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A Flawed Filmmaker's Life Turned Into Art
Almost 20 years after his death, Federico Fellini (1920-93) continues to exercise a magician's fascination over filmgoers. He created a self-referential cinema born of his own real-life experiences and his innumerable dreams. Few can resist the charm and candor of his confessions. Other directors have gazed at their navel with equal obsessiveness, but Fellini transmutes his memories and fantasies into what Picasso defined as art—"a lie that makes us realize the truth." His films reverberate from a collision of opposites—a playful lustiness alongside timidity, passages of reverie contrasted with daily routine, or philosophical speculation opposed to delirious infatuation. Fellini identifies with his major characters, endowing them all with elements of the laughing seer, the portly lecher and the lapsed believer.
Dante opened his "Inferno" with these anguished lines:
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wood,
for the straight way was lost.
Fellini's "8½" (released a half century ago next month) explores this dilemma with such sincerity that we surrender to his beguiling alchemy. It's about as personal and intimate as a film can get, and yet its structure, on the surface so disjointed, is held in place with such skill that this voyage around the filmmaker's ego absorbs its audience from start to finish. Guido ( Marcello Mastroianni) struggles to embark on his new film. He's assailed on all sides: by his wife, his mistresses, his producer, journalists and, most wounding of all, his desiccated co-screenwriter (aptly named "Daumier"), who dismisses Guido's ideas as "a series of gratuitous incidents." All this occurs in an elaborate spa where Guido is taking thermal baths as well as daily quantities of "holy water." The hapless director escapes into a series of dreams that evoke his childhood, his parents, and a prolonged sequence in which he rules his harem with a cracking whip.
The film communicates the strain of being a maestro and having to deal with the organized chaos of an expensive and elaborate commercial movie. At times, "8½" strays uncomfortably close to real life. The producer snarls at Guido, "Quit this film, and I'll ruin you!"—just as Dino De Laurentiis would do later when he threatened to sequester Fellini's villa after the director had announced he was abandoning a misbegotten venture titled "Il viaggio di G. Mastorna." "Marcello is me," Fellini admitted. "Every once in a while I feel like I just can't take it anymore."
Fellini's love-hate relationship with the Catholic Church inspires some of the film's most engaging moments. Cardinals, monsignors and nuns all traverse the screen to a greater or lesser degree, but at the end of the day the young Guido has more respect for the voluptuous prostitute named "La Saraghina" than he does for the priest in the confessional. The church has always been portrayed by Fellini in satirical terms (remember the "ecclesiastical fashion show" in "Roma," with priests on roller skates?), but not spitefully, for Fellini seems never to have had a malicious bone in his body. He accepted his sins joyfully.
Indeed "8½" is the kind of film that gives infidelity a good name. Fellini admits to his roving eye, and expresses his fetishistic desires without inhibition. The women Guido craves and endures in "8½" appear in various forms in all of Fellini's major works. Just as his ideal young female appears on the beach at the end of "La Dolce Vita," so in this film she takes the form of a pristine Claudia Cardinale, "a child and yet already a woman," hovering tantalizingly just beyond Guido's reach. She wears gleaming white clothes, almost the "angel in white raiment."
All the pretensions, procrastinations and prevarications of "8½" are distilled, by some miraculous alchemy, into a finale featuring Fellini's signature hommage to the circus, with everyone, male and female, wife and mistress, friend and foe, old and young, holding hands and tracing the time-honored circle to the effervescent strains of Nino Rota's score.
The remarkable imagery of Fellini's "8½" owes much to Gianni Di Venanzo's cinematography, endowing sequence after sequence with hallucinatory white light opposed to Stygian darkness. Di Venanzo, in films like Francesco Rosi's " Salvatore Giuliano" and Michelangelo Antonioni's "La notte," was revolutionizing the practice of cinematography, opting for natural light and shadows that the traditional studio film had found anathema. Thus white becomes the color of "8½" as vividly as red is the color of Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers." The "fixed" camera now yields to an all-seeing, mobile apparatus that gives the film an extraordinary tête-à-tête quality in tune with Fellini's subjective approach to cinema.
Why is Fellini abidingly important? For all his visual extravagance, he remains surprisingly unaffected. He admits his failings, as filmmaker as well as husband and lover. "I wanted to make an honest film," Guido soliloquizes during "8½," "to bury all the dead things we carry around in our head. I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it anyway." His porcine producer accuses him of succumbing to "doubts, second thoughts and whims," but Guido wins back his wife's affections at the last with the words "Life's a celebration, let's live it together." Just as important, Fellini shows that the cinema is capable of any idiom, any image, so that he finds the appropriate visual solution—such as the pandemonium of the press conference—for all the moods and fantasies that seize him.
A child of the neo-realist era in Italian cinema, Fellini achieved his early fame with emotional dramas built on fixed narrative lines. Not until the worldwide acclaim for "La Dolce Vita" in 1960 did he give free rein to his fantasies. If "8½" is his masterpiece, his recollections of childhood in Rimini bring the brightly spangled "Amarcord" (1973) to the brink of greatness too.
With the passing years, Fellini approached his material with an extravagance that bordered on the bombastic. His later films often spiraled away into an indecipherable landscape of half-baked dialogue, outlandish characters and cheesy sets. Yet at his best he could render dreams on film with a gossamer-light facility that continues to beguile us. His art can be seen as that of a funambulist, dependent for its thriving less on grace than on some intuitive panache and a mastery of illusion.
—Mr. Cowie has written numerous books on filmmakers, including Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola.


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Is there an app that can capture live video on one iOS device and broadcast it over wifi so all my other iOS devices can play it? Streaming it over the internet would be even better...
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You can stream to other devices. This app does a lot, with video including uploading and sharing video on facebook, twitter etc but to stream video all the devices will need this app.
It also works across platform.
As far as personal experience goes I have only used it once to test it quickly, it workked accross a home WiFi network, other than curiosity I had no need for this.
You may be interested in this incredibly awesome little app called CollabraCam. I've never used it, but the idea is just brilliant. One iOS device serves as the "director," and receives video from up to 4 other iOS devices. The Director can send requests to the cameramen (pan up, shift left, zoom in), and I think can record video by switching between different live feeds.
CollabraCam is obviously designed for making movies with multiple camera operators, but it sounds like it might suit your simpler purpose of just broadcasting a live camera from one iOS device to another.
I should mention that I have absolutely no experience with this thing, I just think it's incredibly cool.
(By the way, the wording of your question ("capture live video") is a little confusing. I'm not sure if you want to capture video and stream it afterwards, or if you want to view a live feed with/without recording it. In any event, I think readers who arrive at your question because they are curious about streaming live video from one device to another will find CollabraCam interesting).
UPDATE: After answering this post I became curious and bought CollabraCam. I thought it would be fun to mount my iPhone on an RC car, and stream video back to my iPad. Turns out CollabraCam does work for live streaming, but not very fluidly. The video feed staggers a lot, and is definitely too slow to use for steering an RC car.
I didn't try anything to speed up the system -- I think I could create an ad hoc network with a laptop, and thereby get faster WiFi streaming than going over the home router...
But the short message is, CollabraCam does work for live streaming, but maybe there are better solutions out there.
I think I have the perfect solution for you, I found an application called Friendsee!
You can stream live video with great quality to all of your iOS friends, and directly to your facebook wall or twitter account (with 3G/Wifi connection), its really simple and fast, I think it's the fastest way to broadcast live stream with iphone
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6 Terrifying Predators Routinely Owned by Adorable Prey
Everyone loves an underdog. Even Mother Nature, with her Thunderdome sensibilities, loves a good underdog story -- or six. That's why, when creating the nastiest animals on Earth, she decided that they were each going to have an embarrassingly adorable nemesis to regularly knock them down a few pegs. Like these guys:
#6. The Adder vs. the Hedgehog
Adders have dark zigzag patterns along their backs and giant, glaring, red eyes with vertically slit pupils. They are a universal symbol for danger and evil. They are venomous, vicious and are all-around well ... snakes.
Zdeněk Fric
Yes, it has the eyes of a Sith lord.
Sharing a common territory with the adder is the European hedgehog. The hedgehog grows to a maximum length of about a foot, and though its body is covered in up to 7000 spines, they're more of the "cuddly and/or wuddly" type than the "badass armor" variety.
Pathy Miklós
He dreams of life as Bill Shatner's hairpiece.
While foraging for food, a hedgehog may occasionally come across an adder. They share the same 'hood; it was bound to happen. As expected, upon seeing the horrible serpent, the cute little hedgehog goes into lockdown, doing its level best to set up a lil' spiked fortress -- just trying to protect its face and legs.
Jürgen Howaldt
His little feet are adorable and creepy at the same time. Kind of like the Alien's little second mouth.
Once this is done, it slides open a slit in its faceplate, waddles its bare face up to the adder and bites it. Because the hedgehog's spikes are significantly longer than the adder's fangs, the adder can't reach any hedgehog's flesh to bite and/or poison it. The snake slithers away, but that's not the end of the story. The hedgehog isn't just trying to protect itself here, or cowering, or even driving the snake away: It's hunting. The snake leaves, the hedgehog follows, and bites again. This harassment continues until the adder is too tired to fight back or escape. The hedgehog then breaks the snake's neck and devours it completely, starting at the head.
Jacek Zapała
The humans in this picture were never heard from again.
Then it curls up into a little ball and drifts off to sleep, dreaming itty-bitty dreams of navigating loop-de-loops with an echidna.
#5. The "Ultimate" Pit Viper vs. the White-Headed Capuchin
Bothrops asper, more commonly called a fer-de-lance or ultimate motherfucking pit viper (we may have added one of those descriptors -- but only one), are found in Central America. They grow to an average length of six feet, but some have been measured at over eight feet. They are the most dangerous snake in Central America for a slew of reasons, including the ability to strike from any position.
Al Coritz
Drug-murders, diarrhea and this: three things you're unlikely to see in a Central America tourism ad.
Also living in Central America are white-faced Capuchin monkeys. Large males weigh in at an adorable nine pounds -- just enough weight to give solid hugs. They're most famous as the dancing organ-grinder monkeys, so you might have to picture this little guy in a tiny red vest and cap for the rest of the entry.
Michelle Reback
As if you weren't already.
This peer-reviewed paper details one attack by an ultimate pit viper on a troop of white-faced capuchins: At some point in the resulting standoff, a branch fell off of a dead tree, and onto the snake. One of the monkeys apparently remembered the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and immediately seized upon the branch. The monkey then used the wood to beat the snake, and it is simply astounding that this sentence isn't about masturbation right now.
Although we can assume it was preceded and immediately followed by masturbation.
That wasn't an isolated incident either: According to the Zoological Wildlife Foundation, white-faced capuchins routinely attack intruders with sticks, rocks and on one occasion, even a smaller squirrel monkey was hurled at an observer. It didn't even hesitate -- the monkey just plucked up and whipped a tiny version of itself at the nearest threat. That's like seeing somebody on your lawn, so you immediately start hurling your children at him until he gets back on the sidewalk.
#4. Various Deadly Bugs vs. the Grasshopper Mouse
Giant desert centipedes are amongst the largest centipedes on Earth, commonly measuring in at almost nine inches. They are found in the deserts of North America and inside your pillowcase, right now, waiting for you to come to bed. They're extremely poisonous and routinely take down larger mammals.
Bugs In The News
Imagine waking up with that little guy crawling up your chest.
The grasshopper mouse grows to about four-inches long, and has the least intimidating name in the entire Animal Kingdom, aside from the long-extinct Parisian cuddle-pig.
But when the Segmented Wang of Poisonous Death steps to the adorable little mouse, shit goes stone cold crazy. It starts when the grasshopper mouse emits a high pitched howl -- seriously, it rage-howls before every fight -- and then initiates combat with an intricate series of cartwheels, back flips, barrel rolls and tiny bites. Unable to grab hold of the flipping, biting melee-mouse, the centipede is slowly but surely deprived of its primary weapon: Its face.
The grasshopper mouse doesn't just eat centipedes, though. This same fighting style, which we'll call Berserker Acrobatics, is used successfully against scorpions, poisonous beetles and even tarantulas:


