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Shroud of the Avatar is an MMORPG with a sandbox twist to it. The narrative itself is more focused on each individual player's perspective and their decisions will reflect on literally everything later on. Whether or not you saved a child from a burning building might just determine whether or not you get a special weapon or thrown into a prison. Your decisions matter, and it's one of the biggest things that make the game fun. You're put into a fantasy world where player housing dominates the landscape (although very expensive player housing). There are no classes, only skills and player's playstyle that determine how well things turn out for them. Overall, it's definitely unique with a lot of room to expand on the idea the devs have started.
Character Creation
Upon logging into the world for the first time, whether you're doing offline single player mode or online with everyone, you get to create your character. You can have a few of them too if you decide to take a role playing route on it. The process of designing your character is very basic currently, with little to differentiate you from the other 50 new characters that may appear when you do into the world. You get a couple face options, skin color, slight hair color variants (and I do mean slight as most look almost the same), and then you can change a bit with the sliders but those don't vary much either.
Once you're finished with your character, you can begin your journey by starting out in a burning village! What excitement! It's vague on what you have to do and how, but that's sort of the point since how you do things is up to you. You can save a little girl or leave her, get a bow or swords or a spear, or do it all and take on those zombies and skeletons that block your path as you learn to fight.
Your First Steps Into the World
After the odd tutorial and foot travel that seems to have taken forever, you finally get to finish your customization with your path option and some skill choices. This is done via text when talking to the avatar lady. The way most things work in the game is entirely through text communication with the NPC's. There will be options highlighted with various colors and they will determine which path you take as well as your starting stats and skill set. You'll be able to unlock everything in time, so don't sweat it much if you didn't get the path you wanted. After you're done, you get cast off into the world at a starting zone, depending on the choices you made and what you do after that is up to you though I'd recommend just doing any quests you can find for money and experience for skills.
In early access, I could only choose the Path of Love, which had wound up making me do a bunch of quests helping out couples with missing relatives and partners all over the place. This is how your decisions will shape the path ahead of you. There is a hunter path, which will deal with trapping animals, retrieving hides and things hunters would do for money and so many other unique paths you can start out in. The quests available to you will change depending on the choices you made as well, making it unique for everyone unless they intentionally make identical decisions (and even then it's still different!). But after you've got a direction, be it exploration, trading, or hunting/questing, you can continue down that path and make money to purchase skills and eventually own property of your own to build on and manage.
Classless Combat
So, how does the classless combat work? Well, the skills are mostly determined by which weapon you use as well as magic elements. There are 8 magic types to use from life to dark to chaos, it gets confusion quick, and then there are the 6 weapon skill trees that deal with things like bows and swords. You can use all of the magics at the same time as wielding any weapon, so it allows for a pretty flexible playstyle. Want to be that healing flame sword character? Well, it's possible to ignite your weapon on fire and use healing magic too!
The combat itself is action based and quite smooth with directional targeting. I found it most enjoyable as a ranged character since the melee felt clunky when trying to dodge from the enemy. The AI isn't the most intelligent and you can get them stuck on trees and rocks as well as even shoot them from afar and they won't even notice at times. However, they aggro based on sight, so if you're brightly lit up with a torch and running through an open field, you can bet ya they're gonna come at you.
You get 9 skills per hotbar, and two types of hotbars. First, you have your battle hotbar. This one will be displayed during battle (with an option to keep it on always) and you can set up your fighting skills on it so they don't take up space on your other one. The second one is unlocked through an option in one of the NPC leaders' dialogue if you ask them about that type of skill. That one is for when you're out of combat, so things like your sprint, light, or quick swapping items.
In addition to all of that, you can have two weapon sets. Keep in mind that your gathering tools are also considered weapons, so you'll have to constantly be swapping them out to be able to use all of them. Most people use one set for tools and the other for ranged fighting, whether that be with a bow or magic staff. You can also go full gathering and use them both that way as well, with no real limitation on the combination you use so it's pretty easy to keep track of.
The Skills and Backbone of the Game
Naturally, as a sandbox game, crafting is important right? Absolutely, and this game is no exception. Each skill has it's own perks and they all also have a chance to fail or "fizzle" which wastes the mana it would have used and puts the skill in cooldown regardless. To be the best in magic, you want to keep in light armor and avoid melee fighting since the debuffs they can stack on you give higher fizzle chance leading to more fail casts.
There are two types of skills, crafting and adventuring. Your combat skills, magic, and healing skills, as well as mobility and other buffs are all in the adventuring category. Each of the options in that category also have several subcategories allowing for various builds to be possible. The crafting category is as the name suggests, dealing with things like carpentry, decorations, smelting, and so on.
There is also taming, which is found in the crafting category, as well various miscellaneous skills. You can tame almost any creature you fight, and even make some of them become mounts which is a huge plus for me! I found it really nice when I was able to ride a wolf instead of running around everywhere. Overall though, there are over 20 skill categories and hundreds of skills. You'll be able to make the character you want exactly how you want. That alone leads to some really unique builds between each person.
As a sandbox, crafting forms the backbone of the game. Land is owned by players, cities governed by them, and open world pvp punishing them. All of it is made possible through crafting of course. You can craft houses, furniture, weapons, armor, and even unique items to be sold in the market all over the game world. Players can become bandits and attack others while they travel, or be the traders roaming from town to town buying low and selling high. The economy is player driven and the best items are crafted by the players, with no shortage of player shops. Almost every lot owned by someone has a shop…
Play with Who You Want
While Shroud of the Avatar is an MMORPG, it also allows you to be selective on who you're playing the game with. Maybe you don't care to see hundreds of players just crowding an area chatting out of boredom? Well, you can change your play mode to become local multiplayer, or "with friends", which will remove all of those from your game session. Their homes, cities, economy, and everything else is still there, but they will no longer be visible or chatting for you. This is especially helpful if they're blocking NPC's you need to chat with.
Alternatively, there is even an offline mode where you'll be able to play through over 40 hours of story content completely alone. It may be useful for someone without a lot of time or dedication to sink into the game, but I found this mode dull and lonely since I'm used to playing games with others. Offline is good though if you don't have internet access at that time, such as camping or something. Options are always good if they allow you to play it anywhere!
The game is still pretty basic in terms of design and it gets confusing easily if you don't understand exactly how the quests work. Having to constantly type in what you're looking to chat with the NPC about for a chance that they recognize what you said can be tedious. Having a side bar with the quest options woulda made that less chaotic than it is but it does certainly have a unique way of doing the quests. Overall though, the game has come a long way over the several years it has been in development. The team behind it is only three people, so it's got quite a bit there for how small the dev team is. I found myself enjoying the game as an archer-spellslinging fool with a wolf companion, so it was fun seeing bandit NPCs run from my wolf. If you like sandboxy games that don't give too much direction but just drop you into the world, you might wanna check this one out. It has a lot of fun stuff to it once you catch on to how things function, and all the skills are bought with coin so they're all pretty easy to get. Once you have them, they level up through using them. I'd say the game is good, but definitely needs some more time in development to be taken too serious.


