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The Lion Whisperer – Behaviorist and Hugger of Lions
Originating as an adolescent wild running "Bird Man of Orange Grove" caring for all things nature to a self taught animal behaviourist, it is no surprise that when Kevin Richardson crosses all barriers involved with the animal kingdom and cuddles lions he is known as the mighty "Lion Whisperer".
Kevin Richardson is both a zoologist and animal behaviourist who has trained some of the most dangerous and territorial animals known to man. He focuses on building bonds with species such as lions, cheetahs and hyenas and has been the only human to have ever been accepted into a lion's pride. He refuses to use physical re-enforcement (chains, sticks and collars etc.) to understand their behaviour and instead relies on his ability to read the body language of species. He understands their personalities on an independent level, learning what makes them active, defensive and playful. Although most think his close encounters of sleeping and swimming with lions is crazy, attacks received from lions have only been warnings – treating him like any other member in their pride.
Kevin uses his incredible talent and reputation to help engage in educational documentaries for these large predators whilst working at the Lion Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. During his hard efforts to establish connections with the wild lions of this park, Michael Rosenberg – an award winning documentary maker was moved by his special performances and wanted to capture his abilities on camera, and thus gave birth to the Dangerous Companions series.
Following this series was another documentary "In Search of a Legend" which is a one off unique story illustrating the passion and dedication involved in finding the elusive black leopard. In the search for this beautiful species Kevin Richardson uses his uncanny ability to communicate with two black leopards Coal and Nikita to help them successfully breed and reproduce.
Kevin's Mission
Just over the past 15 years, African lion populations have dangerously dropped from 350,000 to an estimated mere 25,000. Richardson hopes that the attention generated from his media will raise public awareness on the beauty of lions and their conservation status. South Africa is traditionally known for its game hunting. Providing lion hunts alone generations $90 million dollars a year with tourists paying up to $40,000 just to shoot a lion. Despite its dangerous inflictions on wild numbers, the African government supports these unfair actions to generate desperate revenue. Richard hopes that by showing how extraordinary and unique lions are, people may second think before engaging in trophy hunting events.
Conservation efforts
Kevin is extremely passionate about conservation and works in close relationship with the PAW Conservation Trust – a non-profit African Wildlife Conservation Trust that aims to support biodiversity conservation.
Ranging from promoting awareness of endangered African species alongside with running educational programmes and supporting social ecologists and environmental scientists; PAWS goal is to preserve global biodiversity for future generations.
For more information on this Trust please visit:
Kevin now resides in Johannesburg, visiting the inhabitants of the White Lion Kingdom where he works closely with them on a daily basis.
To support Kevin's work, a list of his films, documentaries, books and charity work can be seen here.
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She might not be praised for having made the best choices for the Golden Globes throughout the years, but this boyish ensemble gives Julia Roberts an adorable appeal. Perhaps she intented to strut the steel out of her magnolia.
Here she is in 1990, receiving her first Golden Globe award for her performance in Steel Magnolias.
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Jose I. Gonzalez Arias from Guatemela, FINA TSC Member, was on site to conduct the course and share his valuable expertise.
Successful diving clinic held in Belem (BRA)
A successful FINA Development diving clinic was held in Belem, Brasil from 13-17 March, 2012 with 30 participants. Among them, 7 coaches, 17 judges, two officials, three students and one athlete took part in the course (intermediate to advanced level) conducted by Rolando Ruiz Pedreguera. 23 of them were locals and 7 from outside the country.
One step further for Aquatics in Rwanda
In collaboration with FINA (under its Development programme 2012), the Rwanda swimming federation (FRNA) organised a ten-day clinic from March 10-19 called "Technical course for coaches level one" in Kigali, Rwanda. There were 34 participants, all Rwandans except one trainee from Kenya. The course also welcomed athletes as observers in oorder to increase their skills on officiating issues.
This course was facilitated by German expert Gerd Nottelmann. The sessions were highly interactive and Nottelmann's knowledge and excellent teaching methods were much appreciated. The ten-day clinic was a great success, with all participants showing enthusiasm and willingness to learn. All acknowledged that they found the clinic rewarding.
Open water swimming boosted in West Africa
The Fédération Sénégalaise de Natation et de Sauvetage organised a FINA school for open water swimming Officials in Dakar from March 7-8, 2012. FINA TOWSC Member Zouheir El Moufti from Morocco shared his knowledge and expertise with 30 participants coming from various parts of West Africa: Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria, Guinea, Benin, Cap Vert and Mali. The school programme included eight training sessions with a test at the end. Theory sessions addressed the following topics: origins of open water swimming, roles and duties of Officials, timekeeping, race rules, risk and competition management.
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Good Tuesday folks! Today we are tracking very changeable weather conditions across West Texas. Early this morning temperatures are in the middle 40s in the Abilene area. A cold front is moving through the region as we speak and will drop readings into the 40s for the rest of the viewing area throughout the morning and afternoon.
Scattered showers will be possible as we go along. Heavy amounts of rainfall are not expected but any water would be useful at this point. Look for readings to remain rather steady or slowly fall through the day. North northeast breezes will blow at 10-15 mph into the afternoon.
The mercury will continue to drop as we move through the nighttime hours and give us a chance for a light wintry mix to develop by tomorrow morning. A period freezing rain and sleet can occur with the thermometer having dropped several degrees below freezing by sunrise. Northerly winds at 15-25mph will put wind chills in the middle teens.
Any precipitation will end rapidly from northwest to southeast in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy skies will remain. Highs only make it into the lower to mid 30s.
Skies will become partly cloudy late Wednesday night and with light winds, temperatures will drop into the upper 20s.
