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Anoushka Shankar began playing sitar with her famous father, the late Ravi Shankar, when she was 4. But until recently, she'd never entered a studio with her other famous relative, half-sister Norah Jones.
When the two met up in New York recently to work on a new song together, a spooky thing happened: Working off Shankar's lyrics, Jones devised a tune that sounded remarkably similar to one their father had written in 1955 for the acclaimed Bengali film Pather Panchali.
"And when I said that to her, I was surprised to find out that she'd never heard that melody before," Anoushka Shankar says. "And it just felt like a lovely affirmation that we were on the right track."
That song, "Unsaid," is one of several collaborations on Shankar's new album, Traces of You. She discusses the making of the record with NPR's Arun Rath. Hear more of their conversation at the audio link.
Once again, you're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath.
When master sitar player Ravi Shankar died last December, he left behind a couple of daughters who followed in his footsteps, though along very different paths and on different continents. Norah Jones was born in Brooklyn. I'm sure you've heard her sing.
NORAH JONES: (Singing) I waited till I saw the sun. I don't know why I didn't come.
RATH: Half a world away, her half-sister, Anoushka Shankar, studied sitar at their father's side.
RATH: For Anoushka Shankar's new album, "Traces of You," she and Norah decided to record together, and it was during those sessions that their father died. They'd only worked together once before, so this was a new way to bond.
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR: Yeah. It was a really amazing experience to get to work with her, actually. You know, whenever I get to work with someone I actually love and am close to, it adds another special dimension to the musical collaboration.
RATH: The first song featuring your sister, it's called "The Sun Won't Set." And you have a lovely explanation for the title of that song. Could you talk about it?
SHANKAR: Yeah. Well, when I wrote the song, I was with Nitin Sawhney, my producer on the record. And I was sort of explaining to him how I wanted to get some emotions out around the fact that my father wasn't well at the time. It was still a few months before he passed away. But I didn't want to be really direct about it.
SHANKAR: (Singing) The sun won't set, not now, not yet...
I know that my dad's name Ravi means sun in Sanskrit, and so I was toying with the idea of the sun won't set, not now, not yet, as a refrain to play around. And the whole song is kind of using the idea of sun as a poetic place keeper for his name, really.
SHANKAR: (Singing) Golden ember spinning around the day is almost done. I wonder how it felt beneath the early sun. Each sunset keeps me still, the tree has shed its leaves. The wind, the evening change is hardest to resist.
RATH: You mentioned your producer Nitin. And remarkably, he also lost his father while you were recording this album. And I'm wondering about how, you know, that worked in with all of this. How did it work through the sessions you were doing?
SHANKAR: Well, it was something really huge that hung over the entire process, as you can imagine. And, you know, obviously, neither of us could have imagined we'd both simultaneously be going through that while working together. And so it influenced all of the music. And perhaps, you know, I can't obviously speak for him, but I hasten to guess it was a place that both of us could kind of put some of our emotions around that stuff. And there was a way in which we could quite uniquely write together about emotions that are actually quite personal because we were going through them at the same time.
RATH: And he's a pianist, a really remarkable pianist, in addition to producing and doing other things that we hear on the album. I'm kind of amazed by how well he can blend the sitar with the piano, because I think, you know, the tunings are so different and the scales are so different. But - how do you work that out with him?
SHANKAR: Well, Nitin is known for his ability to blend styles and work within an area of different cultures of music. And he's an amazing guitar player, pianist. And the piano can often cover the sitar with its resonance, and he was very sensitive about the way he approached the piano when we would work with sitar and piano together. As far as the tuning goes, I'm quite used to that because I worked with Western music a lot. And when I do that, I do have to slightly alter the micro-tuning of the sitar to kind of fit Western scales a bit better.
RATH: One of my favorite tracks on the album - and I have a lot of favorites on the album, there's some really beautiful stuff.
SHANKAR: Thank you.
RATH: But in particular, "Metamorphosis" is a beautiful piece. And it incorporates Sanskrit chanting that - ordinarily, you'd hear it as a single priest doing that in a temple. But you have it as kind of like a harmonized chorus, almost.
SHANKAR: I did that with two lovely singers who are based in San Diego, actually. And we recorded it and doubled it up to make it sound quite symphonic and full. And if one's ever heard, you know, a room full of priests reciting chants together, it's incredibly powerful. I always get goose bumps when I hear that. And I wanted to try and emulate that, but, of course, kind of set it to a particular tempo within the song and stuff. But it's recited very much within the traditional style.
RATH: Well, it's interesting being able to blend those things because, you know, to speak in sort of rough terms, Indian classical music tends to be so melodically oriented and there's not the harmonies the way that there are in Western-composed music. And to sort of hear them together, it's an interesting feeling.
SHANKAR: It's a tough one that - it's got a really fine line where you tip in one direction or the other, because sometimes I work in a way that harmony can only be used in ways that employ notes that are in a raga and that can sound very pleasing to an Indian ear and sound somewhat simplistic or strange to someone who's more used to harmony. Similarly, you can go in the other direction and do more sophisticated harmonies underneath an Indian melody, and that might sound downright outrageous to an Indian ear because it's employing notes that aren't in the raga. So it's a really tough one to make a choice on. And, yeah, I tend to choose differently song to song, I find.
RATH: I love the story. It's kind of amazing about how Norah came up with the melody for the song "Unsaid." Could you tell the story?
SHANKAR: Yeah. "Unsaid" was - of the three songs we did together, this was the one we really wrote together from the ground up. And I knew I wanted there to be a third song when I was traveling to New York and didn't have it yet and started writing the lyrics on the plane, and I ended up with all the lyrics ready. But the melody I was singing them in my head didn't really seem to fit once I was showing it to her. But as she was sort of sitting with the words and at the piano starting to try out different things, it was sounding weirdly familiar to me.
JONES: (Singing) Love wasn't left unsaid...
SHANKAR: And I realized it was really close to the theme of "Pather Panchali" that my father - that our father - had composed decades ago.
RATH: For people who aren't familiar, that's a classic Indian film.
SHANKAR: And I've heard it said that it's like one of the best music and film marriages of all time as well, and so it's a very iconic melody. And when I said that to her, I was surprised to find out that she'd never actually seen that film and never heard that melody before. So it was a coincidence that she was singing me that melody. And it just kind of felt like a lovely kind of affirmation to me in a way that we were on the right track with that song, perhaps.
JONES: (Singing) Love wasn't left unsaid, thank you that was left unsaid. I see you may be left unsaid, I don't know what was said.
RATH: Anoushka, this was great. Thank you so much.
SHANKAR: Thank you.
RATH: Anoushka Shankar. Her new album is called "Traces of You."
RATH: And for Sunday, that's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Arun Rath. Check out our weekly podcast. Search for WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on iTunes or on the NPR app. And you can follow us on Twitter @nprwatc. We're back next weekend. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great week. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and burn the toast. That's two straight rounds in the toaster you've failed. Time to try your hand at other skills, maestro. LET'S GO!
