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After not being able to play it upon release due to an out of date iPod touch I finally downloaded the iPad version this week as my iPod passed on and I decided on an iPad over an iPod this time round.
The game is ok but that's all really, it looks fine and the music is good too but Dizzys walking animation doesn't always seem in sync with his walking speed, the general collision detection could be better too. Going though the window/wall on the right castles tower seems like a mistake left in rather then a separate entrance/exit.
I suppose this is only a budget release though to test the market so I hope if any more versions follow they are a bit more polished.
Personally I'd love to see Magicland next but any game would be good, Prince Of The Yolkfolk is a tad too short to get much replay value from but it'll stay on my iPad as its Dizzy and he's cool
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I am using the
pst-pdgr package which uses PSTricks to generate medical pedigrees. I find this package to be very useful, however I ran into a problem with a certain situation I am having. I need a node (Person) to be divided into four segments rather than 2 (which is possible by setting
condition=asymptotic) and each quadrant should be able to be filled or not. Is this possible with some package or manipulation of the pst-pdgr package?
For instance, I need a node partitioned into multiple sections like in Figure 1 of http://www.gghjournal.com/pdf/volume_11/11-3/ab8.pdf, where the circle and diamond are partitioned in the affected individual portion (although with the circle the sectioning should be like a plus sign (
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For example, the documentation provides code for this pedigree, with John having a partition of 2, where I need 4 (and preferably 3 as well). In addition, I should have the ability to fill in any section I want.
\rput(0.5,2){\pstPerson[male, belowtext=Fred]{A}}
\rput(2.5,2){\pstPerson[female, obligatory, belowtext=Ginger]{B}}
\rput(0.5,0.5){\pstPerson[male,asymptomatic, belowtext=John]{C1}}
\rput(2.5,0.5){\pstAbortion[sab, affected, belowtext=male]{C3}}
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43 Walnut Walk was the house that saw Dave and I form what appears to be a life-long bond, and was the subject of our only falling out. It bore witness to the most tumultuous and tormenting of romantic relationships and served as a pre-Heathrow-airport pit-stop for musos of various hues; it witnessed the end of my fling with Maria and the beginning of my life with Jane; it provided nature with the opportunity to develop in our back garden what I recall from high school geography lessons being termed a Climax Culture that took us many days in the blistering heat of our third July there to conquer. While he was with Leticia, Dave's bedroom was the backdrop for a climax culture of an altogether different sort, prompting on more than one occasion me and third housemate Dan to applaud at the conclusion of what had clearly been for both parties an exhausting and near-Olympian display of physical intimacy. It was in this house that Jake squatted, that Alf entertained more women than Robbie Williams at Wembley, and that my brother and I discovered the difficulties inherent in moving an upright grand piano from Brighton to London with only a Post Office van (fitted with aeroplane seats), a double mattress and a girl called Sally. It was at this house that I left my gear in the driveway en route to a gig, that Dave chain-sawed his way through a mains cable while one day attacking our hedge, and that I would from time to time wander at leisure in the road and a dressing gown, sipping the LapSang SouChong tea that was Jake's sole material contribution to the running of the place while he squatted.
For me, however, and I hope for the others who came to know and love this house, my abiding memory of it will be of the persistent howl of the (midnight) toilet.
Probably the best thing about this water closet's idiosyncratic behaviour was its impeccable sense of comedy timing. Whenever initially one had flushed the toilet at 43 Walnut Walk the event would appear, to all intents and purposes, unremarkable. Until one had left the confines of the smallest room, re-zipped and refreshed; whereupon the contraption would contrive to let rip one of the most penetrating and humbling sounds perhaps ever to ensue from an instrument of domestic plumbing. Tenderly and cautiously at first, but within seconds rising to nothing short of confident exuberance, the crapper would belt out a trombone-ish concert Eb. This horn-of-an-ocean-liner would last for up to two minutes, claxon-ing its urgent warning throughout the house and, doubtless, reverberating assuredly around the rooms of our adjacent neighbours' home, sharing as we did an adjoining wall.
Revisiting episodes of my life wearing the warmly rose-tinted spectacles of nostalgia, I find it now more astonishing than the exuberance of our loo that the four housemates who endured this frequent (and never once unintrusive) serenade not once in eighteen months saw fit to call a plumber about what was a cause of considersable mirth, frustration and despair. I wonder with hindsight if perhaps this loud yearning moan, this passionate orgasmic groan from an object of our collective experience, so objectified, enameled and white, if this anthropomorphizing feature of our bog brought us somehow closer together and, curiously, in closer communion with that toilet.
Of course, the best opportunities for mischief to be wrought by the trumpeting toilet were proffered by the quiet of night. Oft would an unsuspecting visitor tiptoe innocently to the bathroom discreetly to perform his or her midnight ablutions; only to have their return journey to the guest room rudely arrested by the terrifying (yet, I confess, strangely endearing) nocturnal protestations of that rambunctious appliance. Many a morning over coffee and toast, clearly worried that they might have inflicted upon our home some irreversible damage by their ham-fisted and insensitive flushing, a friend would say something like, "erm, your toilet made a lot of noise last night". Ha-ha! And they were nailed! Hook, line and sinker! The loo had caught them with their pants down and they had confessed. A small admission, albeit phrased as one of concern, became a confession of sullying guilt by Jake/Rick/Martin – whoever was the culprit – he had last night awakened everyone within a mile of the bathroom; he had not been able to wait 'til morning; he had been the object of an insanely funny practical joke played not by us, the generous and deep-sleeping hosts, but by that mostly-silent partner, that sleeping dog, that coiled spring of a contraption that would leap to life to victimize a visitor just when it mattered the most.
We did eventually arrange circuitously for a plumber to call (via messages left with the estate agent, the landlady's parents and finally the witch herself – more of her another time); and the stakes of the game, or rather its pitch, were raised. The plumber, after flushing and listening and prodding about, helpfully informed us that there wasn't much he could do because there was air in the pipes. As musicians ignorant of the minutiae of plumbing, and being mostly an intelligent (if under-confident) bunch, we all silently wondered if perhaps a solution might, therefore, be found in the extraction of the accused air; but we collectively failed to articulate this suggestion and were left to revel in the consequences of our combined cowardice.
