver, at a FIFA14 event that EA Australia held a few weeks back where I believe I spent roughly 5 hours standing competing against Junglist for supremacy.
If you're interested to see how the game has been improved with a new engine and where it looks to continue to bring more realistic attributes to it, then read on.
I'd like to personally thank EA Australia again for not only their hospitality but for setting up this interview.
They know how to treat the media and community and it was definitely a great night, where everyone had a lot of fun.
Arthur: It's been a good run, let's continue it.
Peter: Excellent.
It wouldn't be a sports game if we weren't into it, and we got a good thing going.
Arthur: I guess we'll start with next gen consoles.
They're just over a month away and FIFA14 has already come out on Gen 3 consoles. Massive improvement in terms of previous installments.
Peter: Thank you.
Arthur: Real ball physics and shooting in the game is much more realistic than it was before. Previously you'd take a shot and it wouldn't capture the real life moment of the beautiful game.
I played FIFA14 god knows how many hours since it's come out and in terms of FIFA14 with the IGNITE engine there's a massive difference even though it's the same game. I want to talk about how the IGNITE engine has helped the team over at Canada improve an already almost perfect game with how it feels and how it plays.
Player physicality obviously when they're fighting for the ball and they get in between the defender and the ball to hold them off.
How has the hardware helped you improve an already perfect game?
Peter: First of all, we had a great foundation to start from which is Gen 3. Gen 3 was a fantastic game and it allowed us to go from a really good spot, we improved some areas we knew we could improve on.
One thing is, it gives us more calculations per second and that talks about the pro player instincts in particular. So what pro player instincts is, it allows players not to see in to the future but to anticipate what's coming.
If you played FIFA14 also Gen 3 on a slide tackle you either miss it or your attacking player, the player who has the ball gets knocked down. In FIFA14 on Gen 4 you're going to see a player, and I'm not saying he's going to be able to get around every single slide tackle, because that would be breaking the what's authentic button but they'll be able to anticipate.
Messi is a great example of this, in real life when you watch Messi and he's got the ball at his feet and he's darting around, playing and he's jumping over the tackles, so the more calculations per second gives us pro instincts which allows players to anticipate or react to what they see coming or what's happening on the pitch at the time.
The second thing that gives us, is more animation variety.
So we're allowed to have more animations which gives us more variety to how the games play. I talked about in air play on corners I like to cross it in from the wing, that's kind of my style and I know I'm calling myself out but that's what I like to do.
In Gen 3 what you see, is one attacking player and one defending player going up for the cross. In Gen 4 you're going to have multiple guys going up for the corner, added to that much different animations, no goals are going to feel the same, so there's a lot more variety and depth added to the gameplay.
I showed a few examples on the video as well where I showed some chest play, different kind of crosses and lob passes. Having that additional hardware allows us to change gaming for the better.
We're always wanting to keep things authentic, that is one key point that FIFA is known for and it never strays away from.
So what ever we do has to be authentic, we don't want to be adding things just because we can. When we looked at the hardware, we decided what can this do that's going to make the game feel more realistic, look more realistic and play more the way it plays on the weekend when you're watching it on TV.
You want it to look and feel that way as well.
Arthur: With the more calculations per second, players are going to start anticipating better how a defender is going to come and tackle them and the ball.
I know with past FIFA games there's always been a lot of criticism with the AI. Obviously when you've got the ball and you have to pass it, sometimes the computer is going to choose the wrong player to do the through ball to or long ball and obviously frustrate the player.
I don't know if you guys have been reading or heard there's a lot of criticism with keeper AI as well. Is the more calculations per second and the hardware going to allow you to improve team AI and computer AI, that way the keeper doesn't make those same sort of mistakes?
Where if a balls going to get crossed in and let's say it's a metre in front of him, he could just as easily come out and punch it.
Instead he stands there and it goes behind him, the attacker heads it and no defender goes for it, everyone just stands there and goes "Ohh" So is the hardware going to improve AI to eliminate these legacy problems?
Peter: It's a good question.
Arthur: I've been playing since FIFA 98 on the PC with my brothers who are massive fanatics, and I've just noticed the legacy problems is the keeper AI. He'll always let a ball go past him even if it's right in front of him.
