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TripAdvisor, the travel website, today announced the launch of the TripAdvisor app for Android Wear smartwatches. Further, this free app is currently available on Google Play, helps travelers find nearby things to do with access to TripAdvisor traveler reviews and ratings of hotels, restaurants, and attractions.
Moreover, the launch of this app follows the company's launch of its Apple Watch app in April 2015 and Pebble smartwatch app last week.
TripAdvisor Android Wear App - Key Features
- Recommendations for nearby restaurants, attractions and hotels: displays a list of top-rated points of interest based on the person's location (using GPS) along with ratings and review titles to help them pick a great spot.
- Point of interest details: shows addresses, price range, hours of operation and distances of points of interest from the user.
- "Saves" for easy access: feature allows travelers to save their favorite restaurants, attractions and hotels and view them later on another Android device or TripAdvisor.com.
- Direct links to the phone: allows travelers to easily access more information on their Android device about points of interest viewed on their smartwatch.
During the launch event, Adam Medros, senior vice president of global product at TripAdvisor, said, "We're excited to make TripAdvisor available to even more smartwatch users through the launch of our new Android Wear app,"
He further added, "Our app gives smartwatch users convenient access to the wisdom of millions of travelers and helps them find hidden gems nearby - whether it's a great place to eat, stay or visit."


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The context for the discussion is ably set up by cityslikr over at AFUITBS and by the comments on this piece by Luca de Franco over at Spacing.
I won't go through all the details again – all the arguments about linking neighbourhoods, planning, infrastructure, traffic flow, community-building and public space have been made already – but nothing illustrates the right-wing approach to governing quite like this.
No commitment to civil society.
No awareness that there's such a thing as community.
No recognition that sometimes you need to spend money in order to realize long-term benefits that can't always be measured on a balance sheet.
Nothing beyond a small-minded, sadly limited fixation on short-term fiscal details and idiotic meaningless campaign slogans and "respect for the taxpayer."
Nothing but a gormless shrug and a determination to sell everything off, because after all, everyone knows the private sector does everything better.
And while we're at it, of course, contracting out garbage collection to the private sector, killing hundreds of well-paid unionized jobs in the process. But hey, it's all about saving money, and respect for the taxpayer, don't you know.
The right-wing vision. At its essence, there's nothing there.
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- Organized labour under attack, from Pinochet to Ford to Wisconsin
- Moments of optimism on the Queen car
- All the wankers taking cellphone pictures of TTC operators ...
- Another morning, another false equivalency from Metro Morning

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NABT Convention, Reno, NV, Nov.4, 1998
NABT Convention, Reno, NV, Nov.4, 1998
The study of macroevolution, or evolution above the species level, involves a change in scale and a change in approach from that of microevolution. Macroevolution is concerned with origins, diversifications and extinctions over the sweep of geologic time: what the embryologist C.H. Waddington called "The whole real guts of evolution, how we get horses and tigers and things. " The invasion of land by plants and animals, the derivation of wings in bats, pterosaurs, and birds from the forelimbs of their respective ancestors, and the evolutionary explosion of mammals after 120 million years of life in the nooks and crannies of the dinosaurs' world, are just a few of the dramatic events that fall under this heading. This means that much of macroevolution, like astronomy, is an historical science, a matter of reconstructing history and testing hypotheses of ancient cause-and-effect using evidence from the fossil record, embryology, molecular biology, and other geological and biological sciences. What is sometimes not appreciated is that these different lines of evidence tend to converge on a single picture; their disagreements are almost always in the details, and even the larger remaining points of contention make sense in terms of the weaknesses and biases of one style of research or another. I'm going to review a few major points in order to clarify the outlines of an emerging macroevolutionary consensus (while acknowledging that this a very active field and that consensus does not imply unanimity).
1. Speciation is too slow to be easily observed by the biologist, but from the perspective of the fossil record, speciation is often too fast!
The fossil record contains many beautiful examples of the evolutionary transformation of one -- morphologically defined -- species to another, but these mainly occur in a few environments that are particularly good at recording the fine details of a time sequence: in lakes that accumulate annual beds of silt, for example, or in deep-sea deposits that record the steady rain of plankton from the surface waters. In contrast, the land-surface is more continuously subject to erosion than the seafloor, with catchbasins like lakes and swamps tending to be geologically short-lived, so the terrestrial record will be patchier and less complete than the marine record. The operation of plate tectonics, consuming the Earth's crust in subduction zones and smashing continental edges into mountain ranges during collisions, creates a record that becomes more patchy with age: the vast Precambrian interval is the first 80% of earth history, but it now provides only 10% of the rock record. This is a basic point about the nature of the fossil record: it's undeniably incomplete and imperfect (as is our knowledge of the living biota, of course), but it's imperfect in ways that make sense from what we know about how sediments accumulate and rocks form. Similarly, the nature ofthe record is a logical consequence ofthe biology ofthe organisms that contribute to it. Hardparts more readily resist physical and chemical destruction, so the record of organisms with shells, teeth, or tough pollen grains is more complete than the record for flimsier creatures. Rare species will be less frequently preserved than abundant ones, localized species will be less frequently preserved than widespread ones. Common-sense rules like these (which are now being put into quantitative terms) go a long way towards explaining the unevenness of the fossil record: fabulous for shelled, marine microplankton, not very good for dinosaurs or early hominins, and miserable for earthworms and slugs.
2. "Punctuated equilibrium" is a hypothesis about evolutionary change at the species level.
This most famous of macroevolutionary concepts has been wildly overextended and misused, but it simply states that species tend to be morphologically static over most of their histories, and that most changes in form occur in close association with the geologically-rapid splitting of populations into new species. Everyone now agrees that both stasis and splitting are common, but that gradual change and non-branching evolution also occur and may even dominate in some situations; notice these alternatives can be tested even if the fossil record is bunched into packages separated by gaps of missing or fossil-free rocks. We can recognize stasis in species form even using widely spaced samples (one photo per decade can demonstrate that the Statue of Liberty hasn't changed much since it was installed in New York Harbor), and we can detect lineage splitting whenever the ancestral species outlives the first appearance of its descendent. Note that this doesn't require that all new species be morphologically distinct, only that species-level changes in morphology arise at splitting events, and not by continuous change of the kinds of large, widespread populations that can be studied in the fossil record.
The most exciting research in this area now focuses on testing for regular patterns in the distribution of stasis versus gradual change, and in splitting versus unidirectional evolution, among species in different major groups, life-habits, environments, or regions; on testing hypotheses for the mechanisms of stasis (the punctuations are geologically rapid but slow on biological timescales and thus consistent with an array of speciation mechanisms); and on exploring the macroevolutionary implications of stasis and lineage-splitting (some argue, for example, that if species are static through much of their history, then large-scale trends, e.g. from primitive to modern horses, must arise via differences in speciation and extinction rates among different sublineages within a larger group).
3. The topology of evolution is a bush, not a ladder.
As biologists and paleontologists gain a fuller picture of the large-scale outlines of evolutionary history, it has become abundantly clear that our basic view of evolution at this scale should not be a ladder or any other icon of directional, progressive change, but a bush with many branches, stems and twigs. This in no way undermines the role of natural selection and other forces at the population level, but when we take a step back and look at the broader outlines, evolutionary lineages must diversify if they are to withstand even the relatively low levels of "background" extinction that prevail over much of geologic time. Complex evolutionary transitions, e.g. from dinosaur to bird, or from small, multi-toed ancestral horses to their large, hooved descendents, do not occur as single mutational steps, or as a simple parade of increasingly more modern forms. Instead, these major shifts generally occur within a swarm of related lineages.
4. At higher levels, the fossil record is rich in " missing links."
We can hardly expect the fossil record to capture every single species within those swarms of transitional lineages, but we have a spectacular sample of intermediate forms between the many of the major groups of plants and animals. For example, an esquisite sample of intermediate forms are now known for the transitions from "fish" to tetrapods, from "reptiles" to mammals, dinosaurs to birds (or, strictly speaking, non-avian dinosaurs to birds). Intermediate fossils for many other lineages within these groups, for example whales, horses, and for that matter humans, are also being increasingly well-documented as exploration and analysis continues. Mosaic evolution is clearly the rule, that is different anatomical features (and presumably behavioral, physiological...) evolve at different rates and different times. Thus, the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, has features typical of modern birds like feathers and a wishbone but retains the dinosaurian tail, clawed forelimbs pelvis and teeth of its ancestors; slightly younger forms evolved a more birdlike, perching hindlimb and pelvis, but still retain those teeth and forelimb claws, and so on. Human evolution operated in same way, with upright posture evolving before the short face and large cranial capacity of modern humans.
5. Major changes in morphology don't always require major genetic changes
Remarkable advances in developmental biology are beginning to merge with the study of macroevolution. We now understand that strilkng differences in morphology and behavior need not be correspond to massive genetic differences, but instead may arise by relatively modest changes in the timing, duration, or location of gene expression. Development of fertilized egg into complex, multicelluar adult is orchestrated by a complex hierarchy of genes, which is now being probed by molecular developmental biologists. Many of the major control genes, such as those that establish the body axes of the embryo or that, like the Hox genes, that provide positional assignments along the anterior-posterior axis, are conserved throughout all animals. Changes in the expression of those control genes must have been involved in some of the major evolution transitions during the initial radiation of animals. Such changes have also been implicated in more modest changes as well, such as changes in limb morphology in arthropod evolution. These control genes result in an embryo that develops in modular fashion, with semi-independent regions, so that limb development, for example, can proceed even if jaw development has changed. This helps to explain the mosaic evolution pattern mentioned above. The role of gene regulation in shaping major evolutionary changes also helps to explain how apes and humans can be genetically so similar (differing by only 50 genes out of ca 80,000 by a recent estimate): our differences with our closest living relatives must reside almost entirely in changes in the expression pattern of genes.
Despite this modularity and the existence of major regulatory genes, development is not infinitely flexible: an embryo must retain viability at every step and must give rise to an integrated adult body. This constrains the direction of feasible evolutionary changes.
Further, because some aspects of development can become deeply entrenched as precursors to later developmental steps, the traces of past evolutionary history are almost always retained. Thus, when reptiles went back to the sea and evolved into ichthyosaurs, and when mammals evolved into dolphins, they converged on a shark-like morphology owing to the stringent adaptive requirements of their predatory marine lifestyles, but they retained many tell-tale reptilian and mammalian characters. Developmental programs are too complex, and evolutionary history too long and peculiar for each lineage, to permit true evolutionary irreversibility at this scale.
6. Major evolutionary events are pulses in geologic time
One of the triumphs of evolutionary paleobiology has been the clear documentation that the history of life has not been a steady increase in numbers or a simple linear trajectory towards the modern world. Instead, the story is one of rapid radiations, long plateaus in biodiversity, and mass extinctions. The Cambrian Explosion marks the appearance of most multicellular animal designs (all but one of the living phyla having preservable skeletons plus a number of problematic forms) within a 10-million-year window starting about 530 million years ago (Ma). This event, which lasted less than 0.5% ofthe history of the Earth to that point, and less than 2% of the time from the base of the Cambrian period to the present day, certainly represents a geologically explosive appearance of animal body plans, recognizable not only in tallies of phylum-level taxa but in analyses that directly quantify morphological variety. The relation of those first appearances to their actual time of evolutionary origination is a hot topic, but the simultaneous increase in the number, size and complexity of tracks and burrows in and on the sediment is strong evidence that a major part of the evolutionary action was in fact within the Cambrian explosion interval; the trigger mechanism is a focus of intensive research. We have an increasingly good picture of the run-up to the explosion, with evidence of early metazoans in the form of minute trails from rocks as old at 600 Ma in the late Precambrian (Neoproterozoic), astonishingly well-preserved eggs and embyros exhibiting well-defined cleavage stages at around 570 Ma, more elaborate trails and burrows at the re-defined base of the Cambrian Period at 543 Ma, and a steadily expanding diversity of small shelly forms from 543 to the explosion proper at 530 Ma. One minor lineage recorded within the great range of new body forms were the primitive chordates, which eventually gave rise to the major vertebrate diversifications.
Additional pulses of diversification -- though none so dramatic at the Cambrian explosion -- represent events that opened major ecological opportunities to evolutionary lineages. The invasion of land by plants, invertebrates, and finally vertebrates, is followed by waves of evolutionary experimentation and diversification. We are increasingly coming to realize that mass extinctions play an important role in evolution, by removing dominant forms and providing opportunities for the survivors to diversify in their place. The exuberant radiation of mammals after the demise of the dinosaurs and related forms at the end of the Mesozoic Era (at the end of the Cretaceous Period) is the most famous example' but similar patterns are seen after each ofthe "Big Five" mass extinctions. The marine fauna familiar to today's beachcomber and skin diver was profoundly shaped by the great end-Paleozoic mass extinction (at the end of the Permian Period), which removed roughly 95% of marine species and permanently altered the balance of life in the seas. This is not to say that the accelerating extinctions of the present-day faunas and floras under pressure from human activities can be seen in a natural or positive light: recoveries from mass extinctions are painfully slow on human timescales (5-10 million years for reef systems for example), and the most persistent survivors need have no relation to human needs.