So, although he did not manage at all to alleviate the problem, the plumber did alter the sound. I will never forget the moment that Dave triumphantly confirmed our suspicions when, during a particularly prolonged pronouncement form the inanimate occupant of the smallest room, he bounded up the stairs, took one of his guitars from the wall, plucked a string and pronounced that the toilet was indeed now yodelling in F. (I couldn't, for shame, bring myself to admit that I'd thought it was a G – I merely consoled myself with the assertion that I'm a drummer so getting notes wrong in my head was okay.) That day, though, something was lost. We could feel the end encroaching, tangible and sad. After the plumber had come and gone, the shitter wailed refreshingly its whole-tone higher than before. But this was short-lived. The glory days were over. One day less than six months later, someone noticed that the toilet had fallen silent. Thus it was with a heightened, brooding sense of the supra-normally mundane that we each would now trudge up the fourteen stairs to the bathroom for what was certain to precipitate a dull and un-gratifying experience. The toilet tried from time to time to revive its heyday by emitting a pathetic whimper or a mild, disappointing croak; but nothing to warrant any attention or to properly perturb the passing of now meaningless time.
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August 14, 2013 at 3:20 pm
I enjoyed reading this, and certainly had a laugh.
September 4, 2013 at 8:53 am
That damn toilet – it got me once or twice, I recall…


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Luk 7:50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
1Pe 1:2 Elect … according to the foreknowledge of God … the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. {Ephesians "In Christ", In Christ, In Christ}
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Blueberry Ale & Sour Corn Ale
The idea of making a sweet corn flavored ale stewed around in my mind for about a year, until the opportunity to try it, presented itself. After acquiring two 4000L conical flasks from a friend, I easily got into an experimental ale phase.
After visiting Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor, Maine in 2004, I came away tasting some very good blueberry ales. Since that trip I wanted to make a blueberry ale of my own.
I decided to brew both of these at the same time. The grains for both recipes were steeped/mashed together to form that part of the recipe. After that, each recipe becomes quite different with the choices for malt extract, hops and bitterness, and fruit.
Sour Corn Ale (Corn Cob Ale)
1.125 gallon
Grain & Extract (OG 1.048)
1 lb. Pale DME
.25 lbs. Vienna
2 oz. Crystal 10
2 oz. Carapils
1 oz. Crystal 120
1.5 lbs. Organic Corn, frozen (2nd Fermentor)
Hops & Spice (29 IBU)
.25 oz. Perle, 6.1%, whole, FWH
.125 oz. Hallertau, 5.8%, whole, 45min
.5 tsp. Ground Pepper, 10min
.125 oz. Hallertau, 5.8%, 5min
Yeast: Collected Thames Valley Ale
It was quite a surprise how this ale turned out. The corn did not contribute any sweetness at all. In fact, it developed a very pleasant sour taste. My only presumption is that the corn could have had some sort of wild yeast/bacteria that reactivated and consumed residual sugars. The combination of medium spicy notes from the hops and ground pepper, and the overall rich golden malt sweetness, it was quite refreshing. Though there was plenty of carbonation, a head didn't develop as intended, nor did it stick around. It pairs very well with a burger and fries.
This beer tasted AMAZING. It smoothed out so much and became "simply" complex. Almost too simple to describe. The sourness and any sweetness vanished. The carbonation was full and smooth. There was an oxidation in the aroma, but not really in the taste. Overall, it took on a quality much like an aged Belgian Tripel but in a unique sort of way. I'll definitely play around with whole corn again, both in fermentation and in secondary.
Blueberry Ale
1.125 gallon
Grain & Extract (OG 1.048)
1 lbs. Muntons Super Light DME
.25 lb. 2-Row
2 oz. Crystal 10L
2 oz. Carapils
1 oz. Crystal 120
1 lb. Organic Blueberries, frozen (2nd Fermenter)
.125 oz. Willamette, 4.2%, pellets, 60min
.125 oz. Willamette, 4.2%, pellets, 30min
.125 oz.Tettnanger, 4.1%, whole, 10min
.125 oz. Tettnanger, 4.1%, whole, KO
Yeast: Collected Thames Valley Ale
It has a nice purple hue to its otherwise pale gold color. There is a faint blueberry scent. All of its flavors are bright and sort of sharp. The hop bitterness may have been a little high. The blueberry flavor is light but definitely present. There is a slight alcohol/metallic taste to it. Overall, its a drinkable beer. I think some wheat or flaked barley could give it a more smooth flavor and mouth-feel. Perhaps the hop flavor and aroma was a little aggressive, and shifting the hop schedule to bittering hops with less aroma would help the blueberry taste and aroma come through more.
An amazing beer. It's carbonation was full and very soft. Similar to the Corn Ale, the overall aroma and flavor was smoothed out but was also much more flavorful. Its sort-of hard to describe. It had a faint aroma of blueberries, and the flavor was super smooth. Absolutely great. I will be aging my current Blueberry 2 for at least 1 year!


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Thursday, 7 September 2017
Before Chain Reaction there was...Guns & Girls?!
Yep, back in 2002 the second set of rules we came out with was called Guns & Girls. The cover caused quite the stir back then. So much that I produced a replacement book called...Chain Reaction.
New cover was a target with bullet holes and blood. That was okay.
YOU can download a free copy of it here. Great to see how the mechanics have evolved over 15 years...holy %$#*! 15 years!
Did you buy NUTS Final Version this year?
Well if you bought it through the THW website or RPGNow/Wargames Vault, we'll give you a free replacement of the new one coming out later this month.
Wednesday, 6 September 2017
NUTS Compendium - What is it?
The NUTS Compendium contains a series of rules that can enhance and customize your NUTS games and campaigns, allowing you to run scenarios from the blazing hot deserts of North Africa to the frozen steppes of Russia. We've gathered the rules from all the supplements and scenario books and brought them together in one place. These are all optional rules; you do not need this book to play NUTS.
However, you must have the core NUTS game in order to use this book and a familiarity with the basic mechanics of those rules.
The rules in this book loosely follow the same organizational style as the NUTS rulebook.
All About the Story
How do you like your games? I like mine with a smaller number of figures and on a personal level. Personal level; what does that mean? Let me explain.
Each game I use the same figures for my squad and label them alphabetically. Now here's where it gets personal.
I make the Leader, the Star, me. Then I name each of the individual figures – squad members – after my high school or college chums. Now the guy on point isn't some non-descript figure, it's Jerome. Now the figure going Out of the Fight or worse is one of my old friends. This puts my games into a different perspective and makes me think twice before sending them across an open field to face an MG 42.
Now that my games are personal, it's more about the Story. About the exploits of me and my friends and that's where NUTS Compendium really shines. By picking and choosing what rules to use with NUTS I can make the Story, my Story, as detailed as I want. I can even back off on using some of the rules when I want then add them back in at a later date. Why; because it's my game.
What will your games be like?
Latest Updated Edition of NUTS Releasing This Month. Huh?
"You mean NUTS Compendium, right?"
Not exactly. After finishing off Compendium, the book that takes all the rules from all the NUTS supplements putting them into one book, we realized that NUTS could use an update. There's been 30+ titles written since the lat version of NUTS and the newer streamlined mechanics in them were screaming to be added to NUTS.