Peter: Yeah so, the hardware is going to allow us to make everyone the pitch much smarter.
I talk about the IGNITE engine and the engine is the combination of a bunch of different things. Locomotion, real time physics, animation, online, AI, players are going to act smarter both on your team, so if players are going for runs and not being offside to defenders, making more intelligent plays cutting of the ball.
You will see, I'm not going to say we've solved everything but we've been able to make the game smarter and the IGNITE engine allows us to do that.
Arthur: I think that's the main reason I'm looking forward to the next gen version because, I think FIFA on Gen 3 plateaued at 12 and from there it was basically fine tuning it seeing where it could be improved.
In fine tuning though other problems have arisen. In FIFA14 the hero run from the kick off has been eliminated because of real ball physics, players being able to contest for the ball and better AI but in saying that it's brought in new problems.
Players attacking from the wing overpowered lob shots and it feels like a good game but the current hardware is limiting the game. Like you were saying there's live breathing worlds now, the stadium is much more interactive crowds it's going to feel like you're actually there in the stadium, you've got the outside of the Etihad stadium.
It's awesome because new hardware is going to make the world bigger and better and give it more life, it'll excel the game because currently the hardware is limiting.
Peter: We had a list as long as my arm of things we wanted to do with the new hardware and whilst we didn't get to everything we definitely prioritized things that we definitely felt were important. We listened to the community we have great people who like to keep their fingers on the pulse so we know what they're saying at all time, so it's going to have to be a leap.
People aren't going to want to buy FIFA14 on Xbox One and PS4 if it feels the same way as it does on the PS3 and Xbox 360. If we're going to make it more authentic in terms of presentation and make it that the games acting more intelligently, there's no invisible wall between pitch and crowd, they've fixed that,
On gameplay, that's the bread and butter gameplay is king. Gameplay is the most important thing in any game in a sports game making sure the game is fun.
And for us fun and authentic.
Arthur: In terms of fun and authentic obviously you guys are in big competition with Konami's PES. They've stepped up the bar and they've had roughly 4 years where they were at the bottom of the gutter but now they've started to get their traction back.
Do you guys look at them and see where they improve their aspects and go back to the development team and say "Alright guys, this is what they do better in some areas then we do better." "How can we bring in those Konami players into the the FIFA franchise?"
I know a lot of people that actually keep swapping.
Hardcore FIFA fans go to PES one year then come back the next. You guys listen to the crowd and the community and change things people said they didn't like or they want. How do you combat competition and say "Hey, let's make the best football game we can. Let's look at these guys have done better and improve in our aspects as well."
Peter: We play PES.
PES has stepped up their titles and whether it's game development or the sports scene, competition is the best thing to motivate us to make the best game we possibly can.
We're watching what PES is doing but we're still focused on us. Having PES and having choice for consumers is good for everybody, for us, it's good for Konamia at the end of the day.
It looks good.
Arthur: It brings out the best in both developers, much like the way there is the El Classico, Barcelona vs Real Madrid.
I want to talk more, broadening the horizon of FIFA, in terms of it's not just online play and career mode we've got Ultimate Team, Seasons, Match Day, I don't even know how many features there are from 13 to 14. There's just so much here to play.
For older and new players how have you broadened the horizons?
Peter: We have millions of users, and they like to play the game in many different ways but we need to appeal to the both the hardcore as well as the new users. We have our online mode, cups and divisions when we introduced the seasons.
People love that competition aspect, getting promoted, relegated, holding your division, and I speak for myself, one of the things I always buy from the EA sports club is always that extra point of extra draw.
Arthur: That one game extra that gets you over.
Peter: What we tried to do, was have almost something for everybody.
What does Ultimate Team offer? Well it's competitive, it's got that really addictive team building aspect to it, open impact, it allows you to compete with your friends. I'll show you my phone, we've got the EA Sports companion app which allows people to play Ultimate Team.
We want to have something for everybody, I was talking to someone earlier we have data that tells you how and when people are playing. So for example with Kick Off mode, if Kick Off mode was a bar graph it does this and on weekend it bumps up and bumps up.
What does that tell us?
So myself I think that's the buddies playing in their dorm rooms, don't play so much during the week but they invite mates over for some beers, losers has to pass over the controller and winner stays on and keeps playing until he gets dethroned.
