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We are located right on the SAN ANTONIO RIVERWALK, directly under the SAN ANTONIO HYATT REGENCY HOTEL.Unlike other SAN ANTONIO BARS & CLUBS, MadDogs is an AUTHENTIC BRITISH theme pub.
We offer a full range of draft & bottled IMPORTED BEERS, ice cool exotic cocktails and extensive domestic beverage options.
We are situated on the VERY BEST Riverwalk Location; our tropical terrace nestles on the banks of The River itself. The uninterrupted tranquility allows options for relaxing with a 'cold one' or simply people watching as the Riverwalk tourists bustle by. Either way you can't avoid enjoying our LITTLE PIECE OF BRITAIN, whilst basking in the South Texas sun.
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Rise of the Dead
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Adam Cooper Stands 6'2" tall. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is physically fit.
Adam Cooper was born in Austin, Texas in 1982. Adam has always loved the ocean. His family often went out into the Gulf on boating trips. It was not a surprise when he joined the Navy at 18. Adam served for four years and left the Navy in 2004.
After leaving the Navy, Adam was hired my the Walt Disney Corporation and served on the Disney Wonder for almost 8 years. Adam started as a Bridge member, but was quickly promoted to First Officer. In 20012 he transferred to the Disney Magic, his hope is to become Captain once Captain Oliver Roberts retires.
Adam is known throughout the cruise line as a harsh man. He is difficult to get along with and the crew members hate him with a passion. Disney and Captain Oliver Roberts has so far ignored the way Adam treats the crew because he gets results.


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OK Was the US' government response proportional to pearl harbor? Same thing happened here. The citizens themselves are grateful to Russia because they liberated them from the dictatorship of Georgia. Look it up and tell me if you see a single Georgian that says Russia is the "bad guy"? I think Russia was perfectly justified in it's response.
Georgia invaded sovereign Russian territory with ground troops and fired upon Russian peacekeepers. The resulting air strikes and raids sent by Russia against Georgia were precisely the response needed to head off any further escalation of hostilities. It doesn't matter who started the fighting in what is a regional clash among ethnic peoples. Legally, Georgia had no right to invade Russian territory.
I'm not trying to justify the actions taken by Georgia, but I am saying that Russia only stirred up more trouble in South Ossetia (and Abkhazia, for that matter). These were never the most stable regions, but now they're in this strange limbo between countries. And it will really at nobody's benefit. Also, what is simply disgusting, is the fact that there was practically a genocide against the Georgians of South Ossetia and Abkhazia during the war. Russia is barbaric.
In the five day South Ossetia War between Russia and Georgia, Russia's response was not proportional to Georgia's initial action. The European Union investigated and found that Georgia started the war, but was provoked and that Russia's response was not proportional. The attack by Russia was found to violate International Law.


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The high scores given by Coffee Review validate the quality and love that go in to sourcing and roasting the coffee we serve, and we're honored by the recognition.
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Industry coffee report, Coffee Review, recently ranked Bird Rock Coffee Roasters' Sumatra Ulos Batak coffee at 96 points. Coffee Review has not awarded a score that high to a Sumatran coffee for more than 6 years, and this is the highest score Bird Rock Coffee Roasters has ever been awarded to date.
Coffee Review conducts blind cuppings and ranks coffees on a 100-point scale. The coffees are judged based on five different criteria, and Bird Rock's Sumatra Ulos Batak scored a 10 for both aroma and flavor, nine for body and aftertaste, and eight for acidity.
Two other Bird Rock varieties, the Panama Elida Estate Natural Catuai and the Ethiopia Washed Yirga Cheffe also received outstanding scores of 95 and 94, respectfully, and were both sourced through direct trade with the individual farmers.
"Our goal at Bird Rock Coffee Roasters has always been to provide the highest quality coffee in the world to our San Diego customers, and beyond," said Chuck Patton, owner of Bird Rock Coffee Roasters. "The high scores given by Coffee Review validate the quality and love that go in to sourcing and roasting the coffee we serve, and we're honored by the recognition."
According to Coffee Review, the Sumatra Ulos Batak was given the following assessment: "Extraordinarily intense and complexly aromatic coffee. Pungent fruit (grapefruit, black currant); moist pipe tobacco and sweet, freshly turned clay; molasses and chocolate fudge. Round, quietly vibrant acidity; full, syrupy mouthfeel. Richly sweet, powerfully flavor-saturated finish."
The Sumatra Ulos Batak, Panama Elida Estate Natural Catuai and the Ethiopia Washed Yirga Cheffe are all currently available at Bird Rock's pour-over bar, and a 12-ounce bag can be purchased in-store, or online. For more information, and to purchase, visit http://www.birdrockcoffee.com.
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Recognized as Roaster of the Year in 2012, a national once-in-a-lifetime award, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters (BRCR) is proud to have put premiere coffee on the map in San Diego. A regular contributor to the international coffee industry, a consistent winner of multiple awards above the score of 90 from Coffee Review and with a Q-Grader certified roaster on site, the Bird Rock Coffee Roaster's staff is sought after throughout the world for their coffee expertise. Going beyond the perfect latte, Bird Rock Coffee Roasters has the top quality Roaster on site, a pour-over bar featuring the top seasonal varietals, weekly cuppings open to the public for a sneak peak into the newest offerings, and a deep dive into the selection process and all things coffee. Bird Rock Coffee Roasters goes beyond the confines of the fair trade structure and engages in direct trade with farmers, and is proud to serve the best green coffee, prepared with the utmost respect to those who grew it. Bird Rock Coffee Roasters is located in La Jolla, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.birdrockcoffee.com


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I'm doing my mba from a local collage located in Hyderabad. I'm good looking well built physique. I had some girl friends in my graduation and had sex with them very terrifically. But I felt that I was missing some important thing in my life that is none other than my mom.