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I'm looking for a good way to help us organize and keep track of the latest version of UI elements. The simple way I've found is to have one big file, maybe 10000 X 10000 pixels with all your UI on it. Imagine a big, big, very big poster with all your UI elements. You can see them all in one shot. A postal card of all UI element. We call it a GUI. But it's hard to maintain. Do you have any tools or suggestions to be better at it?
Oh boy ... there are a lot of ways to go about organizing your UI elements. You can use screen shots, put them into a files, folder, documents, etc.
One approach that seems to work well for us is to have a living, breathing style guide. It is a little more work up front, but in the end it will save a lot of time.
The basic premise of the style guide is to place all the UI elements onto a webpage, separated/formatted for readability. Then we apply our style sheets to the page. What is nice is that we can choose which style sheet to apply and see it transform the UI elements on the fly.
Obviously, as I mentioned above, the complexity of this style guide is directly proportional to the complexity of your elements and the accuracy of the behavior for each that you want to mimic. It also depends on how you have the site structured as well.
The beauty of this approach is that as your styles change, you can see how it affects all the elements without having to go through your entire site.
I think the key is to try to come as close as possible to producing a visual snapshot of your site with once styles have been applied.
Am I helping to answer the question? Maybe you can share what web technologies you are using? PHP, ASP.NET, etc. Maybe adding some clarity to your question would be helpful as well. In other words, are you looking to organize the physical files on the site, or just maintain a good screenshot view of all the elements?
If you are just looking for tools to manage assets and/or workflow, that is a totally different answer. Hope I picked the right one. If not, I could recommend a couple of tool sets.
Hope I am making sense and that I didn't jump to conclusions about your question. Have a great day!
You could try using version control for this purpose, it's easy to update, and keep track of all UI elements. You could have folders for each, with image preview and code. It would be nice to have a way to browse through them, maybe an internal web page.


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UL Listings for Lighting & Ceiling Fans: What UL Ratings Mean
What exactly do UL ratings mean? What is a damp location versus a wet location? When is it safe to use a fixture outdoors?
Here's a quick guide to everything you need to know about UL Ratings for lighting and ceiling fans.
Is it rated for Dry, Damp or Wet locations? Most of the ceiling lights, wall lights, outdoor lighting and ceiling fans sold in the United States have been tested and rated by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), an independent product safety certification organization. Some have been tested by Intertek and have an ETL Listed mark.
UL Listed (for Dry Locations)
Often noted just as "UL Listed." A dry location is an indoor area that is not normally subject to dampness. It may include a location subject to temporary dampness provided ventilation is adequate to prevent any accumulation of moisture.
Dry Locations include kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, foyers, hallways and most areas in bathrooms.
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Only lighting fixtures and fans marked "Suitable for Damp Locations" or "Suitable for Wet Locations" can be used in damp locations. A damp location is an exterior or interior location that is normally or periodically subject to condensation of moisture in, on or adjacent to the electrical components of a lighting fixture or ceiling fan.
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So I originally thought I was going to have a one to many relationship in a database with the following tables
Originally I was going to have an FK in ATTRIBUTE_JSON_MAP pointing to ENTITY_JSON_MAP. I was going to the Attribute table with
alter table ATTRIBUTE_JSON_MAP add unique (NAME, JSON_MAP_ENUM, ENTITY_JSON_MAP_FK)
Now however I've realized that I need to make it a many to many relationship, so I've created a mapping table, but now I've lost the ability to make sure that I don't get duplicates of that combination.
I was hoping there was still a way to do this. Inserting/deleting tables doesn't need to be fast, as the table will not be inserted or deleted at run time.


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This fall will be the death of me:
Rage - About 7 hours into this wonderful, wonderful game. Id is back, I missed them greatly. Technically, it's a beautiful looking game that runs smoother than it has any right to, design wise it's brilliant: a wonderful mix of driving and classic Id FPS action. It's never boneheaded, never pandering, and always uniquely "Rage". Fantastic game, and my vote for Shooter of 2011.
Dark Souls - Sequel to the incredibly awesome (and notoriously difficult) Playstation 3 action-RPG Demon's Souls. The game design is basically more of what made Demon's Souls amazing, with a bump in difficulty (gasp!). I will be playing the shit out of this - very likely right up to Skyrim in November.


