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Would you know what to do in a serious emergency? Would you be able to help someone if they were hurt, suffering a heart attack or suddenly fell unconscious? Canadian first aid and CPR training teaches effective and easy to learn techniques to individuals that want to learn to help. Two major first aid courses are available for Canadians that want to learn the basics in helping others. Standard first aid is a two day course that meets a number of workplace, academic and government certification standards. Emergency First Aid is a comprehensive one day course that also meets the same certification standards. Both classes include training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the effective use of automated external defibrillators (AED).More Information on Standard First Aid More Information on Emergency First Aid
Changes to 1st Aid and CPR
St Mark James, Vancouver First Aid Ltd, Heart and Stroke Foundation and St. Johns Ambulance collectively updated their program in 2011. The CPR and first aid changes were the most significant changes that have occurred within the past decade. Different providers changed their standards at different times throughout 2011. Standards in all level's of CPR changed and in both Standard First Aid and Emergency First Aid. To learn about all the latest first aid and CPR techniques take a hands-on course through one our partnered and credible workplace approved first aid providers. All of our partnered providers are listed on our first aid and CPR location page.
CPR Changes
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) has, since the 1970's, been as easy as A-B-C. However, that standard changed in 2011. CPR courses no longer follow the acronym A-B-C, which stands for airway, breathing and circulation, but instead follow a system of C-A-B. The definitions for all letters in the acronym have stayed the same. More emphasis has been put on chest compression's. The earlier a rescuer performs chest compression's the higher the percentage chance of recovery. The other major change to CPR that occurred in 2011 is that rescuers send a bystander to contact EMS after they have checked for breathing to relay the information to the EMS. Other minor changes to CPR have also been implemented into CPR level "A", CPR level "C" and Health Care Provider CPR. In order to learn all the new CPR changes and to practice these skills take a first aid and CPR course.
CPR / Choking Procedure Changes
The procedures to rescue choking victims have also been changed in the new 2011 standards. Rather than just providing "J-Thrusts" to fully obstructed conscious victims, rescuers will alternate between 5 "J-Thrusts" and 5 back blows. This method of rescue had already been part of the choking rescue procedures prior to 2001, however, was removed for the past decade. The providers, backed by recommendations from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), have re-introduced this procedure. The recommendations were brought in because statistics have shown a higher percent chance of rescue for rescuers using the back blows and "J-Thrusts".
First Aid Program Changes
Emergency First Aid
Emergency First Aid has undergone the most drastic changes out of all the first aid and CPR courses. The course has come to include more material from the standard first aid course including more emphasis on the treatment of wounds and bleeding. Candidates will learn how to cater to a wider variety of different wounds involving deadly bleeding, amputations and other serious first aid bleeding situations.
Standard First Aid
The first aid portion of the standard first aid program has remained almost entirely intact. However, the wound portion of the course will adopt the same changes the emergency first aid curriculum has included. With standard first aid being so comprehensive it would be difficult to add any more additional material without extending the length of the course. To learn more about the changes to standard first aid or emergency first aid take a course with your local St Mark James training Provider.
As statistics and information continues to be collected and analyzed, CPR and first aid will continue to adopt changes to provide the most effective procedures and programs to rescue victims. All the major providers including St Mark James Training, Heart and Stroke Foundation and St. Johns Ambulance will change almost in unison to provide the most effective guidelines and standards for CPR and first aid rescues.
Candidates will learn about he latest techniques and guidelines in CPR as presented in this video. This video shows the latest 2012 ILCOR standards on CPR and resuscitation techniques for adult victims using an available pocket mask. All of our training providers advertised from our locations page will teach participants these techniques.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20591270.post4220762927027137458..comments2017-06-09T15:33:58.865-04:00Comments on Michael Cho's sketchbook: The Silver Surfer vs. The Thing!Michael Chohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20591270.post-81772477538994039842012-06-15T13:28:00.779-04:002012-06-15T13:28:00.779-04:00@Christian: Thanks. I paint on a lightbox, so the...@Christian: Thanks. I paint on a lightbox, so there's no pencil on the original art. I've done some process posts in the past - you can find them if you go through the blog's archives.

@Gerry: Hi, Gerry, yes Albert Moy now carries my comic-related artwork. I'm afraid I stopped doing commissions for good last year. Sorry.Michael Chohttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20591270.post-7732260595455353442012-06-15T06:12:29.066-04:002012-06-15T06:12:29.066-04:00hi, i see Albert Moy has all of these listed for s...hi, i see Albert Moy has all of these listed for sale, have you stopped doing commissions altogether ?
very best
GerryGerryhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-20591270.post-31881677404196743662012-06-13T09:19:12.735-04:002012-06-13T09:19:12.735-04:00Hi Michael, these are fantastic. Please could you ...Hi Michael, these are fantastic. Please could you share your process for these paintings? Do you use a lightbox to transfer the sketch? Do you ink it and then paint?
Your work is an inspiration.Christianhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com

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My husband and I just came back from a special full-screening of the movie "Ponyo", which is the latest animated film created by Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki made an appearance and talked about the film prior to the movie. In order to get in the theater in downtown San Diego, my husband went there to get in line and waited for a few hours. After I got off work, I joined him and waited some more, during which I wrote most of this post.
As some of you may know, San Diego is the home to the internationally renown Comic Convention, the biggest of its kind in the U.S. My husband decided that it's time for him to participate in this event this year, being an avid Japanese animation enthusiast and growing up on cartoons such as Robotech, Transformers, He-man which he claims helped to shape the person he turned out to be. He has lived in San Diego for the total of at least 12 years and had never made the time or effort of learn more about it, much less attend. I am not a huge comic/animated film fan, with one exception of the films by Hayao Miyazaki. He created "Spirited Away" "Princess Mononoke", "Howl's Moving Castle" among others. Today, 2nd full day of Comic Con 2009, there was a Disney panel where Miyazaki made a rare appearance (more than likely one and only) in front of the U.S. fans. I asked my husband this morning if he'd go to the panel, and asked him to bring the DVD of Princess Mononoke just in case he'd have a chance to ask Miyazaki for his autograph. I then went off to work.
