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Organisers have announced the shortlist for the 'Scottish Fashion Icon' award, which will be presented at the 8th annual Scottish Fashion Awards in Dover House, London on the 9th October.
The new venue is a magnificent Grade 1 listed Georgian Mansion, apart from being used in James Bond's 'Skyfall', is steeped in history and is synonymous with Scottish affairs within a UK context. Built by James Paine between 1755 and 1758 for Sir Matthew Featherstonehaugh, the buildings magnificent rotunda and staircase will provide the backdrop for Scotland's finest designers, textile manufacturers and fashion players for the nations most high profile celebration of fashion and style.
The event, which will be hosted by MTV's Laura Whitmore, provides an unrivalled platform for new and emerging Scottish talent and Scots working in fashion around the world. The 'Fashion Icon' award is the only category at the event to be voted for by the public.
This years sees an impressive line up of Hollywood actors, pop stars and sporting heros. The list includes; Gemma Cairney, Thom Evans, Calvin Harris, Kirsty Hume, Andy Murray, James McAvoy, Julianne Moore, Amy MacDonald, Louise Linton, Karen Gillan, Gerard Butler, Nina Nesbitt and Emeli Sandé.
Founder and producer of the event Tessa Hartmann said: "The icon list always prompts much debate but it's a bit of fun on top of what is otherwise a very serious awards presentation. I think it's wonderful to have so many stylish Scots working in the world of sports, acting, singing and entertainment and we applaud their own unique identity.
"We are huge fans of Andy Murray who has literally had a fashion make-over in the last 18 months and given his win at Wimbledon this year and his excellent sartorial choices, he very much deserves to be in there.
"It's about celebrating the wide spectrum of stylish Scots we have and there's an impressive collection in there; some whose unconventional but strong looks make the grade to the classic old school glamour from Louise Linton and indeed new entrant this year, Hollywood actress Julianne Moore (whose mother is Scottish and has just taken British citizenship). Then there's the young, edgy and adventurous fashionista's who are seen regularly in the weekly fashion glossies like Nina Nesbitt and now Gemma Cairney.
"We love this category as it's designed as a bit of fun to get the public involved. The rest of the judging is a very serious business and is carried out by our esteemed panel but with this category everyone can get involved and vote for their favourite and most stylish fashion icon."
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NORMAN – University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren today named award-winning OU educator Douglas D. Gaffin, Ph.D., as interim dean of the Joe C. and Carole Kerr McClendon Honors College, succeeding David Ray, Ph.D., whose retirement takes effect in December.
Boren made the announcement at the Oct. 24 meeting of the OU Board of Regents.
"The entire university family has deep appreciation for Dean David Ray who has provided outstanding leadership for the Honors College for a decade," said Boren. "While Dean Ray can never truly be replaced, we are fortunate that Dr. Gaffin has agreed to succeed him. Dr. Gaffin shares the same devotion to students and the same spirit of intellectual excitement. He has experience at the Honors College as one of the first Presidential Fellows. Doug Gaffin has a well-deserved reputation as one of the best teachers at the university."
Gaffin, who joined the OU faculty in 1995, currently serves as David Ross Boyd Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and previously served for 10 years as dean of OU's University College. He has received the Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award from the National Center for the First-Year Experience, the Regents' Award for Superior Teaching, the General Education Teaching Award and the Irene Rothbaum Award for top assistant professor of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, he also was named among five faculty members as one of OU's first Presidential Teaching Fellows in the Honors College for a period of two years. Presidential Teaching Fellows in Honors are those faculty members who excel in all their professional activities and who relate those activities to the students they teach and mentor.
Gaffin, whose research focuses on understanding the special sensory and navigational abilities of scorpions and insects, has taught an introductory zoology course at OU for 20 years to over 20,000 students.
Gaffin's many interests include volleyball, camping, biking, hiking and playing the banjo. He and his wife, Mariëlle Hoefnagels, Ph.D., who is an associate professor in the department of microbiology and plant biology, were married in OU's Jacobson Hall and soon after moved into Couch Hall as Faculty-in-Residence.
Gaffin earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Oregon State University.
Since its establishment in 1997, the OU Honors College has continued to develop unique opportunities for undergraduates to pursue research and creative activities, as well as to work collaboratively with other highly motivated and gifted students. Honors College faculty members, all leading scholars in their fields, are united in their commitment to provide a high-quality education in small, focused classes, and to provide valuable mentorship for students.
2017 News Archives
January 2017
Civil Rights Activist and Award-Winning Artist Harry Belafonte to Speak at OU on Human Rights Causes
OU President David Boren Begins 50 Years of Public Service
Major Gift to Create the Alliance for Integrative Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events
Award-Winning Architect Hans Butzer Named Dean of the OU College of Architecture
Chief of Surgery at OU Named Interim Executive Dean of the OU College of Medicine
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City
OU Achieves U.S. News Top National Rankings
OU Research Scientist Recipient of Presidential Award
The A. Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre Recognized Among Top Musical Theatre Programs Nationwide
February 2017
OU Named Among Top 50 Big Data Degree Programs Nationwide
Pioneering Scientist Ralph DeFronzo Named 2017 Hamm Prize Laureate
OU Study Clarifies Risky Decision Making During A Heart Attack
OU Professor Awarded Highest Recognition by Society for Mined Land Reclamation Work
Isbell Elected as President of the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association
OU Psychology Professor Recipient of Early Career Impact Award
OU Receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Native American Arts Initiative
March 2017
OU Students Set Two Guinness World Records™ Titles on NBC's TODAY
Constitutional Scholar, New York Times Correspondent to Speak at OU on Politics and the Supreme Court
OU Arbor Day Celebration 2017 to Include Picnic, Tree Planting
Notable Civic Leader and Education Advocate to Deliver OU Commencement Address
OU Psychology Student Wins 2017 ESPN Hackathon
OU Engineering Professor Receives National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award
OU's Institute for Quality Communities to Host Placemaking Conference: Placemakers
OU Board of Regents Elects Bennett, Humphreys as Officers
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City
#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author J.D. Vance to Speak at OU on "Reflections on a Culture in Crisis"
OU Ranks No. 1 in Nation in Number of Freshman National Merit Scholars
April 2017
OU Assistant Athletic Bands Director Receives Apple Distinguished Educator Award
OU Regents' Alumni Awards to be Presented to Eleven Outstanding Individuals
OU Student Receives Boren Award for International Study
OU, AT&T and The Weather Channel Collaborate to Transmit Potentially Life-Saving Information during Severe Weather
Honorary Degree Recipients to be Honored at OU Commencement Friday, May 12
OU Graduate Honored with Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Nicholas S. Hathaway Named 2017 Otis Sullivant Award Winner
OU Law Student Recipient of 2017 Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Internship
OU President David L. Boren Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
OU Student Named Goldwater Scholar
OU Professor Emeritus George Henderson to Receive Two Prestigious Oklahoma Awards
May 2017
OU Honored with 2017 Excellence in Service Award for Improving Lives of U.S. Veterans
OU Launches Financial Education Program for Incoming Students
Study Suggests Metals from Bolivian Mines Affect Crops and Pose Potential Health Risk
Phillips 66 Makes $1 Million Gift in Support of New Engineering Facility at OU
OU Announces College Convocations and Commencements
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Norman