Marked improvement races in on southerly winds for Thursday as readings aim for the upper 50s to near 60 degrees before all is said and done. Expect mostly sunny skies.
Further warming presses into West Texas for Friday. Sunny conditions and southwest breezes put us in the middle 70s.
It now appears as though Saturday will turn out very mild also with the mercury working into the middle and upper 70s. Sunshine will be in control.
We continue to track a storm system organizing nearby on Sunday. The possibility exists for a round of showers and thundershowers, but the exact track of low pressure and where it develops could cause us to get dry slotted from the west. This is something we will be watching closely in the days ahead. Regardless of precipitation, look for highs in the lower 60s.


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There is one person that I believe needs to be thanked for their many contributions to the campaign for Yes on Proposition 35: Daphne Phung. According to: californiaagainstslavery.org Daphne Phung, the founder of California Against Slavery (CAS), is a lover of children and has a very strong voice against the injustice done in this state. Also, Daphne has her BA form Reed College and a MBA from Mills College. Phung started this organization in the fall of 2009. In 2011 she quit her full time job working in finance and accounting, to volunteer as its Executive Director of CAS.
One of the main reasons she started California Against Slavery was after watching MSNBC Deadline's on "Sex Slaves in America", Phung looked into California's problem with this and wanted to put a stop to trafficking. This documentary focuses on a case that took place in Detroit, Michigan; the movie shows how the current laws don't put human traffickers behind bars for a long enough time for their crime. The documentary's center of attention is on two men that were convicted of trafficking sixteen women. Those sixteen women were being forced to work as strip club dancers. The two men's sentences were fourteen and seven years… those two numbers don't even add up to one year per victim. So, after watching this and looking for a way to stop this from becoming worse in California, Phung created California Against Slavery; and this has been her way of helping law enforcers bring trafficking to a higher risk then it is now, and cut the profit from human trafficking.
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She's always happy to talk about her crazy family, and Kris Jenner dropped by the "Today" show this morning (October 20) to check in with Hoda Kotb.
There's all kinds of domestic bliss going on in Kristen Bell's household, and as she prepares to give birth to her second child with Dax Shepard, she's back in craving mode.
The "Veronica Mars" mommy told Us Weekly, "I just like food. If it can be digested, chances are I'll want it. Pretty much what I normally eat, which is fairly healthy, but I give in a lot more to cravings."
It's a sad time for the "American Idol" family as former contestant Joanne Borgella succumbed to cancer over the weekend.
The 32-year-old singer's family posted a message on her Facebook page to inform fans of the tragic news.
Showing some love to their English fans, the cast of "Fury" gathered at the Odeon Leicester Square for the BFI Film Festival premiere of "Fury" on Sunday night (October 19).
It's never too late to start a family these days, and Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt are about to have their first kiddo together.
According to Us Weekly, the "Hunger Games" star (53) and his beautiful wife of two years are thrilled to be welcoming a child of their own, though Stanley has three kids from his marriage to his late wife Kathryn Tucci.
He knows how to get the party started, and Armando Christian Perez, aka Pitbull, will be at the helm for the 2014 American Music Awards .
Following up his 2013 hosting success, the "Timber" rapper is thrilled to bring his signature style to the shindig, slated to go live on November 23rd.
Stepping out for a ladies' excursion, Blake Lively showed up in New York City with gal pal Amber Tamblyn on Saturday (October 18).
The 27-year-old pregnant "Gossip Girl" actress showed off her baby bump as she attended a gallery opening for her friend Travis Louie with her "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" pal, sporting a colorful patterned blouse with a grey cardigan.
She's an endless source of pop music magic, and Taylor Swift just unveiled her latest track from the forthcoming 1989 album.
The "Shake It Off" songstress' new ditty is called "Welcome to New York" and features plenty of 1980s synth and multi-layered vocals.
"Never at any point have I sat down and plotted how I should proceed from here on. As soon as you start thinking about your career as a trajectory—like, as if you're going to miss out on some wave or momentum—then you're never doing anything for yourself anyway. Then you're truly, actually, specifically working for the public. You're turning yourself into a bag of chips."


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NOTE | This post is a continuation of my discussion of technology in my life. The first part, titled 31Things | Day Seventeen: Technology, talks about the technology that is currently a part of my daily life. I decided that topic alone was long enough for one post, so here is Part Two: an informal timeline of my history with technology.
When I was born in 1978, telephones had wires and cords. The one in our kitchen was harvest gold and matched the refrigerator. My parents bought music to listen to at the record store, and played it on a phonograph with external speakers. The car in which they brought me home from the hospital had only an AM/FM radio. Stoves and ovens had dials, not buttons, nor electronic displays. TVs were enormous and weighed about 900 pounds (ok that might be a tad hyperbolic! lol), and were connected to "rabbit ears" or an antenna on the roof or in the attic of the house (as ours was). Cameras didn't auto-focus or offer any mode besides manual. They shot 35mm or slide film, and you only had your favorite slides made into prints, because even the standard 3.5x5 was too expensive to get them all. The only way to watch TV was live, and channels went off the air around midnight every night, playing the national anthem as the sign-off theme.
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Some turn away; shys'.
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One open now two,
Black view then white,
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Up Up- Far away,
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Friction feeling dense.
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A prayer to be,
One touch to lack.
The pieces rise;grew,
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The World We Live In is one of my oldest. I've never had any contributors on that blog but I think I finally should ask for some help.
So, I'm looking for one, maybe two contributors. If you're interested, send me an email with the following information:
1. Name, Age, Location.
2. Tumblr URL & how long you've been on Tumblr.
3. Why you love twwli, and why you'd like to contribute.
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If you're not following that blog, you probably should.
