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During its most recent quarterly financial results briefing, Nintendo has announced a Near Field Communication (NFC) device for the 3DS, as well as a range of games and figurines, for something the company is calling the 'Nintendo Figurine Platform' that will launch for both the 3DS and Wii U.
Working similarly to games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity that use special peripherals to read and write data to and from a 'smart toy' figurine, the Nintendo Figurine Platform will allow players on both 3DS and Wii U to "customize your NFP to raise or train your own Nintendo characters," according to translations of the announcement by industry analyst David Gibson.
The technology was demonstrated during Nintendo's investor briefing with the use of a Mario figurine, showing how data stored on the toy could be accessed by various games. On 3DS, a special NFC reader device will be necessary to read and write data on the toys, but on Wii U toys can be read using the console's GamePad for the same functionality.
Exploiting Your Favourite Nintendo Characters
"Nintendo has a lot of well-known character [intellectual property] that has originated in videogames, and we have been regularly releasing titles from game franchises that make use of this character IP," Iwata said during the briefing. "This is why I believe a brand-new type of platform will be born when the character IP becomes compatible with [Nintendo Figurine Platform]."
"[NFP] has been designed to be compatible with multiple software titles for Nintendo platforms," Iwata said. "In other words, the figurines, which consumers can buy and collect, are going to work with multiple software titles to be released in the future, and we are aiming to develop more software titles compatible with the figurines."
Nintendo says that Wii U games and software will be compatible with Nintendo Figurine Platform as soon as the end of 2014, with support for 3DS software coming in 2015, with toy data able to be accessed across both platforms. Nintendo is aiming to further unveil the technology at E3 2014 in June.
Not Just a Pretty Box
The results of the Nintendo Figurine Platform won't only be beneficial to games, Iwata claimed, saying that "there are not only going to be decorative boxes for videogame hardware and packages for software, but also Nintendo character figurines displayed on store shelves. This will provide exposure for Nintendo, play a great role in raising our brand awareness and create more opportunities for consumers to play video games."
Do you think Nintendo's plan to make use of their characters on the Nintendo Figurine Platform is a good idea considering the hold that Skylanders and Disney Infinity has on this segment of the market, or is it too late to take advantage of the craze?
Will Nintendo ultimately be successful with this platform, and how do you think character data will be used across different games?
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How To Choose A Competent Cosmetic Dentist in Haymarket, VA
America is home to some of the greatest establishments which provide programs for cosmetic dentistry. For one to become an even more qualified and competent dentist in the field of cosmetic dentistry, one can do so through the most competent program there is – the American Academy of Cosmetic Industry. Founded around the early eighties, the academy is recognized worldwide as the specialist in the art of cosmetic dentistry. Here are a few guidelines as to choosing the best cosmetic dentist for you:
1. Access the internet if you can. Once you have access to the internet, using the search engines, type in 'cosmetic dentist', 'perfect teeth', etc. and hit search. Most modern professionals in the field have their own website for you to visit on the internet. Once you have looked up certain websites, you will have a good idea as to the type and extend of services available.
2. Know as much as you can whether the cosmetic dentists are members of some qualified medical congregation such as AACD and BACD. The members of these particular congregations will be more competent and knowledgeable as opposed to those who are not. It is equally important to know the number of veneers which a dentist may have fitted in the entirety of his career as a cosmetic dentist.
3. Do try to find out what the clinic's patients have to say about them. Is there a sort of log for quotes and testimonies from the previous patients? Ask the dentist if there are any previous patients which would be willing to share to you their experience as a patient in that particular clinic. You will be more relaxed knowing how happy there previous patients are with their experience with the cosmetic dentist which you are considering.
4. It is important to know that a good cosmetic dentist will have a portfolio of his previous works as a cosmetic dentist. You can try to ask the dentist whether you can see this portfolio. These are most often presented as two photographs, one before treatments and one after.
5. It would be a good idea to also know whether the dental practice involves the use of computer imaging. For the advantage of the client, this is a very good tool. This gives the clients the opportunity to know what he or she would look like once he or she goes ahead with the treatment.
Finally, you have to make sure that you are relaxed and comfortable with the treatment. You need to feel reassured with the treatment by knowing how confident the dentist is that the treatment will be successful.
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Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that promotes the body�s absorption of calcium which is essential for the normal development and maintenance of healthy teeth and bones. Also known as the �sunshine vitamin,� vitamin D is manufactured by the body after being exposed to sunshine.How Much Do We Need?
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recently doubled its recommendation for the minimum amount of vitamin D that infants, children and teens should get daily. The new recommendation is to get at least 400 IU (International Units). It�s important to talk to your doctor about your child�s vitamin D needs.For Adults: The current recommended daily intake is 200 IU for those ages 19 to 50, 400 IU for those ages 51 to 69 and 600 IU for those older than 70.
However, research supports the growing consensus that we need to consume a lot more � up to 1,000 IU to keep blood levels of vitamin D where they need to be. Some doctors recommend even higher levels so it�s important to talk to your doctor about your current D levels and how much he or she recommends for you.