So the latest updated version of NUTS will be coming out at the same time as the NUTS Compendium. Everything you'll need will be in the two books allowing you to play any time, any where in WWII.
Watch for the release later this month.
Want a sneak peek? Here's the TOC for Compendium. Here's more about the Compendium.
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Hundreds of students, faculty and community members braved a foggy, rainy night Dec. 2 for a behind-the-scenes look at the New Horizons mission to Pluto, given by mission scientists Cathy Olkin and Ann Harch in the Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall.
"New Horizons represents a particular milestone because it is the completion of mankind's initial exploration of the solar system," said Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, in his introduction. "This is the last of the classically considered planets to be visited by spacecraft."
It took 50 years for this achievement – and it took New Horizons itself almost 10 years to cover the 4.67 billion miles to Pluto.
Jason Hofgartner, Ph.D. '15, who will join the New Horizons mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in January as a postdoc, recalled his excitement when he saw the first high-resolution image.
Even as it was being processed and beginning to appear at the top of the screen, "we could see significant topography in the image," he said. "Everyone rushed to their desks to calculate the height of the mountains. But we didn't expect they'd be several kilometers high. It was an incredible experience to be among the first people to see these ice mountains."
Olkin, deputy project scientist, showed the best previous photo scientists had of Pluto – a blurred blob of light. The contrast with the New Horizons photos she shared was so startling that the audience broke into applause.
Harch, lead sequencer of the science instruments on the spacecraft, described the difficult challenge of targeting with the spacecraft and scheduling the sequence of actions it would take during its brief flyby.
"This is the fastest object ever to leave Earth's orbit, launched at 36,000 miles per hour. It passed the Moon in nine hours," she said.
Its speed is so great, she added, that it has escape velocity from the solar system and it will keep going. Its nuclear power source – just enough to run two lightbulbs on earth – will be sufficient to continue operating the spacecraft until around 2040, if NASA approves further investigations.
Without any moving platforms, the only way to point the instruments is to move the entire spacecraft; Harch said she and the sequencing team had to craft 10,000 commands for the nine-day flyby: "That's why it took 10 years to plan."
The mission team chose an area to aim their cameras where there was an interesting mix of ices, said Olkin – which turned out to include the heart-shaped region that has become so famous. Part of the region is a large glacier made of exotic ices: methane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen, all gases found on Earth.
Olkin gave a visual tour of her favorite sites on Pluto, which include what may be ice volcanoes, called cryovolcanoes, and impact craters at the edges of the glacial region. These surprised scientists by containing ice at their bottoms, which may indicate that the glacier has flowed recently.
"It was pretty exciting to find mountains, about as high as the Rockies," Olkin said. "They're probably made out of water ice because other kinds of ice would relax after a while and not keep the sharp crests that we see in the images."
The moons of Pluto, too, offered many surprises. Olkin said she'd expected Charon to be cratered like Earth's moon, but it proved much more interesting, with deep canyons extending almost all the way around, mountains surrounded by sunken terrain, and a large area at the north pole the mission scientists have nicknamed "Mordor Macula."
But, said Olkin, only 25 percent of the data from New Horizons has been received so far. It will take until October of next year to replay all the data.
"This is science in action," she said.
This article also appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
City councilor Theresa Kail-Smith this morning introduced legislation that would regulate how adult entertainment businesses are permitted and operate in the city.
If the changes go through, zoning rules would be more clear cut ... and lap dances would be outlawed.
Spurred by two new clubs proposed for the North Side and the West End -- part of her district -- Smith says "interest in more adult entertainment establishments is continuing to billow forth, since we remain, for all practical purposes, the Wild West when it comes to adult business operation."
Permitting for adult entertainment -- like strip clubs, adult book stores and theatres -- is currently handled through city zoning code and requires permission from the City Planning Commission and City Council. Smith proposes changing the process to make it permitted "by use right" in the General and Urban Industrial districts.
"For decades upon decades, Pittsburgh has relied on essentially one rule when it came to regulated sexually-oriented businesses: you had to ask before you could open one," Smith said at a press conference today. "This [legislation] is absolutely necessary to eliminate any perception of arbitrary decision-making by public officials based upon vague standards."
The second bill deals with conduct, prohibiting entertainers "in a state of undress" from going within six feet of patrons. It also prohibits physical contact between them. Stages must be at least 18 inches high and rooms must be well-lit. Smith said current clubs will not be grandfathered into these regulations and will have to change how they operate.
The final bill requires that adult entertainment owners, operators, managers and employees are licensed, undergo criminal background checks and an annual renewal.
Smith says enforcement will fall to the Bureau of Building Inspection and the Department of Public Safety. As for enforcing the 6-foot/no-contact rule, she says "Enforcement is crucial but it's going to hold owners accountable as well."
Bram Reichbaum, author of the Pittsburgh Comet blog and research consultant in Smith's office, says that concerned residents have already volunteered to monitor the establishments and call the city's 311 line if they spot violations.
Appeals will be handled through nuisance property appeals board.
Smith said the city's adult entertainment ordinance has been "Constitutionally problematic" after it was successfully challenged by HDV-Hustler club in Chateau. The city is also currently appealing a judge's approval for a club proposed by Marquise Investments in the West End. The appeal is still pending.
Smith said she modeled her bill off of an Ohio ordinance and has been vetted by the city's law department. "These are the types of laws which can ensure that important First Amendment freedoms can co-exist peaceably in an urban environment, attracting as few negative secondary effects as possible for communities, neighbors, patrons and employees alike."
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How to handle disciplinary issues
Getting correct discipline and grievance procedures can avoid disputes - Nick Hood explains how
Do you want to end up in an employment tribunal? To avoid the cost in time, energy and money you should do two things.
Firstly, get some procedures in place for dealing with discipline and grievances and, secondly talk to your employees before taking any action.
Small firms often find it easier to deal with problems informally. Just a chat with a colleague can often resolve an issue. However, if a problem does persist you will need clear procedures to follow. These procedures should aim to help employees improve their performance or conduct and resolve any grievances they might have. The Acas advisory handbook Discipline and grievances at work can help you set up disciplinary and grievance procedures.
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Everything that happens as part of the disciplinary process should happen within a supportive framework designed to improve performance and behaviour rather than impose sanctions.
Talking and counselling
The best way to diffuse difficult situations is often to have a quiet word and find out what's really going on. This can be done discreetly and without the emotion that is often associated with a disciplinary meeting.
The disciplinary meeting
If informal action does not work or a problem is sufficiently serious then formal action is needed. A meeting should be held within the context of a careful consideration of all the facts, the employee's previous record and the organisation's standards on behaviour and performance.