OU Class of 2017 Gift to be Invigorating Green Space at Corner of Chautauqua Avenue and Timberdell Road
OU Students Achieve Perfect Grade-Point Average
OU Commencement to Feature Distinguished Civic, Legal and Education Leader Robert Henry, Photo Highlights of Graduating Class and Choral Music
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Named Among Top 50 Most Impressive College Museums
OU Designated Big 12 Conference Champion in EPA's College and University Green Power Challenge
OU One of Three Colleges Honored for Excellence in Information Technology
OU Researchers Develop Radar Simulator to Characterize Scattering Mechanisms of Debris Particles in Tornadoes
June 2017
OU Awarded $161 Million NASA Contract for First-of-Its-Kind Earth Science Mission
Walden Elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education
OU, Weathernews and Nanowave Technologies Announce Research Collaboration
Experienced Technology Leader Named Interim Chief Information Officer
OU College of Liberal Studies Given New Name
OU Receives Major Gift from Valero in Support of New Engineering Facility
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City
Julie and Glen Krutz Named Faculty-In-Residence for Headington Hall
Vogel Selected As Director of Oklahoma Water Survey
OU and Mercy Test New Models in Largest Breast Cancer Clinical Trial in Oklahoma
OU Names Wrobel Interim Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
OU Astrophysicist Identifies Composition of Earth-Size Planets in TRAPPIST-1System
July 2017
OU Student Receives National Security Education Program Award for International Study
OU Ranked among Top Three Universities for Student Happiness by The Princeton Review
OU Named Among Architectural Digest's Top 18 Stunning Libraries Around the World
Well-Designed Visual Aids Improve Risk Understanding
KGOU Wins Top Radio Award from Associated Press Broadcasters Association
OU Team Details Foreshock Activities Leading Up to Pawnee Earthquake
August 2017
Stoops To Be Honored During OU Homecoming Weekend
OU SMART Radar Team Deployed to Hurricane Harvey
OU Norman Campus Researchers Achieve $98.4 Million in Annual Research Expenditures
OU Honored with Second National Award for Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
OU Astrophysicist Predicts Detached Eclipsing White Dwarfs to Merge Into an Exotic Star
OU Welcomes Largest and Highest-Ranked Freshman Class
OU Board of Regents to Hold Special Meeting
OU Biologist Receives $1.2 Million NSF Grant in Support of Ecological Research at Continental Scales
September 2017
OU, OCAST Plan Statewide Initiative To Improve Oklahoma's Small Business Innovation Research Success
OU Research Group Awarded $10.5 Million NIH Grant to Strengthen Center of Biomedical Research Excellence in Structural Biology
Boren Announces Plans to Retire as President of the University of Oklahoma
Sam Noble Museum Receives International Award for Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair
Gary L. Loving Named Interim Dean of Fran and Earl Ziegler College of Nursing
Jesus E. Medina Named President of OU Physicians
Randall Hewes Named Dean of OU Graduate College
Rainbolt Family Makes Leadership Gift to Name OU Graduate School of Business
OU Sets All-Time High Retention Record
OU Board of Regents to Meet in Tulsa
OU Ranked Among Top 50 Public Universities in Nation
OU SMART Radar Team Deploys to Hurricane IRMA
Nation's Leading Historians to Headline OU Teach-In on the Strength and Fragility of Constitutions
October 2017
Award-Winning Educator Douglas D. Gaffin Named Interim Dean of the OU Honors College
Cameron and OU Alumnus Receives Medal of Honor at White House
Sabatini to Receive International Service Award
Noted Art Historian, Speaker and Curator to Speak at OU Oct. 19
Kelly Named Corix Chair and Director of the Corix Plains Institute
OU Chrysanthemum Gardens in Full Bloom
Deaton Designated as Society of Research Administrators International Distinguished Faculty
KGOU to Expand Service in Western Oklahoma
OU to Dedicate OU Residential Colleges
OU Anthropologist Named to Science News' SN 10: Scientists to Watch
OU Research Team Receives $1.8 Million NSF Grant to Better Predict Heavy Rainfall Events
November 2017
OU's Holiday Lighting Celebration to be Held Nov. 28 at David A. Burr Park
OU Researchers Harness Methane-Consuming Microbes
OU Dedicates Gene Rainbolt Graduate School Of Business
Edwidge Danticat is 2018 Winner of Prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature
OU Recognized Nationally as Bicycle Friendly University
December 2017
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News Archives
Jan 21, 2019 9:24 AM: OU Classified as 2018 Carnegie Institution Top Tier Research Institution
Dec 13, 2018 1:54 PM: OU Meteorologist to Lead NASA Earth Venture Project Science Investigation
Dec 12, 2018 3:56 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine Awarded Grant to Provide Mobile Mammography Across State
Dec 11, 2018 5:53 PM: OU Board of Regents Meets in Oklahoma City
Dec 7, 2018 3:51 PM: Two OU Students Receive U.S. Department of State International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Dec 5, 2018 3:30 PM: OU Study Explores Sexuality and Gender Gaps in Political Perspectives Among College Students
Dec 5, 2018 2:54 PM: Harold Hamm Diabetes Center Announces Director
Dec 4, 2018 1:14 PM: OU Student Receives Marshall Scholarship
Nov 28, 2018 1:48 PM: OU's Holiday Lighting Celebration Set for Wednesday, Nov. 28
Nov 27, 2018 2:23 PM: OU Biologist and Director of Environmental Studies Elected AAAS Fellow
Nov 19, 2018 11:17 AM: Free Tuition and Average Fees for Qualifying Oklahoma Residents
Nov 13, 2018 1:55 PM: OU Cooperative Institute Celebrates 40 Years of Innovative Research
Nov 12, 2018 10:55 AM: The Harold Hamm Foundation Donates $34M to Harold Hamm Diabetes Center
Nov 12, 2018 10:54 AM: OU's K20 Center Receives $68M in GEAR UP Funding
Nov 1, 2018 3:36 PM: OU Hosts Benefit Gaming Marathon for Charity
Feb 12, 2019 11:33 AM: A New Path in Diabetes Prevention for Native American Communities
Oct 30, 2018 10:37 AM: Dr. Michele Eodice Receives IWCA's Highest Award
Oct 26, 2018 8:42 AM: OU Professors to Lead Global Research on Bluegreen Algae in Freshwaters
Oct 25, 2018 3:15 PM: OU College of Law to Honor Two Prominent Oil and Gas Lawyers with Prestigious Kuntz Award
Oct 29, 2018 2:36 PM: Holmberg Hall Celebration Scheduled at the University of Oklahoma
Oct 25, 2018 7:53 AM: OU Meteorologist Expects Severe Drought and Heavy Rain Events to Worsen Globally
Oct 24, 2018 5:34 PM: NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to Discuss Future of NASA on Oct. 31
Oct 24, 2018 11:59 AM: New Study Examines Attitudes toward LGT individuals
Oct 17, 2018 3:52 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Receives $10.7 Million Federal Research Grant
Oct 11, 2018 3:13 PM: Civil Liberties Expert to Speak at OU Law
Oct 11, 2018 11:04 AM: OU Researcher Determines Catalytic Active Sites
Oct 9, 2018 8:02 AM: OU's Radar Team Developing Fastest, Most Advanced Radar in the Nation
Oct 3, 2018 4:15 PM: University of Oklahoma Announces Scholarship Increases for Next Year
Oct 8, 2018 3:12 PM: OU Radar Team Developing Mobile Radar Testbed for U.S. Navy
Oct 3, 2018 3:30 PM: University of Oklahoma to Add Student IDs to Mobile Devices
Sep 26, 2018 1:15 PM: OU SMART-R Team Data Reveals Threats During Hurricane Florence Landfall
Sep 24, 2018 2:51 PM: OU Medicine Setting the Standard in Modern-Day Surgery
Sep 22, 2018 8:48 PM: OU Receives Transformative Gift in Support of ROTC Programs
Sep 22, 2018 8:19 PM: OU College of Public Health to Bear Hudson Name
Sep 22, 2018 8:19 PM: OU Hosts Native Nation Leaders at Historic Reception
Sep 22, 2018 8:19 PM: OU College of Public Health to Bear Hudson Name
Sep 22, 2018 8:19 PM: OU IT Team Receives NSF Instrumentation Grant for Research Data Archiving
Sep 20, 2018 7:55 AM: OU SMART Radar Team Departs for East Coast to Intercept Hurricane Florence
Sep 7, 2018 3:08 PM: OU Professor Selected for 2019 ASM Environmental Research Award
Sep 5, 2018 1:22 PM: OU Research Addresses Concerns of South-Central Plains Region with NSF Instrumentation Grant
Sep 6, 2018 3:18 PM: OU Team to Develop New Methods to Track Bird Migration and Adaptability
Sep 24, 2018 8:03 AM: SMART RADAR RESULTS SHOW HURRICANE HARVEY CATEGORY 3, NOT CATEGORY 4
Aug 27, 2018 2:26 PM: Oklahoma Women Impacting STEM and Entrepreneurship Conference
Aug 27, 2018 4:41 PM: OK Catalyst Program Teaches Students How to Launch Business
Aug 27, 2018 4:37 PM: OU to Lead U.S. Stream Drying Study with $3 Million in NSF Grants
Aug 20, 2018 9:19 AM: Droegemeier Taking Leave of Absence Pending White House Appointment
Aug 27, 2018 7:48 PM: Irungu Named OU Interim Assoc VP for University Community
Aug 14, 2018 1:16 PM: SCC Applies Cancer Research Tools to Unravel Alzheimer's
Aug 20, 2018 1:10 PM: Climate Warming Affects Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem
Aug 27, 2018 8:06 PM: OU College of Nursing Earns $1 Million Grant To Continue Successful Falls Prevention Program
Aug 3, 2018 11:11 AM: OU College of Nursing Earns $1 Million Grant
Aug 1, 2018 1:23 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Recruits Health Economist Specializing in Tobacco Control Research
Aug 10, 2018 1:25 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Researcher Awarded 1.7 Million Dollar Grant in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Jul 27, 2018 1:50 PM: Camp Crimson Helps New Sooners Make Connections
Aug 27, 2018 7:53 PM: OU College of Nursing Ranked No. 1 for Online RN-to-BSN Program
Jul 18, 2018 10:24 AM: OU LAW DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NAMED TO FASTCASE 50
Aug 13, 2018 6:02 PM: Inauguration Set for OU'S 14th President
Aug 27, 2018 7:57 PM: OU Biologist Developing Network of Researchers and Data from Intermittent Rivers
Jun 28, 2018 11:31 AM: Three OU Students Receive 2018 Neustadt Design Awards
Jun 28, 2018 11:59 AM: OU Research Team Identifies Genetic Structure of Painted Buntin
Jul 10, 2018 9:07 AM: OU Professor Receives Young Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy
Jun 27, 2018 4:27 PM: OU Professor to Study New Possibilities in Quantum Networkin
Jun 27, 2018 10:35 AM: OU Institute Awarded $3.9 Million Grant
Jun 25, 2018 3:57 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Research Points to the Potential for Targeted Drug Development for Ovarian Cancer
Jun 20, 2018 3:43 PM: Historian, Author Named Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
Jul 12, 2018 10:12 AM: Eight OU Students Receive Fulbright Awards
Jun 18, 2018 9:46 AM: OU Meteorologists Studying Artic Atrmospheric Barriers Limiting Improved Weather and Climate Prediction
Jun 14, 2018 1:43 PM: OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City
Jun 11, 2018 1:39 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Research Points to More Effective Diagnostic Test for Leukemia Patients
Jun 6, 2018 1:55 PM: Record Number of Stephenson Cancer Center Investigators Selected to Present at the Nation's Premier Oncology Conference
Jun 5, 2018 11:25 AM: Sooner Rover Heads to Utah for University Rover Challenge
May 29, 2018 3:45 PM: OU Law Places Fifth in First-Ever ABA Competitions Championship
May 24, 2018 1:22 PM: OU Libraries Dedicates Zarrow Family Faculty and Graduate Student Center
May 29, 2018 3:43 PM: OU Physicist Developing Quantum-Enhanced Sensors for Real-Life Applications
May 8, 2018 4:19 PM: OU Students Receive Boren Award for International Study
May 14, 2018 11:05 AM: OU-Led Research Team Accelerating Antibiotic Discovery with $5.7 Million NIH Grant
May 4, 2018 2:15 PM: OU Commencement to Feature Oklahoma Governor, U.S. Senator and University President
May 4, 2018 12:55 PM: Five Outstanding Individuals to Receive Honorary Degrees at OU Commencement May 11
May 4, 2018 12:40 PM: OU Regents' Alumni Awards to be Presented to Fourteen Outstanding Individuals
May 7, 2018 10:36 AM: OU Announces College Convocations and Commencements
May 2, 2018 8:25 AM: Stephenson Cancer Center to Make Historic Announcement
Aug 10, 2018 2:05 PM: Stephenson Cancer Center Earns Designation
May 14, 2018 10:59 AM: OU Designated Big 12 Conference Champion in EPA's College and University Green Power Challenge
Apr 13, 2018 5:00 PM: OU Math Professors to Research Active Learning in Undergraduate Math Educatio
Apr 24, 2018 3:25 PM: OU Radar Team Developing New Technologies for U.S. Navy Next-Generation Radar Systems
Apr 11, 2018 12:37 PM: OU Faculty Member Selected for Prestigious Fellowship
Apr 11, 2018 1:30 PM: OU Law Competition Students Win Third National Championship of 2018
Apr 6, 2018 4:26 PM: OU President David Boren to Deliver Commencement Address
Apr 6, 2018 3:23 PM: OU Graduate Students Earn NSF National Research Traineeship Program Fellowships
Apr 4, 2018 12:16 PM: Leading American Historian Timothy Snyder to Speak
Apr 2, 2018 11:34 AM: Allen King Named 2018 Otis Sullivant Award Winner
Apr 2, 2018 11:29 AM: OU Arbor Day Celebration 2018 to Include Picnic, Tree Planting
Mar 30, 2018 12:54 PM: OU Ranks No. 1 in Nation in Number of Freshman Nation Merit Scholars
Mar 29, 2018 2:50 PM: OU Professor Receives NASA Earth Science Funding for First-of-its-Kind Research
Mar 29, 2018 2:43 PM: OU's Newest SMART Radar Deploys to Louisiana as Part of STARR Project
Mar 23, 2018 2:13 PM: OU Educator Named Outstanding Woman in Higher Education
Mar 21, 2018 1:14 PM: OU Law Rises in U.S. & World News Report Rankings
Mar 14, 2018 4:38 PM: OU Norman Campus to Close for Maintenance March 19-20
Mar 12, 2018 11:37 AM: OU Receives Major Gift in Support of Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
Mar 13, 2018 2:04 PM: Academic Department Named in Honor of Civil Rights Leader Clara Luper
Mar 12, 2018 11:29 AM: OU Reception to Honor United World College Scholars for Fifth Consecutive Davis Cup Win
Mar 7, 2018 11:29 AM: OU Dedicates James P. Pappas Administration Building
Mar 13, 2018 12:32 PM: Street Artist and Muralist Yatika Fields to Paint Mural Live at Sam Noble Museum
Mar 2, 2018 12:31 PM: University of Oklahoma Libraries Dean Rick Luce Announces Plans to Retire
Mar 1, 2018 4:02 PM: OU Board of Regents to Meet in Oklahoma City
Feb 14, 2018 11:32 AM: OU Law to Host 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Feb 14, 2018 11:24 AM: OU Residential Colleges Recognized as Outstanding Development Project
Feb 7, 2018 11:19 AM: OU Law Students Win National Moot Court Competition
Feb 2, 2018 11:17 AM: OU Medicine and HCA Healthcare Successfully Conclude Oklahoma Hospital Transaction
Aug 23, 2018 11:19 AM: OU Astrophysicists Discover Extragalactic Planets for First Time
Jan 26, 2018 2:42 PM: Love Foundation Makes Gift in Support of Price College
Jan 10, 2018 1:52 PM: OU College Of Law Named Apple Distinguished School
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text: News Commissioner Bratton says he 'strongly supports' body camera technology New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton discusses crime statistics and other related issues at a press conference at Police Plaza in Manhattan on Thursday, Aug., 28, 2014. Photo Credit: Bryan Smith By ALISON FOX [email protected] August 28, 2014 6:25 PM Print Share fbShare Tweet Email Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday the department is "actively looking" at equipping officers with body-worn cameras, the strongest statement of support he has made for implementing the technology in New York since becoming police commissioner here. The cameras have already been implemented in several cities, including Los Angeles where Bratton led the police department before coming back east. "It's a technology that I support strongly," he said at a news conference inside police headquarters on Thursday. "It's a technology that is needed in American to help deal with so many of the events that we're seeing." Recently, Public Advocate Letitia James proposed a pilot program to implement the camera technology. It would cover 15% of police precincts with the highest rates of crimes and civilian complaints and would cost about $5 million. Bratton said he has been considering the cameras since the first day he took office. He likened the technological advancement to the same way "two-way radios became common place in the '70s" and "semi-automatic weapons became very much available to police to deal with the rising crime in the '80s". "And I would fully expect that before I leave as police commissioner, this department will be probably the best technology equipped department in America," he added. James said the program would go far toward providing both transparency and accountability for the NYPD. The program would also give civilians another way to fight police misconduct, she said, as well as protect police from false claims. "Today's announcement that the NYPD is taking steps toward this goal is an important development," James said in a statement. "Today's announcement that the NYPD is taking steps toward this goal is an important development. But the success of a pilot program can only be achieved by establishing clear rules and procedures with respect to camera operation and data collection. I look forward to working with the administration to make this proposal a reality." Last year, Patrolman's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch called the cameras "an encumbrance" and said he didn't support it. Most recently, Lynch said he is on the fence. "We are reserving our decision on body cameras until we see some real evidence of their effectiveness and impact on the officers who carry them," he has said in a statement. Bratton said he expects an official announcement about what the department plans to do with the cameras soon. By ALISON FOX [email protected] Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comments We're revamping our Comments section. Learn more and share your input.


