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Anissa Camp has a screwdriver stuck in her head and an arrow in the right side of her stomach, protruding from a filthy, rotting shirt. Her face is a sickly greenish-gray.
Thankfully, it's not just another day in the zombie apocalypse for Camp — a bird keeper who works with penguins at the Fort Worth Zoo, a fossil hunter volunteering at the Arlington Archosaur Site and an amateur photographer.
But on one May Friday afternoon in Irving, she is a zombie. Or at least a pretty convincing replication of one. (Camp made that shirt undead-ready by staining it with coffee and putting it in the washing machine too many times, to give it that rotting-zombie look.)
Camp says she has long considered herself a geek, but she has only been attending cons within the past year, including the Texas Frightmare Weekend that preceded Dallas Comic Con by a couple of weeks.
"I like to come to cons and stuff, and dress up," says Camp, who has attended Dallas Comic Con's sister conventions, Fan Days and Sci-Fi Expo. "It's fun. People take pictures. I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead, so I like to dress like a zombie."
Judging from the crowds of costume-clad fans walking by, Camp isn't the only one letting her geek flag fly a little higher. And this was only the first day of Dallas Comic Con, a three-day pop-culture fest that took place at the Irving Convention Center in May.
By midday Saturday, crowds were such that some people had to wait an hour in line for parking. The humanity jam inside the convention center — as people tried to get into an exhibits hall filled with merchandise booths or to Q&A sessions with Star Trek's LeVar Burton or Superman Returns' Brandon Routh, and other actors and artists — was almost as hard to navigate.
Clearly, cons have come a long way since William Shatner — who was a big draw at this year's Dallas Comic Con — yelled "Get a life!" at trivia-obsessed Trekkies in a famous 1986 Saturday Night Live sketch. Once heavily mined as a source of embarrassment, geek culture has evolved into something that once only flirted with the mainstream but now verges on downright cool, thanks to superhero movies, geeky TV shows, social media and even the business world. After all, you can't get much geekier than Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the late Steve Jobs.
And if you haven't noticed, DFW has been moving along with the geek curve, faster than a speeding bullet: Not only is Dallas Comic Con gaining a reputation as one of the top five comic cons in the country, but the area has become a burgeoning cradle of fan conventions.
If you have a geek taste, there's probably a con for it. The same weekend as Dallas Comic Con, a group of Fort Worth-based board-game fans held Texicon, a board-game convention in Sundance Square. A couple of weeks later, A-Kon, an anime convention, drew crowds to the Hilton Anatole Dallas. And consider these upcoming cons (click here for our mini-schedule):
• Quakecon 2013 (a video-game convention)
• Starfleet International (a Star Trek convention)
• Fan Days
• FenCon (science-fiction/fantasy convention)
• The Vampire Diaries Official Convention
• WhoFest, a 50th-anniversary of Doctor Who
• Costumers' Lost Weekend, a small convention presented by the Dallas-Fort Worth Costumers Guild.
That's a whole lot of geeks.
The wrath of cons
Fan cons have existed in North Texas since at least the early '70s, but within the past few years, the amount of people attending them has been growing. Mark Walters, co-founder of Dallas Comic Con, says that the first DCC (in 2002) attracted about 5,000. That was an upgrade from other cons he'd worked on, which drew as few as 2,000 people (Buddy Saunders, who founded Arlington-based Lone Star Comics in 1977, remembers comic-book shows in the '70s that drew as few as 35 people).
Dallas Comic Con spent several years at locations in Plano and Richardson. Then Irving began courting DCC, and the convention moved to the Irving Convention Center — closer to the center of DFW and more convenient to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport for out-of-town guests — in May 2011. And things changed rapidly.
"All of a sudden, the audience tripled to having 12,000 or more," Walters says. "Then [in] May 2012, we had 22,000, and this year it was 25,000. We are having to look at our options, because we think in a few years, we will outgrow this [venue]. It's an interesting problem to have."
Click here for more on DCC co-founder Mark Walters.
Where are all the new comic-book and sci-fi fans coming from? Or are the mainstream media just noticing them more?
"It's a combination of both," says Walters, 38. "Everybody's to some extent a geek. Everybody has the one thing they're into that's a little bit weird and odd. It's become more socially acceptable. When I was in high school, it wasn't that accepted to be into anime or collecting comic books. Now, girls have anime backpacks and guys are trading comic books in school."
Scott Hinze — who has hosted Fanboy Radio, a comic-book/pop-culture show on KTCU/88.7 FM, for more than 10 years — says that he thinks the recession has something to do with the increase in fan culture.
"Escapism has definitely been on the rise," Hinze says. "People have a whole lot of avenues to do it through, and because of those avenues, there has been more specification of geekdom. [If] you want to get caught up on who the heck Thanos is at the end of The Avengers, you need to buy nothing. You don't need [the Avengers comics]; you can check Wikipedia and now you're an expert."