What Are The Benefits of Vitamin D?In both children and adults vitamin D is critical for teeth and bone health. It is essential in helping your body absorb calcium and helps regulate calcium and phosphate levels for strong, healthy bones and teeth. Vitamin D has been linked to the prevention of osteoporosis.
Vitamin D can also act as a hormone and is vital for blood vessel health and even brain function.Several recent studies have suggested that vitamin D may also play a critical role in, heart, respiratory and breast health, and immune system function.
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In adults, a blood level less than 50 nmol/L is considered to be deficient in vitamin D. But in children, researchers often consider 25 nmol/L or less as deficient. Your doctor can check yours and your children�s current levels.
When the body is deficient in vitamin D, it is unable to properly regulate calcium and phosphate levels. If the blood level of these minerals becomes too low, other body hormones may stimulate the release of calcium and phosphate from the bones to the bloodstream to elevate blood levels.
In adults, vitamin D deficiency may have a negative impact on bone and heart health.
Too little vitamin D can cause rickets, a progressive softening and weakening of the bones� structure.
And when it comes to children, according to a recent study at Children�s Hospital Boston, over 300,000 American children may be deficient in vitamin D.
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Sunlight - We can obtain vitamin D through skin exposure to sunlight. According to the National Institutes of Health, 10 to 15 minutes of sunshine three times weekly is adequate to produce the body�s requirement of vitamin D. However, because of limited sunlight exposure in most of the U.S. during winter and the wide spread use of UV-protective sun block, very few people can obtain adequate vitamin D levels with sun exposure.
Diet - Vitamin D occurs naturally in several foods, such as fish, cod liver oil and fortified milk, juice and cereals. Dairy products such as cheese, butter, cream and some yogurts also contain vitamin D.
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Gresa Sylejmani, a senior majoring in microbiology, has been recognized by the University of Arizona with a Centennial Achievement Award. Sylejmani will graduate in May.
Centennial Achievement Awards are presented to undergraduate and graduate students who have demonstrated integrity, overcome enormous challenges to achieve a college education, made a contribution to self, community and family, and who are the first in their families to graduate from college. Only two undergraduates are honored with Centennial Awards each year. Sylejmani was presented the award at UA's winter commencement ceremony in December 2012.
The Dean of Students Office prepared this narrative about Sylejmani's personal and campus experiences when the award was announced late last year:
Gresa and her family immigrated to the United States as war refugees from Kosovo when she was eight years old. Fearful for their lives, she and her family spent weeks at a refugee camp in neighboring Macedonia before being sent to a U.S. military refugee camp in New Jersey. They were eventually relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they established their new home.
A 2009 National Merit Finalist Scholar, Gresa has marked achievements and awards including the E. Ray Cowden Scholarship, the Jim and Mary Faul Scholarship, the Phi Beta Kappa/Murphey Foundation Scholarship, the Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant Award, and the Jody Winn-Oden Memorial Scholarship. Gresa is very interested in the study of infectious diseases and their effect on public health.
She has served as a mentor and tutor for college and high school students in the Tucson community and the University of Arizona Think Tank. She dedicates much of her time to volunteer with local non-profit organizations, teaches English reading and writing classes for refugees through the International Rescue Committee, and provides grief support to young children as a group facilitator at Tu Nidito Children and Family Services.
After graduating this spring, Sylejmani plans to do some research work here in the U.S. and abroad, then to attend medical school and become a physician.
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text: Okay guys, here is another lesson that will be going in the 'for kids' section and as you can see you will be learning "how to draw a goat for kids", step by step. There is so many ways you can tackle a goat drawing, but I wanted to take the complexity out and put the easy in. Here you will not only learn something new, you will also have fun doing it. I found that drawing goats can be a little tricky because there are literally so many different types of goats in existence. Since I have said all I can say about drawing a goat for kids, I should probably let you get busy by letting you tackle this tutorial. I will be back in a bit with more drawing fun so stay tuned in. Adios people and enjoy!


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Is wootbot sick? Or just on vacation?
Just curious. I noticed it had been 4 days since he posted, and started to get concerned. Anyone have any clue, or interesting theories?
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Nooooooo! Don't wake him up!
We'll all be swimming in Buy-dot-com deals again.
Maybe he is taking a vacation with @girlwootbot.
I wonder what kind of postcard wootbot would send?
@inkycatz: I imagine it would send thousands of pictures of regularly priced local goods from wherever it's vacationing.
@eraten: LOL! Or maybe slightly discounted but not really an awesome deal pics
Perhaps it went to CES a few days early to interface with some slot machines.
@rooopert2002: droppin so much coin!
I get to be 'that guy'!!!
He is sick, he has a computer virus!
I heard he was sent for repairs to help him find some good deals for a change.
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I've upgraded to the new Aperture 3 and noticed that they've added the ability to save and apply your own presets. I understand roughly that presets are basically a saved set of adjustments meant to speed up your post-processing work. Thing is aren't they created based on average cases and thus the adjustments won't be ideal for different photos? Based on this why should I use them versus doing it manually by myself? Are the time-saving worth the compromise (assuming there is) in the end result? How many people actually use them and how frequently?
Yes! While a preset is going to adjust for a common average and will not be perfect in most cases, they can get you close, and can be seen as a starting point.