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Fable I and Fable II are both coming-of-age stories. While Fable II does certainly have domesticate elements, Fable III is about settling into adulthood and becoming a king. King is the top. What does that leave for the future?
"We have this universe," Fable designer Peter Molyneux tells Kotaku, "and we can expand the world."
Molyneux did not confirm he was working on Fable IV or that there was a Fable IV. But with the success that Fable II saw, Microsoft would be silly not to make Fable IV.
"I remember when you'd get spat on for doing a sequel," adds Molyneux. The veteran game designer began working on titles in the early 1980s. Molyneux often talks freely about things he is thinking about, projects he is working on and stuff he is interested in doing. Sometimes those ideas make their way into games. Sometimes they don't. And when they don't, Molyneux takes the heat for overpromising.
Musicians and film directors often talk loosely - abstractly, even - about things they are interested in doing or projects they would like to pursue. The game industry, however, hangs on every word developers utter.
His latest game, Fable III, is centred around a king, doesn't that mean the series has topped out? Where does one go from being king?
"Well," says Molyneux, "there are kings. And then there are kings." The president of Iceland, he adds, is not the same as being the president of America. Does that mean that in-game Fable world Albion is Iceland? Or is it America?
I follow up and ask him if one day he would like to do another god game. He replies, "Yes." I ask if he thinks Kinect would be a suitable platform for god games to which he replies with a simple "yes".
"I worry about lactic acid," Molyneux says, adding that you couldn't do a straight-up port of something like his mouse and keyboard-controlled 2001 title Black & White. About Kinect, Molyneux says, "I would like the player to feel power. You can feel power through more than a control pad."


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When a bad back forced Larry Bird to retire in 1992, the Celtics didn't get any compensation for him.
When Kevin McHale limped into retirement on a bad foot a year later, once again the Celtics received nothing in return.
Robert Parish, the oldest member of the Celtics' original Big Three, stuck around for one more season, but the team posted its first losing record in 15 years. Parish became a free agent that summer, signed with Charlotte and for the third consecutive year, Celtics picked up no players or draft picks as another star left.
Without that Big Three, the Celtics posted losing records for eight consecutive years and made the playoffs only once during that time, falling in the first round.
Danny Ainge played with the original Big Three. He watched them grow old and the franchise suffer, and two decades later, he was determined not to let history repeat itself. Ainge squeezed a few more years out of the next Big Three era than expected, but after the Celtics struggled to a 41-40 record this season and were ousted from the playoffs in the first round, he made the bold move to trade Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett when he could still get something for them. Some Celtics fans may argue he didn't get enough, but at least he got something.
On Thursday, the Celtics and Nets agreed in principle on a deal that will send Pierce, Garnett and Jason Terry to Brooklyn for Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, Kris Joseph, MarShon Brooks, Keith Bogans (on a sign and trade) and first-round picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018. In 2014, the Celtics will receive Brooklyn's or Atlanta's first-round pick, whichever is worse. In 2017, the Celtics will have the option of exchanging first-round picks with the Nets.
Tornika Shengelia and Reggie Evans were originally mentioned among the group headed to Boston, but Brooks, the Celtics' first-round pick in 2011, and Joseph, the Celtics' second-round pick in 2012, replaced them.
The trade cannot be officially announced until July 10, when a moratorium on signings and trades ends.
The Celtics clearly weakened themselves with this trade. None of the players they received from the Nets figure into their future, but Ainge is counting on the draft picks to help him rebuild. The Celtics now have nine first-round picks over the next five years, including the 2015 first-round pick they acquired on Tuesday to allow Doc Rivers out of the final three years of his contract so he could coach the Clippers. Celtics fans now find themselves in the unfamiliar position of having to root against Pierce, Garnett and Rivers. The more games they lose, the better picks the Celtics will receive.
Owning so many first-round picks, Ainge didn't mind giving Dallas two second-round selections in 2014 to move up three spots to 13th in the NBA Draft Thursday to take Gonzaga forward Kelly Olynyk. Ainge also gave Indiana cash for Colorado State center Colton Iverson, who was selected in the second round with the 53rd pick. After the draft, the Celtics signed undrafted Missouri guard Phil Pressey, son of former Celtics assistant coach Paul Pressey.
Ainge called the Celtics much better off than when he was hired to run the franchise on May 9, 2003, and he expected them to rebuild much faster than they did back then. Celtics fans can only hope so. The Celtics didn't win a playoff series in Ainge's first four years running the team. They finally snapped that drought by capturing the 2008 NBA championship after Ainge acquired Garnett and Ray Allen. Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca told CSNNE he expected this rebuilding process to last only two or three years.
Saying goodbye to Garnett and especially Pierce, at their advanced ages of 37 and 35, respectively, may have been necessary, but it was still sad, even more so the same week that Rivers departed. Pierce had led the Celtics in scoring in each of the past 13 years. Bird ranks second by leading the Celtics in scoring 11 years, but not consecutively. Pierce trails only John Havlicek in all-time points. Trailing Havlicek by 2,374 points, Pierce probably needed two more years to pass him.
It's rare, but not unprecedented for an NBA team to trade a star who had been around such a long time. Houston dealt Hakeem Olajuwon, a two-time NBA champion and the franchise's all-time leading scorer, after 17 seasons as a Rocket to Toronto during the summer of 2001.
More moves may be on the way, but once the Pierce-Garnett deal goes through, the Celtics could be left with Rajon Rondo and Avery Bradley starting in the backcourt and Jeff Green, Jared Sullinger and Brandon Bass or Humphries up front. They don't really have a center unless you count the very raw Fab Melo or Iverson. Wallace, Bogans, Olynyk, Jordan Crawford and Courtney Lee should be among the backups.
The Celtics will be younger. Only Wallace who turns 31 on July 23 and Bogans, 32, are older than 28. They shouldn't rank among the NBA's very worst teams, but making the playoffs would be an accomplishment.
The Celtics' six-year sellout streak is sure to end this season. Fans will have to hold their noses and hope Ainge's compost heap eventually results in a sweet-smelling Garden.


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The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell) announced today that it has finalised a Concession Agreement with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) to allow the Fayum Gas Company, a Shell Gas B.V. subsidiary, to deliver natural gas to the Fayum Governorate in Egypt.
The agreement gives the Fayum Gas Company a 20 year franchise to study, design, finance, build and operate a natural gas transmission pipeline and distribution network, and to market natural gas to industrial and residential customers, on behalf of EGPC.
This follows the announcement last month that Shell is to acquire a minority stake in the NatGas concession which includes areas bordering on Fayum Governorate.
It was concluded with the support of the Ministry of Petroleum. His Excellency Eng. Sameh Fahmy, the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum, said: "Following the agreement last month, where Shell bought an interest in the NatGas concession, this illustrates yet again the attractiveness of the growing Egyptian gas business to foreign investors.
I am pleased that EGPC and the Fayum Gas Company have reached an agreement and expect the people of Fayum to see the benefits in the near future."
This agreement demonstrates yet another step in Shell's strategy to build a strong presence in the region. Charles Watson, Shell Gas and Power Director of Business Development in the region, said: "Shell made a significant move into gas distribution only a few years ago.
The Fayum project stamps our commitment to a growing business sector and demonstrates Shell's determination to assist in the development of the countries in which it operates."
The Fayum Gas Company is an Egyptian Joint Stock company incorporated in 2000 for the purpose of transmitting and distributing natural gas.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Stewed red cabbage with prunes
Christmas is just around the corner, so I'll be focusing on various festive dishes for the next week or two. We'll definitely have some traditional roast pork with sauerkraut and black pudding for a couple of times. But we've got a big family and many festive meals ahead, so there's plenty of room to play. For the last few years we've also roasted a goose, and my favourite side dish to a goose is stewed red cabbage. Here's the way I've been making it couple of times now - and I love it. The prunes add a sweetness, orange juice some freshness and a good balsamico a lovely tang. And it's a light and virtually fat-free side dish - a great alternative to the usual rich Christmas fare.
