text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Tell me, PLEASE... Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Tell me, PLEASE... Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Newbie Forum View previous topic :: View next topic It is wise to suggest that newbies need to be certified. Yes 87% [ 28 ] No 6% [ 2 ] WHAT? Who the heck do you think you are?! 6% [ 2 ] Total Votes : 32 Author Message C76Joined: 13 Jun 2003Posts: 113Location: somewhere between beauty and truth...in Toronto. ;) Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject: Tell me, PLEASE... Is there something WRONG with suggesting that TESL training might be a good idea? Im not talking about being rude and trying to degrade individuals who dont have any.... Im talking about just saying that it cant hurt. (Which is something that I think we've all been doing.) Excuse the following mini rant. However, Ive noticed a trend. People have been very petulant lately. Ive seen a lot of posts with sentiments like How DARE YOU say that I might want/need a certificate? Ive seen other posts that give the impression that the writers are thinking, What?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN teaching isnt supposed to be ONE BIG PARTY? Who the BLEEP are you to spoil my immaculate dreams?! And somehow, a person who tries to give newbies like me sensible advice without any BS is touted as crazy Or theyre someone who, surely , must be having a hard time (God bless you, Capergirl) Or, the advisor is supposedly--as in the case of our beloved PanamaTeacher--some kind of pervert. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM with telling someone that if s/he can go for formal training, s/he should? Ive asked that question more than once on this bboard. So far, I have not been given an answer, sensible or otherwise. Some people believe I am fluent in English. Therefore, I can teach English. I say yes and no. With heavy emphasis on the no. Especially if you go into the field with too much arrogance. Yes, I think ESL teaching is cool, blah, blah, blah. But I also know that its serious work. For those who think Im nuts for not understanding your logic I have a question: Think back to when you were little and you wanted to play outside. When your mom or dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street, were you mad at them? Wait. Dont answer that. Heres a better question using the same example: Do you resent your folks to this day because of their interference? As a sub-topic, if you wont or cant go to school for a cert Maybe we should start a resource list? Teaching American English Pronunciation by Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich is a fairly useful book.Last edited by C76 on Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:23 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top PanamaTeacherJoined: 26 Jun 2003Posts: 278Location: Panama Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject: C--I think it is absolutely correct to recommend anything you think is appropriate. I think where I have made a mistake is assuming that people will: 1) take my advice and/or 2)appreciate my advise. I think it's like teaching. A lot of kids don't like to be taught, but you have to plug away at it cause in your heart you know you are doing the right thing. And don't forget that people who participate regularly can see your good intentions/advice. Keep it up and don't let the wannabes get you down. Best resource I know: Dave's Esl Cafe. Back to top C76Joined: 13 Jun 2003Posts: 113Location: somewhere between beauty and truth...in Toronto. ;) Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject: Still, if people don't like other people's advice, there are intelligent ways of saying so. Without resorting to talk of dildos and other issues which are none of our business. I've read a lot of tantrums over the past week or so. Guess it was time for me to have one of my own. And I wasn't kidding when I set up the poll at the start of this thread. I am genuinely curious. People are getting offended...I have no idea why. Back to top SandgropersJoined: 05 Jun 2003Posts: 39 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:12 am Post subject: Unfortunately or fortunately (whichever way you look at it) the people who participate in these forums are no different from those in other walks of life. People often ask questions but they have already made up their minds as to what answer they want to hear! Heaven forbid that they should not receive their desired reply! When that happens they can respond in a belligerent manner The bottom line is that people like that only ever learn by making their own mistakes and not always then! 'You can't please all the people all the time'. Cheers Back to top Guest Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 8:18 am Post subject: You can lead a horse to water....... just try not to take it too personally if it kicks you when you arrive at the water. Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 9:51 am Post subject: It is a little unique to the English-speaking scene. Mother tongue English speakers assume that anyone who was born into an English-speaking society CAN teach his or her lingo. This is hogwash, really! You can teach a baby (who has no choice but to adopt your language), but you can't automatically teach anyone and everyone. Try and teach your classmates some grammar! Just thought: The term 'native English speaker" is, perhaps, a misnomer! "Native" is cognate with 'nation' and 'nee' (French, 'born'); it derives from Latin 'nativus', 'born'. If you suppose you are born an English speaker you are wrong; you are made an English speaker by your mother (hence 'mother tongue'). Just because you like your mother's apple pie better than anyone else's doesn't mean anyone else's is not potentially better than your homemade ones! Your mother does not automatically speak better English than others - therefore perfecting your English communication skills and learning how to teach these skills to others might be a profitable idea! Back to top DebalkyJoined: 28 May 2003Posts: 79Location: hell on earth Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:52 am Post subject: Roger my man, Making yourself a better person by studying anything is always a great idea, i agree. However, is it realistic for people to think that every position in the esl word (I'm sure there are thousands of school who need teachers) can be filled by people holding degrees and Cert courses? Almost every friend i had in University talked about going overseas to teach , but i'm the only one that actually did it. They are off making "the big cash", or travelling the world after working for 6 months in a government job. The need for English teachers in the world is huge, and that's why some schools will hire anyone who speaks the language. So for the people who, say that "No degree, No Cert, Stay Home" you are denying these Countries a service that they really want and need. I think there are very few people like Bertrand in the world who grace these countries with their advanced IQ and brilliance. These places are "beggars" when it comes to finding English instructors, finish the cliche by yourselves. Back to top lajzarJoined: 09 Feb 2003Posts: 647Location: Saitama-ken, Japan Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject: Certainly there are many places that want teachers, more than can be provided by the certified ones alone. But that is the same with every profession - demand eceeds supply. Why shouldn't we help to create some kind of minimum standard? Besides, it has to be said that a lot of those schools that accept people without a ctefl or equivalent are in countries that have an economy that could easily afford to pay a premium for people with the qualification. Back to top DebalkyJoined: 28 May 2003Posts: 79Location: hell on earth Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject: I think that we are here to do the job that is asked of us. The minimum standard is up to the individual country to decide. Back to top dorumJoined: 02 Jul 2003Posts: 35Location: China Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:20 pm Post subject: I just think that, if people are going to post on this forum (or any other forums for foreign teachers), they have to be prepared for different responses from different people - they (and we) shouldn't get 'huffy' about the difference in opinion. But then again, it's fun to flame.... Back to top lajzarJoined: 09 Feb 2003Posts: 647Location: Saitama-ken, Japan Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 2:53 pm Post subject: Those who are trying to create a minum standard are akin to medieval guilds in that respect. In medieval times, it was traditionally up to teh customers (ie country) to set a standard, and quality was extremely variable as you might expect. Along comes a guild, and makes all people in teh trade have a minimum capability/qualification. It means that any customer can know what he is getting as a minimum. The is teh argument that we do it for selfish reasons, to keep teh riffraff out and thus improve teh odds of us getting job X. It is for selfish reasons, but not quite that simple. By increasing teh basal standard, efl teachers will all benefit from having a better overall reputation, and thuis being able to get a better wage. As it stands, we are ALL tarred by the backpacker brush, which depresses all our wages. Back to top C76Joined: 13 Jun 2003Posts: 113Location: somewhere between beauty and truth...in Toronto. ;) Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject: dorum wrote: I just think that, if people are going to post on this forum (or any other forums for foreign teachers), they have to be prepared for different responses from different people - they (and we) shouldn't get 'huffy' about the difference in opinion. But then again, it's fun to flame.... Oh my gosh. Know what? I just realized I've been getting snarky about other people's snarkiness. It's just...certain folks have been getting downright nasty recently. I've been pretty surprised by it all. I never knew that advice could be so offensive. I should now point out that I will understand if the moderators come by and tell me off--or close this thread. (I'm concerned. I do not want to contribute to the recent degradation of Dave's bboards.) However, we could be on the verge of developing an interesting discussion regarding the relevance of certification in contemporary ESL teaching. And another thing....A few days ago a relative of mine asked if ESL teachers had a union. I thought it was an interesting question. Back to top dyakJoined: 25 Jun 2003Posts: 630 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject: I have another theory, it's a little pretentious but I think a little pretention is good once in a while... I think the problem is that people form absurd attachments to their own opinions, hence the 'hurt my opinion - hurt me' and the 'I am my own opinion' scenarios. So if this is just an opinion, and NOT me, it therefore seems absurd to take anyone's reaction personally... but hey, I could be full of s***. Cheers Back to top guest of JapanJoined: 28 Feb 2003Posts: 1601Location: Japan Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 10:26 pm Post subject: "The worst vice is advice." Al Pacino, "The Devil's Advocate" Back to top C76Joined: 13 Jun 2003Posts: 113Location: somewhere between beauty and truth...in Toronto. ;) Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject: dyak wrote: So if this is just an opinion, and NOT me, it therefore seems absurd to take anyone's reaction personally... but hey, I could be full of s***. Cheers No way, dyak. It's sensible advice. I plan on treading carefully and not waste time getting p-o'ed over any Troll's opinions. In doing otherwise, I'm basically stooping to their level. 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NTSB: 787 battery approval should be reconsidered
Logan Japan Airlines fire sparks call for review
The government should reassess its safety approval of the Boeing 787 lithium ion batteries, the nation's top accident investigator said Thursday.