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
Phenomenally popular despite a steady din, the Sichuan- and Beijing-influenced dishes served in these two brightly lit, sophisticated dining rooms emphasize noodles, dumplings, and hot peppers, with adventures such as cream-cheese wontons and gwai wer noodles, whose sauce incorporates tea leaves, tomato, curry, and sesame oil.
Hours: Lunch: 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Mon.- Sat. Dinner: 5-9:30 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 5-10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 5-9:30 p.m. Sun.
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The Great Artist
We sit and watch the perfect day's end.
Pageants of color as the sun descends,
Floats precarious with sanguine glow.
Flourishes of light, love and life bestows,
Paints the evening sky with wanton hues,
Crimson, scarlet, yellow, and blue.
The flamboyant artist thus emblazons
Heaven, then dips below the horizon,
Painting iridescent waves of the sea
That dance and glisten in a final spree,
While dark shadows stretch like lazy dreamers
Basking in deep red sunset streamers.
Now as darkness spreads like indigo dye,
A myriad stars adorn the night sky.
Martha Magenta lives in England, UK. Her poetry has appeared in The Reverie Journal, Whispers and Beaux Cooper; her haiku and senryu have been published in online journals, including Modern Haiku, Haiku Presence, and Chrysanthemum. She is owner of POETS poetry community on G+. https://marthamagenta.wordpress.com/


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Clearing Bloggage: A follow up
Ian Lurie May 18 2007
A great point from Laura about clearing blogger's block: Keep publishing, and chances are you won't have to worry about topics. Folks send me ideas all the time now.
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Ian Lurie is CEO and founder of Portent. He's recorded training for Lynda.com, writes regularly for the Portent Blog and has been published on AllThingsD, Forbes.com and TechCrunch. Ian speaks at conferences around the world, including SearchLove, MozCon, SIC and ad:Tech. Follow him on Twitter at portentint. He also just published a book about strategy for services businesses: One Trick Ponies Get Shot, available on Kindle. Read More


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A police officer combating drugs in Battambang has been arrested across the border in Thailand, accused of possessing almost 3,000 yama tablets. Sao Chanthy, from Kamrieng district, was detained by Thai authorities over the weekend, said Chhor Keurn, district deputy police chief.
"I do not know whether he has been dealing drugs or not before," he said.According to Chet Vanny, Battambang deputy police chief, Cambodian authorities have launched their own investigation into whether the accused was involved in trafficking the methamphetamine.
"[Officials] are contacting Thai authorities. If the investigation shows that he is [innocent], we can ask Thai authorities to send him back." Cambodian police have travelled to Thailand in response to the arrest, officials added.