Hinze says the currency of geekdom has switched from knowledge to passion, and there's plenty of passion to go around. The Walking Dead TV series, based on a series of graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, is the highest-rated show on AMC, and the show leads newbies to Kirkman's books. Doctor Who, a staple of BBC America's "Supernatural Saturdays," is more popular than ever — and this is an ever-evolving show that began its life in 1963. Even the five major broadcast networks usually have at least one science-fiction- or comic-book-inspired show in their lineups, with series such as Fox's recently concluded Fringe inspiring ardent followings.
Of course, feature films have been mining geek culture for decades — this weekend's Man of Steel is the latest of many go-rounds at a Superman franchise, and this summer has also seen hit "Star Trek" and "Iron Man" sequels, with the graphic-novel-based zombie thriller World War Z coming up.
But it's not a blockbuster that keeps coming up in conversations about the increase in fan culture. It's a sitcom.
The 'Big Bang Theory' effect
" Big Bang Theory has been a gold mine," says Chris Highberg of Area 51, a Grapevine comic/gaming store that had a booth at Dallas Comic Con, where he said his biggest seller was a button featuring the likeness of Sheldon Cooper, the brilliant lead character played by Houstonian Jim Parsons. Sheldon isn't so much socially awkward as someone who doesn't understand social rules and why people follow them, choosing instead to invent his own. "Anything with Big Bang Theory on it sells," Highberg says. "It's all about Sheldon."
For the uninitiated, CBS's hit show The Big Bang Theory was co-created by Bill Prady, a former computer programmer inspired in part by his smart but often socially inept former colleagues. (One of Prady's favorite anecdotes is about a former co-worker who would get stuck at restaurants while he struggled to come up with a proper tip amount, because of the variables in food and service.)
The show started out as a comedy about four smart but awkward guys and the pretty, average-intelligence woman who lived across the hall from two of them. The show's cast has grown as the male characters acquired wives and girlfriends who can be just as nerdy. OK, almost as nerdy.
It has attracted cameos and guest spots from geek-culture celebrities as varied as physicist Stephen Hawking, comic-book god Stan Lee and actress Summer Glau, who has fanboy cred from her roles in cult shows Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And that list of cons a few paragraphs back? Almost all their topics have been referenced at least once in The Big Bang Theory.
But not all geeks get a bang out of it.
Do a Web search for "Big Bang Theory/geek culture," and you'll find several articles and blog posts filled with backlash over the show's excessive (and sometimes inaccurate) pop-culture references, increased focus on Sheldon during the course of the show's six seasons and the way the men react to the "rare" sighting of a woman in a comic-book store, where these four scientists spend more time than in the lab. The comic-book store owner, a recurring sad-sack character named Stuart, is portrayed as a loser who can't get women and is in such financial straits that he occasionally has to sleep in his store.
Real comic-book store owners, however, say the show has been good for geek culture.
"On television in particular, because it's so accessible to everybody, when a show says something is acceptable and fun, it lets everybody take that as a sign," says Brent Erwin, co-owner of Collected, a recently opened comics/pop-culture store on Blue Bonnet Circle in Fort Worth. "Like, 'I can take my geek side out and let it shine,' because it's become socially acceptable."
Erwin and Collected's other co-owner, Ron Killingsworth, both have a long history of comic-book store ownership, with Erwin having owned stores in Waco and Killingsworth having founded a former Fort Worth chain, Heroes, that lasted from 1984 to 1996.
Both extend friendly greetings to customers entering the store, and their hospitality shows in events such as Cartoons and Cereal, which takes place every third Saturday of the month and is exactly what it sounds like — people watching cartoons and eating Froot Loops and Pop-Tarts. Neither Erwin nor Killingsworth seems anything like the downbeat Stuart or The Simpsons' snobby, slovenly Comic Book Guy.
But Killingsworth says that the Big Bang stereotypes and the comics-store owner stereotypes exist for a reason.
"I consider myself a big geek, and I love The Big Bang Theory," he says. "We all have little foibles that we should be able to laugh at. Some people just get a little defensive, I think. I love The Simpsons, but if you want to talk about a stereotypical comics-store owner, you could get offended by Comic Book Guy. But it's fun. Stereotypes exist because there are people out there like them."
Superheroes have come to feast
Killingsworth also works for the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, which will have a Super Saturday on June 15, in which children 12 and younger who come dressed as their favorite superhero will receive half-price admission and a free comic book. The museum has been doing this for the past three years, but this year's event happens to fall on Man of Steel's release weekend — and during the 75th anniversary month of the first Superman comic book, issued in June 1938.
Expectations for Man of Steel are high, and it's no wonder: More than half of the movies in the all-time domestic box-office top 10 have geek cred, and three of them — The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers — were released in 2008 or later. All three of those have their roots in graphic novels, and the movies' comic-book obsession is seen as another reason for the rise in geek culture here and elsewhere.
But movies were lifting from comic books even before the campy Batman TV series and feature film of the mid-'60s, and still, such respected superhero movies as 1978's Superman or Tim Burton's 1989 Batman didn't inspire geek revolutions like the one we're seeing today. Killingsworth says that's because the movies are staying truer to their sources.
