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DNA23 (23rd International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming): Theorists and experimentalists advancing molecular-scale computation and nanoengineering. Will be held at UT Austin, Sep 24-28, 2017.
I joined the ECE Department at UT Austin in Aug 2015. Please contact me if you are interested in joining my group as a graduate student or postdoc.
Spring 2017: EE381V: Programming with Molecules [syllabus, intro lecture]
Fall 2016: EE360C: Algorithms
Spring 2016: EE381V: Programming with Molecules
Research Interests
Natural computing: models of computing inspired by nature
Computation is not a man-made phenomenon. From our brains to the regulatory networks of bacteria, nature provides fascinating examples of information processing, which is quite different from electronic computers.
Distributed computing
Formal models of distributed computing help us to discover the potential and limits of chemical information processing. We study models inspired by self-assembly and chemical reaction networks.
Molecular programming: engineering smart molecules
Using nucleic-acid "strand displacement cascades" we build molecular interactions for synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and bioengineering in our wet-lab. We use chemistry as a "programming language".
Publications [Google scholar profile]Most copyrights are owned by the publisher; files are provided here as a convenience for one-time individual use. [α]=alphabetical author order following the common mathematics and theoretical computer science convention.
Niranjan Srinivas, James Parkin, Georg Seelig, Erik Winfree, David Soloveichik,
"Enzyme-free nucleic acid dynamical systems".
[ Preprint: bioRxiv: .pdf paper and .pdf supplementary information ]
[α] Robert Brijder, David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Robustness of expressivity in chemical reaction networks".
[ Preprint: arXiv ]
Chris Thachuk, Erik Winfree, David Soloveichik, "Leakless DNA strand displacement systems".
[ Proceedings of DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 21 (DNA21), 2015: .pdf ]
[α] David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Stable leader election in population protocols requires linear time".
[ Full version: Distributed Computing, doi:10.1007/s00446-016-0281-z, 2016: arXiv ]
[ Extended abstract: International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'15), 2015: .pdf ]
[α] Ho-Lin Chen, Rachel Cummings, David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Speed faults in computation by chemical reaction networks".
[ Full version: Distributed Computing, doi:10.1007/s00446-015-0255-6, 2015: .pdf ]
[ (Best Paper Award) Extended abstract: International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'14), 2014: .pdf ]
Ophelia S. Venturelli, David Soloveichik, "Completeness of transcriptional repressor networks operating in the unsaturated regime".
[ Draft: .pdf ]
[α] Rachel Cummings, David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Probability 1 computation with chemical reaction networks".
[ Full version: Natural Computing 15: 245-261, 2016: .pdf ]
[ Extended abstract: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 20 (DNA20), LNCS 8727:37-52, 2014: .pdf ]
[α] Ho-Lin Chen, David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Rate-independent computation in continuous chemical reaction networks".
[ Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS'14): 313-326, 2014: .pdf ]
Yuan-Jyue Chen, Neil Dalchau, Niranjan Srinivas, Andrew Phillips, Luca Cardelli, David Soloveichik, Georg Seelig, "Programmable chemical controllers made from DNA".
[ Nature Nanotechnology 8: 755-762, 2013: .pdf paper and .pdf supplementary information ]
[ Also see Ehud Shapiro and Tom Ran's News and Views essay ]
[α] Ho-Lin Chen, David Doty, David Soloveichik, "Deterministic Function Computation with Chemical Reaction Networks".
[ Full version: Natural Computing, doi:10.1007/s11047-013-9393-6, 2013: .pdf ]
[ Preliminary extended abstract: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 18 (DNA18), LNCS 7433:25-42, 2012 ]
Lulu Qian, David Soloveichik, Erik Winfree, "Efficient Turing-universal computation with DNA polymers".
[ Extended abstract: DNA Computing and Molecular Programming 16 (DNA16), LNCS 6518:123-140, 2011: .pdf ]
David Soloveichik, Georg Seelig, Erik Winfree, "DNA as a Universal Substrate for Chemical Kinetics".
[ Full version: PNAS 107 (12): 5393-5398, 2010: .pdf paper and .pdf supplementary information ]
[ (Best Student Paper Award) Preliminary extended abstract: DNA Computing 14 (DNA14), LNCS 5347:57-69, 2009: .pdf ]
Georg Seelig, David Soloveichik, "Time-Complexity of Multilayered DNA Strand Displacement Circuits".
[ Revised version (improved lemmas 1 and 4): .pdf ]
[ Preliminary extended abstract: DNA Computing 15 (DNA15), LNCS 5877: 144-153, 2009: .pdf ]
David Soloveichik, "Statistical Learning of Arbitrary Computable Classifiers".
[ Preprint: .pdf ]
Matt Cook, David Soloveichik, Erik Winfree, Shuki Bruck,
"Programmability of Chemical Reaction Networks".
[ Algorithmic Bioprocesses, (Eds. Condon, Harel, Kok, Salomaa, Winfree), Springer, pp. 543-584, 2009 ]
[ Preprint: .pdf ]
David Soloveichik, "Robust Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks and Bounded Tau-Leaping".
[ Journal of Computational Biology 16(3): 501-522, 2009 ]
[ Preprint: arXiv ]
David Soloveichik, Matt Cook, Erik Winfree, Shuki Bruck,
"Computation with Finite Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks".
[ Natural Computing, (online Feb 2008), or Technical Report: CaltechPARADISE:2007.ETR085: .pdf ]
David Soloveichik, Matthew Cook, Erik Winfree,
"Combining Self-Healing and Proofreading in Self-Assembly".
[ Natural Computing, (online July 2007): .pdf ]
Georg Seelig, David Soloveichik, David Yu Zhang, Erik Winfree,
"Enzyme-Free Nucleic Acid Logic Circuits".
[ Science 314:1585-1588, 2006: .pdf paper and .pdf supplementary information ]
[ Also see Walter Fontana's Perspectives essay, Udi Shapiro's News and Views essay ]
[ Our related patent is #20070072215: "Nucleic acid-based logic circuits" ]
David Soloveichik and Erik Winfree,
"Complexity of Compact Proofreading for Self-Assembled Patterns".
[ DNA Computing 11 (DNA11), LNCS 3892: 305-324, 2006: .pdf ]
David Soloveichik and Erik Winfree,
"The Computational Power of Benenson Automata".
