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Tainan City is a municipality on Taiwan's southwest coast. It was the island's capital from 1683-1887 under the Qing dynasty, and today it's known for its centuries-old fortresses and temples.
"You'll almost certainly receive looks of envy from any Taiwanese person if you mention you're going to Tainan (台南市), and it's not hard to see why." reads Lonely Planet's website. "Traditional culture continues to thrive in Tainan, the oldest city in the country. Inside century-old temples people 'bwah bwey' (cast moon blocks) to determine the best course of action, just as their ancestors did when the temples first opened….."
Our first cooperation with Tainan City Government began in 2013, when the city celebrated the 120th anniversary of renowned Taiwanese painter Chen Cheng-po. Acoustiguide Asia created a special app for the exhibition, (view app here) commemorating this great pioneer of early 20th century East Asian painting.
Following the successful exhibition and app, Tainan City Government aimed to generate more apps to promote the city and its wonders. The government focused on the five most popular historical sites of the oldest city and former capital of Taiwan. Acoustiguide Asia was responsible for the entire project and developed an innovative beacon-based application, providing a solution with a location-aware mobile app to create a more interactive touring experience.
The Tainan Tour App triggers automatically and guides visitors through the city by voice, just like a personal tour guide. The app offers 50 multimedia stations and employs a Bluetooth automatic sensing beacon to provide visitors with audio descriptions in real time. As visitors stroll along the route on-site, their devices are triggered by the beacons, spontaneously activating the app's content.
This comprehensive app offers a variety of interactive experiences encompassing graphics and written texts, hundreds of photos, guided tours and gourmet food tasting. The automatic location function enables visitors to learn more about the history and current status of five major historical sites in Tainan and to observe the changes that have taken place over the years. Each site has 10 stopping points with text descriptions and 10 audio stopping points of interest that are auto-triggered by corresponding beacons. One of the features displays old photos and maps of Tainan, allowing visitors to share their thoughts with friends and family.
Users easily access the latest information on tourism, culture and transportation in Tainan. The GPS function combined with Google Maps / iOS Maps assists people in reaching historical sites and popular dining establishments in real time. Further, Local Assistance supplies guided maps and user manuals onsite, including 10 to 15 tablets that are free to borrow at each site.
This multilingual app has English, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese versions available at the App store and Google Play that are compatible with Android 4.3 + and iPhone 4S and later.
The port city of Acre became the gateway to the Holy Land following the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099 after the First Crusade. A monastic order called the Hospitallers, dedicated themselves to providing a safe haven for pilgrims at this historic site.
The Hospitaller Fortress, in Israel also known as "The Knight Halls" or "the Knight Kingdom" has been an Acoustiguide client since 1997. During this time the site developed its offerings to visitors hand in hand with Acoustiguide, upgrading from the 1st generation audio guides to the 2nd and 3rd advanced multi-media players.
In 2014 The Old Acre Development Company, Ltd. (OADC) completed extensive renovations to enhance the visitor experience at the historic Hospitaller Fortress. Winning the official tender, Acoustiguide deployed its Opus system as a key element, delivering a multimedia experience throughout the exhibit.
The Acre Fortress is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, making it a significant destination for foreign and domestic tourists alike. Built by the Crusaders in the 15th century, it encompasses aspects of Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Baha'i history, including the Templars' tunnels, a traditional Turkish bath and the Okashi Art Museum. Insights into centuries of the city's buried past were unearthed in an excavation of over 25,000 square meters of the Citadel and the surrounding streets. Thanks to its partial restoration there are now over 300,000 annual visitors, projected to reach an audience of 500,000.
Through unique and engaging experiences, Acoustiguide's technology offers a glimpse into Acre's rich 5,000 years of history. Acoustiguide's team worked closely with the OADC team from the initial concept to the final implementation. Video presentations are beamed on walls and floors throughout the fortress, without sound. Each visitor receives an Acoustiguide Opus player in order to enjoy a full, rich experience of the Fortress encounter. The digital multimedia content sync precisely with the presentation in 10 languages. Its RF sensors are installed unobtrusively throughout the site, blending in without damaging or detracting from the architecture. They automatically trigger the content on the portable guiding devices when a visitor enters a particular area, providing a visitor-centric experience. The narration is timed to commence upon arrival at each station, allowing visitors to advance through the exhibit at their own pace. An alternate route is set up for the disabled to avoid stairs.
As live actors also interact with the visitors, the headphones are designed to fit over the ears without covering them, enhancing both the real-time and recorded experience. The system also synchronizes with group tours, accommodating up to 16 groups at a time, enabling each person to fully enjoy the experience.
Acoustiguide's comprehensive approach aims to create fun, simple, yet meaningful and educational experiences that reflect each site's unique vision. The project was entirely coordinated with the OADC to develop the multilingual content and the delivery, so that nothing would detract from the site itself. Visitors enjoy and learn through a seamless audio and video experience.
The Grand Palais in Paris, the first European cultural operator established in 1895, represents a tradition of culture in France. This historic monument showcases large-scale exhibitions of classical, modern and contemporary art in its spacious halls, partnering with top museums from around the world. Involved in a broad spectrum of cultural activities including distributing photography from numerous international collections with a catalogue of a million images; hosting major exhibits and events, as well as functioning as a renowned European art publishing house. The Grand Palais draws an audience of over 2.5 million annually including 25,000 school students. Supported by France's Ministry of Culture, its mission is to create indelible experiences of beauty through encounters with all forms of expression in art and culture.
The Grand Palais has been an Acoustiguide client since 1999; Acoustiguide offered its audio guiding and group guiding services in dozens of blockbuster art shows during these years, including Andy Warhol (2009), Picasso et les Maitres (2009), Claude Monet (2011), Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso… The Stein Family (2012), Cartier: Style and History (2013), Miss Dior (2013), Niki de Saint Phalle (2015)... to name a few. Acoustiguide produced the creative content for these exhibitions, sometimes in all 24 European Union languages. Acoustiguide also operates on-site services, i.e. managing the desks and hostesses, handling the service for both individual visitors as well as for groups.
During the Spring of 2015, Acoustiguide launched an innovative multimedia tour for the Grand Palais primarily centered around the use of the Google Glass, providing the first ever such immersive visitor experience of a Velazquez exhibit. The public greatly enjoyed listening to supplementary content made available on iPod5, iPads, audio guides and Google Glasses, each carrier generating a specific visit. Everyone was able to explore and admire each individual work of art by the Spanish master through a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media strategies incorporating music, videos, images and audio commentaries. The specific viewing experience created by the Acoustiguide team, in conjunction with the curator and the Grand Palais, enabled museum-goers to seamlessly gaze at each picture and the Google Glass screen simultaneously, enriching appreciation and understanding of the artwork. Thanks to the great success of this unique participatory venture, we will continue to offer and design digital interactive strategy for upcoming exhibitions starting with the Picasso Mania exhibit opened in October 2015.
If there were "7 Wonders" of the art world, the renowned Louvre museum would be at the top of the list. This essential art experience is unparalleled, appealing to art enthusiasts and tourists alike. People from around the globe are drawn to the expansive collection of 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st. century, exhibited in an area of 60,000 square meters. The Louvre is the world's most visited art space with an average of 10 million tickets sold annually. Virtual statistics are equally impressive: 14 million website hits, millions of followers on social networks, as well as being the most popular museum on Instagram.