She is a good looking lady, house wife; with a charming fair skin I have lust on my mom from my child hood as I had a very large fantasy about sex. My mom don't had a habit of wearing bras and panties the blouse which my mom wear in home will be of very thin through which I can see her complete breast easily whenever she will wash her face and become wet it was very easy to see her areola and dark nipple of her she had a very big size of boobs around 38d which will make me mad.
My family is of four, me mom dad and young brother. Dad is a busy business man always busy with work and my brother is doing graduation. I m a good looking handsome guy with fair complexion at an age of 25 and my mom is now at an age of 44 with a very good figure and good complexion. I have got the feel of my parents that they are not good in their sexual life as I can easily find it from my mom behavior and I thought to use this situation. On one day after I joined in mba college I have came home early on one day from collage as there was no classes after first two periods when I have came home I have not got any response for my bell and I have opened the door with my second key when I have entered the home I have heard the sound the sound of shower from my moms bathroom and I have moved to my room and just sat there for some time and when I gone out of my room to the main hall passing from entrance of my mom room at that moment she just came out of bath room with her petticoat tied till her waist and she was naked on top this is the first time for me to see my mom like that and I got more crazy from then and my intention to have my mom on bed increased drastically. After that sexy scene of my mother, I always visualized her half naked and with petticoat every time I saw her. My attraction towards her grew day by day and I started finding opportunities to peek on her naked flesh. I even started masturbating thinking about her.
On one lucky day gods listened to my words prayed to fulfill my fantasy as I got a chance to fulfill my fantasy. It was happened so on one fine day when my dad has gone to out of station and not expected to be back within 4 days & for my luck today my brother has also moved to his friend house to stay there for 3 days. I have got enormous thoughts to **** my mom as she was a religious lady as she won't agree for my proposal to sleep with me. On that evening we got a Hindi movie on video and watched it. It was a low budget movie on extramarital affairs. It was low budget but the scenes were HOT! They never showed naked bodies but they were kissing the blouse covered breasts and lifting the saree and putting their hands inside! We both were very excited. I could notice mother breathing heavily and I could feel her HEAT! After the movie, we just discussed a little about it and went to our rooms for a much needed masturbation. Even after relieving myself a couple of times, I could not sleep. I felt frustrated thinking about the movie and my mother.
I decided I had to do something. I somehow had to convince her that I am willing to fill her when she needs a fill and I am sure she will not accept it if I propose to her. So the best thing would be to force her the first time. Once she gets laid forcibly, she will accept the situation and allow me to be her lover. The idea, as I was thinking, shot my whole blood of my body into my dick as I felt it acknowledging my thoughts.
I slowly got out of my room and walked to my mom's room. The door is closed but not locked. I pushed the door and went into her room. There she is, sleeping on her back with her face facing away from me. Her loose end of the saree has crumpled up covering only one blouse covered breast. Her other breast is fighting very hard to come out of the blouse. Her blouse hooks are tight and barely holding on the blouse. Her bare stomach is beautiful and moving up and down slowly to her breathing rhythm. Her legs were held together and her saree on her is twisted everywhere but fully covered. She is sleeping on a double bed. I have decided that if I ever copulate with my mother it will be on the bed where she always been copulated. It will be on the same bed my dad entered her and ****ed as her husband and her man. It will be on the same bed where her man of the house always ****ed her. So without even waking her up I just grabbed my mother's hand and pulled it to get her up the bed.
Mom woke up in shock before she could know what's happening I left her near bed, went to the door and locked it. Mom got to her senses although I would think she is still half asleep. Before she could say "What!" I caught hold of her loose end of the saree and pulled it towards me. Mom tried to hold on to it but in vain. The whole saree got unwrapped as I pulled. By now mom must have come to her senses as she madly tried to keep the saree on. Before we both could realize, her faithful saree separated from her body and mom was left only her blouse and petticoat. My lust has overcome my 'sonly' instincts as I kept enjoying my mother's situation as every man in India's dream to see a woman in her underwear. Mom started crying by now and said "what is that you are doing to your mom bastard" and I said "I m having woman from you to the man in your son" and I lunged on to her to pull her towards me and kiss her on her lips.
She struggled to avoid my kiss but I held on to her. Once I finished kissing her she just released herself from me and ran to open the door. By the time she held on to the door lock I ran towards her and grabbed her by the waist with one hand and the other hand caught her hand attempting to open the lock. Finally she spoke "Why are you doing this to me!" I told her "you're the sexiest women of my life" struggling to hold on to her. "But I'm your mother," she said, tearfully twisting and turning. "You're the woman of the house too, aren't you?" I said, and continued without waiting for a reply. "Mother, I suggest you to stop this and lie down on that bed there and get ready for me." I held on to her waist and quickly I fell down my short my cock sprung out stiff. She looked my cock and then dragged her eyes to look me in disgust. Before she could talk anymore, I grabbed both her wrists, pulling her towards me. Then I twisted so she turned around, her back to the bed. I then pushed her on to the bed as she lay on her back.
