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The turtles have taken over the world and it's your duty to raise a turtle eating army of penguins and take back what is rightfully yours!
Buy and upgrade penguins to consume wave after wave of relentless turtles while collecting eggs during the levels.
- Casual game that requires nothing more than the mouse to play
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Rated 4 / 5 stars August 8, 2011
Practically perfect time-waster
Excellent production and layout, intuitive gameplay and fun idea. I'd like an upgrade path for collecting cash (increased radius, or auto-collect) and maybe some penguin influence when they get stuck against a wall but, otherwise, immensely enjoyable.
I did notice that I finished the game long before I had even started on the robotic penguin enhancements, so perhaps the difficulty could use some tweaking?
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Good Game
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Rated 5 / 5 stars August 8, 2011
Good Game
It took me a while but I beat the game. I gotta say, this has got to be one of the best games where you don't have much direct gameplay on the field(aside from the power-ups), and it kept me interested in it. A very good job from the creators here.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars August 7, 2011
Pretty Good
Great game in all. I mean, come on, any game where robotic penguins eat turtles with cannons mounted on their back has got to be at least fun to watch. The only bad thing is when the penguins get stuck running into a wall, although the teleporting turtles later on prevent most cases from occuring for to long.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars August 7, 2011
loved killing turtles and upgrading ! only one thing i hated when the penguins are fucking retarded and keep walking into the wall !


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Mid-Summer Media Endorsements
Summer means time to consume media products. And that's what I've been doing — along with a lot of adventuring.
But endorsing means putting your name and reputation behind something else….and here's the media products for which I'm eager to do just that.
Yoona Park is a Portland lawyer. This is her version of a mommy-blog. And it is f-ing roll-on-the-ground hilarious. I am not a mommy; I do not love mommy blogs. But this has quickly become my favorite Google Reader lunchtime reading material. My favorite posts are on the ridiculousness that are Man Sandals (aka "Mandals"), the horrible fashion sense of her preschool son, and her incredible post on the wonderment of crappy mid-level malls. She also has beautiful style and adorable kids and did I mention she is REALLY REALLY FUNNY? Put this on your RSS feed right now.
They're fabulous and opinionated. They write about fashion, they recap TV shows. But the very best thing they do is the detailed, shot-by-shot analysis of the fashion in Mad Men. (The ones that say "Mad Style" are style posts; the others are recaps). These two know their shit, and although Mad Men's over for the year, you'll still revel in their breakdowns of the last few seasons. I went down a three hour rabbit hole the first time I happened upon the site.
Everything that Mallory Ortberg writes at The Hairpin is genius. I like a lot of writers on The 'Pin, but no one earns my affection quite like Ortberg, who, if you're a common reader, goes by Melis in the comments. Texts from Jane Eyre, Texts from Sweet Valley High, Texts from Scarlett O'Hara. I die. And if her humor is your thing — I realize it's somewhat of an acquired (BUT AWESOME) taste — then follow her on Twitter.
Everything Molly Lambert writes. Lambert covers celebrity (and does some recapping and music reveling) for Grantland, and she consistently inspires me to be better, write better, think better when it comes to celebrity. My recent favorites: "About That Chris Brown-Rihanna-Drake Love Triangle," "Lana, Taylor, Michelle," "Hollywood's (Excellent) Crazy Lady Boom," "Talk That Talk: On the Two Rihannas," and "Evening in America: Cindy Crawford and the State of Supermodels."
If you liked Wolf Hall, or just like historical fiction, or like thinking of Thomas Cromwell as a man of wit and amazing intelligence, then read Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, which was just long-listed for The Booker Prize.
If you like books that you can read in one sitting and stick with you FOR DAYS AND WEEKS afterwards, that are written from the perspective of an aging man looking back on his life, that are somehow half curmudgeonly but endearing and will make you think about memory and nostalgia in a completely different way, then buy Julian Barnes' exquisite The Sense of an Ending. I can't stop thinking about it.
If you love Downton Abbey and need a confection to hold you until Season Three begins, An American Heiress will satisfy you perfectly. Don't mistake me: the writing is only okay. The plotting is not nuanced. But it is exactly what you think it is, and sometimes that's exactly what you want for a long day laying in the sun on a towel in some corner of the world.
Everyone's been telling me to read it, and you've probably read it or thought about reading it, but Tea Obreht's The Tiger's Wife is as good as they say it is. Truly beautiful writing, innovative plotting, a window unto a world I knew very little about. Plus Obreht was born in 1985. Mind blown.
I absolutely loved The Sisters Brothers. If you like Cormac McCarthy, spare Westerns, spare prose, and/or poignancy, you will too.