Stewed red cabbage with prunes
(Hautatud punane kapsas ploomidega)
Serves eight
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 red onions, halved and sliced
1 kg red cabbage, shredded
250 g dried plums/prunes, halved
200 ml (just under a cup) of orange juice
2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1-2 tsp salt
freshly ground black pepper
Heat oil on a large saucepan. Add onion and fry for a few minutes, until onion starts to soften.
Add the cabbage and sauté for 5-7 minutes, stirring regularly.
Add the prunes, orange juice, balsamic vinegar. Season with salt.
Cover with a lid and simmer on a low heat for about an hour or so, stirring every now and then, until the cabbage has softened, but still retains some bite. (Check the liquid level at the end, and add some water, if it looks too dry).
Season to taste, and serve.
NB! You can prepare this a day or two in advance. Gently re-heat thoroughly before serving.
Jõulud kodus ("Christmas at Home"), published in Estonian in November 2011.
6 comments:
- Hayley Harland said...
I've really grown to love prunes lately after not really giving them a second thought before. This looks delish! thedelectablediary x
- 6:13 pm, December 16, 2010
This looks and sounds delicious! But I'm a bit puzzled about the amount of prunes. Do you mean 250 grams?
- 9:15 am, December 17, 2010
- margie said...
Thank you for posting this! I have a love-hate relationship with red cabbage. I want to love it, but it is always a little bit offputting. This sounds like it might have the right mixture of sweet and acid to balance the flavor, so I'm looking forward to trying it soon!
- 7:10 pm, December 17, 2010
- Victor Chisholm said...
I love red cabbage and have always made it with apples. I've never thought of using prunes. Thanks for the yummy suggestion!
- 2:54 am, December 18, 2010
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Merry Christmas!
- 3:08 pm, December 22, 2010
- Gitte said...
Love love red cabbage. It is always a stable on my Christmas dinner table.
- 1:27 pm, December 28, 2010


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Two weeks ago, Whirlpool invited Jim and me to spend a Friday night walking through a Victorian house in the heart of San Francisco, every room of which had been gutted and meticulously redesigned by a series of interior decorators to showcase the wonders of this bowl.
The rest of the decor in the house was pretty alright, too.
There were gold-flecked rugs that looked like wood floors, creeptastic haunted forest letters crawling up walls, teency nooks for making phone calls or smoking cigarettes or reading books pretty much everywhere we turned. I could have spent 14 hours in the potting shed alone, but the kitchen completely stole the show, as Kitchens of the Year are wont to do.
Black herringbone backsplash, you guys.
The whole kitchen was black, in fact. The cabinets were black, the appliances were black, the backsplash was black, the wallpaper was black with shimmering black mica flakes (or something really similar to that) in it. You'd think this would eat a kitchen entirely, but it didn't at all. It worked beautifully, actually. It gave all the natural light in the kitchen something to do with itself, instead of just bouncing off all the pale surfaces and making that room 17 times larger than it already was.
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My favorite appliances I've ever owned in my whole entire life were my black Whirlpool Cabrio washer & dryer, which I had to leave behind in Texas (and they don't even make anymore, ask me how broken I am about that). I've only ever seen black kitchen appliances in matte, but the Whirpool Black Ice appliances in the Kitchen of the Year were shiny, sleek, and entirely badass.
Our friend and bombdiggety food blogger Stephanie Hua got a picture of the Whirlpool fridge in the House Beautiful kitchen -
Which is slightly more sensibly-designed than the fridge in our House Cluttered kitchen.
Still life with five kids. #fridgie #cryforhelpie
We were treated to a live cooking demo with Chef Robin Song, who owns a whiskey, ham, and oyster bar in San Francisco - propelling him to the top of Jim's 'People to Become Best Friends With' list. He prepared a quinoa salad that I not only didn't hate, I am pretty sure I would eat it every day of my life - propelling him to the top of my 'People Who Obviously Practice Voodoo' list. He also made that bowl up there. When you walk through a $17 million home and at the end of that walk have one thing only to say, and that thing is, "Man, I really love this bowl," it's kind of nice to be able to say you met the person who made it. He was a pretty cool dude - not at all pretentious. He gave us a lot of cooking tips that ended up, "Um, well, just do what works for you." Stephanie asked him what he always kept in his fridge and he said something like, 'Errr...does beer count?' Pretty refreshing from someone who's career is kind of exploding right now.
Speaking of refreshing, this is the recipe for that salad. For real, make it. Once you make it, you will realize that you can change it 5,284 ways and it will still be amazing. I'm pretty sure I'm going with lime and steak and cotija crumbled on top next time, and then tomato and basil next, but this spring veggies one was killer - minus the asparagus, obviously. Jim even liked it, and he'd sooner eat cicadas and chicken fetus' than put a vegetable, or worse, QUINOA, in his face.


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Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Executive Director Scott Wallace was one of Florida's top-paid government employees last year and 48 other Citizens employees earned more than $100,000, a Sun-Sentinel analysis shows.
Federal labor statistics indicate Citizens' executive wages are much lower than those of some national private insurers. And Citizens is a nonprofit, tax-exempt government entity — not a traditional state agency — so its employees don't receive generous health and retirement benefits.
But the insurers' finances have come under increasing scrutiny because almost all Florida homeowners pay to fund Citizens, which the state created as a last-resort property insurer.
Florida homeowners pay a 1.4 percent fee on private insurance premiums to cover the Citizens' shortfalls after the 2005 hurricane season. If a hurricane strikes and causes major damage, all automobile and property insurance policyholders could also end up paying to keep the insurer afloat.
Concerned about growing claims costs for Citizens and other insurers, legislators have introduced bills aimed at reducing inflated or fraudulent claims. But the insurer's overhead and payroll costs have also swelled in recent years even as it trimmed its policies from a peak of 1.4 million policies in October 2007 to just more than 1 million now.
Some Citizens policyholders have expressed concerns about the insurer's spending in light of a law passed last year allowing premium increases of as much as 10 percent a year for the first time since 2007, when the Legislature froze Citizens' rates.
Christine Turner Ashburn, a spokeswoman for Citizens, said the company must pay competitive wages in order to operate in the same way as a private insurer.
"We're not a private insurance company, but we do have core functions where we have to operate as one" such as handling claims, issuing policies and tracking data, Turner Ashburn said.
A Sun Sentinel review of Citizens' salary data found:
Wallace was paid a base wage of $343,608 in 2009. By comparison, the Department of Financial Services reports the top two highest paid employees of 34 state agencies earned salaries of $379,000 and $309,600 in 2009. But the department's data don't include state entities such as the State Board of Administration and universities. University athletic coaches can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars in performance bonuses alone.
Forty-nine employees earned more than $100,000 last year; six received moving expenses ranging from $1,241 to $52,414; and 657 received overtime ranging from 84 cents to $23,920.
About 107 Citizens executives and managers — including some first-line managers — earned $84,000 on average last year. On average, management officials nationwide at insurance companies earned $117,400, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data on the annual wages of employees of insurance carriers, not including life, health and medical companies.
Turner Ashburn said employees of the state-run insurer aren't compensated in the same way as state employees who receive full health and retirement benefits packages. "It's important to delineate that we're not guaranteed benefits that state employees get," she said.
She said the state agency that is most comparable to Citizens is the State Board of Administration, which manages the state's pension fund and other state and local government funds, and pays its executive director $325,000 a year.
Turner Ashburn also said that the company can't attract employees by offering many of the bonuses and perks private insurers provide. For instance, Wallace was hired in 2006 after working as executive vice president at a subsidiary of W. R. Berkley Corp., a major insurance holding company, where he earned a base salary of about $250,000 but also received additional bonuses and stock options, she said.
His Citizens wages are higher than the $188,310 average pay in 2008 for chief executives of insurance companies, not including life, health and medical companies, according to the labor bureau data.
But he earned much less than some of his counterparts at large national companies. Allstate Corp. Chairman Tom Wilson, for instance, earned a total compensation of $8.3 million in 2009, including a $1 million salary and much of the rest in future earnings. Ed Rust Jr., the chairman of State Farm, earned more than $9 million in 2009.


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The NRA's inside man
The National Rifle Association's leader, Wayne LaPierre, is still digging in three months after the Newtown, Conn., shootings — taking the kind of hard line on gun rights that might rally the NRA's base but leaves some wondering how the group is so powerful in Washington.