[ Theoretical Computer Science 244(2-3):279-297, 2005: .pdf paper and .pdf erratum ]
David Soloveichik and Erik Winfree,
"Complexity of Self-Assembled Shapes".
[ Full version: SIAM Journal on Computing 36 (6): 1544-1569, 2007: .pdf ]
[ (Best Student Paper Award) Extended abstract: DNA Computing 10 (DNA10), LNCS 3384:344-354, 2005: .pdf ]
- CRNSimulator: Mathematica package for simulating chemical reaction networks (deterministic and stochastic).
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- I build and fly RC airplanes. Hobby Express has movies of many RC aircraft in action.


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We're thrilled to collaborate with Vanessa Wilson and Jane Chew over on Craftsy's Pinterest account this week. While Vanessa has been crafting since a young age, she didn't discover sewing and quilting until she was 22 years old and in her second year of law school. Since then, this Craftsy instructor of Sew Little: Nursery Design, has never looked back- as apparent in her beautiful pins enjoyed by nearly 1000 followers every day. Jane of DIY Beading Club finds and shares lots of interesting jewelry making projects and ideas with more than 4,000 fellow pinners. From chain maille patterns to DIY wire jewelry her pins will surely inspire you to create a new accessory. So learn more about these ladies history with Pinterest and their favorite pins, and then follow along with Vanessa's Craftsy collaborator board as well as Jane's Craftsy collaborator board.
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We love your DIY Crafty Tutorials board. Where do you find most of your pins?
Most of the pins in that board are video tutorials I've created myself to share with the world. The few that aren't I have either come across them on someone elses' boards or just randomly come across them on Facebook or Twitter.
What excites you about pinning with Craftsy this week?
I'm looking forward to sharing some great pins with Craftsy followers! I'm also excited about inspiring newbies to give sewing a try! It's hard to stay away from so many great Craftsy classes and free project tutorials.
How did you first hear about Pinterest and what inspired you to join?
I learned about Pinterest through the internet. I saw the enlarged images and that's what inspired me to join the site. I see a lot of beautiful and inspiring work of art from around the world and felt what a good way to share my work to others, too.
We love your Jewelry Designs board. Do you have any favorite pins there?
I love the tutorials and DIYs. I love all kinds of crafts. Anything about handmade jewelry and crafts, I love them all. I even created a Craftsy board, intended for free tutorials found on Craftsy.
Your Fashion Board is beautiful. Can you tell us more about the types of fashion that inspire you?
The fashion board we have is not actually ours, but we're just a member of the group. Someone invited me to pin on the board. I also like fashion and I think every girl does and so I joined the group. I am inspired by fashionable accessories like jewelries and bags. I am also interested on clothing as I want to make jewelries that will match my clothing and bag. I am hoping someday to be able to design a complete fashion outfit that includes accessories. I like the chic and casual style but still a girl would look elegant on it.
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My popular boards are DIY Beading Patterns and Tutorials and DIY Wire Jewelry. Many have visited, liked and repinned them. I didn't expect the boards to be popular, but I know a lot of people like to see tutorials and so I share all my tutorials and tutorials from other artists as well on those boards.
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Symbols of Australia
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From the humble Hills hoist to the legend of the ANZAC, Nation takes a new approach to Australian history by examining national identity through Australian symbols.
Humorous, entertaining and information-rich, this exhibition peels the lid off 200 years of Australian culture, providing a forum for you to discuss it.
Nation explores how the objects and events that we identify as being 'Australian' have come to be. It also examines the values and ideas that our symbols represent. And how history has cemented the position of these symbols into the Australian imagination.
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Read tragic obituaries from the Vietnam War, and celebrate our weird and wonderful obsession with the kangaroo. Take a trip down memory lane to the days when the wireless radio played a central role in many Australians' lives. Tune into original broadcasts of test cricket, election news and the announcement of the end of the Second World War.
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Notorious burglar and highwayman-turned-actor Tally Ho Thompson is arrested at the scene and thrown into Newgate Prison. Thompson's unusual relationship with Charles Dickens was chronicled in the first of these secret journals, The Detective and Mr. Dickens. In that book, the dashing ex-criminal loaned his special talents to help the novelist. Now Dickens, with Collins in reluctant tow, attempts to return the favor by proving Thompson's innocence. From the bleak, cold.
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[quote author="KitsuneStudios"]Is the remote Bluetooth or IR, and is it interchangable with a Front-row equipped mac?
Kind of curious if you could teach a learning remote to mimic it. I have a second-hand palm pilot I use almost exclusively as a remote control with NoviiRemote.
Someone wrote in one of the discussions that the remote for the Apple TV kept turning on Front Row on a Mac in the same room. One can "pair" the remote with a single device, though. As I recall, Jobs said that it used the same remote as the iMac, Mac Mini, etc.
It is an IR remote. You might be able to teach the commands to your Palm, though there are some unusual features, apparently, inlcluding the length of the command.
As I've written before, it shouldn't be long before Logitech includes the Apple TV in the setup for their Harmony remotes . Some users have found a way to do it, both by learning the commands and by treating the Apple TV as a Mac Mini with Front Row.
I stopped by my local Apple Store today and did a quick test drive of one of the Apple TVs on display (attached to what I believe were 32" 720p/768p sets). Pretty nice interface, smooth as butter (the GeForce 7300 chip was a very good call), super-easy to navigate. But video quality? Er…not too sure about that. I was only there for a couple minutes, so I didn't load up a movie myself, but I did try streaming the Blades of Glory trailer. I also saw maybe 20 seconds of footage from The Incredibles (don't know if it was the trailer or the actual movie). There was an awful lot of pixelation in both videos, though it was way more pronounced in the Blades of Glory trailer. Obviously, standing back 10 or so feet would help, but when the AppleTV interface is so clean and sharp, it is a significant difference. I'd assumed AppleTV automatically pulls only HD trailers by default, but maybe I was wrong.
Anyway, what's your thoughts on vid quality DaiMac? I'll have to give the AppleTV another demo, but right now I'm think Apple might do well to do "smart resizing" of certain video files. Sure, a black border might be a little unnerving, but if it improves the video quality, I think buyers would appreciate it.
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Anyway, what's your thoughts on vid quality DaiMac? I'll have to give the AppleTV another demo, but right now I'm think Apple might do well to do "smart resizing" of certain video files. Sure, a black border might be a little unnerving, but if it improves the video quality, I think buyers would appreciate it.