I've told everyone I know to read John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you know this. He writes essays on pop culture in the vein of Chuck Klosterman and David Foster Wallace, and is as good as both. Pulphead collects these essays — including pieces on Michael Jackson, The Real World, Christian Rock concerts, and my personal favorite, the Southern writer Andrew Lytle. If you don't take my word for it, read this review in The New Yorker. JJS, as my students called him, is the real deal, and I can't wait to see what he does next. (And if you've read Pulphead and liked it, then consider his first book, Blood Horses – a hybrid memoir/history of horse racing. I thought I wasn't interested in the history of horse racing, but the beauty of JJS (or any gifted essayist) is how they convince you that you were wrong.)
Scandal. Late to the game on this one. I lost interest in Grey's Anatomy a long, long time ago admit that Shonda Rimes is not my favorite showrunner. But Scandal is tightly-plotted, (for the most part) well-acted, surprised me several times, and has the best music of any mainstream show on television right now. It's also only seven episodes, and cost something ridiculously low on iTunes. If you watched Michael Clayton (or have read any of my pieces on the "fixers" of Old Hollywood), you will love Scandal.
Hart of Dixie, Episode 8. This show is bad, even if the clothes are really good. But I miss Jason Street from Friday Night Lights and Summer from The O.C., so I gave it a try. It's soapy, it's stereotypical, it's utterly implausible. BUT: there's also THIS GUY. I'm just sayin'. Someone on Twitter called Hart of Dixie "terrifically uneven," and I couldn't agree more. But the great thing about unevenness is that sometimes everything seems to go right, and that's what happens in Episode 8.
Sherlock, Season 2. Cumberbatch! The Hounds of Baskerville! Available (and only slightly overpriced) and iTunes! Get on that.
Thoughts? Additions? Feedback? Let me know in the comments!
5 Responses to "Mid-Summer Media Endorsements"
this is perhaps an obvious one, but I read (most of) the Steve Jobs biography and it really is great and fascinating (and Jobs comes off as kind of a dick).
Also, for those missing Mad Men I recently saw The Best of Everything (1960), which has resonances and I'm sure was source material for Weiner.
These are great. Thank you for posting!!
anne (anne helen?)–thank you for the shout out. i'm tickled. and gratified that we share a love of laineygossip…
Holy God, these Mad Men Style posts are AMAZING. Thank you so much for sharing!
I started reading The Sense of an Ending, and then I put it down and…now I can't remember why. I need to pick it back up again, clearly.
Also: Sherlock. YES. I love the Cumberbatch (sounds dirty?) and I love this show.


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FOX13 News has learned of a back door plan involving Tennessee state law that could enable Germantown to keep their embattled school buildings.At present is a fight between the suburb and the Shelby County Schools over those school buildings. Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy and the city of Germantown might keep them if the school buildings become charter schools.It was one of the glaring weaknesses of the now defunct 23-member city-county merger school board. Too many issues ended up in votes where members didn't even know what they were voting on. But board member David Pickler always did.
MORE: Germantown mayor fights for 8 schoolsMORE: SCS votes to keep 3 Germantown schoolsMORE: SCS bracing for student exodus to municipal districts MORE: Germantown parents voice concern over SCS retaining schoolsMORE: SCS: District needs 3 Germantown school buildingsMORE: Germantown parents voice concern over SCS retaining schools
"I don't think we need to call the roll. We can see who's here."Contacted by phone at a speaking engagement with national educators in Idaho, Pickler's thoughts were on an admitted back door plan he says Germantown leaders could use to turn public schools into charter schools and keep their buildings.Pickler says the during meetings of the transition planning commission in the spring of 2012, the group's facilities committee, which he headed, set up a program called the Multiple Achievement Path. Part of the plan, which was later voted on and passed by the then 23-member school was that the system agreeing to work with declared non-profit charter management organizations. The acronym, CMOS."It could be for example the Germantown Education Foundation," Pickler said. "They would have the ability under Tennessee law ... that, if a majority of the parents or a majority of the teachers in a particular school, were to vote in favor of converting their school from a public school to a public charter school, that they could make application to the local board of education for their school to convert to a charter school."The presumption across the state has been once that school converts to a charter, then the building would go along with the charter," Pickler added.Pickler admits some SCS board members back then probably didn't even know they'd voted in favor of the measure. Certainly, SCS Superintendent Dorsey Hopson was unfamiliar with the charter school possibility for Germantown when FOX13 News asked him about it during Gov. Bill Haslam's visit Thursday to Memphis."I'm not familiar with any plan for charter schools or anything like that," Superintendent Hopson said. "Ultimately we just want to have good schools where the schools hopefully end up serving will be determined by the board.""I've spoken with the chairman of the State Legislature, Tennessee Education Committee, who is actually the author of the legislation that would permit this," Pickler said. "He has confirmed that this absolutely is an option that can be considered."