The National Transportation Safety Board's investigation of last month's battery fire in a Japan Airlines 787 "Dreamliner" while it was parked in Boston shows the fire started with multiple short-circuits in one of the battery's eight cells, said the board's chairman, Deborah Hersman. That created an uncontrolled chemical reaction known as "thermal runaway," which is characterized by progressively hotter temperatures. That spread the short-circuiting to the rest of the cells and caused the fire, she said.
The findings are at odds with what Boeing told the Federal Aviation Administration when that agency was working to certify the company's newest and most technologically advanced plane for flight, Hersman said. Boeing said its testing showed that any short-circuiting was contained within a single cell, preventing thermal runaway and fire, she told reporters at a news conference.
Boeing's testing also showed the batteries were likely to cause smoke in only 1 in 10 million flight hours, she said. But the Boston fire was followed nine days later by a smoking battery in an All Nippon Airways plane that made an emergency landing in Japan. The 787 has recorded less than 100,000 flight hours, Hersman noted.
"There have now been two battery events resulting in smoke less than two weeks apart on two different aircraft," she said. "This investigation has demonstrated that a short-circuit in a single cell can propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire. The assumptions used to certify the battery must be reconsidered."
Investigators are still trying to determine why the first battery cell short-circuited, but the board's findings appear to raise doubts about the thoroughness of FAA's safety certification of the 787's batteries and whether Boeing will be able to make a quick fix that returns the planes to the skies.
The same day as the ANA emergency landing, FAA officials ordered the only U.S. carrier with 787s - United Airlines, which has six of the planes - to ground them. Aviation authorities in other countries swiftly followed suit. In all, 50 planes operated by seven airlines in six countries are grounded.
The groundings have become a nightmare for the company, which has about 800 Dreamliner orders from airlines around the world.
The 787 is the first airliner to make extensive use of lithium batteries. Aircraft makers view the batteries, which are lighter, recharge faster and can store more energy than other types of batteries of an equivalent size, as an important way to save on fuel costs. The Airbus A350, expected to be ready next year, will also make extensive use of lithium ion batteries. Manufacturers are also looking to retrofit existing planes, replacing other types of batteries with lithium ion.
But lithium batteries in general are more likely to short-circuit and start a fire than other batteries if they are damaged, if there is a manufacturing flaw or if they are exposed to excessive heat.
In 2007, the FAA issued special conditions that Boeing had to meet in order to use lithium ion batteries in the 787, because at that time the agency's safety regulations didn't include standards for such battery systems.
The 787 relies to a greater extent than any previous airliner on electrical systems, as opposed to hydraulic or mechanical ones. The batteries help run those electrical systems and also are used to start a power-generating engine in the rear of the aircraft.
The batteries are made by GS Yuasa of Japan. Japanese aviation investigators probing the cause of the ANA battery failure have also found there was thermal runaway.
Investigators have ruled out mechanical damage or external short-circuiting as possible causes of the initial, internal battery short-circuiting, Hersman said. Investigators and technical experts are now looking for evidence of flaws inside the batteries like pinches, wrinkles or folds, she said.
"We are looking at a number of scenarios," Hersman said, including state of charge of the battery, its manufacturing processes and the design of the batteries.
"We haven't reached any conclusions at this point," she said. "We really have a lot of work to do."

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In today's tough economic environment, employers are increasingly concerned with their employees' financial well-being and are keen to help them become better financial planners. But any efforts companies make to get people more committed to proper financial planning, both in the present as well as for the future, can go to waste if they're not doing it in the right way, said Liz Davidson, founder and CEO of financial education firm Financial Finesse.
That means encouraging employees to think small and set their financial planning bar lower by following small, incremental steps.
"It sounds so simple, but you have to start with the participant and what's best for them," said Davidson. "You've got to get people to care [about financial planning], but rather than hitting them with jargon and big-picture stuff that can be overwhelming, it's best to give them a number of very easy and limited steps to follow."
Because human beings are wired into the idea of routine, winning something on a small scale is usually the greatest motivator to try and win again. It may seem obvious, Davidson said, but for the longest time, many employers just couldn't get a handle on this, and as such, "have been frustrated by human nature."
Now, though, there's been a sea change in the way employers are approaching their employees financial well-being, and many companies, Davidson said, have understood that they have to understand human nature and "work with it."
Over the past year, Financial Finesse has seen a significant rise in the number of companies wanting to institute holistic financial wellness programs for their work force.
The trend, Davidson says, stems first and foremost from employers who are anxious to help employees reduce expenses, pay off debts and save more so that they are protected in the event of a double-dip recession, a change in benefits or increases in health care costs, inflation and taxes. But rather than following the traditional approach to financial education, more and more companies now want an end-to-end financial wellness program that centers on helping employees develop and sustain positive financial habits for their working life and beyond, she says.
The crux of such an approach is all based on human behavior – a subject that's of particular interest to Davidson and one that Financial Finesse has spent years studying. The importance of human behavior is key to the firm's recently released Best Practices Guide in Financial Wellness, a guidebook that can serve as a template for companies that want to implement a holistic model for employee financial health and well-being.
The guidebook brings together the lessons that Financial Finesse has learned over the last 13 years with the latest research in behavioral finance to create a step-by-step handbook. Employers and financial professionals can use the guidebook to create programs that empower employees to change the way they manage their money and invest for their future.
"The first thing an employer needs to do is to get a commitment from the people they want to educate about financial responsibility, and that needs to be done by breaking things down into the small, easy steps that are easy to understand and achieve," Davidson (left) said.
Take, for example, a challenge that gets employees to save $1, $3 or $5 a day for 30 days.
"Setting the bar low enough triggers the rewards center that's so important in human nature," Davidson said, and anyone who manages to take on the easy challenge will probably be inspired to want to take on something greater, "like saving $10 a day."
Giving people small things that they can easily accomplish sets them up for greater future success than giving them a long laundry list of big goals that in all likelihood, just sets them up for failure and makes them give up completely, Davidson said.
"Small wins make people want to come back for more and keeps them engaged for the long term," she said. "There are seven stages of change: Stage One is resistance to change; Stage Seven is 'I have made the change, and it is now a habit.' You can take people from one stage to another, but you can't take a Stage One and hope to make them into a Stage Seven, because people need to feel that this is their idea and not something that you're forcing them to do."


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"You can count on the European Union as the main and the most reliable supporter for Jordan and Jordanians. Now, as we have been in the past, and as we will be in the future," High Representative Federica Mogherini said during her visit to Jordan on Monday, her last visit to the region before the end of the mandate.
"This support is going to stay, because we recognise the challenges and we recognise your determination to address those challenges in the most effective and the most correct manner," the High Representative added.
Mogherini announced a proposal to provide Jordan with a third micro-financial assistance programme of €500 million, now on the table for approval of the European Parliament and the European Council.
The assistance programme will also be part of the EU support to the Jordanian government's reform agenda.
