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One of the things we oftentimes hear about regarding gamers is that they're whiny, they're bratty, they're an "entitled" bunch. We often hear about how gamers "bite the hand that feeds" and that gamers should be "grateful" that publishers even allow us to play games. On the other end of the spectrum, some developers have sided with gamers, pretty much saying that a lot of games are trash.
Creative Assembly, best known for their Total War games, have acknowledged that a lot of games out there are crap. They're either samey, unrefined or poorly play-tested. In an interview with Edge Magazine, lead designer Renaud Charpentier actually comes to the aide of gamers, expressing frustration with the industry in works in, saying...
"When you look at the market, probably 20 to 30 per cent of the games are confident, and maybe 60 to 70 per cent are not good enough,"
Uhhhh, yeah...um...I agree. Let's clap for Charpentier.
While that above comment might make a lot of hardcore haters smile, let's try to add a little context to the message. I guess we'll have to assume the 20% or 30% are the Grand Theft Autos and Uncharteds. The rest are apparently games like Legendary, Bodycount or Syndicate, which are standard-fare crapfests or Blacksite: Area 51, Turok or Aliens Vs Predator or any other number of self-proclaimed AAA titles that release, are generic, don't play very well and leave a bad taste on the thumbs of gamers. These are the games I presume Charpentier is championing as "playing like shit".
Sadly there are a great number of stinkers than there are smash hits in the mainstream arena. This is mostly due to arbitrary contracts made up in favor of publishers to milk games like never before, similar to Activision's bi-annual release contract or Capcom's new policy to push games out in half the time. I do find it odd that the lead designer from Creative Assembly would speak out on the matter, though, especially given that they're not quite top of the AAA tier but they're certainly above the indie-plateau status. They're more like double-A status.
Nevertheless, Charpentier goes on to say that...
"Their biggest risk is not on the tech, not on the art, it's on the design," ... "You have to front-load that: it has to drive many of the other decisions."
Yes, yes, yes! I completely agree again.
This here is what gaming is all about, folks. It's the craft of entertainment...interactive entertainment. It's the excitement and thrill of the experience and the artistic vision of the designer being brought to life through the blood, sweat and tears of that creative hardship that comes with bringing years of engineering and artistic expression to life. You can't get that kind of experience out of a factory-line AAA title.
Charpentier finishes up his brutally honest purview of the gaming industry with this firecracker of a comment...
"As a player, I hate going through the burden of downloading a game, installing it, rebinding the controller, going through the tutorial, playing another couple of hours and then realising it's fucking boring!"
If I could have said it better myself then I'd be called Renaud Charpentier. But someone else already has that name, so I'll just stick with what I got.
Anyway, I love Renaud's attitude. I hope they continue making games they want to make the way they want to make them. They're obviously popular because Creative Assembly is doing something right and they're being well-rewarded for it.
You can check out the rest of the interview over at Edge Online. Creative Assembly's Total War Battles: Shogun has recently released for PC and Mac.


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Active vs. passive learning
September 13, 2015 4 Comments
One of the changes I am trying to incorporate in my narrative-feedback-instead-of grades classes (NFIG) this year is allowing the students to seek knowledge instead of having me serve it up via lecture/slides/notes the way I have in the past. Frankly, I believe that I try to be a good lecturer, using that method as little as possible and keeping it varied, interesting and informative.
Nevertheless, I'm still being the sage on the stage, no matter how entertaining. And, frankly, it's often exhausting. Even if I'm entertaining, the kids are still on the passive end of the learning. And after reading ROLE Reversal, I saw that that needed to change.
Flipping the learning
Taking an idea from Mark Barnes's book, I used a lesson for my Intro to Journalism students, one in which we learn about news elements, and I flipped it. I explained briefly what news elements were – elements that make news, news. Not all stories qualify as news. We read newspapers and talked about the stories and what drew us to them. Throwing those words on the board headed us in the right direction. But the set of "news elements" is what we needed to round up and define. I told the classes that depending on which text you read or what slide presentation or PDF document you find online from a journalism class or teacher, this set of news elements will vary. Some say there are seven, some say eight, some say 10. Their task, then, instead of watching my slide presentation and taking notes or taking notes from my very good textbook, Inside Reporting, by Tim Harrower, was to find the news elements themselves. I grouped them into threes and fours and had them use whatever means they wished: phones, computers, those cool textbooks. As a group, they were to discover what the common list of news elements was, and define the terms they had decided upon. I gave each group a sheet of blank 11X17 and access to colored pencils and markers so that they could posterize their list and definitions.
Near the end of the hour, I started with one group, putting their terms on the board and having others from the group define it for the class. I moved to the next group and did the same. In some cases, they had a common term. In some cases, they had a different word, but we decided it was the same as one on the board. For example, first group said "immediacy" and second group said "timeliness". Same thing. Sometimes another group would come up with a term that the first groups hadn't. An occasional term was a similar topic but not an element of news, so we discussed how that didn't fit like the others did, though it was relevant in a different way.
After all the terms were on the board, including the duplicates by another name, we decided as a class which ones would make up our list.
Creating artifacts for portfolios
Unfortunately, we ran out of time and will have to continue this next week. I plan to have students create their finalized list of terms in some form to help them remember. They can create their own slide presentation in Google slides or PowerPoint; they can create a digital poster in Smore or another app, digital flashcards or some other creation. The creation will help in retaining the information, as well as be a resource for later. They can save the artifact in their Google portfolio folder for referencing later on, and it serves for meeting both a vocabulary standard and a technology standard. When they begin reflecting on standards to assess their learning for the quarter, they can reference this to back up what they learned and the request for the grade they believe is reflective of their learning.
Reflecting on what needs improvement
Now, a few things did not go as well as I'd wished. While about half or more of the groups were so anxious to get to the searching that they had a hard time listening for all the instructions (that darn sage on the stage wouldn't stop talking), and they did just what I had hoped, a couple groups did struggle. I noticed one group not talking to each other. They seemed to be researching independently, as if they were going to compare notes after a brief time, so I let them be for a bit. Another group was crowded around one of the journalism lab's iMacs, and appeared to be quite focused – and they were, just not on the right thing. When I checked in on them, one said, "we found our story." Indeed, they'd found an interesting news story, one I'd have filed under "oddity" if I were filing under news elements. But that wasn't the assignment. The main spokesman hadn't understood the assignment, but hadn't sought to clarify. The others didn't think he was looking for the right thing, but were largely hesitant to bring up that point. I think one girl had said as much, but no one paid attention, so they continued reading the odd story. I restated the assignment, and I discussed how, as a group, each has a responsibility to make sure the work is on track and that each is being held accountable.
