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Several senior German lawmakers have raised the possibility of stripping Russia of its right to host the 2018 World Cup and the national soccer federation said it was very worried about events following the downing of a passenger plane over Ukraine.
Western states have blamed pro-Russian separatists battling Kiev's forces in eastern Ukraine for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17 in which 298 people were killed.
The European Union has threatened to impose harsher economic sanctions on Russia, though on Tuesday ministers delayed action for a few days.
Taking away Russia's right to hold the soccer tournament may have a significantly greater impact than more economic sanctions, said Michael Fuchs, deputy head of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc in the German parliament.
"The FIFA football association should think about whether Moscow is an appropriate host if it can't even guarantee safe airways," Fuchs told Handelsblatt Online, adding that Germany and France could take over the tournament if needed.
It would be unprecedented for the footballing world to deprive a country of hosting the World Cup once it has been awarded. Russia was selected in 2010 to host the event.
But Peter Beuth, interior minister of the state of Hesse, told top-selling Bild daily that staging the World Cup in Russia in 2018 would be "unimaginable" if Russian President Vladimir Putin did not actively cooperate with the crash investigation.
Withdrawing the World Cup from Russia "should not be taboo", said Stephan Mayer, a member of Bavaria's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU).
Germany's DFB football federation President Wolfgang Niersbach said Germany, which won the World Cup in Brazil this month, had very good relations with the Russian football association and the World Cup organisation committee.
"But we are watching with very great concern political events in Russia which could not be predicted at the time of the awarding of the World Cup in 2010," he added in a statement which stopped short of backing Russia's right to host.
FIFA said earlier this week it could not comment. Germany's FIFA executive committee member, Theo Zwanziger, played down the possibility of moving the tournament.
"The World Cup has been awarded to Russia, contracts have been signed and rights issued," Zwanziger told Handelsblatt.
He also rejected any calls for a boycott.
"A boycott in sport only rarely yields results and therefore I don't think much of such suggestions," Zwanziger told Handelsblatt, adding that Fuchs' comments sounded populistic.
"Sport must go places even if it is painful. Only then can it stand up for its values and convictions such as tolerance, fairness and peaceful cooperation," said Zwanziger.
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I see Mort Zuckerman on Bloomberg News milking his high profile on this morning's show-why is he been giving such a microphone?-to belabor how this is been "a very weak recovery." Yet after the numbers came out he tried to claim that it's "not bad news for Romney." Would 71,000 jobs have been good news for him? If so, he's a hypocrite.
I don't know exactly how much these numbers will help the President-but they sure won't hurt him. And who knows-it may well help him.
Overall, it's clear that things are improving and more Americans are feeling better about the economy. Gallup's numbers on unemployment are also very upbeat.
"American job creation improved in October with 171,000 new jobs but the unemployment rate moved higher to 7.9 percent, setting the stage for a final push to the finish line in the heated presidential campaign."
"Economists had been expecting the report to show a net of 125,000 new jobs and a steadying of the unemployment rate at 7.8 percent. Nomura Securities predicted the rate would fall to 7.7 percent, but most expected no change."
"Most of the job creation came in the services sector, with a gain of 150,000, while government employment rolls saw a collective decrease of 13,000, according to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
"A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those employed part-time who would rather work full-time ticked lower to 14.6 percent."
"The labor force participation rate, a key metric that measures those working and looking for jobs, edged higher to 63.8 percent after wallowing around 31-year lows for the past several months. The total level of employment jumped by 410,000."
"Unemployment for blacks showed the highest increase in the survey, surging to 14.3 percent from 13.4 percent."
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A PORTION of the high-energy cosmic rays raining down on Earth could have been swirling around the Milky Way for millions of years. The idea could help solve a conundrum that has puzzled physicists for the past year.
Cosmic rays are protons and nuclei of varying energies that regularly strike Earth. Little is known about them, but it is assumed that those with higher energies should have lower masses, as they are thought more likely to break up en route to Earth.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross baseball head coach Greg DiCenzo and the rest of the 2014 baseball team will host the 10th annual Leadoff Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 1, beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. This year's event will feature two guest speakers, Chris Colabello of the Minnesota Twins and J.P. Ricciardi of the New York Mets.
Colabello is currently a first baseman for the Minnesota Twins and made his major league debut during the 2013 season. He began his professional baseball career playing on Fitton Field for the Worcester Tornadoes of the independent Can-Am League from 2005-2011. Following his stint with the Tornadoes, Colabello was signed by the Twins in 2012 and quickly moved through the minor league ranks making his first major league appearance on May 22, 2013. A native of Milford, Mass., Colabello was a member of the Assumption College baseball team. He also played for the Italian National Team during the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Ricciardi, a Worcester native, currently serves as the special assistant to the general manger of the New York Mets. He began his baseball career as a player in the Mets organization in 1980. After his playing career concluded, Ricciardi coached in the New York Yankees farm system until he joined the Oakland Athletics organization in 1986. He rose through the ranks of Oakland's front office and was promoted to director of player personal in 1997. Ricciardi then served as general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays from 2002-2009. He joined the Mets front office during the 2010 season.
The baseball team will also honor Richard M. Regan, Jr., who served as the athletic director for Holy Cross over the past 15 years. During Regan's tenure, 19 Holy Cross teams have advanced to NCAA tournament play – including at least one team in 10 of his 15 seasons. He also added two new sports to Holy Cross, women's golf and women's ice hockey. Regan played a pivotal role in helping construct the brand new baseball field for the Crusaders, which opened in 2005.
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Sony fights back against hackers, stolen file sharers – by firing a DDoS back at them December 11, 2014 at 8:49 am
When the hackee becomes the hacker… In a somewhat amusing twist to the ongoing Sony Pictures hack and massive breach of sensitive files and unreleased films, the company is now fighting back. According to two unnamed sources, Sony is now using 'hundreds of computers' to perform a DDoS on websites where you can download the leaked data. Better yet, Sony is apparently using Amazon's cloud servers (AWS) to perform the DDoS. While I'm all for proactive security measures, Sony might be taking it a little bit too far here.