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New York financial leaders raised a net of $706,000 to fight ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrigs disease) last Thursday night at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Proceeds from the 8th annual MDAs Wings Over Wall Street®, a favorite event of New York Citys Wall Street, financial services, and business communities, support the Muscular Dystrophy Associations research to eradicate ALS, a progressive and deadly motor neuron disease.
Several special awards were presented at the event. Neurologist Christopher Henderson received the Diamond Award, which is given to a scientific leader dedicated to eradicating ALS. Henderson is Co-Director of the Center for Motor Neuron Disease and a Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University. The award is named in honor of Toni Diamond, a former United Airlines flight attendant who passed away from ALS. Diamond and her husband, Warren Schiffer, founded the Wings event, and Warren continues the fight in her honor each year. More...
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Elder Care – Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing – Part 4
November 27, 2013 in Did you know..., Elderly Care, Home Safety, Maintain Your Independence - Leave a reply
Last week we talked about two scams that operated over the telephone. In those cases a senior can simply hang up but what happens when someone arrives at the elderly person's home. Often a scammer will present themself as a public utility inspector or a even a person in need. The homeowner will receive a knock on the front door and be confronted by two people. They identify themselves as
inspectors for the utility or gas company. They ask for entry into the senior's home and often they will flash an ID card very quickly. So quickly that the senior will barely have time to read it. Once inside, one person will ask to be directed to the gas meter or the electrical panel and the other person will ask to use a washroom or the telephone. While the senior is kept busy, the scammer will be stealing. It could be a purse, a wallet or even a bottle of medication. Sometimes the theft is discovered quickly but often the scammer is more subtle and even if they don't take anything they could be casing the seniors house for a future robbery.
This is a very intimidating situation for an elderly person. But if the senior is prepared they can avoid being victimized in this way.
- ALWAYS be very cautious and careful when answering the door especially if there is more than one person there.
- ALWAYS demand identification and ask the person to wait outside while you check it. If you have any doubt, hand it back to them, and close the door and lock it immediately.
- DO NOT LET THEM IN! Call the utility company to confirm the reason for this visit. If they are legitimate inspectors, they will wait. If they aren't, they'll leave in a big hurry.
Recently in Langley, an old scam has resurfaced. This one is particularly difficult to deal with because, like the grandchild in trouble scam it tugs at the heartstrings of the elderly person. The scammer comes to the door with a 'tale of woe'. They say that they need hot water to warm their baby's bottle or they need to warm up their baby's food in your microwave. Police are warning that under no circumstances should the senior allow this person entry. Another version is a person or persons will ask for water for a leaking radiator. Beware of these wolves in sheep's clothing because once inside they could steal the senior's wallet or purse. Now the senior must cancel credit cards, renew their driver's license and care cards and more. Worst of all now the elder is at risk for Identity theft. We will discuss this next week. Until then, make sure that you and your elderly parents don't open the door to strangers. Crooks know that elderly people and seniors are vulnerable so be savvy and be safe!
Lilianne Fuller, Relationship Manager at B Cared For Services
Elder Care – Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing – Part 3
November 16, 2013 in Did you know..., Elderly Care, Home Safety, Maintain Your Independence - Leave a reply
This week we will talk about two scams that are designed to take a seniors money with a simple telephone call. The first one is called The Lottery Scam. The odds of winning
the lottery are about one in a million, sometimes more. Everyone has bought a ticket or two in their day especially when the prize gets into the multi-millions. A couple of weeks ago we talked about a scam called The Pigeon Drop and this one is fairly similar. Both are about getting something for nothing or almost nothing. A senior will get a telephone call from someone who invites them to become part of a special group that is buying a large number of lottery tickets. The tickets aren't for local lotteries but ones that are overseas. The caller claims that the odds of winning go from millions to one down to as little as six to one and the senior is probably already a winner! Police advise that no matter what the caller says the odds per ticket remain the same, always millions to one. The BC Lottery Corporation will never contact a person by telephone to buy a ticket. Their advice is simple: DO NOT BUY LOTTERY TICKETS FROM A TELEPHONE SOLICITATION. You are guaranteed to lose….big time!
The next scam appeals to an elderly person's desire to help a charity. The caller will appear to be soliciting for what is clearly a worthy cause. Although the name is familiar it isn't quite what the senior remembers. The caller will reassure the victim that they are indeed genuine and often in times of crisis, the caller will use a name that is very similar to legitimate fundraising efforts. They will ask for a credit card number for a donation and assure the senior that they will receive a tax receipt. Today's society has numerous charities so it is hard to know all of them. First of all, make a note of the charity's name. Write it down. Tell the caller that they will need to send you a donation envelope. If they aren't a legitimate charity this request will usually stop them in their tracks and they will give you a bunch of excuses why they can't comply. They will pressure you to simply give them your credit card number or send a cheque. This should be your cue to hang up. A true charity will be happy to accommodate your request. To be on the safe side never send money to a charity you don't recognize.