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The expansion of the LNG Revithoussa terminal cryogenic facilities will boost the maximum sustainable gas send-out rate to 1400 Nm3/h, with a peak rate of 1650 Nm3/h. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
RINA Group on Thursday was awarded a contract for basic
engineering design, environmental and social impact
assessment, safety and other studies for the expansion of
Greeces only LNG terminal at Revithoussa.
The four-month project was awarded to RINA by DESFA
(Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator).
The expansion of the LNG Revithoussa
terminal cryogenic facilities will boost the maximum
sustainable gas send-out rate to 1400 Nm3/h, with a peak
send-out rate of 1650 Nm3/h.
The existing terminal consists of an import jetty, two full
containment storage tanks, plus one under construction, re-gasification
equipment and send-out facilities. It is situated on an
island west of Athens and currently handles between 0.51 and
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Teaching Tools: Using Online Simulations and Games
Students who are passionate gamers can talk a blue streak about the virtual online worlds where they invest their free time and energy. Usually, of course, they get to play only when they're not at school. But why not bring gaming into the classroom? Could teachers tap that same passion to spark learning?
Gaming remains new territory for most schools. As the following examples show, educators on the frontiers are eager to share what they're learning. Here are just a few examples.
Evoke Social Change
This spring, several teachers introduced their high school students to an alternate reality game that challenges players to solve big global challenges. Evoke attracted nearly 20,000 players from around the world during its 10-week run. Game designer Jane McGonigal, who developed Evoke for the World Bank Institute, calls it "a crash course in changing the world."
Here's how it works: Each week, a new chapter from a graphic novel introduces players to a different challenge from the not-so-distant future. These "missions" range from food scarcity to human trafficking. Players respond -- and earn points -- by posting blogs, videos, or photos that convey their proposed solutions or reactions. They also comment on other players' postings, sparking dialogue, collaboration, and critical thinking.
Paul Allison, an English teacher at East-West School of International Studies in New York, has been playing Evoke right alongside his students. He's one of several teachers from the New York Writing Project who decided to experiment with the game as a springboard for digital literacy. These colleagues have been comparing teaching strategies and student responses. They have also taken their conversation to a larger audience by talking about gaming and learning during recent episodes of the weekly webcast, "Teachers Teaching Teachers," which Allison hosts.
Allison has seen a mix of reactions among students, who are also reflecting on their experience on a site called Youth Voices. Some say they enjoy the novelty of being virtual "agents" who tackle global crises with their own wits. Others are more critical, suggesting that Evoke lacks the excitement of commercial games. One student said being asked to write blog posts about global issues feels too much like regular homework.
Now that the game is nearly over, some students are taking their online creativity into the real world (which was exactly what game designer McGonigal had in mind). Allison's students, for instance, are using a local garden to investigate questions about culture and community.
As Allison explains in this recent blog post:
This work has become such a passion this spring. My colleagues have wondered why. And it has to do with how many of the missions in Evoke can be answered in our garden. It's about Social Innovation, Food Security, Water Crisis, Urban Resilience, and Indigenous Knowledge. Because of Evoke, these words have a resonance that bounces from Africa to India to China and Cuba and back to our wonderful community garden in Flushing, Queens."
WoW and Tech Standards?
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a commercial blockbuster, with millions of subscribers from around the world. Dean Groom, an Australian educator and advocate of the Web 2.0 classroom, suggests that teachers use a free, 10-day trial of WoW to meet standards, such as the Educational Technology Standards for Students.
In a post on his Design 4 Learning blog Groom explains how to use backward design to plan a robust, game-based project that meets important learning goals. The game is a hook to grab interest, but the real learning happens through inquiry. "It's not about what you learn by playing a game," Groom insists, "but how the game can be use to foster inquiry skills, critical thinking, and student learning."
SimCEO: Innovation Platform
When Derek Luebbe was a social studies teacher, he used to run a stock market simulation to teach students about finance. But in six weeks of picking stocks, he found that students didn't learn much more than the mechanics of the market. And they tended to pick companies with well-known names rather making critical judgments.
So Luebbe began imagining a better approach. What if students created their own companies, complete with business plans? What if they could also buy and sell stocks in classmates' companies? What if they could see how stock prices fluctuated over a 10-year period rather than just a few weeks?
The result of that brainstorming became an online simulation called SimCEO. Luebbe, principal of American International School of Budapest, has been fine-tuning his creation by sharing it with educators around the world. They have surprised him by taking projects in directions he never imagined.
He expected teachers to focus on financial literacy and entrepreneurship. But some have brought in different content. "They might set the simulation in Colonial America or New York in the 1920s," Luebbe says, then ask students to consider how historical factors would have affected market prices. Because teachers determine all the content, he adds, "they can bring in demographic data, real or fictional news, historical events -- whatever they want." The game becomes an open platform for teacher innovation.
For Earth Day, for instance, one teacher challenged students to propose ideas for reducing their school's carbon footprint. Using SimCEO, they bid on each other's proposals. Dynamic stock prices gave them immediate feedback for adjusting their plans.
If you're a teacher interested in bringing gaming into your classroom, there's no shortage of opportunities to get started. Luebbe invites teachers to set up a free SimCEO account (use the promotional code: edutopia), and see where your creativity takes you. Meanwhile, the first run of Evoke has just ended, but teachers are already brainstorming a future version customized for the classroom.
Have you used gaming in your classroom? Please tell us about your experience.
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As a student teacher, I have been observing the power of simple engagement through technology within the classroom. The use of something as simple as the Promethean Board seemed to really spark an interest with my fifth graders, but this interest has begun to fizzle after the familiarity. This article really peaked my own interest as a result of the vast presence of video gaming in children's lives. Just today I was discussing activities with my students and over half of the class said they would consider themselves to be "gamers." In a classroom striving to meet student needs of problem-based learning, video games really fit the bill. WoW in the Classroom sounds like a great resource for students. The mere fact that students could uphold extended projects which involve a great deal of strategy and critical thinking gives a great open door to engaging classrooms. I am also really interested in the SimCEO game because of its appeal and real-world application. My only question would be what similar gaming techniques would you suggest for project-based learning in the elementary classroom? Thanks!
I love this new perspective on gaming. I've used online games in my classroom some, but generally on a more limited basis (math games or word games). It's exciting to read about other options that can be used to help students develop both technological literacy and thinking skills. AS students are already using the technology, I think it's great for teachers to embrace it and use it to help us teach. Thanks so much for sharing these ideas!
Just to provide a bit of feedback on your comments. We've had 4th graders play simCEO, so it can certainly be successful at that level. Without sounding a like a salesman, the simulation is easy to adapt for varying grade levels. For example, instead of asking students to develop an elaborate business plan, an elementary student might simply try to describe a product of service that would be useful in the school/city/state (and bypass all of the other aspects of a business plan).
Similarly, the "news" that students need to respond to is added by the teacher and therefore suited for any age or complexity level.
The real "kick" comes from the natural student engagement in an environment where it is easy for the teacher to integrate content - for any age group. And because they understand the purpose, their application of this content takes on meaning and usually results in some of the students' best work.
Just wanted to let you know what was possible. Thanks for your positive feedback and best of luck with your experience.
I like the way you mention world of warcraft as a teaching media.
As a long time gamer (I was playing Dungeons & Dragons 30 years ago and now play several online games)I realize how much discipline and strategy is required to play world of warcraft well with a group. Most people don't think of online gaming as anymore than a waste of time but I disagree.
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[quote]I loved reading this installment of this blog. I think this a great idea and very useful teaching tool - to use online gaming as a platform for learning. I don't know exactly how I could use it in my context as a K-2 teacher, but am willing to check it out to see how it could be adapted for younger students. I am left wondering though... What do your administrators think of your usage of online gaming in your teaching? Also, in my district ALL of the sites that were mentioned are blocked... Does anyone else have this problem?[/quote]
The buzz that our WoWinSchool Project has generated is catching the attention of some of our K-2 folks. A group of them recently approached me asking for a suggestion for a virtual world/game to teach communities. Currently, I haven't found a perfect fit (for that age group), but one game I'm exploring is Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii. The reading level may be a bit high for the Kindergartners, but with teacher guidance, it could be a valuable experience. Another commercial, online game that might have some value is Club Penguin.
Regarding district administrators and technology staff, I am fortunate to work in a small, forward-thinking school district that isn't afraid to take risks. I can simply walk next door to our technology department and say, "Hey, this game site is blocked, but we want to use it in the classroom," and they'll open it for me. The administrators, upon seeing our after-school program in action (and the extreme student engagement), were very willing to let us expand the program into the regular school day. Now there's talk of expanding it to another school. Exciting times!
Including games or any other interactive module makes the content easy to understand. There are many site which offers videos on various topics. Such initiative is really appreciable. Simple text is not so attractive so addition of certain additional things makes it interesting.
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I really enjoyed learning about leveraging online gaming to teach students essential skills. It would appear that this method, although new, should definitely be introduced in schools as cutting-edge new education technologies .
These are great examples of ways to use online games with students. When I was student teaching, we had a simulation game that students could play that practiced budgeting and decision making, and the students loved it! I am a huge user of technology in my classroom, and think that it is important for us to engage students in 21st century methods of teaching!
By age 21, the average person has spent 10000 hours playing computer games(3 or 4 times as much time as they have spent reading books). That is the approximate time a typical kid spends in the classroom from 5th to 12th grade. (that is paraphrased from p. 266 "Reality is Broken" (McGonical)). What if school were as engaging as those games? What might a typical classroom look like? What is it about games that makes us WANT to play them? What if we were able to harness some of that into education?
If you have not read Jane McGonical's book, run, don't walk, to get it(or at least click fast on Amazon)
After school, I work at a financial literacy start-up with a website specifically for teens and money, www.IRuleMoney.com. We're about to launch a stock market game called I Rule Stocks Market Challenge. Our test game will have 250 participants (high school aged teens) so space is limited. Let me know if you have students that may be interested in testing out our game.