Sony's PlayStation Network taken down by DDoS, as company reels from last month's massive Sony Pictures hack (updated) December 9, 2014 at 6:37 am
Poor Sony: This morning, the company's PlayStation Network was unreachable due to suspected foul play by Lizard Squad, the same hacker group that took down Microsoft's Xbox Live network last wee. Lizard Squad used a distributed denial of service (DDoS) to take the networks offline. This latest Sony outage comes just a couple of weeks after a devastating and very-high-profile hack on Sony Pictures, which resulted in a massive leak of sensitive information and unreleased movies.
An Antarctic Adventure: The life of a South Pole communications technician December 2, 2014 at 10:01 am
Have you ever wanted to know what it's like for scientists and support staff living at the South Pole? How do they communicate with the rest of the world? Can they Skype with their families? I wanted to know the answers to those questions, and thankfully I just happen to know someone currently living and working in Antarctica.
Firefox drops Google as global default search provider, switches to Yahoo November 20, 2014 at 8:21 am
For almost the entirety of Firefox's 12-year history, Mozilla — and thus Firefox — has been primarily funded by a lucrative deal with Google. Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla around $100 million per year — or about 85% of Mozilla's total income — to keep Google as the default search provider. Today, that finally changes: Google is out and Yahoo is in.
EFF and Mozilla join forces to encrypt the entire web by giving away free HTTPS certs November 19, 2014 at 10:23 am
Starting in 2015, everyone will be able to get their hands on a free, officially sanctioned SSL/TLS certificate so that HTTPS can finally be enabled everywhere. The new service — a certificate authority (CA) called Let's Encrypt — is led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and the University of Michigan, with Cisco and Akamai joining as major launch partners. If you don't know much about SSL, TLS, and HTTPS, trust me when I say that this is a very big deal.
Mozilla releases Firefox Developer Edition, with built-in development environment November 10, 2014 at 5:34 pm
Firefox isn't the go-to browser for the nerdy crowd anymore, but that hasn't stopped Mozilla from working hard to improve the internet on the whole. Earlier this week, Mozilla released Firefox Developer Edition — a web browser with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) built right in. If you're in the web development business, this means that Firefox just became relevant again.
Obama urges FCC to adopt strong net neutrality rules, ban internet fast lanes November 10, 2014 at 12:45 pm
President Obama, at long last, has come out in defense of net neutrality. In a short statement (video below), he urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt "the strongest possible rules" to protect net neutrality, and to finally reclassify internet providers as common carriers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. Ultimately, the FCC is an independent agency that Obama can't directly affect — but presumably Obama is praying that his protestations, plus the 3.7 million other people who have submitted comments over the FCC's net neutrality plans, will be enough to turn the tide.
Dark market massacre: FBI shuts down Silk Road 2.0 and dozens more Tor websites November 8, 2014 at 8:09 am
The FBI has killed the Silk Road 2.0 and more than 400 other deep web sites, and it didn't need fancy tech to do it.
Verizon's latest privacy wrecking ploy: An unblockable supercookie that lets anyone track you on the internet November 5, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Over the last week, it has emerged that Verizon Wireless has been silently tracking around 100 million mobile customers using a supercookie that can't be opted out of. The tracking cookie, as you can probably guess, allows Verizon to track almost everything that you do on the internet, and then sell that behavioral data to advertisers. Even worse, get this: Verizon's implementation of the supercookie is so sloppy that any third party can also use the cookie to track your behavior.
New Google, and Larry Page's continuing mission to explore strange new technologies November 5, 2014 at 9:36 am
Google's co-founder and CEO, Larry Page, has admitted that it's time to find a new mission statement. The company's mission, 'to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,' along with its motto of 'don't be evil' — both coined more than a decade ago, in more peaceful times — seem idealistically quaint in a new era of robotics acquisitions, anti-monopoly investigations, and research into indefinite life extension and other futuristic biotech.


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We're All Set!May 30th, 2012
One of my former 7th grade English students, Nic Weinfeld, created this cool recap video using footage he shot during our recent film festival. Nic will be a senior in high school this year at the acclaimed Interlochen Arts Academy High School in Michigan. Nic left one of our local high schools to go to school at Interlochen so he could study film. I think Nic was able to capture the excitement and energy from our film festival in this 60-second recap video. Great job Nic. Thanks!
Our third annual film festival was almost two weeks ago and I'm finally getting around to writing about it. The podcast above was created by Bob Madigan from the radio station WTOP, 103.5 FM. It was nice of Mr. Madigan to take the time to come check out our film festival this year. Thanks Mr. Madigan!
Once again, we filled up the 400-seat theatre at the American Film Institute. It's a real honor to be able to screen our middle school films in such an amazing movie house. We showed documentaries, silent films, a collection of short scenes, a few animations, and some of the short movies students created. The festival could have been twice as long.
The one comment I hear each year from people who attend the festival is how surprised they are at the quality of the work. This year was no different. The students were glowing with satisfaction from having their films played on the big screen. We also were able to raise over $1,700 for our annual fundraiser. After we donate $500 to AFI, we still have plenty of money left over for more crazy projects next year.
Here's one of the many films that made a big impression at our film festival this year, Can't Let You Go:
Check out our website, Watch Out!, to see more of the films from this year. Thanks to all the students, parents, and other school staff members who helped make our third annual film festival a success. It's a TON of work organizing this film festival each year, but it's definitely worth it.
We're almost ready for our 3rd annual film festival coming up this Tuesday at AFI. We're screening close to two full hours of student-created films from the school year. Here's our to-do list for Monday:
That's all I can think of for now.
A few of my 7th grade students created this remix of the classic scene from A Few Good Men last week. We're going to use this clip as part of the introduction for our 3rd annual film festival coming up on June 7th. We were brainstorming possible famous scenes to remix when someone came up with this one. We quickly youtubed it (is that a word?) and thought immediately that it would work for our remix purposes. It actually only took them about an hour and a half to pull this off. I was pretty impressed.
We're having our film festival at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center again this year. We just about filled up the large 400-seat theatre last year with students, parents, friends and other invited guests from the community.
Hopefully, we'll fill it up again this year. The festival is about a week away and we still have quite a bit of work left to do to get ready.