She screamed as she fell on the bed while still crying. "What do you want from me?" she sobbed. I said "the beautiful woman hidden in you" and just stood there enjoying her underwear covered body. She started to get up - I think to get away from me again but I grabbed her petticoat to pull it towards me. She must have worn an old one as it started tearing away along her waist where she tied her petticoat with a string. It took me several pulls between my mother's cries to tear her petticoat as it was giving way. It tore finally, and came away, leaving her naked waist down in just her petticoat piece tied around her waist. That was the first time I ever saw my mother's bush. My birth place and a forbidden part for a son to see. Her bush between her legs appeared to me like a place of enjoyment rather than a place of respect. By now she started to say while crying "this is not fair for you to do to your own mother, at least for he sake of god leave me right now" as I moved on to her as she was struggling and twisting sideways to cover her womanhood, pushing me to try to get me off her, pulling up her knees and using them to hide her body. I did not listen to her cries. In fact I liked her cries. I liked her tries to resist me! And I said to her that "god only has given me this golden opportunity to have you on bed tonight, so without any struggle make me feel the enjoyment of ****ing my own mom you also feel that joy" after Some more struggle and again she was flat on her back, with me standing over her, enjoying just looking at her.
I began to open the hooks of her blouse holding onto the two ends between her breasts. Mother is still crying pleading me not to do anything but she stopped struggling. I tried unhooking her blouse hooks but they are more a struggle than I expected. So I just pulled the blouse holding the inside of the blouse. Since the hooks were already tight, they just came off snapping and I could hear my mother cry more for every snap of a hook. I had to pull hard to snap the last hook but with that force the two end of her blouse hurled away revealing her big breasts. Her tits drooping on either end of her body. That was the instant I felt the best in my life. My mother under me, naked and on bed. I looked at those breasts whose nakedness has fed me when I was a child and also prompted me to lust for my mother when I am a grownup. I slowly bent myself to take one of her nipple into my mouth. Mother cried more but did nothing. I licked, and sucked both the breasts. It was a great experience preying on my dear old mother's wonderful and juicy breasts.
My mother stopped her resistance by now as she also became hot by the time and I started enjoying her naked body. I kissed sucked and licked her beautiful body everywhere I could and it was great. Then I said to her "what bitch what had happened to you stopped your resistance enjoying your son forcing you". Then she said "you have got some power to make woman feel the happiness in becoming woman for you come on do it faster I can't withstand any more" Then I turn my vision to the spot between her legs. The spot where I came to this world and where I can fulfill my lust to make myself a man to my mother. I used my legs to part her legs by pushing them outward and set myself comfortably between her legs. Mother though did not put any pressure. She just laid there with her head turned to one side and her eyes closed. I ran my free hand over her mound and inserting my index finger into her vagina. I started finger-****ing her. It did not take long before I could feel her juices oozing out as I increased my rhythm. I kept finger ****ing her for a while before I decided she is ready for the ultimate reunion. Still holding her hands above her head, I leaned on her body so I was covering her body with mine. With my free hand I felt between us, took my cock, and began to guide it towards her cunt.
As I reached her entrance I paused and touched her entrance my tip of the cock mom moaned aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh . I felt shivers along my spine as I union with my part of my mother's flesh with her flesh again and she started moaning more and more as aaaahhh aaahhh uuuuhhhhh. That was the time I contemplated the sin I am committing. I will be committing incest with my mother and a new type of bond between us. I am entering her cunt where there is no return. I could not wait any longer as I pushed forward. My dick entered her cunt. I pushed even harder. I heard my mother gasp, and heard her chanting my name with moans "aaaaahhh, uuuuhhh my son "as I pushed inside her completely. I then held there, for a while enjoying my sexual union with my mother. I let go her hands to balance myself for a long ****. Mom did not even move the hands as she might have thought it's all over for her. She is being ravaged nevertheless. I withdrew my dick a bit and pushed forward again. Mother stayed still without hesitating and enjoying her son rock hard cock inside her. I drew back again this time to be out of her and thrust back again. Mother gasped.
Then I settled to a steadier rhythm. I had achieved what I wanted. ****ing my own mother. My cock was inside her vagina and I am ****ing her. I am ****ing the same cunt my father has used to quench his lust and flooded it with his sperm to create me. I finally managed to spread the same legs my father has spread on the same bed. Finally I managed to make the same woman my dad made as woman of the house. I am squeezing the same breasts my dad squeezed and my mother used to feed me as a baby. I am enjoying the same body I shared when I took shape in her. I am reaching the same inside of my mother where I was spawned. I am kissing the mouth that had given me guidance, sweared on me and encouraged me. It felt great, that I am using the same woman that loved me motherly to love me sexually. I am showing my gratitude towards her upbringing by ravishing her cunt with my dick. After few more strokes, I felt my balls exploding gobs of semen I have been storing for her. I humped on to her vigorously before I came. I could not help stop but gasp as I shot my wad into her. I could feel my semen flooding mother's vagina as I reached my climax.
Our sexual act is complete as I laid on my wonderful mother fulfilled and gasping for my breath. I could hear my mother too is breathing hard. Our naked bodies still connected together with my chest firmly pressing her naked breasts. My cock by now started getting limp but still inside her transferring the last remains of my semen. We both made no moves to untangle as my exhaustion slipped me into deep sleep.


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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and before my wife and I had kids, we made a few trips to Key West in February, when the winters in Washington had begun to take their toll. In the mid-80's, you could stroll the relatively quiet Duval Street and hear Jimmy Buffet wannabes playing in nearly every bar in town, even in the middle of the afternoon.
I would listen to Buffet for a week before every trip just to get in the spirit of things and for a few weeks after because I couldn't stop.
The people who grew up there called themselves Conchs and begrudgingly offered the label "freshwater Conchs" to recent arrivals who had lived there a mere twenty years or so. The rest of us were just tourists.
They lived in small, wooden houses, creatively called "Conch houses", right up to the edge of the downtown area. According to a guidebook, Key West still has more wooden structures than any other town its size in the country. Conch houses were a staple of tours on— you guessed it— the Conch train.