Around 11:30am, I got a call from him, asking what questions I'd ask Miyazaki if he had a chance, knowing what a gift it would be for me. He said he would try to ask them for me at the Q & A if he got the chance. I briefly thought about it and sent a message to him by email. Around 2:30pm I got another call from him, and he told me excitedly that he got to ask my questions. What happened was that people who wanted to ask questions lined up at a designated area once they found a seat in the auditorium which was where the panel as being held (the famous Hall H for those Comic Con fans out there). Once the session began, a Q&A coordinator quietly started asking the people in line what questions they had and for whom, as there were others on the panel besides Miyazaki. At the end of the panel, the Q&A session opened up. The coordinator arbitrarily decided the order and the lineup based (it seemed) on content as well as who the question was directed to. My husband showed her the questions he got from me on his iPod, and she decided that it was "quality" question to ask and pulled him out of the line and moved him up. In the end, time was running out and even though there was another person in front of my husband (he was the 2nd in line at that point), they gave him the floor, and his question became the closing one. I asked my husband what Miyazaki's answer was, but he couldn't remember – he said he was shell shocked. There were about 6500 people in the hall and he got picked to ask a question to Miyazaki. Even though my husband pretends that he is not a big fan, he still got nervous and excited that he didn't remember what Miyazaki's answer was. Luckily, his friend recorded that portion of Q & A, so hopefully I'll get to see it later.
When I learned what had happened, I was really happy and also strangely inspired. I have written about two of his movies in last month, and I also discussed these movies with my friend recently, but it is not like I am a rabid fan. There are some of his movies I have yet to see, and I don't follow his every foot step. But somehow, a month after I wrote about his movie "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind", I got a chance to ask him my questions (via my husband), and what is more, I saw him in person, making an introduction to his new film. When my husband told me over the phone that Miyazaki will make an appearance this evening at this special screening, and asked if I wanted to go, I thought, how perfect, because I had already arranged a babysitter tonight so I could work on my project. If you are a parent, you know how tricky it can be to arrange a babysitter when you have less than 2 hours to do so. I choose to believe that what you put your focus on, you will attract. Yes, it is a streak of good luck, but Oprah says "Luck is preparation meets opportunity". I believe things got aligned perfectly so we could go to the theater tonight because I put my love for those films out there by writing about them.
Seeing Miyazaki talk in person at the screening was truly special. He is an adorable old man and seemed very approachable too. To hear him speak of his film with such love and childlike twinkles in his eyes – I could not believe how fortunate I was. I happened to sit next to two other Japanese girls who were wearing the hand-made costume of Kiki, from "Kiki's Delivery Service". I loved the fact that we, a few Japanese people among the audience, got his message first hand and laughed at his funny remarks, while others had to wait for the interpreter to tell them. He told us a story that a 5-year-old boy called up his grandmother after seeing "Ponyo" and said, "Grandma, I just watched a movie made by a 5-year-old". He added that he considers this as a supreme compliment. When I saw the audience getting up for a standing ovation as soon as he walked in the theater, I felt really happy that his films have spoken to so many people internationally, touched their hearts and created an undeniable impact upon their lives. He is our treasure, not just for Japanese people but for people around the world. I will be sure to introduce his films to our kids. "Ponyo" is probably the best one to start, as I later learned, Miyazaki wanted to make it the first movie that children will ever see in their lives.
P.S. My husband's friend posted the clip and I watched it this morning. Unfortunately, something got lost in translation and he only answered the first question about his inspiration for "Nausicaa" movie, and didn't answer the question which must have earned my husband the spot to ask the final questions in the first place. But seeing him read my words "the first movie, "Nausicaa of the Vally of Wind" was very innovative and had such a huge impact on us…", and hearing the audience responding to that remark by applauding excitedly, I felt like I got to tell Miyazaki personally what the movie meant to me. It was really a special moment even though I wasn't there in Hall H.


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The Castle
Tony Nominees Jan Maxwell, Kristine Nielsen, and More Celebrate Potomac Theatre Project's 27th Anniversary Season
Maxwell stars in Howard Barker's The Castle, one of PTP/NYC's 27th anniversary season productions.
The Castle/Serious Money
Jan Maxwell's stunning performance in Howard Barker's The Castle is the highlight of the Potomac Theatre Project's repertory season.
Jan Maxwell, Journeyman Actress of The Castle, on the Joy of Performing in Rep
The New York theater favorite joins Potomac Theatre Project to perform work by a favorite playwright.


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HURTADO, Isabel C et al. Experience with tigecycline compassionate use in pediatric patients infected with carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Rev. chil. infectol. [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.3, pp.317-321. ISSN 0716-1018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0716-10182012000300011.
Introduction: Infections produced by multidrug-resistant pathogens represent a therapeutic challenge because of the few therapeutic options available. Tigecycline is a relatively new antibiotic, with a wide spectrum of activity including some of these resistant bacteria. In adults is prescribed for the treatment of some infections caused by carbapenem resistant K. pneumoniae, however it has not been approved in children because of potential adverse effects in the dental enamel. Materials and Methods: Case series study. Medical records were reviewed in all children from 0 to 14 years of age that received tigecycline between January of 2008 and March of 2010. Results: 9 patients received Tigecycline mainly for treatment of peritonitis, bacteremia, pneumonia and sepsis caused by carbapenem resistant K. pneumoniae. A dose of 1 mg/kg q 12 hours was administered to all patients. No adverse events were reported and a total of 6 patients had complete resolution of the infection. Conclusions: Tigecycline could be considered a therapeutic option for treating infections produced by multidrug-resistant pathogens in children. The use in children is still compassionate and in this serie of cases Tigecycline was well tolerated and safe.
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Needle pricks can look a lot worse than they actually feel (especially to the parent who's watching that needle head for their baby's impossibly soft skin). Any pain your child feels is fleeting (often more like a pinching sensation than actual pain) — and it's a pain with a very significant gain (protection against diseases that would hurt a lot more). Still, there are ways to help your child feel less pain with every shot:
A little cuddle: Studies show that babies who are held by their parent when they receive their shots cry less.
A little nursing: Breastfeeding immediately before or during the shot may lessen the pain babies feel. Plus, breastfeeding offers the cuddle benefit as well.
Something sweet: A little dab of sugar water on your baby's pacifier or tongue – given right before the shot — can minimize the ouch factor.
Anything distracting: Many babies and young children can be easily distracted from anything, and that includes pain from vaccines. Singing a song, holding up a favorite toy, or reading a book can distract young children from the pain of a needle prick — or make the time go so quickly, they won't even know what stuck them. Blowing bubbles can be especially distracting, too — and once a child is old enough to mimic that blowing, the action itself could actually minimize the pain that's perceived.
Numb it away: Another way to avoid that yelp is to pretreat the area that will receive the needle with an anesthetic cream before the shot. Ask your pediatrician if such a cream is right for your child — and if he or she can prescribe the cream before your next shot.


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AA was thoughtful enough to allow their program to be used for a group of crazy, albeit very tastefully dressed, Catholics who use the steps to help shame themselves into praying away their gay:
"The following five goals of Courage were created by the members themselves, when Courage was founded. The goals are read at the start of each meeting and each member is called to practice them in daily life.