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Introduction and disclaimer: Please note that I don't necessarily subscibe to this logic but I've recently had the logic behind the progressive tax explained to me.
The progressive tax is the hallmark of both the Democratic Party and the Green Party. It is the scourge of conservatives. Conservatives view the progressive tax system as patently unfair and punishing success. So, what is the logic behind the progressive tax system?
Those favoring a progressive system that the first $20,000 anyone makes is much more vital than the second million. So, you probably need all of the first $20,000 you make and so a progressive wouldn't want any of that taxed. You probably need most of the next $10,000 and so that's taxed vey slightly. Now, you probably need little of your second million and so that's taxed very heavy. So, the logic behind the progressive tax is entirely based on need.
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The Logic Behind a Progressive Tax
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Need to know where to find a mountaintop castle in Japan? How about the best fried cheese sticks along U.S. Route 66?
Now, thanks to a unique mashup of cartography and blogs, you can find what you need to know just by looking at a map.
Online maps such as those offered by software firms Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have become ubiquitous tools for finding directions from Point A to Point B.
But creative travelers around the world are now embracing the "pushpin" features of such maps to post information, from the location of hidden tourist gems to the city spot where they shared their first kiss.
"It is as if we shipped a map to someone and they stuck pushpins in it," said Bret Taylor, product manager for Google. "We provide the map, and other people put in the pushpins."
The trend has been dubbed neogeography, and some enthusiasts predict it could spur a revolution in electronic cartography.
Do-It-Yourself Maps
Last year Google opened its mapping service to the public so at-home programmers could use the maps on their own Web pages.
Taylor says the codes for the maps are simple enough for even beginner programmers to use.
Tokyo-based librarian Eric Obershaw used the Google service to add an interactive map to his Guide to Japanese Castles Web site.
The map pinpoints 63 sites around the island nation featuring surviving or ruined castles (related photos: Japan's Imperial Palace). Users can click on a pushpin to read more about the structures, including Obershaw's own musings.
Dublin, Ireland, resident David McNamara created a map that shows where the city's commuter trains are at any given moment.


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I loved the old buttons my DS Sue gave me, I used my copics to give the poppies some shading...
I made 2 with 2 layer, and some stickle on the inside, one is mine and the other is for my special friend Miss Lilian, she gave me my gorgeous steam punk broach. I'm going to tell the Ladies when they sell the poppies next year, the can wear these ones, then they can just give the money to the vets..
I finally finished my tag cupboard, but I'll give you a peek and save the rest for tomorrow.
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Blood and Beauty and Other Weird Tales
Fantasy/Short Stories
Collects six short stories of fantasy and weirdness. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Greek mythology, and biblical-inspired fantasy will find something interesting.
"Blood and Beauty" tells the tragic love story of a satyr and a dryad.
"Sutter's Well" records the weird encounter between two boys and a Lovecraftian monster in Appalachia.
"Morphine and Chocolate" draws inspiration from the medieval poem Pearl as it follows a father's search for his missing daughter from one weird landscape to another.
"The Facts in the Case of M. Hussman" takes inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and records the horrific consequences of artificially extending life in a steampunk world.
"Shafts to Hell" returns to the Old West and takes the reader inside the mind of an insane miner.
"Good King David" combines the tales of Hamlet and Absalom in a Biblical fantasy world.
When the president's daughter, Helen, is abducted, special counsel Aaron Atreus offers his friend all the support he can. When the kidnapper demands Aaron's daughter, Effie, deliver a ransom payment, the crisis becomes deeply personal for Aaron's family. What's the kidnapper's game? Why insist on Effie? There's no way Aaron will allow his only daughter to walk into such a dangerous situation.
Desperation puts friends at odds, and questions of duty and loyalty threaten to tear Aaron's family apart. While the policy-makers fight among themselves, the kidnapper waits for the pieces in his sinister game to move into place.
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Give Me Your Teeth: A Fae Tale
Urban Fantasy/Novella
Like most children, ten-year old Jimmy wonders where the Tooth Fairy keeps all those teeth. It's a silly question to laugh about. He plays along to get some coins, confident there's no such person. As he and his friends know, their mothers play the role of the Tooth Fairy, but in the middle of the night, Jimmy's world turns upside down.
He learns there's more to his mother than he ever imagined, and the Tooth Fairy isn't so harmless.
Last Request: A Victorian Gothic
"For the love of God, cut off my head." The last request in Uncle Silas's will shocks everyone speechless, everyone except his favorite niece, Anna. More than death itself, the claustrophobic Silas fears a premature burial. Will her elders carry out his request? Anna is certain they will not. It's up to her to do the right thing, even if it is a bit grisly. Armed with butcher knife and candle, Anna heads for the crypt underneath the church in the dead of night. All does not go according to Anna's careful planning.
Step inside a dark story in the tradition of the penny dreadful, at times humorous and horrifying, but don't close the door behind you. Someone might lock you in.
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Ghost Story/Novella
On a lonely country highway, a young travelling salesman runs down a teenage girl. It was an accident. Why she was wandering around on a highway in a pink, formal dress, he can't imagine. There's no doubt she's dead. Fear takes over and he flees the scene, absently taking one of her shoes with him. An old memory, something familiar about that shoe, struggles to surface. As he speeds away from the accident, he thinks his nightmare can't get any worse, until he sees a pair of green eyes in his rear-view mirror. The shoe and those eyes lead him to a small town where he meets an all too knowing preacher and a sheriff obsessed with the girl's tragic demise. As Paul digs deeper into the mystery of the girl and her shoe, he comes face-to-face with a dark secret from his father's past.
Fantasy/Short Stories
Tales of Woe and Wonder collects nine short stories. There are original fantasy stories and fairy tales as well as classic fairy tales retold. You'll find a mix of fairy tale wonder and tragic woe, ranging from a young boy's first brush with the harsh realities of war in "A Gift from over the Sea" to a miraculous bridge in "The Master and the Miller's Daughter" to a young girl's encounter with a witch's insidious spells in "Esme's Amulet." The fairy tale "Why the Squonk Weeps" tells the story of a mythical beast and a witch's plans that go horribly awry. A mother's plans to save her son from the grief of pain go horribly awry in "A Mother's Gift." "The Fletcher's Daughter" is a humorous take on Cinderella. The flash story "Under the Bridge" comments on trolls and story telling. "The Hand with the Knife" expands on the Grimm tale of the same title. And what happens when a princess resolves to take a vampire for a lover? Find out in "The Princess and the Vampire."


