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Guild Wars 2 has the potential to take the MMO genre forward.
Way to get me more excited about this game! XP
The World PvP sounds incredibly interesting. Hope they can pull it off!
I really don't see how this is supposed to REVOLUTIONIZE the damn MMO industry, its another hotbar based MMO, while obviously a well made one its just another part of the problem and not the solution.
Edit: You can all stop quoting me now, I really don't care anymore why you personally believe this game is god, as I see I'm throwing myself against a fanboy wall here.
I like the game well enough, but the engine is garbage. They could have made a far better game if they'd bought a license and spent the extra development time rethinking blunders like zero player collision and check-based Y axis hit detection.
Animation based game.
And A-net said they had e-sports hopes for their PvP. I had no idea they were such great jokers.
Nice write up - I do agree that GW2 will have an influence on new MMOs, in particular questing and leveling structure.
For me it's potentially evolutionary in the space that it exists, less so about some ground breaking divergence. The bittersweet fact is we simply are not going to see something revolutionize the entire MMO industry on say the same level of when MMOs first came out, at least not soon. At our current technological level, we are still a ways off from anything like that. What we can do, and what Guild Wars 2 does, is take a close look at a number of the game mechanics that have been stagnate in the MMO space.
I'm still worried about everything ELSE you didn't mention.
elaborate? Examples? what would you rather see instead of a hotbar mmo? a hotcircle mmo? There's really only so much you can do with combat skill placement.
I agree with the e-sports thing, since guild wars just doesnt seem to fit right in that aspect. Tabbing works exactly how it did in gw1, how else would you have it switch between targets? Switching to the one in the center of your screen won't work if you have more than 1 enemy there. If there were collisions, do you realize how impossibly annoying WvW would be? The engine works just fine, and it's not even optimized yet. Also, I can guarantee you that Anet has considered adding collisions because it was in gw1. They clearly made a decision not to, which means it's not a blunder, it's a choice. I will also agree that minimap tracking would be nice, especially since it was in gw1.
It would be nice if people would point out things that can't be fixed through player skill. Stuff like spectator for pvp and wvw, particle effect scaling, performance optimization, and those sorts of things.
How about, and this is a crazy idea here, an MMO that actually relies on skill and aiming! (Oh god doesn't that idea just shake your britches)
I mean I've heard Vindictus had good combat, but I also heard that's basically just a RPG with mulitplayer zones.
The first MMO developer to actually have a good combat system with less grind and actual content would be king of the god damn world for years...yet no one can grow the brain cells to NOT copy WoW and its predecessors.
Edit: Again, no quoting please, I ceased caring against the wave of people who claim GW2 is going to be god.
Well, GW2 would be a step in that direction as many of the skills require aiming where they are going and can be dodged by moving out of the way. Just because the skills you can use are selected by numbers by default doesn't make it a hotbar system like you describe. They also have made large strides towards player skill being a key factor in combat and removing random number generators from determining combat.
Further, the combat in GW2 is fun, at least in my opinion, and the grind apears to be non-existent. I am genuinly curoius what you would define a grind as these days, as there at no point in GW2 is there a lack of things to do and everything can help you level up. Have you had a chance to play the game at all? or are these opions based off of watching videos of the game?
I do agree that this will not be a revolution in MMO's but it is a step forward.
Then you get into first person mmorpg, which quite honestly doesn't work. You can't really "aim" if you're in third person, which is the most popular and most effective way to do an mmorpg. don't get me wrong, I'd get right behind a good first person mmorpg, but I've never seen one and I doubt I ever will. Also, I don't really understand how aiming with your mouse requires skill....GW2 has projectile, ground targeted, and directional skills. There are only a handful that will always hit, the rest can be dodged. I feel like there is some skill involved there.
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Vindictus is actually a really great example here. The issue is not a lack of creativity (though indeed the games industry is often too willing to play it safe), it really is a technological hurdle in the MMO space. The current limitations of bandwidth and server structure means that you can't have everything. Vindictus might feature combat more akin to an action game, but it's not able to do this in large zones with hundreds of players, hence the limitations. Likewise, games like Planetside can only be pulled off with certain restrictions, like a single hitbox. No matter what you're always going to be fighting with how much packet information can be sent back and forth to so many players.
All that said, as other have pointed out, Guild Wars 2 does a good job of taking combat from just feeling like what we're used to. TOR felt very WoW-like, Guild Wars 2 doesn't. It's probably better demonstrated in my first preview though.
Have you ever thought that most people like hotbar MMOs? I wouldn't play an MMO that isn't hotbar based. That is what I have Single player games for.
GW2 does have Hotbar, but it isn't like WoW, where you just stand there following your rotation and getting healed by the healer and not worrying about aggro because of the tank. You have to aim your skills, you have to manage your own health and damage mitigation, you have to dodge out of enemy attacks and abilities, and you have to always be aware because the enemy can turn on your at any second because there is no tank absorbing aggro.
The gameplay in WoW and GW2 is completely different. Sure they have hotbars, but both are really different.
I'm with you. Like I said on the Facebook feed:
I thought the beta as a whole was lacking. there was nothing to really engage in. Yeah all that stuff was there, but there was really on incentive.
The Sylvari weren't "similar" to elves, that's all they were. Literally. Elves with leaf hair. You could have thrown them into Amalur or something and no one would bat an eyelash
the only race done well was Charr, but the stories were all B-grade fantasy novel cliches, with no real choices besides "let this traitor live or die?". There was no real choice. I tried the Sylvari, and I hated all the NPCs, I would have rather joined the evil faction, the Nightmare Court, but alas, no such choice was there, making each small choice you got to feel just kind of... "About time I got to do something."
Combat was fun, but lacked any real impact. There was no real impact on anything I did. I never felt my sword hit a creature. I never saw a "tell" when a giant skill was coming, hence a sign to dodge. Speaking of dodging. It sucks. Period. It's way too imprecise and there was no reliable way to strafe and dodge without being a melee-based Ranger.
Really, the combat's fun, and the world's pretty, but just about everything else needs to be redone from the ground up. because aside from the combat and the "dynamic events", which aren't really all that dynamic, there's nothing new in this game.
No, tabbing doesn't work exactly as it did in GW1. I'm very surprised you'd say that without realising your mistake on reflection.
In GW1, the minimap tracked all players at all times. You could keep the minimap on your peripheral vision and know roughly to which dot the next tab would take you. That is no longer the case, and a feature-sparse minimap DIRECTLY undermines the target tabbing function in much the same way as a lack of collision does. It makes this core interface utility unpredictable. That's pretty big shit.