We enhance that by having live fixtures and match day.
Add a little bit of spice, so for teams that perform well in real life are going to be performing a little bit better in FIFA also. We wanted to have that "Art imitates life" to some extent. We control everything we have, we added global transfer network this year, which allows people to send scouts out and really kind of build the squad they want to build.
For that control freak that wants to do everything.
We have a tonne of modes and it requires a tonne of effort just to keep them as good as they are. That's what our community expects, that's what they want to have and by giving them these things that's always the expectation now.
These are always going to be there and we're going to subtly improve or add new things. Global Transfer Network for career mode, chemistry styles for fun.
We always pushing the bar on these things, to try and make them better and more accessible. There are some poor points in the modes and we're looking at improving them as well.
The email system in career mode is something that we were like you know in FIFA13 it kept on coming up every single time it was like "Email, email, email", so we're going to put that in the background, if you want to access it you can but if you want to sim a few matches you won't be constantly interrupted.
So how do we do this?
We'll we've got a bunch of different guys who are really smart, producers designers developers who own their features and they're always thinking about how to improve the stuff they're working on.
We listen to the community all the time we have great PR and marketing people saying hey the community is talking about this and that. Somebody's like "Hey, that's something we're going to look at for the next FIFA."
Arthur: I think my favorite new feature over the last couple of years was the introduction of the commentary. Before you'd hear the same thing over and over again, the player is sluggish, bad form or the team is performing bad.
Where as now over the last two years we've got the live world commentary that slowly trickles its way into the game. If you watch a match two weeks ago and Barcelona performed poorly against Real Madrid, you'll play an El Classico in the game and hear certain little parts of that commentary in the game.
How have you improved that aspect of the game of bringing real life aspects into FIFA? Squad updates, commentary, transfer windows etc…
Peter: Art imitates life, like I talked about earlier. Authenticity, we want our game to be totally authentic, we want to be a place where people can go to get this real world news. That's one of the pillars that we rest our game upon that making sure it's totally authentic. We have a great team, great sound artists and sound engineers.
Audio is a tough thing to own because if you do it right not many people notice, if you do it wrong, you say the wrong thing, say the same thing over and over again, everybody notices and it starts to "bleep" them off a little bit.
For us, we want to make sure it's got a lot of variety. It's not like you're playing these two teams and hearing the same thing over again. We want it to be always changing but always having a lot of times when you're playing and it's not like I've been here before.
That goes not only for gameplay with ball physics and pure shoot, but it's kind of marrying that experience together and this is what Gen 4 does really well. I showed some goal replays back there and instant replays.
If you're playing your 100th match and you score a goal and hear the same thing you're going to press the button and skip it.
You still can do that if you want to we're not going to take that way from the consumers, we want the game to feel that it's intelligence, it's showing a new replay you haven't seen before or new commentary, so that you're going to be fully engaged and enjoying the experience as a whole.
Arthur: I think authenticity is the main contributing factor as to why a lot of people keep coming back to FIFA. It's like Fantasy league, ultimate team people want to create their own ultimate team they can have Messi with Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema with Van Persie.
The authenticity is what keeps a lot of players and then brings new players into it. You look at other titles and sports titles and they don't have the same level of authenticity.
Consumers don't want to play a game that doesn't really represent real world, they want to play a game where the players are the same, character models are the same, Messis' characteristics when he runs and carves through defenders is the same and so forth.
That with the audio and next gen hardware is what's going to bring in a lot of new players mainly because some who are still on the fence between both franchises don't know what to chose and why, and if you're introducing new features every year much like FIFA from 12 to 13 which was what, 140 or so improvements.
You sit there and you think well I love FIFA12 how do you improve on a game that was already awesome and 6 months later hey we've got 1 40 new improvements. I don't know what the hell you could improve on and then obviously that fixes old problems but creates new ones.
There's competition between both companies and they're both always on their toes which means they're always going to want to make a better game. Every 12 months there's a new FIFA out and you want to have a reason to buy it.
You've got Legends on Xbox One, a much more improved Ultimate Team and a redesigned UI, THANK YOU! Because the old UI was a chore to go through it.
Peter: It's funny you mention that because we put a lot of effort into the menus, the panels and tiles and nesting content on the right stick.