"With the original Christopher Reeve Superman, those were good movies — the first two, at least — but they weren't real true to the source material," Killingsworth says. "Now, starting with the 'Dark Knight' series with [director] Christopher Nolan, I think they've been extremely true to the source."
Lone Star Comics' Buddy Saunders agrees, adding that Hollywood used to try to fix what wasn't broken when it came to comic-book adaptations. He says that changed when Marvel Comics created a studio division in the '90s, leading to more fidelity in the comics movies.
"When I went to see [Spider-Man 3] and Sandman was wearing the same green-and-yellow T-shirt he wore in the [artist Steve] Ditko comics, and I recognized him as Sandman — to people who come to it fresh, they don't care what he's dressed in," Saunders says. "But I do, and fans do, and so that makes us really happy, and we create good word of mouth."
That seems like something that would appeal to people who are already comic-book fans, rather than something that would expand the culture. But Killingsworth says it's all about the stories.
"I think that if it's a strong enough story, people who would never read a comic book because they already have comic books pigeonholed can actually see that the art form has more value than they originally gave it credit for," Killingsworth says.
Get your geek on
Dallas Comic Con holds a Saturday-afternoon costume contest, but the Darth Mauls, Darth Vaders, Storm Troopers, Batmen, Jokers, Wonder Women, Princess Leias, Doctor Whos (one guy was a dead ringer for Matt Smith, the latest in the show's long line of Doctors) were there all three days.
"One thing that really struck me about this last [Comic Con] was the number of people who dress up in costumes," says Saunders. "That has really gone up. There didn't used to be nearly that many. But you'll have families where the mother and father will dress up for their kids, I think, mainly. And then the little kids are the most fun to watch."
Camp, the Walking Dead fan who zombified herself at Dallas Comic Con, says the costuming — or cosplay, as it's known in the fan community — was one of the things that led her to start attending cons. After The Walking Dead began airing, she became interested in the special effects and makeup effects that made the show's "walkers" look so convincingly undead.
She geared up for her first con: Fan Days, last October. "And two of the Walking Dead actors were supposed to be at that convention, so that made me want to go even more."
Since then, she has met such Walking Dead stars as Jon Bernthal, Laurie Holden, Emma Bell and Danai Gurira, who plays the katana-wielding fan favorite, Michonne.
Walters says that DCC encourages costuming — and that he doesn't always see that at cons he has attended out of state. And cosplay (and hence cons in general) has benefited from the rise of social media — people at Dallas Comic Con would stop complete strangers dressed in costumes to take their pictures, then post the pics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other sites. And there was little doubt that the strangers wanted to be stopped.
"It's fun for everybody, the people in costume and the people taking their pictures," Saunders says. "And the little kids — you say, 'Spider-Man, let me take your picture,' and boy, they strike the exact pose they've seen in the movie. For that second, they are Iron Man or Superman or Batman or Spider-Man."
Cosplay may have made cons more kid- and female-friendly, but Hinze, the Fanboy Radio host, wonders if the costuming is entirely a good thing for geek culture.
"I think the reason cosplay is exploding is you go more to be seen, more than to have your questions answered," Hinze says. "And you go for the spectacle. It was never a spectacle before; you'd go and wait in line to get autographs and sketches, and have an opportunity to talk to artists."
But Q&A sessions, whether they were for Shatner or for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers actors Jason David Frank and Catherine Sutherland, played to packed ballrooms. And they may not have generated as many tweets as the costumes, but the panels were getting a lot of chatter on social media. It's hardly a coincidence that the rise of geek culture has paralleled the rise of social media.
"[Social media] let people know that there were other people out there like them," Killingsworth says. "All of a sudden, you could create groups. That goes back as far as AOL and CompuServe and things like that. I remember all the comic-group lists. But with social media, you could share pictures, and the big thing about the Internet is you become a consumer and a creator at the same time. … Then you get to start tailoring your geekdom into what you like, and then other people like it, and that encourages you to do more."
Friendly fires
Saunders cites another reason geekdom is growing in DFW: Dallas Comic Con itself, or more accurately, its founders and organizers.
"The people that run it really know what they're doing," Saunders says. "They combine the two things that you have to have to be successful. They are fans themselves, so they understand what the fans think and what they want. And they're good businessmen."
For Walters, the feeling is mutual — he says that Lone Star Comics, now a six-store DFW chain that has developed a national reputation, as well as Dallas' Zeus Comics and Collectibles and other stores, are part of what makes Comic Con and the DFW geek culture thrive.
"You would be surprised how bland some of the comic-book stores in other states are," Walters says. "Dallas and Texas, there's more pride in what they do. Our stores are customer-friendly. [It's] all about the environment and the locations supporting that fandom."
Walters gives the fans credit as well — especially the fans in North Texas. Dallas Comic Con might never reach the level of San Diego Comic Con, the pop-culture fest that's become the biggest and best-known convention. But DCC has been drawing bigger names and more artists, and it has come into its own as a strong con.