As people age, they get a lot smarter. But unfortunately there are wolves in sheep's clothing who are constantly on the lookout for ways to part seniors from their money. As in the old boy scout motto, it is a good idea to be prepared for when those people call. Next week we'll be talking about how to deal with public utility impostors who come to your door
Lilianne Fuller, Relationship Manager at B Cared For Services
Elder Care – Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing – Part 2
November 11, 2013 in Did you know..., Elderly Care, Home Safety, Maintain Your Independence - Leave a reply
Last week we talked about a scam called The Pigeon Drop. That scam is just one of many that fraudsters will use to dupe their senior victims. This week we will talk about a particularly heartbreaking scam, The Grandchild in Trouble. The Grandchild in Trouble Scheme is particularly troubling because it tugs on the heart strings of the elderly person. It is international in scope and has recently surfaced in Langley.
Scammers have no conscience and they will prey on seniors. They are always looking for ways to make their elderly victims part with their money.
They know that today's seniors may have grandchildren scattered throughout Langley, British Columbia or even across the country. Seniors and elderly people want to help their family members and these pros know all the tricks. Unfortunately the crooks don't get caught very often because of the elderly person's embarrassment at being taken advantage of and most of the time the senior will not even report the crime.
This scam starts with a disturbing telephone call from the alleged grandson or granddaughter who is in trouble. They have been arrested and need money for bail. The scammer will cry in distress and beg their elderly grandparent not to contact their parents. They are afraid that they will get in more trouble. When the senior agrees to help them they will give a number to them so they can call to post bail. This call will be answered by someone pretending to be a lawyer or police officer and the victim will be asked to use a money wire to send the bail money which is sometimes in the thousands of dollars. Canadian Police agencies do not contact individuals for bail money nor do they use money wire services.
To avoid being taken advantage of, the first thing to do is to take your time and keep your head. Ask for the name of the lawyer or police officer and write down the number they tell you. BUT under no circumstances call that number! If you have call display write down the incoming number. Tell the caller you will do what they ask and hang up. Next, call your son or daughter to determine the whereabouts of their children. Once you've determined that your family is safe and sound call the police and report the incident. If you are unnerved about this, ask your family member or a neighbour to help you. The police understand that this process is hard on an elderly person so when they send an office to take your statement they will be accompanied by a trained victim services worker. This worker will help you deal with the trauma and make sure that you will be cared for.
Like my sister said, getting old isn't for sissies but as a savvy senior you will be prepared to deflect any and all scams that might come your way. Watch this space, next week we will be discussing a new twist on the numbers game: The lottery scam.
Lilianne Fuller, Relationship Manager at B Cared For Services
Elder Care – Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing – Part 1
November 2, 2013 in Did you know..., Elderly Care, Home Safety, Maintain Your Independence - Leave a reply
Getting old is not for sissies, my sister said. When you read about some of the scams out there to take advantage of today's seniors I can see what she means. There is a reason why elderly people and savvy seniors can be taken advantage of and it can be traced to varying degrees of isolation. Often because of their embarrassment at being taken advantage of they fail to report the crime.
United Way reports that thirty percent of seniors live alone and are particularly vulnerable. This statistic also applies to seniors who live in Langley. Increased vulnerability
is a danger and an isolated senior can fall prey to scammers. Being starved for conversation, an elderly person may allow anyone into their home who will talk to them. Similarly on the telephone, if they are lonely , they may engage in a conversation and could be convinced to give out private and sensitive information to someone who seeks to steal from a vulnerable elderly person.
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- Grandchild in trouble
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- Free Vacation scams
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Female soldiers spark sexist controversy in COD ghosts
After the Call of duty Ghosts reveal, there wasn't a great deal to talk about due to the fact it's more of a 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' game. As expected there were the usual new weapons, dynamic maps, additional modes, slight graphical tweaks but nothing to wow users who are looking forward to next gen, oh and of course dogs. However there was one change that many have been waiting for, it was announced that you will be finally be able to play as a female soldier in Call of duty's multi-player for the first time ever, which is great right?
Well not according to some of the brain dead members of the community that like to talk from the same appendage they think with (Their arse). Below are just a handful of comments I've seen in the last twenty four hours about the addition of female soldiers to the multi-player.
"As long as the main character is not a female I don't think it would be a big deal. If they want to kill this franchise the should go ahead and put a female lead, would be funny to see the COD franchise fail."
"Yes I am annoyed and this is a big downside to me. Like I said, most female gamers do not even play COD. Nobody asked for this, except a few feminists and annoying liberals who want to force their beliefs on others."
"woman and war go together like men and shopping… Just simply no!"
"We added females in the game to be politically correct. It was to please the 1% of females who actually play this game, so we added totally unrealistic female soldiers, even if there was basically no demand at all for it."
