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DescriptionThe Adventures of Tintin: The Game is a game based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé between 1929 and 1983. It is released as a tie-in for the 2011 Spielberg animated movie The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and follows the story. The plot is based on events from different comics, including The Crab with the Golden Claws, Red Rackham's Treasure, and The Secret of the Unicorn.
The game is a side-scrolling 2D platformer with minor puzzle elements to take out enemies and finding a way to proceed to a next area. Tintin is able to sneak around, steal keys, hide inside barrels, throw objects, roll, grab ledges, and jump to reach platforms. Fights are based on stealthy takedowns, but there is also regular melee combat. In later levels guards are well armed and the player needs to use objects in the environment such as banana peels or wet paint to take them out. Occasionally there is a level boss. Tintin can also send Snowy to sneak through gaps or command Haddock to stand on a pressure plate.
The Solo mode starts at a flea market in Belgium where young reporter Tintin buys a model ship. A collector appears shortly after and tries to buy it from him for ten times the amount. Intrigued, Tintin is brought to someone knowledgeable who tells him it is a replica of The Unicorn, a triple-masted ship of Charles II's fleet, that was blown up by its own captain when it was attacked by the Red Rackham in 1676. Tintin wants to find out why the captain sunk his own ship and finds a document inside the model, but the collector returns and sneakily steals the ship from him. With the help from Snowy he tracks down the collector's house and from there the quest to unravel the secret of The Unicorn kicks off. He ends up at the ship SS Karaboudjan where he meets captain Haddock. From there they travel to Ben Salaad's Palace, then to Bagghar, a fictional port city in Morroco, and finally back to the home town of Marlinspike.
The game is interspersed with small sequences where it moves away from 2D platforming. These 3D segments include fighting on motorbikes during a chase, plane flights, scent-tracking with Snowy, diving, and on-rails sword fighting sections that are played out aboard The Unicorn back in time. The game can played in a separate Cooperative mode with Tintin, Haddock and opera singer Bianca Castafiore. These separate sets of levels require the players to work together as each character has a different skill. Tintin uses a grappling hook, Haddock moves crates and breaks through walls, and Castafiore can double jump and break glass. There is also a Challenge mode where players can compete against each other.
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Alternate Titles
- "Приключения Тинтина: Тайна Единорога" -- Russian spelling
- "Tintinova dobrodružství: Hra" -- Czech title
- "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" -- UK title
- "Przygody Tintina: Gra Komputerowa" -- Polish
- "Les Aventures de Tintin: Le Secret de la Licorne" -- French title
- "Le avventure di Tintin: Il segreto dell'Unicorno" -- Italian title
- "Las aventuras de Tintín: El Secreto del Unicornio" -- Spanish title
- "Die Abenteuer von Tim und Struppi: Das Geheimnis der Einhorn" -- German title
- "De avonturen van Kuifje: Het geheim van de Eenhoorn" -- Dutch title
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- 3D Engine: LyN
- Inspiration: Comics
- Inspiration: Movies
- Tintin licensees
- Ubisoft Club / Uplay supported games
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|Common Sense Media
|Xbox 360
|Dec, 2011
|Nov 02, 2011
|70 out of 100
|Nintendo 3DS
|Nov 04, 2011
|6.5 out of 10
|Nintendo 3DS
|Nov 03, 2011
|63 out of 100
|Spazio Games
|Nintendo 3DS
|Oct 25, 2011
|6 out of 10
|Nov 19, 2011
|PlayStation 3
|Nov 10, 2011
|5 out of 10
|Nintendo 3DS
|Oct 21, 2011
|10 out of 20
|Oct 21, 2011
|4 out of 10
|PlayStation 3
|Oct 20, 2011
|4 out of 10
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The STEM talent pipeline starts in the home of pre-K students and ends in the workplace, but much is lost on the way. Prognostics about future talent needs will force us to plug some leaks and increase the flow, particularly with emphasis on K-12 education.
Since 2000, the OECD has provided comparative information about high school graduates' readiness for life in 60 countries though PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) reports on student skills in reading, math, science, and problem solving, released every three years. TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, NCES) adds a picture of progress in 4th and 8th grade student achievement in science and math, also comparing 60 nations, but in four-year increments. Both studies rank countries on all outcomes, and education analysts have flocked to nations that consistently come out on top. Much has therefore been written about Singapore, Japan, and Finland, but little about the low performing nations. They are left to figure out how to catch up, which is heavy lifting since the variations are huge.
OECD and NCES have helped guide our attention to the importance of knowledge and skills of particular importance for the future workforce, namely Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Pulling in the same direction, Academies of Science in Australia, Chile, France, Sweden, the U.S., and other nations have led IBSE (Inquiry-Based Science Education) initiatives in partnership with organizations like the US-Mexico Science Foundation (FUMEC), the Smithsonian Institution, and a number of multinational corporations with support from EC, NSF and World Bank, among others. It is now widely accepted that IBSE leads to increased student interest and learning of science.
Does this mean that we are beginning to close the workforce skills gap? In one word, no. A recent survey by the OECD of adult skills in 20 countries offers a sobering perspective on literacy, numeracy, and problem solving skills with which 16-65 year-olds are able to contribute to workplace productivity:
- Between 5 and 28 percent of adults are at the lowest literacy skill levels, and 8 to 32 percent are at the same numeracy skill level. Between 7 and 23 percent have no experience with, or lack the basic skills needed to use information/communication technology for many everyday tasks. Only 3 to 9 percent of adults in technology-rich environments have the highest problem solving skills.
- Skill levels in all areas are directly correlated with likelihood of employment and pay level.
- Persons with low literacy skills more often report poor health and little impact on the political process.
- Poor education and lack of opportunities to improve skills combine to create a vicious cycle in which low proficiency leads to even fewer opportunities and vice versa. Not surprisingly, this skills deficit is reflected in a 2013 survey of Fortune 1000 recruiters. Many report difficulty in finding qualified candidates with a 2-year STEM college degree (55 percent) or a four-year degree (50 percent). Sixty-eight percent have vacant four-year STEM degree positions and 48 percent report two-year STEM degree vacancies. The majority (75 percent) project that ten years from now, there will be more new STEM jobs than non-STEM jobs, leading to a worsening of the talent shortage.
Is STEM education important for workplace skill development and productivity? Innovation is frequently hailed as a driver of business productivity and economic growth. In 1996 OECD stated in its Jobs Strategy: Technology, Productivity and Job Creation report: "To realize the full potential of technological change in improving economy-wide productivity, growth and job creation, governments need to make innovation and technology diffusion policies an integral part of overall economic policy".
The Opportunity Equation, a 2009 call to action by the Carnegie Corporation and the Institute for Advanced Study emphasized the urgency to reform STEM education and strengthen U.S. innovation capacity. "Knowledge and skills from the so-called STEM fields are crucial to virtually every endeavor of individual and community life."
Later that year, President Obama launched the Educate to Innovate Campaign for Excellence in STEM Education. "Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the challenges of this century. That's why I am committed to making the improvement of STEM education over the next decade a national priority."
Innovation is now a ubiquitous element in the measurement of productivity, and no longer restricted to economically privileged nations, as shown by the annually published Global Innovation Index, Cornell University, INSEAD, and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In large part this is attributable to the Global Partnership for Education, funded by the World Bank.
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The 2013 OECD Science, Technology, and Industry Scoreboard reports that nations and people have become more interdependent than ever before. Countries rely increasingly on imports from other nations to maintain or improve their export performance and consumers in one country sustain jobs in countries further up the value chain. International institutional R&D collaboration networks are expanding and researcher mobility is increasing, helping to fuel the innovation power and economic growth in emerging economies.
So, we agree on how to sustain global innovation. What about the early innovation talent pipeline?
This intense international collaboration and exchange in advanced talent preparation and innovation stand in stark contrast to the tentative cross-border exchange and collaboration in K-12 education—the early pipeline for innovation talent. Yet, there is a clear positive correlation between domestic spending on primary/secondary education and national wealth, a fact often cited in arguments for urgent improvement of K-12 education in the face of economic challenge.
Interest is growing in education practices of leading innovation nations, such as the German apprenticeship model and the Finnish teacher preparation system. However, quick fixes through emulation of these best practices of nurturing talent will be difficult since they are deeply rooted in culture and tradition through many generations with high values of education and mastery of craftsmanship skills.
We must not let this discourage us. PISA, TIMSS, and other multinational studies offer priceless guidance. Even in the face of needs for normative change and cultural shift, which takes time, nations that now fail to offer K-12 students effective education, must learn from the global community through collaboration and exchange. This has been done before. The Pollen and Fibonacci Programs, supported by the EC brought best practices in IBSE to lagging European countries with strong results.
The global STEM talent marketplace is not defined by equal opportunity. How can we change this?
On the demand side, multinational enterprises (MNEs) drive international talent flow by recruiting skilled workers from where in the world they are best trained. But importing talent, with consideration to dual careers, family relocation and assimilation is very expensive. Often, it is cost-effective to simply move a business to where skills are abundant, intensifying the competition for talent among local employers and leaving small business and public services at a disadvantage.
On the supply side, it is survival for the fittest. Students at leading STEM high schools have their future careers secured. However, most are at the mercy of public education, which varies greatly between, districts, states, and nations. Few can afford to relocate to where education and employment opportunities are better.
But STEM education can be strengthened everywhere through IBSE and by increasing proximity to the workplace. An open window between the classroom and the workplace will help teachers and students understand employers' needs for knowledge and skills and how these needs change with new technology and innovation. Employers gain opportunities to positively influence learning, much to their own advantage.
Someday soon, every young person will be able to graduate prepared for the global talent marketplace. This will be made possible by increasing collaboration at the international K-12 level, and between educators and employers everywhere.
Anders Hedberg, Ph.D., is an experienced pharmaceutical industry executive, who now applies his science and corporate social responsibility expertise to international STEM education. By linking business and education together for better talent preparation, he helps strengthen the global workforce pipeline. He is a member of the STEMconnector Innovation Task Force.
This article was originally published in the Diplomatic Courier's January/February 2014 print edition.