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Heading up Highway 101 last week en route to a buddy's wedding, I found myself behind this beast of a truck. Traffic was moving freely, so I lived dangerously for about five minutes as I inched closer and closer before snapping a photo and then dropping back. Satan, as I learned after reading Henry Ansgar Kelly's diabolical biography of the one he deems a very misunderstood villain, comes from the Hebrew Ha-Satan, the one who accuses. (Trust me, you won't like the book.) In Spanish, el diablo could also be el satan, but maybe the truck belongs to this guy, an artist, not the Prince of Darkness.
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A woman looks out of a window in Venezuela President Hugo Chavez's chilhood town of Los Rastrojos in the state of Barinas September 11, 2012. To understand why President Hugo Chavez may win yet another election in Venezuela next month, go and sit under the mango trees of Los Rastrojos or Sabaneta. There, in the rural villages of his childhood at the heart of Venezuela's great savannah or "llanos", family and friends pour out tales of a boy whose motor-mouth and popular touch – now mainstays of his rule – were evident early on. The Archduke Joseph Diamond, an unmounted cushion-shaped Golconda diamond weighing 76.02 carats with a D colour and internally flawless clarity, is seen in this undated publicity photograph released to Reuters September 20, 2012. Billed as one of the most famous in the world, this diamond is expected to fetch well over $15 million when it hits the auction block in November, Christie's said on September 21, 2012. 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When Does Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Come Back?
UPDATE: Pretty Little Liars Season 2 Winter premiere is on Monday, January 2 at 8 PM ET/PT.
It's hard to believe that the summer finale of Pretty Little Liars is already upon us, and then we'll have yet another interminable hiatus until the show returns. (Luckily, ABC Family has delivered us The Lying Game to keep us mildly titillated in the interim.)
So when does the show actually come back? Following the mid-season finale on August 30, the show will take a two-month hiatus and return just in time for a Halloween special, which will be a prequel showing the girls prior to Alison's death. As Lucy Hale (Aria) explained during a recent set visit: "The Halloween episode is very cool because it's all a flashback, it's a prequel and it's from Alison's perspective... It's pre-A, it's pre-death, so life is good, [the girls] are carefree and you actually get to see the girls laughing and smiling. So it's very fun."
That's Season 2, Episode 13, "The First Secret" — but that Halloween episode is just a one-off to tide us over during the hiatus. Viewers can expect the second half of Season 2 to return in January 2012, which is when the second half of Season 1 premiered last year.
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Get ready to feel the need for speed in modern day as Skydance CEO David Ellison confirms details on the upcoming "Top Gun 2."
The iconic Tom Cruise movie moves forward with plans for a sequel, with Justin Marks tapped to pen the script.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer says Top Gun 2 is back on track, with Tom Cruise's Maverick flying in to prove pilots aren't obsolete.
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Data presented in this report are collected annually through the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) congressionally mandated Survey of Federal Science and Engineering Support to Universities, Colleges, and Nonprofit Institutions (federal S&E support survey). The survey originated in 1965, when the Committee on Academic Science and Engineering (CASE) within the Federal Council for Science and Technology established the CASE data collection system to report annually on federal S&E obligations to academic institutions and associated federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Since 1968, CASE data, as well as data on nonprofit institutions, have also served as the basis for an annual report to the President and Congress. This survey is designed to collect information from federal agencies on (1) total S&E program support to academic institutions and (2) research and development (R&D) and R&D plant support to nonprofit institutions. All agencies that report research and development performed by universities and colleges or nonprofit institutions in the NSF Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development are included in this survey.
A Web-based data collection system (FSSWeb) is used to collect the federal S&E support survey data. FSSWeb is part of NSF's effort to enhance survey reporting and reduce data collection and processing costs by offering respondents direct online reporting and editing. Because the Federal S&E Support data are collected in electronic format, there is no paper instrument. Respondents provide data for each institution using similar data entry screens. The screens change slightly depending on whether the respondent is providing data for academic or nonprofit institutions. The categories of support also are slightly different for Defense and non-Defense agencies. Mock survey instruments have been created to illustrate what information the respondent is asked to provide in FSSWeb. See the Federal S&E Support's survey methodology report for further details on the FSSWeb system.
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 data in this report were submitted by 18 Federal agencies, covering the period October 1, 2002, through September 30, 2003.
Agency for International Development
Appalachian Regional Commission
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Interior
Department of Labor
Department of Transportation
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Justice Programs
Social Security Administration
The data are presented in terms of federal obligations provided for direct support of academic S&E. The data exclude financial support of an indirect nature, such as funds allocated to state agencies, even if the final recipient of such funds are known to be an academic institution. Data on type of institutional control and highest degree granted are not presented in this report but are available upon request (see Data Availability at the end of this section).
Obligations are the amounts for orders placed, contracts awarded, services received, and similar transactions during a given period, regardless of when the funds were appropriated and when future payment of money is required. Obligations differ from expenditures in that funds allocated by federal agencies during one fiscal year may be spent by the recipient institution either partially or entirely during one or more subsequent years.
The obligations listed for individual institutions reflect direct federal S&E support. Thus, amounts subcontracted and subgranted to other institutions are included, but funds received through subrecipient arrangements from prime recipients are excluded.
Obligations are reported to the survey in thousands of dollars. Obligations totaling less than $500 for any specific activity (e.g., R&D, general support for S&E) are reported as zero.
Obligations are listed as awards to individual institutions within a system (e.g., to the University of California, Los Angeles, rather than to the University of California system as a whole). However, obligations awarded directly to the central administration of a system are listed separately. If the final destination of the funds is not known, the agencies report them as obligations to a system's administrative office from which the funds are distributed to the system's individual institutions.
Since these data were first collected in 1965, there have been some changes in reporting. The most recent of these include the following:
The data presented here include all obligations for academic S&E, comprising federal obligations for R&D; R&D plant; facilities and equipment for S&E instruction; fellowships, traineeships, and training grants; general support for S&E; and other S&E activities. These support categories are defined below.
Research is systematic study directed toward fuller scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied. Research is classified as either basic or applied according to the objectives of the sponsoring agency. In basic research, the objective of the sponsoring agency is to generate knowledge of the underlying foundations of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications toward processes or products in mind. In applied research, the objective of the sponsoring agency is the creation of knowledge or understanding necessary to determine the means by which a recognized and specific need may be met.
Development is systematic use of knowledge and understanding gained from research directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods, including design and development of prototypes and processes.