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Seven Ancient Wonders Of The World Part Two
Seven Historic Wonders visits some of the most majestic monuments of the past, ancient sites that are rich in stories of intrigue and mystery. From the Mayan Temples in the depths of the Mexican Rainforest, to the stone statues of Easter Island, 2000 miles from the nearest human population. We are taken to some of the most amazing places on earth.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Unusual Public Art on Grand Ave.
Spotted on Grand Avenue: Some unusual public art. Above, "Bell Communications around the Globe," located on the side of the AT&T building at 420 Grand Ave. Artist Anthony Heinsbergen, who created the piece in 1961, told the story of telecommunications of that era (using pieces from telephone components). Read here for more info.
"Uptown Rocker," by Lloyd Hamrol (1986). An ode to our car culture; found on Fourth Street between Hope and lower Grand.
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One of the things we love to do most is experiment with fun ideas here at SWARM, these are some of our experiments.
For Android Wear, we build a watch face that tells you the weather, temperature, and does so looking stylish, we also open sourced the code.
Download the app for your Android Wear Watch HERE
Another experimental watch face ESTHER
If you play multiplayer video games, you'll know that LFG (looking for group) takes too long. We're solving the LFG problem by making PUP, no more random pairing, play with people you like and get more out of gaming.
Grab the Android App here, or sign up for iOS beta.
The internet loves cats and we love the internet, which is why we built the first 24/7/365 cat gif Apple TV channel.
Moar info at Cat Gif TV or just download the app to your Apple TV 4th Gen.
Connect a Twitter account through OAuth and a Widget, deploy, and let anyone on the internet tweet from it anonymously. Super fun at parties
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On 8 December 2016 I wrote a post which I called " dark days", as my husband had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer with liver metastases. At the time of diagnosis we were told that it was inoperable, as the cancer had spread to his liver and that he probably had six months to a year left to live.
He was put onto light duties at work, but in January, once he started chemotherapy, he was not able to go work much at all, as the treatment had such a debilitating effect on him. DH's pain was also becoming harder to manage and during the month of January he had a couple of hospital admissions, but it was at the beginning of February that we were given some really devastating news. As DH had been suffering from severe constipation, he had been given laxatives and enemas, but once these had taken effect, he was still in so much pain that the gastroenterologist who was looking after him on the ward, sent him down to Radiology for a CT scan.
The results of this scan showed that the cancer cells in the liver had grown and spread, but there was even further cause for concern, as there were blood clots in the liver, as well. As DH was suffering from portal vein thrombosis, he had to start taking blood thinning medication. We were told that due to the deterioration in his condition, he would have only a couple of months of life left.
I notified family members in South Africa and DH's eldest and youngest brother then flew over at the end of February and stayed with us for two weeks, so that they could spend time with him. It was good to have them with us, as they were very kind and supportive, not only to DH, but to me, as well.
While my brothers-in-law were staying with us, they told us that they were very concerned about their elderly father, as he had been growing quite frail and was not very well. DH and I were both upset to hear about his dad's illness and sadly, not even a week after my brothers-in-law had returned home to South Africa, they called to say that he had passed away.
About ten days ago DH was feeling very unwell and started vomiting up large amounts of black blood, which was really scary. I called the inpatient unit at our local hospice and they advised me to call an ambulance right away, which I did. DH was taken to the Emergency Department first and was then later admitted to a ward, where the doctor on duty said that it would be advisable for him to have a gastroscopy to help to identify the cause of the bleeding. After the procedure we were told that the tumour in the pancreas was larger and very aggressive and was wrapped around the stent which had been put in a couple of months ago to drain the bile duct. We were also told that there is a slight chance that the bleeding could recur and that if there was a haemorrhage, it could be fatal.
After spending a couple of nights in hospital DH was discharged, but prior to his discharge, we met with a doctor from the palliative team and a social worker, to discuss end of life care. Prior to DH's admission to hospital, our hospice nurse and a needs assessor visited us at home to discuss some end of life care options, as they felt that DH was reaching the stage where he would need professional care.
Last week DH spent two nights at a local care facility where he had some respite care, which also gave me a break, as I had been caring for him on my own at home. The care facility is a rest home and private hospital which offers end of life care to terminally ill patients. It's a pleasant place and the staff are all very helpful and friendly, so when we were told that a permanent room would soon be available for DH, we were both happy to accept the offer. He is at home at the moment, as the room will only be vacated by 18 April, which means that DH will get to spend the coming week and Easter weekend at home with me.
The past months have been incredibly stressful, but we are very grateful for all the support and help we have received, and are continuing to receive, from family members, friends and work colleagues.
I am planning to downsize and move from the three bedroom house we are currently renting, to a one bedroom unit or apartment. As I have been kept very busy, caring for DH as well as seeing to daily chores, I have not had much time to do much in the way of packing, but once he is in permanent care, I should have more time to de-clutter and do some packing. I am hoping to find a little place quite soon; I have been looking on the real estate website, just to get an idea of what is available, but have not actually spoken to any estate agents.
DH is weak and frail and spends most of his time resting, as his energy levels are very low and he is unable to do very much. He has lost a great deal of weight and eats very little, as he has no appetite. His pain is controlled by morphine, but he does feel very uncomfortable at times and it's so hard to see him suffering. Our son and I are both devastated at the prospect of losing him, but I believe that when the time comes, we need to let him go quietly and peacefully.


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For a challenge I needed to craft up something that was eye-searingly brightly colored and that would take 6-8 weeks of work. And I figured that along with being ridiculously bright it might as well be a bit over the top as well. And I'm pretty sure that a double rainbow neon color scarf with fringe that is over 9 feet in length fit the bill nicely. I also edged it in black and separated the two sides with black which after sampling I think made the colors pop a lot more.
I'm almost afraid to see this outside in the bright sunlight. But on the bright side (pun intended) if we ever happen to have a snow apocalypse here, I think this would be easy to spot.


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Yes, please: Barry calls for a college football national championship playoff to replace the universally-loathed BCS nonsense.
Change We Can Believe In
5 Responses to "Change We Can Believe In"
AGreenEyeDevil Says:
November 4, 2008 at 5:47 pm |
Hell yeah!! Go Dawgs!!!!
London_Calling Says:
November 4, 2008 at 7:22 pm |
This was great, especially compared to McCain's ramble about performance-enhancing drugs (an issue for sure, but not one for that time). I also hope that McCain can somehow kill the advance guy who put him on a working tarmac for that – worst advance guy ever.
Mack Luster Says:
November 5, 2008 at 12:06 am |
check out this hilarious BCS satire!