In 2011 Acoustiguide Group was chosen by the Louvre to meet visitor demands in the digital age. Acoustiguide built the Louvre app intended for use either while marveling at the Mona Lisa in person or appreciating art content from afar. Instantly liked by museum-goers, a rave review in the Guardian also recognized the Louvre app as one of the top audio guide applications in the museums and heritage market. The app, available for iphone and Android in seven languages, offers audio, video, interactive maps, games and thematic tours for children and adults. Hundreds of hours of downloadable content for personal devices enrich visitor experience. To celebrate the success of our official application "Louvre Museum", we offer a new enhanced version of many works and features.
In the thematic "Guided Tours" the public can encounter classics such as the Venus de Milo, ancient Egyptian artefacts and Renaissance sculpture while being led step-by-step through the Louvre's most prestigious galleries. Another option is the personalized Self-Guided Tour, where you can follow your own path and locate 40 must-sees using a map, list or mosaic. By entering the numbers displayed next to selected artworks an audio guide provides expert commentaries by curators.
A further useful tool is the "Where am I?" function, an interactive map that helps you find your way around. The Museum's general practical information is also accessible at your fingertips.
A Made-to Measure Audio Guide
Visitors can make in-app purchases of content including tours of the permanent collection, alongside temporary exhibitions. This easy-to use component also allows you to add content later and prepare future visits by downloading more "tours" or thematic artwork descriptions. Highlights include an app audio guide on the Poussin exhibition and The Making of Holy Images temporary exhibition narrated with captivating storytelling, revealing intriguing secrets behind the artworks.
An open-source content management solution enables the Louvre to independently provide new content as it is produced; hosting by Acoustiguide's content management platform ensures scalable and reliable delivery of this content.
Delightful Front-End User Experience Design
For lovers of the Louvre, the app's most beautiful visuals can be acquired, assigned to contacts, saved on screen or transformed into slideshows. Audiences are further engaged with 100 Louvre masterpieces right in their own pockets: Greek sculptures, the paintings of Bosch, Titian, Raphael, Holbein, Cranach and da Vinci drawings. They can zoom in on over 500 images and details. Brand new features are shareable with friends by email and on Facebook; the latest updates are published in a News Feed.
Lastly, visitors can discover the free HD version of our application for iPad that enables users to explore every detail of 150 celebrated masterpieces through stunning high definition images.
Welcome to the Louvre!
The official Louvre Audio Guide - App Store
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is the world's first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights. Current and historical international topics are covered, integrating local and global perspectives. Utilizing innovative multimedia technology, such as immersive or interactive exhibitions and location-based apps, the CMHR generates inspiring encounters with human rights for all ages for an extraordinary visitor experience.
Working in close collaboration, Acoustiguide and the CMHR designed a multimedia-focused interactive museum experience with a comprehensive location-aware mobile app. The app integrates low energy Bluetooth (BLE) iBeacon-compatible beacons to deliver accessible content to all visitors regardless of physical challenges. Acoustiguide also produced a bilingual audio tour (in English and French) and a visual description tour for the sight-impaired.
The CMHR is the first site in Canada to use iBeacons, and one of the world's largest installations of this technology in a cultural institution, with more than 120+ units. The Acoustiguide-created app's real-time "near me" identification location system interacts with the beacons to give museum visitors quick access to the nearest exhibits, as well as supplementary content from universal access points (UAP).
As a high proportion of the museum's content is delivered digitally, Acoustiguide worked with CMHR to extend the museum's internal Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS). The museum could thereby create and maintain tour content independently, while ensuring updates would be distributed and synchronized to both the museum's in-house rental iPods as well as to visitors' own devices via Acoustiguide's content distribution platform.
The free app also includes interactive mood meters, augmented reality, panoramic images, sign language videos, complete transcripts of all audio, and an interactive keypad. It features images, audio and text about each gallery, as well as accessibility to the museum's multimedia collection beyond what is on display, such as versions with closed captioning or sign language. An interactive map of the Museum's public spaces quickly locates you, displays floor plans and guides you to your destination. Mood meters enable visitors to share their mood reactions to the exhibits.
Overall the combination of location-based technology with an engaging user experience resulted in an amazing self-guided visitor experience for everyone.
Regarded as Australia's most outstanding cave system, with pure underground rivers and amazing limestone crystal formations, Jenolan Caves – believed to be over 320 million years old - is among the finest and oldest cave systems in the world.
Jenolan Caves were known to the local Aboriginal population for many thousands of years as Binoomea, "Dark places". European involvement in the area began in 1838, with the first recorded discovery by a local pastoralist, James Whalan. Over the succeeding years, James Whalan and his brother Charles discovered several openings. The Elder cave was discovered in 1848. It was the first "dark cave" explored.
In 1860, the Lucas cave, largest of the current show caves, was discovered by Nicholas Irwin and George Whiting.
It was not until 1866 that the caves were brought under direct government control. In 1867, Jeremiah Wilson was appointed as 'Keeper' of the 'Binda', or 'Fish River' Caves. In the 1880s, Jenolan began to emerge as a genuine tourist destination. The Aboriginal word 'Jenolan' (high mountain) was not adopted until 1884.
Over 160 years since the first Europeans stumbled upon the vast openings of the Grand Arch and the Devil's Coach House cave, the magic of Jenolan is still leaving its mark on visitors. Jenolan is as timeless as it is unforgettable.
Since 2006, Acoustiguide has been working closely with Jenolan Caves to create various themed tours including the Self-Guided Nettle Cave Tour, an Indigenous Heritage Tour and a Children's Tour; and for above ground walking trails the Waters Tours which introduces Geology, Indigenous, and European use of water at Jenolan. Acoustiguide has also supplied hundreds of Opus Click – our robust and durable multimedia hardware - for delivery of the tours in an inclusive format; where every visitor to the Caves receives the tour as part of their visit. Most recently we have created an app. The app offers 6 tours – one of which is available in 13 languages, and is compatible for both handheld and tablet devices in Android and iOS format.
In recent years Jenolan – one of Australia's foremost tourist destinations - has won over 35 regional, state and national awards. Most notably, they won the coveted 2013 Qantas National Tourism Award for Culture and Heritage, which is directly linked to Acoustiguide's products and services. It is with great pride that we continue our association with this iconic and treasured tourist destination.
The Tower of London, also known as Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, is a historic castle located on the river Thames. William the Conqueror built this site's namesake the White Tower in 1078. A popular tourist attraction, many are drawn to see the display of the Crown Jewels, the very symbol of the British Monarchy. The Tower was also a notorious state prison including inmates deemed enemies of the Royals or the Church from Anne Boleyn, Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 and second wife of Henry VIII to Guy Fawkes.
Acoustiguide was awarded the Historic Royal Palaces contract in 2011 which covers the Tower of London, the Hampton Court Palace and the Banqueting House.
Our service at the Tower is on the basis of an optional sale of audio guides to the public. We recruit, train and manage the sales staff and have steadily increased sales figures during the course of the contract.