Take for example a wedding photographer:
To greatly simplify things, you could say that there are a few basic shots that you take very often:
You could manually adjust each image, and you will get pretty good at making all the adjustments and knowing what it is you want... or you could set a preset for each situation, and apply the preset when you encounter it.
If you treat a preset as a starting point, and not a final adjustment, then you will see the huge benefit here. Instead of making the basic changes that you would make for every outdoor shot of a bride and groom as they leave, you apply the preset then make a few minor adjustments for the specific image.


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This method involves getting a random dataset, sampling it at various resolutions, and adding together the result. I've heard it claimed that this is actually "Fractal Noise" or something diffe
This PDF claims that there is mass-misinformation about what Perlin Noise is, and explains a completely different method (I'm not talking about the discussion of Simplex noise at the bottom, but about his summary of Classic Perlin noise).
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Chef Josh Aaron never disappoints with his tasty recipes, and this one is sure to be a favorite. Easy to make and so flavorful!
6 Roma Tomatoes
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2 tbsp chopped garlic
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Dice all tomatoes, in a medium mixing bowl mix all other ingredients
except bread. Mix well and place in refrigerator, heat a griddle pan over medium high heat and drizzle with olive oil. Slice bread into half inch sized slices and toast on griddle 2 to 3 min on each side.
There are 2 ways to serve bruschetta, if you plan to eat it immediatly you can spoon small servings on to the toasted bread pieces on a plate, if you plan on serving as a party favor put the tomatoes mix in a medium bowl and fan bread out on plate next to bruschetta. Serve with fresh mozzarella and balsamic for a delicious twist.


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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today dedicated the Georgia Veterans State Park Boat Ramp in Cordele, giving boaters and anglers improved access to Lake Blackshear and providing opportunity to host large-scale fishing tournaments, a known economic boost for local communities.
Sen. John Crosby, Sen. George Hooks and DNR Commissioner Mark Williams were in attendance at the ceremony.
This facility includes two, dual boat ramps with three courtesy docks and a gazebo. The parking lot now has the capacity to host up to 200 trucks and trailers. Restrooms, picnic tables and a campground also are nearby. The area is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The new ramp is one of 17 being constructed around the state as part of the Go Fish Georgia Initiative. This initiative seeks to establish Georgia as a national fishing destination through a three-tiered approach: 1) improving the quality of fishing; 2) improving access to water bodies for fishing; and 3) increasing participation through active promotion and marketing of Georgia's exceptional fishing resources.
Crisp County provided an in-kind match to Go Fish Georgia Initiative monies to build the ramp. Additionally, Crisp County built the earthen ramp (on which the paved ramp sits) and also constructed the improved parking area.
Various agencies and individuals participated in the development of this area, including Crisp County personnel, Georgia DNR staff members; Crisp County Public Works Department, DNR Parks & Engineering, Eugene Crapse (retired Crisp County administrator), and Steve Rentfrow and Marcus Waters of Crisp County Power.
Georgia Veterans State Park is located nine miles west of I-75 at exit #101. It features a military museum and aircraft exhibits, a golf course, Lake Blackshear Resort and Marina, hiking trails, geocaching and numerous other outdoor activities. To learn more, visit GeorgiaStateParks.org.
For more information on fishing or boat ramps, visit www.gofishgeorgia.com [1] .
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The Justices have decided that isolated sequences of human DNA are not eligible for patent protection, but rules that artificial sequences can be patented.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Despite seeing archrival Erskine take leads in the ninth and 11th innings, Anderson University answered both deficits and captured an 8-7 walk-off victory as the program's seniors took part in their final home game Monday evening at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
With the victory, the Trojans close the regular season with a 19-30 overall record as they prepare for their first ever trip to the Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament on Thursday. Erskine drops to 32-12 overall as it heads into the Conference Carolinas Tournament later this week.
Anderson started nine seniors for the day, as the senior-led outfield of Nathan Galliford, Paul Como and Josh Hickman combined for eight of AU's 14 hits for the evening, highlighted by two extra-base hits from Galliford, including a walk-off double. Senior Ryan Mills, who started at first base, posted two hits, including a two-run double in the seventh inning.
Jonathan Zalud, who was also playing in his final game at Memorial Stadium, recorded a sixth-inning double, as the catcher has now tallied a hit in seven of his last eight contests. Seniors Ben Pendleton and Harrison Monda each nabbed a hit, while the duo combined for two RBI and two runs scored.
On the mound, senior right-hander Will Walls completed five innings and held the Flying Fleet scoreless on two hits. Walls faced just 20 Erskine hitters in the span and struck out three in his first start of the year. Freshman Hunter Crompton came into pitch in the sixth and shutdown the Erskine attack for three innings until the Fleet offense, which ranks first in Conference Carolinas in average (.341), came alive in the top-half of the ninth inning with six runs on six hits for their first lead of the contest.
Facing the deficit, Anderson answered with two outs in the bottom of the frame when Galliford split the right-center field gap with his first triple of the season. When Erskine tried to relay the ball from the outfield, the throw got away from the EC defense and Galliford scored on the defensive miscue. Unable to score following the run, the game headed into extra innings knotted up at 6-6.