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3 years full-time (plus optional placement year)
AAB (full entry requirements)
September 2018 (term dates)
£9,250 per year (2018/19)
£16,620 per year (2018/19)
Explore what studying and living in York is really like at one of our Open Days.Find out more
Challenge the boundaries of justice and human rights, and investigate the effects that 9/11, 7/7, Iraq, Afghanistan and emerging powers like China and India are having on our day-to-day lives.
With leading international experts you'll explore the political significance of global issues, and just how close to home they affect us all.
You will develop specialist knowledge in international politics and political economy, conflict, security and post-war reconstruction, global justice, fragile states, ethnic conflict and human security.
You can apply for this course with a year in industry. You'll complete a professional placement between your second and third year, helping you to develop your employability and professional skills.
If you're interested in studying abroad, you can apply to spend a year abroad between your second and third year. You'll spend the year studying at a host institution in Europe, allowing you to enhance your CV, experience a new culture and make new friends along the way. You can transfer on to this course after you've arrived at York.
During your year in industry or year abroad, you'll pay a reduced tuition fee.
"I spent the summer of my second year interning in the marketing and communications division of the Mayor's office in New York." Read moreMaria, BA Politics, Year 3
90% of our students are satisfied with the course (National Student Survey 2017)
We are ranked 8th in the UK for research quality (Research Excellence Framework 2014)
Our staff advise governments on a wide range of issues and contribute to news, media and current affairs programmes globally
You'll develop the ability to think critically about regional, national and international politics, ideas and institutions, preparing you for a variety of career paths that give you the potential to stand up and make a difference.
We offer a large choice of modules helping you tailor the course to your own interests and passions.
You'll learn how to think politically about some of today's most pressing issues, including:
There are several ways in which you can broaden your horizons and study abroad with Politics at York.
You will study four Politics core modules plus an additional study skills module.
These modules will give you an understanding of the key concepts, theories and approaches in each major area of politics.
Politics core modules:
These modules are the ones currently running and are indicative of what will run in future years. We do update our modules to develop our curriculum and reflect our latest research.
In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.
This module covers some of the essential skills and knowledge which will help you to study independently and produce work of a high academic standard which is vital for success at York.
This module will:
You'll cover a diverse range of modules and hone the academic skills necessary to analyse political texts, political systems and processes. You'll study one core module:
Plus, three optional modules from a range of subjects - two from Group C, and one from Group A, B or C
These modules are the ones currently running and are indicative of what will run in future years. We do update our modules to develop our curriculum and reflect our latest research.
You'll undertake a dissertation in an area of your interest and choose four option modules, two in Autumn and two in Spring:
International Relations Dissertation
These modules are a selection of the ones currently running and are indicative of what will run in future years. We do update our modules to develop our curriculum and reflect our latest research.
Please note, modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff.
UK/EU or international fees? The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK, EU or international student.
For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.
We offer a number of scholarships to help cover tuition fees and living costs.
You can use our living costs guide to help plan your budget. It covers accommodation costs and estimated social costs.
"Students from all backgrounds achieve consistently outstanding outcomes"
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Our Gold Teaching Excellence Framework award demonstrates our commitment to the delivery of consistently outstanding teaching and learning for our students.
You'll work with world‐leading academics who'll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.
You'll learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and one-to-one supervision. We offer a personal approach to learning with much of our teaching conducted in small groups (typically under 15 students in a seminar group). Our staff are very approachable and our doors are always open. Your personal supervisor provides support and guidance throughout your studies, offering weekly feedback and guidance hours.
You'll be taught by academics at the forefront of research across a number of political areas such as conflict, security and development, political economy, international politics, political theory and public policy. As international experts in their field, our staff advise governments and organisations globally and regularly contribute to news and current affairs programmes. Our expertise and experience feed directly into our teaching.
As a guide, students on this course typically spend their time as follows:
|Year 1
|Year 2
|Year 3
|Lectures and seminars
|252 hours
|192 hours
|132 hours
The figures above are based on data from 2016/17.
The rest of your time on the course will be spent on independent study. This may include preparation for lectures and seminars, follow-up work, wider reading, practice completion of assessment tasks, or revision.
Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours will vary from person to person. In UK higher education the expectation is that full-time students will spend 1200 hours a year learning.
You will be based in the Department of Politics on Campus West. Most teaching will take place nearby.
Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around campus - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can always use the fast and frequent bus service.
Assessment varies from module to module and includes a combination of exams, written essays and project work.
Your tutors will give you feedback in a variety of forms depending on the specific needs of the module. This may consist of written feedback, in-class discussion, model answers, one-to-one discussions or online responses.
Our teaching involves challenging discussions with your tutors and peers about global issues.
Watch one of our recent lectures in action
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|Year 2
|Year 3
|Written exams
The figures above are based on data from 2016/17.
The York International Relations degree is recognised by employers worldwide. You'll gain employability skills and have the opportunity to gain work experience, undertake internships or study abroad.
Many of our students organise work placements out of term time in an area that interests them. We encourage you to do this so you can gain workplace experience and a deeper insight into issues that interest you. Previously, students have spent the summer months interning at Ernst and Young, the Houses of Parliament and even the Mayor's Office in New York.
Our recent graduates have gone on to work with:
Take a look at our graduate profiles for a taste of what you may move onto after graduating
As well as developing your subject-specific knowledge, this degree will equip you with the following transferable skills:
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AAB (excluding General Studies)
|Access to Higher Education Diploma
|36 credits at Distinction and 9 credits at Merit or higher
|BTEC National Extended Diploma: DDD
|Cambridge Pre-U
|European Baccalaureate
|An overall average of 80%
|International Baccalaureate
|35 points overall
|Irish leaving Certificate
|Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers
|AB at Advanced Higher + AAAAB at Higher level
IELTS: 6.5 with at least 5.5 in all units or equivalent
Other accepted tests and qualifications
To apply to York, you will need to complete an online application via UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).
All applications must be made through UCAS. Accepted applicants will be invited to visit us between November and April. That's when you can meet our current students and staff, and your visit can include a one-to-one conversation with a member of academic staff.
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Explore campus and city life and hear what our current students have to say about living here.
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Outline for Life of Pi essay try to complete, finish or begin working on.
Friday- Printed out copy of college essay due.
Smith goes over questions & expectations, groups or individual work?
Smith goes over Life of Pi essay topics, Do NOT use personal words in essay, i.e. me, you, us we, etc..
Goes over how body paragraphs should be completed, what they should have.
Most of the class wants to do individual work with Essay.
Individual group work begins. People worked on either outline or began LoP essay.
Most people working on outline, begin writing essay Wednesday.
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Archive for April, 2017
Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 2
This wasn't a poor show by any means, it was so bad it's hard to describe it!!! Our defending has been questionable for many a year, certainly since Carra went into pundit land. Only I can't remember them being as bad as they were in this game. Little Phil scored one of the best free kick goals we've scored for a long time but after that it was downhill to nowhere land and nobody could stop the slide.
Red All Over The Land Issue 233
WBA 0 Liverpool 1
Me old Parish Priest would have been turning in his grave at the thought of football on Easter Sunday. At The Hawthorns we saw the many faces of Liverpool and we seem to have more faces than Big Ben. I don't think anyone can say too much about the first forty-five minutes other than it was dire. We didn't look like a side chasing anything but when Firmino scored in the sixty seconds which had been added on it seemed a bit of a bonus. The opening twenty minutes of the second half saw us playing with a bit style and when the ball landed in the proximity of James Milner with a what amounted to an empty net in front of him we expected we'd be moving closer to the comfort zone, alas the ball ended in the crowd. Then we heard the air raid sirens as a Pullis team reverted to type but we got bodies in the way; Mignolet made a save and although it wasn't pretty to watch we somehow kept the Baggies at a safe distance. The last few minutes had to be some of the weirdest in football I've seen as the Albion keeper joined the attack. Mind you in football there's often a show stopper and when we sent on Alberto Moreno for the last minute or so I hoped he'd be kept as far away from our penalty area as possible. That was the case but when he had the ball just inside their half and the goalkeeper closer to our goal than his own Alberto still managed to have everyone talking about him. At the final whistle we could laugh about it but as his forty yarder rolled past the empty net I don't think he was top of anybodies Easter Egg list.
Red All Over The Land Issue 232
Stoke 1 Liverpool 2
On the first really spring like day of the season Stokes still not a very nice place to go especially when it looks like half the teams on sick parade. After a few defeats old 'Useless' is starting to walk a thin line so I think we knew what to expect from a team that can still call on a bit of brute force if the case needs it. The likes of Shawcross and Walters must have been whetting their lips when they saw our starting eleven with Ben Woodburn and TAA in the line up. However, neither Woodburn nor TAA did too much wrong in the first half it was just the rest of team which looked out of sorts and out of shape and we didn't muster what you'd call a serious threat to the Stoke goal. Stoke were no great shakes either but if anyone was going to score it was them and that happened five minutes before halftime when the Bitter fan Walters scored another goal against us. We might have had a penalty just before the goal came but that couldn't be any excuse for such a woeful 45-minutes.
Then The Kaiser acted and brought on the Boys from Brazil in exchange for the two teenagers, reverted back to type, round pegs in round holes etc; and we took it from there. Although, as ever these days, our defending was still questionable we did carry some threat going forward. Firmino, Coutinho and Lovren all went close – shots saved and hitting the bar – before Little Phil who by all accounts had spent most of the week in the loo banged one in. The away end erupted as our players raced back to the centre circle wanting to get back at the Pottery men. Two minutes later Firmino lashed in a wonder goal and we could all sing in the sunshine. However, as Jürgen said, Mignolet rescued us a couple of times when Stoke fought back. Only we got there in the end but it didn't look like that at halftime.