"California is a hub because that's where Hollywood is," Walters says. "But we're getting more [names] because a lot of the artists like to come here, because it feeds into the concept of Southern hospitality, and when these people experience that, it's the kind of thing they like to come back to. People here are just so nice. In New York, you have people at the conventions asking the artists to hurry it up."
Will this current round of geekery last? People within the comics and cons worlds believe that it will — and that it will continue growing.
"In the early '90s, there was huge speculation in comic books," Walters says. "People were buying 10 copies of first issues; now those same books are worthless. What we saw was the industry fizzle out a bit and slowly growing back up. What we didn't have back then was the social aspect of it. Reading comic books on iPads and online gives you different ways to approach it.
"And even if print media dies out, the comic book will survive. What do you have a favorite creator sign?"


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Have you ever wondered what would happen if "XIII" and CoD had an orgy with the 3rd person shooter genre? No, neither have I. But Zombie Studios seem to believe there is a market, albeit a small one, dying to play it online.
Zombie Studios have a firm grasp on the shooter genre and have worked on the Spec Ops games as well as expansions to the Rainbow Six series. More recently their efforts have been focussed on XBLA titles with the Blacklight series and now Special Forces Team X.
Special Forces Team X (STX if, like me, you just love acronyms) is a 3rd person online shooter. There are no offline modes at all. The idea of such a game normally irritates me as the game then lives or dies on whether or not the company can afford the servers to keep the game on its feet and whether there are people willing to play it over THAT colossus of the genre. STX has a big challenge ahead, but that's not to say STX is a bad game. In fact, it is far from it.
This uniquely stylised shooter can provide hours of fun for those who dare to lose themselves in the cartoony and ultra-violent…. violence that the game provides. The art style itself is worth a look for those who have been longing for another cell shaded shooter, with the only downside being that you need to convince a few friends to pick up the game to make the most of it. At the time of writing the online can be a bit barren at times.
Like any modern shooter, Special Forces adopts the "career" side of an online shooter and employs the use of levels and unlocks that we all know and loathe. At first, the user is presented with what can only be described as slim pickings. Fortunately, over time you find yourself levelling up and acquiring slightly more useful weapons, and more importantly, attachments for those weapons. After you have levelled up to a sufficient level, a plethora of customisations are available for you in terms of appearance and in weapons choice. These are the split across two separate classes. For those of you familiar with load outs from the many games that take advantage of this mechanic, there will be a level of familiarity on how to set up classes and how to work around the menus.
The game boasts a variety of different game types with oddly abbreviated names. They are all rather generic game modes that you would expect of a shooter, but it can be quite hard to work out the difference between the HZ and CP modes if you aren't overly familiar with them. For the most part, the game modes are well thought out and provide enough flavour for a lot of different games without feeling too stale.
As I've already touched upon ,there is a severe lack of offline options, and the game even lacks the generic bot fight and split screen modes (think ShadowRun levels of offline) you would hope for from this type of game. There is also a lack of any solid tutorial, but instead the information required is buried deep in the options menu. Although it does provide some basic information, it doesn't quite stick, especially when its as vague as "increasing your level will increase your team bonus". What is my team bonus? Is it to do with my perks? Has it just to do with points? And why do I have to hump my fellow combatants' legs to ensure I get more levels?
What is one of the few saving graces of the game is the level selection. Instead of the standard "vote for a map" we would expect, the players are given the option to select between 3 different parts of the level. This is comprised of the two spawn points and the centre area of the map. So instead of your generic vote for a map you can now build your own level with the consent of others. The downside of this is that that the opposing team can control your spawn point. The maps are fairly balanced though, so it might just create a few issues if certain "pro" teams force your spawn and have a specific tactic for that area. As it stands, this type of level building Lego approach is great for creating new levels and keeping you interested in the hundreds of possible maps that could be created from a few simple votes.
Overall, Special Forces: Team X is a good bit of fun but should really be shared with friends. The game won't live beyond its novelty and unfortunately once the online becomes a barren wasteland there won't be much for you to do without your friends. For the most part it also feels like the game heavily depends on you playing other games of the genre to really understand how to play it, and for me it just reminded me of the better games I could be playing.
6 "Team Levels " out of 10

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The St. John's IceCaps announced today they have acquired centre Mathieu Tousignant (mah-TYEW TOO-sihn-yeh) on loan from the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League.
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I decided to put together a build thread of the life of my '08 Rabbit. Progress will most likely be slow but plans do include turboing the car.
Currently the car has:
APR 93 oct tune
Carbonio CAI
Magnaflow Catback
Eurojet exhaust headers w/ highflow cat
27 mm APR rear sway bar
H&R Sport Cup Kit
Full BSH Mounts
42DD Shifter bushings
18x8 Raderwerks M-TEN 85
Pirelli 225/40/18 PZero Nero
Euro Jetta Front Bumper
Votex Front Lip
Black Textured Mirror Caps and Door Handles
first day I got her brand new off the boat.
first upgrade was a magna flow cutback
followed by a Carbonio intake.
then proceeded to move forward with the black and red look by blacking out the tails and the emblems
then started with the trim, probably what I have changed the most. It is now plaid fabric
first set of rims, 18x8 rs4 reps
Finally got a H&R cup kit to cope with the massive wheel gap and improve performance. This worked well with the 27 mm rear sway.