The high point of every day was and is the sunset celebration at the Mallory Square docks. People would show up about an hour before sunset, perhaps buy a drink at the only large hotel in town, the Pier House, and watch and listen to street performers until the magic moment. The crowds would number 150 on a good night.
The sun's disappearance generated a round of cheers and served as the official starter's pistol for an evening of dinner and barhopping.
We always stayed at a small bed-and-breakfast on Fulton Street called
Eden House
. It had a dozen or so rooms with shared baths, a huge upstairs front porch and no air-conditioning. In February, the screened windows kept the rooms at a delightful temperature day and night, Key West being just 25° above the equator. It was hard to imagine being there in summer, though.
The Eden House had a wooden walkway around the second floor just outside our bedroom windows. One night a sound awakened me about 2:00 a.m. and I stared out the window to see a lovely young lady standing by the railing and enjoying the view. I couldn't help but notice that she was completely naked. I doubt she enjoyed the view as much as I did.
Eden House had a lovely swimming pool and served breakfast on the veranda next to it. Their specialty was cinnamon coffee. Flavored coffee was uncommon then and it seemed like such a treat.
Key West had a tiny airport, more of an airstrip, but we flew down once after connecting in Miami to avoid the four-hour drive. We flew on a DC-3, the planes whose tails sat nearly on the runway before takeoff so that you walked up a steep incline to your seat and sat facing upwards. As the plane picked up speed down the runway, the tail would lift and you would sit level until you landed.
Providence-Boston Airways provided the service. They flew the DC-3 from Boston to Martha's Vineyard in the summer and moved it to Key West in the winter. We were told it was the last DC-3 in commercial service. We had an amazing, low-altitude view of the Everglades as we flew down.
A year or so later, a few of PBA's planes actually flew into the Everglades instead of over them (you can overdo the low-altitude thing) and the airline went out of business. So much for nostalgia.
We loved Key West because it was tropical, low-key and had this amazing Margaritaville vibe. Knowing that you weren't a Conch and would always be an outsider wasn't a negative; it gave you the feeling that you were visiting someplace exotic and exclusive.
After we had children, we looked for more family-friendly resorts with real beaches and ended up in Sanibel and Captiva, which we also came to love. Last week, with all three of our kids away at college, we revisited Key West after a 25-year absence. It has changed. Not all for the better, but not all for the worse.
Our first thought was to return to Eden House. It's still there. In fact, it has grown and prospered, but the prices seemed high for a place so far from the action at Mallory Square. We decided to stay at the Westin by the docks, a place we couldn't have afforded the first time around.
The two biggest changes to us were the disappearance of Conchs and the appearance of cruise ships.
Many, perhaps most, of the Conch houses anywhere close to town have been converted to restaurants and hotels. We've kept a print of Southernmost House when it was a private residence, sketched and signed by artist Robert Kennedy in 1980, hanging on our walls for 25 years. Southernmost House is now a hotel, albeit a lovely one.
Other Conch houses are now restaurants, B&B's, bars, a microbrewery and, yes, a Hard Rock Café.
Where have the Conchs gone? They can't afford to live there anymore, of course, though we hope some made a fortune selling their real estate. You can buy a condo at the Truman Annex for a million three. A local barista told us the consensus is that within twenty years no one will actually live in Key West. It will be a commercial area manned by employees who live further up the Keys.
I fear that the cruise ships, the other big change, were a huge mistake. Cruise ships had long called on Key West, docking at the nearby Navy facilities, but in 1984 the City Commission made improvements to the city-owned Mallory Dock, making it a full cruise ship docking facility.
During our early Key West visits, we looked out at the Gulf of Mexico and the smaller keys and mangrove islands from many places around the city. Nowadays, two cruise ships a day, each larger and taller than the biggest hotels in Key West, cruise into Mallory Docks and block the view like that star cruiser in the beginning of the first Star Wars movie. City ordinances ensure that they leave two hours before sunset, but sitting in the shadow of one of these behemoths and hoping they move in time to actually see the sunset is a strange experience.
At first I worried that the restaurants and shops would be jam packed when the ships were docked, but unfortunately for Key West shops and restaurants, they weren't. We spoke with one passenger who told us he would look around town a bit and return to the ship for lunch. The food is good and free, he explained, so why spend money in a restaurant?
The biggest revenue producers in Key West are the bars, nightclubs, restaurants and hotels. If cruise ship passengers eat lunch on the boat and have to be gone two hours before sunset, it isn't clear what business is left for the town to justify destroying the view all day long.
Oh, there was a third change I noticed. I didn't hear a single Jimmy Buffet song while we were there. The wannabes have been replaced by country singers, usually with a comedy shtick.
Buffet's musical history has long been tied to Key West, a town that inspired lovely ballads and conjured up vivid images of the tropics, and it now seems to be tied to the resort's new persona. The music Buffet puts out of late sounds more like cheap T-shirt shops than local art galleries and feels more like the town's hundred or so Key Lime pie shops than a beer at Captain Tony's.
The hotels are nicer, the restaurants are better and the facelift of the docks area is a welcome sight. I find Hemingway's House and Truman's Little White House as inspiring as ever. Still, I believe this may have been our last Key West visit.
The year after that lovely apparition appeared at the balcony rail in the middle of the night, we sat next to the Eden House pool after breakfast. A beautiful young lady was swimming alone, but she soon disappeared. As we walked up the steps to our second floor room, we noticed her drying in the sun on a chaise in the nude. Vicki chuckled as we passed by and said, "The legend lives on."
I fear the Key West legend is dying. I like it now, but I want to remember it as it was.
Dirk Cotton
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Software Class Demos Projects to Help One Teen Communicate
With the tablet computer on her lap, Grace Simon, 13, hoisted her hand and set it down on the screen. It didn't matter where her fingers landed. Just like that, she made a selection in an early version of an app designed to help her converse about her favorite activities.