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Wednesday, 06/01/2011
PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Set 1: First Tube, STFTFPStealing Time From the Faulty Plan, Camel Walk, Heavy Things, JibbooGotta Jibboo, Wilson > Seven Below > KDFKill Devil Falls, Axilla > SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, SuzySuzy Greenberg
Set 2: Tweezer > No Quarter[1], Carini[2] > Piper > Twist > Ghost > BDTNLBackwards Down the Number Line
Encore: Show of Life > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] Phish debut.
[2] Unfinished.
· No Quarter tease in Ghost
· No Quarter tease in Backwards Down the Number Line
Noteworthy Jams: Backwards Down the Number Line
Average Song Gap: 6.37
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This gig featured the Phish debut of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter. Trey subsequently teased No Quarter in both Ghost and Number Line. Carini was unfinished.
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"Split Open and Melt" Official Video
Phish.net Recap
Song Distribution:
5 Farmhouse
3 Joy
2 A Picture of Nectar
1 Round Room
1 The Story of the Ghost
1 Stash
1 Lawn Boy
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "2011 Early Summer Tour."
I actually thought this first set was well-above par. Stealing Time into Camel Walk was solid as was the Jibboo-Wilson-Seven Below. The SOAM was a treat. I cherish the Type II jams when they come these days, and this one deserves a listen. It is not a tight jam, more chaotic psychedelic noise that verges on being lost, but they hold it together...barely.
I am glad to see the balanced criticisms of the 2nd set. I couldnt have asked for better song selection, and I wont kill the set. But not counting the Tweezer->No Quarter which was amazing, the songs were all truncated. Remember those days when a Piper or Twist would drift off into ambiance....then Fish would start riding the hi-hat or Trey would repeat a chord progression and then another voice would join in and off we all went?
Well there were about 5 times in this show that allowed for that 'moment'. Each time the ambiance drifted into silence ending the song or as in Ghost the groove was killed mid-groove.
This is what we have all witnessed in 3.0 (except for about 4-6 nights of magic scattered throughout 3 years of touring, and you all know the shows Im alluding to). Great song selection, increasingly crisp playing, especially of composed songs, but a perceived unwillingness to take those leaps of faith into the unknown. I appreciate what we have. I love checking out the younger phans and experiencing new adventures with old friends. But that love and that appreciation goes hand in hand with lower expectations for the music. Trey and Co. can not be expected to play like they once did when they play 1/4 as many shows per year. The improvisational chops are just not there, the playfullness is not there. I dont expect 20 minute jams, and most of the time these days, I dont leave disappointed when we get our 7 minute Ghosts. I'll take it, but its so, so different from what the entire crowd expected the minute that bass line hit in other eras of Phish. And so it goes. Love them for taking the stage, take it all with a grain of salt.
And then bam! I was spectacularly wrong. In my opinion, this one blew night one away, and then some.
We start off with the First Tube opener. Yeah. What? I don't know, but it was great. A bit early, that song is better feeding off already created energy (Hence often use as a closer/encore), but I digress. Still rocked.
From there we just smooth along the first set, nothing more to say. Very balanced, very tight, a HELL of a lot of funk. Loved it.
So then it's like, calm down, calm down, we have another set. And I'm like, bring it on! And they did! Tweezer was one of the better one's I've seen (Read: Only a few) but I sadly had no idea what No Quarter was. I'm not a Zepp fan, never was, so while everyone cheered I was befuddled. That's not against the show of course, the band played the song well, I just couldn't enjoy it as much while being unfamiliar with it.
I'd mention all the other awesome, but there'd be no room left for the show's shining moment: Number Line. Oh.My.God. Starts off just standard stuff, fun bouncy Number Line, as it always is. Then they jam. And they jam HARD. Everything aligned to become something wonderful, magical.
And then it ended. Encore, nothing much to note, but hey, show was great. I wuved it, you should too.
Or not, we can all have our own opinions.
Stealing Time slayed! Camel Walk got the funk-on going on and the rest of the set was solid thru and thru, no real faves, every song getting a pretty good work-over.
Second set was an old-school musical lesson delivered by the band, starting with a gnarly Tweezer that finally gave way to the ominous keyboard textures that Page was eliciting from his cabinet and musical history followed and it was just off to the races afterwards, it just seemed like one big ole' glorious song climaxing with an over-the-top Backwards Down the Number Line. If there is video available, look closely at the final Trey rip and it should show, maybe in slo-mo, the sparks flying off his guitar as he was frantically trying to shred his strings off it.
The Show of Life was poignant, the Tweezer Reprise allowed the assembled masses such as myself to get their final musical orgasm out of their system before perhaps retiring for a smoke and a drive home, whatever that may represent on the road.
The venue should be proud of itself, they (finally?) did the right thing, we seemed to do the right thing and the band certainly seemed to keep up their part of the bargain.
set I.
-first tube and stealing time were a great way to start, standard versions, but very solid.
-camel walk was really slow. and trey messed up the middle section pretty bad. not a good version at all.
-heavy things was a let down for me, but jibbo was very nice with a nice little first set jam.
-wilson>-7>kdf these really got the crowd going and trey was definitely feeling it. -7 below had a great jam for a second until it tapered off to nothing and kdf started, which is always nice first set.
-axilla seemed slow, but rocked as usual...
-melt was great... probably one of the more interesting melts of 3.0 this song has come a long way since 2009. very cool type II jam for a bit.
-suzy was great, page was all over that, as usual.
set II.
-i was surprised by tweezer, i thought they would wait a little longer after bethel,,, but i think they may of wanted to keep the tweezepplin myth alive.
-i loved no quarter, as did everyone, well played, great cover, loved it.
-carini>piper>twist>ghost were all well played but im really getting sick of the half assed awkward transitions. i need to relisten... the jam out of twist was really going somewhere than it falls apart and trey starts ghost.
-the transition into bdtnl made me cringe. we're in this great ghost jam funking it out and trey just randomly kills it and starts playing bdtnl. i felt like the rest of the band was like "wtf?"
-bdtnl did rage like crazy though. the crowd ate it up and trey played really really well. definitely a highlight of the show.
as soon as they ended i knew it was going to be show of life>tweeprise. i love show of life. as far as phish "songs" as in singer songwriter-esque songs it is there best. trey and the dude really achieved something great. i did notice that fish never went to the open highhat as the song built up (which is normally one of my favorite parts) but that was ok. solid version... and what can i say about tweeprise... nothing.
overall i think this show was way better than night 1. but other than a few highlights that ill relisten to (no quarter, melt, bdtnl) this show is not going to be in heavy rotation on my ipod. it feels like the usual 3.0 problems. not enough give and take, too much trey noodling instead of developing something interesting.
btw... did anyone else notice they played 5 songs from farmhouse? it was like summer of 2000 all over again.
i'm pretty sure i read the word 'cringe' in there to describe someone's reaction to the awkward transition out of ghost into number line, and i couldn't agree more. after the new year's ghost, a lot of people were eagerly awaiting a return of the summer ghost. it came out of a way too short twist, but i was ok with that, well, because it's ghost. but the cringe was held over from the close of the first set with susie. i understand that they are going to repeat songs, alas, but after only 2 shows, we really didn't need another susie to follow a solid soam. those 8 minutes certainly could've been split among twist and ghost, or donated entirely to one of them. it was indeed a raucous number line, and for that i'm appreciative, but i felt that at the end of fall/new years run, what had returned was some of the magic of teasing out some of the monsters and playing them for a while. i still very much enjoyed this show, and venture to say i'll reexplore it for a while, but instead of leaving this show feeling sated, like after 10/30 or 12/31, i left with that feeling of, what if they just....
The sense that Phish was being forced to end the show earlier than Tuesday was certainty felt in the second set, save a grand twenty minute opening segment of 'Tweezer' > 'No Quarter', the first time performance of the Led Zeppelin song off Houses of the Holy. Page took lead on vocals and treated the crowd to another psychedelic gift. As if to show that they have their own Zepp style, Phish broke into 'Carini', the dark and jarring rock song about one of their crew members. 'Carini' floated into a nice easy jam and could have continued for a few more minutes, but Trey left the piece unfinished and moved onto a short and quick 'Piper'. A rough transition into 'Twist' made it clear that a 'Ghost' was definitely around the bend. 'Twist' was given decent treatment and made its ambient way into 'Ghost', confirming what I knew would happen after hearing 'Seven Below'. This barely 8 minute version was strong despite its tiny size, containing 'No Quarter' teases. The set closer, the summers second 'Backwards Down the Number Line' also was fire but felt rushed. Only a few minute after 11 o'clock the band broke into the first of two encore songs, 'Show of Life', the newer and slow paced retrospective rock ballad followed by the predictable yet fun 'Tweezer Reprise'.
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Got my Axilla though. Very happy about that.
Gotta Jibboo was fabulous. Really great mellow jam. Split Open and Melt nearly lost the plot for a bit, but they held it together. Definitely deserves another listen, as it may translate well.
No Quarter was sick to hear!!! Not sure how it sounds yet in the recording, but I was blown away at the show.
Other than that they just kept cutting the songs short in the second set, so momentum continually got stomped.
I commend them for effort. They weren't being safe, and they were struggling, so I will be happy to put up with a ton of shows like this if it means they're willing to take risks to find a new direction.
Anxiously anticipating further progress!
no quarter had a near flawless debut, and what a debut it was. perfect song choice to pull out this tour.
some solid jamming on number line to close the second set.
routine show of life into a groovy tweezer reprise.
all in all a very good show.