We had a debate internally because it's hard to sell UI but we knew it was time we need to replace the ribbon at the bottom where we were showing 5 modes and we have 5 modes over here off the screen and 5 modes on the left and you were getting lost.
Arthur: Going back and forth going left right and I just want to go to seasons, nope that's settings.
Peter: Exactly.
We thought about what we wanted to do, for example the home menu, that left hand tile on the top left is always the last mode you played. For a lot of consumers that play one or two modes, it's going to be there.
To your point about the team we have a group of perfectionists that we work with. We have an army of people, we have an army of guys doing player ratings and team with their stats and attributes and these guys are on the ground in those territories watching the team plays and giving us the authentic attributes, 33 leagues, 600 teams and thousands of players.
It's really important for fans who aren't a fan of these big clubs, and if they're a fan of their local city club, they still want to see those teams looks and being authentic as realistic as possible.
We not only need to give them that our consumers have incredibly high expectations year over year.
The goal we set for the team every year is to listen and exceed those expectations and I think we've done an excellent over the last couple of years. Expectations are really high for FIFA14, again it's always thinking what's best for the gamers as a whole.
It's something I tell my team for example is "We own FIFA, how awesome is that? We actually own this franchise", and every decision we make and every day we come into the office, it's always got to be about what's best for the franchise as a whole.
Arthur: I don't think a lot of people know how much work goes into the back end stuff, I was watching awhile ago on a flight back from Melb, I don't remember what the show was called but it's the one where they show how big warships and constructions are built and there was one on FIFA.
Peter: I think it was FIFA13, it wasn't too long ago with mo-cap.
Arthur: No, I think it was 11 or 12 because it wasn't graphically impressive. They were showing the mo-cap and how teams would go out to the training grounds and set up the photo booth to capture player faces.
Just a whole bunch of work that goes into everything, then you've got commentary from players such as Benzema saying his shot is more powerful than that and how they've captured his speed but he feels he is more faster than that.
I feel not a lot of people know how much work you guys put in to recreate player faces, ball physics characteristics and so forth. The fact you guys have a whole soccer pitch just to capture mo-cap where you capture how players do tricks like the rainbow and over the top, it's absolutely crazy.
Peter: And doing it year over year is a big challenge, it's the only way to say it. Like it or not, our team is able to step up and they did. I'm very fortunate, here I am the guy here talking to you about it, but I have a little army of guys behind me who are really the reason why FIFA14 is the reason what it is.
Arthur: Well thank you, it's good to see that the IGNITE engine has made FIFA14 leap into new territories where it needs to go. Current hardware limitations has made the series plateau.
Peter: It's going to change the way FIFA plays for 14 and for the future. As we unlock the hardware, you're going to see it really take off in the next couple of years.


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According to the latest yahoo headline for NRGY, ten (10) companies have been acquired by NRGY in 2004. Is this what is holding the unit stock price down? Does anybody know how many more companies NRGY will acquire in 2004?While the price is down a bit, this price does seem to hold its value, along with paying a nice dividend. I think this company is on the right track for sucess. Now is a good time to acquire more, IMHO.
You may never hear much more about them! Timing is bad, and I don't know if these things are going to make it to IPO or not. Plus, there are real concerns about the tax structure. In any event, the selection of businesses is not stellar, in my opinion. The IDS was meant to be a US answer to the Canadian business trust, but so far it has been a pretty anemic answer.I note that Alaska Comm spun off its directories business as a CanBiz trust. ACS Media. A company I'm very much interested in.http://www.acsmedia.net/investor/index.htm
Interesting. I had heard something about them (not much) but did not associate the IDS abbreviation with income debt securities.
I've heard of Fairpoint and Alaska Comm, however, am unfamiliar with what IDS stands for...
"Is this what is holding the unit stock price down?"I hope not. This is what NRGY does. They are a roll-up artist. They grow the distribution by making acquisitions. It's profitable because the idustry is so fragmented.NRGY's strategy is to buy existing local brands that serve mostly retail customers in areas with high population growth. Then they leverage their wholesale ability and existing employees to make those purchases accretive.So yeah, I expect NRGY will do their darnedest to purchase 10 or more companies in the second half of the year. Or in the 2nd half of this quarter, if they can."I think this company is on the right track for sucess."I absolutely agree.