The High Representative commended Jordan and the Jordanians for their resilience in very challenging circumstances and their collective commitment to address the country's difficult economic situation and the impact of the Syria crisis on the economy of Jordan.
At the Brussels III Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region in Brussels last march, donors collectively allocated €8.3 billion for the region. Two thirds of this money comes from the European Union and its Member States and – among other actions – goes to support Jordan and Jordanians.
In the last eight years, the EU supported Jordan with €2.2 billion with an envelope of projects that have covered different sectors." I want to stress this because this has not only been a support for the handling of the refugee crisis in Jordan, so it has not only been focused on supporting the way in which Jordan has welcomed Syrian refugees," the High Representative clarified.
"We mainly focus on the socio-economic cooperation and the creation of job opportunities, because we know very well that the resilience of a country is based also on the material conditions of its population. We know that very well from our own experience in Europe and this is why we want to propose additional support particularly on this," Mogherini said.
The European Union and Jordan have an intense and strong partnership, with the two countries communicating and coordinating frequently every time there is an issue that concerns both the European Union and Jordan in the region – "our common region" as the High Representative called it.
"For me it is only natural to be here on my last official visit to the region in my current capacity, in a partner country that has been a pillar of wisdom and stability in the region in an extremely challenging environment," Mogherini said.
Among the issues the High Representative discussed with Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, the Syria crisis and the Middle East Peace Process stood prominently.
"Now that the long awaited Constitutional committee has been agreed, it is more important than ever to give a genuine chance to the Geneva Process to restart under the UN auspices and have a restart of political negotiations that can be Syrian-owned and Syrian-led," Mogherini said. "We see the formation of the Constitutional Committee as a first step – a very important one, but still a first step – on the implementation of the roadmap that has been agreed in the UN framework."
On the Middle East Peace Process, Mogherini said the EU and Jordan share the sense of urgency – and sometimes the sense of frustration when seeing developments on the ground – but also the same approach when it comes to a negotiated two-state solution with Jerusalem as the future capital of both states, Israel and Palestine, as the only realistic and viable way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of both parties and to achieve a long-term, sustainable peace in the region. The High Representative thanked Jordan for the key role played on this and for Jordan's special role as custodian of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem.


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The Gillard government will increase Australia's humanitarian intake to 20,000 - a key recommendation of the Houston report on asylum seekers.
The announcement, made today by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, comes as two boats carrying 107 suspected asylum seekers were picked up in Australian waters and transferred to Christmas Island overnight.
The move means Australia will increase the nation's annual refugee intake from 13,750 to 20,000 places in this financial year - a 40 per cent rise and the biggest boost to the intake in 30 years.
Ms Gillard said the government would immediately resettle an additional 400 refugees from Indonesia to underscore Australia's commitment to offering safe alternatives to dangerous boat journeys.
''This increase is targeted to those in most need: those vulnerable people offshore, not those getting on boats,'' she said.
''People who arrive by boat will get no advantage. It's not worth the risk to life and it's not worth the money, because there is absolutely no benefit to getting on that people smuggler's boat.''
The government has allocated $10 million immediately for rebuilding the asylum seeker processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island. The centres have fallen into disrepair since Labor unpicked the Pacific Solution in 2008.
Mr Bowen said he had spoken to Nauru's Foreign Minister and reported that the island nation would be capable of housing 500 asylum seekers by the end of next month.
Thirty defence personnel would be sent to Nauru to start setting up temporary accommodation once the government formally approved Nauru as an offshore processing destination, he said. It is expected the team will leave within 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the opposition has today tried to force the government to officially designate Nauru and Papua New Guinea as regional processing countries for asylum seekers.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison wrote yesterday to Mr Bowen asking him to table the legislative instruments needed to reopen the centres.
''I note your earlier comments to me that you prefer to finalise an agreement with Nauru and Papua New Guinea before introducing the legislative instrument,'' he wrote. ''However, you would also be aware that this is not a mandatory requirement of the legislation to enable such countries to be designated.''
Mr Morrison said this morning Mr Bowen ''has until 4.30pm today to make Nauru and Manus Island legal'', adding: ''There are no excuses for this not to happen.''
If it didn't happen it showed the government ''was dragged kicking and screaming to announce they were going to reopen Nauru'' and was still dragging its feet, he said.
Mr Bowen said his opposite number's machinations were ''nothing but a little stunt''.
Last week Parliament passed legislation that would let the government of the day designate countries to be used for processing asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters by boat.
It implemented part of the recommendations from a panel led by former Defence Force chief Angus Houston.
Since then, the government has sent Defence and departmental teams to Nauru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea to look at what work is needed to re-establish processing centres.
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The Houston Dynamo trained at AT&T Park on Friday afternoon in preparation for their Saturday match against the San Jose Earthquakes (4 p.m. CT, Fox Sports Houston Plus). The Dynamo have played in San Francisco before, but never at AT&T Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. In 2008 and 2010 the Dynamo played the Earthquakes in preseason exhibition games at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park.
Several Dynamo players and coaches have connections to the Bay Area or the Earthquakes, including forwards Brian Ching and Cam Weaver and midfielder Brad Davis. Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear, and coaches Wade Barrett and Tim Hanley have all played for San Jose clubs in the past while Kinnear and Hanley have both coached on the Earthquakes staff.
Ching also played for the U.S. men's national team in a 3-2 friendly win over Japan at AT&T Park on Feb. 10, 2006. Another Dynamo player with ties to the area is forward Calen Carr, who grew up in nearby Berkeley and played soccer at Cal.
The group offered their thoughts on Friday's training session as well as a look towards Saturday's first-ever MLS match at the baseball stadium on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. The praise for the playing surface was unanimous after the club tested the pitch during the rain-soaked training session. Below is a sampling of their responses.
Head Coach Dominic Kinnear: "It is a nice stadium and the field is in great shape. Obviously it depends on the weather. If it rains a lot it will slow things down a bit, so we will see how it is going to play."
Goalkeepers Coach Tim Hanley: "I am a baseball fan and I am a Giants fan. My two boys are real Giants fans, so I took a couple pictures on the field after practice and sent them to my son, who plays in college. I wish I could trade places with them."
"There have been games up here in San Francisco before. San Jose already has great fans; this is just another opportunity to expose the game to a few more people. A lot of people from San Jose will come up here; the train stops right out front."
"The Earthquakes will play the Galaxy at Stanford this year, and this is a great idea as it exposes soccer to different markets. It is probably a little bit harder for the Earthquakes than us because they have to go outside of their house and won't be able to play in a place where they are so comfortable. It is exciting for us, and for Quakes fans, and maybe some new fans."
Dynamo forward Brian Ching: "I have been to the stadium as a fan and once with the U.S. men's national team. The crowd was fantastic and I am really looking to a different venue- one of the great venues in baseball. I think the guys are excited, it is something new, there is going to be a lot of fans and we are looking forward to it. "
"The stadium is a treat to be a part of. To be able to come back here and play a soccer game in San Francisco is something I am really looking forward to. "
"The field is good- the grass is the right length, especially if it is going to be a really wet field. You are always nervous when you come to a venue that doesn't host soccer events very often, but I think the grounds crew has done a fantastic job and it is going to be a great field for soccer."
Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis: "It is pretty neat being right here on the water. It will be a fun game with a fun atmosphere. I think it excites the fans too, so we are looking forward to the game and playing in this park."
"I think it will be good for the fans. More people will be able to come (than the smaller Buck Shaw Stadium) and it is exciting for the Dynamo and the Earthquakes. I think it is something that the fans really grasp- it is just a different venue and a different atmosphere."
"The field is going to be fine. Hopefully the rain will hold off. I don't think it's going to be a problem at all. I think they did a great job of laying the sod."
Dynamo assistant coach Wade Barrett: "The stadium is beautiful and the field is in good shape. I think it is exciting that we get to play the game in San Francisco. The Quakes have a great following in the South Bay and I think there will a great crowd here tomorrow."
"The field is in great condition right now. We'll see in 24 hours if it continues to rain, it could be a little bit sloppy, but we will be ready to go."