After a scoreless 10th inning, the visitors found the scoreboard once again when substitute Hanlon Maivelett singled, bringing in Zack Jones and giving Erskine a one-run lead.
With the game on the line for the second time, AU responded in the bottom-half as Monda drew an inning-opening walk. Sophomore Steven Cooper came in to pinch hit on the ensuing at-bat and single to right field, advancing Monda to third.
Next, Mills sent a single through the right side, scoring Monda from third and placing Cooper on second. With an out in the inning, Galliford made the most of his final at-bat at Memorial Stadium with a double to left-center field, scoring Cooper and giving AU the win in its regular season finale.
For the second time this season, the Trojans outhit Conference Carolinas' top-hitting team, with a 14-13 advantage for the evening. Monday marked the 27th time the Trojan offense has recorded double figure hits for a game.
As the win snaps a four-game losing skid, Anderson shifts it focus to the conference tournament where it will square off against SAC regular season co-champion and top-seeded Catawba in the opening round on Thursday. First pitch from Forest City, N.C. is scheduled for noon.


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That looks fine, though you need to manage the horizon better in order to get it level. I assume it was flat and level in the original panorama image.
That looks fine, though you need to manage the horizon better in order to get it level. I assume it was flat and level in the original panorama image.
(edit) the horizon is much closer now I was over estimating the vertical field of view
If you use PTGui, there are several ways of levelling the panorama. One way is to do it visually in the Panorama Editor window. Make use of the fact that the line of the horizon should be flat and run straight across the centre of the output area. You can click on the "Edit entire panorama" icon and drag the panorama into the required position. Rotate by dragging with the right mouse button held down.
The fact that it is a single row stitch does not mean that the panorama will necessarily be rectilinear. For a wide angle view (>100 degrees, say) you would use cylindrical or equirectangular projection.
I think I am inclined to stay with the FPP Flash player for my site as it does allow the full screen view and is relatively easy to program.
Kev, It doesn't matter whether you tilt the camera up or down when you take the photos. Either way, the horizon will be flat and level when it is half way down the output area. If you tilted the camera up, there will therefore be a blank area at the bottom of the output panorama that will need to be cropped away in Photoshop. V8 of PTGui (expected in the next few weeks) will have a new cropping feature on the Panorama Editor window so you can do the crop before stitching).
I will be interested in seeing what the v8 has to offer One of the nicer features of Panorama factory was the auto crop not that it takes any time in CS3 to crop the image manually lol. I will keep on learning.
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Jason Taylor Tackles #ALSIceBucketChallengeAugust 25, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – After being "called out" by former Anderson University Women's Basketball Head Coach Jim Brunelli, AU Men's Basketball Head Coach Jason Taylor completed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which raises awareness for the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease.
In addition to the challenge, Taylor also donated to the fight against cystic fibrosis by making a contribution to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which can be found at CFF.org. Before being dunked with water by his five seniors, Taylor "called out" Jeff Brookman, Nolan Gottlieb, and the "Voice of the Trojans," Kevin Selman.
Moments after seeing Taylor get splashed with ice cold water, Assistant Coach Ryan Hilburn jumped into the act and helped support this worthy cause.


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Model A Pickup Bed - Classic Bedtime Stories TooWritten by on April 1, 2011 Second Time's A Charm For The Once-Forlorn Pickup Bed
Last month, our Model A pickup bed went through the first phase of its restoration-bringing the box back to life. The original Ford tin was media-blasted and initial bodywork performed. The bed was halfway through its journey to a second life.
Primed, with preliminary metalwork done, the next step for the bed box was final bodywork (filler and block sanding) followed by primer-sealer. Once all the panels were straight and smooth, paintwork ensued. The result: a nice light shade of yellow, which will perfectly complement the curly maple wood flooring it's about to receive.
Originally, early Ford pickup beds came with basic pine (or similar species of wood) floors, most of which were painted, not stained and varnished. This is where the "restoration" takes a major detour, as painted wood with painted strips were not an option. Instead, the bed floor will go from utilitarian to show quality, something Bed Wood and Parts specializes in.
The Model A's bed floor features the aforementioned curly maple, finished with the company's new EZ Seal & Shine acrylic urethane kit. As for the divider strips, standard steel is replaced with polished stainless pieces with hidden fasteners. The results speak for themselves. And what's even better, the professional-like process is something you can accomplish yourself at home.
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A thin coat of metal glaze blended with finishing putty was applied to the top of the tailgate where the surface was more wavy than straight. It's obvious that a bed of this vintage will require a substantial amount of bodywork-the nicer you want it, the more effort it'll take, so plan accordingly.Next, the bed is thoroughly cleaned and readied for primer. To take the bed to the next level of finishing, you'll want to consider a series of guide-coating and sanding to ensure any remaining imperfections are removed.Regardless where you perform any type of painting, do so in a proper manner-use the appropriate safety equipment and adhere to your local regulations pertaining to paintwork (using the proper type of paint and doing so in the proper location).After allowing the thin coat of finishing putty to dry, the panels are block-sanded and blended with the surrounding surfaces.