Cheap Bosnian fogs that were more for looks but set the car off nice
Euro Jetta Bumper and black mirror caps.
aweful paint job that I was charged twice for and still didn't get it right.
On the way to SoWo '11
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Finally got a set of racks
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Internet "zombie" attacks that attempt to knock computer systems offline are more likely to come from users of America Online than any other source, according to a report released in America by a security company.
AOL and other large internet service providers serve as launching pads for most "denial of service" attacks, according to Prolexic Technologies, which helps companies fend off such attacks.
Other top sources of such attacks include T-Mobile's German-based service; Wanadoo, a French internet provider; and Comcast Corp.
Prolexic chief technology officer Barrett Lyon said the report could indicate that some internet providers don't protect their customers as much as companies like EarthLink Inc that don't show up on the list.
"Their clients may be exposed differently or they may be doing a poor job of filtering certain things from their clients," Mr Lyon said in an interview, referring to AOL and the other providers named in the report.
America Online did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Denial-of-service attacks harness thousands of computers in a co-ordinated effort to knock websites or other computer systems offline through an unrelenting data blitz.
Early DDoS attacks targeted the US government or high-profile online vendors like eBay. Over the past year, criminals have used DDoS attacks to extort payments from online gambling operations, banks and other businesses, or to attack competitors.
Cybercriminals use worms or viruses to secretly hijack unprotected computers to use in such attacks. Zombie networks also are used by spammers to cover their tracks.
DDoS attacks are increasing in frequency from one or two a month to one or two a week as attackers constantly try different methods to take down their targets, Mr Lyon said.
The US Federal Trade Commission last month asked internet providers to disconnect their customers' computers if they find they have been compromised. Law enforcers in 25 other countries are also taking efforts to shut down such "zombie" networks.
Though US-based computers were responsible for largest portion of DDoS traffic at 18 per cent, countries like Hong Kong, Germany, Malaysia and the United Kingdom had higher percentages of infected computers, Prolexic said.
Prolexic based its report on attacks it saw over the last six months.
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Gilbert (Ariz.) PD police officers arrested a bride at her wedding reception, after being told intoxicated guests were "killing each other" during a brawl that involved yelling and screaming that could be heard from the backyard.
Angela Davito, 28, was arrested after she kicked a Gilbert officer. Officers responded to a home in the 3200 block of South 147th Place at approximately 9:30 p.m. Saturday, reports The Arizona Republic.
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John Wilson @ 3/23/2011 9:04 AM
Well, it will be a day she remembers for the rest of her life!More bizzarre things have happened at family get togethers.Hope no officers were seriously injured.
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I seriously doubt the on-board sensor fusion will work. IMU3000 takes 16 bit input from accelerometer , while the ADXL345 is only output 10 bit. I don't see how this will ever work.
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A More Nuanced View of Legal Automation
A Guardian writer has updated Farhad Manjoo's classic report, "Will a Robot Steal Your Job?" Of course, lawyers are in the crosshairs. As Julius Stone noted in The Legal System and Lawyers' Reasoning, scholars have addressed the automation of legal processes since at least the 1960s. Al Gore now says that a "new algorithm . . . makes it possible for one first year lawyer to do the same amount of legal research that used to require 500."* But when one actually reads the studies trumpeted by the prophets of disruption, a more nuanced perspective emerges.
Let's start with the experts cited first in the article:
Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A Osborne have predicted computerisation could make nearly half of jobs redundant within 10 to 20 years. Office work and service roles, they wrote, were particularly at risk. But almost nothing is impervious to automation.
The idea of "computing" a legal obligation may seem strange at the outset, but we already enjoy—-or endure-—it daily. For example, a DVD may only be licensed for play in the US and Europe, and then be "coded" so it can only play in those regions and not others. Were a human playing the DVD for you, he might demand a copy of the DVD's terms of use and receipt, to see if it was authorized for playing in a given area. Computers need such a term translated into a language they can "understand." More precisely, the legal terms embedded in the DVD must lead to predictable reactions from the hardware that encounters them. From Lessig to Virilio, the lesson is clear: "architectural regimes become computational, and vice versa."
So certainly, to the extent lawyers are presently doing rather simple tasks, computation can replace them. But Frey & Osborne also identify barriers to successful automation:
1. Perception and manipulation tasks. Robots are still unable to match the depth and breadth of human perception.
2. Creative intelligence tasks. The psychological processes underlying human creativity are difficult to specify.
3. Social intelligence tasks. Human social intelligence is important in a wide range of work tasks, such as those involving negotiation, persuasion and care. (26)
Frey & Osborne only explicitly discuss legal research and document review (for example, identification and isolation among mass document collections) as easily automatable. They concede that "the computerisation of legal research will complement the work of lawyers" (17). They acknowledge that "for the work of lawyers to be fully automated, engineering bottlenecks to creative and social intelligence will need to be overcome." In the end, they actually categorize "legal" careers as having a "low risk" of "computerization" (37).