Live chaste lives in accordance with the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality. (Chastity)
Dedicate ones life to Christ through service to others, spiritual reading, prayer, meditation, individual spiritual direction, frequent attendance at Mass, and the frequent reception of the sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist. (Prayer and Dedication)
Foster a spirit of fellowship in which all may share thoughts and experiences, and so ensure that no one will have to face the problems of homosexuality alone. (Fellowship)
Be mindful of the truth that chaste friendships are not only possible but necessary in a chaste Christian life and in doing so provide encouragement to one another in forming and sustaining them. (Support)
Live lives that may serve as good examples to others. (Good Example/Role Model)"
The Steps:
We admitted that we were powerless over homosexuality and our lives had become unmanageable.*
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
We made a decision to turn our will and our lives to the care of God as we understood Him.
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of our character.
We humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make direct amends to them all.
We made the direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for the knowledge of God's Will for us and the power to carry it out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
*Based on the original Twelve Steps of A.A.
The Twelve Steps are reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Service, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt the Twelve Steps does not mean that A.A. is in any way affiliated with this program. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism – use of the Twelve Steps in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after A.A., but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.
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As a reminder: If you post after this one, you already missed day 1's giveaway. *sad*
But day 2 has something special in itself!
On the second day of Christmas, Loki gave to thee...
OMG. That was annoying to do. I am never doing that again. Anyway, you get...
Not two. Not three. BUT ONE HEART SCALE!
Dae feels sorely abused by the misleading countdown. But, Dae is happy by gifts.
Dae i now picking up a Heart Scale (a typing in thrid person).
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IBM to spend $3 billion on semiconductor research
Published 6:23 pm, Thursday, July 10, 2014
IBM expanding chip research
IBM Corp. plans to spend $3 billion on semiconductor research and development in the next five years, even as the company is said to be selling its chip-manufacturing arm.
The company will fund two programs to create smaller, more powerful chips that can be used in systems like IBM's Watson technology, which analyzes data in plain English, and to develop semiconductor parts out of materials other than silicon, the company said.
The investment underscores IBM's plans to continue developing semiconductor technology at the same time it's parting ways with its chip factories. The company is nearing a deal to sell the chip-manufacturing business to Globalfoundries Inc., which is primarily interested in acquiring the unit's engineers and intellectual property, people with knowledge of the matter said last month.
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Boeing Co. raised its long-term forecast for new airplane demand by more than 4 percent, based on expected orders of smaller, more fuel-efficient planes and burgeoning travel in Asia.
The Chicago company said Thursday that it expects deliveries of 36,770 new airplanes over the next 20 years, with total list prices valued at an estimated $5.2 trillion.
That's up from Boeing's forecast last year that global airlines would need 35,280 jets worth $4.8 trillion over the next 20 years.
Low-cost carriers are fueling the fastest growing segment of the market - single-aisle airplanes. Those aircraft, such as the Boeing 737 and rival Airbus A320, make up 70 percent of all orders, with the heart of that demand found in the 160-seat range.
"There's no question the market is converging to this size, where network flexibility and cost efficiency meet," said Randy Tinseth, Boeing's commercial airplanes marketing vice president.
Small, widebody planes in the 200- to 300-seat range are leading demand in the twin-aisle segment of the market, the company said. Boeing forecasts 4,520 deliveries for those planes over the next 20 years, compared to 620 for widebody jets with 400 seats or more.
Boeing slightly reduced its forecast for large jets such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380. It now expects airlines will need 620 of the larger planes over 20 years, down from a forecast of 760 last year.
Boeing said in its annual current market outlook that about 37 percent of the airplane deliveries will be made in the Asia-Pacific market.
Tinseth described the market for airplanes as "strong and resilient."
Markets fall on Europe woes
Markets closed lower as fears about the health of a European bank weigh on the market.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 70 points to finish at 16,915 Thursday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped eight points to 1,964. The Nasdaq was off 22 points at 4,396.
U.S. markets were hit by earlier stock losses in Europe, where worries over the finances of one of Portugal's largest financial groups slammed stocks and pushed investors into safer assets such as government bonds and gold.
Eight of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 fell.
Loan rates inch up for the week
Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages edged up slightly this week, remaining near historically low levels.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the nationwide average rate for a 30-year loan rose to 4.15 percent from 4.12 percent last week. The average for the 15-year mortgage, popular in refinancing, increased to 3.24 percent from 3.22 percent.
Mortgage rates are slightly lower than they were at the same time last year, having fallen recently after climbing last summer.
Rates have fallen modestly this year as Fed officials have signaled strongly that while they are trimming the bond purchases, they are in no rush to start boosting a key short-term rate the Fed controls.
To calculate average mortgage rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country between Monday and Wednesday each week. The average doesn't include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates.
The average rate on a one-year adjustable-rate mortgage rose to 2.40 percent from 2.38 percent.
The average rate on a five-year adjustable-rate mortgage ticked up to 2.99 percent from 2.98 percent.
Amazon sued on in-app buys
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon over charges that the company has not done enough to prevent children from making millions of dollars in unauthorized in-app purchases, according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court.
The move had been expected since last week, when Amazon said it wouldn't settle with the FTC over the charges. Amazon said it already refunded money to parents who complained and was prepared to go to court.
The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring refunds to consumers for unauthorized charges. It also seeks to ban Amazon from billing account holders for in-app charges made without their consent.
The FTC settled with Apple over a similar matter for $32.5 million in January.
Amazon did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
England bank leaves rates low
The Bank of England has kept interest rates steady at a record low of 0.5 percent and refrained from pumping more money into the economy even as the recovery gathers strength.
Thursday's decision was widely expected, even after Bank of England Governor Mark Carney startled analysts last month when he said that an interest rate rise could happen more quickly than markets expected.
The remarks surprised economists who had been expecting a rise next year - and now predictions suggest a rise as soon as the fall.
The Bank of England has announced measures to tighten mortgage lending and cool off the housing sector.


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Graduate Catalog
Graduate Catalog > Graduate Programs > Master of Athletic Training
Dean of the College of Health Professions: States
Chair: Stevens
Associate Professor: Stevens
Assistant Professors: Nyman, Stump, Welte
Program Description
The Master of Athletic Training (MAT) program is designed to prepare students to become certified athletic trainers. Athletic trainers are health care professionals who function as members of the sports medicine team in collaboration with physicians. Athletic trainers may be employed in high schools, colleges or universities, rehabilitation clinics, professional sports, hospitals, physician offices, industry and other health care settings. They are involved in the prevention, emergency care, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of acute and chronic medical conditions.