Language tours are popular among individuals and groups, as a large number of visitors to the Tower are foreign language speakers. Our multi-lingual staff is available to assist them.
There are other interpretation services available such as guidebooks and the popular warder (or Beefeater) tours. In 2014 visitor numbers reached 3 million.
Tower of London Family Tour
The tour is presented on Opus Click and is an example of a "simple" interactive multimedia tour primarily based on audio, including still images and witty cartoons presented on the screen. It is the result of a close collaboration with the HRP interpretation and education teams and has been very well received. It is intended to help different generations engage with each other as they experience the Tower; parents & children, grandparents & grandchildren, teachers & pupils. The tour is narrated by three ravens in the Tower. There are blood-curdling accounts of prisoners, as well as tales of escape plans and attempts to steal the Crown Jewels. History is made enjoyable through the combination of fun and facts. The tour's striking imagery and imaginative ways of conveying information are very pertinent to our overall content approach.
Founded in the mid-nineteenth century, the Art Institute of Chicago ranks as one of the world's great encyclopedic museums, with a diverse collection representing millennia of human artistic achievement. It attracts nearly 1.5 million international visitors annually, and, since 2011, Acoustiguide has offered the museum a full range of our mobile interpretation services.
At the heart of our work is content development. Acoustiguide's creative team has written and produced tours for a wide range of exhibitions including Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective; Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity; Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine; They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration 1910-1950; and Picasso and Chicago. Our creative team has developed—and is continuing to develop—a new Director's tour, fresh additions to the Lion's Trail family tour and ongoing translations of the permanent collection in French and Spanish. We work closely with the museum's Education and curatorial departments to craft engaging and expert tours that enlighten visitors and enhance their understanding of the museum's collections.
Acoustiguide also provides the Art Institute of Chicago with delivery hardware (Opus Click) and staffing. In 2013 alone, our staff distributed almost 160,000 Opus Click players. Our turnkey on-site operation involves a full spectrum of services including hiring, training, and supervising on-site tour managers and staff; distributing the multimedia tour to visitors; dialoguing with museum visitor services staff regarding visitor flow, desk and sign location, customer service protocol and special events; setting up and maintaining the equipment and consulting on marketing and sales.
Here's what we've heard from some our visitors:
"As a long time member, I usually take the audio tour for special exhibits. Today I decided to give the permanent collection a try. I couldn't believe how the audio tour forced me to look at pieces of art work differently."
"The Lichtenstein audio was absolutely fantastic! I thought it was wonderful that you could actually hear from the artist himself during the tour".
"The audio tour really added depth to my visit. I am glad that museum staff convinced me to rent it."
Acoustiguide Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of the Acoustiguide Group, is a leading provider of audio tours to numerous art museums and exhibitions around Japan; and yet, its diverse client sites include history and heritage sites as well, specialized museums and even one famous train station. One of Acoustiguide Japan's unique clients is the Kaiyukan Aquarium also in Osaka, the second largest city in Japan.
Kaiyukan is one of the largest aquariums in the world. Its theme is partly based on the new Gaia Hypothesis advocated by Dr. James Lovelock, a thesis that proposes that all organisms and their inorganic surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single and self-regulating complex system, maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. Focusing on the Ring of Fire (Pan Pacific Volcanic Zone) and the Ring of Life (Pan Pacific Life Zone), Kaiyukan Aquarium respects the dignity of the life and natural environment. The Japanese word "Kaiyukan" literally means "playing in the sea pavilion". In this aquarium, visitors can enjoy creatures as if they are playing together in the sea. The 18 regions of Kaiyukan focus on Pacific Ocean and reproduce its nature and various living things including fishes, plants, invertebrate animals, batrachians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Acoustiguide's Opus systems with full content production escort the Kaiyukan visitors as they walk through the tunnel-shaped water tank of the Aquarium, feeling as if they were at the ocean floor.
The audio tours are offered in 4 languages (English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese) and in two versions each: one for a daytime observation, and the other designed for a nighttime. A short, summarized version is also available for people in a hurry, as the Kaiyukan is big enough to spend more than 2 hours for observing. Hence, the visitors can enjoy 3 types of audio tours in each language which is very entertaining especially for Kaiyukan fans – and these are many!
Kaiyukan website - English: www.kaiyukan.com/language/eng/index.htm
Kaiyukan website - Japanese: www.kaiyukan.com/index.html
Danshui (or Tamsui) is a small city to the north of Taipei, which was the center of shipping and commerce in Northern Taiwan during the 19th century. The city is very popular with both domestic and international tourists alike, and boasts many historical attractions.
Since Danshui is a small town, most visitors spend only about half a day (on average) in town and then move on. The government wished to enhance the quality and value of the tour in Danshui to attract visitors stay longer; one of the selected means was to offer a city walking tour around Danshui.
In 2009, Acoustiguide Taiwan produced a special audio tour service for a walking tour in the town. The audio tour, offered in two languages (Chinese and English) is provided on Acoustiguide's advanced Opus Touch™ players.
In order to overcome the fact that in a metropolitan environment one cannot place wall mount symbols, Acoustiguide offers creative ways in order to provide access to the content, meaning a special application that helps the visitors navigate around the city on the Opus player. This especially-designed application is comprised of a combination of orientation maps which are large in scale and friendly to view and use, and a list of items that are displayed on the players' screens. The visitors are offered to reach the points of interest through either the maps or the item lists.
The rich audio & multimedia content includes commentary segments about various points of interest around Danshui, as well as more informative content and coupons for restaurants, coffee shops, souvenir shops and other merchandise.
The Orsay museum in Paris is one of the most prestigious museums in the world, and one of the largest museums in France. Orsay museum opened in 1986, in an ancient railway station built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. You can find there paintings, drawings, decorative arts, photography and sculptures of the finest artists of the 19th century.
Acoustiguide's collaboration with Orsay museum started in February 2006. Acoustiguide provided than 450 audioguides that offered 350 commentaries in 7 languages for the permanent collections.
During four years of activity at Orsay museum, Acoustiguide has also realized 9 specific tours in various languages for the major temporary exhibitions.
Acoustiguide is operating now 500 opus click players presenting more than 430 commentaries in 9 languages for the permanent collections, in order to satisfy most of the 4 million visitors who rush into the Orsay museum each year.
"In an industry known to be fiercely competitive, Acoustiguide's hallmark has been their utter professionalism and objectivity, where the integrity of the company and the way it behaves rise above the ambitions and interests of individuals, and yet it has also been important to us to work with people who have a knowledge and understanding of the subject matter that goes beyond the commercial interest of their company."
Stephen Bird, Head of Heritage Services, Bath and North East Somerset
Acoustiguide Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Acoustiguide Group, have been the provider of audio tours at the Roman Baths and the Fashion Museum since 1995. This year Acoustiguide Ltd. won a fourth consecutive contract to continue its service at the sites.
From the beginning of April 2009 Acoustiguide Ltd. have been providing over a thousand Opus Click™ players which are included in the admission price. The adult tour is offered in eight languages with additional children's tours in English and French and a celebrity tour narrated by Bill Bryson.
With 1 million visitors per annum, a very high take up rate for the audio and a site combining internal and external areas, an excellent operational service is paramount.