As with most wood refinishing processes, you can either apply sealer and varnish with a spray gun (as shown) or the old-fashioned way, by hand. The one constant is that multiple coats are required with sanding in-between each one. Ensure the finish is applied to all of the edges as well.Now onto the woodwork. Bed Wood and Parts now offers a complete refinishing kit-EZ Seal & Shine-making the wood portion of the restoration much easier on the end user.The more effort you put into the wood finishing, the better looking it will get and the longer it will last.The ends of each board are chamfered on the bottom. This is done to ensure the wood will fit properly into the rear crossmember and front bed panel.When installing the bed wood, always hand-tighten the fasteners first, allowing for adjustments to be made prior to final tightening.With the bed restored way beyond original specs, the only thing it needs now is the rest of the truck to go with it!With the planks laid in the bed for the final time, the stainless strips are installed. In this case, hidden fasteners will be used, so the T-bolt hardware needs to be slid into the channels of the strips prior to them being set between the wood.


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Description: Advice for Web designers often includes an admonition to use short, scannable, bullet-pointed text, reflecting the common belief that browsing the Web most often involves scanning rather than reading. Literature from several disciplines focuses on the myriad combinations of factors related to online reading but studies of the users' interests and motivations appear to offer a more promising avenue for understanding how users utilize information on Web pages. This study utilized the modified Personal Involvement Inventory (PII), a ten-item instrument used primarily in the marketing and advertising fields, to measure interest and motivation toward a topic presented on the Web. Two sites were constructed from Reader's Digest Association, Inc. online articles and a program written to track students' use of the site. Behavior was measured by the initial choice of short versus longer versions of the main page, the number of pages visited and the amount of time spent on the site. Data were gathered from students at a small, private university in the southwest part of the United States to answer six hypotheses which posited that subjects with higher involvement in a topic presented on the Web and a more positive attitude toward the Web would tend to select ...
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Children's Color Association for Digital Image Retrieval.
Date: August 2003
Creator: Chang, Yun-Ke
Description: In the field of information sciences, attention has been focused on developing mature information retrieval systems that abstract information automatically from the contents of information resources, such as books, images and films. As a subset of information retrieval research, content-based image retrieval systems automatically abstract elementary information from images in terms of colors, shapes, and texture. Color is the most commonly used in similarity measurement for content-based image retrieval systems. Human-computer interface design and image retrieval methods benefit from studies based on the understanding of their potential users. Today's children are exposed to digital technology at a very young age, and they will be the major technology users in five to ten years. This study focuses on children's color perception and color association with a controlled set of digital images. The method of survey research was used to gather data for this exploratory study about children's color association from a children's population, third to sixth graders. An online questionnaire with fifteen images was used to collect quantitative data of children's color selections. Face-to-face interviews investigated the rationale and factors affecting the color choices and children's interpretation of the images. The findings in this study indicate that the color children associated ...
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Citation Accuracy in the Journal Literature of Four Disciplines : Chemistry, Psychology, Library Science, and English and American Literature
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The Cluster Hypothesis: A Visual/Statistical Analysis
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Description: By allowing judgments based on a small number of exemplar documents to be applied to a larger number of unexamined documents, clustered presentation of search results represents an intuitively attractive possibility for reducing the cognitive resource demands on human users of information retrieval systems. However, clustered presentation of search results is sensible only to the extent that naturally occurring similarity relationships among documents correspond to topically coherent clusters. The Cluster Hypothesis posits just such a systematic relationship between document similarity and topical relevance. To date, experimental validation of the Cluster Hypothesis has proved problematic, with collection-specific results both supporting and failing to support this fundamental theoretical postulate. The present study consists of two computational information visualization experiments, representing a two-tiered test of the Cluster Hypothesis under adverse conditions. Both experiments rely on multidimensionally scaled representations of interdocument similarity matrices. Experiment 1 is a term-reduction condition, in which descriptive titles are extracted from Associated Press news stories drawn from the TREC information retrieval test collection. The clustering behavior of these titles is compared to the behavior of the corresponding full text via statistical analysis of the visual characteristics of a two-dimensional similarity map. Experiment 2 is a dimensionality reduction condition, in ...
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Cognitive Playfulness, Innovativeness, and Belief of Essentialness: Characteristics of Educators who have the Ability to Make Enduring Changes in the Integration of Technology into the Classroom Environment.
Date: August 2004
Creator: Dunn, Lemoyne Luette Scott
Description: Research on the adoption of innovation is largely limited to factors affecting immediate change with few studies focusing on enduring or lasting change. The purpose of the study was to examine the personality characteristics of cognitive playfulness, innovativeness, and essentialness beliefs in educators who were able to make an enduring change in pedagogy based on the use of technology in the curriculum within their assigned classroom settings. The study utilized teachers from 33 school districts and one private school in Texas who were first-year participants in the Intel® Teach to the Future program. The research design focused on how cognitive playfulness, innovativeness, and essentialness beliefs relate to a sustained high level of information technology use in the classroom. The research questions were: 1) Are individuals who are highly playful more likely to continue to demonstrate an ability to integrate technology use in the classroom at a high level than those who are less playful? 2) Are individuals who are highly innovative more likely to continue to demonstrate an ability to integrate technology use in the classroom at a high level than those who are less innovative? 3) Are individuals who believe information technology use is critical and indispensable to their ...