The trailers are a horrible example, I'm surprised Apple didn't send a disc with some HD video along with their demo units so people could see it in action. In fact I despise the entire iTunes top movie/music/trailers options, because not only do they not allow one click buying, but only listing 10 (for iTunes Movies/Music) is silly, give 100. On the trailers, not only should they be in HD only but they should be at least as up to date and detailed in their information as Apple's Quicktime Trailers website. It seems stupid, hopefully this will be addressed in AppleTV software update 1.x at some point soon.
The very best example using content that is free and easy, not requiring conversion, is one of the high-res podcasts available on the iTunes store. I've found two that are excellent:
Please note I'm not vouching for their content (good or bad), they're just good examples of what high-res AppleTV video looks like. They're only 480p, but they still look nice.
Two shows that look great from the iTunes store are Heroes and Battlestar Galactica, although they're not in actual HD resolution the video still looks excellent, and fills the screen nicely (one exception in what I've watched so far, episode 5 of BSG season 3 has weird video lag). I've also converted a few xvid and divx HD clips, took their sweet time converting but the result is of equal quality to the source, looks good on screen.
In terms of video resizing, one thing that would be nice is an option to display things at native resolution, because as you observed it gets ugly when a medium sized clip is blown up to 720p, all the hardware and software scaling tricks in the world only do so much when you're upconverting to that extent. On the other hand, if you have a medium-small HD display then smaller videos might be as bad or worse at their native size then blown up. What would have been good is some type of display control for each video during playback with different size options, but that might have required a more complex remote.
On the black borders, while I think what you said about it is perfectly rational, having worked at a retail chain that primarily sells dvds and cds, I can tell you that a large percentage of consumers irrationally hate them. They don't understand technical issues like resolutions and film aspect, they simply feel like the money they spent on their TV, DVD player, and movie is wasted if the movie only fills 60 percent of the screen. Even when I explained to people that taking a movie shot specifically in widescreen format and putting it in a 4:3 format requires nasty digital cuts and frame cropping, they still want the fullscreen "because my grandma hates those black bars." I suspect this has something to do with Apple's emphasis on videos filling as much of the screen as possible, but I might be wrong.
All of that said, at the rate the crazy, warranty-disregarding hackers over at hackint0sh and http://www.appletvhacks.net are going, they'll be a softmod program that can be loaded on a usb stick to hack in all of the functionality Apple didn't think to add for this first revision. I don't want to crack open my box (though it looks relatively painless) just yet, but once more issues have been worked out and its clear how Apple is going to proceed (will they turn a blind eye or try and break hacks with software updates) I might give it a try.
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Chinese Audience: (massive collective sushh sound)
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Tonight we were treated to the most amazing dinner at an unbelievable spot - La Veranda at Villa Padierna in Marbella. This five-star hotel was once a private chateau - now a world-class hotel which has hosted Michelle and Sasha Obama (last year), Melanie Griffith and other well-known stars, and the list goes on and on. After a gorgeous dinner, we wandered around the formal gardens and salons and took lots of pictures, feeling that we were surely in a different world.
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In all honesty, I started "playing" this out of laziness. The tiring, repetitious journey of thumbing my character to the other side of my television screen, the disorienting cuts of some lame action movie, or the seemingly endless paragraphs of a novel were all too much to handle. I wanted to simply lie back and let some form of media just happen to me. As what seemed to be some sort of minimalist trifecta of each of these mediums but requiring only a fraction of the labour, I figured I'd give the whole visual novel thing a try. And while all Katawa Shoujo asked of me was to scan its tidbits of dialogue and click through its screens without worry of precision or pace, its rewards were wholly disproportionate to the effort involved. I'd even go so far as to call my experience with it – and far this is; I hate myself for retreating to such a vague and cliched descriptor here, but it was – magical.
If you've romanced or been romanced by a girl, frozen up in the presence of that oh-so-unattainable beauty, or named the smokin' blonde in Secret of Mana after your current junior high school crush (Sad? No way!), this experience is going to resonate with you. Reclined across my couch, mouse in hand, I was mercilessly transported back through my many (no) romantic histories. The indescribable highs, the devastating and gut-wrenching lows, Katawa Shoujo's writing nailed the valley-ed nature of navigating through that first romance. And at no point did I feel like my emotions were being elicited cheaply. Due to the somewhat mature and more serious themes at work here there is simply no need to employ melodrama as a story device, and each character is so well-realized and singular their actions always feel like their own rather than forced upon them by some unseen, pencil-wielding divinity. In fact, the entire experience seemed very organic to me. Going in, I expected that at one point I would be overtly choosing which potential partner would be mine, and after gradually meeting them all I knew whose name it was that I would eventually click. But that point never came. Then halfway through the story, I realized it had already happened – somehow my inner desires had unconsciously come to fruition on the screen in front of me, and without the use of some jarring and unnatural choice mechanic I was amidst the blossoming of a relationship with my virtual crush. Her name is Emi, and she's awesome.
I'm still not sure how I feel about becoming so attached to a virtual character, but there was something that just felt right in slowly chipping away at Emi's armour of unrelenting cheerfulness and getting to her core, to the real Emi Ibarazaki. With each step in our relationship a new Emi stood (there's a joke here) in front of me, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse, but always affecting me on a real-life level. After we almost broke up, I paused the story out of some ineffable mix of emotions and went away to play Xenoblade. I hunted a few beasts, grabbed some blue orbs, but I just couldn't get into it, not at a time like this. Fifteen minutes later I was back to Emi, to see if we couldn't work things through. Upper hand? What?
After seeing how intricately this courtship unfolded, I'm extremely interested to go about the other girls' storylines. I'm just not sure if I can do that to Emi... Not yet. My usual timeframe for getting over a girl is a month or two, at least, so I guess I'll see you then, Hanako.


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Georgia Track & Field Travels To The Bluegrass State For SECs
May 14, 2014
SEC Championships - Heat Sheets
ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia's track and field teams have reached the postseason portion of their season as the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships begin on Thursday and run through Sunday in Lexington, Ky.
The fifth-ranked Lady Bulldogs and seventh-ranked Georgia men join the rest of the league's teams at Kentucky's two and a half year old facility. A nation-leading 17 SEC men and women's teams are ranked in the latest U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) top-25 polls.
Freshman Kendell Williams and junior Quintunya Chapman start the meet for Georgia in the first event of the heptathlon at noon on Thursday. Junior Garrett Scantling and sophomore Maicel Uibo begin the Bulldog men's competition in the decathlon's opening event at 12:30 p.m. on that same day.