Our program is designed for students with minimal or no knowledge and experience in athletic training. Upon completion of this Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)-accredited program, students will be eligible to sit for the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) examination. Upon successful completion of this examination students will become BOC-certified athletic trainers (ATC). Most states use the results from this examination to determine eligibility to practice athletic training.
Mission Statement
The Master of Athletic Training prepares highly qualified, ethical health care professionals with a depth of knowledge and judgment to competently advance the art and science of athletic training.
Vision Statement
The Master of Athletic Training will strive for recognition as a premier program in educating future athletic trainers with a strong foundation of scientific principles, innovative educational strategies and a strong emphasis in clinical education, so they are prepared to advance athletic training to better serve the patients, the profession, and the community.
Student Goals and Objectives:
All AT students should strive to achieve these goals throughout the program.
Goal 1: Graduates will use the knowledge, skills and dispositions learned and mastered during the MAT to be gainfully employed or further their education.
1. Students will graduate from the program.
2. Graduates will be gainfully employed or further their education.
Goal 2: Students will become highly qualified, professional and successful athletic trainers.
1. Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills to be an independent entry-level practitioner as evidenced by mastery of the NATA Educational Competencies and clinical proficiencies.
2. Students will apply the theoretical knowledge learned in the classroom to the clinical setting.
3. Students will demonstrate an organized thought process and be able to analyze necessary information to make sound judgments based on a theoretical framework and adaptable to a variety of situations.
4. Students will feel satisfactorily prepared to function as an independent entry-level practitioner by the end of their academic career at The University of Findlay.
Goal 3: Students will develop sensitivity towards the ethical issues and dilemmas and the need to respond in ways which affirm and protect human rights and values.
1. Students will model the NATA Professional Behaviors.
2. Students will abide by the Confidentiality and Professional Conduct Agreements.
3. Students will actively protect patient rights and values.
4. Students will develop and defend their position on commonly faced ethical issues faced in the practice of athletic training.
Goal 4: Graduates will be able to function as an athletic trainer in a variety of clinical settings and interact with a diverse patient population to produce the best possible patient outcomes.
1. Students will be able to make appropriate decisions based on patient needs in the college, high school and rehabilitation settings.
2. Students will be able to make appropriate decisions based on patient needs for a variety of patient populations including adolescents, college aged, and the general population.
3. Students will understand the importance collaboration among a variety of health care professionals and other individuals to produce the best possible patient outcomes.
Goal 5: Students will value the contribution of research to the advancement of theoretical knowledge and practice within athletic training.
1. Students will be able to apply research findings to assure currency in the practice and the advancement of theoretical knowledge and practice within a discipline.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to use the tenets of evidence-based practice to make clinical decisions.
Goal 6: Students will value the need for lifelong personal and professional development.
1. Students will recognize the importance of becoming an active member of the athletic training profession.
2. Students will become a lifelong learner and recognize the need for continuing education to remain current in the practice of athletic training.
The MAT program is nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE.)
Program Options
The MAT program is available in the following two options:
Option ONE: 3+2 year program (five years total). The first three years of this program are classified as the "pre-professional" phase. Students will complete the MAT program prerequisites and degree requirements for a major in strength and conditioning or wellness and exercise promotion. Upon acceptance, the "professional" phase will begin during the summer prior to the student's fourth year. At the end of the student's fourth year, he/she will receive a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in strength and conditioning or wellness and exercise promotion. At the end of the student's fifth year, he/she will receive his/her Master of Athletic Training (MAT) degree. This 3+2 program is intended for entering freshmen, transfer students or students who change majors early in their undergraduate education.
Option TWO: Two-year program. This program is only for those students who have already completed a bachelor's degree (in any major) and have met the admission requirements for the professional phase of the MAT program. This two-year program is intended for college graduates who have completed their bachelor's degree and may want to change careers, athletes who didn't have time during their undergraduate years to major in athletic training and international students who want a career in athletic training.
Admission Requirements
The Master of Athletic Training program's admission process is the same for students pursuing the 3+2 (Option 1) or 2 year professional option (Option 2). Due to the competitive nature of the program, students must meet the additional admission criteria listed below. Admission is limited and not guaranteed to those meeting the minimum admission criteria. Only those who are formally admitted into the professional phase can continue with the academic and clinical education components of the program.
Prospective students must meet the following admission criteria for full admission:
The following items are also considered when determining a student's admission status:
Conditional admissions may be granted to those who do not meet the criteria for full admission. Conditional admission is based on the prospective student's application and merits. For example, students who do not meet the 3.0 cumulative grade point average or prerequisite GPA may be considered for conditional admission but must attain a 3.0 cumulative grade point average in the first nine hours of the MAT program (including PHTH 564) to be fully admitted to the program. For more information about conditional admissions, contact the MAT program director.
Students whose native language is not English and who have not graduated from American universities must meet the previously listed admissions conditions, plus:
All program admission materials and technical standards are available upon request from the program director or on the MAT program website: https://www.findlay.edu/health-professions/athletic-training-ma/.
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Now that Newt Gingrich has vaulted into the lead in the Republican presidential stakes, he's going to be seeing a lot more of this:
Calling it the "dumbest thing" he has done in recent years isn't enough. This is not going away.
But, Newt can turn his pas-de-deux on the loveseat with Nancy into an opportunity to promote a consistent and electable political message.
Because he will be asked about this at every turn, Newt will have the air time and the opportunity to tell the truth on climate change—based upon real science—and to interface it with a limited-government philosophy. The two are easy to do.
Start with the obvious. Instead of waffling on the subject, he could just point out that earth's surface temperature is about 1°C warmer than it was a century ago. There were two periods of warming, the first from about 1910 through 1945, and the second from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. They were both roughly the same magnitude. Because the first one was long before we put the majority of fossil carbon into the atmosphere, Newt can say—with scientific authority—that the magnitude of 'natural' climate change is likely to be at least as large as what humans have done.
Then Newt should proceed to the future. It's not the heat, it's the sensitivity. How much it will warm in the future is a function of how sensitive the atmosphere is to doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide. There are a number of independent arguments now coming together showing that this value may have been overestimated. The reference for the most recent is a November issue of Science.
Next, a little refreshing honesty: in 2009, the House of Representatives passed a cap-and-trade bill (which the Senate did not) commanding that the average american—38 years from now—be allowed the carbon dioxide emissions of the average citizen in 1867. Prior to its passage, Newt was undeniably for such a system. Newt could call that that the "second dumbest thing" he has done and be finished with it.
After setting the record straight, how about interjecting his own political philosophy? When asked what to do about global warming, he should give the honest answer: if the atmosphere indeed is not as sensitive to carbon dioxide changes as previously thought, the correct response is nothing.