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The Skyline girls track team took 2nd in the HOPL meet on Thursday with 77 points. Norwich had 109 to win the girls division. Host Pretty Prairie had 118 to take the boys team crown. Skyline had 33 points to finish 9th.
The girls picked up points in all areas of competition, their team balance a big factor in their success.
Three Lady T-Birds made finals of triple jump: Morgan Flowers 3rd 31-3; Taylor DeWeese 5th 29-3; and Bailey DeClue 6th 28-2. DeWeese also high jumped 4-6 for 4th place.
Ashley Koirth placed 3rd in javelin (91-11) and 5th in shot put (31-10). Shelby Bender had a 4th in javelin (87-2).
In sprints, Morgan Flowers took 2nd in the 100m (12.81). Jessica DeWeese ran the 400m, taking 4th (65.78).
In the distances, Briana Neifert picked up a point, finishing 6th in the 800m (3:00). Brooke Fisher ran the mile and 2-mile, 3rd 5:54 and 2nd 12:49 respectively.
In hurdles, Taylor DeWeese took 6th in the highs (18.55) and Betsy Giles took 4th in the intermediates (54.68).
The Lady T-Birds tallied in all three relays as well. 4x100 1st 54.25. 4x400 3rd 4:38. 4x800 4th 12:37.
On the boys side, Roman Ibarra took 2nd in the mile (4:51), just getting nipped at the tape by a Stafford runner. He also finished 3rd in the 2-mile (10:46).
Dustin Weber also placed in a pair of events: triple jump 6th 36-6 and 110mHH 3rd 18.25.
Blake Lee captured the discus silver medal, twirling the dish 121-1.
The balance of Skyline's points came from their relays. 4x100 took 6th in 49.52. 4x400 took 5th in 4:21 and 4x800 took 6th in 11:24.
The next action for the Thunderbirds is regional. They will head west to attend the meet hosted by Sublette. Field events are scheduled for 3 p.m. Preliminaries will go at 5:00 with finals scheduled for 6 p.m.
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I have my UK-based Android smartphone, but yay for Orange (sarcasm), it's locked and will take 3 weeks to unlock! Fortunately I also have a low-tech Nokia - I just need a sim. Rogers quoted me $70 CAD to get up and running with a pre-pay sim. Given it costs about 10 pounds in the UK to do the same, this seems pricey. Any suggestions for pre-pay sims (I don't need data, just text and phone). In Vancouver.
With Fido you can get a pre-pay sim for $10.
There are a variety of prepaid rates available. Personally I use the $10/month rate. You can change rates whenever you refill your account.
From Google it looks like there are plenty of Fido stores in Vancouver. So you could pop in and pick up a sim when you arrive.
The Fido website is good for managing your account. Note that I did have trouble refilling my account via the website using an overseas (New Zealand) credit card. If you have the same problem you can always buy refill voucher from a Fido store.
7-Eleven sells SIM cards for $10. They are a MVNO reselling Rogers service. Their main attraction is that prepaid credits are valid for one full year. However, it is not available for sale in all provinces (notably Quebec).
The price sounds rather high....
Looking on the Rogers Website I see a Pay As You Go SIM for $9.99, and you can get plans where you pay on the days you use it. That was my plan for when I'm in Canada.
A price of $70 sounds like it includes a phone too. I'd suggest trying a bigger Rogers store and hope you get someone more helpful the 2nd time!
(You can also get new Rogers Pay As You Go SIM Cards off ebay for around $10 too, including shipping, which does look like it's the correct price)


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Brandon Jarrod Escalante
Brandon was born in Bellingham on April 3, 1986. He has lived just north of Northport since the spring of 1998. Brandon fought Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy all of his 25-years, and on May 13, 2011, he moved into the final level of life while the cherry blossoms bloomed and with his parents at his side. Brandon had expressed to family members that he had trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior. Brandon had never met a video game he could not beat. He had the brightest eyes, the greatest smile, and the best sense of humor possible. He taught his family the true meaning of love, loyalty, compassion, sincerity, forgiveness and above all "Honor." This is why we so deeply miss him. In his final days, Brandon was more worried about his family than he was about himself. His motto was, "The heaviest thing that anyone can ever carry, is a grudge." He loved his family, living within the mountains, seeing the wildlife in his yard, his dogs Shotgun and Blue, and his cats too. Brandon was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents John and Bessie Bumgarner and his maternal grandfather Gunnery Sergeant Angel Escalante, USMC (retired). He is survived by his dad, James H. Garner, of Colville; his mom, Barbara Escalante, and his brother, Austin Diego Escalante Garner, both of Northport; and his maternal grandmother Dora Escalante of Schertz, Texas. Brandon had so many uncles, aunts, and cousins, both in Washington and in Texas, it would be impossible to print all their names here. Brandon, we miss you so much already and look forward to seeing your big, bright eyes and your beautiful smile again. Brandon, "I'll see you later" once we are reunited again. I love you with all my heart and soul. I know, you know. So have fun playing with the kids, and live in bliss, for I know your suffering no longer exists. We had our time, though however brief, now its your time to be at peace. Love ya, My Big Bro! At Brandon's request there will be no services, and in lieu of cards and flowers, please send any charitable donations in Brandon's name to the Northport Community Clinic, PO Box 178, Northport WA 99157 and/or the Northport Food Bank, PO Box 411, Northport, WA 99157.