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Acoustiguide have provided audio tours at Westminster Abbey since 2007.
Initially the service was an optional sale of audio tours on exSite equipment. In May 2008 the Abbey swapped out to an inclusive service offering multimedia tours on two thousand Opus Click™ players to every visitor.
The tour comprises audio, text, still images and some specially commissioned videos. The English tour is narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons and there are ten language versions including Russian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Mandarin and Japanese. Videos are used to show areas of the Abbey which are not accessible to the public at all times.
A February 2009 CNN article on London museum says "At Westminster Abbey, the excellent, new audio is narrated by Jeremy Irons".
"I want to emphasize the service provided by Acoustiguide GmbH during our many years of cooperation and the carefully selected staff, who obligingly attend to the museum visitors and collaborate with the supervisory personnel commendably."
Dirk Burghardt, Commercial Director
Acoustiguide GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Espro Acoustiguide Group, has been the provider of audio tours at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) since 2009.
Acoustiguide GmbH provides over 1,400 Opus players with more than 250 hours of content in up to 15 languages at the different museums of the State Collection. One of the highlights is the tour with Saxon accent at the Historic Green Vault. Besides adult tours, children can enjoy a special tour at the Historic and New Green Vault.
The latest Acoustiguide App which was launched for the State Collection is "Kunst4Kids". This app was developed especially for school kids and is now available at the Albertinum on iPods and on iTunes. Click here for the app.
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is among the most renowned and oldest museum institutions in the world. It emerged from the aristocratic collections in the 16th century and celebrated its 450th anniversary in 2010.
Tainan City is a municipality on Taiwan's southwest coast. It was the island's capital from 1683-1887 under the Qing dynasty, and today it's known for its centuries-old fortresses and temples.
"You'll almost certainly receive looks of envy from any Taiwanese person if you mention you're going to Tainan (台南市), and it's not hard to see why." reads Lonely Planet's website. "Traditional culture continues to thrive in Tainan, the oldest city in the country. Inside century-old temples people 'bwah bwey' (cast moon blocks) to determine the best course of action, just as their ancestors did when the temples first opened….."
Our first cooperation with Tainan City Government began in 2013, when the city celebrated the 120th anniversary of renowned Taiwanese painter Chen Cheng-po. Acoustiguide Asia created a special app for the exhibition, (view app here) commemorating this great pioneer of early 20th century East Asian painting.
Following the successful exhibition and app, Tainan City Government aimed to generate more apps to promote the city and its wonders. The government focused on the five most popular historical sites of the oldest city and former capital of Taiwan. Acoustiguide Asia was responsible for the entire project and developed an innovative beacon-based application, providing a solution with a location-aware mobile app to create a more interactive touring experience.
The Tainan Tour App triggers automatically and guides visitors through the city by voice, just like a personal tour guide. The app offers 50 multimedia stations and employs a Bluetooth automatic sensing beacon to provide visitors with audio descriptions in real time. As visitors stroll along the route on-site, their devices are triggered by the beacons, spontaneously activating the app's content.
This comprehensive app offers a variety of interactive experiences encompassing graphics and written texts, hundreds of photos, guided tours and gourmet food tasting. The automatic location function enables visitors to learn more about the history and current status of five major historical sites in Tainan and to observe the changes that have taken place over the years. Each site has 10 stopping points with text descriptions and 10 audio stopping points of interest that are auto-triggered by corresponding beacons. One of the features displays old photos and maps of Tainan, allowing visitors to share their thoughts with friends and family.
Users easily access the latest information on tourism, culture and transportation in Tainan. The GPS function combined with Google Maps / iOS Maps assists people in reaching historical sites and popular dining establishments in real time. Further, Local Assistance supplies guided maps and user manuals onsite, including 10 to 15 tablets that are free to borrow at each site.
This multilingual app has English, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese versions available at the App store and Google Play that are compatible with Android 4.3 + and iPhone 4S and later.


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ok ladies. my new quilt is done. but now comes the hard part....photographing it. taking images of quilts has proven to be trickier than i thought. i am new to this and boy is it tough to capture a full quilt and also the small details. anyone have any tips they can share with me or resources that they learned from? i'm hoping to get it photographed this weekend so i can have the tutorial up next week for you all.
i'm also going to be busy sewing and finishing up my project for KIDS over on me sew crazy on monday! i can't wait to show you all mackenzie's project. if you haven't checked out the other fab guests in this series you should. there is a lot of fun stuff!
we also just got back this past monday from a long weekend out of town visiting family and before we left our oldest got a bad virus/sinus thingie that had her knocked down for days and she's still under the weather. now i have it and the wee one is fighting it off with just a bit of a stuffy nose. can i say i am sick of being sick? we've had a rough go of it since mack started kindergarten in the fall. she's had 3 colds now! that's a lot! jeez louiz! i already have a very low immune system due to my health problems so anything she brings home i catch for sure. such is life. i keep pumping them up with vitamins etc but it would help if they ate the food they get made...lol. i am stuck with 2 picky eaters and a mom who dislikes cooking...haha. not a good combo. thankfully the hubs keeps us all alive..haha.
anyhoo this weekend is going to be busy but i'm hoping to carve out some time to take care of myself and get some extra rest. for sure some reading and knitting is on the agenda as well. can't have a weekend without knitting :P
what are your plans? do you have any quilt photography tips? what have you been working on this week? fill me in! it's friday! wishing you all a cold free, sunshiney fall day, vintage finds, cozy blankets & snuggle filled kinda weekend.
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CHIPLEY � The annual Washington County Youth Fair comes back to town this weekend at the county Agricultural Center in Chipley.
CHIPLEY � The annual Washington County Youth Fair comes back to town this weekend at the county Agricultural Center in Chipley.
Sponsored by the Farm Bureau, the annual event kicks off Friday evening with the traditional Spaghetti Supper to support Washington County Agricultural Youth Activities. The dinner will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on March 1 at the Washington County Agricultural Center.
This supper is held each year in conjunction with the Washington County Youth Fair. Proceeds will be used to support �Ag in the Classroom,� youth fair activities, farm tours and many other agricultural youth events.
Tickets may be purchased before the supper from any WCFB board member or at the Farm Bureau office in Chipley. Prior purchase is not required, and tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets are $6 and $3 for children. Hot biscuits, sausage, coffee, orange juice and soft drinks will be available Saturday morning.
The majority of the Youth Fair activities will be held on Saturday. With so many talented youth in our county, the Washington County Youth Fair is a place for them to enter projects to be judged and receive awards.
Each February, the Washington County Youth Fair is held to recognize those talents and skills of our youth.
On Friday, the Youth Fair swine show will be held at 6 p.m.
On Saturday, March 2, events begin with the beef show at 9 a.m. and the steer and swine auction at 6 p.m.
The Washington County Youth Fair is open to all youth in Washington County and Washington County 4-H members and FFA members in Washington and Holmes counties with livestock projects.
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Brian in Rolling StonePosted by admin
Jul 23
Check out this Rolling Stone article featuring "I'll Sing About Mine" written by Brian and Adam Hood!
Jul 23
Check out this Rolling Stone article featuring "I'll Sing About Mine" written by Brian and Adam Hood!