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TOP CHEF – 10:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Well, now I have no clue what to think. It seemed Tiffany had vaulted to the head of this mediocre "Top Chef" season until last week, when she was barely edged out of the competition in a judgment that I guess was fair, but that again highlights the weakness of eliminating contestants strictly by what they made that week, and not on a cumulative basis. Tonight is part one of your "finale," although really I never count finales that are in parts. Part two of the finale? THAT is the finale. Don't go telling me a finale can come in 17 different installations. You could start the season with the finale that way. Oh, and I have no clue who's coming out on top at the end of this one. Maybe Ed or Angelo. In the end, it may not matter. ANTICIPATION: SINGAPORE!
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BOTHELL, Wash. – To Biology Assistant Professor Bryan White, the award given to his students for their science research poster represents more than recognition for a job well done. It is a reflection of the promise of his students, and a glimpse of successes yet to come.
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Rhode and Cole presented their work at a poster session and earned an honorable mention for their poster. Judges also gave them high marks for their poster design, and for their polished presentations. The work of fellow lab mates Daniela Lipscomb and Amanda Radish was critical in informing the design of the study and collecting the data used in creating the poster.
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Have you wondered how to make a Citation in the People Workspace, Person Notes? For years, I have seen other users ask for this feature. When I think about this problem, I wondered how you can do that, when you may have many notes from many sources. Like other fields, each Fact can have one or more Citations, but it is a separate task that is done outside of the Fact fields.
But, What IF we use the features that we currently have within the FTM2014 (and earlier, especially since FTM2010), where we can use the Template Feature, to generate a properly formatted citation, then Copy and Paste the Reference Notes at the end of the text in the notes.
Here is a portion of the Person Notes: The Reeve Family, as seen below, is a small piece of information from a book. I want to Cite that, like I have cited a number of Facts from this same book.
I have created a Source for this book using the Reprinted Book Template and have been using that Citation. Now I want to cite this short passage to remind me where I found it.
In the Right Panel is the Citation I have used for other Facts Double clicking on that Citation will open this window. At the Top of this window is the Reference Note tab. What is shown below is the Reference Note (Citation) for that fact. Hi-Lite that information, or select all (CTRL+A), the Copy (CTRL+C), and close that window by clicking OK
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Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) unveiled his plan to defeat poverty on Thursday but many left-leaning advocates told Business Insider they were unimpressed with the measures, which they said would actually result in support being cut from needy families.
Ryan's plan is broadly based on refocusing the distribution of social services funds from the federal level to the states. The plan would also impose work or job training requirements on aid recipients and, in the name of competition, require states to set up at least two service providers, according to reports.
"There wouldn't just be a federal agency or a state agency," Ryan, a former vice presidential candidate and potential 2016 presidential candidate, said in his prepared remarks to the American Enterprise Institute. "Instead, they could choose from a list of certified providers. We're talking nonprofits, or for-profits, or even community groups unique to your neighborhood."
But anti-poverty advocates said they had serious concerns about several of his ideas.
Allegra Baider, deputy director of public policy at Center for Community Change, praised Ryan for his willingness to address the issue but said she didn't feel it was appropriate to have for-profit companies compete for the federal dollars.
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Meanwhile, Elizabeth Lower-Basch, policy coordinator at the low-income policy advocacy group CLASP, said she disagreed with Ryan's proposal to give states more discretion in allocating federal funds.
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"Those are all new. So the only way that you can actually do that is you have to cut benefits somewhere else. So it's unclear what that would mean. But if you're going to provide everything one person needs, you're going to have to take it from someone else in order to do that," LaDonna Pavetti, vice president for Family Income Support Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy, told Business Insider.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-California), speaking on a conference call with reporters, put it more bluntly.
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On the same call, Congressmen Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) also questioned Ryan's credibility on the issue given his status as one of the most prominent advocates of fiscal austerity measures.
"I guess my problem with all of this, what Mr. Ryan is doing, is that for years we have been fighting him as he has moved time and time again to rip holes in the safety net," McGovern said.
Van Hollen took that criticism a few steps further.
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I am working on my first final project for JAVA certification. I am trying to make a simple bank account. The bank account contains Transactions and my main method is going to be in the Bank Statement, which will tell the Bank Account to Process Transactions.
I am stuck at my Transaction Level code. Its so easy I do not know how I am messing up. Any help is appreciated.
Here is my code - (very basic, I know)
Here is the error message
C:\Users\ch103\JAVA1>javac Transaction.java
Transaction.java:17: ';' expected
public double getTotal()
Transaction.java:22: class, interface, or enum expected
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I have ensured that my number of opening brackets equals the number of closing brackets, aside from that I believe I should compile without error...
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It's easy to create a blacklist of sites that have initiated malware attacks on a server, and use that to configure a firewall to prevent further problems. But these blacklists are purely retrospective, since sources only appear in the blacklist after attacks have occurred. The DShield project is an attempt to improve upon this. System administrators can upload their firewall logs, which are then processed to identify sources of malware, allowing them to be blacklisted on servers they haven't attacked yet. Some computer scientists have now used the information present in DShield to make predictions of future attacks for specific servers based on the fact that malware displays some network effects.
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The authors noted that patterns of malware attacks often show network effects. Individual pairs of DShield log contributors often show similar patterns of attacks, meaning that if a malware source attacks one, it's likely to go after the other half of the pair. On a larger scale, these pairs form clusters where, once an attacker goes after several members of a cluster, it's likely to eventually attack the rest. Individual contributors may belong to many clusters, but those clusters appear to be stable over time.
This sort of behavior is identical to the pattern used by search algorithms, such as Google's PageRank system, meaning that we have substantial experience with identifying them. In the abstract, the analysis involves determining what fraction of a given network a malware source has already attacked, and using that to predict the probability that the remaining members of the network will see an attack. Because this analysis is based on a given site's membership in various network nodes, the resulting predictions are specific to each individual DShield contributor.
To implement this sort of screening, the authors evaluated the DShield contributors logs and selected 700 that consistently submitted logs that were large enough to contribute to their analysis. As a first step, their software scanned the logs and eliminated the traffic that came from things like search bots and false alarms caused by timed-out connections. The filtered logs were evaluated separately for maliciousness and to predict future targets based on network effects. The scores were then combined to produce a blacklist ranked by overall threat level.
The authors took several weeks' worth of DShield logs and subjected them to analysis to produce a predictive blacklist for each contributor. In every variation the authors tried, their predictive algorithm beat the unprocessed blacklists generated by DShield. There were some exceptions—for any given data set, about seven percent of contributors actually fared worse under the predictive blacklist. The authors suggest, however, that these can be identified based on the fact that they poorly cluster into network nodes.
The authors also explored how changing a variety of parameters affected the quality of the blacklist. Initial tests were performed using a 1,000-member blacklist. Dropping that to 500 severely decreased the value of the blacklist, while expanding it to 5,000 provided a significant improvement, although gains tailed off beyond that point. Using two days of logs to train the system was less effective than a five-day window, but going much beyond a week of logs provided little benefit. The resulting profile tailed off in effectiveness gradually. It started off correctly predicting about 45 percent of future attack sources and, by 10 days out, was still accurately predicting roughly 35 percent of the attacks.