That was probably the best post on the whole board. Sums up NRGY perfectly.Inergy indeed is a roll-up MLP. They acquire small (often family owned propane distributors) for what usually amounts to 6x-8x cash flow. They are simply arbitraging the difference in the price they pay and the cost of capital, be it debt at 6% or equity at 7%(ball park numbers). The difference is then spread over the new unit float. Obviously, the distributable cash flow or DCF per share(ok, actually unit if you want to use MLP lingo) better be more than before the acquisition. If it is, then the deal is accretive and allows for an increase in the distribution. Obviously as they grow, it becomes harder and harder to make accretive acquisitions that are meaningful. This is why the General Partner or GP gets incentive distribution rights that give the GP an incentive to continue to grow the distribution.Inergy is very small relative to alot of the other propane MLP's and this is a tremendous advantage in terms of being able to make accretive acquisitions. In addtion they have a fairly strong distribution coverage ratio as well as an industry low debt to cap. Inergy has a talented management team with alot of skins in the game and has pulled talent from some of the best MLP's(Kinder Morgan, Ferrell etc.). I think they can easily grow the distribution at 10% a year for the next few years without any difficulty whatsoever. Just gotta stay disciplined.


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We are in the process of refurbishing the fellowship hall. The old carpet was taken up last week or so. New ceramic tile installation will begin tomorrow.
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Pulling up the old tile underneath the carpet.
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Remnants of an old shuffle board game under the old tile, under the old carpet.
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Regarding frameless, neo-round tempered glass shower enclosure: "This is a nice-looking product, but if you have any problems with it, don't count on customer service from this company. I had one shower panel explode in my hand, without it striking a surface or anything; it just ripped. According to the warranty statement, the glass is guaranteed, except when mishandled or abused. I did not mishandle it. SurplusDecor.com refused to give me any help with this and referred me to Vigo, the importer of the glass. However, Vigo has zero customer service: they don't pick up the phone, and when you leave messages and emails, nobody calls back. I ended up buying another panel, although I should have gotten one as a replacement for free. A disappointing experience." **
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After years (literally) of searching for an island vent hood we could afford, I found a beautiful Vigo brand brushed stainless steel and glass vent hood for about $700 (about 1/4 - 1/2 of the "normal" prices). Once it was installed, it was horribly noisy, but when my husband contacted the manufacturer they immediately sent out a part they thought was the problem - at no cost to us. We put off installing the new part, but when we tackled it, we found that another part had just been installed backwards at the factory and reversing it solved the problem. In the end we didn't need the part they sent, but their response had been immediate.
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I am out for now. Think there may have been a pump here with news released Thurs. The day traders IMO caught wind of this and will be dumping by days end.
Looking to get back in at lower prices! Even if I pay for it, I could not risk the 60% profit!
60% is a nice profit, but I think you got out at a lower price than $1.58 today's closing.
wheely, if you got any money left, check out ctic, snss, edap, c, gnvc, you might find something there you like better
pps closed near the high of the day in a krappy over all market.. also, let me reiterate this. I do NOT WORK FOR, AM COMPENSATED in any way from the company, or anyone else. I do not know anyone at ibio, or associated with the company in anyway. i have no idea if the company plans to release any pr for the reasons i list above. I give full disclosure in all articles i write.
there is institutional ownership in plx which makes it more prone to fluctuations to the greater market (funds, etfs, options, etc)- and ibio more isolated.
Additionally, analysts have seemingly capped PLX upon approval. we are still a bit away from the date, but rapidly approaching. Should run, but both companies should be expected to have a down day here or there as the date approaches. Create some doubt, Shake out some weaker hands before the run. I really feel strongly that the PLX candidate will be approved. It would be shocking to look at the data, how the data has corresponded to the agency process over time, that it won't be approved. Considering that this situation is the posterchild for the need for the healthcare industry to adjust and modernize incorporating plant based methodologies that work, establishing guidance, pathways, etc. The FDA never dinged the info. Never. The contamination that lead to the fast track approval for the plx candidate costed +- a billion dollars. That is including shareholder and company losses, increased medical and healthcare related costs from treatment not being available and resulting health complications in a pt population with no access. This figure does not take into account the pain and suffering by the pt population and their families, caregivers. Acceptable loss? Please.