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Posted 19 August 2011 - 06:01 AM
I'm also keen to see Miss Zhou dance with the RB and wish her well. The reason I (and many others) will be aware of her before she has even begun is, I think, interesting as an indicator of the importance for young dancers of promoting themselves early in their careers. I would call it the "youtube phenomenon" (although it's really much wider than that). There are certain young dancers who whilst still in the training phase of their career are very astutely (either themselves or through those around them) raising their profile in multiple ways through an intelligent use of online and traditional media.
Patricia Zhou for example, keeps an entertaining blog on her own website and was broadcast live on the web during the Prix de Lausanne finals. In addition, a quick google brings up features on her life story in Pointe, DanceSpirit and various other publications as well as youtube clips of her dancing.
There are others of a similar age who are equally well known despite having not yet set foot on stage as a professional. Claudia Dean, who also joins the Royal Ballet this year, was the subject of a videoblog during her Prix de Lausanne experience, made an impression at Youth America Grand Prix and at the Genee (where she won the gold medal) and again a quick google reveals much media coverage of her recent performance of the Corsaire pas de deux at Sydney Opera House.
Of course these two (and other similar up-and-comers such as Alys Shee, Esteban Hernandez and Mayara Magri) are phenomenally talented and I am in no sense implying that they have got where they are on the basis of this promotion. However, I do think it raises an interesting question for company directors going forward as to whether they should feature their "famous" dancers who potential audiences may already be familiar with, in preference to those who were not so well known before joining the corps (try googling Francesca Hayward and Tomas Mock for example, the other new RB corps members, and you will not get anything like the same amount of coverage).
After all, as discussed in the new RB director thread a couple of months back, ballet companies are these days expected to do good business and if they can hire "self-made" stars who the audience is keen to see then arguably that is exactly what they should be doing. However, for the purpose of company cohesion it presents a whole new set of challenges if not only the principals but the most junior members of the company are self-promoting outside the company's own "official" PR plan.
If I were an intelligent 16 or 17 year old dancer with professional aspirations nowadays I would give a lot of thought to increasing my own exposure through the international competition circuit, a youtube channel, a blog and actively courting media interest. It seems like the smart thing to do - although sadly yet another reason why the wealthy are at an advantage in pre-professional ballet education. Or maybe the dancers who most successfully court publicity are genuinely in another league of talent from those who do not. I'd be very interested to hear people's views.
Apologies if I have taken this thread off track but it seemed presumptuous to start a new thread with my first post.
Posted 19 August 2011 - 05:22 PM
The Royal Ballet is one of the best jobs in the dance world, full year contracts and around £30,000 pa starting wage, everyone wants to join the RB, though of course if you don't go to the school it becomes significantly harder if you're a student and not a star ready to import from another company. Also for dancers who live halfway across the world such as Zhou (US) & Dean (Australia) it's rarely financially or logistically practicable to go to the UK and join the school, even if they are talented enough, it costs around £15,000 a year now and that's where entering the international competitions comes into play, Lausanne has prizes which include scholarships to a top school of the contestant's choice, and they all choose the RB, and in certain cases an apprentice position to the RB. It's a fast track into the company and having a sexy website is neither here nor there, nor self promotion, Lausanne has a website and a great deal of web traffic so any dancer entering the competition is going to have far more google hits. If Mock & Hayward had entered Lausanne their google ratio would have gone up too, just like Zhou & Dean's.
Principals who've benefited from the Lausanne scholarship include Nunez, Cojocaru, McRae, Polunin. But regardless of whether or not they'd had sites and featured in Lausanne videos Dean & Zhou would have entered the RB anyway because of their placings in competitions designed to find talent for the major companies such as Lausanne. It's relatively cheap to create your own site, many mediocre dancers do, it's not cheap to enter the Royal Ballet School without a Lausanne or other form of scholarship. For Mock and Hayward sites were unnecessary, as indeed was entering Lausanne, they had their foot in the door from the age of 10.
Posted 21 August 2011 - 04:47 AM
Posted 21 August 2011 - 02:23 PM
A very minor point: Nunez was not a Lausanne winner. She spent a year at the Royal Ballet school because under UK legislation, at fifteen she was too young to be employed as a member of the company.
Another minor point: Tomas Mock was not at White Lodge (the Lower School of the RBS). He joined the Royal Ballet School in the First Year of the Upper School - i.e. at the age of 16 or thereabouts.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 02:19 AM
I've been astonished (and somewhat dismayed) over the past few years in dance (as well as in my own word, classical music) to see the disproportionate level of media attention given to "baby ballerinas" and "prodigies" as if everyone is always looking for the next new thing, moving on quickly once the next even newer thing turns up. It seems that many people are more interested in watching competitions of training dancers than they are watching fully trained, experienced and mature dancers perform. And I wonder whether, as has happened in music, those who win competitions at a young age get "milked" by promoters to exploit that fame quickly before the next batch of competition winners arrive and people lose interest. Maybe that doesn't happen in ballet because professional dancers tend to start in the corps rather than as soloists, but when you see dancers like Whitney Jensen or Olga Smirnova (both of whom received a great deal of publicity as students) start at a higher level, I begin to wonder whether ballet is moving in the same direction.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 04:38 AM
But there again, has this always happened? I am thinking of the famous Ballet Russe baby ballerinas or, more recently, the LFB baby ballerinas from the mid-80s.