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CoinVulcan needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Users interact with a series of filters that dynamically narrow down their global results, which are displayed as a list and on a map. The goal... find your "utopia". Once users get their results, Planitopia provides users with everything they need to go there - travel booking engine, travel gear store, moving resources, etc. In essence, providing a one-stop shop to "plan it". Planitopia also incorporates social networking features so visitors can share their travel experiences, photos, etc.
Name origin: Planitopia is a combination of "Plan It" and "Utopia". It is also uses "Plan It" as a play on "Planet".
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Logo should include the word "Planitopia" and play up the name because Planitopia is a made-up word and it should help build brand recognition. The design should also help people remember the unique spelling of the name to avoid traffic being sent to planEtopia.
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North American Juniors Game Night: 11/20/10
Fargo Force 8 @ Waterloo Black Hawks 3
C Jimmy Mullin, FGO: 1-1-2, +3, 0 PIM, 3 SOG
Season totals: 12 GP, 6-6-12, +7, 10 PIM
Fargo is now in full force after the WJACs, putting up 8 goals on 25 shots in Waterloo Saturday night. Mullin's goal, his sixth of the year, was scored shorthanded into an empty net in the 13th minute of the third period – a period in which Waterloo didn't have a goalie for most of it. Fargo was up 5-1 in the 11th minute when Waterloo went on the power play. They pulled their goalie and scored, making it 5-2, then did it again for a 5 on 3 immediately after and scored again, making it 5-3. Mullin scored into the empty net in the 13th minute, then Fargo scored 2 more empty netters, in the 15th and 18th minute while Waterloo had extra attackers. The game also featured a line brawl where all 10 players were ejected with 5 minutes to go. Old time hockey! (except without 2 goalies)
Montreal Juniors 4 @ Chicoutimi Sagueneens 3
D Charles Landry, MTL: 2-0-2, +1, 0 PIM, 2 SOG, 0 Hits, *First Star*
Season Totals: 15 GP, 2-7-9, +8, 2 PIM
Landry (pictured with Volts) scored his first goal of the year to give the Juniors a 3-2 lead late in the second period, then added the game winner with 2:01 remaining. He has really come on offensively as of late.
Windsor Spitfires 6 @ Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 5 (OT)
D Brock Beukeboom, SSM: 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 22 GP, 0-2-2, -10, 40 PIM
Windsor defenseman Ryan Ellis (Predators) scored his second of the game in overtime to lead the Spits to a win. Ellis had 2 goals and 2 assists in the game.
Peterborough Petes 3 @ Belleville Bulls 6
C/W Richard Panik, BEL: 1-3-4, +2, 0 PIM, *Second Star*
Season totals: 24 GP, 13-15-28, -2, 31 PIM
Panik exploded after a recent slump with a 4-point night. Teammate Luke Judson (undrafted) had 2+2 for First Star.
Mississauga St. Michael's Majors 4 @ Owen Sound Attack 2
D Geoffrey Schemitsch, OS: Did not play.
Season totals: 18 GP, 1-10-11, +9, 2 PIM
Schemitsch is still day-to-day with an upper-body injury, but it's turning into week-to-week.
Regina Pats 3 @ Chilliwack Bruins 2 (SO)
RW Carter Ashton, REG: 1-1-2, E, 0 PIM
Season totals: 23 GP, 13-8-21, -9, 36 PIM
Ashton now has goals in 6 of his last 7 games. No 3 stars were listed in the game report. Ashton did not convert his shootout attempt for Regina, who are on a little 1-0-1 streak and have tied Prince Albert for second last in their division.
Kelowna Rockets 2 @ Prince George Cougars 1 (OT)
RW Brett Connolly, PG: 1-0-1, +1, 0 PIM
Season totals: 23 GP, 18-10-28, -5, 6 PIM
That's two home games in a row the Cougars have dropped to last-place Kelowna. Actually, with the win Kelowna jumped into a tie with PG in points and one ahead of Kamloops. Connolly is starting to heat up again; he has 3 goals in his last 2 games, and 4 in 3 if you count the Canada-Russia Super Series. Len Barrie's son, Tyson, had 2 assists for the Rockets.
Saskatoon Blades 5 @ Lethbridge Hurricanes 3
D Teigan Zahn, SAS: 1-0-1, +1, 0 PIM, *First Star*
Season totals: 22 GP, 2-5-7, +6, 43 PIM
Blades captain Teigan Zahn scored his second of the year. He didn't score at all last year, but has a career-high of 5, set 2 seasons ago. His plus-6 rating is currently a career high.
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Sara de Sota Pageant served as homage to area's Spanish heritage, blending glamour and folksiness in festival that swelled city's population five-fold
As the year-long Viva Florida 500 continues to celebrate the state's history by marking the date in 1513 when Juan Ponce de Leon landed on our shore, some longtime Sarasota residents must recall the not-too-distant past when the city paid tribute to our Spanish heritage — both real and imagined — by hosting the most popular festival south of New Orleans, the Sara de Sota Pageant.
This became the perennial highlight of the tourist season; a smorgasbord of circus fun, Mardi Gras pageantry and beauty-contest glamour, mixed with small-town folksiness that drew merry makers from all over the nation.
The ostensible justification for all the hoopla was the legend of Sara DeSoto, daughter of explorer Hernando DeSoto, and her relationship with Chichi-Okobee, "the fleet and strong Seminole," who yearned for her with unrequited love. (Pageant organizers kept the proper spelling of Sara DeSoto, but changed the festival to de Sota, to reflect the city's name.)
As the story goes, having beheld the beautiful maiden, Chichi surrendered himself to DeSoto "that he might occasionally feast his lustrous eyes upon the orbs of this princess of the house of DeSoto."
But Chichi soon fell ill with Everglades fever. He was about to die when Sara begged her father to allow her to nurse the young Indian chief. "Her ministrations wrought a miracle," and soon he mended. But alas, the lovely Sara sickened with the fever, and soon died.
A distraught Chichi gained DeSoto's permission to bury Sara in the most beautiful spot in the world, a bay that would forever be known as Sarasota Bay. (Chichi and a hundred braves, in what the legend termed "a wonderful thing," drowned themselves so they could guard her resting place forever.)
The Grand Parade
The tragic love story was first enacted in 1916, when Sarasota was barely more than a village. Genevieve Higel, daughter of Siesta Key developer Harry Higel, played Sara, and J.B. Chapline, whose brother George penned the "legend," played the lustrous-eyed Chichi. The premiere event drew several thousand out-of-towners, making it a rousing success.
At the peak of the 1920s boom, when newcomers were jamming into Sarasota, Charles Ringling organized the Orange Blossom Festival using circus performers, animals, props, and costumes to add glitz to the affair, and the parade filled with lavishly decorated floats, and drawn to a close by a heard of Ringling circus elephants, was dubbed "the most gorgeous spectacle of its kind."
Thereafter, the pageant was scheduled sporadically, until 1935 when the Junior Chamber of Commerce took it over. Through their guidance, the event achieved national recognition and rivaled any festival in the South, gaining for Sarasota a wealth of publicity in national newspapers, magazines and newsreels; a real boon to the local economy, and after World War II, the pageant became even more popular.
By 1948, the sleepy city of Sarasota, population 15,000, expected over 75,000 to show up for the festival's spectacular Grand Parade. The schedule of events that year was typical, and Art Bell, Jaycee president, directed one of the most memorable pageants ever.
The week-long affair began on Sunday morning with a sailing regatta on Sarasota Bay, followed by a golf tournament at Bobby Jones. On Monday the pace picked up with the opening of the annual county fair, a huge fireworks display on Golden Gate Point and a boxing match at the American Legion Coliseum. The legend was acted out by the Players Theatre troupe, and was broadcast over radio station WSPB.
Spanish costumes of varying degrees of authenticity were donned by locals and tourists, school children, professionals and business people. Men grew goatees and sideburns. Ladies donned colorful Spanish dresses with veils, and bright berets.
The next night, an Al McFadyen and Earlene Philpot were chosen King and Queen at the Municipal Auditorium, lavishly decorated for the Coronation Ball. The royal couple paraded between the raised sabers of uniformed cadets from Kentucky Military Institute, which at that time attended school in Venice.
The circus appears
Wednesday's main event was a beauty contest at the Lido Casino, followed that evening by another fireworks display. On Thursday and Friday, there were a fashion show, lawn bowling, a shuffleboard tournament and street dancing on lower Main Street. The music was provided by a local group, Frank Evans and the Solid Six (Evans would later become a well-known dentist in town). A jitterbug contest was held, and to assist the swingers, 300 pounds of grits were sprinkled on the street.
Saturday was the climatic day. In the afternoon, children bashfully marched along Main Street as storybook characters, and the evening's Grand Parade was the most exciting event of the year, bringing out the largest crowd in Sarasota's history.
Elbow to elbow along the entire route, thrilled spectators were treated to an eye-filling array of ornate floats with waving beauties, snappy marching bands and drill teams and majorettes. But as always the piece de resistance was the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which showcased its performers, clowns, showgirls and exotic animals. It was the circus that validated the Jaycees' claim that the parade was unequaled anywhere else in the world.
The pageant continued to reach such grand heights until 1957. The next year, the Jaycees voted to celebrate our Scottish heritage, so kilts and glengarries replaced pantaloons and veils, and the legend of Sara and Chichi made way for the Coming of the Scots which later morphed into the King Neptune Frolics, neither of which matched the spectacle of Sara de Sota, and finally petered out.
The next time you are near Big Pass, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Sarasota Bay, look at the whitecaps. Legend has it that they are Chichi Okobee and his warriors, protecting the resting place of Sara DeSoto, and Sarasota from hurricanes.