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This booklet contains arthropod pest management research conducted on vegetable crops in eastern Virginia in 2014. Research was conducted at several locations in Virginia including: 1) the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center (AREC) near Painter, VA; 2) the Hampton Roads AREC in Virginia Beach, VA; 3) the Virginia Tech Kentland Research Farm near Blacksburg, VA; and 4) the Southwest Virginia 4-‐H Educational Center in Abingdon, VA. All plots were maintained according to standard commercial practices. Soil type at the ESAREC is a Bojac Sandy Loam. Soil type at the HRAREC is Tetotum loam (average pH: 5.7). Soil type at the Kentland Research Farm is Shottower loam. Most of the research involves field evaluations of insecticides. Some of the information presented herein will be published in a similar format in the journal Arthropod Management Tests: 2015, vol. 40 (Entomological Society of America). We hope that this information will be of value to those interested in insect pest management on vegetable crops, and we wish to make the information accessible.
Virginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, reprint, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.
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Part-time Inventory Specialist
**Job Category:**
Store Associates
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**Job Description:**
**What does a Best Buy Inventory Specialist do?**
At Best Buy our mission is to leverage the unique talents and passions of our employees to inspire, delight, and enrich the lives of our customers through technology and all its possibilities. If you have a passion and curiosity for what is possible and enjoy people, we invite you to join us on this mission.
+ This position is responsible to receive and ship merchandise to/from store and to stock merchandise in the warehouse or on the sales floor.
80% of your time you will:
Receive and ship store merchandise:
+ Removes merchandise from truck and compare against packing list.
+ Applies security tag to product and moves it to sales floor or warehouse storage.
+ Packages merchandise for shipment and completes bill of lading for transfers
+ Packages merchandise for shipment to return to Distribution Centers.
+ Operates equipment according to company safety standards to assist in moving merchandise.
+ Stocks merchandise on the sales floor.
+ Assists in the receiving of drop shipments
+ Prepares merchandise for home delivery.
+ Accurately documents movement of merchandise.
+ Completes paperwork for store receiving, transfers, home delivery, DEVO, Junk Out.
10% of your time you will:
Provide and maintain store appearance:
+ Ensures clean parking lot, sidewalks, store entry, aisles, restrooms, warehouse area.
+ Properly disposes of debris, boxes.
10% of your time you will:
Provides carryout service for customers:
+ Safely loads merchandise in customer's vehicle.
+ Verifies receipt against merchandise.
**What are the professional requirements of an Inventory Specialist?**
Basic Qualifications
+ Ability to work successfully as part of a team
+ Ability to work a flexible schedule inclusive of holidays, nights and weekends
+ Ability to lift or maneuver 50-100 pounds, with or without accommodations
Preferred Qualifications
+ 3 months experience in retail, customer service or related fields
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**Best Buy Company and its Family of Brands**
Best Buy is the world's largest multi-channel consumer electronics retailer with stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We are the 11th largest online retailer in the U.S. and Canada, we have the number one customer loyalty program of its kind and more than 1.6 billion visitors to our websites and stores each year. Our more than 165,000 employees are committed to helping deliver the technology solutions that provide value, enabling access to people, knowledge, ideas and fun – whether online, via mobile device or in our stores.
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**What are my rewards and benefits?**
Surrounded by the latest and greatest technology, a team of amazing coworkers and a work environment where anything is possible, you'll find it easy to be your best when you work at Best Buy. While you're making technology work for our customers, we're making sure Best Buy works for you with our pay for performance philosophy. At Best Buy we offer top salaries for management, including both short and long term incentive plans based upon business results, as well as endless opportunities to grow in a dynamic work environment that's part of an industry that never sleeps. From tuition reimbursement to deep employee discounts, to health, wealth and wellness benefits, we believe the success of our company depends on the passion of employees for learning, technology and people.
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Star Citizen was though to be a massive game from the very start, with vast environments and enormous gameplay. However, director of game operations at Cloud Imperium Games, Jeremy Masker, warns that it may be a bit more massive that people think.
The statement comes in response to a forum user from Robert Space Industries, who predicted that the game and its client will be heavily compressed and optimized. Unfortunately, Masker sends out a different and contradictory message to the latter statement.
"As I have already said, I would not count on this," Masker stated. "The game compression and asset removal is unlikely to yield such high gains that we will be able to reduce our client size to 30-40GB. The size and number of assets that are left to deliver means that our client size is much more likely to be 100GB."
"Also, yes we are optimizing game patching for speed and to only deliver diffs, but this is unlikely to reduce actual patch size," he continued. "Again, each patch has 100s of assets, each of these assets are at times 200mb, this leads to 2-6gb patches, and if we end up doing a file type re-factor and have to re-download 30-40% of the assets on the hard-drive, then the patch will be 14-20gb."
This might not be an issue for users who already have a super-fast internet connection, but fans who are not so lucky might be extremely disappointed.
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- Is the used aircraft still refreshed as it was previously or has it been changed to 100% random now?- Will short haul night flights be feasibile at all or have we just got to experiment and see?
- If it's an overnight flight that departs for example 22.00 and arrives 07.00 it shouldn't be too bad. But "nobody" wants to arrive at 03.00 somewhere...
Any more idea about when another world will be opened? I missed out on the new 1.2 world as it was very early in the morning here when it opened
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Troubleshooting: Getting a sysprep 0x8007139f error after preparing an image
Document ID: KVZ100020/ Created on: Jan 23, 2011/ Updated on: Jan 23, 2011
After deploying a sysprepped Windows 7 image you may see the following error message
** Failure occured during online installation**
If you review the Windows\panther\unattendgc\setuperr.log you may see the following entries
2009-12-11 10:22:57, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x8007139f
If you review the windows\panther\unattendgc\setupact.log you may see the following entries
2009-12-11 10:22:57, Info [windeploy.exe] WinDeploy.exe launched with command-line []…
2009-12-11 10:22:57, Info [windeploy.exe] Setup has not completed, adding pending reboot.
2009-12-11 10:22:57, Warning [windeploy.exe] SetupCl has pending operations; blocking deployment process until they've been completed.
2009-12-11 10:22:57, Error [windeploy.exe] Failure occured during online installation. Online installation cannot complete at this time.; hr = 0x8007139f
Response from Microsoft:
The installation is linked with registry keys that appear to cause problems for sysprep.
· The system doesn't have full access to some registry key.