Senior Elizabeth Tepe and freshman Asianna Covington are slated to compete in the meet's first open event, the women's hammer throw, at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Tepe is the defending champion in the event.
Live coverage of the meet will air on ESPN3.com on Saturday and Sunday. The coverage will air from 3:40 p.m.-6:50 p.m. on Saturday and 1:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m. on Sunday, including the trophy presentations. ESPNU will air the SEC Championships as part of a two-hour show on ESPNU on Thursday, May 22, beginning at 8 p.m. The broadcast talent includes Dwight Stones (play-by-play), Larry Rawson (analyst) and Lewis Johnson (reporter).
"This time of the year, everyone is focused on what is going to happen next," said Bulldog head coach Wayne Norton. "There is no let's make some small progress here and see how it turns out at the end. Well, this is the end. Everyone is focused on what we are going to do right now. It is not even about the pressure of the meet or anything like that. It's more about now we're here and let's focus on getting the job done that we have been working so hard on all these months."
The Georgia women are coming off a third-place finish at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships. They have three competitors who have the best marks in the SEC this year in their respective events in senior Megan Malasarte (800-meter run), sophomore Leontia Kalllenou (high jump) and Williams (heptathlon).
The Lady Bulldogs also have four individuals who are ranked second in the conference standings heading into this meet: sophomore Freya Jones (javelin), Chapman (heptathlon), sophomore Chanice Porter (long jump) and Tepe (hammer throw). In addition, Williams is also No. 2 on the high jump list after clearing 6 feet during the Bulldog Heptathlon.
"The women's team is young, but they are talented and they are focused," Norton said. "We expect a very good showing from the Lady Bulldogs. We have a young team, but an accomplished team who has experience internationally and from World Junior meets and those kinds of things. With the state of the SEC, you have to have highly ranked individuals to have an effect on that team score and that's exactly what we have."
The Bulldog men are also ranked 1-2 in the multi-events as Scantling (81,69 points) and Uibo (8,123) are at the top of the league list. The rest of Georgia's potential SEC scorers are spread out among the sprinters, throwers, distance runners and jumpers, who have all surged to personal-best or near personal-best levels in the last month.
This meet opens the postseason for Georgia. After SECs, the Bulldogs travel to Jacksonville, Fla., for the NCAA East Regionals on May 29-31 and then those who qualify will go to Eugene, Ore., for the NCAA Championships on June 11-14.
"The good thing about both teams is that we haven't had much of a drop-off," said Norton. "Once they got to a certain level, they were able to stay there. The men have leveled off, but if they keep those performances during the next three meets that we have, we will be very excited and satisfied with the results."
Georgia enters this meet having won four out of five SEC weekly awards following last weekend's Georgia Invitational in Athens. These honors came after the Bulldogs recorded 12 wins, a national-leading mark in the women's high jump and a school record for the Lady Bulldogs.
Williams was named the SEC Women's Runner of the Week and the Freshman of the Week after setting a school record in the 100 hurdles with a 13.06. Kallenou garnered SEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week honors after surging to the top of the national performance list with a clearance of 6 feet, 3 ¼ inches to win the high jump.
On the men's side, true freshman Alex Poursanidis was awarded the SEC Men's Freshman of the Week honor after winning the hammer throw with the second-best mark of his career.
Last year, Georgia finished fifth at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Columbia, Mo. The Bulldogs had a combined five conference individual champions as Tepe (hammer), junior Morgann Leleux (pole vault), junior Carly Hamilton (1500), Uibo (decathlon) and Saniel Atkinson-Grier (high jump) all finished first. Tepe, Hamilton and Uibo will be defending their titles in Lexington. Leleux is redshirting this season and Atkinson-Grier has graduated.
Results and recaps from the SEC Championships will be located at georgiadogs.com. Updates about all Bulldog track and field news can be found on Twitter at @UGA_XCTF.
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Kyoto looks so lovely and clean and full of smiling people.Not sure about the green tea icecream!! very jealous of your lovely hot waether - stil cold and rainy here - does it ever stop raining!!! i needd a week of no rain to get my roof fixed - indoor water feature turning into an indoor waterfall!!
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In the searing heat of the day we wandered around and came out at a flagstone-paved shopping street which has such different small shops with any kind of tourist thingy you would want including antiques, ceramics, art etc and at the top of the road we came across a stairway up to the Yasaka-jinia Shrine which is so interesting
From there we crossed the road and followed a stone walkway passed hundreds of traditional Japanese buildings filled with restaurants. At each intersection even if it was a narrow street, there was a points-man on duty showing the tourist when to cross and really controlling the the flow of traffic and people. This road led us to the Kennenji Temple. This is Japan's oldest Zen temple, has huge halls and sand and moss gardens.
The stone road then went uphill and we came out at a really touristy but beautiful streets of restored buildings with stairs at the end called Ninen-Zaka Path ("two-year-slope") leading to more streets of traditional buildings and a another "stepped street" called Sannen-Zaka ("three-year-slope"), which also had shops. Both areas are gorgeous with such a lovely vibe and there are people everywhere! We had to be wide awake because legend has it that slipping & falling over on these streets brings three or two years' bad luck respectively.
We came across lots of Geishas through the day and Al enjoyed having his photo taken with a few of them. This place is amazing and so different to Tokyo! It's much more colourful and quaint and we are just loving walking around and exploring all the touristy areas of Gion but then also taking quiet streets into real residential areas and seeing the lives of these friendly, lovely people
Geisha (芸者) are traditional Japanese female entertainers who act as hostesses and whose skills were a combination of actress and prostitute. The geisha worked within pleasure quarters & were essentially imprisoned. By 1800, being a geisha was considered a female occupation and by the 1830s, the evolving geisha style was emulated by fashionable women throughout Japanese society with different classifications and ranks of geisha. Some women would have sex with their male customers, whereas others would entertain strictly with their art forms. After Japan lost the war, geisha dispersed and the profession was in shambles. In the 1960s during Japan's post war economic boom, the geisha world changed and in modern Japan, girls are not sold into indentured service and a geisha's sex life is her private affair
We then walked on and found this interesting looking restaurant for dinner. Oh my heavens alive did we choose well!, We have just had the best dinner since we left home and that's saying something as we have had some amazing meals! We had fried Kushikatsu, which is 8 skewers of a mixture of tempura jalape�o, beef, chicken, prawn, eggplant and a mozzarella cheese ball and mussels and then grilled Yakitori which had 6 skewers of chicken. Each skewer was different! One was the skin, one the livers, one minced, one was breast, one was a chicken ball and 2 were just pieces of chicken all grilled on a gas grill in front of us. We also ordered a skewer of mushrooms, one of onions, one of tempura pork and another one of cheese & eggplant. You get all of this with a bowl of dipping teriyaki sauce and a bowl of fresh cabbage leaves and you dip everything into the sauce and eat it. It's really the most amazing mix of flavours we have ever had! The cook reminded us so of Paddy Smuts! He was a delightful, cheery full of fun, boisterous guy that had us laughing all through dinner!