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Fairfield-native Elliott finds growth at University of Hartford
Walk by the Reich Family Pavilion on the University of Hartford campus, and if you're a Fairfielder, you'll see a familiar face.
There, atop a banner displaying the Hawks' 2012-13 women's basketball schedule is a larger-than-life image of Fairfield-native Daphne Elliott.
The 2009-Fairfield Warde graduate is one of Hartford's four captains, and the senior guard has started all 10 games this season, helping the Hawks to an 8-2 record.
"I'm blessed," Elliott said after a practice last week.
"I never thought I would be named a captain. I never thought I had the leadership qualities coach (Jen Rizzotti) wanted a captain to have ... It feels good," she said.
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Her three-plus years at Hartford have brought challenges, but Elliott has matured as both a player and person. She is the team's third-leading scorer heading into the Hawks first-ever home game with UConn Saturday at 1 p.m. at Reich Pavilion. And she's proud of how far she's come.
Though Elliott's oversized image is on display for all to see, Rizzotti will not let her get a big head about it. Right now, Hartford's coach is looking for more consistency from her combo-guard.
"Her focus will allow her to be consistent," Rizzotti said. "When she lacks focus, she just is not ready to get done what I've needed her to. I've already kicked her out of practice once this year."
Still, Rizzotti has seen maturity.
When her shot isn't falling, Elliott this year is "less likely to let it affect other parts of her game," Rizzotti said. She is averaging seven points a game, and Elliott's leadership is a positive factor.
"She has a very strong voice on our team," the coach said.
In maturing as a player, Elliott has faced the same struggles most Division I athletes encounter.
"It's different than high school basketball," Elliott said. "Mentally, it's so much tougher ... and you realize a lot about yourself. Things you think you were good at in high school, you're not good at here. It's
been a long three-and-a-half years."
Elliott also has gained the perspective to persevere, in part by playing a key role in a friend and former teammate's battle with cancer.
Maturing as a player
Elliott recalls the last time UConn and Hartford met in the regular season three years ago. She was a wide-eyed freshman playing in the 16,000-seat XL Center and scored three points in an 80-45 loss.
The loss to the nation's No. 1 team was a rare hiccup in the Hawks' impressive 2009-10 campaign. Hartford went 27-5, 16-0 in the America East Conference's regular season, earning a No. 10-seed in the NCAA tournament.
Although the Hawks fell to seventh-seeded LSU in the tournament's first round, Elliott could see a program on the rise.
"Coming into a program that gets a lot of press as a mid-major school, it feels good," Elliott said. "It's something we got used to ... I know my class and the juniors that are here now got used to making the NCAA Tournament."
But Hartford's subsequent two seasons did not meet that expectation.
A 17-15 season in 2010-11 still netted the Hawks an NCAA Tournament bid -- as a No. 16 seed. In 2011-12, the Hawks entered conference play 9-5 but failed to even score 50 points in three of their final four games -- including a season-ending, 59-42 loss to Syracuse in the opening-round of the Women's NIT.
"Last year we were good," Elliott said. "But we never got over that hump to be great."
Elliott and the Hawks still recall the 0-3 finish to their season, vowing to work harder and not take the NCAA Tournament for granted.
"We've been to the NCAAs two out of our three years here,:" Elliott said, "it was something we kind of took for granted ... that was the attitude we had. But I think we've learned from it ... we can't just talk the talk, we have to walk the walk."
Elliott has toggled between shooting guard and point-guard but still fashions herself a scorer. The 5-6 guard is now finding other ways to contribute when her shots are not falling.
"Freshman and sophomore years were all about scoring for me," she said. "If I was in a rut scoring, I wouldn't do anything on defense. I think I've learned, it's not all about offense."
Elliott's struggled scoring so far this year, shooting just 35 percent from the field. She has been challenged by Rizzotti to play with more consistency, and her coach has noticed Elliott's struggle; but also that it hasn't impacted her whole game.
"She's been a little inconsistent, mostly because she's not shooting the ball well," Rizotti said. "I feel like she's more consistent with her overall game. In the past, she'd allow her offense to affect her defense in a negative or positive way."
Elliott -- and Hartford's entire program -- also received a rude awakening about keeping basketball in proper perspective this past spring.
A Worthy Cause
Amanda Weaver was the University of Hartford's sixth-man in 2010-11. The 6-1 forward from York, Pa. started just two games between her junior and senior seasons but still was a team captain her senior campaign.
When Elliott officially visited Hartford, Weaver was there to serve as the Warde senior's host.
"[Weaver] was a big reason why I went to Hartford," Elliott said.
Weaver and Elliott were teammates for two seasons, growing as better friends as they played together. They kept in touch even as Weaver graduated and entered the work force last summer.
So when Weaver was diagnosed with colon cancer in May, Elliott and the rest of Hartford's team decided to help their ill -- and debt-stricken -- teammate.
More than 13 former Hawks returned for September's "Walk for Weaver." The school raised more than $45,000 for Weaver's various medical expenses, with Elliott among the current players to get involved.
Weaver still fights the disease, but manages to speak with Elliott weekly -- often via Skype. Elliott's found inspiration from her former-teammate.
"It's eye-opening," Elliott said. "Having someone that close to me sick and facing what she's facing, it really touched me. Honestly, since I heard that she got cancer, I haven't had a bad day."
Elliott also got the "Walk for Weaver" logo tattooed on her wrist. It "serves as a daily reminder," that whatever Elliott is going through, it's nothing compared to Weaver's battle.
"I'm here complaining about school ... or my knees hurt," she said, "but I'm not in the hospital getting shots or getting my next chemo treatment."
What's Next
Elliott's excited to see what Reich will look like Saturday, when the nation's No. 2 team treks to West Hartford for the first time.
"I think it's going to be an awesome atmosphere," she said. "Playing UConn is always a show. They're always top-five in the country. I think it means a lot to us ... definitely a lot of respect for them to recognize us and actually come here."
She's also excited for her coach, the former All-American UConn guard, Rizzotti.
"I think she's going to be excited, but she's going to try to hide it from us," Elliott said. "She's been wanting this for so long ... it's always cool seeing her interact with Geno."
But after Saturday, Elliott has just 17 regular-season college games left and perhaps a few more in the postseason. And that could spell the end of her hoops career.
A future in pro basketball would likely involve playing overseas, and, although the prospect of pro basketball excites Elliott, she feels complled to listen to her body especially her balky knees.
"I've been playing basketball since the fifth grade," she said. "If my knees were working, I would try to play overseas, but my whole body is just breaking down."
Though an unfamiliar work-load is calling, Elliott believes she is ready for it.
"I'm looking forward to [being an adult]," Elliott said. "It'll be interesting and exciting to start making your own money and doing things for yourself. I'm really excited to start working."
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October 12, 2007
Keynote Speech: University Circle, Inc. 50th Anniversary at the Cleveland Botanical Garden
Thank you, Chris, for that kind introduction. And thanks to all of you gathered here at one of the jewels of University Circle, the Cleveland Botanical Garden. As many of you know, in my first stay at Case Western Reserve University, in the 1980s, I taught at the law school. It's just across the street from here, now facing the breathtaking Eleanor Armstrong Smith glasshouse.
I certainly know that back then, as a brand-new faculty member and a mother with young children I would have treasured the chance to come over here and just breathe in the calm and beauty of this newly renovated oasis. I am so pleased that those who live, work and visit the Circle have that opportunity today. Indeed, as some of you may know, we hosted our Grand Luncheon for alumni here last week as part of homecoming—it is indeed a prize.
Thank you, Natalie, and everyone else here at the Garden, for the joy and splendor your facility adds to all of our lives each day. And of course, thank you for hosting us tonight.
I want to begin my address this evening in Boston.
No, not Harvard Square—Boston College.
Specifically the McMullen Museum of Art, where in 2005 museum director Nancy Netzer was intrigued by New York Times stories about newly discovered paintings said to be the work of Jackson Pollock.
The first art historian quoted in those stories? Case Western Reserve University professor Ellen Landau, an esteemed expert on the abstract expressionist painter once derided as "Jack the Dripper."
Fast forward two years to the present. On September 1, the McMullen Museum opens a ground-breaking exhibit of the disputed paintings, curated by—you guessed it—our own Professor Landau.
And, when Professor Landau agreed to give a local talk later this fall about the controversy, where did she appear? The Museum of Natural History, whose director is another Case Western Reserve faculty member, Bruce Latimer.
More than 200 people enjoyed that talk. It was an event that, I'd wager, many thousands would have paid big tickets to attend in New York, Los Angeles or, yes, Boston. But instead, it was here, in Cleveland, in our own University Circle. And while it is a single event in a location that literally teems with them every single day, it is nonetheless relevant to our conversation this evening.
Because it involved a collection of circumstances—and, more important, a collection of individuals—coming together to offer an enviable, world-class opportunity to Northeast Ohio residents.
I say often in campus talks that the strength of a university lies in its faculty. A similar adage applies to University Circle. Our community's privilege of learning about Pollock last month came not because of any special plan or administrative policy, but rather because Ellen Landau spent her professional life becoming an internationally renowned expert in this subject—and because Bruce Latimer and his museum colleagues were kind enough to host her.
The strength of University Circle rests in its institutions and, more to the point, the great people within each of them.
As we gather here tonight to commemorate the 50th anniversary of University Circle, it's important to recognize that this area's remarkable concentration of educational, cultural and medical institutions exists not, on the one hand, by happenstance. Nor, on the other, did it evolve as part of a single great thinker's master strategy.
Rather, it emerged over time through specific decisions by a series of disparate individuals. Had any one of them chosen a different path, or simply refrained from any action, this place would appear—and, in fact, would be - far different today.
Consider, for example, that Western Reserve College began in 1826 in Hudson, Ohio. It could have stayed there.
Indeed, over the years the idea of moving had been aired - and deflated - a number of times. Yet by the mid-1870s a handful of trustees decided the relocation to Cleveland had to happen. Their idea won public editorial support from newspaper owner Richard Parsons. Leonard Case got the idea to create a school of applied sciences. And Amasa Stone made the final generous gift to enable Western Reserve to Cleveland—with the caveat that the two schools occupy adjoining campuses.
Pause for a moment to consider that combination of events: Trustees willing, even eager, to move a major campus; two prominent donors willing to support substantial initiatives—one new school and another significant relocation—and a newspaper editor who aggressively and publicly supported the idea.
To get that many powerful people all together and pulling in the same direction in the 19th century—or, for that matter, in the 20th or 21st centuries—that's a huge achievement. It is also an example we all can learn from today.
Now, at the risk of tooting our own horn especially loudly on this night of collective celebration, I would like to pause here to underscore that University Circle truly started…with universities.
Indeed, it wasn't long after Western Reserve College and the Case School of Applied Science appeared here that another educational institution, now the Cleveland Institute of Art, settled here, and Jeptha Wade—a trustee of Western Reserve—donated the land where the Cleveland Museum of Art now stands.
Since then, the Circle has flourished, with eight educational institutions, 15 cultural organizations, four medical centers and more than two dozen other entities such as churches, restaurants and senior living centers.
Our focus this evening, even as we pause to reflect upon the past half century, should be on what comes next.
Specifically, how do we learn from past visionary leaders and apply relevant lessons to the future?
One example, of course, is UPTown. As some of you may have read on the UCI website, in the 1930s and 1940s this area abounded with entertainment and retail options: six movie theaters, a bowling alley, and all manner of specialty shops.
For years people here have spoken about ways to create that kind of vibrancy, and today we are closer than ever to realizing it. The university recently signed a development agreement, and those developers recently won this Plain Dealer praise for the architect selected:
Our own university architect, Margaret Carney, offered the developers insight on how to approach architect selection to ensure high-quality design. At least one quarter, the Plain Dealer, think the process yielded a terrific outcome in the choice of Saitowitz Natoma Architects of San Francisco and Office dA of Boston.
I read from Sunday's edition:
"It's official: Developers for the new Triangle project in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood are the first in the city's history to hire star-quality architects to design a major urban residential project."
Meanwhile, the board of the Cleveland Foundation last month generously awarded $1 million to the university for planning and design work in the area, and also has provided invaluable support through the expertise of foundation staff. Their work leading the Greater University Circle Planning Initiative, a community planning effort already showing dramatic results, has demonstrated the value of collaboration and the power of having a unified vision and a determination to achieve results. This UPTown project, in conjunction with the new MOCA and the RTA stop in Little Italy, along with major expansion planned by the Cleveland Institute of Art, all promise to capitalize on the enormous potential we know the area has always possessed.
I know some of you can envision the changes and the excitement that will follow already, while for others it's still too early and abstract. For those in the second group, let me encourage you to visit the South Campus Gateway project in Columbus. I know it well thanks to my work as Provost at Ohio State.
That project, which opened in 2005, literally transformed not only that area of the OSU campus, but also surrounding neighborhoods. It's includes the campus bookstore, an eight-screen movie theater, restaurants, retail and a large number of upper-story apartments. It's a lively, entertaining place to be—and for far more than just OSU students and staff. In fact, one of the Cleveland radio stations does its Buckeye pregame shows from one of the restaurants in the Gateway area.
I imagine that, in time, UPTown will become just as impressive a draw to University Circle.
But even as UPTown proceeds, none of our individual institutions can pause from pursuing our own missions—or from finding ways to combine our unique strengths to create even greater opportunities for all.
Two of our major partners in medicine, The Louis Stokes VA Medical Center and University Hospitals, each are amid significant construction projects that have the potential to improve the health care—and, ultimately, the very lives—of patients from throughout Northeast Ohio.
Meanwhile, early next year our entire community will begin to enjoy the fruits of The Cleveland Museum of Art's major expansion early next year, when south building galleries open with early European and American paintings. Additional galleries in the new East Wing are scheduled to open before the end of 2008, offering more modern paintings as well as decorative art and design works. The museum is scheduled to open completely in 2011. I hear regularly from undergraduates chomping at the opportunity to see the entire museum open again; we at the university are eager to take advantage of the museum's grand improvements by developing ways to deepen existing academic partnerships—and build new ones.
Our university and the Cleveland Institute of Music already offer joint undergraduate and graduate programs, giving students the intensive training available in a conservatory setting as well as the broad resources of a major urban research university. And CIM itself has been amid its own major expansion project designed to add new practice rooms and a distance learning center, among other enhancements.
Finally, faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art, recently named—again—as one of the nation's top design schools by Businessweek magazine, already work closely with our professors in several areas, among them video game design and the master of arts in arts education program. I am optimistic that still more collaborative opportunities exist between us.
In truth, even university collaborations needn't involve only intellectual matters—or, for that matter, elaborate long-term programs. Last Sunday I had the pleasure of attending our second annual GospelFest at the Museum of Natural History—thank you again, Bruce. This evening of song drew performers and fans from across the region, and filled the museum with wonderful energy and uplifting emotion. Yet again, a solitary event underscored how our small Circle can powerfully affect legions of visitors—especially when we combine our strengths.
This list covers just a smattering of University Circle's major institutions, and I've only mentioned partnerships that involve Case Western Reserve. Dozens of other cooperative alliances exist among our museums and other educational institutions—indeed, if we drew lines on a map to represent all of the partnerships, the map would look as busy as an airline traffic map. These collaborations allow even greater opportunities and experiences for all of our constituents.
The multiplicity of partnerships here in University Circle is positive. But as those alliances evolve and, I hope, become even stronger, we also face challenges.
If UPTown is to realize our collective dreams, for example, we're going to have to find places for all of those new visitors to park. At the same time, we're going to have to continue to take steps to ensure that those who come to University Circle have a positive—and, especially, safe - experience.
As most of you know, we at the university have made major investments in this realm, launching our own police department in the fall of 2006. At the same time, we have continued to provide financial support to the University Circle Police Department. We must continue the close collaborations that exist between the officers of these two safety forces, and ensure that we all are responsive to needs that arise over time.
Amid all of the spectacular art, magnificent music, life-giving medical care and world-changing teaching and research, concerns like parking can seem particularly prosaic. But we cannot neglect basics even as we dream big—indeed, especially as we dream big—because they are essential to ensuring the comfort and well-being of everyone who comes here…and everyone we want to have come back…again and again.
And so, as we come together tonight to review our proud past and imagine how to make an even brighter future, let me leave you with two key conclusions. First, the surest way to keep University Circle as vibrant and compelling as it is today is for each of our institutions to continue to work to improve ourselves.
At the same time, let me hark back to those Western Reserve trustees, Amasa Stone and Leonard Case. As they did, we too must match our passionate commitment to individual progress with a sense of commitment to collective well-being. That is, each organization must strive to be all it can be, while at the same time seeking ways to ensure that specific partnerships and broader cooperation truly allow the Circle to be far, far greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Our member organizations already have demonstrated their full embrace of the first point—that is, to have a relentless focus on advancement—and each day we become more adept and sophisticated at the second—bringing pieces together to make even more impressive and complete whole.
I feel great excitement about the future of Case Western Reserve University, about UPTown and about University Circle. And now, let me turn the microphone over to Chris Ronayne, whom I am confident will give me even more reason for optimism.
Thank you all for your time.
Barbara Snyder