With global contraction, increasing deficits, rising costs, the only way that politicians, who promise their citizens healthcare, can be elected, is by invariably adopting plant based technology.
The ibiolaunch can make a vaccine for 10% of the current manufacturing cost.
The ibiolaunch can save minimally 150mm per year in operating costs in a 1000kg operation of Mab production.
The ibiolaunch can make bioequivalent plasma that otherwise would need to be individually physically donated. Additionally, related post-translational costs constitute 50% of the cost of production,(also, removal of risk of contamination)
The ibiolaunch can make it so everyone in the world has access to treatments, therapeutics including those patients that are allergic to mammalian cell derivitives.
The ibiolaunch can address with success combatting epidemic and biological terrorist agents.
The ibiolaunch can help reduce environmental impact of medicines, treatments, where resistance builds and newer more powerful strains constantly emerge; by providing remedy for areas of endemic...etc
Cheaper, Better, Faster
Not only can this technology save money, but it can dramatically improve and save lives while offering an agent of stability to the global economy.
i have thoroughly and consistently researched this space over time in earnest, and as a result find it increasingly difficult to not be completely obsessed with this technology's potential.
Wheely, I suggest you get back in at these prices. There actually has not been a real run up when you look at it. Arun up could go to 3 or $4, then you might so a mild reversal. Usually when a stock with 20 bagger potential gets discovered, the first run lasts several days, but with this plx catalyst coming soon, that may change things here. But $1.65 for abio is not a run up
You stay on the sideline, or has reentered the game?
Sidelines for now.
I've been here a long time. The newbies that entered, welcome. Julian has done a great job if sharing information about the industry, and from time to time so info on IBIO as well. He knows his stuff and is an invaluable resource for new IBIO investors.
Don't quote me on this, but I think today was the highest volume IBIO has ever seen on the AMEX. Can anyone confirm this? For the past 6 months we've been lucky to see 40k traded a day. All indications say PLX will get approval, but in all honesty, if PLX gets approval, I would not be surprised to see many PLX investors sell on he initial run and park some money in IBIO for the bigger run. I know at least 15 people who hold a modest amount of shares in both PLX and IBIO who are foaming at the mouth to sell into PLX approval run and buy IBIO with PLX profit. they understand they might miss a quick spike, but IBIO is a long term gem IF and WHEN the platform is validated and commercialized.
disclosure: I own zero PLX and have been buying IBIO steadily for over 1 1/2 years...3.56 was my highest buy and .70 was my lowest buy and I am currently averaged in at .94...locked, loaded, and sell price already set. I doubt my sell price will hit until at least 2014...good luck to all true longs.
2.00 by thursday... give the article time to circulate
You might be right.
Circulate? These articles were known Thursday.
I think you got a little too early. It might shot up to over $3.
probably higher on PLX approval
My opinion is that there will be a massive shake out before then.
with these bios ANYTHING is possible. What I like to do is have a core position and trade around it that way if there is a spike ive got something in the fire but I can see ur thinking about selling all. No harm whatsoever in taking a profit 60% is very nice. PLX approval is not certain but i give it 70-80% chance which will put a spotlight on IBIO. The market is insane if u make a $ its all good ;-)
not a bad short term play
profit is a profit, u probably right, the only thing dont wait to long PLX PDUFA is May 1 only 16 trading days away!


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1) SCT Sub Inspectors of Police (Civil) (Men) : 1238 posts
2) SCT Reserve Sub Inspectors of Police (APSP) (Men) : 406 posts
3) SCT Reserve Sub Inspectors of Police (AR) (Men) : 306 posts
4) SCT Sub Inspectors of Police (Civil) (Women) : 230 posts
5) Sub Inspectors (Men) in Special Protection Force (SPF) Dept. : 68 posts
6) SCT Reserve Sub Inspectors of Police (SAR CPL) (Men) : 10 posts
7) SCT RSIs (APSP) (Men) in 15th Bn., APSP : 17 posts
8) Station Fire Officers in A.P. Fire & Emergency Services Dept. : 21 posts
Eligibility and Educational Qualifications for SI Recruitment: For the post code nos. 11 to 16 and 18 in the original notification, applicants must be aged between 21 - 25 years. They should have born not earlier than 2nd July, 1986 and not later than 1st July, 1990. For the post code no. 17 of the original notification, candidates age should be between 18-30 years as on 1st July, 2011. They must have born not earlier than 2nd July, 1981 and not later than 1st July, 1993. Age relaxations apply as per rules.