Jul 3
Brian's new single "You Can't Go Home" is officially out, so stop what you're doing (unless you're operating heavy machinery) and request to hear it on your local radio stations!
Also, we have some awesome shows coming up in the months of July and August so make sure to keep checking back for new tour dates!
Apr 22
Hey y'all! We've gotten our first #1 on the Texas Music Chart with "Bar Lights!" Big thanks to everyone for calling and requesting and thanks so much to our friends at radio for playing it!
Mar 24
Bar Lights hit #4 on the Texas Music Chart this week! Thanks to everyone for calling and requesting!
Mar 24
We get to play a rare show in our hometown of Austin on Friday at a new venue for us — the Red Shed Tavern on Congress near Slaughter Ln. Heard that this a cool place so come check it out. Our friend Dan Adams opens. Cover $5. Doors at 8pm!
Mar 14
Bar Lights is up to #7 on both the Texas Music Chart and on the Texas Regional Radio Report! Just a little ways to go — thanks for requesting!
Mar 6
Bar Lights has entered the top ten on both the Texas Music Chart and on the Texas Regional Radio Report! Thanks for requesting the song and please keep it up!
Feb 20
Hey Everyone! This coming Tuesday is the 5-Year Birthday Party for the shop I used to work at. Me and fellow recovering mechanic @SamRiggsMusic are playing the party acoustic. Here's the details: http://ow.ly/tPEPe
Jan 21
Brian's new album, "Coming Home", is now available on iTunes!
Jan 8
"Coming Home" is now available at Lone Star Music!
*All pre-orders will be autographed and shipped January 21st*
Coming Home Track Listing
1) Bar Lights (Keane)
2) You Can't Go Home (Keane)
3) Coming Home (Keane)
4) Do Something Wrong (Rachel Loy, Jared Crump, Keane)
5) Easy to Say Goodbye (Keane)
6) Eating for Two (Keane)
7) Finally Free (Keane)
8) Old With You (Cory Morrow, Keane)
9) What You're Missing (Keane)
10) Nothin' Short of Disaster (Wayne Sutton)
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The Fullerton College High School Jazz Festival is one of the longest continuously running scholastic jazz festivals in the nation. In its 41st year, it featured two days of vocal and instrumental jazz competition, performances by the college's student ensembles, music workshops presented by the college's jazz faculty for more than 1,500 students from 60 middle and high schools from California and Arizona. Vocal Jazz groups competed on March 22. Instrumental Jazz competed on March 23.
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Dir: Stephen Brown. UK-Ireland. 2013. 87mins
A beautifully shot wallow in sadness, memory and self-pity, the elegantly made The Sea may lack real dramatic drive as it favours haunting slowness over pace, but the film's emotional still waters run deep and the film is gently watchable as a series of fine actors deliver nuanced and powerful performances.
Ciaran Hinds is a magnetic presence on screen and his mournful wanderings around the windswept Irish town are nicely staged.
Set to be released in the UK by Independent Film Company, the series of high profile performers – including Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Rufus Sewell and Natascha McElhone – may attract sales attention, though it truth it is also rather niche art house material, aimed at an older audience. The film had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The film, which is structured in three interweaving sections, dwells on art historian Max (Hinds), who returns to the Irish coastal town where he grew up following the death of his wife (Sinead Cusack). The film dips between modern-day Max and his booze-fuelled ramblings; the days leading up to the death of his wife as they banter and bicker about past infidelities, and remembrance of his childhood summers in the town and the moment of a childhood trauma that clearly still has an impact on his life.
While the scenes of Max and his wife together are well performed, they rarely take the story anywhere, except perhaps to suggest her death is a prompt for his maudlin behaviour and spurs a need to revisit the place of past happiness and regret. It is the balance between his memories of his childhood days and the counterbalance with his modern-day musings that is when the film is at its strongest.
As a boy he meets and is entranced by the eccentric Grace family….mother Connie (an impressive Natascha McElhone), father Carlo (Rufus Sewell, asked too hard to be a cliched eccentric) and their two children and childminder Rose (Bonnie Wright). His depth of involvement with the Grace family spirals towards one terrible moment, and the flashbacks are set alongside Max's emotional and psychological traumas as he finds himself back at The Cedars (run by landlady Miss Vavasour, played with ease by Charlotte Rampling), the place where he spent time with the Grace family.
Ciaran Hinds is a magnetic presence on screen and his mournful wanderings around the windswept Irish town are nicely staged, especially in the powerful and evocative opening scene when he stumbles drunkenly into a dark and raging sea. John Banville has adapted from his own 2005 Booker Prize-winning novel, but the subtle drama of the book gets lots in amidst the slow-moving and rather mannered on-screen action, and the trauma of the childhood incident rather lacks impact, as does a rather clumsy link between Rampling and Hinds which should have been mined for full dramatic impact but in the end rather drifts along. A shame because it is a treat to see such strong actors on screen together.
Production companies: Samson Films, Independent Film Company, Rooks Nest Entertainment
International sales: Independent Film Company, www.independentfilmcompany.com
Producers: Luc Roeg, Michael Robinson. David Collins
Executive producers: Andrew Orr, Philip Herd, Ernest Bachrach, Rebecca Long, Steve Spence, Michael Sackler, Julia Godzinskaya
Screenplay: John Banville, based on his novel
Cinematography: John Conroy
Editor: Stephen O'Connell
Production designer: Derek Wallace
Music: Andrew Hewitt
Main cast: Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell, Bonnie Wright, Sinead Cusack, Padhraig Parkinson, Missy Keating


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as enthusiastic, advanced Linux learner, I'd love to get an overview about Linux' architecure/structure in general. You know, like "the big picture".
I'm thinking of a large schematic graphic showing what is what, who is who, what system (e.g. X) comprises which subsystems (GDM/Gnome/Compiz) on the way from a to z, from boot to interactive desktop, including the most important background services (auth, network, cron, ...).
Maybe a bit like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgc/140859386/ but way more detailed. There's bootchart, which produces very comprehensive charts, but they again are too detailed and difficult to get the "big picture" from.
Is there such a thing? Possibly not for the whole System, but maybe for single subsystems?
I had trouble searching for this, because using search terms like "scheme" or "architecture" pointed to the wrong direction (a tool called "scheme" or CAD software for linux).
I appreciate any links. If there's interest in those schematic overviews and links, maybe someone could turn this post into a wiki post?


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It's rare for a love story to be boring, least of all those that continue to play out in the heat of the Sun and the dust of the road. And irrespective of the ending, each love story is worth telling for, in its telling and retelling it relives its moment in another's heart, in another's eye, in another's mind.
And everyone has at least one story to tell, including trucks like this one who told her own tale of romance on the back.
TATA Se Chali Main Kunwari,
Bhandup Main Shringar Hua,
Dahisar Main Bani Dulhaniya,
Ketakipada Main Pyar Hua.
(My journey from a TATA factory as an eligible beauty paused at Bhandup so I could be decked up to be a bride before I was married off in Dahisar and swept away to Ketkipada where I fell in love.)
Note: Bhandup and Dahisar are names of Mumbai suburbs, and Ketkipada is a locality in Dahisar (East).