And there again, I don't think this sort of trend is restricted to the Arts! It can happen in any profession.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 05:22 AM
Thanks everyone. Just to clarify, I wasn't really asking/speculating about whether self-promotion helped dancers gain entrance into the school or company, I was really wondering what effect it might have on casting/other opportunities once they are in the company; whether there is any difference between dancers arriving with a relatively high profile as compared to those who are less well known.
I've been astonished (and somewhat dismayed) over the past few years in dance (as well as in my own word, classical music) to see the disproportionate level of media attention given to "baby ballerinas" and "prodigies" as if everyone is always looking for the next new thing, moving on quickly once the next even newer thing turns up. It seems that many people are more interested in watching competitions of training dancers than they are watching fully trained, experienced and mature dancers perform. And I wonder whether, as has happened in music, those who win competitions at a young age get "milked" by promoters to exploit that fame quickly before the next batch of competition winners arrive and people lose interest. Maybe that doesn't happen in ballet because professional dancers tend to start in the corps rather than as soloists, but when you see dancers like Whitney Jensen or Olga Smirnova (both of whom received a great deal of publicity as students) start at a higher level, I begin to wonder whether ballet is moving in the same direction.
Hey Variated,
I think the thing with Smirnova joining the Bolshoi as soloist (besides her undoubted massive talent) was Filin was determined to poach her from the Mariinsky and so his successful gambit was to make her an offer she couldn't refuse. This isn't unprecedented though the Kirov made Nureyev a soloist on entry in order to keep him as he'd received a soloist offer from the Bolshoi.
Jensen, again another massively talented prodigy who'd caused a smash on the competition circuit entered Boston as a corps and was rapidly promoted to second soloist, big talent will invariably be rewarded with a rapid promotion. Vadim Muntagirov at ENB, a Lausanne winner, used his win to join the Royal Ballet School and rose to principal within two years of joining the corps, Polunin took just under four years to make principal from the corps, ditto Steven Mcrae, Alina Cojocaru, again another Lausanne laureate joined the RB as a corps member, was promoted after 16 months to first soloist, then made principal just under a year later. I suppose the moral of this story is that big talent will be recognised and promoted (in most cases) that the competition circuit is invaluable for bringing dancers who due to background, nationality or money wouldn't get to be seen by the big companies.
Though of course it doesn't always work, most dancers enter the corps and sadly most stay there, even with massive talent, there are Varna, YAGP, Lausanne winners languishing in corps all over the world, it's as much to do with the taste and likes of the AD as anything else.
Also many dancers don't grow into early promise and talent or have their injuries which destroy their careers - Julia Bolshakova comes to mind, fast-tracked for stardom her foot injuries developed as a student became chronic as her workload increased.
The brilliant PR stunt of taking a very young dancer has been going on for ages, Diaghilev creating a baby principal with the then 12 year old Markova, demoted her at 14 to corps and was about to reinstate her as an adult principal at 16 when he inconveniently died on her. And then there are those dancers who create a stir as young corps virtuosos and soloists but who fizzle out as principals - Michele Wiles, Paloma Herrera & Bryony Brind come to mind.
Competitions are excellent means for talented dancers to come to the attention of schools who for whatever reason decided against them at the initial selection process for instance Clairemarie Osta & Laetitia Pujol who trained in Bordeaux were offered places at the Paris Opera School and then positions with the corps of the POB after winning prizes at CNSM Paris, Lausanne & Varna, likewise Melissa Hamilton, now a soloist at the Royal was offered a corps contract with the RB after winning the YAGP. Though all these dancers had previously been turned down by the schools associated with their companies at earlier ages. I suppose what competitions gave them was a shot to make it within their companies without having been to the school.
Everyone is always looking for the next "big" thing, every time a new male prodigy comes around there's the ubiquitous "New Nureyev" tag, but then due to the nature of ballet one dancer can't monopolise a whole repertory, it'd destroy their bodies if nothing else and due to the prices of ballet you need as many stars as possible to try and get the punters in. Sadly the media attention surrounding a new "star" is modest to say the least, a new flavour sandwich at Subway gets more widespread attention from the press, I suppose it's all relative.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 05:44 AM
Posted 22 August 2011 - 06:50 AM
It sounds as if you are talking about business, not art. Nevertheless, since when has merit been the primary virtue or subject, in any venue? (Monday mornings apparently make me very cynical :< Next, I will be told I am disrespectful and will be kicked off this board....)
It is business. Every seat not sold is a loss for a company, at the moment lyric theatres are operating at about 85% capacity at best, the NYCB has had to close the top tier of the Koch theatre because of seats unsold in many of its performances.
Ballet companies all operate in a deficit and in this economic climate especially that's killing companies. Yes, ballet is art, but you can't eat art, art doesn't pay wages, doesn't keep theatres open. Even with 100% capacity companies couldn't survive without heavy private sponsorship and where available Government subsidy and the lower down the food chain a company is the less available private sponsorship there is.