Heading back to the independent studies group, I saw that they were still studying independently. One had a laptop and was jotting down the elements she was discovering. But the others were not sure what they were supposed to be doing so were using their phones for a variety of things, some related to the assignment, some not. They were, however, not collaborating at all. So I talked about collaboration, how they needed to talk to each other, compare what they were finding, make decisions together and share tasks. They really struggled with this and the awkwardness was palpable.
I need to figure out how to teach collaboration. I need to differentiate a bit between my two sections because one works well with collaboration, and one does not. I shouldn't let them off the hook of talking to people; I just need to figure out how to help them ease into it in a way that doesn't make them too uncomfortable.
Have you considered flipping your teaching so that students are responsible for gathering their info? How would that look in your classroom? And if you have students who are hesitant to work with others, how do you handle it? Comment, and let's get a conversation started.


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Obviously if you're in a lesbian chat room or a gay bar, the problem of making sure your prospect really is gay goes away, but what about when a cute coworker catches your eye? No one wants to risk an embarrassing rejection when all you wanted was a date, and heaven forbid you insult them by accident when asking if they "swing" your way. Is there a code of conduct or instruction manual on how to get that important – and potentially awkward – detail out of the way? Not really, but we have some suggestions that might help the situation.
Don't Make it Your Opening Line
If the first thing anyone asked you was "What's your orientation?" you wouldn't find them very charming, interesting or unique, would you? Off that first impression, do you want to spend more time with them? No. So don't be that person. If you're interested in someone, make your opening intriguing as a standalone, and then shift into the question. This gives them a reason to be interested if they share your orientation, and breaks the ice so the question isn't so sudden.
Just Be Honest
Confidence is something every potential date will be impressed by, so don't make the situation more awkward than it needs to be. Rather than being vague or treating it like it's a too-sensitive subject, just be clear in the innocence of your question and standpoint. If you're simply asking about sexuality because you're interested in them and want to establish that fact before you move forward, let them know. If you hope you won't offend them, or don't have experience asking this question before, share this. They'll appreciate the honesty, and may even find your candidness charming.
Ask Them When You're Alone
Sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of, and it's not to be talked of in hushed tones like it's a death in the family. Still, some people have very good reasons for keeping their sexuality to themselves. Their boss, family, community, or friends might have a prejudice against them for revealing their sexuality, or they might have had a bad experience sharing that information publicly in the past. So when you walk up and ask the person you're interested in while they're standing in a group of people, they may be offended, feel threatened or answer dishonestly. Instead, wait until you're both out of earshot – on your break, or away from the crowd – to bring it up in conversation, so the answer they give is one they only give to you, and one they're comfortable giving just to you.
Do Not Ask Someone Else
You may be tempted to ask their friends, colleagues or even family members what their sexuality is to avoid the potential embarrassing rejection face to face, but remember: don't. They may not have shared this information with others, but may be willing to share it with you as a potential first date. If they have shared it, it's going to make you look less confident and therefore less appealing. More than anything, it's going to make the situation awkward, since those loved ones or co-workers are now involved in your romantic affairs. Who wants that?
Accept the Answer – No Excuses
No matter what answer you're given, accept it. Don't ask them if they're "sure," don't insist that they "look" or "act" a certain way, and most of all, don't ask if they want to give your specific sexuality a try. The important part of being polite is respecting others' boundaries and accepting that they know themselves better than you do. By simply nodding, giving a quick "okay," and moving on, you're establishing yourself as a decent person they can easily interact with in the future without the uncomfortable tension. Even more so, by knowing what your response to rejection will be in advance, your approach will take on different characteristics. You won't seem too forward, threatening, and any insulting nuances to your body language will be absent. You're respectful and accepting; it'll show, and may make them more likely to accept a date if they share your sexuality.
Someone's sexuality doesn't define them, and it shouldn't be a touchy subject. But it's certainly something you want to know before you start laying on the charm, only to discover they're definitely not interested. If you approach this question with the right perspective, you'll come across as polite, mature, and respectful. These are the characteristics that will keep from ruining a friendly or professional relationship, and more importantly – make you more appealing in that first impression, which may earn you a date.


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2009 WPS Championship Presented by MedImmune Is Set
Sky Blue FC Wins Second Straight Playoff Game on the Road to Advance, Will Face No. 1 seed Los Angeles Sol at The Home Depot Center on Saturday
Coverage Begins 3:30pm ET, August 22 Live on Fox Sports Net
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 19, 2009) – The match-up for the inaugural WPS Championship presented by MedImmune was finalized on Wednesday night when No. 4 seed Sky Blue FC defeated No. 2 seed Saint Louis Athletica in the Super Semifinal, 1-0, on a goal in the 30th minute by Keeley Dowling at The Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park in Fenton, MO.
Under the WPS Playoff format, as regular season champions, the Los Angeles Sol earned the right to host the WPS Championship and will face Sky Blue FC, which squeaked into the playoffs on the final day of the regular season led by player/coach Christie Rampone.
The WPS Championship will kick-off at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on Saturday, August 22 with television coverage produced by Fox Soccer Channel and carried live on Fox Sports Net, Comcast SportsNet and select regional affiliates. The telecast will begin with a live 30-minute pregame show at 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT. For local TV listings go to:http://www.womensprosoccer.com/Home/schedule/2009-tv-schedule.aspx
Individual tickets for the inaugural WPS Championship are available at The Home Depot Center Box Office and all Ticketmaster phone and retail outlets. Group discounted rates are available by calling 1-877-4-SOL-TIX (765-849) or visiting www.LosAngelesSol.com for more information!
About Women's Professional Soccer (WPS)
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) is the premier women's soccer league in the world and the global standard by which women's professional sports are measured. The Inaugural Season kicked off on March 29 and runs through August 30, 2009, with WPS teams based in the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. The league's eighth and nine franchises, Philadelphia and Atlanta, will begin play in 2010. For more information, visit www.womensprosoccer.com.
About WPS Championship presented by MedImmune
MedImmune is a proud sponsor of WPS and is the presenting sponsor of the 2009 WPS Championship. MedImmune teamed up with WPS for "Don't Play with the Flu"™, a national education campaign about the importance of seasonal flu vaccination. MedImmune and WPS are committed to helping parents and families put up a good defense against seasonal flu. More information is available at www.DontPlaywiththeFlu.com.
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In honor of Child of God's release on August 1, I'm posting a 25-minute test I did for the film version of Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, is my favorite novel. It marks the midpoint of McCarthy's career, between the Southern Gothic stories of his Tennessee days (he grew up in Tennessee and went to high school with painter Josh Smith) and his later border-based stories (The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road) after he moved to Texas and then to New Mexico.