Dynamo forward Calen Carr: "This is a beautiful stadium and it is nice personally to be home in the Bay Area and see some family and friends, but we are staying focused on the game. "
"It is really cool to come in here and see a whole different side to the stadium. I grew up an A's fan, but I came to game two of the World Series here against the Texas Rangers (in 2010). It is a different view and is really cool to be able to play in this beautiful stadium. "
"The field plays great. Obviously the rain is going to be an issue tomorrow, but that is a part of the game and we will be prepared for that and will be ready to go."


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New tests could be introduced to drastically reduce the time it takes to diagnose heart attacks.
The two tests measure the levels of cardiac troponin, a protein that is released into the blood when the heart muscle is damaged, often as the result of a heart attack.
Standard tests for cardiac troponin are most accurate when carried out between 10 and 12 hours after the onset of symptoms of a heart attack.
Under current methods two tests are performed to detect any change in troponin levels, which means that for many people they have to be admitted to hospital for observation while the testing is carried out.
But the two new "high-sensitivity" tests can detect lower levels of troponin in the blood than the previous tests, helping doctors diagnose or rule out a heart attack or other cardiac conditions much quicker.
The health watchdog Nice, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has published guidance recommending the use of the two tests and a final decision is expected in October.
Professor Carole Longson, director of Nice's health technology evaluation centre, said that use of the high-sensitivity tests would enable the earlier detection of changes in troponin levels.
She said: "This in turn can allow doctors to rule out a diagnosis of a specific type of heart attack called a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) within four hours, if test results are available within three hours of presentation to the emergency department.
"The increased sensitivity of these tests could mean a reduced length of stay for people without raised levels of troponin, and earlier treatment for those with a confirmed NSTEMI."
The new tests would be used alongside traditional electrocardiogram (ECG) tests and an evaluation of a patient's clinical history to diagnose an NSTMEI, a more minor heart attack, because cardiac troponin levels can also be raised in people who do not have coronary heart disease.
Conditions which may cause cardiac troponin levels to be raised include inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis), severe infections, and renal disease.
Around 700,000 people go to hospital ever year in England and Wales because of chest pain, according to Nice, while in 2011/12 some 79,433 people were admitted with a heart attack or unstable angina.


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First – seemingly out of nowhere – the Republican Party is able to get three – three! - members of the GOP elected to the City Council. In a City Council that has historically been overwhelmingly controlled by the Democratic Party, it's nothing short of a minor miracle that the Queens County Republican Party was able to get three candidates on their line elected. In the past, they were lucky if they were able to get one person on the City Council.
Now the madness is spreading.
Last week, the Queens Young Republicans Club held their first meeting in years on the campus of St. John's University. That's right, a whole generation of new Republicans who will be completely lost at all of the Alex Keaton references we are dying to make, so why even bother?
Yes, there is something strange afoot in Queens, and we can't just chalk it all up to backlash at Obamacare or the intoxicating beauty of Sarah Palin. No, there is definitely something much more behind all of this GOP love in the borough of Queens.
If you'll let us hypothesize here, we think the Democratic Party itself is to blame, but not for the reasons you might think. It's not national policy that has turned our youngest minds to the party of elephants, at least not those who have political aspirations of their own and dream of one day holding public office.
The problem lies in the cronyism of the Democratic Party. Want to run on the Democratic line, well then you better get in line. First join a civic and stay active for at least five years, then if you're lucky you'll get elected (read anointed) a district leader, which means that you'll get to spend your evenings canvassing neighborhoods knocking on doors and trying to get signatures for the people who are actually running for public office.
If you dutifully do that for ten years or so – don't forget about joining your local community board, that's a good political resume builder, as is hours and hours of self-serving community service – and then, maybe then, it will be your turn to run on the Democratic line, that is if the person currently holding the office you covet doesn't decide to vote to overturn term limits and run again, in which case it would be in bad form to challenge them in a primary.
Or, you could just run as a Republican – they're always looking for candidates – and New Yorkers like to be unpredictable, and either just for fun or to make a statement, they'll buck the trend of voting for your Democratic opponent, and – voila! - your an elected official!
That's the fastest way to public office, and what's in a label anyway? Good luck, young bucks!


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Essential Math for Games Programmers
Welcome to the website for the tutorial Math for Games Programmers, which is presented every year at the Game Developers' Conference. Within you will find information about the tutorial, free tutorial materials, and some updates for Jim and Lars's book.
In 2015 the tutorial was one day focused on math topics (the physics tutorial is now being run by Erin Catto). The presenters were Jim Van Verth, Squirrel Eiserloh, Eric Lengyel, Graham Rhodes, Gino van den Bergen, and Manny Ko.
Lecturers in past years have included Stan Melax, Robin Green, Erin Catto, Stephen Frye, Erwin Coumans, Takahiro Harada, Mike Acton, John O'Brien, Glenn Fiedler, Kees van Kooten, Marq Singer, Christer Ericson, Lars M. Bishop, Jason Clark and Marcus Nordenstam.
If you've come here looking for the demo code for Jim and Lars's book, please go to our GitHub repository.
For questions, comments and corrections to this site, please contact Jim by using his first name at this domain.
UpdatesAugust 15, 2015: Updated for Third Edition.
March 10, 2015: Updated for GDC 2015.
March 22, 2014: Updated for GDC 2014.
July 29, 2012: Updated speaker list for GDC 2012.
April 1, 2012: Updated for GDC 2012 and past conferences.
August 9, 2008: Updated for the new edition.
March 13, 2008: Updated for GDC 2008.
June 24, 2007: Updated for GDC 2007. Also uploaded slides for a talk Jim and Marq did on game physics for the Digital Game Expo.
March 28, 2006: Updated for GDC 2006.
July 29, 2005: Added errata and patch file.
June 25, 2005: Uploaded slides for a talk Jim did on dot products for the Digital Game Expo.
April 13, 2005: Added notes for The Future of Curved Surfaces roundtable to the publications section.
March 14, 2005: Uploaded latest Win32 sample code.
March 13, 2005: Cleaned up and uploaded tutorial slides. See blog for specific notes.
February 25, 2005: Updated website for GDC 2005.
Copyright © 2006-2015, James
M. Van Verth


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State of the Union: Obama's audience of four
- Marco Rubio and Dianne Feinstein among key senators
- Ex-candidate Paul Ryan carries weight on budget issues
- Justice Anthony Kennedy could be pivotal on gay marriage
WASHINGTON — When he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama not only will be speaking to the 40 million or so TV viewers across the country. His words also will be aimed at a few people sitting right in front of him.
A junior Republican who is key to an immigration deal. A senior Democrat who may need coaxing to compromise on gun control. A member of the GOP ticket Obama vanquished in November. And a Supreme Court justice likely to be the swing vote on same-sex marriage.
What the president says and how he says it can set the stage for cooperation or confrontation on an issue. He can boost an ally or lay down a marker. Though his inaugural address last month was soaring and thematic, the specificity of a State of the Union means it can be a sort of political dog whistle, with messages only some in the audience will be able to discern.
"Every word in a State of the Union address has multiple audiences," says Michael Waldman, who as chief White House speechwriter for President Bill Clinton worked on several of them. "You care about what the sponsor of the bill hears. You care about what the rank-and-file of the Democrats or the Republicans hear. You care about what the country hears. And the notes may ring differently to different people."
On big issues, will Obama laud the provisions that unite Republicans and Democrats or spotlight the ones that divide them? Will he mention by name his top allies and the important figures on the other side? If he does, will that make it easier or harder for them to deliver?
The annual speech to a joint session of Congress is a "giant Wurlitzer organ for presidents," Waldman says, capable of playing many tunes. Here's a rundown on the key players Obama hopes will be listening to the music.
Immigration: The junior Republican
After two years in the Senate (and at age 41 a generation younger than most of his colleagues), Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has emerged as the single most crucial ally for Obama's hopes of signing a comprehensive immigration bill this year.
Rubio, who will give the Republican response to Obama's speech Tuesday, is a member of a group of four Republican and four Democratic senators that outlined the framework for a bill that would manage the flow of legal immigrants and provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants now in the USA. The group includes other important figures, among them Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz. A bipartisan group of House members is also at work.