EDIT: It might be more accurate to say that while tabbing is technically the same beast, the ways in which it can be utilized have been fundamentally changed for the worse. Unless you think making a core system unwieldy is arguable as "simply a difference". I'd be looking at you with a pretty skeptical face if you did.
A highlighted cone that represents the users' target tabbable FOV should be projected from your own dot on the minimap. In that cone, other players' dots should be visible and your current target should be highlighted. That doesn't solve the similar problems caused by a lack of collision, but who cares? Right now, the two problems compound each-other to the point that you could quite legitimately call the arrangement broken. If you don't fix either one, you won't even have a worthwhile competitive passtime, let alone an e-sport.
As to your notion that zero collision was a design decision: I agree. It was a terrible design decision. That's a blunder.
The game is animation based. There are no casting bars and no means of following targets you don't have on-screen. Skill casts often do NOT have visually distinct tells; many skills are represented by artistic blurs shrouded in movement (death blossom). Add to this the fact that without collision, these blurs can stand inside other blurs.
The current situation (in my opinion) is that the game does everything it can to make sure that you can't pull any meaningful information off the screen from one moment to the next. I know what I need to play the game as a worthwhile competitive passtime, perhaps even as an e-sport. I also know that right now, GW2 doesn't provide anything like it.
Just because they took decisions doesn't mean they didn't blunder.
I'm suprise that you did another preview for this awesome game. Also ha I know which Universities you took for your Asuran character (that cutscene did made me chuckle).
ok lets agree that the minimap needs dots. Agreed? ok good. I also believe that this whole thing could be fixed by adding an icon under the enemy's name that indicates what skill they are using. Not a use bar, just the icon. I feel like this would make competitive play infinitely better, especially since a lot of elite skills have no visual effect on the players. PvP needs a lot of work before it's ready to be an e-sport, and quite honestly I don't think Anet has it in them to pull it off. Now that doesn't mean it won't be awesome and fun though. Their PvE content is also amazing.
As for the tabbing, it DOES work exactly the same. However, it is not represented the same. It still goes to the next target based on distance, but there is no visual indication as to where it will go next. The mechanic itself is the same.
Maybe I should run over to the beta forums if they're still open and add this icon suggestion.....something to think about at least.
question. I know this game doesnt have a subscription structure so...how do they afford to keep servers running???
Are the standard sales of the game enough?
PRetty much. I think there's a purely cosmetic cash shop, too, but yeah. The original stayed up with just game sales.
I didn't care one bit about Guild Wars 2 a couple months ago. Now, especially after seeing this, I'm completely stoked. This is the kind of pvp experience I've been looking for, with both structured and WvW pvp.
you want aimming go play tera its the game your looking for.
OT: i only got to play for a day and i can say without a doubt that this game is worth the money you spend on it. now this is my opinion but if you are a wow,rift,or tor player this game is worth checking out.
Thing is, pretty much all cash shops claim to be purely cosmetic at first.
I have no doubt that if game sales turn out to be insufficient then Arenanet will turn to selling more... significant items. Here's hoping they don't have to, but the risk is there.
I can honestly say that ArenaNet has successfully created the best midget race in any mmo to have ever existed since the beginning of time. The Asura are amazing. It was also nice to play a non-Korean mmo. Less grinding, more actual playing.
There's also Dragon Nest, C9 and Tera you know. All 3 very interesting games, the PvP is the most fun I've had in an mmo.
I seriously doubt they will go to that model. They will lose most of their player base if they do, and then the game will just die. Their whole mantra is that everything is available to everyone, and that just because someone beats the last dungeon in the game doesnt give them the best gear. So yea, I seriously doubt they will.
That being said, the cash shop does offer boosts and stuff, but since the stuff you get boosted wont affect your actual ability, it won't matter. Useable items in the cash shop can also be found in game.
I don't quite understand why people think subscriptions are the only way to keep an mmo going, especially since GW1 did so well without them. The subscription model to me is just a grab for money.
I found the GW2 beta incredibly fun and interesting. The fact that it has those extra exploration things it great because I love exploring the environments.
And was it just me or was that Asura npc in the cutscene voiced by Felicia Day?
Yea that was her. Felicia Day voices Zojja
If Justin did this... why does the end credits say 'Written and narrated by Paul Goodman'? (Is he doing a really good impression of Justin?)
Oh... and Justin plays a stabby thief? Never saw it coming... ;)
IIRC, in the first GW the PvE became more popular than the PvP.
I doubt this will happen, but even if it does, you can buy everything in the micro-transaction store with in-game gold. I am amazed at how many people don't know this, so I try to tell as many people as possible.
I felt the betas were pretty lackluster if I'm honest.
I've played in all BWEs and stress tests that Guild Wars 2 has had since it opened it's prepurchase phase. While I've only skimmed through this particular thread and havn't looked at the article linked in the OP, I think I can describe my experience to add to flavor.
First of all; Apologies to the OP, I do not mean to insult you by not reading your article, but I would like to not spoil myself further as I wait for launch.
I was originally skeptical of Guild Wars 2, all the hype and that I wasn't too interested in guild wars 1 didn't make for a convincing sell for me, so I made sure I got my hands on as many previews and videos as I could several months ago. I had saw some of the gameplay and features, but they were all geared to look better than they actually were. I've seen such marketing ploys myself in the past, but I knew A-Net liked to not make cookie cutter MMOs that mimic WoW is everything. That, coupled with my minor but not entirely unexpected disappointment of SWTOR, I thought I may as well prepurchase when the chance came. If I don't go putting money down, what right have I to complain eh? Hah, tell that to my wallet.
So, as the BWEs would come and go, I delved into the engineer and guardian classes, setting myself up as a healer. Guardian was cool looking with a greatsword and I kept on making people crap themselves as they saw my little human flying through the air at them with the greatest of ease. As good as it was, I didn't feel that guardian was as dynamic for me as it could be, so I delved into Engineer.
To properly describe what it was like for me to play engineer, I'll have to describe the setup i made for him and the differing experiences I had in both PvE and PvP.
In PvE, I was running about in human lands, so I was helping the Seraph wage their war against the centaurs. That was quite a fight, especially after getting out of queensdale, as I would have to push into enemy camps with friendly NPC seraph and players, all of us banding together to kick some ass and take some ground. Took ground we did too, as when we cleared out a camp, the seraph set up defenses, patrols and held ground, only for the taken ground to be rushed by centaurs not even ten minutes later. Long enough to move onto your next target, but short enough for you to find yourself on the retreat if the action in another camp got too hairy.
Skill use in PvE is largely a similar affair to what you see in other MMOs, since you can pull and kite enemies around as you wish.