"There had better be a map called "Kitchen" in the multi-player."
"And you can play as a woman in CoD Ghosts… But only three weeks out of the month."
If it be jokes or actual 'serious' comments they are incredibly distasteful and immature. Another statement almost made me spit my tea all over my laptop..
"As long as the main character is not a female I don't think it would be a big deal. If they want to kill this franchise the should go ahead and put a female lead, would be funny to see the COD franchise fail."
In all seriousness I have never read so much BS on the net in a mere few hours and I'm on it a lot. However such sexists comments and uproar are just plain ridiculous and goes to show how immature and pathetic some 'gamers' (and I use that term loosely for these people) really are. The comment about the main character being female would cause the game to 'fail' is the biggest pile of nonsense I've read this year. Clearly this person hasn't played games such as tomb raider or seen the up and coming Beyond two souls, both of which are action orientated games with a female lead. Oh but wait, those games aren't FPS games or have Call of duty in the title so no way could a female character be in the game or have any substantial effect on campaign if there was one. Such nonsense!
Also it makes sense to have female soldiers, even for the narrative, America has been invaded, pockets of resistance remain, if it be a man or woman they would take up arms. That applies to the online battlefield also. There seems to be this general consensus that women can't be soldiers. Ever heard of the US army Sappers? Women on the front line may be against the law in America, but there's no such thing that says they are incapable! Put reality at the side, at the end of the day online gaming is about being whoever you want to be. The fact that they have allowed that in Call of duty is great. It's just the reason they gave, that sounds like PR rubbish!
The PR rubbish applies to the explanation from Mark Rubin saying it was technical limitations for character customization that kept female characters out of past Call of Duty games. This is utter rubbish! Sorry I don't buy that one single bit. We've had female characters back on N64 in goldeneye, are you telling me that it wasn't a possibility to remap a face for a character or change gender due to technical limitations on their engine? Perhaps this was due to it being old and outdated? But wait wasn't Sarah Michelle Gellar in Nazi Zombies? The answer there is yes, yes she was.
Also in answer to the idiotic hoard of comments and outrage about the addition of female characters – it is utterly stupid, there's no other way to phrase it. In recent games female characters are becoming more common. Here's a list just to educate those few: Gears Of War, The Last of us, Rainbow 6 Vegas, Mass Effect 3, Rise of the Triad, Borderlands, Halo, Saints Row,XCom Enemy Unknown, Perfect dark – I guess you get the point, it's not a rarity so why the uproar?
Perhaps it's the user that commented on a Game spot article which was more or less spot on.
"We all know damn well why there weren't any playable females in COD before… It's because the vast majority of COD players are young heterosexual males who are so incredibly insecure about their sexuality that they need to be able to play as a bad ass male soldier to affirm their manhood. "
The statement hits it on the head pretty much! I simply don't get the hostility towards the opposite sex in a video game. Since when did sexuality dictate who can and who can't play games? Never! Is it something to get angry about and stamp your feet like a 2 year old having a paddy? Hell know! Do some of the gaming community need a firm slap round the head and have a large amount of growing up to do? Certainly!
This wild assumption that female gamers make up 1% of the gaming community is complete nonsense! In fact 45% of gamers are women and they make up 46% of the most habitual video game purchasers, according to a new study by the Entertainment Software Association. The study, "2013 Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry," found that adult women represent 31% of the video game population and boys 17 and under make up only 19% of gamers!
Another recent study from Magid Advisors found that 70% of women between the ages of 12 and 24 play video games, as do 61% of women between the ages of 45 and 64, compared to 57% of men in the latter age group. So yeah, it's certainly not 1%
You might be thinking why should I be bothered about this? It's because as a man it makes me sick seeing other men talk so much dribble. A good deal of my online friends are girls and they have every right to play what they want as who they want! Just as I do. Gaming is not about making divides, it's not gender specific! Discrimination, racism and sexism have no place there, despite what imbeciles think! Gaming is for everyone!
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|An equation can't predict your future --
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How long will my number last? : equation #1, Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250) --
How long will I spend in retirement? : equation #2, Benjamin Gompertz (1779-1865) --
Is a pension annuity worth it? : equation #3, Edmond Halley (1656-1742) --
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Is my current plan sustainable? : equation #7, Andrei N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987) --
Controversies, omissions, and concluding thoughts --
Appendix. Crash course on natural and unnatural logarithms.
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So kind of my friend Kelsey Proud to include me (and Jake!) in her list of "three people you follow online regularly" for NPR's My So-Called Digital Life feature.
Also very honored to be lumped into the same category as social media greats Jen Lee Reeves and Luke Runyon.
I love this concept, put forth by Matt Waite, a professor at Nebraska-Lincoln. He looks at educating students starting with the "minimally viable participant."