The resulting system isn't psychic—it still relies on a number of servers getting attacked in order to predict future victims—but it consistently outperforms standard blacklist techniques. Best yet, it's already working in the real world. For the last year, administrators have been able to obtain customized blacklists at DShield's Highly Predictive Blacklist site.
Further reading:
- A copy of the paper (PDF) that the authors will present at the Usenix Security meeting is available.


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Here we are in December already. Where did the year go? Now, don't get me wrong, I love the Holiday season and most of the stuff that comes with it, but geez, it seems like it was just New Year's Day and I was trying to figure out how to get rid of my gluten-free beer hangover! LOL! We had a wonderful time with our family over the past few days and Jon had a successful trip to Pittsburgh with his hockey team, eating gluten-free even! I was all worried about him getting glutened and guess who got glutened, and not just once, but twice, 2 days in a row! The second time I really should have known better, it was the same restaurant I was glutened at the day before, but I was giving them the benefit of the doubt b/c I had eaten out numerous times that first day and it really could have come from anywhere. Anywhere, that is, until I was glutened the 2nd day at the same restaurant. GRR! I can say that I won't be going back. Our server on day 2 is someone I know and who works at another place that I frequent and I know he tried his best to keep me safe. I realize that eating out is risky and in order to lower those risks, I have to avoid that place from here on out.
Now, on with the first week of December. Another busy week here. Getting back into the swing of things is always tough. I am the kind of person who craves normalcy and routine, but yet find myself kind of enjoying not having to adhere to a schedule for a day or 2. We have at least 1, if not 2 hockey practices this week, ice skating practice, at least 1 hockey game, a surprise party on Saturday night (I can't say who, b/c if they are reading, it will spoil the fun!), and dinner with my Dad on Friday night. Phew. I am worn out and Monday isn't even here yet. I am proud to say that here I am, Sunday night, and I have very few leftovers from Turkey day. I feel that I planned much better this year than I have in years past. I don't even think I have enough turkey, after having some for dinner tonight, to make another meal! YAY! Our potatoes & stuffing are down to 1 or 2 servings too, and that would make a nice breakfast.
Wow…this is much longer than I intended it to be. Onto the plan:
Sunday ~ Leftovers. I made turkey fettucine alfredo with peas, grape tomatoes & fresh grated parmesan & a spinach salad
Monday ~ Burgers, sweet potato fries, steamed broccoli & salad
Tuesday ~ Baked or Grilled Salmon, brown rice, okra medley & salad
Wednesday ~ Cheeseburger in Paradise
Thursday ~ Turkey Tacos, refried beans & salad
Friday ~ Dinner at Dad's…I believe we are doing pizza. He is ordering from a local place, Donato's and they do "No Dough" pizzas that are GF. I don't eat them b/c they are on soy crusts and still make me feel weird. I will take my frozen Glutino Spinach & Feta pizza to bake over there.
Saturday ~Surprise Par-tay
Baked Goods
Banana bread
Chocolate Crinkles
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cranberry Cornbread (to freeze and have at Christmas)
I am also going to start making my Christmas cookies & freezing them so I am not crazy busy in a few weeks. I don't know who I think I am kidding, I am always busy! LOL!
Thanks to Sarah at Heart of Cooking for hosting the Gluten-Free menu swap this week. Also, make sure to check out OrgJunkie for lots more planning ideas.
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For decades, photographer Paul Shambroom has trained his lens on the infrastructure of America, from nuclear weapons storage facilities to manufacturing plants; local council meetings to emergency response teams.
His investigations require mountains of research and hundreds of thousands of miles on the road. Known for his large-format, purposefully composed photographs, Shambroom is a distinguished name. And yet, he is ready to put his approach and techniques aside for a joyride in the sea of online digital images.
"I love image making … but it's something I know I can do. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life doing the same things," he says.
Instead, Shambroom is teaching students at the University of Minnesota about navigating images found on the internet and how image production and consumption are evolving. As he trades in his car keys for a keyboard, Raw File taps Shambroom's thoughts about online imagery, the photographer-artists best swimming through the swell of images, Boolean searches and bombarding students with left-field assignments.
Wired.com: Recently you've been looking at what photos people choose to put online. What interests you about them?
Shambroom: I'm fascinated by what people want to look at and what people want to post on Flickr.
I'm also interested intellectually and culturally about how the imaged world is being knit together by technologies such as Photosynth. More or less public images on Flickr, they're all being knit together in this giant quilt. Any place you look has been photographed. Anything you want to see, from the street, from the air, by satellite photo. I'd love to see a program that shows the imaged portions of the world versus the un-imaged portions of the world.
Wired.com: Do you expect this quilt you describe to become more sophisticated? Will we soon be able to sit in front of a computer and "go" anywhere in the world?
Shambroom: Absolutely. There's business, democracy and social-justice questions which go along with that because it's very valuable information. I'll be able to make a picture from my desk. And not just a street view grab but I'll be able to say, 'I want to go to this community in Kuala Lumpur and I want the camera 20 feet off the ground and I want to shoot at 10:30 in the morning.'
You'll have this virtual drone except it won't be a physical camera; it'll be a program you can drive. I don't feel like any great futurist talking about this. It's pretty clear it's coming.
Wired.com: And yet in Photosynth, for example, all the photographs have actually been made with a digital camera by someone who actually stood in that spot. That's a lot of images/data-points necessary for the comprehensiveness you predict.
Shambroom: The Photosynth demo I saw had a good amount of maneuverability and that was four years ago. And, yes, Photosynth is not like CGI or filmmaking; it's not a wire form model that has had the textures added through mathematics. Photosynth is actual lens-based pixels.
Wired.com: So what you're envisioning means every space on the planet must be visited by someone or something with a camera? What about the Arctic tundra?
Shambroom: Well that's the question. I think eventually, what the street view camera doesn't do, some trekker is going to do. I don't know if it's going to happen in five years or 20 years but the technical barriers are coming down.
Wired.com: How should photographers respond to that?
Shambroom: I would never say how anyone — especially artists — should respond to anything. You follow your own nose.
I think if you're afraid of it you're going to be an unhappy person. In the brief history of photography, 175 years or so, a lot of it has been going out someplace and bringing back your image as a trophy, as a spoil or as a treasure and I think those days are ending pretty quickly.
Wired.com: Flickr is owned by Yahoo. There is the Google watermark on its visualization software. Is the new empire not American or even Chinese, but corporate?
Shambroom: Well of course, but does that mean we're screwed? Not necessarily. We've lived with corporate overlords for a long time and I think what's going on with Occupy Wall Street it great but I don't think it's the end of the world. Who else is going to spend the money to do this?! Civilians aren't putting hundreds of cars on the road with cameras on their roofs. We still benefit from it; we still use it. If Google decides to be evil and tries to control it then we'll have a problem. Have you seen any indication of that yet?