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Why visit the Twin Cities in the dead of winter? Last week, I promised to offer good reasons. Here are eight.
Glistening outside of Mall of America this winter is a 1-acre and 40-foot-tall ice castle with 50 towers of ice. Many thousands of multi-colored lights brighten the hues of the structure at night.
Visitors follow a maze of caverns, tunnels and archways to find "throne rooms" that each contain a giant chair made of ice. Outside of the castle is a snow park for making snowmen and playing on large mounds of the white stuff.
The ice castle stays open until Feb. 20 or as weather permits. Hours depend upon the day. Tickets are $10 ($5 for ages 3-12, $25 for a family of four). Dress warm, in case of a wait to enter, and allow 30 minutes to explore the frosty palace. icecastles.com, 952-883-8800
Indoors, it's always 70 degrees at Mall of America, which retains its allure because of its reputation as the nation's biggest shopping and entertainment complex. Minnesota's tax-free shopping on clothing purchases is another reason to visit.
Expect more than 500 retail shops, but check hours of operation for theme parks when visiting with children. Several indoor attractions were not open during my weekday evening visit in December.
Plans for the four-level mall were hatched in the 1980s, after the Minnesota Twins and Vikings moved from Bloomington's Metropolitan Stadium to the Metrodome in Minneapolis. Mall of America opened in 1992, and today it is big enough to house seven baseball stadiums.
In addition to shopping and amusement rides, the facility has a wedding chapel, aquarium with sharks to sea turtles, movie theater, miniature golf course, jet flight simulator, comedy club and restaurants.
Light rail connects Mall of America to downtown Minneapolis, but not St. Paul. The dozens of motels near the mall offer free shuttle service to the shopping mecca. mallofamerica.com, 952-883-8800
For authentic ethnic flair, head to Midtown Global Market, a prime place in Minneapolis to try new foods – like a camel burger at Safari Express – and shop for indigenous arts and crafts from dozens of countries. Holy Land Grocery, Cafe Finspang, Simba Craftware, Panaderia El Mexicano and more sell specialty products. When vendors participate in a winter soup cook-off from noon to 2 p.m. Jan. 27, you can bet they're dishing out more than chili. midtownglobalmarket.org, 612-872-4041
The Packer-Viking rivalry isn't the only intense one involving Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team could use a little moral support when heading to Williams Arena to play the Minnesota Gophers at 6 p.m. Feb. 14, Valentine's Day. A game ticket is $50. The Gophers were No. 9 in NCCA rankings at the start of Big Ten play. gophersports.com, 800-846-7437
Add a Minnesota Timberwolves National Basketball Association game at the Target Center. On the team roster are former Badger Greg Stiemsma and Lazar Hayward, a Marquette University alum. When the Wolves play the Utah Jazz Feb. 13, tickets begin at $16. timberwolves.com, 612-673-1234
Competitive snow plowing, disc throwing, snow sculpting, ice carving, curling and geocaching are a part of the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival, Jan. 24 to Feb. 3 at Rice Park and other venues. Add dog sledding, a cat show, music, parades, art shows, card playing and pageantry. Most events are free at this self-described oldest and biggest winter festival in the U.S. winter-carnival.com, 651-223-4700
The carnival intersects with the outdoor Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at the downtown St. Paul farmers' market, where music plays on two stages and icy taps of 300 craft beers from 100 breweries are poured. The show goes on regardless of weather conditions. Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 on the event day (if tickets remain). The Beer Dabbler also is the name of a St. Paul store for home brewers. thebeerdabbler.com, 651-528-8752
At least 80 performers – drag queens, comedians, aerial artists and musicians – from the U.S. and Canada entertain at the first Minneapolis Burlesque Festival, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis. Tickets to these adults-only, evening shows are $30-150. ritz-theater.org, 612-436-1129
For more about tourism in the Twin Cities, consult minneapolis.org, 888-676-6757; visitsaintpaul.com, 800-627-6101; or bloomingtonmn.org, 952-858-8500.
To expand a getaway into outlying areas, check out the many options at mspvacations.com. Icebox Days in International Falls is Jan. 17-20; Fasching, a German Mardi Gras with an outdoor Bock Fest for beer drinkers, is Feb. 9 in New Ulm; and the International Eelpout Festival (for competitive ice drilling, on-ice auto racining and more) is Feb. 14-17 in Walker Bay.


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dark Urban Fantasy/ Mythpunk webcomic
The Cult of Undesirables
A hymn for the outcasts - A dirge for the weak.
Demon Eater
A grotesque life story of a demon that eats other demons to get stronger.
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Caed can't escape his past. Atrina can't escape her family. Leawyn can't escape her dreams. None of them can escape Stargazer's Gate.
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Four restaurant chefs are trying to live their lives in a fantastical kingdom... until demons begin to attack and they become swept up in a decade-long conspiracy involving the missing Crown Prince.
Soul's Journey
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Decimated Eden
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Filtered Fuzz
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Star of Destiny
A semi-weekly webmanga about two people who live in a crazy fantasy world outside the jurisdiction of Fate.
The Last Cowboy
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Infinite Spiral
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The Far Side of Utopia
Set in a series of slightly futuristic worlds after the breaching of the dimensional barriers - knowledge of magic is spreading, cultures are clashing, technology is expanding. Mix in a struggle for power, a few grand mysteries, and silent multi sided war.
Gods of War
Aris is a long way from home, being hunted by those who want her kingdom for themselves. With her new guide helping her find her way, she heads off to warn her people of impending war.
Alien Shores
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Erstwhile ~ Fairy Tale Comics
Grimm's fairy tales adapted into comics.
Michelle has special powers, but no clue why, and no clue what to do with them. To help her along the way are other Aspects, teenagers endowed with special abilities they hardly understand.
A prehistoric action adventure comic following a group of Neanderthals as they encounter other hominid species.
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Hinterland Journeys
A poll-based fantasy journey through the Hinterlands of Hlavamir.
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A dhampir searches through the remnants of the US seeking revenge
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The adventures of a teratophile human knight, his sarcastic monster lover, and their robotic companion as they fight deadly creatures and have sexy encounters around the world together.
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Goblins of Razard
A dethroned prince goes on a quest to find allies in far away lands with the help of a rogue and a bisontaur.
A fantasy comic about a girl and her daddy issues... And I guess she might save the word, or what ever.
Ears for Elves
A coming-of-age story about a young elf named Tanna.
Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan
Witches, faeries and peasants in something like the historical middle ages
Full Circle
Learn to walk without wings one page at a time.
Gran Grimoire
They say books can take you a whole lot of places, surely this isn't what they meant.
Age of Mortality
A symbolic story about adoption and redemption.
Witch's Quarry
Knight Veolynn embarks on her strangest mission yet;to fulfill a hasty promise made to a very fiesty little witch. Updated Tues+Thurs
Technically Magi
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Daycare of the Dammed.
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Morning to Moon
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The Gateway of the Four Worlds
6 friends make a discovery that will change their lives forever.
A story about eight mysterious Powers and an ancient book.