The View from AI & Labor Economics
Those familiar with the smarter voices on this topic, like our guest blogger Harry Surden, would not be surprised. There is a world of difference between computation as substitution for attorneys, and computation as complement. The latter increases lawyers' private income and (if properly deployed) contribution to society. That's one reason I helped devise the course Health Data and Advocacy at Seton Hall (co-taught with a statistician and data visualization expert), and why I continue to teach (and research) the law of electronic health records in my seminar Health Information, Privacy, and Innovation, now that I'm at Maryland. As Surden observes, "many of the tasks performed by attorneys do appear to require the type of higher order intellectual skills that are beyond the capability of current techniques." But they can be complemented by an awareness of rapid advances in software, apps, and data analysis.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Kedves Olvasóim!
41 comments:
Thank you so much! This bear is so nice and cute, I really love it! :)))ReplyDelete
Thank you for this calendar, it's great!
- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 12:28 PM
I thing so, too.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much !!
The calendar is so cute !!!
Daniela (Germany)
oh my god, so beautiful, thank you so much !!!!ReplyDelete
Best regards from Petra from Germany
I am stitching this in English but I am sure others from Greece would have loved it in Greek too. I didn't ask you to make it as the Greek alphabet is totally different from the latin one. But I know I am from Greece so there are more countries than the languages in which your SAL is stitched. Thank you for sharing it with all of us!It is lovely!AriadnefromGreece!ReplyDelete
Köszönöm szépen. Még egy tagot hozzáadhatsz a hímzős csapathoz (nincs FB-m):)ReplyDelete
Nádherné dielko - výšivka. Páči sa mi aj tá skriňa, aj ten krásny venček...ReplyDelete
- didineMay 10, 2016 at 6:18 PM
Il est trop beau ce nounours :-) !ReplyDelete
Bravo pour le patinage de ton armoire.
Merci et bonne soirée.
I love this bear !!! Thank you so much ! I'm stitching the february pattern. In a few xeeks, i'll be in summer holidays. So, I hope I'll stitch all the patterns to be right in time !ReplyDelete
Thank you again.
Have a lovely evening.
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I don't know what's happened with my comment... Thank you so much for this lovely pattern ! I love the bears.ReplyDelete
Have a nice evening !
- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 6:59 PM
Quel succès ton sal ... bravo et cet ours sur notre ouvrage est très originalReplyDelete
Merci beaucoup. Belle semaineReplyDelete
- pecelette32May 10, 2016 at 7:40 PM
Merci beaucoup pour cette jolie grille de juin, chaque mois vous nous faites un beau cadeau, bonne soirée, bisous.ReplyDelete
Love your Calendar series. Thank You..:)ReplyDelete
Thank you Maja! wonderful!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 7:48 PM
Merci beaucoupReplyDelete
Il est adorable
Danke schön , das ist wieder ein tolles Motiv ! LgReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 10:09 PM
Thank you for your great sal. Very cute chart. Your colourfull doorwrest is really adorable. Have a nice springtime.ReplyDelete
Bardzo dziękuję za schemat - czy będzie po polsku CZERWIEC ? :)ReplyDelete
- Marie AngeMay 11, 2016 at 7:58 AM
Très jolie grille!! Je l'aime beaucoup; MERCIReplyDelete
Bonne journée
Merci ! Quel plaisir de broder ce calendrier !ReplyDelete
Thank you so much! XXX HettiReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 13, 2016 at 9:00 AM
Thank you! The bear and bees are lovely!ReplyDelete
Rosie in Scotland
Uao! Unexpected! I love it! It is grrreat! Thank you for this surprising month of june! CarlaReplyDelete
Uao! Unexpected! I love it! It is grrreat! Thank you for this surprising month of june! CarlaReplyDelete
Olyan cuki ez a mackó :)ReplyDelete
Nagyon eltaláltad a színeit is!
OH! The beauty! Every month just gets better and better. I can't thank you enough for sharing your talent with us so we can put these pretties in our own homes. From your creative mind in Hungary to my wall here in Las Vegas! Pretty wonderful, if you ask me! :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for yet again another gorgeous design! I love the bear and his bees - can't wait to stitch him as he is just so cute :o)ReplyDelete
Hugs xx
Thank you for yet again another gorgeous design! I love the bear and his bees - can't wait to stitch him as he is just so cute :o)ReplyDelete
Hugs xx
What a success !ReplyDelete
Quel succès !
JE garde précieusement ce modèle car n'ayant pas le temps pour l'instant, je compte bien les réaliser pour une couverture un de ces jours
Ta créativité fait mon admiration
Thank you so much, Mama Bear is so cute ! I am waiting for July ! You are a wonderful person to offer your work, your time for us.ReplyDelete
Big kiss from Switzerland. Marie
Hello i hope finishing soon May and start June with lovely bear...thank you so much!!Have happy weekReplyDelete
Thank you for another adorable chart.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much !ReplyDelete
Have a great day :-)
I just got accepted into your group on Facebook!!!! How to I download the patterns....I have A LOT of stitching to do to catch up to y'all!ReplyDelete
- didineJune 6, 2016 at 8:30 AM
Qu'il est beau cet ours. Merci pour ce superbe calendrier qui se dévoile au fur et à mesure.