We are now exhausted and in bed with very sore feet.
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Kyoto looks so lovely and clean and full of smiling people.Not sure about the green tea icecream!! very jealous of your lovely hot waether - stil cold and rainy here - does it ever stop raining!!! i needd a week of no rain to get my roof fixed - indoor water feature turning into an indoor waterfall!!


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Genre Lesson: Biography/Autobiography
Lesson Plan
The Story of Jackie Robinson: Bravest Man in Baseball | 760L
- Learning Goal
- Distinguish biography and autobiography using a story's point of view.
- Duration
- Approximately 2 Days (40 minutes for each class)
- Necessary Materials
Provided: Ice Queen: Biography or Autobiography? Handout, For the Love of Animals: Autobiography or Biography? Handout, Jackie Robinson: Biography or Autobiography? Worksheet (Student Packet, page 2)
Not Provided: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Bravest Man in Baseball by Margaret Davidson
Activation & Motivation
Play "Three Times the Charm." First, tell students a brief story about your morning. For example, "Today I rolled out of bed and walked into the bathroom. When I turned on the light, I noticed that my toothbrush was missing. I looked high and low, but it was nowhere to be found. Finally, I found it in the trash." Next, ask for a student volunteer to retell what happened in the story to the teacher. Say: Tell me what happened to me this morning. Have the student turn and face you at the front of the classroom and tell you what you did that morning. The student should say, "You rolled out of bed and walked into the bathroom. When you turned on the light . . . " Finally, have a volunteer student retell the story to the class.
Explain that even though the story is the same, it is being told from three different points of view: First Person Point of View (the teacher), Second Person Point of View (a person speaking to the teacher), and Third Person Point of View (a student telling the story as if the teacher isn't in the room).
Teacher Modeling
will explain that, just like we told the story about my missing toothbrush from three different points of view (first, second, and third), stories that we read in books are told from different points of view. In fact, different genres, or types of stories, sometimes have specific points of view.
For our unit, we are going to read from the nonfiction genres autobiography and biography. I will write these genres on chart paper or the board. Both types of texts have something important in common. They tell us the story of someone's real life. I will write "Bio" on chart paper or the board and explain that "bio" means "life" in ancient Greek. I will circle "bio" in both autobiography and biography.
How can a reader distinguish between these two types of texts about someone's real life? It is important to note that an autobiography is told from a first person point of view. "Auto" means "I" or "Self". Biography, on the other hand is told from a third person point of view. It is told about a real person who is not the author.
To distinguish an autobiography from a biography, good readers ask themselves who is the story about and who is telling the story? Point of view clue words can be used to determine who is telling the story (such as "I," "We," "My," and "Me" for first person, or "He" and "She" when speaking about the main character for third person). If the main character of the life story is the same person who is telling the story, then the story is an autobiography. If the main character is different from the storyteller, then the story is a biography.
I will read aloud two short excerpts and figure out if each excerpt is an autobiography or a biography. I will distribute the passages so students can read along. Note: See Ice Queen: Biography or Autobiography? Handout.
First, I will identify the main character of the story in Excerpt 1. I know from the title and from the text of the story that Maria is the main character. Next, I will look for point of view clue words. For example, in Excerpt 1, the author says, "But something inside Maria made her determined to see the world. . ." The author refers to the main character as Maria (rather than "me") and calls Maria "her." The storyteller and the main character are not the same person, so I conclude that Excerpt 1 is written in third person. It is therefore a biography. In the second excerpt, I notice that the sentence, "I was surprised to hear that Aunt Aileen had discovered my wintery secret," includes the clue words "I" and "my" which indicate that the point of view is first person. Maria is speaking, so Excerpt 2 must be an autobiography.
Think Check
Ask: "How did I distinguish between an autobiography and a biography?" Students should answer that you identified who the story is about and who is telling the story. You looked for clue words related to first and third person point of view. You also looked for clues that show the story is about the writer of the story or someone else.
Guided Practice
will read two short excerpts about the life of Devon Johnson. Each excerpt is either an autobiography or biography. (See For the Love of Animals: Autobiography or Biography? Handout.) To figure out if each excerpt is an autobiography or biography, we will first ask, "Who is our main character? Who is this story about?" We can determine from the title and from clues in the text that the main character is Devon Johnson.
Next, we will use clue words to identify the point of view. We will specifically look at a sentence in Excerpt 1, "I did not laugh with them. I understood that dog. I knew what it was like to struggle on these streets." We will conclude from the use of "I" that the author is speaking in first person, and that the author is Devon Johnson. We will conclude that Excerpt 1 is an autobiography.
In Excerpt 2, we will examine the sentence, "Devon had a hard time hiding the rescue dogs from his family. . ." We will note the clue word in this sentence, "his" and that someone else is describing the main character Devon. We will conclude that Excerpt 2 is a biography.
Independent Practice
will be reading a book about someone who really existed, but you will need to figure out whether the book is an autobiography or a biography. You will receive a Student Packet to complete while you read your book. You will start by determining the genre of your book by completing the Jackie Robinson: Biography or Autobiography? Worksheet in your Student Packet. (See page 2 in the Student Packet.) First, you will identify the main character that the book is mostly about. Then, you will determine the point of view using clue words. Finally, you will classify the genre of the text as either autobiography or biography.
Reflective Practice
will come together to share whether the text is a biography or autobiography and how we figured this out. We will share our excerpts and explanations. In preparation for the next lesson, we will discuss why an author might choose to write about someone's life. Ask: "What can the life of a person show the reader?" We also might discuss how a person's life might be told differently in an autobiography versus a biography. For example, how does the perspective of the story affect the story itself?
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Storm puts spotlight on transit investments
Getting around is getting tough.