PvP is another matter though, I exclusively played WvW with my character, which was very interesting indeed. Skill use is definately different and this is where I'd describe my particular setup. My engineer for WvW was set up with a rifle for long range, flamethrower for short range and elixer gun for support. Mines were also a part of my setup and it was very fun blowing people off bridges with hidden explosives.
To share an experience, the last beta event placed me at a place called Etheron, which is a large castle on the right of the map with an inner keep and outer walls. Control of this castle is important, as it can give you an alley of attack right into enemy flanks either side of the lake on the right, which makes it a high priority. Whiteside Ridge, my server, had just managed to take this castle and the main force had already moved onto the left of the map, leaving me and a few others there.
I was preparing to move across the river, when I saw activity crossing the bridge south of Etheron. Curious, I checked it out and found thirty real players charging for my position. Taking a stand on the walls, I called out on /team to get some help, of which there were only six responders. The six people that showed up with me, didn't get there in time for the enemy to bust through our south gate and I moved up to meet our paltry defense at the inner keep. Thankfully, our defenders had already set up siege weapons on the walls and manning them to fire.
The next four hours were spent fighting a ever rising tidal wave of red, half an hour saw 40 people banging on our inner keep, then an hour later, fifty people. They just kept coming, but we just kept killing. This entire time I was playing support with my elixer gun, spraying my allies with condition removing goo and lobbing super healing elixers to those who really needed to get onto their feet. I cannot even count how many people I got back on their feet from the downed position as our last stand would continue.
Then, four hours into the battle, the sky would quite literally start to rain with fire and arrows. Indeed, it was like it was blotting out the sun and I would realise what was going on when I looked at my minimap. My position had six little blue dots near me, fair enough, then the enemies at our door... fair enough, then I saw it, a massive blue sploge of allies surrounding the enemy. The fire raining from the sky? Those were siege engines set up on the outer walls by the allied assault force that took the castle earlier, they heard about our bust up and eighty, yes ~eighty~ people were now pushing into the enemy's backside.
Never did I see so many people panic to get away from the angry mob of badasses.
TL;DR I really enjoyed it.
I mostly did WvW and sPVP in the last beta and I loved both of them even though it seems my mesmer is a little gimped in the damage department. I also leveled up to 32 and did the level 30 dungeon. It was pretty fun.
P.S. Why on earth would you want collisions in an MMO?
Because it works ... DC universe online does it pretty well, and in combat it's fine.
So it works except when it doesn't.
In a hub building (such as a nightclub where you pick up questlines and do vendor stuff), for instance, there were people who had large characters and they would stand in doorways, effectively griefing the entire server.
Any game that has narrow corridors (read: jumping puzzles) is gonna get trolled if you can block other players.
On the subject of targeting, I would have to agree. The default targeting is ass.
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As part of the National Health Service Corps, which funded her medical training, Maria was providing primary health care to an under-served community where three-quarters of the population speaks Spanish. Mendota, touted as the "Cantaloupe Center of the World," has attracted agricultural workers from Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico and other Latin American countries.
For Maria, her medical practice is the culmination of a lifelong dream to help others.
"I really loved the sciences, but I didn't want to spend my life in the lab," Maria recalls of her decision to practice medicine. "One of the nice things about doing premed at Washington College is that you can study other things, too. I've encountered a lot of medical students who, in premed programs at larger schools, had taken only biology and chemistry classes. There's a real benefit to being well-rounded."
As an undergraduate, Maria played field hockey and coxed for the rowing team, participated in sorority activities and in student government, and lived in the International House. She spent a semester in Africa and, after graduation, won a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct data analysis on nutrition in Asia.


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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
You know I try to be vigilant about protecting privacy in my blog posts, right? So, without revealing too much, I'll just say that recent views of the history tab of the shared laptop indicate that:
1) Someone in my household has developed some healthy curiosity, and
2) Said person is a master of the art of the Google.
I need software that will block that which should be blocked, but will allow for reasonable surfing without the accompanying clarion call of "Can you enter a password for me?"
Any suggestions?
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- jess said...
I'm techogically inept, so um handing the phone to my husband ...
Most browsers have a filtering option that allows for choices of strict/moderate/none choices. I think other than that, you'd have to switch on the the parental control feature which unfortunately does ask for a password if someone tries to go to an unauthorized site. Back to Jess...
Hope that helps. Feel free to email me if you need more specifics on the browser option.
- May 23, 2010 8:46 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Thanks, Jess (and Jess's husband). Yes, I have the parental control feature activated on the desktop, but it blocks everything. EVERYTHING. I can't even find a work-around to authorize flash video on the Sesame Street site - not even with the password. I literally have to turn off the parental controls so he can watch Grover. And he's no dummy. As soon as I'm distracted for more than a minute...
I'm hoping there's some software out there with more flexibility that allows for more targeted screening.
- May 23, 2010 8:51 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
P.S. Thanks for the tip on the browser filter as well. I will certainly try that once I get the laptop back from having the virus removed from the hard drive (seems someone deactivated the antivirus...) Of course, the Google Master has met my "No Googling" admonitions by surfing over to Bing. Maybe I just always need to be one search engine ahead of him.
- May 23, 2010 8:54 PM
- Heather said...
I have Network Magic for my laptop. I get a weekly report from them regarding the usage of my laptop. I can set up personal settings for each user of the laptop. So, while I don't have to put in a lot of passwords I could make it harder for someone else. I am also able to block websites specifically or based on content. Hope this helps:)
- May 23, 2010 9:10 PM
- Niksmom said...
Erm, I'm trying hard not to giggle at the development. I suggest you email someone like Kev Leitch or Dave Seidel for tips?
- May 23, 2010 9:22 PM
- Ange said...
maybe this will help?
- May 23, 2010 11:56 PM
- Unknown said...
I like opendns
- May 24, 2010 12:13 AM
OK going out on a limb here:
What does it matter if your son sees the blog entries? There is nothing to hide, you are at all times respectful of your son in the blog so why hide the blog from him?
The truth wins out. Shouldn't Mom be ahead of the news not on the "you weren't supposed to see that" end?
- May 24, 2010 9:23 AM
- MOM-NOS said...
Sorry that my vague writing created confusion, Linda.
Bud knows all about my blog. He's not interested in reading it, but if he were, he would certainly be welcome. When he does look at it, it's to see the pictures of his books in my sidebar.
When I refer to protecting privacy, what I mean is that I am not going to tell you what he was Googling that has led me to want to install some parental control software, because it's... well... private.
- May 24, 2010 10:28 AM
- Club 166 said...
We only had old Playboy magazines that someone had gotten from an older brother's friend. Had to use our imagination a lot more. Life was so much simpler then...
I have no words of wisdom, as I am sure that I will soon also have to figure this out.
Just stopping by to say that curiosity regarding all things biological is natural.