Stars sell seats, that's irrefutable, companies need stars to survive, except in today's culture even stars mean very little outside of the world of ballet. That's why a Carlos Acosta can continue to perform despite his much waning abilities as he's one of a rare handful of ballet dancers who's managed to make any headway into a wider media circle. Sylvie Guillem was almost unique in the past 20 years as being the only ballerina who could guarantee a full opera house wherever and whenever she danced - there's no one now to match that kind of cachet or charisma and even Guillem remains relatively unknown outside of the dance world. But within the context of dance she was big business and box office gold.
Sadly even competitions like Varna & Lausanne now have practically no penetration into a wider media outside of the ballet media, winning Varna is no longer a guarantee of success or even stardom, but it helps and a company who can find a Polunin, Muntagirov, Bussell, Guillem, Acosta and promote them as a star would be foolish not to do so and most importantly for the public to take hold of this concept that this dancer is a star and will pay top dollar to see them.
Performing arts have always worked as business from Diaghilev to Sol Hurok they all knew no matter how good the product without bums on seats there was no product and any company that thinks itself too good or rarified for commercial concerns won't be operating very long.
Arts need to sell a product and it's no longer a sure bet to hide behind a name such as the Bolshoi, Mariinsky or Royal Ballet, not least because the product they sell is so expensive, stars sell tickets, ticket sales keep companies open and even with the greatest star dancer there's still no guarantee the public will care. As Sol Hurok said "if an audience doesn't want to come nothing will stop them."
Posted 22 August 2011 - 11:27 AM
So while I agree the market is everything in the US and UK (and I know some German friends who fear their economic woes mean things are moving in the same direction in continental Europe) we should not simply accept that is the only way it can ever be.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 11:56 AM
I (mostly) agree with Simon that the arts is business these days, but I think that is far more true in the Anglo-Saxon free market world (UK and US) than it is in mainland Europe, where societies tend to value their artists more highly. Take Germany, where every sizeable city(and many towns too) has its opera house, concert hall and ballet company, along with schools and conservatories dedicated to the arts. Take Dortmund and Essen for example, industrial towns only 30 miles apart, and both have world class concert halls as good as anything you will find in London. The audiences are generally better informed, happy to be taxed at a higher level to subsidize the arts and far more open to new ideas and challenging innovations. I don't know how they do it but it's an environment which enables considerable artists (Cranko or Forsythe) to spend years developing their ideas rather than being replaced after one season because they "don't sell".
So while I agree the market is everything in the US and UK (and I know some German friends who fear their economic woes mean things are moving in the same direction in continental Europe) we should not simply accept that is the only way it can ever be.
See the article in today's links regarding teaching ballet to homeless people in S. Korea.
Posted 22 August 2011 - 01:17 PM
It's post #3.
See the article in today's links regarding teaching ballet to homeless people in S. Korea.
Posted 24 August 2011 - 12:22 AM
Spring for Musi--which also hosted the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony [in addition to Oregon Symphony]--felt fresh at every turn... Alas, only the Montrealers, whose music director is the internationally celebrated Kent Nagano, drew a full house, even though no tickets in the series cost more than twenty-five dollars. In classical music, as in the rest of culture, fame drives the box office. Let's hope that future editions of Spring for Music--the festival will run at least through 2013--spread the news that North America possesses dozens of excellent orchestras, and that on a good night any of them can outclass the so-called Big Five. The Oregonians proved the point by thoroughly upstaging the New York Philharmonic, which had played an unremarkable gala program at Carnegie a few nights earlier.
Posted 24 August 2011 - 11:36 PM
So much depends as was briefly noted on what the Artistic Director needs. Balanchine needed young dancers for the works he wanted to create. He let Danilova go -- which was not a disaster for her. Massine needed her, and she and Franklin had a great career dancing Massine's ballets.
It's true, some dancers seem to be like Isadora Duncan good at promoting themselves -- they enter competitions, they blog, they twitter, they cultivate their fans without seeming to be selling out. Daniil Simkin joined this board and talked to us like a member back when he was still a student. Most of us got a good look at him on YouTube, and it was charming to see him doing the same combinations as his father in friendly competition -- and it worked like good PR to make the very boyish boy look like a chip off the old block. And beyond the PR, it was very good dancing and a charming double-portrait of two excellent dancers. Simkin's qualities make him a soloist/principal, not a corps dancer -- his lines are too vivid for him not to pull focus.
Out west have several Youtube stars at SF Ballet -- Sofiane Sylve's amazing pirouettes have been hit on over a million times; Maria Kochetkova went on a reality-TV dance show and danced off with the prize, and gained a tremendous amount of cachet into hte bargain. she was already a principal dancer with everything going for her -- superb line, and a wonderful kinetic quality and appetite for movement. And she's getting used a LOT. Yuan Yuan Tan is a superstar in her native China, and she gets a lot of opening nights. It doesn't hurt that she looks like a supermodel and has a rock-solid technique....
Posted 25 August 2011 - 11:48 AM
Added: There is a difference with YouTube which seems to be a primer for what to watch for in a dancer's style – but it does chop things up into small pieces – and you tend to remember the experience in little brilliant clips rather than a part of a whole piece.
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