Give the employee time to prepare for the meeting and remind them of their right to be accompanied. Clearly state what the complaint is against the employee, go through the evidence and give the employee the chance to respond. The key to any disciplinary meeting is listening – if the employer feels there is a lot to digest then it is worth adjourning to allow more time to reflect on the case.
Taking action
Any action should be taken within the right context – have there been any similar cases in the past, and are there any special circumstances to be taken into account?
For unsatisfactory performance the first penalty should take the form of an improvement note. This sets out the nature of the problem, the improvement required, and the timescale for achieving the improvement. It should also set the review date and give details of any support the employer will offer.
It is important that the employee realises that this note represents the first stage of a formal procedure and that failure to improve could result in a final written warning and, ultimately, dismissal.
In cases of misconduct employees should be given a written warning setting out the nature of the misconduct and the change in behaviour required. The warning should also inform the employee that a final written warning may be considered if there is no sustained satisfactory improvement or change. A record of the warning should be kept, but it should be disregarded for disciplinary purposes after a specified period (eg, six months).
If an employee's misconduct or unsatisfactory performance is sufficiently serious it may be justifiable to move directly to a final written warning. Such a warning should normally remain current for a specified period, for example, 12 months, and contain a statement that further misconduct or poor performance may lead to dismissal.
The opportunity to appeal against a disciplinary decision is one of the key ingredients of what is often called 'reasonable behaviour'. Reasonable behaviour is a yardstick tribunals use to assess how employers have dealt with a case. As well as the right of appeal it includes other principles of natural justice, such as letting employees have their say and the right to be accompanied to disciplinary and grievance meetings.
The statutory procedure
If you have already given a final warning and decided to dismiss an employee – or impose action short of dismissal (such as demotion or loss of pay) – you have to follow a statutory procedure. This means you must do three things:
- Write to the employee setting out your reasons for disciplinary action or dismissal
- Invite your employee to a meeting to discuss the matter, and
- Hold an appeal meeting if necessary.
If you have not followed these three steps the tribunal may well judge the dismissal 'automatically unfair'. The compensation may increase or decrease – by between 10-50% – depending on whether the employer or employee failed to adhere to the new law.
Grievance procedures are used by employees to help resolve problems they may have with their employer.
Anybody working in an organisation may, at some time, have problems or concerns about their work, working conditions or relationships with colleagues that they wish to talk about with management.
Employees should aim to settle most grievances informally with their line manager. But, if a grievance cannot be settled informally, the employee should raise it formally with management. Hopefully the issue can be resolved quickly. However if an employee wishes to use the grievance as the basis of a complaint to an employment tribunal they must first complete step 1 of the statutory grievance procedure. This means they have to tell the employer about their grievance in writing.
The other steps involve holding a meeting to discuss the grievance and, if the employee requests an appeal, holding an appeal meeting to review the complaint. Many employers may wish to have separate grievance procedures for dealing with sensitive issues such as bullying and harassment.
Keep informed
To keep informed about changes in the law and how to apply the new laws to your workplace, Acas can help.
Call 08457 47 47 47 or visit www.acas.org.uk to find out about Acas' training sessions, publications and to register for its free online learning package on Discipline and Grievance.


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Computex 2002 Coverage - Abit Editor's Night (Page 1)
As mentioned in our Day 4 coverage of Computex, last night Cameron and I, along with many other editors headed up to Abit HQ for Abit's "Editor's Night". The night was in the theme of the FIFA World Cup that is currently taking place in Korea and thus, soccer balls and posters were plastered everywhere - Even Abit staff were wearing Abit football jerseys.
Mostly web media attended the event. These included Steven and Andrew from Legion Hardware, Kyle from HardOCP, Scott from The Tech Report, Lars from Tom's Hardware, Stewart from The DDR Zone, Anna from Xbit Labs and other representatives from various print media.
This was one of the more enjoyable nights of Computex. It started with a 20 minute bus trip from the Computex show floor to Abit HQ and once there, we were split up into groups and then headed into conference rooms where we got the chance to ask Abit engineers any technical questions we had. We were also given an interesting tour of Abit's R&D facilities - the area where they test and research all of their latest products and compare them to the competition. Before I continue, i'd just like to comment on how stylish the Abit building really is. I would have to say that this is one of the, if not the best building i've seen so far in Taipei. It comes complete with a cafe, bar, gym, restaurant... you name it! It even has a talking elevator! (too bad I can't speak Chinese). The building itself is located in what is sometimes called Taipei's "Silicon Valley", and it is also where many companies are moving their headquarters to in the near future.
Instead of doing show floor coverage again today, we thought we'd write up a small article about the night as we've already covered all of the interesting booths and products we've come across in our past four days of coverage. Read on to find out exactly what we got up to at Abit HQ.
Before I go on, i'd just like to quickly mention a few of the companies that helped make the night the success it was. These were Enermax, Logitech, Intel, AMD, Lian-Li, Neovo and Nanya.
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Asaia A, but he can feel pressure sometimes, but not a scratch. he can "push" when cathing to empty bladder, same as bowel, can push, just can't feel. can move hips back and forth, mostly with trunk. can adduct and abduct legs from hip/trunk strength. so is this complete, or incomplete, asia A?


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This practical 2003 handbook provides an extremely comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to micromanipulation techniques in assisted conception in a clinical setting. It includes detailed, illustrated descriptions of all the common micromanipulation systems currently in use in IVF laboratories around the world and clearly explains how to optimise their successful use. The volume covers state-of-the-art techniques including intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and procedures such as assisted hatching and the blastomere biopsy (for preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD). Valuable information on troubleshooting the potential mechanical and technical difficulties that can arise is provided to help all the practitioners of these techniques, including trainee embryologists and consultant obstetricians, and technicians and scientists involved in animal transgenesis and cloning. It will undoubtedly be of immense value to all doctors and scientists working with assisted reproductive technologies.


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Robotics Association of Nepal (RAN) in association with Fusemachines, Inc., Developers Session [Intel Software Nepal Representative] and Synergy Tech Software and other supporters present Yantra Learning 2017. It is a competition for IT and Engineering students where the participants' goal is to develop algorithms and software infused with AI and Machine Learning for agricultural disaster response. The main objective of Yantra Learning is to train the Yantra (Machine) so it can predict and alert about the possibility of upcoming natural disasters. Also, the winners of the competition will be enrolled in Fusemachines AI Fellowship.
Encouraging IT & Engineering Students to Develop AI System in agriculture field
The goal of Yantra Learning is to encourage young IT and Engineering students to develop AI system in the field of Agriculture. Gaurav Tripathee, Co-Lead of Yantra Learning says "This is probably one of the first tech-related event in Nepal which focuses on AI and especially ML." He further states, "With this event, we want to attract young aspiring engineering students towards ML and start to create a pool of Nepali ML experts."