- May 24, 2010 7:18 PM
We have had the same problem here with our own NOS 10 year old. Wow, you can learn a lot from the history button. Sorry, no advice other than we had to ban Google images and Google if he's surfing alone.
- May 24, 2010 8:03 PM
- Fairlington Blade said...
We had a funny early incident. Primo, who is preternaturally adept with the computer, was allowed to play on his own. He always goes for a few game sites (pbskids is a favorite). Well, he innocently searched for something and… I'll let Keen tell the story:
If you start typing letters in the search window in the upper right-hand corner of my browser, Google will helpfully suggest search phrases that begin with those letters for you.
If you type in the letters S and E, for example, one of the options is Sesame Street. Another is sexual intercourse.
If your computer-obsessed (and remarkably computer-literate) preschooler types in both of those letters for whatever reason, guess which option he will pick?
[Time for parental controls. I wouldn't have been so freaked out about it, except the kid can read and I didn't want him repeating that at preschool. Also, he'd clicked on the Google Images tab. I supervise him when he's on the computer, but he was fast.]
We feel your pain.
- May 24, 2010 10:54 PM
- amandahdah said...
Firefox has an app called Kidzui...it's basically a browser for kids that only allows them to search certain approved sites...it also lets you add a list of your favorites if they're not already on the page.
There may be other such apps out there, this is the best one I've found as far as being easy to use & parent friendly...they also send you an email update of all the activity on the account.
Good luck!
- May 26, 2010 11:07 AM
- Ina Pickle said...
Try "K9." I believe it permits you to block based on key word and a few other things. Their website also has links to other software you might use. It's open source. Good luck!
- May 28, 2010 11:45 AM
- h.rivas said...
My almost 4 yr old autistic son actually bid on something on Ebay. 2 days later - he figured out the Buy It Now feature. Had to explain to both sellers and apologize profusely. Be careful - they're smart. Just last nite - he handed me the Itouch to type in my password so he could buy an app. Yikes! I said no, and we entered yet another rage cycle. ugh....
- May 28, 2010 2:02 PM
- Ashlee Marie said...
We use net nanny. When a page is blocked it doesn't say so , it just goes to another site we've deemed appropriate. you can get a package that works on multiple computers too. On my husbands laptop it goes to Slate.com, his favorite site. On the kids computer it goes to plain old Google.com.
- June 09, 2010 2:11 PM
- Phoebe said...
Firefox has a nice little add-on called Procon Latte that is free and can be set to allow only specific sites or to block sites with specific words. I set ours to block the f-word. It's kind of amazing how that single word covers nearly all the bases. Occasionally some callow commenter leaves an f-bomb in an otherwise innocent youtube vid's comment thread, which is unfortunate, but hasn't happened much.
- June 11, 2010 7:00 PM
There are some pretty spicy things online. He might misspell the name of a favorite movie and wind up watching clips from Chitty Chitty Gang Bang.
- July 28, 2010 6:46 PM
- Justin said...
I am a bivocational pastor, and I work in IT to support my ministry habit (http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_2190388.html). :) I would recommend NetNanny (http://www.netnanny.com/) over most other software of that nature. I have even used it in some work sites for "public" computers. It is easy to install and easy to manipulate what your browser can and cannot see. It consistently rates as number 1 in most reviews of that technology.
I would have responded sooner, but I just found your blog though a facebook post today. I have spent the morning crying while my co-workers pass my cube giving me "that look". o_O
- October 05, 2010 12:14 PM


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New information just released in Evansdale girls case
Authorities released new information Monday in the investigation to find who killed two Iowa girls from Evansdale.
Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Rick Abben said investigators have received new information about activity around Meyers Lake on July 13, 2012, which is the day and location where the girls disappeared.
Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins were abducted and months later found dead in a rural park in December.
Abben said witnesses reported seeing a white older model full-sized SUV type vehicle (Chevy Suburban, Ford Bronco, of similar) parked on or near the lake along Arbutus Street.
Investigators want to speak with the driver or anyone who knows who may have been at or near Meyers Lake in a vehicle similar to what is described above.
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Operational responsibilities for securing our information infrastructures have remained largely unchanged
The establishment of the Cyber Command, which Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced last month in a memo, has been heralded as evidence that the country is getting serious about defending its cyber turf — and the memo was greeted with some trepidation that it could represent a militarization of cyberspace.
But Cybercom, which will be a subordinate unified command of the Strategic Command, represents more of an organizational change than an operational change at the Defense Department. It does not appear to signal a significant shift in the nation's cybersecurity stance.
DOD is still working on the details of Cybercom's organization. An implementation plan is due by Sept. 1, with initial operating capability expected by October and full operating capability within a year of that. The new command is expected to be located at Fort Meade, Md., which is home to the National Security Agency, and NSA's director likely will head Cybercom.
As part of the new command's creation, the undersecretary of Defense for policy will lead a review to develop a comprehensive approach to DOD cyberspace operations. However, the scope of those operations already is detailed in Stratcom's Unified Command Plan, and authority for the operations will be delegated to Cybercom.
"This memorandum reinforces, but does not expand, Stratcom authorities and responsibilities for military cyberspace operations," Gates said in the memo that introduces the new command.
Since cybersecurity emerged as a national security issue, operational responsibilities for securing our information infrastructures have remained largely unchanged, with NSA taking care of the dot-mil portion of the government's cyber turf and the Homeland Security Department looking after dot-gov. Security for the dot-com and other nongovernmental domains rests primarily with the private sector. Officials at Fort Meade and the Pentagon have been consistent in saying that they will not alter that arrangement. NSA said it has its hands full with dot-mil and has no plans for the rest of the world's networks. NSA and the new Cybercom will offer their offensive and defensive expertise to their counterparts at DHS and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team as requested, but they will not patrol the rest of the government's, nation's or world's networks.
Of course, domain boundaries are somewhat arbitrary. Hackers do not respect them, and there is no reason to think that offensive and defensive activities in a cyber theater of war would be limited to military assets any more than they are in conventional land, air and naval operations. Critical civilian assets are likely to be targeted by both sides in a cyber exchange, and collateral damage is likely.
And who is to say what NSA is up to? Not that many years ago, NSA stood for "No Such Agency," and as recently as the last administration, it was engaged in illegal monitoring of civilian communications. However, that is on the spook side of things.
On the military side, establishing Cybercom represents a less-than-dramatic shift in DOD's approach to defending an emerging theater of operations. It is evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and although it offers the prospect of greater organizational efficiency and a path for new development, it probably does not represent a growing militarization of cyberspace.
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Virgin Media staves off cable punter seepage
14,700 subscribers fled, sales still above £1bn in Q2
Virgin Media told the City this morning that it lost 14,700 cable punters during its second quarter ended 30 June.