· A registry key is larger than 8kb.
· Registry is corrupted in some way
Some possible causes are
Installation of HP LasterJet 8150 driver which creates the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers\Client Side Rendering Print Provider\<sid string here>\Printers\Connections\<name of the printer type, location, etc.>!RemotePrinterCache
Installation of 3rd party program that created and or modified the following registry key:
Installation of Daemon Tools created following registry key with incorrect permissions(Administrators and system did not have Full Control)
Installation of Lotus Notes or Lotus Communicator created the following registry key that was bigger than 8k
Response from Microsoft:
To resolve this issue you must determine what registry key is causing the issue and then uninstall the application to remove the key or correct the permissions of the registry key.
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Kathy Robinson - Broker of Record »
Kathy, a life long resident of Palmerston, has been involved in real estate for many years. She was the original owner of Yours Family Restaurant here in Palmerston and may be known to many from her years at Ranton Place when it was under the original ownership of Don Robinson. She has provided over 40 years of customer related service to those living in Palmerston and surrounding areas.
Kathy has taken an approach to buying and selling of property with her clients that removes most of the negative experiences; intimidation, fear, stress and confusion. Her past clients have commented on many aspects of her commitment to their needs; spending extra time with them to explain fully the real estate process, communicating with them on a regular basis, providing the right contacts for advice about financial matters, pro's and con's to decisions that have to be made and potential consequences, providing ample properties for comparison and a willingness to show them homes/properties that are listed with other real estate offices. Kathy understands that you expect her to provide quality time and effort in selling your property or helping you find that perfect home, farm or piece of land. You can be assured that she will give you her best 100% because there is nothing greater than 100%.


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ITC Upholds $6 Million Penalty for Consent Order Violations Based on Patent Claims Later Found Invalid
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Extang and Laurmark Seek Temporary and Permanent Customs Ban on All Pickup Truck Folding Bed Covers In ITC Filing
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California Federal Court Takes a Narrow View of the Common Interest Doctrine
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What Factors Do Courts Consider When Analyzing the Waiver Implications of Accidentally Producing Privileged Documents?
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Federal Court Wrestles With Privilege Ownership After a Complicated Corporate Transaction
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Lawyers' Failure To Consider Work Product Protection Prejudices Their Clients: Part II
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Delaware Court Provides Transactional and Practical Guidance: Part I
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Opinion Highlights the Risk of Rogue Constituents' Privilege Waiver
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Documentaries provide a first-hand window into the war: whether they are based on media archival footage or witnesses' visual and oral accounts, documentaries articulate and construct the collective vision and memory of the war. Milton J. Bates argues that war narratives build on a dual perspective that pits the perceptions of the man on the battlefield against the knowledge of the military command: "The man on the hilltop, whether he is an elected political leader or one of those civilian or military technocrats whom Noam Chomsky called the 'new Mandarins', knows better than the man in the valley because he knows so much more and knows it dispassionately." From the soldiers' accounts to the version formulated by government officials, documentaries highlight the gaps between war experiences. In "The Great War and Modern Memory", Paul Fussel refers to the First World War to argue that the horror of combat defies the attempts of language to represent it. Atrocities such as the Holocaust cannot be contained in language, which accounts for the merging of fiction and nonfiction in a series of documentaries that capture Bill Nichols' "blurred boundaries". The documentary's search for truth is thwarted by the tricks of memory linked to the confusion of events signified by the "fog of war" that makes war narratives necessarily incomplete stories.
We prompt contributors to question the discourses of the war in documentaries that either endorse patriotic myths or interrogate their ideological underpinning in the wake of anti-war movements. War documentaries have challenged our perceptions of events as technological progress has democratized film cameras and made it a tool placed in the hands of soldiers and witnesses. Eric Barnouw contends that the development of lighter, cheaper equipment served non-governmental groups as a medium of dissent. From the Vietnam Home Movies series to The War Tapes (Deborah Scranton, 2006), documentaries give voice to the soldiers whose visual memories of the war are coloured by the imagination of the past, thus merging fiction and nonfiction in films that use stories to fashion History.
The following topics represent possible fresh fields of investigation:
The role of documentaries in the perception of war
The role of technology in the evolution of the war documentary
The writing of a Counter-History or the politically committed documentary form
The fictional dimension of war documentaries
War documentaries as a collection of memories
The selected articles will be published in an issue of the peer-reviewed journal InMedia (http://inmedia.revues.org/).
Proposals should not exceed 500 words, should include a short bibliography and should be sent both to Delphine Letort (firstname.lastname@example.com) and to Georges Fournier (firstname.lastname@example.com) by 15 September 2012.


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A week and a half has passed since I wrote that "I do not bet on political campaigns. But if I did, I would lay odds on Mr. Roberts returning to the senate for a fourth term."
At that time, two relatively fresh polls had Roberts\' competition, the Democrat-running-as-an-independent Greg Orman, up by 6% (Fox) and 5% (Rasmussen) respectively….which looked good for Orman, if you didn\'t know that a previous poll, taken several days earlier (PPP) had Orman ahead by 10%.
My reasoning for expecting a Roberts win was as follows:
His admittedly stiff primary challenge came not from someone like Greg Orman, but from the other side: hardline conservative Dr. Milton Wolf. Wolf\'s supporters, still disgruntled that they didn\'t get a candidate even more conservative than Roberts, have not yet shown they will vote for him – which, of course, they will over Orman, who is supposedly independent, but in actuality is the Democrats\' choice. So, in red state Kansas, where Roberts already has three victories under his belt, how does he lose this time? I don\'t see it.
No polls have come out in Kansas since I wrote those words, so I have no basis for what I\'m about to say other than what my gut tells me.
My gut tells me that I should not change one word of what I originally wrote. I don\'t see Kansas voters favoring a Democrat poseur pretending to be an independent, over an incumbent Republican Senator they have already sent to Washington three times.
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Melanie Fiona feat. J. Cole – This Time by OneInAMillionTV
Check out the hot new video from ESSENCE Music Festival artist Melanie Fiona. The song, featuring hot young emcee J.Cole, is her latest single off of the The MF Life.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014 to Friday, November 21, 2014
Marie-Noëlle Pons, chair of WG4, welcomes everyone and acknowledges Eveline Volcke for organizing the event.