Wired.com: You've got Penelope Umbrico's book on your shelf. She's an artist that sources images online. And then there's artists like Corinne Vionnet who extracts Flickr photos of the same iconic landmarks and overlays them to create an evocative blur of place. Similarly, there is Idris Kahn who layers famous photographs. Should we group these photographers who are experimenting with the availability and abundance of digital images?
Shambroom: It's art making. Jason Salavon has been doing this type of work a long time before others. His earlier work was 'Every Playboy Centerfold' from different decades. He did that work in the mid-'90s; he wrote code for it. He didn't go into photoshop and create layers. For 76 Blowjobs, for instance, he took frames from porn in 1997 and in '98.
For one thing I think Jason's work is really beautiful but I think it's really smart; it anticipated this idea of extracting, overlaying and synthesizing images from mass culture.
Shambroom: You know about Useful Photography? These are dutch photographers who've been making collections — and this was quite a while ago — where they take images from eBay and say, 'Aren't these interesting images?' In Issue #4 they reproduced jihad martyr posters. They work with photography that is utilitarian but when it's gathered up and presented in a different context it's a whole other thing.
This relates also to the idea that others' pictures are more interesting than those we can make.
Wired.com: Many photographers have over the years gone into archives and vernacular collections — Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan's Evidence is probably the most well-known project. Martin Parr exhibits his own personal photo collections now. In the digital age more than ever, are we becoming archivists and self-appointed curators? Has the computer replaced the dusty stacks of a federal agency?
Shambroom: I wouldn't say that. We can be curators, but we don't have to be. There's still people out there with Leicas shooting film. I'm not at all doctrinaire about it and I'm not going to say, "Lens making photography is dead, and anyone who makes it…." No, I'll probably still take photographs sometimes.
I've been giving lectures and I talk about why I think other peoples' photographs can be pretty interesting. The Duke Family Portrait (next page) is a great example of that. Is that the greatest picture ever made? I think it's close to it. Who could make a better picture than that?
Also [in my lectures] I show Penelope Umbrico's eBay pictures of broken flat-screen televisions. I don't know why anyone would buy a broken TV set, but sellers will post a picture of what's wrong with the screen. I've never seen the prints, but when I saw the project I thought, "that is such a fucking good idea." I wish I'd had an idea that good in all my life. It was very smart of Aperture and Lesley Martin to publish Penelope's work.
Wired.com: What do you do when you get to Flickr? How do you search?
Shambroom: I've been playing around with Flickr almost doing Haiku; two-word search terms. [For example] "RV" and "TV." The idea of having a TV in an RV fascinates me. The whole idea of having an RV is to have an outside experience. There's all layers of irony.
Wired.com: Did this idea develop from spending lot of time on the road?
Shambroom: No this idea came from me spending a lot of time on Flickr!
For a short while I was interested in paintball culture. I came across an image of a paintball bruise and thought it was interesting. When I looked for more, I was overwhelmed and this is what turned the corner for me. If I decided to do a project for which I was photographing people's paintball bruises, I could never do it as well as just grabbing this stuff from Flickr.
For one thing, the fact that so many of them want to show it off. There's so many of them. There's some cultural phenomena; people play paintball which is weird in itself, to me, and then they get a bruise and want to show it off and do these close-up shots. This is thematically linked to things I've been doing before. Paintball Bruise is about the intersections between violence, militarism and civil society.
Wired.com: You've presented this as your own personal fascination and exploration, but when you present this to your students how do you justify what it is they're going to see during the hour lecture?
Shambroom: I don't feel a need to justify. As far as I can tell this is the future of image making. It may not be the only future. I say — not so much to my students but to my colleagues — ignore this at your own peril. It's not interesting because it's a new technology, it's interesting because it is really changing the way the world consumes and considers, lives and swims in imagery.
One of the things I love about teaching is to put things in front of students they might not necessarily have thought of yet. I'm doing a digital photography class but I'm making it as much about digital culture.
I had them pull the last five digits of their student IDs (which are random) and had them look up where the zip code was in the U.S. They had to investigate that place purely through online imagery. Google Street View, Flickr, poking around Facebook, looking at the websites of businesses in the area. They were really puzzled, like, "What does this have to do with photography?"
[Regarding others' photos] it seems to me like a sea change has begun. Maybe Sultan and Mandel fired the first shots 40 years ago. And they weren't even the first people to say, "Aren't other people's pictures interesting?" Think of Andy Warhol and John Baldessari.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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|Fraggle Rock
|Air Date
|January 12, 1987
|Written by
|B.P. Nichol
|Terry Maskell
Gobo wants to solve the riddle of Rhyming Rock, and he hears a story from the Storyteller Fraggle about a book of magic spells that includes a spell for solving riddles. But Gobo doesn't listen to the whole story and when he tries to use the spell, everything goes wrong which results in Rhyming Rock collapsing enough to trap Wembley Fraggle.
Meanwhile, Doc assembles an Automatic Pie Maker for Ms. Ardath for The Captain's Inn.
Supporting cast
- Storyteller Fraggle (Terry Angus)
- Uncle Gobo Fraggle (Jerry Nelson)
- Herkimer Fraggle (Richard Hunt)
- This is the second time we are shown the young life of Uncle Traveling Matt. The first time was in "Born to Wander".
- As part of solving the riddle of Rhyming Rock, Gobo decides to sing part of the show's theme.
Video releases
- Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection (HIT!, 2008)
- Fraggle Rock: The Complete Final Season (Lions Gate Entertainment, 2009)
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We talked about games and new literacies on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers.
Juan Rubio from Global Kids' Online Leadership Program joined us to talk about a project he is doing with students after school in the NYC Public Libraries to develop "a geo location based game using mobile technology to explore local history and global issues with middle school students from the Bronx."
Also David Gagnon, who had finished an ARIS Global Game Jam, joined us. David is an instructional designer with the ENGAGE program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he consults with faculty about innovative teaching practices that leverage emerging media and an active member of the Games, Learning and Society Research community where he directs the mobile learning team and ARIS Project
It was inspiring! We hope enjoy the conversation.
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Liberty News
UPDATE: Liberty Belles team finishes in top 10 at Air Race Classic
UPDATE - 6/24/2013: Liberty University's team of Charity Holland, a School of Aeronautics instructor, and Jessica Dyer, a recent graduate, placed ninth out of 47 planes and fourth out of 13 college entries in the 37th annual All Women's Air Race Classic. They also earned the Fastest Piper award for being the first of the Piper Arrow planes to finish.
Also representing the Liberty Belles, juniors Megan Grupp and Jodi Jacob landed in 22nd place overall, posting the second-fastest time on leg No. 7 from Holdrege, Neb., to La Junta, Col., and the third-fastest time on leg No. 3 from Logan, Utah, to Rawlins, Wyo.
Liberty Belles coach Sarah Morris, who won the 2011 race representing Jacksonville University, also competed, joining Helen Helpling of Florida to place eighth overall, flying Helpling's Maule MT7 aircraft.