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History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education
MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
Free, open, and with no prerequisites, a MOOC on "The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education" begins on January 27, 2014. Sponsored by Duke University through the Coursera platform, this open non-credit course will extend our reach to an anticipated audience of tens of thousands of participants worldwide.
In this course we will learn about the features of higher education that were designed specifically to prepare workers and leaders for the Industrial Age, and we'll strategize ways that, together, we can change learning–inside of school and out–for the world we live in now–and even to help improve our world. #FutureEd
About the Course
Welcome! This course is designed for anyone concerned with the best ways of learning and thriving in the world we live in now. It's for students, teachers, professors, researchers, administrators, policy makers, business leaders, job counselors and recruiters, parents, and lifelong learners around the globe. The full, whimsical name of the class is: "The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education: Or, How We Can Unlearn Our Old Patterns and Relearn for a Happier, More Productive, Ethical, and Socially-Engaged Future." That subtitle is inspired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen who has said that "all education is vocational" in the sense that it is our job, as educators, to help train people for the vocation of leading better lives.
Are we fulfilling that educational objective, from kindergarten to professional school? Or are we training students with the methods, philosophy, and metrics designed for the Fordist era of the Model T? Since 1993, when scientists made the Internet widely available, our lives, our work, our occupations, our culture, and our entertainments have changed tremendously. Far too little has changed inside our educational institutions, in the US and internationally, to prepare us for the demands, problems, restrictions, obstacles, responsibilities, and possibilities of living in the world we inhabit outside of school. This course addresses one key question: How can we all, together, work to redesign higher education for our future… not for someone else's past?
Bonus: Students enrolled in this Coursera course will also be invited to many onsite and online events, workshops, and conferences offered by more than fifty learning institutions around the world, as part of an initiative on Shaping the Future of Higher Education.
Course Syllabus
Learning Objectives
- Understand how and why we inherited the Industrial Age educational systems.
- Think deeply about the requirements of the world we live in now.
- Discover new ideas, methods, competencies, and subject matter.
- Share our pathways to successful innovation with others around the world. Together, we can change schools, classrooms, institutions, learning–and maybe ourselves!
WEEK ONE – January 27, 2014
Guiding Principles and Driving Concepts – Let's Get Started
This week we will think about the uses of history: learning how and why educational institutions were constructed in the past helps us think about what we need now, in order to begin to shape a different future of education in order to help shape a more just future for all.
WEEK TWO – February 3, 2014
The iPod Experiment: Or, Learning vs. Education
Duke University's iPod experiment became international news. Why? What happens when students are in charge? What happens when education begins at a place where no one (not even the instructor) knows the answer in advance? What if the actual learning cannot be tested or assessed by the usual methods of higher education? What if learning is also about trying to improve the status quo? This week we will look at diverse histories and theories of education and learning.
WEEK THREE – February 10, 2014
Teaching Like It's 1992
The World changed on April 22, 1993, when the scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications released the Internet and the World Wide Web to the general public. From then on, anyone with access to an Internet connection could communicate to anyone else with an Internet connection. No editor or publisher provides a safety net now and, at the same time, our data can be hacked, our privacy invaded. The digital world we live in now comes with tremendous responsibilities and opportunity–and yet it comes with real inequalities, perils, and obstacles too. Does our educational system prepare us for these challenges?
WEEK FOUR – February 17, 2014
Welcome to the Future: 10 Ways to Change the Paradigm of Higher Education
We will now be looking at different principles, methods and metrics for redesigning an innovative form of learning that helps us all navigate the complexities of the world we inhabit outside of school. This week we focus specifically on innovations to the curriculum.
WEEK FIVE – February 24, 2014
Innovations in Pedagogy (Methods) and Assessment
This week we will focus on innovations in pedagogy (the methods for learning) and assessment. How you teach is what you teach. And, we need to think deeply about what we value and make sure what we value is what we count.
WEEK SIX – March 3, 2014
How to Make Institutional Change
Even if we make changes in our personal learning and teaching methods, we still have to work mostly within institutions of learning. Institutional change can be difficult; it takes patience, strategy, and allies. This week offers (and also invites) ideas about what we can do together. It makes a powerful argument that we all need to advocate (in any country) for higher education and shows how, in the U.S., the decline in support for public education has contributed to income inequality and hurt all our future. This week includes interviews with inspiring people who have worked together to make successful change happen in society ad in education, against odds.
Conclusion: Thank you for joining this movement on behalf of educational innovation and reform! This is not the end. It's the beginning. Where will we do from here? Let's get started!
Recommended Background
The only background required is passionate interest in the future of learning and higher education. All are welcome!
Suggested Readings
There will be specific "readings"–articles, blog posts, websites, videos, and other resources–suggested for each lecture. The main "texts" for this course will be:
- Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How Technology and the Brain Science of Attention Will Change the Way We Live, Work and Learn. 2011. (This will be made available free online for the first 50,000 students registered for this course and is also available to purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, and IndieBound).
- The 21st Century Collective, Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning.
- Davidson, Cathy N. and David Theo Goldberg. Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. MIT Press. Available for free download as a pdf.
- DukeSurprise.com
Course Format
Each week will consist of one hour of video lectures, discussions and interviews, divided into 10-20 minute segments. Readings for each topic will be recommended, but not required.
Statement of Accomplishment requirements
In order to earn a Statement of Accomplishment signed by Cathy Davidson, you will be requried to take weekly multiple choice quizzes (the classic "summative" form of testing that is designed to "sum up" what you have learned). We'll strive to make these quizzes into useful "reviews" of the week's content. We will also talk a lot about the shortcomings of standardized testing and strategize more effective ways of learning and of measuring achievement (such as digital badging). If you wish to earn a Statement of Accomplishment with Distinction you will need to finish three peer assessments in addition to the quizzes.
Optional Participatory Assignments
This course is not just about content but also about designing new ways of learning. Assignments will encourage international contribution to a historical timeline of global educational innovation–a rich new resource that researchers might be able to build upon. There will also be an array of practical exercises, examples, methods, and ideas that can be used in any classroom, for home schooling, or in any informal learning or study situation. You will be encouraged to try new methods and to discuss the results in forums, wikis, and on social media.
Bonus: Students will also learn about dozens of concurrent online and face-to-face events on the topic of education innovation being run at universities, colleges, and community colleges around the world. Find out more!
More about 'History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education'
Concerned about the challenges facing higher education? Join us and be part of the solution.
HASTAC: Changing the Way We Teach and Learn
The HASTAC #FutureEd Initiative is led by those with the most at stake in transforming higher education: students and faculty. Open, worldwide, HASTAC-led and user-inspired, "The History and Future of Higher Education" assesses the educational legacies we've inherited in order to design new ways of learning for present needs and future aspirations.
Below you will find many helpful resources that invite your contribution. You will also find a growing list of people and institutions fueling this movement with experimental courses, workshops, seminars, research projects, and reading groups in different onsite and online locations, all open to the public.
Everyone is welcome–students, full-time and adjunct faculty, independent scholars, and administrators from public and private research universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, K-12, vocational and for-profit schools, MOOCs, discussion groups, after-school programs, and lifelong learning institutions.
We welcome policy makers, legislators, foundation and philanthropic leaders, librarians, curators, alt-ac professionals, journalists, business and political leaders, and the concerned public at large. The more varied the participation, the more we will learn.
We are excited to hear about teachers (including some high school teachers) who are designing class or extra credit assignments to encourage their students to be involved in their own future and we've heard from several leadership teams of administrators, advisers, program officers, scholarship directors, and others who are meeting in groups and using the #FutureEd events to inspire institutional change.
Let us know how you want to be part of #FutureEd and let us know how we can help you make it happen.
Click on the "Add a Course" button and fill out a brief form to contribute a course or an event or to add your name to our listserv and receive our newsletter.
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We invite you to contribute your ideas and success stories to the wikis hosted on HASTAC's #FutureEd portal:
- Resources: an international list of books, articles, journals, websites, and more to help provoke and inspiring thinking about the future of higher education
- Pedagogical Innovations: instances of new courses, classroom methods, and other teaching pedagogical innovations that are transforming higher education and learning more generally
- Institutional Change: ideas and road maps for how to lead innovation and scale change across your institution
Liberal Arts Network for Development (LAND), Michigan Community Colleges: February 12-14, 2014, Michigan. "Breaking Boundaries."
Digital Media and Learning Conference: March 6-8, 2014, Boston. "Connecting Practices."
HASTAC 2014 Conference: April 24-27, 2014, Ministerio de Cultura, Lima, Peru. "Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks."
All press requests should go to HASTAC's Program Manager, firstname.lastname@example.com.
For the Chronicle of Higher Education's weekly updates (January to April 2014), written by graduate student leaders at Duke University, see "#FutureEd: Thoughts from a MOOC on Higher Education."
Inside Higher Ed is also following us. See, "50,000 Strong to Change Higher Ed" (Nov 4, 2013; follow-up Feb 2014). For an overview with infographic, see "It's Not a MOOC, It's a Movement," in Higher Ed Beta by Steven Mintz and Michael Patrick Rutter.
Online Discussion Group:
Anyone registered to hastac.org (it's free and open) can join the HASTAC #FutureEd Discussion Group, where you can post your syllabus, a discussion topic, or any other ideas/information.
Partnering Courses, Events, and Resources with an Open Public Component:
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- Tom Abeles, editor, On the Horizon journal, Rwanda
- Bryan Alexander, senior fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and author of Future Trends in Technology and Education
- Rindy Anderson and Stephen Nowicki, Duke University, "How Organisms Communicate"
- Anne Balsamo, Media Studies, New School, NY, "DOCC 2013: Redesigning MOOCs for (truly) Transformative Learning" (Syllabus)
- Randy Bass and Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Georgetown University, "The Future of Georgetown University as a Design Problem"
- Steven L. Berg, Departments of English and History and Ocelot Scholars program, Schoolcraft College
- Steve Brier and Matt Gold, CUNY Graduate Center, "Digital Praxis Seminar"
- Simone Browne, African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, "Race, Culture, Migration and the Digital"
- Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Losh, University of California, San Diego, "Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures"
- Kandice Chuh, English, CUNY Graduate Center, "Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English"
- Dr Thomas Cochrane (AUT University, New Zealand), Prof. Dr Ilona Buchem (Beuth University, Berlin), Dr Mar Camacho (University of Tarragona, Catalunia), Catherine Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway), Averill Gordon (AUT University, New Zealand), Helen Keegan (Salford University, UK), Dr Sarah Howard (University of Wollongong, Australia),Bernie Goldbach (Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland), #iCollab community of practice.
- Coimbra Group (GC), Association of 40 European Universities, "eLearning and eTechnology Taskforce," Video Seminar Series, Beginning January 2014
- Columbia University, numerous courses in equity, international policy, American Studies, on the purpose and future of higher education
- Arindam Datta, with Nader Tehrani, Liam O'Brien, Joel Lamere, Lorena Bello, Cristina Parreno Alonso, Irene Hwang, and others, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), "Biocapitalism in the Knowledge Economy"
- Davidson College President's Office
- Cathy Davidson, Program in Information Science + Information Studies and PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, Duke University, "The History and Future of Higher Education" (Syllabus–comments and additions welcome!)
- Chicago Humanities Summit, Chicago Humanities Festival in partnership with the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Gratz Center at Fourth Presbyterian Church, January 9, 9-noon, Chicago, Il
- Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Comparative Literature and the Program in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University, "Reimagining the History and Future of Queer Studies in Higher Education: By Students, For Students" (draft course description)
- FemTechNet Collective, "Distributed Open Online Collaboration (DOCC)"
- Ashley Ferro-Murray, "MOOCing? A Contemporary Dance." Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California Berkeley.
- Caitlin Fisher, Film, York University, Toronto "Future Cinema"
- Inderpal Grewal and Laura Wexler, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and American Studies, Yale University, "Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in Digital Humanities"
- Nadav Hochman, doctoral candidate, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Visiting Scholar, Software Studies Initiative, The Graduate Center, CUNY. "Visualizing Cultural Patterns in Social Media Photography." April 10, Duke University.
- Katie King, Women's Studies and American Studies, University of Maryland, "Experiments in Feminist Learning"
- Julie Thompson Klein, English, Wayne State University, "Digital Humanities" and "Community and Identity in Digital Media"
- Adeline Koh, Center for Digital Humanities, Stockton College, "Introduction to Digital Humanities" (Syllabus)
- Iain MacLaren, MA in Academic Practice and Course on Curricular Design, Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching
- National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Richard Marciano, Information Science and Director, Sustaining Archives and Leveraging Technologies (SALT), University of North Carolina, "Data, Public Scholarship, Community Participation, and New Models for Learning in Higher Education" [workshop]
- Robert McCaughey, Columbia University, "Alma Mater: The History of American Colleges and Universities"
- Katherine McKittrick, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Canada, "Black Creative Science Cluster and Workshop"
- Tara McPherson, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, "Digital Media and Learning" (community-based praxis course), plus workshops on digital publishing at humanities centers around the U.S.
- Bill Meador, TEDxABQED and Central New Mexico Community College
- Ministerio Cultura of Lima, Peru, "Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks" HASTAC 2014 Conference, April 24-27, 2014.
- Sean Michael Morris, Managing Editor, Hybrid Pedagogy
- James L. Morrison, UNC-Chapel Hill, "An Interview with a Futurist: The University is Dead! Long Live the University!"
- Chris Newfield, English, University of California Santa Barbara, "English Majoring After College (Histories and Futures of Higher Education)"
- David Palumbo-Liu, Comparative Literature, Stanford, "Histories and Futures of Humanistic Education: Culture and Crisis, Books and MOOCs"
- PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, Duke University, Online Learning Research Module
- Todd Presner, UCLA, Digital Humanities 201: "Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods of Knowledge Design"
- Noel Radomski, Director and Associate Researcher, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE)
- Howard Rheingold, Stanford University, "Social Media Literacies"
- Jentery Sayers, English, University of Victoria, Canada, "Digital Literary Studies: Histories and Principles"
- Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, "Occupation: From Space and Time to Practice and Politics" [focal research theme]
- Elin O'Hara Slavick, Art Department, UNC-Chapel Hill. "Visualizing Science."
- Doris Sommer, Romance Studies and African and African American Studies, "Pre-Texts: the Arts Interpret" [workshop]
- Jesse Stommel, Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts, University of Wisconsin/Madison, and Hybrid Pedagogy
- Kristen Treglia, Fordham University. History and Future of Education face-to-face discussion groups.
- Laura Wexler, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies, Yale University, "DOCC 2013: Gender & Sexuality in Media & Popular Culture"
- Alan White, Undergraduate STEM Education, University of South Carolina
- Paul Yachnin and Leigh Yetter, McGill University, The Future of Graduate Education and Training in the Humanities
- Mia Zamora and Erica Holan, Writing Project, Kean University, "Exploring Connected Learning"
Additional Resources:
Facebook Group: "Why Online?" HASTAC Steering Committee member David Palumbo-Liu has created the Facebook Discussion Group, Why Online?, which includes a roundup of articles, blogs, posts, commentary, debate, discussion, and other provocations.
MOOC HQ: HASTAC is curating a collection of articles representing the pros and cons of MOOCs.
Field Notes to 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning This student-written guide to open learning principles and methods is published on hastac.org and is also available for multimedia annotation on Rap Genius; for remixing, forking of the source code on Github, and is available as an Amazon paperback.
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The Book Thief
1. How does Liesel feel after her verbal assault of Frau Hermann? 2. What three problems characterize Rudy's young life?
Liesel tells Ilsa, who has suffered for years over the death of her son, to get over it and pictures Ilsa's face as bloodied and battered from this verbal abuse. Liesel is genuinely angered about Ilsa firing Rosa, and does not regret what she said, though she later tells Hans that she is going to hell.
Rudy experiences romantic love for Liesel. Liesel, however, is still working out her feelings for Rudy. Rudy must also contend with bullies as well as being part of the Hitler Youth which he hates.