Two-day Hackathon to Nurture the Ideas
The Two-day (Dec 19-Dec 20) hackathon program was held at Fusemachines Nepal Inc. Hall, Hattisar. Different teams from various engineering colleges pitched their ideas to participate in the overall competition. The teams then worked on their own unique ideas on the main task at hand during the Hackathon. Few mentors including the AI Engineering team of Fusemachines were present to interact with the participating teams. Other mentors included personalities from ICT for Agriculture Nepal and Intel Student Ambassador from Developer Session.
Five Teams Competing in the Finals
1) Technovate:
Team Members: Anish Shrestha, Leela Dhoj Lama, Mahesh Prajapati
The idea behind invention: Taking past weather parameters and crops production and yield to classify the suitable/fit crop for the coming year using the weather forecast data.
2) Kath:
Team Members: Saroj Dangol, Ritesh Maharjan, Shraddha Amatya.
The idea behind invention: This idea is related to the artificial environment for growing crops e.g. greenhouse. The system will keep records of past production data and their environments. The system will predict new suitable conditions for increasing productivity using past records. If production is increased using prediction data then it will be stored in the system as the best condition. Using this, the best possible conditions will be known.
Team Members: Raj Shrestha, Satyarth Upadhyaya, Anish Shrestha, Rajiv Shah
The idea behind invention: Plant diseases have been one of the major problems for farmers. This team has proposed to create a system that will help farmers recognize diseases and implement solutions through smartphones. Farmers will be able to identify diseases by taking a photo of the diseased leaf and uploading the image to their cloud server using the android app which they will develop. The RARA team believes the app will then identify the diseases and suggest some solutions.
4) DataSansar:
Team Members: Binod Jung Bogati, Garima Khakurel, Dipika Rai
The idea behind invention: DataSansar team is working on prediction on Tea and Coffee production based on the data of climate, rainfall etc. The team is hopeful this product will help both the farmers and investors get insights on how/when they should cultivate and invest.
5) AgroBot:
Team Members: Ashish Agarwal, Sushanta Ratna Adhikari
The idea behind invention: The main focus of this team is to increase the productivity of poultry and fishing farmers by guiding them to increase the potential of the marketing of their product. The team is trying to feed some factors regarding this domain in algorithm tree like pond's size, altitude, temperature and protein availability plus the number of workers. This algorithm tries to analyze previous production rate and consumption rate to help farmers make the right decision in the marketing sector.
The Final Competition
The organizers are planning to have a few more rounds of hackathons and workshops for the participants to get a chance to understand ML more deeply. A date has not been fixed yet but they are planning to have the final competition before the end of January 2018. The Fusemachines' AI Teams will also be involved in helping the participants on their projects.
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I am not much of a baker. While I have tried my hand at making desserts from scratch, the only dessert I insist on doing that with are cookies. Everything else I take the easy way out for the foundation of the dessert by using a box mix then adding my own twist to it. One of my favorite desserts to do this with are lime bars.
I love lemon bars as well but there is something about that lime zing that gets my mouth watering. I like Krusteaz Key Lime Bar mix and here are the directions for that.
What You Will Need
Lime Bars1 box Krusteaz Key Lime Bar mix
1/3 cup water
3 eggs
Meringue4 egg whites
1/2 cup sugar
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8x2-inch baking dish (sides and bottom).
- Mix water and eggs until evenly blended. Add key lime filling mix and whisk until smooth. Set aside.
- Press crust mix firmly into bottom of pan. Bake 8 minutes to set crust. The crust will bake the rest of the way once filling is added.
- Stir filling again and pour over hot crust. Bake 18 to 20 minutes until filling is set. Allow to cool completely. Keep oven at 350.
Meringue Topping
- Add egg whites and sugar to a clean mixing bowl used in an electric mixer. Add the whisk attachment to the mixer. Beat the egg whites and sugar on medium-high speed until stiff peaks form.
- Using a spatula spread meringue over key lime filling. Swirl the meringue while you spread to form peaks. Bake again for 8 to 10 minutes or until meringue begins to brown.
- Allow to cool completely before cutting into bars.
Of course, this can be done with lemon bars as well. If you end up cooking your filling completely according to the directions on the box, you can still add the meringue topping after the filling has cooled. However, you will need a culinary/brûlèe torch. Use the torch to manually brown the meringue.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
My Favourite Holiday Scent!
Yes! Jesse is here! He arrived on Sunday morning and we are happy as can be!
Today's Christmas Blogging Challenge prompt is Favourite Holiday Scent and for me - that's an easy one!
My Mum's Christmas Pudding always fills the house with a delicious aroma as it cooks on Christmas Day. Whilst I can't eat it - I have made a super easy and adaptable version that will suit everyone - regardless of your specific food needs.
I'll be sharing the recipe tomorrow - so keep an eye out!
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Have you ever used some version of "I'm SO busy" as an excuse?
Let me confess up front, I have.
But just recently, I realized "I'm SO busy" is only partially true.
Yes, the reality is, my life is FULL. I'm sure your life is too.
In an ideal world, our lives are FULL of things we value in life. That's certainly true for me. I thoroughly enjoy spending time with my rockstar husband, my adorable 19-month-old twin babies, my beloved coaching clients, quality time with friends and family, redoing my website (SO excited about this!), writing about inner peace, making a difference in the world, veggie smoothies, taking time for yoga, massages, sleep, reading, learning and growing, watching "Parenthood" (my new fav TV show), date nights, time at the beach, sunsets, connecting via social media, putting my babies to bed every night, and enjoying yummy food and wine. Ahhhhhh!
It's also no secret I really value inner peace. That means, I also clearly and carefully put boundaries in place so there is breathing room between the activities I value most, so I can create and live my best life possible while maximizing inner peace.
Of course, there is only so much time in a day. 24 beautiful hours can quickly fill up when you're passionate about life and honoring your values.
Other people also have ideas for how you should spend your time.
One of my clients has a super large circle of friends and family. As she was striving to create more balance and space for herself, she noticed the ongoing slew of invitations to birthday parties, showers, weddings and random social gatherings. Every minute of her evenings and weekends were accounted for, leaving her zero time for herself. Ugh!
Another dear friend has two busy teenage daughters involved in LOTS of outside school activities. She also has a hard time saying no, so found herself on a dozen different volunteer committees! When we added it all up, it totaled 30+ hours a week of volunteering and most weren't fulfilling. She was running on fumes. Super ugh!
Professionally, demands from others are even trickier. Naturally, you want to allocate time to clients, potential partners, vendors, employees, bosses, and associates. But, sometimes their needs and desires aren't in alignment with your ultimate business vision, short-term objectives or schedule of the week. Email is a big way others ask for your attention.