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1. We Misjudged Our Audience
Prior to SpaceChem, I had already established a small but strong fan-base with my previous "engineering" games. On Kongregate, Codex had over 400,000 plays; it didn't seem like a stretch to convert enough of them into SpaceChem customers to cover our costs of development and make a little money, given that the game launched at $20.
So, when we started thinking about who our audience was for the game and what would be appropriate, we assumed the standard Zachtronics audience, who seemingly wanted a longer, more polished "engineering" puzzle game. It should be noted that this is the same audience that enjoyed KOHCTPYKTOP, a Soviet-themed puzzle game about integrated circuit design and layout.
Fast forward to March 2011: three months after release, SpaceChem was available on Steam to a much larger audience and we were looking at the possibility of making far more money that we had ever imagined, if only we could convince the general public that they wanted to play a game that very much appeared to be about chemistry.
The first incorrect assumption we made was thinking that everyone likes science. Although the internet may love "Science!" thanks to games like Portal, games that look like actual chemistry remind most people of chemistry class.
The number of times I've read and heard the words "but I'm not good at chemistry" in connection with SpaceChem is staggering. A particular game design colleague has asserted many times that had we called the game "SpaceGems" and made it about alchemy, we would have sold twice as many copies. Although I like building games around real-life knowledge, I'm not sure if I disagree with his assessment.
The second incorrect assumption we made was thinking that puzzle games need to be difficult and long to be good. Although challenge is essential to making puzzle games "work", the difficulty that emerges from the mechanics of SpaceChem can be bewildering, even if it's what makes the puzzles feel so open-ended. Combining this intrinsic difficulty with an abundance of puzzles that must be beaten to "complete" the game gives SpaceChem an oppressive 40+ hour difficulty curve that only 2 percent of players reach the end of.
2. We Flubbed Our Metrics
In our first private beta playtest, our metrics capturing system failed to capture any data, an event that in hindsight describes much of our statistics-gathering strategy for SpaceChem. Preoccupied with fixing post-launch bugs, it took us weeks to realize that our demo couldn't upload metrics data.
Later we discovered that, because we only uploaded metrics at the start of the game, we never captured any information from single-launch customers, which likely included many players who got stuck in a tutorial and then never bothered to try the game again. By the time we got things straightened out, we only managed to learn the magnitude of obvious things, such as the fact that SpaceChem is stupidly difficult.
On the plus side, I got to make some neat infographics!
Completion rates for the puzzles in the SpaceChem. (Click for larger image)
The "average" of 500 solutions for a particular puzzle in SpaceChem.
3. We Made the Game Too Long
When making a game, it's important to provide as much content as possible -- right?
The biggest difference between SpaceChem and my previous games is that it was a commercial endeavor. The second biggest difference was the amount of content -- 50 puzzles, plus a full story, instead of the five to 15 story-free puzzles I would usually aim for. Although some of the earlier puzzles in the game can be solved in minutes, many of the puzzles take hours. Some, such as the game's final boss battle, routinely take players days to solve -- if they even get that far.
There's nothing wrong with having difficult puzzles in a puzzle game; the capabilities, interest, and patience of your players will always span a huge range, so difficult puzzles can keep the best players challenged and give everyone else something to aspire to. However, when progression through a story is blocked by progression through the gameplay, making the game too difficult denies all but your best players completion of the story and the satisfaction and enjoyment that goes with it. By the time we realized this, it was too late. Since our story and our puzzles were tightly coupled, separating them so that the story ended earlier would have required reworking the entire campaign.
The puzzles available in SpaceChem fall into two categories: campaign puzzles and user-created "ResearchNet" puzzles. Although I've heard many players describe their lack of progress in the campaign as "not finishing the game", I've never heard anyone claim that, by not beating every single ResearchNet puzzle, they felt as if they had unfinished business. This seems to indicate that players naturally tag the end of the story as the "completion" point. So, if you're going to make a story-driven puzzle game that gets progressively harder, you really ought to put the hardest content after the end of the story!
We ran into a similar dilemma when deciding where to end the demo. Since SpaceChem is so unlike other games, it seemed fair to make sure that players got a good taste of the game before being forced to make the purchase. The puzzles in SpaceChem are divided into planets (about six puzzles each), with the first two planets consisting entirely of tutorial puzzles.
Ending the demo on the third planet had the benefit of giving players a good feel for how difficult the non-tutorial puzzles were and demonstrated the game's boss battles, the first of which did not show up until the end of the third planet. Unfortunately, it also made the demo about four hours long, which isn't good for encouraging impulse buys.
I've heard claims from various sources (particularly in the mobile space) that making your demo shorter is always better for sales. Even if that's true, I don't entirely regret our decision. Any player who realized the game was not for them when they reached the third planet would have been strongly disappointed if they had to buy the game to learn this. Likewise, any player who made it past the third planet and wanted more would be likely to love the rest of the game. Our business exists to make our customers happy -- why would we act against that?
|Daniel Campbell
I honestly thing Zach is under utilized. His genius has brought about some of the most unique and interesting games in recent memory. Notch wouldn't have his fortune without Zach, just saying.
|E McNeill
SpaceChem is, oddly, a game that I feel *guilty* for not playing, yet I still haven't started. I bought it eagerly based on recommendations, I installed it, and I even booted it up once... but I never got past the YouTube tutorial.