And it could get a lot tougher if flood-damaged tunnels and mass transit systems aren't fully restored by the start of next week, when more people return to work and kids go back to school.
The havoc wrought by Sandy brought into sharp focus the region's dependency on road and rail systems that, even under normal circumstances, often seem overburdened. But it also ignited a broader discussion Thursday about whether long-term, and potentially expensive, measures should be taken to protect the system and coastal areas from the kind of powerful storms that have slammed the region with more frequency in recent years.
"We're going to have to roll up our sleeves and consider making investments we haven't been willing to make before," said Robert D. Yaro, president of the Regional Plan Association. "If we assume this is a one-off event, we might be very surprised if we rebuild and repair and this happens again in two or three years."
The potential long-term solutions vary: tidal gates and barriers to prevent storm surges, enclosures around transit stations and tunnels to seal out water, and more transit systems to lessen impact if any one of them is down. It would likely take a big financial commitment from the federal government and backing from regional political leaders, he said.
In the short-term, he said, "people are going to have to get used to taking buses because the roadways simply were not designed to handle the traffic we have."
Kate Garnica, of Rutherford, experienced that first hand Thursday morning. She and a friend sat in traffic waiting to cross the George Washington Bridge for two hours, burning precious gasoline, before turning around.
"We decided it wasn't worth trying to get into the city," said Garnica, a chef who was trying to get to her restaurant at Chelsea Piers to cleanup from the storm.
Morning, rush-hour trips across the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel took three times as long as normal Thursday, according to traffic data analyzed by the company INRIX. And some commuters said they sat in traffic for over five hours.
One possible reason for the backup at the bridge: New York City police mistakenly imposed a ban on cars with less than three passengers at the George Washington Bridge, even though it was supposed to be exempt from the city restriction.
When asked about the error, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a reporter on Thursday: "I don't know how to break this to you: we are all in this together, we are desperately trying to help everybody.
"If we had some people in the wrong place, it'll hopefully be better tomorrow," he said.
Friday may be the last day for the high-occupancy restriction, he said, but added that he was "not confident the underwater tunnels will be back by Monday."
There was still no indication Thursday of how long it would take to fully reopen flooded tunnels that carry hundreds of thousands of people, on trains and in cars, under the Hudson River each day. One tube of the Holland Tunnel will be open for buses only on Friday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. NJ Transit announced just before midnight Thursday that limited train service between New Jersey and Manhattan would resume Friday morning on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines, following up on an earlier announcement that limited service within New Jersey also would resume. PATH service, however, remained suspended indefinitely.
A spokesman for NJ Transit, which resumed 80 percent of its bus service Thursday, said that agency buses saw only about half of their normal passenger load. Bus trips into New York on Thursday averaged about 30 minutes, said spokesman John Durso Jr., but some lasted well over an hour.
That's a breeze compared to what Jennifer Libroia Lavender, 41, of Metuchen, went through.
She car-pooled to midtown Manhattan on Thursday morning. She left her home at 6:20 a.m. She got through the Lincoln Tunnel five-and-a-half hours later.
"It was just awful," she said.
She blamed the city's high-occupancy restriction, imposed on Lincoln Tunnel and East River crossings.
"There was a checkpoint right before the tunnel," she said. "And they made six lanes of traffic funnel down into one. It was like you were in a parking lot."
After the checkpoint, she said, the tunnel was nearly empty. She plans on taking a vacation day on Friday, she said.
"I strongly urge people not to take cars into Manhattan," Bloomberg said. "If you have any other option, including walking across the bridge, take it. It would probably be faster than taking your car."
Judith De La Rosa of Teaneck, a guidance counselor in the New York City School District who normally drives to work, said she was asked to return to work on Friday.
"But [the city] is asking us to have three people per car," she said. "I don't have three people that I can take over the bridge. That's insane. And people can't find gas to get to work."
De La Rosa said her students are all at home, leaving her no child to counsel.
"I had to go on a 45-minute drive to get gas. For me to go into the city, now I have to find a parking spot, then go spend gas to sit at my desk."
Marianne Sulling, of Rutherford, said she has stayed close to home during the past few days, walking wherever she can to save gas; she'll do anything she can to avoid the lines that in some cases stretch back for miles from fueling stations, she said.
"It's been crazy – traffic is crazy," Sulling said, shaking her head as cars lurched and horns blared on Park Avenue in downtown Rutherford.
Sulling returned to work Thursday at the public library and she walked to a nearby Dunkin Doughnuts for lunch. "If I don't have to waste gas getting home for lunch, I won't," she said.
The thought of trying to cross the George Washington Bridge right now is laughable, said Maryellen Kein, of Rutherford, whose 91-year-old mother lives in Queens. Luckily, Kein's brother lives there too, Kein said, which saves her from having to make a very long trip.
"I wouldn't attempt to cross the George Washington Bridge," Kein said. "I'd be on there for years.".
After being cooped up in his apartment for three days in North Arlington, Greg Espinosa said he was "urban hiking" around Rutherford and other nearby towns on Thursday.
Espinosa said he had hoped to go hiking on Thursday, but the trains weren't running. So instead, he decided to bounce around North Jersey by bus.
"I know the buses are screwed up," said Espinosa. "It's bad – the worst I've ever seen.
Espinosa said NJ Transit has done a good job of providing information about bus schedules on its web site; he said that's how he wound up catching the 76 bus from North Arlington to Rutherford Thursday morning.
NJ Transit announced Wednesday evening that parts of three rail lines that run between Newark and points in southern and western New Jersey would be restored this morning. There was no word on the three NJ Transit rail lines — the Bergen, Main and Pascack Valley — that run through North Jersey and feed the Hoboken Terminal, where passengers can get the PATH or a ferry to New York City. More than 297,000 passengers use NJ Transit's rail service each day on average—165,000 of them taking trips into New York.
Over 250,000 passengers take the Port Authority's PATH train between Manhattan and New Jersey. The Port Authority did not provide any timeline on possible resumption of service, but Governor Christie previously said it could be the middle of next week or longer.
Paul Villanueva, of Lyndhurst, said it was pure luck that he was on vacation this week and didn't have to worry about commuting into New York City. Friends who commute in have had to carpool, he said, but Villanueva said he hopes the PATH Trains will start running by the time he has to return to work next week. His optimism is waning, though.
"I've heard they're not running anytime soon," he said. "Hopefully transit is running next week. If not, I'll catch the bus."