Liberty Belles set to soar in four-day, 2,460-mile Air Race Classic
|Liberty University School of Aeronautics instructor pilot Charity Holland (left) and recent graduate Jessica Dyer in a self-portrait from the cockpit of their low-wing Piper Arrow as they fly over Wyoming on Thursday en route to Pasco, Wash., for Tuesday's start of the Air Race Classic.
Two teams of female aviators representing Liberty University School of Aeronautics departed from Lynchburg Regional Airport on Monday en route to the annual Air Race Classic, a competition next week that will cover 2,460 miles from Washington to Arkansas.
Liberty Belles' second-year coach Sarah Morris, who flew on Jacksonville University's winning team in 2011, said the experience is an adrenaline rush.
"It's intense flying," she said. "You're traveling the country with 45 other (pairs of) women in airplanes, so if you know anything about flying and traffic, people are everywhere."
Juniors Jodi Jacob and Megan Grupp are piloting a high-wing Cessna Skyhawk; Charity Holland, a School of Aeronautics instructor pilot, and Jessica Dyer, a recent graduate, are operating a low-wing Piper Arrow. Their dispatcher is sophomore Ariana Knight.
The race takes off on June 18 from Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco, Wash., before making its 10th and final landing June 21 at Drake Field Airport in Fayetteville, Ark. (Follow the Liberty Belles on their Facebook page.)
The Air Race Classic debuted in 1977, reviving the female aviation spirit inspired by the 1929 Powder Puff Air Derby featuring Amelia Earhart. The top 10 teams receive cash prizes totaling $15,000.
"Historically, aviation was male-dominated for many, many years," said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. David Young, dean of Liberty's SOA, who noted women now make up 15 percent of the school's students. "We've been truly blessed with the quality of the ladies we've had in our program."
|Liberty University School of Aeronautics juniors Jodi Jacob (left) and Megan Grupp leave Iowa and fly over South Dakota in a self-portrait taken Tuesday from the cockpit of their high-wing Cessna Skyhawk.
Last year was the Liberty Belles' first time entering the race, placing 27th and 28th out of 42 finishing teams.
"This race is just one factor in their development," Young said. "But it's also encouraging, because other young ladies who are interested in aviation say, 'Oh, that's something that I can do. I never dreamed that I could do that.'"
Participants are required to attend pre-race briefings that cover fuel planning, weather, fly-bys, and emergencies. Morris has prepared the Liberty Belles to deal with unexpected weather patterns and adjust their flight schedules accordingly.
"I think the biggest challenge is just making good decisions," she said. "Every decision is a little bit of a risk. You might lose the opportunity to have good winds and have a better ground speed or you might come up against weather."
Dyer said she is eager to put her training to the test.
"It's a lot of thinking ahead, being prepared, thinking 'OK, we're going to wake up at the crack of dawn, we're going to be out at the airport and ready.' We have so many items we have to do and (the challenge will be) just splitting up the tasks evenly so everything gets done in the shortest amount of time possible," she said.
Morris said this year's teams have worked well together to streamline logistics and develop flight plans.
"They're a great group," she said. "They're eager to learn. They have a lot of creative ideas and we're just kind of open to anything that will make us go faster."
The race is open to fixed-wing aircraft ranging from 145 to 570 horsepower, with a handicap system leveling the field.
The teams have four days to complete the 10-stage course that travels over Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, traversing stretches of the Rocky Mountains.
The first plane to land in Fayetteville, Ark., is not necessarily the winner as total flight time is the determining factor. Pilots can take advantage of favorable winds and weather conditions to fly multiple stages on one day and fewer the next, but must land at their day's destination by sunset each night.
Liberty University School of Aeronautics will have another chance to promote women in aviation when it hosts the last of this month's three "Women Can Fly" events in Virginia on June 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at its Freedom Aviation hangar at Lynchburg Regional Airport. The event is co-sponsored by Virginia's Department of Aviation, Ninety-Nines, Inc. (an international organization of women pilots), Lynchburg Regional Airport, Freedom Aviation, and Liberty University.
"We're encouraging young ladies, all the way from the age of 8 and up to come out," Young said. "We're going to be giving them flights, simulator rides, touring the tower, teaching about aircraft maintenance and all aspects of aviation."
The event is free, but girls or women who wish to take a free ride, must register in advance at www.womencanfly.org.
- Fundraising for the Liberty Belles' participation in the Air Race Class is ongoing as estimated cost for both teams to compete is $20,000. Contact Dave Young at (434) 455-4901 or by email at email@example.com to donate.
- Victory FM contributed to this report. Listen to a radio interview at victoryfm.net.
2013 Air Race Classic En Route Stops
Total distance: 2459.56 miles
Tri-Cities Airport, Pasco, Wash.
P & R Field Airport – Flyby, Mayfield, Idaho
Mountain Home Municipal Airport, Mountain Home, Idaho
Logan-Cache Airport, Logan, Utah
Shively Field Airport, Saratoga, Wyo.
Black Hills Airport-Clyde Ice Field, Spearfish, S.D.
Brookings Regional Airport, Brookings, S.D.
North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field, North Platte, Neb.
La Junta Municipal Airport, La Junta, Col.
West Woodward Airport, Woodward, Okla.
Drake Field Airport, Fayetteville, Ark.


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AT&T will expand 4G LTE service to 12 new markets in the wake of the new iPad's launch, the company stated in a press release today. Locations that will be blessed with the faster service include three cities in Ohio, three in Indiana, and Staten Island in New York City.
The areas where AT&T will expand its LTE are Naples, Florida; St. Louis, Missouri; New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Louisiana; Bryan/College Station, Texas; Cleveland, Akron, and Canton in Ohio; Bloomington, Lafayette, and Muncie in Indiana; and Staten Island, New York. These 12 areas will be added to the 28 markets where AT&T 4G LTE has already arrived.
Cleveland will be the first city of the new group to receive LTE service. The rest of the cities are "scheduled for April, May and into the early summer," according to AT&T.
AT&T's announcement of the network expansion comes only a few days after the March 7 debut of Apple's new iPad; able to access both Verizon's and AT&T's 4G LTE networks. The third-generation iPad is set to launch March 16.


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The bike shop explosion just keeps happening. There are three new shops in Brooklyn.
Bicycle Habitat opened a new store on-476 Fifth Ave. at 10th Street in Park Slope, (718) 788-2543.
Landmark Vintage Cycles 376 Bedford Ave between South Fourth & South Fifth.
and Silk Road Cycles 76 Franklin St. at Calyer […]


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One school in Iowa uses QR codes to make learning more interactive for students.
At one school just 20 miles west of Des Moines, Iowa, the old book reports and printed newsletters are getting a digital makeover -- with the help of QR codes.
Instead of just having to write about a book they read, fifth-grade students in Van Meter Community School are given a choice: They can either write or talk about the book. For students who choose the latter, they record their talk with Camtasia Relay, create a URL that points to the book talk and post QR codes on bulletin boards in the hallway that link to their projects.