Research equipment is any item (or interrelated collection of items comprising a system) of nonexpendable tangible property or software having a useful life of more than 2 years and an acquisition cost of $500 or more that is used wholly or in part for research. Research equipment is included under R&D.
If the R&D facilities are part of a larger facility devoted to other purposes as well, the funds should be distributed among the categories of support involved as appropriate. In general, another category that would be involved is category 3 (facilities and equipment for S&E instruction).
Exclude from the R&D plant category expendable research equipment and office furniture and equipment, and all other activities, i.e., those not specifically related to S&E. See the definition of "research equipment" under category 1 (R&D).
If the instructional facilities are part of a larger facility devoted to other purposes as well, the funds should be distributed among the categories of support involved as appropriate. In general, the other category most likely to be involved is category 2 (R&D plant).
Excluded are projects that support research and educational institutes, seminars, and conferences such as teacher training activities provided through teacher institutes, short courses, research participation, and in-service seminars; activities aimed at the development of educational techniques and materials for use in S&E training; and programs that provide special opportunities for increasing the scientific knowledge and experience of precollege and undergraduate students. These activities are to be reported either under category 6 (other activities related to S&E) or not reported if they are not S&E related.
It is intended that among the projects to be reported under the category "general support for S&E" are projects awarded through these agency programs:
The types of institutions covered by this survey are universities and colleges, independent nonprofit institutions, and consortia of both universities and colleges and of independent nonprofit institutions.
Universities and colleges are those institutions of higher education in the United States that offer at least 1 year of college-level study leading toward a degree. The universe of academic institutions for this survey is derived from the higher education institution portion of ED's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics) and the 2004 Higher Education Directory (published by Higher Education Publications, Inc.).
Institutions included are those that received federal S&E support during FY 2003. This support may have been provided to any part of the academic institution—its colleges (e.g., liberal arts) and schools (e.g., agriculture), professional schools, hospitals, agricultural experiment stations, bureaus, offices, and research centers (excluding FFRDCs), whether located on or off the main campus or at branch campuses controlled directly by the parent institution. Further, the institutions included must have a significant degree of academic and administrative autonomy. For example, institutions within a system (a group of institutions having a collective legal status and generally recognized by a state government, a board of education, or other relevant organization) in which a significant degree of autonomy remains at the individual institution level are presented separately; however, obligations to branch campuses are included in the totals for the parent institutions. Obligations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School are not included.
Independent nonprofit institutions are legal entities other than universities and colleges, privately organized or chartered to serve the public interest, and exempt from most forms of federal taxation. Data presented for nonprofit institutions are obligations for R&D and R&D plant reported by as many as 18 participating agencies.
Coverage of the nonprofit sector in the federal S&E support survey was expanded beginning in the late 1970s to include all types of nonprofit institutions that receive federal R&D funds. For NSF's purposes, these types of institutions are defined as follows:
Professional or technical society or academy of science and engineering: A voluntary association of individuals sharing a common interest in the advancement of knowledge—either within a single field or across a broad spectrum of disciplines—whose major function is to aid and encourage the collection, collation, and dissemination of S&E knowledge for the benefit of its members and the community as a whole.
Private foundation: A nongovernmental nonprofit organization, with a principal fund of its own managed by its own trustees or directors, established to maintain, aid, or facilitate social, educational, charitable, religious, or other activities serving the common welfare. Private foundations include operating foundations that allocate the greater proportion of their R&D budgets to intramural performance and philanthropic foundations that allocate most of their funds to grants and contracts for research to be performed extramurally.
Science exhibitor: A nonprofit organization whose primary goal is to expand scientific literacy within a community by providing exhibits that display and interpret the latest scientific findings within its field or fields. Included in this category are museums, zoos, botanical gardens, and arboretums.
Trade association: An organization of business competitors in a specific industry or business that is interested primarily in the commercial promotion of products or services. Membership is usually held in the name of a business entity. Activities may fall into one or more of the following areas: business ethics, management practices, standardization, commercial (statistical) research, publication, promotion, and public relations.
Agricultural cooperative: An organization of individuals or business entities that are normally competitors in the production and sale of agricultural products. Activities may fall into one or more of the following areas: collective marketing or purchasing, research, public relations, and improvement of economic conditions for the U.S. farm population.
Consortia: Consortia are organizations formed by the membership of a number of institutions from one or more types of performers (e.g., academic, nonprofit, industrial) in order to promote and support efforts to enhance knowledge in one or more science or engineering disciplines. NSF has identified several consortia and classified them as either academic or nonprofit types based on the predominance of their membership at the time of identification.
Data presented here on R&D and R&D plant by agency sometimes differ significantly from similar data presented in the annual NSF Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development (or the "federal funds survey"). Much of the difference lies in the two surveys' treatment of interagency transfers. Interagency transfers of funds obligated to an academic or nonprofit institution are reported here by the agency that actually obligates the funds to the receiving institution. In the federal funds survey, however, obligations are reported by the agency in which the funds originated.
Other differences between the data compiled by the two surveys stem from the following factors:
Agencies involved: In the present survey, data are reported by as many as 18 federal agencies on their S&E obligations to institutions of higher education; these agencies together obligate virtually all federal support to academic R&D. For the federal funds survey, budget data on R&D and R&D plant are gathered from the 30 federal agencies with such programs.
Scope of information: Data collected in the federal S&E support survey pertain only to individual academic and nonprofit institutions. Those collected in the federal funds survey relate to all types of performers. Furthermore, the federal funds survey provides detailed data on the character of work (basic research, applied research, and development); data from the federal S&E support survey are not comparably disaggregated.
Data sources: The two surveys rely on different sources of data and different methods of data collection. For example, data for the federal S&E support survey are generally processed from award files; federal funds survey data are usually derived from agency budget documents.
Preparer interpretations: Several agencies rely on personnel from separate internal offices to respond to the two surveys. These respondents may differ in their interpretation of survey questions. NIH, for example, reports Minority Biomedical Support Grants under "general support for science and engineering" in the federal S&E support survey, but under "research and development" in the federal funds survey.