It was Rubio, the son of Cuban emigres, who launched into fluent Spanish at a news conference announcing the group's broad principles — underscoring the imperative many Republicans feel to reach out to Latino voters, who overwhelmingly backed Obama in November.
And it was Rubio, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, who is doing much of the selling job to conservative critics. Radio host Rush Limbaugh, who had bashed the bipartisan framework, had only praise for Rubio after he appeared on his show, calling his efforts "admirable and noteworthy." Rubio is a crucial emissary to House Republicans, many of them from solidly GOP districts where most voters oppose providing a path to legal status for illegal immigrants.
Winning passage in the House almost certainly will be more difficult than the Senate.
"Rubio is viewed by some Republicans as doing on the Republican side what Obama did on the Democratic side: Get into office for a nanosecond and start to run for president," says Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute. "At the same time, he's absolutely essential to the problem they have with Latinos. He clearly has the Tea Party credibility, and he's the younger generation."
That makes him a valuable commodity for the GOP — and, potentially, for Obama. Meissner says she'll be listening for the president's approach in his speech. "Does he frame this in a way that signals he and the Democrats will do this in a way that it is a win-win for Republicans also, and not an 'I-win-you-lose?'"
Guns: The senior Democrat
The repercussions of gun violence propelled Dianne Feinstein's career. She was president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 when Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated in City Hall by a gunman. She discovered Milk's body that day. She succeeded Moscone as mayor.
Two years after she was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, Feinstein was the author of an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. After last year's shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., killed 20 children and six educators, she filed a bill that would impose a stricter version of the ban.
Some key fellow Democrats haven't rallied behind her, at least not yet. Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., hasn't endorsed the proposal, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., warns that it would be hard to get it through the Senate, much less the House. Feinstein bristled at the list of witnesses at the first Senate hearing on gun legislation as tilted against the ban and says she will call her own hearing.
At 79, Feinstein is in her fifth Senate term. When it comes to guns, the issue for Obama is not her support but her willingness to compromise. Will she help push a bill if the assault weapons ban isn't part of it?
Negotiations with some senators, including Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have focused on expanding background checks for gun buyers and other less divisive issues.
"It's a very difficult rhetorical challenge," says Matt Bennett, formerly of Americans for Gun Safety but now at the centrist think-tank Third Way. "He doesn't want to say, 'We may not get the assault weapons ban done.' But he can put a lot of emphasis on universal background checks, on a firearms trafficking statute, on the kind of things Manchin and Coburn are ready to make deals on."
In the State of the Union, the president not only can draw a line in the sand for his opponents on what must be done but also send a message to his allies on the limits of what can be done. Bennett asks, "Is he going to be telling Democrats on guns, immigration and on fiscal issues, 'You have got to be willing to make some concessions?'"
Budget: The wannabe veep
Obama tried to reach a "grand bargain" with House Speaker John Boehner last year that would raise tax revenue and cut spending, including changes to Medicare and Social Security.
The talks failed and soured relations between the two. The issues haven't gone away, gaining urgency as automatic spending cuts are poised to take effect March 1, and the resolution that funds government operations expires March 27.
Out front for the GOP on these issues is House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who was Mitt Romney's 2012 running mate.
Ryan didn't make it to the vice presidency, but since the election, he helped pass a compromise plan on taxes and devise the party's strategy to delay dealing with the debt ceiling until spring.
He is drawing up a budget plan he says will balance the books in 10 years. He'll be at the center of the looming fiscal negotiations.
He was critical and deficit hawks were disappointed when Obama mentioned only in passing the need for hard choices to address the federal deficit and the national debt in his inaugural address. They expect to hear more in this address.
"I don't think that, given the fiscal picture of the country, he can possibly talk about the state of the union without addressing it," says Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "The parts that have been done are the easy parts and not the parts that are really going to fix the budget. The hard parts are still sitting there."
They would include dealing with the exploding costs of Social Security and Medicare. "Now the rubber is hitting the road," Ryan told reporters at a breakfast hosted by The Wall Street Journal. "Our strategy is to engage the Democrats on issues where we think we can improve policy, to oppose them where we don't."
Same-sex marriage: The swing justice
The most dramatic words in Obama's inaugural address last month may have been those embracing same-sex marriage, likening the struggle for equal rights by gay men and lesbians with those once waged by African Americans and women. At the moment, though, the battle over same-sex unions is being fought not with federal legislation but in the courts.
In two cases being argued before the Supreme Court next month, Justice Anthony Kennedy is likely to be the swing vote, as he has been on nearly all the important issues that have come before this court.
In Hollingsworth v. Perry, justices will debate the constitutionality and other issues surrounding California's Proposition 8, which amended the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. In U.S. v. Windsor, they will consider challenges to a 1996 federal law that denies Social Security survivor payments and other benefits to same-sex partners who were married in states that permit gay unions.
Kennedy, 76, is a Catholic appointed to the court by President Ronald Reagan. Sometimes he sides with the court's consistent conservatives (Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas) and sometimes with its consistent liberals (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor).
Supreme Court justices are invited to the State of the Union, though some choose not to attend. Kennedy was in the chamber last year.
He would hardly take instructions from Obama on this issue — he voted against the administration's position on the health care law and on campaign finance, to name two high-profile cases — but the president's rhetoric, and the societal changes it represents, could have an impact.
The administration is weighing whether to file a "friend of the court" brief backing the challengers in a pair of gay rights cases that will be argued before the Supreme Court in March. The Justice Department's brief would be due this month.
On previous cases involving the death penalty for juveniles and other issues, Kennedy's opinions suggest he is conscious of being on the right side of history, says Michael Klarman, a Harvard Law School professor. And there's this: Kennedy wrote the court's only two decisions supporting gay rights, in 1996 and 2003.
"The fact that the president is calling attention to same-sex marriage is a powerful iteration that society is changing and it's changing quickly," says Klarman, author of From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage, published last year. "The president wouldn't have done it two years ago. He wouldn't have done it one year ago. The fact that the president is now making it very prominent illustrates how much society's views have changed, and that is relevant to Justice Kennedy."


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This A list designer and sometime reality guy paid $250 to his waiter over the weekend to spank him. Put the waiter right over his lap and spanked him. No nudity, and everyone seemed to be having fun, but it was a strange thing to do in a restaurant at 8 p.m.
Zac Posen; Marc Jacobs
Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net


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S-Works Roubaix - Shimano DA Di2
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Album: Hallowicked 2000
Year: 2000
Fuck damnit, another Halloween
People on Military know what this means
Houses on fire, their blowin up cars
Creatures on the streets, and razor blades in candy bars.
/End Chorus
Went to trick or treat the first house on my block,
Spit in my face and gave me a rock,
I tried to give it back and said I'll take nothing instead,
Turned around and walked away and felt the rock peg me in the head,
Walked to the next house directly next door,
And there I found an old lady dead on the floor,
I said excuse me miss, but do you have a treat?
She lifted her leg and scraped flakes off her dead feet,
I ran to the next house happy and giddy,
There I seen a fat woman holding up her titty,
I said "Trick or treat" she said "Treat or trick"
And squeezed on her titty until it fucken.....its to sick!
The next house I was set back in the woods,
I was a little frightened but fuck I want the goods,
I knocked on the door, I heard a knock back,
And then I heard "Come in" and yo I'm like, Fuck That!
This house belongs to Ms. Cherryspoon,
She said "Drop your drawers and your treat is commin' soon"
I quickly grew a stiffy but kept my eye's shut,
A hand came out the mail chute and flicked me in the nuts
I wobbled to the next house ready for the worst
And chillen in the drive was a long black hearse
I rung the door-bell and said "Is anybody home?"
Of course little boy have a sugar coated kidney stone
I walked in the field and to the next crib,
It's friendly Mrs. Witherbee in her cooking bib,
I said "How bout some candy?"
She said "How bout instead,
a nice hot fresh home made loaf of yeast infection bread?"