But the telco said this figure is far fewer than 36,000 customers who scarpered from the company in the same three-month period a year ago.
All of which means that Virgin Media is pleased with itself.
The ISP added that revenues for the quarter were up 4.2 per cent on the same period last year, as more of its customers - 459,800 in total - opted to sign up for its faster broadband offering. The telco said it now has 1.3 million customers on the higher speed package, who make up 31 per cent of the overall broadband customer base.
Sales topped the £1bn mark in the three months, and operating income was £179.6m - up from 2011 Q2's £134.9m.
The company said customer churn was 1.4 per cent during the second quarter, up from 1.2 per cent in the first three months of this year.
Meanwhile, the likes of Stephen Fry and David Tennant appearing on adverts punting VM's internet-based TiVo service managed to push the number of online TV customers on its books beyond 1 million this week. It said 261,700 subscribers were added to TiVo during its Q2 results.
Year-on-year, VM's overall cable customer base remained flat at 4.8 million subs. ®
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A teenager who wants to be a professional facepainter has been honing her skills in the run up to Hallowe'en.
Thirteen-year-old Kenzie Murray, who hopes to work in the theatre with her special effects work, did the make up on Ellie Quantrill.
Kenzie's work was captured during a photo shoot by Adrian Bradbury at the Big Studio in the Old Print Works in Commercial Road, Eastbourne, this week.


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At the Authority, lean budgeting and fiscal prudence are the rule. But this in no way detracts from our commitment to operate San Diego International Airport at the peak of safety, security and efficiency for our passengers. This agency continues to exceed its bond covenant requirement, with total assets of $1.93 billion.
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Ryan Weber begins his eigth season at the helm of the women's program and the sixth year as head coach of the men's team. Weber brings a stability and consistency to the Spartan squad as he looks to build a successful program.
Weber before taking over both teams, Weber previously served as an assistant to both squads before being named the women's head coach for the 2008 campaign. In his first season with the women's team, Weber guided a young Spartan squad to a 5-11 mark with a 3-2 record in Capital Athletic Conference play. In the 2010 campaign, the Weber-led Green and White posted a 7-9 record as well as a 4-2 mark in CAC action. The Spartans had their best campaign under Weber in 2011 when York went 11-7 overall including 5-2 in the CAC. York was hit hard by injuries in 2012 when their record slipped to 6-11. The Spartan women have picked up 42 wins under Weber's guidance.
Weber then took the reigns of the men's program beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year. Under his tutelage, the Spartan men put together an official 9-9 record including a 4-2 mark in the conference. York followed that with a 12-8 mark including 5-2 in the CAC in 2011. Weber guided the Spartans to another double digit win season in 2012 as the Green and White went 11-8 and 4-3 in the league. The Spartans' notched their fourth double-digit wins season under Weber in 2015 as they went 11-7 overall and 3-4 in the league.
In six seasons in leding the men, Weber's Spartans are 61-51 overall and 20-18 in the conference.
Weber is very familiar with the York College tennis program. He was a four-year player for the Spartans as he accumulated an overall singles record of 33-30 playing primarily in the top three slots of the York lineup. He combined with various teammates to notch a doubles record of 32-22 as he earned 65 victories for his career. Weber was a two-year captain for the Spartans, serving as the team leader during his junior and senior seasons.
Weber began his coaching career in 2006 as he assisted then-men's coach Mark Ludwig and then-women's coach Tammy Myers in running their respective programs. He was responsible for running team practices with an emphasis on drills designed to improve specific shots. Weber also helped the Spartans improve with shot selection strategies.
Weber brings additional tennis experience from Wisehaven Tennis Center where he has worked in a number of capacities since 2004. He also has served as a teaching pro at various summer camps conducted throughout the York area since 2005.
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I don't know who Matie Dickens is, but I love her uniform!
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Presidential race: 3 letters
Could you please stop printing articles which call Hillary Clinton the "presumptive" Democratic nominee, just because she is currently leading in certain polls? First of all the term is historically inaccurate, since the person who has led the polling before the primaries for the last several elections has not ended up being the Democratic party's nominee.
Howard Dean was actually the early leader in 2004 before John Kerry became the nominee, and Bill Clinton was in third place before the primaries in the year in which he was elected president.
Second, the term is misleading, since not all the polls show Hillary as a clear leader. The races are much closer in the first few primary states, where the other candidates have spent most of their time and advertising budgets so far. When they spread their activities to other states, the lead may change dramatically.
And finally, by declaring Hillary Clinton the presumed winner of the nomination, you may discourage voters from going to the polls or attending Colorado's caucuses. Obama and Edwards supporters may not turn out because they don't feel that they have a chance to win, or Hillary's supporters may not show up because they feel they have already won. Either way your premature announcement of Hillary as the chosen candidate will unfairly influence the outcome of the contest, when there are still many months to go before Democratic voters actually make up their minds about who they want as their nominee.
Lucinda Gerlitz, Bailey
Last night I watched the Democratic presidential debate and heard the leading candidates state that they would not guarantee an end to the Iraq War by the end of their first terms in 2013.
I watched an interview with the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, on CNN last week and she too could not offer up a strategy for the Democratically controlled Congress to stop this war, although that is the reason America voted the Democrats into control of Congress. Both the Speaker and the Democratic candidates wanted to stress that Iraq is the Republicans' war. It is George Bush's war. They are throwing up their hands.
Suddenly, I was thrust back in time. The ultimate irony; The Dems have become Nixon! They are stretching out this war for political benefit. It's more important to them that they be able to blame this war on the Republicans in the next election cycle than it is to stop it now. Bush stared them down and they not only blinked, they went to sleep.
George Hope, Morrison
Just one thing wrong with David Brooks analysis about the success of the centrist, triangulating DLC. What success? They haven't been successful since they lucked into Ross Perot in 1992.
Bill Clinton won his first election because Perot took so many votes from the first President Bush. The next midterm election saw the rise of a conservative Republican congress that held power for more than a decade. Clinton won his second election because of his personal gifts and because life was good. We were prosperous and at peace.
Since then, until 2006, Democrats have failed in two presidential elections that ought to have been easy wins and suffered defeats in congress with the DLC strategy of begging the public to see Democratic candidates as almost as conservative and almost as tough and patriotic as Republicans. The independent voter's answer was, then why not just vote for Republicans?
It's also not true that Republicans can win "by appealing only to conservatives" while only Democrats need the center. Neither base can win alone with such a large and increasing number of independent voters.
In 2006 the majority of independents, who had been voting for Republicans, changed sides at the voting booth because of deep dissatisfaction with Bush and his party, not because of any brilliant strategy on the part of the DLC.