That's because "nothing" really means something. Newt should channel his historian. When markets are free, capital supports innovation more efficiently than when they aren't. Think about the remarkable changes in energy and technology in the last 100 years. Isn't it rather obvious that the same will occur in the next century, if only we don't hinder capital development? Newt might even use the catchy saw (first sloganed by Northern Illinois Gas in 1972) the future belongs to the efficient, and that there are impressive market forces that advantage those who produce things efficiently or produce efficient things.
When the doomsayers say Newt is believing in a Deus ex machine to dramatically cut carbon dioxide emissions, he might point out that those were the same folks who, only a very few years ago, told us we were running out of natural gas. Innovation and capital revolutionized drilling and fracturing shale, and we now know we have literally hundreds of years of it under our feet. There are a lot more voters and delegates around the country who will benefit from the shale revolution than there are in ethanol-addicted Iowa.


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eorge Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "Crappy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story ever told.Overview from themoviedb.org
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Such a smart product for those of us who demand comfort like myself.
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Loved the softness and very comfortable. Didn't feel I was too low to the floor as with the previous one I had bought.
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This seat needs an opening at the front end for any adult male user, and/or a larger opening. The seat itself is comfortable, except for the end result
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The colors are about the only good quality I can find on these seats. The padding is very limited and not comfortable to sit on. The seat material itself, where it attaches to the toilet, is very thin plastic. If you put it on too tight it breaks however if you don't put it on tight it slips and breaks anyway. One of the bolts I used for tightening the seat down actually became stripped and I could not use it. Not worth the price paid. It might work great for someone weighing around 100 lbs but not anyone heavier.
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My sister bought this for the guest bathroom when I and my husband came for an extended visit. After two months with both of us using it, it was split in several places. It also stained easily, and even bleach would not help remove the stains. The padding seemed rather thin compared with the one we used at home, also.
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We all have a role in preventing terrorism. Across the country, people from all faiths and backgrounds are standing together to tackle terrorism. By making sure we each know how to recognise the signs and know what action to take, we can work together to prevent acts of terrorism.
You may be reluctant to report suspicious activity or behaviour, such as a person taking an unusual interest in security arrangements, because 'Chances are, it's probably nothing' But what if it isn't nothing?
Just one piece of information could be vital in helping disrupt terrorist planning and, in turn save lives.
Signs to look out for
Terrorists live amongst us, they need to plan and prepare; buy and store materials and fund their activities.
· Terrorists need storage - Lock-ups, garages and sheds can all be used by terrorists to store equipment.
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Trust your instincts, if you think something isn't right tell us. The information you give us could help stop terrorists in their tracks and help save lives. If you suspect it, report it.
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Call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321. If the threat is immediate call, 999.
You can also report suspected terrorist activity online by clicking the button at the top of this page.
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CONTEST is the government's strategy for counter terrorism, divided into four areas:
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I received several animal requests last week. Of all these animals to get posts, the blobfish is definitely the first. The first, and the… let's say blobbiest.
…I thought I was ready. I wasn't ready. Let's acknowledge this right now: The blobfish is bizarre and, by most any definition, gross with a capital G, R, O, and Ses. It is largely unknown to most people – or so they think. In fact, the blobfish can be observed every day in many newspapers.
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Ziggy is just one creature, though. You may think him a lonely outcast. However, the blobfish is just one of an elite few. The most famous of this group is Criss Angel, the Mindfreak, but there is also the blobfish, the Skinfreak; Usain Bolt, the Legfreak; Black Bolt, the Throatfreak; and a handful of others whose identities have been protected.
All of this is to say that the blobfish can change its shape as it pleases.
Its muscles are mostly useless. The blobfish spends most of its life floating in place, eating whatever passes by. It's not very discerning.
Number of legs
Are you kidding? It barely has anything, much less legs.
Mental disorders
The blobfish suffers from seasonal orientation-sadness affective disorder, or "S.O.-S.A.D." Complicating matters is the fact that it lives near the bottom of the ocean, so it always seems like basically the same weather and thus the blobfish is pretty much uniformly depressed year-round. It does buck up around St. Patrick's Day, though. It likes the parades.
At one point in the '60s, a number of people – mostly hippies and good-for-nothings – became convinced that Freaks had all the answers. They sought out the Mindfreak (who was at that point still in his scarf-loving fourth form), the Liverfreak, and ultimately the Skinfreak. The blobfish couldn't offer much in the way of useful advice, but it gave its deep-sea-diving pupils more mournful sighs than they ever could have hoped for. It also wiped its face on a shirt, giving one of those hippies the idea for the "frowny face."
What if it fought a bear?
Are you kidding? It barely does anything, much less fight.
Is it noble?
Final rating
The blobfish is a pathetic creature, to be sure. With a mug like that, it just never got a chance, but on the other hand it doesn't apply itself much anyway. It should also be said that I don't care for the Freaks' politics. The blobfish is, at egg, a good heart; it's a shame it associates itself with them.
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|LG Introduces the LEX8 Featuring Nano LED Lighting
|Home Theater News LCD HDTV News
|Monday, 30 August 2010
It may not sound like a huge change, but LG CEO Simon Kang says it's a difference of night and day. "Just as difficult as it is to watch standard TV after experiencing high definition, people will resist going back to regular LED LCD TVs after viewing the LEX8," he states.
The LEX8 is incredibly thin at just 88mm and features a bezel of only 1.25cm – the smallest bezel of any LED backlit television. It's also 3D capable, and includes features like NetCast, a Magic Motion remote and TruMotion 400Hz. That's right, 400Hz. LG will be showing off the set at the beginning of September, but there's no word yet on pricing and availability.


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Grand Theft Auto demo drives onto iPhone
Steal cars... for free
Rockstar Games has announced the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Lite for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Effectively a demo version, users are given the first three missions from the full game. Test drive the controls of Huang Lee, a Chinese mobster, in his quest for gangland control over Liberty City.
It's the ideal way to see whether you like the game's motor-pranging action before you lay down six quid for the full version.
Mob on the mobile
GTA: Chinatown Wars Lite is available from the iTunes App store and is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch Firmware 3.12 upwards. ®
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ShadowArtShowMaker: From Idea to reality!
由 Rupam D. 发布于 2013 年 10 月 16 日
My son is two and half years old and he likes all sorts of stories and animations. So when it came to writing a proposal for Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge, I thought why not do something that will be liked by my son!
I have been an admirer of different art forms (though I have little of the artist in me). I use shadow puppets a lot to tell stories to Rupansh, my kid. There are two things to it, firstly it is the cheapest form of puppet and I can do several things, make stories and create characters without really worrying about perfection. Secondly loadshedding [rolling blackouts -ed.] has been a major problem at our place back in India. So I Iike to be creative when there is no electricity. I put on an emergency lamp and make out characters in front of lamp to view the shadow in the wall. But what really got me mad into the world of ShadowArt is this video by one of the most renowned shadow artist (There are less than twenty professional shadow artists living across the world) Mr. Amar Sen called 'let Kolkata Surprises You".