In some ways Blood seems un-filmable. It is almost Biblical in its prose. His terse prose utilizes vocabulary only found in the crannies of annals of the Old West and the specialized spheres of working men. He captures the slang of forgotten peoples so deftly, it's as if they were his barroom friends.
I made my test for Blood Meridian three or four years ago. It stars Scott Glenn, Luke Perry, Mark Pellegrino (Lost), and my brother, Dave. We shot it in three days in some place near Yosemite that is the mule capital of the world. If you know the book, you'll recognize that this is the sequence where Tobin recounts how the Glanton gang met the Judge, a Satan-like character and Glanton's right-hand man. The gang was out of gunpowder and about to be caught by Apache warriors, whereupon they would be killed for lack of working weaponry. Enjoy.
Dave is the Cosmo Guy in the July 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan. You can read the interview below and check out the scan in the gallery.
With back-to-back roles in Neighbors and 22 Jump Street, the Funny or Die regular (and James's lil' bro) is the man.
Your part in 22 Jump Street is pretty unforgettable …
Yes. I can confidently say that it's the weirdest thing I've ever done on film — and I've done a lot of strange things.
Your Funny or Die videos are a riot. What cracks you up?
Christopher Mintz-Plasse — no one makes me laugh harder than he does. Also, my two enormous cats. They are 17-pound tabbies who love to spoon. There's a lot of cat incest going on in my house.
If you were on Tinder, what would your tagline be?
"I go to sleep every night with 34 pounds of cat on top of me." That would probably scare off 90 percent of the Tinder community, but for the 10 percent that embraces it, I've got nothing to hide from there.
Would you ever date one of James's exes?
No. It's a lose-lose situation. Either I'm dating the girl he used to date and it ends up horrible, or it ends up great, we get married, and then have awkwardness for the rest of our lives when James is around.
Can we talk about dick pics — have you ever sent one?
I don't think I've ever sent a full-on dick pic. Maybe a bulge pic? Like pressing up against those jeans. But never a full-skin, graphic, close-up dick pic. I don't think any girl wants to see that! Bulge pics are the new black.
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Sony Pictures has nabbed the rights to The Intern's Handbook: A Thriller with plans to turn the project into a vehicle for actor Dave Franco.
Oren Uziel, who worked on Sony's upcoming 22 Jump Street, in which Franco appears, is on board to write the script based on a novel by Shane Kuhn.
Neal Moritz and Ori Marmur of Original Film — the company behind the Jump Street movies — will produce along with Circle of Confusion's Brad Mendelsohn and David Alpert.
The idea behind Intern's Handbook is thus: There's a company called HR, Inc., an intern placement agency that is actually a front for a network of assassins whose targets are high-profile corporate executives. The best of the best in this world is John Lago, who can get coffee and make copies like no one else while stealthily ratcheting up a body count.
The story tells of Lago's stint in a Manhattan law firm, where he's working as a temp while gathering intelligence for his hit. He then meets his toughest adversary yet: a female FBI agent who is also assigned to take down the same target.
Bullets and sparks fly.
The well-reviewed dark comedy hit shelves April 8, 2014 from Simon & Schuster as part of a planned trilogy. Sony is looking at Intern's Handbook as a potential franchise.
The acquisition, said to be in the high-six figures, marks a step up for Franco, who has so far not toplined his own movie but has done strong supporting work that has earned him a following.
The actor, who is repped by CAA, is currently sharing scenes with Zac Efron and Seth Rogen in Universal's surprise hit comedy Neighbors. Among his other credits are both Jump Street movies, Warm Bodies and Now You See Me.
"We really feel like he's the next star," said Moritz. "We just think he has immense talent as a leading man and he's someone who can do humor. He's paid his dues. He' s built a great resume of co-starring roles and he's ready to be a lead. He's not some guy being plucked from nowhere and told he's the next big thing."
Moritz says the producers see Intern's Handbook as "a franchise made for a price with new emerging talent."
The producer also described the book as having a "great attitude. It's a look at what it's like to be an intern, but in reality you're so much more. The mantra is that interns are invisible, which makes them so good as assassins. No one sees them coming."
In Neighbors, the frat comedy starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, out tomorrow, fans of Dave Franco get their money's worth. The actor—and younger brother of selfie connoisseur James Franco—plays an amiable, surprisingly intellectual frat boy named Pete who finds himself pretty naked (and pretty horny) at one point in the film. Franco, who has previously starred in flicks such as 21 Jump Street andWarm Bodies, is one of the best parts of Neighbors–and not just because he has a nice butt. We're all up on the Dave Franco bandwagon after seeing it (sorry, James!) and got to chat with the actor about filming with Seth Rogen, picking up girls with magic, and just what is going on with the Franco family.
Dave is set to be one of the guests on the May 6 episode of 'Conan' as part of his 'Neighbors' promotional tour. Check your local TV listings to catch him up! We should have the full clip up the day after the appearance, so be sure to come back then!
Louis Leterrier's 2013 magicians and con artists thriller Now You See Me was an out-of-left-field hit, a crackling ensemble film that dropped into theaters amidst the likes of busy blockbusters like Fast & Furious 6 and Star Trek Into Darkness… but surprised the industry by having massive legs. By the time it was finished, the film had banked a whopping $117.7 million domestically, and a powerful $351 million worldwide, carried by the drawing power of the film's personable co-stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman and Dave Franco. The sequel was greenlit, and today, we picked up a few details on the production's possible future.
Dave Franco jumped on the phone with me this afternoon to talk about Neighbors, the hysterical dudes-versus-parents comedy from director Nicolas Stoller that will entertain audiences beginning next week. It's one of a few winners Franco has on his summer agenda, which also includes June's massive sequel, 22 Jump Street (where he says he has a brief, but memorable cameo in a prison cell). And he thinks he's going from this busy summer into the planned Now You See Me 2, which allegedly is filming at the end of the year.
On the topic of that sequel, Dave Franco told me:
"Last I heard, we were still going at the end of this year. … I've heard a pitch of the story. It's actually going to be really exciting. I was slightly weary, just because you never know when it comes to a sequel. But I think the first one opened up enough avenues. There are many directions left to explore. There are many places that it can go, and they really – they held true to the spirit of the first one, but it's going to be enough of a departure that it doesn't just feel like a complete copy of the first one."
Franco went on to explain that a big portion of Now You See Me 2 will be spent exploring who this tight-knit band of illusionists really are off of the stage. As he mentions, they spent so much time in the first movie on a stage, in various states of performance, and the team now wants to figure out who they are as individuals – and likely, who they can scam next.