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Sunday, March 30
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Terry Plank, Ph.D.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Is the Ocean Shrinking?
The Earth's Biggest Water Cycle
Subduction zones swallow the seafloor at deep sea trenches, starting a water cycle that involves the interior of the Earth. Take a tour through the subduction factory, from black smokers on the seafloor, to the world's largest earthquakes and most explosive volcanic eruptions, following the water that links all of these processes. The ultimate fate of the oceans hangs in the balance of this deep earth water cycle.
Sunday, April 13
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Greg Mountain, Ph.D.
The Ocean Floor: What We Know and How We Know It
Immense pressure, near-freezing temperatures, no light, no air -- the ocean floor is an alien and hostile world to us surface-dwelling creatures. But we're curious, enterprising and bold. For 200 years we've measured the ocean's depth to reveal seascapes that become more intriguing with each advance in technology. This lecture will trace the how-and-why of our quest for knowledge of the ocean floor, and will showcase images and facts from the latest in mapping and sampling of the 70% of Earth that is covered by water.
This lecture is sponsored by the Lamont-Doherty Alumni Association.
Sunday, May 4
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
A Slippery Slope? The Water World Beneath the Changing Ice Sheets.
The polar ice sheets are changing. If the land-based ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica melt or fall into the sea, global sea levels will rise calamitously. Liquid water forms at the base of the ice sheets, where it "greases" their slide toward the sea. Robin Bell will talk about newly discovered lakes and rivers beneath the thick Antarctic ice sheet. As part of the International Polar Year, a team of Lamont scientists including Dr. Bell, will travel to the middle of Antarctica to unlock these mysteries.
Sunday, May 18
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Climate is Changing Our Forests and Plants: New Evidence from Alaska and Our Own Backyard
Take a walk in the woods. Do the plants and trees look the same as years ago? Kevin Griffin is a biologist who studies the physiology (such as photosynthesis and respiration) of plants, especially as they respond to environmental change. He works both in a Lamont laboratory and at field sites worldwide. Dr. Griffin will describe his research on plant and ecosystem responses to climate change, including results from two of his current field sites: the tundra of Alaska, and forests from New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
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STEUBENVILLE - Trinity Health System held its annual employee service awards program on Sept. 25, honoring employees with an extended length of service. Recognized at the event were 235 employees with at least five years of service at either Trinity Medical Center East or West.
Those with 45 years of service to Trinity are Vivian Ziklo, central registration; Pat West, payroll; Margaret Franklin, nursing; and Marjorie Gaudio, nursing.
Also receiving awards for service were:
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EMPLOYEES HONORED — Trinity Health System held its annual employee service awards program on Sept. 25. Fred Brower, left, Trinity president and CEO, presented some of the awards. Receiving their 45-year awards were, from left, Vivian Ziklo, central registration; Pat West, payroll; Margaret Franklin, nursing; and Marjorie Gaudio, nursing.
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40 years - Judy Hare, human resources; Gary Kijanka, accounting; and Anne Walker, laboratory.
35 years - Ruth Ann Allaway, pediatrics; Jody Authier, radiology; Christine Flowers, PACU; Gwendolyn James, behavioral medicine; and Valerie Santangelo, pharmacy.
30 years - Patricia Albert, PACU; Donna Antigo, 2/3 North; George Barger, maintenance; Katherine Barker, skilled care; Nancy Crites, pharmacy; Lori Damis, fifth floor, Carol Dillon, material services; Cindy Fairclough, case management; Deena Franke, medical staff; Maureen Giandomenico, output center; Martha Hendricks, material services; Rosemary Ivkovich, radiology; Charlene Kessel, human resources; Mary Jean Koos, surgery; Linda Lewis, 2/3 North; Susan Logsdon, medical records; Munang DesiJanji, radiology; Judy Owings, cardiopulmonary rehab; Kathleen Rinaldo, patient accounting; Sharon Savinell, radiology; Mike Tice, maintenance; Lesley Wagner, medical rehab; Michelle Waugh, echocardiogram; and Paige Wilson, CCU.
25 years - Sharon Atkins, nutritional services; Vicki Bateman, radiology; Earl Batton, maintenance; Letitia Bell, family birth; Diana Bodo, GI center; Richard Elliott, construction; Darryl French, laundry; Sister Pauline Herbert, women's health service; Beckie King, laundry; Lisa Marino, workcare; Diana McCarthy, medical rehab; Sandra Mehalik, communications; Sheila Peach, school of nursing; Lala Pendleton, radiology; Geralynn Rine, laboratory; Carole Smay, same day; Larry Teramana, respiratory; Kimberly Thompson, pediatrics; Karen Walker, radiology; and Connie Wood, information systems.
20 years - Kathy Andreozzi, central registration; Angela Blackburn, central registration; George Bozman, materials management; Amy Cercone, risk management; Anita Chuich, home health; Patricia Depillo, radiology; Shirley Fridley, home health; Jeffrey Hawken, laboratory; Russell Hodgkiss, radiology; Kelly Householder, workcare; Cheryl Huggins, radiology; Dean Lucarelli, information systems; James Lucas, ER; Brenda Luther, same day; Martha Mazella, home health; Sheila Mirabella, outpatient center; Joyce Murphy, medical records; Michelle Purviance, information systems; Donna Rawson, 2/3 North; Patricia Reed, ER; Yvonne Rozman, family birth; Linda Sampson, information/reception; Marcie Skaggs, eighth floor; Joyce Spring, laboratory; Joan Stacy, behavioral medicine; and Patti Van Dyke, cardiac diagnostic.
15 years - Jill Amaismeier, pharmacy; Richard Blackburn, material services; Lori Burnett, cardiology holding; Donna Butler, 2/3 North; Denise Callahan, ER; Cheri Carpico, laboratory; Kathryn Case, respiratory; Margaret Cline, housekeeping; Lynn Colflesh, anesthesia; Maria Costlow, 2 telemetry; Anita Dahlem, PACU; Eric Devecchis, physical therapy; Angela Ely, respiratory; Anna Jane Hanuscin, info./reception; Johanna Harbert, 2 telemetry; Tim Huber, OT; Monica Hudson, 2 telemetry; Katherine Jackson, Physical therapy; Keith Jackson, physical therapy; Carole Jester, CCU; Ernest Keller, laundry; Victoria Lamp, housekeeping; Amie Lemasters, patient accounting; Debra Louk, ER; Carrie Mastroianni, sixth floor; Dorothy Medley, sixth floor; Joann Mulrooney, VP nursing; Stephen Nodianos, anesthesia; April Pearce, radiology; Diane Peryea, physical therapy; Susan Priscilla, physical therapy; Elizabeth Robertson, case management; William Rohrey, communication; Debrahann Sachini, images; Rachel Scott, laboratory; Christine Shore, anesthesia; Nichola Tennant, radiology; Debra Trimby, sixth floor; Thomas Tsesmelis, clinical bio; Kelly Valuska, radiation therapy; Jana Weibel, 2/3 North; Jodi Welday, laboratory; TeraWhanger, CCU; and Alana Wood, sixth floor.
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Five years - Geneva Baker, EKG; Jennifer Baker, CCU; Michelle Bates, PET CT; April Becker, cardiology holding; Patricia Bell, surgery; Theresa Buchanan, central registration; James Calevro, CCU; Shannon Callarik, medical records; Tamara Carte, eighth floor; Kimberly Chivers, nutritional services; Christopher Cuic, CCU; Diane Digiacinto, fifth floor; Tiffany Fernandez, CV/ICU; Holly Fish, EP lab; Kristen Fisher, nursing education; Michael Foley, CV/ICU; Colleen Gibson, cardiac surgery; Angela Glover, sixth floor; Jennifer Harvey, ER; Jessica Herrick, ER; Kathleen Hoagland, 2 telemetry; Patricia Hudok, quality outcome; Clarissa Huff, surgery; Maria Inomata, CV/ICU; Gary Jackson, radiology; Kathleen Johnston, respiratory; Brian Jones, nutritional services; Ann Lathem, 2/3 North; William Lescallette, eighth floor; Amy Lindsay, ER; Amy Marcino, ER; Jessica McClain, sixth floor; Nancy McGraw, medical rehab; Rose Ann McHugh, housekeeping; Jason Mikesell, cath lab; Susan Miller, cancer center; Jara Moore, Express Care; Stacey Mort, accounting; Kristina Pappas, radiology; Kristina Pegg, eighth floor; Loretta Pruitt, housekeeping; Evalyn Ralston, 2/3 North; Anthony Rasicci, 2 telemetry; Megan Redfern, fifth floor; Diann Reeves, 2/3 North; Deanna Rice, 2 telemetry; Kevin Richey, anesthesia; Shelly Rogers, fifth floor; Bethany Singhaus, 2/3 North; Victoria Snyder, MSO; Kalie Spring, ER; Charity Stewart, CCU; Colleen Swearingen, case management; Alisha Thompson, 2/3 North; Connie Travers, 2/3 North; Sonja Tucker, pediatrics; Robert Tulenko, eighth floor; Jennifer Tyler, 2 telemetry; Danielle Ulam, nutritional services; Ashley Vasconcellos, surgery; Raellyn Waggoner, fifth floor; David Warner, physical therapy; Kimberly Warren, OT; Jerry Williams, maintenance; and Marybeth Wilson, school of nursing.
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A friend of mine posed this question to me:
A boat with a maximum speed of $5$ meters per second crosses a river that is flowing at $3$ meters per second, and is fifteen meters wide. The boat always faces its target $(0,15)$. Does the boat reach its target? If so, how long does it take? What is the path of the boat?
If the boat is at a point $(x,y)$, then the angle $\theta$ to the target is $\theta(x,y) = \arctan\left(\frac{15 - y}{x}\right)$ and the velocity is $v(\theta) = (-3 + 5 \cos \theta) \hat{\imath} + (5 \sin \theta) \hat{\jmath}$.
I couldn't find parametric equations, so I wrote a small program to solve it for me. The program steps through small intervals of time, moves the boat by $v\,\mathrm dt$, and recalculates the velocity. The program halts when the boat has arrived at the target.
The graph of the path of the boat generated by this program should approximate the actual graph. The program found that the time taken is about $4.7$ seconds.
How can I find parametric equations for the path of the boat?


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Japan's most successful PSP title, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, is heading to the west. Renamed Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, this latest installment in the epic Monster Hunter series delivers over 500 hours of gameplay spanning some 400 missions.
Using the Ad-Hoc connection players can adventure with up to three friends for a savaging multiplayer hunting party. From devising strategies to executing the attack, players will need to work together in order to hunt down the ferocious beasts and progress through the wide range of quests on offer. Players will be rewarded for their use of the deep fighting combat systems, encouraging them to seek out the more experienced hunters and team up in order to learn from their experience.
Even in single player mode Hunters won't be alone thanks to the introduction of the new AI feature, Felyne Comrades. Accompanying players on quests your furry ally will helping them battle monsters and gather extra resources.
There are five new monsters to the game waiting to challenge gamers in battle. These include the Nargacuga, who inhabits the old forest and attacks at lightning speed, the Lavasioth, a lava-breathing reptile who hides in volcanic areas and the Hypnocatrice, a bird-like monster that wards off hunters with its unique ability to produce sleeping gas.


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I haven't visited the NN site for awhile -- been happily using my NN5L along with the older Fanotec Arca-Swiss style clamp (the one with the round knob). I got the clamp because I wanted to mount my camera in landscape orientation so it would be less likely that both near and far objects will appear in the same frame when I shoot high res mosaics. To do this, I got the NN clamp and an L bracket from Really Right Stuff. When I mount the camera to the NN5, I slide the L bracket into the clamp until the index mark on the L bracket aligns with the index mark on the clamp. Therefore, I really depend on the clamp and L brackets having the index marks. (I bought the RRS L bracket instead of the one from Kirk because Kirk's didn't have the index mark.) From the pictures of the new NN clamps, it appears that they don't have an index mark. Is this true? If so, I suggest you add it for NN users who A-S style plates or L brackets other than the Fanotec plate. The little stop on the clamp is great for those using the matching Fanotec plate, but anyone using another A-S plate or bracket needs that index mark to align the axis of the lens with the NN arm.
Is the old clamp (with the round knob) still available? I couldn't find it in the online Store. I wish you would still offer it since it is a nice generic A-S clamp that is much less expensive than the ones from RRS or Kirk.


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I am interested to see research on the development of transportation costs over the centuries. I realize the difficulty with researching this topic so I am interested in anything, which can enlighten me on the subject. The research will possibly be focused on types of transportation like over-land transportation, passenger transportation, transportation of letters and so on. The important thing is that the research enables a quantitative comparison over several hundred years. The research should show the impact of innovations and building of infrastructure so I can develop an understanding of the impact these these have had.
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Tim Blanning The Pursuit of Glory has a whole chapter dedicated to this covering Europe between 1648 and 1815. It covers costs, travel times, and road availability as well as water ways.
However, that is just a narrow part in time and local.