Then, the different participants were distributed in 4 different sub‐groups for discussions and better interactions:
- Sub‐group 1: Physico‐chemical processes group. Members: X Flores – Alsina, P Grau, K Solon, J Baeza, A Masic, L Krayzelova, M Reimanis, M Papa, D Vrecko, S de Gisi
- Sub‐group 2: Separation group. Members: U Jeppsson, Kris Villez, Youri Amerlinck, Elena Torfs, Wouter Naessens, Ingmar Nopens
- Sub‐group 3: Risk and N2O group. Members: M.Mauricio Iglesias, Kris Mampaey, Joaquim Comas, Eveline Volcke, Marie‐Noelle Pons
- Sub‐group 4: Micropollutants group. Members: MN Pons, Miguel Mauricio, Q Comas, M Papa, S de Gisi, M Reimanis, Xavier Flores‐Alsina
Every sub-group had a rapporteur who made the presentation to all the WG4.
Issues as the water 2020 book, summer school, planning next WGmeeting in Paris, were treated along the second day.
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Watching "high quality nature programmes" could boost wellbeing during lockdown, research suggests.
Scientists from the University of Exeter made 96 people feel bored by first watching a video about an office supply company.
The participants were then shown unseen coral reef footage from Sir David Attenborough's Blue Planet II series.
Read more: Lockdown could trigger 'surge' in PTSD
After viewing the nature documentary, the participants reported significantly reduced feelings of sadness and boredom.
Watching the series via a virtual reality headset even induced happiness and a sense of being connected to nature.
The scientists hope their results will encourage people who are stuck indoors amid the coronavirus restrictions to get a dose of "digital nature".
"Our results show simply watching nature on TV can help to lift people's mood and combat boredom," said lead author Nicky Yeo.
Read more: Pets 'help people cope emotionally' during lockdown
"With people around the world facing limited access to outdoor environments because of COVID-19 [the disease caused by the coronavirus] quarantines, this study suggests nature programmes might offer an accessible way for populations to benefit from a 'dose' of digital nature."
Watch: Royal children chat with Sir David Attenborough
Under laboratory conditions, the scientists first induced boredom in the 96 participants by having them watch a video where a person described working at an office supply company.
The participants were then shown scenes of a coral reef; either on television, via a virtual reality headset with a 360 degree video, or via a virtual reality headset using interactive graphics.
The scientists worked with the BBC's natural history unit to create the coral reef scenes, which featured several clips from the Blue Planet II series, including unseen 360 degree footage.
Read more: How does loneliness affect health?
Results – published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology – revealed all the viewing methods minimised negative feelings, like sadness, while significantly reducing boredom.
Only the interactive virtual reality experience led to an increase in positive emotions, like happiness, while also strengthening how connected the participants felt to nature.
"We're particularly excited by the additional benefits immersive experiences of nature might provide," said co-author Dr Mathew White.
"Virtual reality could help us to boost the wellbeing of people who can't readily access the natural world, such as those in hospital or in long-term care.
"It might also help to encourage a deeper connection to nature in healthy populations, a mechanism which can foster more pro-environmental behaviours, and prompt people to protect and preserve nature in the real world."
Watch: Sir David Attenborough and Prince William launch environmental prize fund


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I love the idea of a community garden. We have one in Noosa which is fantastic as so many people live in apartments here. We also had one in Gloucester, The Tucker Patch, which initially I found strange as everyone had a large garden of their own, and yet they came together to grow vegetables which were then sold at the Farmer's Market. Despite have over 5 acres garden of my own, I assisted at the Tucker Patch and learnt the real value of gardening with others.
Coming across the Pop Up Patch in a car park in Melbourne's Federation Square was unexpected. Apparently, I was told, there was a problem with the structure being used for car parking and so Federation Square and The Little Veggie Patch Company joined forces to create a green space on the unusable section. The view as you approach gives no hint to what lies inside. Here any member of the community can rent a square garden and plant whatever they choose. Naturally there are more vegetables than flowers but there was an abundance of petals to delight also.
There was a little shop selling coffee so you could sit amongst the greenery, breathing in the herbs as they released their aroma as people brushed by their foliage. A shop was also onsite selling seeds from the garden, gardening equipment and books and the gardeners could put their excess produce for sale. Advice was given out for free. I imagine on a weekend the place would be alive with gardeners, tourists, conversation and laughter.
The space also aided in keeping Federation Square a carbon neutral. Another rooftop use that was not open to the public, which also went towards creating a carbon neutral environment was the rooftop bees, part of the urban honey movement. On top of another building are 10 hives which supply Federation Square restaurants and cafés with all their honey needs. The hives yield, I'm told, around 350 kilograms of honey each year.
If in Melbourne, Federation Square is worth a visit (do the free guided tour) and take in more than the architecture and artwork. What a wonderful public space for the city to have.


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Thank you for this vital article on xylitol. Alarmingly, there is xylitol even in products made especially for dogs. My vet suggested I use Virbac Animal Health C.E.T. AquaDent "drinking water additive".
Ingredient list: Purified Water, Glycerine, Xylitol, Polysorbate 20, Potassium sorbate, (etc.). Xylitol is listed as the third ingredient.
I went online to the ASPCA link to warning about xylitol (even in small doses), dated August 21, 2006:
Here is a snippet from that release:
"We seem to be learning new information with each subsequent case we manage," says Dr. Dunayer. "Our concern used to be mainly with products that contain xylitol as one of the first ingredients. However, we have begun to see problems developing from ingestions of products with lesser amounts of this sweetener."
I then called the ASPCA poison control center and the veterinarian who picked up the line told me that Xylitol is considered a poison to dogs. But when I told her the ingredients to the CET AquaDent, she immediately back-tracked and said the C.E.T has "small amounts." I read to her the above wording from their own posted article, and her exact response was: "If you think about it, we all consume a little bit of poison each day. Apples have cyanide."
I personally choose NOT to feed my dog "a little bit of poison each day." So I returned the C.E.T. AquaDent to my vet's office for a refund. They also said, "But it's a small amount." I won't buy that product again. I am shocked they make it for dogs, and then its ingestion is defended by vets. Thank you for getting the word out and telling people to read labels!


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In writing effective simulations, it is important to tell a story that the learner feels that he or she has an effective role in. The decisions they make determines how the story unfolds. Their decisions are guided by a task in which they must rely on the talents or skillsets that each other bring to the defined task. It is through collaboration with each other that they are able to meet and overcome challenges along the way and also deal with unexpected variables that arise through the interjection of unexpected factors by the instructor or mentor during the run of the simulation. At the very heart of simulations in an online environment is a very important concept that every student of world history understands, that being the concept of "Cause and Effect".A necessary question is:
The Importance of Cause and Effect in the Development of Scenarios and Branching Scenarios
As we consider world history, the one constant construct is that all events in the history of the world are linked through the relationship of cause and effect. Some of the understandings that we can grasp about this relationship are:
- One event can produce a ripple effect leading to multiple events. If we drop a stone in a still pool of water, the energy becomes visible in the ripples that move out from that one event and they impact on any objects on that pond.