Who will be back for Now You See Me 2 (or, Now You Still See Me)? Louis Leterrier is scheduled to return to the director's chair. Most of the original cast is expected to return, while Deadline reported in February that locations will shift to Europe and Asia to capitalize on the first film's international successes. While he waits for that script, Dave Franco kills it opposite Zac Efron in Neighbors, which opens on May 9. Check it out.
Offers are out for some gorgeous young men to star in the Drew Barrymore-produced HOW TO BE SINGLE. Chris Pine, Dave Franco, and Taylor Kitsch complete the sexy male threesome that New Line Cinema is eyeing to attach, and let me tell you, it already feels hot in here.


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In right this moment's headlines, The Associated Press reviews that the New York state free faculty tuition program has begun accepting candidates. The web sites are also alleged to have particulars of CBSE tips, numbers of lecturers appointed, the average number of college students, particulars of the price structure, courses taught, contact numbers of the school administrators, infrastructure, salaries of academics, names of the students, telephone variety of parents and their electronic mail IDs.
As Schooling Coverage Chairman in my State's Legislature, I've needed to take care of these political pressures, and have seen how the masterful agenda on the a part of the education elite and the unions have affected my colleagues, and their skill to withstand the big stress delivered to bear on them, and their respective faculty districts.
The winner of this 12 months's Robin Dizard American Studies Award, given to a junior or senior American studies main with a grade point common of 3.5 or extra, found American studies to be the perfect match for her other main, elementary training.
Texas has aligned its Beneficial High Faculty Program curriculum with the ADP-advisable benchmarks (Texas Training Agency, n.d.). Indiana's Core forty curriculum (Indiana Division of Education, 2006) is a product of Indiana's Training Roundtable committee, whose members embrace leaders in K-sixteen schooling, business, the community, the federal government, and dad or mum organizations.
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1. Earth #2
It may be a record for exaggerating news out of proportion: the discovery of an extrasolar planet not much larger than earth has prompted giddy cries from some scientists who seem to suggest we'll be contacting extraterrestrial life forms before mid-May! So what's the real story?
2. National Geographic News: "Giant Fossil Rain Forest Discovered in Illinois"
An Illinois coal mine caused the discovery of a giant, underground plant cemetery filled with the fossilized remains of strange plants. ScienceNOW reports that the immortalized underground rain forest covers a whopping 10 square kilometers, including the imprints of "2-meter-wide and 40-meter-tall trees."
All reports on the find highlight one thing: the remarkable preservation of the organisms. Unsurprisingly, scientists credit a massive deluge for the mass fossilization:
A major earthquake 300 million years ago caused the forest to drop below sea level, burying the entire ecosystem in mud almost immediately, [Geology study co-author and Illinois State Geological Survey geologist Scott] Elrick explained.
This mass flooding scenario is yet another great example of the creationist explanation of why we find "billions of dead things" that were fossilized through sudden, catastrophic water events worldwide: because the global Flood was this catastrophe and led to such incredibly well-preserved fossils that we find around the world. Secular geologists must continually resort to a catastrophe here and a catastrophe there to explain these fossil graveyards-even while they claim there's no evidence for a single global Flood!
3. National Geographic News: "Like Humans, Chimp Males Cooperate With Kin and Non-Kin Alike"
A six-year study of chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park is "providing new insights into the ways kinship affects cooperation," reports National Geographic News. According to the study, chimpanzees "prefer to work with their brothers by the same mother," but "frequently cooperate with unrelated or distantly related males in their community to perform tasks" as well.
Evolutionists' take on such chimp cooperation is unsurprising, however:
Why humans, chimps, or any other animal evolved cooperative behavior gets at the age-old question, What's in it for me?
"Well, like everything in biology, we assume that it's going to increase our reproductive success," [study leader] Langergraber said.
However, the discovery that chimps cooperate with non-kin confounds the "kin selection" hypothesis that argues that cooperation is merely an attempt to better the reproductive success of oneself or one's kin. Evolutionists must struggle to hypothesize what else could promote non-kin cooperation; however, animal cooperation makes sense within the biblical worldview. While animals may not be made in God's image, their behaviors aren't purely dictated by natural selection, either, which explains why various types of animals are known for cooperation and even charity.
4. Neanderthals: One of Us
For years, "Neandertal Man" was propped up by evolutionists as a prime representative of a human prehistory that could not be reconciled with the Bible. Neandertals were popularized in the public's eye as large-browed, club-toting, leopard-print-wearing "cavemen" who paved the way for modern humans by discovering fire, founding the family unit, and so forth.
5. LiveScience: "Flowers Evolve to Suit Birds and Bats"
A report in this month's issue of American Naturalist explains how flowers evolve to suit the feeding needs of birds and bats. But is it the type of information-adding evolution that could turn flowers into, say, two-legged vegetable men or similar creatures? Of course not! Rather, this so-called "evolution" of flowers is merely the natural adaptation of flowers based on the genetic information they already have.
"The varying shapes of flowers found in tropical forests, from broadly blooming to delicately narrow, may have to do with what has stuck its nose in there to pollinate in past evolutionary eras," the article explains. To test this hypothesis, University of Miami biologist Nathan Muchhala and his team captured nectar bats and hummingbirds in Ecuador and introduced them to artificial flowers filled with honey water. In what may seem to be an underwhelming or expected conclusion, "[f]lower-pollinator fit was crucial in successful pollination." Hummingbirds, which have long, thin, beaks, preferred flowers with my narrow shapes, whereas the "much larger" bats preferred wide-open flowers.
But what has this research shown? Only that the shapes of flowers (and, additionally, the shapes of bat and bird snouts) adapt through natural selection, with the most reproductively successful versions of the flowers, bats, and birds surviving. Yet no matter how long this process lasts, plants will not develop new structures-nor birds or bats new appendages-that were not already "programmed for" by the Creator in those creatures' genes.
6. Worms for Brains
If you thought "birdbrain" was harsh enough, you may not want to read what evolutionists are now calling modern humans: worm-brains! Okay, not quite; rather, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany have made "overwhelming" discoveries that, according to the researchers, show that worm nervous systems and the human brain are distant cousins:
7. LiveScience: "Study: Religion is Good for Kids"
It's not the sort of study that would be promoted by Richard Dawkins, arch-atheist and notorious critic of religion who has called religion "child abuse." A Mississippi State University study has found that "[k]ids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children" in what LiveScience bills as "the first [study] to look at the effects of religion on young child development."