In fact, the DLC disparaged the new 50 state strategy, believing that competing in red states was a waste of resources. DNC Chair John Dean believed in supporting candidates in the heartland and many of those candidates won.
The polls today certainly don't show that most Americans, the new center, see the Democratic congress as too extreme or going too far. They show the opposite; that the public is frustrated with the newly elected Democrats for not going far enough to end the war the majority views as a huge mistake.
The DLC increasingly looks like a bunch of old generals fighting the last war instead of adjusting to new facts on the ground. Of course Brooks, a conservative, would be happy to see Democrats lose in 2008 so his analysis ought to be considered in that light.
Felice Sage, Littleton
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UK Femtocell manufacturer goes it alone
What happens if you bring the water to the horse?
A UK manufacturer is planning to sell Femtocells direct to the public, just as soon as it can get enough punters signed up to force interoperation on the network operators.
The femtocell comes from HSL - Hay Systems Ltd. - who have eschewed the usual path of making deals with network operators in favour of a straight-to-consumer pitch. They'll need to get some registrations of interest if they're going to get network operators to hand over some spectrum, however, not to mention agreements to integrate the back ends.
Femtocells are tiny base stations that use the customer's broadband for backhaul and provide coverage with a house-and-garden sort of range. When the concept was first developed it was assumed that femtocells would sell via quad-play operators: companies that could prioritise their own voice traffic over their own broadband network to ensure quality of service. In fact, the UK's first femtocell deployment, from Vodafone, is purely parasitic and rides over any old broadband connection with best-effort quality.
Taking that to the next stage is HSL, who want to sell a femtocell direct to you at a comparable price to Vodafone's offering (£160). Their product has the ability to work with any network operator, or even multiple network operators, over your own broadband connection. To do that HSL needs two things: radio spectrum in which to operate, and integration into the network-operators' back end.
To get those things HSL has set up a web site, where punters can register an interest. They are using this to accumulate numbers, which the company can then take to the network operator in the hope that the operator will pay the ongoing cost of routing calls into their network.
But HSL's femtocell is 2G rather than 3G - reliable voice and broad handset support, in exchange for slower speeds - and every network operator in the UK is already testing 3G femtocell deployments, so one has to wonder why they would allow such a thing. Sell a customer a femtocell and they're even more locked in than with a contract - femtocells can't be unlocked and used on a rival's network - so there seems little incentive for the network operators to open up, unless HSL can generate overwhelming amounts of interest.
More interesting is the idea of a company such as UK01 providing HSL femtocells. UK01 is trying to build a GSM network using low-powered transmitters operating in the GSM guard bands, with roaming agreements to cover the gaps.
Femtocells would make a great deal of sense to such an operator. We asked HSL about this, and they admitted to being in talks with at least one company of this nature, but wouldn't be drawn on the details. ®
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Remains found where Ohio missing toddler last seen
Mom, boyfriend in jail, accused of obstruction
Human remains found in the rafters of a garage are likely that of a toddler last seen about three months ago inside a house on the same property, police said Friday.
Investigators said they found the remains Thursday inside a box that was behind other containers and piles of trash in the detached garage.
An autopsy was being conducted Friday and other forensic tests were scheduled over the weekend to determine if the remains are of 19-month-old Elaina Steinfurth, said Toledo Police Chief Derrick Diggs.
"We found what we believe may be baby Elaina," he said.
The home and the garage belong to the family of a man who had been dating the girl's mother.
Both the mother, Angela Steinfurth, and her now-estranged boyfriend, Steven King II, are in jail and accused of obstructing justice. No charges have been filed since the remains were discovered.
Steinfurth and her two daughters stayed with King at his family's home on June 1, investigators said. The girl's father went to the residence to pick up his two daughters the next day, but only Elaina's 4-year-old sister could be found.
Investigators have said Steinfurth knew Elaina had been seriously injured and didn't seek medical help. They would not say what type of injuries the toddler had or who caused them.
Steinfurth has been in jail since mid-June. Her attorney, Jane Roman, declined to comment on Friday.
King was charged in July with lying to investigators about the child's disappearance. He told reporters after his arrest that he is innocent. A message was left with his lawyer.
Authorities, including the FBI, have searched homes, vacant buildings and the Maumee River near downtown Toledo for any sign of Elaina over the past three months. Volunteers also have looked through neighborhoods and parks.
Officers searched both the home and the garage in the days after Elaina disappeared.
They went to back to the home Thursday and removed the box with the remains, just hours after King appeared in court at a hearing where his trial date was scheduled.
Angela Steinfurth's stepfather, Richard Schiewe, said the box was not in the garage the day after the little girl was reported missing. He said he went into the garage with police when they searched the building.
"That body was not in the rafters," he said Friday. "Somebody went and got that body and put it in there."


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DETROIT — Huge rebates and zero-percent loans couldn't overcome economic uncertainty as U.S. auto sales plunged 36 percent in December, capping a dismal year that saw sales free-fall by 2.9 million vehicles from 2007.
The bleak numbers, according to both industry officials and analysts, mean that record high rebates and low-interest financing deals will stick around until at least February. But those deals will likely disappear as the remaining 2008 models are sold and inventories are lowered to match demand.
One automaker, Hyundai Motor America, is trying to woo skittish buyers by promising to let them return cars for up to a year if they lose their jobs and can't make the payments.
Similar bold moves might be necessary throughout the year.
Every major manufacturer reported drops of more than 30 percent in December. Leading the largest year-over-year drop since the Arab oil embargo days of 1973-74 was struggling Chrysler LLC, which sold 53 percent fewer vehicles than last December and 30 percent fewer in 2008 than in 2007.
General Motors Corp. sold 2.9 million vehicles last year, the lowest number in 49 years.
U.S. auto sales tumbled to 13.2 million in 2008, down 18 percent from 16.1 million in 2007. Consulting firm IHS Global Insight predicts that U.S. sales will drop to 10.3 million this year as the economy continues to sputter.
Automakers were reluctant to predict when a recovery might occur, but most were pessimistic about the first quarter. After that, some were hopeful that President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus package would kick in, coupled with a loosening of credit that could bring people back to the showrooms.
Even Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co., which earlier in the year had seen increases, saw declines in December that were larger than their U.S.-based competitors'. Toyota was down 37 percent and Honda 35 percent, compared with Ford Motor Co.'s 32 percent drop and GM's 31 percent slide. Nissan Motor Co. sales also dropped 31 percent.
Ford's sales for 2008 fell 21 percent from a year earlier, keeping the Dearborn automaker in third place in the U.S. auto sales race behind GM and Toyota for the second straight year.
Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA, said Toyota is in the midst of the most difficult market it has ever faced, and the situation will be tough until at least the second half of the year. Consumer confidence remains the biggest obstacle, Lentz said.
"We have no illusions about the coming year," he said. "We're in the midst of the most challenging and volatile markets we've ever faced and it may get worse before it gets better."
Chrysler, which received $4 billion in federal loans, attributed its nasty sales drop to the company reducing sales to low-profit fleet buyers such as rental car companies.
Some smaller manufacturers, though, fared better. Subaru of America Inc. said its U.S. sales crept 0.3 percent higher in 2008 on stronger sales of its Forester and Impreza models.
Auto sales started the year slightly under 2007's pace, but by May, U.S.-based automakers were suffering as gasoline prices started to rise toward $4 per gallon and people shifted from buying pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles to smaller, more efficient cars.
Then, in July, as gas prices neared their peak and the economy started to falter, sales tumbled and never recovered the rest of the year, even though gas subsided to under $2 per gallon.
Lower gas prices have cut into high-mileage gas-electric hybrid vehicles toward the end of the year. Toyota reported sales of the Prius, the top-selling hybrid in the U.S., fell 45 percent last month.
But Lentz was optimistic that hybrid sales would rebound.
"We're going to see fuel prices creep up a bit," he said. "I think the overall greening of America is going to see an increase in hybrid (sales) as well."
GM's December results were boosted by heavy sales incentives, including financing offers announced last week after the Treasury Department said it would give $5 billion in federal aid to the Detroit automaker's ailing financing arm, GMAC LLC.
Michael Martin, who owns Chevrolet and Saturn dealerships in Manassas, Va., said he saw customer traffic and phone calls pick up almost immediately.
"I'd like to see (the financing offers) really take hold over the next 30 to 45 days," Martin said. "Hopefully, we'll start seeing some real upticks."
Incentives such as rebates and low-interest financing offered last month were the highest on record for a December, said Jesse Toprak, executive director of industry analysis for the Edmunds.com automotive Web site.
Rebates on full-size trucks were $7,000 to $8,000 in December, and IHS Global Insight analyst Aaron Bragman expects similar incentives as long as the economy is poor.
"You look in the paper and the deals on brand new GM pickups are astonishing," he said. "The discount that you get buys a heck of a lot of gasoline."
But Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president for North American marketing, said he expects sales incentives to drop as GM sells down 2008 models. It still will be competitive in areas such as midsize cars, where Toyota has been offering $3,500 incentives on its top-selling Camry model, LaNeve said.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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Led by enigmatic brothers Todd and "E" Fink, The Giving Tree Band are making their way to the head of a classy class of young American songwriters and performers. The Finks extended their brotherhood to all 7 members and started out with only a collective heart as big as the ocean. They now wield a wide array of instruments from acoustic and electric guitars, slide guitars and banjos to violin, mandolin and pedal steel . A band's band, they all live together, travel together and do everything as one family, harmonizing their voices and lives on and off stage. The Giving Tree Band is not reinventing but simply reuniting rock and roll. With their down-home style, they emphasize the virtue in their fierce virtuosity - approaching each note with integrity, each part with humility, each song with honesty and each show with gratitude. The most common word among reviews is "undeniable" in regards to the chemistry on stage, the energy in the room, and the feeling that something special is happening. With a rare combination of stirring musicianship and exemplary songwriting, the GTB wheel is in full spin and, like their heroes before them, it's also on fire.
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Robert Aldern, Professor Emeritus of Art, Dies at 82
Called a "guiding light for the Art Department and for Augustana College," Robert Aldern, professor emeritus of Art, former department chair and Artist-in-Residence, died on Saturday, June 11. He was 82. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 18, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
Gift Will Name Soccer Field
"Today we celebrate the leadership and generosity of Kent and Judy Morstad, two of our own whose fond memories of their time at Augustana and their love of athletics inspired them to give back ... We are deeply grateful for this gift," said Rob Oliver, president of the College.
Johnson Named Principal Conductor of Choral, Instrumental Ensembles at First Lutheran
"In his 19 years at Augustana, Dr. Johnson made significant contributions to the College and its Music Department. Most importantly though, his leadership impacted thousands of students whose spiritual growth he helped foster through song," said Rob Oliver, president of the College.
'A Harvest of Words' Named Finalist for High Plains Book Award
"A Harvest of Words: Contemporary South Dakota Poetry," the anthology edited by Dr. Patrick Hicks, Augustana's Writer-in-Residence, and published by the Center for Western Studies, has been named a finalist for a High Plains Book Award. Hicks will read from the book at the annual CWS June Event, "Song and Poetry of the Great Plains," set for Tuesday, June 14.
In the News: 200 Attend Business Conference at Augustana
Two hundred local business owners and entrepreneurs learned more about "Innovation in a Changing Marketplace" at the third annual Sioux Falls Business Conference, held earlier today on Augustana's campus. Featured speakers included Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, and Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether.
Faculty, Alumni Integral to 2011 Sioux Falls Business Conference
Tomorrow's Sioux Falls Business Conference will feature Augustana alumni and faculty member as panelists and moderators. Themed "Innovation in a Changing Marketplace," the conference will bring together local and regional business experts to discuss the changing Sioux Falls marketplace.
New Art Exhibit to Feature Works by Students
The annual Juried Student Invitational will feature a wide range of works by students from Augustana art classes. The exhibit will be on view from Tuesday, May 31, through Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery.
Summer Kicks Off With Two New Exhibits at Augustana
From satellite images of the earth to a variety of works by students from Augustana's art classes, two new exhibits offer a treat for the eyes.
Former First Lady of Augustana, Anne Svendsbye, Dies at 84
Annelotte "Anne" Svendsbye, the wife of Dr. Lloyd Svendsbye, Augustana's 19th president from 1987-1992, died on Tuesday, May 24. She was 84. Funeral services are set for Wednesday, June 1, in Edina, Minn.
Sesquicentennial Class Celebrates Commencement
They began their journey at Augustana in 2007 and, on Saturday, they completed it. Three-hundred-forty members of the Sesquicentennial Class, the class of 2011, participated in the commencement ceremony at the Sioux Falls Arena.


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DENVER (AP) An emergency response plan for Interstate 25 during the T-REX construction project will help officials handle both fender benders and nuclear waste shipments.
The $1.67 billion highway expansion project officially starts Sunday night. For months, highway officials, law enforcement agencies and contractors have been working on an "incident response" plan to lessen traffic delays.
If nuclear waste shipments get caught in a traffic jam, police escorts could guide the trucks through residential areas. If an accident halts traffic for at least two hours or shuts down the highway, T-REX officials and police and fire agencies will direct traffic onto alternate roadways.