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Tata Communications has emerged from its role as an incumbent Indian service provider to become a globally recognized provider of network connectivity services such as MPLS, Ethernet and IP transit as well as managed hosting in data centers, voice, data, and video.
It was also rated as a strong performer in the Forrester Wave on Managed Global MPLS Q1 2013- a rather impressive showing for a service provider that only just joined this year's edition of the MPLS Wave report.
More importantly, it has started to become relevant to enterprise network connectivity buyers across Asia Pacific, which is detailed in my report, "Tata Communications Emerges As A Leading Connectivity Provider In Asia Pacific".
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Posted by Clement Teo on July 18, 2013
Google is officially serious about the enterprise space. I met with Google Enterprise execs hosting their very first analyst day in Singapore recently, and was introduced to their enterprise suite of services, which was, unsurprisingly, similar to their consumer suite of services.
However, while they took their starting point from the consumer end, providing enterprise-ready solutions requires a different level of product calibration. To that end, Google cites spending of approximately US$3 billion annually on building/improving its data center infrastructure, investing in undersea cable systems, and laying fiber networks in the US specifically. In Asia Pacific (AP) last year, they spent approximately US$700 million building three data centers in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
In addition to infrastructure investments, Google has also acquired companies like Quickoffice to enhance their appeal to enterprises weaned on Microsoft Office, while also expanding existing offerings in areas like communications and collaboration (Gmail, Google Plus), contextualized services (Maps, Compute Engine, Big Query), access devices (Nexus range, Chromebook), application development (App Engine) and discovery and archiving (Search, Vault).
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I attended my fifth Cisco Worldwide Partner Summit in Boston the first week of June. As always, the first day's keynote presentation by John Chambers was impressive and covered market transitions, opportunities, future big bets, and how Cisco can work better with its partners. John also stressed the need for partners to embrace change and move to a new business model.
Building on this presentation, Cisco made three key announcements at its partner summit, which I'm highlighting below because I believe they are especially important for partners that operate in Asia Pacific (AP) markets:
Posted by Andrew Bartels on July 14, 2013
At the half mark through 2013, both the global and the European tech markets have pockets of strength and other pockets of weakness, both by product and by geography. Forrester's mid-2013 global tech market update (July 12, 2013, "A Mixed Outlook For The Global Tech Market In 2013 And 2014 –The US Market And Software Buying Will Be The Drivers Of 2.3% Growth This Year And 5.4% Growth Next Year") shows the US market for business and government purchases of information technology goods and services doing relatively well, along with tech markets in Latin America and Eastern Europe/Middle East/Africa and parts of Asia Pacific. However, the tech market in Western and Central Europe will post negative growth and those in Japan, Canada, Australia, and India will grow at a moderate pace. Measured in US dollars, growth will be subdued at 2.3% in 2013, thanks to the strong dollar, and revenues of US tech vendors will suffer as a result. However, in local currency terms, growth will more respectable, at 4.6%. Software -- especially for analytical and collaborative applications and for software-as-a-service products -- continue to be a bright spot, with 3.3% dollar growth and 5.7% in local currency-terms. Apart from enterprise purchases of tablets, hardware -- both computer equipment and communications equipment -- will be weak. IT services will be mixed, with slightly stronger demand for IT consulting and systems integration services than for IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance.


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She is the one with brown hair, wearing jeans and a pink and white tie-dyed shirt, skipping in a circle with another girl by the water. It's near the end of the clip and she's on the right side of the video.
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If James Gavet lived up to the hope and hype Canterbury held for the powerful prop when they lured him across the Tasman in 2012, it is possible Andrew Fifita might not have been signed by the Bulldogs to a deal that will earn him $3.2 million over four years.
Gavet, now at the Wests Tigers, was considered a human wrecking ball when he was recruited from New Zealand feeder team the Auckland Vulcans but he conceded "old habits" and "personal issues back home" ruined his time at Belmore.
Yet, hopes remained high Gavet could fulfil his promise this season, something the 24-year-old's profile in the NRL's media guide noted: "a ball-playing prop with loads of potential, hopefully to be realised in 2014."
While Gavet shrugged his shoulders when it was mentioned he could perhaps have cemented the spot Fifita was recruited from Cronulla to bolster had he shown more application, he insisted he had planned to make his mark on the premiershp with Wests.
"Injuries worked against me at the time and there were a few other variables in my life that didn't help," was how Gavet summed up his frustrations at Canterbury. "I wasn't as ready as I am now.
"I've found my feet at Wests Tigers, I'm loving my footy and the off-field stuff has cleared up. I feel as though I'm in a very good place right now. There is a good vibe at the Wests Tigers, everyone is trying to better each other even after last weekend [the loss to St George Illawarra]. I left nothing on the field . . . my aim is to get a starting spot. I love this club, they have been very welcoming of me and I want to stay . . . want to make this home."
Gavet, whose 19-year-old brother, Lokeni, joined the club, had definitely made the Wests Tigers gymnasium his kingdom, with insiders revealing he could bench press a massive 170 kilograms for three repetitions, a good 10kg more than the next best, Martin Taupau – yet another former Bulldog in the black, white and gold.
While Gavet – who will wear the No.17 jumper on a six-man Wests Tigers bench – hoped to be injected into Sunday's match against the Gold Coast, he said it was time to inject that power he possessed into the field.


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Offering a children's playground and hot tub, Fern Lodge is situated in Accra in the Greater Accra Region, 0.7 miles from Church. The accommodation is air conditioned and features a hot tub. Nigerian High Commission Head Quarters is 1.9 miles away. Free WiFi is offered throughout the property. Some units feature a terrace and/or balcony with garden views. Free private parking is also available on site. Towels are available. Fern Lodge also includes a terrace. Guests can enjoy the on-site bar and restaurant. The property also offers packed lunches. Car hire is available at the property and the area is popular for cycling. Disco is 2.1 miles from Fern Lodge, while Big Tree is 2.2 miles from the property. The nearest airport is Kotoka Airport, 4.3 miles from Fern Lodge.


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The skies over Europe are a dangerous place, where ace pilots lead their squadrons to glorious victory or crushing defeat! Take control of dozens of the most famous fighter planes of WWI and head into the dogfight. Roll, slip, and loop to get the drop on enemy aces. Upgrade your fighters over the course of your campaign and promote your best pilots so they learn new skills to give them an edge in battle. Can you change the tide of the war? Or will you go down in flames to an enemy ace?