John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State sociologist, and colleagues questioned parents and teachers about the behavior of their biological or pedagogical young ones. The behavior "ratings" of more than 16,000 children were then compared, with children "whose parents regularly attended religious services […] and talked with [them] about religion" found to have "better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents."
Of course, the fact that children of religious parents are better behaved is not an apologetic defense of Christianity or any religion, although it does tend to substantiate that children taught a form of morality are more likely to abide by it. Certainly, this is analogous to what the Bible teaches (Proverbs 22:6). This study also highlights just one of the tangible social benefits of religion-and should give qualms to those who would rush to eliminate all discussion of religion from the public arena.
8. ScienceNOW: "A Swift Understanding of Flight"
ScienceNOW's Lucas Laursen reports on the latest example of nature-inspired human engineering work. Using a wind tunnel, graduate student David Lentink of the Netherlands' Wageningen University investigated various swift wing shapes. (Swifts are family of birds.) Lentink and colleagues measured drag and lift at different angles and airspeeds, then created a model for "predicting the best wing shape for each type of maneuver." What did the team learn?
The experiment also measured the astonishing benefits of morphing wings: Swifts can double their gliding time or triple their turn rate by morphing their wings. "Of course we already knew that birds change their wing shape during flight, but nobody actually measured the benefits quantitatively before," says Lentink[.]
This amazing flight capacity "morphing wings" provides may be implemented one day in robotic aircraft, the article notes. But unsurprisingly, biomechanics researcher Adam Summers at the University of California-Irvine credits the discovery as one of the "wonderful things [of] the evolution of flight." We beg to differ. This is one of the wonderful designs of a master Creator.
9. BBC NEWS: "BBC series to tell Earth's story"
Britain, beware! A new BBC-TV documentary (which will no doubt make its rounds worldwide) will, according to BBC NEWS, "reveal the story of planet Earth [starting with] its birth more than four billion years ago." Titled Earth: The Biography, the program's host, Dr. Iain Stewart, will "visit some of the planet's most remote places to explain phenomena such as the meteorite thought to have wiped out dinosaurs."
Of course, we expect the program will be simply new video overlaid with the same old, worn-out dogma of >uniformitarian geologists. But don't worry. By the time this latest "life story" of the earth based on evolutionary dogma is released, you'll be able to visit the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio for the Bible's version of earth's story!
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There are may reasons why shifting towards a plant-based diet is desirable, whether it be for one's health, the earth, or the suffering of animals. People need to make a connection between the food the eat and the way they feel. Processed foods are filled with chemicals, unnatural sugars, added sodium, and unhealthy fats. Not only are these foods filled with junk, but they are high in calories. These ingredients make people fat and sick.
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Red meat and dairy are incredibly unhealthy for the human body. These foods are linked to cancer, type-2 diabetes, arthritis, infectious diseases, and many more. Cows are raised in an extremely unhealthy environment by the ranching industry. They are given illegal hormones, chicken litter, and ground up diseased animals as part of their daily meals. Also, they are raised on food that contains pesticide residues and heavy medals like lead. When people eat beef, they are getting these toxic substances because the animal's body stores them in their fat tissues. Simply said, cow's milk and other dairy products are unnatural for humans to eat because its purpose is to feed baby cows. The substance is nutritionally imbalanced for humans. It contains little magnesium and is actually hard for the human body to digest.
Too many people are concerned with getting enough protein verses any other nutrient. The truth is that there is enough proteins in plants for people to eat. Plants allow elephants, horses, and hippopotamuses to grow big. Also, all plants contain the right amount of amino acids essential for the ideal human growth, so it is simply impossible to be protein deficient. The fact is that people need to get over this myth and start being concerned with eating too much protein.
Being a vegan not only is beneficial to one's health, but it is also better for the environment. Producing a certain amount of meat requires much more water than producing the same amount of food in grain. It takes 5,215 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef, while it only takes 24 gallons of water to produce one pound of potatoes. To take a daily shower, on average, each American uses 5,200 gallons of water per year. A person can save more water by not eating a pound of beef than a person who wouldn't shower for a year. In addition, the number of people whose food energy needs can be met by the food produced on 2.5 acres of land is shocking. If the land is producing potatoes, 22 people can eat. If the land is producing beef, only one person can eat. World hunger would be ended if people were to stop eating meat, and there would also be much much more water for people to drink.
Lastly, a plant-based diet decreases the suffering of animals. Animals have feelings just like humans do. They love and want to be happy. It is immoral to kill an animal just for food. It would be one thing if it was the only food available, but obviously, it is not. Nobody would want to eat a cat for their dinner, so why would they want to eat a cow? Some people may argue that since the animal is not as smart as a human being, it is okay to eat it. Humans are smarter than dogs, so should we eat them, too? Many are not educated about how much suffering the animals people eat go through. Farm animals are kept so close together that they can not even move. Their living conditions are so small that they have no choice but to sit in their feces. The happy-go-lucky pictures depicted in children's books do not even come close to reality. Baby pigs are taken away from their mothers and put in crates where they can't even turn around. To produce veal, calfs are taken away from their mothers and put into crates where they can't even move. They are left in that crate so their muscles will be soft when people eat them. It is just devastating to know what goes into animal suffering. Eating a plant-based diet will automatically eliminate this problem.
Many people do not realize how good they will feel physically and emotionally when they follow a plant-based diet. People will have more energy in everything they do. They will feel happy about their good health, happy that they are helping the environment, and happy that they are helping prevent the suffering of animals.
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Thanks for this informative article. It is important that we try to put across the message to the greedy meat eaters.
I am glad you like my post. I don't think it is fair to call meat eaters "greedy." One should never try to put down or blame anyone. Ultimately, it just makes people upset, and they will never even consider being vegan. Some people don't have the information or the support to become vegan. Not everybody knows how cruelly farm animals are treated, or they don't know the health benefits of a plant-based diet. If we vegans try to force our beliefs on others or put them down, we will never get our message across.
Miranda Nelson,
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't mean any insult. Yet, I agree it is an inappropriate word.
I hereby withdraw the word and tender an apology.
Great article, Miranda. If only all teenagers were as articulate, aware and informed as you about the truth behind the food industry. I also enjoyed the interview you and your sister did with Bruce Friedrich about his new book (with Matt Ball). You convinced me to read it and to change from vegetarian to vegan. Way to go!!! I'm so impressed by you and your family. Best wishes from Minnesota.
That is great that you became vegan! How is it working out for you? If you even need any recipes, feel free to ask. :)


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Now, the second event that triggered this effort was my recent experience with Markdown (e.g. the eNanoMapper tutorials) and how platform like GitHub/GitLab built systems around it to publish this easily.