But as I am no good with such art forms, I thought, "Would it be wise to try out any such things?" Then I said "OK."
Initially my Idea was - I will get black hand cutouts against white background, have audio recording. So anybody can create shadow puppet and record them.
This was really what I wanted to achieve.
I wanted to keep it simple because I was working on one of my dream projects called "PONTA". It was supposed to be a full fledged Humanoid with an Ultrabook and a PerC camera. I thought that this will be the only product I will be working and had got most of the modalities working before the App finalists were declared.
However, to my utter surprise, that wasn't selected. I was very disappointed indeed. But SASM was on list of six apps that had got selected.
Start of Coding
I started the coding on July 12.
Mine was supposed to be a one man team with helping hand from my wife who incidentally is an embedded engineer who specializes in Arduino. So my first task was to get Hand Shadow in. Initially I thought that would be easy and would not take any time. But reality bites sooner than later. There were all sorts of pixels in the frame, very low resolution, when I scaled the resolution higher, the shadows were far bitter. I was convinced that I am not going to go anywhere with this app. So I took the courage to incorporate EmguCV. Initially, I was developing with Windows Forms in C#. So GDI+ was my main assistance in some of the image processing application. But I soon realized, if I have to bring even a slightest of smile to my Kid's face, I need to dig very deep in getting good shadows. So I started experimenting with several techniques: Median Filter, Gaussian Smoothing, Erosion, Dilation and what not.
Finally I got the result that I wanted. I first used erosion to remove noisy 1-3pixel parts. Then I used Median filter to smooth it up( not dilation, as that would change the edge profile. Then I combined Edge dtection and Gaussian Smoothing. Some grilling coding sessions that would stretch for more than 20 hours finally got me the shadows. If I can recollect correctly, by 20th July, shadows were really appearing nice.
Now I wanted to control the amount of shadow I want to display. Like different profile when distance of hand is varied from camera. Pure depth image would not give me that. So I analyzed depth image and realized pixels nearer to the camera were closer to 255 and as distance increases, they start approaching zero.
So I built a class that could simulate range and thus I could now simulate distance from camera without moving the hand. This range controller was so fun that it gave me a belief that this app needs much more than what I was doing. I knew it would be big as I was probably coding with my best efficiency ever.
Paradigm Shift in UI
Once initial hand shadow and range controller was in place, I had to take a call on the UI. I spent nearly three days to determine what the app would be like and decided that I will go with a layout similar to most of the software like Visual studio, Netbeans, Follows along with similar color chrome. As it was Shadow Art, I wanted the GUI to be Black and White in combination. Windows forms never gives me strength to build complicated logic. So I decided to loop back to my favourite WPF. And I zeroed in Metro style framework called Mahapps.
But the problem with WPF is, it uses an entirely different imaging format System.Windows.Media.Imaging, and PerC at best gave us System.Drawing.Bitmap. So I needed to write the routines for conversion from WPF Image to Bitmap and back to Wpf. Once I ported the concept in this whole new UI, I was getting more ideas and by now was certain that I would not be able to work with any other apps by the submission deadline (then Aug 24).
New Idea: Color Characters
Once I recorded my first movie, I thought it would be rather nice if I can paint my hands and bring color shadows into action. Having said that, I had to work with projection. In the first phase of the contest, I worked with an App called GesModello. But it was patchy and not an inspiring app to me. This time I was looking for getting the whole color image cut by my improved depth image (I will refer to it as shadow image from hence on).
It was still R3 of the SDK and there were no segmentation_viewer.cs sample. So I started working on c++ uvmap example and tried converting it to c#. It took more than two days to get the projection image. So now in my UI, I could have both color image as well as shadow image. But projection was not up to the mark and result was very disappointing. So I again wrote a different filter routine to finally get it working. But with so much filtering and image conversion in place, my frame rate was down to good 3fps. That was very frustrating, it was neither fun nor intuitive. But it got me the idea of what was going on.
It was then that I realized I could make a nice fusion of classic shadow puppets with real puppets. Therefore, it was quite clear that SASM will be a fusion app allowing both Shadow puppet and real puppet's projection to go hand to hand. Time was closing down for early profile form submission. So I thought it is a good thing to get the concepts and to make a simple movie as a demo for profile form. But when I sat to record the movie, I thought, "OK, well I need more characters. I need many characters to communicate in a movie. But I can use only two hands." It was then the idea of the best part of the App came to mind. Why not make an animation object and actually control it by hand? So a user would just make puppet and animate puppet for some time. These frames would be saved in a library. Characters can be brought into scene at the run time to make good animations.
Building Animation Library and Code Optimization
I could easily write a class called AnimationObject and achieve this part. For library, I used XML. Interestingly I also recorded my first video blog on the work I had done so far for complementing early profile form submission.
The video was detailed and I tried to create sort of a tutorial that would remind me of the initial work I had put up on the App. I also gathered the courage to share the video with some of prolific developers who had been my mentors over the years, knowing fully well that some of these guys may also be a finalist! That decision was very critical and changed the whole perspective of the App and my thinking. One of the renowned developers said, "Wow! You have a great product lining up. If you can use your app to produce the Calcutta movie, then you have a great chance!".
Those words, chance and wow were the catalysts. I thought it is perfect time to take the app to next level. Unfortunately, I had never worked with animation and augmented reality before. So I started reading about making of animation movies, culture, frames, background, still animation and everything that I could read. Those three days of reading created the fundamental and now I could build a model on which I could work.
I started writing animation routines like path animation, inverting the characters, removing them from scene. But with every added feature, the frame rate was coming down. I decide it would make no sense at all if I couldn't get a realistic frame rate. So it was time for optimization. I used a Stopwatch object to trace most resource consuming routines and started optimizing them. Things like AcquireAccess and ReleaseAccess must be closed. I should not call any PerC buffer more than required. So getting width and height from the plane from within loop was removed. I removed many functions and actually copied the whole function code in the loop. I changed MVVM pattern to more c style codes with Boolean semaphores. For loops replaced foreach loops, many objects were replaced by pointers, a++ were replaced by ++a, I removed parameters from function call, instead set the parameters in global variables. Garbage collection was worked upon so that most of the null variables can be collected in a single call. With these optimizations, I could shoot up fps to around 20. Spending hours looking at stopwatch logs and windows task manager had paid dividends.