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Coffin Spring Trail via Firelook Trail
Dogs Yes
Bird Watching
Fall Foliage
11 (miles)
~2500 (+) (Elev. Δ - ft)
Coffin Spring Trail via Firelook Trail is a difficult hike in Frozen Head State Park near Knoxville, Tennessee. This trail is tough with a lot of elevation gain; it may not be the best idea for young children.This trail is dog friendly, so long as your furry kids are on leash. Frozen Head State Park is famous for its incredible displays of wildflowers, ample hiking opportunities and amazing bird watching. In fact, the Audubon Society has named Frozen Head an "Important Bird Area," meaning it is essential habitat for birds. The park is named after Frozen Head Mountain (3,324 ft.), which appears snow capped during colder weather. There is camping available in Frozen Head State Park.
The park was once part of Cherokee hunting grounds. The area was ceded to the U.S. Government in 1805 with the Third Treaty of Tellico.
Red Tape
Entrance Free, Camping Fees
Contact: Frozen Head State Park 964 Flat Fork Road Wartburg, TN 37887
Wildlife on this Trail
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Seth Quest had never founded a company. He was just a designer with a good idea for an elegant iPad stand called Hanfree.
He and his business partner, Juan Cespedes, created a Kickstarter page and raised more than three times their goal: $35,004 from 440 backers.
But since Quest had never manufactured a product before, nor was he an entrepreneur, he didn't have a working prototype. He also didn't set up a business entity, so the liabilities of his "business" were all on him, and his bank account.
When five months came and went without a shipped product, backers began to get frustrated. They left more than 600 comments on Quest's Kickstarter page looking for updates.
For one man named Neil Singh, the experience became too much. Before backing Quest, Singh had never heard of Kickstarter. He assumed it was a typical eCommerce site where products were already made, and shipping would be no issue.
"To me, it looked like a cool thing you could buy," Singh tells Inc. "If you give me $70, I'll send you one of them.' I didn't do any due diligence. I didn't think I had to. I'm not investing. I'm not doing the same sort of things a potential shareholder would do. I'm just buying a product."
On November 28, Quest admitted defeat. There were too many internal conflicts and engineering problems to bring Hanfree to life. Quest notified all of the backers, Singh included, that they would not be receiving the iPad stand, and their money would be returned to them.
Singh wasn't satisfied. He sued Quest and Cespedes, although the suit against Cespedes was eventually dropped.
"Seth just stalled, and stalled, and stalled," Singh explained to Inc. "For me, this is why I became a lawyer. I guess I'm more of an idealist than anything else. It just ticked me off."
The lawsuit made Quest bankrupt. He spent last year in Brooklyn, dealing with lawsuit-induced anxiety and trying to find part-time work, which he says was difficult given his tainted reputation from Hanfree. Now he's in Costa Rica figuring out what to do next.
"When you fail on Kickstarter, it's a very public failure," Quest tells Inc. "It definitely derailed my career substantially. Your backers can give you massive support, but they can also tear you down if you fail."
Kickstarter, of course, took no hit. It's technically not to blame if a product fails to deliver or if someone isn't qualified to create a product.
For Quest, it was a very tough lesson to learn. But Singh isn't sympathetic.
"I'm convinced this was more stupidity than it was fraud," Singh says. "He just didn't think this through."