Why this matters to me? If I want to have my work have impact, I need people to be able to read my work. Open Access is one route. Of course, they can also email me for a copy the article, but I tend to be busy with getting new grants, supervision, etc. BTW, you can easily calculate your Open Access rate with ImpactStory, something you should try at least once in your life...
Step 1: identify which articles need an green Open Access version
Here, Unpaywall is the right tool, which does a brilliant job at identifying free versions. After all, one of your co-authors may already have self-archived it somewhere. So, yes, I do have a short list, one one of the papers was the second CDK paper (doi:10.2174/138161206777585274). The first CDK article was made CC-BY three years ago, with the ACS AuthorChoice program, but Current Pharmaceutical Design (CPD) does not have that option, as far as I know.
Step 2: check your author rights for green Open Access
The next step is to check SHERPA/RoMEO for your self-archiving rights. This is essential, as this is different for every journal; this is basically business model by obscurity, and without any standardization this is not FAIR in any way. For CDP it reports that I have quite a few rights (more than some bigger journals that still rely on Green to call themselves an "leading open access publisher", but also less than some others):
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Step 3: a post-print version that is not the publisher PDF??
Ah, so you know what version of the article you can archive, and where. But we cannot archive the publisher PDF. So, no downloading of the PDF from the publisher website and putting that online.
Step 4: a custom PDF
Because in this case we are allowed to archive the post-print version, I am allowed to copy/paste the content from the publisher PDF. I can just create a new Word/LibreOffice document with that content, removing the publisher layout and publisher content, and make a new PDF of that. A decent PDF reader allows you to copy/paste large amounts of content in one go, and Linux/Win10 users can use pdfimages to extract the images from the PDF for reuse.
Step 5: why stick with the PDF?
But why would we stick with a PDF? Why not use something more machine readable? Something where that support syntax highlighting, downloading of table content as CSV, etc? And that made me think of my recent experiments with Markdown.
So, I started of with making a Markdown version of the second CDK paper.
In this process, I:
- removed hyphenation used to fit words/sentences nicely in PDF columns;
- wrapped the code sections for syntax highlighting
- recovered the images with pdfimages;
- converted the table content to CSV (and used Markdown Tables Generator to create Markdown content) and added "Download as CSV" links to the table captions;
- made the URLs clickable; and,
- added ORCID icons for the authors (where known).
The resulting Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics post-print is now self-archived as Markdown:
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Step 6: tweet the free Green Open Access link
Of course, if no one knows about your effort, they cannot find your self-archived version. In due time, Google Scholar may pick it up, but I am not sure yet. Maybe (Bio)Schemas.org will help, but that is something I have yet to explore.
It's important to include the DOI URL in that link, so that the self-archived version will be linked to from services like Altmetric.com.
Next steps: get Unpaywall to know about your self-archived version
This is something I am actively exploring. When I know the steps to achieve this, I will report on that in this blog.


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Those of you who attended the Airheads event in March 2015 will have seen AirO demonstrated by Sujatha as part of Keerti's keynote presentation. There are a couple interesting features in the new app...
The simple feature: We added a line at the top of the display to give the currently-associated BSSID in hex, along with the manufacturer's name (taken from a lookup to the IEEE OUI database).
But the larger feature is the ability to report data to your network's AirWave server. If you set this up, information reported from the client will be displayed on the device detail page. It uses an existing feature, called the "AMC report", originally designed to allow a Windows PC to report its status, its Wi-Fi environment and some performance data. (The Windows AMC client can be downloaded from the AirWave server under "Documentation".)
We built the AirO feature to use this existing API. There are detailed explanations in the AirWave documentation, but in brief you set up an account role called "AMC" and an account with role AMC, name "client" and a (locally shared) password. Then, in AirO "settings", configure the AirWave IP address (but see auto-configure below), account name and account password. You can tell it's running.because a link will appear (only when the client is associated and sending AMC reports) on the client detail page, the one showing the connection chain along the top. It's a small link at the top-left with "AMC" in it. Click on this and you will see some of the reported information. We'll be adding to these fields in future AirWave releases.
We also built an auto-discover feature. This allows anyone - admins, users, etc. - to download the "vanilla" app from the app store and, without any manual configuration, have it learn the IP addresses of the AirWave and iPerf servers. This feature uses mDNS (adopted by Apple as part of "Bonjour" and Aruba in "AirGroup"), and requires configuration of the "AirGroup" feature on the controller.
There are two advantages to this. First, roles can be configured by the network admin to ensure that only the desired segment of the (associated, thus already-authenticated) device/user population gets access to what is after all a shared account on the AirWave server. Second, it allows the app to query for a well-known service (we use "_airwave._tcp." and "_local-performance._tcp.") for the local IP addresses of the two servers, and also the password of the AirWave AMC shared account.
The attached update of the admin guide explains how to configure these static entries on the controller (this is a new feature and we haven't tested with Instant yet).
I have to say I think this is a pretty cool idea, as it avoids users having to enter any config data on the app, or admins having to build and host an enterprise-specific version with hard-coded IP addresses... but, as Mrs T gently reminds me, I have been known to overlook whoopsies and we came up with it quite rapidly: there may be a gotcha we haven't come across yet. So, if you are filled with the spirit of adventure and engineering enquiry, please download the app (Android only for now, I'm working on the iOS version), check out the attached guide and give me a shout either way?
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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Program for Torture Victims is an amazing organization. When you open the front door, you're immediately greeted with smiling faces and an overall warm atmosphere. Even though I've only contributed a small amount, they make me feel as though I'm making a huge difference each time I volunteer. Last time I went to help them with their newsletter, they even fed me! The staff is always willing to stop and teach me about their services and the issues the clients face. I've learned so much from these beautiful women (and a couple of men!) One thing I learned is that about half, if not most, of PTV clients are women. Most people think that victims of torture are typically men who have been interrogated. Actually, many torture survivors are women who have been victims of sexual violence. PTV also serves some victims of female genital mutilation. The challenges that these women face are unimaginable. Fortunately, most of PTV's staff consists of extremely talented, professional, and sympathetic women. PTV staff told me that many clients, especially women, had to flee their countries alone. They had to leave their famlies temporarily. Sadly, it can take a long time until the rest of the family can make it to the United States. PTV staff helps, psychologically and financially, in these times of need. Mothers and their children have support from PTV after the years of separation. I can't say enough about the amazing work of this organization. They are a small but very effective family. I feel honored to be a part of their community!