And this past year, fourth grade students worked on an expository writing project that involved creating an online newsletter with the Smore app about a person they studied. One student chose to write about Ernie Davis, a college football player who died of leukemia at age 23. With the URL to his newsletter, he created a QR code using Visualead, which allowed him to use a real image of Ernie Davis with the QR code.
Along with these two projects, the school library has used QR codes to introduce students to new e-books and digital resources that are housed in the platform MackinVIA. And scavenger hunts with these QR codes help students interact with different elements of the book.
"It gets them really excited about engaging, not just with what they're learning about, but with the other people in their class when they're doing maybe a scavenger hunt or when they're out at the board scanning other people's work," said Shannon McClintock Miller, district teacher librarian and technology integration specialist at Van Meter Community School.
Once students have finished reading a book, they might make a video trailer for it or do a different more creative project related to the book -- that other students can see by accessing them via a QR code.
By trying different technology tools such as QR codes, educators can help engage students, get them excited about learning and help them collaborate with others.
"We have a lot of technology at Van Meter, but it's not about per se the tools that we have," McClintock Miller said. "It's about the way that we're using them and that we're thinking differently, and that we are engaging our kids, giving them choices and letting them be heard through their creativity and their own voice."


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Alright game of the week has to be Century vs. Williston battle for the West Region regular season title. Predictions?
I'm going with Williston, home ice advantage should be huge in this last regular season game for both teams. Both Nelson and Dickerson are going to play their hearts out for the crowd up in Willyville. I believe the rink would be packed and that is going to get those kids jacked. Hopefully the refs let them play.


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PORTLAND – The city is pressing forward with a plan to create a registration system for street art vendors, likely setting up a legal showdown with free-speech advocates.
Other proposed restrictions on street art vendors — allowing them to set up only on sidewalks 8 feet or wider and banning them from Bell Buoy Park — were struck down Tuesday by the City Council's Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee.
The panel also punted on a proposal to ban street art vendors from setting up during business hours within 10 feet of an nonfood retailer, pending further staff analysis.
And instead of banning art vendors from Bell Buoy Park, committee members asked staff to draft a proposal to create a corridor so emergency officials can transport patients from the fireboat while keeping the rest of the park open to artists.
The city has been wrestling with street artist regulations since 2011, when concerns were raised about vendors selling items they don't make. Also, concerns were raised about artists setting up tables on sidewalks, making them impassable.
Code Enforcement Officer Chuck Fagone was given the task last summer of enforcing existing street artists rules, which limited displays to 12 square feet and required vendors to leave 4 feet of sidewalk passable. He also had to distinguish original art from other merchandise, such as T-shirts from big retailers that were being resold.
"That was a struggle trying to define what is art," Fagone said.
Tammy Munson, director of inspections, said she had personally witnessed the public safety concerns, especially in Bell Buoy Park — a coveted area for street artist vendors during cruise ship season.
"I've been down there on different occasions and I have had trouble getting through," Munson said.
The city's Street Artist Task Force late last year recommend additional restrictions.
But dozens of artists spoke against the proposed resolutions during the nearly hour and a half public hearing. Only a few business owners spoke in support.
Artists said their displays are protected under the First Amendment and made the city more vibrant. Business owners expressed concern about their doorways being blocked, and the "flea market" atmosphere of the Old Port.
Zachary Heiden, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, was among dozens of people who spoke against imposing more restrictions, citing "very substantial First Amendment concerns" with the proposed registry.
Heiden said he has been working with the art community for eight years on the issue.
The registry is intended to help ensure that artists know the rules, City Councilor Edward Suslovic said.
But Heiden said a court would likely consider the proposed registration as a form of content-based discrimination. As such, the city needs to satisfy a very high burden of proof that they've chosen the least restrictive solution to that burden.
"I'm skeptical they'll be able to satisfy those tests," he said.
The city has been notified that it will likely face a legal challenge over the registry requirement, said Trish McAllister, the city's neighborhood prosecutor.
"I can't say to you we would win that legal challenge," McAllister said. "There's no question there is a risk here."
City Councilor Jill Duson said she believed the registry proposal is a reasonable "time, place and manner" requirement — an important legal threshold.
"I think it is possible for this type of requirement — a registration without fee — to survive a legal challenge," Duson said. "We need to take the risk of making a bad decision to try and strike the right balance."
During the public hearing, artists and their supporters reacted strongly to proposed restrictions on where they could set up their tables.
William Hessian, a member of the newly formed Creative Community Coalition, said a registry would be an unnecessary barrier to artists and run contrary to the city's image as welcoming to artists.
"We want people to come into Portland and be a part of ( the art community) immediately and not have to register," Hessian said
Ron Slater said he's been fighting new rules since 2004. He said it was "ridiculous" that a man walked around town with an assault rifle shortly after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 people, including 20 children. Portland police couldn't even ask him his name, because of the Second Amendment, he said.
"I believe the First Amendment is first for a reason," Slater said. It's the most important."
Mike Shaughnessy, a professor of sculpture at the University of Southern Maine, said street art is an important form of "creative entrepreneurialism." Artists are testing their work and the marketplace to see what sells, he said, noting they could someday be successful.
"Those people will become . . . the Angela Adamses, the leaders. You want to make this place hospitable for them," he said. "I would encourage you to keep it as open and vibrant as you can . . . allow it to be spontaneous."
The Portland Downtown District voiced support for all of the proposed restrictions, as did two business owners.
Sandra Jones owns Something's Fishy, an Exchange Street business that's been open for more than 30 years. She spearheaded a petition drive asking the city to crack down on street artists and "allowing the Old Portland to become a flea market especially on cruise ship days."
Jones said she served on the Portland Chamber's cruise ship committee in 1990, which helped make the city a popular cruise destination, giving business owners a reason to hang on during the long winters.
Now that the number of cruise ships has increased, so has the number of street artists, said Jones.
"Now I find my ability to make a living threatened by the street artists," Jones said. "I've paid my taxes; I've paid my dues."
Photographer Jim O'Reilly, who said he represented artists that set up in Bell Buoy Park, suggested the rules being proposed were simply a way to appease business owners.
"I think the issue is a largely a smoke screen," said O'Reilly. "I think people bring up safety because they're looking for an avenue to get this done for the businesses."
Marrion Ladd, an organizer of the Creative Community Coalition, was pleased with the committee vote, except for the registry. But she was comforted that the ACLU of Maine seemed ready to challenge that requirement — if approved by the full council — in court.
"I feel good about that," she said.
Staff Writer Randy Billings can be contacted at 791-6346 or at:
Twitter: @randybillings
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Dead Space 3's co-op and action leanings have some gamers worried. VG247's Dave Cook goes hands on and speaks with Visceral to find out if there is cause for concern.
Digesting horror media – be it a game, book or movie – is always scarier when you're experiencing it alone. That's just a fact. So how then does Visceral Games attempt to make Dead Space 3's co-op mode have the same impact as its solo offering?
This is one of many questions directed towards the game after its initial reveal at EA's pre-E3 conference earlier this year. The clip showed a more agile Isaac Clarke nimbly flopping around the snowy expanses of Tau Volantis like a drunk seal. It felt odd.