My bag became heavy so I rest on the curb,
And riding on his bike, here comes little Larry Shurd,
I snuk up behind him, and kicked 'em off his seat,
I punched 'em in the neck and power bombed 'em in the street!
Now my sack of candy has doubled in size,
Up to the next house for my scary prize,
I'm like Trick or Treat, Trick, Treat, Tricky, Dick,
He opened up the door slapped my lips and didn't give me shit,
Rocks through his window and ran across the street,
To the big mansion,
I'm in for a treat,
I dinged on the dong, and here comes the butler,
A big gumpy, tall ass lurch lookin muther fucker,
I said "Hello Mr. is there somethin for my sack?"
He reached into his pocket but I think he hurt his back,
It's taken him an hour, my bag is open ready,
But then he finally dropped it in my sack, a fucken penny,
The next house is abandoned so forget it,
But wait a minute,
I think somebody's livin in it,
I ran up to the porch,
"Trick or Treat you can't hide"
It was a crackhead he crawled in my bag and died,
The next house was mine, the last on the block,
My mothers sitting on the porch shining up her glock,
I climbed on the roof with my brother Jump Steady,
And we yelled:


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Royals swept away by White Sox in extra innings
Hochevar gives up 12th-inning homer; Shields works seven innings
KANSAS CITY -- This one really hurt. You could see the pain on the Royals' faces.
Conor Gillaspie's home run gave the Chicago White Sox a 12-inning, 4-3 victory on Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
It was the fifth straight setback for the Royals and their eighth loss in the last 10 games, the latest slide in a season of extreme stretches of wins and losses.
Do the Royals have another hot streak in their system?
"They're grown men, they've got to pull themselves back in. It's time," said a grim-visaged manager Ned Yost. "We're going to have to find a way to get out of this. And get out of it real quick."
Gillaspie led off the 12th by belting an 0-1 pitch from Luke Hochevar over the right-field wall, just out of the reach of a leaping Justin Maxwell.
"I had a pretty good bead on it. I just tried to get over the wall and make a play on it," Maxwell said.
But over it went, although the ball bounced up, ricocheted off the back wall and returned to the field, causing a moment of uncertainty for White Sox third-base coach Joe McEwing.
"I kind of stopped running at second, because I didn't see anybody going after the ball," Gillaspie said. "Then I looked at Joe and he was waving me. You never know."
The Royals opened their half of the 12th with Billy Butler's walk and pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson's steal of second base. But White Sox closer Addison Reed retired the next three batters, and what remained of the 13,363 fans trudged to the exits.
It was Chicago's sixth straight victory, and Reed had a save in each one, making him the first pitcher to save six consecutive games since the Dodgers' Eric Gagne in 2003.
This was a game that the Royals led, 3-0, after a productive fifth inning against White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana. The bases filled up on Butler's walk and singles by Maxwell and Mike Moustakas. Emilio Bonifacio continued the trend with an RBI single. Two more runs scored on successive sacrifice flies by Alcides Escobar and Jamey Carroll.
Meanwhile, Royals starter James Shields reeled off five scoreless innings.
"This one was really frustrating. Shields really had his good stuff. I think they hit two balls hard off him," Yost said. "The rest were well-placed singles to get their runs. But I'd have paid a lot of money for a well-placed single in the later innings of that game."
Shields ran into trouble in the sixth inning, and the White Sox reduced his lead to 3-2. Jordan Danks belted a double into the right-center gap. After an out, back-to-back singles by Gordon Beckham and Alexei Ramirez pushed Danks home. The second run scored on Dayan Viciedo's two-out single.
The White Sox snagged a 3-3 tie in the next inning. Gillaspie singled, took second on Shields' wild pitch and scored on Josh Phegley's double -- a ground ball that ricocheted off first base and bounded into the outfield.
"I didn't do my job right there," Shields said. "I made a great pitch to Gillespie off the end of the bat, right over Escobar's head and then the next pitch I got a [wild pitch] and then next pitch [the ball] hit the bag. It's unfortunate."
That was Shields' seventh and last inning. He gave up three runs and nine hits with no walks and eight strikeouts.
Reliever Kelvin Herrera was the immediate beneficiary of diving catch made by Gordon on Ramirez's liner toward the left-field line.
"I had to do something," Gordon said.
Royals closer Greg Holland came out of mothballs, pitching for the first time since a double-save day last Friday at Detroit, and worked a scoreless ninth. After a two-out, two-base error by third baseman Moustakas, Holland absorbed a shot to the thigh off the bat of Danks and the ball rebounded to catcher Salvador Perez. He pounced on the ball and threw out Danks on a close play at first.
Holland was fine, Yost reported.
The Royals had a nice opportunity in the 11th. Carroll walked on a 3-2 pitch from left-hander David Purcey, who followed that by hitting Gordon in the shoulder with a pitch.
Asked if he considered having Eric Hosmer try a sacrifice bunt at that point, Yost responded: "No."
After Hosmer popped to center, Purcey was relieved by right-hander Jake Petricka, making his Major League debut. He did his job, getting Perez to bounce into an inning-ending double play.
When Gillaspie popped his home run, Petricka was rewarded with his first big league victory.
Afterward, the Royals were left pondering how to get out of their latest funk. Their 2-8 swoon followed a 19-5 surge immediately after the All-Star break. They remain 9 1/2 games behind Detroit in the American League Central and fell to seven games back in the Wild Card race.
"The season's not over yet," Maxwell said. "Have a short-term memory and get back and be ready tomorrow."
Shields expressed confidence the Royals could rebound.
"We've got a lot of character in this team and we're going to keep fighting till the end," he said. "We don't have any quit in us and that's one thing that we've done all season long: We haven't quit at all. We're going to keep grinding it out. We've just got to come up with some wins right here soon."
"We better or else it's going to be a long last month," Gordon said. "So, hopefully, we can start playing a little better and maybe make a run. Who knows?"


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The long-awaited Nintendo Wii U console is now on sale in the United States, following a midnight launch on Sunday.
Crowds of eager gamers descended upon on the Nintendo World store in New York City, where Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Amie excitedly counted down to the launch.
The midnight launch at some stores angered GameStop customers who'd pre-ordered the device, only to realise that the chain would not be opening stores early.
Tight supplies of the console are already leading to sold-out signs appearing across the U.S, echoing the demand for the original Wii console back in 2007.
Forbes is reporting that over 2,500 consoles have already appeared on eBay and are selling for $500, (UK£314, AUD$483), which is up to 66 per cent higher than the base price for the 8GB console.
Although gamers in the US can now gleefully enjoy their next generation console, gamers in the UK, Europe and Australia will have to wait until November 30 to get their hands on the device.
Source: Bloomberg


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ResearcherID is an excellent initiative and is to be welcomed. The need for a kind of "social security number" for publishing scientists is clear (try locating someone called Kim in Seoul!). I believe Elsevier's Scopus also has such an ID facility and there has been discussion about CrossRef being involved in such a system.
There are several stakeholders that have to be engaged in this: database providers, publishers, institutions, funding agencies. If a universal scientist ID is to be successful, all these groups must be involved and the ID must be free of any proprietary status.
What steps are Thomson Reuters taking to involve the necessary groups to make this a truly useful initiative in the global scientific community?
Thanks for your input and congratulations on being the first post on the new ResearcherID community forums. We fully agree that proper identification of researchers is an issue that effects all parties involved in the scholarly research workflow. Since the inception of ResearcherID in 2007, we have been working with a number of institutions and other organizations in creating an environment that is for the global scientific community. This is a practice that we will continue as the initiative evolves.
I fully agree with Martin: this is a great and needed initiative and there are a number of problems to solve. And I appreciate Ellens comments on the actions taken.
Actually, when I realized ResearcherID, I advertised it at my work place (in March 2007) and prophesied that everybody will have this unique number within five years and every journal will link directly your RID to your articles when publishing. Those five years are not over yet, but it seems to me that the development is not that fast.
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Knut - you are right that it seems slow taking off and I would be interested how many ResearcherID participants there are. I looked at the keyword "neuroscience" and it only returned 43 names. It could be that people aren't using the keyword feature, but this seems unlikely.