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Online materials from my Expert Days sessions
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Thanks for those who participated in my sessions in Expert Days! I hope you enjoyed it. For your benefit and also for everyone else that didn't participated, I uploaded all the materials online so you can browse whenever you want. You can find all the materials here. In the above link you'll find the following files: For the "C# in Depth" session you'll find: The presentation All the demos (except for the Roslyn project demo) The Roslyn project demo For the "Software Quality –...
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Bednarski and Wilhelm wrote that they had already sent a letter to T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm asking that T-Mobile "refrain from this outsourcing policy and to learn from the German experience with offshoring."
"Nobody can provide the quality customer service that you have provided for years," the two leaders wrote. The decision to close these call centers "is an inhuman policy, against which we together have to resist." The Deutsche Telekom works councils and ver.di stand in solidarity with T-Mobile workers.
The same day, Bednarski and Wilhelm wrote to workers at the Nashville, TN, and Wichita, TX, call centers. These centers will not be closed but the specter of shutdown now haunts all T-Mobile workers. The workers in the seven call centers not only will lose their jobs but they had no opportunity to even bargain over the effects of the shutdown: "The fact that you could not be represented by a labor union and bargain collectively with management (as we do in Germany) is a serious matter that we raise on a regular basis with German management. It is your right to choose representation by CWA without having fear of reprisal." Click here for a copy of the letter
The Deutsche Telekom works councils and ver.di stand in solidarity with T-Mobile USA workers.
The reaction to both letters was overwhelming. "Awesome!" wrote one supporter in Nashville. The same response in Wichita - "Awesome!" In Frisco, chants of "the owners need to hear that" and "we are necessary!" were heard across the cubicles. "People loved the support from Germany," wrote a call center worker in Allentown.
On Friday May 18, Deutsche Telekom works councilors had written a sharp rebuke to T-Mobile USA management. Writing on behalf of all DTKS works councils representing 14,000 workers, Bednarski wrote to T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm to express his concern about the decision to close 7 U.S. call centers affecting 3,300 employees.
"Maintaining customers requires excellent customer service," he wrote. However, the management actions in the U.S. suggest a disinterest in excellent customer service. Bednarski wrote that along with several colleagues, he visited with T-Mobile USA colleagues in February:
We learned that the quality problem with offshore call centers is similar to the experiences we have had in Germany. The permanent staff spends its time remedying the mistakes made in external call centers. The customers are unhappy, and the total cost of offshoring and then fixing mistakes is more expensive than simply paying permanent staff.
"Why not learn from the experiences we have had in Germany?" he asked. He then urged Humm to re-consider the decision to close the call centers and to give the staff the opportunity to deliver the high quality service necessary to attract and retain customers. "Keep the jobs in your call centers!" he demanded. Click here for a copy of the letter.
CWA has petitioned the U.S. Department of Labor for Trade Adjustment Assistance benefits for the 3,300 workers in the 7 call centers slated for closure. If the petition is approved, T-Mobile workers would be eligible for extended unemployment benefits, tuition assistance, and subsidies for family health care.
The solidarity between ver.di and CWA continues to grow. In June, Lothar Schröder, the head of telecommunications for ver.di and a member of the union's Executive Board, will spend a month in the U.S., helping T-Mobile workers organize local unions.
Click here for a video of the ver.di visit with T-Mobile workers in February 2012.


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Retail Futures: Browns Fashion heads to Berlin
Nov 13, 2019 | By Alice Gividen
Mar 11, 2017
Tinder's Founder and Chairman made a bold statement when it came to brands, gender inclusivity and how the app is helping in his opening statements at SXSW this year.
Sean Rad took the stage alongside other panelists on day one of the conference to discuss his company's shift to becoming a more inclusive organisation. This change comes at a poignant time – as political turmoil with a concentration on gender as well as hate speech continues to plague our ecosystem.
Back in November, Tinder made huge strides by allowing its users to select from any gender or identity they wish, extending beyond just two options – a major win for the trans community. This ability to display their identity on their page now offers Tinder users the comfort in knowing that the transparency of their gender identity will offer less confusion to potential matches, lessening any possible harassment.
Throughout the session, Rad was accompanied by other speakers including Nick Adams, the director of Transgender Media of LGBTQ media advocacy group, GLAAD and Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD's CEO. Zachary Drucker, a transgender female activist and producer of the hit show, Transparent also joined the discussion, collectively highlighting the key issues the marginalised trans communities face, and how huge of a step swiping right for inclusivity truly is. Here's what they had to say:
"Tinder is about everyone, and everyone is welcome and everyone deserves to meet someone special," said Rad. "Since we launched, there have been 250k matches with transgender people on Tinder," – a great achievement in a short amount of time. "For us, it is about inclusivity," said Rad.
"We are in a culture that is trying to send trans progress back in time rather than forward," says Adams – a statement that is deeply troubling considering the nation-wide debate on the public accommodations of trans people. "I think that visibility for trans people is 20-25 years behind the LGB progress" continues Adams.
The stigmatised idea of dating a transgender person and meeting them via dating apps like Tinder must be dismantled. Tinder's move to transparency and inclusivity is helping to educate and evoke change and in turn, reduce the online harassment of these individuals. "Anything that helps our users particularly when it comes to safety and harassment is a priority- it's the number 1 priority," says Rad.
How people define their gender and how they define who they are attracted to are not mutually exclusive. "They are two separate things," says Adams. "The further we can untangle the difference [between gender and sexual identity], the more it may undue that stigma."
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Hi Aaron,
this has to be one of my favorite topics (foreign languages used to be my #1 passion until the web came into my life ;)).
I've analyzed quite a few German and French SERPs. I think it's hard to point out possible differences in the algorithms (I think the few times I asked this on English-language SEO forums people said they had never dealt with foreign language SERPs, but there was probably no difference - though I'm not sure how they'd know), but all in all the algorithm of google.de and google.fr seems very similar to google.com.
All I can tell from German SEO blogs, forums, etc. is that link building is big in the German SERPs, too.
One thing that sort of dissapoints me, however is this: I used to think the German and the French SERPs should be a great opportunity for me, because they have to be less competitive than the English language SERPs, as people don't know as much about SEO, here, yet.
I've found some very niche topics (that I'm not comfortable making a site about, yet, because those aren't my real interests) that would (hopefully will) probably be opportunities like that, but for most of the topics I've been interested in making sites about I did/will end up creating the site in English for two reasons:
1)sites in those fields often still have a high number of back links (people don't SEO like crazy, but they still link out to other sites) - relative to the search volumes for their main phrases - so in the end it's not really easier getting a lot of traffic, because yeah you need somewhat less links, but you'll also get quite a bit less traffic (and the ratio doesn't seem appealing most of the time I checked)
2)There are lower back link counts (okay I should probably say lower link authority to be correct) to compete with, but also less sources to get links from. So if you can create great content/link bait (instead of relying on forum signature links and the like), there are often waaay more sources to get links from in the English language SERPs.