I suppose the reason I never went further was just because I saw a wall of difficulty ahead of me (especially after all I had heard from fans), and there was nothing appealing in the core "toy" of the game to pull me in. In most other puzzle games, there's immediately an intriguing story, or pretty art, or a satisfying low-level mechanic to entertain me while I slowly absorb the deeper mechanical challenge. In SpaceChem, the deep mechanical challenge was laid bare, and at that moment I just wasn't in the mood to strain myself to understand it. I don't like what that says about me (hence the guilt), but I guess that's a lesson I ought to apply to my own games.
I still plan to go back to it (eventually), and I'm eager to see what else Zach will come up with.
|Bart Stewart
The "histogram" aspect of SpaceChem deserves much more attention from game designers, as it is responsible for most of both the fun and the frustration of this great game.
Most games do binary challenge reporting: you either succeed at beating the challenge and move on, or you fail and either accept defeat or reload and try again. The fun of this form of challenge measurement is passing a gate by identifying and accomplishing the (usually) one valid solution. Once success is confirmed, you're done with that piece of game content.
SpaceChem's challenge design is radically different. It permits not only multiple valid solutions but offers multiple (antagonistic) scoring systems -- if you think you used too many symbols or cycles (especially compared to the average), you can play that challenge again to try to improve your score. So the fun in SpaceChem comes from optimization within a space of many valid solutions. (Note that while it's not scored so overtly, "multiple solutions" is also a key pattern in the games by Looking Glass and its successors: System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex, BioShock, and the upcoming Dishonored.)
This difference -- between gating and optimization as modes of play -- is crucial for appreciating gamer reaction to SpaceChem.
Gating is simple to understand and rewards persistence. You know exactly what's expected, and you just need to keep at it. For a lot of people, that's fun; it's relaxing to be able to make progress without a bunch of Heavy Thinking.
Optimization is more complex and rewards perceptiveness. Just banging away using the same technique is unlikely to yield a significantly better solution -- persistence alone won't work. To really succeed at optimization, you have to think about the problem, understand it, and generate entirely novel (for you) approaches, often in a burst of creative inspiration. (Programmers will recognize this description as applicable to code optimization, but it's broadly understood as a distinctive problem-solving mode.)
Neither of these forms of play is inherently "good" or "bad." They're just different kinds of fun. But there can be a mismatch between these two forms of fun and the kind of fun that an individual gamer will usually prefer... and that, I suspect, is the source of both the success and difficulty of SpaceChem.
Some people naturally enjoy optimization within a complex space of multiple valid solutions. This rewards their perception and creative thinking, and makes them the natural audience for a game like SpaceChem. They'd have been the ones telling their friends, "You HAVE to play this game!" because there are so very, very few games that are so sharply designed to reward creative optimization-play.
But other people -- almost certainly the vast majority of gamers today -- prefer simple, gated challenges where there's no uncertainty about what to do or how to do it. From their perspective, the world already throws enough complexity at them; "fun" is a simple challenge with a single clear goal condition that can always be beaten if you just keep at it and refuse to give up.
For these folks, SpaceChem is not fun on its face ("ugh, I hate chemistry"), or incomprehensible in the number and variety of action options, or too hard because it rewards/requires thinking rather than doing, or just plain frustrating because there's no single definite "win" state.
So designers are, I think, well-advised to read Zach's excellent post-mortem carefully, especially the histogram part. That's a brilliant design solution for the rare game that creative/perceptive Explorers can love. But "optimizing among multiple valid solutions" is never going to appeal to other kinds of gamers, and in particular is very unlikely to be popular with the masses who enjoy games as simple diversions.
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|Will Buck
I was one of those 'questionable' friends that recommended to the engineers I know to try this game. Tons of fun.
I am also one of those people that was 'lost' on the game due to the difficulty curve. That isn't to say I don't still recommend it: I think you get out what you put into this game (hehe), and I put in enough to have enjoyed it a lot and recommend it to others. That said, I never fully groked the predictability of space and time required for some solutions.
As a particular piece of feedback for the devs: The factory-level layout I struggled with, and that piece I feel could've used more training / tutorial pieces. This postmortem is dead-on in strengths and weaknesses, great work Zachtronics team! Inspirational to hear this was a spare-time project for those involved too :)
|Keith Nemitz
Thanks Zach! I really appreciate hearing about the solutions you used to solve various problems. I'm currently facing similar problems with my next game, 7 Grand Steps. It's not a puzzle game, but like SpaceChem, it's so different, videos don't show anything player's recognize as fun.
7GS is about family generations, so the goal is basically to survive. That's a tough goal to tell players who want to strive for something specific. The use of video here, as you tried, may be a good thing. We can use it to explain how earning legends help families to survive.
7GS's core gameplay is simpler than SpaceChem, but I've spent more than one year reworking the tutorial, because a player has to learn TWO rules at the start, to 'get' the fun of the core mechanic. There are a few edge-case rules that can be learned later, but those still complicate the player's model of the core mechanic. After reading your experiences, I think I should rework the tutorial again to offer side-paths that let players explore edge cases.
Thanks, you're a mountain-man blazing a trail for us later pioneers!
|Adam Gashlin
I've enjoyed SpaceChem, bought it day 1 and several times since. As fun as it was to play, it is at least as interesting to me from a design perspective, so thank you for the insightful postmortem.
"We used too much text to explain things."
Yes, definitely. SpaceChem is a model for the flavor of gameplay I want to create, but the text-heavy tutorial screens immediately jumped out at me as a bad idea, even after reading a whole screen of story text! An already running machine with tooltips calling out the new mechanics in use might work?