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Why study in Cape Town?
Cape Town attracts thousands of international students every year. It is a beautiful, clean and safe city, with a vibrant student life. International students and local students alike can choose from world-class institutions such as the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University of the Western Cape, the University of Stellenbosch a little further afield, and various specialty colleges and language schools.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-2012 listed UCT as 103rd in the world and the top university in Africa while the QS World University Rankings ranked UCT at number 156 in the world in 2011 and the top tertiary institution in South Africa. It is also the only South African university to make this particular list for four years in a row.
In 2011, the Financial Times of London rated the University of Cape Town's MBA programme number one in the world in terms of best value for money. For several years, UCT has been the only business institution in Africa to feature in the Financial Times' top 100 list.
Cape Town has plenty to offer those wanting to embark on a degree, or those just looking for a shorter, specific course. Here, you'll find a wide range of specialist schools in cookery, interior design, film, animation and art, as well as a variety of English language institutions.
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This was an example sentence in Practical Chinese Reader 31. Do people actually live in factories, or is there some cultural context I'm missing? In previous chapters, people are constantly visiting factories 《参观工厂》, which I found bizarre. Who would want to visit a factory? Why would they live there?
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yes, it is common for many Asia countries that "lodging" (typically dormitories) is provided by the companies and often these "factories" form cities on their own.
A famous (or maybe better to say notorious) example is Foxconn. From wikipdia:
Many people live at factories in China because many of them are migrants and it's more economical from their point of view to live in factory dormitories. It's also more efficient for them and their employers to have them on-site. Remember, China is crowded, housing is expensive and commuting is a bear. As for who would want to visit a factory, well many people, including vendors who sell parts, materials, and equipment to factories and customers who buy from factories.


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FORT RILEY, Kan. - Some 2,400 civilian employees at Fort Riley will be docked 11 days of pay due to federal furloughs.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday his decision to proceed with federal furloughs to manage the budgetary shortfalls facing the military and the nation.
Fort Riley officials will move forward with plans to implement the secretary's mandate, the Garrison Public Affairs Office announced Friday in a press release.
The furloughs will affect workers across a broad spectrum of services on the installation.
"On or about July 19 and lasting until the end of the fiscal year, civilian employees will be furloughed for 11 non-consecutive days," said Col. William Clark, garrison commander of Fort Riley. "We saw this action coming and have spent a lot of time planning for this requirement.
"There are a variety of different commands on Fort Riley and we've worked together to form an integrated plan to accomplish this in a holistic manner."
The press release went on to state that the furloughs will affect workers who are compensated with appropriated funds (AF), or funds financed by annual or periodic appropriations from Congress. Each AF employee will be required to take the 11 non-consecutive days of furlough. Currently, there are no exceptions.
Non-appropriated fund (NAF) employees, paid by funds generated from other sources and not appropriated by Congress, and contractors will not be furloughed.
Colonel Clark says the effects of the furloughs at Fort Riley will be varied across the post. Some services will face negligible affects or remain unaffected while at others patrons can expect diminished levels of service.
"Our patrons and our community can expect a reduction of services to some degree, but with those services linked to life, health and safety, we have found a way to mitigate that, to make sure we maintain our obligations to our patrons. So, for example, if you are coming to Fort Riley and wish to get a new ID card you can expect a longer wait time."
Areas such as air traffic control at Marshall Army Airfield, In-Processing or Housing Services also will be affected by the furloughs.
In general, visitors should expect longer waits or responses from such services during furloughs, officials said.
Most ceremonies or special events will not take place on Fridays.
"The main thing to remember is that Fort Riley and our Army remains committed to taking care of our soldiers, families, civilians and retirees throughout this time period," Clark said.
Originally during sequestration talks, civilian workers faced 22 furlough days. That number was reduced to 14 and then 11.
Besides furloughs, other impacts to the civilian workforce could include: a limited civilian hiring freeze and reduction of support contracts.
During the furloughs, officials say emergency services at Fort Riley's hospital won't be affected. Twenty-four hour staffing will continue and remain uninterrupted with ambulance services, emergency room, operating room, in-patient services and OBGYN.
Colonel Clark says the fire and police departments as well as child care centers would see staggered furlough days to maintain services.
Fort Riley is also making adjustments when it comes to soldiers' training in the wake of federal budget cuts and the changing war climate.
During a roundtable discussion with members of the media in March, Fort Riley's senior commander Brigadier General Don MacWillie said Fort Riley will be "slowing down" ground and air training and cutting back on live fire exercises in the field for units without a deployment on the horizon.
More training will be done on state-of-the-art virtual simulators at the Mission Training Complex that recreate realistic battlefield scenarios and allow for more repetitions of exercises so they can try different techniques, procedures and tactics.
As a result of fiscal challenges, there will be less discretionary funding but Fort Riley's senior leaders stress that the readiness of soldiers to deploy and support of military families will not be compromised. Soldiers will not see any pay cuts.