Clarke also farted out a military-grade payload of bullets that seemed to go against what survival horror titles stand for. Limited resources, a feeling of weakness and seemingly impossible odds can be just as tense and scary as a cheap jumpy moment, but these traits were no where to be seen.
'That's not Dead Space! That's Gears of War! Get that rubbish off the screen!' cried the masses. But after sitting down to actually play some co-op for ourselves recently, our fears have subsided a little – but not entirely.
Clarke of duty
Our hands-on session begins during act two of the campaign, and just as if Dead Space 2 only came out yesterday we're back into the thick of it, using stasis to slow down Unitologist soldiers, dismembering them with well-placed rounds and yes, even dodge-rolling to avoid returned fire.
So at core level very little has changed here, and that should go some way to convincing sceptics that the game still feels at home in the Dead Space saga. Admittedly, the ammo count has gone up, and the gun-toting human enemies go against the gruesome Necromorphs of old, but it doesn't seem like that much of an issue at the moment.
"The addition of John Carver was something we took very seriously. We did not want to just tack on a soldier who was just Isaac's sidekick, or who was one dimensional. He needed to have his own unique back-story, which you'll learn more about throughout the game, and through our new graphic novel."
We asked Steve Papoutsis, vice president of Visceral Games for his reaction to the negative reception of Dead Space 3's initial reveal, to which he replied, "One of the things with Dead Space that I think is really important is, we don't look at it as a particular stereotype of game. It's not meant to be an action or puzzle game, it's a Dead Space Game.
"Now, a Dead Space game requires the following stuff: intense atmosphere, survival, action, thrills, horror, tension – you need all of those things to make Dead Space game. So if you have all of those things, and Necromorphs, and Isaac, then you can have yourself a Dead Space game."
Granted the game does have all of these ingredients, and perhaps Papoutsis has a point when he says that preconceptions linked to specific genres should never sway one's opinion of a game, but you can't blame fans for jumping the gun at Dead Space 3's reveal.
One thing Papoutsis didn't mention was the insertion of Isaac's co-op buddy John Carver. He's the anomaly here, adding a new spin on the franchise that some critics have slammed Visceral for, so we ask Papoutsis for his thoughts Carver's involvement.
"We've tried to evolve our narrative from the first game, all the way to this one, and we've also gone of and done Dead Space: Extraction, so we've always tried to increase what's been going on in the Dead Space universe.
"In terms of story, one of the things that's important to us is that our characters need to be compelling. They need to have strengths, weaknesses, they need to go on a journey, and they need to learn something during the game."
Papoutsis added, "the addition of John Carver was something we took very seriously. We did not want to just tack on a soldier who was just Isaac's sidekick, or who was one dimensional. He needed to have his own unique back-story, which you'll learn more about throughout the game, and through our new graphic novel."
I see dead people
Carver's modus operandi is that he's an ex EarthGov soldier, and he's out for revenge against the unitologist ranks after he saw his wife and child slaughtered in front of him by Necromorphs.
He's become scarred and a little bit warped after coming into contact with a Marker, which projects imagery from his married life around the dank confines of the ice planet's facilities. This is where Viscerals's clever take on the co-op format comes into play.
"You can play the solo game and get the A-B story, but when you actually play with a friend it adds something to it, so that addition is what you see with Carver, and how he's dealing with his internal demons."
While playing as Carver we battle through the Necromorph ranks alongside Isaac and come to a long, dark corridor. In the middle stands an eerie toy soldier carved out of wood. It's about the same height as our heroes and just stands there, not moving, doing nothing.
The doll spooks Carver as a cut-scene triggers, showing him walking towards it. Suddenly he becomes startled and turns to see the face of his dead wife projected onto Isaac as she speaks to him. Isaac shakes Carver until he snaps out of it, and gameplay resumes.
Things only get creepier from here, as the person playing as Carver starts to see more of the eerie dolls lining the hallways, and the person playing as Isaac sees the world as in its natural state.
"Are you seeing this?" Carver asks Isaac, and is met with an order to snap out of it in return. Things get even worse as a set-piece triggers that sees Carver walking around a warped dimension full of motifs from his son's birthday party, more dolls and creepy apparitions that attack and hurt the soldier.
We're playing as Carver, so naturally we shoot the phantoms to drive them back, but on Isaac's screen, it's looks like we've gone nuts, running off, shooting at nothing and rambling like a maniac.
Isaac calls on Carver to come back as Necromorphs in the real world start to swarm him, but we can't hear his cries behind us as we march on through the hellish birthday party, blasting ghouls that aren't even there.
It's a great take on schizophrenia, but we're curious, because at one point Isaac and Carver do see the same weird stuff happening. So our bet is that they're actually the same person, but we'll have to wait until we play the game to find that out.
Developing insanity
Back to Papoutsis, who explained to us, "When you look at our co-op, it's what I call 'additive' to the game. You can play the solo game and get the A-B story, but when you actually play with a friend it adds something to it, so that addition is what you see with Carver, and how he's dealing with his internal demons.
"Our biggest hit has been on the story. Writing [co-op] into the narrative in a meaningful way. It's a lot of work for the team, and it's challenging because a lot of people aren't even going to see it, as some will just want to play single player."
"When you look back in a few years and when people talk about this generation of consoles…it's our goal that Dead Space 3 is remembered as one of the games that pushed the limits of these consoles."
Deep stories are all well and good, but for some, the best horror experiences come through ambiguity. Explain the horrific goings on in too much detail and they lose their bite, but Papoutsis believes Visceral has got the balance nailed.
"I think you're always going to have a bit of that, but one of the goals with Dead Space 3 is to actually answer a lot of questions. Our players – those who are really into the fiction – want answers. They want to know more about the Marker, Unitology and the Necromorphs.
"That being said, I think there are always going to be some open-ended questions, and I think – again – that's part of what makes a universe compelling for people to get immersed in."
It's a long campaign too, made longer by the lure of co-op replay, Papoutsis revealed, "This is by far the longest Dead Space game we've ever made – significantly longer than Dead Space 2. I can't give you an exact number, but it's really big."
We ask Papoutsis about tech, and how far the team has squeezed power out the game's respective release formats, "When you look back in a few years and when people talk about this generation of consoles…it's our goal that Dead Space 3 is remembered as one of the games that pushed the limits of these consoles.
"Whether that's through the innovative approach we've taken to co-op – doing something that no one else has done in that regard, or what we've done with our weapon crafting system, narrative or our big epic moments.
"We want people to look back and say, 'Hey remember Dead Space 3? They did some really cool things.' That's one of our goals and I think our team is working hard to execute that."
In addition to Carver, a longer campaign, a deeper story and co-op, Dead Space 3 also has thousands of crafting combinations. We weren't able to try crafting for ourselves, but we did gather up a great deal of resources strewn across the environment.
Both Carver and Isaac have scavanger bots that can be deployed in hotspots – areas with strong signal strength – and then let loose to automatically scan for component parts. These elements are then automatically made available to you at the next upgrade workbench.