The walkthroughs themselves might have been better taken in stages, showing what happens differently as each symbol is added. A first level (or sub-level goal) that requires doing nothing but starting the simulation, then one that requires moving the start location, then a turn, perhaps. The jump from that to actually solving problems is pretty big, though. I know how frustrating it can be to keep breaking down concepts, but without being tedious. How much can you expect the player to figure out himself? Those of us who are programmers have a hard time appreciating just how much we assume about the structure of problems and machines.
I want to give the player more mechanisms to manage complexity, rather than require ever more things to be kept in mind, however this doesn't address how to introduce those mechanisms. The "track" that is displayed is very helpful, perhaps more automatic support of that kind is indicated.
One thing that bugged me was boss battles, they seemed to be a complete shift of tone. I haven't finished the main story, as I got to the final boss battle and couldn't bring myself to tackle it, I found the battles so irritating that they weren't enjoyable in their own right. I was surprised to see no mention of these in the postmortem, as I understand they were sufficiently troublesome that they were taken out of the mobile versions. I guess that was more of an interface issue.
|Phillip Abram
I like SpaceChem. I was lucky to meet some of the developers at GDC, nice guys. Can't wait to play their next game.
|Patrick Tullmann
I loved SpaceChem, and occasionally go back to solve some of the ResearchNet problems (though unlike riding a bicycle, I feel like I've lost something if I'm away for too long).
Anyway, despite the Chemistry veneer, I thought this game was a fantastic gamification of programming concepts. Specifically of multi-threaded coding and synchronization. The ability to build lock-free (well, 'sync free') solutions to many of the puzzles was a personal goal of mine.
I too found the tutorial under illuminating, but in its defense, there is a lot more reward for figuring SpaceChem out, since you're clearly not being hand-held through the solutions. For example, the concept of a "waldo" made no sense to me. But, once I'd gotten through enough of the puzzles and had enough "ah-ha" moments, I could go back and re-do some of the earlier solutions. I found it particularly gratifying to look back on my original solution to an early puzzle and realize how much I'd learned since then. Where originally it had been opaque and difficult and more of a trial-and-error solution, now I could see how "easy" the puzzle was.
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This article convinced me to buy SpaceChem. It sounds awesome.
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I'm one of those who bounced right off it. I think the postmortem is pretty accurate in what was difficult about the explanation.
However I challenge the notion that the game makes sense to developer types. I've been a professional programmer for going on 1.5 decades now, and I never liked games that are programming analogues. Designing algorithms with extremely tight limits on variable names and problem decomposition just feels like a puzzle on how to write a program in the worst possible way.
Maybe EE types wouldn't run into this since dealing with real constraints is part of their normal world. But I always think "where's my vi session and debug log? Why can't I create my own functions?"


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As shares of DOD's research budgets, the life sciences increased from 7.8 percent to 11.4 percent, computer science from 9.9 percent to 13.0 percent, and environmental sciences from 5.5 percent to 7.9 percent because of increased funding of oceanography (Annex Table 4–1). The physical sciences dropped from 14.1 percent to 9.8 percent and engineering from 51.2 percent to 47.1 percent. Thus, there was a shift in DOD's portfolio of about 9 percentage points from the physical sciences and engineering to the life sciences (up 3.6 percentage points), computer science (up 3.1 percentage points), and oceanography (up 2.6 percentage points).
The fields that DOD favored—biological and medical sciences, computer science, oceanography, aeronautical engineering, and metallurgy/materials engineering—were fields receiving increases from other agencies. In fact, all but metallurgy/materials engineering had at least 20 percent more funding in 1999 than in 1993. Some fields cut at DOD—mathematics, astronautical and civil engineering, psychology, and social science—have ended up with increased funding overall because other agencies stepped up their support. But other fields with less DOD support—chemistry, physics, geology, and chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering—did not pick up increases from other agencies and were down compared with 1993, all but chemistry by at least 20 percent.
Trends in the number of full-time graduate students supported by the DOD are generally consistent with the changes in funding levels of research. Overall, the number of DOD-supported full-time graduate students decreased by 17.6 percent, from 1993 to 1999 (Annex Table 4–2). The decreases occurred in almost all fields. Among engineering fields with the largest decreases were civil engineering, down by 52.1 percent, aerospace engineering, down by 41.5 percent, and metallurgy and materials engineering, down by 38.2 percent. Among graduate students in the sciences, those in mathematical science decreased by 43.1 percent, those in social sciences decreased by 37.4 percent, those in earth, atmospheric and ocean sciences decreased by 34.4 percent, and those in physical sciences decreased by 25.6 percent. DOD-supported students in the health fields were down by 16.6 percent, but students in the biological science were up by 23.4 percent. Also increasing were the numbers of graduate students in electrical engineering, up by 4.4 percent, and in chemical engineering, up by 17.3 percent.
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It's pear season already!
Last year, we canned a lug of pears on what was more or less a whim. They were fantastic; we hid and hoarded jars and ate them plain and baked them into cakes and guarded them jealously all winter. Home-canned pears are pretty wonderful.
Choose a good canning pear. I really like Red Bartletts for canning; we can get especially fine ones in our area, and I think their texture holds up well through their long cooking. El Dorados are good, too. Or Boscs or D'anjous, or basically any pear that you think is nice cooked. A lug (21 or 22 pounds) will yield 10 or 11 quarts, depending on how you pack the jars.
Pears are typically picked unripe—they ripen a lot better and more evenly off the tree. Hold them in a not-too-warm place until they are the right texture.
NOTE: I depart from a lot of canning advice here and *don't* wait until the pears are as ripe as you would want them for most out-of-hand eating. I think they're harder to process when they're so ripe, and their flesh goes mushy and unappetizing once cooked. Instead, I wait for them to just barely be tasty raw, but still have notably crisp flesh, almost hard rather than custardy. The flesh should be opaque, not translucent. If you're not sure, just test a pear every day until you have a texture you like combined with enough pear flavor: Peel, core, and halve a pear; simmer it in simple syrup for 30 minutes. This more or less approximates the texture and flavor of your jarred pears; do you like it?