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This year's conference is better than ever! We have the full day intensive workships with David Burton, David Thorton, Michael Miner and Robin Wilson. they are talking about topics for adolescents and for adults ranging from community based solutions to emerging research on factors that contribute to recidivism. The keynote this year is Reverend Debra Haffner author of Balancing Acts, the Unitarian Universalist policy addressing the issue of sex offenders in the congregation. I think you will agree that the topics and the workship leaders represent some of the most cutting edge issues in the field.
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I was wondering if I could use my android phone (HTC Wildfire) to plot gps points and export these into GIS software (I have QGIS and MapInfo).
Thanks, Alan
There are a lot of options for collecting GPS point information on Android; I'm experimenting with several of them but none work terribly well - my use case is a bit tough, though, as I'm working out of low-flying Cessna aircraft and need constant GPS positions and to be able to instantly record a correct GPS position together with a note.
The inbuilt GPSs in Android phones and tablets tend to drop signal a lot - this is a real problem when the sky is partly blocked (i.e. in a light aircraft), and many apps don't let you just take a note/waypoint using the last known position, so you wait for it to reconnect.
Some apps (I'm looking at you, OSMAnd) will lose GPS signal if the tablet is rotated. Test carefully before doing fieldwork!
You can try the Geopaparazzi app. It has the following features:
Data can be exported into the following formats
GPS Essentials (11k+ downloads 4.4 stars)
Exports KML or GPX - import to QGIS/Mapinfo
I'll add my own app here for completeness sake (although I may be biased :) ):
It's the only app on Google Play that automatically compares a user-entered ground truth location to GPS data from the mobile device to calculate true accuracy of the GPS. Other apps will only show the estimated location error that is calculated by the device, which (as GPS Benchmark shows) can be far from accurate.
While setting a ground truth location via tapping on the map is convenient, it can be limiting in terms of accuracy and precision. The app also supports typing in a known ground truth location lat/long/alt, which bypasses any potential map issues. To make manual entry less cumbersome, it also supports capturing a "geo:"-encoded location from a QR Code (encoded with a QR Code generator such as ZXing) or NFC tag, which can be written using any NFC tag reader (including an option in GPS Benchmark to write the current ground truth location to an NFC tag).
GPS Benchmark exports the data as well as the results to KML and CSV formats, which are both compatible with ArcGIS products, as well as other GIS products.
The first image below is a screenshot of the GPS Benchmark app collecting data and calculating true error, and the second image is a screenshot of the results (green = 95th percentile, yellow is 68th percentile, and red is 50th percentile of horizontal error) being visualized in Google Earth.
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Bishop Hill Arts Council
Return to the serenity of an earlier time with a visit to this restored Swedish village. See traditional craftsmen at work, explore our museums, visit our numerous and unique shops and dine in one of our Swedish-American restaurants.
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Bishop Hill Prairie Arts Center
Enjoy watching the potter in an open air studio creating artwork on the potter's wheel. The center also features rug, broom, weaving and spinning artisans.
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Bishop Hill State Historic Site
Four historically significant buildings are owned by the State of Illinois and are maintained as part of the Bishop Hill State Historic Site. These architectural treasures are the two-story Colony Church (1850), the three-story Colony Hotel (1852-ca. 1860), the Boys Dormitory (ca. 1850), and the Colony Barn (mid-1850s) that has been relocated behind the Hotel. In addition, the central village park contains a reconstructed gazebo and war monuments. On the south edge of the village, stands a new brick Museum to house a comprehensive collection of paintings by colonist and self-taught artist, Olof Krans (1838-1916). Hours and days of operation change with the season. Please call to confirm your visit.
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Bishop Hill Steeple Building
Take a look back in history and visit the Steeple building, built in 1854. Architecturally intriguing it is a three-story stucco Greek Revival structure with a two-story tower and 66 six-over-six windows. It was built to be used as a hotel, but instead was used as a dwelling, school, administration building, and later housed a bank, telephone switchboard and apartments. The museum is home to the Bishop Hill Heritage Association offices. The rooms and exhibit showcase historic artifacts and photos of early Colony days and take visitors back through time to a quaint prairie village. Group tours by appointment, small fee. Open Daily 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday Noon to 4 p.m.
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Henry County Courthouse
One of Illinois' finest examples of courthouse architecture, this stately structure was built in 1878. The main courtroom ceiling is decorated with murals depicting the principal communities of the county.
Henry County Historical Museum
This museum's detailed exhibits include a one-room schoolhouse, doctor's and dentist's offices, the war room, restored ag implements, machinery, an authentic windmill and a hog house.
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Outsider Gallery
The Outsider Gallery is filled with whimsical, elegant, and functional items from regional artisans Steve and Marsha Carleson. Marsha makes handmade paper, 3-dimensional paper pieces, bowls, vases, bottle cap tables and other objects of whimsy. Steve makes glass ornaments, beads, and fused glass pieces with the occasional traditional Swedish tina boxes combined into the mixture.
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The Feathered Nest at Windy Corner Farm
A delightful artist haven offering a mix of Victorian eggs, feathered masks and wreaths, floral arrangements and intimate miniature portrait silhouettes. Windy Corner Farms and The Feathered Nest gardens and studio are an experience soon to be a cherished memory.
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VagnHall Galleri
View local, regional and national fine art and crafts artisans in the spacious gallery amid the treetop view of Bishop Hill village park. Painters, sculptors, photographers and artisans showcase their natural art in the expansive upstairs exhibit area. Special exhibits are held throughout the year.
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The Weirdest Beauty Tips You've Heard
Can toothpaste really zap pimples? Experts explain whether the wacky beauty tips you've been told actually work
Once we hear advice, whether we actually heed it or not, we usually pass it on to someone else. Then, they do the same. Until suddenly, one day, everyone around you starts to believe that you have to swear off carbs to lose weight or apply toothpaste to a pimple in order for it to magically vanish overnight.
Skip ahead to see if the weirdest beauty tips you've heard actually work.
We as women hear tons of weird DIY beauty tips that have been passed down from our mothers, girlfriends or even from the woman sitting next to us at the nail salon. But, hearing so much advice leaves us beauty enthusiasts of the world wondering: Do these wacky beauty tips actually work? And even though I might have tried a tip to test its legitimacy, have I just convinced myself that I saw results because I've been told so many times that I should (much like the placebo effect)? Or is there verifiable evidence from beauty experts that confirms the effectiveness of that weird thing your Aunt Meryl told you to do to fight frizz?
To answer that last question -- yes, now there is. We compiled from our Facebook page some of the weirdest and most random beauty tips you've heard and asked beauty experts to weigh in on their legitimacy. Here they share whether these tips actually do work, or if they are totally bogus.
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some of this seems odd but I like the olive oil idea
by butterfly11 Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 11:31AM Report as inappropriate
No thanks!
by EricaF123 Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at 08:19AM Report as inappropriate
ewh the urnie is so gross , haha who would try that
by aishak55 Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 03:00PM Report as inappropriate
Olive oil does make your hair feel really soft, but I found that I had to be kind of generous with it and leave it on a bit longer than they mentioned.
by Chris213 Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 06:37AM Report as inappropriate
Haha. Urine? I wanna know who has actually tried that. I hope they are using their own urine! ill stick to some of the other tips; but definitely not the urine one.
by danny54f Friday, October 12, 2012 at 10:43AM Report as inappropriate
I agree with everyone the urine one is nasty. Pee belongs in the toilet and I'm gonna keep it the way. These beauty tips are great. I have never heard of the hot sauce one before. I would like to try some of the mayonnaise. I would probably buy the hair mayonnaise from sally beauty supply. I like the real mayonnaise for my food.
by misschanel67 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 05:04PM Report as inappropriate
Absolutely amazing and honestly makes more sense than any other serious moisture creams.
by Janann Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 06:49PM Report as inappropriate
Actually I have tried mayo on my hair and it helps to calm down frizz or disguise breakage.
by AutumnFlower Monday, July 23, 2012 at 10:35AM Report as inappropriate
Please don't put pee on your face or anywhere else. Alot of these tips I have heard before. I've used the toothpaste trick many times. It does work!
by Crystal0107 Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 08:08PM Report as inappropriate
the urine one was just nasty, but the rest were pretty cool! this article really cleared things up!
by LeSucre Monday, April 23, 2012 at 12:07AM Report as inappropriate
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Mobile Site vs. Full Site
Summary: Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what's needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work.
Based on usability testing of hundreds of sites, the main guidelines for mobile-optimized websites are clear:
Build a separate mobile-optimized design (or mobile site) if you can afford it. When people access sites using mobile devices, their measured usability is much higher for mobile sites than for full sites.
- A mobile app might be even better— at least for now.
- If mobile users arrive at your full site, automatically show them the mobile version. Sadly, many search engines still don't rank mobile sites high enough for mobile users, so people are often (mis)guided to full sites instead of the mobile ones, which offer a vastly superior user experience.
- Offer a clear link from your full site to your mobile site for users who end up at the full site despite the redirect.
- Offer a clear link from your mobile site to your full site for those (few) users who need special features that are found only on the full site.
We've tested hundreds of mobile sites and full sites on all the currently popular platforms (including iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry). The findings regarding mobile and full sites were the same for all the different phones, so I won't discuss specific devices here.
The guidelines are different for large tablets (10-inch form factor, as in Apple iPad, Lenovo IdeaPad, Samsung Galaxy, etc.), where full sites work reasonably well. For small tablets (7-inch form factor, as in Amazon Kindle Fire) the ideal would be to create yet a third design optimized for mid-sized devices, though most companies can get away with serving their mobile site to Kindle Fire users.
Mobile-Optimized Sites
The complete design guidelines for mobile websites require almost 300 pages, so I can't cover everything here. The basic ideas are to:
- cut features, to eliminate things that are not core to the mobile use case;
- cut content, to reduce word count and defer secondary information to secondary pages; and
- enlarge interface elements, to accommodate the "fat finger" problem.
The challenge is to eliminate features and word count without limiting the selection of products. A mobile site should have less information about each product and fewer things users can do with the products, but the range of items should remain the same as on the full site. If users can't find a product on a mobile site, they assume the company doesn't sell it and go elsewhere.
So, for example, a mobile real estate site should show all the homes for sale in a neighborhood, not just the ones most people are interested in buying. (Though it could offer a shortlist of popular houses as a shortcut so users could view them with a single touch.) But the mobile site could eliminate esoteric features — such as a property's past sales history — and offer users who need these features a link to the info on the full desktop site.
Why Full Sites Don't Work for Mobile Use
It's common today to hear people argue the following: Mobile users have increasingly high expectations for what they should be able to accomplish on their phones, so eliminating content or features will inevitably disappoint some people. It's therefore better, the (flawed) argument goes, to serve the full site to everybody, including mobile users.
This analysis is flawed because it assumes that the only choice is between the full-featured desktop site and a less-featured mobile site. However, any mobile site that complies with the usability guidelines will provide links to the full site wherever features or content are missing, so users have access to everything when and if they need it.
The design challenge is to place the cut between mobile and full-site features in such a way that the mobile site satisfies almost all the mobile users' needs. If this goal is achieved, the extra interaction cost of following the link to the full site will be incurred fairly rarely.
True, we've seen some underpowered and poorly designed mobile sites that would hardly satisfy anybody's mobile needs. But bad design that misinterprets a guideline is no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater and neglect the well-documented guideline itself. (In fact, if miserable user interfaces were a reason to reject an entire design category, we wouldn't have the Web at all; there are plenty of virtually unusable websites around. But that doesn't mean that we can't design good sites by following the guidelines that bad sites violate.)
The correct analysis goes as follows:
- For the vast majority of tasks, mobile users will get a vastly better user experience from a well-designed mobile site than from the full site.
- For a small minority of tasks, mobile users will be slightly delayed by the extra click to the full site.
A big gain that's experienced often will comfortably outweigh a small penalty that's suffered rarely.
A second argument against the mobile site option is that you could just optimize the entire website for mobile in the first place. Then, giving mobile users the "full" site wouldn't cause them any trouble. While true, this analysis neglects the penalty imposed on desktop users when you give them a design that's suboptimal for bigger screens and better input devices (see sidebar on mouse vs. fingers). If desktop users were a minute minority this might be acceptable, but almost all websites get substantially more traffic (and even more business) from desktop users than from mobile users. So, while we do want to serve mobile users, we can't neglect desktop users— who, after all, pay most of our salaries.
The basic point? The desktop user interface platform differs from the mobile user interface platform in many ways, including interaction techniques, how people read, context of use, and the plain number of things that can be grasped at a glance. This inequality is symmetric: mobile users need a different design than desktop users. But, just as much, desktop users need a different design than mobile users.
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Vouchers & Tax Breaks
Will tax breaks for homeschooling and a program of school vouchers improve the quality of education in America?
|No. They undermine public support for public education. The well off will abandon public schools.
|Yes. Increased parental choices and competition will force public schools to improve.
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What's the main course for your family's Thanksgiving feast?
Bedtime Reading
How often do you read to your kids?
Stay-at-Home vs Working Moms
If money or quality child care were not an issue, which option would you choose?