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Darren Woodman needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Design a logo for a young Architectural firm specializing in hospitality
Young start up Architectural, interiors and
Project Management Company needs a logo.
We specialize in hospitality: resorts, hotels and restaurants in Australia,
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Mostly due to the thread in dbi-dev at DBD::ODBC fetch is returning string for integer (unfortunately some of it was off list) and further comments and rt at Changes in binding columns in DBD::ODBC and DiscardString with SQL_INTEGER not working properly I have made significant changes to the binding of columns in a result-set for DBD::ODBC.
The main changes are:
I welcome any comments on this.
I will release this change as 1.38_1 soon. Given the problems which arose from adding support for execute_for_fetch (and making it the default) I am going to be extra careful with this. If you use DBD::ODBC you are strongly advised to test this. The subversion trunk for DBD::ODBC is now up to date with this change.


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Egypt: ID cards help women proclaim their existence
At 28, Nesma is the principal provider for her children and husband, who is living with a disability. Like many others in Egypt, her family is struggling for food, shelter and education due to the challenging economic situation.
When Nesma heard about the Citizenship Initiative, a project aiming to issue 2 million national ID cards for Egyptian women, she made sure she was among the first in line at the local unit in Giza.
- A joint UN project aims to strengthen the democratic process and empower 2 million women living without ID cards.
- As of December 2014, 159,000 women had received their ID cards and 300,000 were registered to receive IDs.
- Launched in 2011, the initiative is implemented by UN Women in partnership with UNDP and local authorities.
"This is a dream come true for me," she says. "I need this ID card to be able to find a decent job and fulfill my responsibilities as a mother and a wife. But most importantly, I need it to prove my existence as a woman."
Launched in 2011, the initiative is part of a larger project to strengthen the democratic process in Egypt, and is implemented by UN Women in partnership with UNDP, the Ministry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) and the Social Fund for Development (SFD), in collaboration with the Civil Status Organization (CSO) in the Ministry of Interior (MOI).
Mobile registrars have been set up to reach out to remote areas, and public awareness campaigns inform poor and marginalized women about the benefits of having an ID card.
The card allows women to vote and seek membership in political parties. It gives them access to government services including public hospitals, literacy programmes and banking services. It also enables them to have valid marriage contracts that preserve their marital rights and to move freely around the country. In short, it empowers them to participate in public life and to be full citizens with rights and responsibilities.
"Nesma is one of millions of women in Egypt who do not have ID cards and are denied their basic rights as citizens on a daily basis," says Heba Wafa, Gender Officer in UNDP Egypt Country Office. "Without IDs women like Nesma cannot apply for jobs, enroll their kids in school or have a source of income that would help them provide the basic needs of their families."
As of December 2014, 159,000 women had received their National ID cards in Alexandria, Assiut, Aswan, Giza, Qalyoubia and Souhag, while 300,000 had were registered to receive IDs.
"My story is not unique. None of my women neighbours have IDs," Nesma said. "After I got mine, I explained to them the benefits of the Citizenship Initiative and encouraged them to get their own IDs."