When the pears are ready, wash them carefully, without bruising.
Get your jars clean: I use the sterilize cycle on the dishwasher when I have a big job to get through, but you can also boil them for ten minutes, or wash them in hot soapy water, rinse, and stick in a very low oven to hold.
Now, process the pears. I peel, core, and halve them, though not always in that order. It's easiest to work in stages; with the tools I have, it's easiest to root out the stems first, then peel all of them, then halve them, then scoop out their cores with a melon baller. Save all the scraps, as well as any overripe or otherwise unlovely pears, for jelly and jam.
Processing pears is tedious. Really tedious. Peaches and tomatoes slip out of their skins easily, but pears need trimming and lots of hands-on work, especially if they're firm-ripe. It took me about an hour to get through our 21 pounds. Make sure to mix up a big bowl of water and crushed Vitamin C or Fruit Fresh to hold the peeled pears without discoloration.
Half-fill your canner with water and bring it to a boil. Keep another kettle or big pan of hot water handy.
Put your syrup together—I tend to use a pretty light syrup, one part white sugar to three parts water. Bring it just to a boil and keep hot.
Put your lids in a small pan of water; bring it just to a simmer and keep hot.
Arrange everything around your jar area (this should be a wooden or plastic cutting board, or a toweled area, to minimize thermal shock to the glass) so the so you can reach the pears, the syrup, and the lids without wasting movement. Dampen a paper towel for wiping the rims.
Pack as many jars as will fit in one canner load. Fill your hot jars quickly with pear halves, arranging them to take up as much of the space as possible, up to 1/2" from the rim. Pack them as tightly as you can without actually mashing or crushing the fruit—the pears will shrink during cooking. Then fill the jars with hot syrup to within 1/2" from the rim, trying to cover all the fruit.
Knock the air bubbles out—I usually just shimmy the jars and tilt them a little to encourage any pockets to break up—and top up with syrup if they need it. Wipe the rims and sides with a damp paper towel. Seat lids and then rings on, fingertip-tight.
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Even though I just ran the marathon, I feel really out of shape so I'm looking forward to being in shape again. Part of me was disappointed to write rest on Christmas day, I'd love a Christmas run but I'm doing a local race on boxing day so rest it shall be.
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There are a number of sites where you can find and download for free theses or dissertations. This can be useful if you're starting your own dissertation, or if you want to search for theses about a particular topic. Here are a few suggestions:
'EThOS is the UK's national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK's doctoral research theses.' In many cases full text is available immediately, or you can request it to be digitized.
PQDT Open
'PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.' Provided by Proquest with a North American focus.
Theses Canada
Full text access to thousands of Canadian dissertations.
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Elsevier is the company that provides us with one of our biggest databases Science Direct.
Although you need a login to access most content on Science Direct, you'll actually find that some articles are published as open access (open access articles are available by everyone without needing to a log in).
This is great news for those of you who may not be affiliated to a University, our retired members of staff or partner centre staff.
Elsevier have written a detailed post on accessing open access content.
Check it out now
Starting from July 2013, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will make its digital publications available free of charge with an open access license.
By adopting this new publishing policy, UNESCO aligns its practice to its advocacy work in favor of Open Access and strengthens its commitment to the universal access to information and knowledge.
UNESCO already make some of their publications available to download free of charge so their website is definitely a good source of quality information.
Some examples of what you can download from UNESCO now:
Adult and youth literacy, 1990-2015: analysis of data for 41 selected countries (2012)
A World of Science
A quarterly journal providing information on the work of UNESCO in the field of natural sciences.
I originally read about this open access news on the 'New Research selected by LSE Library' blog which reports on new research in a wide number of fields.
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ESL Podcasts have a blog too so check it out if you're a TESOL student and see what you think http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/
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The design of welfare programs in an era of reform and devolution to the states must take into account the likely effects of programs on demographic behavior. In the past, most research on welfare has examined labor market issues, although there have also been some important evaluations of the effects of Aid to Families with Dependent Children on out-of-wedlock childbearing. Much less information is available on other issues equally central to the debate, including effects on abortion decisions, marriage and divorce, intrafamily relations, household formation, and living arrangements. This book of papers contains reviews and syntheses of existing evidence bearing on the demographic impacts of welfare and ideas for how to evaluate new state-level reforms.
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Boeing South Carolina celebrates rollout of first 787
By AviationBrief
Published: April 30, 2012
Air India 787 rolls out of the Boeing South Carolina Facility. Courtesy, The Boeing Store Facebook page
Boeing's North Charleston, S.C. facility rolled out its first 787 Friday. The aircraft is scheduled to be delivered to Air India in mid-year ( ATW Daily News, April 27 ).
Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Jim Albaugh told a crowd of nearly 7,000 employees and guests, "Today I welcome the South Carolina team into a small and elite fraternity—a fraternity of workers who have built one of the most complex machines in the world—a commercial airplane."
The aircraft next goes to the flight line, where it will go through systems checks and engine runs in advance of taxi testing and first flight, Boeing said in a statement.
Boeing broke ground on the site in November 2009 ( ATW Daily News, Nov. 23, 2009 ). The South Carolina final assembly facility was completed in June 2011 and production began later that same month ( ATW Daily News, June 14, 2011 ).
"This team has shown that we can build airplanes in South Carolina that meet the high Boeing quality standards, and do so with an exceptional workplace safety record," said Boeing South Carolina VP and GM Jack Jones.