His list of key, minimally-required skills for anyone entering the field of journalism, now or in the future, is short and simple: Tell stories, understand the internet, learn, execute on ideas.
Looking at my own J-school experience from 2005 to 2009, I'd say my institution fell short, focusing solely on the storytelling aspect. I'm constantly impressed and a bit envious of how quickly journalism education seemed to start evolving right about the time I graduated.
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But collaboration now and in the future means looking beyond the confines of the newsroom and asking how you can work your leadership, business team, marketing team, and audience to make a better news product.
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In any software development project, you have a line in the sand called the Minimum Viable Product. It's the point where you've got it working well enough and with enough features that the thing has a chance. Barely. It's not a goal or a standard, it's a marker of progress.
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For the past 11 months, I've been working with AAJA's national leadership team and programming chair to build out programming for our annual convention.
I was thrilled to have been tapped by this opportunity, especially given my work curating a diverse web journalism speakers list. My goals from the outset were to increase the diversity of the speakers, including getting more young speakers on sessions and panels.
Our speaker list is published here.
Major caveat: being a group of journalists of color, we were at a somewhat natural advantage. Still, in years past, I've been disappointed by the lack of diversity represented at some of the conference sessions.
How do we inspire the next generation of journalists to embrace diversity and become advocates when we're trotting out panels that don't reflect our mission?
We invited an AAJA member to lead every single session, which means we're highlighting the amazing work our members do all year and makes them more seasoned speakers to be poached by other conferences.
In addition to racial diversity, our attendees will see an impressive array of gender and age. There are more than 27 sessions that are being led by women. At least 15 speakers are well under age 30 and more than a few are first-time speakers.
We were clear that diversity was a priority when we invited our members to lead sessions: "While every speaker does not need to be Asian or a member of AAJA, we encourage you to consider racial, gender and age diversity as you seek panelists for your session."
I attended Spark Camp last year and really love their method of inviting half their guests, then having their chosen guests invite another guest to ensure they're reaching an audience that goes beyond the pool of "usual suspects." I'm also a fan of Deanna Zandt's #one4one campaign to raise the profile of digital influencers from all backgrounds.
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I'm part of a community called the Tech Lady Mafia, and this topic of diversifying conferences comes up often. This post has been adapted from emails I've sent contributing to those conversations.
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* Be sure to add the sched.org app to your phone and start planning out your sessions.
* Planning to hit the job fair? Get your resume prepared with NABJ's Benet Wilson with this webinar or listen to AAJA's podcast with convention co-chair Brooke Camp and convention session leader Lars Schmidt about how to stand out in the crowd.
* All that networking is sure to work up an appetite, so check out our AAJAEats page with tips from AAJA-ers and locals on where to eat near the convention hotel.
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* More questions? Check out my post with advice for building your network, saving a few bucks, and making some new friends from last summer's UNITY conference.
This time next week, I'll be on my way to Las Vegas for 5 days at the UNITY Journalists convention, a once-every-four-years joint conference among AAJA, NAHJ, NAJA and NLGJA.
My first UNITY was in 2008 in Chicago — I was still a student, looking for my next big internship, and scared as hell. UNITY is a large event and can be incredibly overwhelming.
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A year ago, while Paul Cheung was running for AAJA National President, I posed the question to him about how AAJA can better serve our young and early career journalists, and how we can better recognize their amazing work in the field.
His answer involved four key strategies, three of which I think we've made great strides on in the first year of his leadership:
* Using the AAJA website to showcase our members with mini profiles: this happened for photographers during AAPI heritage month, but we're still not great about this throughout the year, and with a focus on AAJA's rising stars.
* Re-establish the mentoring program: Paul, working with Randall Yip and Joe Grimm, has relaunched the mentorship program this year, combining the broadcast and print/online groups. 30-minute career counseling sessions are also being offered this year—I don't think this is necessarily new, but it appears to be newly focused on early career members.
* Better showcase the work our members do: I've spent the past 10 months working on the programming committee and am pleased with the number of young members we're featuring as speakers this year. There are at least 15 speakers under age 30 this year, and at least a handful are entry-level and first-time speakers. To me, it's important for the "AAJA family" to be among the first to show support and good faith for these emerging speakers and experts.
* Expand affinity groups to focus on segments of the industry: We're not set up formally yet, but programming for this year's convention is created around specific journalism "tracks": broadcast, photo, social media, data/design, reporting/editing. This should make it easier for convention-goers to identify and engage with other members who are doing similar work in the field.
So hats off to Paul for his wonderful leadership, the board for their continued support of AAJA's young members, and Tom Huang, this year's convention programming chair, for allowing the infusion of young members into this year's speaker roster.
AAJA can continue to do more to recognize the talent and potential of our younger members. A few ideas I'll toss out:
* Student Member of the Year award
* Rising Star awards (I believe NABJ has these) for print, visual, broadcast, online, etc.