Three kids discover they are the children of Thor
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The Crystal Saga
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The End
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Mortal Half
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Miss Grey Resurrection
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The Fight for Peptorium
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The Forgotten Order
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The Wizard of Quippley
The wizard Algerbane goes on adventures with his bumbling sidekick dwarf.
All Things in Balance
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Pandora must face many trials to pass her DreamGuide Exams.
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A racecar driver is stranded in another dimension and must battle his way back home. Updates Tuesday/Thursday weekly.
Tales of Hammerfist
A tale filled with action, humor, and a big story.
In the game of Magience, characters explore an infinitely growing and evolving world. However, what happens when the lines between the Virtual World and the Real World begin to blur?
Gemutations: Plague
The mutant Tigershark and company tries to stop a virus from killing the entire human population.
Adventure and magic in 1830s England!
Of Stars and Swords
Follow Seren as she deals with the usual troubles of a high fantasy world: magic, monsters, crazed nobles, ancient evils, and of course other greedy adventurer types. You know, normal problems for a normal teenage girl.
Dressed For Success
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Children of Eldair
A young adult webcomic about three friends lost in a fantastic world of magic, diverse cultures, and shadows that devour flesh.
Yrasa and the smugglers
The story about the troll girl Yrasa and her adventures
Ace of Beasts
Two swordsmen seek to stop a powerful monster sorcerer and have various encounters along the way.
Impure Blood
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An high fantasy novel involving characters the transform into Beast with Awesome powers.
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from Genesis 1
A, B, C…1, 2, 3… Everything begins somewhere. Imagine a place with nothing to see, hear, taste, touch, or smell. No earth, no sky. In the beginning, there was nothing but God the Father, His Son--Jesus--and the Holy Spirit.
God had a plan to create something big.
On the first day, God said, "Let there be light," and light happened! God called it daytime. The darkness He called night. On the second day, God separated the sky and the waters, and on the third, He created land. Water whirled and swirled all around. God gathered the waters into the seas, and then up came land: hills, mountains, valleys, and plains.
God spoke again, and plants sprouted from the earth. Colorful flowers of every kind. Vegetables. Trees tall and strong, their branches loaded with plump, juicy fruit. God saw it all, and He said, "This is good!"
On the fourth day, God created the sun and popped the moon in the sky. God hung more stars than you could ever count!
But He wasn't finished yet.
God created birds and sea creatures on the fifth day. Little minnows and giant whales. Tiny hummingbirds and tall ostriches!
Day six was really special! God filled the earth with animals. Worms wiggled in the dirt. Giraffes reached for the sky. Lions roared. Monkeys laughed.
Animals, animals everywhere!
But He still wasn't done. What do you think God made next?
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The photograph of Kevin Ware in a hospital bed with the NCAA regional championship trophy propped up alongside like a giant get-well card makes it all easier to take.
But hours earlier, in those first few heartbeats after his leg snapped grotesquely in a corner of the frame as CBS televised Sunday's Midwest regional final between his Louisville team and Duke, no one dared look. Even CBS couldn't.
Its cameras lingered first on Duke's Tyler Thornton, who had just made the 3-point shot on the same play - freezing momentarily, covering his eyes with his hand, and then looking back to be sure what he had seen only from the edge of his peripheral vision actually happened.
Then Thornton grimaced, covered his heart with both hands, and as the camera shot widened to take in the expressions of shock and anguish among Ware's teammates on the Louisville bench and in the stands, there was no longer any doubt.
'I got sick to my stomach, and I'm kind of the resident authority on broken legs,' said former NFL quarterback Joe Theismann, who suffered a similar compound fracture on a Monday Night Football game in 1985. 'A lot came rushing back. I still remember what everything looked like when it happened, still feel the moisture on my back lying on the grass, the large second hand on the scoreboard sweeping. Everything.'
Theismann sent Ware a text almost immediately and followed up in a brief phone conversation Monday.
'I just offered any help I could, maybe with the psychological and emotional aspects of the rehab down the road. It's not something you'd put on a resume, but I believe being able to talk to somebody who's been through that might help.
'And Kevin sounded good. He's in a good place. He's going to get the best medical attention, and I'm sure, he's already got way more attention than he needs. ... Remember, the Internet barely existed in 1985. Back then, you got hurt, you went to the hospital, started to rehab and tried to come back. Not many people paid much attention. This went worldwide in a matter of seconds,' Theismann said.
The injury to Ware's right leg caused the tibia to poke out from his shin - and like Theismann's. As curiosity and dread competed for attention in the minds of viewers, CBS gave its producers roughly 40 seconds to watch the replays, decide whether to show the play again, and if so, in how much detail.
They settled on one replay from the other end of the court, a second from the original angle, and no more. Sean McManus, the head of CBS Sports, said, 'We did not try to highlight it. I think we did the right thing.'
Agreed. But that didn't stop the photos, videos and exchanges on social media from exploding instantaneously. A day later, after Louisville coach Rick Pitino visited the recuperating Ware and reported that he left the trophy behind with this instruction - `'Just make sure you don't lose it'' - the story still simmers.
The initial reaction, explained Syracuse professor of popular culture Robert Thompson, is simply a sign of the times. On the other hand, the continuing interest in the story shows how little human nature has changed.
'Neither of those mean we're terrible people. I think it speaks more to this need we feel now to bear witness. Look at the technology that's in place. Couple it with the image of a human body doing something that seems so alien in that instant - something that's both disturbing AND striking - and there's this almost creepy desire to watch it over and over again,' he said.
'And you know, we've seen car crashes in NASCAR races and terrible collisions in the NFL, and in a sense, that's become part of the narrative. That's not the case with basketball, which is a big part of what made it so jarring,' Thompson added. 'Just look at his teammates' reaction in the moment after. But then you know they rallied and won the game for him. That's what's shoring this whole thing up - this continuing fascination - especially since, so far, it looks like a happy ending is within reach.'
And with luck, Ware's story will play out that way. Pitino reported the surgery was successful and that, barring an infection, Ware will be back in Louisville in time for the charter flight to the Final Four in Atlanta, which happens to be Ware's hometown.
'Kevin had a good night. He's not in a whole lot of pain,' Pitino said during a conference all Monday. 'I know right before the surgery, when he was able to watch the players at the press conference, the nurses and doctors told me that was the first time he broke down and cried, when the players were talking about him.'
Those of us old enough to witness Theismann's injury remember that it wasn't until Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor panicked that anyone - ABC's production and broadcast crews included - had any idea how bad the Redskins' quarterback had been hurt. ABC quickly put up replays, seemingly more impressed by its ability to show a reverse-angle of the hit than by the damage it caused.
It wasn't until it came back from a commercial break and was about to show the replay a third time, that the network warned viewers of the graphic nature of the video. The way the various depictions of Ware's injury quickly bounced around the globe may have left some wishing that even that simple warning was attached beforehand.
'We've become an 'I-want-to-know-it-now' culture,' Theismann said. 'But for all the attention at the moment, it's his emotions that Kevin will have to deal with at some point, and mostly on his own. That's where his teammates will come in. There will be plenty people offering help, but if you've ever competed at any level, you know you wind up playing and trying to win for somebody.