"That's pretty awesome," said her mother, Jennifer Simon, of Westphalia, Mich.
Grace has athetoid cerebral palsy. While she can read, understand spoken words and signal "yes" or "no," she can't speak or use extensive sign language to communicate because of her limited muscle control. A software engineering class at the University of Michigan has spent the past semester building systems that might help the sixth-grader connect with others and act more independently at school and at home. On Dec. 11, all 14 teams will demonstrate their systems for instructors – and for Grace.
"They're all feeling a responsibility that this needs to work well," said teaching assistant Chris McMeeking. "This is different from a typical class. When a project fails for us, we understand; we're developers. But if it fails for Grace, it's like we let her down."
The students made a variety of systems. Some are specific – attempting to give Grace tools to draw, color and practice math. Others could help her answer questions or convey more information about what she needs, wants or likes. And several groups focused on giving Grace more general language tools. If she could just enter information into a computer – whether words, letters or choices from a list – that could vastly expand her ability to communicate. One group made a decision tree that could let her narrow her choice from a broad category to a single word or concept. Another designed a modified keyboard.
Because a typical keyboard, mouse or touchscreen wouldn't work for Grace, the students utilized joysticks, Microsoft Kinect motion sensors and Intel Gesture Cameras to build systems she could potentially control with her limb motion, or facial movements.
The team named "Vision with Grace" uses a Kinect camera to identify objects in view and then lets Grace make selections by looking at that object for several seconds.
"When Grace and her family first visited our class, they expressed frustration that they were sometimes unable to quickly understand her needs," said team member Stephen Lanham, a senior computer science major. "They said sometimes Grace would have to crawl across the room to show her parents that she was interested in some object such as a book for school. Our solution provides a clean and simple interface for Grace to choose items identified by the Kinect."
Many of the teams that relied on a modified touchscreen built upon a project developed in the class several years ago. ASK Interfaces, created by teaching assistant McMeeking and his colleagues, scans through possible selections on a tablet computer and essentially turns the entire screen into a button.
One group that uses ASK is "My Favorite Things," which impressed Grace and her mom in a mid-semester beta release, is a database of items that Grace enjoys, organized into categories.
"We want to help Grace express herself and tell others about her favorite activities. We hope this helps her answer questions and allows her to have more two-sided conversations," said Catherine Fisher, a senior computer science major in the class.
Students say they learned more than how to code.
"Grace's enthusiasm and willingness to participate with helping us refine our product has been a pleasure and reminded us of the value of creating highly configurable software," said Eyad Makki, a senior studying computer science. "What seemed like a reasonable speed for us wasn't for her and we had to tweak it."
The instructor behind the course is Dr. David Chesney, a lecturer and research investigator in computer science and engineering who has made a point of putting social context into his senior- and freshman-level classes for more than a decade.
Last year, his class focused on developing games to help children with autism with large motor and social skills. One of those games, PATH, is in a clinical trial with patients with brachial plexus palsy – a congenital movement disorder in which one arm is weaker and shorter than the other. And McMeeking's ASK Interfaces is expected to be available for public use in early 2014.
"The work has to be important," Chesney said. "It would be easy enough to come up with contrived projects semester after semester, but this isn't contrived. This is something we're doing that really has the potential to help people. That makes it so much more meaningful."
Microsoft and Intel both donated technologies to the class and the Mott Golf Classic has also provided funding.
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News organizations of all stripes are scrambling to tout their online video news capabilities.
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• The AP also announced last month that it will create an ad-supported online video news network for its members, most of which are newspapers. The network will be "distributed," according to AP's Jane Seagrave, director-new media markets, meaning it will reside on individual newspaper sites.
• CBS Digital Media and CBS News unveiled in July an ambitious plan to create a 24-hour news channel online, with heavy use of ad-supported video news, to "bypass" cable television.
• MSNBC.com attributed, at least in part, its growing number of monthly unique visitors to its free video news service.
• CNN, which had offered subscription video news, recently introduced free video. Susan Grant, exec VP-CNN News Services, also said in an interview that CNN.com will introduce a premium subscription video news service later this year that will not be ad-supported.
• CMP Media in June launched "The News Show," an online video newscast covering b-to-b technology issues. The program appears on TechWeb and has attracted sponsors such as Lexmark International and Computer Associates.
This flurry of activity appears to be an indication that the long-promised media convergence has finally arrived. Though their origins are in disparate media-ranging from online (Yahoo! News) to newspapers (AP) and from broadcast television (CBS News) to cable TV (CNN)-all of these news organizations now compete head-to-head in the same medium: the Internet, and most of them are using text and video.
Dow Jones & Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal, made an online acquisition earlier this year that was in part intended to strengthen the company's presence in online video news.
"One of the attractions to Dow Jones of MarketWatch as an acquisition was the pioneering work that the MarketWatch site does in integrating text and video," said L. Gordon Crovitz, president of Dow Jones Electronic Publishing. "The MarketWatch home page has prominent links to high-quality online video, often on the key stories of the day. At the Wall Street Journal Online, we now have a new Video Center that features about a dozen online video business news items from our Dow Jones-CNBC joint venture."
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Advertisers, of course, go where the audience is. In addition to a growing audience, video online offers other attractive features to ad agencies and marketers. "Ad agencies traditionally love creating video," said Jeff Dearth, partner at media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips. "It's sexy, and they have nice margins on it."
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On CNET Networks, for instance, Microsoft ran video ads for its Microsoft Office suite. CNET also created content on "collaboration," which Microsoft sponsored, said Stephen Howard-Sarin, VP-business technology portfolio at CNET.