* Regular Twitter chats or Google hangouts with student members and board members
* Special event at convention for members with 1-5 years experience (the pre-ELP crowd), whether it be as casual as a meetup or a more formalized program.
When we made the decision to move from Minnesota this year, one of the biggest losses I've felt was that of the AAJA Minnesota chapter. I had spent six years as a member of the Minnesota chapter, five of them serving on the board as student representative and co-president. The AAJA Minnesota board became not only a source of my incredible mentors, but great friends who felt like a family.
I've decided to apply my experience working on a local chapter in our new home, and am currently running for Vice President for Online within the AAJA DC chapter.
Any AAJA DC full members, I'd greatly appreciate your vote and support.
In the contested chapter president race, I'm backing POLITICO's Seung-Min Kim. Her candidacy statement is included on the ballot emailed to all chapter members eligible to vote. I've been impressed with her leadership since moving to the area and am excited about her ideas to continue leading the chapter.
AAJA DC is also seeking members to step up to fill positions of treasurer, community liaison and member outreach.
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I usually try hard to keep an open mind about new ideas, but this is on instance where I am going to come right out and say it: this is a stupid idea.
Social media, and good social media use for journalism, is about so much more than any junky metric like Klout could ever capture.


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As ancient genomes begin to roll in, we have trouble figuring out what to call the ancient populations we're discovering.
Great post by John Hawks on why calling the Denisova fossils (and DNA) "Denisovan" is going to get really confusing. I agree with his take on this. Naming these fossils Denisovan is a way to separate them from Neandertals. This is a problem when it comes to paleogenetics, because what was a distinction between fossil sites (similar the difference between Neandertals at Krapina vs. La Ferrassie) becomes a suggestion that these were biologically separate species. Yet the DNA tells us that both groups interbred with each other and are related to humans today; making this kind of biological separation inaccurate on top of being confusing.
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Paleontology and paleoanthropology are full of unwieldy scientific names and these names crop up from time to time in news stories. I will be discussing the meaning of the names of three alliterati…
Learn the etymology of Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus anamensis. Bonus: Australopithecine song. (Yes, I've been saving this post for a bit because I keep forgetting to post it on Wedesday)


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If goto Arduino/Sletch/Show Sketch Folder I am shown a folder in /var/folders/7l/hn (etc)/T/untitled (etc)/sketch_nov26a, there are several such paths.
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If I look in preferences.txt there is no entry for a /var/... folder
If I do an ls on the folder it all looks normal (not a link), but OSX finder displays th1.0.1e Sketch with a Parallels - which I have installed and do use, but it is not in use at this moment - marker.
There are several similar sketches so it seems to add one every time I open Arduino.
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Tuesday is Edith Wharton's 150th birthday and the Times is on it with the Downton Abbey angle, which despite its if you like [x] you might also like [y] is not really a stretch (Americans with no titles and aristocracy with no money).
Wharton's birthplace (14 W 23rd Street) is now a Starbucks.
Noodling through some of her stories,* I'm struck by how, though the language is dated, it's no differently dated than other (nonfiction, non-'literary') pre-Modernist writing—I don't have a sense of passing through some impermeable barrier into Art where every sentence is held in such tension that to remove one word brings down the whole affair. They read lightly and like gossip; they assume you know what happened in Milan or Modena and what any Vanderleyden would do in such a situation… or else why would you be reading?
Which is not to say say she's unserious. She has such a gift for epigram, as in "The Descent of Man":
Her marriage had been too concrete a misery to be surveyed philosophically… […] Her husband's personality seemed to be closing gradually in on her, obscuring the sky and cutting off the air, till she felt herself shut up among the decaying bodies of her starved hopes.
Much of Wharton would not fare so well in show-don't-tell workshops. Too bad for us. I do think one can't write these days with the same assurance about readers' background and beliefs**, and reading Wharton I cringe occasionally at figures of speech ("every fiber of her being") and gestures ("the blood rushed to her face") that have now and maybe always had long passed their expiration date. But the stories—the plots—are so good.
Largely because they are very much of and at home in the world. I think that's one of the reasons A Visit From the Goon Squad resonates so, and so differently than much contemporary (and arguably more crafted) fiction. There's as much living and looking there as there is writing.
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A Wicked Two-Volume METALLICA Biography Acquired By DA CAPO PRESS - Apr. 18, 2012
Da Capo Press has announced that it will publish a two-volume biography of the biggest hard rock band in the world, METALLICA. "Birth School Metallica Death: Volume I" by Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood will hit bookstores in the fall of 2013. "Birth School Metallica Death: Volume II" will land in the fall of 2014.