No wonder so many feel they don't have control over their lives and inner peace is an elusive concept.
I'm not dissing on the value of friends and family, activities for kids, volunteering, serving clients, bosses and employees or responding to email.
However, if other people are dictating the vast majority of your day, you're living into their best life, not your best life.
So, now you're thinking "I'm SO busy" could never be an excuse — it's simply — reality. Right?
I used to think that too.
But, let's look at this more objectively.
When a friend says, "Things have been crazy lately" or "We're super busy!" — what is it communicating?
Do you automatically assume they are enjoying life to the fullest and simply honoring their values? Do you assume they're present to each moment, enjoying a nice balance between doing and being? Do you assume they're highly productive, yet also enjoying a calm inner core?
That wouldn't be my assumption.
Or do you think to yourself, "Wow, they must be running around like a chicken with their head cut off." Or maybe you feel bad for them for seemingly living so out of control. Maybe you assume they are stressed, overwhelmed and miserable, which may or may not be true.
In either scenario, you may still wish your colleague had more time for you, but you may have more respect for one set of assumptions over the other.
Is the phrase "I'm SO busy" really an excuse?
I started noticing how habitual the "I'm SO busy" phrase was in my life. Simultaneously, I noticed my life has space for the things at the tippy-top of my priority list, the things I value most in any given moment.
It doesn't mean I don't want to respond favorably to every joint venture partnership or interview request. An unanswered email or phone call doesn't mean I don't care. And, it doesn't mean I'm overwhelmed 24/7. Though I have my moments.
For me, "I'm SO busy" was a polite way of saying, "All my time is allocated right now or for the next week or month."
Of course, life is dynamic, and we constantly get to adjust our priorities to make room for what IS truly important — a call to a family member or friend, supporting a colleague or a new creative project.
The busier our lives get, the more we have to prioritize, set boundaries and let go of guilt for making conscious choices for ourselves. That's not always easy, but the ecstasy of a calm inner core is worth it.
Are you using "I'm too busy" as an excuse?
Answer these 5 questions to determine if you're using "I'm too busy" as a backward way to set boundaries — or if you really are TOO busy for your own good. Be honest.
1. Do you have elbow room? Do you guard and protect time to breathe, read, write, meditate, set goals, know yourself, journal, reflect, organize, enjoy downtime or just plain relax into your beingness? Having elbow room helps you keep your connection to your Higher Self strong and actively keep inner peace alive.
2. Are you clear about your priorities? What's most important to you in life? Health. Relationships. Quality time with children. Inner Peace. Friendships. Growth. Connecting. Adventure. Getting out of the house each day. Well being. Intimacy. Breathing room. Connecting. Achievement. Order. Fun. Spirituality. Creativity. Hobbies. Or ??? When you know what's most important to you in life and make them your priority, it's easier to create and live into your best life.
3. Do you say "no" when you need to? Ah, yes… beloved boundaries. If you're a people pleaser, this is a toughy. But, as you know yourself and your capacity, it becomes clearer and clearer what to say "yes" to and what to say "no" to. Use your inner peace compass and a guide. Honor the "no." Saying "yes," when you know it's going to throw off your equilibrium, is like having that extra dessert or cocktail when you know you're already at your limit. The consequences aren't worth it. I'm certainly not perfect at this, but I try to avoid the "overwhelm hangover" if I can. I value my inner peace.
4. Are you thoroughly enjoying everything you say "yes" to? You know you're living into and honoring your values when you're enjoying each unfolding activity in your life. Good for you! You love your work and workouts. You love time with loved ones and with yourself. You love being productive and relaxing. You simply love what you choose each moment. If there is something you aren't fully enjoying, do it less or put it on the "no" list — at least for now.
5. Can you let go of the guilt for having a great life? Maybe this is the toughest question of all. The vast majority of the population aren't living into their highest potential of fulfillment and inner peace. Even people who live amazing lives have different values from yours. That doesn't mean you should feel guilty for living an extraordinary life. Own the life you've created for yourself. Priorities shift and change, and that's okay. Give yourself full permission to continually design and live into your best life.
If you answered "YES" to one or more of the questions above — congratulations! That says a lot about who you are. If you're also habitually saying "I'm TOO busy" — you may be using that phrase as an excuse. What can you say instead?
If you answered "NO" to one or more of the questions above, you have an opportunity to uplevel your inner peace and fulfillment quotient. Maybe now is the time to create more elbow room, to prioritize, to practice saying "no" to things you aren't thoroughly enjoying and let go of guilt for having a fabulous life. If you want help with this via one-on-one coaching, feel free to email me firstname.lastname@example.com
How did you do? I'd love for you to take a moment and share your thoughts, answers, comments, and questions in the comments below. I look forward to connecting with you there!
Here's to living your best life!


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1. Asa Akira
If you don't know who Asa Akira is, do you even watch porn? This girl does everything: she writes books, she does podcasts, she does porn, and she is a huge activist.
Asa is sure to be making her (former) Japanese diplomat parents proud through her work in porn. This girl definitely has an interesting past… and an interesting sexual preference as she still isn't sure if she's straight, bi, or gay. This translates to her porn as well! She's done plenty of scenes with both men and women; she's said that she really does like having sex with both genders – and people who identify in between – so you can be confident that she's actually enjoying her work as much as it looks like she is.
If you're into women who are sexual and are all about the hustle, you should definitely follow Asa!
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This girl is sexy with a little bit of edge. If you're into that girl who looks sweet but a little freaky, you should give this girl a follow.
Violet is extremely active on her Snapchat, where you can basically find her posting every day. This girl isn't a huge porn star like Asa, but that just means she has more time to keep you entertained on Snapchat!
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So, you like boobs, huh?
If enormous breasteses are your cup of tea, then this girl is definitely in line with your tastes. Similarly, to Violet, she isn't a huge porn star (but who knows, things could change! We could only hope! She's very active on both Snapchat and Instagram; but since Insta still doesn't believe in freeing the nipple, you can catch her sexier content on her Snapchat!
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Again, if you don't know who Dani Daniels is, you must not be even that into porn!
Dani Daniels is like Asa in that her talents don't just include flexibility, minimal gag reflex, and anal stretching… she is an avid painter (pointillism is her thing) and can literally fly circles around other girls in the industry since she can fly a plane.
Not only do you get exclusive (and sexy) content on her Snapchat, but you catch a glimpse into this interesting woman's day-to-day life.
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Certain canines have a penchant for taking things that aren't theirs the moment the opportunity presents itself. Trying to take it back probably sends Rusty running away like an Olympic sprinter. A couple of commands along with a game of fetch can make it easier to retrieve your stolen items.