Beau patinage pour ton armoire.
Bonne journée.
and how happy I am to find your pattern in the blog of some I visite...ReplyDelete
Have a good whealth
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2016 at 11:23 AM
Thank you for the beautiful patterns! They are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2016 at 10:25 AM
This bear is beautiful. I have a request, would you prepare the name of the month of June in Polish - CZERWIEC. Other months are in Polish only this month missing. Thank you very much :)ReplyDelete
احصل على افضل خدمة من صيانة فيليبس واقل اسعار قطع الغيار الاصلية من صيانة كاريير تواصل معنا الانReplyDelete


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Rest day today
The athletics was good yesterday, nice warm weather. Good day out and Miss B enjoyed her Meadowbank debut.
Lyrics: Nope
catch up time
Yesterdays lyrics were Keep Moving by Madness.
Blisters - sounded as though you were trying to lure Pammie to the dark side. You are right about your lyrics. I hadn't quite got in to music by then - though I do like a lot of stuff that's older than that.
Glad you and Miss B had a good day out birks.
What: LSR (but only two hours)
Why: schedule
Last hard: not eating too much chocolate last night
Last rest: 27/4
Lyrics - no.
Morning LMH
Yeaj it was an enjoyable day out.
Well done RFJ
Morning. Jesas - I know those Lyrics and wished I didn't.
Birks - love your rant/ statement regarding bikes - leather pouches/ spons etc. Tell me what is the difference time wise in your opinion between the "planet X", "cervelo" etc with flat bars, pointy helmet, wide rim/ solid wheels and a decent road bike with good set up with a pair of aero bars strapped on??? One fella said to me that the biggest difference is that those "in possession" simply have an expensive bike!!
For me today its a long run.... must go
Morning all
What 20ish LSR
Why HR discipline
Lyrics Ah! Oh! Ah! Oh! Yes
Was only 11 at the time but was into this and the Flying Lizards etc.
Programmed the Garmin to set the HR between 135 and 145 over 15 miles which should have seen me back at home at a reasonable time. However got carried away turning right over the A40 heading out on my 21+ route. Finished the 15 and opened up the legs for a bit of oomph. It took me over half a mile to realise that I needed to restart the Garmin but hey ho I'm still on a learning curve. Good news is that I managed to keep the HR to about 140 +/- 1 over the initial 15 miles.
Now for abit of brekky and some gardening.
Paddy - the guy who did my bike size the other day told me that I could expect an extra 2mph on an aero bike if I could stay in a good aero position - I know that I get an extra mph when I put my lighter race wheels on my old road bike and about the same if I'm riding aero rather than sitting up so it makes sense.
postie - I like the Flying Lizards too.
Lyrics: no
What: 10 mins only.
Why: ankles both sore plus long drive to see mum.
Back tomorrow to see Q of P
Well done RFJ - a win is a win
And some good long running / riding happening too on here
Did a double yesterday - 6 miles easy in the morning and a 2.5 mile fundraiser with the guys from work in the afternoon. It wasn't timed or chipped or anything. Just a fun thing to raise money for less fortunate children. Then I went shopping for a smart phone. Oh my completely knackered me out. I'm too dumb for this kind of thing ... now my phone is smarter than me
what: 20 miles on the bike
why: tired legs from running
last hard: the phone thing above
last rest: Monday
lyrics: no
2 mph - time to start saving!!
Managed 12 1/2 miles with the blister on my right foot giving gip every time the foot hit the ground. I wish that it would heal!!! Mind you running on it probably not helping. Bring on tomorrow. Talking to organiser of Tri on 6 July today. The local club doing a rehearsal two weeks before and he has asked if I would like to take part - good news - now have to side step a night out that's been arranged for the night before!!
Never liked the Flying Lizards - they gave me the creeps!!
Ale hopefully complaining about ankles means that the calf is much better.
Oh and f*** ya blisters - that song going around my head now and I'm not enjoying it "ina gcónaí ar an oileann"!!
hello all,
nice win RFJ, and as chicka says some decent miles clocked up either on the feet or the wheels.
Blisters acurately portrays why I will never be a biker. I have a teenage daughter (with another next year) so why do I need a further money pit?
what - nothing
why - school summer ball last night. Got home at half 3. Up at 8 for kids athletics fixture, me on Under 11 duties (38 boys, 39 girls)
Eldest won her hurdles, andher shot and added more points in the 300m. Then opened the relay team to 1st. Youngest eased away from the field to win the 1200, 2nd in hurdles and also threw some javs , think she was 2nd or 3rd 'b' scorer.