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Advance from Aviator to Ace in over 180 missions using 30 authentic aircraft
Earn promotions, equipment upgrades and advanced maneuvers like rolls, loops and slips
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Historically accurate planes, but watch out! If you play on intergrated graphics it will speed up the fan and get quite toasty. Runs well otherwise, and Windows 8 works the best surprisingly. My only downside is that if an enemy is behind you, you cannot, and I repeat, CANNOT escape him unless your other guy shoots him down. Deadlock basically :| But fun and easy to beat, that rarely happens anyway
It is not a 4X grand startegy as some people might had thought, for some myterious reason. If you can look past that "fault", it is a nice little tactical TBS game. Nothing too fancy, with maybe a little rough difficulty curve, especially with the – true to the fact – imbalance of different era planes. My biggest problem was the very few pre-rendered manouver animations that sometimes doesn't fit the needed angle of attack so it looks like WWI planes firing in Star Trek like arches. That was a little painfull to watch and maybe the main reason why i tried just one nation. Also the achievements are totally garbages lacking any ideas. Still, picking this up for a euro or two well worth it, not for the name but for the fun little game.
Ace Patrol is a decent strategy game. It's turn-based but with a twist. Your airplanes (the units) are affected by momentum and can only move certain ways. Your pilots then learn special moves to make them move certain ways. This is a nice unique feature because it is different from other games. However this feature is also the games biggest flaw. Due to the fact that you can not see where you can move in the next turn and when you can attack it can get hard to plan ahead. It's not an issue in most cases however sometimes it is annoying because you were wrong. Additionally i would have loved to have more units on each stage. But it is still fun. I recommend this game. You haven't lost much if you don't like it. m0rogfar
This is a really fun turn based strategy flight-based game. With that being said, if you are familiar with other Sid Meier games, specifically the Civilization series, it is like that... for airplanes! It's a really cool concept that is fairly easy to grasp and get into without much hassle. The mechanics are fairly simple and intuitive allowing one to jump in and start playing with not much of a learning curve required. The graphics are a little bit "cartoony" and can seem a little bit outdated but still do a great job for what is required. Seeing as how it is a turn based game, and not a flight simulator, the finer environmental details don't seem as important anyhow. Overall it's a fun and simple twist on the turn based strategy genre and will keep you entertained! Definitely worth the price tag, especially if you pick it up on sale when it usually drops pretty low.
Well, I should start by saying that this is a Sid Meier game( yeah the same guy who created the Civilizations series of epic turn-based strategy games). So yeah, I started playing it with high expectations and soon found out that it was not nearly as good as I though it would be. The graphics are quite outdated and unsuitable for a TBS game and the gameplay feels unpolished, with a UI that lacks important elements. Now, the idea behind this game was great and I personally enjoyed playing a few games, but it gets dull quickly and it doesn't have the same replay value as Civilizations V for example. I would still recommend this game for any TBS fans as it is not that bad and it has a very low price( and Steam trading cards)
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This college town is isolated (four hours from Seattle), but it has a buzzing culinary scene. You can sip world-class Cabernets and learn to make them at College Cellars, a teaching winery.
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Author: Abigail Daker
Her work, created using both hand-drawn and digital techniques, is influenced by fashion, cinema, literature, landscapes and old maps. Abi regularly does book illustrations, and works for a range of editorial and advertising clients.
Fashion illustration is often done to very tight deadlines and the artist can be required to work from life, with very little time in which to detail the figure and his or her surroundings fully.
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Here, Abi Daker shows how to balance a fashion composition while working at a snappy pace. You'll place the figure on a grid of thirds to help you loosen up a bit with the sketching, and learn how to design a background that can be quickly and easily coloured. She also shows you how to colour around a complex hand-drawn shape and how to edit the drawing in preparation for colouring.
The techniques here are especially pertinent to fashion illustration, but they can be used with any subject matter and will help anyone wanting to work on a hand sketch in the digital realm.
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Great value from Walmart. Have only had it for a week, so I'm still forming my opinion. Picture quality is pretty good. My hope is that the quality of the pictures will improve as my skills using the camera improve. Disappointed when I found it doesn't download pictures to my computer the way it is supposed to; found an alternate way through a Nikon product forum.
The Nikon Coolpix S6300 package was disappointing. The quality of the camera housing is made out of a cheap plastic material and I was expecting a strong housing like my Nikon Coolpix S210. The S6300 is also larger than the S210. I wanted a camera that easily fits into my pants front pocket and the S6300 is not a comfortable fit. I thought the S6300 kit would include a battery charger. Well, a charger is included but you can not use the camera while the battery is being charged. This is not acceptable to me since I want access to my camera all the time. I suppose it is possible to purchase a separate battery charger but doing so means spending more money. I was so disappointed in the product that no pictures or videos were taken, so I can not comment on the quality of the images or movies. Hopefully in the future Nikon will not cut quality for the sake of trying to keep its products cost competitive.
I have another camera, and it takes lovely pictures, but it's huge, and doesn't fit in my purse. So, I bought this one, so I could carry it with me everywhere and always have a camera on hand. It's a good basic camera. It's very easy to use and takes clear pictures. Some of the functions are a little slow to respond, but for the price and quality, I can't complain. A good value for what you pay.
Just what I needed at a great price.
I've only had this camera for about 2 weeks, but I like it so far. It has a bunch of scene options to choose from and is very user friendly. I used it at Lion Country Safari and it took excellent close up photos of the animals...even through my car window! I had a Canon that was similar to this and the photo quality was terrible and it was not easy to use. I returned it back to Walmart and got this. I am very happy with my decision sa far!
200+ photos he brought back from his trip to a Denver ski resort look much better than his iphone on auto because his parents want those photos. Well, I have to ask his girlfriend for other results because he gave it to her after his trip. Minus one star because he did not keep his camera.
Just got this camera about a week ago and so far it seems to be going good. As if right now the only thing that I can say is that is does have a really good zoom.
the camera arrived in a very timely manner.customer service vry friendly & helpful..very pleased with the camera..thank you
This camera takes great pictures and is super easy to use. Compact, light weight and a rechargeable battery. Good deal.
Great picture and video quality! Worth every dollar!! Girlfriend loves it.
I just love this camera! It's nice and compact and takes great pictures!!
Great camera. Sleek looking and user friendly.
Easy to use and it takes great pictures.