Hide a few treats in a pouch or in your pocket so that your pup can't tell where they are.
Sit on your couch and toss one of your pup's favorite toys so he has to retrieve it. The moment he returns with it, say, "Drop." Say it only once and don't make any movements to take the toy from him. He's probably going to stare at you, as if to say you're a crazy person. But within 10 to 15 seconds, he should drop the toy on the floor or on you. He's trying to bait you into taking it so you'll show interest, but that doesn't matter. The important thing is he dropped it, so immediately reward him with a tasty treat.
Grab the toy and use your hand or arm to block your pup from taking it. Say, "Leave it." He'll eventually pull away and might snort, sigh or sit in frustration of not being able to grab it. The second he does, tell him he's a good boy and hand him a treat. Pick up the toy, chuck it across the room and start all over again. The point of the "leave it" command is to stop those sharp teeth from latching right back onto your shoes, shirts or whatever else he steals once he drops them on command. Keep repeating the two commands 10 to 20 times a day until he's dropping his toy and leaving it the moment you say the command.
Say the "Drop" command the second your thieving pup steals something, and then follow that with the "leave it" command. Your behavior will determine what happens next. Remain calm and don't run at your pup or make quick movements. Make fast, jerky movements and you're going to find yourself as Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner. Pick up the stolen item and don't say a word about it to your pup. Sure, he took it without asking, but he obeyed the two commands. If you notice him lean in toward the item as you approach it, give a sharp, "Ah" to back him off.
Make it difficult for him to steal things. Dogs who enjoy the life of household crime usually have a list of preferred items they enjoy stealing. Your pal might not care about couch pillows but finding a shoe is like hitting three 7s in Vegas. Try to keep those items away from his reach. Hiding shoes in crates and never leaving clothes out in the open are sensible options. You can also opt to deter him by applying a bitter spray to items, although that's probably not the best idea for things you might catch a whiff of, like pillows.
Items you will need
- Toys
- Treats
- Leash (optional)
- You can use the "Drop" and "Leave it" commands for other situations too, such as getting your pup to drop a rock or leave a pile of mulch alone.
- If the "Drop it" method doesn't work for you, try lowering a treat in front of your pup's face when he brings you the toy. He should release the toy in anticipation for the treat. If he attempts to run off with the toy, leash him up and keep the leash in your hand or step on it to prevent him from scurrying away.
- Giving your pup plenty of exercise each day in the form of walks, free runs, fetch and so forth can stop bad behaviors like thievery.
- Avoid chasing your pup for a toy or for anything he steals. He thinks it's a game if you start chasing him.
- Do not berate your pup or hit him. Negative reinforcement, especially in this situation, solves nothing.
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One day when I was about 17, and this was in the early 1970s, I was helping my mother and her best friend, June, get my mother's silver tea service ready for some kind of hospital reception of the kind that Pink Ladies of my mother's generation used to give. I was about to scrape some dried food off the side of the teapot with the back of a knife when June laid her hand on mine to stop me. "You never," she said, "take a knife to silver."
At that moment, there was no doubt in my mind that I had been made the recipient of valuable domestic lore, or that June and my mother were the just the kind of women to give it. They were matrons—a term that at the time was pretty routinely applied to women who were, I don't know, past 40. Matrons were older ladies who knew things. They weren't necessarily things society at large tended to value, but they were worth knowing. It was a matron—one of the Pink Ladies my mother hung out with—who instructed me on the proper way of mitering a sheet corner. Years later, another matron—the mother of a neighbor—instructed me on the proper preparation of a salted ham that I bought off a Virginia farmer who'd had it hanging in his barn for awhile. (You cut off the mold that has grown on the rind, soak it for about 24 hours to get the salt out, then cook and glaze. It was best ham I have ever put in my mouth.) These women had no problem wearing their age. Life had given them useful experience, and they were happy to pass it along.
Today, 50 is the new 40, and women of a certain age are expected to be "hot," to aspire to a reputation as a MILF (for "Mother I'd Like to F@#%," for people like me who had to have this term explained)—or maybe glamorously gray, like Helen Mirren, or impeccably groomed, gorgeous and minus batwings, like Michele Obama. "Matron" has devolved into a word that comes attached with sort of institutional designation, as in "boarding school" or "prison." Hillary Clinton is a matron if I've ever seen one, albeit one with an impressive professional resume—but if some pundit called her that in print, the feminist outrage would be scorching; it would be taken, I'm guessing, as a cheap sexist insult about her looks and/or un-f@#%ability.
And that's a shame. There's a shortage in the English language of terms that give grown women gravitas and that honors the kind of experience and life wisdom gained not by "leaning in" and becoming the Secretary of State, but the kind acquired during years of running a household, raising kids, holding down a job, navigating relationships with spouses, siblings and aging parents and filing your taxes more or less on time. I'm talking not just about domestic lore, though that's certainly included, but things we could loosely categorize as common sense. Things like knowing that once daughters get past puberty, dads should never be allowed to sort underwear (there will be ugly fights), that the best life partners are generally not the ones looking for something smoking hot, that flunking a driving test is not the end of the world and that all first jobs involve demeaning scutwork. Men acquire this kind of knowledge, too, obviously—but men over 50 don't have the same invisibility problem that women over 50 do. Older men can become "mentors" or "counselors" or "advisers" or "elder statesmen." Older women can either go the Joan Rivers route or brace themselves for terms like "crone" or "leather bag" or worse—or resign themselves to not being noticed at all.
This is an observation I've thought about for years, but it came up in public discourse recently in an interview Frances McDormand gave to the New York Times as part of a publicity tour for her HBO miniseries entitled "Olive Kitteridge," directed by and starring Ms. McDormand. The central character was a flinty, plainspoken Maine math teacher who rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. But she was real—as is Ms. McDormand herself, who has defied Hollywood norms by refusing to undergo plastic surgery or conceal her age in any way. In our culture, she said, "There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift." She, on the other hand, is proud of being a grown-up.
"I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess. I have some things to talk about and say and help."
To which I silently said Amen!—and then mentally added: Frances, you are not an elderess; you are a matron.
The Free Dictionary defines matron as a "married woman or a widow, especially a mother of dignity, mature age, and established social position." I'm not sure about the "married" part, and the only "social position" I can claim is having once organized a neighborhood-wide yard sale—but dignity? You bet. I'm also stuffed to the gills with all four varieties of knowledge: professional, domestic, academic and the "don't do what I did" kind. As for the mature age part—well, my bosom is no longer perky, my ass is significantly larger than it used to be and some mornings the bags under my eyes have bags of their own. I know I am supposed to be distressed about this, but the weird thing is, I like my face—and after many decades of angst, I'm even starting to love my imperfect body. It's matronly. I look like what I am: a woman who has lived and grown and had a couple of babies and achieved some significant professional successes. I am, as Frances McDormand said of herself, "a woman who is proud and more powerful than I was when I was younger."