- Objects in that pond may respond to the impact of this event in a number of ways. If the objects are of great substance, they absorb the energy but nothing changes. An example of such objects are the monolithic institutions in our societies such as education. Education as an institution has withstood the advance of various movements for educational change over the last two hundred years but still maintains its status quo.
- Objects in that pond may also respond by themselves becoming causal events moving out in a cascading effect to affect other objects. This cascading effect is what happens in simulations that use real world scenarios. The difference is that the events are represented by decisions that are made and the intelligent agents, the learners, use the feedback that they receive to exercise control over these cascading sequences.
- The nature of the feedback received by the intelligent agents in an immersive E-Learning environment where virtual and augmented technology is used can come from a number of technological sensors if available or simply from the natural senses.
"What can students learn when this cause-effect relationship is properly integrated into the fabric of a real world scenario?"
To address this question, we return to a scenario that I wrote.
The Manhattan Project Scenario
Background: The time period is 1942 during World War II. Multinational physicists have been recruited to take part in a secret weapons project called the Manhattan Project. The group is spearheaded by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and includes other notable scientists as Dr. Albert Einstein, Dr. Enrico Fermi, and Neil Bohrs who laid the foundation for Quantum theory. The military adviser to the project was General Leslie R. Groves. The goal is to develop the first atomic bomb by collaborating with others who have different skillsets in your group before the Nazis who also have an atomic weapon program, complete the same goal.
Building the Immersive Environment: The environment that learners enter into to do the work is an updated laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A. The learners enter in the role of one of the key scientists involved except for the role of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer which is assumed by the educator. An updated virtual laboratory may look like the following:
A new virtual technology, titled "Cave2", could also be considered as an immersive environment that would take a blended E-Learning approach since the use of avatars would not be necessary.
Next....Roles, interjected variables and adaptive, agile learning objectives
Building the Immersive Environment: The environment that learners enter into to do the work is an updated laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.A. The learners enter in the role of one of the key scientists involved except for the role of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer which is assumed by the educator. An updated virtual laboratory may look like the following:
|Updated Version of Los Alamos Laboratory
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Looked pretty good week 1 against the Browns also so I'd say 2 games out of the 4 being the worst..IZigUZag wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:59 pmSo Mariota rebounded at every lvl this Sunday vs the Falcons.
Looked confident, pocket awareness, ball placement and accuracy were pretty much perfect all game and finally got the TEN WR's involved in the passing game.
I am by no means saying that he's turned the corner -- he's had stretches of excellent play only to fall back into mediocrity before-- but it was encouraging to see that he hasn't completely regressed into a 3rd string QB.
And despite 3 out of these 4 games being some of the worst play I've ever seen out of him, he currently sits as the #8 fantasy QB on the season.
The TEN receiving core that's been holding him back his entire career suddenly looks like one of the better cores in the NFL with the emergence of AJB; and he might just be the beneficiary of that.
Mariota has always seemed to play well against NFC teams fwiw. Also made the move to rookie Nate Davis at RG over Jamil Douglas in which seemed to be a good move for production. The protection was huge for Mariota Sunday. Last week 9 sacks on 19 pressures and then 0 sacks allowed against the Falcons. Not many Qb's can succeed with that much pressure in your face all game in which they came into this weeks game allowing 17 sacks on the year ( average roughly 6 per game).
For all the "switch to Tannehill" guys out there, what does Tannehill do better than Mariota? I can answer that... absolutely nothing. Comparing those two is like comparing Brand name food to Great value brand. Mariota is a faster-yet slightly-better version of Tannehill and the same problems will exist no matter who is under center. Trust me as a Titans fan, it's very easy to yell at the TV.. " FIRE THE QB". but there's much more underlying issues on that offense than just the Qb. Starting with the O-line consistency.


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Mexican Chilaquiles Recipe
10" Dutch oven
12/8 (12 briquettes on top and 8 on the bottom)
Baking time: 15 minutes
2 cups shredded and cooked chicken breast
12 corn tortillas
1 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
¼ of a fresh jalapeno or more if preference is real spicy
1 white onion
1 cup oil
6 sprigs of fresh cilantro
1 ½ cup of Monterrey jack, Cheddar or Mozzarella cheese
Salt to taste
Sour cream
Ahead of time cut tortillas into strips or triangles. Deep fry in oil until golden brown. Set aside. Then make sauce by placing tomatoes, ½ the onion chopped, cilantro and salt in blender until pureed. In a saucepan add 2 Tbsp of oil and heat. Add sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. In a 10" Dutch oven layer some of the tortillas, sauce and chicken. Repeat the step once more. Sprinkle with cheese and remainder of raw sliced onions. Bake at 350° F for 15 minutes. Garnish with sour cream or Mexican cream.
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Nearly five million people have fled Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, according to figures from UNHCR. Over one million have escaped to Lebanon, equivalent to 27% of its pre-war population.
Among them are thousands of older women and men with very specific needs, many of whom are in desperate need of assistance. Our teams are working in local communities to identify those who need help and provide targeted support.
Warda's story
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Warda is 85. She is a refugee from Syria. Her husband died 30 years ago and she only has one child and her neighbours for support. She suffers from low bone density and it is causing her serious medical problems.
"They told me that if I want to be able to walk I'll need a knee replacement, but that even if I had the money I wouldn't survive the surgery," she said.
"I miss my health and mobility. I can't leave the house. I have to ask my daughter to bring me water."
Aid exists, but only for those who can reach it. Her ill health means she can only get there with transport, and she has no one to call on.
"How am I supposed to get this help if I can't even leave the room?" she says.
What is HelpAge doing in Lebanon?
Together with our Lebanese partners Amel Association International, Imam Sadr Foundation, Makassed Association, YMCA and American University of Beirut, HelpAge is working to improve access to healthcare for the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) affecting older people. We are ensuring they can avoid life-threatening complications, improve their quality of life, and reduce the burden of their condition on individuals, families and communities.
Enormous strain has been placed on health services in Lebanon. The huge influx of patients in clinics and hospital is a particular challenge, and refugees are often bottom of the priority list.
Through clinics and mobile medical units that allow us to reach remote locations or patients who are unable to come to us, we are helping to alleviate some of the strain.
Our psychosocial group counseling gatherings provide peer support and advice, and we offer exercise and activity sessions to improve health and mobility. Our social events help to reduce stress and build support networks between individuals and create an environment in which older people can feel a sense of normality and rebuild their routines.
We held training sessions with staff in local health facilities, humanitarian agencies and officials of the Ministry of Health to enable them to provide high quality care and ensure they are responsive to the needs of older people, particularly those with NCDs. The Ministry of Health has recognised HelpAge as the key agency for any issue related to NCDs in older age and asked us to develop training materials on the needs of older people for its staff.