The answer: The group's real influence inside the Beltway is being brokered quietly by gun lobbyists like Jim Baker who are leading the effort on Capitol Hill to make sure key senators don't buck the NRA on gun legislation.
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It's a strategy that plays both the inside and outside games. LaPierre rallies the masses on cable news, Baker works the halls of Congress and behind it all is a grass-roots network of 5-million NRA supporters who mobilize fast.
( Also on POLITICO: NRA, Joe Manchin in talks on background checks)
Many big interest groups have the same playbook, in which a fiery front man offers a public face, while a trusted inside-man works the halls of Congress where deals really get made — — or blocked.
Baker, known as a respected Second Amendment expert, built his power base over decades by working the halls of Congress, earning the trust of Democrats and Republicans — and putting real money behind his word and into the coffers of reelection campaigns.
His work — which flies under the media's radar because he and the rest of the NRA's lobbying arm rarely speak to the press — is the real reason the group has beaten back almost every attempt to reform gun laws in the country for decades, including a recent effort by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reinstate a ban on assault rifles.
( PHOTOS: Guns banned once, maybe again)
So when LaPierre, appearing Sunday on "Meet the Press," accused gun control advocate and billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg of trying to "buy America" for bankrolling a $12 million dollar ad campaign, there's more to the story of how the NRA does business.
A perfect example of the LaPierre-Baker strategy: While LaPierre was bashing Vice President Joe Biden's task force from behind lecterns soon after the Newtown shootings, Baker sat down a few weeks later with Biden for a White House meeting with gun advocates. The two men — who've known each other for years — bantered before the meeting started, according to a source in the room.
And after the meeting, Baker left out hyperbole from his comments. "We disagreed, obviously, on important issues," Baker said. Further, Baker said the NRA "would do everything in our power" to ensure new gun ownership restrictions don't pass.
( Also on POLITICO: Bloomberg to push senators on guns in $12 million ad campaign)
Baker's strategy doesn't surprise those who have known him for years.
"He is thinking in three dimensions all the time," said Patrick O'Malley, Baker's former deputy who still represents gun groups as a lobbyist. "He's playing a three-dimensional game of chess looking at the House side, Senate side and what's going to work in conference. He's thinking about conference before anything hits the floor."
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has said he is continuing talks with the NRA over background check legislation that he hopes to have in a final package that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected bring to the floor in April.


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Library project moving ahead again
NEW FAIRFIELD -- Library officials are targeting Sept. 1 for the start of renovations to the New Fairfield Free Public Library now that there is adequate money to do the work.
Members of the library's board of directors and the town's Permanent Building Committee met with the architect Thursday to review the project plans in preparation for soliciting a new round of bids.
The renovations have been on hold for two years, since even the lowest quote from the first round of bidding exceeded the funds available.
Since then an intensive local fundraising campaign has provided additional money, and last month the State Bond Commission approved bonding for a $751,253 state library construction grant, putting the final financial piece in place.
"The Bond Commission has released the funds so we can go out to bid," library board chairman Gail Lehman said.
But before soliciting bids, officials agreed to architect Steve Lazarus' recommendation that they review the plans to ensure the town gets the biggest bang for its buck.
One of the difficulties in the first round of bidding, Lazarus said, was that the board included a variety of alternatives in the proposal. They could potentially be dropped to keep costs down.
"The alternatives made the bidding process difficult because the contractors had to take them into account in their calculations," he said.
The project will make the 10,000-square-foot facility more accessible to people with disabilities and provide other badly needed improvements, including an elevator, updates to the lighting and mechanical system, and electrical system improvements that would support enhanced Internet access.
Lazarus said the project could be rebid almost immediately if the alternatives were left intact, but it would be a better idea to incorporate at least some of them as a regular part of the renovations now that money is not so tight.
Because most companies prefer to reserve the summer months for school construction projects, there is adequate time to make the revisions and still put the work out to bid in time for construction to begin in the fall, he said.
The renovations are expected to take about six months to complete.
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The Washington Redskins woke up Monday morning wearing the NFC East crown and have Alfred Morris to thank for it.
NFL Replay will re-air the Washington Redskins' 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys from Week 17 on Wednesday, Jan. 2 at 9 p.m. ET.
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The Redskins' 28-18 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night had the rookie running back's fingerprints all over it. Morris scorched Rob Ryan's defense for 200 yards and three touchdowns. Morris' 33 carries were a season high against a Cowboys defense that knew he was coming but couldn't stop him.
The Redskins now prepare to host the Seattle Seahawks in next weekend's NFC wild-card round.
"I'll tell you what: Alfred Morris became a star tonight," Redskins tight end Chris Cooley told The Associated Press after the game. "He deserved it. He's a phenomenal football player."
Morris refused to take credit: "I'm never a star. I'll never be a star. Other people might think I'm a star, but I'm just Alfred."
Just Alfred is just fine by the Redskins heading into January.
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Watson's victory over two Jeopardy champs last week isn't just the first step in human domination by machines, it could also be a step toward better, more interesting video games.
We spoke with Chris Butcher, the engineering lead in charge of establishing the future technology direction for Bungie, about what all of this could mean to gamers.
Here are his thoughts:
Kotaku: What do you think Watson's victory in Jeopardy means to humanity and technology?
Butcher: There's been a lot of media coverage comparing Watson to "Skynet," with the implication that he represents a step towards humanity's enslavement by technology. But if you look at the capabilities that Watson actually has, that argument doesn't hold much water. How exactly are we going to be enslaved by a computer through its ability to answer "Who was the 5th president of the Seychelles?"
In fact Watson is the most recent example of humanity's empowerment by technology. The scientists at IBM have created a great suite of tools for humans to use. By attaching a question-answering engine to a huge pattern-matching information database, they've demonstrated a proof of concept for machines that will be ubiquitous in our lives in ten years' time. Currently, Watson's databases are custom formatted and stored locally. But as these algorithms get utilized more widely for distributed information storage, we'll see the emergence of the Semantic Web where anyone can ask these questions of the entire Internet. Soon, we'll all have our own Watson. And that will unlock a huge amount of human potential.
Kotaku: Do you think Watson has any practical use in gaming? If so what would it be?
Butcher: Natural language processing and question engines have two main applications in gaming – firstly by simplifying the interface. Games (and user experiences in general) will start to be able to interact with us in our own language. The combination of NLP, question engines and gestural interfaces will allow us to interact with synthetic experiences as if they were extensions of the real world. There will still be action games that use custom controllers, they likely aren't ever going away.
But even after NLP starts to make inroads into the interface, characters that use natural language will take a long time to show up in games. Think about how long we've been struggling with the uncanny valley of graphical rendering for human faces. We haven't really begun dealing with the equivalent problem in AI, of creating synthetic characters that use and respond to natural language in an authentic fashion.
Kotaku: How important is AI to good games?
Butcher: Great AI responds to the player in ways that are expected but not perfectly predicted. It's a subtle dance, requiring AI to sense the player's intentions and actions, and work together with them to create a unique experience every time. I love being surprised by AI, it can create a ton of interest and replayability. Without that element of surprise and improvisation, a game can feel like a sequence of canned pre-authored experiences. That turns it into one-time consumable content, a challenge to be beaten and then put on the shelf.
Kotaku: Computers have beaten the best of us at chess and now trivia and it was a big deal. But they've been beating us in games like Halo Reach for years. I sense there's a difference though. Is there?
Butcher: The most interesting part of Watson is the novel pattern recognition and language processing algorithms that IBM's scientists created. But the part that nobody's talking about is the buzzer timing. It's widely recognised in Jeopardy that buzzer timing is a huge part of the game. The human contestants knew a lot of the same answers that Watson got, but they were unable to beat it on the buzzer. So the Jeopardy victory comes from combining some really impressive AI algorithms and some totally unfair timing advantages. The same is true for all action game AI. It's trivial to make a bot that can out-react and out-aim a human player. The challenge of game AI comes from the soft problems of strategy, believability and fun – issues that Watson doesn't have to deal with.


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Throughout the Cosmos, there is a term, a combination of two simple words spoken in over 40 million dialects which bring fear to countless living species. It is a phrase of warning, of dread, of imminent and ancient destruction. Entire civilizations have fallen under the label and disappeared from existence like a wisp of smoke on the solar wind. Ten minutes from now, Earth itself will be marked by these two deadly words – and all we can do is pray for a quick and painless end to everything we have ever known… Welcome to Earth… The next BAD PLANET!