When in co-op, both players receive any new weapons made, ensuring both parties get a share in the spoils. Papoutsis talked us through the possibilities of crafting, "You've got well over a thousand different combinations of weapons you can create. The crafting system is another addition we're really excited about."
Papoutsis added, "We've taken the idea of upgrading your weapons and now we've gone all the way towards letting you make your own. If you want to make a Ripper with a flamethrower as the alt. fire, then you can make that. If you want a Pulse Rifle with a Javelin Gun as the alt. fire, then you can do that too.
"With Dead Space 3 we look at it and asked, 'how can we motivate ourselves and surpass ourselves? What could be our rallying cry?' So, a lot of people talk about triple-a quality – and that's a term in regards to quality – so we said, 'you know what? What if we did quad-a?'"
"You can make Stasis packets, upgrade points you can place in your Rig, or your weapons. There is a ton of stuff to make. We've opted to not have credits in the game, instead, you now have resources that you use.
"Some people may not like all that flexibility and depth," Papoutsis stressed, "so we'll ket you take all the resources you collect from defeating Necromorphs and you can use those to exchange those for blueprints that will then be turned into the weapon that you want."
It's nice to see that the crafting mechanic is optional, so that those just looking for a straightforward ride can immerse themselves in the horror and action without having to worry about juggling weapon components.
But don't expect to create a badass weapon that makes the game too easy however, as Papoutsis stated that you will always be tested regardless, "What you played today was tuned to the easy side so you could play without getting too frustrated. There is a lot of effort that goes into balancing our gameplay right up until we finish the game.
"The approach we're taking is that when you play in co-op, the difficulty is increased so that it feels like an equal, if not greater challenge than single player. In terms of difficulty modes, I don't want to give away too many details, but you'll have a number similar to what had in Dead Space 2, but also going beyond that."
We return to the notion of people looking back at Dead Space 3 with fond memories in years to come, and ask him about the challenge behind all of this effort, "One thing that we talk about a lot with the team is, we want to make sure everything we do in the Dead Space 3 franchise is of an extremely high quality level.
"We've been honoured to have people enjoy our games, and give us a lot of praise and support. We owe it to our players to continue to exceed their expectations. So with Dead Space 3 we look at it and asked, 'How can we motivate ourselves and surpass ourselves? What could be our rallying cry?'
"So, a lot of people talk about triple-a quality – and that's a term in regards to quality – so we said, 'You know what? What if we did quad-a?' I know it sounds a little funny, but it's kind of our belief that if you want to hit your target you have to set something in front of you, and we want to aspire to do things better than we've ever done. We want to do that as we are so appreciative of our fans."
Will Dead Space 3 meet it's 'quad-a' goal? You'll find out when the game launches on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 across Europe February 8th.


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The European Space Agency (ESA) is claiming a world first after releasing evidence that its GOCE gravity satellite picked up sound waves produced by the Sendai earthquake of March 2011.
The ESA explained that particularly large 'quakes – like the magnitude 9.0 incident that hit Japan – cause the planet's surface to vibrate, producing sound waves that travel upwards through the atmosphere.
Those waves have never before been recorded from the heavens, but as GOCE passed through the waves its accelerometers picked up "the vertical displacements of the surrounding atmosphere in a way similar to seismometers on the surface of Earth", ESA said.
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Rice University has recently been the subject of accolades from rather diverse sources. Rice was the highest ranked Texas college or university in the 2009 Forbes Magazine ranking of student friendly universities; Rice was ranked 43rd in a field of 600 ranked universities.
And Rice made the Chronicle Of Higher Education listing of colleges that are particularly employee friendly during the current economic downturn. In the CHE issue of July 10, 2009, Professor of History Alex X. Byrd had this to say about the Rice administration-"They really know the dilemmas that are facing people that work at universities, and they really work hard to have the universities meet those issues. They've really got us covered."
I am not sure how covered the Rice professors were in prior years, but as of this Fall semester, all Rice faculty will be more sexually covered than in prior years. As reported in the student newspaper, the Rice Thresher–
The Faculty Senate updated its Statement on Consensual, Amorous Relations with Students for the first time in over a decade…The new statement, which goes into effect in September, prohibits any romantic relationships between faculty and all undergraduate students, and between faculty and graduate students directly under their supervision or in their department.
The updated statement, which was approved in a 17-2 vote by the Senate on April 15, includes stricter language and more precise definitions of expected behavior, Faculty Senate Speaker Deborah Harter said.
The Chair of the Working Group on Rice's Amorous Relations Policy was Rebekah Drezek, a bioengineering professor. She urged faculty to carefully read the document. Drezek said "Many faculty felt it was a confusing document and did not provide clear guidance on expected behavior. In addition, it was among the least restrictive policies in the country."
Of course, for those who believe it is best to have sexual rules and regulations even for consenting adults, having non-restrictive "liberal" rules becomes an anathema. But the fact of the matter appears to be that at Rice undergraduate students are not viewed as adults, no matter what their age. Adulthood apparently is partially achieved when one becomes a graduate student.
The Thresher also quoted a Professor Harter, a French Studies Professor, who stated that at the Academic Senate meeting "Drezek noted that weak policies on amorous relations often end up hurting female students disproportionately." The dankprofessor is sure that no data was presented in support of this rather ambiguous statement. Even if there was data that showed that female student disproportionately benefited from liberal policies such would have then also been a basis for opposition to amorous student faculty relationships.
The irony is that strong controlling policies function to benefit the weak who feel the need for rules from above to control their behavior and the behavior of others. Adults who believe in personal autonomy even in sexual relationships are likely to view the controllers as engaging in unwarranted intrusion into private personal relationships. An additional irony is that Rice, a Texas university, now takes the initiative in this area after the US Supreme Court rules in Lawrence, a case coming out of Texas, that the state could not regulate private consensual relationships between persons of the same sex.
In addition, the updated statement says that "in an academic setting such romantic or sexual relationships conflict with the implicit trust we encourage our students to enjoy vis-à-vis their professors [and] can result in emotional and psychological damage, and always have the potential for an abuse of power that constitutes unprofessional conduct." The policy then states that "accepting or exercising professional responsibility for any student with whom a faculty member has had a previous sexual or romantic relationship within the previous three years is presumed to create a conflict of interest and to violate professional ethics."
Really, the above represents the same old traditional argument-that sex is dangerous and the only safe sex is marital sex.
However, not all Rice faculty bought into the evils of student professor amorous relationships. The Thresher reported that some faculty "argued strongly that students over 18 are in a position to make good decisions, and that to prohibit relationships with them is to meddle unnecessarily in the private lives of consenting adults." However, there were only two dissenting votes cast in the Academic Senate.
And at least one Rice student publicly expressed opposition. Sophomore Jeff Miller said he was concerned about the policy's impact on student life. He said- "This will restrict the already-limited dating options here at Rice."
The dankprofessor's response as to the restricting of dating options at Rice is that such will be surface restrictions. Sexual lives at Rice are probably in general undercover. For the romantically inclined, the love of knowledge at Rice can still lead to the knowledge of love.
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