NSF publishes one other report related to federal R&D funding, National Patterns of R&D Resources. This report provides statistics on U.S. R&D expenditures categorized by provider of funds (federal government, nonfederal government, industry, academia, and nonprofit institutions), type of performer (federal government, industry, academia, nonprofit institutions, and FFRDCs), and character of work (basic research, applied research, and development). In the report, R&D expenditure levels from federal sources are based on performer-reported surveys, which differ from federal R&D funding totals reported by the federal agencies that provide those funds. During the past several years, these differences have widened. The difference in the federal R&D totals appears to be concentrated in the funding of industry R&D by DOD. See National Patterns of R&D Resources: 2003 (NSF 05-308) for a detailed discussion and documentation of these differences.
Data published in this report are also available on the World Wide Web. Information on file formats and the years for which they are available can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/fedsupport/.
Selected data items for individual doctorate-granting institutions and schools with S&E departments that grant a master's degree are available on institutional profiles at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/profiles. An institutional profile consists of data not only from this survey but from NSF's other two academic S&E surveys: the Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges (academic R&D expenditures survey) and NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (graduate student survey).
Institutional researchers can obtain data from several academic S&E resources through the web-based Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System (WebCASPAR), which provides access to a wide range of statistical data focusing on U.S. universities and colleges and their S&E resources.
WebCASPAR provides an extensive and growing data library with multiyear statistics on the state of higher education in general and on academic S&E resources specifically. This data library is based on a set of standard institutional and field-of-science definitions across the multiple sources used to develop the database. The WebCASPAR program includes built-in help capabilities to facilitate the use and interpretation of the data.
WebCASPAR data are drawn from a number of sources. All data are available for individual institutions, by state, and at the national level. Longitudinal data from surveys of universities and colleges conducted by NSF's Division of Science Resources Statistics include the federal S&E support survey, academic R&D expenditures survey, federal funds survey, and graduate student survey cited above. Data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics also are included. Data from other sources include the National Research Council's assessment of research doctorate programs.
WebCASPAR can be accessed via the World Wide Web at http://webcaspar.nsf.gov.
To obtain accurate historical data, use only the latest detailed statistical tables (covering FY 2003) and not data published earlier. Data presented in trend tables are assembled from the most recently completed survey cycle. Data for prior years are reviewed for consistency with current year responses and, when necessary, are revised in consultation with agencies and/or institutions. For that reason, references to prior years' data should be restricted to those published in this document.


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The universe isn't made of atoms; it's made of tiny stories. Praised by fans and critics alike, "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories" has been one of the most beloved projects to come out of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt's online creative coalition hit Record. With Volume 2, the journey continues with a fresh selection of stories small in scope but outsize in impact. To create "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories" - half short story collection, half communal poem (Flavorwire) - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, known within the hitRECord.org community as Regular JOE, directs thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective, Joe culls, edits, and curates the massive numbers of contributions into a finely tuned collection that is at once ingeniously illustrated ...witty [and] meaningful ("Entertainment Weekly"). "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Volume 2" once again brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size.
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Glee Recap of Season 4, Episode 11: "Sadie Hawkins" — Rachel Asks Brody to Move In!
Two things to keep in mind: 1.) Glee is back from an eternal hiatus with an amazing and shocking (what are you doing, Rachel??) new episode; and 2.) Fake snowflakes are not as delicious as they look. And it's time for the recap, so heat up a turkey burger, loosen your neck brace, and grab some "special" brownies!
The episode, "Sadie Hawkins," begins with Tina proposing that McKinley throw a Sadie Hawkins dance, which Blaine is opposed to but is overruled. It turns out Tina just wanted the dance as an excuse to ask out Blaine. We like a girl after our own heart.
And right away, we thought this plot was a tad ridiculous — why are they making Tina sorta nutty? — but then there was that shot where we got a close-up of Blaine's butt as Tina checks out him while singing her song, and we were like, "Okay, we'll allow it." Three words: Blaine. Got. Back.
Kurt has his first day at NYADA — which should have come four months ago, since he should have been admitted with Rachel from the start, but we digress. Kurt sadly realizes he's at the bottom of the social hierarchy, meaning if NYADA's student body were the Baldwin brothers, he would be Stephen Baldwin. ("I really liked the 1996 Stephen Baldwin-Pauly Shore comedy Bio-Dome," said no one ever.)
Kurt decides to join the Adam's Apples (what a very biblical name), and so we meet Adam. So what did we think of Adam? Uh, how to be polite. Well, it's fun to see Kurt with someone who is even peppier than he is, not to mention someone who loves giving Kurt compliments. By the way, Kurt does look Paul Newman-esque. (And now we're hungry for salad dressing.)
But we couldn't help comparing Adam's introductory song — the goofy-but-charming "Baby Got Back" — to Blaine's mind-blowing introductory song from Season 2, "Teenage Dream." It's almost not even fair to compare these two songs, and it's probably not fair to compare the guys either. But we're happy Kurt's happy, and it was cute to see Rachel encouraging Kurt to go for it.
It's time for the school dance, which Blaine is thankfully allowed to wear hair gel to. Among the dates are the chaste Jarley and surprisingly cute Puck and Kitty (who knew?). Blaine accompanies Tina as a friend — to make up for burning her earlier — but the person he really wants to take to the dance is Sam. That's right — Sam. Since when did the entire school become gaga for Trouty Mouth?
Meanwhile, Sam is busy blowing the whistle on the Warblers (get it — because the Warblers performed "Whistle" at Sectionals this year?) and figures out that the Warblers guys are juicing. This is when we meet Trent, the sunshine-y Warbler who turns on his group and saves the day. Maybe the Warblers will soon be telling their story to Oprah Winfrey, a la Lance Armstrong?
Finally, Brody is way late for his turkey burger date with Rachel, which makes Rachel want to throw out his turkey burger — although we would have recommended throwing out the turkey burger anyway, since turkey burgers are totally gross. But they have a cute, music-free dance, and suddenly Rachel is going to have to let Kurt know that they now live in an apartment for three.
So what did we think of the episode? We thought it was great, with a ton of hilarious lines and an excellent blend of songs (we miss you, TLC!), along with Jake and Marley becoming the cutest couple ever. And we're finally starting to kinda-sorta like Kitty, which certainly took long enough.