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So I've been remiss in my reading lately, but here are my picks from the past few weeks. We have Outstanding Problems in Galaxy Formation, Herschel on Dark Matter, Dark Matter Detection Discussed, "Symmetry Breaking" in Graphene?, Closed Timelike Curves and Postselection, Frame-Like Geometry of Double Field Theory, and Loop Lectures with Carlo Rovelli.
Astrophysics and Gravitation:
Outstanding Problems in Galaxy Formation
Joseph Silk (2011). Feedback in Galaxy Formation arXiv arXiv: 1102.0283v1
I review the outstanding problems in galaxy formation theory, and the role of feedback in resolving them. I address the efficiency of star formation, the galactic star formation rate, and the roles of supernovae and supermassive black holes.
Silk's Figure 1. "The theoretical mass function of galaxies compared to the observed luminosity function."
So, as most of us know, there are still quite a few puzzles when it comes to how galaxies form. Joseph Silk has put together a little discussion on some of these problems, and, perhaps more interestingly, ways in which they can be rectified (or already have been). For example, cold dark matter simulations alone predicted more halo dwarf galaxies than were observed (called the "missing satellites" problem; see Kravtsov and pdf slides). Through both a better understanding of observation (there were in fact more dwarfs out there than we though, they were just very faint) and more sophisticated models (taking into account baryonic physics too), this problem doesn't seem so huge anymore (it's not 100% resolved, mind you). There are many other much less resolved issues when it comes to gravitation and galaxy formation that are also deserving of some serious study.
Herschel on Dark Matter
Alexandre Amblard, & et al. (2011). Sub-millimetre galaxies reside in dark matter halos with masses greater than 3×10^11 solar masses Nature arXiv: 1101.1080v1
From the press release:
ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered a population of dust-enshrouded galaxies that do not need as much dark matter as previously thought to collect gas and burst into star formation.
This is certainly good news for some galaxy formation theorists and another fun piece of the puzzle to think about. The latest analysis of Herschel observations suggest the existence of galaxies that are roughly 300 billion solar masses but with as many stars as expected from a galaxy of 5000 billion solar masses (ie. that's not got much dark matter in it). This is quite fascinating, because most of the current theories dealing with galaxy formation require these huge amounts of dark matter to allow budding galaxies to stay together, but now there are observations that suggest otherwise. It looks like we'll have to adjust our ideas of dark matter's role in the galaxy (not that this should surprise anyone).
For more, see Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars.
Dark Matter Detection Discussed
Earlier this month, there was a really excellent guest post at Cosmic Variance about the state of dark matter detection experiments by Neal Weiner (to complete the discussion of dark matter in the galaxy) so you should give that a read.
High Energy Physics and Particles:
"Symmetry Breaking" in Graphene?
San-Jose, P., González, J., & Guinea, F. (2011). Electron-Induced Rippling in Graphene Physical Review Letters, 106 (4) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.045502
So this was a hot topic this month that I'm just getting around to: graphene as an analogy for the Higgs field. Now, as always with these analogy papers, I get a little nervous. When there isn't an explicit (AdS/CFT-esque) correspondence, it's really very difficult (and a somewhat philosophical matter) to say what we are actually able to learn from analogies. In this case, the analogy comes from the fact that the "energy landscape" of graphene moving in 2-dimensions is similar to that of the Higgs field in 3-dimensions, in that they are both described by a similar Mexican hat potential. Okay. There are other situations where we see Mexican hat potentials, like when rotating a bead on a circle, but that doesn't mean that they would be at all useful in thinking about spontaneous symmetry breaking. Since I don't really know anything relevant about graphene, quantum criticality, or… well, materials in general, I am completely unqualified to to judge this analogy, but it is still an analogy, not a correspondence. Similar and the same are, importantly, and fundamentally different.
For more, see Theorists turn to graphene for clues to Higgs.
General Relativity, Quantum Gravity, et al.:
Closed Timelike Curves and Postselection
Lloyd, S., Maccone, L., Garcia-Patron, R., Giovannetti, V., Shikano, Y., Pirandola, S., Rozema, L., Darabi, A., Soudagar, Y., Shalm, L., & Steinberg, A. (2011). Closed Timelike Curves via Postselection: Theory and Experimental Test of Consistency Physical Review Letters, 106 (4) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.040403
So this paper was very "win, lose, win" for me. "Closed timelike curves" (CTCs) mean general relativity, which means I'm happy. "Postselection" means quantum interpretations, which means I'm less happy. Now, this isn't me saying that I don't think interpretations are wonderful, in fact, they're my favourite part of quantum mechanics, but it is a huge field, which takes a paper on time travel, away from general relativity, and thus outside of my wheelhouse.
As we know, CTCs are not forbidden by general relativity, although they are usually excluded because of the "logical" paradoxes they lead to (if being able to kill your own grandfather really bothers you, that is). There are many people who are interested in universes that include CTCs however, not because of the time travel applications, but simply because they are not impossible, and thus might be able to be included in a self consistent model of our universe.
From the paper:
This self-consistency requirement gives rise to a theory of closed timelike curves via entanglement and postselection, P-CTCs. P-CTCs are based on the Horowitz-Maldacena ''final state condition'' for black hole evaporation, and on the suggestion of Bennett [pdf] and Schumacher that teleportation could be used to describe time travel.
This is pretty neat stuff, that has gone through a few iterations within the quantum information community, most famously led by David Deutsch in 1991 with his Quantum Mechanics Near Closed Timelike Lines. Given my naiveté when it comes to QI, I'm just going to have to take the authors' word for it that their model doesn't, in fact, agree with Deutsch's (although it is consistent within their framework). What is really neat though is that, because of the nature of postselection, it's possible to do (and they did) a little grandfather paradox experiment with their model using P-CTCs and photons. Their "grandfather paradox circuit" is worth a look, if you're interested. The argument is technical, and I can't personally say I followed it thoroughly, but I can appreciate their (wonderfully worded) conclusions:
[S]uicidal photons in a CTC obey the Novikov principle: they cannot kill their former selves.
Our P-CTCs always send pure states to pure states: they do not create entropy. Hence, P-CTCs provide a distinct resolution to Deutsch's unproved theorem paradox, in which the time traveler reveals the proof of a theorem to a mathematician, who includes it in the same book from which the traveler has learned it (rather, will learn it). How did the proof come into existence? Deutsch adds an additional maximum entropy postulate to eliminate this paradox. By contrast, postselected CTCs automatically solve it through entanglement: the CTC creates a random mixture of all possible ''proofs.''
So, they have a resolution to the grandfather paradox within P-CTCs. While theoretically, their model is inequivalent to Deutsch's, experimentally, one can not distinguish the two, unfortunately. They also state that they "cannot test whether a general relativistic CTC obeys [their] theory or not," which confuses me a little by the terminology, because CTCs don't make sense as a concept outside of general relativity, so what a "non-general relativistic CTC" is vs. as "general relativistic CTC" is, I can't say (I'm assuming they just mean a CTC in a distinctly curved spacetime, which would be very hard to work into an experiment).
For more, see Time Travel Without Regrets.
Frame-Like Geometry of Double Field Theory
Hohm, O., & Kwak, S. (2011). Frame-like geometry of double field theory Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 44 (8) DOI: 10.1088/1751-8113/44/8/085404
The abstract:
We relate two formulations of the recently constructed double field theory to a frame-like geometrical formalism developed by Siegel. A self-contained presentation of this formalism is given, including a discussion of the constraints and its solutions, and of the resulting Riemann tensor, Ricci tensor and curvature scalar. This curvature scalar can be used to define an action, and it is shown that this action is equivalent to that of double field theory.
This is still in my "to read" list, but I thought I'd mention it as double field theory has a little bit of buzz right now, that makes it worth a look. I do find it curious though, that there seems to be several incredibly similar papers to the above on this topic, by the same authors, but I'm going to go with the most recent one.
Loop Lectures
Carlo Rovelli (2011). Lectures on loop gravity arXiv arXiv: 1102.3660v2
The abstract:
This is a preliminary version of the introductory lectures on loop quantum gravity that I will give at the quantum gravity school in Zakopane. The theory is presented in self-contained form, without emphasis on its derivation from classical general relativity. Dynamics is given in the covariant form. The approximations needed to compute physical quantities are discussed. Some applications are described, including the recent derivation of de Sitter cosmology from full quantum gravity.
As if this needs explanation: Carlo Rovelli, one of the physicists who impresses me the most, has a great introduction to loop quantum gravity online (that is being updated currently). For anyone interested in the topic but wondering how to start, I imagine this is the recommendation now.