Officials also have mapped rescue stations and emergency rooms in the corridor to coordinate routes of emergency responders.
Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association, which represents the state's trucking companies, agreed T-REX would present unique problems to his members.
"The difficulty and challenge on I-25 is that we do not have any true alternate corridors," Fulton said.
"We'd love to see pricing more attractive on E-470," but right now, the highway's tolls are too high for most truckers, he said.
The project includes 19 miles of highway expansion and light-rail construction on Interstates 25 and 225 and will take five years to complete.
One challenge for planners is to coordinate the transit of hazardous materials through the corridor.
Since July 1999, at least 200 shipments of plutonium-tainted waste have traveled through the corridor from the former weapons plant Rocky Flats to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., said Pat Etchart, spokesman for the Department of Energy.
Plans eventually call for shipments to more than double from about seven shipments per week.
Officials considered diverting the shipments to C-470, but it would have taken too long to get federal approval for the plan, officials said. I-25 is designated as a nuclear materials transit corridor but C-470 is not.
Officials plan to have dozens of video cameras monitoring the highway so emergency responders can be notified quickly of problems.
Every 0.1 mile in the corridor soon will be marked so drivers can tell emergency personnel precisely where an accident is, said T-REX spokeswoman Karen Morales.


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Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory recently hosted some of the brightest and most curious young women in the country for a conference on careers in physics. From Jan. 16-19, some 99 undergraduate physics majors participated in the 2014 East Coast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, meeting peers and women of all ages with whom they could share experiences, advice, and ideas.
"Brookhaven Lab remains committed to promoting diversity in science and empowering all students interested in physics," said Doon Gibbs, Director of Brookhaven National Lab. "We are proud to partner with Stony Brook and humbled by the incredible amount of talent and potential in this rising generation of scientists."
The three-day regional conference, hosted on the campuses of both Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University, provided a rare opportunity to get first-hand accounts of the entire physics career path, from graduate school to working at some of the most advanced research facilities in the world.
Highlights from the conference—organized by Stony Brook's Abhay Deshpande and Brookhaven's Noel Blackburn—included tours of the Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and National Synchrotron Light Source II, poster sessions, and expert presentations ranging from the quest for the Higgs boson to the link between physics and finance.
The nationwide Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the American Physical Society.
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SOLON– There will be a basketball camp this summer for girls going into fourth through eighth grades next year. The camp will be held July 15 through 18 in the Solon High School gymnasium. The seventh and eighth grade camp will be held from 9 until 11 a.m., and the fourth, fifth and sixth grade camp will be held from 1:30 until 3 p.m.
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This qualification is available for volunteer teachers and teaching assistants on 4 week, or longer, projects. The syllabus comprises of 180 guided learning hours and the Advanced BTEC Certificate is a level 3 qualification the same level as an A-Level. This qualification covers 4 units:
Many participants have used their Frontier project as a prominent component of their CV and found it essential in facilitating further work and study opportunities. In creating the BTEC qualification we have helped employers and universities to distinguish between short TEFL courses that are not accredited and only offer limited teaching experience and the Frontier experience involving pre-departure study and training, extensive experience in the field and a process of self-assessment and self-reflection.
While there are many opportunities to obtain TEFL certificates with various organisations, there are few opportunities to gain an internationally recognised qualification, which is accredited by a major examining body in the UK and so is instantly recognisable to future employers or universities.
Your BTEC qualification will be assessed in a number of ways through the submission of various evidence sheets. Some of these will be signed off at the weekend training session which is compulsory for completing this course. Others will be signed off either during your project or on submission of your final portfolio. Assessments include activities and tests before your project, a log-book of your experience and evidence of the lessons you carry out. Full training on what to expect and a candidate handbook will be provided by Frontier staff prior to the project.
It is important that in order to teach English as a foreign language you have a basic understanding of the grammar and terminology involved. But don't panic! You'll find that although you may not already be familiar with the terminology, you are in fact already an expert at using English grammar, you just need to realise it. We will provide you with a comprehensive TEFL handbook explaining the differences between tenses and terminology in simple terms in order to prepare you for some basic tests during the training weekend. Everything is in the handbook so as long as you read it carefully you should be fine!
For volunteers participating in a BTEC qualification you must complete the enrolment form in your online area and payment is due at least two weeks prior to the relevant training weekend approximately 4 weeks prior to the project.
For volunteers participating in more than one project and who want to participate in the BTEC qualification, complete the enrolment form in your online area and payment is due at least two weeks prior to the training weekend taking place prior to the start date of your first project.
A refund of 50% of the BTEC fee will be given if the Frontier London HQ is notified in writing of a candidate's withdrawal no less than 35 days prior to the project start date.
No refund will be given if a candidate withdraws from the BTEC course less than 35 days prior to the project start date.
If you're thinking of gaining a qualification with us and you would like to discuss your options further, why not give our dedicated Training Supervisor a call on 020 7613 2422. Our advisors have in-depth knowledge of all of our qualifications and will be able to find the right one to make the most of your volunteer project.
"I've really loved my time here in Madagascar. The teaching programme is extremely rewarding and well supported. It's great to feel like you are making a difference whilst also benefiting yourself by gaining excellent TEFL qualifications."
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"A 3D Printed Thermal Manikin Head for Evaluating Helmets for Convective and Radiative Heat Loss", Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) Volume VII, vol. VII: Springer International Publishing, pp. 592–602, 2019.
"Determining Comfortable Pressure Ranges for Wearable EEG Headsets", Advances in Human Factors in Wearable Technologies and Game Design, Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 11–19, 2019.
"Latent Heat Loss of a Virtual Thermal Manikin for Evaluating the Thermal Performance of Bicycle Helmets", Advances in Human Factors in Simulation and Modeling, Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 66–78, 2019.
"Multi-patch B-Spline Statistical Shape Models for CAD-Compatible Digital Human Modeling", Advances in Human Factors in Simulation and Modeling, Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 179–189, 2019.
"A new data structure and workflow for using 3D anthropometry in the design of wearable products", International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, vol. 64, pp. 108 - 117, 2018.
"Ergonomic design of an EEG headset using 3D anthropometry", Applied Ergonomics, vol. 58, pp. 128–136, 2017.
"Product sizing with 3D anthropometry and k-medoids clustering", Computer-Aided Design, vol. 91, pp. 60-74, 2017.
"Evaluation of the thickness of hair layer from 3D scans and medical images", 7th International Conference and Exhibition on 3D Body Scanning Technologies (3DBST), Lugano, Switzerland, 30 November - 1 December, 2016.
"Physical Evaluation of an Anthropometric Shape Model of the Human Scalp", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies, Lugano, Switzerland, 27-28 October: Hometrica Consulting, oct, 2015.


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