Ellen - thanks for the welcome. One thing that is not clear to me is how to search on a ResearcherID in the Web of Science. I input my RID as author and found nothing even though some of the articles are associated with my RID. Have I missed something?
Following are comments I posted to a mailing list a little while ago, after taking ResearcherID out for a test drive (and some alternatives). I'd be interested in further discussion or addressing of some of these issues - definitely along the lines of the open standards question. For context, I work for the research journals of the American Physical Society, where we're trying to address some of these issues in our internal database.
... An open public solution could be a big help. I don't think ResearcherID or AuthorClaim are there yet, and I haven't heard a lot of details on the CrossRef project.
There are at least two general issues:
(1) Identity of authors of previously published articles
- some sort of claim/validation process is needed. We are trying to simplify that as much as possible for our articles by some heuristics on names, contact information, subject areas, etc. - in particular, linking an author with an email address seems to be the most reliable identifier, though not perfect.
- However, this sort of simplification/automation is far easier for the corresponding author - for other authors we only have names (and some record of affiliation and subject) to go by, so there will definitely need to be a more complex "claims" process in that case
- All of this is complicated by authors changing affiliations, using several slightly different names or even changing names, changing corresponding authors on a paper or having a mismatch between the listed corresponding author and the contact information, occasionally sharing email addresses with others, etc.
We think we can get most of our records linked in this way to unique instances of authors, but we're inevitably going to have some percentage of erroneous relationships: some papers linked to the wrong author, and some authors listed two or more times as being different people.
ResearcherID in a sense doubles the problem - ISI makes no attempt to verify authorship claims, and it doesn't even seem to provide a way to uniquely list articles more than 10 years old (I uploaded all my 1995 and earlier publications there, and it doesn't seem to understand anything about them - no citation data etc.) At least CrossRef would solve the "what article are you talking about" problem by ensuring unique article identifiers in the first place. And then, how do we uniquely associate our author records with a ResearcherID number? ISI doesn't currently provide a protocol for an individual to prove to a third party that they own a particular ResearcherID, and the webservices they do provide are tied to WebOfScience subscriptions. An individual can acquire more than one ResearcherID, and list subsets of the same publications under multiple identities, if they chose (or if they just forgot they'd registered previously).
AuthorClaim seems to be based on an internal database of articles (most of mine were not there, though it found over 1000 matching my name!), so it controls the article side of things - doing this with the CrossRef database and DOI's as article identifiers would make sense. That doesn't seem to be what it's doing yet, but at least articles should be uniquely identified there, so it doesn't have the ResearcherID problem on that front. On the other hand it does seem to have similar issues with claims and potential for author duplication.
OpenID, generically, does not help either although it does provide that third-party proof-of-ownership piece that ResearcherID is missing right now. An individual can have many different OpenID's, just as they can have many different email addresses, and an OpenID associated with an individual is probably practically just about as useful as an email for uniquely identifying them. We already have email addresses for essentially all our (corresponding) authors of the last decade, and two decades for a good fraction, and it's still tough to figure out exactly who's who.
Unless there's some strong motive for researchers to stick to a unique non-shared ID in self-identifying, or other actors in the research system force such a unique ID somehow, this issue of duplicate records for older work is not going away.
(2) Identity of authors from the point of submission through publication/citation etc.
- this ensures the integrity of the links between author(s) and article by getting it in up front - we have this now based on email addresses (and names and affiliations), at least for corresponding authors, but those can change, so a more permanent unique ID would be useful.
- However, this doesn't completely solve the duplicate ID problem; an author can still acquire more than one ID. The advantage in a going-forward system is that the author would have some motive in uniting their records; otherwise their publications would split between the separate ID's.
- Co-authors (other than the corresponding author) would also need to have some way to prove their identities and authorship if we want the same reliable connection for other than the corresponding author. This has the advantage that all authors should be aware of a publication in progress. On the other hand, this could be quite a burden for large collaborations, and we'd need to make exceptions for papers where one of the authors becomes unavailable or deceased during the publication process.
The requirements for handling issue (2) are technically straightforward but perhaps practically difficult due to the need for cooperation:
* Provide every author with a unique permanent identifier (OpenID, ResearcherID, email address...)
* Provide a mechanism for third-party validation of that identifier (OpenID and email allow this - email just by having the third party send a validation email)
* Have publishers require authors go through that validation in the process of submitting articles for publication
* Record and preserve the unique permanent identifiers as part of the article record (associated with a given author of that article), and distribute as part of article metadata etc.
The requirements I'd suggest to get full authoring relationships for historical data, issue (1), are technically trickier but perhaps practically easier:
* Heuristically group author-article pairs by author name, affiliation, subject, email, and whatever other article-based data is available that could uniquely identify each author
* Use non-article data, if available (history of a particular person's affiliations or email addresses, for instance) to join these groups together into best-match single-author clusters
* For authors still working as researchers, apply the unique identifier used for current work (issue 2, above) to have them validate themselves and claim to be particular authors, and correct or approve the single-author cluster(s) belonging to them.
* Ensure that only one validated claim (one unique author identifier) is allowed per author of any article
* Update article metadata with the author identifiers
There's a lot of potential here, but it's going to be slow going without a widely used and agreed upon unique, validatable, permanent, author identifier.
I'd like to add to these earlier comments one additional thought - I believe such a system with its various validation flaws could be greatly strengthened by some sort of community assignment process, where outside people have an opportunity to indicate their agreement or disagreement with particular authorship claims.
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Thanks for helping us get the dialog going. The development team is working on further integration between ResearcherID and the Web of Science. More information about this functionality should be available around October. Keywords are currently entered by the user, as we move forward we are looking to enhance this functionality. Currently there are about 40,000 registered users.
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Game Day for the Glory of God
- Stephen Altrogge Author
- 2008 16 Oct
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Game Day for the Glory of God by Stephen Altrogge (Crossway).
A Life For the Glory of God
Some moments are frozen in history and burned upon our mind's eye. Moments of ecstatic victory and of heartbreaking defeat. We can see them as clearly as if they happened yesterday. With incredible clarity we can see Michael Jordan using a crossover dribble to free himself from coverage, then draining the game-winning jump shot against the Utah Jazz in game six of the 1998 NBA Finals. We remember Joe Carter thrusting both hands skyward and joyfully leaping into the air after hitting a home run to win the World Series in 1993. Or who can forget the precision-perfect touchdown pass thrown by Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antwaan Randle El to a wide-open Hines Ward in the 2006 Super Bowl?
Of course, not all is glory in the world of sports. We remember the heartbreaks just as well. Tennessee Titans fans shudder when they hear the name Mike Jones. Jones crushed the Titans' hopes of a Super Bowl XXXIV victory when he wrapped his arms around Titans wideout Kevin Dyson as Dyson lunged for what would have been the game-winning touchdown. Pittsburgh Pirate fans curse and spit when they hear the name Francisco Cabrera. It was Cabrera who single-handedly dashed the Pirates' bid for a trip to the 1992 World Series with a clutch pinch-hit single in the bottom of the ninth inning of the National League Championship Series.
We have our own moments of glory and defeat as well. Winning a pickup basketball game with a fadeaway three-pointer. Letting the winning goal slip through our hands in a game of soccer. Running a marathon for the first time. Trying to run a marathon but collapsing in exhaustion before the finish. We cherish the victories and cringe at the defeats.
We live in a world that has fallen madly in love with sports. Every year hundreds of millions of people gather together to play and watch and talk about sports. There are magazines devoted to baseball, football, chess, badminton, poker, Uno, and every other sport imaginable. Stadiums are packed to maximum capacity. Teams that win a championship are given a victory parade and treated like war heroes. Men come together every Saturday to engage in fierce combat on an asphalt battlefield called a basketball court. We seek to improve our holiness and our batting average in church softball leagues. Professional athletes are idolized, and small children can be seen sporting jerseys of their favorite players. Students at the University of West Virginia light couches on fire after thrilling victories. We live in a society that is absolutely crazy about sports, and for many people, sports are their life.