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Parents 'unaware of type 1 diabetes symptoms'
About 90% of parents are unaware of the four key symptoms of type 1 diabetes in children, a survey suggests.
The poll of 1,170 parents, for Diabetes UK, suggests many cases go undetected until the child becomes seriously ill.
In the BBC News website Scrubbing Up column, its chief executive says about 2,000 under-18s are diagnosed with the condition in the UK each year.
The main signs are tiredness, needing the toilet more, excessive thirst and weight loss.
An estimated 3.7 million people in the UK have diabetes.
Type 1 affects about 10% of them. It appears before the age of 40, usually in childhood. It is treated by daily insulin doses - taken either by injections or via an insulin pump - a healthy diet and regular physical activity
Type 2 develops when the body can still make some insulin, but not enough, or when the insulin that is produced does not work properly.
Most of the parents surveyed knew thirstiness and tiredness were warning signs. But only 38% knew passing urine frequently was an indication of type 1 diabetes, while even fewer - 28% - linked weight loss with the condition.
The charity says this is one reason why a quarter of children with type 1 diabetes are only diagnosed once they are already seriously ill with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life threatening condition that needs immediate specialist treatment in hospital.
DKA happens when the body is unable to break down glucose because there is too little insulin, and it begins to break down fat instead.
This causes a by-product called ketones to build up. DKA can lead to children falling into a coma and can even cause death.
Diabetes UK is launching a campaign to raise awareness among parents and professionals.
Barbara Young, chief executive for Diabetes UK, said: "The symptoms of type 1 diabetes are so obvious and pronounced that there is no reason why every child with the condition cannot be diagnosed straight away.
"As well as making parents and those who look after and work with children aware of the symptoms, we need to increase understanding that a child who has any of the four tees needs to be tested straight away.
"This is because onset can be so quick that a delay of a matter of hours can be the difference between being diagnosed at the right time and being diagnosed too late."


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10-Twenty-10 at Claire Oliver in New York
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New York! Be sure to get your art on this weekend and stop by Claire Oliver in Chelsea to celebrate the historic 10 year anniversary of the gallery in New York and their 20th year in business! Wow! What an accomplishment! They've pulled out the big guns for this exhibit and are showcasing the work of 10 artists who represent the artistic vision of the gallery. The impressive list of artists in the exhibition is Norbert Brunner, Beth Cavener Stichter, Andy Denzler, Andrew Erdos, Herb Jackson, Stephanie Lempert, Jesse McCloskey, Jennifer Poon, Bernardi Roig and Judith Schaechter.
On a personal note, I've had so many great experiences at Claire Oliver and I've been exposed to a lot of life changing art and I've met so many great artists inside their gallery. In addition, it's always a delight to speak with gallery owners Claire and Ian and discuss art and our 'past lives' in California. For these memories you cannot put a price on, I am truly thankful and I wish them even more success in the next chapter of their gallery. The photos you see are merely a tiny sample of the exhibit, so don't delay and head over to the gallery to toast their first 10 years in New York and see some really great art while you are at it!
Thanks again for so many great times and congratulations! Claire Oliver is located at 513 West 26th Street in New York. "10-Twenty-10" runs through June 16, 2012.


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Belfry golf resort 4 Sale- Alert Donald Trump January 18 2012
The Belfry golf resort has been put up for sale, the current owner has not made a very good attempt at realizing the potential of this famous golf course and hotel. Seán Quinn jnr, bought the hotel and golf course for £186 million. The Belfry hotel and golf course near Birmingham, which has hosted the Ryder Cup four times, is now valued at £88 million. The debt on the property is owed to Bank of Ireland, Barclays and Certus.Photograph: courtesy the Belfry Somebody call Donald Trump, he seems to be the man who has the ability and experience to rescue this great venue. I have played there myself quite a few times when I was living in England, it was one of the best courses available for the average golfer. Playing this course enabled me to see exactly what the Ryder Cup guys faced in competition. Definitely not a track for the faint hearted, I loved it, although I did not score too well. Guess I spent too much time just admiring the layout.


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For many Americans, whose ancestors migrated lawfully to the U.S., it is extremely frustrating that so many immigrants come today outside of lawful channels. Why don't they just come the legal way, the way that my ancestors did?
Isn't the term "undocumented" just a euphemism for "illegal aliens"? Is it an oxymoron to be a Christian undocumented immigrant? As a Christian, am I called to love those who have broken the law of the land?
Do undocumented immigrants get free healthcare? They don't pay taxes either, do they? Especially in the current tough economic climate, a lot of usually-compassionate people feel like we just can't sustain immigrants coming into the country right now.
One of the biggest frustrations for non-immigrants is that sometimes it seems like immigrants—and, some presume, especially undocumented immigrants—just do not learn English. If you're going to be in this country, they feel, you need to learn the unifying language of this country.
I have enough problems of my own — why should I care about undocumented immigrants? What does Scripture have to say about this?


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Spacecruiser Inquiry
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Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology. In this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience—a way of investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors through a process of open-ended questioning. The method is called the practice of inquiry, and Spacecruiser Inquiry reveals what it means to engage with this practice as a spiritual path: its principles, challenges, and rewards.
The author explores basic elements of inquiry, including the open-ended attitude, the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not-knowing, and the process of questioning. He describes the experience of "Diamond Guidance"—the inner wisdom that emerges from our true nature—and how it can be realized and applied. In this process Almaas looks at many of the essential forms of Diamond Guidance, including knowing, clarity, truth, love, intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, and determination. Also included are exercises and questions and answers from the original talks by Almaas on which the book is based.
"Readers of Almaas' previous books will not be disappointed. This new work is intended as a practical guide to applying the methodology of the Diamond Approach to personal inquiry. The true power of this book lies in its ability to address 'a part of us that does not inhabit the words in our mind but lives disguised in the varied content of our life.'" —NAPRA Review


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dry eye dx and tx
GP Plasma Treatment and Dry Eye Patients
Patients with confirmed dry eye, whether it is from systemic disease, medications or ocular disease, can be some of the most challenging patients to work with in our contact lens practices.
Such patients want good visual acuity, comfort and long wearing time. These are usually our goals as well, but we're also concerned with a good fit and physiological compatibility. Plasma treatment of GP lenses is one tool we can use to help us achieve these results with dry eye patients at the initial dispensing visit and during the adaptation process.
Improved Wettability
Plasma treatment influences the surface property of a GP lens, making it more hydrophilic. In general, a GP lens is placed in a vacuum chamber where the surface is bombarded by pressurized/ionized gases that remove contaminants and chemical residues from the lens surface.
Plasma treatments reduce the wetting angle and improve on-eye wettability. Treatments also can improve the compatibility of the on-eye lens/tear film interaction, which translates into better comfort and visual acuity.
Figure 1 shows a lens that has not been plasma treated. As you can see, the lens has large areas where the tear film is not wetting the anterior surface. The lens will usually look dull and have a beading, non-wetting appearance.
If beading persists and moves around the lens with the blink, this indicates that it's due to poor tear film from the dry eye condition. In such cases, vision is decreased and comfort is reduced. However, be cautious. Although infrequent, GPs can arrive from the laboratory with a lens material flaw, and you can have a non-wetting spot due to lens material/manufacturing quality.
Figure 1. A non-treated GP lens.
Figure 2. A plasma-treated GP lens.
You can determine whether a GP has a material flaw by focusing on the surface; if the non-wetting area of the lens is in exactly the same spot, even when the patient blinks and the lens rotates on the eye, this is a surface flaw from material, manufacturing or storage of the lens. The lens should be remade.
Figure 2 shows a plasma-treated lens with improved wettability and lubricity.
Treatment Benefits
Many laboratories are plasma treating lenses routinely — without increased cost or delivery time. However, for the treatment to be of benefit, patients need to properly care for the treated surface. Nonabrasive cleaning systems are required; Boston Simplicity (Bausch & Lomb) and Optimum (Lobob Laboratories) are two systems that are compatible with treated lenses.
Although the treatment loses effectiveness over time — from weeks to months — the initial wettability and lubricity of the lens surface may allow the patient's tear film to adapt to the lens and improve its on-eye compatibility. CLS
Dr. Laurenzi practices at the Cole Eye Institute in Cleveland, Ohio where she specializes in refractive surgery co-management, contact lenses and clinical research.