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Gartner: A Marketing Analytics Framework for CMOs
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As Oklahoma tornado tore down school around her, teacher from Naperville saved 22 children
By David Sharos For The Sun May 24, 2013 11:40PM
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Last week in Oklahoma, a hero emerged in the form of a 26-year-old kindergarten teacher originally from Naperville, who used her body to shield her students from falling rubble while a tornado completely demolished the school around them.
Jennifer Simonds, a 2005 graduate of Neuqua Valley High School, counts herself as blessed to have survived along with her entire afternoon kindergarten class of 22 after the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., was lost when a tornado struck the building around 2:30 p.m. Monday.
Simonds said she knew the school was in the tornado's path, but that no one could possibly imagine what was about to happen.
"My students and I were in a hallway, and there was a lot of darkness and heavy rain beforehand," Simonds said. "It had stormed the day before, and on Monday, things were still the same. By 2:15 that afternoon, there was an announcement at school that we were to move and take precautions. I looked at the weather on my computer, and saw we were right in the storm's path."
Simonds said she and her fellow teachers tried to keep students calm by singing songs and telling them it was just a drill. But as the storm approached, the sound became deafening and actually burst the eardrum of one of her students.
"The children were asking why a train was coming through the school," Simonds said. "The next thing we knew, the entire roof of the building was torn off and we were being pelted with all this stuff. I laid myself over my students to protect them, and I remember praying that God be with us and keep us safe, and asking please — let it be me who dies if something happens — and not any of the kids."
Worries back home
Meanwhile, in Naperville, Simonds' parents, Banessa and John Rampton, were told via text message that their daughter was taking shelter as a result of the storm. For the next three hours, they had to endure as information slowly trickled out on the tragedy.
Simonds' aunt Christy Rampton, who also lives in Naperville, said she saw pictures of the demolished school on television and went into shock when she realized the building was where her niece worked.
"Jennifer lost her glasses and purse in the storm and had to borrow a phone to let us know she was OK," Christy said. "A lot of service was interrupted, and it was hard to communicate. I was driving home at about 5:15 that afternoon and when I got home, I saw pictures on the TV and thought: 'Oh please tell me that's not her school.' We later found out that Jennifer's husband had found out what happened and had to run two or three miles to reach her because the roads were blocked."
A story of survival
At the school, a miraculous part of the story is that all of her students survived being buried under rubble and also an SUV that the winds had picked up and dropped on top of them.
"I don't know how we weren't crushed by that vehicle unless somehow the rubble that had already fallen protected us," Simonds said. "I remember seeing wood and rubble everywhere, and then the SUV on top of us. I remember sitting up and realizing there was this vehicle we were lying under."
Simonds said her students "were incredible and brave" throughout most of the ordeal, although many started crying when the roof was torn off.
"Most of them never really understood what was happening, and later when we got them outside and were giving them blankets and towels, they were all pretty calm while they waited for their families," she said.
Christy Rampton said her niece never realized she was injured until she and her students were brought out of the building's remains.
"She had glass down the back of her head and back, and I knew she must have sprawled out over her kids and injured her arm," Christy said. "There were people there that were lifting kids over exposed wires, and Jennifer never realized she was hurt because she was still helping to collect her kids."
Simonds said she was examined by doctors and her injuries have already begun to heal. \What remains are the memories of that horrible day that cost the lives of seven third-graders in her school, but also a day when so many lives were miraculously spared.
"I think it's good that the school year has ended and the kids can go home and process this with their parents," Simonds said. "We had a meeting with the kids on Thursday to say goodbye for the summer and it helped them to see we're all OK. I basically have a lot of what looks like 'road rash' and the doctors say I am healing well."
A stronger faith
Banessa Rampton said she remembers the relief she felt when she learned her daughter was out of the trauma center and would be fine. That night, she and her daughter had a long cry together on the phone.
"It finally hit us what had happened, and the stress of it all was finally released," she said. "It's terrible to know your daughter was in harm's way, and you hope it never happens again."
Simonds said the disaster has changed her outlook on life.
"I'm taking things a day at a time, and having a near death experience changes your perspective," Simonds said. "There has been rain and thunder since, and when I hear it, I get emotional and it's hard to process all of this. Seeing the kids again this week helped."
She said her faith helped her through the tragedy.
"I went to college here at Oklahoma Christian where I met my husband, and today I feel an even stronger faith," she said. "I shouldn't have walked out of there, but I feel that someone's hand made sure that we did."


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Job Security? Older Workers More Worried Now
Posted By Carole Fleck On December 12, 2012 @ 1:21 pm In Work Matters | Comments Disabled
[1]As the economic recovery [2] gains some momentum, job security among younger workers is much less a concern than it was a year ago. Not so with older workers
. They're more worried about losing their jobs, a new survey finds.
Of 1,656 employees polled, 36 percent of those 50-plus say they're concerned that they could lose their job in the next 12 months. That's up from 34 percent who said the same in July 2011 and 32 percent who expressed those fears in July 2008, when the recession was in full swing.
Yet workers under 50 aren't losing sleep over job security like they were last year: 36 percent say they're concerned about being ousted, a big drop from the 46 percent who said the same a year ago.
Among all ages, workers polled in the Mercer Workplace Survey, which tracks employees attitudes, were more optimistic about the economy. [3] As many as 73 percent expect the economy to grow in the year ahead. Still, 27 percent anticipate a recession in 2013, down from 40 percent who said that last year.
When it comes to retirement savings [4], older employees are socking away higher amounts than their younger counterparts – but not by much. Those 50-plus say they expect to put $8,242 in a 401(k) within the next 12 months; younger workers say they plan to save $7,995.