CMP's "The News Show" offers an indication of how niche video programming might thrive on the Web. A new program is posted on TechWeb daily at noon ET. Paul Way, associate publisher-webcasting at CMP, said about 30,000 people view the program on demand between its initial posting and noon the following day.
CMP moved into video because marketers wanted it. "They were telling us that they have television content, television creative," Way said. "They were coming to us and looking for these opportunities. At the time, we didn't have too many options for video."
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The Moran Award for History of Science Research
Applications are invited for the 2012 Moran Award for History of Science Research.
Who is eligible?
Postgraduate students and other independent researchers with expertise in the history of Australian science.
What is its purpose?
To encourage use of the Basser Library collections, especially by younger researchers. It can be used towards travel and accommodation costs associated with going to Canberra
What is the value?
How many are available?
In general only one Scholarship will be awarded each year. However, this is at the discretion of the selection committee.
When do applications close?
Applications for 2012 close on 30 November.
What documentation is needed?
Applications should be limited to three pages and include a cv, a brief outline of the proposed project and the Basser Library collections to be consulted, and a budget. Please attach two referees' reports to your application.
Where should applications be sent?
To the Librarian at the Australian Academy of Science,
either by post to GPO Box 783, Canberra ACT 2601
or by email to rosanne.walker [at] science.org.au.
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All applicants will be notified by the end of the year.
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Job: Research Fellow in EH at JCU in AustraliaESEH : November 6, 2012 14:11
Research Fellow position in environmental history – closes 9 November
Job Level(s): Research Academic Level B, Research Academic Level A
Location: James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Appointment period: 3 years
Closing date for applications: 9 November 2012
Reference: 12318
Position Statement
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies is an internationally renowned research centre encompassing >200 researchers and graduate students, with ongoing research projects in 30 countries. We are seeking an early to mid-career postdoctoral Research Fellow for Research Program 5 Resilience of linked Social-Ecological Systems
The objective of the position is to reconstruct the environmental, social and economic history of catchments and coral reefs.
The appointee will have substantial freedom to forge a research program that suits her or his interests and abilities and to collaborate with leading coral reef researchers.
The position will be based in Townsville. This is a full-time research only position and the successful applicant must have a PhD with an exceptional track record for their stage of career. Previous experience in coral reefs is not essential.
Duties and Accountabilities
- Conduct research independently and as part of a team that contributes to the achievement of the aims of the ARC Centre of Excellence, particularly Program 5: Resilience of linked social ecological systems.
- Contribute to improving understanding of the fellowship research area
- Work independently and collaborate with Centre staff and end-users to apply skills to research problems in the study of the social-ecological systems.
- Publish research in high quality journals.
- Co-supervise graduate students, if appropriate.
Key Selection Criteria
- PhD in related discipline.
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- Established links (national and international) with appropriate research organisations and personnel
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Appointments will be full-time for a fixed term (research only) of three years subject to a probationary period.
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Academic Level A: $71,027 – $76,005* per annum
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Benefits include 5 weeks annual leave, generous employer superannuation contribution and attractive options for salary packaging.
Application Procedure
Apply online (reference number 12318) through James Cook University. Please forward a Curriculum Vitae, one-page statement of research interests, PDFs of recent publications and addresses of three referees. Please quote reference number 12318: Research Fellow: Environmental history of coral reefs.
Closing date for applications: 9 November 2012
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The Pecos Eagles are still struggling in baseball, with District 4-3A play just five days away. But the Eagles did hit the ball better in their final two games at the Andrews Tournament.
The Eagles, who lost their opener to Big Spring, 11-8, were routed Friday morning by district rivals Greenwood, 15-3, then fell behind Andrews early, before ending up losing by a 13-7 final score. The loss put Pecos into another match-up with Greenwood on Saturday in the round-robin tournament, and this time the Eagles had a lead, but saw the Rangers rally for a 12-9 victory.
"One thing we got out of it, we saw some good pitchers up there and our hitting finally seemed to come around," said Eagles' assistant coach Junior Williams. "Our 1-9 batters were hitting, but defensively we're still lacking. We're making mistakes that hurt us."
"Jaime Muela's really stepping up as the leadoff hitter. He's doing the job he's supposed to do, and Robert Nunez, hitting at No. 8 or 9, is starting to get on a lot," he added.
Williams said sophomore Eddie Vela started in the Friday loss to Greenwood, while Nunez and another freshman, Chris Garnto pitched in relief. Senior Jose Reyes went the distance later in the day against Andrews and Edward Valencia went all the way in Saturday's loss to Greenwood after lasting just six batters in his previous start, against Brownfield.
"We were up 7-5 against Greenwood, then they tied it at 7-7 and went ahead," Williams said, while in the loss to Andrews on Friday, the Mustangs led all the way.
"They hit the ball pretty well, but early on Jose held them scoreless in the first inning. Then in the second they had two outs and a runner on second base and they hit a ball we didn't make a play on, and they ended up scoring three runs in the inning," he said. Andrews then scored six more times in the third for a 9-0 lead.
"That's the game that gave them some confidence, because they could have easily 10-run-ruled us, but we came back, and they were throwing their No. 2 pitcher, but we hit the ball pretty well," Williams said.
The three losses dropped Pecos' season record to 3-11 on the season going into their final pre-district game, at home on Tuesday night against the Midland Christian Mustangs. It's the first of three straight home games for Pecos, which will start off District 4-3A play against Monahans on Friday.
Pecos Eagle seniors Trent Graham and Natalia Ornelas took home first place honors in singles competition on Saturday from the Sandhills Tennis Tournament in Monahans, while the Eagles ended up taking second place overall in the tournament.