Over the last year we have:
- supported more than 2,500 patients, many on a regular basis, and provided them with drugs and laboratory tests to help them manage their conditions
- helped almost 2,000 people attend health education sessions on nutritional habits and the needs of older people who have one or more chronic conditions
- provided technical support through our Age and Disability Capacity Building (ADCAP) programme to other humanitarian organisations to be inclusive of age and disability in their work.
Speaking to older refugees
(c) Sandra Kastoun/HelpAge International
In partnership with Handicap International, we conducted research into the experiences and needs of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. By interviewing over 3,000 older refugees, we found they have been affected disproportionately by the conditions they faced fleeing Syria and are struggling to cope with their new lives.
Some 65% of those surveyed exhibited signs of psychological distress - three times more than the general refugee population. Feelings of fear, anger, depression and hopelessness are all common.
When it comes to physical health, older people do not fare any better. More than half suffer a chronic disease, compared to 16% of the wider population, and one in 20 picked up a physical injury in their escape. One in three have a severe impairment and 60% struggle with day-to-day activities.
These older men and women need specific support to improve their quality of life and meet their basic needs, ensuring they can live dignified and secure lives.
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League of Legends, the video game responsible for selling out Los Angeles' Staples Center in under an hour, isn't showing any signs of slowing down.
New metrics reveal that the PC multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) heavyweight has reached 27 million daily players — and brought in more than $600 million from microtransactions last year. The number of daily players has more than doubled since October 2012, when developer Riot Games declared it the most-played video game in the world.
League of Legends has achieved tremendous success as both a spectator e-sport phenomenon and a profitable free-to-play game.
Thirty-two million people viewed last season's world championship event online, according to the Wall Street Journal. Many of them watched via video game-broadcasting service Twitch, which owes a large part of its own exponential growth to League of Legends' popularity.
$624 million in 2013 makes League of Legends the second biggest earner in the explosively growing free-to-play category. It finished the year $333 million behind the top-ranked game, Crossfire, as reported by SuperData Research.
In a League of Legends match, players join teams of five and compete to destroy a nexus in their opponents' base while protecting their own. Various gameplay mechanics turn this simple objective into a complex and strategic competition.
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Space Group CEO and Director of bimstore, Rob Charlton has blogged for the content creation platform in response to a controversial blog post questioning the importance of manufacturer-specific content written by Miles Walker on the 4BIM blog.
Miles pondered whether manufacturers' content is indeed relevant in the grand scheme of BIM implementation across all lifecycle stages. He wrote: "Today, there is a case for content to be loaded with manufacturer's specific data; this is of course appealing to the manufacturer who knows their products inside-out, and wants to see a high level rendition. But often this is not needed in design and may never be needed even at handover.
"However, I do have a general belief that the UK industry may be heading for a potential "black hole" where content is over modelled and not fit for purpose causing projects to be overloaded."
Charlton thought to officially respond to Walker's comments, expressing why bimstore do what they do and are proud to do so.
"bimstore is proud to only support manufacturers' content," explained Rob. "This content is developed closely with the manufacturer with the family performance validated by them. We acknowledge the point about too much information in components from some manufacturers and the bimstore team has often had to explain that whilst the manufacturers may want every nut and bolt, this is not always relevant to the specifier."
RELATED: bimstore launch Specifi – the mobile specification tool
Rob also cites a plant room exemplar scenario, suggesting that an example like this perfectly demonstrates why detailed manufacturer objects are useful. He stated: "With a manufacturer's component we know the exact geometry. We know the true energy performance and the carbon performance for lifecycle calculations.
"When deciding space allocation for a plant room we can be accurate, with construction and land prices increasing we cannot afford to over or under design plant space. No client in central London would thank you for an over-designed plant room which could have been utilised for prime commercial or residential space."
In closing Rob affirmed that the people who know most about their products are those who make them. With them on board and educated in the right way, BIM objects are created correctly.
"bimstore believe the people who know the most about a given product is the organisation who manufacturers it. A generic specification is just that, generic. It's useful when developing an initial requirement but soon you need to deliver the building performance and you will need accurate information for this."
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|Founder: Len Mullenger Editor in Chief: John Quinn Contact Seen and Heard here
March 2001
MusicWeb makes a big impression with Vavo
MusicWeb <www.musicweb.uk.net> is the classical music web site recommended by most leading search engines, and praised by many leading print publications. It constitutes the largest CD review site on the Internet. After becoming a partner of VAVO.com, Europe's largest portal for over 45s, MusicWeb has doubled its reach since last December. Page impressions for February reached 796,798, nearly doubling MusicWeb's previous monthly page impressions of 400,000.
Greg McKenzie, Head of Portal for Vavo comments, "In part this growth has been driven by the 88,484 unique users that have visited MusicWeb since our partnership commenced; and in part to the fresh content available daily on the site, which makes repeated visits irresistible. We are expecting this growth to continue apace over the next few months. MusicWeb's comprehensive offering is perfectly suited for our 400,000 members, and we will work together to devise marketing campaigns to drive increasing numbers of our membership through to MusicWeb".
Len Mullenger, founder of MusicWeb, adds, "Classical music, Film Music and Jazz interviews and reviews have been the preserve of the printed press, but these figures rival the circulation figures of the leading print titles. The functionality of the Internet makes MusicWeb an easily searched treasure trove of independent news and views on a variety of aspects of music. Now our alliance with Vavo has proven that music lovers are also Internet users."
MusicWeb <www.musicweb.uk.net> was founded by Dr Len Mullenger in 1995. The site comprises: Classical Music on the Web (Editor: Rob Barnett), with daily reviews of current classical music recordings, features and articles; Film Music on the Web (Editor: Ian Lace) with news and articles about orchestral film music and reviews of current recordings; Seen and Heard (Editor: Peter Grahame Woolf) reviewing live music including opera, competitions and festivals in the UK and abroad with an emphasis upon new music and younger musicians. MusicWeb also carries in-depth profile articles on many British and other composers and is the official site for Gerard Hoffnung, the Warwick Arts Society, Redcliffe Recordings and many Composer Societies and Trusts including the British Music Society and the Federation of Recorded Music Societies.
MusicWeb is now a major and growing source for quality classical and film music CD reviews. Over one hundred contributors regularly contribute to the site including: Rob Barnett, Ian Lace, Lewis Foreman, Terry Barfoot, David Wright, Simon Foster, Christopher Fifield, Tony Duggan, Adrian Smith, Paul Conway, Peter Grahame Woolf and Marc Bridle. Over 100 Light Music articles and Garlands by Phil Scowcroft are also featured.
MusicWeb has a growing Jazz section headed by bandleader Don Mather and "Talking Books" and printed books are also represented. Rock and Pop music features are under negotiation.