Bad Planet is about an ancient meteorite containing destructive alien organisms crashing down on modern Earth and unleashing hell. Another alien, a lone Phaedon warrior, breaks out of intergalactic prison and appears on Earth to help destroy the malevolent invaders - who are also responsible for the destruction of the Warrior's entire planet.
The world of Bad Planet is the brainchild of Thomas Jane, spewed forth from a particularly vivid nightmare. Add a dose of Steve Niles, the art direction and inking talents of Tim Bradstreet, and what you wind up with is a modern classic in the making.
Raw Entertainment was founded by actor Thomas Jane (The Punisher, The Mist, The Mutant Chronicles) and in partnership with Eisner Award nominated illustrator/production designer Tim Bradstreet (The Punisher, Hellblazer, Criminal Macabre) they created the Bad Planet comic series.
Kickstarter is the perfect place to make a Bad Planet game successful. It has the same independent spirit that drove the duo to create Raw Entertainment in the first place.
Raw Entertainment has enlisted the help of Red Fly Studio to bring this game to life. Red Fly Studio has worked very hard on the design and structure of the game while at the same time making sure the game stays true to the fiction while offering up some BIG surprises!
• Genre: 3rd-Person Action/Sci-Fi
• Platforms: PC (Steam), XBLA and PSN to be added later
• Target Audience: Hardcore Action
• Rating: Mature
• Technology: Unreal 3
Bad Planet immerses you in the role of the Convict, a nearly indestructible Pheadon Warrior battling to save Earth from a horde of rampaging alien Death Spiders that are intent on turning our world into their breeding ground. Visually stunning, deep, brutal 3rd-person combat; tons of collectibles, customizable weapons and equipment; compelling character growth; and epic battles against hordes of alien monsters all combine to make Bad Planet a distinctly amazing experience.
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At the heart of Bad Planet is your epic struggle against the alien invaders which comes to its peak of cinematic intensity amid the rush of unrelenting battle and breathtaking action which is melee combat. You have your strength, your toughness, and a variety of weaponry at your disposal. The aliens have speed, ferocity, and armor to back up their teeth and claws, and there are hundreds of them. It's a challenge.
Bad Planet uses a third-person perspective so that you can see the visual glory of your character locked in combat with your enemy, playing out each bite, gouge, stab, throw, and ripping slash between opponents in intricately timed and linked maneuvers. Only in this way can you see the full depth and immensity of the fight, and only in this way can you create the satisfying experience of true hand-to-hand combat.
Bad Planet builds on its comic book heritage and takes advantage of being a digital title, delivering individual episodes that are complete stand-alone games and stories in themselves that also combine together to create a larger epic adventure you can play through with a persistent character you grow and customize.
Each episode focuses on a new alien challenge, showcasing unique enemies, a full story, and new ways to upgrade and improve your character, and is a stand-alone product available for download through Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network, and PC digital distribution.
The Convict is a compellingly unique hero; obviously alien and visually striking, he stands out among humans and is driven by an amusingly bleak worldview that comes from having his entire race annihilated in an invasion of the Death Spiders.
Bad Planet's wild assortment of aliens keeps combat fresh and constantly surprises the player with twisted new aliens and terrifying new monsters.
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Characters, environments, animations, and fx rival full-price retail title quality. A screenshot from Bad Planet will be instantly recognizable.
Bad Planet's main focus is over-the-top, hyper-violent combat that encourages you to shred your way through hordes of grotesque alien monsters.
Combat in Bad Planet is a unique blend of intuitive controls, dramatic results, and deep mastery that allows new players to pick up the game and quickly have success creating cool, fast-paced, cinematic combat, while allowing experienced players to develop their skill by unlocking deep layers of precision moves that produce incredible flowing sequences.
Different attacks, evades, and counters all blend together to reward you with amazing sequences, even with simple button-mashing, giving even new players the chance to see lots of variation in how the Convict is destroying his opponents.
In the hands of an experienced player the combat system unlocks many deeper layers of complexity. Once you master timing and advanced moves you can string them together into very different combos, unlocking dramatic results that take into account the context of the chaos of battle all around you.
In addition, as the Convict grows in power you can customize him with new combat abilities selected from his skill tree, giving him special counters, attacks, and moves that require special controls and skillful execution, but which unload dramatic results into the fray.
- Easy to use combos and dramatic, violent finishing moves.
- Controls are kept simple, while context-sensitive finishing moves and the wide variety of player tools provides depth.
- Slash through waves of enemies.
- Smash enemies quickly to build up your combo meter to trigger even more powerful and outrageous moves.
- Extensive grappling system allows players to grab, throw and get swarmed by hordes of Death Spiders.
- Grab smaller enemies to rip, throw, and smash them into other foes.
- Rip the limbs off of larger aliens, or smash their armor and reach inside to pull out vital organs.
- Smaller enemies can swarm the Convict, clinging onto him in an effort to pull him down.
- Huge aliens can grab you and crush or devour you unless you can hack your way free in time.
- Advanced damage modeling lets you crush, kill and dismember enemies in unpredictable ways. In addition to traditional canned damage animations Bad Planet features dynamic deformation of models and other advanced damage modeling techniques.
- Death Spiders cut, chop and kill humans in unpredictable and horrific ways.
- A wide range of outrageous, grotesque and shocking killing moves, from Death Spiders shearing humans in half to the Convict's devastating finishing moves.
The Convict is incredibly tough and is insanely hard to kill, capable of surviving in a vacuum and well-armored enough to have Death Spiders crawling all over him. You can use this toughness to lure enemies into hazards like fires that are no threat to the Convict.
The Convict heals when in the Sun, allowing for some interesting gameplay, with shadowy areas being more dangerous since his rate of healing drops dramatically.
He also has massive strength, making him capable of hacking through the toughest alien armor with his Powered Axe, ripping the limbs from enemies, or punching into the armor to rip out the enemy's vital organs.
You can also scavenge alien equipment and combine it with human tech to upgrade your weapons or create powerful new tools. Crafted items make use of found equipment and have a cool retro aesthetic, combing classic American imagery with a new Sci-Fi twist like a 1959 CADILLAC CONVERTIBLE that flies with rocket engines.
Alien Tech is scattered throughout the game and can be gathered to unlock weapon and character advancements, providing a reason for you to explore every inch of a level.
- Customize and upgrade the Convict and his weapons for a unique identity within the game.
- Gather experience by defeating enemies in battle, attaining high combos, accomplishing skilled fighting maneuvers, and completing dynamic mission goals.
- Upgrade the Convict by unlocking new and more powerful attacks and special abilities.
- Discover common and rare resources and upgrade your weapons.
- Unique weapon customizations provide new capabilities in addition to simple damage upgrades.
- Play as different characters as the Episode progresses, enjoying the very different types of gameplay they provide.
Each episode of Bad Planet is a stand-alone product available for download through Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network, or PC digital distribution. Building on the structure of the original comic books, an episode contains a full story comprised of many chapters, similar to how many comic books build into a single volume, showcasing a full story and character growth, and culminating in the defeat of a major boss or enemy threat.
As in Volume 1 of the comics, episode 1 of Bad Planet the game tells the tale of the arrival of the NEO on Earth, the escape of the Convict from prison, and his attempts to save Earth from the Death Spiders. From the terrifying initial impact of the NEO that spells Earth's doom to riding an asteroid during the Convict's dramatic escape sequence you are plunged into a fast-paced action movie in which you are the star.
At the same time the saga of the Convict isn't confined within a single volume of comic books, nor is it in Bad Planet the game. Multiple episodes integrate into a larger experience tied together by the consistent thread of your character and his persistent growth across all episodes, growing the overall game and creating links between the areas in each episode.
On its own, Episode 1 contains approximately 2-4 hours of gameplay for a single play-through and is a stand-alone game experience. You can replay the encounters extensively to gather character growth rewards, extending that duration.
Doing something great is never easy, so it's going to take a lot of hard, hard work. Making a AAA game on a tight budget is difficult, so you need a group with experience and a proven track record. That's where Red Fly Studio comes in.