Graham defeated Midland Trinity's Jack Roberts, 6-1, 6-0, in the finals of the tournament, while Ornelas downed Monahans' Christy Gatski, 6-3, 6-3, to win the tournament title.
"That's a major victory for seeding purposes at district," said Eagles' coach Mike Ortiz. "Their girl also went to the same (tennis) camp that Trent did in New Braunfels, so it was a big win for Natalia."
Ornelas began with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Nicole Hillman and then beat Lydia Jackson, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1, and Carley Senger, 6-3, 6-0, to reach the finals. Graham had a first round bye, then defeated Edward Martinez, 6-0, 6-1, and Joey Toca, 6-0, 6-2, to advance to the finals.
"My other boy, Frankie (Hernandez) also did real well. He got fourth place, so I was real proud of him," Ortiz said. Hernandez would fall to Roberts and Tora after wins in his first two tournament matches.
The Eagles' coach said his other girls' singles player, Crystal Ikeler, ended up beating Hillman, 8-4, to take 11th place in the tournament.
In girls' doubles, Mimi Ornelas and Whitney Lamb won their opening round match, before falling to eventual division champions Colby French and Alex Thomas in the tournament semifinals. They then loss to Rangel and Pacheco of Fabens in the fourth place match.
In boys' doubles, Frankie Ornelas and Jesse Hanks won their opening match, then fell to division champs Jay Bates and Antoney Kelley in the quarterfinals. They then advanced to the fifth place match of the tournament before falling to Monahans John Wilhelm and Chris Vidona. The other doubles team, of Michael Orona and Donald Walker, took seventh place.
Ortiz said the Eagles ended up sixth earlier this month at the Region I-4A competition in Levelland. Pecos opened with a 15-4 victory over Greenwood, then lost to Fort Stockton, 14-5, before beating Slaton, 12-7 and falling to Brownfield, 10-9. "We were playing for fifth place, and it came down to a last match tiebreaker, and we lost by two points," he said.
"Trent and Natalia went undefeated through the whole tournament, so that will help them with seedings at district, especially with the wins over Fort Stockton," he added. Canyon ended up winning the Region I-3A title.
Ortiz said Tuesday's scheduled match in Monahans has been canceled, due to the rescheduling of the Eagles' tennis tournament that was snowed out in February. The tournament is scheduled for this Friday at the Pecos High School tennis courts.
The Pecos Eagles figured to have little margin for error in their game Friday afternoon in Monahans against the Loboes, and that turned out to be the case, unfortunately for the Eagles.
The defending district softball champs took advantage of a couple of a passed ball and wild pitch with two out in the first inning to score one run, and then used a throwing error by pitcher Stephanie Herrera in the fourth inning to score two more times to back the three-hit pitching of Nicole Dickson, as the Loboes scored a 3-0 victory.
"We didn't play bad, we just didn't hit the ball," said Eagles' coach Tammy Walls. "Our 5 through 9 girls in the lineup couldn't hit their pitcher, and we left runners on second and third twice. You have to capitalize on situations like that."
Herrera surrendered leadoff singles to Raquel Hawkins and Katie Hill in the first inning, then seemed to get out of trouble, striking out Dickson and getting Emily Speed to ground into to third base, where Savanna Ewing forced out Hawkins. She then got two strikes on Stacy Fuentes, before a 1-2 pitch got past catcher Brittany Lobstein, allowing the runners to move up, and Hill scored when ball four sailed by the Eagles' catcher.
Speed would be caught on a steal of home to end the inning, but the Loboes scored twice more in the fourth without getting the ball out of the infield.
Ashley Jarrett opened the inning with an infield hit, and then Herrera threw away Lindy Stoeffer's sacrifice bunt, allowing her to go to third and Jarrett to score.
"The shortstop was late getting over, and she just threw it to the base when nobody was there. Those things cost us," Walls said. Stoeffer then came home on a Lupe Navarette ground out for the final run of the day.
Dickson, meanwhile, survived problems in each of the first three innings to keep Pecos off the board. Jenny Palomino had an infield hit with one out and Herrera singled with two away in the first inning, but Dickson got Hillary Hinojos to line out to Hawkins at shortstop. She would get a pair of strikeouts in the second after hitting Bre'Ann Windham, and then in the third would strand two runners again, after a hitting Lobstein to open the inning and then walking Herrera with two outs.
Herrera would be left stranded again in the sixth inning after a two out double, as Dickson picked up her second straight shut out over Pecos, after blanking the Eagles at home a year ago, 5-0.
"We played good. It just wasn't good enough to win," said Walls. "Their pitcher did a good job pitching, and we just weren't able to hit."
The win put Monahans at 15-5 on the season and 2-0 in district, while Pecos is 1-1 in district, 10-8 overall going into their 5 p.m. game on Tuesday at Kermit against the Yellowjackets
A couple of ailing runners and a mistake near the finish line made the final part of Saturday's Sandhills Relays a bit of a disappointment for the Pecos Eagles. But overall, coach Jerry Parent and Roxie Chavez weren't unhappy about the final outcomes, which saw the boys place third and the girls seventh in their divisions.
The boys picked up two firsts and finished with 78 points, while the girls had one first place finish and wound up with 37 points, as Andrews' boys and Big Spring's girls took home the team titles.
"I happy. With what we've got, just 14 kids, they competed," said Parent. "We're just playing around now with what we've got. We've got two more weeks before district and hopefully we'll get a couple of kids back before then."
Rashad Terry earned both of the Eagles' gold medals, winning the high jump Saturday morning with a 6-foot-2 effort, then taking the 100 meter dash with a 10.48 time. But the junior missed a chance for a third gold when he let up down the stretch of the 200 meter dash and was surprised by Big Spring's Jeremy Williams, who won with a 22.42 time to Terry's 22.56.