Input and Control
By now, what i was doing was to inject the hand positions in the mouse code. Hand open and closed was linked to mouse click and release. But I must say, it was not at all intuitive. Seeing the cursor moving with characters was a pathetic experience. One day I thought, what If I can convert the projected image into thumbnail and move that thumbnail along with hand position only over working pane? A user would find it interesting to see his real hand cut out. That to me was another milestone in the app. I could easily make that working in about an hour of coding and needless to say it was amazing. Most of the developers would rely on controlling a 3D hand model. But as PerC can't really recognize every finger and part of hand accurately, that would at this moment be less accurate. Imagine your own hand in place of mouse, doing same thing that you are doing! I am convinced that I am going to use this theory in many PerC apps that I would be releasing.
But one thing was frustrating, in many of the times, my head part will also be shown as shadow and that did irritate me. So I incorporated face tracking and cut the head part through face coordinate. Also by now my shoulders had taken the toll and was in pain. I realized keeping hand in air for long time is not going to help me. I also need to provide support for mouse. So it was physical pain more than anything else which lead me to incorporate all the functionality with mouse also. It was more work than I thought. Mouse coordinates were different. I wanted simultaneous control. I thought it would be good to actually control one character with hand and another with mouse. So It became two different pipelines all together.
Now something bad happened. My Sony VAIO ( Win 7 Home Premium, 8GB) my main development machine was crushed. But thankfully I had everything backed up. I have made a habit to backup every three hours code to external storage when I develop these large apps. Once that had happened, next thing was to start developing in my Ultrabook that Intel had provided during AIC 2012. But problem with this machine was it's mouse left click was not working. So I thought, ok let me get the touch to work also. So touch came into action. Another class was written for touch. Now SASM characters could be controlled with hand, touch and mouse. Though this came accidentally, the outcome was wonderful. It gave more meaning to the app. It felt that nothing is enforced on user. He can use any modality he prefers to get the job done.
Adding Voice
It was already Aug 10. I was running out of time. I thought my app is incomplete if I do not give a voice support. But honestly I could not get voice recognition working properly. So I incorporated MS-Speech SDK. But it needed external training. I wanted to avoid that. So I just kept trying on adding voice. Finally I got the result of voice integration. SASM would be a path breaking app in voice enabled systems. Mainly because a unique feature. I wrote the voice library such that what user sees as a label will be voice commands. I also find out that compund words are better recognized than single words. So I built this huge voice command set which was associated with every single operation in the app and there were about 200 commands. Yet user would not require to remember any commands.
But When voice was tested great, touch just refused to respond. I realized Voice Module is polling continuously which is draining resources. Also voice misdetects many times, hence GUI is frequently interrupted. So I devised a strategy that if something was recognized falsely, it should wait for at least 5 seconds before starting to poll again. Same thing after a successful recognition as after success some action would be performed which would take some time. Also I introduced suitable delays.
Speech and Tutorial
By now the App had been turned to a full fledged software and the complexity had increased beyond imagination. I thought It would be nice to see how a user reacts to it. I invited one of my colleagues to test the app. I told him nothing, no instructions and asked him to work. I then checked his pattern. It took him two days to decode the functionality and he would still struggle. So I wrote an in App tutorial module based on my observations. It would guide the user as what he needs to do to work with the App. Then it flashed that wow, if I can bring speech into play along with these text tutorial then user can learn faster. So Sppech was incorporated. Every tip that would be displayed would also be spoken out.
But introduction of speech lead to another issue. Now voice module was taking up spoken commands and performing unexpectedly. But by now deadline was extended to Sept 23. However early submission still remained Aug 20. It was my main target. So I started getting anxious and grown complexity of the code made it impossible to solve the issues faster. I wrote several semaphores to prevent voice from taking up word when speech was active. This was done by setting a global static variable before and after voice render.
Finally, these were working together. But my movie was a silent movie. There were no audio recording. I thought it is OK. I mean, the user can always put a voice-over. But voice-over would need windows live movie maker or something similar. I wanted the user to get the whole production done from the App. So I again started working on audio recording.
The problem with PerCs audio recording is that it consumes about 100Mb memory for 2 minutes recoding. My movies would be lengthy. So I could not buy the idea. I was now looking for Win32 based native recording. Then in one session I thought, why not create an audio file when it crosses 20 Mb and finally merge all these audios? That worked out. The app started saving the audio files. Finally, I used the Rockstar ffmpeg to combine Audio as well as video frames to produce the movie.
But I still had two days. So I decided to write my own inApp media center. Any recorded video will be stored over there. User can organize all his videos, play with them from media center. So I wrote another XML based library for managing media.
By the end I was jsut too exhausted and completely lost my interest in early submission. I intentionally left the town for two days. God! that was a good decision. When I started testing the app fresh, I found new glitches and problems. It took nearly another week to make the app a real beast. It would run for hours and days without loosing track. That was quite fascinating.
New SDK
By the time I was getting ready to submit, Intel had released R4. In first phase, I had put a lot of blood in an App called Gestop. It was really a lot of work. Once I had submitted, R2 was released and Gestop did not work at all. That experience was still hot in my mind and I thought it should not happen again. Let me install the new SDK and test the App.
Horror! Horror!
All was fine except voice did not work at all. I was literally crying my heart out. It did not have to happen to me. I again started looking on the issues and in 7 days got everything working. Thankfully app is also working great with R5 without any glitches.
The Submission
I had realized that creating hand shadows is not easy and users will not find it easy. So we created several puppets, animations and the whole installer had become 600Mb! With pathetic internet speed and unpredictable power failures I doubted that I would be able to submit. But game agency helped me more than their limit. After two days of effort I could get the installer. They uploaded it on my behalf. I downloaded the installer from amazon services, installed in a clean system. Checked the App. And finally pressed the submit button.
This is the detailed video of the App
Final Thoughts
From the word go, my main concern was to satisfy my son and to be able to make good animation movie for him rather than building a demo for judges. I am satisfied that he who can't speak properly can close his fist and move characters and he just loves those characters. With such intriguing work, you tend to expect good results, but then I have my reward. It was a great experience and I am sure I will never be able to produce anything as complicated and huge as SASM.


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What happened in this high-stakes second debate that doesn't hold a mirror up to America?
From the flurry of factoids, the avalanche of attitude, and the vague, urgent promises, voters got to sample at least three hallmarks of American life that ought to leave us more disturbed than we were just yesterday.
First, Romney and Obama reminded us that the details don't matter -- despite the seemingly all-important ritual of reciting an endless supply of shiny, evidence-like objects. In tonight's debate, the building blocks of public policy -- statistics, percentages, figures, and projections -- functioned largely as excuses for emotive posturing.