The partnership between Raw Entertainment and Red Fly Studio is essential to making Bad Planet a success. Red Fly is not a start up. The Red Fly team has decades of experience at prestigious game companies including EA, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Disney, THQ, and Origin and are known for their artistic vision, design innovation, and technical expertise. They also have extensive experience developing products based on worldwide brands and characters.
Red Fly Studio will bring the world, characters, and story of Bad Planet to life via the most immersive and interactive of entertainment mediums. A proven and independent developer of video games, Red Fly sees the potential for an epic video game in Bad Planet!
Built on the Unreal Engine the graphics of Bad Planet will push the envelope and by utilizing a fast, gory, combo-based combat system, the studio will create a bold and gritty action game that will be sure to please hardcore gamers and science fiction fans alike!
The World of Bad Planet is so diverse and deep that coming up with additional content will not be difficult. Here are some of the ideas we want to explore!
Play as a National Guard soldier as they confront the crashed NEO in Washington, battling to save civilians from the Death Spiders! This additional chapter allows you to play through a seminal moment from the Episode 1 storyline, as the Death Spiders emerge and start to attack Washington DC. As a special bonus, the DC Chapter would include a new playable character, the soldier, allowing you to use conventional weaponry to survive and escape the onslaught as you try to rescue as many people as you can, giving you a cool and different style of combat.
Play through the Convict's escape from the impregnable alien detention center, Deep Six! Another new chapter that would be added to Episode 1 is the Convict's mission to escape captivity. The Deep Six chapter is not only ideal back-story to the Episode 1 arc, but includes a distinct alien sci-fi environment, new enemies to fight, and new combat tactics as battle is extended into the zero-g vacuum of deep space.
Battle against the Deep Six guards who have tracked the Convict to Earth! In addition to adding new Chapters to extend the Episode 1 storyline, more effort would be spent to create additional interesting enemies for the Convict to battle. For example, creating the Deep Six guards who trail the Convict to earth to try to recapture him and great mini-bosses to provide epic one-on-one battles.
Play additional characters like Anan and Veronica! As well as creating more enemies to fight against, additional effort would be spent to create new playable characters. Each character has very different abilities, allowing us to create very different types of chapters and challenges for you to play through.
Raw Entertainment and Red Fly have really come through with some amazing prizes available ONLY for Kickstarter Backers!
* Please check the Rewards section for all the Prize details.
Exclusive Bad Planet Desktop Wallpaper designed by Tim Bradstreet! There's a full color, and a sepia-style artist's edition.
Exclusive "I Support a BAD PLANET" Kickstarter T-shirt, featuring artwork by the legendary BASIL GOGOS (Famous Monsters of Filmland) or your choice of other flavors!
Bradstreet Bad Planet cover art print - Signed!
A giclee, 13"X19" - printed on Museum quality Satin Matte Archival paper - Weight: 300gsm
Printed with 7 Ultra-Chrome inks - 100 years ultraviolet lightfastness
Bad Planet softcover full color Trade Paperback - Signed by Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet!
Brand new, gorgeous color edition of Bad Planet: Volume 1, collecting issues 1-6 of BAD PLANET plus 40 pages of bonus materials, 183 pages! 3D section in Super-Terror 3D! Glasses included!
Bad Planet HARDCOVER Limited Edition Black and White large format Trade Paperback - 147 pages! Signed by Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet
A 6 inch CONVICT BUST SCULPTURE! The original prototype (shown here) was sculpted by Stan Winston Studio artist Christopher Swift and served as invaluable reference for the artists that worked on Bad Planet. This bust will be recreated digitally and new molds will be created. The design is subject to change but we want to stay true to this amazing piece of art work!
The ULTIMATE KICKSTARTER PRIZE!
The final computer models for both the Convict and the Death Spiders will be painstakingly moved into the pose from the comic below. From this computer file we will partner with a company to create ONLY 30 statues!
This will be an amazing piece of art and it will be autographed and personally presented to backers by Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet at a Bad Planet dinner in LA!
Stay tuned...as updates for this piece and all the great prizes will be posted here and on the Bad Planet BLOG!
Please help us to make this game a reality. We have a plan and now we need your help.
We are so very grateful to have this opportunity, and we'll do everything we can to make the very best game possible.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill that would require Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on behalf of local governments. This bill has flaws that could be fixed in the House of Representatives and should be passed.
I don't like the idea of the state and local governments collecting more taxes -- they know no limits to their capacity to tax and squander our hard-earned dollars -- but the current situation is unfair and bad economic policy.
In 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court held that states didn't have the power to levy taxes on online sales, unless the retailer has a physical presence in their state. Large retailers, like L.L. Bean, routinely charge the appropriate state taxes where they have a store or warehouse but not on sales in states where they don't.
Main Street retailers complain this places them at an unfair disadvantage -- and they are absolutely correct. No business would like the government giving a 5 percent price advantage to out-of-state competitors.
However, small retailers behave as if requiring Internet retailers to charge sales tax would be a salvation for their flagging fortunes. It wouldn't be.
Most local retailers, competing with Internet businesses and big box stores, lack the scale to offer the variety of products an increasingly diverse U.S. population demands and the scale to get favorable prices at wholesale.
Taxing Internet sales would make this problem worse by consolidating online competitors. The online bookstore in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is much less menacing to the small bookstore in Boston than Amazon.com. However, the Senate bill would drive out the Alabama retailer and enlarge giants like Amazon.com.
The Senate bill would require all retailers with more than $1 million in sales to collect and remit sales taxes to every state and local jurisdiction. That would require coding each sale by ZIP code and remitting to the states the appropriate taxes -- those often vary not just by state but also city and county -- and by products covered.
In the end, local vendors would have to rely on software or services comparable to the payroll services that now cut paychecks and remit withholding taxes on income, Social Security and unemployment insurances to state and local governments.
As anyone owning a small business knows those services are far from perfect. Many have received erroneous assessments and penalties, owing to mistakes made by payroll services and those take some considerable time and effort to resolve.
For payroll purposes, small businesses must deal with their home state and a few neighboring jurisdictions but for the purposes of sales taxes the potential expands to more than 5,000 state, city and county governments. Imagine running a rare books store in Boston with an online presence and receiving a few hundred erroneous notices of assessment from jurisdictions as far away as Alaska.
Not surprisingly, Amazon.com is in favor of the legislation. It could handle these issues much as Xerox handles employee payroll taxes all across the country. Its small competitors could not. Paying sales taxes in all 50 states adds to its costs but the benefits to its bottom line of driving out small competitors easily makes up the difference -- with a big profit.
The Senate bill excludes retailers with annual sales less than $1 million but that is a pittance in retailing and bears no parallel to definitions of small business in other federal legislation. For example, local restaurants and other businesses with less than 50 employees are exempt from Obamacare mandates to provide employee health insurance and supporting 50 employees can easily require sales north of $10 million.
Although it is far from a perfect solution, raising the threshold for retailers that must collect sales taxes outside their jurisdiction to $10 million would do a lot to more to preserve small businesses, including brick and mortar retailers, than requiring virtually all retailers to comply.
(Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and widely published columnist. Follow him n Twitter: @pmorici1)
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According to a news release from the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, Mandell and Engel, both 61, were arrested Thursday night after they had driven to the area of the planned abduction of the person, whom authorities did not identify.
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Get an arena and get an NBA team as well. There are still some cities that have the hockey and basketball teams play in the same arena.
netwolf wrote:The only way an NBA team would have a chance here is if they were perennial contenders (because people will go see a winner), but even then it's questionable.
Minor league pro basketball has failed here before, and the Pittsburgh Xplosion routinely play in front of crowds less than 100 people.
People here aren't going to support an NBA team solely because it's a major sport. This is a proven hockey market - people are still buying tickets despite the on-ice ineptitude the past few years. That tells you you have a good core of fans here. When the winning comes back, so will Joe Average Burgh Sports Fan and with him, max crowds.
BritishPenguin wrote:It would also stick in the throat if the team were to move and pick up the Stanley Cup in the first season post relocation.
BritishPenguin wrote:As you rightly said, Pittsburgh is no basketball city. It's a hockey city.
taiteng wrote:Here is Smizik's reply.
"I have yet to read anything about either the mayor or county executive preaching ``the postives of the Harrah's plan.'' I'd be curious to know where you read or heard that because they seem to be keeping extremely low profiles on the matter.
Likewise, I know nothing of the locally impacted studies that you are talking about.
Thanks for writing." -- Bob Smizik
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