'His teammates showed that by the way they finished the Duke game. It's the guys you laugh and sweat and bleed and cry alongside that will give him the encouragement to fight back. Just before I got off the phone, I told him, 'A year from now, you'll be the comeback player of the year,' and he said, 'I'm going to work for it.' I told him I'd be watching.'
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Friday, August 31, 2012
August 31 - Aidan of Lindisfarne, Missionary, Bishop, Monastic
Christianity was known among the Roman Britons but it had waned recently. Christianity had come into Britain in wrapped up in the pax romana but had begun to become less popular and populous within the reach of the Imperial rulers. Instead, the people were returning to their own religions and beliefs and rejecting the religion that had been compelled upon them. In Northumbria, an exiled king--Oswald--returned from Scotland to become ruler once again. He had been forced out of his home land and had taken refuge among the Scottish and Irish Christians near Iona. While at Iona, he had been converted to the Christianity that his companions professed and, so, when he returned to Northumbria he sent for missionaries from Iona and not from Rome.
The first missionary was a man by the name of Corman who experienced little to no success and, eventually, left Northumbria and returned to Iona. He reported to his friends, colleagues, and superiors that the people were too stubborn to be converted and too entrenched in their polytheistic ways. When met with the legacy of bad discipleship and spiritual formation, Corman found that what he had to offer the people was not of interest to them. He gave up when growth was not immediate and went home where he was comfortable. One man openly criticized Corman's methodology and approach to ministry in Northumbria. This man is the one that Iona sent to replace Corman. His name was Aidan.
Aidan was different. When he arrived, he founded a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne and slowly involved himself in the lives of those whom he hoped to minister to. Instead of showing up and simply preaching fiery sermons and expecting the immediate movement of the spirit and explosive growth, Aidan recognized the importance of relationships. He started a monastery and devoted himself to prayer, worship, and investing himself in the lives of others. He wasn't trying to recreate Iona in Northumbria but, rather, recreate the situation and circumstances that gave rise to Iona--committed followers of Christgathering together in relationships to worship, pray, and devote themselves to the ministry of the Kingdom of God.
Aidan made it a habit to walk between the villages of Northumbria and converse with any who might walk along the way with him. He spent many days simply walking and talking with people and learning to love them as they learned to love him. His conversations were not engineered attempts to "witness" to the people but, rather, he understood his life to be his witness and the relationships he built as ways for others to partake of his life. Oswald gave Aidan a horse, once, because he had heard that Aidan was walking between villages as he went about his ministry. Aidan gave the horse to a nearby beggar and insisted that he'd rather walk. Aidan knew that a horse would disconnect him from the people he loved and was invested in.He knew that spiritual formation and invigoration of people was accomplished slowly and through prayer, worship, and healthy, sincere relationships.
Aidan's monastery grew slowly and steadily and was intentionally composed of people from Northumbria.So, as the people of Northumbria needed more Christian leaders they were provided with people who they knew and trusted already. This was part of Aidan's plan all along--not to make the Northumbrians over in his own image but, rather, to help them follow after God who had made them in God's image. Aidan would die in Northumbria many years later but his monastery and ministry would continue on as a witness to those who had ears to hear and as an example to all of us.
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Markey's bill would extend the limit to the victim's 28th birthday, five years longer than is currently allowed. Given the recent sex scandals at Penn State and Syracuse universities, where it took the abused well into their adulthood to come to terms with the torment they suffered, extending the deadline seems like a no-brainer.
One need look no further than our own backyard to see common sense evidence of this. Former Christ the King basketball coach Bob Oliva last year pled guilty to sexually abusing a boy connected to Oliva's well-respected basketball program.
Under New York State law, Oliva did not need to worry about facing criminal charges - the alleged abuse happened too long ago. However, one incident took place when Oliva took his victim on a trip to Massachusetts, which doesn't have the same restrictive statute of limitations, so the case was tried in that state, and the accuser prevailed.
Markey has been pushing this legislation since 2006, but has been met with resistance from the State Senate. To be fair, earlier versions of the legislation did have issues.
First, it singled out private institutions only, ignoring abuse that occurred in public institutions, which gave the impression that the legislation was aimed at the Catholic Church. That was a fair criticism, and public institutions shouldn't be let off the hook - where the abuse takes place doesn't make it any more or less sinister.
The latest version of Markey's legislation, which she unveiled last week, fixes that discrepancy, and doesn't make that distinction, which should make it more palatable.
Another sticking point with the legislation is a one-year amnesty that would allow any person who feels they were sexually abused a one-year window to sue their abuser, regardless of when the abuse occurred. No one is arguing that allowing those who were victims of sexual abuse the opportunity to seek justice seems is the right thing to do.
However, could a one-year amnesty allow people with long-standing grudges to maliciously sue people, claiming they were abused as a child? Perhaps.
This isn't to say that every victim should be suspected lying, and in fact, that group would make up a small, small percentage of those that come forward. However, just because someone is accused of sex abuse doesn't mean they actually did it, but once that accusation is made public, most will accept it as fact and even if the accused is found innocent, there will always be an air of suspicion and those that accept that he or she is guilty.
There is surely a way to work around this, though, and we trust that lawmakers can make the system work for those who have truly been abused to find justice without creating a flurry of lawsuits for 365 days.
Regardless of how you feel about the details of Markey's bill, this issue has become so pervasive in our society that it at least deserves the chance to be discussed, debated, and voted on, not be held in limbo because of a political stalemate.


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Wellness Services
Welcome to Wellness Services
The mission of UWF Wellness Services is to foster student success by promoting a culture of wellness through health education, empowerment, and respect.
From large scale annual events like Take Back the Night to monthly outreach programs in the Residence Halls, Wellness Services is active on campus providing health promotion services in the areas of alcohol abuse & misuse prevention, sexual health promotion and sexual assault prevention. Our goal is to help UWF students avoid situations that can negatively impact their academic success and their lives. We do this in many ways and always aim to pair education with fun.
Throughout our site, you will see we offer direct services for students, staff, and faculty including:
- Don't Cancel Class
- Residence Hall programs
- Condom machine stocking and delivery
- Video checkouts
- Pre-assembled and laminated bulletin board for display in residence halls or classrooms
- Fraternity & Sorority specific programs
- Athlete specific programs
- Programs for all student groups
We also seek to provide general topic-relevant information and have links to some of the best college health information available on the web.
Additionally, we coordinate the UWF Peer Educators student group along with the student-led Men for Violence Prevention (MVP) group. As you walk around campus, you can often find the Peer Educators out and about on the Love Bug (our golf cart) promoting important information to help their peers be successful. Please click on the appropriate icon on the left side of this page to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram and keep updated on our upcoming events and outreach!
Recreation and Wellness
Wellness Services is now part of Recreation and Wellness. Visit the Recreation and Wellness website for lots of information on the wide variety of recreational activities and services offered by the department in addition to Wellness Services.


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Who We're Looking For
Southwestern best serves students who are highly motivated and have learning as their top priority. Students who want to be challenged intellectually, who want to participate in and out of the classroom, and who are interested in pursuing advanced study after completing a broad-based, undergraduate education, are well suited to Southwestern's close-knit academic community.
As you examine different colleges, you will find it helpful to see the various elements that make up a first-year class. The following is a snapshot of Southwestern's Class of 2017.