Sports are not merely a modern phenomenon either. For thousands of years athletes have come together to engage in fierce competition. In ancient Rome massive, bloodthirsty crowds would gather to watch gladiators hack each other to pieces with swords. The Olympics were born in ancient Greece, and according to legend the first marathon was also run in ancient Greece. Scripture itself mentions sports in 1 Corinthians 9:24 where Paul says, "Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it."
There is something mystical, almost supernatural about sports. Something that resonates deep within our hearts. Victory gives us goose bumps and brings us to the verge of tears. We watch in hushed awe as men and women perform athletic feats that seem to defy the laws of physics. Our love for sports often transcends race and politics. We instinctively root for the underdog and are delighted when a weaker team upsets a stronger team. Statistics are our lifeblood. We sometimes have trouble remembering the birthdays of our children but have no problem remembering that Nolan Ryan pitched seven no-hitters. Sports touch us at a deep level, engaging both our hearts and our minds.
Does God Really Care?
As a Christian who absolutely loves sports, I find myself asking several questions. Why did God create sports in the first place? What does God think about sports? Is he interested in our wins and losses and all the organized chaos that happens in between? What are God's priorities in sports? Does the Maker of all things care whether I make my free throws? Does high-sticking bother the High and Exalted One? Is there any connection between Jesus and a jump shot? The answers to these questions are crucial for any Christian who enjoys watching or playing sports.
But before we can determine God's priorities for us in sports we must determine his priorities for us in life. We must first answer the age-old question, why are we here? The answer to this question provides a foundation for answering all other questions. Those who know and embrace God's purpose for their lives will also know and embrace God's purpose for sports. Similarly, those who reject God's purposes for life will also reject God's purposes for sports. Therefore it is absolutely critical that we know why God made us! Those who miss the boat here will find themselves in the dark on every other question of eternal importance.
Our Purpose in Life
Fortunately, God has made things very clear. He hasn't left us to wander hopelessly in the dark. In the Bible we find God's purpose for all men and women clearly spelled out. Isaiah 43:6–7 says, "I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made" (emphasis added).
There it is, the answer to the most important question in all of life! God made you and me for his glory. Our existence isn't the result of a cosmic accident. We are not the by-products of a massive explosion that occurred six billion years ago. No, we were created by God for his glory. To bring something glory means to make it look great. When an Olympic weight lifter wins a gold medal for his country, he brings it glory. He makes his country look really good. After eating a delicious meal we feel compelled to speak. We heap praises on the chef for the tenderness of the steak or the succulence of the apple pie. That brings glory to the chef. It shows just how good the chef really is. God is the most beautiful, amazing, wonderful, glorious being who ever existed, and he has made us to bring honor and worship to him. To do anything else is wicked. First Corinthians 10:31 puts it this way: "So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."
Pretty clear, isn't it? We were created for one all-encompassing purpose: to bring glory to God in all that we do. In his book Don't Waste Your Life John Piper puts it this way: "God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life." The goal of our lives is worship. Scripture calls us to live in such a way that everything we do and say is worship to God! Worship is not simply the songs we sing on Sunday morning. Worship extends to every facet of our lives. Eating a steak or slurping a milkshake or, as Scripture says, "whatever" we do can be a form of worship. That most certainly includes playing, watching, and talking about sports.
Consider this for a moment. Scripture tells us that everything we do is to be done to the glory of God. Every jump shot and every slap shot. Every single and every strikeout. Every victory and every defeat. Whether we ride the bench or start every game of the season, all of it is to be done to the glory of God.
The Problem
There is a problem, however. A huge problem. That problem is called sin, and it affects every single one of us. Sin is any failure to conform to the moral standards of God. It's breaking God's perfect and holy commandments. It's rebellion against God. Sin is cosmic treason against the King of the Universe. We were made to live for the glory of God and the honor of his name. We were made to bring him pleasure. Yet each one of us has rejected that purpose and has chosen to live our own way, according to our own desires. Romans 3:23 tells us that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." All of us have failed to glorify God in the way that he deserves. He is an infinitely glorious God, worthy of our highest praise and passionate allegiance. We have given him neither. Instead we spat in God's face and spent our passions on sinful, ungodly pleasures. Because God is holy and just, he can't allow such heinous rebellion to go unpunished. He has decreed that the punishment for sin is eternal spiritual death. Those who reject God will spend a blistering eternity in hell, under the wrath of God, receiving the just punishment for their crimes.
Scripture tells us that in addition to being under the wrath of God, we are also slaves to the power of sin. Ephesians 2:1 describes us as being "dead in . . . trespasses and sins," and Titus 3:3 says of us, "For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another." We don't live in a way that glorifies God, nor do we desire to do so. Those who are slaves of sin can't glorify God. They don't even want to glorify God.
Broken Cisterns
It gets worse. Scripture tells us that not only have we committed cosmic treason, but we have also forsaken the fountain of living water. In Jeremiah 2:12–13 we read, "Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water." Sin is forsaking God, the beautiful fountain of living waters, for putrid, muddy, briny water.
It's like choosing to eat maggot-infested bread instead of filet mignon. It's as if someone offered us the crown jewels of England and instead we chose a twenty-five-cent trinket from a vending machine. It's irrational. It's foolish. It shocks and appalls the heavens.
Sin is utterly wicked. By choosing sin over God we are saying that it's better and more satisfying than God. This is the ultimate lie. God is the sum of all excellent things. He alone can truly satisfy our hungry souls. To say that he's anything less is a grievous insult and the height of wickedness. He must punish such ungodliness. This is a massive problem.
The Solution
But there is a solution to our problem, and his name is Jesus Christ. God the Father sent his Son Jesus to do what we could never do. He sent Jesus to live a life of perfect obedience to the law of God. Every thought he ever had, every word he ever spoke, every deed he ever performed brought honor and glory to God. He was perfect in every sense of the word. If anyone had the right to stand before God's throne and say, "I deserve to be rewarded for my obedience," it was Jesus. Then he did the unimaginable. Jesus didn't claim the reward that his perfect obedience deserved. Instead he chose to die a bloody and shameful death on a splintery piece of wood. As he was hanging on the cross, something absolutely astonishing took place: Jesus was punished for our sins. Second Corinthians 5:21 tells us, "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
God the Father looked on God the Son as if he had committed our sins. Then the Father poured out his furious wrath on Jesus, crushing him for our sins. Every perverted thought we ever had, every prideful boast we ever made, every venomous word we ever spoke was laid upon Jesus. He took it all, receiving the full hatred of God toward those sins. He completely drained the cup of God's wrath.
Now if we come to God in repentance we can be forgiven of every sin we ever committed or will commit. The unbearable weight of our sins will be removed, and God will credit Jesus' perfect life to us. God will look upon us as if we had never sinned and always perfectly obeyed him. It's an exchange of our sins for Christ's righteousness. God strips us of our filthy rags of sin and wraps us in white robes of righteousness. What a blessed exchange this is!
We who receive Christ's righteousness also receive new spiritual life. Like flowers blooming in a barren wasteland, new desires spring up in our once spiritually dead hearts, desires to please God and obey him. This change is described in Ephesians 2:4–5, which says, "But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved" (NIV). Our relationship to God also changes. Before salvation we are enemies of God and under his wrath. After salvation, God adopts us as his children and gives us all the privileges of being sons and daughters of God. What incredible mercy he pours out on us!
This is the foundation of living a life that glorifies God. The gospel of Jesus Christ is what makes it possible for us to glorify and please God in all that we do. Those who aren't reconciled to God cannot obey him. Romans 8:8 says, "Those who are in the flesh cannot please God." The gospel brings forgiveness and new life to our souls, and it empowers us to live in a way that glorifies God.
Throughout the remainder of this book we will be trying to answer the question of how we can enjoy sports for the glory of God. As we take a deeper look we will be made keenly aware of how often we fail to bring God glory. It's at this point that we must return again to the sweet news of the gospel and remember that our acceptance with God is based solely on what Jesus Christ has accomplished. Only then will we have the strength and the courage to confront our failures and seek to change. Only then will we be able to truly glorify God in all of life.
Copyright © 2008 by Stephen Altrogge
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