"That was disappointing, but he learned a lesson, I hope," Parent said. "That's the first time anyone's beaten him in the 200 in the last two years."
Pecos still picked up 12 points in the event, eight from Terry and four from Pete Juarez, who finished fourth in the 200 finals.
The girls, meanwhile, didn't score any points in the 200, as junior Jummy Akinyode was scratched from that race, and later the 1600 meter relay along with Alessandra Carrasco.
"I pulled Jummy out of the 200 and running the relay because she started pulling and Alessandra was starting to pull," Chavez said. "I just didn't want the girls too get hurt feeling like that, especially with district coming up."
In-between the 200 and 1600 meter relay, sophomore Jennifer Martinez picked up the Eagles' lone gold medal, winning the 1600 meter run with a 5:54.28 time.
"That's her best time of the year," Chavez said. Earlier in the day, Martinez placed second in the 3200 meter run to Andrews' Christie Feland with a 12:48.62 time. "She cut about 14 seconds off her time," the Eagles' coach added.
The girls' other medal Saturday came from Stephanie Herrera, who finished third in the discus with a 109-foot-6 throw. Jessica Flores was sixth in that event, while Herrera was fourth and Chantel Mazone placed fifth in the shot put.
The girls' remaining points came from Leslie Rodriguez, who tied for fifth in the high jump, and the 400 and 800 meter relay teams, both of which placed sixth.
Chavez said she opted to hold Rodriguez, Lily Valdez and Olivia Legarda out of the hurdles competition because "They aren't ready yet." The Eagles haven't had any hurdlers so far in their three meets this season.
The boys' 800 meter relay team of Terry, Juarez, Alex Orosco and John Parent picked up a second place finish behind Andrews for the Eagles' other medal of the day in the running events. Chad Evans had Pecos' lone medal in the field events, taking third in the shot put with a 45-foot-5 effort.
Evans was sixth in the discus, while in the pole value Justin Lara took fifth and Andrew Grant finished sixth. The 1600 meter relay team finished fourth, as did Jeremiah Mora in the 400 meter dash, while Parent was sixth in the 110 hurdles, Gonzalo Reyna was sixth in the 3200 meter run, and the 400 meter relay team also took sixth for Pecos' other points.
The Eagle track teams will both be taking long trips this coming Friday and Saturday, but in opposite directions. The boys will be going 210 miles east to San Angelo for the San Angelo Relays, while the girls will travel 210 miles west to El Paso for the San Elizario Relays.
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The English Language: Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal communication, sometimes called "Body Language" is any sort of communication which is done without words. Please note, American Sign Language other national sign languages are NOT nonverbal communication, because sign language is infinitely creative, and as equally complex as spoken language.
Universiality of nonverbal communication
Many nonverbal signs are universal. For example, smiling and frowning mean the same thing (amongst humanity) regardless of where one travels on this globe. Often, nonverbal signs are involuntary and physiological. Blushing is a nonverbal signal showing the quality of being embarrassed. Unlike verbal signals, nonverbal signals often resemble their referents; that is to say, nonverbal signals resemble that to which they refer. Words do not resemble,except when one is being onomatopoetic, the subject to which the word refers. The word "Anger" Doesn't sound angry, and the word "Wonderful" doesn't sound so wonderful. While words are arbitrary, non-verbal signs are not.
Alternatively, there are many non-universal nonverbal signs. Signs that mean something in America may very well mean something very different somewhere else (if they mean anything at all).
Untaught Language
Nonverbal signals, unlike their verbal counterparts, are not things that are taught. While they are largely culturally defined, they are not learned in the traditional sense. While a young child who receives socks for Christmas may say "Thanks grandma...", his disappointment shows clearly on his face. The nonverbal signals representing his disappointment are merely physiological reactions to his current emotional state.
Encoding and Decoding Nonverbal Messages
Nonverbal messages are encoded in a variety of ways; this variety is broken down into two categories: simple and complex. Simple encoding happens naturally and is such that the receiver of the message can easily decode the message and retrieve the meaning. Simple encoding is often (if not always) involuntary. Complex encoding requires a thoughtful effort. One form of complex encoding takes place when we decide how we wish to communicate. We do not, one would presume, speak in the same manner with our professors and employers that we speak with our friends or family. Neither do we dress the same way for a job interview that we would for a night at the movie theater. Also, a form of complex encoding is used when coordinating verbal signals with their nonverbal counterparts. An example of this would be nodding while agreeing verbally. Nonverbal communication also serves to complement our spoken communication. Saying that we're really excited about something is one thing, but unless it is visible on our faces and in our gestures, it does not carry the same message.
Yes! I couldn't have put it better myself; letters are just shapes, yet we look at them and understand meanings from these shapes. Fascinating! It's nice to find someone else who shares my interests :)Daniella
Absolutely! Language and means of communication among all species, not only humans, fascinates me. It's funny how we make sounds from our mouths or move our hands or wink with our eyes and others immediately understand the pragmatics of our actions. Language in all its forms is fascinating!
Cool hub! I'm studying A Level French and I was having a lesson with the French assistant the other day who was telling me all about signs they have over there. Many were similar - like the thumbs up - but there were a few that I didn't understand and visa versa. For example, she didn't understand what I meant when I tapped my nose (the sign to show "I know something you don't know!") and she flicked her thumbs off her chin, which I didn't understand!
Body language does play a huge role in the portrayal of meaning. Sometimes it's even stronger than words. As a well known song goes: "You say it best when you say nothing at all"!
Thanks, Daniella