As for that Brochel scene, we're a little taken aback, but in a good way; we did not see these two moving in together so quickly, but who doesn't like one of Glee's patented surprise endings? Come to think of it, we probably shouldn't be that surprised to see Rachel being impulsive about a relationship (Finchel engagement, anyone?). Long story short, we're starting to see some appeal to joining Team Brochel. For now.
For our "Favorite Scene of the Night," we'll give it to Blaine and Tina sitting on the ground, talking about pain and stuff. We love these two as besties! As for our Best Scene runner-up, we're going with Sam's frantically realizing that Hunter's head is now roughly the size of Betty Boop's.
As for some minor quibbles? We think it's great that Tina got so much screentime tonight, but c'mon — her storyline was a little silly. And we loved seeing Lauren Zizes back, but how does the show bring back both Lauren and Puck and not at least have them acknowledge each other or insult each other a bit? Opportunity lost for some great Pizes zingers.
All in all, 'twas a very promising start to the second half of the season. Now if you don't mind, we're busy passing around a petition to make Magic Mike: The Musical a real thing. Care to sign?


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Salvation Army of Martin County - FPL brings "Power to Care"
On a recent Saturday, volunteers from Florida Power & Light appeared in bright green shirts to freshen up the inside and outside of the Salvation Army headquarters in Stuart. Approximately 30 FPL volunteers gave up their Saturday morning to paint the fellowship hall/multi-purpose room and adjoining hallways as well as to weed, trim and mulch outside the front of the building. The volunteers were participating in a state-wide FPL effort called "The Power to Care Day."
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Camden Property Trust ranks No. 7 on Forbes' list. ( Mayra Beltran / Chronicle )
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Houston-based Camden has 1,678 employees. ( Melissa Phillip / Chronicle )
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No. 55 Men's Wearhouse has an average employee retention rate of 14 years. ( Patrick T. Fallon / Houston Chronicle )
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Gina Bonares, a registered nurse with Memorial Hermann, gives a flu shot to Anthony Marino at EOG Resources in 2010. The Houston oil and gas firm covers 100 percent of its employees' health care. ( Julio Cortez / Houston Chronicle )
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Methodist Hospital ranks No. 53 with 8 percent growth and 12,152 employees.
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Google ranks No. 1 on the Forbes list with 33 percent growth and 18,500 U.S. emplolyees. (AP Photo)
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Senior security analyst Joshua Stevens works in the cyber security unit at USAA in San Antonio. USAA ranks No. 20 on Forbes' list.
Four Houston-based companies were named to Fortune magazine's list of 100 "Best Companies to Work For."
Each is a repeat winner. (See the complete list here.)
Camden Property Trust ranked No. 7, the same as in 2011. The apartment management company gave out surprise bonuses ranging from $100 to $5,000 last year.
The Methodist Hospital, which has operations in the Texas Medical Center, Baytown and Sugar Land, placed 53rd on the list, down from 19 last year. In terms pay for hourly employees, it ranked No. 8 with employees making an average of $83,377.
The Men's Wearhouse earned the No. 55 spot. The retailer was recognized for giving employees three-week paid sabbaticals and three weeks of paid vacation a year after five years. It previously ranked No. 87.
Oil and gas firm EOG Resources, which ranked No. 72, was recognized for its perks and pay. It is one of the 14 companies on this year's list that pays 100 percent of their employees' health-care premiums. EOG ranked No. 5 based on pay for salaried employees, with annual pay averaging $188,662. The most common job title is engineer. EOG ranked No. 66 in 2011.
Texas was home to 11 of the companies on the top 100 list, down from 13 companies last year.


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KiosKiosK is Hemingway's response to the Museum's challenge, which asked London designers to give something back to the city. Reflecting on his early days as a trader in Camden, and the vicious rental prices which nowadays mean small shopkeepers can barely survive, he designed a small, rent-free pop-up shop which can be readily set up and used to display wares simply and easily.
The kiosk's first inhabitant is Westergaarrd Designs. They'll be displaying their goodies until Saturday, at which point another will take over. KiosKiosK will host dozens of designers over the summer until early September – you can find out who's in the kiosk on any given day by checking out the calendar.


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By DANNY P. SMITH
Sports Editor
One night prior to a Mississippi State men's basketball game against Vanderbilt, a young boy approached radio broadcaster Jack Cristil for an autograph.
Cristil was busy getting his notes together to describe yet another athletic event for the Bulldogs, but it didn't stop him from taking the time to acknowledge the small fan who appreciated his work.
All the boy had to give Cristil was a small piece of paper, but the broadcaster used the space for this message: To Danny Smith, best wishes, Jack Cristil, Voice of the Bulldogs.
After that last statement, you have probably guessed that the experience shared was my own.
Cristil will never know what that small gesture of putting his name, along with an encouraging word, on a small piece of paper meant to me.
From that moment on, following Mississippi State athletics on the radio with Cristil calling the action was high on my list or priorities.
Not only did Cristil introduce me to Bulldog football and basketball, but I developed an appreciation for Cristil and his work.
For the last 58 years, Cristil showed up and performed his craft better than anybody.
When you turned on a Mississippi State football or basketball game on the radio, Cristil would always seem to be there describing the action. I don't remember many instances when he wasn't there.
It's apparent Cristil loved what he did and didn't want to take a game off for any reason.
That's why when news broke about Cristil's pending retirement due to health concerns, then had the heart-felt message following the MSU-LSU broadcast, it was a little hard to believe.
Cristil called his last game on Saturday afternoon when the Bulldogs traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., to play the Tennessee Volunteers in basketball.
As MSU capped the 70-69 win against Tennessee, Cristil got the opportunity to say one final time, "wrap it in Maroon and White."
It was only fitting that the Bulldogs were victorious on the court in Cristil's final broadcast. He seemed to enjoy the game very much.
It's going to be strange not hearing Cristil's voice on future MSU football and basketball broadcasts, but Jim Ellis and company will do a fine job in moving forward.
There are plans are being made to honor Cristil in some way for the many years of service he provided to the Bulldogs.
It's difficult to come up with the amount of words and some that are adequate enough to recognize such a man as Cristil.
The best thing I can do is return the favor he gave me several years ago.
To Jack Cristil, best wishes, Danny P. Smith, SDN sports editor.