About Vavo
Vavo is the only European portal designed to meet the needs of those who weren't born yesterday. Founded by Richard Spinks in London in September 1999, the company now operates in the UK, http://www.vavo.com; Germany, Sweden and Spain, and has secured backing from GE Insurance Holdings and Prudential. It's advertising revenue and transaction-based model saw the Company reach profitability in December 2000.
With a business model that the DTI considers "relatively immune from assault", Vavo is the leading pan-European portal for over 45s, as Forrester identified in their September 2000 report "The UK's Golden Age Opportunity". The Sunday Times currently rank Vavo 9th in their pan-European e-league which rates the most exciting pre-IPO companies doing their business over the Internet.
Vavo's targeted inventory provides a range of online resources and tools for its predominantly over 45 year old members. It is the first and largest portal in Europe aimed at this age group. In bypassing the traditional channels of distribution, Vavo offers a genuinely customer-focused service, providing its members with high-quality and good-value products and services.
In the next 20 years, half the adult population of Europe will be over the age of 45 and the phenomenal growth of this age group is mirrored online: the over-45s are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet. By providing a vertical portal for this age group, Vavo continues to redefine the Internet generation.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Patch O' Dirt Barn
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Amazing picture!!! I would LOVE to live on a "patch O' dirt" and have some chickens and a goat or pig or two. Probably not likely (though I might be able to talk Adam into some chickens if we have a big enough yard and aren't in a neighborhood where they don't allow awesome animals. :)ReplyDelete
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The most important thing you can do to grow your sales is to differentiate yourself from your competitors. Differentiation isn't just about what you deliver as a product or service. It starts before that and involves positioning your brand as a thought leader and trusted resource. Foster the perception that your company has the most skill and knowledge regarding the products and services you offer.
A few quick things that can help you achieve this:
• Communicate often. Utilize a series of high-value content related to the services you provide and that is directly attributed to your company. Every 90 days minimum. Every 30 days ideal. As Rio Longacre says, "It's selling without really selling.â€
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Australia's Federal and State governments have a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to invest in a world-first initiative to find the 'next generation' of hidden mineral deposits in Australia to sustain Australia's high level of economic prosperity and resource security, the peak body for Australia's 8000 geoscientists has urged.
The President of the Australian Geoscience Council (AGC), Dr Bill Shaw, said "the UNCOVER initiative — which has brought together government geoscience agencies, industry and research bodies in a unique collaboration — is already kicking goals in initiating and fast-tracking much-needed geoscience research, geological data collection and new exploration technologies to find 'hidden' mineral deposits".
Dr Shaw warned, however, that significant increased and sustained long-term investment is needed now to ensure UNCOVER can deliver to its full potential.
Dr Shaw added that "investment in UNCOVER would enable Australia to stake its claim in the 'next generation' global mining boom, at a time when other countries are already acting to win more of the global exploration and production pie in many commodities, including those that will be needed for the production, storage and transmission of renewable energy".
"The new high-quality mineral resource deposits needed to underpin Australia's future wealth and resource security are currently largely hidden from us when using the existing surface-based exploration techniques…and without a step-change in new exploration technology and data acquisition they may never be located" Dr Shaw said.
"As we are exhausting our existing mines much more rapidly than we are finding new ones, it is critical that we find substantial new, quality, economic mineral deposits within 10 years. This is particularly crucial due to the long lead-time involved in large project development and turning new discoveries into revenue generating mining operations."
"Failure to develop new major mines will have a huge impact on Australia's resource security, economic prosperity, and high standard of living. As more and more of these new mineral deposits will be at depth, rather than found near the surface, new deep-mining techniques will also be required that are more efficient and socially acceptable. "Importantly, we don't just need to find more of the 'traditional' minerals that have met society's needs to-date — we must have the knowledge-base to help us explore successfully for whatever minerals our economy and export industries will need in the future. "In short, a step-change in the exploration approach will help us find 'hidden' deposits more quickly, to enhance our competitiveness. Australia cannot simply wait until production levels fall — the time to get into the 'new search space' is now. "That's where the UNCOVER initiative comes in. "A global success story, UNCOVER's whole-of-sector approach is already delivering significant results, filling the gaps in current geoscience research, exploration technology development, and new data acquisition and compilation work.
"AMIRA International, working with UNCOVER, has already developed Stage 1 of a science and technology Roadmap to get Australia from where we are currently to where we need to be in terms of finding new resource deposits, and it has been enormously successful in bringing together key stakeholders to start developing the required technology and geological datasets in the best possible timeframe" Dr Shaw said.
"Stage 2 of the Roadmap, again being undertaken by AMIRA International, is currently underway with wideranging support from industry, including exploration and mining companies, exploration and mining service providers, industry advocacy bodies, research organisations and the Federal, State and Territory geological surveys. "The AGC is urging the broader geoscience community to get involved with this next stage of the program, by contacting AMIRA International. "But UNCOVER's future success will depend significantly on close engagement and ongoing investment by Australia's Federal and State governments.
"We need to ensure that our all branches of government understand that UNCOVER will generate a much bigger (by orders of magnitude) return on investment to Australia's taxpayers than the investment it requires.
"UNCOVER is not about putting forward a business case to help the mining and exploration industry — it is about sustaining and further building a strong future economy, and resource security, for Australia. As such, it is a business case for the future of Australia.
"Numerous other countries (like Canada, Brazil, India and Chile) have already realised that investing in 'next era' exploration research and geological data acquisition is a direct investment in their future wealth and resource security. "They have realised that big mining companies will vote with their feet and go where research and policy is most conducive to finding new resources most effectively and efficiently. "That these countries are putting significant funds into exploration geoscience research without demanding that industry matches those funds, is a clear indication that they understand this is an investment in their country's economic future and not in the mining industry itself.
"We certainly appreciate the initial seed-funding that Federal and State government agencies have so far put into UNCOVER and the AMIRA Roadmap. "We hope the governments themselves will now reflect on the progress that UNCOVER is already making on behalf of Australia, and recognise the significant return that a more substantial investment in UNCOVER would deliver to Australia. "It would be great to see our governments getting right behind this great Australian success story at this critical juncture so our geoscientists can help secure Australia's future prosperity."
More information on UNCOVER can be found at www.uncoverminerals.org.au.
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The "gee-whiz" factor got knocked out of Google Glass pretty quickly. A little over two years after it was introduced to the public in a test version, Google put Glass back under deep research cover after people developed an almost instinctive aversion to its "in your face" intrusiveness, not to mention its poor functionality.
One of the biggest criticisms was how much people felt the device got in the way of social interaction. But in a different take on this technology and its potential, Google Glass is now being used as a means to help children with autism better recognize human emotions and navigate their social worlds. At least two groups of researchers are developing apps for Google Glass to help children with autism better "read" the facial expressions and social cues of those around them. In doing so they are exploring some fascinating intersections between neuroscience and the nature of human interaction.