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After reading your Sunday article on the Purple Cow I told my husband that would be my main thing to do at the fair, to try one. ("Purple Cow: State fair people pleasers.")
Was I disappointed. It was good enough, the taste we got.
My husband and I were going to share one, so I went and purchased it while he picked up corn on the cob. I was lucky, I was the 13th person and received mine free. When I left the stand the glass was clear full, but by time I got to bench their was possibly half a cup (measuring) of soda in the bottom of the glass and a half a scoop of ice cream (we each had two small bites). The fullness was all foam.
And for this I would have paid $4. What a waste, even at no charge.
If you have money to waste, try one, what you get is good.
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The highlight of the day will be a mega-adoption event with more than 500 pets, along with information from local rescue groups and shelters.
Sign up your pet to compete in the costume contest, talent contest or fashion show. Information about obedience training, pet behavior, nutrition, activism and more will be presented all day on the entertainment stages. Dog owners can sign up thier pets to fly with Splash Dogs, a nationally recognized dog enthusiast company that organizes and promotes dock jumping events.
Other activities include flyball races with Phoenix Fuzion and Phoenix Hot Pawsuit, and performances by Arizona Canine Musical Freestylers.
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Umatilla Chemical Depot, Hermiston, Ore. - The following is an update on a worker's exposure to mustard agent March 17 while doing maintenance in the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility's main processing building.
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Aca,!Ac Project leadership has determined that there was an exposure to mustard agent during the March 17 entry. This conclusion is supported by a review of plant activities, video records and agent monitoring, and by the worker showing the clinical signs of abnormal skin redness followed by blistering.
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This is the reply I received from the GM of Shames yesterday.
Interesting eh?
1. Doesn't address the bragging, lack of professionalism, or general lack of ability to relate to an adult.
2. Is it just me or is the tone a little off for a reply to a customer service issue?
3. Based on what I can find online the AASI stopped teaching the pendulum or falling leaf after 2009. I can't find anything online specifically about this issue related to the CASI. Anybody have an idea?
4. Is it just me, of did this guy just accuse me of crank calling this instructor? Really? Obviously I'm not the only one who wasn't impressed with him, but to accuse me in response to my complaint? Are you fucking kidding me?
Oh and I'm supposed to believe this guy watched me out the window or even remembers who the fuck I am? Kind of gotta call bullshit there too.
Anyway, the reply starts here:
Thank you for your feedback about your lesson with Kris on opening day. Both positive and negative comments are important to us. Having been an instructor myself for over a decade before moving into management, I understand the department very well. Snowboarding is not an easy sport to learn. From my extensive experience, it typically takes three lessons before someone gets the hang of things.
The first lesson you learn the basics about the board and learn to sideslip on one edge going towards the left or the right (pendulum or falling leaf). This is not only still taught, but an essential skill to master. Side slipping left and right still gets me out of some sticky situations.
The second lesson, is where you learn the same skills on your opposite edge.
The third lesson, is when you link both skills into turns; switching from one edge to the other.
If you come back to the mountain, Oliver Riberdy, our ski school director (CASI Level 4 who certifies other instructors) will gladly go through the CASI manual with you to assure you that Kris followed the regular and normal procedures.
I watched your lesson from the cafeteria window and was very impressed with your progress. Kris your instructor was also impressed, after the lesson he told me he couldn't believe how fast you had progressed. In my opinion you basically progressed more then 3 lessons worth in two hours. It is very rare that a student graduates to the chairlift in their first lesson.
Kris has also recieved a number of compliments in the last few days; one even asking me to give him a raise because of how great he was with the man's child.
With that said, I do recognize that you are un-happy, and will gladly give you another lesson. Either myself, or Oliver will give you the lesson to ensure you have the choice in the two most experienced instructors on the mountain. Please contact me directly to confirm details.