So you might end up creating a great piece of link bait, but don't have many people to pitch it, too (especially not too many bloggers).
(I guess for e-commerce sites and not sites-about-a-topic-youre-passionate-about-about this might be different, though!)
Some more differences would be these:
1) keyword tools. There's just the adwords and the overture-tool (and if the overture tool is working right now/hasn't been taken offline, it's simply highly unreliable in a market like the German or the French market where Google has a market share of >90% and yahoo's market share is <5%).
2) Google has 90% or more of the pie so there's no need to care about other engines at the moment (or maybe this would actually be a nice idea, as nobody is really caring about yahoo, etc.? I think their market share is just way too small for that, though)
3) Social media sites...social media isn't as big in Germany as in the US, yet. We have sites that are pretty similar to facebook and linkedin and we also have German sites like digg (a couple of people seem to use digg and stumbledupon here, too, btw) but it isn't as popular as it is in the English language world...there are just not that many sites like that for link baiting, I guess...and blogs aren't that popular here, either..so there are less blogs...
I guess this is kind of the same thing that I said about not enough sources to get links from (not just aren't there as many sites by webmasters, but there aren't that many blogs/social sites to linkbait).
4) I cannot verify if this is true, right now, but I've read an article (by an author who knows his stuff), that using Google Analytics in Germany was a horrible idea, because of the law. We have very strict data protection laws here in Germany (not sure if more strict than in the US, though) and the policy of Google Analytics would allow them to do something with the data that would be against the German law (unfortunately it's been a while since I last read that article).
5) Speaking of the law, if you want to make sure G can't track your footprints, etc., this could be harder in the German SERPs (or in other European countries where this is also necessary), because you need to have all of your contact details on your website, otherwise you can get sued (even for having a non-commercial site - though opinions differ here, because of how the law is written and the web still being so new)
I guess all of that sounded like there are a ton of differences, but at the end of the day except for those minor differences, it seems to be pretty much the same. Make a good site. Get links. Optimize for your keywords. But sound and look natural.
Another thing I found rather interesting is this:
On an SEO forum I was told that hyphens in domain names were a sign of low quality to the search engines (not just not good for users, but I was told it had a bad effect on SE rankings, because there were no such domain names in the top10 of Google anymore).
However, in the German SERPs I still see plenty of domains with a hyphen between the words. Results with 1 (sometimes more) hyphen(s) between words are pretty much the norm in many German SERPs. Either this is a difference in the algorithm or it means that a hyphen in the domain name doesn't look good, but doesn't necessarily hurt your SE rankings.
Please keep in mind that I haven't done any actual SEO in German or French (other than analyzing SERPs and doing market research) so far.


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For this card, I used the wonderful Declicate Blossoms stamp, it's one of my favorite HA stamp. I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers (CT4+GB3+GB5). I stamped some of the flowers twice to hand cut them to create a 2D effect. I then added my yellow twine and stamped my sentiment (Have a great day). I added some Stickles on the center of my flowers and added randomly yellows drops on my card. Voilà!
I'm submitting my card to these HA challenges:
- Hero Arts: Fabulous Flowers challenge
- A blog named hero: A bit of sparkle challenge
- Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday January: Use something new (first time using this sentiment)
Thanks for stopping by!


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OK, maybe I went a little overboard in the headline, but I'm still really jazzed at the reception of my 3D-printed sculpture at the recent Sculpture Tucson show in, yes, Tucson, Arizona (is there another Tucson? Hmmm, I'll have to look that up ….)
The turnout at the show was incredible. Preliminary estimates say that 4,300 people came through in just 2-1/2 days April 6 – 8.
Although the show was outside at Brandi Fenton Park, I had my Cerberus 3D 250 running the whole time. Amazingly enough, it only failed once when the wind got the best of it, but overall, it performed beautifully.
It also fascinated people. A few people who came by knew about 3D printing, but most visitors had never seen a 3D printer running before. That meant I did a lot of education, which is how it usually goes when I have the printer running at an event.
We actually apologized to the artists around us, who had to hear the spiel over and over and over again. The challenge was always explaining it like I'd never said it before, but what I would say seldom varied ("… start in CAD …" "… the filament comes down from here …" "… like a big glue gun …") ….


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System solution - Condition monitoring for pumps
The wear on pumps as a result of alignment errors, cavitations, trapped air, etc. lead to further expensive consequential damage. Critical stations are mainly found with pumps for
In combination with the LR SMARTOBSERVER the measured data is recorded and an alarm is triggered in the event of infractions of the limits.
Sensor-based monitoring (e.g. quantity check of coolants) helps to avoid adverse operating conditions. Required maintenance can be organised at an early stage, reducing downtime. Again, the focus is on quality assurance. Evaluation units (VSE) as communication interface to the process sensors in the pump (flow, acceleration, etc.) are installed in control cabinets. Via Ethernet interface or WiFi the data is supplied to a PC/server with the LR SMARTOBSERVER software for analysis (depending on the application the versions CE / Express or server).
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Presentation tools allow you to publish and share presentations in a range of formats online.
Animoto is a great site for quickly creating professional looking videos from your images. It is a great tool to use with students because it allows them to focus on content creation rather than trying to learn an editing or manipulation tool. In the school context, Animoto For Education is ideal tool for students to create their own booktrailers, digital stories or music videos.
Below is an example of a student created animito. Check out more student work here and learn more about using Animoto with students here!
Make a video of your own at Animoto.
authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform which also allows you to add audio to your presentation.
Glogster allows you to combine images, video, music, photos and audio to create interactive posters. Glogster encourages students to gather their information, synthesize it, remix it and then create their original presentation. It is an excellent alternative to the traditional classroom poster project by providing an online tool that is fun to use (and it's not messy or bulky).
Learn more about using Glogster with students here.
Prez is an online presentation and story telling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional series of slides. The images, text, videos and other objects are placed on the canvas and users can zoom in and out.
Below is an example of a Prezzi created by a student.
SlideShare is a site where you can host your presentations and share with others. Slideshare is ideal for those who want to embed Presentations in their posts and websites rather than upload their PowerPoints directly and insert as a link.
It's also an excellent site for locating Presentations created by others.
Secrets Of The Remix Mashup YouTube Generation – Video Version from gwyneth jones
Scribd allows you to upload your MS Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoints and then share them within an embedded viewer on your blog.
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