Modest savings levels may be causing people to question their ability to retire comfortably. And that could explain why older workers (59 percent) were much more inclined than younger workers (37 percent) to say they expected to delay retirement.
Working longer, financial planners say, is the antidote to insufficient retirement savings [5], which brings us to the next question. Given the retirement savings workers have in place, and the rate at which they're contributing, how do they envision their retirement?
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'American Horror Story: Asylum' Season Finale: Ryan Murphy Previews How "Madness Ends"
We're just one week away from the season finale of 'American Horror Story: Asylum,' the last of the series to take place in Ryan Murphy's Briarcliff setting if the yearly reinvention is to be believed. After last night's "Continuum," we'd be hard pressed to imagine how things could get any stranger as all characters descend into madness and violence, but what does series creator Ryan Murphy have to say? Get the latest on the 'American Horror Story: Asylum' season finale from the creator inside!


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When the old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington was torn down the Minnesota Vikings were ill prepared for what happened after the last game.
After the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Minnesota 10-6 on December 20th, 1981, fans rushed the field at the Met to grab anything they could. They tore down the goal posts, the loudspeakers in the end zone and pieces of the scoreboard. After the melee subsided nine people were arrested.
But come Sunday after the Vikings last game in the Metrodome they will be prepared.
Nearly twice the number of Minneapolis police will be on hand when the Vikings play the Detroit Lions in the Metrodome on December 29th as compared to a typical game. Extra personnel from Whelan Security, the company that provides private security for the Vikings, will also be on hand according to Minnesota Public Radio News.
Officials are determined that they near riot from 32 years ago won't happen again.
"There will obviously be a great deal of attention for inside security, just monitoring so that fans can celebrate, but do so safely and responsibly," said Medaria Arradondo, the police inspector in charge of the First Precinct in downtown Minneapolis.
"All told, we're looking at close to 700 security representatives within the building," Vikings spokesman Jeff Anderson said. "We don't expect any issues, but we want this to be a memorable game for our fans, and we want to do it in a safe and respectful way."
So if you're thinking about taking anything home from the Metrodome as a souvenir, don't.
"Nobody's leaving with anything," said Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority Chair Michele Kelm-Helgen. "We're putting that rule in place, and we're going to stick to it from the beginning of the game to the end."
And the new NFL bag policy will help greatly. "People won't be able to bring any kind of tools or anything that will allow them to unhook things," she said.
But don't worry the Vikings will offer mementoes and events at the Metrodome that day. Fans will be able to bring home a token of the Metrodome era, taking down the goal post. It will include a commemorative pennant handed to every fan as they come through the doors for that final game.
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Join us February 27, 2014 from 12:30 to 5:30 pm for a TEDx style event discussing the complexities and nuances of human trafficking in the United States. Learn about the extent and scope of the human trafficking happening right here in our own backyards, the warning signs, what you can do to help. Coffee and light refreshments available during event, and cocktail hour with speakers follows event for all attendees. TICKETS REQUIRED.
Dr. Mary Anne Layden, Ph D, is a psychotherapist and Director of Education at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program. She specializes in the treatment of victims and perpetrators of sexual violence and sexual addiction.
Dr. Layden has appeared on television, and is a highly respected commentator on the effects of prostitution and the international trafficking of women in prostitution. Dr. Layden has testified before the U.S. Congress on five occasions in relation to issues of sexual violence, the sexual exploitation industry and the media. She has also lectured extensively both in the US and abroad on Cognitive Therapy, Personality Disorders particularly Borderline Personality Disorder, childhood sexual trauma, sexual addiction, sexual exploitation industry and imagery techniques. She has written numerous chapters on Cognitive Therapy especially on treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Layden's focus on the demand side of sex trafficking is based in her clinical work with johns (the men who pay for sex). We are proud to introduce her talk about the beliefs surrounding male sexual demand and their contribution to the commercial sexual exploitation of sex trafficking in the United States.
For more on her work and her perspective on treating the demand side of the issue, read her special feature at News Weekly, "The human cost of sexual exploitation."
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Jan-Jun 2013 125 men arrested/300 women
Philly police use public shaming of johns in prostitution sting http://ow.ly/twXKb
Moving Beyond Supply and Demand Catch Phrases http://ow.ly/twX8C
Escorted to jail / Arrests of sex workers went up after implementing DMST legislation http://www.chicagoreporter.com/escorted-jail#.UvrA2PldUmM
Policing Gender, Arresting Sex http://ow.ly/twWWe
Dr Jay Levy, Researcher and Consultant, discusses the outcomes of the criminalisation of the purchase of sex in Sweden http://ow.ly/twWTh
A Misguided Moral Crusade http://ow.ly/twX47
Harris County, TX: http://cfpdx.blogspot.com/
This is just a sampling of the harm that comes to primarily poor women of color, transgender women, immigrants, homeless LGB youth and sex workers when criminal-bssed anti-trafficking legislation and end demand initiatives are implemented.


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Do you belive in fate? Do you need to take a quick look into the future, or just to have fun? This is the right app! Everyone needs some quick answers and if you have a little faith the answer might be the correct one for you. We all know that the sphere can't be trusted, but it is a great way to have some fun, even with your friends. Many changes are comming in the future!
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Simple and easy to use geometry app that you can carry in your pocket! Calculate the perimeter, area, surface or volume of various geometric shapes. Shapes includes 2D (square, rectangle, circle, triangle, trapezoid, parallelogram) and 3D (cone, pyramid, sphere, cube, cylinder and rectangular prism)
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