On a diferent note, my instructor tells me he recieved a blocked txt to landline message Dec. 26th after midnight. He said the message was very rude, talked about his instructing and threatened his job. I truely hope this was not you. Kris has a wife and kids, that kind of thing in the middle of the night is uncalled for.
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dearest dan..if you is keeping your pants to yourself and the great mr dan, then i is chasing the local talent.(inka only lives 700 km away), PLUS AT THE MOMENT I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO SEÑOR INKA TO SMACK ME, mrs mike is only five feet tall (1m 52cm) inka so you do not have to worry,(she is also sitting here p(h)sl having seen inka`s picture that i would even try), so there you go dan there is always a place for you in my blood pump but i cant wait forever (and at my age even forever is not that long), so sorry dan but to answer your question yes i is kissing butt, making the pass, chasing the chica. sorry to talk about you as if you are not there inka but i am plucking up the hic hic (dutch) courage to broach the subject with you oh sweet goddess,, strides away from keyboard with aprehensive frown but discernable skip in the step


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Nonethless, the hack is there. Somewhere. I have been reading posts and threads and begging Dreamhost to help me for three straight days, nonstop...
And yes, I am somewhat of a novice when it comes to php scripts, jquery scripts, and all that code (that's why I use WordPress!)... But I have made some progress... I have changed all ftp passwords, all user passwords and the "keys" in all of the wp-config files... I have upgraded all sites to 3.3.1 and updated or deleted most plugins, etc... All the recommended stuff... And while that might help things moving forward, the damage is already done... to at least six of my sites... probably more.
It started six days ago when AVG Free began pegging one of our sites with the "JS/Agent" virus warning... It gave us a buch of file names in the Temporary Internet Folders with IE and in the Cache folders with Chrome... I downloaded the theme folder from one of the sites and AVG started pegging all of the .js files as infected...
So, I began scouring all of my main *.php files for anything unusual and could not find anything. Then, I used Firebug on my home page and found a common denominator... All the sites have a script loading in the header section... in most cases right between two jquery lines.... I will attempt to place that code into this post with backticks now:
The line above:
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The hack line:
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The line below:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://allpropastors.org/wp-content/themes/iCompany/lib/featured-images/js/jquery.cross-slide.js?ver=3.3.1"/>
Now - I understand that I need to locate and remove that code, but I don't know how... In one instance, I found that hack between two lines that applied to a plugin and I was able to delete the plugin and therefore the code (though even after that the site still triggered an AVG warning in I.E. on the swfobect[2].js file... I have since recreated that site completely - which took 10 hours.... So you can see why I am hopeful that someone reading this post will help me, please... )
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PreS-Gr. 2. Gibbons uses her familiar formula of basic text and ink-and-watercolor illustrations to introduce a topic of inherent interest to most kids--ancient Egypt. Spreads offer brief facts about society, homes, clothing, farming methods, and craftsmanship before turning to the enticing subject of mummies. Several pages include interesting details about how Egyptians prepared the wellborn for the afterlife, with close-up drawings of mummification and a cross-section of a pyramid's burial chambers. Younger children may need help with some of the more abstract concepts, such as the ancient Egyptians' spiritual beliefs. There are plenty of books available on the subject for this age group, but this one is a good place to start, with an approachable, simple text; lively scenes of Egyptians working and celebrating; and definitions of basic terms. Gibbons squeezes more interesting facts on a final page, which offers a bit of world context: "Other cultures, like the Mayans and the Aztecs, built great pyramids, too." Gillian Engberg
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Yeah, that was within the range. However, the investment community was expecting upward of 50 mil. I don't think, however, the OVTI should drop that much on AAPL's news since it is not the sole provider of camera chips. Sony is also a provider. So, that means OVTI has diversified away from AAPL, albeit reluctantly because that was Apple's choice.
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Shittu was named in coach Stephen Keshi's provisional 32-man squad but Lions manager Kenny Jackett has hinted that his player will reject the opportunity to feature in the competition.
Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi was also included in the squad, but Magpies boss Alan Pardew says his player will not be taking part either.
"These clubs are not only disrespecting Nigeria but FIFA and [African governing body] CAF as well," NFF board member Chris Green told BBC Sport.
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Governing body rules would prevent Shittu from representing Millwall for the duration of the African Cup of Nations.
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