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Afrikan Sciences / Circuitous
Multi-faceted Bronx artist and co-founder of Oakland company Deepblakmusic Eric Douglas Porter aka Afrikan Sciences just released his fourth long-length effort via Bill Kouligas' PAN. Circuitous is a psychedelic journey from hip-hop abstractions, East Coast's 90s house, free jazz, indigenous African and Latin rhythmical explorations looking for a universal language able to marry different tempos and rhythms. From Cairo to the stars, the proper Afrofuturistic sound inspired by the king and astral traveler Sun Ra, 80s electro DJ Afrika Bambaataa and sci-fi writer Octavia Butler.
Visual works by Matthieu Levanchy


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Medical innovation was barely mentioned in a year of discussion on health care reform. This is like discussing food without mentioning nutrition. Much of the value of medicine stems from medical innovation. Basic care can provide protection against everyday infections, injuries and procedures like delivering babies. The significant gains in life expectation today require more specialized care like heart or cancer treatment or cures for genetic illnesses. Will socialized medicine maintain America's leading role in medical innovation?
Killing the Golden Goose
In a recent study released by the Cato Institute in November 2009, "Bending the Productivity Curve: Why America Leads the World in Medical Innovation," the authors, Glen Whitman and Raymond Raad, crunch the numbers on medical innovation in America and find that it accounts for most of achievements in medical innovation.
The U.S.A's preeminence in research is indicated by its lead in the funding of medical research and the Nobel Prizes earned. The National Institutes of Health alone spend $30 billion in annual research compared to $4 billion in all of Europe. The detractors will very likely respond by saying that NIH is a government institution. The reality is much of the basic research is done in Universities, often large private Universities like Stanford, Harvard and Northwestern, and the commercialization is completed in private companies. The NIH only funds the research.
According to the CATO study, of the 95 recipients of Nobel Prices in the past 40 years, 57 (60 percent) were from the United States, while 40 (42 percent) were from the European Union countries, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, or Australia—countries whose combined population is more than double that of the United States.
Comparing the Quality of Innovation
Innovation may not necessarily make a great deal of difference to the quality of life of patients. The authors have, therefore, singled out the innovations that have had a lasting influence on the quality of medical care. This was done based on feedback from 225 leading primary physicians.
Of the 27 innovations in therapeutics and diagnostics and for which a country could be identified, work performed in the United States significantly contributed to the invention or advancement of 20, including nine of the top 10. As for drugs, sixteen of the twenty nine representative drug classes were developed in the United States, while 15 were developed in the EU or Switzerland. The lower rate of innovation in Europe has a lot to do with the monopsony buying power of government buyers. The compensation for prescription drugs, for example, is 35 to 55 percent lower in Europe compared to the USA.
In the USA, lower compensation of innovative therapies by Medicare has discouraged the adoption of implantable defibrillators. This is a clear case of penny wise and pound foolish policy. The loss of health benefits from new innovation is far more than the dollar value of lower compensation.
Costs can be lowered in more creative ways, such as by using medical devices, to substitute for more expensive specialized care. Ultra-sound equipment can be used by primary physicians to detect heart disease. This will hardly be possible if compensation for primary physicians is lowered.
The American biotechnology industry is poised to churn out a great deal more innovative drugs that will, for example, cure genetic disorders which can disable humans for life. An entirely new generation of personalized medicine is possible with medical informatics which enable therapies suitable for the specific genetic composition of individuals.
Superficial comparisons
Much has been said of higher rates of infant mortality in the USA compared to Europe. This is another example of facetious analysis which leads to completely misleading conclusions. According to Gregory Dattilo, co-author of "Your Health Matters", the reality is that the USA has used technology to reduce the mortality of pre-maturely born babies. By contrast, European countries has allowed them to be aborted because it does not consider the cost of saving them worthwhile. If mortality of pre-maturely babies is taken into account, Europe will in all probability end up with higher rate of infant mortality.