At Stanford, the Autism Glass Project completed a Phase I clinical trial last year in which children wore the glasses and were "coached" by the device to identify the emotions on images on a monitor. When the device's camera detects an emotion such as happiness or sadness, the wearer sees the word "happy" or "sad" or a related emoticon flash on the glass display. After completing a series of exercises, the children were better able to identify and differentiate the emotions they saw. They also looked more frequently at people's faces and made more eye contact.
Now the researchers are recruiting families in the Bay Area (and soon nationally) with children (ages 4-17) with autism to participate in a study of Autism Glass as a therapeutic tool in the real world of the home environment. Kids will wear the device for three 20-minute sessions each day and Glass's head motion tracking sensors and a custom-made infrared camera for eye tracking will be used to analyze the wearer's behavior while interacting with family members and friends. Whatever the wearer sees can be saved onto a smartphone app for parents and children to review together later, facilitating discussion about emotions and their real-life contexts. The idea is not so much that people will wear the device all the time, but that it will aid in the treatment process during behavioral therapy. In an abstract the researchers point out that "computer-assisted in-place treatment systems have been studied for years, little work has been done to bring the learning process away from the flashcards and into the daily life of people with autism spectrum disorder."
In Cambridge, Mass., the start-up Brain Power , founded by neuroscientist Ned Sahin and based on brain science developed at MIT and Harvard, has developed a suite of applications for its "neuro-assistive wearable device" using the Google Glass platform. In one of the apps focused on social interaction, the wearer sees two small icons on their screen when looking at a face, and by nodding slightly can choose one or the other that best represents the emotion being expressed. The wearer earns points for each correct selection. A key aspect of this approach is that feedback and reward all happen in real time, during real interactions, and encourages further interaction rather than the self-immersion more typical with computer-based learning. Brain Power is sponsoring the "BE YOURSELF" clinical trial to further investigate this and other applications for children and adults on the autism spectrum.
It's comforting to know that a powerful technology like Google Glass just isn't that exciting anymore if all it does is enable us to surf the web or check our emails faster. And it's inspiring that the potential of this technology is being tapped in a completely different way to help understand and solve the most human of challenges.


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In a White House appearance to sign a presidential memorandum reducing student loan debt, President Obama stressed the the importance of higher education in an improving economy. Photo: AP.
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Goodyear Tire Ashtrays
Goodyear tire ashtrays are items of smoking paraphernalia distributed by the American tire and rubber manufacturer Goodyear.
History & Description
Goodyear tire ashtrays are characterised by a glass insert wrapped in a scaled-down version of an automobile tire. Essentially, the tires can be considered as a miniature of the real thing. Branded on their sides are the Goodyear logo, sizes and other classifications found on real tires. They were considered and produced to be exact replicas in every way.
Goodyear tires ashtrays were first manufactured in the 1950s and continued to be produced and distributed until sometime in the 1980s. Is it believed that high production costs were the main reason why Goodyear chose to halt production of these novelty items.
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Goodyear tire ashtrays are a relatively inexpensive collectible in the cigarette and smoking collectors market. Prices for individual examples rarely exceed $20 and it isn't uncommon for an individual Goodyear tire ashtray to be sold for around $5. However, Goodyear tire ashtrays are typically sold at auction in a large group of around ten or twenty. These prices tend to range from $140 to $400.
The average price is determined on an items' condition, age and the specific tire being promoted. In addition, the glass inserts can also influence the overall price as they vary in colour and quality and some have pasted-on advertising.
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On September 16th 2005 at RM Auctions in Auburn, Indianapolis, a group of Goodyear tire ashtrays realised a price of $225.
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Simple Caveman gardening, no till, no dig, less water and little weeding, Regenerative Permaculture Farm and Garden podcast 27
Gardening and farming with less work, weeding, no tilling and no digging. How would a caveman garden? Well the caveman will not complicate growing vegetables. The caveman would see the point to grow food, is well to get food. I can't see a caveman wasting time on things in the garden to piddle around. He has to hunt big critters with sticks so he is busy.
All kidding aside, what can we do in are garden to get the prize, food! What can we NOT do in our garden or on our farm to get the prize. This is a goal of mine, a annual garden is temporary, short lived and no a long play in a ecological system. I want to spend little time in a annual garden so I have more time building systems that are permanent. A permanent is a long term play and pays us back for generations. A annual garden is important, but since it is short lived, we need to figure out ways to get the products of a annual garden with as little energy as possible. If you give a plant more than it needs, the extra is waste. If you spend more time or energy on a annual garden, the time and energy spent is waste. Waste not want not.
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As busy as ever, I have been writing Children's Stories as well as self-publishing books on my Sculpture, Photography and Poetry.
I am also writing a new book on my adventures when we drove Around the World in 80 days in a 1964 Facel 6 (the last of the Facel Vega Sports cars). In the Millennium year, 2000, we saved the life of a very brave young girl diagnosed with terminal cancer. It is the most incredible story and has never been written. Watch this space!!
Recently another new work has emerged from my studio.
I have named her Florence as she reminds me of the strength and yet love and tenderness shown by Florence Nightingale in the work she undertook in the Crimean War.
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These flooring have geometrical patterns made of wood slats in an individual manner that is held either by an adhesive or a mechanical device.
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Plastic laminate veneer is adhered with real wood to produce engineered wood. The difference between laminate wood and engineered wood is that the laminate does not contain any wood.
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Erich von Manstein was one of the most successful German commanders of World War II. His military mind proved outstanding in many a conflict but perhaps his greatest triumph was his ingenious operational plan that led to the rapid defeat of France in May 1940. Manstein also showed great skill under adversity by commanding a furious rebuff to the Soviet armies in 1943, whilst Germany were retreating. However, his skill could not reverse Germany's declining fortunes and Manstein's frequent disagreement's with Hitler over military strategy led to his dismissal. Robert Forczyk tells the story of one of Germany's most valuable military talents, from his early years to his postwar conviction and his later career.
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Robert Forczyk has a PhD in International Relations and National Security from the University of Maryland and a strong background in European and Asian military history. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the US Army Reserves having served 20 years as an armor officer in the US 2nd and 4th infantry divisions and as an intelligence officer in the 29th Infantry Division (Light). Dr Forczyk is currently a consultant in the Washington, DC, area.Adam Hook studied graphic design, and began his work as an illustrator in 1983. He specializes in detailed historical reconstructions, and has illustrated Osprey titles on the Aztecs, the Greeks, several 19th century American subjects, and a number of books in the Fortress series. His work features in exhibitions and publications throughout the world.
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