Paul Brannigan is the acclaimed author of Da Capo's "This Is A Call: The Life And Times Of Dave Grohl". Ian Winwood is a music journalist. Their book will be the most comprehensive, complete, authoritative, and compelling narrative biography of METALLICA to date, and will be based on 75 hours of rare interviews.
Divided into two distinct books, "Volume I" will cover METALLICA's formative years in the underground, from the unassailable one-two-three punch of speed metal classics "Ride The Lightning", "Kill 'Em All" and "Master Of Puppets" to the mainstream breakthrough heralded by "...And Justice For All" and realized with the multi-platinum success of the "black" album. "Volume II" will cover METALLICA after breaking through to the mainstream, the megatours, excess, and many challenges and successes that followed.
The book was acquired by Da Capo Press executive editor Ben Schafer who said, "It's an honor to work once more with Paul Brannigan, as well as Ian Winwood, on what will be the definitive biography of METALLICA. METALLICA's story is an epic narrative finally getting the same multi-book treatment as Elvis Presley, Charles Darwin, and several former presidents."
U.S. and Open Market (excluding Europe) rights were sold by agent Matthew Elblonk of DeFiore & Company in association with Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander.
One of the world's biggest rock bands, METALLICA has sold in excess of 100 million albums. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest and most storied stadiums has been an epic and often traumatic one. There are countless memorable stories about the band yet to make it into print: tales of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car crashes and fistfights and backstabbing that occur when you mix testosterone and adrenaline and alcohol and egomania.
No music writers have been afforded greater access to METALLICA over the past two decades than Brannigan and Winwood. The duo have conducted approximately 75 hours of interviews with the band, gaining not only an unparalleled knowledge of the group's history but also an insider's view of how this story has developed. The pair have ridden in the band's limos, flown on their private jet, joined them in the studio during the recording of seminal albums, been invited to the quartet's "HQ" (headquarters) in San Rafael outside San Francisco and shared beers and stories with the four-piece backstage in venues across the globe.
Da Capo Press is a member of the Perseus Books Group and has recently published such music books as "Iron Man", a memoir by BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi, and "Seven Deadly Sins" by Corey Taylor, lead singer of the hard rock bands SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR. Both were New York Times bestsellers.


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Everyone's raving about Apple's new toys — the [[http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle|Apple iPod-Flash]] and the [[http://www.apple.com/macmini/|Apple Mac-Mini]]. My reaction? Big deal.
The mini is probably a good idea — atleast now people can plug in their own monitors and keyboards and save up a lot on the crappy keyboards that Apple ships (the monitors are great, but still expensive IMHO).
The iPod shuffle is reasonably priced and stylish, but if I'm getting 20Gig upwards for 100-200 bucks more, why wouldn't I got for it? Also, I don't think its a good idea to tie the iPod flash so closely to the iTunes software… I mean, I should always be able to use it as a USB key right?
Work was slow today (read no new progress). Our machine room A/C crashed so a lot of my machines had to be taken down and so I'm stuck without any machines to run my stuff on. Besides, I don't have any new leads on how to solve my current problem either. Its highly unlikely that we'll have the requisite work done before the paper deadline, but still there's no harm in trying.
I also spent some time thinking about designing my own wordpress theme. Played around with Inkscape and Scribus a bit. Also installed Drupal and playing around with it. I think there's a niche for a personal website management system — which would combine a blog, a photo gallery and static content creation all rolled into one.


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Subject: Educational Elites Will Deliver Digitally, Says Ellison (05/26/98; 6:14 p.m. EST) By Mo Krochmal, TechWeb URL: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980526S0008lsler-talk.html Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had some good news and some bad news for educators on Tuesday. Educators will make thousands, even millions of dollars teaching courses like Physics 101. That's the good news, he said at the Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass. The bad news is that there will only be about 60 of them who will be doing it, he said. "Great teachers' courses will be converted for electronic transmission," Ellison said. The acceleration of networking accomplished by the Internet will change everything, said Ellison, pointing to education as the recipient of some of the most sweeping changes. "Education might be the single biggest advantage the U.S. has over Asia," he said. "We're going to start exporting that through the Internet." There will be economic incentives for Harvard to distribute their products electronically, Ellison said. That, in turn, will create a "tremendous tension between institutions of higher learning and faculty over who owns Physics 101," he said. "There will be a tremendous change in the cost of delivering higher learning — it will cost one-tenth as much to deliver an education." In the meantime, Oracle ([45]companyprofile) will continue to build on its education business, which totalled a half-billion dollars in revenue last year. The company, which Ellison founded in 1977, is trying to make a business directed at kindergarteners through 80-year-olds — "anybody who needs to update their knowledge base," Ellison said.
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A camp in Johannesburg full of immigrants is due to be cleared as the inhabitants are to be relocated to the outskirts. Armed groups are preparing to clear the area of this impoverished community, a community of aliens.
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