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This necklace is just one long chain and it totes versatile, case in point:
three tiers
Two strands. Or, you can just wrap it around and around as even layers in the 1st iteration above. This chain, I think, I got at H&M ages ago. One can get something similar for cheap, OR invest in a proper silver chain and keep forever. Either way, it's a solid jewelry option that every gal should have to add to an overall outfit.
The bump is a bit hidden in these profile shots, let's show it off, eh?
Bump-tastic fashion if I do say so myself!
dress-Le Tote, jacket/sneakers-Old Navy(more sneakers here), chain-H&M(more necklaces here), bag-J.Jill
There's nothing mind-blowingly fabulous about this outfit, but it's a simple, cute look. This knit dress provides a some structure, which is great for my bump. Knit pieces, be they dresses, skirts, pants, etc have become an essential part for my pregnancy outfitting. And, I have feeling they'll also be major work-horse pieces in my postpartum ensembles.


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One Day Only
You've got one
night day only, one night day only
That's all you have to spare
night day only
night day only … as the song almost goes …
For today, the 16th of March only, you can download the first book in The Reluctant Detective series, Searching for Summer, FREE on Amazon Kindle.
As a special 'Thank You' for bearing with me while I have been 'missing in action' and not posting much here lately, I thought I'd give you this special opportunity to pick up one of my novels as a gift from me to you.
So here it is, but you'll have to be quick. It's only FREE today, 16th March.
What genre is Searching for Summer?
Contemporary Women's Fiction, a #CleanIndieRead, with no swearing, sex or violence.
What's it about?
Mirabelle's daughter, Summer, disappears one Friday night, and Mirabelle would dearly love to rewind that day and live it differently. Instead, she is left not knowing if Summer is alive or dead, went of her own accord or was taken against her will. Casting all other concerns aside – food, sleep, work, relationships – in her desperate need to find the answers, she takes to the streets of Edinburgh in search of Summer. Searching along wynds snaking behind old buildings, through ancient doors and tiny spiral stairways, showing Summer's photograph to everyone she meets in shops, museums and nightclubs, Mirabelle becomes a reluctant detective, gathering clues, trying to make sense of them in order to find her missing daughter.
What do other's think about it?
"It is unfair, in a review, to spoil the story for the reader by telling the outcome. So, you won't find the answer to whether Mirabelle finds Summer from here. What you will find is an enthusiastic encouragement to read "Seaching For Summer". This is so much more than a mystery to be solved. It is an endorsement of life lived with determination and, most importantly, hope." ~~~Barbara A. Martin
"Searching for Summer confounded all my pre-conceived ideas of what a book about a missing teenager would be like. Of course there is despair and self-blame, but Summer's mother Mirabelle is such a large, intense personality that I was instantly involved with her search around the streets of Edinburgh…" ~~~ Lizanne Lloyd
Don't forget, Searching for Summer is FREE for
Night Day Only!
Click here to download your copy now.


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Bklink: Boymelpark Delayed
That park behind developer Shaya Boymelgreen's Novo Park Slope condo, which is called Terrapin Playground, isn't done yet. The developer promised to renovate it after using it during the condo's construction. It was supposed to be done in the fall, but lookis like sometime next year might be the charm.--Brownstoner
Labels: Park Slope, Shortlink


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This is the third pack out of my 2001 Topps Stadium Club box that I received for Christmas last year. I'm opening the packs and writing the posts as I go...so at the moment I've only ripped two packs (but found quite a few cards for my set). I'm hoping pack 3 is just as generous.
Pack 3:
7. Barry Larkin (had it, but it's a great card)
20. Sammy Sosa
23. Jay Bell
28. Mike Lieberthal
36. Orlando Cabrera
44. Preston Wilson
50. Alex Rodriguez
61. Carl Everett
66. Rick Ankiel
83. Pat Meares
104. Mike Lowell
119. Albert Belle - finally, a card I needed!
Took awhile to get a card I needed, but I'm glad to land at least one from the pack!
127. Tony Clark
128. Todd Zeile
131. Geoff Jenkins - Needed it!
I would have thought everyone would have unloaded their Brewers on me by now!
145. Frank Thomas - needed it!
I can understand why this one was still needed - who wants to give up their Frank Thomas Stadium Club card?!
156. Sean Burnett - needed it!
After a rough start, I finished the pack with four cards that I needed. I consider three such cards a success so so far we are doing really, really well!
Capture the Action: CA10. Nomar Garciaparra
I have absolutely zero complaints so far (except maybe for that one damaged card that I needed)! Still nine packs remain in the box, let's hope my good luck continues!
When Buddha inspires your LEGO builds...
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text: Throughout his career the photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper has been preoccupied with water as a focal point for his abiding fascination with the landscape, historical and cultural geography, cartography and the problems of picture-making. Working exclusively outdoors with an 1898 AGFA field camera, Cooper established a singular aesthetic and philosophical point of view. For Refuge, Cooper explores and photographs the perimeter of the North and South Forks of the East End of Long Island, an area imbued with more than a century-long history of agriculture and artistic foment. The resulting exhibition features 40 images, accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an interview between the artist and Parrish Director Terrie Sultan and additional interpretive essays and literary contributions by a select team of renowned writers and scholars.


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Voting is Sexy, so Vote Y'all ;)
I voted on Monday because that's when I got my replacement absentee ballot. However, due to Seoul Fashion Week, I've literally been leaving my office as soon as I'm done with work and rushing back to the city for shows, interviews or other events.
However, Thursday is my best work day because I'm off at 3pm. I walked over to the local post office and mailed my ballot back. It's guaranteed to be delivered on or before October 27th, so yeah! I just feel good that my vote is en route to be counted.
Make sure yours is too. US citizens who are registered to vote please make sure you do.
Here is a reminder. Remember there are voter help sessions in Itaewon tomorrow and on Sunday if you're in or near Seoul.


text: If you are travelling to the north-eastern part of North Carolina, or are travelling through the area, this is the must stay for those looking for a warm welcome of hospitality, history, and the uniqueness of the area. My wife and I spent our anniversary weekend there and were entertained by Virginia and her pooch Lacy. We were treated as... More


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That is so nice and I can see many more possibilites for it.ReplyDelete
What a clever idea! I have a brush caddy; but, it doesn't rotate. Never thought of this! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Good tip! I use a jar filled with little crystals for small brushes but never had a good solution for big brushes. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
great idea Janet. And I spy that beautiful YSL lipstick. I've never tried it, but think I should just for the case!ReplyDelete
I LOVE that brush organizer. and I also love the little china saucer! I use my grandma's old china in my bathroom like that and I use a large crystal jar for the brushes, but I really like the shape of your holder. I may go on the hunt for one like it ... any excuse to go to Home Goods! PS... you have a lovely bathroomReplyDelete
That makes them all very handy! Great idea.ReplyDelete
This is a great idea for brushes and easy to do for sure.ReplyDelete
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How adorable! I don't think I'd have room for something this size in the area I do my makeup but it's so cute and cleaver. BTW, found you through agapelovedesigns :-)ReplyDelete
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I love your brush holder. Great idea!ReplyDelete
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That's truly a great idea, to take them in order and to find them easily !ReplyDelete
And it's really so adorable, perfect styled for every kind of taste .. your creativity always amaze me !
With much admiration and love
Very pretty! Thanks for linking up to Gingerly Made.ReplyDelete
It's quite lovely! I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,ReplyDelete