Just as establishmentarian pundit extraordinare David Gergen has been lampooned as saying "Gergen David Gergengergen David David Gergen Gergen" because whatever he says translates into the same abstract proposition about the importance of moderate, consensus-driven politics, so Romney and Obama poured out a thick foundation of presidential-sounding words and phrases because this is the agreed-upon substrate that debate-winning 'intangibles' are built upon.
Second, the candidates refreshed voters' recollection that the middle class is a dream that national party politics requires its participants to dream feverishly. In keeping with the ill-fitting narrative staked out in his least-appealing State of the Union address, Obama framed micro-issues favored by the left's identity politicians as national economic issues, and framed our national economic issues as a make-or-break moment for the middle class. He accused Romney of putting the middle class last, despite Romney's alleged gaffe that the poor had a safety net and the rich were just fine.
"I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romney said by way of contrast. Obama is running his campaign on the same promise -- that the middle class is America.
Yet neither candidate, and neither of their parties, dares countenance the idea that the fundamentals of the middle-class economy are anything but sound. So the frightening uncertainty surrounding not 'the business climate' or 'regulations' but middle-class expectations themselves was basically ignored. Romney promised emptily that he would get a kid a job. Obama actually referred to kids "hopefully" getting jobs. Neither candidate wants to eliminate structural deficits. Neither candidate thinks we really can eliminate them. But neither candidate wants to be frank about why they think this way. Romney, as shamelessly as Tim Pawlenty, tells us that we can grow our way back to structural deficits not mattering. Obama, with a shamelessness that eclipses even Bush's, tells us that we'll shrink deficits by spending the vast sums we've spent on our wars on myriad projects here at home.
Middle-class Americans should recoil in horror at the notion that either of these approaches make the difference between their continued existence and their eventual extinction. Instead, they squabble over which to cheer on fanatically.
On foreign policy, meanwhile, the candidates danced irritably around fundamental issues. Obama's lawyerly ambiguity in his Rose Garden statement on the Benghazi attack cannot possibly have been accidental. Yet instead of zeroing in on that, Romney tried to pin him down on his language. And instead of acknowledging what Romney was up to, moderator Candy Crowley made the worst of things by telling Romney he was wrong during the debate and telling CNN audiences that he was right afterward. Nowhere was a reckoning with why we were in Libya to begin with, or what the alternatives might have been, or what were the stakes.
I suppose the idea is this stuff gets saved for the (lone) foreign policy debate. In this debate, it was just another major issue winnowed down to zinger-ready bite size. Here as elsewhere -- like a direct question about how each candidate was different from Bush -- there was no indication that either candidate was willing to admit that they want to largely preserve the basic approach to governance adopted during the Bush administration.
Nor is there any indication that Americans are willing to admit just how much of Bushism they still embrace. That makes the second debate -- like the Romney vs. Obama race in general -- a matchup that the US very much deserves... and, if I may be so bold, wants.


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Pal Robotics' Humanoid Robot Contests!
Pal Robotics, the developers of the REEM-A and REEM-B humanoids, are holding a couple of contests that wrap up on October 1st 2010.
The first contest asks you to come up with an original and feasible killer app idea for their latest, more commercially-oriented REEM-H. Entry titles must be no more than 100 characters and the summary should be no more than 1000 characters. A prize of $500 USD will be awarded to the winner! See contest details here.
The second contest asks you to design the look of REEM-C, which will be the follow-up to REEM-B. The design can be anything from a pencil sketch through to a complex 3d rendering. They suggest you try to make it reasonably realistic, and to try to make it look friendly and not toy-like. Three prizes will be awarded, with the first place winner receiving $1200 USD! See contest details here.
So what do you think? Do you have an idea for a commercial robot that hasn't been explored? And have you studied the look of the humanoid robots on this site and elsewhere and think you can do better? Get to work, and be sure to apply before the October 1st deadline.
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Tokyo Photo Diary: Senso-Ji At Night
I was warned about temple burnout in Japan. Before visiting, I couldn't image becoming numb to the historic beauty of shrines and temples. This was my first time travelling in Asia, so I hadn't done the temple trails before. I also didn't plan on visiting enough temples to put me at risk of burnout. I wasn't in Tokyo for the temples, so I'd only planned to visit the … Continue reading Tokyo Photo Diary: Senso-Ji At Night


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For some reason, I can't play for TF2 more than 30 minutes before it crashes on my Hackintosh.
I tried running in windowed mode, disabled multicore rendering, enabled VSync and even lowered all graphic options. No go.
I'm running it native (via steam for mac).
No errors or anything, it just quits the game. I also remembered having one crash with my copy of FM10, that acted just the same. But that wasn't on steam.
Any ideas? I can't go to steam support, obviously...
Thanks in advance guys.
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Posted 31 August 2010 - 07:57 AM
What system are you using snow leo 10.6.? ? Tf2 has a few problems with 10.6.4
Posted 20 November 2010 - 07:59 PM
Don't use 10.6.4 default nvidia drivers, either get the Graphics Update for 10.6.4 or update to 10.6.5
Those two things above are related to Nvidia driver problems mostly. Works good now in 10.6.5
Unless you have some other problem....
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Personal data from the edited electoral register is being sold on to private companies by local councils for as little as £4.50 a pop.
In the last five years, over 300 councils sold information from the register for marketing reasons. Although the register is smaller than the full register, and is opt out, it may not be fully clear to voters – so participating in a representative democracy for many means also handing over personal information to businesses by proxy.
The details are up for grabs for any individual or company.
The cheapest instance was Ryedale Council selling details for £4.50, but others sold information for only £25. In any case, it may not matter to those concerned with privacy whether the data was sold for a penny or £5,000.
A freedom of information request revealed details were bought nearly 3,000 times in the last five years from 307 councils. Between them, the councils earned £265,161.21, privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch said.
Customers ranged from churches to PR companies to pizza shops to universities. Estate agents, insurance firms, financial services, driving schools, and dentists also bought data.
Big Brother Watch is calling for the Edited Electoral Roll to be "junked".
Introduced in 2002, Labour considered banning the sale of such details, but took no action – and the Coalition government has now committed to keeping it in place.
In a statement, Big Brother Watch said: "The sale of personal information by public authorities, particularly for marketing purposes, is something that should never be routine. In the report, we call for the edited register to be abolished.
"We believe that the existence of the edited register impacts on election participation as people are concerned about their personal information being shared for marketing purposes and undermining trust in the electoral registration system."
Big Brother Watch has put together a draft letter that concerned voters can use to permanently opt-out of the edited electoral roll.
A spokesperson from the Electoral Commission told the Telegraph it "does not support the commercial sale of any details provided for the purposes of electoral registration" and that it is "concerned that it may act as a deterrent to some people registering to vote".


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