Danny P. Smith is sports editor and columnist for the Starkville Daily News. The opinions in this column are his and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Daily News or its staff.


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Watson, the cognitive computer that can be an expert in any subject, is moving to the cloud, and will soon be accessible via smartphone app
If you could quiz Watson, IBM's all-knowing supercomputer, from an app on your phone, what would you ask it?
That is the question facing app developers now that IBM has shrunk its cognitive computer from the bedroom-sized monster that won the TV quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011 to the size of just three stacked pizza boxes. Mini Watsons can now easily be installed in data centres worldwide and made available as a cloud service to cellphone users.
Until now it has been unclear what type of apps would make best use of Watson's capabilities. It is no ordinary computer, answering complex questions using data mining and machine learning. On 28 April, IBM unveiled the 25 best app ideas in response to the challenge it issued at February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Three of the ideas will be developed, making them among the first apps powered by Watson-in-the-cloud. IBM has set aside $100 million for Watson apps and has already invested in Fluid of San Francisco. Fluid is writing an app for outdoor clothing firm The North Face to advise hikers on the right gear for the conditions, based on product data, user reviews and expert websites.
Watson's ability to learn is what sets it apart from conventional supercomputers that only carry out superfast number crunching. Instead, Watson's role is to learn all it can about different subjects using data gleaned from a wide range of sources, including databases, encyclopedias, news stories, reviews, dictionaries, peer-reviewed research papers and textbooks. Watson's wealth of knowledge means that it will be able to answer questions beyond the scope of mere web searches.
For example, one of the shortlisted apps could be great news for any worried new parents, if it makes the final three. Developer Biovideo of San Antonio, Texas, wants to train Watson on neonatal and infant medical data from sources such as medical journals, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the UK National Health Service. "So a mother with a sick child at 4 am will be able to use Watson to ask what is wrong with her baby and get a 100 per cent accurate response using data from these trusted sources," the firm claims in its proposal.
Crucially, Watson's source data can be "unstructured" and so does not need converting and organising into narrow database-field categories. When a question is posed in natural language – currently English though more languages are planned – Watson's linguistic processor examines it in 120 different ways to work out what is being asked.
Reasoning algorithms begin to find hypothetical answers in the data, scoring them with ever greater confidence levels and ultimately returning its best possible answer. Watson has already put that capability to good use at a number of cancer hospitals in the US (see "Dr Watson will see you now").
But it is changes to Watson's hardware that make it ready to hit our smartphones. To play Jeopardy!, in which contestants are given an answer and have to work out the question, Watson was trained on 200 million pages of data. That machine comprised 10 server racks containing 2880 processor cores and 15 terabytes of RAM. Now, says Rob High, chief technology officer of the IBM Watson Group in New York, the latest version of Watson performs even better than the original with just 32 processor cores and 256 gigabytes of RAM.
This is made possible because Watson's processors run in parallel, while its operating system runs concurrent software routines, known as threads, within each of the parallel-processing cores, which lets it learn much faster and more efficiently than before.
The new mini Watson, being no bigger than three pizza boxes, can easily be slotted into racks in a cloud data centre. The idea is that every developer will give Watson a mountain of data from their chosen area for the computer to learn from. Once trained, the apps let users ask Watson questions from their phone, says High. Watson can adapt to demand too. "We can expand the Watson resource elastically depending on the number of people asking it questions," he says. This is done by making more processors and memory available at the data centre if an app proves surprisingly popular.
One app that might do well is an ultimate guide to New York City. Proposed by Ontodia, a developer there, it aims to vastly improve on the disconnected and unimpressive hits Siri and Google offer up. Training Watson on municipal, state, federal, tourist and commercial databases will provide answers to complex, natural language searches like "what is the average income of this apartment block, correlated with property taxes and construction activity over the last ten years?". The firm's aim is to give New Yorkers a detailed profile of any neighbourhood.
Azoft of Novosibirsk, Russia, meanwhile, wants to provide phone users with an animated, intelligent avatar they can ask for advice – with Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein cited as examples. Watson, Azoft says, would be trained with all Freud's and Einstein's books, articles, speeches, letters and interviews and would answer questions just as they might – perhaps with accurate speech synthesis, too.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Editing checklist and simple money game
We all know how hard it is to teach a child to write. It is like pulling teeth. My students struggle with realizing what is missing from their writing. I found this great editing checklist online that can be modified for each writing assignment! It is uploaded into my google docs. Not sure who created it. Enjoy:)
You can find it HERE
I uploaded a really simple money game also. I printed mine out and laminated them to use in the future. Basically you group up 2/3 students and roll a die. Each number on a die is worth a certain coin. The first one to a dollar wins! You can modify this to $2 or even $3. Gets kids counting. They have fun with it! (We did this in my student teaching also!) You can find that HERE. Sorry they aren't very pretty. My pretty fonts are on my MAC and my PC is j.u.n.k.
I'm getting old. Also on another note. I have worked 35 hours this week and its only Thursday. Plus my janitor told me I get to work too early and that I need a "friend". Referring to a boyfriend. Gee thanks lady
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2 comments:
- Chelsea Coleen said...
if 23 is old then what is 25? i am going to go cry now. !!! :)
- October 20, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Peter Dienstmann said...
Thanks for the editing checklist. Too bad there's a typo in it! ("I read my writing out *load* a second time.") Easy to fix, but I wish I could message the creator of that file.
- January 18, 2013 at 9:49 AM
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Man reports someone throws bleach in his face
The following information was provided by reports filed with the Huntington Police Department:
UNLAWFUL WOUNDING: A 27-year-old man reported he became involved in an argument just before 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 2100 block of 8th Avenue. He said during the argument, someone approached him and threw bleach in his face. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment, and police have a suspect.
BURGLARY: An 83-year-old woman reported someone forced entry into her home in the 500 block of Everett Street sometime Wednesday evening and took $5,300 in jewelry.
BURGLARY: A 50-year-old man reported someone took $1,400 in electronics from his home along Camelot Drive sometime Wednesday night.
Police have suspects.
The following information was provided by booking records at the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville:
Adam Gabriel Alexander, 30, was incarcerated at 4:15 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Cabell County charged him with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Bond was $10,000.