My husband and I have two daughters. The older is now a college freshman who plugs in her ear buds whenever I start pontificating and the 14-year-old rolls her eyes until you can practically hear them rattle. But daughters come with friends, who sometimes hang around the house and check me out, to see if I am as weird and doddering as they have heard. We have interesting conversations about everything from divorce to having sex with co-workers to body image to sibling relationships. I imagine my own daughters have similar conversations with other moms and aunties out there, and that is fine by me. We all have stuff to say, knowledge to pass on, not the least of which is that a life well lived produces age that is a gift and not a curse. We are matrons. Hear us roar.
You can find Tracy Thompson at her website, www.tracythompson.com, and at her blog, The Blockhead Chronicles. Her most recent book is The New Mind of the South.


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I am Annaël Brunet, this website is about my scientific research. I am very interested by research project focuses on the correlation between the dynamics of 3D chromosome folding organization and the role play by DNA-protein interaction inducing topological modifications or local interaction along polymer chain or changes in gene expression.
Research focusIf DNA is well-known for containing the genetic code essential to the cell physiology, its mechanical characteristics are now also under close study as they may actively participate to the different biological processes. Studying the spatial architecture and dynamics of the genomic material by taking into account the implication of modifications due to local effect (as transcriptional activity or inactivity of genes, intrinsic local curvature, induced DNA-protein bending) on the long range organization of the DNA material and on the DNA elastic response constitutes an important field of research to fully how chromosomes fold, move and interact.
Present project: The cell nucleus is well-known to be the localisation of main biological processes alight on the chromatin. Nowaday, the correlation between the spatial architecture of the genomic material and the dynamic of gene expression and regulation constitutes an important field of research. I'm investigating how mechanicals constraints induced by the 3D organisation of the biopolymer, as topological asociated domains (TADs) or lamins associated domains (LADs), cooperativly impact the chromatin elastic response and could guidance the variation in gene expresssion.
My work aims at both biostatistically analyzed RNA-Seq and Chip-Seq data to extract oscillating patterns in term of, respectively, gene expression or mechanicals constraints and modeling physical mechanisms which could mimic the 3D spacial variation of the chromatin biologically observed.
This work takes place in the laboratory:
- Collas Lab (head Leader : Collas Philippe) at the University of Oslo, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Lab is in Oslo, Norway.
Thesis project: The DNA molecule commonly known as the double helix, is a biopolymer with a high degree of conformational and structural variability that participates in many biological processes. Some of them can be associated with local bending or local opening, local denaturation "bubble", of the double helix. Changes in temperature or salt concentration of the solution may also globally modify the physical properties of DNA molecules. During this work, we propose a joint theory-experiment high-throughput approach, corresponding to manage in parallel experimental technics, numerical simulations and, physics models, in order to get access to the value of a local bend angle, or to the magnitude of variations in the DNA rigidity parameter of this biomolecule on DNA samples with local defects or submitted to various physicochemical conditions.
This work takes place in 2 laboratories:
- The Theoretical Physics Laboratory (LPT-IRSAMC) under the supervision of Nicolas Destainville in the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems group (head leader: Nicolas Destainville).
- The Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology under the supervision of Catherine Tardin in the Membrane and DNA dynamics team (head leader: Laurence Salomé).
Both labs are in Toulouse, South of France.


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Playwright: Francis Turnly / Director: Jude Christian / Starring: Haruka Abe, Elizabeth Tan, Kunjue Li
A gritty, gripping coming-of-age drama, 'Harajuku Girls' premiered at the Finborough Theatre in February 2015 and is on until Saturday March 21st, 2015. Thank you for inviting JapaneseLondon.com in to review!
Graduating from high school is a familiar rite of passage. It's an exciting, bewildering, slightly terrifying time. For the three main characters of 'Harajuku Girls' it's a time to live fast, discover their limits, defy their parents – and less familiarly – to work in one of Tokyo's 'image clubs', earning vast sums of money for sexual role play.
In the UK we tend to have an image of 'Harajuku Girls' – those who dress up in costumes ('cosplay') and hang around Jingu Bridge – are weird, but indulging in good, clean, fantasy fun. For most, this might be true, but our characters here are tottering on the precipice of exploitation as they seek to fulfil their dreams. The play cleverly delves into the dimensions of the different characters – Haruka Abe's Mari is seemingly vulnerable on the outside but possess a steely core as arguments with her corporate drone father (Nomo Gakuji) demonstrate; Elizabeth Tan's Keiko is sassy and wise beyond her years, hiding her damage and emotional troubles inside.
It is Keiko who first takes a job at the aforementioned 'image club' called 'House of Red Leaves', but when Mari realises working there could raise the ¥1million she needs to attend acting school, she too takes a job. The girls dress up as brides, schoolgirls and cheerleaders to entertain a motley crew of middle-aged men unsatisfied with their wives, careers etc. Fumiko, played by Kunjue Li, is an older girl who has worked at the club for a while and acts as a measuring stick for Keiko and Mari – they often remind themselves it's just a short-term job lest they end up like her.
Unfortunately, the underworld has a tendency to suck you in. The disparity between the two girls and their other high school chum, the innocent Yumi (also played by Kunjue Li) becomes increasingly obvious as the play progresses. While Keiko and Mari spend their days getting groped by married men and their nights popping pills in grimy clubs, Yumi works as a lift operator (only in Japan!) in a department store and spends her nights wearing a comfy rabbit onesie. Yet it is the cutesy, ordinary Yumi to whom Mari turns when things go wrong.
The set design by Cécile Trémolières is masterful. Finborough Theatre becomes an impressive variety of locations; from sex club, to the dining room of Mari's family home. The centrality of the two sliding doors in particular allows for some clever switchovers, twisting audience perceptions of the scene's location. Other reviewers may have complained of too many set changes taking too long, taking the suspense and drama out of the play, but given that the theatre only seats fifty people it was a clever use of the limited space.
Francis Turnly's script makes great play of the distinction between conformity and rebellion, real life and fantasy. The apparent desire of Japanese people to escape the routine of everyday conventions – in the big cities at least – into strange fantasies is explored with some pathos throughout the play. Perhaps the play can be best summarised with the familiar Japanese saying "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down", as Mari's mother remarks during a kitchen table chat. Society functions as a heavy hammer hitting these girls – who dare to stand out – squarely on the head.
Tickets from £16 – £18 are available on the website here.
Review by Robert Van Egghen – follow him on twitter @RobertVE9