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ClrvLewis needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 92 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
C. W. Lewis Photography
We are a in studio and on location photography company that uses natural and flash lighting to give a high key and professional look to all of our photos.
Taking pictures is our passion and it shows in our work. We love to be creative and offer you a wide range of work from normal portraits to a very artistic look.
We are all getting into model photography. We want to come off as a cutting edge, professional, artistic photography company :-)
See our website http://www.cwlewisphotograhy.com The colors that are there are not important to us so feel free to come up with what ever you would like
This is a hard one as we want families, kids, seniors (graduating high school) models, weddings
So it is a wide range. Something catchy that really brands us and shows are artistic side along with are professional side.
You are wide open to do what ever comes to your mind. We are very open to new things. We will be dealing with all types of audiences so it has to work for a wide gamut of people. We like color and new age ideas. Again see our website at http://www.cwlewisphotography.com to see a little more about us.
It would be a plus if you could show a business card design as well. I will respond to question throughout the day but will have the most time at night to get back with.
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Wilmington painter David Brinley, a 2012 Individual Artist Fellow in Painting, will present an exhibition titled "Circumventions" at the Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, as part of Wilmington's Art Loop this Friday.
Wilmington painter David Brinley, a 2012 Individual Artist Fellow in Painting, will present an exhibition titled "Circumventions" at the Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery, located in the Carvel State Office Building in Wilmington, from Feb. 1 through Feb. 22.
There will be a reception to meet Brinley on Friday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., as part of Wilmington's Art Loop. The Gallery (located at 820 North French S., Wilmington) is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Brinley's solo exhibition will showcase lovely paintings based on past experiences that convey ideas for viewers to relate to their own inspirations. Brinley combines these themes into paintings that feature domestic objects juxtaposed with characters that relate to — and are drawn from — the artist's personal history and memories. Personal observation, notes from Brinley's sketchbook, ephemera, vintage books, music and recollections inform the subject matter of each painting and ultimately determine the context and the content of the work.
Brinley graduated from the University of Delaware and from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, Calif. He received his MFA at Murray Tinkelman's Hartford Art School.
Impressive credentials
Brinley has exhibited his work nationally and has had pieces featured in publications such as Time, GQ, Rolling Stone Magazine, Newsweek, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
About DDOA
The Delaware Division of the Arts is an agency of the State of Delaware. Together with its advisory body, the Delaware State Arts Council, the Division administers grants and programs that support arts programming, educate the public, increase awareness of the arts, and integrate the arts into all facets of Delaware life. Funding for Division programs is provided by annual appropriations from the Delaware General Assembly and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.


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admagic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
I'm a young, 24-year old kid who is making 20-30% on my money with little to no risk in the stock market. I'm about to launch a service to teach others how to do the same.
Stock traders
I just need it to be a vector image. Thanks!
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When Computer Architecture Group Leader David Donofrio was looking for potential summer interns last year, a particular resume caught his eye. "She had a long list of achievements and awards, including getting her code run at an international STEM conference," he said. "Then I noticed she's in the 10th grade. I thought, 'Who is this person?'"
That person is Sanjana Shah, a high school student from the San Francisco Peninsula who loves to swim, and on weekends, teaches little kids how to code at public libraries. She's even invented an award-winning smart flood sensor (patent pending). She first discovered her passion for programming when she attended a coding workshop for youth sponsored by a local tech company.Shoe Leather Walking WEF07SD Women's Aravon Sand tOzPqwcw
She is also the first (and so far, the only) high school student Donofrio has ever hired through the Computing Sciences Summer Student program.
For 10 weeks over the summer last year, Shah worked on evaluating and implementing Posit, a new number format originally developed at Stanford that has the potential to double the memory capacity in high-performance computing – a potential game-changer for scientific computing applications used by NERSC and other supercomputer user facilities to quickly and accurately crunch the big data sets behind simulations of, for example, earthquakes and neutron star mergers.
A self-described problem-solver who "has always been the kind of person who prioritizes and doesn't procrastinate," Shah said that "learning the Posit format was really challenging, because there isn't much documentation on it."
So to test Posit's robustness in solving complex equations, she used Chisel, an open source hardware construction language developed at UC Berkeley, to devise her own numeric algorithms.
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As this summer approached, Donofrio and his team realized that they "needed help understanding the details behind how Posit might be used in scientific calculations and to evaluate how well they perform in comparison with existing number representations," he said.
Luckily, Shah returned to the Lab for three weeks this summer to work with Donofrio and Computer Science Department Head John Shalf. Together, they used an algorithm known as a Conjugate Gradient Solver to verify that Posit arithmetic allows for greater precision for the same amount of memory – an important accomplishment that will help Donofrio's team advance to the next stage of their project.
"Sanjana's work will make it possible to complete this analysis, and thanks to her help this summer, we are now ready to test an implementation of Posit inside a prototype CPU," he said.
Shah wrapped up her second summer interning at the Lab last Friday, and is starting her senior year of high school. She sees her time at the Lab as a special opportunity that provided her with important lessons you can't get in school. "Over the last two years, the research I have done here has taught me that there is no book or cheat sheet that has clear answers. It is up to us to find the answers to our own questions," she said.
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Southwestern, France" Burt takes us on a tour of the city of Toulouse, discovers why the color blue terrified the soldiers of ancient Rome and how the cloth dyers of Toulouse used blue to make a fortune. They don't call royal families blue bloods for nothing. We visit the largest Romanesque Church in Europe, find out how in 1222 the King of France set the pattern for Donald Trump's real estate deals. D
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Dialogue "Samuel Hunter" Host Marcia Franklin talks with Moscow native playwright Samuel Hunter about his works and the influence of Idaho in his plays. Hunter, who was in Boise recently to help direct one of his plays, is the recipient of a 2011 Obie Award, the equivalent of a Tony Award for off-Broadway productions, for his play A Bright New Boise.G
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MotorWeek "Callaway Suburban & Silverado" Road Test: Callaway Suburban & Silverado. Road Test: 2013 Mazda CX-5. Goss' Garage: Spark Plug Removal. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Backyard Chicken Dinner" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to Grill-Smoked Chicken and serves it with Salt-Baked Potatoes. And finally, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his pick for the perfect cooler in the Equipment Corner. D
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Passport to Adventure "Rocky Mountain Parks of Alberta, Canada" Landing in Edmonton, we step directly into Canada's railroad history before embarking on the scenic train ride to Jasper. Touring the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, we stalk elk with our lenses, ride the "Sno Coach" onto a glacier, hike, canoe and learn about the early adventurers that made this area a renowned mountaineering center, and a mecca for nature lovers from around the globe. D
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Globe Trekker "East Texas" Zay Harding visits Fort Worth, Dallas, Huntsville and the Johnson Space Center with Alan Bean in Houston.G
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Sierra Center Stage "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones" Bela Fleck is considered one of the world's premier banjo players. His critically acclaimed music has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in the history of the Grammy Awards - for a total of 22 times! His band includes Victor Wooten (considered by many to be the best bass player alive), Wooten's brother "Futureman," who plays an unusual self-made drum set, and Jeff Coffin, a multi-talented woodwind player. D
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Austin City Limits "Avett Brothers/Heartless Bastards" The rising roots rock kings perform songs from their latest album, I and Love and You. Ohio-to-Austin transplants Heartless Bastards follow with their classic rock 'n' roll.G
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Great Performances at the Met "Faust" With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, Rene Pape as the devil and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod's classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn't be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. D
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Music Voyager "Israel: Voices from the Desert" Host Jacob Edgar travels to Israel to attend a once-in-a-lifetime concert of The Idan Raichel Project at the foot of the magnificent "Solomon's Pillars", a natural rock formation in the Negev Desert near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat. Idan Raichel, an internationally renowned star of the Israeli music scene, serves as his guide. At the technical rehearsals and sound check for the desert concert, Jacob meets the artists featured on stage. D


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