Ashley Ann Slayton, 28, was incarcerated at 2:15 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Cabell County charged her with four felony counts of uttering. Bond was $20,000.
Andrea Renee Gross, 24, was incarcerated at 2:15 p.m. Thursday. Authorities in Cabell County charged her as a fugitive from justice. Bond was denied.
Two people were charged with felony child neglect and booked into the Western Regional Jail early Thursday morning, according to booking records at the facility.
Tifani Brocke Finley, 34, and Harold Lee Kirk, 58, were incarcerated at 12:35 a.m. Thursday.
Bond are being held without bond, pending arraignment.


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NBC's "Last Comic Standing" is kicking off a "Comic Comeback" online competition tonight, June 19 that will give fans of the popular series a chance to give their favorite eliminated comic a second chance to appear on the show. "Last Comic Standing," starring Roseanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters as judges and JB Smoove as host, airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.
After the second semi-final round airs on June 19, two eliminated contestants - selected by the theater audience at the taping - will kick off a head-to-head standup battle. Fans can watch video of the comics' exclusive online standup routines, vote for their favorite at http://nbc.com/comic-comeback or on Twitter with #ComicComeback - and share their vote with friends.
Each week, the winner of this head-to-head will compete against the next comic exiting the television show. The comedian who emerges Victorious in the 'Comic Comeback' after five weeks will go on to perform in the finale.
Wanda Sykes ("Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious") will be the special guest mentor on the June 19 episode. She'll be giving tips and advice to the final group of semi-finalists performing, each hoping to advance to the compelling challenge rounds of the competition featuring the show's top 10 comics.
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- We really liked that each song was immediately playable in free mode, we didn't have to worry about unlocking music that we wanted to dance along to.
- Dance Paradise's unique control scheme doesn't ask you to perform detailed and exhausting routines like a professional dancer.
Dance Paradise for Kinect manages to create its own unique brand of dancing fun by combining elements of many of the most popular recent music games. Families will use dance moves to control the gameplay to score points or battle opponents.
In the game, one or two players at a time will mimic the onscreen dance moves of stick-figure like characters at various times throughout the song. These dancing stick figures will slide toward the front of the screen on one of four colored pathways. By leaning to the left or right, players will need to line up with the correct track as the figure reaches the spotlight circle, and then start silhouetting their dance moves in time with the music.
This gameplay style actually reminds us of a few different other games we've played before. It is absolutely not necessary for you to have played any of these videogame music games we're about to mention, but if you have, then these following points of reference might prove useful. A good way to think about the gameplay of Dance Paradise is that it's sort of a combination of Just Dance and Guitar Hero. Not only do you have to do the right dance moves at the right time, but you need to make sure you're lined up on the right colored track as well.
This way of controlling the game is very interesting, and definitely sets Dance Paradise apart from other dance titles we've played. In other games it seems as if the game is trying to help you succeed in becoming a better dancer by encouraging you to complete cohesive routines to have success. But in Dance Paradise, it feels as if you are using dance moves to control the game, and not necessarily just performing a routine along with the music.
There is a tutorial the first time you play through Dance Paradise, which does a good job of teaching players basic dance moves and the overall concept of switching tracks. We also really liked how we could immediately access all the songs in freeplay mode, we didn't have to worry about unlocking music.
Dance Paradise has great two-player options. Players can dance side-by-side in one of three different modes. Versus mode is a straight battle based on gathering the most points, and Synchro mode encourages players to move in time with each other. But the real interesting multiplayer aspect in Dance Paradise is Attack Mode, in which two players go head to head and can acquire special items to use against their opponent. These items can be strategically used to do things like freezing your opponent, making them move tracks, stealing points and more.
Even though the game is rated T for Teen, from a pure gameplay perspective we think that tweens as young as 9 or 10 will really enjoy the game. The main reason for the T rating is due to the sexual content of some of the music videos and songs that you dance along to. A few also feature references to alcohol. We've included the full song list below.
Dance Paradise is much more accessible for families with tweens and up than other dance games we've played for Kinect. The unique gameplay style won't teach you new routines or have you feeling like a professional dancer, but it will have you doing many types of dance moves to score points, and in some cases battle your opponent. It's a perfect Kinect title that can be played competitively or cooperatively by families who like to Let Loose. Since the songs are the main reason for the T rating, we think Dance Paradise is fine for parents to play along with Tweens as they can monitor the music that is being played. But we'd recommend only letting teens and up play this game alone.
Dance Paradise Song List:
50 Cent – In da club
Akon – Bellydancer
Atomic Kitten – Ladies Night
Brick & Lace – Love is wicked
Caesars – Jerk It Out
Cassius – The sound of violence
Cassius – Toop toop
Daft Punk – Around the world
David Guetta ft Kelly Rowland – When love takes over
Debi Nova – Drummer boy
Empire of the sun – Walking on a dream
Fall out boy – Dance Dance
Frankie goes to hollywood – REMIX Relax REMIX
Geri Halliwell – It's raining men
Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
Gwen Stefani – What you are waiting for
Kenna – Say goodbye to love
Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne – Let it rock
Kool & the Gang – Celebration
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
Laroux – Bulletproof
Lil Wayne ft. Static – Lollipop
Lily Allen – F*** You
MC Hammer – Can't Touch This
Mika – Lollipop
Mika – We are Golden
Nelly – Hot in Herre
No Doubt – Hey Baby
Orianthi – According to you
Pixie lott – Mama do
Pussycat Dolls – When I grow up
Rihanna – Disturbia
Shaggy – Hey sexy lady
Snoop Dogg ft Pharrell – Beautiful
Sophie Ellis bextor – Murder on the dancefloor
Starsailor – Four to the Floor
Supergrass – Alright
Taio Cruz – Break Your heart
Yelle – A cause des garçons


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"Tux Paint is going to be a drawing program for you kids. It provides
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previous images using a thumbnail browser (e.g., no access to the
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It's not meant as a replacement for The GIMP, Gpaint or Xpaint, as
it is VERY limited, but it does provide a much simpler interface,
and has child-oriented additions such as sound effects and (eventually)
an animated character (and possibly spoken help, along with textual,
on-screen help).
Tux Paint is to be released under the GNU General Public License (GPL),
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It's based on SDL, so it should be portable amongst numerous
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