I'm tired now, so ticking off the minutes to bedtime...
last rest - arguably today
last hard - definitely today..
have a great evening
Blisters - Trying to tempt me are ya? Fraid i'll have to put up with my hybrid for the moment as not in position to buy a road bike really got the bike as I needed transport taxi fares too expensive long story I hadn't biked in a good long while so it was a confidence issue drop bars and skinny tyres scare the living daylights out of me. Don't plan to do tri or a dualathon or even these time trails maybe long rides for fun
Though my training doesn't look like it at the moment I love to run
Paddy - Flying Lizards I can't remember them though all this talk about them I confused them for the flying picketts I guess totally different
No running long day - just zoomed by work went well cycled there and back
only song I know by the flying lizards is 'money' ...
What: drive home along with swim
Why: heading back from Dirty 30
Last hard - see above
Last rest today
Lyrics: almost (so that's a no)
Great day out on Saturday. Very hot (for us) at apparently 25C. Stunning views and very varied course. TIme not so stunning - I couldn't run a lot of the rough off road stuff - but got around fine.
Good running from the Dustin Dependants, well done
Good long runs from Paddy and Postie and LMH
Chickadee, good miles on the feet and wheels
10.25m for me... few knee issues as have chipped a bone or have a calcified blood clot that has decieded to sit on top of my knee cap (patella) no issues for running so says doc, but very very painful if knocked / lent on.... only found out about it by kneeling down yesterday..... a big ouch... will teach me not to fall over at the end of marathons.....
Take care
Oh shit - Lizards I don't know - Pickets I was giving out about - DOH
Flying lizards? As far as I recall they must have been a bit of a flash in the pan, and a Google reference to Wiki uses the phrase one-hit-wonder. Money (That's What I Want) was it. However, the TV has repeatedly utilised it in sound tracks so the lyricist will have a small income.
Birks, glad you and little un enjoyed the stadium athletics.
LMH, if you can run 2 hours you are allowed chocolate. EAT.
It's not rocket science to realise that the biggest contributor to cycling drag is the rider's upper body. Although thunder thighs on the Cervelo P2 destroyed that theory.
Dustin, there is always a law of diminishing returns in cycling. We are runners. Start off with a Massey Ferguson engine. A standard bike off ebay, and some gentle coaching in gear utilisation. Get the body dropped to a lower postion and bingo. Sorted. You can go from your £500 investment and add £2000 if you wish. It will make you faster, but money pit is a good analogy. Personally, I invest in the engine.
Oh yes, your offspring appear to be doing well.
Paddy: It's easy when you're number one, everybody thinks you're having fun.
...Living on an island by Status Quo.
If ever there was a track that opened a window into the world of the tax avoiding nouveaux rich, this is it. There are many tracks which paraphrase the "bored and on tour" story. But this one simply says "I've got too much money". They have released another "record" which has the same thought process.
Postie, that sounds like a very technical 20 miles. I just run and report the results.
For me, it was jobs day. Cleaning stuff, tidying stuff, murdering a tree. Crown lifting and thinning if you must be technical. As Paddy would say, "Bajeesas there's more tree in that poyle than there is in that tree."
OK, I went swim training and shock horror. Some of the old sages from the club turned up and I WASN'T SLOWEST! Good work out though. Hey this was truly a first, I must tell the wife.
Was so convinced the lyrics were Leena Lovich that I didn't bother to ceck with google, a far classier act than Status Quo


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Petition demands council disbands ALMO
More than 1,000 people have signed an online petition calling on a council to disband its arm's length management organisation.
Islington Council is currently carrying out a review of the management of its 35,000 homes. The council is considering whether to disband ALMO Homes for Islington and bring management in-house, change the ALMO's role, or transfer management to another organisation.
It has ruled out a stock transfer to a housing association. A decision is expected to be taken in November.
A website, DisbandHFI.org.uk, which has the backing of Islington Leaseholders Association, is calling for the ALMO to be scrapped to improve service delivery and save money. More than 1,100 people have signed a petition arguing for HFI to be disbanded. ILA argues that the ALMO is ineffective, inefficient and unaccountable.
The petition says: 'Councils across the country are winding up organisations like HFI, recognising that they do not represent best value for public money, and bringing management of council housing back under direct council control.
'We need genuine accountability instead of token box-ticking exercises to retain HFI, an organisation which does not have residents' interests at heart.'
The opposition Liberal Democrat group on the council last October called for a referendum on whether the ALMO should be scrapped. This was rejected by cabinet member for housing James Murray and the Labour group.
James Murray, Islington Council's executive member for housing, said: 'The petition sets out very clearly the position of those people who signed it. We will take it into account alongside the responses of nearly 3,000 tenants and leaseholders who responded to the council's consultation on the future of housing management in Islington.
'The council's consultation, which will continue into September, has been overseen from the start by a residents panel who have had independent advice on how to run the process.
'Our final decision will be lead by the views of tenants and leaseholders, in the context of priorities that include getting value for money in difficult financial times and building new council housing.'
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Lipids have polar and non-polar parts. Polar head is hydrophilic (water loving) vs. non-polar, fatty acid tail which is hydrophobic (water fearing).
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